Xie Kefeng's ** rang non-stop. Sometimes the bell rings again before the reporter has finished asking a question. Someone wanted to talk to him about cooperation, friends came to greet him, and there were completely stranger netizens who congratulated him after seeing the news.
After 25 years, Xie Kefeng finally found his abducted son. The first time they met, he knew at a glance that it was his son. "It's very relatable," he said, "exactly like when I was younger, a little taller than me." ”
After learning that the DNA comparison was successful, Xie Kefeng couldn't sleep all night. Before the meeting, he was worried about his son's health, marital status, how his adoptive parents treated him, his education and work. After the meeting, he worries about his son's future plans.
Long before he found his son, he prepared three suites, including a 120-square-meter wedding room. On December 2, he originally planned to take his son to pick up the car, but he really couldn't spare time to drive his BMW for him temporarily.
The son Xie Qingshuai's adoptive father died early, and his adoptive mother remarried, and lived with his grandparents since he was a child. He majored in physical education at university and worked as an interior decorator after graduation. Xie Kefeng planned to let him learn Xi sales with his brother first, and run the family company together. If the son wants to start a business, he will check for him and provide him with start-up capital, "depending on his wishes." ”
But he clarified that he is not as exaggerated as the "billionaire" mentioned in the report, "There are not hundreds of millions, there are 10 million." ”
Xie Qingshuai and his parents. Source: Interviewee.
Dialogue with Xie Kefeng.
[1] The son's adoptive father died early, and the adoptive mother remarried
Jiupai News: When did you know that your son was found?
Xie Kefeng: About a few months ago, the general direction was locked. Because after the traffickers were caught, they confessed that they sold the children to several counties east of Handan. So during this time, I have been searching near Handan, and I drove a car to post a search notice on the street.
Later, we contacted Xingtai ** and Handan ** and found it with the help of the public security. 6 days ago, I received a message that the child had been found.
Jiupai News: How did you feel at that time?
Xie Kefeng: I'm very happy, I'm very happy. After knowing that the comparison was successful, I didn't sleep all night.
Jiupai News: What are you thinking about when you can't sleep?What do you want to say to him?
Xie Kefeng: I didn't know what the child looked like before we met, I wanted to ask him how his current situation is, whether his adoptive parents are good to him, whether he has a partner, whether he is married, whether he graduated from college, and what major he is studying.
After understanding this, I thought about how to plan for this child in the future, what the child likes, what he is willing to do, whether he wants to start his own business, or come and work with me.
Jiupai News: What are your plans for his future?
Xie Kefeng: His brother is mainly engaged in sales in the company, and I want him to learn from his brother first.
Jiupai News: What is his idea?
Xie Kefeng: He hasn't made up his mind yet. What the child means now is that he is willing to return to me, go back in a few days and communicate with his grandparents in person, and then live with me for a long time.
Jiupai News: What is Xie Qingshuai's major and what was he doing before?
Xie Kefeng: He studied sports in college, and now he is engaged in interior decoration design, and he has not participated in other industries.
Jiupai News: What was his upbringing?
Xie Kefeng: His adoptive father died when he was very young, his adoptive mother remarried, and he lived with his grandparents. I haven't had time to talk to him more about the specific situation.
Jiupai News: How did you feel after seeing your son, is he like what you imagined?
Xie Kefeng: I knew at a glance that it was my son, who was very affectionate, exactly like when I was in my twenties, he was a little taller than me.
Xie Qingshuai and his brother. Source: Interviewee.
[2] I prepared three suites for my son
Jiupai News: There are reports that you are a "billionaire".
Xie Kefeng: There are no hundreds of millions of assets, but 10 million.
Jiupai News: What did you prepare for your son?
Xie Kefeng: I bought three houses before I found him, and after I came back, they were all his. Among them, there is a set of 120 square meters, which is used as a wedding room for him.
After these houses are renovated, they have been used as homestays, and there is no long-term rental, and I am afraid that after the children come back one day, they will have to move out.
Jiupai News: Why do you want to prepare so many houses?
Xie Kefeng: Because when I bought it, I bought two sets in a community, next to each other. Prepare a few more sets for him, and want him to know that I am willing to let him go home.
Jiupai News: **Said that he worked in Sichuan and lived in a hotel, how do you feel in your heart?
Xie Kefeng: It's very uncomfortable, I said that we have so many houses, come back a few days early, and he won't be alone there.
Jiupai News: You said before that you originally planned to take him to pick up the car today, did you go?
Xie Kefeng: Originally, I was going to pick up the car today, but I didn't have time and was busy, so I drove my car to him first, which was a BMW X5.
[3] Find a child to spend all his savings and work hard to make money for a better life
Jiupai News: Can you tell us more about the day my son disappeared?
Xie Kefeng: January 20, 1999, the fourth day of the lunar month, is almost the New Year. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, my wife went out to buy vegetables, and it was less than 100 meters. As she went out, she saw two men in their 35s with southern accents walking around the doorway, but they didn't pay much attention to it.
When I got home, my wife found that the child and the two men were gone. She called me ** on a BB machine and told me to come back quickly. I was out working on a project, so I took a taxi and called a few friends. When I came back and saw that the child was gone, I thought the child was sick and went to the hospital. When I asked my neighbors, they all said they didn't know.
After a few minutes, the daughter-in-law came back and said that the child was lost, and she fainted on the spot, and it took a few minutes to recover. I immediately called the police, but nothing happened.
Jiupai News: How did you find your children?
Xie Kefeng: I called all my relatives and friends to look for three or four days, but they had to work and couldn't look for a long time.
Until the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the old man at home called us back for the New Year. During that time, we were reluctant to go out, feeling that the child was lost, and we were ashamed, and no one wanted to see us.
After the Chinese New Year, the two of us took the bus back to the place where we lived to continue our search. At first, I was riding a bicycle and looking for it nearby. Later, I bought a motorcycle, and I was able to look around Xingtai. At that time, information was not developed, and most of the information provided was also in the surrounding area.
After the development of information, I often went to Beijing, Tianjin, Henan, and Shanxi to look for people, and published notices through newspapers. My wife was seven or eight months pregnant, and she had to go with me to the mountains to look for the child. She was not at ease, and she refused to go by myself if I wanted to. At that time, I couldn't carry her, so I could only walk slowly. When we entered the village, we pretended to be passing by, thirsty and wanted to drink water. It can't be said that it is looking for a child, or it will be driven away.
A missing person notice issued by Xie Kefeng. Image source network.
Jiupai News: How much did it cost to find a child?
Xie Kefeng: I can't remember exactly, I earned tens of thousands of dollars in two or three years, and I spent almost all of them, and I borrowed tens of thousands of yuan.
Jiupai News: How did you cheer up?
Xie Kefeng: There are well-wishers who persuade that it is not possible to find a child in this way, and if the child is found, there is no way to give him a good life. I'm a poor man, and I don't want my kids to come back. So I have to work harder, day and night, wind and rain, and have been trying to find ways to make money, so that he can have a better life after he comes back.
Jiupai News: What do you do and how do you earn your first pot of gold?
Xie Kefeng: At the beginning, it was the renovation of old houses, which began in 1996. At first, I dismantled it myself, but then I slowly hired workers, sometimes 24 hours a day on the construction site, wearing an overcoat and covering a torn quilt when I slept. Because after the house was demolished, there were still things that were not taken away, so I had to guard things.
When I was looking for a child, I asked someone to watch over it and went out to look for it myself, and I rarely went out far at that time.
[4] My wife was depressed and self-harming, and she took medicine for more than ten years
Jiupai News: After his son was abducted, did he blame his wife for this?
Xie Kefeng: No, it can't be said that she lost the child. If I had been at home and had been targeted by traffickers, something might have happened.
Jiupai News: How has my wife been doing over the years?
Xie Kefeng: She was already in poor health, and after the child was lost, she couldn't eat or sleep well, and she was under a lot of mental pressure, and her health was even worse.
She also had self-harm at home, and was hospitalized for more than ten days because of depression and took medicine for more than ten years. It wasn't until after 2010, when the other children grew up, that she slowly got better.
Jiupai News: During the search for his son, did you ever worry that he would be disabled and beg on the street?
Xie Kefeng: I have learned that at that time, like a child who was a few months old, he was either raised by his own family or sold, and he was generally not disabled.
Jiupai News: Are you worried that he has passed away?
Xie Kefeng: No, I've always thought that he is still alive and will definitely be found.
Jiupai News: On your youngest son's birthday and lost day, will you tell your family?
Xie Kefeng: I know it myself, and maybe my wife knows it, but we don't mention it, for fear that the other party will be sad.
Jiupai News: Would you tell the other children about this abducted son, and how did they know about it?
Xie Kefeng: I didn't specifically tell the child, maybe my sister heard it when I hit **. The children are too young to help, and sometimes when they go out to look for them, they tell their wives to stay outside for a while and then go back. Children are only told when they are teenagers.
*: Jiupai News.