Chinese couple raising orphans in JapanIn the year, the adopted son broke off relations after returning to Japan.
In 2005, a Chinese woman in a hospital bed cried over a family photo. She said to her daughter countless times, "Why did he lose contact?" I raised him for decades, how could he forget it? ”
The daughter held her mother's hand and tried to comfort her, but she didn't know where to start, because this scene had been going on for more than ten years, and every time the woman saw the "son" in the family portrait, she would cry sadly.
This woman's name is Li Xiurong, and she is a great mother who has devoted all her efforts to raising her children. Especially in order to raise her son, she endured toil and grievances.
The grace of life and nourishment is more important than the mountain. So, what made Lee so-young's son choose to cut ties with his mother and not even want to visit when he was sick? It turned out that Li Xiurong's son was her adopted son, who was not Chinese, but a Japanese orphan.
The story behind this goes back to the winter of 1945. In 1945, after eight years of bloody fighting, China won the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the Japanese invaders were also driven back to their hometown by our Chinese sons and daughters.
However, at that time, there was an extreme phenomenon in which many Japanese even abandoned their children in order to return home as soon as possible. Especially in the Northeast, there are a large number of Japanese orphans, and Li Xiurong's adopted son is one of them.
Harbin resident Li Xiurong's family only relies on her husband Zhao Fengxiang to sell vegetables for a living, and their lives are poor. On that day it was snowing in Harbin, and Zhao Fengxiang pushed the roof of the tricycle around the street in the snow, hoping to pick up garbage to sell it for more money and buy more meat for his family to have a good New Year.
Just as Zhao Fengxiang was rummaging through the trash can, he suddenly heard a few rapid and painful gasps. He took a closer look and saw that there was a child about four or five years old next to the trash can.
The child in front of him was dressed in tattered clothes, and his ears and nose were covered with chilblains, and he looked very pitiful. Zhao Fengxiang hurriedly asked the child, where are your parents?
As soon as the child opened his mouth, he was muttering foreign words, and Zhao Fengxiang knew that the child was a Japanese orphan. Thinking of the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese in China, Zhao Fengxiang was conflicted.
On the one hand, he was an ordinary Chinese who was indignant at the crimes of the Japanese; On the other hand, he is also a man of conscience, who sees the pity of the child and cannot leave it alone.
After some struggle, Zhao Fengxiang decided to take the child home and try his best to take care of him and let him feel the warmth of the world. This story teaches us that even in the most difficult times, we must not forget our conscience and goodness.
No matter what difficulties and challenges we face, we should stick to our principles and values and not be affected by external pressures. At the same time, this story also reminds us that we should pay more attention and care to those who are living in difficulty, especially orphans and refugees who have no one to care about, and give them more help and support.
He hesitated, despite the heinous crimes of the Japanese soldiers, the child in front of him was innocent, and if he was not saved, he could suffer from severe cold and hunger.
So, Zhao Fengxiang decided to take the child home. His wife, Li Xiurong, is also a kind woman, although she knew that the child was Japanese, she did not hesitate to change the child's clothes, prepare meals, and take out the millet that the whole family was reluctant to eat, boiled porridge for the child to drink, and fed him herself.
In order to keep the child warm, she even took off her padded jacket and put it on for the child. After the careful care of the husband and wife, the child quickly recovered his health and became white and chubby, which was very cute.
However, the couple struggled with a dilemma: should they keep the child or send them away?
At that time, adopting a Japanese orphan was extremely stressful, but the couple couldn't do it. They looked at the child in front of them and thought that he was just an innocent victim, abandoned by his biological parents, unable to choose his own country and ancestry, and their hearts were filled with sympathy.
If the child is sent away, he may really have no way out. "We keep him, we will raise! "When her husband hesitated, Li Xiurong said these six words firmly, and her husband nodded in agreement after hearing it, so they had a son named Zhao Liandong.
Although Li Xiurong and her husband chose Chinese names for their children and tried to hide his origin in life, the paper could not contain the fire, and the few words of Japanese that Zhao Liandong occasionally spoke still revealed his true identity.
Since then, in the eyes of their neighbors, Li Xiurong and his wife have become "bad people" instead of the "honest people" and "good people" they used to be. This is understandable, because many neighbors, driven by national hatred and family hatred, cannot accept a "Japanese child".
Despite all the condemnation, Li Xiurong and his wife did not give up on their son, they silently endured abuse and grievances, and still raised this foreign adopted son with their hearts.
Sometimes, a neighbor's words or actions can be painful or even infuriating. Once, Zhao Liandong was bullied by the neighbor's child, and looking at his face and tears, Li Xiurong's anger was ignited.
Even though she was six months pregnant at the time, she still chose to argue. In this quarrel, Lee so-young accidentally fell, resulting in a miscarriage and losing the opportunity to become a mother again.
That time was extremely painful for the whole family, especially Li Xiurong, who washed her face with tears all day long, and her husband also had a sad face. But they never blamed Zhao Liandong and still regarded him as their own relative.
They know that children are always innocent and should not be treated like this. In fact, Lee and her husband's adoption of orphans caused them to suffer misunderstanding and isolation among relatives and friends.
It turned out that Li Xiurong's relatives were also killed by the Japanese, including her father. After the outbreak of the war, her father left his hometown and participated in the Sino-Japanese War, eventually dying heroically on the battlefield.
Although he hated the Japanese, Li Xiurong could not be ruthless to innocent children. Even in the face of criticism from relatives and the decision to sever ties, she still chose to keep Japanese orphans by her side to raise them.
In order to make him grow up healthy, Li Xiurong and his wife decided to sell their house in Harbin and move back to Wuqiao, Hebei. There, they can finally live in peace away from gossip and accusations.
Watching his son become more and more successful day by day, Li Xiurong firmly believes that his choice is the right one. She not only raised her adopted son, but also married a daughter-in-law for him. However, the twist of fate occurred in the seventies, when her husband Zhao Fengxiang died of illness.
Despite this, Lee so-young lived with his children and lived a happy old age. Her son Zhao Liandong is very filial and always cares and takes care of her. Li Xiurong's story tells us that Chinese people are kind in their bones after all.
Although she lost her husband, she was happy in her later years with her son.
As the years went by, Zhao Liandong's state of mind gradually changed, and the most significant change was that he was full of an indescribable yearning and curiosity about Japan.
He believes that this is where he really belongs. At the same time, he began to have the idea of finding his biological parents. In the 90s, with the easing of Sino-Japanese relations, many orphans who had been left in Japan embarked on a journey to find their biological parents, and many of them successfully found their parents.
This news made Zhao Liandong's heart beat faster, and he could no longer suppress this thought. So, he confessed his thoughts to his mother, Li Xiurong. Li Xiurong did not feel lost, but supported his son very much, because every child has the right to know the identity of his biological parents.
Subsequently, Zhao Liandong also painstakingly gave himself a Japanese name - Noita Shozo.
After going through a difficult journey to find his relatives, Zhao Liandong finally found his biological father, a Japanese officer. Zhao Liandong did not pursue his biological father's crimes in the war of aggression against China, but chose to forgive.
After saying goodbye to his biological father, Zhao Liandong returned to China. However, Zhao Liandong, who returned home, seemed to have become a little unusual, and he became hyperactive, often mentioning Japan. Li Xiurong thought that this was just the excitement after the successful search for relatives, but he didn't realize that Zhao Liandong had already begun to plan to leave.
In 1994, Zhao Liandong proposed to go to Japan again, and this time he also decided to take more than a dozen relatives with him, but he did not bring Li Xiurong's mother and daughter. Before leaving, Zhao Liandong promised his mother that he would come back and buy her a house for the elderly.
Although Li Xiurong feels that as long as she has children and grandchildren by her side, she is happy, but her most simple wish is still disappointed. Zhao Liandong left and never came back, although they had exchanged letters, but Zhao Liandong always used the excuse of being busy with work, which made Li Xiurong deeply disappointed.
The old man Li Xiurong once raised Zhao Liandong single-handedly, but in 1997, after the old man accidentally fell, he longed for his son and grandson to come back to see him. His daughter wrote several times to ask Zhao Liandong to come back, but he refused for various reasons.
By 2005, Zhao Liandong had been gone for 11 years, Li Xiurong's body was getting worse day by day, and her miss for her "son" was getting heavier day by day.
But at this time, Zhao Liandong had already severed relations with them, no matter how they contacted them, the other party did not respond, as if the world had evaporated. Because she misses her son too much, Li Xiurong often cries, and she often says to herself: "How did such a kind child change?"
Why can't I get in touch? Although there is no grace of childbirth, the old man Li Xiurong believes that the grace of parenting is greater than the sky, and he can't understand the changes in his son.
Zhao Liandong may be enjoying family fun with his biological father in Japan, while Li Xiurong may be lying in a hospital bed, and no one knows whether he regrets his original decision.
Those Japanese orphans who returned to their adoptive parents in China and could not part with that different "family affection" chose out of deep gratitude to their adoptive parents. However, Zhao Liandong seems to have forgotten that kindness, no matter how Li Xiurong pays, he can't move him.
Perhaps, if the time were rewind to that winter of 1945, Li Xiurong and her husband would still not hesitate to adopt the enemy's child. Because, for them, good people are good people at all times, and they would rather get hurt themselves than see others suffer.