In 2020, on a family search column in Guizhou, a mother who had been looking for her daughter for 17 years burst into tears, she pointed to her daughter on the stage and said: "You have a black mole on the back of your neck. ”
When the host walked behind the girl and lifted her hair, and the spotlight hit it, the audience immediately burst into warm applause.
Why was this girl lost when she was 3 years old? Is it a coincidence that the daughter who has been looking for 17 years actually lives across the street? At the age of 20, she has been a mother of two children, what has she experienced in the past 17 years?
On April 21, 2003, Li Yun, who lives in Xingyi City, Guizhou Province, and her husband took their daughter to the night market to set up a stall as usual.
Although the night market stalls were not as high-end as the stores in those days, the vendor owners also made a lot of money by relying on small profits and quick turnover.
Li Yun and his wife are a pair of owners who set up stalls in the night market, and in those years, they made no less money with their business acumen and hard-working hands, and they raised two lovely daughters, the eldest daughter is called Xiangxiang, and the younger daughter is called Meimei.
When they go to the night market to set up a stall, the eldest daughter usually stays at home to do her homework, and the younger daughter Meimei is only three years old at the time, so the stall will be taken with her.
Although the night market is crowded, the couple can usually take care of their daughter while doing business. And her daughter Meimei is very well-behaved, and she won't run far when she plays at her stall.
Maybe that day the night market was particularly lively, there were a lot of people coming, Li Yun's stall was selling shoes, and all kinds of new shoes were full.
Under Li Yun's loud shouting, many guests stopped to watch, and when they saw good quality and affordable shoes, passing guests couldn't help but buy a pair.
Li Yun counted the money in his hand, happy as a child. She said to her daughter Meimei who was sitting next to her: "Be obedient, don't run around, today my mother will make money to buy you chicken legs to eat." ”
She didn't know if her daughter heard what she said or not, but she didn't care so much, because guests were greeted warmly when they came.
The most fearful thing about doing a stall business is to be lazy, because the customer asked, and if you don't buy yours, you will buy someone else's. Li Yun does have a business mind, coupled with a sharp mouth and a good memory, those customers who come to buy shoes will not return empty-handed.
The couple was busy late, and when they were about to close the stall, Li Yun happily said to her husband: "Do you know how much you earned today?" ”
The husband was naturally happy in his heart, he said: "I am so busy so late today, it is really hard for Meimei's child." ”
Li Yun shouted while counting the money: "Meimei, the stall is closed, can my mother buy you chicken legs?" ”
She called a few times but no one answered, stopped counting the money and looked back, Meimei was not around.
Meimei, where are you? Where did this kid go? Li Yun was a little panicked, she got up and looked around the stall.
We set up a stall here every day, and it's not the first day we come here, so we won't go far, so we look around. The husband comforted his wife, and he was also a little panicked at this time, but as a man, he couldn't put more pressure on his wife at this time.
The couple couldn't care about closing the stall, so they asked their friends next to them to help take care of it, and began to look for it in the night market.
When they saw a man, they asked, "Have you seen a 3-year-old girl wearing a red T-shirt with a white collar on top and a lion motif on her purse, and a ...... of black and white checkered trousers underneath?"”
Every time I asked someone, the other person's answer was to shake their head.
Some people may say that their daughters are not taken care of, how can passers-by who do not know each other notice this?
In fact, it's not that passers-by are indifferent, but that people's memories are very short-lived for those things that have nothing to do with them, after all, who remembers what color clothes the passerby who passed you yesterday was wearing?
At that time, although the night market was crowded, it was not large, and the couple searched countless times from exit to end until the people of the night market dispersed, leaving only the white moonlight and the dim street lamps intertwined.
It's late at night, Xiangxiang is still at home, let's go back first, maybe Meimei is already waiting for us at home. The husband comforted his wife as he put his arms around and was about to fall.
When Li Yun heard this, he seemed to grasp hope, and after putting away the stall, he rushed home desperately. At this moment, how she wished that when she came home, after opening the door, Meimei would call her mother happily.
When she got home, it was her eldest daughter Xiangxiang who opened the door, and when she saw that only her parents came home, she asked curiously, "Mom, where is my sister?" She's gone? ”
The eldest daughter's words pierced Li Yun's heart like a cold knife, and then she rushed into her daughter Meimei's room and cried. She beat her chest with self-reproach and choked up: "Meimei, mom is sorry for you, it was mom who lost your ......."”
At this time, the naïve Xiangxiang didn't realize what was happening, she looked at her father and asked, "Dad, what's wrong with Mom?" And where did my sister go? ”
She lost her sister, and she couldn't find it. The father knew that he was the spiritual pillar of the family, he couldn't shed tears, and he couldn't let his wife and eldest daughter see the fragile side of his heart, but at this moment, he couldn't help crying.
Sister, I'm going to find my sister. Xiangxiang ran out the door crying.
Her father grabbed her and comforted her: "It's okay, Mom and Dad will go to find my sister tomorrow, no matter where she is, she will definitely find it back." ”
The next day, Li Yun and his wife controlled their emotions and began to embark on a journey to find their youngest daughter Meimei.
Although Li Yun is a woman, there will be times when she is fragile in her heart, but as a wise woman, she knows that she can't fall. If she is going to fall, she will never want to find her daughter in this life. She believes that as long as she lives well, there will always be a day when she finds her daughter, and as long as there is a glimmer of hope, she will not give up.
The couple went to the copy shop to print a lot of missing person notices, described the appearance and characteristics of their youngest daughter Meimei on the day of her disappearance very clearly, and searched all over the family's **, enlarged Meimei's ** alone, and then returned to the place where their daughter disappeared.
Although the youngest daughter is lost, there is still an eldest daughter at home, so life has to go on, after all, it doesn't matter how hard and tired you are, but you can't suffer the child.
Li Yun and her husband are looking for their daughter while setting up a stall, as long as there is a little news in **, they will rush there as soon as possible, even if they find out that it is not their daughter Meimei in the end, they are not willing to give up that opportunity.
There are countless expectations, and there are countless disappointments, but in Li Yun's heart, after the disappointment, the next expectation is the next time, as long as he persists in looking for it, God will send his daughter to his side one day.
When life is sweet, there will be bitter times. Every time Li Yun dragged her tired body back home, in front of her eldest daughter, she had to pretend to be strong and smile, because she had already lost a daughter and couldn't pass on her bad emotions to her eldest daughter, so every time her eldest daughter Xiangxiang asked for something, she would do her best to meet it.
When she buys gifts for her eldest daughter Xiangxiang, she always thinks of her youngest daughter Meimei, because she used to buy things in two copies, and then watched her two daughters compete in front of her, which was the happiest moment for her as a mother.
In the days when Mei Mei was lost, relatives and friends persuaded her to give up, but Li Yun's determination never changed. She painted the family's house in the pink that her youngest daughter Meimei loved, and she told everyone that she must find her daughter, and then told her daughter that her mother was waiting for her, and this family was always waiting for her to come back.
Later, a family search column found Li Yun, and after they learned some information about Meimei, they told Li Yun that they would help find it together in the future.
Li Yun cried and said to the camera: "I dream every night, and in the dream my daughter came back, and she called my mother. As long as she can come back, I can hear her calling Mommy, and I can close my eyes even if I die. ”
Li Yun also told us that every time she walked outside and saw children who were about the same age as her daughter, she would go up and take a look, hoping that the child would be her daughter Meimei.
In the past 17 years, she has traveled all over the country, as long as she hears the news that there is a missing child, she and her husband will drop everything and run over to take a look, although they are disappointed every time, but they still firmly believe that their daughter will not leave them forever.
Setting up a stall to do business during the day, she became more and more hardworking, and it seemed that only when she was exhausted to the extreme, would she alleviate the pain of missing her daughter.
When no one is around, she will secretly cry alone, pretend that her daughter is by her side, and then talk to each other and make each other happy.
Her husband was worried that Li Yun would go crazy, so he often comforted her on the side, telling her that her daughter would find her.
After the family search column reported the news that Li Yun had been looking for her daughter for 17 years, many people enthusiastically began to help her pay attention to any clues.
But 17 years have passed, Meimei's appearance has long changed, and she may not be recognized when the mother and daughter meet face to face.
In the past 17 years, Li Yun has always been worried about how Meimei is doing, whether she can eat enough, and whether she can wear warm clothes when it is cold. Maybe this is the true portrayal of the hearts of the parents who pity the world.
Later, by chance, when the staff of the family search column compared the household registration information, they found a clue about a woman, and the other party was very consistent with Meimei, who disappeared that year.
The woman's name was Jia Min, and her address surprised the staff, because it was only two kilometers away from Li Yun's.
The staff of the column team did not tell Li Yun the news as soon as possible, because before it was confirmed, they were afraid that the news would disappoint her again in the end, after all, every disappointment was a heavy blow to Li Yun.
After the staff found Jia Min's address, they were surprised to find that standing where Jia Min lived, they could see the pink house, and they knew that it was a real home.
After communication and negotiation, Jia Min accepted an interview with the column group. At this time, the staff found out that Jia Min was already the mother of two children.
In the face of the interview of the column group, Jia Min hugged the child and smiled calmly, she said that she knew that she was adopted since she was a child, and she emphasized that she was not abducted.
She said that she was raised by her adoptive father, whose family was very poor, so she never married a wife. Later, the adoptive father didn't know that he brought back an adoptive mother with mental problems in **, but it didn't take long for the adoptive mother's family to come to the door, saying that the adoptive father was abducting and trafficking women, and after beating him violently, he called the police and arrested the adoptive father, and was finally sentenced to ten years in prison.
When her adoptive father entered, Meimei had just finished junior high school, and at the age of 15, she could only follow her adoptive father's sister to work around to make ends meet.
She met her current husband when she was 18 years old, and the two had two children together, a son and a daughter.
Her husband has to go to other places to work every year, and she stays at home with her children, and lives in a very cheap house that is rented, only 400 yuan a month, and the family of four lives in this very simple environment.
The people in the column group asked her: "Since you know that you are not biological, have you ever looked for your biological parents?" ”
Jia Min smiled bitterly and said: "I have two children, and I am very busy every day, even when I am not busy, I want to do some work to earn some money to live, how can I have time to find my biological parents." ”
The staff asked her if she would like to meet her biological parents if they were found. Unexpectedly, Jia Min refused directly, maybe what she was thinking when she refused, we all know it in our hearts.
Jia Min must feel aggrieved in her heart, because only she knows what she has experienced in the past 17 years, she became a mother at the age of 18, if it wasn't for her parents who lost her back then, she should be like her sister, living a life of fine clothes and food, maybe still studying in school, and can have her own interests and hobbies like other young girls, to pursue what she likes.
When Li Yun learned the news, she was very excited, but she also understood her daughter's grievances, so no matter what conditions her daughter put forward or what choices she made, she would respect the other party.
However, after all, the mother and daughter are connected by flesh and blood, even if the bones are broken, they are still connected to the tendons, so after the efforts and persuasion of the column team, Jia Min finally agreed to do a paternity test, and everything can only be decided when the results come out.
The waiting process seemed to be as long as a century for Li Yun, and when the results of the paternity test came out, Jia Min was indeed Li Yun's biological daughter.
At this moment, the mother and daughter hugged each other and choked each other silently.
After 17 years of separation, there is nothing better than silent tears to interpret the deep love between mother and daughter.
Later, the mother and daughter went to the column group to find relatives together, although they already knew the result in advance, but when the host announced the result, the two were still excited.
Jia Min said with tears in her eyes: "Thank you to my parents for not giving up looking for me in the past 17 years, and thank them for their persistence, so that I know who my parents are and let me find where my home is." ”
After recording the show, Jia Min returned home with her parents, and there was another person waiting for her at home, and that person was her own sister named Xiangxiang.
After the sisters met, the two hugged each other and cried. Although they are a pair of sisters, fate is like a joke.
Xiangxiang grew up in the arms of her biological parents, wore famous brands, used the best, and was admitted to university, and now she has become a civil servant in the city.
And Meimei has not had the care of her parents since she was a child, she has worked hard and tired, she only has a junior high school education, she got married at the age of 18, and she is already a mother of two children at the age of 20.
When Xiao Han wrote this, he remembered that there was a sentence on the Internet that said, "Separation is to get together better, and may all the waiting and meeting in the world be disappointed." ”
But what I want to say to you is that if separation is a pain, please be sure to protect the people around you, don't wait until you lose to regret it, and don't let the good become a regret.