For Mr. and Mrs. Gui Hongzheng from Wusheng County, Sichuan Province, June 12, 2009, was a day they will never forget, when their son Xiaojie went missing near their liquor store.
Since then, the home that was originally warm and full of laughter has become full of quarrels. The husband and wife miss Xiaojie all the time, worrying about whether he is safe and whether he is well fed and clothed.
Their dreams are also full of looking for children.
In the past 10 years, they have searched many places and have been disappointed countless times. Despite knowing that there was little hope of finding the child, they never gave up. With the help of **, in 2019, Gui Hongzheng and his wife finally met Xiaojie, hoping to bring him back to Sichuan to live.
However, Xiaojie's adoptive father said that he could not accept them taking the child and insisted that the child should stay with him. The children shouted at them: "You have left me without a home!" In the face of the resistance of the child and his adoptive father, can the wish of Gui Hongzheng and his wife be realized?
In Shantou, Mr. and Mrs. Wang Jun (not their real name) have been longing to have a son, even though they already have a lovely daughter. They don't like their daughters or treat them badly, they just want a boy in the family.
Although Wang Jun and his wife have good economic conditions, they are very envious when they see that other people's families have boys. Just when they thought they might not be able to fulfill their wishes, fate brought them a turn.
In the summer of 2009, Wang Jun heard that a family in neighboring Huilai County had a child they could not afford to raise. He decided to adopt the child and discussed the matter with his wife.
The couple decided to adopt the child and searched for the family. Considering the difficulties of the other party, they also went to the bank to withdraw tens of thousands of yuan in cash, intending to help them financially.
When they first saw the child, they had a happy smile on their faces. The boy was about two or three years old, white and chubby, very cute, loved to laugh, and very likable.
Even though he didn't speak with a local accent, they didn't care about the detail. After consulting with the "child's parents", they adopted the boy and left a sum of money.
The wish of many years has finally been fulfilled, and Wang Jun and his wife are very happy. Although the boy was not biological, they treated him as their own and took care of him.
The child grew up day by day, and Wang Jun and his wife were very pleased to see that he had excellent academic performance, was obedient and sensible, and had a growing relationship with them. They think it's worth it.
Meanwhile, more than 1,700 kilometers away in Sichuan's Wusheng county, another couple is anxiously searching for their lost son. The youngest son of the Sichuan couple, Gui Hongzheng, was originally from Xianning, Hubei Province, and learned winemaking techniques from his father since he was a child.
At the end of the nineties, he heard that Sichuan people like to drink, and in order to make a living, he left his hometown alone and came to Wusheng County, Sichuan to open a wine shop. Although life in a foreign country was difficult, he always persevered in order to provide a better life for his family.
After gaining a foothold, his wife, Li Xike, also came to Wusheng County from Hubei, where they made their home and gave birth to two sons. However, in 2006, their youngest son, Xiaojie, disappeared, leaving them very anxious.
They go out early and return late every day, sticking to the wine shop with only a few dozen square meters, although it is very hard to make wine, but looking at the lively and lovely Xiaojie, all the fatigue has disappeared.
Although the life of a family of four is simple, it is full of happiness and laughter. However, life is not always peaceful. At five o'clock on June 12, 2009, the couple was busy making wine, and Xiaojie was playing in front of the wine shop as usual, and the couple could see him at a glance.
When the sun slowly went down, Li Xike was worried that his son would catch a cold and wanted to get him a vest to wear. She walked to the door, but she didn't see Xiaojie. At first, she thought that Xiaojie had gone to play at another house, after all, the surrounding merchants had children at home, and it was normal for friends to play together.
She searched around the neighborhood, but Xiaojie was still nowhere to be seen. Asked the neighbors, and no one knew that Xiaojie had gone.
1.Li Xike's heart tightened, and he was instantly nervous. She hurried back to the liquor store, held her husband's hand tightly, and cried to tell him that Xiaojie was missing. Gui Hongzheng was very puzzled by Xiao Jie's sudden disappearance, Xiao Jie was still at the door of the house more than ten minutes ago, how could he suddenly disappear?
How far can a child go if he is less than three years old? He has a lot of questions about it, but the most important thing at the moment is to find the child. He immediately called his friends and relatives and asked them to help find him.
After learning the news of his young son's disappearance, neighbors also joined the search for him. Many people stayed up all night, looking for traces of Xiaojie in all corners of Wusheng County.
Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, they still haven't found any clues about Xiaojie. 2.Li Xike's heart sank, and he suddenly became nervous. She immediately rushed back to the liquor store, grabbed her husband's hand tightly, and cried the news of Xiaojie's disappearance.
Gui Hongzheng was very puzzled by Xiao Jie's sudden disappearance, Xiao Jie was still at the door of the house more than ten minutes ago, how could he suddenly disappear without a trace? How far can a child go if he is less than three years old?
He has a lot of questions about it, but the most important thing at the moment is to find the child. He immediately called his friends and relatives and asked them to help find him. After learning the news of Xiaojie's disappearance, the neighbors also joined the search team.
Many people stayed up all night, looking for traces of Xiaojie in all corners of Wusheng County. Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, they still couldn't find any clues about Xiaojie.
3.Li Xike's heart tightened, and he immediately became nervous. She rushed back to the liquor store, grabbed her husband's hand, and cried to tell him that Xiaojie was missing. Gui Hongzheng was very puzzled by Xiao Jie's sudden disappearance, Xiao Jie was still at the door of the house more than ten minutes ago, how could he suddenly disappear?
How far can a child go if he is less than three years old? He has a lot of questions about it, but the most important thing at the moment is to find the child. He immediately called his relatives and friends and asked them to help find him.
After learning the news of Xiaojie's disappearance, the neighbors also joined the search team. Many people stayed up all night, looking for traces of Xiaojie in all corners of Wusheng County.
Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, they still haven't found any clues about Xiaojie. 4.Li Xike's heart was shocked, and he was instantly nervous. She hurried back to the liquor store, held her husband's hand tightly, and cried to tell him that Xiaojie was missing.
Gui Hongzheng was very puzzled by Xiao Jie's sudden disappearance, Xiao Jie was still at the door of the house more than ten minutes ago, how could he suddenly disappear? How far can a child go if he is less than three years old?
He has a lot of questions about it, but the most important thing at the moment is to find the child. He immediately called his friends and relatives and asked them to help find him. After learning the news of Xiaojie's disappearance, neighbors also joined the search for him.
Many people stayed up all night, looking for traces of Xiaojie in all corners of Wusheng County. Sadly, despite their best efforts, they still haven't found any clues about Xiaojie.
Gui Hongzheng decided to call the police and relied on the power of ** to find the missing child. However, ** told him an unacceptable news: Xiaojie may have been abducted by human traffickers who were on the move.
He had seen similar incidents on television, but he never imagined that such a misfortune would happen to him. Although the monitoring equipment in Wusheng County is limited, ** still tried its best to check the station, dock and other places, but did not find any valuable clues.
During this period, Gui Hongzheng and his wife did not stop looking for Xiaojie, but after several days, they still did not find their son. This cruel truth is unacceptable to them, and every time they think of their son's disappearance, they can't help but cry, and even in their dreams, they keep looking for their son and wake up crying.
The Gui family is plunged into endless grief by Xiaojie's disappearance, and the original happy atmosphere is replaced by silence, arguments, and tears. Gui Hongzheng was full of anger and helplessness, although he knew that all this was not his wife's fault, he would still quarrel with Li Xike over the matter of the child.
And Li Xike, as a mother, her heart was also broken in the disappearance of her child. She was in pain, she blamed herself, she couldn't let go. Relatives and friends persuaded them to have another one, hoping to alleviate their grief, but Li Xike could never forget Xiaojie, and every time she saw her youngest son, her heart would ache like a knife.
In order to find Xiaojie, Gui Hong is traveling many times, going with great expectations, and returning disappointed. But he never gave up, and he and Li Xike decided to keep the liquor shop until the day Xiaojie returned.
When they heard that Xiaojie might have news, Gui Hongzheng and Li Xike were very excited. They felt a glimmer of hope, which filled their hearts with anticipation. One day in 2014, Gui Hongzheng received a ** from the Wusheng County Public Security Bureau, and they learned that Xiaojie had a clue.
He immediately took Li Xike to the Public Security Bureau. It turned out that Sichuan ** had cracked a series of child abduction and trafficking cases. Wang Guoqiang (pseudonym), a 57-year-old man from Qu County, Sichuan, was working in Guangdong Province when he heard that those who could not have sons needed children and could "bring their children over" to make money, and each child cost 30,000 yuan.
This thing hurts Tianli and makes people suffer for a lifetime, sometimes I hesitate, but sometimes I do it. Wang Guoqiang said this in the detention center.
From 2008 to 2014, he abducted 13 children from Nanchong, Neijiang and other places.
He and his wife then sent the children to Shantou and sold them to middlemen, who in turn sold them to buyers. In the interrogation room, he confessed everything. His confession found 3 children for **, but 10 children are still missing.
One of them, he remembers very well, that he took a two- or three-year-old boy near the Wusheng County farmers' market and sold it to Shantou. **The investigation found that the child may be Xiaojie.
To find out where Xiaojie is going, you must find a middleman. However, the cunning Wang Guoqiang tried to protect his accomplices and was unwilling to cooperate, saying that he "didn't remember connecting with his accomplices in **".
This made Gui Hongzheng and his wife feel very lost. However, knowing Xiaojie's whereabouts, it became easier to find him. In 2015, the Sichuan Provincial Public Security Department hired portrait experts to simulate the current appearance of 10 children such as Xiaojie according to their childhood.
*According to the portrait, compare them one by one from Shantou's student registration system. Although this process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the method is clumsy, as long as the abducted child can be found, Sichuan** will not give up.
In the end, they found more than 300 children and asked Gui Hongzheng and others to identify them.
When ** rescued the abducted children Gui Hongzheng and Li Xike, their hearts were full of hope. They found that the child was 80% similar to their child, Xiaojie, but fate played a cruel joke on them again - DNA tests showed that the child was not theirs.
Similarly, the remaining 9 pairs of parents are also looking for their children, with heavy hearts and disappointed. Despite the slim hope, they are still willing to try, and they receive an invitation from a family search program group in the hope that they can find their children through the program.
In March 2019, they traveled to Beijing to record a show, looking forward to finding their children this time. For Lisek, if she can't find their children again, her heart will be full of regret, and she hopes that after her death, she can know that their children are doing well.
They were full of tears and anticipation on the show looking forward to the mercy of God so that they could see their children again.
The magic of science and technology allowed the program team and ** to successfully find the child, but in order to protect the child's privacy, Xiaojie failed to come to the scene in person. After 10 long years, they can finally reunite with Xiaojie, and their excitement is indescribable.
In April 2019, Gui Hongzheng and Li Xike followed Sichuan** to a small town in Shantou, Guangdong. Every parent wants their children to be by their side and not be abandoned or raised by others.
Therefore, they hope to bring Xiaojie back to Sichuan. However, they didn't expect that things weren't as simple as they thought. As you have already guessed, Xiaojie is the boy adopted by Wang Jun and his wife.
That night, it rained lightly in the town, and Gui Hongzheng and Li Xike's eyes were moist, and they were silent all the way, looking a little lonely. At Wang Jun's home, they met Xiaojie.
Gui Hong was holding the child tightly and putting him on his lap, and his eyes did not take off him for a moment. Li Xike cried and talked to the child, asking if he still remembered what happened when he was a child?
Although the couple was excited, Xiaojie seemed very calm and didn't say a word. In fact, he has no memory of what happened before he was three years old. He felt a little overwhelmed by this strange "parent".
Subsequently, Gui Hongzheng and his wife thanked Wang Jun's family and offered to take the child away. However, Wang Jun's face changed, saying that although he wanted the child to stay, he also had to respect the law.
His wife is also deeply entangled, and her feelings about the child's stay are very complicated. They have lived with Xiaojie for ten years, and they have already regarded him as their own son, but they have to consider the constraints of the law.
Both sides insisted on their own opinions and could not reach a consensus. At this time, Sichuan ** intervened in mediation, believing that Xiaojie's stay should be decided by himself and his choice should be respected.
Considering that Xiaojie is about to enter junior high school, if he changes his learning environment during this critical period, it may affect his learning. In the end, Xiaojie still chose to stay in the Wang family he was familiar with.
In desperation, Gui Hongzheng and his wife could only agree with Wang Jun to let their children go home during the summer vacation, and they would return to Sichuan first.
In the face of Xiaojie's choice, despite their unwillingness, Gui Hongzheng and Li Xike did not blame the child, after all, the family relationship between the two and Xiaojie was once weakened because of 10 years of separation.
In order to re-establish his relationship with Xiaojie, Gui Hong is trying to keep in touch with him, telling him about the past between them, and even sending him red envelopes often. However, these methods did not have the desired effect, and Xiaojie rarely replied to Gui Hongzheng's WeChat and never received his red envelopes.
Despite the setbacks, Gui Hongzheng still stuck to his beliefs and told himself and Li Xike that as long as Xiaojie returned to his side, everything would be fine. However, the reality was not as rosy as they imagined, and Xiaojie returned to Wusheng County accompanied by Wang Jun.
The picture of the father's love and filial piety that they had hoped for did not appear, but instead made the family atmosphere awkward and tense. Despite this, Gui Hongzheng and Li Xike still tried their best to make Xiaojie feel the warmth of home, they cooked in different ways, bought him a new mobile phone, so that he could easily keep in touch with his adoptive father and others.
Gui Hongzheng and his wife once recognized Xiaojie with expectations, but they didn't expect to get a sad tragedy. Although they try their best to take care of Xiao Jie, Xiao Jie does not seem to appreciate it, locks himself in his room all day and plays with his mobile phone, ignoring their care and persuasion.
This left Gui Hongzheng and his wife feeling very confused and helpless, and they hoped that Xiaojie could go to school in Sichuan, but Xiaojie refused to go to the school to enroll. In the process, they begin to realize that the impact of acknowledgment on their children can be far greater than they think.
Xiaojie even scolded them for "you hurt me to have no home", which made them feel very sad and helpless. Eventually, under the persuasion of relatives and friends, they decided to send Xiaojie back to Wang Jun's house, but their contact with Xiaojie was severed.
Although they tried their best to salvage the relationship, it seemed that they could no longer change what had happened.
When children can accept themselves is always a question that they think about and seek to solve. They wanted to hold the buyer accountable, but out of protection for Xiaojie, they had to abandon the idea.
And Wang Guoqiang, who abducted and sold Xiaojie back then, because only 3 abducted children were verified, the court sentenced him to 15 years in prison in accordance with the law. His other trafficking practices have also been exposed one by one, and he will face heavier punishments.
Our country has been cracking down on the crime of child trafficking, because the trafficking of a single child is already a serious crime, let alone the trafficking of more than 10 children. Wang Guoqiang will definitely be severely punished.
Gui Hongzheng and his wife were able to meet the abducted Xiaojie, which is entirely due to the unremitting efforts of **, and we should pay tribute to them. It is hoped that with the efforts of ** and social groups, more and more abducted children like Xiaojie can find their biological parents and reunite with their families.
However, the most important thing is to prevent children from leaving the parents' sight to avoid being exploited by traffickers and avoiding more tragedies. The pain of separation can only be truly understood by those who have experienced it.
Finally, I wish Gui Hongzheng and his wife can be recognized by Xiaojie as soon as possible and regain their lost family relationship of more than 10 years.