March 8, 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370. On March 3, Malaysia's transport minister said that the search for the plane that crashed 10 years ago would resume as soon as possible, but the families of the passengers are as far away from the truth and loved ones as the day it all began.
Before March 8, 2014, he was a farmer in the mountain village of Handan, Hebei Province, and the farthest he had ever traveled was the county seat, and he would be afraid to talk to strangers. In the next 10 years, in order to make a sound and remind people that MH370 is still missing, he learned to use a smartphone and learned pinyin, and the same Weibo was heavy 30 times, for fear that others would not see it.
The father's story with MH370 is expected to make a bigger noise and keep the public's attention to MH370.
They discussed it loudly in the hope that one day they would stop discussing it like this.
Years and longing coexist, despair and hope coexist, giving this painful history flesh and blood. At this particular juncture, we decided to repost this article, hoping that this story can maintain its due vitality to the greatest extent.
On March 6, 2021, in order to be able to enter Beijing smoothly in 2 days, 64-year-old Li Er went to the county hospital early in the morning for a nucleic acid test. The plane 7 years ago took his son, an employee of ZTE, Li Yanlin.
Just after 0:00 on the 8th, he rushed to Handan Railway Station from the southernmost county town in Hebei. K158 train, 0:55 departure, 6:17 to Beijing West Railway Station, this train he has been sitting for 7 years, hundreds of times, every time to buy the cheapest hard seat ticket, 64 yuan 5 cents.
Li Eryou and other family members met in Beijing, and the main purpose of the trip was to go to the Malaysian Embassy in China to submit a complaint to Malaysia**.
On March 8, 2021, Li Eryou (second from left) and other family members of the missing people in front of the Malaysian Embassy in China.
Standing in front of the embassy, the family members, as usual, wrote what they wanted to say on a blank piece of paper and held it on their chests.
I don't know when "asking for people" became "asking for the truth".
The activity lasted until dark, with little effect, and when Li Eryou took the last train of the day back to Handan, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning, and on the way home, it was pitch black.
Since he was young, Li Eryou loved to read and write poetry, and after his son lost contact, he wrote more than 2,000 poems, including one sentence:
It was only on this dark night that I felt a little bit like a father.
For the past seven years, every day has been like a long night, and by the time he told me his story below, he had smoked a full 13 cigarettes.
"What do you mean by losing contact".
On the evening of March 7, 2014, Li Eryou received a call from his son from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, with the content as simple as usual: "I am about to get on the plane, I will arrive in Beijing at 6 o'clock in the morning, and my girlfriend will pick me up at the airport." ”
Li Eryou was very happy to hear it, and the "girlfriend" in his son's mouth had actually only met him twice. It was the twenty-ninth of the lunar month more than a month ago, and he dragged the girl he met on a blind date with his son.
Fast forward to the Spring Festival period in 2014. That year, Handan fell a heavy snow that has not been seen for many years, after the New Year, on the eighth day of the first lunar month (February 7), the old couple stepped on the snow to send their son to the provincial highway at the head of the village to wait for the bus, looking at the sunset after the snow in the distance, Li Eryou suddenly had a few vicissitudes in his heart, and his son laughed at him: "I went to Malaysia to do a project, and I will come back immediately after I finish it." ”
Li Er has the only family photo in his family.
A month later, on March 8, Li Eryou was going to work the morning shift at the porcelain factory, thinking that he would be able to see his son at noon, so he asked the child and his mother to buy some meat and make something good. As soon as I entered the workshop, I said to my co-workers: "Lao Wu, my son will come back today, and I will give you a taste of Malaysian cigarettes in two days." ”
Before dawn that day, the girl rushed to the T3 terminal of Beijing Capital Airport, looking forward to the third meeting of the two.
At half past eight in the morning, it was already 2 hours late to the arrival time. The girl kept looking up to confirm the LED display, which kept scrolling the information of the incoming flight, and only one flight message at the top was motionless
Flight no.: MH370; Departure Place: Kuala Lumpur; Scheduled arrival time: 6:30 a.m.; Estimated time of arrival: None; Note: Delayed.
Something went wrong. Someone in the pick-up crowd shouted, and held the mobile phone high to pass it to the people around him. It was a message released by Agence France-Presse, "Malaysia Airlines says it has lost contact with a plane".
The girl hurriedly dialed Li Yanlin's **, I'm sorry, the ** you dialed has been turned off ......”
At around 9 o'clock, the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued a message confirming that flight MH370 was missing. A total of 239 passengers from 14 countries were on board, of which 154 were from China.
Li Eryou's landline also sounded at that time, and the girl said: "The plane seems to have had an accident, so let the family members go to the Beijing Lido Hotel." ”
The girl who picked up the ** called Li Eryou again, and he wanted to ask what happened, but he could only hear the crying of the family.
He took leave from the leader, stepped out of the workshop in three steps, and rode an electric car to his home. Hurry up, hurry up. As a result, I got into a truck coming from the north. "I don't want to live anymore and ride so fast and cross the road?! The driver slammed on the brakes and yelled fiercely.
When he arrived home, the villagers who had heard the news had already surrounded the door of the house, and the gossip made way for him, and when he pushed the door in, he saw his wife slumped to the ground, and the two daughters were crying incessantly.
Looking at the subtitles on the TV news, Li Eryou couldn't figure out what it meant to be "lost contact", he had never heard of this word in the dictionary in the first half of his life, until he got in the car to Beijing, he thought that when he arrived in Beijing, his son would arrive.
Li Eryou and his wife Liu Shuangfeng.
Later, he and his wife stayed at the Lido Hotel for more than 50 days, and for a long time, the old couple never touched the bed, either at the press conference or watching the news in the room.
What is the loss of contact", why do we have such a thing" ......The two can't wait to get into the TV and find out any hidden secrets about the "lost contact".
Until now, Li Eryou has been chewing on the meaning of the word "lost", but he has never been able to get out of this labyrinth.
"You are the one who killed the child".
During his stay at the Lido Hotel, the village party secretary once called Li Eryou**, which relieved his depressed mood a little: "Uncle, you can rest assured that you are waiting for news in Beijing, I have arranged a special guard at our house." ”
At that time, Li Er thought that it was only a matter of time before he took his son back to the village to report the safety of his ancestors and ancestors. But after that, except for the red and white affairs at home, he never returned to his hometown. "I don't have the face to see the people in the village, and I don't have the face to go to the graves of the children's grandparents. ”
Before March 8, 2014, his son Li Yanlin was the pride of the whole village.
Although Li Eryou faces the loess with his back to the sky all year round, he has arranged a bookshelf at home, which has become a wonder in the village. On rainy days, the people in the village always get together to play mahjong, but he prefers to sit in the house and read. In order to let his son read more, he will buy good books when he sees them, "I would rather smoke less cigarettes than buy more books".
Kuri has a bookshelf at home.
He still remembers that in 1997, his son was admitted to the best middle school and the best class in the district, and that year when Hong Kong returned to the motherland, fireworks were set off everywhere, and the family happily sent their son to school.
Li Eryou's eldest daughter knew that her younger brother was studying well and was going to go to college sooner or later, but the burden on the family was heavy, so she went out to work early. At that time, she could only earn 100 yuan a month, and when she earned it, she saved it. She saved up all the money for her younger brother to go to college. ”
In the year of the college entrance examination, because he had seen a couplet from Yuelu Academy in the book, "Only Chu is talented, and Yu Si is prosperous", Li Eryou asked his son to apply for Changsha University of Science and Technology to learn advanced communication majors.
After graduating, Li Yanlin first worked at Nokia, and then jumped to ZTE, covering most of China's network projects. The people in the village didn't understand this, they only knew that he was the most promising child in ten miles and eight townships. On the morning of March 8, Wang's sister-in-law from the porcelain factory also inquired with Li Eryou: "Lao Li, where did your son go to college?" My daughter was admitted this year and let her go to that university. ”
At the end of 2013, as the company had to expand its projects abroad, Li Yanlin was faced with four choices: India, Thailand, Russia or Malaysia.
India is too hot, Thailand is too chaotic, and Russia is too cold", Li Eryou heard that there is a Strait of Malacca in Malaysia, and many ships carrying things go from there, so he took the idea to let his son go to Malaysia.
Those months were the most satisfying moment in Li Eryou's life, his son was the first child in the village to go abroad, the student loan when he was studying was finally repaid, and his daughter-in-law's affairs also had some eyebrows, he took advantage of the farm to work in the porcelain factory, wanting to save more money and marry his son's daughter-in-law.
Everything seems to be going in a good direction, but it comes to an abrupt end.
In the next seven years, the decision that made the whole village envious was mentioned again and again, as long as the old couple quarreled, the wife's first sentence was always: "It's because you let the child go to Malaysia!" "You are the one who killed the child".At this time, Li Eryou would suddenly fall silent, hide outside the door, and snort hard.
"What is depression?"
After his son's accident, his wife Liu Shuangfeng was sometimes hysterical as if she had changed into a different person, and Li Eryou could always coax her, because the doctor said that she didn't want to do this either, it was a disease.
Returning to her daughter's house from the Lido Hotel, Liu Shuangfeng often stayed awake all night, just sat in front of the computer, and lay down for a while when she was tired. Sometimes I finally fall asleep, and in my sleep I will sit up and cry and drop my phone for no reason. The next day, Li Eryou asked, and she herself was puzzled, "I didn't fall, I didn't cry." ”
After his wife completely broke three mobile phones, Li Eryou heard from the village doctor that this was a problem in her heart, so she took her to the county hospital, where the doctor heard that it was MH370's family and was stunned for a while, and said: "There is no psychiatric department in the county, so you have to go to the city." ”
When I arrived at Handan Central Hospital, the doctor wrote five words on the diagnosis book: severe depression.
Taking advantage of Liu Shuangfeng's inattention, the doctor pulled Li Eryou aside and whispered: "To be honest, in a situation like this, no medicine will work, lovesickness, there is no rule of law." “
Li Eryou's wife, Liu Shuangfeng.
From January 30, 2015 to March 8, 2016, psychologist Liu Jinpeng was employed by Malaysia Airlines to provide psychological services to the families of MH370 passengers.
In her work, she carefully avoids the word "empathy", "Many family members will feel very angry when they mention this word, why do you empathize, what kind of life do I live, what kind of life do you live." ”
As a mother of two, she tried to put herself in the middle of it, "If this happens to me, will I be able to live?" Not necessarily. Really, I probably won't live more than 3 days. ”
After being diagnosed, Li Eryou went to the hospital every half a month to help his wife get medicine, 495 yuan at a time, and after a few months, the family couldn't afford it, so he began to take the tranquilizer given by the village doctor, a dime a piece. At first, I ate one tablet at the time of the attack, and then two or three tablets worked.
After a re-examination, the doctors in the hospital repeatedly warned that the dime of diazepam was *** before he hurriedly stopped the medicine for his wife.
Li Eryou and Liu Shuangfeng丨Photography Chang Keyong.
During that time, it was just in time for the birth of a little granddaughter. After that, both daughters handed over their children to their mothers to take care of, and Liu Shuangfeng's days were gradually filled with the crying of the children, and the number of seizures was much less. But Li Eryou is still cautious, for fear that a careless, hard-maintained "normal" will be beaten back to its original shape.
He still doesn't understand which organ of the body those drugs are acting on, and he doesn't understand what depression is, but in the middle of countless nights, he heard his wife's cry and almost overturned the beams of the house.
"What is Weibo".
When talking to me, Li Eryou often blurted out words such as "Montreal Convention", "advance compensation", "boarding video", "black box", ......If it weren't for his long-working stature and pronounced accent, it would have been difficult to associate him with the image of a peasant.
However, in the eyes of familiar people, he is like two people from 7 years ago.
Jiang Hui is also one of the families of the missing MH370, and his mother, Jiang Cuiyun, was on the plane. He described himself and Li Eryou as tacit comrades-in-arms on the same front. In his memory, Li Eryou, who appeared at the Lido Hotel for the first time, was not eye-catching, rarely spoke, and almost no one noticed him.
Kuri eats instant noodles in the middle of a meeting.
The only time I have an impression was at a meeting of the family committee, Li Eryou suddenly broke into the office and said, "I'm just an old farmer and can't speak, but thank you." After saying that, he bowed deeply to the crowd and turned to leave.
Everyone was quite surprised, and before they understood the taste, they went out. Jiang Hui said.
Li Eryou recalled: "At that time, I couldn't do anything but smoke and cry. ”
On March 24, 2014, 17 days after the plane went missing, then Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak suddenly announced that the plane had ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
Seeing this news, Liu Shuangfeng fell to the ground, Li Eryou stood up with a "vacancy", and after handing his wife over to the care of the families of other missing people nearby, he ran to the temporary press conference hall on the second floor of the Lido Hotel.
On that day, hundreds of family members formed a team and walked for nearly an hour to the Malaysian Embassy in Beijing. After several negotiations, the family received a written document stating that "no one on board survived" was not Najib's original words, and that their loved ones still had the possibility of being alive.
Since that day I have been a different person, and I know that I have to speak, and only by speaking up can we have people help us. Li Eryou said.
At that time, the reporters who poured into the Lido Hotel told him that there were many strangers on Weibo praying for the passengers on the plane, and Li Er had a puzzled face: "What is Weibo?" ”
Before that, his communication tools were only an elderly phone and a landline at home, but when he arrived in Beijing, he saw some young family members talking about the big screen mobile phone, so he craned his neck to look at it.
At the beginning of the plane's disappearance, Malaysia Airlines sent 30,000 yuan to each family member, and Li Eryou saw so much money for the first time in his life, and the first thing he did was to take out some of it and buy a smartphone, and it took nearly 3 months before he operated independently and issued the first Weibo (@现在的现在先生) ——
MH370, are you in **?
Weibo can let people all over the world know about our family, and I want everyone to sympathize with us and put pressure on Malaysia to find my children. The internet has a memory. Today, he has become an in-depth user of Weibo.
It was Cheng Liping, a young family member who helped him register on Weibo, she was the comber of "Painted Skin 2", and her husband Ju Kun was on the plane, who served as Jet Li's stand-in for many years, and was the action director of movies such as "The Grandmaster".
However, after 7 years, when Cheng Liping was asked again about the help she had given to Li Eryou, she had no impression at all, "At that time, my focus was not there, and my mind was full of 'people have gone to **". In the days after the loss of contact with their loved ones, just waiting has exhausted most of the energy of the family members. For Li Eryou, MH370 is all he has for the rest of his life.
Cheng Liping, a family member of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370.
In the past 7 years, as long as they have saved enough money for the journey, he and his wife will buy tickets to Beijing, "I can't remember how many times I went to Beijing and how many days I stayed." "In the beginning, I went 4 times a month, but then it was reduced to 2 times. At most, they stayed in Beijing for 22 days in a row, but in order to save more money to find their son, the two never stayed in a hotel.
In the summer, I slept in the square, in the underground passage, and was chased around. In winter, head to a 24-hour fast-food restaurant and get a drink of the cheapest for one night. I really can't stand it, and the guest house near the airport logistics park for 50 yuan a night is their most luxurious place to stay.
Every time he arrives in Beijing, Li Eryou has to go to the airport center to ask the staff of Malaysia Airlines, and the 50-kilometer journey from Beijing West Railway Station requires the help of the subway. For him, it is common to take the wrong train and go in the opposite direction, and many times he comes out of the subway without knowing where he is. "I just turned my head after asking, and sometimes I was angry with myself, and then I touched the south wall too much. ”
On August 3, 2018, at 22 o'clock, at Beijing West Railway Station, Li Eryou's wife Liu Shuangfeng waited for the train back to Handan the next day with the 822-page "MH370 Safety Investigation Report", and the last sentence of the report was: "In summary, the investigation team cannot confirm the real reason for the disappearance of MH370. ”
On January 29, 2015, the family gathered again at the airport center. The meeting was somewhat unusual for a day in which many paramedic in orange vests were on standby, and Malaysia Airlines suddenly announced the crash of flight MH370 and presumed that all 239 passengers and crew on board had been killed.
To live to see people, to die to see corpses. In the face of such a "presumption", a terrifying scream broke out in the meeting room in an instant, the scene was out of control for a while, some people waved their fists, some people came to the stage to snatch the microphone, Li Er smashed the table like crazy, full of anger and despair blocked in his throat, but he couldn't make a sound.
During the Spring Festival that year, the family members angrily decided to go to Malaysia at their own expense to put pressure on the Malaysian side**.
Li Eryou's ticket was bought by Jiang Hui, and it was the first WeChat transfer in his life. The moment I got the 2 Malaysia Airlines tickets, I felt both hope and disappointment. He filled his backpack with a box of motion sickness medicine and a bottle of water from his hometown, hoping to dispel some of his fear of airplanes.
Li Eryou and Liu Shuangfeng went to Malaysia to find their son.
During the six-hour flight, he took out the map of Malaysia he had just bought and the itinerary plan he had made, and checked it repeatedly. Because he was wearing clothes printed with the words "MH370 went home safely", someone always stepped forward to ask "Did the plane find it", Li Eryou could only wave his hand again and again, and then, take off his reading glasses and wipe his face.
The first time I used a smartphone, the first time I posted on Weibo, the first time I transferred money on WeChat, the first time I took a plane, and the first time I walked out of a small mountain village ......God used a cruel way to rewrite his life after the age of 57.
"My child is alive".
My child is still alive. ”
On many occasions, this sentence is Li Eryou's most important speech, and he is afraid that the people in the city will not understand, so he changed his words "My child is still alive".
I still have the evidence. In his opinion, many things can support this conclusion.
During the Spring Festival in 2015, he went to his son's workplace in Kuala Lumpur and asked "whether people are dead or alive". The host said to him, "Your son is not dead. It's in this room, he's just a wall away from you, but you'll never see him again. He spoke with other family members about the incident, convinced that it was a hint that the person had been kidnapped.
At that time, a veteran pilot who claimed to have flown the plane for more than 20 years told him that judging by his own experience, this type of Boeing aircraft would not be defective under normal circumstances. Li Eryou didn't understand what "flawed" meant, so he asked "Is it not going to fail", and got a positive answer.
After returning to China, he insisted on calling his son every Saturday night, ignoring "the ** you dialed has been turned off", and then said to **, "It's frosty at home, you wear more", "Your third uncle left this morning, and asked me if I had any news ......of you two days ago".I chose Saturday because I was afraid of delaying my children from working outside.
He always remembers a foreign number he received one month after the accident. He specifically looked for a telecommunications company and found that the number was from Texas, USA. In 2015, the status of his son's QQ was displayed**; Around 2017, the other party suddenly sent a word - "in".
He hurriedly asked a familiar reporter to help inquire, and the reply he got was "the number was stolen", but the letter he wrote to Tencent never received a reply, "Maybe I wrote the wrong address", he did not continue to investigate.
That's my baby! Why am I sure it was my child who sent it? My son was born in 1985, in our rural area, at his age, dolls are all in school, so every time I hit **, there is nothing else to say, just let him get married quickly. kept saying that he must be annoying, and always replied: yes, okay, zhong, just one word, how can others know that our father and son are talking like this. He told the story over and over again, and each time he was firm and serious.
Now and now" for Kuri two have.
In those years, Li Er sometimes received some strange **, and the person in it said in a mysterious tone: "I know where your child is, if you give me money, I will tell you." ”
What a good thing. "As a result, the money was gone, and ** couldn't get through.
In this way, he has been deceived several times, and he has deceived himself. Since the accident, he has hung his son's landline, mobile phone, and pager on a clothesline in the yard. "Not necessarily at any moment, he called, and I could hear it in the yard. ”
This hanging is 7 years, "It's long been out of power, and I know it won't work, but I'm more comfortable hanging there, otherwise, I really can't survive these 7 years." ”
Only by being alive can it be possible to wait for a son.
"If I live, my son will live".
On the bookshelf of Li Eryou, the book he most often turned to was "Robinson Crusoe", and he proudly said that Robinson was a hero in his son's heart when he was a child, and when he grew up, he specially bought the original English version to study. Before leaving the country, his son joked with him that he wanted to go to the tropics to see the island where Robinson lived.
He thinks his son may be on a desert island right now, and "he'll survive, like Robinson."
On February 28, 2016, American explorer Gibson found a fragment on the edge of the east coast of Africa with the word "No Step" printed on the edge, which was described as "almost certainly from MH370" in the official MH370 Security Investigation Report.
At the end of that year, Jiang Hui mentioned that he thought of taking a walk around the place where the plane might go, and Li Eryou immediately responded, "That time spent the most money, and I haven't paid it back yet."
On December 3, 2016, a team of eight family members from three countries assembled on the island of Madagascar, where the suspected wreckage had been found. Jiang Hui said that their purpose is to use the sincerity of the family to encourage the official force to persist in the search. "Let them know that the family is not giving up, and hopefully they will not give up either. ”
Li Eryou and Jiang Hui (middle) In Madagascar, the group had just arrived at the seaside hotel on St. Mary's Island in Madagascar, and before they had put down their luggage, Li Eryou picked a wild fruit from the tree to eat. Jiang Hui hurriedly said, "Don't eat blindly, don't be poisoned." ”
I said he was still biting there, and I said he was still biting there. Jiang Hui recalled.
The beach in Africa is hot, and it is not comfortable to step on it with shoes, but Li Eryou suddenly lay down, his legs half curled, and said to Jiang Hui You take a ** picture of me.
My son sleeps in this position at home, and I try to be sure, I can live, and my son can live. Li Eryou said.
Kuri Er is lying on the beach during a cross-island search, and Kuri Er almost does not survive.
Because they heard that there was a lot of garbage washed ashore on a small island not far away, and the wreckage was more likely to be found, the group rented a speedboat to go there. When he was about to land, the boat was suddenly overturned by the big waves, and everyone fell into the sea, Li Eryou couldn't swim, and his consciousness was instantly submerged by the surging seawater, leaving only a blank.
He had no idea how he had come ashore, except that the captain had been covered in grief and bleeding, and he had sat motionless on the shore for a long time.
Finding the suspected wreckage in a short period of time is a small probability event, but when everything happens, the family does not know whether their luck is good or bad.
That day, Jiang Hui was walking in front, and suddenly heard Li Eryou shouting "The sea, I'm looking for you", and he was suddenly full of desolation.
Almost at the same time, he saw the honeycomb object, reflecting light in the scorching sun.
The people looking for relatives all came over, and for a few minutes, no one spoke, and everyone tacitly knew that the object in Jiang Hui's hand was very close to the wreckage of the plane described by the experts.
Jiang Hui and Li Eryou.
Kuri Eryu couldn't describe how he felt at the time, and the momentary excitement was swallowed up by the huge helplessness that followed, pulling the painful people deeper into the depths.
Jiang Hui described the trip to Madagascar as "a very cruel journey, and there has never been a situation in the history of air crashes where the family has led the search and rescue."
However, their actions did not shake anything, and a month later, on 17 January 2017, the underwater search operation of Malaysia Airlines MH370 was suspended.
"2563 days".
On May 2, 2014, Li Eryou was the last family member to leave the Lido Hotel, and when he returned home, he bought a chronograph card, and changed the number every day he passed, "like a knife cut".
Since 7 years ago, the chronograph card has been the calendar of Kuriji Ariya. From 2 digits to 3 digits, now 4 digits, "2563 days", he counted the days day after day, but his son never appeared.
On March 7, 2021, MH370 lost contact with 2556 Tian Li Yanlin's room is still in its original state, and Li Er will go in and clean it every once in a while.
Li Yanlin's room remains the same丨Photo by Chang Keyong.
During the Chinese New Year, Liu Shuangfeng wrapped dumplings and put them in the refrigerator. There were many young people on the plane, and there were many elderly people in their families, Jiang Hui once opened the refrigerators of some family members and found that the food was stuffed inside, "They said that it would be too late to buy them when the children came back."
On December 18, 2018, Lee Siew Chi, a family member of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, passed away due to illness, and she was not the first person to leave while waiting. Li Xiuzhi's situation is similar to Li Er's, on the plane is her daughter, an excellent senior translator of foreign languages, the wedding room at home has already been renovated, and the marriage will be completed when she returns from a business trip.
When Li Eryou saw her for the last time, she said to him: "Lao Li, I have recorded and printed all the poems you posted on Weibo. We're in the same mood, and what you're saying is what I want to say. I'll bring it to you next time, and there are a few more typos for you to fix. ”
Li Xiuzhi, a family member of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370.
Li Eryou finally failed to get the printed manuscript of the poem, and Jiang Hui expressed his grief in the family group: "I don't know if it is a comfort or relief on the way to find my relatives." ”
Since the disbandment of the investigation team on November 30, 2018, the most common phrase said by the family members was "live well".
We can only live well. Li Eryou said.
In 2016, psychiatrist Liu Jinpeng bought 100 hazelnut saplings out of his own pocket and transported them to Li Eryou's home in the snowstorm. I also found my expert friends to teach the old couple how to water, spray, prune, ......
In 2016, Liu Jinpeng, Li Eryou, and Liu Shuangfeng planted hazelnut saplings together丨Photo by Chang Keyong.
Kuri Eryou regarded these hazelnut trees as hope, thinking that when they blossomed and bore fruit, his son might come back.
However, because he was running around all year round to find his relatives, the tree gradually became barren.
At the end of 2020, according to relevant policies, the land of hazelnut trees was going to be transferred, and Li Eryou didn't want to cause trouble to the village, so he couldn't bear to be bitter.
On the day when the village chief led people to shovel trees, he hid in his house and smoked cigarettes one after another.
After all the years of searching for his son, he has lost count of how many cigarettes he has smoked.
When the smoke fills his eyes, he may be able to see a vague glimpse of the old days: the family life was uneventful, and whenever the smoke rises, his son will come home for dinner...
After the smoke went out, he set off again.
Until now, in 2024, Li Eryou's Weibo is still being updated, and each one is related to Malaysia Airlines MH370.