She not only lost a child
32 years later, Li Jingzhi saw his son.
The man is 34 years old and is not similar to the adult portraits simulated by experts. He didn't remember anything before 4 years old, and never thought he was a kidnapped child. He was born in Xi'an and now speaks fluent Sichuan dialect.
Li Jingzhi looked carefully, his eyes narrowed into a slit when he smiled, and his right foot habitually flicked outward when walking—like his mother. Face recognition and gene comparison confirmed his identity.
In order to find his son, Li Jingzhi printed more than 100,000 copies of tracing notices, traveled to more than 20 provinces, and met more than 300 children. She helped 29 of them find a home, and the 30th was her own child.
Li Jingzhi established the "Shaanxi Aiko Search Federation" and has also been a long-time volunteer of "Baby Going Home Search". This website cooperates with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's Anti-Trafficking Office and is China's largest public welfare anti-trafficking website.
The 1980s and 1990s were the periods of high incidence of missing children. A set of data that Caixin.com recently crawled on the website also showed that under the topic of "home search for baby", from 1989 to 1999, there were more than 700 pieces of registration information for missing children every year.
It is also from the 1990s onwards that the criminal legislation against the crime of trafficking in children has become increasingly clear. The Ministry of Public Security has organized special operations to "traffick", and the number of missing child registrations has gradually declined. In 2018, Chinese public security organs filed 5,397 criminal cases of trafficking in women and children, the lowest in five years.
This still means that on average about 15 women or children are trafficked every day.
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October 17, 1988, Xi'an. In the afternoon, Jia Jia, who was 2 years old and 8 months old, was taken from the kindergarten by his father. On the way home, Jiajia was thirsty. His father went to a hotel on the street to look for water after cooking. "It took a minute or two for my son to disappear."
Li Jingzhi was on a business trip and hurried home after receiving the telegram. Without a mobile phone, the Internet, and no surveillance cameras on the street, she can only go to the bus station, train station, etc. She posted the tracing notice on the telephone pole, and also sent it to the government department that "seems to be related to the loss of children." She also contacted the tracing section of newspapers and periodicals around the world.
At the beginning, she received many clues, someone called "Your son is here, come quickly". She went to buy toys and clothes and "prepared to get him back". She estimated the growth rate of the child, clothes from 100 cm to 130 cm, toys from plastic pistols to Transformers.
In the memory of this mother, Jiajia had a birthmark near her right ear, bulging about 1 mm. Every time she "picks up" the child, she will look carefully, but often she hasn't reached the bio-information comparison link yet, she knows it's wrong.
In the first year after the child was lost, Li Jingzhi went out to search three or four times. For safety, she asked her classmates and friends to accompany her travel expenses, and her savings were gradually insufficient.
One day, she went to Xi'an TV Station to find someone to inform her. She was stopped and asked for directions. The other party was also looking for children.
Li Jingzhi began to ponder, exchange clues with other families, and find a companion. She collected more than 50 contact information for people's notices from TV and newspapers, and established the "Shaanxi Aiko Search Federation", which meets twice a month to communicate information and make plans.
These parents who are looking for their children write to several relevant departments-family planning department, women's federation, public security organ, education and civil affairs department according to the five levels of country, province, city, county and township. In 1989, more than 100,000 tracing notices were sent to 31 provincial-level administrative regions, and five or six hundred letters and telegrams were returned, with about 200 clues.
Once the clues are received, these parents will go to the local group for verification.
Xi'an woman Chen Qinxi is a member of the "Shaanxi Aiko Search Federation". One evening 31 years ago, there was a power outage at her home, and her 3-year-old son Jia Niuwa was playing in the backyard. When the lights came on, the children disappeared.
The family guarded the entrances of the train station separately, dared not leave for a moment, and waited a week before leaving.
Zhang Huixia, who is based in Xianyang, Shaanxi, has participated in many meetings of the "Shaanxi Aiko Search Federation". 32 years ago, her 3-year-old son disappeared at the door. On several occasions, she and Li Jingzhi went out to recognize their relatives, "It's really the feeling of finding a needle in a haystack."
Even if a clue is received, it is not easy to see the child. Zhang Huixia and her husband went to Nanyang, Henan Province, and both were empty. For the first time, the other party said the child was not there. The second time, she saw a completely strange child who did not possess the most important characteristics she described.
A lost child told a reporter from China Youth Daily. When he was young, his adoptive parents would send him away as soon as he heard that someone would come to the village to find him, and “hidden away for a few days”.
When Jiajia disappeared for 7 days, Li Jingzhi received a call. The other party told her that if she wanted a child, she would pay 5,000 yuan to redeem her at the designated place. She took the money, but no one came to pick it up. After tossing back and forth three times, she called the police.
Li Jingzhi later learned that almost every family seeking children had similar experiences, and some were cheated of a lot of money.
32 years have changed many things. Li Jingzhi divorced and moved from Xi'an to Tianjin. The old house was demolished early, the modern business district reshaped the old street, the newspaper kiosk was withdrawn, and shared bicycles were parked on the corner. For a long time, she regarded Mother's Day as the most bitter holiday.
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The unconnected line is one end of the parent's anxiety, and the other end is the child's questioning.
Luo Xin, 36, was lost when he was 4. He remembered that the mother asked him and his brother to get a haircut that day and gave them two cents. The brothers passed a game hall and stopped for a while. A man in a hard hat gave Luo Xin a red apple and took him away.
Afterwards, the memory was intermittent, he said that he was taken to the train by a tall man, and raindrops hit the window like bubbles. Someone was riding a bicycle, carrying him across the dirt road, the dust swayed. Along the way, he was resisting and kicking everywhere. In the spring of the following year, there were still scars on his leg.
After coming to the adoptive parents’ home in rural Shandong, Luo Xin will recall the appearance of his original home almost every night: there is a tree in the middle of the house; there is a bank opposite; there is an uncle who repairs shoes near the block; his mother sells cloth; he eats Passed the pomegranate; once lying on the bed, his hand was burned by the iron... Self-compulsive memories made him nervous.
When he was in junior high school, he finally got a clue. An old man in the village said that Luo Xin came from Shaanxi. In the year of Gao Yi, he secretly wrote to the Shaanxi police. The other party sent someone, but because of insufficient clues, he was unable to investigate. After the college entrance examination, he applied for a school in Shaanxi.
Luo Xin desperately put together the details. He remembers seeing his neighbor get married shortly after he came to Shandong. The couple's children were born in 1989. "This shows that my lost time should be in 1988."
In order to find a home, he spends most of his time in the library, looking for newspapers around 1988, or searching for information on the Internet, looking for memories in the streets. He was too busy to see a figure, and was nicknamed "Diu Di" by his roommate.
Another lost man, Chen Liming, discovered his life experience at the banquet before marriage. The elders here are drunk talking. At that time, he was 21 years old and had lived in a village in Henan for 18 years.
That night, he knocked on the door of a relative's house and finally asked about the story he had just entered the village: he was trafficked to the village when he was more than 3 years old, because he grew up, "like four or five years old", and no one wanted it. Finally, the adoptive father's loan of 3,800 yuan took him away—at that time, the adoptive mother had already given birth to two girls.
Chen Liming's home was originally in Ankang, Shaanxi. At home, he was in the wood business. Because he was busy, he often entrusted him to acquaintances to look after him. Later, that man took him away.
Vague memories haunt the childhood of these children. Chen Liming remembered that he had heard the sound of trains, but the village where he lived was 40 kilometers away from the railroad tracks. When he graduated from junior high school, he took the green leather train, and suddenly remembered that he had been taken on the train by a man in green when he was young.
Five years after coming to the adoptive parents' house, Luo Xin happened to hear that there was a department store nearby to be demolished. He suddenly thought that his father would work in the department store.
Before he was lost, he had tasted chocolate and had eaten many fruits. After arriving at the new home, some villagers divided the bananas for the children. The children they received were stuffed directly into their mouths. Only Luo Xin subconsciously peeled the bananas.
Luo Xin likes to smash the metal medal on the bottle because it is "much like the chocolate I have eaten". When he saw the ball-shaped fruit of the sycamore tree fall, he would break it and try it, because it is "much like a walnut".
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Li Jingzhi remembered that the first time I met, Luo Xin spent 4 hours introducing himself: I am from Shaanxi and have an older brother. One of our two brothers has the word "new" in it. I have a scalded scar on my hand. Before I lost it, I Have eaten pomegranate.
Pomegranate is a special product of Lintong in Shaanxi. Li Jingzhi searched the past materials and saw that the situation of a family in Lintong was similar to Luo Xin's description. After a lapse of many years, the 7-digit phone number on the tracing notice has long been invalidated, the building in the address has also been demolished, and only the child's father's name can be found.
The police assisted them in querying household registration information. There are more than 50 people with the same name in the system. In the next four or five months, Li Jingzhi asked everybody. Shaanxi TV station asked her to do a show. She also asked the program team to find someone.
Coincidentally, there are Lintong people in the program group. The staff member asked the relative to find out that upon inquiry, Luo Xin's father was the former colleague of the relative.
Chen Liming is 36 years old. It was after he had children that he made up his mind to find his biological parents. During the time his elder son went to kindergarten, he often worried about the safety of his children and "suddenly understood the mood of being a parent".
He and his wife went to Xi'an to find relatives. Without knowing who to find, he went directly to the police station. After registering the information and taking blood, a police officer recommended Li Jingzhi to Chen Liming, "She has a lot of clues there and should be able to help you."
Li Jingzhi came to meet with three large non-woven bags, which were filled with tracing notices. They checked one by one with no results. Li Jingzhi recommended that he register in the newspaper, and then go to "Baby House Xunziwang" to register. Eight months later, Chen Liming successfully confirmed his marriage.
On one occasion, Li Jingzhi published information about a missing person living in northern Shaanxi at the meeting. Parents present ran to the local identification and found the child who had been missing for half a year.
A parent in Jingyang County, Shaanxi, once told Li Jingzhi that his daughter was missing at the age of five. Li Jingzhi said "the child still has memories", let the other party quickly recall the scene on the day of the incident, describe the environment at home, and publish it on "Baby Going Home to Search Subnet". Volunteers from the website soon sent news that the characteristics mentioned in this post were in line with the situation of a girl who came to search for a home. The result of the gene comparison has not yet come out. The family has recognized the girl.
Chen Qinxi remembered that Li Jingzhi would repeatedly emphasize that every time he went out to recognize his relatives, he would take more pictures of the child as much as possible. It was really difficult to remember the characteristics of the other party.
Hubei Xiangfan Welfare Institute once wrote a letter to Li Jingzhi. Some traffickers bought and sold children locally. When the police arrived, they left the children and ran away, and the children were taken to the orphanage.
One of the children is like Jiajia described by Li Jingzhi. After Grandma Jiajia went to recognize her relatives, she found that it was not. Li Jingzhi specifically told her mother to take more pictures of the boy. These photos were taken by her to the parent meeting. A grandmother recognized it as a grandson who had been missing for 8 months.
With the help of Li Jingzhi, it took only 2 months for a Guizhou parent to find his son who was sold to Fujian. Li Jingzhi accompanied the boy home. The boy's mother ran down the hillside and pulled her: "You can rest assured that my son is your son."
Li Jingzhi is happy from the heart, but the more happy he is, the more sad he is. She wanted to know: "Why didn't I hold the child's hand?"
Children who are more than 4 years old when they are lost will have memories of their homes. Many people have already registered in the "Baby Home Search Subnet" and are waiting to match with the other party who came to find them.
In the eyes of many policemen who have searched for Jiajia, Li Jingzhi's situation is very difficult. The child disappeared at the age of two, without reference memory and initiative to find parents, family members can only find one way.
After the first three years after Jiajia's loss, Li Jingzhi received fewer and fewer clues. In one year, she had not received any news. "Totally desperate, I don't know where to go in the future."
In 2009, the Ministry of Public Security of China has established a national DNA database for "abduction". Li Jingzhi will tell relatives to register, "as long as the blood is collected and stored, it will one day be comparable."
She tweeted Weibo and played vibrato, "Standing where everyone can see." So far, she has appeared on more than 30 TV programs. At the age of 55, she signed up for a speech-based talent show, and Jiajia was her "reason to come."
She was written into one piece of news after another, and the content of Xunzi remained unchanged. It was almost the only year of searching, 23 years, 27 years, and 32 years.
Some people said that she was famous, and Li Jingzhi responded, "If there are other ways, who would tear the scar to others? I have to go on. If one more person knows, there will be more chances (to find the child)."
Every time I face the camera and tell the story of my son, this woman who is optimistic and strong in the eyes of others will cry.
Her social network signature is "Mother who can't give up in order to find her own flesh and blood". She will regularly repost Xunzi Weibo. More families depend on her. Chen Qinxi is 60 years old, and her WeChat account has been using the nickname "Xunzi Jia Niuwa" from the day of registration until she lost her son. Zhang Huixia is also 65 years old. She doesn't use much mobile phone software. She can only send tracing notices over and over in WeChat group.
Over the years, the only clue they got is Li Jingzhi.
Chen Qinxi said that after Li Jingzhi went to Tianjin to live, he saved a certain number of clues every year, and then returned to Xi'an to gather these families together for a meeting. "I can still meet six or seven times a year."
In April of this year, Li Jingzhi submitted three new clues to the "Abduction Office" in Xi'an. One of the clues shows that many years ago, a Sichuan man adopted a boy from Xi'an. After finding the man's address, the police rushed to Chengdu for the first time. After drawing blood and collecting DNA, they were compared.
On May 13, Li Jingzhi received a notice from Xi'an's "Abduction Office". In the few days that she was waiting to recognize her, she suffered from insomnia several times. "One, two, three, four, five" counted to dawn. She was afraid that her son wouldn't recognize her, and dyed the gray hair black and curled it up.
While waiting at the scene, she had already cried once and was very nervous, "the most afraid of giving her a hug, her son did not respond". The end is that the two's hug lasted for nearly 5 minutes.
After learning that Li Jingzhi had found his son, some parents came downstairs to her home in Xi'an, holding a huge hunter's card, hoping to attract the attention of reporters and the police.
Someone asked her, "Did you find the child, wouldn't you help us again?" Li Jingzhi solemnly said, "I will continue." When the media came to interview, she would recommend those people to show their faces. She also recorded videos for several families and posted them online.
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Zhang Baoyan is the chairman of the "Baby Going Home Search Subnet" Volunteer Association. As a representative of the National People's Congress, she has made many suggestions on abduction. So far, the website she launched has helped 3,357 people find relatives.
According to her experience, Li Jingzhi spent 32 years in the family seeking relatives, which is actually not long. "It can even be said to be an intermediate number."
Zhang Baoyan has been in contact with tens of thousands of similar families. She summarized the rule: "Generally speaking, it is more difficult to find a baby", but it is relatively easy to find a baby. But the problem is that specific to each lost person, They have very different ideas, and it is not easy to set foot on a home search."
Some people don’t understand their life history of being abducted; some people have lived well with their adoptive parents because they have moved once, and they are afraid to face the unknown again; some are told by their adoptive parents, "The reason you came here is because you were abandoned "", the result is very repulsive to seek relatives.
Chen Liming thought for a long time the night before his public search for relatives, but he was still unable to speak with his adoptive parents and found an uncle to represent him.
The worries of many lost people are that finding a biological parent will hurt the adoptive parents. Zhang Baoyan has seen such young people, and the other party insists stubbornly that only when the adoptive parents die, will he have the possibility to open the path of finding relatives.
Nowadays, mobile phones are popularized, and taking pictures is not a problem. High-speed rail replaces green-skinned trains, cameras are installed in the streets, and face recognition devices are also installed in train stations. Zhang Baoyan clearly felt that the success rate of finding relatives on the "Baby Home Searching Subnet" is gradually increasing.
On May 18, Meng Qingtian, the deputy director of the "Abduction Office" of the Ministry of Public Security, also revealed to the media that since 2009, public security agencies across the country have recovered more than 6,300 people who have been abducted for many years through backlogging and DNA database comparison. child.
In particular, she pointed out that the current number of child theft cases is less than 20 per year.
For every registered person who seeks relatives, the "Baby Go Home Search Subnet" volunteers will follow up accordingly for a long time. These volunteers will remind relatives to go to the public security department to collect blood samples, conduct DNA tests, and record them in national databases.
They search online every day, but clues to those old cases are really limited. "To be honest, we don't know where to break." Zhang Baoyan admitted. In 2017, "Research on the Geographical Features of Child Trafficking in China" published by Li Gang and others showed that they were based on the "baby home search subnet" database of child trafficking and screened the data from 1980 to 2015 to obtain child trafficking. A total of 14352 messages. Many of them are still searching.
A girl named Xie Xiaofang was born in 2001 and was 7 years old when she arrived at her adoptive parents’ house; an old man named Mi Guilan, who was 91 when she was looking for a family, was abducted for 84 years; some people claimed that “the adoptive father said I was more than a month old "I was hugged here"; some people remembered that he was turned several times, "I was crying so much at the time that my throat was so painful that I couldn't speak."
In the basic information registration form, most of the missing persons except for the location and missing place, other projects are largely blank. A boy, Tiger, who was abducted after three or four months of birth, currently lives in Linyi, Shandong. His missing place reads "Asia" and he did not want to publicly search for relatives. An old man named Hu Quanrong claimed to be born in 1933. , "The date of the ID card is not necessarily accurate." He said his family fled Guangdong during the Anti-Japanese War, and his parents were killed by Japanese aircraft.
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In the Spring Festival of 2011, in a TV show, nine young men of different ages stood in a row and sang an adapted "Angel Wings" for Li Jingzhi.
This song is dedicated to their common "mom", they are part of the lost who got help from Li Jingzhi.
Zhang Baoyan introduced that Jiajia's loss in 1988 was a period of high incidence of abduction of Chinese children. She said that at that time in the countryside, many people thought that there could not be no boys in the family, but under the family planning policy, it was not feasible to have another child.
There are also areas where the family culture is strong. For example, in Fujian and Guangdong, "there are many boys in the family and there are many people, and they have a voice in the local area." Zhang Baoyan has seen a family in Fujian with 6 girls and 4 boys. He still has to buy another boy.
The data of "Baby Going Home to Search the Subnet" confirms this: among the children who were trafficked, boys accounted for the vast majority, and the loss of girls mostly originated from being abandoned.
Zhang Baoyan said that Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, and Shaanxi are the most severely affected areas for children's abduction, while Shandong, Henan, Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangsu are the top-ranked abduction areas. In the article "Research on the Geographical Features of Child Trafficking in China", some scholars summarized it as "Centralized abductions in the west and scattered in the east."
Luo Xin is among them. He claimed that from the age of fifteen to twenty-six, he almost fell asleep every night at two or three o'clock, sometimes awake all night.
Over the years, he has worked as a loader and unloader, served dishes in the kitchen, worked as a network manager in an internet cafe, and sold TV sets and instant noodles. "At first, some work was done quite well, but because of the health problems caused by long-term insomnia, I couldn't persevere."
He "has a heavy mental burden" and has always kept a polite distance from his friends, "life is messy."
"When I was a teenager, I was overwhelmed." He said that at that time, he wanted an answer, afraid to wait too long, and when he found his parents, the other party was no longer there.
The date of recognition was in 2009. Luo Xin’s biological father passed away and his brother was wounded, leaving sequelae. The fabric business at home hasn't been done long, and my mother sells fruits on the street. His hometown is Lintong College Street, the first street outside the Huaqing Chi Scenic Area. The path that could only be passed by one car turned into a 6-lane expressway.
Today, Chen Liming's wife watches children full-time. After his loss, his mother gave birth to two girls, and his father and other women gave birth to a son.
In the past few years, he has also contacted some lost people, and many people have had quite a lot of ups and downs: Some people have not gone to school because the adoptive parents in the countryside are afraid that he will leave after being educated; some are trafficked to Xinjiang, and the adoptive father often drinks alcohol Later, domestic violence was committed; some people were considered "not easy to support" and were resold several times.
Among the lost children contacted by Li Jingzhi, few were admitted to university. Many people dropped out of school at the junior high school level.
Zhang Baoyan concluded that children who have memories of their homes tend to become very sensitive and hate society in extreme situations. A boy she helped was adopted by her adoptive parents, and he always found a reason to run away from home.
"Some people have lost themselves in confusion, some people have spent a long time in shame, and the blow to the loss is as heavy for their children and parents." She said that many of the couples who had come to register had already divorced.
When he lost his son, Li Jingzhi complained about her husband. The two had been searching together for 5 years, after which her husband wanted to regenerate one, but her mind was all in Jiajia. Later, they were reluctant to step into the home without children, "too cold" and divorced.
Until the twenty-third year of Jiajia's loss, the ex-husband and Li Jingzhi said sorry. At that time, both were remarried.
On "Baby Going Home to Search for Children", many parents looking for children are now over 60 years old. Zhang Baoyan had seen a family blame each other because they were looking for their children to go bankrupt. Some people committed suicide, some people "always on the road." Some people are overworked and die, and die in their prime.
In Guangdong, a mother who lost her son had cancer. She complained that chemotherapy was not as good as death, but she insisted and lived to see the child one day.
In Xi’an, the elder son of a man named Bai was defective, his wife did not work, and he lost his younger son. Outside of work, he would ride a bicycle and run along the urban area of Xi'an and the surrounding countryside. He was used to carrying a glass bottle filled with boiling water on his back, trying to get a few buns, and stopped by the road to eat two bites at the meal.
Four or five years later, the father suffered from brain cancer and died soon. Their family is Li Jingzhi's "knot".
She still remembers a boy living in Dongguan who died in a car accident before confessing to blood collection. The boy originally had scattered memories of his home. He would point to the ring on the mother’s hand and say, “My mother’s ring is bigger than yours. When he enters, he will change his slippers and wash his hands. Run away twice from home.
Li Jingzhi found the boy’s adoptive parents and went to the local police station in Dongguan. “The search for the path will continue. Whether he is still alive or not, his biological parents should be informed, though cruel enough.”
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Finding people is not the end.
Li Jingzhi explained that after successful recognition, some families are still harmonious, but most of them are "not easy". The problems they face are very real. For example, the biological condition of their biological parents is not good today; the lives of the two parties have been separated for many years.
"In comparison, it's the easiest thing to recognize a relative," she said.
Not long ago, a young man confided his distress to Li Jingzhi. After meeting with his biological parents, both parties were "light", and they didn't know how they could take another step. There was also a young man who, after learning of his life, packed up and moved to Li Jingzhi's house.
After someone returned to their biological parents' home, they did not get along well with their younger brother. Previously, the adoptive father did not care much about him, and he would not accept concern or give back to love. The lost experience made a mark in his heart, and he always felt that "others owe me."
"Many people think differently and are not on the same track." In Li Jingzhi's view, these families need psychological counseling after "reunion." "Tell parents what to do, what to do with children." But she also worried that if this dilemma is well known to the public, someone will give up searching for relatives.
For most parents looking for children, years of searching eventually turn into a few simple questions-where are the children and are they alive.
Chen Qinxi said that now that the child has grown up, unlike when he was a child, he can't find it and get back to himself. "I just want to know that he is still alive before I die." Zhang Huixia said, "As long as he has a good life, he can come back if he wants, and he can go back if he doesn't want to."
Now, when Li Jingzhi shouts the nickname Jiajia again, he will get a response immediately. There is a "very familiar and comfortable feeling" when mother and son stay together. She told her son the story behind each photo and heard him say, "I finally know what I was like before I was 3 years old."
After spending a month with Li Jingzhi, Jiajia returned from Xi'an to Chengdu. "He has to be busy with his business." Li Jingzhi said in a low voice.
A person familiar with the matter told reporters that Li Jingzhi had made it clear that after finding Jiajia, she would sue her son’s adoptive parents, but she did not do so in the end.
"In the process of finding relatives, Li Jingzhi only passed the first hurdle." Zhang Baoyan admitted that in fact, most families had to make a "compromise" choice after reunion-to live peacefully with their children's adoptive parents. They are afraid of hurting their children's feelings, or they will not be accepted. They are guarding each other with a delicate "boundary line" and are careful not to cross.
In the most extreme case, Zhang Baoyan had never recognized a biological parent after seeing a child rescued by the police. "At most, it's just a meeting."
On one occasion, Luo Xin video chatted with his biological parents. He introduced adoptive parents. The old people on both sides hurriedly greeted him. He would call the two mothers "mums".
After finding his home, Chen Liming and his adoptive parents promised that they would give them a pension. The biological mother in Guangzhou said to him lightly, "Don't care about me, I have your sister to take care".
He has always used the name adopted by his adoptive parents and bluntly changed it back to "not likely." He studied, worked, married, and later had two sons. He took apart the original name "Ning Fei" and put it into his son's name, Chen Yining and Chen Yifei.
Recently, Li Jingzhi organized another Xunzi meeting, this time the protagonist is her son. After a lapse of many years, the living room of her house was once again lively, with flowers and balloons hanging on the lights.
She also put a tricycle that her son had ridden as a child at home. For 32 years, she has been carrying this bicycle and wrapped it in several layers of bags.
After acknowledging her relatives, she and Jiajia are together every day, but she still feels that she is "dreaming." She could not help holding Jiajia's face and staring at it for a long while. "I'm always thinking that he hasn't changed, it's just amplified a little."
On one occasion, she joked with Jiajia, "Can you retreat and return to 3 years old, let's start a new life?" She heard Jiajia answer gently: "Okay."
(At the request of the interviewees, Luo Xin, Chen Liming and their sons are all pseudonyms, and the pictures in this version are provided by the interviewees)
China Youth Daily reporter Wang Jingshuo Source: China Youth Daily