In this coming summer, the family of Feng Qiang (pseudonym), a villager in Dadianwei Village, Yongsheng County, Lijiang City, has just experienced a 45-hour ordeal. On the morning of August 23, Feng Qiang's two-and-a-half-year-old son was taken away by an unfamiliar woman in a white van at an intersection about 300 meters away from his home, and he disappeared.
The villagers spontaneously formed a tracing team and walked all over the roads, villages and mountains, but could not find the children. The police also quickly launched a follow-up investigation and identified the suspect He Mouwei on the morning of the 25th. According to He Mouwei's confession, another suspect Xiong Mouxiu and the boy who were taken away were found in a hidden cave. At this time, 45 hours have passed since the child was taken away.
A reporter from the Beijing News found out that the suspect He Mouwei was also from Yongsheng County and the owner of the white van. He had previously been jailed for two years for theft and divorced and remarried. Xiong Mouxiu was not his remarriage. wife.
The child returned unscathed. The once turbulent village returned to calm, but for the person involved, Feng Qiang, the aftermath of the child being robbed continued. He said that after this incident, he realized the importance of his family. Next, he must work harder to make money and "let his family live together safely."
The child was taken away
On the morning of August 23, Feng Qiang’s mother, as usual, took her 6-year-old granddaughter Xinxin (a pseudonym) and her 2.5-year-old grandson Yuanyuan (a pseudonym) on her back, and drove the two calves at home to the village head. Cattle are grazing near Dongchang Road, where is the grassland closest to home. Yuanyuan has learned to walk, but because she is not walking fast when she is young, she always has her grandma to carry on her back.
When we reached the junction of Dongchang Road and the village, a calf was disobedient and jumped onto the hillside across the road. It was inconvenient for the old lady to carry the child on her back, so she let her granddaughter and grandson stay on the two big rocks by the side of the road. While playing, don't run around, hurry to chase the cow yourself.
The Beijing News reporter saw that this intersection was only 100 meters away from the nearest villager's home. There were few vehicles passing by and there were no businesses nearby.
After a while, a white van stopped on the side of the road. A woman in her fuchsia shirt and jeans, about 40 or 50 years old, walked down and carried Yuanyuan into the car. Xinxin yelled "Why hold my brother, don't hold my brother", while trying to pull the car door, she was pushed aside by the woman.
At 10:34, a few villagers passing by saw Xinxin standing on the side of the road crying, "Brother was taken away", and they called the police quickly. A few minutes later, when the old lady returned to the intersection with the recovered cow, the grandson was no longer visible, and only a group of people surrounded the crying granddaughter.
At the same time, Feng Qiang, who was moving bricks on a construction site in the county seat, received a call from his mother crying, "The child was taken away by the woman driving the white car." Feng Qiang was stunned for a few seconds before throwing away the push in his hand. The car, subconsciously yelled "My doll was stolen" to the worker, then rode on the battery car and rushed home desperately.
The 5-km journey from the construction site to Dadianwei Village used to take 20 minutes to ride a battery car. That day Feng Qiang rushed back in only 10 minutes, but did not see any suspicious white vehicles along the way. The police car at the entrance of the village broke his last fluke and reminded him that "something really happened."
Village Chief Yang Chongjing introduced that Dongchang Road, where Yuanyuan was robbed, was completed at the end of 2017. It is a ring road with few vehicles and pedestrians passing by. There are no surveillance cameras within about 7 kilometers of the road.
A local taxi driver told the Beijing News that due to the expansion of the front section of Dongchang Road and the steep slope of the road, few local drivers would take this road. About 700 meters in front of the intersection where Yuanyuan was robbed, there is also an entrance to the village. Villagers of Dadianwei Village usually turn into the village at the previous intersection instead of walking here, "Those two should be I stepped on it in advance, drove on this road looking for a child, and happened to ran into Yuanyuan."
45 hours of search
Three or four workers who have a good relationship with Feng Qiang rushed to hear the news and drove Feng Qiang to Yongsheng County, villages along the way, and nearby mountains and forests to inquire about the child's whereabouts. The village also organized 20 or 30 villagers to search along the way, and then more than 20 villagers joined spontaneously. A villager recalled, “I’ve lived here for more than 40 years. I’ve never heard of kidnapping. It’s too scary. I don’t know where to look. So I went to the field and called the baby’s name. Then I thought about it. Is it possible to hide in the field?"
A whole day of rushing around has not yielded any results. I don't know who initiated the search for children's help on the Internet, leaving Feng Qiang's call. There are constant calls from the media and kind people to ask about progress. Although Feng Qiang is physically and mentally exhausted, he will pick up every call for fear of missing any clues.
At ten o'clock that night, there were still people walking around in the village that had usually fallen into a dream, asking each other if they had news. The lights were on at Feng Qiang's house all night, and his grandparents took Xinxin at home and could not eat or sleep. The wife had to take care of the children and also pay attention to the emotions and body of the elderly. Feng Qiang, villagers, and workers were outside, looking for the entire night along Dongchang Road where the child was lost.
They walked more than ten kilometers, and the roadside was almost full of woods and fields. Where people could walk, Feng Qiang would use a flashlight and call Yuanyuan's name to walk around, but there was no response.
By the middle of the night of the next day, the child was still there. Some people in the village persuaded Feng Qiang, "It's really impossible, let's have another one." Feng Qiang was angry: "How is it possible! Even if I don't do anything in this life, I have to find the child back!" But he is too tired. , It is also kind to be considerate of the other party, so there is no reply.
I have searched where I can go. On the third day, in the early morning of August 25, Feng Qiang's 65-year-old father had fainted twice at home, "the house is going to be gone." At 7 o'clock in the morning, Feng Qiang suddenly received a call from the police and the child found it. At this time, 45 hours have passed since the child was taken away.
According to the Yongsheng police report, after receiving the call on August 23, the Yongsheng police immediately organized the police to carry out visits and investigations, search for platoons, set up checks, big data research and judgment, etc. They were in Yongbei, Yongsheng County at 7 o'clock on August 25 The boy who was taken away was found in a cave on Zhenda Mountain, and the suspects He Mouwei (male, 51 years old, from Yongsheng County, Yunnan) and Xiong Mouxiu (female, 56 years old, from Yongsheng, Yunnan) were found in Yongbei Town. County people) arrested and seized a white vehicle involved in the case. At present, the boy is in good physical condition, and his family members have been reunited with the public security organs. The case is being further processed.
Yang Chongjing, the mayor of Dadianwei Village, told the Beijing News that at noon on August 26, he learned from the community work group that the police checked all the vehicles passing through Dongchang Road on the day of the incident, and the driving recorder of one of the vehicles I saw the white van that grabbed the child. After restoring the license plate, he monitored the cell phone of the owner of the vehicle to locate the suspect He Mouwei. Under his leadership, Yuanyuan and another suspect Xiong Mouxiu were found in Shuidang Village, Yongbei Town.
Hongshuidang Village is about half an hour’s drive from Dadianwei Village. I drove ten kilometers to the northwest at the intersection where I was engaged. After passing a section of unmanned mountain roads, passing through a village, and then walking a section of unusually bumpy dirt roads, there were only more than 100 people. , Small villages rarely visited by outsiders on weekdays.
The cave where Xiong Mouxiu hides is located under the cliff at the entrance of the village, next to a narrow road, and on the other side is a cliff. Except for the villagers who go up the mountain to collect mushrooms, almost no one passes by this road. Because the rocks were once mined, there is no vegetation on the cliffs, and the red mountains are exposed.
To enter the cave, you need to climb a rock nearly two meters high, and then step over a rock pit one meter wide. Said it is a cave, it is actually just a small recessed space under the rock wall with a layer of branches on the ground. This is the only trace left by Xiong Mouxiu.
No one knows how long Yuanyuan stayed in this small hole. A villager said, "I don't know how they can find here. Almost no one passes by this road, and no one can hear a child crying inside. Who would have thought that there are two people hidden behind the mountain?"
A capture video released by the police showed that the police controlled the entry and exit of vehicles on nearby roads. Nearly ten policemen climbed up the rock, handcuffed Xiong Mouxiu's hands behind his back, and twisted them out of the cave. Yuanyuan was wrapped in a blue blanket and was carefully carried out of the cave by a policeman. In the video, the chubby arms were tightly wrapped around the policeman without crying.
"Our whole village is followed by shame"
The Beijing News reporter learned that the suspect He Mouwei was from Shangyangping Village, Yongsheng County. It is about 20 kilometers away from Yongsheng County. In the past few decades, if you want to enter the village from the county seat, you can only drive along a narrow winding mountain road for 40 to 50 minutes. There are often large trucks full of sand and gravel. However, the local driver said: “People who have not been driving for ten years dare not take this road.” It was not until seven or eight years ago that a newly built highway connected Shangyangping Village and Yongsheng County.
The Beijing News reporter saw in Shangyangping Village that most of the villagers lived in self-built farm houses with civil structures. He Mouwei's home is located on the east side of the village's main road. There is only a low-end civil farm house. The door and curtains of the house are slightly dilapidated, but the small yard in front of the house is clean and tidy.
On weekdays, young people mostly work outside, and only the old people in the village grow potato and buckwheat for a living. When a reporter from the Beijing News visited, it was just as some people who were working outside returned to the village to take care of their children who were about to go to college after the college entrance examination. The village became a little more active.
Speaking of He Mouwei, the neighbor remembered that he was not tall, slightly fat, and very talkative. He hadn't lived in the village for five or six years, but occasionally drove a white van and came back to see his mother. "I heard that he was doing it outside. business".
He Mowei's younger brother He Liang (pseudonym) does not have much memory of his elder brother either. He Liang said that there are 8 brothers and sisters in his family. He Mouwei is the eldest son. He went out to work after he finished junior high school. He was only two or three years old at the time. "In these years, I only meet each other during the holidays. There is not much exchange on weekdays. "
The last time He Liang saw He Mouwei was on the evening of the 24th of this month. Someone in the village got married. He Mouwei returned to the village to attend the wedding. Drinking and chatting with people during the banquet did not seem unusual. "I drank so dizzy that day and didn't speak to him. As a result, I watched the news the next morning and learned that he was taken away."
According to He Liang, He Mouwei used to work as a small foreman in Lijiang City and was imprisoned for two years for theft. He only learned about this when He Mouwei returned to the village after he was released from prison and negotiated a divorce with his wife about five or six years ago. Thing. At that time, He Mouwei left the house and three grown-up children to his ex-wife. He moved to rent a house in Yongsheng County and later had a new wife.
But the other suspect, Xiong Mouxiu, is not his new wife. He Liang and the villagers of Shangyangping Village said: "I have never heard of this name, and I don't know where he is."
Two years ago, He Mouwei borrowed a sum of money from relatives on the pretext of buying a van to solicit customers in the county town to make money. He Liang took out 7,000 yuan in savings for this, and He Mouwei has not paid off the debt. He didn't know what his brother was doing outside, his income, or whether he had hobbies such as gambling.
He Mouwei's news brought a lot of shock to the small village, and it became a hot topic among the villagers after dinner. In recent days, He Liang has not dared to go out, "because he is my elder brother, I am afraid that people will say me behind his back." Not only He Liang, but even the married sister in the family has not dared to see anyone recently. Shame, our whole village is shamed!"
"If we know that he has this idea, we will definitely stop him. If he has no money, he can still live for one or two hundred yuan a day when he goes out to work. How come the child is taken away? If something happens to the child, we How can I apologize?" He Liang looked a little excited when he mentioned what his brother had done.
He Mouwei's mother is 76 years old and is from the Yi ethnic group. His father died four years ago. He Liang said that his mother's heart had always been bad, and people had to bring the bowl to her for meals. Taking into account the physical condition of the old man, they haven't told the old man about He Mouwei's arrest. "Fortunately, she can't understand Chinese, so she can keep a secret."
He Liang said that he can only wait for He Mouwei to wait for a legal ruling. "We will go to him if the ruling is the case. We plan to take a look at him. But for a poor family like us, we can collect two or three hundred dollars for him. It's very difficult."
Aftermath
After receiving a call from the police in the morning, Feng Qiang's wife went to the county town to buy a pair of new shoes for the child while waiting for a few hours to see the child. In the afternoon, Feng Qiang and his wife went to the hospital to pick up their children home, fearing that the elderly would not be able to stand the stimulation, they forced their parents to stay at home.
Fortunately, Yuanyuan grinned immediately when she saw them, and she called Mom and Dad and stretched out her hand to hug them. Hearing the doctor said that the child is healthy and there is no abnormality, the couple's hanging heart only let go.
The child was lost and recovered. Grandpa bought the firecrackers early, and waited for the child to "catch bad luck" when he came in. The old man's spirit has improved a lot. He smiled and said to a steady stream of visitors, "These days, people from Sichuan and Shandong have come to see my baby with cameras."
Feng Qiang and more than 30 villagers came to the Public Security Bureau with pennants. He wanted to kneel down several times to thank, but was pulled up again, and the family kept wiping tears.
That night, Feng Qiang set up a dozen banquets in the yard to entertain the villagers and friends who were looking for them. The child's grandmother couldn't hold it up after a day of eagerness and joy. A neighbor's woman rushed to help with cooking and stewed a pot full of homemade bacon and ham.
But Yuanyuan, as if nothing had happened, played around with her sister at home as usual, wrapped around her father from time to time, and asked Feng Qiang to tie toilet paper as a scarf around him. Seeing the guests come to the house, they also sensibly handed out water glasses and snacks.
Recalling the thrilling experience of the past few days, Feng Qiang said that he hated the two suspects very much, "They are both children's grandfather generation, how can they bear the child away?" But he was a bit grateful, "No I took both children away and didn't give my child medicine or injection."
The news brought by village chief Yang Chongjing made Feng Qiang more complicated. A message in the community work group showed that the suspect planned to sell the child for 100,000 yuan and asked the buyer to pick it up. "My baby is worth one hundred thousand yuan?" Feng Qiang whispered. Currently, Yongsheng police has not confirmed the authenticity of the information to the Beijing News.
In the past few days, Dadianwei Village has returned to its former calm. The children gathered on the side of the road to play and chat. However, "Now let the children play in the village, don't go outside." said a mother holding her child.
For Feng Qiang, the aftershocks of the child's loss continue. From time to time, he would sit up in the middle of the night, thinking that the child had returned, and then lay down again. He was worried that his daughter Xinxin would be affected by this, "I was afraid that she would be scared, so I would not say anything in my heart."
The 30-year-old man attributed the responsibility for Yuanyuan's robbing to himself, "I blamed me for not earning money, and for the elderly to herd cattle and look after the children for me. This happened."
Due to the average grades, Feng Qiang did not continue his studies after graduating from junior high school, and began to work in various parts of the country. When he mentioned his experience in those years, he only said that he was "working hard and eating food."
In 2013, he married his wife, and after the birth of a pair of children, Feng Qiangcai and his wife returned to Yongsheng County together with his wife, after they were worried that their parents were older and could not take care of their two children, and continued to work odd jobs to earn a living. Earning thousands of dollars a month, I can only manage to support a family of six.
In the village, Feng Qiang's family is a low-income household. The Beijing News reporter saw that compared to the bright two-story small buildings of many other villagers' houses, Feng Qiang's family had only two bungalows. Because the bullpen is in the yard, there are always many flies buzzing in the house.
Therefore, Feng Qiang never complained about his mother from beginning to end. Both parents are old. In order to reduce his burden, they will feed six calves in addition to their children, and prepare to raise them and sell them for money. Therefore, the cow ran away, and the mother must chase it. Besides, the intersection of the accident was very close to the village, and no one expected that someone would take the child away during the day.
"I used to think that my family was important, but after this incident, I knew how important my family is to me." Feng Qiang said that after the incident, he thought a lot. "I was just 30 years old this year, and suddenly I realized that there was an old man. I have a small taste, I am the only one who is the pillar of the family." Next, he is ready to work harder to make money, "Let the family live together safely."
On the way to the Beijing News reporter, Feng Qiang greeted every villager who passed by. "Before I only talked to people who are close to me, but now I suddenly feel that everyone has helped me and I am really grateful to them."
Standing at the intersection of the incident, Feng Qiang said that he would still take the children to play here in the future, "I hope they can gradually forget about this, and don't let this become the knot of their lives, they should always face it."
Beijing News reporter Ma Yanjun and intern Ma Mingze