Falling leaves are carved into the bones of Chinese, no matter where they are brought by life, they hope that they can return to their hometown after death.
There is a wanderer who has been wandering outside for 54 years, he has never given up the hope of returning home, and he has always firmly waited for the response of the motherland.
This wanderer is the veteran lost in India, Wang Qi.
01 Lost Surveyors
Wang Qi was born in Shaanxi, and has admired the deeds of the Red Army since he was a child, so he is very eager for military life.
In 1960, he chose to join the army and eventually enlisted as an engineering surveyor, shortly thereafter in the Sino-Indian War.
In order to defend the motherland, Wang Qi followed the large army to Tibetan areas.
Everything went smoothly, but as the war was about to come to an end, Wang Qi was lost on the border between China and India because he was lost.
Wang Qi felt that the situation was not good when he could not find the way back, and in the confusion, he even encountered the Car of the Indian Red Cross.
He wanted to hide for a while, but he didn't admit that the people in the car saw Wang Qi who was single first.
Seeing that Wang Qi wanted to run, the Indian soldiers immediately got out of the car and pushed Wang Qi to the ground, and brought him back to China, directly throwing himself into prison for seven years.
After 7 years, the two sides could not ask anything when they saw it, so they released Wang Qi.
It should be noted that instead of letting him go home, he chose a remote village and exiled Wang Qi here.
This poor village was almost isolated from the outside world, and Wang Qi had no way to ask the motherland for help, he could only quietly wait for the opportunity, which was more than forty years.
02 Hard life
At the beginning, Wang Qi, who was carrying the identity of a "spy", was blinded in the village and found a job working in a flour mill.
Later, Wang Qi met an Indian woman before she began to think about settling down.
This Indian woman did not dislike Wang Qi's imprisonment, and she firmly believed that Wang Qi was not a spy, and the two of them married and gave birth to four children.
During this period, in order to support her children, Wang Qi learned to do business.
He was naturally bullied as a foreigner who did not even have an identity, and Wang Qi stumbled to learn to speak Hindi, working in various shops to learn skills.
Later, I finally saved a small amount of money to start the business, which got rid of the situation of not having enough to eat.
I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief, but the disaster did not spare Wang Qi.
His eldest son suddenly fell seriously ill, and he scattered all his family wealth and failed to keep his son's life, and this bad news almost destroyed the family, and also further aroused Wang Qi's desire to go home.
The upheavals and displacements abroad have not belonged to him for too long.
In fact, he never gave up asking for help from the motherland, almost every month he would go far to send letters, hoping that the motherland would receive the letter and know that he was detained abroad, but the Indian government that had been paying attention to Wang Qi intercepted the letter, and his letter could never be sent.
03 Peak loop turn
After 47 years in India, Wang Qi still sends letters to outsiders.
He believed that one day he would have the opportunity to go back, even if he really couldn't return to China alive and die, he would be buried in the land of the motherland, so many years, India's control over Wang Qi was not so strict.
After a fortuitous attempt, Wang Qima made a non-stop trip to Delhi, the capital of India.
There, he found the Chinese embassy to tell his story.
The embassy was very shocked by Wang Qi's stay in India for so many years, and immediately issued a Chinese passport for Wang Qi, so that he had an identity to return to China, but the Indian side bit Wang Qi to death as a spy and could not apply for a visa, and the Chinese embassy did not let up on many negotiations, and the matter reached an impasse.
In order to confirm that Wang Qi was not a spy, the embassy contacted The country to find Wang Qi's relatives.
When Wang Qi's letter crossed the mountains and rivers to Shaanxi, Wang Qi's brother Wang Zhiyuan cried silently, and he never thought that his brother was still alive in the world.
After Wang Qi disappeared that year, the family inquired from many sources and there was no news.
The missing place or the border between the two countries is impossible to find, over time they all think that Wang Qi has died, in his hometown built a crown tomb for him every year to worship, did not expect that Wang Qi actually stayed in India for decades.
Wang Qi, who had sent letters for so many years, finally received a reply for the first time, and he learned that his relatives were waiting for him to come home and danced excitedly, and he couldn't wait to return to China.
04 I can finally return to my hometown
Wang Qi's story quickly spread in China, and the media reported Wang Qi's desire to return home.
With the help of various localities to subsidize Wang Qi's life and give material help, with the identification of Wang Qi's relatives, the Chinese Embassy has produced strong evidence to confirm Wang Qi's identity and the fact that he is not a spy.
In the face of China's pressure, India had no choice but to let Wang Qi return to China.
In 2017, Wang Qi stepped on a plane back to China, and he took his wife and children to Shaanxi, where relatives were waiting for him.
The day the plane landed was the Lantern Festival, the day of family reunion, and Wang Qi also met his relatives who had been reunited for a long time on this day.
Although Wang Qi was very sorry that his mother had died, he was very excited to see his brother.
As soon as the plane, the two brothers hugged each other tightly, the two old men with white sideburns cried silently, the family had long been prepared for Wang Qi's return to China, and even the house for the future pension was ready, and Wang Qi ate a lively reunion dinner surrounded by his family.
When he ate the hometown soup hand rolling noodles, he could hardly remember the original taste, he had not tasted the food of this hometown for too long, from food to living habits he had to slowly adapt, but it was worth it, he worked hard for decades to finally return to his hometown, no longer a wandering wanderer.
05 Summary
The elderly Wang Qi was taken to a foreign country because of an accident, and he never gave up going home in a difficult life.
After his unremitting efforts to reunite with his relatives, it is precisely the prosperity and strength of the motherland that can make the Indian government loose, otherwise they will have no way to leave Wang Qi behind.
The motherland will protect every citizen, the elderly Wang Qi has already embarked on the road home the moment he got the Chinese passport, and with the motherland present, he will not let any Chinese not go home.