Children are the heart and soul of parents, the future and hope of a family, and the loss of a child will undoubtedly bring the heaviest blow to parents and the whole family.
Liu Jianhua and his wife from Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, experienced the darkest moment of their lives, and lost their two children on the same day.
Two sons were abducted on the same day
In 1993, in order to make a living, Liu Jianhua and his wife came to Xi'an from their rural hometown in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province with their three children, and rented a stall in a farmers' market on Xiying Road in Xi'an to sell vegetables for a living.
The three children are not big, the eldest son Wenwen is 5 years old, the youngest son is 2 years old, and there is a young daughter who has just come out of the moon. A family of five can be regarded as temporarily settled in Xi'an.
Liu Jianhua takes care of the vegetable stall business well, getting up early every day, busy and tired, but when he thinks of the three children at home, he is full of energy, and secretly makes up his mind that he must work hard and create good living conditions for the children.
An ordinary and happy family, while working hard, is full of yearning for the future. It's just that a sudden change brought it all to an abrupt end.
One day, as usual, Liu Jianhua was busy in the market, and his wife was at home taking care of the three children.
The two sons are more naughty and fight from time to time. Not long after his wife came out of confinement, her body was still relatively weak, and her youngest daughter was more noisy at night, which caused her to not rest well.
While taking care of her daughter, she also had to comfort and take care of her brothers, and she felt physically exhausted. In a cramped and cramped rental house, her son had no place to play, so she asked her two sons to go to the market to find their father.
It was this decision that plunged this home into endless darkness ever since.
When Liu Jianhua went home for dinner at noon, he didn't see his two sons when he got home, so he asked his wife what about his sons?
The wife said, "Didn't my son go to you, and I was about to ask you why didn't you come back together?"
The couple was shocked, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, and their son was gone. So he hurried back to the vegetable market, hoping to see his son on the road or in the market.
Liu Jianhua, who was very frightened in his heart, sweated in a hurry, and after looking for several times, he did not find any trace of his two sons.
Knowing the situation, the vegetable market colleagues put their business on hold, and nearly 40 people helped the couple find it together for several months, but there was still no news.
The father has been searching for his son for 28 years
After discovering that his son could not be found, Liu Jianhua also reported the case to the public security organs as soon as possible, but the technical conditions were very limited at that time, and the investigation methods were not mature and advanced enough, so it was very difficult to solve the case.
Moreover, before the disappearance, the child did not take a photo, and could only visit and investigate the child through the description of the child's appearance and clothing by the husband and wife, which is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.
has never been able to find their son, the husband and wife are almost mentally broken, Liu Jianhua no longer has the heart to take care of the vegetable stall, just wants to find his son. His streets and alleys in Xi'an, every corner and corner, are full of missing person notices.
The loss of the child made the couple anxious all day long, and then more and more quarrels and complaints occurred until they could no longer sustain and ended the marriage.
His wife and daughter left, and in the face of this fragmented home, thinking that his son had not heard from him yet, Liu Jianhua couldn't be at peace for a moment.
After he transferred the vegetable stall, he traveled all over the country, working everywhere to support himself, and at the same time inquiring about his son's news.
This long road to find a child has taken 28 years.
In the past 28 years, he has lost count of how many places he has visited, how many passers-by he has asked, and how many doors he has knocked on.
He often dreamed that his son was crying helplessly to him, and when he woke up, he imagined the possibilities that his son was experiencing, and he never felt sleepy again.
As long as there is a little wind and grass, when he hears that someone has adopted a child, he hurries over to see if it is his son, but every time he is disappointed.
When I was tired of looking outside, I went back to the place where the child was lost in Xi'an and waited for a while, and then went out again.
Because he felt that the eldest son at that time should have a memory, what if he came back to find his father.
Twenty-eight years later, things are turning around
In the years that Liu Jianhua has been looking for his children, the technical means of the police have also developed and improved year by year. And in 2009, a national anti-trafficking DNA database was established.
The DNA samples and related information of the parents of the abducted or missing children are entered into it, and they are compared and identified with the DNA samples of the children, which greatly improves the chances and efficiency of retrieving the children.
In 2015, DNA blood samples from Liu Jianhua and his ex-wife were also entered into the database. When the public security organs found that there was close information about blood samples, they would notify them to collect blood for verification, and there were many blood samples in between, and each time Liu Jianhua left full of hope and returned disappointed.
Finally in June 2021, 28 years after his son was abducted, things ushered in a turnaround.
The police found that there was a blood sample in the database in Gongyi, Henan Province, which was highly consistent with the DNA data of Liu Jianhua and his wife.
The owner of this blood sample information is a man named Zhou in Gongyi, Henan, who is Liu Jianhua's eldest son.
The breakthrough in the case was because the eldest son still remembered that his home was a large adobe house when he was a child, his grandfather slept on a clay kang, and his father was a vegetable seller, so he took the initiative to go to the police station to collect blood for registration.
After the eldest son was found, the police arrested the trafficker according to the clues provided by the eldest son's adoptive parents, and found the younger son living in Zhengzhou, Henan Province from the trafficker.
The brothers were sold to two neighboring towns in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, only a few kilometers apart, and had attended the same school, and they knew each other's existence, but they didn't know that they were brothers.
After 28 years of hard searching, Liu Jianhua finally saw his two sons who had been thinking about him day and night, and it was too late to reunite at this moment, and he hugged his son and burst into tears.
Looking at the children who pulled the corner of their father's clothes to ask for candy, they are now tall and in their 30s, and the young father is already full of wrinkles.
It's just that in the past 28 years, the image of the father has become more and more blurred in their memories, until it finally disappears. And the father's longing for his son never stopped for a moment.
Seeing this kind of recognition scene, seeing the parents holding the child in their arms again, turning all the thoughts and self-blame for many years into crying and tears, everyone who has children can empathize, but the child faces the biological parents, but is a little trance and at a loss.
There is nothing wrong with the child, because he left his parents from a very young age, separated for too long, and the parents have not been involved in the development of the child. And no matter how the years pass, children will always be the hearts and minds of parents.
Human traffickers are abhorrent, and their presence has torn many families apart and prevented their loved ones from being together. We often say that there are still many good people, but no matter how few bad people are, once it befalls someone, it is 100%.
May there be no crutches in the world! If we can't put an end to it, then we must protect our children, so that they can grow up safely, healthily and happily around us forever.