Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

Fifteen years later——(2014).

What has happened in these years cannot be summarized in a few words. Everyone's lives have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Sun Aimin and Yuan Jie were able to successfully find their son Sun Mian and bring him home safely thanks to the help of their "comrades-in-arms" and enthusiastic villagers.

Their business has grown over the years, and they also want to give back to the community. They have set up a private family search organization and provide financial support to the organization every year to help groups of people who are in need of finding their relatives.

However, neither Yuan Jie nor Sun Aimin likes to be in the spotlight, and they have never revealed their identities to the public.

With their joint efforts together with other people looking for their children and volunteers, they have helped hundreds of people looking for their children find their children over the years.

Now, Shen Nan and Qian Jingui are also part of the relay search for their son. Their long-awaited son was found three years after they moved to the county town.

Speaking of which, this story is somewhat legendary. Shen Nan and Qian Jingui made a prosperous snack business in the county town. After making money, they also bought a store specializing in fried skewers and spicy hot pot.

With a fixed store, they don't have to worry about wind and sun, and can operate normally every day. Over time, their business is getting better and better, and their income is increasing.

The couple lived frugally and after three years of setting up the stall, they finally bought a two-bedroom, one-living-room house of their own in the county town.

During this period, Qian Jingui would go out to look for his children as usual after their winter and summer vacations, like a headless fly, with no direction at all.

One day, the couple was busy in the store when a young man in his twenties came into the store.

The young man was quite strong, wearing gray clothes, and his face and arms were tanned. It seemed that he was a laborer like Qian Jingui in the past.

Shen Nan has a habit of taking a close look at any child who is about her son's age and comes into the store.

Although she knew it was unlikely, she still didn't give up and kept this habit.

In Shen Nan's impression, her son is fair, handsome, and sensible, and his facial features are very similar to those of the Qian family.

Even when the child grows up, the comparison with those from wealthy families should be similar, and it should be easy to see.

This young man who came to eat in the restaurant was different from the young men Shen Nan had observed in the past. She could filter out the previous customers at a glance.

But she had a feeling of déjà vu about this young man.

While preparing food for the boy, she tried to get close to him. On the one hand, she wanted to take the opportunity to observe his appearance carefully, and on the other hand, she also wanted to get some information about him indirectly.

During the chat, they learned that the boy was only eighteen years old and had been working on the construction site with his family for three or four years.

He used to work in the city or other places. When his father was injured on the construction site and returned home to recuperate, he followed him back.

He was idle at home with no money, and the county town happened to start developing the construction industry. Many old communities were demolished and rebuilt, so he found a job on a construction site in the county town.

The boy's family and Qian Jingui's family live in the same county, but in different townships. Qian Jingui's family is neither too close nor too far from the county seat, while the boy's family lives in the mountainous area to the north of the county seat, which is the poorest place in their county.

Shen Nan chatted with the boy for a while, then went to find Qian Jingui who was busy in the kitchen. He told Qian Jingui about the boy's situation and asked him to go out with him to take a look.

When Qian Jingui saw the young boy, he was also stunned. The child did look like a member of their Qian family, but his age was a little different. He was two years younger than their son. If the child was bought, it was common to change his age.

The couple looked at each other and already had an idea.

They posted a missing persons advertisement at the door of the store, and anyone who came to the store to eat or passed by the door could see it.

In the first two years after the child was lost, they still focused their search on the city. Qian Jingui ran to almost every corner of their county, but could not find any news about the child.

Later on, I started to move outwards and expanded my search to all parts of the country.

Shen Nan brought the spicy hot pot ordered by the boy to the table, and also gave him some fried skewers and a bottle of soda.

The boy refused to take it, but Shen Nan directly took out the missing relatives notice and said to him: "Son, I actually have something to ask you..."

She pointed to the photo on the missing person notice and said, "Look, this is my son. He was born in 1981 and got lost when he was six years old. Do you have a photo of him when he was a child? See if he looks like you when you were a child?"

The boy didn't react for a moment, and Shen Nan continued carefully: "Do you still remember anything before the age of six? Don't be angry if I ask you something. Are your parents at home now your biological parents?"

The boy hesitated for a moment, then replied, "I am indeed not my parents' biological child, but I don't remember much about my childhood!"

Such an answer made Shen Nan's heart clenched, and he pleaded with the boy: "Can I ask you for a favor? Do a paternity test with us?"

Shen Nan thought the boy would resist such a request, but unexpectedly he agreed very readily, pulled out a few strands of hair with roots and handed them to Shen Nan, and left his contact information.

Shen Nan carefully wrapped the hair in paper as if he had obtained a treasure. After sending the boy away, he asked Qian Jingui to buy a ticket immediately and rush to the place where the identification could be done as soon as possible to hand in the samples.

In order to prevent Qian Jingui from losing the sample on the road, Shen Nan divided the sample into two parts, keeping one for himself and letting Qian Jingui take the other away.

After a long wait of one month, they finally got the news, confirming the parent-child relationship between the boy and them.

This was the first time they had encountered a child who looked like their son after all these years of searching for the child. They didn't expect that they could match them so easily.

The couple's excitement at the time was beyond description. In addition to being excited, their emotions were also very complicated.

They never dreamed that when they were looking for their children all over the world, their children were living only 20 kilometers away from them.

Qian Jingui even went to that village. In other words, they went to every village in their county. Presumably, when they found that village, the buyer had hidden the child.

It is a common phenomenon in rural areas that villagers help to conceal the buying of children. This is because many people are related to each other. Even if they have no relationship with each other, they are reluctant to expose the buyer to avoid retaliation.