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I opened the photo album at home, and on the first few pages, there was a picture of my mother holding a baby, smiling happily.

"Mom, what happened when my brother got lost? How did you and dad find him later? Can you tell me in detail?"

Recalling that period of the past, my mother's eyes brought sadness again.

"When your brother was born, your father's career had just started, and I was still a newcomer in the station. We were so busy every day that we didn't have time to take care of your brother. Please hire a nanny, and I'm worried, so I sent him to your father At your grandma's place in my hometown, ask her to help us babysit."

"The year your brother was lost, he was just three years old. Your grandma searched like crazy. At first, she didn't dare to tell us. Later, she couldn't find it all night, so she called us crying."

"On the way to your grandma's house, I thought about it many times, wondering if he was caught and killed by the bad guys, if he was very scared, if he was crying, if he was starving. The more I thought about it, the sadder it was, the train When I was crossing the bridge, I looked at the river below, and thought it would be nice to jump down and get rid of it, but the window couldn’t be opened. I even thought, if I can’t find it, I will die with your grandma.”

"But the moment I saw your grandma, I couldn't bear it. I still remember that your grandma's clothes were messed up, the pair of cloth shoes she stepped on were rotten, and her eyes were swollen scary. Someone told me that she was I walked all over the village overnight, and climbed a mountain with people from the same village. Sounds like a lot of hard work, doesn't it?"

"But why didn't she call the police? The child was lost in the afternoon, but she didn't call the police until the next morning! How many hours were wasted in the middle! I hate it when I think about it."

"I asked her why she didn't call the police, and she said that people in the same village told her that it would take 24 hours to call the police. She actually believed it, and she didn't even try! In those years, I thought about it every day, day and night, If I hadn't missed the ten-odd hours of golden time, wouldn't everything have developed differently?"

There were tears in my mother's eyes, and my heart was gripped, "What about after the police intervene? Did you watch the surveillance?"

"In those days, there was no surveillance in that kind of small village. A week after filing the case, the police found a surveillance camera in a vegetable market in a neighboring city. Your brother was hugged by a man. Later, the man was caught. But your brother has been resold, to the so-called upper family."

When Mom said this, she paused for two seconds, showing a sarcastic smile, "He still has another family, and his next family is an old gangster in your grandma's village. Yuan Yuan, you know how your brother was taken away ?"

"Your brother was taken away by that old bastard while your grandma was playing mahjong." Mom's eyes were red and her teeth were chattering, "Hateful! So hateful! I'm hateful, your father is hateful, and your grandma is the most hateful! "

"Mom—" I quickly squeezed Mom's hand and patted her on the back. I couldn't help thinking, I have already caught a human trafficker, but the child still hasn't been found. The problem probably lies with the "Shangjia" "Are.

"The clues were cut off here, the family ran away, and the one who was caught only knew that your brother might have been sold to province X. We looked for it, and province X is so big, we couldn't find it, really couldn't find it .”

If the person who has the most critical information has not caught it, then there is no way to locate the specific location.

I asked: "Is the Shang family still running away? It has been more than 20 years..."

"No, I caught it, I caught it more than ten years ago." Mom shook her head numbly, "But something went wrong with his head, and he doesn't remember many things. I don't remember how many children he abducted, and I don't remember where Is there a brother of yours among the children, and I don't remember where I sold your brother to."

The helplessness of God's will is nothing more than that.

I closed my eyes, "Is he in jail?"

"Sit, of course I did, and I was sentenced to 15 years." Mom said bitterly, "Not enough, what can 15 years make up for! Calculate the time, he is about to be released from prison. My Xiaoheng doesn't know where he is still suffering, he But he's about to get out of prison."

Xiaoheng is my elder brother's nickname, and his full name is Li Yuheng.

"Mom, that person, do you remember his name?"

Mom's eyes were wide open, and after a while, she said, "I remember, how can I not remember, I will never forget him even if I am a ghost. His name is Yuan Sihua."

……

Yuan Sihua.

I type these three words into the search engine and press the enter key.

Browse down in turn, the first one is——

"Old Fourth Master" (formerly known as Yuan Sihua), the suspect in a major child abduction case in Province X, was arrested. After being identified as mentally handicapped, will the sentence be implemented as scheduled? "

The following news is roughly the same as the first one. I turned to the last article on the first page, and my eyes were fixed.

The title is "Explore the "Old Fourth Master"'s hometown, Yuanjia Village, Guling County, X Province. How did he embark on this road of no return? "

Yuanjia Village, Guling County...

Isn't it Yuan Sihua?

I checked again carefully, and it turned out that Yuan Sihua had changed his name.His former name was Yuan Sihua, but he changed his surname to Yuan.

In this case, his name will have the same weight as mine.I felt sick to my stomach.

Why did he change his name?Do you feel that what you have done is too harmful and you don't want to hurt your fellow villagers?

I also found out the time Yuan Sihua was in prison. Based on 15 years of calculation, he should be released in February next year.

It seems that the Spring Festival trip between Chen Zheng and I may come to naught.

I plan to go to Yuan Sihua's hometown to see if I can find useful information.

The point is, I want to see Yuan Sihua.

……

Dad didn't leave after he came back this time. I asked my mother privately, and my mother said that my father's condition is normal, but he just keeps calling behind her back.

I groaned in my heart, is this normal?

Mom's requirements for Dad are really too low, she is still looking forward to reconciling with Dad, and looking forward to returning to the past.

I also hope to go back to the past.

However, what is gone is gone, and what has changed is changed.Dad, he really has changed.

It's hard for me to connect the father who took my hand to go to work in my memory with this man who cheated outright and wanted to give other women's children to his mother.

Does mom know that dad gave all his sympathy and pity to other women?

She didn't know, she was still taking chances.

Dad's heart has left this family, he is no longer my good husband, my good father.

He was the lover of other women, the father of his own unborn child.

In fact, in terms of soft-heartedness, I am no better than my mother.

Why don't I still have such a little expectation for Dad.

It's just that mother, as a family member and lover who has shared the bed with him for decades, has deeper and more expectations for him.

I can't imagine how Mom will collapse when everything is laid out in front of her eyes.

The author says:

If a child is missing, call the police as soon as possible, without waiting 24 hours.

Although the legal knowledge that may be involved in this chapter has been checked a little bit, it is very shallow and not rigorous, so don't pay too much attention to it.