On the third day of the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday in 2018, when Wan Mingqiu was sorting out his father Wan Xingmin's things in his study, he found a yellowed diary.
There are not many records in the diary, and one page records the incident that the provincial police informed him to identify Wan Mingming that year.
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The diary reads like this:
Today's mood is really ups and downs. The provincial capital police called, and I went to the provincial capital with a feeling of anxiety.
Officer Wang of the Public Security Bureau of Fenshui District, the provincial capital, said on the phone that they found a little girl who looked very similar to Mingming in terms of features.
My original intention was to let that little girl talk to me on the phone. It has been three years, and God knows how much I miss it. I even dreamed that she was calling me Dad.
Even just listening to her voice is enough for me.
Police officer Wang on the other end of the phone didn't give me a chance, and his voice was not too emotional, he just told me to take a look first.
I have lived for decades, and I can hear Officer Wang's tone. Regardless of whether the girl is Mingming or not, something must have happened to her.
Along the way, I had many guesses, and even made the worst plans.
Sure enough, at the Fenshui Public Security Bureau, Police Officer Wang looked solemn.
He said: "Before watching, you have to be mentally prepared. Of course, it may not be your daughter."
Even though I was mentally prepared before I went, at this moment, I still felt a little bit in my heart.
If it is bad news, I would rather the news not be good, at least I still have a thought in my heart that sometimes people need a kind of spiritual support to live.
Police officer Wang said that they uncovered a gang that kidnapped and sold children for theft and begging. When they found the gang¡¯s den, they found the little girl in a remote cellar in the suburbs. She was so hungry that she was dying. .
Coupled with long-term inhuman abuse, the girl could not be rescued.
Provincial Children's Hospital, I saw the little girl.
She does look like Mingming, but she is not Mingming, nor does she have that conspicuous birthmark on her neck.
The girl was skinny and skinny, with scars all over her body, shocking.
I shook my head at Police Officer Wang, and I was speechless.
What kind of human nature is it that can attack such a cute and small child. Are they human after all?
Officer Wang comforted me: "It doesn't matter, at least it proves that your daughter is still alive, and there is hope in life."
Whether it's obvious or not, I'm in a bad mood.
This girl is not Mingming, but what about mine, is she suffering from inhuman torture at this time?
Not long after I came out, a young couple walked in led by another policeman.
In just a few seconds, I heard the heartbroken cries of a woman from inside.
The girl found her parents, but she could no longer see the world.
On the way back, I thought a lot.
It has been a few years since I disappeared, which is a big blow to our whole family.
Her mother is gone, but life with Ming Qiu and I is not much easier.
Especially Ming Qiu, he has endured too much at such a young age, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, I want to make a complete break between him and Mingming.
It doesn't matter if it's a white lie, it can cut off both his thoughts and my thoughts.
No way, life has to go on, right?
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Ming Qiu remembered that after his father returned from the provincial capital that year, he was really depressed, and he almost believed that Mingming was really gone.
At this moment, he finally realized his father's good intentions.
There are not a few entries in this diary, so I thought it should end here.
But Ming Qiu found out, no.
There are still a few diary entries, because he turned to the end, and there are still a few pages with writing.
The content of the first diary is as follows:
September 11, 2003 (Mid-Autumn Festival)
I really didn't expect that Mingming's disappearance was actually related to him.
Over the years, the person I trusted the most.
Human nature is terrible, how can he deal with such a cute child?
If he didn't vomit the truth after drinking?, how could I have thought it was him, I grabbed his neck and asked him, where did he get my Mingming.
He was very drunk, and he was stuttering, unable to express himself at all.
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The second diary
September 12, 2003
While the grandson was awake, I asked him again where he got my Mingming.
He had a bad attitude and refused to admit it at first, but finally told the truth.
He said, in fact, he had already made up his mind.
On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1999, there were many people on the street, and Xiaohua was busy with business in the store again.
Obviously walking alone on the side of the street, this just gave him a chance.
Using a few pieces of chocolate candy, he successfully tricked Mingming into the car bound for the provincial capital.
At the railway station in the provincial capital, he gave Mingming to the buyer who had already contacted him.
The buyer saw that it was very cute, so he added another 500 yuan to the price discussed.
In this way, he sold Mingming to the traffickers for 6,000 yuan.
I asked about the trafficker's news, but he didn't know any more, saying that he was a middle-aged man named Lao San who spoke with a northern accent.
I plan to call the police.
He knelt down and begged me to give him a chance to change his ways for the sake of our years of brotherhood.
What can I say, I owe him.
According to him, what I owe him will never be repaid.
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The third diary
September 13, 2013
I'm going to the provincial capital to look for Mingming, but I don't know where the third child is. I had no choice but to get him to look for it with me.
At first he was unwilling to live and die, saying that it was in vain to look for it. I threatened him that if he didn't go to find Mingming with me, I would call the police immediately.
He compromised.
At the railway station in the provincial capital, we wandered around for a week and found nothing.
Four years have passed since Mingming disappeared. I understand that there is little hope of finding her, but this is the closest hope.
On the way back from the provincial capital, that man fell asleep with his head covered. He did such an outrageous thing, but he was still able to sleep?
I had the urge to throw him out of the car window several times, but I finally endured it.
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After reading these two diaries, Ming Qiu has already confirmed who he is in his father's diary.
Lame Sun, in his childhood memory, Lame Sun had a good relationship with his father, they were brothers.
No wonder, for a while, my father often ran to the provincial capital, and told Ming Qiu that he was going to study in the provincial capital, but it turned out he was looking for Mingming.
Lame Sun and his father often drink together, especially during holidays, they always have to drink two cups.
At that time Wan Mingqiu didn't quite understand.
Lame Sun, such a poor and destitute person, a person with a bad style of work.
How could he be good friends with such an upright people's teacher as his father?
According to his father's diary, what is the kindness he owes to the crippled grandson that he will never repay in his life? (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com