Mammoth News·Oriental Today News reporter Zhou Lan ■Intern reporter Liu Xu/Photo provided by the interviewee , Xu Pengfei posted a circle of friends. He is from Tianshui, Gansu Province. He has never seen his mother since he was born. Being "tortured" by his stepmother makes his desire to find his mother even stronger. Finding his mother is his only belief in survival. At the age of 12, he left home and went to work, looking for his mother while surviving. He traveled to more than ten provinces across the country. From disappointment to despair to hope, the journey was bitter. After 15 years of searching for his mother, Xu Pengfei finally received a call from his mother, who was 5,000 kilometers away, on Mother's Day. It was the first time in 26 years that he heard his mother's voice.
Abandoned by his mother 15 days after his birth, his father was "tortured" by his stepmother after his second marriage
Xu Pengfei, 26, was abandoned by his mother 15 days after he was born. He said that he has never felt maternal love in 26 years. Years later, he learned that his mother was also full of sadness when she left.
"It may be a feudal ideology. My mother and the elderly do not have a harmonious relationship. When I was born 15 days before the full moon, my mother was driven to her mother's house." Xu Pengfei said that her mother was the eldest daughter in the family. Aggrieved and angry, many years later, I learned that they died one after another on the day they were born. "My mother was only about 20 years old at the time. Because she still had relatives in Xinjiang , her mother took her 13-year-old uncle and 5-year-old aunt to Xinjiang."
After his parents divorced, Xu Pengfei was sent to Xinjiang by his father. He came to live with his grandparents, and his father later reorganized the family. Xu Pengfei's father and stepmother have no children, and a son was brought by his stepmother.When Xu Pengfei was 6 years old, his grandfather died, and he was taken over by his father to live with no one to take care of him. Since then, he realized that he was different from other children, and his life in his father's house was like a nightmare.
"At my father's house, my stepmother never had a good face, she was disobedient and did not give food, she never even bought a new dress for a few years, and she often told me to go to my mother. In short, she was tortured..." This was the case, the stronger Xu Pengfei wanted to find his mother, and he made up his mind to wait until he grew up to find his mother.
12-year-old left homewandering, while surviving and looking for her mother
I heard from my classmates that people working on the construction site in the village were recruiting, so Xu Pengfei went to sign up. That summer vacation, when he was 12 years old, he went to work in a restaurant in the town. He earned 800 yuan in two months. With the money he earned, he bought a bus ticket and left home with the adults. The first stop was Tianjin. When I was young, I had never seen my mother. I only knew my mother's name, and I found the photo later.
Xu Pengfei stayed on the construction site for half a year without any contact with his family. Later, I worked as a waiter and changed a lot of jobs. He slept across the road, bridge holes, often starved, and could only search for through by his mother's name. Some people saw that he was young and came out to find his mother, thinking that he would take care of him, but he had also encountered liars.
In order to find his mother, Xu Pengfei went back to his grandfather , trying to get more information. The old house of my grandparents' house has been uninhabited for many years, and most of them don't know about the neighbors. He found his grandfather's brother and told his mother that "it seems to have gone to , Xinjiang Ili ", and at the same time he found his mother's photo.
Xu Pengfei said that because of the word "like", he had to travel all over the dozen provinces in China to find his mother.He had been to Xinjiang to find his mother, but the area of Xinjiang was too large and the search was fruitless, so he left disappointed. Later, I went to Xi'an , Jiangsu and other places, while working to earn money to survive, while looking for the whereabouts of my mother.
Xu Pengfei's life is not only part-time work, but also looking for his mother. He works during the day, and after get off work, he will find him at 12 o'clock in the evening, and he will work at night, and he will look for him again after get off work, repeating every day. Every place, according to the division of the district, he will look for one by one. He said that he most often goes to more lively places, because such places have a large flow of people and are more likely to be found. He has printed his mother's flyers, and he has also signed up for the TV station 's family search column, and even through online media.
He remembered finding it too late at night, got out of the car and walked to the highway by himself, the car kept driving by, a kind man stopped the car and took him off the highway, and waited for him to buy it at supermarket Bread and other food, and then took him to restaurant for dinner and left him 100 yuan. Xu Pengfei said he has never forgotten it. He has also been deceived. Someone told him that he could find his mother, so he gave all the money he earned from working to the other party, but the other party ran away.
The disappointment after each search made him feel hopeless, and he even had several thoughts of suicide, standing on a bridge, wanting to jump into a river. But every time I think about finding my mother, I give up the idea.
An informed netizen sent a private message and received a call on Mother's Day.
Xu Pengfei once met a media person because he helped others. Later, under the introduction of this media person, he published the information of the search on Toutiao today. Soon after, he received a private letter from a netizen, leaving a message about the street where his mother currently lives, and telling him that he could call the street office to find it.Because the address introduced by the other party was also somewhere in Yili, Xinjiang, he thought it was more reliable, and then he searched through the government hotline. When he heard the staff of the office say there was this person, Xu Pengfei instantly felt possible.
On Mother's Day, he was working in Suzhou and received a call from his mother in Yili, Xinjiang. "The mood was very complicated at the time, there was excitement, happiness and a little bit of hatred, and the mother was crying..." Xu Pengfei said that the mother had a family in Yili , two children, and life was stressful. She had undergone surgery before. Uncles and aunts also have families. Although he has not yet gone to Xinjiang to see his mother, he keeps in touch with his mother every day. The two of them introduced their respective situations and explained the reasons for leaving home. The mother told him to be happy every day. Xu Pengfei wanted to live with his mother. He was a little hesitant because he was worried that his mother would be embarrassed and under pressure.
"The hard work pays off, no matter if my mother wants to live with me or not, but I am very satisfied when I find her. I am very grateful to the kind people who have helped me, and because of their persuasion I have not learned badly. I found my mother. The dreams and beliefs from childhood to adulthood have driven me to live..." Xu Pengfei said. News/People's Livelihood/Human Rights Hotline: 0371-65830000 / 16603712315.
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