In May '96, the weather was fine, the sun was shining, the wind was beautiful. A family of three went out to the park to enjoy the flowers.

After arriving at the park, the husband went to the store to buy snacks and drinks, while the wife took care of their five-year-old son. There were many people walking on the grass in the park, and his wife laid out a blanket, lay down, and told her five-year-old son not to run around and stay by her side.

What I didn't expect was that because of staying up late at work the night before, my wife actually fell asleep while lying down. Although I slept for less than ten minutes before and after, it was just these ten minutes that broke down.

There was a lot of queue at the store, and the husband came back after waiting for about ten minutes and saw his wife, but he didn't see his son, who was supposed to be staying next to her.

The husband stepped forward and woke up his wife, who panicked, and the two shouted and searched all over the park. I searched from morning to afternoon, but no one responded, and my son was nowhere to be seen.

They called the police, and two policemen came to find out the information, asked for photos of the children in the husband's wallet, and also questioned some people who were also walking in the park.

Some of them said that they had seen a five-year-old child being led across the road by two young men in their twenties. One can imagine how devastating the husband and wife must have been when they heard such words.

However, because witnesses could not determine that the child who left the two young men was the child of the couple, the nature of the case was defined as 'missing'.

As the long day drew to a close, the husband and wife returned home without saying a word, the quarrel was inevitable, the husband was angry, and the wife could only wash her face with tears, regretting why she had fallen asleep.

At that time, the husband had earned some money in business, and the family was relatively wealthy. So the next day, after going to the police station but not getting any news, the husband thought about spending money to be on the newspaper and on TV, and the big deal was to offer a reward, even if he spent all his possessions, as long as he could find his son.

On the third day, after paying a large sum of money, a photo of his son appeared in the newspaper. However, the location was far from ideal, and the husband said he was willing to pay more for the report of his son's disappearance to be in a more conspicuous place.

But the newspaper told him, "The news of this kind of child's disappearance, to be honest, even if it makes headlines, it won't have much effect." Everyone only looks at each other at most, maybe to show sympathy, and then it's time to do something. ”

The husband was shocked, "Why is this happening?" ”

The newspaper man replied very bluntly, "Because it is not their own children who are taken away by human traffickers, no one is willing to fight against human traffickers for the sake of a person who is not related to them, and if they annoy the human traffickers, what if the traffickers retaliate?" ”

The newspaper man and the husband were not strangers, they had known each other before, so in a way, the conversation had to be private, between friends and friends.

The newspaper man told the husband, "Newspapers are essentially for-profit organizations, and the news of a child's disappearance is not qualified to make headlines from any point of view." Because to put it mildly, this matter is only about your family, and what people want to know from the newspaper is something that concerns them. ”

After speaking, the newspaper person added, "This is what I said to you as a friend, I advise you not to waste money on this kind of thing, you are still young, and your sister-in-law is still young, it is better to look forward as soon as possible........"

Acquaintances on the TV station also gave a similar reply in private: this kind of thing will not attract much attention from the audience, it is none of their business, they will only look at it, and then forget about it when they turn around.

Media, television........ there was almost no word for the Internet in China at that time. In other words, the two major media that the husband can rely on are tantamount to persuading him to die.

But he didn't, he spent a lot of money as usual, appeared on TV and newspapers and expressed his hope to find his son. It's a pity, as his friend told him, that money is more ineffective than throwing it into the water, and there is no splash at all.

At the same time, he could see that the police had almost no hope of finding the child from the beginning, and the police just followed the rules and regulations, received the police, dispatched the police, registered the records, and made a file, maybe they searched a little, or they didn't find it at all, and then the file was placed there, waiting for the ashes.

The husband's heart is dead, and the wife weeps all day in reproach, and is also on the verge of collapse.

On the seventh day after the child's disappearance, that evening, when the husband was about to go home and pick up some more after posting the missing person notices on the street, his landline rang.

During that time, the landline would often ring, and because of the huge bounty set up, all kinds of messy people would call and lie about the information in an attempt to get a little reward.

In the beginning, my husband would talk to those people in a good voice. But the more times he tried to get by, the husband couldn't stand it, and he scolded those people for being inhumane, and scolded them for how they could take advantage of the disappearance of the child to try to cheat money.

So that evening, when the phone was connected, the husband was actually ready to scold, and he didn't dare to give himself hope at all.

But that phone call was different. Because a young man's voice came from that phone call, and the voice said, "Your son is in my hands, prepare 200,000 cash to exchange for your son, don't call the police, otherwise you will never see him again." ”

Before that phone call, my husband had also received all kinds of phone calls trying to cheat money, and those phone calls made him realize the evil nature of human nature. But that phone call was extremely bad.

Hearing that way, the husband on the other side of the phone was so angry that his face turned red, and he couldn't even find the words to use to scold.

At this time, the phone was probably a little anxious because there was no response. The voice rang out again, "Did you hear that?" ”

Hearing this, the husband on the other side of the phone turned his head to look at his wife, whose eyes were swollen from crying. It was this glance that caused him to temporarily swallow the words that were going to curse.

The husband spoke, "If my son is indeed in your hands, let him talk to me and hear his voice, I will give you money." ”

The voice came out, and after a short silence on the other side of the phone, then the sound of someone walking came, and then, a cry that was enough to tear the hearts of the husband and wife came, "Dad, Mommy, I'm scared, I want to go home." ”

At the sound of that voice, the husband immediately stiffened. At the same time, the grief-stricken wife almost flew to the landline, and her mouth could only repeat the words, "We give you money, give you money, you let my son come back......"

After hanging up the phone, the couple discussed for a while, but in the end, because of their disappointment with the police, they chose not to call the police.

At that time, although 200,000 was indeed an astronomical amount. But thanks to the husband's business in those years, and the wife's good job, they can make it up.

Soon they had enough money, and that night, they came to the deserted and remote railway.

Following the instructions on the phone, they placed the money in a fixed location that had already been marked by the traffickers. They saw a very dilapidated van parked in the distance, and they thought their son was in it.

It's a pity that there is no .......

The money was handed over, but the son did not return.

The husband and wife waited until dawn until dawn, and the phone never rang again. At first, they thought that the traffickers wanted to increase the price temporarily, but the phone never rang again, only the voice that kept echoing in the ears of the husband and wife, it was the voice of their son crying and wanting to go home!