"My dad told me that my brother will go to the leader's house on the tenth to escort him back to the army. He and mom need to ask for leave from the unit, and when they are ready, it should be after the fifteenth."
Fu Haozhe stroked Chen Chuchu's hair with his chin: "Okay, we can talk about this after the 15th."
The two chatted all the way, talking about things that had happened to them recently, and the train arrived at the station.
After coming out, they took the bus to send Chen Chuchu back to the military hospital and Fu Haozhe back to the army.
Chen Yuan and Hu Yumei took a leave and left Kyoto on the 14th. They did not come to see Chen Chuchu, but went directly to Hongsha County.
He found a guesthouse to stay in and without taking a rest, he went straight to the police station to report the case.
The people in the Public Security Bureau took it very seriously. Chen Yuan and Hu Yumei were from the Kyoto Military Region Headquarters. Once the letter of introduction was shown, the comrades in the Public Security Bureau did not dare to neglect it.
In addition, Chen Yuan had worked here before, which was stated in the letter of introduction, so the comrades in the Public Security Bureau were even more friendly to him.
"Comrade Chen Yuan! What do you want to talk to us about? Please tell me." The person who received Chen Yuan was a man named Wu Jun, who was about 30 years old and capable. "As long as we can help, we will do our best."
Just after the Chinese New Year, Chen Yuan came all the way from Kyoto to Hongsha to report the case. It must be something very important. Wu Jun retired from the army and was treated by military doctors in the military hospital. Seeing Chen Yuan from the Kyoto Military Medical General Hospital, he seemed a little friendly.
Military doctors are still highly respected.
"It's like this. Twenty-two years ago, my wife gave birth in the Xisi Town Health Center in our county. At that time, my wife and I were both doctors at the Xisi Town Health Center. That night I..."
Chen Yuan told Wu Jun in detail about the birth of the child, the switch, and how Chen Chuchu met Liu Fusheng in the hospital and took the child home for the New Year.
As he spoke, Hu Yumei's eyes were red, she couldn't say a word, her face was full of sadness. Even though it happened so many years ago, in her heart, it was like yesterday.
After hearing what happened, Wu Jun was very surprised: "So, there were three women giving birth in the health center that night, and three babies were switched among them?"
"Yes!" Chen Yuan answered affirmatively.
Wu Jun took a deep breath and felt that the person who stole the child was really wicked. Not only did he steal someone's son, but he also gave his own daughter to another family, and then gave the other family's daughter to the victim.
This practice is extremely abominable.
"Xisi Town is not far from the county. Let's go and find the Yan family to ask about the situation."
Wu Jun felt that this matter was easy to resolve. Given what happened and the people involved in the case were all in the local area, the truth would come out if he asked them clearly.
The New Year had just passed and there was nothing to do in the bureau, so he followed up on this case.
Driving a jeep, carrying Chen Yuan and Hu Yumei, they headed towards Xisi Town.
After arriving at the place, the three of them went straight to the health center. They didn't know the name of the person surnamed Yan, so they had to look up the information from that year.
More than 20 years have passed, and the former health center has become a town hospital.
The people inside had basically all been replaced, and Chen Yuan and Hu Yumei didn't recognize any of them.
After listening to Wu Jun's introduction, the dean sent someone to take them to the reference room to find the admission registration for that year. Fortunately, these registrations were stored by year, so it was not difficult to find them.
I found the year, month, and day my son was born, but discovered that the registration page was missing. The one from the previous day and the one from the next day were all there, except for that day.
Now, Chen Yuan was immediately furious.
It seems that someone lied back then. His wife gave birth to a son, but the child disappeared. The midwife was afraid of taking responsibility, so she deceived the couple.
Seeing his wife frantically looking for the child and worried that something might be discovered, he tore up that page of the registration form.
Wu Jun also saw the problem, called the dean over, and showed him the registration book: "Please think carefully, who could have come in and torn up that page of the registration form?"
The director is new, not the previous director of the health center. He has been here for less than four years and he couldn’t remember anything after thinking for a long time.
"I really don't know about this. These materials are kept by my subordinates. I don't pay attention to this place at all."
Chen Yuan and Hu Yumei both understood that as a dean, he was in charge of medical treatment, not a useless place like a database. If they couldn't find the registration information of that year, they could only look up a person's name.
"Dean! Are you a local?" Hu Yumei suddenly asked.
“Yes, I’m a local.”
"Then do you know that there is a little girl named Yan Ru in Xisi Town? Her aunt married a military regiment staff officer, and she went to take care of her aunt's children. After hard work, she joined the military art troupe and became a solo dancer."
Before Hu Yumei finished her words, the dean's brows were furrowed into knots.
"Yan Ru? I've never heard of her. Is she from our Xisi Town? Is there such a girl in Xisi Town?"
A nurse nearby looked over with a smile and said, "Director! The person she's talking about is from Yanjiawan. That person is our role model, very capable."
"Yanjiawan?" Chen Yuan looked at the nurse excitedly, "Little girl! Are you sure?"
The nurse was puzzled: "Why can't you be sure of this? Several villages around know about her and treat her as a legend. What do you want from her?"
“Good.”
Hu Yumei knew that the little girl was curious, so she answered casually but did not dare to say it clearly for fear of gossip.
The registration form was torn up, which means there is something fishy going on.
Since we have already reported the case, we can investigate again after the matter is almost settled. The most important thing now is to find my daughter’s biological parents.
Wu Jun knew about Yanjiawan, so he said goodbye to the dean, and the three of them drove to Yanjiawan.
The sky was gray and it looked like it was going to rain. The weather was cold and there were few people on the road. Fortunately, they were in a car and accompanied by police officers. If Chen Yuan and Hu Yumei had come alone, it would not have been so smooth.
When they were young, they worked in a health center, but they rarely had the opportunity to go to the countryside to see patients. Chen Yuan was better, he occasionally had to go to see patients, but Hu Yumei never went out for a day.
Wang Xiangying and Liu Degui were really lucky. On the night Hu Yumei gave birth, Chen Yuan happened to be out on a medical visit in the countryside. If he had been at home, they would have had no chance of succeeding.
Today is the 16th day of the first lunar month. The Chinese New Year has just passed and there is nothing much to do in the fields. The weather is cold and gloomy, so no one goes out for a walk. Most people stay at home and warm themselves by the fire.
When the jeep arrived at the entrance of the village, many people came to watch, especially some children, who chattered and surrounded the jeep so tightly that no one could get in or out.
Hu Yumei weighed a pound of fruit candy at the town's supply and marketing cooperative and bought a few bags of snacks. Seeing so many children, she grabbed some handfuls of candy and scattered them around.
The children scattered and all rushed to grab the candy.
The three of them were able to open the car door and get out.
Chen Yuan took out a cigarette from his pocket and distributed it to the men who could smoke, then asked them about it.
"Excuse me, do you know where Yan Rujia is?"
"Yan Ru?" The person who answered was an old man in his fifties. "Are you here to look for her? I heard that she has a boyfriend in the army. Are you the parents of her boyfriend?"