Why did the old mother come all the way to Shenzhen to beg homeless people to go home?

At about 5 pm on March 8, under this viaduct in Xixiang, Shenzhen, six homeless family members finally found their relatives who had been away for many years. Under the viaduct is the "home" of eight homeless people who have been wandering in Shenzhen for many years. Their average age is less than 30 years old, they don’t have any documents, they live in the open, and they barely make ends meet by doing odd jobs.

A rain in the early morning plunged Shenzhen into the "late spring cold" again. When volunteers from Shenzhen's "Bring Love Home" rushed to an open space covered with grass under the Xixiang overpass, eight young people were sitting side by side on the ground talking to volunteers who "pretended" to introduce their work to them. Wearing old quilts, some of their daily necessities are scattered around.

Alin, who had just turned 27, was sitting among them, joking with his friends. His second brother, Afeng, recognized him from afar in the crowd. Suddenly I saw people coming from a distance. Some of them who were talking immediately stood up from the ground, covered their faces with clothes and ran away. But Alin stood up straight, paused and said, "Why are you here, sister?" !" The eldest sister Ahua threw herself into her younger brother's arms and burst into tears.

When Xiao Cheng from Hubei saw his parents and brother, his first reaction was not to recognize them immediately but to turn around and run away. After being pulled, he kept struggling to leave. Faced with the sudden appearance of his family and the request to "go home together", this young man who had been wandering for ten years showed strong resistance.

When his mother, who was over 50 years old, saw her youngest son reacting like this, she immediately knelt down on her knees and cried loudly on top of her youngest son, shouting in her native Hubei dialect. Holding his son.

Alin and Xiaocheng also successfully met their long-lost relatives together with Xiao Chen (pseudonym) from Guangxi, A Xian (pseudonym) from Qingyuan, Guangdong, and A Liang (pseudonym) from Hunan. For a time, cries and tears filled the place.

Since losing news of A Lin in September 2013, the family has come to Shenzhen almost every year to look for relatives. Ahua said that since there was no news, they could only check the use of Xiaolin's ID card at one police station in Shenzhen. The mother at home shed tears all day long because she missed her youngest son too much. She had just turned 50 and could barely see the person standing opposite her.

My mother even had the idea of ??wandering to Shenzhen for a time. "She said that she could survive by picking up bottles and waste on the streets of Shenzhen, and maybe she would meet her son by chance on the street," she said. Missing his brother and mother day and night, Ahua choked up several times.

After understanding, the "trigger" for the eight homeless people who "temporarily lived" under the Xixiang overpass was almost all because of the loss of their documents. .

Without an ID card, I cannot buy a ticket home. Without an ID card, I cannot participate in normal social work. The volunteer told reporters that Alin had told him privately that he was not doing well and did not want to go home like this, which was the reason why he had not applied for a new ID card or contacted his family.