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Left-behind children ride 20 kilometers to see parents

By Huang Jin (People's Daily Online)    08:21, November 30, 2015
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Left-behind children ride 20 kilometers to see parents

Recently two left behind children in Wencheng county, east China's Zhejiang province have done the craziest thing of their lives: a 9-year-old boy and his 6-year-old brother rode bicycles for more than 20 kilometers to see their parents working in a supermarket in Rui'an, 60 kilometers away from home. Feeling exhausted and hungry, the boys stopped in the middle of the journey and couldn't help crying.

After being found by the police the children gave the simplest explanation to the adventure: they haven't see the parents for more than 40 days and they missed them so much. When the younger boy saw other parents send their children to school, he asked his brother to bring him to the parents. Then the two boys made the decision to go see their parents by themselves. 

The police received a call from the children's grandparents saying that the two children were missing in the afternoon on Nov. 21. After investigation, they found the surveillance video showing two children riding bicycles in front of a hotel in the city to the direction of Rui'an. As the children's aunt also said that the boys had mentioned a lot of times to go to see their mother in Rui'an, the police decided to search along the road to Rui'an, and finally they found the two boys. The boys were received by goodhearted people when they heard their cries on the road.

Two little boys riding two tiny bicycles for more than 3 hours for a distance of over 20 kilometers to see their parents, touched the hearts of the police. They reminded the parents not to ignore the children's feelings because of work or money.  

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