Crowds have lined the streets in a village in faraway Guangdong Province to welcome home a 4-year-old girl who was abducted and taken north to be sold to a man from our very own Jiangsu, in an ordeal concluding with the capture of her abductor, a fellow villager.
On the morning of 2 January, some 3 days after her abduction, Xiaohuanhuan (小欢欢), a 4-year-old girl living in Wuhua County of Meizhou City in Guangdong Province, was reunited with her family.
1月2日上午，在被绑架约三天后，家住广东省梅州市五华县的4岁女孩小欢欢与家人团聚。
Following the successful rescue and capture of the girl’s abductor, the Wuhua County Public Security Bureau disclosed their investigation of the case.
成功解救并抓获绑架女童后，五华县公安局公开了案件侦办情况。
At around 19:00 on 30 December, Ms. Wen, a villager in Longcun Town of Wuhua County, reported to the authorities that her 4-year-old daughter was missing. The family had been out looking for her for more than an hour.
12月30日19时左右，五华县龙村镇村民文女士向当局举报，她4岁的女儿失踪了。家人已经出去寻找她一个多小时了。
Police learned that with her parents not usually at home, Huanhuan was normally taken care of by her elderly grandparents. On the evening in question, Huanhuan’s grandmother returned home after work to find her not at home. This did not concern her at first as the child was often to be found playing in front of or behind the house.
警方了解到，由于父母平时不在家，欢欢平时都是由年迈的祖父母照顾。当晚，欢欢的奶奶下班回到家，发现她不在家。起初她并没有担心这个问题，因为经常发现孩子在房子前面或后面玩耍。
As The Paper reports, upon being alerted, local authorities put the message out far and wide. Volunteers came forward to join the search and soon, Huanhaun’s disappearance was the only thing on everyone’s minds.
据澎湃新闻报道，当地有关部门接到警报后，立即将这一消息广泛传播。志愿者们纷纷加入搜寻工作，很快，大家唯一关心的就是Huanhaun的失踪。
According to The World Journal, local police first turned their attention to a nearby pond to see whether it had claimed Huanhuan. In addition, drones were used to conduct air patrols, but still nothing was found.
据《世界日报》报道，当地警方首先将注意力转向附近的一个池塘，看看它是否已经认走了欢欢。此外，还动用了无人机进行空中巡逻，但依然一无所获。
After setting up a special task force, police got their break the next day, when a cadre from a nearby village reported that a car came by at noon the previous day, appearing to patrol around the village and arousing suspicion.
警方成立专案组后，第二天就破门了，附近村庄的一名干部报告说，前一天中午有一辆汽车经过，似乎在村子周围巡逻，引起怀疑。
Investigators found that the car was owned by an unemployed 27-year-old man, surnamed Wen, who has a criminal record and an intellectual disability. Wen also lives across the street from Huanhuan and her family. Tracking the vehicle, police were able to intercept and apprehend Wen in Baidu Town of Meixian District in Meizhou at around 22:00 on 31 December.
调查人员发现，该车的车主是一名27岁的失业男子，文姓，有犯罪前科，智力障碍。温也住在欢欢及其家人的街对面。经追踪，民警于12月31日22时左右在梅州市梅县区百度镇将文某拦截并抓获。
Upon interrogation, Wen confessed to having tricked Huanhuan into getting into his car on the pretext of going shopping at around 14:00 on 30 December. He then drove some 900 kilometres north to a highway service area in Tongling City of Anhui Province, where he sold Huanhuan to a man from Jiangsu Province, surnamed Yan, for ¥60,000.
经审讯，文某供述了12月30日14时00分左右，借口外出购物，骗欢欢上车的事实。随后，他又驱车向北行驶约900公里，来到安徽省铜陵市一高速公路服务区，以6万元的价格将欢欢卖给了一名江苏严姓男子。
Police then went all out in their search for Yan, traversing 2,500 kilometres across the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu. With the assistance of the police of Zhenjiang City in Jiangsu, they finally captured their suspect at around 11:00 on 1 January.
随后，警方全力搜寻颜某，穿越广东、江西、安徽、江苏等省份，行程2500公里。在江苏镇江市警方的协助下，1月1日11时许，终于将犯罪嫌疑人抓获。
Huanhuan was subsequently rescued, having been kept hidden locked in a wardrobe. She was said to be none the worse for her ordeal. Huanhuan’s father revealed that his daughter had only a vague recollection of her experience and maintained she was not abused during the abduction.
欢欢随后被救出，并被锁在衣柜里。据说她的遭遇并没有让她的情况变得更糟。欢欢的父亲透露，女儿对自己的经历只有模糊的记忆，并坚称她在绑架过程中没有受到虐待。
