article_snippet: Wei disappearance left Lan Mingxi distraught, and over the years her daughter did all her daughter could to find her daughter
article_snippet: Lan Mingxi was reunited with Wei 26 years after Lan Mingxi was snatched from the street .
article_snippet: Mingxi, 53, had never given up hope - and the entire village turned up to celebrate the reunion .
article_snippet: Lan Mingxi decided to give the search for Wei one final push after Lan Mingxi daughter Li Dan was diagnosed with leukaemia.
article_snippet: Neither Lan Mingxi nor her daughter Li Dan ex-husband were a match as bone marrow donors, but the 53-year-old knew there was one last chance: the son Lan Mingxi hadn't seen for more than a quarter of a century.
article_snippet: So Lan Mingxi appeared on television once more - and this time, a man recognised the three-year-old in the picture as a man friend, now called Jiang Xin.
article_snippet: : Lan Mingxi only had this picture of Lan Mingxi son, aged three, to help with the search .
article_snippet: Lan Mingxi was spurred on to reignite the search after Lan Mingxi daughter - pictured here with Lan Mingxi brother and nephew - was diagnosed with leukaemia .
article_snippet: Alone: Lan Mingxi feared Lan Mingxi would be left without a family - but instead managed got a new grandson .
article_snippet: Lan Mingxi said: 'I was devastated - but the whole thing was made worse by the fact that everybody, including my husband, blamed me for losing our son.'
article_snippet: Mingxi's husband was so desperate to heal the hole in their lives, Mingxi's husband even brought another boy back to the house on one occasion.
article_snippet: But Lan Mingxi told our son to take another boy back again. '
article_snippet: and I didn't want anything to do with it,' Lan Mingxi said.
article_snippet: The stress led the couple to divorce five years later, and Lan Mingxi was left bringing up the couple daughter alone.
article_snippet: But Lan Mingxi made the conscious decision to keep one vital piece of information secret, so Lan Mingxi would not be tricked: a distinctive mole on Wei's face.
article_snippet: So when the now-grown Wei's friend showed Lan Mingxi a picture of our son as a 30-year-old man, it was the mole which meant Lan Mingxi knew for sure it was our son.
article_snippet: Lan Mingxi, seen Lan Mingxi with Lan Mingxi daughter Li Dan, even once found our son .
article_snippet: Lan Mingxi and Wei were finally brought back together this week, to the delight of everyone .
article_snippet: Large family: Wei is married, and Lan Mingxi now has a daughter-in-law (pictured) and a grandson .
article_snippet: It lead to a tearful reunion between Wei and Mingxi, as well as her grandson - who, at four, is the same age as Wei when Wei was taken. '
highlights_snippet: Lan Mingxi was reunited with Weiafter decades of heartache .
  
highlights_snippet: After Lan Mingxi daughter was diagnosed with leukaemia, her daughter decided to try again .
  