Sunflowers in Qingwa Alley

In the 1983 Haicheng earthquake, Su Xiaoguang, who had just turned one year old, lost his mother in the rubble, and his biological father Zhao Tiejun disappeared mysteriously. Three uncles with very different personalities - the calm Su Jianguo, the violent Su Weidong, and the straightforward Su Weimin - supported her with their rough but hot love. On the ruins of Qingwa Alley, they used tiles to build a "bright home", used crayons to paint "smiling sun" on it, and amidst patchwork and hunger, they turned the orphan girl into a tall girl. From the conflict over grabbing milk powder to the determination to go to jail to protect her, from running around on a three-wheeler to the forbearance of carrying cement, the uncles' protection has edges and corners, but is heavier than blood ties. On the way of growing up, there is the sting of campus bullying, the coldness of class differences, the shock of the biological father's secret, and the support of female power: Aunt Chunyan mends the days with needlework, and teacher Zhang Yufen lights the way forward with wisdom. With the tenacity of Qingwa Alley, Xiaoguang grew from a girl on a bicycle to an environmental pioneer who regulates rivers and protects the soil. She turned suffering into nutrients and let her roots sink deep into her homeland. When the sunflowers bloomed all over the riverfront park, and when the "book of tears" recorded the tenderness of the years, this family, which had no blood connection but was better than blood connection, finally understood: the so-called "born towards the sun" never blooms alone, but a group of people lift it up with love, so that the buds on the rubble will eventually become flowers that light up the streets.