Introduction to "The Fire 30 Years Ago"
A new piece of the wall of Hongqi Building fell off, revealing the burnt black bricks underneath. Sun Shouli knelt down to pick it up, and his fingertips touched the sugar residue in the cracks of the bricks - it was fruit hard candy, the kind Xiaoyu loved most thirty years ago.
The fire in 1993 was wrapped in this sweetness. The children's medicine in the warehouse exploded in the fire, like countless candies exploding at the same time. When the man in maintenance clothes poured gasoline into the corner, Sun Shouli saw Xiaoyu's medicine bottle rolling down the shelf, and the bear on the bottle was licked into a black ball by the fire.
Now that he is a building manager, the burn scar on his right hand still burns hot on rainy days. Developer Zhao Tianlei's people spray-painted the word "demolished" on the wall...
"Chief Sun, please be smarter." Zhao Tianlei's briefcase brushed against his hand, causing him to clench his fists fiercely. A leaflet fell out of the bag. On the package of the imported special medicine, there was a bear that was exactly the same as before.
His hands have a secret: old objects they touch can "speak".
Zhang Guixiang's bead-lacking abacus said: "My son hid a note, and this medicine was filled with sugar water."
Zhou Mingyuan's reading glasses said: "Xiaoyu finally took my hand and said, 'Teacher, sugar is so bitter.'"
Chen Man's stethoscope said: "My father was forced to use my life to light the fire."
On the day the demolition team broke down the door, Sun Shouli placed Xiaoyu's empty medicine bottle in front of the bulldozer. The batch number on the bottom of the bottle was blurred, but it matched Zhao Tianlei's new drug - even the curvature of the mouth of the bottle filled with sugar water was the same.
"This building can be demolished, but first the bear must recognize the child it poisoned to death."
