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Chen Yufu, another boy from Renmin University, and I arrived in the mountain city of Chongqing on January 19, 2000, and began our search. Teacher Tan told us that when we arrived in Chongqing, we first went to the electrical machine factory to look for the brothers of two migrant girls named Xiu Ming and Xiu Qin who had no surnames. Through him, we could know the whereabouts of their sisters. Liu Chengfu also looked for them last time, but mistakenly thought that one of them was Yang Qinying and returned without any results. The only clue we relied on this time was that their brother graduated from college in July 1993 and was assigned to an electrical machine factory in Chongqing. But seven years later, in an era when young people are changing jobs frequently, perhaps he has already disappeared.

What I want to tell you is the respect with which all the editors of Tianya compiled and distributed this set of manuscripts. The article, which contains more than 40,000 words, brings with it your fatigue in wind and rain, and reproduces your journey of hope and despair before us. It has been seven years since the fire that swallowed up 89 young lives and 51 healthy women became disabled. In the days when the undead quietly moved away as the years passed, new factories were built on the ruins burned by the flames, and more new working girls gathered (including even survivors of the disaster). In the days when people's initial anger and sympathy were washed away day by day, you have been paying attention to each victim and their family with your persistent eyes, and won unexpected compensation for them with real work.