I Can See the Bridge's Damage

Qiao Cheng is the youngest bridge inspection engineer at the Provincial Transportation Research Institute. Others rely on instruments and experience to judge the quality of a bridge, but he does not use it - when he looks up, the direction of the cracks, the corrosion of the steel bars, and the erosion of the foundation are all clearly visible in his eyes. These eyes made him a recognized "Bridge Doctor" in the industry, and also made him involved in an old debt that had been settled for twenty years. My father was a technician in the Yunling area and left a large number of original records on the old bridges in that area. Twenty years later, Qiao took over the special task of upgrading bridges in the same area and discovered traces scratched by his father with stones on the railings of several old arch bridges - not signatures, not dates, but disease marks that only an expert could read. He followed these marks and reconciled them with the files one by one. The record book that Lao Zhou has kept for twenty years, the reason for leaving home that his mother never mentioned, the old cloth bag left by his father... There are more and more clues, and the past events related to the bridge are becoming clearer and clearer. There is a person behind every bridge. And his story begins with learning to read the scars on the bridge.