I survived by my sense of smell

"45 children are missing, haven't the higher authorities checked?" With so many children missing out of nowhere, Liang An could only imagine the tragedy of that day.

"Not only four or five children, but also three teachers and a doorman." Zou Bai was in a mess. It’s a big responsibility, so I haven’t left here for so many years.”

He looked at the Zixia Community, where there was only coke left, and black smoke and ashes were floating over the entire city.

Pedestrians put on masks one after another, looked around the neighborhood with curiosity, and then hurried past here.

The fire had already been extinguished, but it was not extinguished. When all the buildings were reduced to ashes, the fire was extinguished within a quarter of an hour.

The sudden ringtone rang, Zou Bai picked up the phone, it was from the police station.

"Hey...Okay...Come here right away"

From yesterday afternoon until now, the two of them hadn't touched a drop of rice, Liang An suggested: "Go and eat, I don't know how long it will be at the police station."

Although he didn't have much appetite, he still nodded when he remembered that Liang An was still hungry.

They hadn't eaten for a long time, so Liang An ordered more, and when the food arrived, Zou Bai felt nauseous just as he was about to move his chopsticks, but finally put down the chopsticks.

Looking at the dead skin on his mouth, Liang An passed the wonton over: "If you can't eat, drink some soup, at least you need something to fill your stomach."

So under Liang An's persuasion, he still ate half a bowl of wontons.

The inside of the police station was also lifeless. Everyone stayed up all night last night, leaving a few on duty, and everyone else went back to rest.

"Are you the family members of the deceased? Come with me," a policeman stepped forward and took them to the conference room. "Wait a minute, I'll call Team Zhang."

Captain Zhang is a man in his forties. He was on the front line yesterday. Obviously, he didn't have time to change his clothes. There were burn marks and dust, and his eyes were red.

"Families in Building No. [-]?"

Zou Bai nodded.

Team Zhang continued: "Building No. [-] is the source of the fire. I came here today to ask if any of you know the arsonist, or have any grievances with him."

"I don't know." Zou Bai had seen the arsonist when he caught the arsonist for the first time. He had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and there was fearless madness in his eyes. He looked like a desperado.

Team Zhang rubbed his face, feeling like he wanted to keep himself awake: "I'm sorry to bother you, but your family members should also express their condolences. Regarding the arsonist, we will definitely let him be punished as he should."

"I'll trouble you too," Zou Bai said.

After leaving the police station, Liang An stopped the taxi in front of him and asked Zou Bai, "Where are you going?"

Zou Bai felt dizzy for a while, he held the door of the car: "Go back and rest first, we will talk when we are full of sleep."

Ji Mao knew about this incident late last night, and wanted to rush over there, but was stopped by Liang An, who said that it would be fine to prepare bath water and food when they came back.

After the two fell asleep, Ji Mao quietly closed the door and went to the store so as not to disturb their rest.

When they woke up again, it was already 24 hours later, Zou Bai felt sore from sleep, and his mind was groggy.Liang An woke up one step earlier, and was preparing food in the kitchen. The food was delivered by Chicken Feather, but it was a little cold, so Liang An heated it up again.

Zou Bai still didn't have much appetite, but he forced himself to eat some. Only when his stomach was filled with food did he feel better.

It was already noon after eating, Liang An asked, "About this matter, what are your plans for the future?"

"Yes, I want to go back and have a look and see what happened that day." When the dusty smell from yesterday reappeared, Zou Bai knew that this matter could not be left alone, and it was time to put an end to it.

It has been at least 20 years since the accident in the orphanage.

Liang An didn't know what happened at that time, he could only hope that Zou Bai could remember more clearly and be prepared for future accidents.He didn't think it would be easy to resolve the grievance hole that could swallow more than 200 people at one time, at least it would be several times more difficult than what they had passed through before.

After so many years, Zou Bai has forgotten most of them, and he can only remember a little more than himself.

But except for the moment when he first entered the orphanage, he really couldn't remember it, but he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have forgotten something important.

Liang An was afraid that he would dig into the corner: "Go to the chicken feathers to relax, maybe you will want to come after you relax."

Zou Bai nodded with difficulty.

It rained heavily last night, and the traces of that tragedy have been washed away. I don't know if anyone in this city will remember it in half a year.

Chicken Feather's business is booming. When they came, it was meal time, and the shop was full of diners, and there were quite a few people waiting for a table.

Seeing them, Ji Mao took them to the lounge: "Have you eaten yet? If not, I'll ask someone to bring them over."

"Go and do your work." Liang An knew that the shop was very busy, so he was afraid of delaying him. "We've finished eating, we'll go back after a while."

Someone outside was already calling for the bill, and Ji Mao said, "Okay, call me if you need something."

Maybe because he was afraid that Zou Bai would still be sad, he said cautiously: "Brother Bai, I can't speak, Auntie is gone now, don't be too sad, there are us, but I'm not saying that we are more important than Auntie..."

The more he said it, the more wrong it became, and Ji Mao didn't know what he was talking about: "Anyway, life is still going on, brother Bai, you can live well."

"Understood, go get busy!" The guests outside called again, and Zou Bai nodded.

After sitting for half an hour, seeing that the chicken feathers were too busy to touch the ground, they felt that it was meaningless to sit like this, so they wanted to go out to help, but they were stopped by the chicken feathers and said nothing to let them get their hands on it.

Zou Bai sighed: "Okay, let's go out for a stroll and come over for dinner in the afternoon."

Although Li Wenhua and Zou Bai had no relatives, Zou Bai decided to hold a simple funeral, just the few of them.Li Wenhua bought the cemetery early in the morning, next to those children, but she obviously didn't expect that she didn't even leave a whole body behind.And Li Wenhua's things are all in her own house, and Zou Bai's is a new house, which means that he can't do anything if he wants to be a tomb.

Zou Bai first went to the place where the photos were developed, selected a full face photo to have it developed, and then went to the funeral shop to make an appointment.

Burial time is the day after tomorrow.

The situation on the day of the funeral was as expected. No one came. After a busy day, Li Wenhua was finally buried.

Looking at the photo on the tombstone, Zou Bai finally couldn't hold back, and knelt on the spot with his head down for an hour, Liang An and the others beside him also knelt to accompany him.

When he raised his head again, except for the red eyes, there was no sign of crying anymore.

Liang Anwen said softly, "What do you want to eat?"

After a busy day, everyone didn't eat much.

Zou Bai didn't have much energy: "You decide, I don't care."

Chicken Feather's shop is closed today, and there's nothing to eat in the store if you want to come, but at least you did a lot of homework before opening the shop, and he knows all about the relevant competitive teammates.

"Let's eat fish" Ji Mao remembered that there should be a grilled fish shop here.

The location here is relatively remote, and the decoration of the grilled fish shop is not as good as that in the city center.

After entering the store, the clerk quickly arranged for them to go to a private room. Although it was called a private room, it was only blocked by a few old screens, so they could hear clearly what the people next to them said.

Four people ordered four catties of fish, four side dishes and one soup.

The person next to him was still talking, as if coaxing a child to eat, Zou Bai heard the voice sound familiar, turned around and saw that he was really an acquaintance.

It was Wei Yu and his "fool" Yuetian.

Compared with what I saw some time ago, Wei Yu was a little thinner, but Xu Yue had gained weight, but because of his higher appearance, he was a bit cute when he was fat.

Because they were all acquaintances, they simply asked the waiter to remove the screen in the middle so that it was easier for everyone to talk.

Wei Yu was picking on Yue Tim and delivering it to his mouth. Even so, Yue Tian ate all over his face that day, and he looked like his IQ was no more than three years old.

Zou Bai: "He, how did you find him?"

"In a mountainous area, I was tied by a chain," Wei Yu helped Yuetian wipe off the debris on his face, speaking calmly, "I have a problem with IQ, but even so, I am quite satisfied."

Zou Bai didn't know how he found it, but he could see that Wei Yu cherished Yuetian: "Have you been to the hospital?"

Wei Yu nodded: "I've been there, the brain damage is irreversible."

The others were not familiar with Wei Yu, so they had nothing to say and just listened.

When the food arrived, it tasted good, Zou Bai's appetite was also whetted, and he added white rice which was rare.

Thinking of the person he met at the train station that day, Zou Bai asked, "Why didn't I see your apprentice? I seem to have met him at the train station that day."

Wei Yu's hand paused: "I'm not sure, we lost contact after I quit my school job."

Although he didn't know what was wrong between them, and Zou Bai didn't bother to ask, but that day Jiang Xun walked in a hurry, as if there was something wrong.

So he still reminded: "Jiang Xun went to Tibet, did you know?"

The fish in Wei Yu's hand was not clamped firmly and fell on the table.

After that, Wei Yu didn't say a word. It seemed that Jiang Xun's trip to Tibet really stimulated him.