 In the city , Wei finds the people that Zhang was supposed to be working with , only to discover that they had lost him at the train station days before . She forces another girl her age , Sun Zhimei , to help her look for Zhang at the train station , but they do not find him . Wei has no success finding Zhang through the public address system and " missing person " posters , so she goes to the local television station to broadcast a missing person notice . The receptionist ( Feng Yuying ) will not let her in without valid identification , though , and says the only way she can enter is with permission from the station manager , whom she describes as " a man with glasses " . For the rest of the day , Wei stands by the station 's only gate , stopping every man with glasses , but she does not find the station manager , and spends the night asleep on the street . The next day the station manager ( Wu Wanlu ) sees her at the gate again , through his window , and lets her in , scolding the receptionist for making her wait outside . 
