1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 29: Parcel from Beijing
The days passed quickly and another week passed in the blink of an eye.

Before we knew it, we have entered the twelfth lunar month and the Spring Festival is just around the corner.

In the middle of winter, the production team had long since run out of collective labor tasks.

The Chinese New Year is approaching, and the lively literary and artistic activists in the village are planning to revive the custom of celebrating major festivals with performances of folk dances.

With the complete downfall of the Four Surname Gang, new bosses have emerged one after another.

In particular, news came out that the chief engineer, who had been up and down three times, had fully resumed his work.

Although the tide of reform and opening up is still brewing.

But as the saying goes, ducks know first when the river water warms in spring.

Even if the working people in the vast rural areas do not understand the dispute over the future direction of the social system, whether it is "black cat" or "white cat", they can feel through some trends in the news in newspapers and radio that a major economic system reform is imperative.

Some old, extremely unreasonable things.

It seems that it is time to do a thorough cleaning.

Lu Yifan has been a little busy recently. He used his connections to borrow a set of wax paper and ink machines from a teacher at the commune's junior high school, and has been making exercise books for seven students in a hurry. This is to prepare all the review tasks after the Chinese New Year and before the summer college entrance examination in advance.

To be honest, I am tutoring my younger sister and cousins, seven students, to prepare for the college entrance exam next year.

This life is really thankless.

The most important thing is that my younger sisters and I have a very poor foundation in cultural subjects.

Moreover, they were only junior high school graduates, so he had to cram all the relevant knowledge of junior high and high school into their brains in the two months or so before the New Year. You can imagine how difficult it was.

But time waits for no one.

The difficulty level of college entrance examination questions has continued to increase dramatically year by year, and will only become more difficult in the future.

My younger sister and cousin and other seven rural kids want to change their fate and succeed in escaping farming through the college entrance examination, but they only have this opportunity next summer.

From then on, it would be like a huge army trying to cross a single-plank bridge. Without a solid foundation in cultural subjects, there would be no hope of getting into university.

Fortunately, his seven students are now all working very hard.

"Ding-ling~~Ding-ling~~~"

"Is Lu Yifan at home? Your parcel and a remittance slip are both from Beijing..."

this day.

Lu Yifan was sitting under the south wall of his courtyard, basking in the sun while writing on wax paper on a small table. He heard the postman's shouting outside the gate.

He stood up and walked towards the gate.

The postman had already unloaded a package that looked extremely heavy from the rear rack of his bicycle.

Seeing that the other person had already walked out, the postman grinned and greeted him, "Mr. Zhuangyuan, you have a package and a remittance slip from the capital. You need to use your private seal to stamp the remittance slip for me." As he said that, he handed a remittance slip to Lu Yifan and also handed over the registration book.

Lu Yifan was surprised who in Beijing would send him a package and remit money. Could it be his ex-wife Zhong Xiuping?
He also smiled and said, "Uncle, but I don't hold any leadership position in the production team, so how could I have any private seal? Can't I sign it myself?"

The postman was stunned for a moment, then he slapped his head and laughed, "Ha, with your signature, there will be no problem! It was my mistake, I took it for granted that you, the top scholar, can't write your own name like other villagers, haha..."

"Uncle, please come in and have a drink of water. I'm really sorry that you took the trouble to deliver such a heavy package to my door."

"Ha, look at what you said, Mr. Zhuangyuan. Isn't this our job responsibility? Okay, I won't drink the water. I won't delay your teaching time to the students. I'm leaving now!"

"Then uncle, take care."

The postman waved his hand, got on his bike and rode away quickly.

Lu Yifan only had time to take a closer look at the remittance slip. As expected, the signer was his ex-wife Zhong Xiuping. He then looked at the remittance amount: two hundred and fifty yuan. Your sister!

Who is the connotation of 250?
But this was a very generous gesture, as he just casually sent such a large sum of money to the boss.

What do you mean?
Are you just remembering to give us compensation for nutrition expenses now?
Then I picked up the package that looked very heavy.

Wow, there are a bunch of books inside?!
"Brother, my third sister-in-law sent you something by mail. What's in the package?" The younger sister Lu Yi came forward quietly and peeked in. She had just caught a glimpse of the numbers on the remittance slip. The third sister-in-law sent so much money to the younger brother all at once. It was true that the couple had a deep affection for each other.

Lu Yifan felt completely confused at the moment.

I sent him money and books.

What is going on?
I carried the parcel back to the yard. The other guys were also curious about the baby and were secretly looking at him. None of them could concentrate on their homework.

"Okay, if you don't feel like doing the homework, take a ten-minute break. Look at how lazy you all are. With your current state, you are still a long way from being able to get into university. Can someone bring me a pair of scissors..."

"Give!"

The little sister immediately handed over the scissors like a magic trick.

She has a sharp eye.

Knowing that the young man was going to open the parcel, he ran into the house and got a pair of scissors.

"Don't give me the scissors, open it yourself!"

"Yeah! All right, all right, all right..."

My little sister's eyes immediately lit up.

Women, it turns out, are shopaholics at heart. At this moment, Lu Yifan's mind has emerged the scene of his younger sister Jian Tianshou dancing excitedly in front of a pile of express parcel boxes decades later.

These days, mail bags are made of very sturdy and durable gray-white canvas material.

According to Lu Yifan's idea, if he wanted to open the package with scissors, he would just cut a big hole with a few clicks.

Who would have thought that my younger sister was picking and cutting the opening of the parcel thread by thread, as if she were embroidering?

Tsk tsk, he felt an inexplicable sense of emotion in his heart.

Obviously, after the package is disassembled, the family will definitely recycle the old goods. Maybe they will clean the canvas of the package to see if it is enough to make a coat for someone in the family...

"Brother, there are a lot of books in the parcel! Hey, there is also a letter in it. Brother, this is a letter from my third sister-in-law to you..."

Lu Yifan had expected this.

After receiving the letter from his younger sister, he did not rush to open it, but casually flipped through the pile of books: "Self-study Series of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry", all-subject textbooks for junior and senior high schools...? ?

What's going on? !

Could it be that my ex-wife Zhong Xiuping heard from others that I opened a college entrance examination tutoring class in my hometown and was giving my younger sister and cousin intensive preparation for the exam, so she specially sent them so many college entrance examination review materials?
With a confused mind, Lu Yifan walked over, opened the letter and started reading.

However, after looking at it for a few seconds, his expression began to look a little constipated and unbearable.

"Brother, didn't Third Sister-in-law urge you to go to the capital to reunite with her in the letter? Brother, I tell you not to stay at home any longer. The New Year is coming soon. You must prepare a big gift this year and go to the capital to pay respects to your two elders, Taishan and Taishui..."

"You are the only one who talks too much!"

Lu Yifan sarcastically said to his younger sister. In fact, this letter from Zhong Xiuping made him feel a little bit amused and helpless. To say that she cared about him and wanted to compensate her ex-husband, so she pointed out a clear way for him to take the college entrance examination next year, and also sent him money and books and review materials. This behavior was indeed quite thoughtful.

But it can be said that the other party really cared about his country ex-husband and wanted to encourage him to change his future life by passing the college entrance examination.

But now, Lu Yifan is already the top scholar in science in Qinxi Province!
If you, Zhong Xiuping, really put in a little effort to find out, would you have to do such superficial work to comfort and encourage others...? ?

(End of this chapter)