The postman returned quickly, bringing someone with him. Chu Dongmei recognized him as the same postman who had delivered mail to Peach Blossom Village.

She saw the person, pointed to the record in the notebook, and asked, "Comrade, hello, I'd like to ask you, do you remember this date? Was this letter delivered to Peach Blossom Village that day? Which village cadre received the letter that day?"

The postman took the letter, glanced at it, and said with a smile, "I might not remember other people's letters, but I remember this person very well. When I was delivering mail that day, there was this letter, and it was received by Accountant Huang from your village."

Chu Dongmei was stunned and asked, "Why? This is my letter, how can you remember it?"

The postman looked Chu Dongmei up and down carefully and said, "Comrade, you know how many letters and packages you receive each month, right? You've been the one I've delivered the most letters and packages in the past few months. Do you think I wouldn't remember?"

"Ah!" Chu Dongmei didn't know what to say, so she smiled and managed to say, "I just have more friends."

Seeing that she was a little embarrassed, An Moxue came to her rescue, saying, "It's okay, me too. The staff at the post offices in our town and county all know me. I have a lot of them too."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Chu Dongmei turned to the postman and said, "Comrade, could you please check the others for me, starting from November? Please write a record so I can check if anything else is lost."

The two postmen searched through the notebook, making notes as they went.

After a while, the postman handed them a form. Chu Dongmei looked at the record on it and suddenly said to An Moxue, "Moxue, look, I didn't receive this remittance! And I didn't receive this package either. There are too many letters, I'm afraid of making a mistake, let's go back and check to be on the safe side."

Then he took the form and pointed it out to the two postmen, saying, "Comrades, take a look, do you recognize these two?"

The two men looked at each other, and the one who delivered the mail said, "Comrade, I assure you that all the mail I deliver is delivered. Even if it's not addressed to the recipient, it's delivered to the village office and received by the cadres."

An Moxue said, "Comrade, we didn't say it was your idea, but my friend's emails are indeed lost. If we report it to the police, we hope you will cooperate with the investigation."

The two immediately agreed, saying, "That's for sure."

Chu Dongmei thought for a moment and said, "Comrade, there might be other educated youth from Peach Blossom Village coming to check the records. We'll trouble you to check them then."

The mail carrier at the counter said, "No problem, just come on over, I'll definitely cooperate."

"Okay, thank you both for today."

After the two left the post office, An Moxue asked Chu Dongmei, "Dongmei, what do you want to do now? Go back to the village or go to the police station?"

“If you go to the police station and then go back to the village, the villagers will prevent you from reporting it to the police.”

“Okay, I also agree that we should report this to the police station first. Who knows who is behind this? I’m just afraid that once we get back to the village, it will all be forgotten.”

......

Two girls wearing military overcoats entered the police station. The police officers all looked up at them. The two girls were poised and confident, showing no fear whatsoever.

These days, to put it bluntly, the only places ordinary people like to go are the cabinet committee and the police station. They're the places that ordinary people avoid the most. If you go there, you'll wonder if you've done something wrong.

After An Moxue and Chu Dongmei entered the office, Chu Dongmei said, "Comrades, hello, I need to report a case. May I ask which comrade can come and receive me?"

It's rare for the police station to see two such young girls come to report a crime, so everyone is very curious.

One of the younger ones jumped to his feet and said, "Comrade, let me come this way. Please come this way."

Several older comrades glanced at him, but didn't say anything, and continued with their work.

An Moxue and Chu Dongmei walked to the young policeman's table. The policeman quickly took two stools from the side and placed them next to them, saying, "Please sit down. May I ask what brings you here?"

Chu Dongmei said, "Comrade, please write this down. I need to report a case. I discovered that some of my letters, packages, and remittances are missing. I just found out after checking the records at the post office."

"Okay, please tell me your name, address, and occupation."

“My name is Chu Dongmei. I was sent to Taohua Village as an educated youth in the second half of this year. I discovered that my things were missing because my friend came to visit me. She is the one next to me.”

She pointed at An Moxue and said, "After she arrived, we talked about the letters and discovered that I hadn't received a letter she recently sent me. We went to the village to ask, but the village accountant said there was no such letter, so we went to the post office. The post office checked and found a record of it. Then they checked other things as well."

As Chu Dongmei spoke, she took out the receipt from the post office, pointed to it, and said, "Comrade, look, these two items are what I didn't receive, but the post office shows that they have already been signed for."

"Okay, comrade, we will take your case into consideration. We will go to the village to investigate, and we would appreciate your cooperation."

"Okay, no problem. Around when?"

"We'll go to the post office first, and then we'll go to the village. We'll be there this afternoon."

"Okay, comrade, we'll be leaving now. We'll wait for you in the village."

"good."

After the two left the police station, Chu Dongmei said to An Moxue, "Moxue, it seems we don't have time to go to the state-run restaurant today. We'll have to go back to the village first. We'll come to the state-run restaurant again tomorrow."

An Moxue comforted her, saying, "Eating is a small matter. If we can't eat one day, let's go back to the village right now."

“I don’t think this was done by the post office. It might be a case of village officials stealing from the post office. Let’s go back and talk to the other educated youth to see if they have any similar experiences.”

"Walk."

Because they had something on their minds, the two quickly returned to the village.

In the room of the female educated youth at the educated youth settlement, everyone was surprised to see the two of them return. Ma Lanhua asked, "Chu Dongmei, didn't you two go to town? Why are you back so soon?"

Chu Dongmei waved her hand and said, "Don't mention it. I found that some of my mail and packages are missing. I went to the post office to check. You should check it too. I've already reported it to the police, and they will come to investigate this afternoon."

After saying that, he took out the key from his pocket, opened the cabinet, and took out the letters inside to check them.

After a while, Chu Dongmei said, "Three letters are missing. I'll go talk to the male educated youth about it."

A short while later, Chu Dongmei returned, and all the educated youth at the settlement became lively.