"However, judging from the current situation, Secretary Gu isn't completely senile; he's just a bit too doting on his daughter."

"Big brother, I forgot to tell you about her daughter and sister. Gu Cuicui still has feelings for Third Brother."

"What's going on?"

"This is a long story. It was in early November last year when I went to the county town to send you a package."

A few days later, Uncle Ma asked Grandpa Huang to bring me a letter, saying that someone was using my sister's name to go to the post office to ask if my third brother had sent a letter or a package. Coincidentally, it was Jia Hui who was on duty that noon, and she was a friend I met at the post office.

She knew me, so she pawned it and told Uncle Ma. Uncle Ma then wrote to Nene. Do you think Secretary Gu might want to ask about Third Brother?

How do you know it's Gu Cuicui and not someone else?

"Uncle Ma described what this person looked like in his letter, so my sister knew."

"As for whether Secretary Gu asked about your third brother, I'm not sure either, but it's best not to give them your third brother's address."

"Don't worry about that. I've already told Third Brother all of this. I've also written to Uncle Ma, telling him that Third Brother's letters and packages can only be collected by the person in question, who must bring this household registration certificate."

If it's not picked up within three days, please ask him to remove the address and other relevant information on the package and then have Grandpa Huang bring it back. Also, please ask Grandpa Huang that if anyone in the village asks if there's a package for your sister, he should say no.

"I'm afraid most people won't believe that."

"Then what should we do?"

"Here's what we'll do: if anyone asks in the future, just say that your third brother has gone on a secret mission and we can't contact him for the time being. He'll have to contact you personally to find out when we can get in touch with him."

"Also, you and your older brother should write to him later. When he sends you something, don't send it directly to you. Send it to Uncle Ma or Uncle Zhou, and they can give it to you then."

"Wouldn't that be too much trouble?"

"Whether it's troublesome or not, just make sure Gu Cuicui doesn't get entangled with your third brother."

Even disregarding the fact that she's just a village girl, she's only met your third brother once and knows nothing about him. Furthermore, the fact that your third brother didn't even know who she was, yet he got his father, the Party Secretary, to do this for her, shows that her character is questionable. Our Shen family can't let someone like that into our home.”

"Okay, I got it. I'll write to Third Brother later."

"Also, when you write to your third brother, mention Gu Cuicui more often, and what she asked him, as the secretary, to do. Let him know what kind of person this girl who likes him is. He can't just accept her on a whim."

"Don't worry, big brother, third brother isn't that kind of person."

"I can't be worried, though. I'll have to talk to your second sister and fourth brother about this later. What kind of people are they? We need to be more careful about who we associate with, or we'll regret it for the rest of our lives."

Thanks to the letter written by the eldest brother, in the future, whether it was Sister Nan's marriage or Fourth Brother's marriage, they would put a lot of tests on their partners before getting married, and only after passing all the tests would they get married.

Therefore, when the future brother-in-law learned about this, he deliberately clashed with his eldest, third, and fourth brothers several times.

As for Fourth Brother's future wife, she was a bit unfortunate. She was the one who pursued Fourth Brother, but she scared him so much that he avoided her all the time. It wasn't until a mission that she confessed her feelings and gave up pursuing Fourth Brother. Only then did Fourth Brother realize that he had fallen in love with her and began to shamelessly pursue her. Goodness, he pursued her for several years.

On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, I got up at 4:30 a.m. to prepare three days' worth of food for my older brother, which is what we ate on the train.

I made the dough and filling last night. I plan to make pies so I won't have to make the dough and filling separately. Most importantly, it saves effort, right?

I made cabbage and pork filling. First, I baked the pies, and then I prepared a jar of kimchi and a jar of fried fish.

I had originally planned to have my older brother bring back some fish that we had caught a couple of days ago, but he refused no matter what. He said that if we brought them back, we couldn't tell anyone. He said that he had led the three of us to steal them in the middle of the night. Regardless of whether the fish belonged to the collective or not, the river still belonged to the brigade, right? After hearing this, I had no choice but to give up.

My older brother came in at five o'clock in the morning. When he saw what I had prepared, he said, "Mianmian, you don't need to make these. I can eat them on the train."

"My brother didn't cook much. Besides, I've eaten the food on the train before, and to be honest, it's not very good. I only ate it so I wouldn't go hungry. Otherwise, I wouldn't have eaten it in the first place."

"You're already grateful to have anything to eat, why are you being so picky?"

"This isn't about being picky; it's the truth. SLR cameras taste better and are cheaper, and they're not sold in every carriage."

"Fine, I can't argue with you."

"Oh, right, brother, besides the burlap sack I prepared to take back, I also prepared a tote bag with the mushroom sauce and spicy rabbit I made yesterday. Tell Aunt Zhou and Uncle Shen to eat it quickly when we get back, it can't be left for too long."

"Why do all this? There's food at home."

"Knowing there's food available, isn't this just a little something from your sister?"

"Alright! Then you can take it with you, brother."

"That settles it then. Oh, and big brother, quickly make you some dumplings."

"Just eat whatever's available, why make things so complicated?"

"That won't do. Didn't we already say that we'd have dumplings for the New Year when we get off the train and dumplings when we get back on?"

"Fine, you think you know everything."

That is

After finishing his dumplings, the eldest brother, seeing that it was getting late, prepared to leave. Just then, Chen Enpeng and another man arrived, each giving the eldest brother a letter and saying, "We're troubling you now, eldest brother. If it's not possible, then forget it."

"Don't worry, everything will be fine, it's just that the message might be a little slow."

"It doesn't matter."

"It's getting late, let's hurry up and leave," I said, glancing at my watch; it was almost 5:50.

"Yes, yes, we can't delay your train journey."

"It's okay, trains are usually delayed."

"Those won't work. What if this train arrives at the station just in time?"

"Chen Enpeng is right. You two should stop chatting now and talk on the oxcart later. Hurry up and move your things."

"Okay, okay, coming right away."

The group of people then shouldered their sacks or picked up their handbags and hurried out. One of them carried a basket on his back; the contents were for Uncle Zhou and Uncle Ma. They had finally made it to the city, so he had to visit them.

We arranged with Grandpa Huang yesterday that we would use an oxcart today, and when we arrived, Grandpa Huang was already waiting at the intersection.