Chapter 12: Warming the wine, do you have any shame?
"You like..."
Seeing that Wenjiu was about to say something, Lu Beiye stepped on the brakes and stopped the car on the side of the road. The violent shaking successfully shut Wenjiu up.
Lu Beiye turned his head to look at Wenjiu and said angrily: "Wenjiu! Do you have any shame?" He always said things that made him blush and his heart beat fast.
Wen Jiu blinked his eyes, his eyes were clear, "What does this have to do with shame? What's wrong with me expressing my thoughts? Do you want me to be dumb? Besides, I will only say these words to you, you won't tell others and let them laugh at me."
Lu Beiye's words made her a little overwhelmed, and her true feelings could no longer be suppressed.
Lu Beiye was speechless, as if he had fired a dumb shot. He was happy about Wen Jiu's honesty and trust, but also helpless about her sharp-tongued rhetoric.
He angrily pulled out the car key.
"Let's go! Let's go shopping."
It's crowded in front and cars can't get in.
He discovered this street yesterday when he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy canned food for Wenjiu. It is now 1982. Since the reform and opening up in 1978, all regions have developed very well and many things no longer need to be bought from the supply and marketing cooperatives.
Wen Jiu got out of the car happily and followed Lu Beiye, but they were separated by the crowd before they had gone far.
Seeing Lu Beiye walking further and further away, Wen Jiu was about to explode with anger.
Didn't he notice that he was missing?
Still leaving?
Your wife is missing!
When Lu Beiye found that Wenjiu was missing, she had been sulking for a long time, but when she saw Lu Beiye's outstretched hand, her anger instantly disappeared.
She put her hand in Lu Beiye's hand and was pulled forward by him. Lu Beiye subconsciously used his arm to separate Wenjiu from the crowd around her, and Wenjiu walked unusually comfortably.
The two held hands while shopping. In the end, Lu Beiye had no more things in his hands, so he said to Wen Jiu, "I'm going to put the things in the car. You wait here for me and don't run around."
"If you're thirsty, go buy some water." Lu Beiye said, stuffed the money into Wenjiu's pocket, and turned away.
He put the money into his bag after warming the wine, then squatted in a cool place nearby.
The lady selling peaches nearby smiled and said, "Girl, you have a good eye. This kind of man is the right one. He's willing to buy anything you want. He's also handsome and a good match for you. Does he have any brothers?"
"My daughter is 18 years old this year. She is very pretty and can do everything from washing clothes to cooking."
Wen Jiu replied: "He has two brothers, but they are both married."
The old lady looked a little regretful after hearing this. She gave some leaves to Wen Jiu and said, "You sit here and wait! This kind of leaves has no pulp, so you don't have to worry about getting your clothes dirty."
"Thank you, Auntie." Wen Jiu didn't hesitate and sat down next to the Auntie. The two chatted casually.
Before long she had figured out who sold cheap things on the street, who was dishonest, and where to buy everything.
When Lu Beiye came back from playing, he didn't see Wen Jiu looking around anxiously, but he saw Wen Jiu running towards him from the opposite side.
He spotted her at a glance through the crowded crowd. She was wearing simple jeans and a solid white shirt. It was simple, but she looked very elegant and dazzling.
Wen Jiu took Lu Beiye's hand and smiled proudly at him, "I have already figured out the details of the merchants on this street. Now it's up to me!"
She bought brown sugar, red dates, pork, pork liver, eggs, tea, cigarettes, pencils, erasers, and a pencil case.
Because she had inquired in advance, she went straight to her destination every time, saving effort and time.
After shopping and returning to the car, Wen Jiu looked at the unfamiliar road and felt a little strange, "Isn't this the way back to the hospital?"
Lu Beiye replied: "No, I went to the post office to ask about the letter."
His father said that they should save all the money they received, and he sent 30 yuan home every month for the past three years.
However, there were only 18 entries in the passbook that matched the amount of money, which meant that there were still 18 entries totaling 540 yuan that were missing.
This is no small amount of money.
His father secretly gave him the passbook at that time because he wanted him to calculate how much money was missing so that he could go to the police to report the case and get the money back. However, the police were inefficient and slow, so he wanted to go to the post office first to ask if there were any clues. It would be best if the matter could be resolved before he left to prevent his parents from being worried about it.
In that era, telephones were not yet popular and writing letters was still the main form of communication. The post office was filled with busy workers in green uniforms and dark green wide-brimmed hats, and crowds of people waiting to send and receive letters.
Lu Beiye looked at the staff in charge of the mail window from a distance, then turned around and went out to find a cool place to warm the wine. He also bought a few bottles of soda and opened the bottle caps and handed them to Wen Jiu, "Have a drink!"
I took a few sips of the warm wine, and the cool feeling instantly dissipated a lot of the heat in my body.
It was already hot in the summer, and she and Lu Beiye were running around buying things, and the temperature in the car was also high, which made the situation even worse. She was very hot.
Lu Beiye drank while staring at the post office. Things went more smoothly than he expected. Before it was time for dinner, he got the opportunity. The man in charge of the mail window came out to smoke.
"Wait for me here, don't run around. I'm going to inquire about the letter and will be back soon. Call me loudly if you need anything." After giving Wen Jiu instructions, he grabbed a bottle of soda and left, crossing the street and sitting next to the man.
He passed the soda over and said, "Brother, I want to ask you something!"
"Speak!"
After saying this, the man took the soda, unscrewed the cap and gulped down half of it.
He was just a small clerk, and this position was passed to him by his father after he retired. Moreover, his family had no power or influence, and there was nothing to worry about. Besides, what could he be expected to do with just a bottle of soda? So he was not panicked at all.
Lu Beiye smiled and said, "Brother, how long have you been working at the mail counter?"
"Five years!"
“Do you do it every year?”
"I took three months off due to illness three years ago, and the post office found someone to replace me. The rest of the time I worked at the post office."
"Then have you noticed that around the 10th of every month there is a letter from Province A, with Military Region 6166 written on the envelope and the recipient's name is Lu Hongjun? That's my dad."
The army paid his allowances on time, and he would send it home on the same evening he received it, so his letters should arrive at about the same time every month.
The reason he came to inquire was because his letters all had the military logo on them, and they were delivered very regularly every month for quite some time, so the person in charge of sending the letters might have an impression of him.
When asked this question, the man actually remembered something.
"I remember. What's wrong?"
"Was the letter sent to the wrong address? Impossible. Over the past three years, the only people who have come to pick up the letter are your father and your sister. They took turns to pick up the letter. I remember it clearly."
"My sister?" Lu Beiye asked excitedly, "Do you still remember what my sister looks like?"
He doesn't even have a sister.
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