After the Gaokao announcement, bookstores sold out of high school textbooks that very day, and review materials were even scarcer! Luckily, she had a cousin who taught high school, so she asked him to prepare review materials for her. But who knew it would take so long?
"Comrade, it's not easy for me to come here. Can you help me look for it again? What if I forgot it?" Liu Ying pointed to a pile of packages on the ground and pleaded with the post office staff.
Seeing that she had been coming for several days in a row and looked very anxious, the staff thought that the item might be very important and if it was really lost, it would be their fault. So, they stood up and walked over to the pile of packages, searching through them one by one.
While the staff wasn't paying attention, Liu Ying secretly picked up a brown paper bag from her desk and wrapped it in her clothes.
The staff still couldn't find Liu Ying's package. Liu Ying was anxious to get away and said, "Come back another day!" and hurried out the door.
Lan Guoer never thought that the information she was going to send to Su Xing was stolen by Liu Ying.
In order to prepare for the college entrance examination with all their strength, Su Xing and Lu Jun let Lan Guoer take over the skin care products business temporarily. However, they still had some local customers to maintain. These were the black market bosses who had been taking care of them in the town when they started to work in the black market.
It happened that one day, a man named Heige was out of stock, so he came to the educated youth point and wanted to get more goods from Su Xing and others.
Su Xing and Lu Jun have been studying at the educated youth camp recently and haven't left the house yet, so how could they have any supplies? Seeing that Hei Ge was anxious to get them, they could only call Lan Guo'er and ask her to arrange some for Hei Ge.
Lan Guoer came back from the post office and as soon as she entered the door, she heard Qinghe calling her to answer the phone.
With Master Wu around, the supply issue was not difficult to handle. Lan Guoer readily agreed and mentioned that she had just sent him some information, reminding him to pay attention to the letters from the post office and check them carefully.
Su Xing had already experienced Lan Guoer's learning ability! After listening to her summary of the test points for him, he naturally wouldn't underestimate it!
Thinking that the distance between Kyoto and the suburbs was not far, it would take two or three days at the latest. In the following days, he and Lu Jun would stand at the village entrance whenever the time came, waiting for the postman like a wife waiting for her husband.
They waited for a whole week, but they still hadn't received the package sent by Lan Guoer.
"This is not right! Usually, packages sent from the city to here arrive in three days at most. It has been a week without any wind or rain. It should have arrived long ago!" Lu Jun muttered to Su Xing as he watched the postman walk away.
"Do you think the post office will lose our package?"
Su Xing frowned. He also felt that something was amiss. "Let's go! Let's go give Guo'er a call and ask."
"What? Haven't received it yet?"
Lan Guoer didn't expect that it had been a week and they still hadn't received the letter sent from Kyoto to the suburbs. She was afraid of delays at the time, so she added extra stamps and sent it by expedited registered mail.
There are less than two months left before the college entrance examination. In order to avoid delaying their studies, Lan Guoer told them that she would mail them another copy early tomorrow morning and asked them to wait for two more days.
She also had to go to the post office to ask what happened to the previous letter. It shouldn't be easy to lose such a heavy letter!
The next day, after breakfast, Lan Guoer went to the post office again. The same staff member from last time was sitting at the counter.
Lan Guoer handed her the letter and said, "Send it to the suburbs, expedited by registered mail!"
The staff member neatly collected her paper bag, weighed it in his hand, and said, "Regular mail is 8 cents, expedited mail is 20 cents, and overweight mail is an additional 8 cents. Your letter is clearly overweight, so it will cost 28 cents."
Lan Guoer hadn't counted her money in a long time. She didn't even know how much money she had now, but it was clear that these 28 cents were nothing to her! She paid without hesitation and watched the staff put the letter into the cloth bag to be mailed away.
Then he said, "Comrade, I sent three letters from here last time, just like today, by registered mail, but they haven't received my mail yet. Can you help me check what's going on?"
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, the staff member immediately stood up with an uneasy expression. "Hey comrade! Why do you look so familiar? I've been waiting for you to come to me recently! You were the one who sent me three identical brown paper bags last time, weren't you?"
Lan Guoer nodded, somewhat puzzled. In this era when communication was mainly based on letters, why did the post office staff handle so many letters every day and remember the three brown paper bags she had mailed so vividly?
"Is there any problem with the letter I mailed?" Lan Guoer asked with a frown.
"No, no! There is nothing wrong with the item you mailed!" Deng Shuang explained, waving his hand.
"After you mailed the letter last time, I had some things to do, so I just put it on the table, thinking I'd stamp it and put it away when I was done. But when I was done, there were only two brown paper bags left on the table. I searched the whole room and couldn't find the other one!"
Deng Shuang lowered his head and rubbed his fingers together. "I know this is a dereliction of duty on my part. I wanted to apologize to you, but I couldn't find your address on your envelope..."
Could you please not tell our leader about this? I...I can compensate you for your losses."
These days, working in the mailroom of a post office is a very popular job. The work is easy and the benefits are good.
Deng Shuang was the only daughter in her family. Her parents loved her dearly, but they had spent a fortune to buy her such a job. She didn't want to be fired just after starting the job.
Lan Guoer nodded gently. So that's what happened! No wonder Su Xing and the others never received it. It turned out that the letter was never sent out at all!
"Except for the lost one, the other two are gone, right?" Thinking of the letter she sent to Long Xiangling, Lan Guoer confirmed with her.
The border is so far away, even if she sends it expedited, it will take a week to be mailed. If it is lost too, it will take a lot of time to send it again!
"They've been sent! They've been sent!" Deng Shuang raised two fingers to his ears. "I assure you, the other two were sent intact! Only that one was lost."
Seeing her sincere attitude and her willingness to admit her mistakes, Lan Guoer couldn't help but feel a little more favorable towards her! Fortunately, Su Xing communicated with her in a timely manner, so nothing important was delayed.
"Well, it seems you didn't mean to do that! I won't pursue this matter any further. But how could this letter be lost for no reason?"
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