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Zhang Shanni followed the procedure her husband used during his last visit to the sanatorium and it took her nearly an hour to get in successfully. Why did it only take her husband twenty minutes, but her a whole hour...
It’s simple, her husband had been there before, and moreover, he had a ’Military Officer Certificate’ to use, while she was rely a civilian, who had to go through notification from one level to the next.
And she went there a bit after one in the afternoon, by which ti the elderly commander was napping, and no one dared to disturb his rest.
Fortunately, Zhang Shanni rembered to ntion the na of the guard, Wang Lixing, at the last mont, otherwise, she really would have been standing at the entrance of the courtyard for two hours!
It truly wasn’t easy... It was frustrating!
On this visit to see the elderly commander, Zhang Shanni only brought so pumpkin cakes and so green bean cakes she made from ho-grown mung beans. Just these two small items, which were made in consideration of the old man’s health.
Besides, she made these cakes the night before, both salty and sweet versions, which would still be good for two or three days.
After Mr. Liu woke up, seeing that Zhang Shanni had brought homade pastries to visit him, he was extrely pleased. He played several gas of chess with Zhang Shanni and then talked in detail about little aspects of life. In the end, he even had Wang Lixing issue a family visitation permit for her, so next ti she could just notify them, and she would be allowed in first.
However, this permit could only be used three tis a week.
Mainly because the sanatorium was run as a closed facility, they couldn’t allow family mbers to co and worry the patients every day, so a visitation frequency of three tis a week wasn’t considered too little.
After pleasing the old man and accompanying him for two hours, feeding him a drop of Spirit Core Water during a mont, Zhang Shanni left the sanatorium at half-past three in the afternoon.
Afterwards, she no longer had ti to go to the Li Family. She hadn’t thought that without her husband’s accompanint, the procedure at the sanatorium would be so troubleso...
Having taken motion sickness dication in advance, Zhang Shanni returned ho safely with her mother-in-law, but as soon as they reached the entrance to the village, they bumped into the postman. Zhang Shanni imdiately rushed forward two steps and stretched out her hand to stop his way, calling out, "Comrade, please wait a mont~"
"Miss, is there sothing you need?" The postman imdiately stopped his bicycle and touched his head, showing a shy smile to Zhang Shanni.
It was just that his face was so dark that it was almost comical.
The postman looked to be about twenty years old, and due to running around delivering mail all the ti, his face was as dark as Zhang Shanni’s. Seeing a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl stopping him, the postman felt a bit embarrassed and shy.
"Comrade, are there any letters for Xie Tiesheng from Qingfeng Village?"
"Xie Tiesheng? I’m sorry, there haven’t been any letters with the Xie surna these few days... Let think, there was one last week from the Xie family, but I’ve already handed it over to your village’s official. Wait, let check..." Saying this, the postman took out the record book he carried with him, which contained the addresses and nas for the mail he distributed during work hours, and those who received the mail had to sign their nas.
"Alright, take your ti looking... No rush." Hearing such a vague answer, Zhang Shanni’s heart tightened, and her almond eyes closely followed the movents of his hands flipping through the small book...
"Ni, what’s wrong?" Zhou Xiuhua only then realized sothing was off and asked Third Son’s Wife with curiosity.
"Mom, Brother Chen said he would send a letter as soon as he got to the military, it’s been half a month now, and I am worried." Zhang Shanni’s slightly dark face was scrutinized by her mother-in-law’s teasing gaze. She felt embarrassed and flushed red, explaining softly.
"Heh, it’s true indeed!" Zhou Xiuhua clapped her hands sharply, "Slap!" Only then did she rember that Third Son’s letter of safety hadn’t yet arrived, when usually, the letters that didn’t take ten days to arrive were now already half a month overdue! "These past days I’ve been preoccupied with worries about your second sister’s family troubles, and I didn’t even think about Third Son!"
"Mom, don’t worry; let the postman check slowly." Zhang Shanni saw her mother-in-law was startled and hurriedly reassured her by raising her voice, "It’s okay, Mom, the postman just said there was a letter before, let him check properly."
"Ah, Old Lady, now that you’ve ntioned military, I do rember. Just five days ago, there was a letter from the military in XX city that arrived. Yes, I rember it was collected by one of the won officials in your village."
"A woman official? How old?" Zhou Xiuhua’s face darkened. In the entire Qingfeng Village, she was the only woman considered an official. Who had intercepted the letter and kept it?
"Here, found it, this one, a Miss Zhou Xiuhua." Just then, the postman had flipped to that page, and the delicate font clearly read ’Zhou Xiuhua’ in three characters.
Not only did Zhou Xiuhua see it, but Zhang Shanni also saw it clearly. But that handwriting was completely wrong!
She had seen her mother-in-law’s handwriting before. Her mother-in-law’s writing was laborious and large. Be it overall or in strokes, it wasn’t written well; although deeply pressed and made clear, you could still make out the words.
The ’Zhou Xiuhua’ written in the book was entirely from a different person. If Zhou Xiuhua’s writing was honest and rough, then this one on the book was delicate and graceful.
With such a clear difference, Zhang Shanni instantly understood that soone had intentionally withheld Xie Jingchen’s letter, cleverly writing her mother-in-law’s na, but leaving behind a loophole without expecting them to inquire about the letter through the postman!
"This! This isn’t my writing!" Zhou Xiuhua knew imdiately that the handwriting was not hers.
"What?" The postman was confused by Zhou Xiuhua’s statent. "Old Lady, of course, it isn’t your writing, I rember that woman was only in her teens or twenties, quite fair-skinned."
Thinking back to the fair-skinned woman in the striking red dress he had t that day, revealing white legs, she truly was beautiful! She was far prettier than this village girl. Compared to her, that woman indeed looked very fair-skinned; mainly, the mory of her white legs embarrassed the postman, and he tilted his head slightly, fearing the sha of a nosebleed.
"What! Comrade, do you recognize her?! Do you know who she is? Who dares to pose as..." Zhou Xiuhua was so agitated that she grabbed the postman, loud enough for the whole village to hear. As she got agitated, her voice rose, and likewise, her flushed emotion turned her face from white to blue—
"Old Lady, what are you anxious about? They said the woman’s na was ’Zhou Xiuhua’, isn’t it obvious~" The postman still didn’t understand what was going on, but as a man being grabbed by an older woman by the elbow, he instinctively looked down at the rough hand that clutched him tightly, and reflexively retorted—
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