Shuangzhu Village, Xu Family.
"Truly, there is no letter for your family, and definitely no college admission notice." When the mailman passed by the Xu Family’s home, Xu Zhiyuan stopped him, insisting that he had lost their admission notice.
"Impossible, my Zhiyuan must have been admitted to college. Did you lose it?" Zhao Juxiang stared at the postal worker’s green bag, almost wishing she could search through it herself.
The postal worker, with no other choice, showed them each letter one by one. However, there were many letters, but truly none for the Xu Family.
Xu Zhiyuan was greatly disappointed.
Zhao Juxiang stepped forward and said, "Let me look again."
She snatched the letters and started going through them one by one.
"Hey, don’t mess up my letters." The mailman anxiously watched Zhao Juxiang. These letters and notices were extremely important; not a single one could be missed.
Especially the admission notices, they could change someone’s life. He double-checked and carefully guarded them, paranoid about any slight mishap.
"How could it not be there?"
As Zhao Juxiang searched, the letters she finished with she threw back to the mailman; some fell to the ground, and he had to pick them up one by one.
Zhao Juxiang, unwilling to give up, sifted through the letters one by one.
"Don’t rifle through the letters, these cannot be lost!" The mailman, panicked, crouched down to pick up the ones that had fallen, constantly glancing at Zhao Juxiang’s hands, fearing she would drop more.
"Oh, Zhao Juxiang, did your son get into college?" Auntie from the Yao Family asked with a smile.
"How could that be? If he really had been admitted, wouldn’t there be an admission notice? She wouldn’t be searching for one like a crazy woman," retorted another auntie from the Cai Family. The two sang in tune, infuriating Zhao Juxiang half to death. She had searched through the letters twice already, but there was still none for the Xu Family.
"Who knows who started bragging so early, saying their family would have a college student soon, that their Zhiyuan was about to go to college."
Auntie from the Yao Family spoke with a smile, but the schadenfreude in her eyes couldn’t be hidden.
"My Zhiyuan is definitely going to get in," Zhao Juxiang always thought in her heart. She confidently said, "The admission notice just hasn’t arrived yet."
"Hahaha, that’s hilarious. Everyone else’s notices have arrived, just not your Zhiyuan’s, right?" Auntie Cai and Auntie Yao exchanged a look, and one said, "Then just keep waiting, but don’t trouble our comrade mailman too much. It’s hard work delivering mail. Don’t delay his work!"
"Exactly," echoed Auntie Yao.
The mailman, having collected all the letters, coddled them like treasure and hurried away on his 28-inch bicycle.
The scene at the Xu Family quickly spread throughout Shuangzhu Village, with everyone secretly laughing at Zhao Juxiang; even though her own son didn’t make it, she had given the mailman a hard time.
"That’s something Second Aunt would do," Xu Nian’an wasn’t surprised in the least. Second Aunt Zhao Juxiang seemed nice enough day-to-day, but when it came to her, she could be extremely fierce. Her character was well-known throughout the village.
"Second brother, tonight, bring the Mung Bean Jelly to Grandpa and Grandma’s house," Xu Nianhua suddenly said.
Xu Nian’an was momentarily stunned.
Xu Qinghe, who had finished work early, was busy in the yard preparing the bean sprout bucket Xu Nianhua had mentioned. At this, he immediately responded, "Okay, I will go with you guys later."
"Good," Xu Nianhua responded with a smile, saying, "The whole family will go."