The bus arrived at the fork in the road leading to Songling Village and stopped. Du Yuhua picked up her basket. "Doctor Chu, I’m leaving now. Come visit when you have time."
"Alright," Yunyi replied.
As the bus started up again, someone took the seat Du Yuhua had occupied. A person beside them asked, "Qiao’er’s mother, are you also going to the county town?"
The woman called Qiao’er’s mother nodded. "Yes."
After responding, she said nothing more. Yunyi could sense her tension and couldn’t help but glance at her.
She saw the woman’s hands were crossed and pressed against the right side of her clothes, her expression grave.
At that moment, the person beside them leaned in and whispered, "The Zhang Family was restless all last night. Did you hear anything?"
Qiao’er’s mother sighed. "You all were outside the Zhang Family’s courtyard gate until the middle of the night. Don’t you know more than I do?"
Hearing this, the person said sheepishly, "I got there a bit late and didn’t hear everything from the beginning. That’s why I was asking you."
Qiao’er’s mother looked unwilling to say more. The person leaned back and turned to chat with someone on their other side. "That second daughter-in-law of the Zhang Family has it rough too.
She’s a city person, and following Zhang Chunshan back to this remote mountain village was already a huge sacrifice. On top of that, she has to endure bullying from her mother-in-law and the family of the main house.
Now that old Mrs. Zhang blames the second daughter-in-law for the eldest son’s family being sent to the Northwest, her life will probably become even harder."
"Zhang Chunshan is also useless. When his older sister-in-law was bullying Guo Shuiyu before, he actually stood up for her. Who knows what happened to him later? He just stood by and watched."
Listening to all this gossip, Yunyi thought of Guo Anyi and the helpless look in Guo Shuiyu’s eyes when she had brought Guo Anyi to the clinic that day.
She guessed Guo Shuiyu must have been very well-protected by her family before. That feeling of powerlessness, of having a will but no strength, must have made her so disheartened, leading to that expression.
Half an hour later, the bus pulled into the station. After everyone disembarked in an orderly fashion, they went their separate ways.
Yunyi found a secluded spot, quickly changed her appearance with some makeup, moved the items she had prepared in her space into her backpack basket, and then headed to the post office.
However, from a distance, she saw Qiao’er’s mother acting suspiciously. This content belongs to novel_fіre.net
Curious, Yunyi stood across the street from the post office. She released her spiritual power and watched as Qiao’er’s mother, once inside, nervously pulled a letter from her right pants pocket.
Yunyi glanced at it: the envelope already had a stamp. A quick scan revealed the address was a P.O. box in Beijing—a dedicated transit P.O. box for a confidential unit.
Recalling the conversations on the bus and seeing Qiao’er’s mother’s anxious expression, Yunyi understood why she was so nervous.
Only after watching the woman leave the post office and walk some distance away did Yunyi enter.
She walked to the parcel counter. "Comrade, I’d like to mail a package."
Because the contents needed to be inspected, Yunyi hadn’t sealed the package. After checking it, the clerk couldn’t help but swallow hard.
When she saw Yunyi looking at her, the clerk flushed with embarrassment. Confirming there were no issues, she weighed it and then handed Yunyi a needle and thread. "You can seal it. I’ll weigh those other two."
After paying the postage, Yunyi turned to leave, but the clerk called out to her, "Comrade, wait a moment."
With that, the clerk came out from behind the counter, pulled Yunyi to one side, and whispered, "Comrade, do you have any more smoked meat?"
Yunyi glanced around to make sure no one was paying attention. "The smoked meat is gone, but I have some fresh wolf meat."
She had just said it casually. If the clerk wanted some, she’d provide it; if not, so be it.
The clerk was stunned for a moment, then, realizing, she eagerly asked, "Yes, yes, yes! How much do you have?"
Her younger brother’s wedding was fast approaching, but the few meat coupons the family had managed to save had been lost by her eldest brother. This incident had nearly torn the family apart with arguments. Her younger brother suspected the eldest brother and his wife had secretly taken the meat coupons, but the eldest brother swore he had lost them accidentally. She truly pitied her parents, caught in the crossfire. Seeing Yunyi mailing smoked meat, she thought this person might have some connections, so she decided to take a chance and call out to her. She hoped that if she could get a few pieces of smoked meat, the wedding banquet would look a bit more presentable. She was also afraid this incident would cause a permanent rift between her younger and eldest brothers.