Dinner was Zhao Tianlei making milk powder for the two little ones and peeling a marinated egg for each of them. After eating an egg cake, the two lay down to sleep.
The two brothers slept head to foot.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t fit.
"Wife, when it gets dark, you go up to sleep, and I’ll watch over you," he said.
Yun Xiaoxiao glanced at Zhao Tianlei, "What about you?"
"Or, you sleep too. You take the first half of the night, and I’ll take the second."
Since coming here, she hadn’t really stayed up late.
"I can’t make it through the second half of the night."
Traveling with the two little ones required vigilance.
The father and his sons fell asleep together while Yun Xiaoxiao sat at the edge of the bed, positioned between her two brothers.
She thought the three of them could sleep together, but it was still too narrow.
Before midnight, Zhao Tianlei called his wife to go up to sleep.
Yun Xiaoxiao, who hadn’t stayed up late in a long time, was almost unable to hold up. Hearing someone telling her to sleep, she climbed up and fell asleep instantly as soon as she lay down.
Zhao Tianlei sat on the train’s own stool beside the corridor, watching over the upper and lower bunks where his most important people were.
Second Brother Yun had just started work when he heard someone calling him to the post office.
"Dad, I’m going to the post office."
Chef Zhao glanced at his son-in-law, "Go ahead!"
Second Brother Yun headed straight for the post office after leaving the state-run restaurant.
"Is there a package for me?"
"Comrade Yun, there’s a telegram for you."
When Second Brother Yun received the telegram, he was stunned for a moment.
[Arriving in three days, come to the train station to pick up.]
A telegram sent by little sister?
Were they coming back?
Typically, the telegram would be received the day after it was sent, meaning little sister had left yesterday.
Does yesterday count as one day?
If not, does that mean the day after tomorrow?
If so, does that mean tomorrow?
Are they coming back for work or to attend university?
It was truly maddening.
Why couldn’t little sister write a few more words?
He thought about if she hadn’t passed the exam, he wouldn’t know how to face the nagging of his sister-in-law.
Especially knowing that little sister had retaken the exam this year, they weren’t optimistic.
"What’s wrong?" Chef Zhao saw his son-in-law return, looking utterly deflated.
"My little sister is coming back. She took the college entrance exam again this year. I don’t know if she passed, and she didn’t say in the telegram. It’s really going to kill me."
Chef Zhao thought for a moment, "I think your little sister must have passed. Otherwise, after so many years working in rural areas and not coming back, she would not just come back to show off."
This son-in-law was still so impatient.
Although Chef Zhao had never met his daughter’s younger sister, from what his son-in-law and the parcels sent over the past few months showed, she wasn’t someone to take advantage of others.
"It’s very likely. Don’t mention it now. Wait for her to come back and then ask. Get busy now, no slacking off."
"I’m not slacking off," Second Brother Yun responded, but started to get busy anyway.
He thought if his little sister had really passed, he would definitely prepare a table full of delicious dishes.
He would make his calculating sister-in-law see.
Little sister was really awesome, having passed the university exam, though he didn’t know which university yet.
How many tickets were left at home?
And when little sister came back, would she bring her brother-in-law and child?
Yun Xiaoxiao awoke in the carriage to the sound of noise.