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Chapter 20, Letter from the Fairy Mother
Dahonggou Village was quite lively tonight because Lu Xiaoling ran to Wang Duoyu's house angrily, while her husband tried to stop her from behind. The siblings Sun Shuwen and Sun Shuting also cried and shouted at their parents to stop arguing.

When Wang Shoucheng saw this scene, his heart skipped a beat, and then he ordered his children to help, and they must not let Sun Shouyi and his wife disturb their uncle.

"Dad, what's going on? Sun Shouyi should be half a student of Uncle Jiu, right? Why are the couple still nagging about asking Uncle Jiu to get back their royalties?" Wang Xiangdong was a little confused, and his brothers were also very puzzled.

Seeing this, Wang Shoucheng immediately explained, and Wang Xiangdong and his brothers were dumbfounded: Isn’t Sun Shouyi too persistent?

Before Lu Xiaoling reached Wang Duoyu's house, she was stopped by Wang Xiangdong's wife and others. With the Wang family members nearby, they had no chance at all.

Lu Xiaoling wanted to continue making trouble and wanted to get back the six yuan in royalties, but Sun Shouyi, who was completely angry and embarrassed, slapped her in the face. She was completely stunned, and then the couple started a fight.

Finally, the elders in the village helped to persuade them, and Sun Shouyi's parents came and took the people away separately, and the turmoil subsided temporarily.

The turmoil has subsided temporarily, but the villagers all know the whole story. They have eaten a lot of melon tonight. After all, no one expected something like this to happen.

However, what the villagers talked about most was Wang Duoyu's writing ability. Everyone used to think that he was just lucky, because he failed the college entrance examination last year.
As for Chen Qingwan, who has already been admitted to university, no one has ever heard that she is a writer or how good her writing skills are. However, Wang Duoyu, who is not very optimistic about everyone, can publish an article that simply imitates Sun Shouyi's writing. It can be seen that his writing ability is really strong.

The villagers were talking about it, and the next day someone came to look for Wang Duoyu, but found his door locked early in the morning and no one knew where he had gone.

He went out early in the morning. He planned to go to the mountains to practice shooting and exercise his body at the same time.

Not long after noon, Wang Duoyu returned home empty-handed, having brought back no prey. Even so, he was not discouraged, after all, marksmanship cannot be mastered in a day.

Around 3:00 p.m., Sun Shouyi delivered a letter and a large package. "Duoyu, I'm sorry to have caused you trouble."

After saying that, he put down his things and turned around to leave. Even when Wang Duoyu called out to him from behind, he acted as if he didn't hear anything. He left quickly, leaving Wang Duoyu confused.

Because he didn't hear about what happened to Sun Shouyi and his wife last night, and he didn't even talk to anyone today. Apart from meeting Sun Shouyi just now, he had no way of knowing about this matter.

"What a strange thing!" Wang Duoyu muttered, then lowered his head to check the letter. After seeing the address, he was immediately overjoyed because it was a letter from Jiangcheng.

Yes, he was corresponding with Liu Xiaoli, which is the most common and most popular way of communication in this era. He was not looking for her to talk about love, but to ask her to help buy and subscribe to academic magazines. The package was the physics and mathematics journals bought by the other party for him.

Postal services in the 1970s mainly provided basic services such as letters, parcels, remittances, and newspaper distribution, but most of the facilities were concentrated in large and medium-sized cities. If Sun Shouyi had not worked in Shuanghe County, Wang Duoyu would have needed to go to the county town in person to sign for the package even if he had a package express delivery.

In addition, it took more than half a month for this package to be sent from Jiangcheng to Shuanghe County, which was quite long and much slower than a letter.

After unpacking the package, Wang Duoyu briefly checked the two journals inside. These were published three months ago, in March. It was impossible for him to see his own papers. Fortunately, he didn't need to read them. "Well, after the college entrance examination, I have to go to Ice City in person."

Wang Duoyu said to himself that he had always wanted to visit the big cities of this era, but he was just an ordinary farmer now, and if he wanted to go to the city he had to have a pass and a letter of introduction.

Because in this era, the flow between urban and rural areas was strictly restricted. If ordinary farmers wanted to go to the city to do business, they had to get a letter of introduction from the brigade and exchange grain for national food coupons. Otherwise, they would not be able to eat even if they went to the state-owned restaurants in the city.

He didn't want to go to the city and sleep under a bridge and starve. Besides, it was more than 400 kilometers from his home to Ice City. He couldn't buy a ticket without a notification letter and a letter of introduction. If he could only walk there, how many days would it take?

Even if his body could support him to walk to Ice City, he would not do such a stupid thing. It was too torturous.

After checking the journal, he picked up the letter sent by Liu Xiaoli and looked through it. On the envelope were written the words "Wang Duoyu (Personally opened)" in small and beautiful handwriting. Although the words were small, they were also grand and elegant.

This was the third letter she wrote to him. The two started writing letters after they met in early May. In just over a month, they had three spiritual exchanges, which was a very high frequency.

Liu Xiaoli wrote to share her life in Jiangcheng and some stories about her colleagues. They were all family matters and were quite interesting to read.

The last time she came to Shuanghe County happened to be on May Day when she returned to Bingcheng to visit her seriously ill grandmother. Every time she wrote to Wang Duoyu, she would talk about this matter because Wang Duoyu had cared about her grandmother.

After reading the letter, Wang Duoyu smiled happily. It could be seen between the lines of the other party's letter that she should have some feelings for him, although not very strong. But in this era, being able to communicate frequently must make the relationship much better than that of ordinary friends.

What's more, the two of them had only met once, that's all, but the level of trust between them was very deep.

Taking out a piece of paper, Wang Duoyu began to write on it: Classmate Liu Xiaoli, seeing you is like seeing you in person. We have grown up together, although we have traveled thousands of miles. Life is not destined to be perfect, so I can't wish you smooth sailing. I wish you to ride the wind and waves, and I wish your grandmother good health and a long life. Let our friendship move forward along the great revolutionary direction of persistence is victory.

So far, a revolutionary salute!

There is also a final sentence at the end: On the afternoon of June 15, 1978, at home in Dahonggou Village.

The three-page letter was very long and convoluted. Although the words were light, the friendship was deep. Wang Duoyu believed that the other party could understand it.

Just when he finished writing the letter and was about to carefully read the mathematical journal, several people ran in from outside. Their voices had already entered the room before they arrived.

"Brother Jiu, Brother Jiu, hurry up, there's a call coming from Beijing."

(End of this chapter)