Li Long drove to the Fourth Team. After arriving at his eldest brother's house, he saw the thin Admission Notice.
Li Qiang paced back and forth with the Admission Notice in his hands, overcome with excitement. It really had not come easily.
Before Li Long could ask, his eldest brother, Li Jianguo, told him, "Director Wu called me this morning and told me to hurry over to collect the notice. When I arrived, he told me what had happened."
"He said that after we went to see him, he immediately contacted the Autonomous Prefecture Admissions Office. They said the notice had arrived long ago, but someone had taken it away.
"He said, wasn't that nonsense? The notice belonged to a student from our county. How could they let someone else take it?
"They said the situation was complicated.
"So Director Wu went to investigate himself. Through people in the Admissions Office, he traced it step by step and finally established that the Minister of the People's Armed Forces Department had taken the notice.
"Director Wu went to see the Minister of the People's Armed Forces Department. According to him, Qiangqiang's notice was sitting right under the glass sheet on the Minister of the People's Armed Forces Department's office desk. He got it back."
That easily?
Li Long was somewhat surprised. "Did Director Wu say why? Why did the Minister of the People's Armed Forces Department hold on to Qiangqiang's notice?"
Li Jianguo shook his head. "Director Wu told me that now we had the notice back, we shouldn't pursue the matter."
"You know my temper. We couldn't just let this go. They'd held it up for so many days. How could we just drop it that easily?"
"I was on pretty good terms with Director Wu, so I asked him