"Be careful on the way. Give us a call when you get home."
In November, Tahe was a world of ice and snow.
Frost cut like knives and snow howled through the air. At the railway station, Qin Yuhu's entire family was seeing off the young man about to head home.
Although Lian Youming did not feel particularly cold, he still had to keep up appearances. He could hardly wear just a shirt, so he had bundled himself in a thick coat as usual and put on a padded hat. With his extraordinary physique, he looked like an old bear emerging from its den.
He left half a month later than the educated youths from Four-Nine City and Shanghai, having stayed to handle various odds and ends, such as mailing things to Yan Lingyun and writing to tell her he was returning to the city, giving her his home address and asking how he should deal with the tiger bones and Eastern Pearls.
He had originally wanted to call, but with one of them in the north and the other in the south, they were too far apart. After five or six unsuccessful attempts, he could only communicate by letter.
"Don't worry." Lian Youming had not brought back the pack he had arrived with, mainly because he had too much to take this time. The tiger bones, tiger hide, and all the other odds and ends left him no hands to spare. "Uncle, why not come visit us sometime?"
He looked at Qin Hongxiu, who had come home for the holidays. After half a year apart, the big, plump girl had grown even rounder.
There was also the baby, not yet a year old, Qin Kaixuan.
That name certainly fit the mainstream of the times.
After just a few