Time Travel Article: My parents divorced at the beginning

The post office in Ping'an County is located on the left side of the county party committee compound. It is a newly built two-story red brick building.

Village Chief Gu parked his donkey cart next to the post office. Li Dahua quickly pulled a small, floral-wrapped cloth bag from her pocket and pulled out her household registration booklet and letter of introduction. She and Li Jianguo walked into the post office, while the others waited on the cart.

"Hello, comrade! Do you have any packages for Li Jianguo and Li Dahua?" Li Jianguo asked the woman sitting behind the counter.

"Wait a moment, let me check." The woman behind the counter took down the registration book hanging on the wall, flipped through a few pages, looked at the two people and asked, "Li Dahua from Gujia Village, Hongqi Town, and Li Jianguo from the County Armed Forces Department?"

"Hey, yes, yes, I am Li Dahua, and this is Li Jianguo." Li Dahua pointed at Li Jianguo and nodded quickly in response.

"Bring your household registration book and letter of introduction here for registration!" The woman took the things handed over by Li Dahua, carefully verified them, and asked Li Dahua and the other person to sign in the registration book.

After the two of them finished the formalities, Li Dahua looked at the pile of luggage that looked like a small mountain that the staff pushed over on a cart, her mouth half open, thinking, this is too much.

"By the way, Li Dahua also has a remittance slip for you, which needs to be signed separately."

"Oh, where do I sign?" Li Dahua asked.

"Here! Our post office can handle storage services. You can open a passbook for this money. The money is safe in the post office." The woman instructed Li Dahua to sign while introducing the post office's services to Li Dahua.

Li Dahua had previously spoken with Duan Xuezhi by phone and knew this was child support and retirement money from her, but she hadn't expected it to be so much. 200 yuan! She figured she and her husband would receive 5 yuan a month for their retirement, and the rest should be child support for Gu Qingyu. But a child alone wouldn't cost that much, and it was too much to handle! Thinking it was safer to save, she opened a savings account.

Li Jianguo called Zhang Caifeng and the others in to help load the luggage onto the cart. It was already past three in the afternoon, and seeing he still had time, Li Jianguo went to the Armed Forces Department in the adjacent County Party Committee compound to complete his onboarding procedures. Because he had arranged this by phone beforehand, Li Jianguo completed the formalities quickly and also received the keys to the assigned family compound. Otherwise, hauling so much luggage back to the village and back again would have been a hassle.

So the group went to the family compound assigned by Li Jianguo. The family compound was not far from the county party committee compound. It was a small two-story courtyard that housed seven or eight county party committee staff members. Li Jianguo allocated two rooms near the main gate.

"This house is not big, but it's enough for living. If we build a kitchen near the yard, it will be almost done." Village Chief Gu said after entering the yard and observing it for a while.

"It's really nice!" Everyone thought the house was nice after observing it.

A group of people helped to tidy up the place. Because Li Jianguo had already reported for duty, after everyone discussed it, Li Jianguo would not go back to the village with Li Dahua and the others. The group parted ways first and agreed to wait for Li Jianguo to rest before returning to the village.

After all, Gu Xiaogu was already married, so Li Dahua didn't let her accompany her back to Gujia Village. She and Village Chief Gu sent Gu Xiaogu back to Sun's house first.

The Sun family's house was not far away, at the end of the alley on the eastern side of the main road in the county town. It was a courtyard with one entrance. The house in front had been converted into a tailor shop. The family was one of the best tailors in the county.

When the donkey cart stopped at the door of the tailor shop, Sun's mother saw it and immediately came forward with a smile, "Brother-in-law, village chief, please come in and rest your feet and drink some water to moisten your throat."

"This is our eldest granddaughter, she's so pretty!"

"No, no! Lei Zi's mother, please don't be polite. We just want to send her aunt back, and we still have to rush back to Gujia Village. It's really getting late?" Li Dahua quickly refused.

"No matter how anxious you are, you can still take a sip of tea. Xiaoyue, kid, quickly pull your mother and the village chief in to rest for a while." Mother Sun said to Aunt Gu angrily.

"I'm not being polite, my dear mother-in-law. I'm really in a hurry. Next time, I will definitely come back even if you don't call me. Let's forget about this time." Li Dahua continued to refuse?

After some pushing and pulling between the two, Gu Qingyu and his group finally set out on the road back to Gujia Village.