The fourth sibling, Ma Xiangmei, got married three years ago. Her husband is Ma Xiangdong's comrade, Wang Jian Country, and it was Ma Xiangdong who acted as the matchmaker for their marriage.
Because the two went to the unit on the third day after their marriage, they hadn't had a home leave for the next three years.
However, every year during the festival, Ma Xiangmei would send twenty yuan to Yuan Chun and also send some nutritional products for Yuan Chun to consume.
This year, even before the festival, Ma Xiangmei sent twenty yuan to Yuan Chun. After Yuan Chun received the money, she asked Ma Xiangdong to write a reply to Ma Xiangmei and also sent back a few dried rabbits and two jin of dried mushrooms by mail.
On the twenty-second day of the twelfth lunar month, Ma Xiangmei and Wang Jian Country returned with their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
