Since Old Mrs. Xu was staying to spend New Year's Eve with Xu Dageng in Baizigou, Xu Changqing decided to wait until the next morning to return to the mining district's family residences to reunite with her parents and younger siblings.
That evening, Shen Weimin didn't mention a single word about social obligations. Instead, he and Xu Changqing discussed the many large packages of household odds and ends that needed to be mailed to Beijing.
They had already been sending some things out in batches, supposedly by mail, but in reality, Xu Changqing had secretly been stashing them in Changqing Garden.
However, the elders on both sides had prepared a heap of roasted snacks and dried goods for them. As a result, the more they tried to organize, the more packages they ended up with, and leaving them behind wasn't an option.
