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"what?"
Upon seeing what was inside, Jiang Xiao let out a soft exclamation.
In those times, if the assigned area was far from home, train drivers might indeed only be able to go home a few times a year.
Letters are also the most common form of communication.
After arriving at the station, the driver went to the nearest post office to mail the letter he had written, and could also pick up any items sent from his hometown.
I opened a few at random.
I found that they were all writing about mundane family matters.
Occasionally, there would be sweet nothings exchanged between Fang Tianyu and his wife.
"Hey, there's another letter that Fang Tianyu hasn't mailed yet? And a diary too."
"Let's read the diary first."
It's not hard to tell from between the lines.
Train driver Fang Tianyu is a rigid and serious person. Even his handwriting is meticulous. The whole page is free of typos and even the punctuation marks are used correctly and neatly.
However, Jiang Xiao could also see that Fang Tianyu loved his family very much.
Although the letters from my hometown were neatly folded, the handwriting in some places was blurred because they had been touched so often.
Apart from the one or two letters that Fang Tianyu had written but hadn't had time to send.
The rest were almost all sent to him by his wife from their hometown.
After realizing it was a letter, Scarface lost interest and walked to the side to close his eyes and rest.
He wasn't interested in those things.
He initially thought the box contained money, but since the train couldn't stop, he didn't care if it was money or a letter home.
Jiang Xiao, on the other hand, watched with great interest.
Anyway, I'm just killing time~
His wife's name is Yufen.
Her handwriting is like a man's, bold and unrestrained, with large areas of scribbles and corrections. If there are too many mistakes, she will get angry and scribble them out vigorously.
There were quite a few spelling mistakes; many of the characters she probably didn't know how to write were deliberately written as homophones.
Very good.
Although Earth now has nine years of compulsory education, there are almost no students who slip through the net.
However, in those days, it was rare to see girls who could write their own names completely; most of them were illiterate.
Although Yu Fen's writing was intermittent, she was still able to express her meaning correctly.
After receiving and reading the letter, Fang Tianyu would carefully circle the misspelled words and write the correct word next to them.
As for the purpose of doing so, Jiang Xiao also learned about it from Fang Tianyu's diary.
He planned to take all these letters with him when he went back to his hometown for the New Year, and correct them one by one for Yufen.
Ah this
Jiang Xiao couldn't help but start imagining things.
On New Year's Eve, the whole family was happily celebrating the New Year together.
But our Mr. Fang Tianyu pulled his wife aside to correct his typos.
It's definitely a bit of a mood killer.
It's possible that the easygoing Ms. Yu Fen might not accept his explanation, and it's not impossible that she might even have a fight with him.
However, this seems to be a unique kind of "romance" belonging only to Fang Tianyu.
Well, at least that's what he thinks, because it's mentioned in his diary.
[Smelling the plum blossoms in the yard, Yu Fen and I sat at the desk. She sat, and I stood. I explained to her one by one the correct way to write the misspelled words and their uses, making sure she wouldn't make the same mistake next time. Then I had her copy them ten times. She must have thought it was very romantic.]
Chapter 496 The Correct Conjecture
Yu Fen: No, I don't think it's a romantic thing.
Jiang Xiao was complaining when he saw this sentence.
Fang Tianyu's brain is very likely filled with pelvic fluid, otherwise he would never have done something so cerebrally reprehensible.
In particular, he knew that Fang Tianyu was a serious person, and that the meaning expressed in his writing would never be wrong.
[Make sure she doesn't make the same mistake next time, then have her copy it ten more times?]
When Jiang Xiao saw this sentence, his cerebellum shrank.
If you can already make sure you won't make a mistake next time, why do you need to copy it ten times?
Who's out of their mind?
After a quick glance, I noticed that Yu Fen's letters were much better written, and she was quite lazy, sometimes even deliberately writing complex characters as simple ones in order to be lazy.
For example, "[The girl's cotton-padded jacket was a bit tight, so I asked her aunt to alter it, and she won't need to buy new clothes this year.]"
She would write "cotton-padded jacket" as "miao", "aunt" as "Shen", and "new clothes" as "xi".
Yu Fen can use this minimalist approach with ease, and she uses it in a wide variety of situations.
In other words, Mr. Fang Tianyu circled these cryptic texts word by word and patiently marked the correct meaning he wanted to express on the side.
Otherwise, even with Jiang Xiao's thought process, he would have stumbled over some parts of the reading.
If you were to copy it all ten times...
Jiang Xiao estimated that even with fast hand speed, it would take three to five hours to solve the problem.
If Yu Fen's hand speed isn't fast enough.
If she inserts the pen upside down again, Tianyu will help her correct it.
This is just the time spent copying; with Mr. Fang Tianyu's personal analysis, it will probably take two or three days.
Indeed, it's incredibly "romantic".
"anything else."
Jiang Xiao flipped through the letter and saw a different handwriting. In the letter sent to Fang Tianyu, the sender referred to himself as "Baby".
However, this is not cheating.
Judging from the cute font and the fact that a character with a few strokes can occupy two or three squares, it is most likely Fang Tianyu's daughter.
Of course, the many characters replaced by pinyin below also confirm the other party's identity.
"It's pretty good," Jiang Xiao said sincerely.
This feeling of being a family of three made him feel very comfortable.
It could also be because he also has a wife and children, so he can't help but project himself into their lives.
Putting myself in their shoes, if I hadn't met Sun Wei and Shi Shi, I probably wouldn't have been able to read a single word of those letters.
He's become somewhat addicted to it now, wanting to watch more and more.
correct?
Thinking of this, Jiang Xiao asked the co-driver who was lying leisurely in the chair with his eyes closed.
"Scarface, do you have a wife?"
"No? What's wrong?" The other person opened his eyes, not understanding why Jiang Xiao was asking him such a sudden question.
"Oh, no wonder." Jiang Xiao nodded, realizing that he had indeed guessed correctly again.
Ok?
Since the diary was below the letters, Jiang Xiao, who read the diary first, naturally read the letters from back to front.
If it were a series of letters, most people would enjoy seeing the new dates gradually, starting from the old ones.
On the topmost letter, Jiang Xiao saw the latest one sent by Yu Fen.
The beginning was the same as always, nothing special.
But at the end, she revealed that she had brought her daughter and planned to travel a long way to find her father.
They would wait for Fang Tianyu at the T180 train station.
Yu Fen also took care of Fang Tianyu's work situation.
The sensible letter also stated that Fang Tianyu did not need to ask for leave or anything.
Just do your job normally.
The mother and daughter will buy tickets and board the train on their own initiative. They will definitely not use any back channels, will not break any rules, and will absolutely not cause any trouble for the driver.
"Oh right, Fang Tianyu hasn't had time to mail the letter yet!"
Jiang Xiao quickly opened it.