After finishing their dry rations, the group washed up briefly and turned in early for the night. Having traveled hard all afternoon, the room was soon filled with a chorus of snoozing, but Jiang Rou tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep as her mind kept dwelling on picking up the parcels the next day.
Early the next morning, sunlight filtered through the mottled curtains and fell across the educated youths' faces.
Secretary Li was up early and instructed the group, "I'm going to report to Director Wang at the grain station first. You all go to the post office to pick up the parcels. Be very careful, make sure nothing goes wrong, and come back to wait for me at the guesthouse as soon as you're done."
Chapter 23