The letter must have been mailed about eight days ago. Even though they were in the same city, letters still traveled very slowly in those days.
Lin Yuezhi wrote that Zhang Fan and his family had gone there the very same evening. Lin Yuezhi had rejected their help, and the two families had parted on bad terms.
The rest consisted of trivial matters that Lin Yuezhi had written about: how the wonton stall downstairs from the hospital was too expensive, costing twenty cents more than the one on the other street; and how the hospital heating was so strong that she couldn't even sleep at night while wearing a sweater.
Chapter 16