During the day, while Shen Yuanchun was at the hospital tending to Mother Guo, Guo Jinghong pried open the door to Mother Guo’s room and ransacked it. She made off with three hundred yuan and various ration coupons hidden in the wardrobe.
She also bundled up two thick, nearly new quilts from the bed. Everything else—the fine clothes in the wardrobe, two lengths of fabric, two pairs of leather shoes and two pairs of cloth shoes kept under the bed—were all packed up and taken by Guo Jinghong.
The household enamel mugs, thermos, aluminum lunch boxes, the canteen Guo Jingling had brought back from his department, and twenty pounds of grain from the kitchen were all taken as well. In short, Guo Jinghong packed up everything that could be of use, hired a flatbed cart to take it to the post office, and mailed all the packages to the location where she had been sent to the countryside. It cost a bit of money, but with so many items, she feared losing them if she tried to bring them onto the train herself; mailing them was her only option.
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