He had no brothers, but he did have three sisters.
His parents favored sons over daughters; when his three sisters married, his mother hadn't even provided them with quilts for their dowries. The three packages he had just sent off were destined for these sisters.
Before he was sent to the countryside, his parents had been reluctant to let him go and had pressured his sisters to give up their jobs for him. Not wanting to make things difficult for them, he had secretly taken the household registration book behind his parents' backs to sign up for the rustication program himself. When his parents found out, his mother had held him and wept for an hour.
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