Zhao Shijie's letter stated that since no mail had come from Pingzhou for many days, Chen Minrou was sleepless with worry. Compounded by a relapse of an old illness with the changing season, her body was starting to fail her, and she was now confined to her sickbed...
He hoped Cui Lingyao would send a letter back to the Capital City by express posthaste to put his beloved wife's mind at ease.
Xie Jinbai knew that Cui Lingyao had written a letter to Chen Minrou every day since leaving the Capital City.
During the earlier city lockdown, her letters couldn't be sent out.
Then, the city gates reopened, but she died on that very same day.
All told, it had been many days since anyone in the Capital City had received a letter from her.
Zhao Shijie's anxiety and grief leapt off the page.
A letter from the Capital City to Pingzhou took about seven or eight days to arrive. Even with a courier riding day and night, it would take four or five days at the very least.
