This year, Chinese New Year came quite early. By mid-January, Shen Yunfang had started preparing for her upcoming trip.
In this era, there were a few essential items one needed for travel, and one of them was an introduction letter. It served as a person's identity verification. Wherever you went and whatever you did, an introduction letter was needed, whether for taking a train, a boat, or staying at an inn. Without an introduction letter, sorry, but you were left to sleep on the streets—so the introduction letter was extremely important.
Shen Yunfang wasn't worried about this because her uncle was the team leader of the production brigade. This made it easy for her to get one.
