The trio returned to a storage facility with the stamped passes in hand. There were five others waiting. Next to them was parked a cart loaded with six large sealed boxes.
The men sitting on the boxes blurted out, "How did it go?"
"Well!"
"We got all three stamps." The man holding the pass snickered. "The soldier on duty in the outpost who gave us the third stamp even wished us a happy Memorial Day. What an idiot!"
"You got the third stamp at the outpost? Was it Lu Yan who was on duty?" one of the men sitting on the boxes asked.
"I don't know. He was in uniform. I didn't get a good look at his face," the man with the pass said. "He sounded quite young."
"He didn't give you a hard time?" the man sitting on a box asked. "Lu Yuan is quite talkative. Sometimes he likes to interrogate folks."
