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Working Overtime During Spring Festival: I Sent Ten Million Cattle and Horses Home

share time: 2026-03-03 06:07:35

In the early hours of New Year's Eve, logistics dispatcher Lin Xiaoman was ordered to work overtime—her task: transporting ten million cattle and horses from Southwest breeding farms to returning farmers in the Central Plains. Clutching an unopened homebound ticket, she dealt with blizzard-blocked roads while forcing a smile on the phone with her mother, who urged her to come back. When the transport team got stuck in a snow pit, she squatted by the road, crying as she looked at dumpling photos from her mom—until farmer Old Zhou called: “My kid’s waiting for this cow for spring plowing. His dad said before he died, ‘If the cow stays, the land won’t go barren.’” Lin Xiaoman gripped her walkie-talkie: “All units, push the trucks through no matter what!” When the last cattle and horses were picked up by smiling farmers, she saw her mom’s news screenshot—her in a military coat directing vehicles, with the caption: “My daughter brings home to thousands of families.” Her eyes instantly welled up.

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