The pitch was appealing on paper: iQIYI and the Shandong partners position this as China's first screen work about the wartime postal service (战邮), the "comedy shell wrapped around a serious core" that producer Zhang Chao described, with laughs in the first half and tears in the second, anchored by the true history of the Shandong Wartime Post General Bureau founded in 1942 and the 468 postal fighters who died on the life-and-death mail routes. Three village lads — Xiwang, Gou'er and Abacus, with Hu Yu along — stumble onto a top-secret Party letter and run a gauntlet of Japanese sweeps and ban…
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