Late at night, Lao Chen took Cheng Tianyuan to the Imperial Capital Airport.
Half an hour later, Cheng Tianyuan received Chen Min, and the two of them packed up their bags and headed out.
Chen Min was wearing a thin coat. Although his hair was already gray, he was full of energy and radiant. He looked much younger than in previous years.
"The key is to exercise more!" Chen Min explained: "Everyone who is the same age as us has retired and stayed at home. All day long, his legs and backs are sore or he has various pains. Ever since I went to work on the duck farm, I have worked a lot.
, the more I exercise, the better I feel. Look! I still have muscles now!"
After saying this, he unceremoniously opened his coat, revealing his hard chest muscles.
Cheng Tianyuan was immediately envious and said with a smile: "Not bad! This state is even better than when you were in your forties!"
"That's right!" Chen Min shook his head: "At that time, I was all fat, and my hair looked dark, but my body looked like I was in my fifties or sixties. I have worked a lot in the past two years, doing all kinds of work in the mountains and in the water. The landscape is good.
The air is good, the food and drink are hygienic and healthy, which makes you look younger as you get older."
Cheng Tianyuan smiled bitterly: "I have become lazy now. Apart from helping to plant flowers and vegetables, weeding and sweeping the floor, I don't have to do anything else."
"You! Be careful if you get sick in your spare time!" Chen Min joked: "It's a disease of wealth! Eat well and use it well, and you don't have to do any work - diseases caused by this are called 'diseases of wealth'."
Cheng Tianyuan laughed loudly: "I-I'm not qualified yet! I still have to go to work now. The company is on annual holiday recently, and the warehouse is still closed. No goods are purchased or shipped for the time being. I have no plans to retire and live to be old.
If you work until you are old, you can still work anyway, so you can't be lazy."
His company is currently running reasonably well and is quite profitable. Most of the employees are old employees, and some have even been with him since he started wholesale paper towels.
The customers are basically old customers, and the profit is not high, but the stability and pleasant cooperation are valuable. I can manage the business for the time being, and I have no plans to quit.
Chen Min squinted his eyes and looked at him and said: "You have been pretty much the same in the past few years, and you don't look older. Unlike my cousin, who was tall and strong when he was young. When he got old, he was plagued by various diseases and was hospitalized every now and then."
"There is nothing we can do." Cheng Tianyuan explained: "The 'three highs' alone have made him miserable. He takes all kinds of medicine every day, which is almost like a pot of medicine. He has really aged a lot in the past few years, and he looks like he is seventy or eighty years old."
Chen Min thought of Wang Qing, who was still paralyzed, and secretly felt sorry for his cousin.
"He used to have too much time to take care of himself, and now he has to take care of his cousin... It's really not easy. Unfortunately, I can't help. We are so far away and have to work on the farm and fish pond, so I can't even come over to see him more than once."
Cheng Tianyuan asked with concern: "How many farmhouses were built last time? Have they been completed?"
"Okay." Chen Min explained: "We built six rooms at the foot of the mountain, with a total of two floors. The place is spacious, with a yard in the front and a small vegetable garden in the back. It is more than enough for our family. I also want to invite my cousin when I come here this time.
My sister-in-law is going to stay there for a while to escape the heat."
"What?" Cheng Tianyuan asked jokingly: "Only cousins and cousins? No one else?"
Chen Min looked at him funny and asked, "Is it possible that you are willing to leave the imperial capital? I would like to invite you, but you and your sister-in-law will not go!"
Cheng Tianyuan smiled and said: "It's still feasible to go for a few days, but not for a long time. My father-in-law and mother-in-law are old and can't live without us unless we can take them with us."
"I am absolutely 100% welcome." Chen Min laughed: "The key depends on whether you are willing to leave Xinyuan!"
Cheng Tianyuan saw that his brows were full of cheerfulness. He changed his frowning and depressed look before, and was secretly happy for his old brother.
For some people, divorce is a relief and an opportunity to renew their lives.
Chen Min seemed to remember something and asked: "Why didn't Xiao Huzi answer my call? I called him in the afternoon and planned to ask him to pick me up at the airport - but I called him several times but didn't answer."
Cheng Tianyuan lowered his eyes and whispered Shan You's story to him.
Chen Min was dumbfounded and sighed softly.
"What a crime... He was so young and so gone..."
Cheng Tianyuan explained: "The funerals over there have been arranged and the cemetery has been repaired. Lingling and the others can return to the imperial capital at noon tomorrow."
Chen Min frowned and whispered: "The most pitiful ones are the two children...the three children."
Cheng Tianyuan lowered his voice: "Everyone is still hiding this from Wang Qing, so don't let it slip. Although she was disappointed with Shan You before, she still loves her very much in her heart."
"I..." Chen Min smiled bitterly: "I originally hid something from my cousin and sister-in-law... I didn't dare to say it."
Cheng Tianyuan couldn't help but asked curiously: "What's going on?"
Chen Min whispered: "My cousin's brother had a car accident a while ago and is still in the orthopedic hospital. He told the family not to contact the Imperial Capital to avoid worrying Wang Qing. I didn't know either,
It was later that I accidentally heard about it from a friend, so I hurried over to the hospital to see him."
"Is it serious?" Cheng Tianyuan frowned and asked, "Isn't he too young?"
Chen Min nodded: "He is about the same age as my sister-in-law, so he can be considered an old man. He was driving without wearing a seat belt. He was thrown out of the car when he was in a car accident. His thigh was fractured and several ribs were broken. He is still in the hospital.
Lying down, I have been hospitalized for more than two months."
Cheng Tianyuan frowned when he heard this: "It takes a hundred days to break your muscles and bones, it's really painful..."
Chen Min smiled bitterly: "He said he couldn't let his sister know, so as not to make her sad, so he didn't even tell Brother Ahu."
After a pause, he asked: "My cousin-in-law's condition - I wonder if there is a chance of recovery?"
Cheng Tianyuan didn't answer and sighed quietly.
When Ahu heard that his cousin was coming, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep. After Wang Qing fell asleep, he turned on the lights outside the door one by one and waited by the window of the living room.
The early spring in the imperial capital was still very cold. It rained and snowed earlier, but it soon turned into a blanket of snow.
Cheng Tianyuan and Chen Min braved the heavy snow to enter the house. Although the wind, snow and ice were cold, they could not stop the joy of the old brothers gathering together.
The three of them chatted and talked until it was almost dawn, then they each found a place to sleep.
Cheng Tianyuan slept deeply until Ah Hu got up and woke him up, and then he woke up in a daze.
"what time is it?"
Ahu shook his head and muttered: "About seven o'clock."
Cheng Tianyuan took out his mobile phone and found that it was already past eight o'clock in the morning, and there were two missed calls on the screen, both from his son-in-law more than an hour ago.
Chen Xinzhi was still abroad and initially said he could not return to the imperial capital until after the Lantern Festival.
Xiaoxin was busy with work and couldn't stay there for long, so she flew back to China with them. She didn't go back to her parents' home in the past few days, saying she would come back in the afternoon during the Lantern Festival.
You called me early in the morning. Is there something urgent?
Cheng Tianyuan rubbed his tense face and quickly dialed back.