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 of us who are the same age has retired and stayed at home, and their legs and backs are sore all day long, and they suffer from various kinds of pain.
Since I started working on the duck farm, I have worked a lot and exercised a lot, and my spirits have gotten better and better.
Look! I still have muscles now!"
After saying this, he unceremoniously opened his coat, revealing his hard chest muscles.
Cheng Tianyuan immediately felt envious and said with a smile: "Not bad! This state is even better than when you were in your forties!"
"That is!"
Chen Min shook his head: "At that time, I was all fat, 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 mountains and rivers are good, the air is good, and I eat and drink healthily. It makes me look younger as I 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!"
Chen Min joked: "A disease of wealth! Eat well, use good food, and 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, and no goods are being purchased or shipped for the time being.
I have no plans to retire. I will work until I am old. Anyway, I can still work, so I can’t be lazy.”
His company is currently running reasonably well and is quite profitable.
Most of the employees are veteran employees, and some have even been with him since he started wholesale paper towels.
The customers are basically old customers, and the profits are not high, but stability and pleasant cooperation are valuable.
I can still cook for the time being, but 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, he was plagued by various diseases when he was old and was hospitalized from time to time."
"There's nothing we can do."
Cheng Tianyuan explained: "The 'Three Highs' alone made him miserable. He took all kinds of medicine every day, which was almost like a medicine jar.
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.
It's a pity that I can't help. We are so far away and have to work on the farm and the 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?"
"alright."
Chen Min explained: "Six rooms were built 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, which is more than enough for our family.
This time I came here and wanted to invite my cousin and sister-in-law to live there for a while to escape the heat."
"how?"
Cheng Tianyuan asked jokingly: "Only cousins?
No one else’s share?”
Chen Min looked at him funny and asked, "Is it possible that you are willing to leave the imperial capital?
I’d like to invite you, but you and your sister-in-law won’t 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 cannot live without us unless we can take them with us."
"I'm definitely 100 percent 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 doesn'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 sin... He was so young and lost like this..." Cheng Tianyuan explained: "The funeral over there has 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 the truth from Wang Qing, so you must not let it slip.
Although she was disappointed with Shanyou 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 not long ago, and he is still lying in the orthopedic hospital.
He told his family members not to contact the Imperial Capital so as not to worry Wang Qing.
I didn’t know about it at first, but I overheard a friend talking about it later, so I hurried over to the hospital to see him.”
"Very serious?"
Cheng Tianyuan frowned and asked, "Isn't he too young?"
Chen Min nodded: "He is just as old as my sister-in-law, so he can be considered an old man.
He was driving without wearing a seat belt and was thrown out of the car when he was in a car accident. He suffered a broken thigh and several broken ribs.
I am still lying in the hospital, having 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 my sister know, so as to save her sadness, 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 did not 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 it was snowy and cold, it 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 cell 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 could not stay there for long, so she flew back to China with them.
She hasn't been back to her parents' house in the past few days, saying she would come back in the afternoon during the Lantern Festival.
You called me early in the morning. Could it be something urgent?
Cheng Tianyuan rubbed his tense face and quickly dialed back.