Shang Baozhou's old house is in the south of Mingjing Village, Xiushui Township, Yan N County, and you can see the mountain road when you open the door, and the mountain road is Qishan when you go up.

Qishan nourishes the body of the people of Xiushui Township and also rests the soul of the people of Xiushui Township. Chen Wenxiu was buried on Qishan.

After Shang Baozhou made his fortune, he bought up a large piece of mountain land from the mountainside Chen Wenxiu's cemetery to the foot of the mountain, and set up a monument there, called "Xiushan", which means that this piece belongs to Chen Wenxiu's mountain.

The mountains are his, and he will do so, and others will be by him.

During the Qingming Festival, Shang Baozhou went a day earlier. Because Chen Yang will come over on Qingming Day. Shang Baozhou didn't want to meet him, so he deliberately avoided it.

He endured Chen Yang all his life, and originally thought that he would be able to raise his eyebrows once he made a fortune, but he didn't expect that Chen Yang, the old guy, was also a trendsetter of the times, and he was richer than him after several tosses, and he was crushed to death from beginning to end. He couldn't help it, he was very aggrieved.

He spent money to build a road on Xiushan, and he could drive directly from the old house to Chen Wenxiu's grave. He always took one day out of his week to sit at the grave and talk to his wife in the grave.

On this day, he sat there again, looking at the mountain road in the distance, and remembered that he used to walk on it with his wife, and his eyes became wet.

Shang Kaiping couldn't find his father in the old mansion, so he knew that he had gone up the mountain. He ordered the driver to drive the car to Xiushan.

When he saw his old father, he complained to him: "I told you three or four times not to come here, but you just didn't listen." Now it's cold, and the mountain wind is biting, so if you blow it, it will be bad. You're 86 years old, not 26. ”

Shang Baozhou said: "It's not a bad thing to see your mother early." ”

Shang Kaiping had no choice but to coax him and said, "Mom left you in this world because she wanted you to take care of us, if you also leave, what should we do?"

Shang Baozhou said: "You are all older, you can take charge of yourself, you don't need me anymore, I better have your mother as a companion." ”

Shang Kaiping said: "How can it be, there is a difficult thing now, and you have to guide me." ”

Shang Baozhou became alert and asked, "What's the matter?"

He has protected his children all his life, and now that he is old, he still can't let them go, for fear that they will be bullied.

Shang Kaiping hugged him and said, "Let's go down first, the mountain wind here is getting stronger, and even I can't stand it." ”

Shang Baozhou heard his son say cold, and hurriedly said, "Then let's go down." ”

The two got into the car and went down the mountain in a few minutes.

When he arrived at the old house, Shang Kaiping poured a glass of boiled water for his old father.

The old man has been drinking boiled water since he was young, and he has been drinking it for decades, and it is said that boiled water is the most nourishing to the stomach and better than any drink.

When the boiled water was cold, the old man moistened his throat and asked, "You said that there was a difficult thing on the mountain, what is the difficult thing?"

Shang Kaiping told him about Zhilu.

Shang Baozhou was surprised: "What does this old guy Chen Yang mean by actually opening an antique shop? When I played with antiques a few decades ago, he was very disgusted and scolded me for being idle. ”

Shang Kaiping said: "Maybe it's because of the value of antiques now, and I want to make a profit in this industry." ”

Shang Baozhou shook his head and said: "Antique money is not something that ordinary people can earn, Chen Yang, this old guy who doesn't know a lot of words, how can he open an antique shop." ”

Shang Kaiping said: "Maybe it's because our Baowenzhai business is booming, and we deliberately opened such a house to make trouble." ”

Shang Baozhou took a sip of boiled water and said, "Kaiping, although this old guy Chen Yang is not a thing, after all, it is your uncle." How could he deliberately go against our Shang family. I know that he is a very clear person inside and outside, relatives are relatives, and outsiders are outsiders. Relatives are still relatives when they turn their faces, and no matter how good an outsider is, he is still an outsider. He can't do anything detrimental to our Shang family. ”

Shang Kaiping couldn't imagine that his old father actually had such an evaluation of Chen Yang, so he was in a daze for a while, and said for a while: "I didn't expect Dad, you to have such a high evaluation of Uncle Chen Yang." ”

Shang Baozhou said: "I am a reasonable person, I pay attention to seeking truth from facts when I speak and do things, unlike Chen Yang's old horseman, who is vulgar and unreasonable, and often fights with fists. ”

Shang Kaiping said: "Since he is not against our family, why did he open an antique store opposite Baowenzhai." ”

Shang Baozhou thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's because of old age." ”

Shang Kaiping was puzzled: "What does this have to do with getting old?"

"When people get old, it's easy to miss the old. When people are old, they will also put down what they can't put down when they are young. ”

Shang Kaiping was even more puzzled: "Dad, don't play dumb riddles." ”

Shang Baozhou said: "If I guessed correctly, he wants to take the initiative to reconcile with our Shang family." ”

Shang Kaiping was surprised: "Is that what you mean? How can you see it? I still don't quite understand." ”

Shang Baozhou said: "If Sha Bai is here, he will understand what I mean." E-An will also understand. ”

Shang Yi'an is Shang Kaiping's sister, and Shang Shabai is Shang Kaiping's son. The old man's meaning was obviously that Shang Kaiping was neither as good as his sister nor as good as his son.

Shang Kaiping blushed and was speechless for a while.

Shang Baozhou said: "I am a person who wants to save face, and Chen Yang's old husband is also a person who wants to save face. So he came up with such a way to open Zhilu to us, just to have more contact with our Baowenzhai every day. This is more contact, and some words are easy to say. It's just strange that Chen Yang has always been a rough man, how could he come up with such a detailed idea. Could it be his son Chen Jiashan's idea?"

Shang Kaiping remembered many rumors about Chen Jiashan, so he said: "I heard that Chen Jiashan is also very extreme. ”

Shang Baozhou said: "Then it's not clear. Maybe I guessed wrong? Anyway, I'm going to have to give it a try. ”

Shang Kaiping said: "How to try?"

"How else can I try, when Zhilu opens, ask Sha Bai to come over and have a look." In short, you have to interact with him and see what he means. ”

Shang Kaiping said: "If Uncle Chen Yang really has the heart to reconcile with us, will we accept it?"

Shang Baozhou said angrily: "It depends on how much sincerity he can show." He beat me three times, and sold all the antiques and calligraphy and paintings I had collected for many years, so I had to be angry. ”

"Dad, how do you get angry?"

Shang Baozhou said: "I don't know either. Let me smoke him three crutches first. Otherwise, don't think about me calling him uncle in this life. ”

Listening to the meaning of his father's words, Shang Kaiping knew that he had already moved the idea of reconciling with the Chen family.

This may be just as the old father said: once a person is old, there is nothing that he can't let go. What's more, his father loves his mother so much, even if he loves Wu and Wu, he will miss Uncle Chen Yang to some extent.

I just don't know what Uncle Chen Yang means?