The road was difficult to walk in the snowy night, and it was already midnight when Cheng Yubai arrived at the nursing home outside the suburbs. After the car turned off, he stood outside for a while, waiting for the smell of smoke to dissipate before entering.

Wang Yu is old and sleeps very lightly, so when he hears someone talking outside, he opens his eyes and turns on the bedside lamp. The nurse said something vaguely, and after a while, Cheng Yubai took off his gloves, took off his coat, and strode in with a chill.

Wang Yu leaned on the head of the bed and looked at him carefully, and smiled for a while: "Yibai has grown up, and I almost didn't recognize it." ”

Cheng Yubai also had a smile on his face: "There are a lot of things, I came to see you until this time, and disturbed your rest, right?" ”

"It doesn't matter, I can't sleep for long, I know my body, it's just a plain life."

Cheng Yubai took a chair and sat on the edge of the bed.

Wang Yu is old, only his voice and appearance are not much different from those in his memory, his eyebrows and eyes are still gentle, and he speaks slowly, with his own rhythm. It turned out that when Cheng Min was still there, he often asked him to learn Wang Yu's calmness, and there were rules for walking, lying and sitting, which was the cultivation engraved in his bones.

He thought and said, "I'll call you a doctor when I get back." ”

Wang Yu couldn't help laughing: "You, you are as smart as when you were a child." ”

It is estimated that she was afraid of asking about her condition, and she was upset in vain, so she said to find him a doctor, this kind of wisdom is the same as playing in the kiln factory area when she was a child, in order to beat away the competitors who came to steal from other kiln factories, she tore her clothes in the pull, and she was afraid that her parents would worry, so she said that the tug-of-war in physical education class was the same, and there was always a kind of proper proportions and thoughtfulness.

After all these years, he still hasn't changed. Wang Yu felt a familiar cordiality, and there was no estrangement between him, and said bluntly: "Silly boy, don't think about it, he is very good to me, and all the doctors he can find have been found." ”

"Then why are you ......?"

"yes, how can someone who is very good to me trap me in a nursing home and not let me have contact with the outside world?"

Wang Yu shook her head and smiled, at her age, half of her body was in the loess, and it can be said that she can be pampered and not shocked by anything. At the beginning, Zhu Rong used her wealth to walk around, using the Magnolia Mansion as a fig leaf, and doing some things that could not be seen by people, she turned a blind eye and passed, but she really didn't expect that his hand would reach the sky.

From private auctions to antique fakes, he is getting bigger and bigger. She was afraid that if she continued like this, as Wang Yu's husband, he would ruin the reputation of the Wang family, so she had to come forward to stop it, but Zhu Rong couldn't stop it. Not only did he not listen to persuasion, but he also controlled her, after all, she was in the nursing home all the year round, and she didn't like to go out and walk around, her life had not changed much from before, but she usually had to be reported to Zhu Rong by the little nurses around her one by one when she contacted people.

Zhu Rong came to see her a while ago, and she heard him talking on the phone, talking about the eighteenth auction, the number of imitations was amazing, and she was frightened, so she had to ask the nurse to help send the invitation letter out.

"The little girl is also a solid eye, I said that my days are not long, I want to see an old friend again, she couldn't resist my request and agreed. Fortunately, the invitations to the Magnolia Mansion are all hand-painted, and the design of the card cover is also what I thought, so it is not difficult to make two identical ones. ”

All she could think of and rest assured was Cheng Yubai and Wu Yi, a friend of the architect she had contacted by phone.

"I know that he is your teacher, and he has a great influence on your current reform practice."

Speaking of which, Cheng Yubai had a general understanding of Wang Yu's situation. The so-called control did not cut off her understanding of the outside world, so she could let the little nurse accurately send the invitation letter to Wu Yi and him. Wang Yu also said that her original intention was to draw their attention to the auction of the Magnolia Mansion, and it was best to intimidate Zhu Rong.

She didn't expect that Cheng Yubai would get the evidence.

"Yibai, I'm sorry, I didn't contact you when I came back three years ago, and now I need help to pull you into the water, this matter is Aunt Wang's unkindness."

"Don't say that, after all, everyone outside knows that I don't deal with Zhu Rong, even if you don't have a previous friendship, you should look for me."

Wang Yu pointed at him: "You, you're still the same naughty." ”

Cheng Yubai also smiled: "Besides, you have helped me a lot before, and I will not stand idly by if you have anything." ”

He found Zhao Qi and learned what Zhu Rong and Xu Zhengnan did, so he also guessed the clue of the invitation. That day in the theater, he specially waited until Xu Zhengnan left before telling Zhu Rong that he wanted to see her.

Zhu Rong saw that the matter was revealed, and did not stop it again. It's just that his overly relieved attitude still makes Cheng Yubai have more eyes. He waited until the proposal was passed before he dared to come to see Wang Yu.

Wang Yu said sincerely: "Yibai, thank you, you are as kind as your father." ”

"Kindness? What a rarity. Aunt Wang, I won't tell you anything, you are the only person who has said that I am kind for so many years. ”

Wang Yu was stunned for a moment, and then guessed the beginning and the end: "You, walking a tightrope on the cliff has won more than 10 million people, and you don't have to take the evaluation of the outside world to heart." ”

I want Cheng Min to open a hundred porcelain factories back then, adhere to teaching practice, and use book knowledge to guide the factory, why not override public opinion? Later, how many times did he reform the system to merge and integrate private factories, and how much pressure did he have to keep Baicai? In any era, there are pioneers who belong to that era.

For example, Cheng Min.

For example, Yang Guosheng.

"You were still young at the time, probably didn't know, Yang Lao has a good heart, the top ten porcelain factories have declined, and there are many laid-off workers who have become the directors of the Chunyuan Porcelain Association. After Cheng Min's death, Yang Lao often sighed that people went to tea and cool, with your father did so many good things during his lifetime, he had a good reputation inside and out, but the debtor still stepped through the threshold of your family, and no one reached out to help. He is a lot older than Cheng Min, and the two have a good relationship, but he also has many difficulties in running the Porcelain Association, coupled with the economic recession, he is short of money, and he can not give much help. ”

Even so, in the envelope she once brought, there was also Yang Guosheng's heart.

Wang Yu said that at that time, most of the organizations of the Porcelain Association did not refine the classification, making porcelain, calligraphy, painting, and art categories were all stewed in a pot, and she and several other painting girls also joined the Porcelain Association, so they met Yang Lao, and then knew Yang Lao's apprentice Zhu Rong.

But she didn't expect that Yang Guosheng would be planted in the hands of a female painter in his later years.

And she and Zhu Rong are also estranged because of this.

"I know that he is dissatisfied with me, and he is the only one who has to carry the strength of the porcelain association and needs the support of my family. Later, I went abroad to develop, he stayed in China, although we are husband and wife, but for many years together less and more apart, to say how deep the relationship is is that it is a lie, only I choose him, and I have a reason. Before Yang Lao's accident, he had always been a very good person. ”

When Cheng Yubai heard this, he corrected his color slightly.

Wang Yu said: "Yibai, no one is born a bad person, for the sake of Yang Lao's love for helping your family, pull him a hand and give him a chance to reform himself, okay?" ”

Cheng Yubai said how could Zhu Rong be so relieved to let him come to see Wang Yu, it turned out that he was waiting for him here. No wonder Wang Yu was not surprised to see him at night, presumably Zhu Rong had already come to see through the wind. He expected that Wang Yu would not harm him, and since he pushed Wang Yu out as a lobbyist, is Cheng Yubai a clay man who can be manipulated by others?

"Aunt Wang, I think in your eyes, I am indeed a very kind person, otherwise how could you ask me for help when you are afraid that he will be too wrong to turn back? Only although I am Cheng Min's son, but not Cheng Min, he is kind and soft-hearted, I won't. Cheng Yubai said, "Aunt Wang, I'm sorry, it seems that I'm going to disappoint you." ”

Wang Yu was not angry, only smiled lightly: "I said that you haven't changed, don't you still admit it?" Your temperament is exactly the same as when you were a child, and your bones are beaten with iron and can't be bent easily. ”

"Aunt Wang, you told me so much, just let me let him go with my old feelings. But if I let him go today, will he let me go? ”

He pinched Zhu Rong's seven inches, so that he was able to take the reform one step forward. For this step, he planned for several years, and thought about it with great difficulty, day and night, and it was difficult to speak. Although Wang Yu did not say it explicitly, he knew that they wanted the evidence in his hands.

He didn't know what ecstasy soup Zhu Rong poured into her, and he didn't want to ask more about the affairs between their husband and wife, he only knew that once he handed it over, he would undoubtedly cut himself off.

There was no way he could compromise.

Zhu Rong also guessed it, and gave Wang Yu an idea early. Wang Yu, and Zhu Rong as a husband and wife, have never seen him bow low and be a small soft child, so he must have learned a lesson this time. Since he said that he would change his ways, why not believe him once?

"The teaching experiment has started in the ninth place, and the site is still under construction, right? According to the construction period, it will take at least three months to complete. Yibai, do you want to wait for three months for the construction to be completed before starting teaching? Not afraid to wait and wait, the plan can't keep up with the changes? ”

Cheng Yubai pretended not to hear, got up and dressed, and put on gloves: "It's too late today, I'll leave first." Aunt Wang, I'll come to see you another day. ”

"What do you think of the Magnolia Mansion?"

Cheng Yubai's footsteps paused slightly, but he still opened the door.

"I originally planned to wait for him to stop and donate the Magnolia Mansion. Now think about it, instead of donating to relevant institutions to make the mansion fall into ashes, how about giving you ceramic teaching? This mansion began a hundred years ago, when the great-grandfather of the Cheng family taught on the grass in front of the mansion, not only devoted his life to the reform of the porcelain industry, but also cultivated a large number of students with advanced ceramic science knowledge and high skills, who later spread all over the ceramic industry, creating a prosperous era. The ancestors of the Cheng family scattered all their wealth for this, accumulated hard work and became ill, and when they died, they didn't even have the money to deal with the aftermath. ”

Wang Yu said that the ancient pottery institute is still preserved in the mansion, and the teaching materials from a hundred years ago have not been lost, all of which are in the mansion library. This elder, who once projected a beam of light in his dark life, said in a gentle tone: "Yibai, after a hundred years, the children of the Cheng family are teaching ancient ceramics in the same place, just this name, your teaching practice is already half successful, right?" With these valuable documents, it will also be instructive for you to innovate and weigh between old and new teaching...... Isn't this the significance of your implementation of the Baicai reform? ”

Cheng Yubai put down his hand and secretly clenched his fists.

"Didn't you say when you were a child, I hope I can carry forward the Baicai Porcelain Factory?"

"Yibai, I'm very glad that you are the same as when you were a child, nothing has changed, it's just that time has changed, the world is changing, and we have to look forward. So far, Zhu Rong is still my husband. ”

Cheng Yubai closed his eyes, and the scene in the snow, Liu Hong's back, Xu Qing's shout, and the miracle of love and peace came to mind...... Those tormented moments, never let him go, right?

The area around Feiyun Street is still lively, Cheng Yubai didn't want to go home, wandered around in the car, and unconsciously came to the fat man's former shop, the store was still there, only someone else was changed to operate it, and it became a noodle restaurant. At this time, it was already two o'clock in the morning, and the light was still on by the window, so he hesitated for a moment, got out of the car and knocked on the door.

After a while, the boss hurriedly ran over from the back kitchen, opened the door and said, "Eat noodles?" ”

"Is it closed?"

"We're not closing."

Cheng Yubai was slightly surprised, and entered the store under the enthusiastic reception of the boss. The noodle shop not only has noodles, but also makes small stir-frying, and the cash register is moved from the inside to the door, and the tables and chairs are all left over from the fat man, and the pattern has not changed much.

Cheng Yubai took a look, it was still the original taste, and the people also relaxed.

The boss brought him the menu and introduced, "Do you want to eat spicy or light?" We have it here, I don't know what to eat, I can think of it for you. ”

Cheng Yubai smiled: "Then let's do it casually." ”

"Okay." The boss saw that he looked around the store from time to time, maybe he was a regular customer here, so he said, "When we signed the contract with Shangjia, we promised that they would make a noodle restaurant that would not be closed 24 hours a day. ”

The boss said that there was another person who wanted to sell barbecue in the store at that time, to meet the requirements of 24-hour non-closure, but the pattern was to change.

Cheng Yubai was flipping through the menu when he heard the action here.

I asked him why, and he said he had a few good friends in the city who always came to him late at night. He hoped that after he left, these friends would have a place to rest and stop to catch their breath. ”

The boss said, "What a heart, it must be a good friend, right?" ”

Cheng Yu's eyes blinked, and tears slid down. He immediately got up and rushed the door, and the boss asked him in the back if he didn't eat noodles? He hurried his steps into the depths of the snowy night.