The mountains on both sides of the Wuxiu Reservoir Dam are all sandstone.
This kind of rock is water-resistant, like a sponge, absorbs water, but is not easy to be brittle. For generations to come, it will neither wear nor deform. It is one of the best stones for building roadbeds.
Stonemasons like this kind of stone best. Because it is effortless to carve. The carved stone can be seamlessly jointed without anything between the two pieces.
When building new houses in Maoshan in the past, this kind of stone was the most popular as the cornerstone of the house.
Xu Yishan carried the lunch prepared by Yao Qing for her husband and Xu Chijiao, and under Yao Qing's guidance, he easily found the two old men who were mining stones.
Xu Chijiao suddenly saw his son, his eyes widened in surprise, and he asked in a daze, "Why are you here?"
In the cold winter of March 9th, two old men were mining stones with thin clothes but sweating profusely. Xu Yishan felt sour in his heart, his voice choked up.
"Uncle Cao, dad, what are you doing?" He went over and snatched the tools from their hands, pointed at the food box and said, "Eat quickly, eat."
Cao Han grinned and asked Xu Chijiao: "Old Xu, is this your son?"
Xu Barefoot also grinned, "Yes, my son is called Xu Yishan."
"I know Yishan. The cadres of our county water conservancy bureau. We have known each other for many years. But I really didn't know he was your son." Cao Han greeted Xu Chijiao carelessly, "Old Xu, come and eat, While it's hot."
Xu Bajiao smiled and said: "Old Cao, you eat yours, but I won't eat it. Didn't I tell your wife a long time ago, don't cook for me. I don't eat."
"You've really become a fairy. Haven't you eaten yet?" Cao Han sat cross-legged on a rock, greeted Xu Yishan and said, "Yishan, I heard that you have become a high-ranking official outside. You big man Officer, when will the Wuxiu Reservoir dam be repaired?"
Xu Yishan said with a sneer: "Uncle Cao, who did you hear that I became a high-ranking official? Am I not just a commoner? I haven't been a high-ranking official."
Cao Han chuckled, "You can still hide it from me? Yishan, although Uncle Cao has retired for many years, he still knows a little about the outside world. I have already seen that you are not an ordinary person."
He took a mouthful of rice into his mouth, chewed it a few times, and stopped chewing. His expression became sluggish, and he said sadly: "If my family's Chaoyang is half as good as yours, I will die and rest in peace."
Cao Han is very clear about the situation of his son Cao Chaoyang.
After Cao Chaoyang was arrested, his wife quickly divorced him. Since Cao Chaoyang was still in prison, he naturally lost custody of his children.
"A person's whole life, as long as one heart is placed in the middle, one will be immune to all poisons. Yishan, I want to ask you, what is the current situation of my Chaoyang family?"
Xu Yishan really didn't know Cao Chaoyang's current situation.
All he knew was that Cao Chaoyang was prosecuted for negligence of duty, and he had no idea what the verdict would be.
"The little bastard deserves it, he deserves it." Cao Han suddenly yelled, "I have persuaded him a long time ago, don't believe the lies of the Huang family. He refused to listen, but you saw it too. This bastard's life is over."
Cao Han looked at Xu Chijiao who was sitting on the side, and said with a wry smile: "Xu Chijiao, today's opportunity is just right, in front of your son, let me tell you the secret. The bell and drum on Wuxiu Mountain you mentioned is the one that was picked up by Huang Huang." The family stole it."
"Huangshan." Cao Han said with a wry smile, "It's my house that doesn't live up to expectations. At that time, the youngest son of Huangshan wanted to play bells and drums, but I stopped him. The bells and drums on Wuxiu Mountain are cultural relics with a history of thousands of years. We As I said before, whoever dares to make a decision, I will fight to the end with this old life. Sigh!"
He sighed again, "People, you can fear neither the sky nor the earth, but people. Because people have greed."
Cao Han described that after the dam break of Wuxiu Reservoir, Huang Daling, the youngest son of Huangshan, visited the reservoir management office several times. He wanted Cao Chaoyang to bring down the bells and drums from Wuxiu Mountain, and he was willing to pay a high price for it.
Cao Chaoyang rejected Huang Daling's request, but acquiesced that Huang Daling took people away in the middle of the night to remove the bells and drums.
Cao Han said that after he learned that the bell and drum had been stolen, he went to the county to report the crime, but was stopped by his son Cao Chaoyang.
Cao Chaoyang analyzed that even if he goes to report the case, it is hard to say whether the police will file the case. But it clearly offended Huang Daling. If Huang Daling offends, his family will be hard to get along in Maoshan.
Cao Chaoyang's worry was not unreasonable. When Maoshan was still in Huangshan's hands, let alone trouble his son, just say something that offended him, and his family would soon be in misery.? go in.
The result of Cao Chaoyang opening and closing his eyes was that he got the position of mayor of Hongshan Town.
"The current society is too dark." Cao Han sighed: "In our era, his son would have been shot to death more than ten times."
He suddenly looked at Xu Yishan with flickering eyes and said, "Yishan, you are the most down-to-earth cadre I have come into contact with. You are upright, brave, and wise. The future of Maoshan is in the hands of a cadre like you. Enough."
Xu Yishan smiled lightly, and said: "Uncle Cao, we don't talk about these things. I came here today to find my father. I want to have a few words with my father now."
"Okay, okay, you father and son said." Cao Han laughed and said: "Old Xu, don't do it again today, let's call it a day."
Regardless of Xu Barefoot's obstruction, he left alone with his things.
Xu Barefoot saw that he was leaving, so he wanted to leave too.
Xu Yishan stopped his father and said, "Father, where are you going?"
"I'm going back to the mountain."
"Which mountain to go back to?"
"Mount Wuxiu." Xu Chijiao smiled and said, "I have rebuilt the stone house of the old monk Wuxiu and put a roof on it. Now the wind and rain can't blow, it's very good."
Xu Yishan couldn't laugh or cry: "Father, why are you bothering? You have a home and don't go back, but you are like a savage outside. Others know, and say that I, Xu Yishan, don't support my parents. I am an unfilial son."
"The mouth grows on other people's faces. If other people want to say that, let them say it. Why do you care about him?"
"But I can't let you be displaced like this. I am your son. I can see you living such a life?"
"Isn't it good that I look like this?" Xu Chijiao smiled lightly and said, "Yishan, don't worry about me. I just feel good."
"You have to go home with me." Xu Yishan said forcefully: "Father, I beg you. You and mother will help me take care of Xu Fan from now on. I understand you, but your idea of ??cultivating immortals is just a joke. "
Xu Chijiao's face sank and said: "What joke? Stop talking nonsense in front of me. You will be your official, and I will cultivate my immortality. Well water does not violate river water."
"But, you are my father." Xu Yishan pleaded: "Father, wake up, it is impossible for a mortal to become a fairy. It is all a myth."
Xu Barefoot snorted and ignored his son.
Xu Yishan quickly adopted an emotional offensive, "Father, mother thinks about you so much that she cries every day, and she is going to lose her eyesight. You just have the heart to let my mother cry and be blinded."
Xu Bajiao laughed, "This is an old woman, you go back and tell your mother not to miss me. Father will go back and take mother over after passing this test."
"Take over and live with you in the stone house in Wuxiu Mountain?"
"Can't?"
"Of course not." Xu Yishan complained: "Father, you are going to rub your son's face on the ground. If you are like this, we will not have the face to face others in the future."
"Whether you see people or not is your business, I don't care. Go back, I'm leaving too."
After Xu Barefoot finished speaking, he got up and walked towards the reservoir.
Xu Yishan followed closely behind, he was still hoping to persuade his father to let him go back with him.
But no matter what he said, Xu Chijiao seemed to be deaf, and would not answer his words.
Arriving at the side of the reservoir, Xu Yishan was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him.