Cui Wanshan, Wang Tianxiao's colleague at this forest farm, is an old man in his late twenties.

Cui Wanshan was married once when he was young, but because his family was too poor, his wife ran away with someone else. He heard that she had run away to the south, and he went out to look for her for three years, but to no avail.

After returning, he kept quiet about it and lost all interest in women from then on.

Old Cui is a kind and simple man. His only hobby is raising pigeons, and he keeps a room full of them at home.

When Wang Tianxiao had nothing to do, he would stew a few pigeons with Lao Cui and drink some of their homemade pine nut wine. Sometimes, when they got drunk, the two of them would lie on the ground all night.

Their relationship is extremely close, the closest of all.

When Wang Tianxiao returned home this time, he asked Cui Wanshan to take care of the two dogs. Cui Wanshan himself also has two dogs, and the relationship between people, people and dogs, dogs and people, and dogs and dogs is very close.

Sure enough, as soon as the door opened, the two dogs rushed out and pounced on Cui Wanshan.

Cui Wanshan was dressed in a worn-out blue polyester shirt, with a work coat issued by the forest farm over it, and a cotton hat on his head with the two hood flaps pulled down and tied tightly.

There was a thin layer of white frost on his eyebrows and beard, and his face was reddish-purple from the cold, but his eyes, though cloudy, held a gentle quality that made people feel at ease.

While rubbing the two dogs' heads, he asked Wang Tianxiao with a sheepish grin, "I figured you should be back by now, otherwise the two dogs wouldn't be staying at home and not going out."

"Come in quickly, why are you out so early in the morning?"

The mornings in the mountains are colder than outside because the sun has less power to penetrate, but the nights are relatively later when it gets cold, as the trees also provide insulation.

"Hey, I was worried because I hadn't seen the two dogs all night."

Cui Wanshan didn't stand on ceremony. He entered the house and sat down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed). "These two dogs are your treasures. If something happens to them, how will I explain it to you... Hey, what are you doing? Why are you packing things up?"

Wang Tianxiao said, "I was planning to tell you later, but now that you're here, I'll just tell you while I'm at it. I'm here to tell my company that I'm resigning."

"Resign? That won't do..."

“Old Cui, I’ve made up my mind,” Wang Tianxiao said with a smile. “You know my family situation. It’s not good for me to be away from home all the time. My wife was already struggling to take care of one child, and now our second son is due soon. Without me at home, my wife simply can’t manage.”

"The second son is about to be born, so fast!" Cui Wanshan said with emotion. "If it's really inconvenient, Yali can come and stay here. She can stay here too."

“It’s inconvenient after all,” Wang Tianxiao sighed. “It’s alright for us, we’re tough guys, but it would be too much of a hardship for our wives and kids to live with us in the mountains.”

"That's true," Cui Wanshan agreed, then paused for a moment before realizing, "So you won't come here anymore?"

Wang Tianxiao sensed the reluctance in his old friend's voice and, not knowing what to say to comfort him, could only say, "It's hard to say, but there should still be a chance for him to come and visit."

"Alright then, people should always look on the bright side. Let's not talk about this anymore. Let me tell you, even before you've left, there are already people who can't wait for you to go."

"Is that Liu Jun?"

"It's him. You've gotten a second son, which is against the rules. He'll definitely keep bringing it up. The old farm manager wants to protect you, but he can't stop him from talking nonsense everywhere."

The Liu Jun mentioned by Cui Wanshan was Wang Tianxiao's leader in his previous life.

Originally, the old farm manager liked Wang Tianxiao, thinking that his teacher was capable and had strong professional skills. Even if he couldn't be the son-in-law, it would be good to train him to be the farm manager's successor.

However, Wang Tianxiao, who lacked ambition in his previous life, repeatedly refused the leader's cultivation, which allowed Liu Jun to take advantage of the situation.

After that guy became the field manager, he couldn't stand his old rival. He stripped Wang Tianxiao of all the benefits he was entitled to and even fined him ten months' salary for violating the birth policy.

At that time, Wang Tianxiao was relying on his meager salary to make ends meet. Suddenly losing his income made his already impoverished life even worse, and he almost couldn't make it through.

Later, on one occasion, knowing that it was snowing heavily and extremely dangerous outside, he insisted on having Wang Tianxiao patrol the mountain at night. As a result, Wang Tianxiao slipped off a cliff and fell into icy water, freezing his left leg. From then on, his muscles began to atrophy, and he became a level three disabled person.

He also poisoned Dafeng...

Therefore, to some extent, Liu Jun can be considered an enemy of Wang Tianxiao.

A cruel smile crept across his lips.

There are advantages to being reborn. Often, many things that were once hidden cannot withstand the test of time, and everything will be revealed after the snow melts away.

After the waves recede, the trash on the beach is clearly visible.

Liu Jun, a person with a wicked heart, how could he not have any dirt on him? Putting aside everything else, just his messy affairs with women alone could ruin his career for life.

Liu Jun is from Hexi. He has a wife and children, but he can't stand the loneliness. He has a lover in a mountain village near his workplace, and they have a child together. That woman is also married.

This incident would come to light more than a decade later when the woman came to his door with her child. By then, Liu Jun was the farm manager and managed to suppress the matter by spending some money.

But Wang Tianxiao happened to witness it and learned the whole story.

Based on the timeline, Liu Jun has been with that woman for some time now, and she might even be pregnant.

Hehe~

He chuckled inwardly, thinking, "Now that you've got me, I'm not going to let you get away with this so easily."

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