Director Zhao takes his wife and son home to celebrate the New Year with his parents every year on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and this year is no exception, carrying a large bag of New Year's goods, followed by his wife, who walks to his parents' house with a bouncing son. After arriving home, Director Zhao's wife and mother began to work on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Director Zhao took the opportunity to walk out of the house and prepare to take a walk on the mountain road.
Taking a walk on the mountain road during the Chinese New Year is an action prescribed by Director Zhao, and it is also a secret buried in his heart, because this road is a road that he often walks hand in hand when he and his first love Xiaofang are in love, but after the two broke up, Director Zhao has walked for 12 years and has never met Xiaofang. Director Zhao hopes to meet Xiaofang, explain the reason for the breakup, give Xiaofang some financial compensation, and comfort his guilt and anxiety.
Although Director Zhao didn't have much hope to meet Xiaofang, I heard from his parents and people in the village that after Director Zhao and Xiaofang broke up, Xiaofang went out to develop and never went home, plus he didn't meet for 12 years, and he couldn't meet Xiaofang this year, but Director Zhao still walked to that mountain road as if he was used to walking the mountain road.
When Director Zhao walks up the mountain road, he will think of the scene when he fell in love with Xiaofang and broke up. The two from elementary school, junior high school to high school, have always been classmates in the same village, junior high school and high school in the town, although the two did not go home hand in hand, but also went home one after the other, although there is no clear relationship, but they both know that the two are in love, this relationship, or Director Zhao's uncle broke it.
One Sunday afternoon, Director Zhao's uncle asked Director Zhao to follow his car to school, so as not to crowd the village bus. Director Zhao's uncle said, don't you want to take the shuttle bus with Xiaofang to school if you don't take my car, Director Zhao's face was flushed at that time. After Director Zhao's uncle took Director Zhao to school by the way, he would ask him to call Xiaofang, and the love between the two of them became an open secret of the two families.
But after graduating from university, Xiaofang failed three public examinations, while Director Zhao passed once. Director Zhao's parents began to dislike Xiaofang, thinking that there was a gap between the identities of the two, so they took off their shoes early and broke up as soon as possible, but Director Zhao still insisted on his attitude and always maintained a relationship with Xiaofang. When Director Zhao was the head of the unit, Xiaofang was still working in a private enterprise, and at this time, whether it was Director Zhao's friends or Xiaofang herself, they all felt that there was a gap between the two. At that time, there happened to be a business owner who introduced his daughter to Director Zhao, and in fact, he used the economy to lure Director Zhao to marry his daughter, and Director Zhao could not afford to buy a house in the city at that time, and the house was very attractive to Director Zhao. Coupled with the repeated persuasion of Director Zhao's parents, Director Zhao's relationship with Xiaofang was shaken and proposed to Xiaofang to break up. Since then, Xiaofang has left her hometown to develop in other places.
After the two broke up, there were some rumors that reached Director Zhao's ears at first, and the villagers said that Xiao Fang cried a lot after they broke up, Xiao Fang's parents not only did not comfort Xiao Fang, but also slapped Xiao Fang, so that Xiao Fang could fight for anger and not shed tears, they borrowed all the money from relatives to let Xiao Fang go out to develop, so that Xiao Fang must come back to get ahead; When Director Zhao heard these news, he felt very guilty in his heart, hoping that meeting Xiaofang could comfort Xiaofang spiritually and make up for Xiaofang financially. As time passed, Director Zhao never heard from Xiaofang again.
Since then, Director Zhao has always had a bank card with 20,000 yuan in his pocket, and he will walk on the mountain road every year, hoping to meet Xiaofang by chance, explain the reason for the breakup, and then hand over a bank card of 20,000 yuan to comfort his guilt and anxiety about the breakup. When Director Zhao walked halfway up the mountain and saw a big rock, he was secretly snickering, when he was on summer vacation in his first year of high school, the two wanted to meet, but also worried that they would be seen by their families and villagers, so they secretly made an appointment on the mountain road, because it had just rained and it was muddy, the mountain road was very slippery, Xiaofang accidentally fell and was covered in mud. Director Zhao had no choice but to take off his clothes and put them on Xiao Fang, and then took Xiao Fang's clothes to the stream to wash, and hung the clothes on this big stone, and at that time Director Zhao had a layer of skin on his back.
Director Zhao continued to walk along the mountain road, and there was a sound of talking from the top of the mountain, and the voice of one of the women reached Director Zhao's ears, the voice was very familiar, and Director Zhao walked up the stairs quickly. As Director Zhao expected, two men and a woman stood on the mountain road and pointed, accounting for the cost and measuring the width. They are Secretary Shi and Xiaofang in the village, and a gay man is Boss Zheng of an engineering company.
When Secretary Shi saw Director Zhao coming, he hurriedly greeted Director Zhao politely, and at the same time looked at Xiaofang. Director Zhao asked Secretary Shi what he was doing, but his eyes looked at Xiaofang. Secretary Shi said that Xiaofang is now a big boss, and he has made a lot of money in recent years, and he is ready to spend 10 million to build this road, so he invited Boss Zheng of the engineering company to account for it, and Secretary Shi introduced to Director Zhao that this is Boss Zheng.
"Xiaofang has made a fortune, thinking about doing something for the village, admiration, admiration!" Director Zhao said as he stretched out his hand to Xiaofang.
Xiaofang held Director Zhao's hand and said with a smile, "I want to do something for the village, change the mud road to a cement road, make it easier for the villagers to travel, and I also want to draw a full stop for myself, the road of life is still very long, I can't because the mountain road is too slippery, I am worried that I will fall, and I have not dared to take the mountain road, and I will not slip if it is repaired!"
Director Zhao suddenly felt that his previous guilt and uneasiness seemed to be a joke.