Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

1974, Summer, Capital

A few days ago, a couple in their fifties and a girl in their early twenties came to the Ye family. When the couple saw Tao Chunlan, they said that the younger girl was her biological daughter. Ye Fan, the daughter Tao Chunlan had raised for twenty-five years, had no blood relationship with her. In fact, Ye Fan was the couple's daughter. They gave birth to the child in the same hospital as Tao Chunlan, but by mistake they took the wrong child.

Tao Chunlan almost fainted from anger.

Because of this incident, Tao Chunlan is no longer in the same condition as before. Her usually straight shoulders are hunched, her eyeballs are bloodshot, and she needs to hold on to the armrests when sitting on the sofa.

"Fanfan, what do you think?" Tao Chunlan looked at the daughter she had raised with great difficulty. She didn't want her to be caught in a dilemma, but the hope in her eyes revealed her true thoughts.

Ye Fan only has one mother in his life, Comrade Tao Chunlan. As for these two who suddenly appeared, Ye Fan would not recognize them.

Because Ye Fan is no longer Ye Fan.

The current Ye Fan originally grew up in the 21st century, a small town student who did homework. In the big city, she got a car, a house, and her savings, and died suddenly. The moment she lost consciousness, Ye Fan regretted it very much. If there is an afterlife, she will take care of her body and live well.

Then Ye Fan came back to life.

The good news is that Ye Fan is a dozen years younger and lives in the body of an 18-year-old girl. The bad news is that he travels back half a century to the 1960s, when the college entrance examination was suspended. Ye Fan has three options: join the army, go to the countryside, or get married.

When Ye Fan was young, she was weak. Tao Chunlan spent a lot of money and effort to make her healthy. During this period, Tao Chunlan, who had always been a staunch atheist, changed her original name "Ye Fan" to "Ye Fan", hoping that the God of Hell would be annoyed with Ye Fan and not compete with her for his daughter. How could he bear to send her to the army? Tao Chunlan was reluctant to let her go to the countryside to do farm work, so she suggested that they get engaged first and wait for a few years until the situation had not changed before getting married.

Xiao Ye Fan thought that if others could build the four modernizations, she could do the same, and she wanted to go to the sparsely populated and barren areas. Tao Chunlan's lips were worn out, but Ye Fan still wanted to go to the countryside, and Tao Chunlan got angry and locked her in the house.

At that time, Tao Chunlan's husband was in the army, her son and daughter-in-law lived in the unit, and there were only Tao Chunlan and little Ye Fan at home. Tao Chunlan had to work, and she thought that there was food in the house and Ye Fan would not starve, so she ignored it. When Ye Fan stopped making trouble, Tao Chunlan opened the door, and the food was untouched. Ye Fan's lips were pale and he was very weak. Tao Chunlan was so concerned that she didn't realize that this Ye Fan was already the same Ye Fan.

Tao Chunlan was afraid of losing her daughter and was ready to compromise, but Ye Fan admitted his mistake first. Tao Chunlan suspected that her daughter was retreating and looking for an opportunity to escape, but Ye Fan said something very realistic, she fainted from hunger after not eating for a few meals, and if the village encountered floods and droughts and needed to cut back on food, she would starve to death in a foreign land.

As soon as Tao Chunlan saw that her daughter had finally grown up, she immediately arranged a blind date for her.

Two years later, Ye Fan got married and her husband went to the army. Tao Chunlan was worried that Ye Fan would not be able to get used to living in her husband's home, so she took her daughter back home.

This stay lasted for five years.

A few days ago, Ye Fan's husband wrote to say that he was now at the regimental level, and that his unit had a family quarters, so Ye Fan could follow the troops, and that he would come to pick up his wife and children on his leave. However, Ye Fan's husband had not yet returned, and the real Ye Fan had returned.

The real Ye Fan is now called Chen Xiaohui, and she grew up in Shanghai near the Huangpu River.

When Chen Xiaohui arrived in the capital, Ye Fan learned that Tao Chunlan and her husband had stayed in Shanghai for several years before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Chen Xiaohui came with her adoptive parents, who were also the biological parents of Ye Fan's body.

On the day Ye Fan's biological mother arrived, she said that she and Tao Chunlan gave birth on the same day and in the same hospital. Her husband was busy with work and in a hurry he took the wrong baby.

The fact that they had "raised the wrong child" came as a bolt from the blue to Tao Chunlan and Ye Fan, who were both at a loss as to what to do.

Tao Chunlan asked the three members of the Chen family to stay first, and notified her husband, son and daughter-in-law to come back to discuss countermeasures. During this time, Ye Fan calmed down. In her previous life, she was born in the millennium. In the 21st century, there were many parents in rural areas who threw away their children who were weak and sick. Little Ye Fan was the same age as the Republic. It was an era when it was difficult to get good things even if you had money. If you don't have money to support a pregnant woman and want a girl, what else is cheaper than changing it?

So Ye Fan suspected that it was a malicious swap. Malicious swaps sound good, and the weak Ye Fan was actually the abandoned one. But this was just a guess, and Ye Fan didn't tell anyone, and decided to wait and see what happened.

Besides, Ye Fan's father and brother and sister-in-law all thought it was ridiculous when they first received the call. When they got home today and saw Chen Xiaohui's appearance, she looked a lot like Tao Chunlan when she was young, and the three of them were silent.

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Hearing Tao Chunlan's words, Ye Fan first smiled and comforted Tao Chunlan, then comforted her biological mother: "This matter is not as serious as we thought. Mom——"

The adoptive mother and biological mother looked at Ye Fan at the same time.

Even though Ye Fan was mentally prepared for all kinds of situations that he might encounter in the future, he couldn't help but smile bitterly when facing this scene. Suddenly, two mothers, what was this?

Ye Fan thought for a moment and said to his biological mother, "I call you mother, and you also call me mom. Just because you gave birth to me doesn't mean you don't want to raise my parents."

Tao Chunlan nodded with great satisfaction. Ye Fan's mother smiled and nodded: "I'll listen to you." She looked at Chen Xiaohui beside her, "Xiaohui said the same thing."

The day Chen Xiaohui first arrived at the Ye family, she avoided Ye Fan's eyes and didn't dare to look him in the eye. She was still very concerned about her adoptive parents, as if she had made a mistake with the child and that Tao Chunlan was the one who had wronged her. This inability to distinguish right from wrong made Ye Fan feel bad about Chen Xiaohui. Hearing this, Ye Fan couldn't help but look at Chen Xiaohui. Chen Xiaohui raised her drooping head and slightly raised her chin, looking quite arrogant and complacent.

Ye Fan really couldn't understand why she was so proud of this, so she decided to put it aside for now: "Don't worry about whether I should stay at the Ye family or go back to the Chen family. I've been married for a long time, and my husband will be home tomorrow - maybe this afternoon, and I'll go to the army with him." Ye Fan had already decided to follow the army, and she would go even if Chen Xiaohui didn't show up, "When I leave, Xiaohui will just take over my job -"

"I don't want to take your job." Chen Xiaohui interrupted.

Ye Fan frowned. When did she say "rob"? "My colleagues can't share the work. After I leave, they will have to find someone else even if you don't go. It's better to give it to our own people than to let outsiders take advantage of it."

Tao Chunlan agreed: "Fanfan is right." She asked Ye Fan's biological mother: "What do you think?"

Ye Fan's biological mother's first reaction was to look at Chen Xiaohui.

Ye Fan's sister-in-law raised her eyebrows slightly. Is Chen Xiaohui the same as Ye Fan? She thought Chen Xiaohui was shy because she was taciturn. Ye Fan's sister-in-law tried to smooth things over: "Fan Fan's work is tedious, Xiaohui may not like it. Mom, aunt, let's see what Xiaohui thinks first."

Chen Xiaohui doesn’t know.

The Ye family has connections. Before coming here, Chen Xiaohui had thought that Ye Fan had a job, but she didn't expect Ye Fan to be so easy to do and give up his iron rice bowl. She also didn't expect Ye Fan to stay away from the Ye family, which caught her off guard and made her confused.

Ye's parents had never met Chen Xiaohui before, but Chen Xiaohui was very familiar with them. Based on her understanding of Ye's parents, it was impossible for them to let Ye Fan marry a soldier. Not to mention the separation of husband and wife, in this era, the north is not peaceful, the south is not peaceful, the sky is not peaceful, and there are also situations on the sea. Every soldier may be sacrificed. Ye's parents were reluctant to let Ye Fan be a widow at such a young age.

The current Ye Fan was different from the Ye Fan in her memory. It took Chen Xiaohui a while to react: "I, haven't thought about it yet--"

Sister Ye Fan asked, "Haven't you decided what to do?"

Chen Xiaohui said subconsciously: "No! I-I didn't think about settling in the capital. I originally planned to see what my parents who gave birth to me look like and then go back." Traveling thousands of miles from Shanghai to the capital, just to see each other, without any purpose, is it possible? Ye Fan didn't believe it: "You have a job in Shanghai?"

Ye Fan's biological mother blurted out: "No!"

She wanted to stay in Shencheng even without a job. Did Chen Xiaohui have such a good relationship with the Chen family? Did she know that the two of them were maliciously swapped by the Chen family? Ye Fan tended to think that she didn't know. If she were Chen Xiaohui, she would not kill Chen's parents, but would cut off relations with them immediately and send them to the public security bureau.

Ye Fan suspected that the Chen family had slandered the Ye family to Chen Xiaohui, which led to Chen Xiaohui still being closer to her adoptive parents so far: "Since there is no such thing, what are you worried about?"

Tao Chunlan also didn't understand why Chen Xiaohui would stay in Shencheng when the Ye family's conditions were obviously much better than the Chen family's. She would only be an unemployed vagrant if she stayed in Shencheng, but she would have everything if she came back. "Xiaohui, are you worried that we would bully you?"

Chen Xiaohui hurriedly clarified when she heard that she was about to be misunderstood: "No, no, it's true, my household registration is in Shanghai, and the household registration is strictly controlled now. Ye Fan's household registration is here, can I still move here?"

Worried about this? Ye Fan smiled and comforted: "Don't worry. My household registration is not here."

"Not here?" Chen Xiaohui was surprised, "But don't you live here?"

Ye Fan: "My household registration is at my parents-in-law's house."

Ye Fan's mother couldn't help but ask: "Your household registration is at your parents-in-law's house, and Xiaohui's household registration is moved here, then won't we have no daughter?"

Ye Fan: “…”

What kind of brain? No wonder she could think of such a vicious and stupid trick as changing the child. Ye Fan resisted the urge to kick her biological mother out: "Even if Xiaohui doesn't move here, she won't get married in the future? Even if she doesn't get married, she needs to transfer her household registration to work. According to you, once Xiaohui leaves home, you will not recognize this daughter?"

Sister-in-law Ye Fan was also annoyed with Ye Fan's biological mother. Not to mention that Ye Fan was already married, there was no need to move her household registration back. Just because the Chen family got the wrong child, they couldn't just change it whenever they wanted. Sister-in-law Ye Fan said angrily, "You need to transfer your household registration to the countryside when you go to the countryside. Have you been treating Xiaohui as if you didn't have this daughter all these years?"

Ye Fan's mother realized that she had said something wrong: "What I meant is that Ye Fan and Xiao Hui are both in the capital, and it will be difficult for us to meet in the future."

Ye Fan wanted to sneer. It was more convenient to go from Shencheng to the capital than from Shencheng to the countryside. As far as she knew, the place where Chen Xiaohui was sent to work in the countryside was thousands of miles away from Shencheng. Why didn't her biological mother mention that Chen Xiaohui had been sent to the countryside for these years? It was difficult for her to see her. Ye Fan was too lazy to talk nonsense with her and asked directly: "Do you want one of me and Xiaohui to stay with you?"

Ye Fan's biological father nodded: "Xiaohui goes back to the Ye family, you must go back to Shencheng with us. Otherwise--" Wouldn't it be a big loss. Ye Fan's biological father felt that this was inappropriate and quickly swallowed it back, "Otherwise, let's make the best of it."

Ye Fan suddenly became furious.

Does her biological father know what he is talking about? It would be fine if Chen Xiaohui was doing well. Chen Xiaohui had no job in Shencheng, and she happened to have a job vacant. In this case, he still asked Chen Xiaohui to stay in Shencheng. Is he a human being?

Ye Fanqi laughed, really giving him face!

What the fuck is waiting and seeing? Go to hell!
Ye Fan asked: "My household registration is at my husband's home. If I move my household registration back to Shanghai, I can only get a divorce. Do you want me to divorce?"

"Is there no other way?" Ye Fan's biological mother looked at Ye's father.

Asking her father to use his privilege to pay for their mistakes? She must be crazy. Ye Fan frowned and said, "He is a soldier and cannot control the local area."

Ye Fan's mother wanted to say something, but when she saw Ye Fan's unhappy face, she could not help but take a step back: "You don't have to move your household registration. But you have to go home with us. Xiaohui comes here, and you don't go back with us. What will our relatives and neighbors think of you——"

Ye Fan asked rudely: "What does it have to do with me?"

Her biological mother choked and looked at Tao Chunlan: "Why is this child speaking so harshly?"

Ye Fan was very annoyed and couldn't help but frown: "You mean my parents raised me crooked? Is it possible that you two are not good people? I was born crooked, and it's not easy for me to grow up like this?"

Chen Xiaohui was dumbfounded. How could she talk to her elders?

Ye Fan's biological mother was having trouble breathing, and her biological father suddenly sat up straight with a tense look on his face. Seeing this, Ye Fan's sister-in-law said, "Fan Fan, stop talking nonsense!"

"I am too lazy to waste time talking to you." Ye Fan was really fed up, looking at the old couple of the Chen family and said, "I didn't want to say it at first. My father was not there when my mother gave birth, and it was normal for a woman who couldn't take care of everything and didn't see what Xiaohui looked like. Are you blind too? You didn't even think about switching back in the past 25 years, but now you can find this place quietly if you want to. Who told you the address of the Ye family? There are so many unreasonable things, do you really think we are stupid if we don't mention them? Are you two the only smart ones in the world?"

Chen Kuanren was so angry that he said, "I'm your father, please be polite when talking to me!"

"Are you worthy?" Ye Fan asked impatiently, "How do you prove that I am your daughter? Or did someone see you taking the wrong child back then?"

Chen Kuanren was speechless: "I I——"

"Get to the point!" Ye Fan said coldly.

Chen Kuanren trembled when he was yelled at.

Tao Chunlan hurriedly comforted him: "Fanfan, please talk nicely--"

Chen Kuanren: “That’s it——”

"Is this the point?" Chen Kuanren swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth. Ye Fan looked at the biological parents and said, "You are the ones who took Xiaohui away by mistake. You should compensate the Ye family. Since you didn't mistreat Xiaohui, let's forget about the money. If I were you, I would immediately ask my mother to go back to Shanghai with Xiaohui and register her household registration."

Chen Kuanren couldn't help but ask: "What about you?"

Ye Fan said bluntly: "I have parents-in-law to serve and children to take care of. I don't have time to go back to Shencheng."

Chen Kuanren: “No!”

(End of this chapter)