Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan first refused her father, and then explained that she dared to set up the company because she had her parents' backing.

The word "bottom line" made Father Ye very satisfied, and he said with a smile: "Don't be too tired."

Ye Fan: "I know what's going on. Once you're on the right track, I'll ask Chang Guangrong to keep an eye on you."

Father Ye could tell that she was very confident in this line of work, so he asked tentatively, "Do you want to focus on one line of work?"

"Are you worried that I'm too tired?" Ye Fan asked.

Ye Fan won’t have to go to school in the future. Dabao and Erbao are grown up and don’t need Ye Fan to look after them anymore. Chang Guangrong can share the responsibilities at the computer company, so Ye Fan can focus on the wholesale business without tiring her out.

Ye's father naturally couldn't say "yes", "You are doing wholesale, I always feel like you are exploiting a policy loophole."

Ye Fan laughed: "If you remove the word 'like', can I still blame you for speaking harshly?"

"You know?" Ye's father was surprised.

Ye Fan: "Of course I know. Some people have said that I am a real 'speculator'. But don't worry, I heard that the higher-ups are going to relax policies and regulate the market. In a year or two, private factories will be allowed. Then I will be the first to register a company, pay taxes honestly, and do wholesale legally."

Father Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

Tao Chunlan couldn't help but say, "I told you that Fanfan knew what was going on, but you still didn't believe me."

Ye's father has been in the army for many years and doesn't understand these things. It's inevitable that he doesn't pay attention to the key points: "Just do it if you have the idea. By the way, at the end of August, your brother and sister-in-law will take annual leave, and we will move to the cadre compound."

Ye Fan: "What should I do if Jing Jing goes to school?"

Father Ye thought about the facilities around the compound: "There is a school, not far from you, and close to your brother and sister-in-law's workplace. They can go home for dinner if they are not busy. I don't have to leave the compound if I have a headache or fever, there is a medical clinic in the compound."

Ye Fan: "Zhiye said he will be on vacation in August, so call him then—"

Tao Chunlan interrupted, "No need. Tell your dad to tell his company and they'll send two trucks to take care of the job. Let him have a good rest and spend some time with you. I'll ask Xiaohui to notify you when the house is ready, and you can go over there."

Ye Fan nodded: "Okay." Seeing that Dabao was sleepy, he asked, "Did you stay up late last night?"

"No." Dabao shook his head and leaned on his mother, "I can't sleep because of the heat."

Tao Chunlan also felt that it was unusually hot today. She looked outside and saw that the sun was not glaring but seemed cloudy. After dinner, she urged Ye Fan to take the two children back home.

As soon as Ye Fan walked in, raindrops as big as beans fell on his feet. Yu Wentao couldn't help asking Ye Fan if the people selling clothes outside would get wet.

Ye Fan: "It's not the first time I do business and know where to hide from the rain."

The rain stopped at around four or five o'clock, and around seven o'clock it was no longer sunny outside and the air was fresh. Ye Fan and the two children went to the alley to enjoy the cool air, while Zhang Xiaoming drove Wei Jianshe back.

Ye Fan saw that their clothes and hair were dry: "Didn't you get wet?"

Zhang Xiaoming shook his head: "As soon as I saw the weather was not right, I quickly closed my stall and hid under the viaduct. People without cars won't get wet either. They don't have much stuff, so they can just carry their bags and go to the pavilion in the park to take shelter from the rain."

After Zhang Xiaoming left, the people from Yujia Village also came back, put the remaining clothes at Ye Fan's house, and then took the three-wheeled motorcycle back.

This year, Yu Hongwei was again driving and selling popsicles, and he didn't get wet. Considering that it couldn't be such a coincidence every time, and remembering what his eldest brother said about Ye Fan suggesting that they buy storefronts, he went home and discussed with his father whether they should buy one or two storefronts.

The market has not been opened up yet, so it is easy to buy a storefront if the rent is not enough. But the good locations are expensive, and Uncle Yu saved money for two years but still couldn't afford to buy one.

The next morning, when selling vegetables, Yu Xiaojiu went to Ye Fan's house to ask for Ye Fan's opinion. Ye Fan's opinion was, of course, to take it first.

Uncle Yu and Uncle Yu looked at the house and calculated the cost but were not happy. When Yu Wentao's cousins ​​learned about this, they said they would buy it. Yu Wentao's cousins ​​thought that they would not lose money if they listened to Ye Fan.

When the two brothers of the Yu family saw that their cousin wanted to buy a house, they immediately bought one each.

There were very few stores selling the goods one by one, so Yu Wentao's cousins ​​had to go to another city district to look for them. Fortunately, they found a few and each family member shared one, otherwise the families would definitely have been resentful about this matter.

When Dong Ying heard about this, she asked her brother and sister-in-law to borrow money again and set up two shops on the street behind Ye Fan's house. She planned to work at the school for a year and then quit her job to run the shops.

At the beginning of August, several houses were completed, and Ye Fan was the only one left in his family. Ye Fan asked Geng Zhiqin to accompany the whole family to Yang Mengxia's house to escape the summer heat. Ye Fan gave Yu Wentao 200 yuan to rent a house, and gave Huihui and Dabao 200 yuan each to save for food and buying train tickets.

Ye Fan did not say in the telegram that only she should go. Yang Mengxia was shocked when she met the person at the train station.

Huihui laughed and explained that she didn't need to trouble her aunt for food and lodging, as her aunt had paid for it.

Yang Mengxia's house was spacious and could accommodate the whole family, so she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Yu Wentao was afraid that her eldest brother would not want to come at first. But as the train went south, it became cooler and she had to wear a thick coat when getting off the train. Yu Wentao instantly fell in love with this place.

Dabao and Erbao were sorry that they couldn't play on the computer, but when they arrived in Guizhou, they felt more comfortable than in the spring and autumn in the capital. They couldn't help but hug Yang Mengxia's arm and asked, "Auntie, is it this comfortable every year?"

Yang Mengxia nodded: "Come back next year?"

Dabao: "I will wait for the admission letter at home next year - by the way, you can ask my mom to wait at home and we will come over. Auntie, did Sen Sen take the college entrance examination this year?"

Yang Mengxia shook her head: "He wants to take the exam to go back to the capital to be with you guys, but he's not very confident this year, so he plans to take it again next year. What's wrong with you?"

Dabao: “I haven’t decided what to study yet.”

“You haven’t thought about next year yet?”

Dabao thought about this question: "Let's draw lots!"

Yang Mengxia laughed: "You can be your mother's junior brother."

Dabao shook his head: "My mom typed a string of English letters on the computer, and I felt dizzy. What else should I do?"

Yang Mengxia: "Mechanical design?"

Dabao really hadn't thought it through: "Maybe it's an engineering design that can fly into the sky. Let's see which one I draw."

Yang Mengxia asked again: "Will your mother be in danger if she is alone at home?"

"No. My dad will be on vacation in a few days. He doesn't need to spend time on the road, so he can take twenty days off. By the way, my mom said that she will take my dad to the hospital for a full physical examination when he gets home. Auntie, did you have a full physical examination?"

Yang Mengxia shook her head: "My job is easy."

Erbao looked up and said, "No, Auntie, Mom said that after the age of 40, you need to have a physical examination every year. Mom accompanied Grandma to go."

No wonder her nagging mother-in-law was afraid of Ye Fan but was willing to live with her. There had been no conflicts between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law over the years. Yang Mengxia put herself in the shoes of a daughter-in-law who was so careful and attentive. But she might not be as lucky as her mother-in-law.

Yang Mengxia: "Ask your uncle some other day, and we'll go together."

A cool breeze blew by, and Dabao shivered: "Why is it colder outside than inside the station?"

Yang Mengxia laughed: "There are buildings blocking the wind inside the station, so it must not be as strong as outside. Do you have a thin sweater?"

Dabao shook his head: "I have a thick jacket."

Yang Mengxia opened his bag, took out a thick jacket for him to put on, and then took out Erbao's thick jacket. She held the bag for Erbao and asked him to put on his clothes.

Yu Wentao and others were behind, and wanted to ask "Is it cold?" When the cold wind passed, Yu Wentao quickly took out a piece of clothing and put it on while muttering: "Leilei said it's cool here, and I thought it would be more than 20 degrees in the dog days. It's only about 10 degrees today, right?"

Yang Mengxia: "Almost. It rained this morning and the temperature is low. It will be sunny all day today and it will be over 20 degrees tomorrow. Is the capital very hot?"

Yu Wentao nodded: "I can fall asleep with the fan on at night. During the day, I sweat a lot if I sit under the fan and move a little."

"Then Ye Fan must have had a hard time." Yang Mengxia said.

Yu Wentao: "She is different from us. She can bear it. She can sleep for four or five hours and do whatever she needs to do the next day. When I was in my thirties, I felt tired if I didn't sleep for seven or eight hours."

Yang Mengxia thought of her husband. When he was young, he only needed six hours a day to feel full, but now five hours is enough. When he is busy, he takes a half-hour nap at noon to rest. If you worry that he can't take it, he still has energy to walk and run in the morning and evening.

Yang Mengxia was quite envious when she heard this: "We should also remind her not to work too hard."

Dabao pulled the aunt's arm and said, "Don't worry about my mom. My mom can take care of herself better than you. My mom said that she needs to nourish herself as she is getting older, so she bought a lot of bird's nests, fish maws and dried abalone from Yangcheng. One of her classmates' hometown is close to Dong'e, and she asked people to buy donkey-hide gelatin for her. She went to Yongcheng to buy goods and brought back a barrel of rice wine, and made donkey-hide gelatin herself. If you don't believe me, ask grandma."

Yu Wentao nodded: "She has no time to make anything else except donkey-hide gelatin, so she asked me to clean it up for her. It takes two days to make a meal of abalone, so I am too lazy to clean it up."

Yang Mengxia wanted to laugh: "Good things must be expensive..." Seeing the familiar license plate, "Dabao, your uncle is here."

When Geng Laoda got out of the car and saw a group of people, young and old, he thought he had seen it wrong and subconsciously rubbed his eyes. Dabao ran over and said, "Uncle, you are not seeing wrong. Except for my father and my mother, we are all here."

Geng Zhihua was speechless. Where could so many people live?

Seeing this, Dabao smiled and explained, "We take care of our own food and lodging." He opened his bag and took out a stack of ten-yuan bills from his clothes, "My mother gave me living expenses."

Geng Zhihua breathed a sigh of relief: "Then let's go to the guesthouse first, and then go out to play in two days."

Dabao: "Go to the guesthouse near your home?"

Geng Zhihua nodded and asked Dabao and Erbao to get in the car and wait for him at the entrance of the guesthouse. He accompanied his wife and children to take the bus.

At the same time, Geng Zhiye arrived home and found Ye Fan alone. He wondered, "Where is he?"

"I'm going to escape the summer heat." Ye Fan half-sealed the stove and turned it to low heat, then asked him whether he wanted rice or steamed buns.

Geng Zhiye smelled the aroma and asked, "Stewed chicken?"

Ye Fan nodded: "I soaked the abalone for two days and two nights, and then stewed it with abalone. Fortunately, you kept your word and came back today, otherwise it would all be mine."

Geng Zhiye smiled and went to the kitchen to see that there was indeed abalone stewed with chicken on the stove: "Do Dabao and Erbao know that you are such a good eater?"

Ye Fan: "I asked Aunt Yu to make it, but she said she would rather eat watermelon and tomatoes than this. Dabao said it's not suitable to drink soup in summer, what a bad taste. If they don't eat it, we will. I'll stew bird's nest for you tomorrow."

"Ye Fanfan, you've worked hard." Geng Zhiye said, putting his arm around her shoulders.

Ye Fan smiled and pushed him away: "Pick some vegetables to make cold dishes."

Geng Zhiye picked many cucumbers, tomatoes, beans and eggplants with a basin.

Ye Fan looked at him with wide eyes and asked, "Are you a pig?"

Geng Zhiye: "I'll do it, you don't need to do it, go to the main room and rest."

Ye Fan: "Shall I go steam the rice?"

Geng Zhiye nodded.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, smashed cucumbers, blanched beans and served cold, and braised eggplant. After everything was done, Geng Zhiye went to take a shower.

A chicken has two legs, just enough for the couple. Geng Zhiye gnawed on the chicken leg with a smile on his face: "Dabao definitely didn't expect that abalone can be stewed with chicken."

Ye Fan: "I'll give him two hundred yuan. Prices there are lower than in the capital. Maybe he's eating spicy chicken and pickled fish right now."

Geng Zhiye suddenly thought of Ye Fan's classmates: "Does your classmate usually cook for himself?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Each of the five of us will prepare for a day, play rock-paper-scissors on Saturday, and rest on Sunday."

Geng Zhiye: “Can they do it?”

Ye Fan: "I provided housing, computers and wages, and the school also said that they could come to them if they encountered any problems. They still couldn't do it. I didn't need to say anything. My teacher had to tell them not to say they were from Beijing University in the future."

“The school provides free help?”

Ye Fan shook his head: "We will share the profits for three years. The school leaders promised to provide the people and equipment. Now that the school is on vacation, the five of them can come and go freely."

"Why three years?"

Ye Fan: "My tutor heard from someone that other schools are also doing this. There is one this year, and there may be two the year after. In a few years, the market will be full of Chinese cards. There are too many choices, and we can't sell them. Even if I give all the net profits to the school, there won't be much left."

"So you guys are racing against time?"

Ye Fan nodded, "Yes. A few days ago, they wanted to rest, saying that the dog days of summer were not suitable for work. When they heard the instructor say this, they didn't go out on weekends. Several of my junior brothers stayed at home for a few days and came back to help. I was worried that they would get heatstroke, so I bought them some ceiling fans and fans. We can start a company next year, and even the house and computers will be counted as company property."

Geng Zhiye heard Ye Fan say that the house was purchased: "It is better to do business, the assets are visible. I always feel that you have no future as a middleman."

Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "There is no future for middlemen. Zhang Xiaoming said a few days ago that he felt down to earth only after he had a store."

Geng Zhiye didn't dare to mention this before, fearing that Ye Fan would get angry. Hearing this, knowing that she thought the same, Geng Zhiye immediately took the opportunity to say a few more words.

Ye Fan was surprised to hear what he said. Geng Zhiye asked, "Did I say something wrong?"

"No. Your father-in-law also suggested that I focus on one business." Ye Fan said, "Once Zhang Xiaoming and his team are on the right track and Hanka has shown some promise, I will give up the wholesale business."

Geng Zhiye felt relieved after hearing this and felt that the chicken breast was particularly delicious.

The next morning, the couple got up, washed, and took the bus straight to the military hospital.

After the check-up, the two went to the hotel to have breakfast.

Geng Zhiye was not full after eating the pancakes and tofu pudding, so he went to the next store to order a meat-filled pancake. Ye Fan's unfinished soy milk and fried dough sticks were also eaten by him. Even though Ye Fan knew that he had a good appetite, he couldn't help but complain when he saw that he was over 40 and still eating like this: "Your metabolism is not as good as before. If you only eat and don't exercise, you will be twice as fat in 20 days."

"I know." Geng Zhiye said with a smile.

Geng Zhiye's habit was not to go home after dinner, but to go to the park to play table tennis with the boys.

In the evening, after dinner and before the sun sets, Geng Zhiye dragged Ye Fan to play badminton in the alley.

Ye Fan was sweating profusely and didn't want to fight, but Geng Zhiye said that the sweat she was sweating from was just on the surface of her skin and that she would need to fight for more than half an hour to lose weight.

"I need to lose weight?" Ye Fan exclaimed.

Ye Fan's appetite has not changed over the years. Although her metabolism is not as good as before, she goes out early and comes back late every day, which does not give fat the opportunity to accumulate, so she has always been tall and capable.

Geng Zhiye: "Has your weight not changed? I think you seem to have gained weight, it must be because you are over 30 and your flesh has become soft. Play for a while longer and your skin will be tighter and you will look younger."

Aunt Li's son got off work late, so she accommodated him to eat at this time. She held the bowl by the door and smiled and asked, "Dad, aren't you afraid that Mom will ask you to sleep in the back?"

Geng Zhiye shook his head slightly to block the flying ball: "There is no fan in the back, and she didn't want me to have a bad sleep at night because I rarely have a few days off."

Ye Fan retorted loudly: "I'm willing to do that!"

Geng Zhiye: "I can't bear to be separated from you."

Aunt Li cried out "Ouch!" and looked like she couldn't stand it: "You two should pay attention to the impact."

Geng Zhiye smiled and said, "Auntie, do you want to play for a while?"

Aunt Li shook her head again and again: "I can't do that. I can only play table tennis."

Geng Zhiye didn't know which one was harder to play, table tennis or badminton. Ye Fan immediately took the opportunity to ask, "Are you tired? Then take a break. There is a halftime break in badminton games." Then he handed the racket to the child next to him, "Want to play?"

The neighbor's child to the west of Ye Fan's house didn't dare to pick it up, and subconsciously looked at her parents. Her mother said, "You play. She can't do it."

"You'll learn it after a while." Ye Fan was sweating all over, so he had to go back to the house to wash up. "Ask Geng Zhiye to teach you."

Geng Zhiye was really worried that he would be stiff and bloated when he returned to the army. Seeing that Ye Fan really didn't want to play, he persuaded the child to take over. Then he treated the neighbor's child as his second treasure and hit the ball slowly and straight.

The child thought it was easy to play and became more and more excited as she played. However, after half an hour she couldn't stand it anymore.

When Aunt Li saw that Geng Zhiye was just sweating but not breathing heavily, she couldn't help but praise Geng Zhiye for his good health, and then called her eldest son out to learn from Geng Zhiye.

Aunt Li's eldest son came out slowly: "I just had a meal and can't exercise."

"Who said that? Take a walk after dinner and you can live to be 99." Aunt Li asked the child to pass the ball to her son.

The kid handed over the racket.

Geng Zhiye saw that it was getting dark and said, "After fighting for ten minutes, we won't be able to see anything."

Aunt Li's son heard that ten minutes was a short time and he could hold on.

Geng Zhiye was not merciful to him. He passed the ball straight and quickly. Aunt Li's son wanted to use both hands but still couldn't keep up.

Aunt Li looked at Geng Zhiye calmly and easily, and couldn't help but dislike her son. It's true that one can't compare to another.

Aunt Li's son thought Geng Zhiye was just walking his dog, but he had no evidence and didn't bother looking for evidence. At the end of the ten minutes he leaned against the wall and gasped for breath.

Aunt Li shook her head and sighed: "Even if Dabao's father beats me for an hour, he won't be as bad as you."

"He is a soldier." The eldest son of the Wei family opened his eyes and said weakly.

Geng Zhiye said: "My muscles may be sore tomorrow."

The eldest brother of the Wei family immediately asked: "What should we do? Go to the Chinese medicine hospital and ask someone to give me a massage?" Geng Zhiye: "Just accompany me to beat it for a week and it will disappear."

He treated Geng Zhiye as if he was talking nonsense and went home without saying anything.

The kid who played basketball with Geng Zhiye before said, "Uncle Geng, can I play with you tomorrow?"

Geng Zhiye nodded, thanked him, and said, "It's getting dark, let's go home. There are bad guys on the road at night."

Normally, she wouldn't listen even if her parents yelled at her. She would go home immediately after hearing what her parents said.

Geng Zhiye also went home to wash up. He saw that Ye Fan's hair was half dry: "Ye Fanfan, now you are not as busy as before, and it is convenient to use water, so let your hair grow long."

Ye Fan: "Do you like ladies with long flowing hair?"

Geng Zhiye shook his head: "I like your face."

Ye Fan rolled his eyes speechlessly.

Geng Zhiye came closer: "Don't you believe it?"

"Stay away from me, you're all sweaty." Ye Fan leaned back with a look of disgust on his face.

Geng Zhiye rubbed her sweaty face, and Ye Fan was annoyed and wanted to push him, but he stepped back and went to the kitchen first. Geng Zhiye came out with a kettle and sighed, "I'll take a hot shower when I get home. I took cold showers every day in the army and never got sick."

Ye Fandang pretended not to hear.

After Geng Zhiye finished taking a shower, Ye Fan took a flashlight and went to the back to take a look. Before closing the door, they placed a few glass bottles in the corner and sprinkled a layer of dust outside the warehouse door.

Geng Zhiye wanted to laugh when he saw her finished her work: "Who did you learn this from?"

"On TV." Ye Fan said honestly, "It's useless?"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "It's useful. I heard that there is a genius in the Public Security Bureau who can judge the approximate height and age of a suspect by footprints."

"That's all." Ye Fan washed his hands. "I'm going to the company tomorrow. How will you arrange it?"

Geng Zhiye: "Go to my father-in-law's house for a day and see if I can help. Didn't you say they're moving in a few days?"

"Are you going by yourself?"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "It's so hot, don't go."

The next morning, Geng Zhiye was waiting for his step-uncle at the entrance of the alley. Uncle Yu saw Geng Zhiye from a distance and drove over to ask him if his family needed anything.

Geng Zhiye first looked at the things in the car: "Weigh two watermelons and twenty eggs for me, and we'll go to my father-in-law's house later."

"Twenty are too few, right?" Twenty eggs were not a small number for the uncle, but since Geng Zhiye was going to the Ye family, he thought that this amount was not enough to show off.

Geng Zhiye: "It's hot and it will go bad if you don't finish it. Besides, they are not outsiders."

Yu Xiao weighed it and handed it to him, and Geng Zhiye took out the money.

A long time ago, Ye Fan said, "Brothers should settle accounts clearly," so Uncle Yu took the money.

The neighbors saw this scene and couldn't help asking: "Are you really giving money?"

Geng Zhiye laughed: "What are you saying? Who buys things without paying?"

"Isn't this your uncle?" This is what the neighbor meant.

Geng Zhiye was too lazy to explain and just asked the neighbors what they wanted to buy.

The neighbor's yard was narrow, so he couldn't grow too many vegetables. He was reluctant to eat them, so he just wanted the cheapest cucumbers, eggplants and beans. Just as Uncle Yu weighed the vegetables for the neighbor, Zhang Xiaodi and his second brother-in-law came over, and a few more neighbors came. Seeing this, Geng Zhiye didn't disturb him from selling vegetables.

When Ye Fan got home and just served the porridge, Geng Zhiye took a glance and asked, "Aren't you going to stew bird's nest for me?"

"I wanted to make bird's nest before going to bed last night. Who thinks it's troublesome?" Ye Fan took the things he bought and put them on the table and rolled his eyes at him.

Geng Zhiye started talking nonsense: "It must be a ghost."

Ye Fan kicked him, but Geng Zhiye dodged easily and moved to the opposite side of her.

There were only the two of them at home, and they had a quiet breakfast. They said whatever they wanted to eat without having to consider others. "Ye Fanfan, does what we have now resemble my life after retirement?"

"Unless the first and second children are DINKs." Ye Fan said.

Geng Zhiye sighed and said, "The first child is taken care of by my mother-in-law, and the second child is taken care of by my mother-in-law."

"What are you doing?" Ye Fan asked.

Geng Zhiye: "I'll take care of you."

Ye Fan stuffed a bun into his mouth: "I don't believe I can stop your mouth!"

Geng Zhiye took a bite and put it down, then asked with a smile, "Are you really not going to your mother's house after dinner?"

"I'm going to school." Several of Ye Fan's classmates have been working at the school recently. "After dinner, help me pick a basket of cucumbers and tomatoes and wash them."

Geng Zhiye: "Take it to school? You should have told me earlier. I'll buy him some cantaloupes."

"It won't tire you to call me uncle." Ye Fan said.

Geng Zhiye had never been to Yu's house since he was a child, and he was not familiar with the Yu family. He felt uncomfortable when he was asked to mention the two uncles of the Yu family, so he pretended not to hear. While eating the buns, he went outside to see if the people were still there. He found that they were still there, so Geng Zhiye went to buy six white cantaloupes.

After dinner, the couple carried two baskets of things out to the side of the road, one heading south and the other heading north.

A group of classmates and alumni had just finished breakfast and were not hungry, but they were still excited to see the basket of watermelons. One classmate even asked why no watermelons were bought.

"How are you going to eat such a big watermelon?" Ye Fan looked inside through the glass. "How's the progress?"

The classmate's face suddenly changed: "Stop! You, you, don't go in!"

Seeing this, the junior brother asked, "What happened to Senior Sister Ye?"

Another classmate of Ye Fan said helplessly: "Her hands are so fast that the computer can't keep up. Our five computers were almost destroyed by her."

Ye Fan explained again: "My hand speed is not fast, it's the computer that is slow. I used to have a good temper, but I have become less and less patient since I learned about computers."

Several classmates rolled their eyes at her. One of them thought of how Ye Fan had been tinkering with office software recently: "Ye Fan, you didn't go to the company, did you? Don't touch our computers recently. We have data in our computers. You can do whatever you want with them after we're done."

Ye Fan: "You mean soon?"

The student said honestly: "I thought it would take two to three years. With the help of the professor, if nothing goes wrong, we will be able to see the sample next year."

Ye Fan said, "Then no matter how much we sell next year, Chang Guangrong and I will take 50% of the company's share, and the remaining 50% will be divided among everyone according to their work?"

The junior fellow student asked, "Are there any for us as well?"

Ye Fan nodded: "According to work."

Ye Fan's classmate asked: "If we come up with it at the beginning of the year, won't the annual transaction volume be low?"

Ye Fan smiled and asked, "Who said no one uses the Han card?"

"Well, didn't you forget that our country is so vast? A city with a population of 1,000 needs a doctor, and dozens of provincial capitals and municipalities need tens of thousands. There are also so many large public institutions, factories, schools, etc." The classmate became more and more excited. "Ye Fan, did you say that yourself?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Only next year. You will get your salary the year after. You will get dividends after working in the company for three years. This is what we agreed on before."

Ye Fan and several classmates nodded.

Ye Fan's fellow apprentices couldn't help but ask, "Sister Ye, if we work for your company for a few years, will we get a salary or dividends?"

Ye Fan: "If you work for three years, you will also get dividends. The dividends increase with the length of service." He said to several classmates, "You are not like that. I promised more at the beginning."

The five people nodded. The classmate who was closest to Ye Fan said, "Look at how stingy you are."

Ye Fan glared at him: "If all the money goes to you, what will you use to repair the factory and buy machines in the future? Don't you want to work in a high-rise building?"

The classmates and alumni were all confused, and when they came to their senses, they asked Ye Fan what he meant.

Ye Fan: "Once we have enough money, we will build an office building. Next to the office building is the production workshop. In the future, we will produce the important components ourselves and outsource the plastic shell to the mold factory."

The junior fellow student couldn't help but ask: "How much money can you make from building a building?"

Ye Fan: "The company's profit is not as much as my wholesale business. I use the money from wholesale to build a building and a factory. That building and factory are my personal property. I can give a friendly price to the company if they rent it."

To put it bluntly, Ye Fan's business is "speculation and profiteering". More and more people are doing this business. Her classmates and junior fellow students are not optimistic about it. They just smile and say that they will wait for her to make enough money to build a building and a factory.

Seeing that they didn't believe him, Ye Fan didn't bother to explain.

Her classmates were afraid that she would get bored and hit the equipment, so they didn't allow her to get close. Ye Fan felt bored and went to the company to type code. The computer was too slow and she had to wait. After working for half a day, Ye Fan felt more tired than she was in her previous life when she was busy six days a week.

In the afternoon, Ye Fan was checking the goods at home, and Geng Zhiye took out his son's tapes to listen to music.

Ye Fan heard Cantonese in the south room and had an idea in his mind. Then he sent an express letter to the owner of the Yangcheng Garment Factory, asking him what was popular in Yangcheng recently.

In early September, Ye Fan and Chang Guangrong took four people to Yangcheng to get a lot of tapes, and used the relationship of the clothing factory owner to import a batch of Walkmans.

Ye Fan also bought some English tapes and a few Walkmans for his children.

Erbao was very excited when he got the Walkman. He would stand at the door with the player when he came home from school, surrounded by a group of children. Even if they were not listening to songs, they would be happy just listening to English.

Ye Fan had told his classmates that people in the capital would be rich in two years, and there are actually many rich people now. Chang Guangrong was worried that the cassettes and Walkmans were too expensive to sell, but they were sold out in half a month.

It was time to choose winter clothes at the end of September. Ye Fan asked the female comrades who often came to her to buy goods who would go with her to Ningbo to choose goods.

Except for a few female comrades from Yujia Village, the other female comrades had to go to work and only set up stalls on weekends. They did not dare to resign and could only apologize to her. The women in Yujia Village had not been to school for many days, and they were afraid of being cheated outside and did not dare to go out.

Ye Fan asked Zhang Xiaoming's sister and Dong Ying if they wanted to go.

Dong Ying was not afraid of being cheated, so she asked the school for a few days off. Zhang Xiaozhi thought that even if she could only do this business for a year, it would still be more than what she earned in the factory in ten years, so she quit her job.

Three women were still not enough, so Ye Fan asked his neighbor to the west whether he wanted his daughter-in-law to resign.

The old man and his family discussed and decided that they would not be able to make money in speculation for long, but they would earn more in a year than working in a factory for ten years. So the old man asked his daughter-in-law to give the temporary job to his daughter who was unemployed and was being wronged in her husband's family.

The four women were not safe either, so Ye Fan approached Chang Guangrong and his wife. Chang Guangrong asked his brother-in-law to stay at his house for a few days to help him look after the house.

When they arrived in Hangzhou, Ye Fan asked several female comrades to choose the styles.

Maybe they were new and inexperienced, so they were all more conservative than each other. Ye Fan sighed, went to the office to change into jeans, and came out wearing his windbreaker and leather shoes, walking with the wind.

The factory leader immediately asked Ye Fan how many days she would stay in Hangzhou. Ye Fan told him the truth and told Chang Guangrong to stay to load the truck, and she would go to Ningbo to pick out down jackets tomorrow.

Ye Fan had said to the cashier of the Shencheng Down Jacket Factory a long time ago when they were negotiating prices that she could persuade Yongcheng to produce down jackets. Ye Fan did not persuade them, but Su Yuanhang did so as soon as he graduated, on the grounds that Hangzhou citizens needed them.

Su Yuanhang went to the leader to "complain" again. In order to develop the economy, the leader really risked his reputation and sent a group of people to a down jacket factory to train, and then they came back to make down jackets.

The down jackets and duvets bought by Hangzhou citizens this year all came from Yongcheng. The factory leaders knew that Yongcheng had down jackets, and they did not doubt Ye Fan's words and immediately arranged for someone to find a camera. The next morning, the factory leaders asked Ye Fan to change into new clothes and took a few photos of Ye Fan to be published in the newspaper.

Ye Fan couldn't believe it: "You want me to advertise for you?"

"We will charge you for the cost price for your goods this time." Several factory leaders expected Ye Fan to have objections, and one of them made the promise on behalf of everyone.

Ye Fan couldn't help but smile and agreed: "That's about right."

Several female comrades in Yujia Village were not optimistic because the clothes Ye Fan chose were too Western and they could not even be worn while working.

Chang Guangrong's wife was also not optimistic, thinking that colleagues working in government agencies and public institutions could not wear it.

Because Ye Fan was very satisfied, they were afraid that he would be angry so they held back their words.

After returning to the capital, Ye Fan went to the company after breakfast. At around ten o'clock, Ye Fan went to the store where Dong Ying bought the clothes, changed into fashionable clothes, and took out all the clothes she wholesaled.

Ye Fan paced back and forth at the door for half an hour like taking a walk, and stopped when someone came back from get off work, and then Ye Fan did not stop for the whole afternoon. She took the clothes and only 30% was left.

On weekends, Ye Fan still wore leather shoes, wide pants and a black woolen coat. Under the coat, he also wore a white sweater like the heroine in the TV series, which attracted many ladies. Zhang Xiaoming and Wei Jianshe did not sell as much as Ye Fan alone.

I had just finished decorating the store and was planning to give it another try during the end of the year holiday. But when I saw that Ye Fan was doing so well, Dong Ying waited for the customers to leave before asking, "I feel like I can quit my job after this semester."

Ye Fan asked: "It's OK if you don't regret others taking the pension."

Dong Ying: "If I make a lot of money in the next few years, my colleagues' pensions may not be as much as my bank interest."

Ye Fan nodded: "But you still need to improve your taste. You can't leave the clothes on the ground and think they are ordinary, but when I wear them, you think they are too fashionable. That way, you will be busier than others but still not earn as much as others."

Ye Fan wanted to use Dong Ying's store to sell clothes for a month, but Dong Ying refused to charge him a penny because she didn't think highly of the clothes Ye Fan bought this time.

Dong Ying couldn't help but say, "This concept can't be changed in a day or two."

Ye Fan: "Then watch more TV series."

Dong Ying felt that this was the only way, and since her family didn't have a TV, she often took Zhang Xiaoming and her daughter back to her parents' home.

The men who came to Ye Fan to get clothes every day did not think that Ye Fan's clothes were fashionable, and they all sounded justified when introducing the clothes.

The daughter-in-law of the uncle's neighbor to the west of Zhang Xiaozhi and Ye Fan's house had just resigned and didn't know where she would go to sell her goods, so Zhang Xiaoming took them out for a few days.

When the two female comrades saw Zhang Xiaoming telling people that his clothes had been in the newspaper and it was genuine, they acted as if they didn't know him.

The neighbor uncle and Ye Fan sighed that they didn't expect Xiao Ming, who was usually quiet, to be so talkative when selling clothes.

Ye Fan estimated that the brothers in Yujia Village were similar to Zhang Xiaoming, so when they came to get the goods, Ye Fan asked them to bring their wives with them. In the future, they would separate from Ye Fan, and the men could go to buy goods while the women could look after the store.

Ye Fan changed to wholesale to everyone from this batch of goods. After Wei Jianshe's sister and sister-in-law knew about this, they asked Wei Jianshe if Ye Fan wanted to earn the middle price.

Wei Jianshe already knew that several people had been looking for Yu Wentao behind his back, so he was very angry and said unhappily, "What would they do if they don't make money?"

His sister and sister-in-law asked Wei Jianshe to ask Ye Fan where he got the goods, and then take a few days off to go and buy more goods.

Wei Jianshe knew where the things came from, so he told his sister and sister-in-law directly, and kindly reminded them not to worry about the handling fee for withdrawing money from another place, and to bring their passbooks with them.

When they arrived in the south, they said they knew Ye Fan, but the factory leaders didn't give them much discount. They were not stupid, and they had a good relationship with Ye Fan. Ye Fan always brought so many people with him, so how come he had never seen them?

After deducting the travel expenses, they returned home and calculated the price. They found that the goods were a little more expensive than the goods Wei Jianshe bought from Ye Fan. So they asked Wei Jianshe how much the goods Ye Fan bought cost.

Wei Jianshe didn't know, and didn't plan to ask Ye Fan on their behalf, so he said that the more wholesales, the cheaper it would be, and Ye Fan would make small profits but sell a lot. If they could also get a few carloads, it would definitely be cheaper.

A few people decided to just do it first and then expand it after transferring the money.

The old men and women were wandering around with nothing to do, and soon they found a few people working on their own.

When Aunt Li heard about this, she immediately went to find Ye Fan and asked him if he knew about it.

Ye Fan nodded: "I told you the address."

Aunt Li slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "How can I tell them? My niece-in-law and niece are more picky than the other. They have never worn a few good clothes in their lives, so how can they buy goods?"

During the Chinese New Year this year, Wei Jianshe went to visit his aunt. Aunt Li's daughter-in-law asked him if he couldn't start his own business after working for a few years. Wei Jianshe said that he didn't have good vision and couldn't seize opportunities like Ye Fan.

Only then did Aunt Li realize that there were such things behind the seemingly ordinary wholesale business: "It's over. All the money that Jianshe made will be lost to his brother and sister."

Ye Fan: "Jianshe has no money."

Aunt Li subconsciously asked, "Where's his money?"

"Jianshe bought a store." Ye Fan said, "It's across from Xiaoming's store. It was just transferred two days ago. He even asked me to borrow a few thousand yuan. I was afraid his mother and brother would not be optimistic and stop him from buying it, so I didn't dare tell them. I plan to give them a surprise after paying off the money."

Aunt Li asked again: "He is responsible for thousands of dollars of debt by himself? Well - the child has become a better person. I have to find him. I can't tell you until the debt is paid off, otherwise it will be hard to say whose it is. Dabao's mother, just pretend you don't know about this." After saying that, she walked out.

Dabao was puzzled: "Why don't I understand what Grandma Li said?"

Ye Fan: "If Wei Jianshe is well fed, the whole family will not be hungry. His family knew that he had a store, so they would definitely ask him to give it to his sister and brother, because they have children to raise, and Jianshe should help them."

Yu Wentao frowned: "If you want to give up the wholesale business, you can't ask Jianshe to participate. His sister and his sister-in-law have so many ideas. You should know that he has a share of the business. Zhang Xiaoming and Dong Ying, plus my nephews and nieces-in-law, can't beat them."

(End of this chapter)