Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan did not answer Yu Wentao's question: "What do you think of Chang Guangrong's brother-in-law?"

"What's going on?" Yu Wentao was confused.

Ye Fan: "Appearance and height."

Yu Wentao was very surprised. His height was visible to the naked eye. Couldn't Ye Fan see it? "Why are you asking me?" Yu Wentao looked alert. "You're a little strange. Not only did you ask me and Dabao and Erbao to check, but you also asked Xiaoqin and Huihui to come over. I wouldn't say anything if you asked them to come over. Why are you checking Benben, who is as strong as a calf?"

Ye Fanxin said, the old lady is not confused. It seems that she doesn't have to worry about her money being cheated away by people selling health products in the future. Ye Fan smiled and coaxed her: "Tell me what you think first."

Yu Wentao looked back and gave a serious evaluation: "He's not too tall, just a little shorter than the third brother. As for his appearance, he looks like a gigolo, I don't like him. You want him to help with your business? I think forget it, he's easy to cause trouble for you."

Ye Fan didn't understand: "What trouble are you causing?"

"Lesbians," Yu Wentao said, "You can tell he has a lot of girlfriends. Today this woman comes to you, tomorrow that woman asks you who he's been close to recently. Do you still have time to deal with company matters?"

Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat. It was over!

"He doesn't have a girlfriend." Ye Fan first stated this. "He hasn't officially been hired yet. He's just a brick in the hospital, he can be moved wherever he's needed. He doesn't have time to flirt with other girls."

Yu Wentao had already arrived at the hospital. She looked back through the glass door and the more she looked, the more she felt that he was not an honest man: "Then what do you want me to say?"

"Chang Guangrong wants to become more closely related to our family." Ye Fan didn't dare to let her "think wildly", otherwise there would be no need to mention the matter.

Yu Wentao stopped and wanted to exclaim, but then realized that they were in the hospital outpatient hall and quickly lowered her voice: "Explain clearly!"

Ye Fan: "You know everything about Chang Guangrong's father-in-law's family, right?"

Yu Wentao didn’t know about this before, but later when Ye Fan’s clothing store opened and he booked a few tables at the restaurant, Yu Wentao had the opportunity to chat with Chang Guangrong’s wife. Only then did Yu Wentao know that she had a brother, a sister, and a younger brother.

Recently, Ye Fan was busy and Yu Wentao brought her food. She ran into Chang Guangrong's brother-in-law in the store. Yu Wentao chatted with him for a while and combined with what she had learned before, she almost completely exposed the Sun family: "I understand."

"Chang Guangrong's father-in-law and mother-in-law are both honest and simple rural people. His brother-in-law is also honest. Although his sister-in-law is powerful, she is not unreasonable, right?"

Yu Wentao asked: "What do you want to say?"

"Isn't it much better than the Liu family?" Ye Fan didn't wait for her to refuse, "Xiao Qin can't stay single forever? No matter whether it's good or bad, he should go to other places first? Anyway, Chang Guangrong is watching him, so he doesn't dare to do anything unreasonable."

Yu Wentao nodded: "That's true. Wait, you said Chang Guangrong is related to our family? Was it him who proposed this?"

Ye Fan: "Yes. If Chang Guangrong hadn't brought his mother-in-law's family into the city, I wouldn't have dared to ask Xiaoqin to go everywhere with this Sun Laifu. If they all come to Xiaoqin after marriage, this family will be more troublesome than the Liu family."

Yu Wentao: "You mean Xiaoqin doesn't have to live with her parents-in-law after marrying into the Sun family?"

Ye Fan: "The old couple now cooks for Chang Guangrong and his wife, and will help him take care of the children in the future. Chang Guangrong will take care of the old couple in their old age."

Yu Wentao immediately felt that Chang Guangrong's brother-in-law was pretty good: "Wait, what's his name? Sun Laifu? Laifu, who looks like him?"

Ye Fan was speechless and couldn't help but sigh: "The name is not the point. My name is Fanfan."

"Your name was changed later. There is also a former name 'Ye Fan' in your household registration. Don't think I don't know." Yu Wentao felt a disconnect when thinking about the name and appearance, "Will this family give a name?"

Ye Fan: "The old couple is uneducated. If the Chang family hadn't sent textbooks to Chang Guangrong when the college entrance examination was resumed, Chang Guangrong would not have had the heart to read them and would have given them to his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law would not have had the chance to go to college. By the way, he didn't even go to high school, but he was admitted to medical school in less than a year of review. What does that mean?"

Yu Wentao thought: "Smarter than you?"

Ye Fan: "He is smart and motivated, and he has Chang Guangrong to help him. His future is limitless. He still has no partner. I suspect it is because he is from the countryside, and most of the nurses in the hospital are locals. He doesn't want to find a foreigner."

Yu Wentao still felt that Lai Fu was unreliable. But even if Liu Ning was reliable, it would be useless. With such in-laws and sister-in-law, it would be worse for a man to flirt with other women and not be home all day.

"Does Sun Lai Fu know about this?" Yu Wentao asked.

Ye Fan shook his head: "Let's take this opportunity to get to know each other first. If Xiaoqin and Sun Laifu have a good impression of each other, Chang Guangrong will buy two movie tickets and give one to me and I will give one to Xiaoqin, and let them meet each other on their own."

Yu Wentao thought about it carefully and thought that this was a good idea.

"Then I'll listen to you." Yu Wentao wanted to sigh when she thought of her old girl. "If they get along well, they can get it done by the end of the year."

Ye Fan was speechless: "Check your body first, we'll talk about this later."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wentao understood that Ye Fan did not approve of a quick marriage.

In fact, Yu Wentao didn't want her daughter to get married in a hurry, so she listened to Ye Fan, shut up and went for a physical examination first.

Sun Laifu found a few nurses to take care of Dabao, Erbao and Benben, and gave them separate physical examinations to speed up the process, so they arrived home after nine o'clock.

Today is the weekend, the company is closed and the clothing store is busy, so Ye Fan went to the store to take a look.

As soon as Yu Wentao's niece saw Ye Fan, she called her "sister-in-law" and asked Ye Fan to sit down and have a rest while introducing clothes to the guest.

Seeing that there were many people in the store, Ye Fan waved to her and went to the next door, where Geng Zhiye's guard reported to Ye Fan. Ye Fan checked the account and asked the former guard to accompany her to the bank to deposit the money. Then Ye Fan bought some braised dishes, took half home, and gave the other half to the former guard.

The former guard went to the store and asked Yu Wentao's niece to cook rice soup in the rice cooker. The three of them each contributed some money to go to the breakfast shop to buy some steamed buns and had lunch together.

During the meal, Yu Wentao's niece asked the three men how their business was going. One of the three male salesmen was Yu Wentao's nephew, so he asked how his sister's clothing store business was going.

Yu Wentao's niece said directly that the business was good, and then added: "No matter how much money we make, it's for you."

The former guard couldn't help but retort: ​​"You're talking as if we don't make money."

Yu Wentao's niece: "My aunt said that the school takes the majority of the company's earnings, and it has to be divided up with Brother Chang and the technicians. It may not be as much as the clothing store when it goes to my sister-in-law. You make 60 or 70 yuan a month, which is the same as college students who just joined a state-owned unit. Is that enough to pay the three of you?"

The three of them had been to the company, which already had eight computers. They didn't know how expensive the computers were, but they knew that Ye Fan wouldn't be able to make back the money she paid for the computers this year. They had estimated that Ye Fan didn't have any spare money, so how could she pay the three of them? The three of them understood what he said and couldn't refute it.

The salary that Ye Fan paid to the three was indeed high, and they also received subsidies when they went on business trips. For example, Yu Wentao's nephew knew how to live, so he could save 60 yuan a month, which was much more than what he got when he followed his father to sell vegetables.

Chang Guangrong's brother-in-law had never seen so much money, and his former security guards' salaries were not as high as they are now.

When the three of them thought about how Ye Fan was so kind to his own people, they felt embarrassed to turn a blind eye to the excitement next door as they did in the past.

The clothing store was busy in the afternoon, and Yu Wentao's nephew came over to greet customers. Yu Wentao's nephew used to set up a stall to sell clothes, and he was more adept at greeting customers than his sister.

After seeing off a group of customers, Yu Wentao's niece said unhappily: "I thought you didn't know how to sell clothes." The implication was why didn't you come and help before, and see me busy alone.

Yu Wentao's nephew: "We are two families."

As soon as he finished speaking, the former guard and Chang Guangrong's brother-in-law came over and explained with an embarrassed smile: "We didn't know that Sister Ye used the money from the clothing store to subsidize the company."

Yu Wentao's niece rolled her eyes at the three men and asked them to help her watch while she went upstairs to get the goods.

At the same time, Ye Fan told Geng Zhiqin the real purpose of the family physical examination.

Geng Zhiqin was speechless, and after a while he managed to say: "Sister-in-law, you are really great. You are so smart, if you use it in the right place-" Suddenly he remembered that his sister-in-law's intelligence was always used in the right place: "Aren't the company and the clothing store busy enough for you?" Ye Fan: "The company's technical department has a team leader, the sales office has three salesmen, and your cousin is in the store, what should I be busy with?"

Geng Zhiqin thought about it carefully. She was freer now than before. "But isn't it good for you to be free?"

Taking advantage of the fact that Yu Wentao was not around, Ye Fan immediately pushed the blame on his mother-in-law. Geng Zhiqin said, "She is worried that I haven't found a partner at my age. Ask her to introduce someone to me."

Ye Fan: "Your mother is either busy buying groceries and cooking or picking up Erbao. How can she have the opportunity to meet outstanding young talents? Don't talk to me about this. Just answer me directly."

Geng Zhiqin shook his head: "I don't want to see a doctor."

"Why?" Ye Fan frowned, "Were you also afraid of taking medicine and injections when you were a child?"

Geng Zhiqin laughed: "I'm not Dabao."

Dabao came out of the side room to bring him and his cousin mung bean soup. Upon hearing this, he asked, "Are you saying bad things about me?"

Ye Fan: "Yes, you said you wanted to go to the southwest to escape the summer heat."

Dabao's eyes lit up: "Auntie sent you a telegram? Can we go over?"

Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "You really want to go?"

Dabao: "If you don't go now, the dog days will be over."

Ye Fan said, "Ask your grandmother when she's leaving. If she's leaving in the next few days, I'll send a telegram to your aunt and ask her to pick you up at the station."

Dabao brought the mung bean soup to Yu Wentao's room. Less than a minute later, Dabao ran out and said, "Grandma said to ask my aunt to stay and help you. We will go by ourselves and ask Brother Leilei to buy the tickets."

Geng Zhiqin rolled his eyes and thought to himself, my mother is smart about this kind of thing, and I can't refute the excuses she comes up with.

Seeing this, Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "Come here, I'll give you fifty dollars."

Dabao ran over, got the money, and jumped back to the room.

Geng Zhiqin saw that his nephew was acting like a child: "Why does Dabao still seem like he hasn't grown up?"

"Dabao hasn't grown up yet. He's not even sixteen yet." Ye Fan changed the subject and said, "You have grown up, but you're still not as worry-free as Dabao."

Geng Zhiqin sighed helplessly: "Isn't it okay for me to meet you?"

"Don't tell me." Ye Fan glanced towards the side room, meaning to tell your mother.

Geng Zhiqin thought her sister-in-law was urging her to go on a blind date on behalf of her mother, so she said to her in the side room, "Sister-in-law is always so busy, don't ask her for everything. I'm old enough to find a partner myself."

Yu Wentao opened her mouth to explain but felt that the process was not important: "Then why didn't I see you looking for it?"

Geng Zhiqin choked and said, "I haven't met the right one yet. This kind of thing depends on fate."

Yu Wentao couldn't argue with her, so she stopped talking nonsense: "What did your sister-in-law say?"

"My sister-in-law said she would arrange it." Geng Zhiqin said.

Yu Wentao understood that she agreed to look everywhere, and immediately felt relieved.

After receiving the telegram from her eldest daughter-in-law, Yu Wentao took several grandchildren to the southwest.

Geng Leilei wanted to work right after graduation. But Geng Leilei's major - communication engineering, would be better if he studied for a few more years. Geng Lao and his wife both worked, so they didn't need Geng Leilei to make money to supplement the family income. Although they owed Yu Wentao money, Yu Wentao said it was okay not to pay it back, and even asked Lao to pay for her funeral when she died.

Geng Leilei's grandparents didn't let Yang Mengxia pay back the money he had received. When the Yang family was in trouble, Yang Mengxia often sent money to his brothers and sisters and things to his parents. Yu Wentao also said that Geng's family had no pressure, and the elders of the Yang family also supported Geng Leilei to study for a few more years and follow his tutor's research project. Geng Leilei then listened to the school professors' advice to continue his studies.

Graduate students also have summer vacation, so this time when they went south, Geng Leilei took care of his younger siblings, and Geng Huihui took care of her grandmother.

At noon on the day Yu Wentao and his party set out, Ye Fan gave Geng Zhiqin a movie ticket for 5pm.

Geng Zhiqin: "It was dark when we came out of the movie. Sister-in-law, what is Chang Guangrong's purpose?"

Ye Fan really didn't want to pay attention to her: "Do you think it's winter now, and it's so dark at five o'clock that you can't see your hand in front of you?"

"Why do you have to go to the cinema?" Geng Zhiqin said disdainfully, "How petty! Can't we go to the park?"

Ye Fan: "The park is fine. Dating in the park doesn't cost money. If I were a man, I would date in the park, because you're not worth my going to the cinema."

Geng Zhiqin's face changed slightly, and she felt that her sister-in-law was hinting at something. Geng Zhiqin didn't want to hear that name: "What are you having for lunch?"

Ye Fan smiled and said, "Why don't you ask me how I know so much? Is it because your brother and I used to date in the park?"

"Forget it. You'll eat whatever I cook." Geng Zhiqin said and went to the kitchen.

Ye Fan shook his head and smiled.

After waking up from a nap, Ye Fan went to Yu Wentao's room to wake up Geng Zhiqin and asked her to get up, wash her hair and pick out clothes.

Geng Zhiqin looked at the shorts and vest he was wearing: "Is this outfit not okay?"

Ye Fan opened the closet, took out a white sleeveless dress and threw it over her head. Geng Zhiqin subconsciously caught it and put it away. Seeing his sister-in-law's serious expression, he felt that she was going to be angry, so he didn't dare to say anything nonsense.

I washed my hair carefully, waited for it to dry, then took a shower, changed clothes, and went to the cinema with my handbag.

Geng Zhiqin left just before Geng Zhiye arrived home. Seeing that Ye Fan was the only one at home again, Geng Zhiye felt that this scene was familiar, and thought carefully: "Are they all going to my sister-in-law's house again?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Just left today."

"How long will you stay at Big Brother's house? Half a month?" Geng Zhiye asked again, "Why are you leaving so late this year?"

Ye Fan: "Hui Hui and Lei Lei's school is closed late." Seeing him approaching, Ye Fan instinctively stretched out her hand to block him. Geng Zhiye held her hand: "There's no one else."

"Your sister didn't go."

Geng Zhiye put down his hand and looked around. He didn't see his sister and breathed a sigh of relief: "She went out?"

"I went on a blind date." Ye Fan told Geng Zhiye that Chang Guangrong wanted to introduce his brother-in-law to Geng Zhiqin. But Ye Fan still started from the physical examination that day, including that Yu Wentao didn't like her and Geng Zhiqin didn't like the doctor. As he spoke, Ye Fan became worried: "I don't think this will work."

Geng Zhiye said: "I think this can be accomplished."

"What's the reason?"

Geng Zhiye took the mung bean soup that Ye Fan poured out, drank two sips and felt much better. Then he said, "Xiaoqin, look at your face. Aunt Yu, we don't expect Xiaoqin to take care of you in your old age if you live with us. If Xiaoqin is not happy in marriage, will you help her get a divorce? If you say it's okay, she will definitely have no objection."

(End of this chapter)