Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Erbao was so scared that he didn't say a word.

Ye Fan asked: "You learned Arabic in just one month last year?"

Erbao: "Mom, do you still remember the old man who spoke French that I met at the Children's Palace?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Not far from the house your aunt bought for your brother?"

"Yes! That's it. He knows a little bit. When I went there during the winter vacation, he chatted with me and asked me how my French was going. I said I was learning Arabic now, so he gave me some books and told me to ask him if I didn't understand anything."

Ye Fan asked quietly, "Is that fashionable old man still single?"

Erbao shook her head with regret: "There is an old partner who is a few years younger than my grandma and is also a singer." She looked outside to make sure her grandma was not at home, and then she felt relieved and complained: "Grandma also said that if I marry him, I have to serve the old man. His uncle is very fashionable and goes to the park to dance every day. I feel that my grandma is not as healthy as him."

Ye Fan: "Your grandma wants to be alone and comfortable for a few years."

"I woke up in the middle of the night and there was no one to talk to. How could it be comfortable to go out and mess around alone?" Erbao wrinkled his nose. "I often thought my house was robbed."

Ye Fan tapped her nose and said, "You are learning from your brother again."

"Why shouldn't I learn from you if you ask him to teach me? If you taught me when I was a child, wouldn't I become you?" Erbao rolled his eyes.

Ye Fan poked her on the forehead: "What a bunch of nonsense. Where's your brother?"

Erbao: "Let's go to the company with Sen Sen. His major requires computers. Your employees are top students. It's better to learn from them than from teachers."

"Nonsense!" Ye Fan cursed.

Erbao: "Every profession has its own expertise. Maybe his mentor doesn't know as much as your employees. Mom, don't blame my brother, he knows his limits, pour me a glass of water."

Ye Fan rubbed her little head before getting up.

Seeing the table, Ye Fan remembered the tea leaves in the drawer, took out two boxes of top-grade black tea and placed them in front of Er Bao: "Give them to me when I get home later."

Erbao: "You don't have to be so polite."

"Yes. The old man said he only knew the basics, but he didn't realize that people of his age are modest and know more than a senior student." Ye Fan said, "Don't forget."

Erbao nodded: "Master, do you like coffee?"

Ye Fan: "Foreigners love to drink tea. In the past, tea was a luxury abroad, and only the nobility could afford it. The foreign-style uncle speaks so well, it is impossible that he does not know this."

Erbao accepted it without worry: "Mom, is it expensive?"

“The thought cannot be measured by price.”

Erbao thought to himself, you are really good at talking.

At eleven o'clock, the room was getting hot, and Erbao put away his summer homework: "Mom, is your company hot?"

Ye Fan: "It shouldn't be hot. There are fans in every room, and there are also several small fans."

At half past twelve, Han Dawei's wife prepared the dishes and it was time for the employees to eat, so Dabao and Geng Sen Sen went back.

When Ye Fan saw Dabao, he asked, "Is the computer fun?"

Dabao: "Let me try your computer so I can know."

"You can't touch mine." Ye Fan had a computer that no one was allowed to touch, to avoid him playing with it but not letting her. They united to make trouble with Ye Fan, "Sesen, is it fun?"

Geng Sensen: "It seems that you use it very simply, turning it on and off. It's very troublesome to do things with a computer."

Ye Fan was amused. Dabao was disgusted: "Nonsense!"

Geng Sensen glared at him: "I'm talking to my aunt, what does it have to do with you?"

Yu Wentao came out from the kitchen and asked them to wash their hands and eat.

Dabao washed his hands and went to the main room to see that it was cold noodles again: "If I had known, I would have eaten at the company. They also have four dishes and a soup."

Ye Fan: "I'll make as many as I want in the evening."

Dabao nodded: "Let's do it!" But he ran away again after lunch. When the employees were on lunch break, he and Geng Sensen were using the computer. When the employees got up to work at two o'clock, they went home.

It happened that Erbao was going to the fashionable old man's house in the afternoon, so she asked her brother to carry her schoolbag and her cousin to carry tea. The two brothers sent Erbao to tutoring like bodyguards. However, they only sent her to the door and then went to Sensen's little home.

The fashionable old man used to have a good family and traveled all over the world for work, so he has seen a lot of good things in his life. As soon as he opened the package and smelled the fragrance, he knew it was good tea.

The old man was sure that he had never seen such good tea in the capital, so he asked Erbao: "Did your mother buy it abroad?"

Erbao: "My mother has never been out. The farthest she has been is to Hong Kong. Why are you asking this?"

"Is this tea specially supplied?" the old man asked again, "Did your grandfather give it to your mother?"

Erbao expected that his mother's tea would be of high quality, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive: "No. My mother has a classmate who went to the south to work in the production team. Now he is doing a small business in the capital. He bought this tea for my mother when he visited his mother-in-law. It seems that he still has some tea at home. It's better than this."

Erbao wrote down the address of Han Dawei's home. The old man smiled with satisfaction, kept the address and started to give Erbao extra lessons.

Han Dawei didn't ask Ye Fan, but he knew that the people who were given tea by her were not simple. So when the old man came to Han Dawei's house to buy tea in the evening, Han Dawei didn't dare to beat around the bush, and directly put out several kinds of tea for the old man to choose.

The middle and high-end items are 30% cheaper than those in stores, and the old man is very satisfied. When he meets friends on the way home, he shows off to them.

The next afternoon, Erbao went over and the room was filled with the aroma of tea. In addition to him and his wife, there were four or five elderly people with gray hair in the house. It was obvious that Erbao came at the wrong time, as they were drinking afternoon tea.

The old man was very considerate. He put his arm around Erbao's thin shoulders and said, "This is my friend, Geng Jingjing."

The old man had boasted to his friends before that he knew a smart little girl. The old woman greeted Erbao in Russian and praised her for being pretty and cute.

An old man said that his Arabic was better than the Western-style old man's, and he would teach Erbao in the future.

Erbao smiled and said, "Then you grandpas can discuss it among yourselves. I'm fine with it."

When these words were spoken, the old men and women burst into laughter.

An old lady said, "Do you want to be a translator? With your reaction and family background, you should go to the Foreign Affairs College."

Erbao frowned subconsciously.

Seeing this, the stylish old man asked Erbao to sit down first and explained to everyone that Erbao was young and there was no need to rush about what to learn in the future.

The old man's wife wondered: "Will he be a senior in the fall? You can consider it."

The aunt who gave Erbao advice asked: "Do your parents prefer you to be a teacher or go to medical school and have a stable job?"

"Neither." Erbao's family background gave her the confidence to tell the truth, "A weak country has no diplomacy. It's not easy to be a diplomat in our country."

The room was filled with silence.

After a long while, the fashionable old man said in a somewhat unexpected tone: "It is more important than ever for diplomats to step up at this time. However, Erbao, grandma is just saying it casually, you don't need to take it to heart. But grandpa wants to remind you that no matter what you do, you can't give up halfway. Otherwise, you will be sorry for your talent and yourself."

The old man's wife said: "Your parents will be very disappointed too."

The fashionable old man shook his head slightly: "I have met her parents, and her parents hope that she will live an easy and worry-free life."

Compared with the grades of Dabao and Erbao, Ye Fan cares more about their physical and mental health. During the final exam one year, the neighbors on both sides of Ye Fan's house were concerned about their children's scores, but Ye Fan didn't care, so Erbao asked her mother if she didn't care about her scores.

Ye Fan replied that he cared, but he didn't expect her and Dabao to become successful. Ye Fan told the two children the truth, it's better to rely on himself than on them to have a bright future.

Erbao was so angry that he was speechless.

Last summer vacation, Dabao was explaining math problems to Erbao. Ye Fan understood them just by listening casually. Erbao looked confused, and Dabao was so angry that he threw down his pen: "Mom, I understand you!" It is better to rely on yourself than to expect your sister to study well and make a lot of money.

Erbao didn't expect that the old man also knew: "Did my parents say that?"

Western-style uncle: "Feeling."

Erbao: "I will think about it carefully. I will also ask Mom and Dad."

Considering the hot weather and that Erbao's home is far from Grandpa's, he might get heatstroke if he came here every day. Erbao discussed with Grandpa that he would come for two days and take one day off, and would call Grandpa on rainy days - Grandpa's home has a telephone.

The next day, Erbao was resting and Geng Zhiye came back for lunch. Erbao saw that her father, mother, brother and sister were all at home, so she asked her how studying at the China Foreign Affairs University was going.

Geng Zhiye almost choked to death on the noodles with soybean paste.

With his temper, why waste time talking? Just do it!

Ye Fan was confused. She had only thought that Erbao might be a translator and had never considered that her goal was to become a diplomat.

Geng Huihui, Geng Sensen and Dabao didn't understand. Even though the China Foreign Affairs University was in the capital, it had nothing to do with the Geng and Ye families, so when they came to their senses, they asked Erbao to say it again.

Erbao's face turned red with anger: "I didn't say I wanted to be a diplomat. Why do you look down on me so much?"

Ye Fan: "Baby, is it possible that mommy didn't react?"

"Why?" Erbao was puzzled, as she was not trying to become an immortal and ascend to heaven.

Ye Fan smiled bitterly: "Because you never said you wanted to be a diplomat."

Geng Huihui: "It was like a bolt of thunder from the blue."

Erbao: "That won't scare me to death. Dad, tell me!"

Geng Zhiye swallowed his noodles: "As the saying goes, a good father will have a good daughter. Dad thought you would be a female soldier. Your grandfather also hopes that you will apply to the flight academy." Erbao suspected that her father was talking nonsense: "Flying a plane? Using six languages ​​to curse the provocative enemy?"

Geng Zhiye almost choked again: "Erbao, don't learn everything from your brother. You won't learn anything good from him!"

"You don't agree?" Erbao asked directly without wasting time.

Geng Zhiye: "If I don't agree, will you listen?"

The second baby doesn’t know how to do that.

Ye Fan: "Erbao, as long as you don't break the law, I will support you in whatever you do. I just don't want you to work too hard. If you really like it, I will ask you what materials you need to apply to the Foreign Affairs College when the university starts."

Erbao didn't think it through: "You, you, let me think about it again."

Geng Zhiye's eyes lit up: "Erbao, do you want Dad to introduce you to other majors?"

Erbao glared at him: "No need!"

Ye Fan: "Talk to daddy nicely."

"He doesn't talk to me properly." Erbao said, "Grandpa never said he wanted me to be a pilot. Dad is talking nonsense."

Geng Zhiye smiled: "Dad is not teasing you. It is really hard to be a diplomat. It is easier to be a pilot than to be an excellent diplomat."

Erbao: "Dad, you think so. Maybe I'm not good at it. I think being a pilot is more difficult."

Geng Zhiye put down his bowl and chopsticks and said seriously, "Go to your grandma's house someday and ask her if she knows any diplomats, and ask her to tell you about them. If you still think you are good at it after learning about it, and you have a talent for languages, Dad will support you."

Erbao nodded: "That's what a father should be like."

Geng Zhiye gave her a slap on the face.

Erbao stamped his feet angrily: "Mom!"

Ye Fan: "It's rare for you to come back, can you have a good meal?"

Geng Zhiye nodded obediently.

Erbao asked: "Dad, what's the plan?"

Geng Zhiye smiled.

Erbao wondered what her father was laughing at, and heard her mother ask, "Geng Jingjing, is it over yet?"

Erbao paused for a moment and hurriedly picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth.

Geng Zhiye smiled when he saw this. Ye Fan glared at him. Geng Zhiye tried to hold back his smile and ate his noodles.

After dinner, Ye Fan asked Dabao to take Erbao out to play.

The heat was unbearable and the brother and sister didn't want to go anywhere, so they moved the small fan to the bed and played cards with Geng Sen Sen and Geng Lei Lei, while Geng Huihui went to work.

Geng Huihui's mentor recommended her to Renmin University, Chen Xiaohui's alma mater. But Geng Huihui found a job for herself as an intern editor in a publishing house.

Geng Zhiqin used to like writing more, but she stopped writing after she started her graduate studies and became a counselor. Geng Huihui thought she had good writing skills, but couldn't write stories, so she became an editor.

Geng Huihui had made up her mind. If she liked this line of work, she would ask the director to transfer her file here. If she found it boring, Jiuyue could just go to school and be a freshman teacher.

Geng Huihui's tutor also wanted to introduce her to someone, and asked her what her parents did for a living. Geng Huihui didn't know what her father did, so she brought up her uncle and aunt, saying that he was similar to them, and that she also had a courtyard house near the school.

Geng Huihui also said that her grandfather was a university professor and her late grandfather was an old revolutionary. Such conditions scared off the tutor. Geng Huihui realized for the first time how good her conditions were.

That day, Geng Huihui took the bus back to tell her aunt that she was well off.

Ye Fan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and at the same time reminded her to be careful when choosing a partner.

Then again, Dabao and Erbao were on summer vacation, and Geng Zhiqin was also on summer vacation. Maybe because Ye Fan spoke rudely before, she rarely came back.

Yu Wentao was afraid that Ye Fan would think Geng Zhiqin was an ungrateful person, so she said seemingly helplessly, "Xiaoqin looks down on her husband's family and her marriage is likely to go wrong. It's just right that she likes staying at her husband's house now." In fact, she was explaining to Ye Fan on behalf of Geng Zhiqin.

Geng Zhiqin was not with his parents-in-law either. The old couple took Chang Guangrong's children out to play, while Geng Zhiqin and Chang Guangrong's wife were in the store.

She doesn't dislike her elder sister-in-law.

This was something that Chang Guangrong mentioned unintentionally when he was chatting with Ye Fanxian. The original words were, "I didn't expect that they would get along so well."

Ye Fanxin said that it must be because I have a strong personality and speak harshly.

However, Ye Fan had no intention of changing.

Her father is so awesome, her husband is a rising star in the army, she has so many people under her and also owns a company, why should she put herself in a difficult position?

At around three o'clock, Ye Fan reminded the younger ones to stop playing, and then she went to the company to make promises to the employees, saying that in two years they would have enough money to build an office building and two employee dormitories. New employees would have two in a room, those who had worked there for a long time would have single dormitories, and married people would have two-bedroom apartments, and technical personnel would be given priority.

Ye Fan’s classmates liked her to imagine the future the most and asked her to say more.

"I'm not kidding." Ye Fan said, "Maybe because of the accumulation of the past few years, it suddenly exploded this year. Although none of you will get a commission this year, I can guarantee that the year-end bonus will be at least 500."

The junior brother deliberately said: "Five hundred is not much."

Ye Fan: "It's not you, it's the newcomers who haven't reported yet!"

The few people who had worked with Ye Fan for less than a year opened their mouths in shock. One of the junior brothers was so frightened that he was speechless: "Then I - our minimum is one thousand?"

Ye Fan nodded.

Junior: "If you don't give it to the school, won't it be two or three thousand?"

Ye Fan shook his head slightly: "You can't count it that way. If the school hadn't stepped in, the Chinese card might not have been made until this year. People can't just focus on the present and lose the big picture for the sake of the small."

The junior student remembered that they often went to the tutor a few years ago, and occasionally went to the tutor to answer questions this year. If Ye Fan hadn't been so straightforward and generous, the tutor would not have been patient enough to give instructions.

The junior fellow student was ashamed and said very embarrassedly: "The school can give a few hundred thousand, right?"

Ye Fan: "Almost."

The junior fellow asked again: "Did you get your money back?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "Computers are expensive. But they will be cheaper in the future. I will invest in a trading company in the name of my company."

The junior brother exclaimed: "Oh my God!"

The junior sister who had just worked with Ye Fan for a year couldn't help but ask, "You also have wholesale business, can you handle it?"

Ye Fan frankly admitted that she was too busy, so she found a few partners. Finally, she said that her partner planned to find a partner to start a clothing factory.

Ye Fan's classmates couldn't help but ask: "Why is it like a snowball?"

Ye Fan: "That's right. When the company builds an office building in the future, you don't have to worry about following me and living frugally. I'll borrow money from them."

An employee from the same school as Ye Fan took the opportunity to ask, "Is the garment factory hiring?"

"If you're asking for your family, ask your brother." Ye Fan pointed at the employee who asked for a job for his family last year, "My friend's clothing factory is still a long way off. It'll take at least another year."

Ye Fan's employee said that his family was very happy in the south, except that they were not used to eating rice, there were no problems. Because seafood was cheap, they had never eaten meat before, and after six months in the south, they became stronger and their skin looked better, as if they were enjoying a good life.

Seeing them chatting, Ye Fan said hello to the old employees and went to the store.

After leaving the store, Ye Fan went to Wei Jianshe's store and asked him to change the pop music to English broadcast. Wei Jianshe said he couldn't understand. Ye Fan sneered: "You didn't go to junior high school, so who would have asked you to go to the countryside? Don't pretend. When you were in junior high school, our country had a rift with the north, and the school stopped teaching Russian and taught English instead. You don't have to be able to speak it, but at least you have to understand it. You can learn Russian, and I'll ask Zhang Xiaoming to learn English."

Wei Jianshe: "I can be responsible for domestic business."

"You should be more promising." Ye Fan glared at him. "When you buy a house, I'll introduce you to a girl. At least she's a nurse in a hospital."

Wei Jianshe's eyes lit up: "Let's go look at the house another day."

Ye Fan: "Buy a courtyard house. Buy a building later. Many houses nowadays have poor sound insulation. You can't afford the ones that are too expensive. Xiaoqin's house, including the decoration and electrical appliances, costs nearly 25,000 yuan."

Wei Jianshe actually wanted to live in a building, but he was tired of using public toilets. But he thought that he would start a company in the future and get tens of thousands of yuan in dividends a year, so it would not be too late to buy a house then.

Wei Jianshe dared to think of tens of thousands of yuan, but Chang Guangrong once let it slip that the money he received last year was enough to buy two stores. Two-story stores along the street are more expensive than buildings.

Ye Fan went to Zhang Xiaoming's house across the street, and Zhang Xiaoming watched his stepdaughter doing homework. Ye Fan asked the little girl to teach him English or Zhang Xiaoming to learn Russian by himself - Zhang Xiaoming had a basic knowledge of Russian.

Zhang Xiaoming told his wife a few days ago that Ye Fan would help him start a company, and his wife was worried about who to find to teach him. Ye Fan gave some directions, and Dong Ying agreed on his behalf.

Ye Fan had thought about bringing someone from Yujia Village with her, but unfortunately, the people she could trust were either married or had stable jobs.

Yu Yinxing has a brother who also does business in the city, but he can't even write his own name properly, so Ye Fan doesn't dare to ask him to invest. He just wants him to run a few stores.

Ye Fan went to the office again and asked the salesperson to buy a few books. He could tell the answer but he could not be cheated.

The sales staff thought it was troublesome, but once they heard that they were being cheated, they all went to pick a few books obediently after Ye Fan left. However, most of the ten people fell asleep after reading for a while.

Only the two veterans and Geng Zhiye's former bodyguard, who was also a veteran, were determined and did not fall asleep.

In the evening, the weather turned cooler and everyone woke up. They thought to themselves that it was no wonder that "Sister Ye" asked them to be salespeople instead of working in offices.

(End of this chapter)