Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Chang Guangrong explained that the net was cast widely, and even Ye Fan was not idle.

Father Chang still waved his hand: "I can't tell anyone that I won't have children. Please forgive me. I might as well introduce someone to the younger generation of the Geng family."

Chang Guangrong was happy: "Does he need your introduction? Isn't it that the oldest one is 24 years old and still studying for a master's degree? Studies are more important. The door to Ye Fan's house has already been trampled."

"That's true." Father Chang thought about Boss Geng. He seemed to be ignored in the place where he was in power. In fact, if the higher-ups didn't have absolute trust in him, they wouldn't dare to send him there.

If nothing unexpected happens, Geng will be transferred back to the capital in a few years, at least to the head of a state-owned unit. If he is still outside, he will be a real frontier official.

There are many provincial governors, but not many of them have outstanding sons. I heard that the younger generation of the Geng family are all well-proportioned. Once Ye Fan agrees to find a partner for his nephew, Chang Guangrong's sisters will have to line up.

Chang Guangrong: "Isn't my partner good?"

Father Chang snorted: "You are lucky!"

"Yes, I don't have any special abilities, I'm just lucky, you have to admit it." Chang Guangrong stood up and said, "I'm busy in the store. I'm going back. Don't forget about Chen Xiaohui."

Father Chang waved his hands in annoyance. After he left, Father Chang called his old comrade-in-arms and asked him to pay attention.

When the bus arrived near Ye Fan's home, Chang Guangrong got off and told her that he had asked his father to help Chen Xiaohui keep an eye out. Finally, he asked, "If there really is such an avant-garde person, Chen Xiaohui will not miss him, right?"

Chen Xiaohui is easily influenced and not firm enough in her heart. Now that she says she doesn't want to get married, if there really is a suitable person, Ye Fan advises her that it will be easier to date that person than to date Geng Zhiqin and Sun Laifu before.

Ye Fan: "The one your father introduced is not a jerk, Chen Xiaohui will definitely be willing to meet him."

Chang Guangrong: "What about family background?"

Ye Fan: "It's OK as long as there are no weird relatives and both parents have pensions."

"If you say so, it might be true." Chang Guangrong said.

Ye Fan smiled and said, "Then I will wait for your good news."

Chang Guangrong casually asked Geng Huihui and Geng Leilei what kind of person they were looking for. Ye Fan told them to wait a year. Chang Guangrong was not surprised at all. After all, one was young and the other had not graduated yet, so they were not in a hurry to get married.

Ye Fan suddenly thought of the two people: "My mother-in-law's nephew is a middle school teacher in Dongcheng. He has a store in the city, and the school has given him a single dormitory. His parents have land and a house in the city, so the younger generation doesn't need to spend money to support them. Can you help him keep an eye on them?"

"Yu Hongwei, right? Still single?"

Ye Fan: "Many girls are willing to meet him if they hear he is a teacher. But they say no if they hear he is from the countryside."

Chang Guangrong snorted coldly, saying that they should all be sent to the countryside to train for a few years.

"Any requests?"

Ye Fan: "A primary school teacher or a hospital nurse will do. Someone who works on the street will also do."

In other words, a girl with a stable job is enough. Chang Guangrong understood: "It's easy to find someone with his conditions."

"Find another one for Wei Jianshe?"

Chang Guangrong shook his head: "He's not in a hurry. In two years, when your trading company is established, Wei Jianshe will be a general manager, and it will be easier to find him than now."

Ye Fan: "Then I'll leave these two tasks to you?"

Chang Guangrong made a lot of money doing legitimate business, and the people with bad intentions in his circle were willing to hang out with him - Chang Guangrong was rich, and the decent people also liked to deal with him - his hands were clean, so he knew more people than Ye Fan.

Chang Guangrong said, "Can I ask for Chen Xiaohui?"

Ye Fan: "Don't mention my parents."

"I know. As soon as I mention her last name is Ye, a group of flies and rats will definitely come over after smelling the scent." It was getting late, so Chang Guangrong went home after saying this.

Seeing Han Dawei's cold food cart at the intersection, Chang Guangrong walked over. There were only a few meat dishes in the cart, and most of them were vegetarian. He thought, can he afford a house with this? Ye Fan didn't fool him, did he?

Chang Guangrong picked two kilograms of vegetarian dishes and asked for two kilograms of meat dishes. Han Dawei mixed and weighed the vegetarian dishes, and weighed and sliced ​​the meat dishes before mixing them. Chang Guangrong wanted to say that he would also ask for money for the seasoning, but he swallowed his words when he saw this.

After paying, Chang Guangrong found that there were only a few vegetarian dishes on his stall. He estimated that if he sold all the vegetables and meat, he could make about 100 yuan. If he split the profits 40% and 60%, he could make 40 yuan. Counting 20 yuan in the morning, plus the salary of Han Dawei's wife for cooking, minus the living expenses, he could conservatively make a little over 1,000 yuan a month.

A courtyard house as big as Ye Fan's, which is shabby now, only costs 10,000 yuan. No wonder he can afford to buy a house next year.

Chang Guangrong sighed that business cannot be judged by appearance.

By the way, Geng Zhiye asked Erbao to ask her grandmother if she knew any diplomats, and Erbao didn't forget.

Erbao knew that his mother would go south at the end of August or the beginning of September every year, and was worried that his mother would not have time at the end of the month, so he would go to his grandmother's house the next day.

Ye Fan asked her and Dabao to bring clothes and stay at Ye's house for a few days.

Erbao was packing clothes. Geng Huihui didn't go to work today, the weekend, and leaned against the door frame to sigh about life: "As the saying goes, comparing people makes people angry. How come comparing grandma to grandma also makes people angry."

Erbao paused for a moment, realizing that she was not mocking him for liking to go to his grandma's house, so he replied: "So your grandma is dead."

Geng Huihui choked.

Ye Fan heard this in the yard and scolded Erbao: "Can you speak?"

Geng Huihui: "What Erbao said is also true."

"..." Ye Fanxin said, I am so free, why should I get involved in their affairs.

Dabao came out with a backpack on his back: "Erbao, are you ready?"

"Hurry up, hurry up." Erbao came out with sneakers, "Mom, help me find a bag."

Yu Wentao was hanging clothes in the yard. She turned her head and frowned: "Aren't you hot wearing these shoes?"

Erbao: "Wearing sandals to visit someone else's house? That's rude! Mom, find me a bag!" Geng Sensen went to the main room to get a plastic bag, and Erbao threw his shoes in. He saw that his mother only had a small black leather bag in her hand: "Mom, why don't you stay at grandma's house for a few days?"

"Your father will be back in the evening."

Erbao glanced at his mouth, yelled, and said, "Then you wait for dad at home, we will go by ourselves."

"Did your grandma raise me up for nothing?" Ye Fan glared at his daughter.

Erbao: "You are filial but empty-handed?"

Ye Fan said: "I didn't say I wouldn't buy it."

Erbao couldn't argue with her, so he took his brother's hand and left.

Yu Wentao urged Ye Fan to go quickly.

There is a big temperature difference between day and night now. You have to wear a thin coat in the morning and evening, and it is hot even in short sleeves at noon. Ye Fan wants to get to his parents' house before the weather gets hot, so he will change into low-heeled shoes and go after his children.

After getting off the bus at one stop, Ye Fan asked them to go first while she went to the vegetable market. Dabao wanted to help his mother carry things, and Erbao wanted to go with his brother, so they all went to the vegetable market with Ye Fan.

Ye Fan went to the market to buy two pounds of prawns, a few pounds of pork belly and a freshly slaughtered rooster.

The vegetable market near Ye Fan's home is a small market, this is a big vegetable market, there are a lot of dry goods from the north and south. Ye Fan asked his children if they wanted to eat crabs. Erbao nodded, and Ye Fan bought ten. Ye Fan also bought some wild delicacies. Dabao and Ye Fan's hands were full, and then the mother and the three of them went to Ye's home.

Fortunately, this vegetable market is not far from the Ye family.

In fact, Ye Fan was not far from her mother. She only needed to walk a few dozen meters from two stops to her mother.

It was also convenient to go to the Ye family, so Dabao would go to his grandmother's house whenever he had time. So this year, Ye Fan went south for the first time after the New Year, and Chu Fenghe's mother was seriously ill. Ye Fan was worried that the Chu family would cause trouble, so he didn't allow Dabao to go to his grandmother's house and told him to stay at home and watch over her.

When Tao Chunlan saw Ye Fan coming over with so many bags, she wanted to complain that she bought too much. But when she saw Erbao behind Ye Fan, she immediately smiled and said, "Make it for Dabao and Erbao."

Ye Fan turned his face away and rolled his eyes.

Erbao pulled his grandma into the house, "Grandma, where's Jingjing?"

"Upstairs." Tao Chunlan's current house is not as spacious as before, but it is a two-story building. The old couple lives downstairs because it is too hard to go upstairs. There are showers and toilets upstairs and downstairs. Dabao likes to go to grandma's house because it is convenient to take a shower and go to the toilet.

Erbao went upstairs while shouting, "Ye Jingjing!"

Ye Fan shook his head helplessly and put his things in the kitchen. Seeing that it was still early for lunch, he made himself a cup of tea: "Is Xiaohui still working today?"

Tao Chunlan has always been dissatisfied with Chen Xiaohui's choice: "I can't say anything about her job. She was supposed to take a vacation, but she found a tomb while building a house somewhere, and her boss called her away." She sighed, "It sounds nice to call it archaeology, but it's actually just digging graves!"

Ye's father also didn't approve of her doing this business, but his daughter used to be estranged from them, and things have eased a little in recent years. If he said too much, they would go back to the old ways. He could only complain to Ye Fan when she was not at home.

"It's eerie, but she's not afraid." Father Ye said as he shook his head and sighed.

Ye Fan: "If you are willing to do this job, you must not be afraid. By the way, your granddaughter has great ambitions, you two can go back and give her some advice."

Tao Chunlan: "Erbao? What do you want to do? You can't be a soldier!"

Ye Fan subconsciously looked upstairs and was glad that Erbao couldn't hear anything in the room.

Dabao was in the living room and heard it clearly: "Didn't Dad say that Grandpa wanted Erbao to be a pilot?"

Ye Fan glared at his son. Facing his old father's puzzled look, Ye Fan said, "He's talking nonsense."

Tao Chunlan nodded: "I guess so. Your guy is always talking nonsense. Fortunately, he is a soldier. If he was doing something else, I think he would have been in jail long ago."

Ye Fan laughed: "With his intelligence, the relevant departments may not be able to catch him."

Tao Chunlan was speechless.

Dabao laughed and fell on his mother: "Grandma, if my dad heard it, he would think he disliked him for you."

"I just dislike him. If your mother hadn't insisted on going to the countryside, I wouldn't have asked her to marry a soldier. We've been married for five years and had you two, but your father hasn't been home for two months." Tao Chunlan's nose was crooked with disdain, "What's the point of having him?"

Dabao looks at his mother and doesn't say anything.

Ye Fanxiao said: "It's quite useful. At least no one dared to bully me in all these years of doing business."

Tao Chunlan: "With your father here, who would dare to trip you up?"

Ye Fan didn’t dare to say it because my father would be gone in a few years.

"Mom, more helpers mean more strength." Ye Fan didn't wait for her mother to refute, "Let's not talk about this for now, let's talk about Erbao, she wants to apply to the Foreign Affairs College."

After hearing this, the old couple frowned.

Ye Fan said, "Erbao has made up her mind. Dad, you know a lot of people, ask who is free someday, and take Erbao over to talk to them. Erbao will also apply for the Foreign Affairs College after she has figured out the job content, so don't object. I promised her to let her decide for herself."

Tao Chunlan: "But Erbao is so young. If you let her decide, what can she decide?"

Ye's father also disagreed with Ye Fan spoiling his child like this: "What if Erbao feels that he can't continue studying after two years?"

"Erbao is only fifteen this year, sixteen next year, and eighteen in two years. He will only be nineteen if he comes back to repeat his studies and take the exam again." Ye Fan said, "The Diplomatic Academy is not like joining the army, so you are not allowed to drop out."

Father Ye frowned and said, "Even if you allow it, won't you make trouble?"

Ye Fan: "No one has a smooth life. You and my mother had a lot of troubles when we were young. We almost lost our lives many times during the revolution. Besides, I wanted to go to the countryside before, but now it's pretty good, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)