Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Geng Zhiye felt like he was shooting himself in the foot.

But he really needed Ye Fan, and he couldn't hide her, so he could only drag her to the cafeteria.

When they arrived at the cafeteria door, the officers who had been sticking their heads out of the cafeteria turned inside at the same time. Some looked at the plates in their hands, some looked up and down, and it was obvious that they were trying to hide something.

Geng Zhiye glanced at Ye Fan and said: Is it necessary for me to be so sneaky just because I’m curious about you?

Ye Fan was tired of explaining and didn't bother to pay attention to him.

Geng Zhiye felt bored and scratched his nose uncomfortably, then pulled Ye Fan in.

As soon as they entered, the officers who had remained calm in the face of danger seemed to have their tails stepped on. They were all startled and then made way for them.

Geng Zhiye was speechless. He pretended not to see it and dragged Ye Fan to the front: "What would you like to eat?"

Ye Fan: "You know."

Geng Zhiye handed her a plate and told the chef the dishes that Ye Fan usually liked to eat. The chef's hands didn't shake at all and he scooped a big spoonful at a time.

Ye was panicking: "Too much, I can't eat so much."

The chef wanted to take some out, but the chef opposite him smiled and said, "If you can't finish it, give it to our commander."

Ye Fan nodded subconsciously: "Thank you."

The chef who was serving the food smiled shyly, lowered his head and didn't dare to look up at Ye Fan, the tips of his ears turned red.

Geng Zhiye was so angry that his nose was about to be crooked. He snorted coldly and pulled Ye Fan to the next window.

This cafeteria was where Geng Zhiye often went. After sitting in a certain seat for a long time, everyone subconsciously reserved it for him, and it became his exclusive seat. When Geng Zhiye and Ye Fan walked over, the soldiers in front and behind him stopped at the same time and secretly looked at Ye Fan.

Geng Zhiye glanced at everyone and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Everyone hurriedly lowered their heads to eat their steamed buns.

Just at this moment, a few people came in from outside, saw Geng Zhiye, greeted him, went to get food, and then sat next to Geng Zhiye.

You can't pretend to be blind when someone is right in front of you. Ye Fan looked up and was about to speak when several people were startled, especially the soldier who was only one seat away from Ye Fan, who was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

The officer sitting across from Ye Fan was speechless: "You you you——"

"I'm Ye Fan, Geng Zhiye's lover." Ye Fan smiled and stretched out his hand, "Hello."

The man instinctively wanted to salute, but he raised his arm halfway before hastily stretching it out: "When did your sister-in-law arrive? How long have you been here? You-"

Geng Zhiye interrupted: "I'm eating."

If he hadn't spoken, they might have just passed by. As soon as he opened his mouth, several people started to attack him at the same time: "Why didn't you tell us that your sister-in-law was coming?" After he said this, he couldn't help but glance at Ye Fan and sighed in his heart, "Oh my God, who is Geng Zhiye trying to envy to death?"

Geng Zhiye: "Didn't you say that this morning?"

"But..." His political commissar opened his mouth, "You, you didn't tell me that my sister-in-law would arrive before lunch. If I had known that my sister-in-law would come, I would have asked the cafeteria to add two more dishes."

Geng Zhiye asked in return: "My wife is in the capital, not out of town. If she doesn't arrive before lunch, will she arrive before midnight?"

"you--"

Ye Fan smiled and asked, "What's your name?"

The political commissar immediately stopped talking to him and first reported his name and then his position, and then where he was from. Geng Zhiye couldn't help but interrupt: "My wife is not a household registration police officer, and she is not interested in knowing where you are from."

The political commissar choked.

Ye Fan stepped on Geng Zhiye's foot and turned to the person beside him calmly: "What about you?"

The other party immediately said that he was in logistics. Opposite him was the chief of staff, and next to them were two other people, who were civilians in the army, but their ranks were not low. Ye Fan introduced himself to them with a smile.

Seeing that she was easy to get along with, several people took the opportunity to ask the doubts in their hearts: "Is your sister-in-law usually very busy?"

Ye Fan didn't understand why they said that: "Do I look busy?"

Several people looked at Ye Fan and thought to themselves, you look very idle.

Chief of Staff: "Which unit is your sister-in-law in?"

Ye Fan subconsciously looked at Geng Zhiye. What was going on?

The situation is that Geng Zhiye said that he has a wife and children, but he did not say how old the children are or who his wife is. Geng Zhiye is not afraid that his comrades will snatch his wife from him, but it is difficult to get around his father-in-law. Geng Zhiye has never relied on his father-in-law all the way. His father who died early was more important than his father-in-law. Because his father-in-law was in the Air Force and his father was in the Army, although his father was gone, his comrades were still there.

The friendship between comrades in the past was stronger than it is now. They really went through countless battles and shared hardships. If their children are promising and there is no major conflict of interest with them, old comrades will take care of them.

At a high-level military meeting held in the first year after Geng Zhiye was transferred to the capital, an old general who was 20 years older than him politely told him that he could come to him if he encountered any difficulties.

If Geng Zhiye mentioned his father-in-law, his comrades would guess that his father was also an old revolutionary, and then they would mistakenly believe that he got promoted through his father's connections. As a result, people would question everything he said and suspect that he was a useless soldier.

Geng Zhiye avoided Ye Fan's questioning and said to the chief of staff, "No unit."

Several people showed a look of understanding.

The soldiers in front and behind stopped and looked back in disbelief. Geng Zhiye said again: "She runs her own business."

This sentence failed to make everyone look at Ye Fan differently. A young officer who couldn't hide the truth almost said it out loud: You are a beautiful woman, but why are you a thief?

Nowadays, most of the people who run their own business are idlers in society. What is an idler? It is a small-time hoodlum with no skills and no education.

Ye Fan didn't want to fail in her first appearance. However, before she could speak, the political commissar saw that everyone was not happy and quickly tried to smooth things over: "Doing business is good, it's free. What business does your sister-in-law do?"

The political commissar is good, he is so good at answering questions. Ye Fan smiled and said, "Open a small computer company."

"Computer, company?" Forgive the political commissar, who is in his fifties and has only heard of computers, "Is it the one that you type on?" He gestured the typing action.

Ye Fan nodded.

The political commissar was shocked for a moment and couldn't help but say, "Sister-in-law is amazing!"

Ye Fan said, "Not really. I understand this business. It's like a soldier doing arms trading."

The political commissar asked casually, "Have you learned it, brother-in-law?"

Geng Zhiye couldn't help showing off: "My wife is from the Computer Science Department of Peking University."

Everyone can understand each word, but when they are put together, everyone is confused. Which one is bigger? Which one is related?
The young college student officer was the first to react and couldn't help but turn around to face Ye Fan: "Is your sister-in-law studying at Beijing University, which is not far from us?"

Ye Fan nodded: "I majored in Chinese and took computer science as an elective, but I still got a degree certificate."

The young officer gasped.

The political commissar couldn't help but turn around and asked with a questioning look, "Is it that powerful?"

The officer didn't know where to start, so he compared the military academies. Beijing University was the best military academy in China, and the computer science department was one of Beijing University's trump cards. These were secondary. The important thing was that Ye Fan could still study while taking care of the children.

Many people were admitted to Peking University through hard work, but because of their low IQ, they fell behind and had to drop out.

The young officer hurriedly explained it clearly, and everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Ye Fan, as if saying, "No way? How can someone be both good-looking and smart? What is Geng Zhiye hiding from such an outstanding person?"

Geng Zhiye picked up the green pepper that Ye Fan had pushed aside and stuffed it into his mouth. Everyone looked at Geng Zhiye with changed eyes, but he could still eat it.

Ye Fan asked knowingly, "Don't you all believe it?"

The political commissar shook his head: "No, no, no - it's not that I don't believe you, I just didn't expect my sister-in-law to be so powerful."

The chief of staff was a little skeptical: "Isn't the job assigned to your sister-in-law after graduation a good one? Why did you want to start your own business? Isn't the computer business too easy to do?"

Ye Fanyun smiled calmly and said, "The assigned job is good. Before I graduated, the school leaders asked me which unit I wanted to go to." The young officer asked, "Sister-in-law must have excellent grades in school?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "Compared to my classmates, I can only be considered talented. My classmates are all geniuses."

The young man was confused: "Then how come——"

Geng Zhiye interrupted: "Let your sister-in-law eat."

Ye Fan smiled indifferently: "I'm eating." He said to the young man, "Maybe the school leader knows my father."

Geng Zhiye had been in office for more than a year and had already taken control of the division. He did not stop the young officer from asking, "Is my sister-in-law's father very powerful?"

Ye Fan: "It was okay before. Now it's gone."

The chief of staff was curious: "Is your sister-in-law's father also a soldier?"

"Yes."

Political Commissar: "Which leader?"

Ye Fan said, "You may not know him. He is in the Air Force, and his name is Ye Jianzhong."

The name "Jianzhong" is very common. Ye Fan only mentioned his name, so people might not remember him at first. However, Ye Fan's father had retired only a few years ago, and it was hard for army officers who had the opportunity to interact with the Air Force to not know him.

So when Ye Fan finished speaking, there were several inhalations from all around.

Ye Fan pretended not to hear and asked slowly, "Do you know him?"

The political commissar didn't know how to describe his feelings at the moment. He nodded uncomfortably. He glanced at the people around him from the corner of his eyes. Suddenly, he thought to himself, how could an unknown person have the chance to meet the eldest daughter of the Ye family? The political commissar immediately turned to Geng Zhiye and said, "Commander, you are not fair."

The chief of staff also realized this, and since Geng Zhiye's mouth was as tight as a clam, he simply asked Ye Fan: "Our division commander's father is also very powerful, right?"

Ye Fan nodded: "The old revolutionary was injured and died of illness many years ago."

When the chief of staff heard that the person was gone - the dead are the greatest - he hesitated to continue asking: "Sister-in-law, can you come here today? Are you not busy recently?"

Ye Fan: "I'm very busy every day, but I found a partner. He keeps an eye on me when I'm busy, and I keep an eye on him when he's busy. Besides, it's summer vacation recently, and the two kids are at my parents' house, so I have time to come over."

The young officer couldn't help but ask, "What's the name of your sister-in-law's company?"

Ye Fan: "Small companies don't have much reputation."

The officer was curious and deliberately provoked her: "Sister-in-law, you don't want to talk about it, right? Why are you the same as the division commander?"

The political commissar also wanted to know, and followed her words: "Otherwise, how could they be a couple?"

Ye Fan was both angry and amused: "Flowering!"

The college student officer came from a wealthy family and had access to computers. He blurted out, "Flower Han Card?"

"You know?" Ye Fan's Chinese card business is good, but so far the soldiers who come to her to buy Chinese cards are only those she and Chang Guangrong know, so she was very surprised to hear that.

The officer swallowed his saliva: "You, you, you—you are the Ye Fan?"

Ye Fan: "If there is only one type of Flower Han card in China, I would be that Ye Fan."

The officer immediately squeezed next to her: "Sister-in-law, you——"

Geng Zhiye: "What? Go back!"

The college student officer shuddered and rolled back to his seat. Geng Zhiye asked Ye Fan, "Have you finished eating?"

Ye Fan talked a lot and ate a lot: "It's almost done."

Geng Zhiye took her plate and finished it in no time. He said to the political commissar, "Please help me clean it up." He then dragged Ye Fan away.

Ye Fan was speechless: "Slow down."

Geng Zhiye muttered something, but Ye Fan didn't hear it clearly, and neither did anyone else. But it didn't stop the political commissar from mumbling, "Is it that serious?"

The chief of staff looked at the two people's backs getting farther and farther away, feeling very complicated: "I always thought that my sister-in-law was a fisherman's daughter from Hengshan Island."

College student officer: "Why does the Chief of Staff think so?"

The political commissar said unhappily, "It's because he did a good job of keeping it secret."

Although the college student officer is young, he is already at the deputy regimental level and often comes into contact with Geng Zhiye: "The division commander just didn't say it."

"If you don't tell me, isn't that just concealing the truth?" asked the political commissar.

The officer felt that he was being unreasonable: "If you say so, then so be it."

The commissar choked, remembering what he had just said: "What is the Flower Hanka?"

When talking about what he knew, the college student officer talked incessantly, and everyone was confused. They didn't understand what he said, but they knew it was very impressive.

The officer hadn’t finished speaking yet: “Chief of Staff, do you know who my sister-in-law’s partner is?” He first mentioned Chang’s father’s name, then said, “His youngest son.”

Chief of Staff: “How do you know?”

Officer: "My cousin used to be a soldier of that man. He works in the Public Security Bureau now. I visit him every Spring Festival. Chang Guangrong was selling things on the street a few years ago. His father was worried that he might sell state assets recklessly, so he asked my cousin to keep an eye on him and lock him up if he was found breaking the law."

The political commissar was silent for a while, then sighed, "No wonder the division commander didn't even want the sugar coating when faced with a sugar-coated bullet."

The chief of staff was an old bachelor who envied Geng Zhiye's popularity in love affairs. His expression became even more complicated when he heard this.

It's not difficult for the chief of staff to find a woman who is ten years younger than him, but he is so much older than her. Even if she doesn't want to, she knows that she will marry him for his life, not for him as a person. He has no feelings for his wife, but wants real love.

The actor who sent gifts to Geng Zhiye was not only after Geng Zhiye's life, but also after him as a person. The chief of staff teased him verbally, but in fact it was out of envy and jealousy.

At this moment, the Chief of Staff was powerless to envy.

The college student officer scoffed at the words: "The packaging that looks like candy is called a sugar-coated bullet. How is that little actor like candy? You just like to make a fuss."

Political Commissar: "You didn't stir up trouble?"

The officer shook his head: "I didn't start a commotion." He stood up and collected his own plate, and then collected the plates of Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye. "The division commander is old enough to be her father, and she still..." The young and hot-tempered officer who hated evil couldn't continue, feeling disgusted. "Only you think that some female comrades like glory. To show that they are still in their prime. You don't even think about whether the division commander needs it." He glanced at a few people and said, "She likes any dirty and smelly ones, and she is not picky." After saying that, he hurried away, put down his plate and ran away.

The political commissar was so angry that he pointed at him and yelled, "You bastard! Come back here!"

The bastard ran even faster. Ye Fan heard footsteps and turned back to see him desperately running towards him: "What happened?"

Geng Zhiye: "He's just a bad mouth. He relies on his young age and no one bothers him. Every now and then, he makes the political commissar and the chief of staff very angry."

The two of them slowed down after leaving the cafeteria, so much so that the young officer caught up with them in one minute and shouted when he got to them, "Sister-in-law, are you going back to the dormitory?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Get up early, go back and take a nap."

"Sister-in-law, I heard that your company also sells computers?"

Ye Fan: "Want to buy?"

"It's too expensive. I can't afford it." The officer looked at Ye Fan eagerly.

Ye Fan nodded to show that he heard it: "Then wait two years and save enough money to buy it."

The officer's face froze, and then he remembered something and asked again: "Sister-in-law, do you need a brother? I guess you definitely do!"

(End of this chapter)