Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan flipped back and suddenly felt the book in his hand weigh a thousand pounds: "Is there anyone we can't offend? I don't want to implicate everyone because of my own affairs."

Chang Guangrong's childhood friend: "The people you can't afford to offend are the top few. The younger generations in their families don't care about these things. Even if you are short of money, you don't need to deal with them yourself. Then again, as a small businessman, I can't come into contact with those people."

Ye Fan nodded: "I'll go south in a few days to get the winter supplies."

Chang Guangrong was stunned for a moment: "You——"

"After I polish these things, I'll find a computer over there to print them out." Ye Fan said.

Chang Guangrong was stunned for a moment and gave a thumbs up.

Chang Guangrong's childhood record was too detailed. Some situations were only known to the parties present. After the incident, the people involved could find him. Hearing this, he felt relieved. Ye Fan would definitely pick and choose, and then make some unfounded things to confuse the public.

Ye Fan went to the Ye family before going south and talked with her father in the office for more than an hour. Chen Xiaohui was curious about what they talked about, and Ye Fan said, "Geng Zhiye will find you a partner. Can you meet him some other day?"

Chen Xiaohui choked and said, "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. Why are you talking about this nonsense?" She got up and went upstairs to her room.

Father Ye, who always said to let things take their own course, couldn't help but ask, "Did you really help her find it?"

Ye Fan: "There is such a person, but it's not possible."

Tao Chunlan was tidying up the tea sets on the side. Upon hearing this, she immediately sat down next to Ye Fan and asked the man what was going on.

Ye Fan was helpless: "I told you not to scold Geng Zhiye."

Tao Chunlan asked her to speak first.

Ye Fan first said that the man's mother was fierce and aggressive, and the previous daughter-in-law might have been scolded away. Then he said that the man was infertile, had a bachelor's degree, and was a technical worker. Geng Zhiye had dealt with him before, and he passed in all aspects.

Father Ye: "Then why do you think it's inappropriate?"

"I'm worried that he's mentally twisted." Ye Fan said, "Think about it, as a man without reproductive function, he's like a eunuch in the secular world. Unless he's born optimistic and open-minded, it's hard for him not to care about this."

Tao Chunlan looked at Ye's father: "What do you think?"

"I - it's not me, why are you asking that?" Father Ye couldn't help but get anxious and his face turned pale.

Seeing this, Tao Chunlan said to Ye Fan, "Your father still cares about this even at his age. He must care too."

"So I don't think it's possible." Ye Fan said, "For now, this is the only one. By the way, Dad, scientists marry late, let my brother help Xiaohui find one."

Father Ye: "Your brother has met fewer scientists than your second brother from your mother-in-law's family has."

"He can't." Ye Fan shook his head, "He doesn't like to be involved in this kind of thing, and he and my second sister-in-law are not good at it either."

Father Ye said to his wife, "Don't make things difficult for an honest man. Fanfan, take care of your business first."

Ye Fan returned home and sorted out the list given to him by his childhood friend Chang Guangrong, which mainly included the close relatives of the two female comrades and some people who would definitely be investigated if they reported the matter.

Ye Fan did not talk to her father about the people on the list. She asked her father which department leaders were upright, what kind of situations the army would deal with strictly, and what work the army was focusing on at this stage.

After the conversation, Ye Fan had a rough idea in his mind, picked out the key points, typed them into the computer, and transferred them to a floppy disk to take with him to the south. Ye Fan printed them out in Hong Kong and mailed them out.

Chang Guangrong was also on this trip, helping Ye Fan to cover for him.

It is impossible for the higher-ups to receive a report today and have a result tomorrow. They will conduct open and secret investigations to consolidate the evidence. Chang Guangrong calculated the time and asked his childhood friend to find out about the two families in mid-November.

The childhood friend told Chang Guangrong that nothing happened and that he had just been dealing with a batch of goods a few days ago. The next day, Chang Guangrong went to find Ye Fan and asked if he had encountered a situation where officials protected each other.

Ye Fan sent out more than a dozen copies, all to different departments. If this could be suppressed, the country would be finished. Ye Fan told him to wait patiently.

At the end of November, in the middle of the night, Chang Guangrong heard the phone ringing in his sleep. He instinctively got up and grabbed the receiver, thinking he was dreaming. His childhood friend's voice came from the other end, with three parts of nervousness, four parts of excitement, and three parts of uneasiness, "A group of people just took someone away!"

Chang Guangrong suddenly came to his senses: "Who took who away?"

My childhood friend didn't dare to say too much on the phone, fearing that someone might eavesdrop, so he only said the names of the two people who were taken away.

Chang Guangrong didn't know these two people. He was puzzled for a moment before realizing what he meant: "How do you know?"

"They took them away right in front of me." Faxiao was still frightened. "They were having fun in the disco, and my friends pulled me over. It was getting late, so I was going to go home. When I got to the door, I saw them. I felt they had special temperaments, so I was curious if someone was fighting. I followed them and saw, my goodness, they just asked if you were so-and-so, and if you were, you had to come with us. They didn't even give him a second chance to say anything before they took him away! Straight away! This is the first time I've seen a silver bracelet so close in my life! Which department is so efficient!"

Chang Guangrong: "Don't worry about it, go home quickly! You are still hanging out outside in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid that a little hooligan will stab you for two dollars!"

"I - I'm at home." The childhood friend was stunned at the time, but when he came to his senses, he was dragged out by his friends and went back to his own homes.

Chang Guangrong: "Then you take your time to savor it, I——"

"Do you think they will find out—"

Chang Guangrong interrupted: "No! Don't call everywhere, let's talk about it tomorrow." After hanging up, he called his father.

Father Chang looked at the time and heard his son's voice. He subconsciously asked, "You were finally caught?"

Chang Guangrong paused for a moment, and said helplessly: "Dad, can you please hope for me to be well?"

"I'm not being arrested and the sky hasn't fallen. Why are you still awake in the middle of the night looking for me?" After scolding, Chang's father was about to hang up the phone. Didn't he know that the old man had poor sleep quality and couldn't fall asleep again after waking up?

Chang Guangrong: "My friend saw two people being taken away in the disco. I heard it was very quick. I feel that if you pull out the carrot, you will bring out the mud. It is very likely that a few seats will be vacant. You should quickly ask someone to arrange for your people to go up."

Father Chang sat up: "Explain clearly!"

It would definitely not work if he explained it clearly. Chang Guangrong told him the names of the two people, "I don't know them and I haven't seen them before. I just heard someone mention them before. I don't know if they were investigated for 'official corruption'. If you want to know, check it yourself." Then he hung up the phone.

Father Chang looked at the microphone and muttered, "I don't know him either."

Chang Guangrong's mother was awakened: "Who is it?"

Father Chang told his wife the two names his son had just mentioned: "Do you know them?"

"I don't know them. But I seem to have some impression of these two names. How about asking someone?"

Chang's father called an old friend.

Chang Guangrong called Ye Fan, and Geng Zhiye answered the phone. Geng Zhiye hung up the phone, hesitated for a moment, and called Cheng Zhenhua to ask him if he knew the two people.

Cheng Zhenhua was woken up from his sound sleep and replied, "What cats and dogs? You are sleepwalking!" After hanging up the phone, he fell on the bed and prepared to continue looking for Zhou Gong. Cheng Zhenhua sat up suddenly. The person on the other end of the phone was Geng Zhiye. If he didn't sleep in the middle of the night, how would he work tomorrow?

Geng Zhiye said on the phone, "It's okay if I don't know them." Could it be that something happened to those two people? Geng Zhiye was worried that he would be implicated. Cheng Zhenhua did not know them, but their surnames were familiar. Cheng Zhenhua woke up his wife, who also did not know them, so she asked if they were the younger generation of that family, and if so-and-so might know them.

Cheng Zhenhua called someone, and the other party answered the phone and asked, "You know this too?"

"You - also know that?" Cheng Zhenhua was stunned for a moment, "Why are you still awake so late?"

"I was asleep and was woken up." The other party was very excited and couldn't fall asleep for the time being, so he asked Cheng Zhenhua who told him that.

Cheng Zhenhua asked him who said it and why it spread so quickly.

The other side said without hesitation: "Of course it's fast. He was taken away in front of dozens of people. I feel that half of the people in the city are awake by now."

Cheng Zhenhua frowned slightly: "Which department handles cases so ostentatiously?"

"It's not that they are so arrogant. I heard they are very tough. Some people wanted to stop them, but the investigators asked if they wanted to go back with us to cooperate with the investigation. When will the investigation require handcuffs? I think the evidence is solid, and we have the imperial sword, so I don't worry about those two being rescued."

Cheng Zhenhua: "Will it involve you?"

"No! Those bastards are ignorant of the world. I had expected something bad to happen to them, but I didn't expect it to happen at this critical moment."

Cheng Zhenhua subconsciously asked: "At what critical moment?"

"We need to crack down on corruption. We just proposed to crack down on corruption at the beginning of the year, but they are already committing crimes before the end of this year. Isn't this deliberately going against the higher-ups? Even if the offender is the son of the leader in charge of the case, the leader will send his son to jail to learn a lesson."

Cheng Zhenhua probably understood what happened: "Do those two have relatives working in government agencies?"

"Yes. It seems there is a relative in your unit. I am not familiar with them and don't know their names. Wait, is the person who told you this worried that you will be implicated?"

Cheng Zhenhua said "hmm". The other party smiled and said, "Your friend is good." Then he said, "My friend is good too. The first thing he asked me was if I knew him. I said I didn't, and then he said that the two of them were in trouble."

Cheng Zhenhua said: "It won't implicate you?"

"No! Let's wait and see."

It was the middle of the night, and Cheng Zhenhua's mind was a little slow: "Not finished yet?"

"Of course! Are you still awake? It's impossible that the elders didn't know that they had committed a crime. I'm afraid that the elders not only knew about it, but also thought that they had contributed to the conquest of the world, and they had a share of the country. It's not a big deal for the younger generation to get some things for themselves, and they also wanted to get them out. Then this matter was like a snowball, like at the beginning of last year, it got bigger and bigger." The other party became more and more excited, "I won't talk to you, I have to call my father and ask him to keep a close eye on it. Once the people are taken away, I will take the vacant position." Cheng Zhenhua hesitated again and again and called his father. Cheng Zhenhua's father retired, but the people he promoted are still there. Cheng's father asked his people if they had committed a crime, and if they were not clean, they should clean it up before it got out of hand.

The older generation lived frugally, risking their lives for the new regime, so they were reluctant to waste, so naturally their hands were clean. Cheng's father's people asked the younger generation to check themselves. After arranging his own affairs, he asked his own people to keep a close eye on them, and once someone was taken away, they should not let him out.

The higher you go, the fewer positions there are. You never get the chance to grab one normally. Now that the opportunity is at your doorstep, there is no reason not to seize it.

Ordinary citizens slept well that night, but many people from the middle class and above did not sleep in the second half of the night.

Ye Fan told Geng Zhiye all the plans. Even if the investigators had all the power, they couldn't find Ye Fan, and they couldn't find him. The email came from Gangcheng, and Gangcheng was still in the hands of foreigners. Foreigners would not cooperate honestly. So Geng Zhiye hung up the phone and went back to sleep.

The next morning, when Ye Fan woke up, Geng Zhiye told her that the relevant departments had taken action.

Ye Fan: "Your comrades will definitely ask if it was your father-in-law who did it."

"My father-in-law is a retired old man."

Ye Fan asked: "Ask again?"

"I don't know! If you want to know, go ask yourself." Geng Zhiye said.

Ye Fan was satisfied and patted his face: "This young man is teachable!"

Geng Zhiye grabbed her hand and said, "Stop making trouble!" He couldn't help but hug her, "Thank you for your hard work, Madam."

Ye Fan: "If you know, then cherish me!"

"Cherish it!" Geng Zhiye pulled her up and said, "This may be as good as the end of the year before last."

Ye Fan shook his head: "The head of the family is willing to sacrifice his own pawns to save the chariot, regardless of the life or death of the younger generation. This may have happened last night."

"Impossible!" Geng Zhiye was very sure, "Without the indulgence of his parents, the youngsters would not be so bold. Since they dared to let the youngsters do whatever they want, it means that he is not very smart. He was just lucky to get there. Luck will run out one day."

Geng Zhiye is right.

Chang Guangrong was worried that someone smart would target him and Ye Fan, so he didn't come to see Ye Fan until the Gregorian calendar year, but he kept an eye on the progress of the case. His childhood friend was nervous because it was the first time he did something like this, and he often asked people about it.

Perhaps the United Front Work Department and Logistics are lucrative jobs for people who are not outstanding in other aspects. When the relevant departments were investigating the situation, they found the people who were eyeing the positions of the two female comrades' uncles and cousins. They actively cooperated with the investigators and told them everything they knew.

At the end of the year, several lucrative positions were replaced.

On the day of the Little New Year in the north, Chang Guangrong and two childhood friends came to Ye Fan's house. Dabao asked his brother and sister to go to the company, and Yu Wentao took care of her at Geng Zhiqin's house. Ye Fan was the only one at home. Chang Guangrong's childhood friend said boldly: "It's really scary to do this for the first time!"

Chang Guangrong: "Coward! What did you do?"

Fa Xiao was stunned for a moment: "——I don't think I did anything?"

Ye Fan smiled and said, "I didn't do anything. I just fulfilled my civic duty."

My childhood friend nodded and said, "To be honest, I'm really afraid of lifting it up high and putting it down gently."

Ye Fan shook his head: "Do you know why I never thought of reporting it with my real name?"

Chang Guangrong: "Don't say you don't dare."

Ye Fan: "That's not necessary. The higher-ups are worried about not having a chance to make an example of someone, so if they jump out on their own, the relevant departments can handle the matter beautifully without offending anyone, and they can give an explanation to the higher-ups, and they can also have a chance to get promoted. Even if the person handling the case is a corrupt official, he won't let go of such a good opportunity easily."

Chang Guangrong's childhood friend couldn't help but say, "Yes. Corrupt officials also need political achievements when they get promoted."

Ye Fan smiled and said, "What a coincidence. If the same thing happened two years later, it wouldn't have caused such a big stir. It might have been suppressed."

Chang Guangrong nodded: "Timing is very important. Five years ago, who would have thought that several people in different places might be guilty of hooliganism, and that hooliganism might lead to eating peanuts."

Although Chang Guangrong's two childhood friends had never done it, several people in their circle had been imprisoned for hooliganism, so they could empathize with him when they heard what he said.

The childhood friend who helped Ye Fan investigate said, "It's actually because of his own faults."

Ye Fan nodded and asked another childhood friend of Chang Guangrong: "Is half a year of studying at the Fashion Institute enough?"

My childhood friend shook his head: "Not even close. I plan to study for another semester. By the way, I know a sophomore who said he can give it a try."

Chang Guangrong: "Still in the capital?"

"He went back to his hometown. He said he would be back on the eighth day of the New Year."

Chang Guangrong wants to see Ye Fan. Can you find some time to meet him?
Ye Fan: "Let him design a set first. We will pay for the fabrics and the copyright will belong to the company. She won't suffer any loss in terms of expenses. She is talented and hardworking. We can guarantee that she can get the real estate certificate the same year she gets her diploma."

Speaking of houses, Chang Guangrong received a lot of dividends this year, estimating that Ye Fan had hundreds of thousands, and asked Ye Fan if he wanted to see the house.

Ye Fan asked: "Are there any big houses around?"

Chang Guangrong nodded: "There has always been. But the price is too high. It used to be 30,000 or 40,000, but now it's 70,000 or 80,000. If the furniture and ornaments are left, it may be 100,000."

Chang Guangrong's childhood friend exclaimed: "Are you robbing money?"

Ye Fan: "It's worth it! My house, not including the decorations, costs 20,000 yuan now. Not to mention it's a quadrangle with three entrances."

The two childhood friends looked at each other and actually didn't think it was expensive. How much money did they make?

When Chang Guangrong left Ye Fan's house, his childhood friend who was attending the university asked him when he would rent a factory and buy machinery. Chang Guangrong hesitated for a moment and said that he would go to the northwest or northeast of the university town to see if he could buy a piece of land.

The two childhood friends were so shocked that they almost lost their composure, and they were once again curious about how much money he would get this year.

Chang Guangrong would not tell the truth, because if he told the truth, his childhood friend would be able to figure out how much Ye Fan got. He was not afraid of his childhood friend knowing, and Ye Fan obviously hoped to keep his head down and make a fortune.

Ye Fan was very generous to her employees after making money. She gave 5,000 yuan to each of the first few people who worked with her. She gave 3,500 yuan to each of her junior colleagues. She gave 2,000 yuan to each of those who joined last year and 1,000 yuan to each of those who joined this year.

Ye Fan also gave Han Dawei's wife 100 yuan as holiday allowance.

On the evening of the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, Han Dawei's wife came home with the money and praised Ye Fan for being generous. She was a part-time nanny and could actually get a bonus of 100 yuan.

Han Dawei didn't want to listen to Ye Fan's advice on buying a tiled house. He and Ye Fan were classmates, and he listened to her in everything, which made him look a few years younger than Ye Fan. Seeing the bonus Ye Fan gave to his wife, it meant that Ye Fan made a lot of money this year.

Ye Fan can make a lot of money, which shows that she is really smart, so it should be right to listen to her. So he took the house he had agreed on the next day. Han Dawei's neighbors all thought he was crazy, spending 8,000 yuan to buy six shabby houses - two main houses, three side rooms and one room next to the main entrance.

The neighbors couldn't help talking about this matter, and soon it spread to other people's ears, and then to the ears of those who did business with Ye Fan.

After the Chinese New Year, everyone would visit relatives and friends and ask where there were siheyuans.

Before the end of the first month of the lunar year, everyone who heard Ye Fan mention the Siheyuan had bought one. Ye Fan's new employees didn't have that much money, so they went to a place three kilometers away from Ye Fan's home, close to the countryside, to buy a few.

I bought it in a trance, but when I came to the company, I became worried. When Ye Fan paid the salary, several female colleagues asked, "Sister, did I lose money on the house?"

Ye Fan: "No. Chang Guangrong has been looking for a place there every day recently. It is possible that he will set up a factory near your current house."

After hearing this, the employees felt at ease.

Seeing that everyone had houses in the capital, Ye Fan planned to settle down in the capital and would not easily go abroad, so she felt at ease. Not long after she felt at ease, the school leaders found Ye Fan and wanted to invest in her company and cooperate with her to develop personal computers.

In the past, Ye Fan was penniless and was willing to give away 50%. Now that she has money, people and agency business, Ye Fan said that the company is not hers alone, and then asked the school how much it plans to take.

The school also knew that 50% was unrealistic at this time, so they said 40%. Ye Fan told the school leaders the truth that she had given up 40% and only had 10% left.

The school leaders had always thought that the partner Ye Fan mentioned was just a lie, but they didn't expect that there really was such a person. The school leaders asked what the other party did.

Ye Fan did not mention Chang Guangrong's name, but said his father's name, and said that his partner was the youngest son of the Chang family.

The school leaders couldn't afford to offend someone with a gun, but they didn't want to give up this cash cow, so they asked Ye Fan how much would be appropriate. Ye Fan was actually also envious of the school's resources, and said she would discuss it with Chang Guangrong.

The two of them shared a little, less than 15%. The school leaders thought it was too little and had no decision-making power, so they simply gave up and decided to develop it themselves, after all, they were the least short of talent.

However, the school is not as generous as Ye Fan. In the words of outsiders, Ye Fan does not take money seriously. Therefore, many freshmen secretly contact their seniors while listening to the school's internship, and contact Ye Fan through them. Some people firmly believe that foreign countries are better, so they choose to study abroad, and only a few cats and cats remain in the school.

The school didn't know where the talent went at first, but later heard that he joined Ye Fan's company. The school leaders went to see him and almost broke up with Ye Fan. But they didn't dare to break up because they couldn't afford to offend him.

Then again, in the month of fireworks in March, the young designer gave Chang Guangrong a set of sportswear, and Chang Guangrong sent it to Ye Fan's house. On Saturday evening, Ye Fan called several juniors and Chu Guangming to his side and asked them to give their opinions.

Erbao picked it up and looked at it, shaking his head in disdain: "It's too loose, it can fit two of me. Mom, doesn't Uncle Chang's fabric cost money?"

(End of this chapter)