Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan glared at his daughter: "Speak properly!"

"Okay." Erbao obediently pointed out that the armpits of the sleeves were too loose, like a dragon robe.

Ye Fan asked Erbao to put it on, and then found a needle to sew halfway under the armpit. Chu Guangming tilted his head and looked at it: "It's loose now."

Erbao nodded: "Mom also thinks that my words are unpleasant to the ear."

Ye Fan ignored his daughter: "Dabao, put on your pants."

Dabao: "Should I wear a short one?"

Erbao looked at the size of the pants and said, "Mom, it's a small size. Let Chu Guangming wear it." He handed it to Chu Guangming. Chu Guangming gestured and said that the waist of the pants should be at the chest. If the waist of the pants was at the waist, the ankles would be crowded.

Geng Sensen didn't want to laugh, but he couldn't help it: "Aunt, where did Uncle Chang find the designer?"

Ye Fan was not that surprised. The school uniform she bought in her previous life was so exaggerated: "Dabao, bring your sportswear to me."

Dabao took the foreign brand-name clothes his mother bought for him and said: "Compared with this sportswear, my sportswear is more like casual clothes that can be worn everyday."

Ye Fan stared at the clothes and pondered for a moment: "I suspect Chang Guangrong didn't make it clear. Although we plan to sponsor the college sports meeting, we don't plan to produce school uniforms."

Erbao exclaimed, "You don't produce school uniforms?"

Ye Fan: "Schools don't force people to buy uniforms. Each school only has a few, and there aren't that many students in the whole city. We want to produce sportswear that can be worn by men, women, young and old."

Erbao frowned, "But the school uniforms can't be so exaggerated. The sportswear you bought for me and my brother won't hinder our exercises. I was wearing it to practice Tai Chi this morning."

"You two's sportswear pants are slim-fitting. Although they are comfortable to wear, they look indecent when you move around." Ye Fan said, "It's inevitable that teachers are a bit strict and old-fashioned. Maybe the teacher gave her some advice, so the little designer made it so loose."

Erbao: "Can you take it off first?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Let's talk about the fabric."

Geng Huihui wanted to laugh when she heard this: "Aunt, the clothes are so loose that even if you put on a sack it won't hurt your skin."

Ye Fan couldn't help but laugh: "I'll ask her to design two sets of close-fitting clothes. Dabao, put the clothes away."

"What should we do with this now?" Dabao asked.

Ye Fan: "Let her revise it until you are satisfied."

Dabao said, "Didn't you buy a lot of sets for Uncle Chang? Uncle Chang even said he would give them to us after using them. If you ask him to make a set based on each model you bought, he might know how to design it."

Erbao disagreed: "Brother, this is plagiarism!"

"The styles that mom bought are actually similar, just the colors, trademarks and fabrics are different." Dabao pointed at the trademark of his sportswear, "I covered the logo and the color of the clothes became pure white. Can you still recognize which sportswear it is? Besides, profiting is called plagiarism. Buying and copying is learning. He got inspiration and designed a brand new piece of clothing to sell, which is innovation."

Ye Fan nodded: "Erbao, if you don't sell your finished product, it won't be considered plagiarism even if it's exactly the same. It's like if you go to the library and copy a book and take it home to read, the author won't sue you for plagiarism. That's what your brother meant."

Erbao: "Can he not learn from it?"

Ye Fan told her that it depends on how the intellectual property department judges. It is possible that plagiarism does not constitute plagiarism. It is possible that she does not feel that it is plagiarism. Then Ye Fan said that if she really plagiarized, Chang Guangrong would not use her. She cannot be accused of plagiarism before the brand is established.

"Uncle Chang is quite clear-headed." Erbao was very satisfied with his mother's explanation.

Dabao winked at his mother and said, "You know what's going on, right?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "The legal representative of the company is Chang Guangrong, he owns 55%, and there are two other shareholders besides me. But it hasn't been registered yet. It won't be too late to set up a factory and buy machines for mass production once the clothes are made."

Geng Sensen couldn't help but ask: "Is it too late?"

Ye Fan: "It's still in time. We have a fabric manufacturer who can help us get the machines. If we can't rent a suitable factory for the time being, we can also do it at Chang Guangrong's house. Several garment factories in Ningbo only had their own factories last year. From the reform and opening up until last year, they were all family workshops."

A group of ignorant people didn't expect that setting up a factory would be so easy.

Erbao asked: "Mom, who will we sell them to?"

Ye Fan: "Put it in our store, your cousins' stores, Xiao Ming's and Jianshe's stores. Chang Guangrong only has one designer, so he might not be able to handle it."

Dabao was surprised that the designer made clothes.

Seeing this, Ye Fan said, "This designer is a junior designer. Let her do it first. Once she gets the hang of it, she can hand it over to the tailor. In the future, she will specialize in design. It seems that she will also need a pattern maker. Mom doesn't understand this line of work. Your uncle Chang has a childhood friend who is auditing at the Fashion Institute. In the future, let him take over this aspect."

Dabao and his brothers and sisters couldn't believe it.

Chu Guangming couldn't help but ask, "You went to the university to audit classes just to run a clothing factory?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Because we don't understand."

Chu Guangming sighed: "With such seriousness, it's no wonder Aunt Ye and Uncle Chang have never lost money in business."

Ye Fan smiled: "Erbao, do you have any good suggestions on color?"

Erbao: "I don't like things that are too bright."

Ye Fan pointed at the elegant porcelain on the antique shelf: "That kind?"

Erbao nodded.

Dabao objected: "Mom, exercise should be full of passion and energy. Do you want to exercise in mourning clothes?" Glancing at Erbao, "It's better to find a cafe and sit down."

Erbao was very angry: "I was talking to my mother, not you."

Ye Fan: "Both of you shut up! Huihui, go cook!"

Geng Sen Sen went to the kitchen to help.

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month last year, Geng Zhiqin gave birth to a daughter. At first, Yu Wentao went there during the day and came back at night. Recently, Geng Zhiqin went to school to substitute for a class, and Yu Wentao was there at night to feed the child. During the day, she was left to Sun Laifu's mother.

Sun Laifu's mother was embarrassed to ask her mother-in-law to raise the child alone. Chang Guangrong's child could walk and run and didn't like to stay in the arms of his elders. Chang Guangrong's wife thought that she and her father could handle it, so she asked her mother to go to her brother's wife's house and live in the same room with Yu Wentao.

Yu Wentao would come back on Sundays or when Sun Laifu was on vacation. Yu Wentao had asked Ye Fan if she could bring the children over during the summer vacation, as she thought it was inconvenient for Geng Zhiqin to live upstairs.

There are many people in the family, Huihui, Sen Sen, Dabao and Erbao can all help out and do not need Ye Fan's care. Ye Fan does not need to be a bad person, so he naturally says yes.

The kids are very happy that Yu Wentao is not at home. Yu Wentao likes to eat noodles at night, cooked soft, but the kids don't like that, so they cooked alkaline noodles tonight.

Dabao said as he ate: "It's good that grandma is not at home, I can cook this kind of noodles every day."

Ye Fan: "White-collar you these years."

Dabao said, "I feel bad for her too. I didn't want her to go to my aunt's house, but she insisted on going. I can't say anything."

Geng Huihui nodded repeatedly: "It seems that grandma has to pay money to help my aunt take care of the children."

Ye Fan glanced at the little ones and said, "Anyone can say that, except you. Huihui, you've been eating up your grandma's salary."

Geng Huihui smiled unnaturally: "Isn't grandma here? If grandma was at home, I wouldn't dare to tell her."

Geng Sen Sen: "You have no right to do so if your grandmother is not around. You and Ben Ben were raised by her. In the past few years, you two kept clamoring for roast duck—"

"How do you know?" Huihui asked hurriedly.

Geng Sen Sen looked at Da Bao subconsciously.

Geng Huihui glared at her little cousin: "Stop talking!"

Dabao: “I didn’t say——”

"Writing it in a letter and telling him doesn't count?"

Dabao nodded.

Geng Huihui was too lazy to pay attention to him.

After dinner, Ye Fan asked Dabao and Erbao to wash the pots and dishes. She sorted out a few small opinions and sewed a few stitches on the sportswear. The next morning, she sent the opinions and the clothes to Chang Guangrong.

The young designer did not think about imitating, but he thought imitating was plagiarism. Chang Guangrong told him that non-profit organizations would not be considered plagiarists, so he asked his classmates to make a pattern based on the brand name that Chang Guangrong bought.

The young designer drew the famous brand styles, and Chang Guangrong sent the clothes to Ye Fan's house. The women's clothes were given to Huihui and Erbao. The men's sportswear was given to Dabao and Sensen. Ye Fan also left two sets for Geng Leilei, who was elusive. Several sets of the smallest size were given to Chu Guangming.

The young designer completely ruined the fabric Chang Guangrong sent him, and finally made a decent set. But the color matching was too ugly - black with purple, red with green, and Ye Fan was upset.

Ye Fan asked Chang Guangrong to send it to the little designer without waiting for Erbao to finish school, reminding her to learn color matching.

Chang Guangrong was about to leave when Ye Fan suddenly thought of something: "Is your designer a man or a woman?"

"A man." Chang Guangrong asked back, "Didn't I say that?"

Ye Fan nodded: "You didn't say. How to find a man?"

"It will be a bad influence if girls follow me." Chang Guangrong said, "Besides, female students won't bother to work for us. After all, we have nothing now." Ye Fanxin said, will male students be willing to do so?

Chang Guangrong saw what she was thinking and immediately explained that the boy's situation was special. His father wanted him to go to police school or become a teacher, or an accountant or doctor.

None of the male classmates were interested and changed their choices. In the first year, his parents thought he was studying at a normal school in the capital. But the truth was revealed last summer when he was not there. His father thought that it was neither male nor female for a man to design clothes, so he ordered him to drop out and retake the exam.

The boy didn't listen. His father threatened him with living expenses. However, the school had subsidies, so he could finish his studies without living expenses. When his father saw that this trick didn't work, he said he didn't recognize his son.

Last year, he went back home the day before the New Year's Eve during the winter vacation. He said he came back on the eighth day because he was worried that his family would not welcome him, so he had to come out early. In fact, he came out on the sixth day. Chang Guangrong's clothing store has a second floor where you can cook and rest. Before school starts, the young designer has been living in his store.

Chang Guangrong briefly described the little designer's situation and couldn't help but say, "As long as my kid can get into college, I don't care what he studies. Anyway, the teacher won't teach him to steal, rob, or smash things."

"It turns out that my family doesn't support me." Ye Fan asked, "Is he a rural kid?"

Chang Guangrong was surprised: "How did you know?"

Ye Fan: "There are only a few kinds of clothes in the countryside. Even if he learns how to match colors, it's normal for him to mix them randomly because he has little experience. For example, Erbao is used to wearing good clothes and good color matching, so he won't want to try purple and black."

Chang Guangrong had never noticed: "Is his aesthetic similar to Xiao Ming and Jianshe?"

Ye Fan: "Almost. Maybe Xiao Ming also thinks that the colorful flowers and green willows are beautiful."

Chang Guangrong said: "I'll ask him to revise it. Or I'll ask him to ask his classmates."

"Did you complete this outfit with your classmates?"

Chang Guangrong: "Yes, a girl classmate who is one grade higher than him. She seems to like him, but she wants to go abroad, and I'm really afraid that she will seduce him away."

Ye Fan: "His family doesn't support him. Rural kids don't have much money and limited experience. He doesn't dare to go out. Unless he has no other choice."

The current situation is that there is the path of Chang Guangrong, and he doesn't have to stick to one path.

Chang Guangrong said: "I will go and paint a pie for him right away."

Ye Fan shook his head and laughed.

Chang Guangrong was honest. He was having lunch at school. He asked the young designer to treat him. During the meal, he praised the young designer's design and reminded him to apply for copyright, as if he was thinking about him. The young designer seemed to have met a soulmate and a mentor. Only then did Chang Guangrong say that the colors were too bold and that people in government agencies might not be able to stand it.

The students who were standing with their backs to Chang Guangrong wanted to laugh when they heard what he said. It was ugly, but they couldn't stand it.

The young designer believed it and said he would make some changes. On the way to the workshop, Chang Guangrong promised him that in addition to the design fee, he would also receive dividends. The longer he stayed in the company, the more dividends he would receive. He also said that he learned this trick from Ye Fan, the boss of Fanhua.

The young designer had never heard of Ye Fan, so he asked his classmates about him. His classmates praised Ye Fan as being awesome and said that Ye Fan’s friends must be awesome too. If Ye Fan couldn’t make it out there, he hoped his classmates could introduce him to Chang Guangrong’s company.

The young designer thought Chang Guangrong was a relatively wealthy middleman. He cooperated with Chang Guangrong to earn some money to study abroad. After listening to his classmates, he realized that he knew an important person. He was a bit stubborn and stubborn, but for the first time he listened to Chang Guangrong's words - change!

In late May, the clothes were delivered to Ye Fan again. It happened to be the weekend, and Dabao and Erbao were at home. The brother and sister were satisfied with the style and color, but the fabric was a little bit worse.

Ye Fan: "Citizens' salaries are low now, and high-end models are hard to sell, so we'll go for the mass market first."

Dabao doesn’t really understand business matters: “If mom says it’s okay, it’s definitely okay.”

Erbao asked: "Mom, why didn't you go to the army recently? Did you have a fight with Dad?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a jeep appeared at the door.

Erbao covered his mouth with a look of horror: "——Is he Sun Wukong?"

Geng Zhiye came in and saw his daughter's guilty look: "What did you say about me again?"

Erbao dragged his brother out. Geng Zhiye reached out and grabbed his daughter: "Where are you running to?"

"My mother asked me to invite Chu Guangming to our house for dinner."

Geng Zhiye let go and walked over to Ye Fan: "Is he coming over at noon on the weekend?"

Ye Fan: "Listen to her nonsense. Why did she come back in the middle of the day?"

"I don't want to eat in the army." Geng Zhiye took off his coat and looked around: "Aunt Yu and Huihui are not at home?"

Geng Huihui and Geng Sensen went shopping with Geng Leilei. Yu Wentao was picked up by her nephew. Ye Fan briefly explained: "Are you worried that they will hear it?"

Geng Zhiye pulled her to the main hall and said, "I said before that if something happened to those two families, my comrades would suspect that it was my father-in-law. I didn't expect them to really think so."

Even though Ye Fan was mentally prepared, he was still speechless when he heard Geng Zhiye say this: "What kind of brain does your comrade have? Will my dad do it himself?"

Geng Zhiye: "They suspected your father because they didn't find out who did it."

"You ignored them?"

Geng Zhiye shook his head: "I said those two families were not worthy. They suspected you again and said that my sister-in-law was really amazing. I wanted to say it had nothing to do with you, but I felt that the more I explained, the worse it would be, so I told them to shut up. They saw that I was very angry and dared not ask any more questions, but I felt that they had determined that it was you."

Ye Fan: "Where is that young officer?"

"I'm impressed by that kid. He didn't ask any questions and seemed like he didn't even know the two families." Geng Zhiye said, "This kid must be the grandson of some old general. He's so patient!"

Ye Fan smiled and said, "If he doesn't say anything, it will be a headless case."

Geng Zhiye felt more at ease after hearing this: "That kid is in a good mood. I feel like his family must have contributed a lot to the situation."

"That young officer?" Ye Fan shook his head. "Every time I see him, he is in a good mood. His parents must be very good too, otherwise they wouldn't be able to raise such a good child. There is only one person like Guangming."

Geng Zhiye: "Are you busy recently? If not, go to the army and stay for two days."

Ye Fan thought for a moment and said, "That's fine."

"Big Bao Ma, Big Bao Ma——"

Ye Fan looked outside and saw Aunt Li rushing in. The couple looked at each other, Geng Zhiye let go, and Ye Fan went out: "Aunt Li, slow down, slow down."

Aunt Li grabbed Ye Fan's arm and said, "I heard that we are going to demolish this place?"

"What are you demolishing?"

Aunt Li was shocked: "You don't know? Aren't you running a computer company? They said we want to develop some kind of technology industry here. How can we develop technology in this shabby house? We must tear it down and build a high-rise building."

Ye Fan: "What about this?"

"Why are you still laughing? You have so many good things in your house, wouldn't you feel bad if you took them down?" Aunt Li couldn't help looking into the house as she spoke, "There are so many good things in there."

Ye Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's not worth the money. You can go to Panjiayuan and buy those for a thousand yuan and you won't be able to use them all."

"You carefully selected it, didn't it take much effort?" Aunt Li said, "Let's get back to business. Have you really not heard that we are going to demolish it?"

Ye Fan glanced at the tiled houses around him and said, "The living environment here is such that they will definitely be demolished, but I don't know when. But it's better not to demolish it now and replace it with a building. Don't be too happy."

"I'm not happy to live in a building, I'm worried about it being demolished. Now I have a small yard where I can grow some vegetables. Where will I put them if it is demolished?" Aunt Li doesn't want the building to be demolished, but she also wants it to be demolished because she really envies others who have toilets and showers. Anyway, she feels very complicated.

Ye Fan: "There are still a lot of vacant land in the north. The higher-ups must have used the vacant land, so there's no place to demolish ours. Just be patient and wait for a few years."

Aunt Li was no longer panicked, but a little disappointed: "You are right, there are still many farmlands to the northwest and northeast." Seeing Geng Zhiye, "I won't disturb you two from chatting."

Ye Fan walked her to the door and went to the kitchen.

Geng Zhiye saw that the vegetables had been cut and he didn't need to do anything, so he found a bench and sat down: "House prices are going to go up."

Ye Fan: "If the price goes up here, you can go buy somewhere else. The key is that there will be trouble here."

"Making a fuss?" Geng Zhiye didn't understand.

Ye Fan looked towards the east.

Geng Zhiye wondered who was in the east. He suddenly thought of Uncle Zhang. If the subsidy was large, Zhang Xiaojun would definitely come back to share a share. Chu Guangming's father from the slum in the west might also come back to share a share. There was also trouble at Wei Jianshe's house.

Geng Zhiye sighed: "We're going to watch plays every day from now on?"

"It happens every other day." Ye Fan suddenly remembered something: "The house that Chang Guangrong asked me to look at will probably increase in price as well."

Geng Zhiye: “Where is it?”

“Near Dabao School.”

Geng Zhiye: "That won't happen for the time being. It can't be demolished."

"I'll go over and take a look this afternoon so we can decide and decorate the house earlier. We'll be closer to Erbao's school so it will be more convenient for her to go to school." Seeing the fire coming on, Ye Fan took the kettle down and started cooking.

Geng Zhiye: "So you don't have time to go to the army recently?"

(End of this chapter)