Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan didn't know if Xiao Ming had learned anything, so he just assumed that Zhang Xiao Ming had learned something. Chang Guangrong didn't want to be outdone by an honest man, so he would definitely be more careful when doing business in the future. "That's right. Don't you think about how many years it has been? How could he not have made any progress?"

Chang Guangrong still couldn't understand: "Is it necessary to be on guard against me so early?"

His wife couldn't help but say, "Sister Ye is saying that she might be on guard against you. Sister Ye said so much to prevent us from being passive in the future. Let's not talk about the future, let's talk about the past. How many people ate and drank with you. Since you have been doing business honestly and have no time to go out, who would come to you? In Dad's words, you two were so close before that you wanted to wear the same pants, but now you only have two friends left. People who know you well will part ways with you. If you don't keep a hand on the people you just met, they will definitely cheat you in the future."

Ye Fanting was surprised that the usually taciturn man could say such a thing: "Chang Guangrong, it's right to listen to your wife."

Chang Guangrong followed the majority and said, "We'll talk about it later. Let's call Dazhi. But I don't think he will come to me before the New Year. It's so cold before the New Year, and the sportswear business is not very good."

Ye Fan: "Then let's have a holiday on the 20th of the twelfth lunar month. Oh, and it's a paid holiday."

Chang Guangrong once asked Ye Fan why the number of employees in the software company he and Ye Fan co-founded was increasing instead of decreasing. Ye Fan analyzed with him that those employees did not want to join the system, so if they wanted to change jobs, they could either go to other companies, go to Hong Kong, or go abroad.

Ye Fan often picked a few people to go to Hong Kong City. Hong Kong City is a developed area, but it also has a bad side. They would think that Western countries are not all good and do not like ordinary Chinese.

They are not top scientists, and they are just ordinary people when they go abroad. They are clouds in the mainland, but mud abroad. They can't stand such a big gap. If the salary abroad is ten times that in China, they will go abroad even if there is a gap. But Ye Fan gives more, earns more abroad, and has more left in China, so naturally they choose to stay.

Chang Guangrong later analyzed the situation himself. If he kept an old employee, he could make clothes as soon as he got the cloth in the spring without any guidance. If he hired a new employee, not only would he be slow and waste time, but the damaged cloth would be enough to pay the old employee a year-end bonus.

It seems that the boss loses money by offering paid leave, but in the long run, the boss still makes money.

Chang Guangrong nodded and said, "I plan to set up three awards for outstanding employees."

Ye Fan: "Let them vote anonymously on the day the bonus is distributed. By the way, give more to the young designer."

Chang Guangrong: "Five points of profit come from me."

Chang Guangrong's wife said: "He spent the New Year at my house this year."

Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "He can work and earn money before he even graduates. His parents haven't given up yet?"

"I wrote to his sister a few days ago, asking if his parents had mentioned him recently. His sister said nice things, saying that his parents were thinking about him, and finally asked him to spend the New Year at her house. Isn't it obvious that they think he is a disgrace?" Chang Guangrong was speechless when talking about this: "My father used to dislike me for fooling around, but he didn't kick me out. At most, he ignored me and didn't look at me straight in the eye. Out of sight, out of mind." He paused, extremely confused, "What kind of parents are these?"

Ye Fan: "Maybe he is slightly mentally retarded."

Chang Guangrong nodded: "I think so too. Just like a psychopath."

Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "Is the factory short of money?"

"Yes." Chang Guangrong blurted out.

Seeing this, Ye Fan immediately didn't want to pay attention to him: "Is fifty thousand enough?"

Chang Guangrong rented the land for his factory. Although he had rented it for 30 years, it was wasteland and he paid the rent every three years, so he didn't spend much money. The money he had was enough to build a factory and buy machines.

Seeing Ye Fan speechless, Chang Guangrong was too embarrassed to open his mouth and said, "That's enough."

Ye Fan: "Before the New Year or after the New Year? Are you going to my house or should I bring it over?"

His wife said, "After the New Year, let's go and pay New Year's greetings to Aunt Yu. You can give it to him then."

Ye Fan nodded and stood up: "Chang Guangrong, discuss anything you encounter with your wife. As a bystander, she may see things more clearly than you."

Chang Guangrong nodded without hesitation.

Seeing this, Ye Fan knew that he was annoyed by his nagging and was just trying to get by with him. Ye Fan decided to turn around and tell Jin Dazhi to keep an eye on him.

When I got home, Yu Wentao had already prepared dinner.

After lunch, Ye Fan took a nap. When she woke up, she took off the sheets and threw them into the washing machine, then went to take a shower.

After coming back from the shower, the bed sheets had already run onto the rope, and Ye Fan asked, "Aunt Yu, did you wash them?"

Yu Wentao nodded: "Wash it several times in the washing machine, spin it several times, and then wash it again in the basin before hanging it up. If you think it's not clean enough, wash it twice more."

Ye Fan: "You must be very clean after washing it so many times. Actually it's not really dirty, it's just that after being away for so many days, I always smell something when I come back."

"It smells like the third brother's sweat."

Ye Fan suspected that she had misheard: "Geng Zhiye has come back?"

Yu Wentao thinks of the lawsuit all the time when she mentions her stepson. It's no wonder Tao Chunlan is annoying him: "The first time he came back, I told him that you might have just arrived in Hong Kong. When you get there, you have to buy a computer for Dabao and contact your partners, so you won't be back so soon. I don't know if he didn't hear me or if he has a bad memory. He came back a few days later and asked why he hadn't come back yet. Dabao and Erbao were both at home that day, and Dabao said you didn't want him anymore. He picked up Dabao and threw him out. Do you think he's sick?"

Ye Fan laughed.

"You're still laughing?" Yu Wentao was speechless, "He wasn't like this before."

Ye Fan: "He used to go to school every day, and then he was in the army. You saw him once a year, so you could understand when he got sick."

"He does the same with you?"

Ye Fan asked: "Pick me up and throw me out? If he doesn't dare, I'll kick him."

Yu Wentao thought to herself, it’s not that I don’t dare, it’s that I’m reluctant to do so.

Ye Fan asked: "He treated Dabao like this, and Dabao just let him throw it?"

"Don't you understand your son's temper? The father and son almost had a fight." Yu Wentao sighed, "That Saturday, Guangming was at our house, and in the end it was Guangming who stood in between them and the father and son finally stopped fighting. Fortunately, Guangming's last name is not Geng, if it was Benben, the third child would have made him get out of the way."

Ye Fan: "Childish!"

"You're in your forties, almost fifty, and you're still childish? No wonder the third child is like that, it's all because of you!" Yu Wentao didn't want to talk to her, "What are we having for dinner? I'll cook."

Ye Fan said, "You can do whatever you want. I don't have much appetite after sitting in the car for a few days."

Yu Wentao wanted to make noodles, so she cooked rice porridge in the rice cooker. She also cut a cabbage and made two flavors of stir-fried cabbage, and took out the side dishes she had bought.

During the meal, Ye Fan asked her why she didn't bring the little one over. Yu Wentao said, "Her mother-in-law is at her house. It's cold and there's no one outside. If the little one goes out, there's no one to play with. If she doesn't make a fuss about going out, she can take care of it."

"No wonder I didn't see his father-in-law, mother-in-law and his children when I went to Chang Guangrong's store."

Yu Wentao nodded: "During the day, the old couple and Xiao Chang's children are at her house. Fortunately, the living room is big, otherwise so many people can't sit down."

Ye Fan had seen Geng Zhiqin's house. Not counting the balcony, it was about the same as the 80-square-meter house she had seen in her previous life. A house of 90 square meters including the balcony was not as spacious as hers.

Ye Fan couldn't help but sigh in his heart at that time, how good it was to have no common area.

Ye Fan: "That's good. Is it almost holiday time?"

Yu Wentao nodded: "It's just these few days. Dabao and Erbao should also have a holiday. By the way, will Guangming go to the store or give tutoring during the winter break?"

Ye Fan: "Dabao seemed to have said once that his schoolmate's parents were very satisfied with Guangming, and helped his schoolmate's brother with Chinese and math in the third grade of junior high school during the winter vacation."

"Don't you need English lessons?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "His student's home has a radio, he can listen to English broadcasts, his English is better than Guangming's."

"What should we do with this child in the future?" Yu Wentao couldn't help but worry about him.

Ye Fan laughed: "The government will arrange it for you. At least you will stay in school to teach. What are you worried about? Guangming still has two rooms."

"Without anyone to rely on, no matter how much money or how good a job is, what's the point?"

Ye Fan was speechless immediately. It sounded as if one lived one's whole life for one's family. Ye Fan deliberately asked, "How about I become your godson?"

Yu Wentao almost choked: "You...you...don't talk nonsense, you are of different generations!"

Ye Fan said: "Ask him to be my second brother and his wife's godson?"

Yu Wentao's eyes lit up: "I think it's okay!"

"You see, it's useless." Ye Fan poured cold water on him without any hesitation, "It will only work if Huihui and Benben agree."

Upon hearing this, Yu Wentao immediately said, "Forget it. Huihui will definitely think I am meddling in other people's business."

Ye Fanxin said that even if Chu Guangming had both parents after graduating from university, they might not be able to help. For people from other places working in the capital, not only could their parents not help, but they also had to pay money to support their parents every month. In this case, it would be better for Chu Guangming to be without a father or a mother and have no burden.

So there is nothing to worry about.

Ye Fan was too lazy to explain so much. After dinner, she cleaned up the kitchen and went to wash up. Yu Wentao thought she was tired, so she went back to her room after the "News Broadcast" was over.

Ye Fan watched an episode of TV series before going to bed.

The next day was Saturday. Yu Wentao muttered early in the morning, "Dabao and Erbao will be back in the evening. I have to buy them some delicious food."

Ye Fan pretended not to hear. After dinner, he went to Zhang Xiaoming's store and asked him when he and Wei Jianshe would go south to pick up the goods.

Zhang Xiaoming thought Ye Fan was going to go, so he asked without thinking, "When do you want to go, Sister Fan?"

Ye Fan felt that he was unsure when he heard this, otherwise he would have directly told him the specific time and then said that they could just go. Today is the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and primary and secondary school students and college students have been on holiday one after another. Parents of students should buy new clothes for their children for the New Year. Ye Fan asked him to see if there were any tickets on Tuesday.

There were not many people in the store at noon, so Zhang Xiaoming took the bus to the train station. After making sure that the tickets were not in short supply and could be purchased on the same day, Zhang Xiaoming went straight back to the store.

Zhang Xiaoming's home was close to Ye Fan's, so the next morning he took his children out to play and went to Ye Fan's home, and told her that they would leave at noon on Tuesday.

Dabao and Erbao were stunned. After Zhang Xiaoming left, the brother and sister finally realized what was happening and asked in unison: "You went out again?"

Ye Fan laughed: "If you don't know me, you might think I'm going to run away. This was the last time before the New Year. We didn't expect the business to be so good, so we didn't have enough inventory."

Dabao looked at Ye Fan with a look that said, "Do you think I believe it?" Ye Fan smiled bitterly and nodded, "Really. It's not that the clothing store is doing well. We opened a few stores in Xiushui Market a few days ago, and many self-employed people came to us for wholesale."

Dabao was shocked: "You have a store in Xiushui Market, which is so far from our home?!"

How should she answer this? It's not like they sell breakfast, so they can only be in one place. Ye Fan avoided the question: "I don't care, it's mainly Xiao Ming who is in charge. Didn't you notice that our inventory is empty? Because the goods are all in the Xiushui store."

Dabao was confused: "Why is it so far away?"

Ye Fan: "If I stay away, no one will come to look for me. I feel relieved. Besides, it's time to formalize my small-scale activities after all these years."

Erbao asked: "Mom once said that she wanted to start a trading company. So you are starting another company?"

Ye Fan nodded: "The Xiushui Market store is the company's office and warehouse. Xiao Ming and Jianshe no longer have inventory. Finally, public is public and private is private."

Dabao: "Do I need to separate public and private affairs to expand my business?"

"Yes!" Ye Fan smiled and shook his head: "However, my mother's idea is to finally separate business and life. Look now, no one comes to pick up goods when we eat, right? No one takes the opportunity to pick up goods to ask me when this area will be demolished, right?"

Dabao asked: "Are they bothering Xiaoming?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "There are too many people in Xiushui Market, Xiao Ming doesn't have time to chat with them. It seems that we are busy with the addition of new stores, but in fact we are less busy than before."

Erbao asked: "And he makes a lot of money?"

Ye Fan nodded: "There is a lot of traffic over there. In the past, there were less than 50 people who came to us to buy goods. Now there are so many people in three days - some go to the Soviet Union to trade, some set up stalls, and some sell in the store."

Dabao is not a child who makes trouble for no reason. Although Dabao is not satisfied with what his mother has said, he does not insist on it: "How many days are you going?"

Ye Fan: "It takes at most five days to go to Hangzhou. By the way, Hangzhou is cold at this time of year, I can buy some local specialties to bring back. What do you want to eat?"

Dabao: "Just buy it if you think it's worth it."

Ye Fan touched his head.

Dabao raised his hand and waved her hand away, obviously unhappy that she left right after coming back: "Mom, don't blame me for not reminding you. If you stay away from home every day, this family will break up sooner or later."

Ye Fan touched his son's head again: "With your father and your mother, this family will never break up."

"I'm talking about my dad! Don't keep staring at money every day." Dabao raised his voice anxiously.

Ye Fanxin said, no one dares to steal your mother's girl now.

Although no one had any evidence, those who knew that the two female comrades had stolen Ye Fan's girlfriend suspected that she was the one who caused the trouble. So now Geng Zhiye's comrades dared not make dirty jokes with him. When people who didn't know him asked about his family situation, his comrades would first praise Ye Fan and finally add that she was the daughter of General Ye of the Air Force.

If you want to know how Ye Fan knows so much, it is certainly not what Geng Zhiye said.

A few days ago, Ye Fan stayed in the army for a few days. A college student officer went to Geng Zhiye's dormitory to "beg for money". Ye Fan gave him a bag of plums. The two chatted casually for a few words. The officer said it with a gloating tone. Before leaving, he also said that if there was any situation in the future, he would tell Ye Fan as soon as possible.

Ye Fan left his home phone number and said he would bring him some goodies when he returned to Gangcheng.

The young officer came from an important family and was quite clear-headed. It would be beneficial to befriend him both in public and in private, so Ye Fanzhen bought something for the young officer. Considering that he was a soldier and could not accept anything too expensive, he bought him a pair of sunglasses.

Ye Fan said: "Dabao, Mom knows what's going on."

"Mom, there are only a few of us in our family. We have to work and go to school. Even if you make a lot of money, no one will want to use you." Dabao said earnestly, his little face as serious as an old man.

Ye Fan nodded: "Mom is really smart. Originally, Mom was planning to go to the army in the next two days. I called to ask if your dad was available, but no one answered."

Dabao raised an eyebrow: "When did you ask?"

Ye Fan blurted out, "Yesterday morning."

It sounded so real that Yu Wentao believed it: "Don't worry, Dabao. Your uncles are all cunning, and your dad won't..."

Geng Huihui interrupted: "Grandma, my dad doesn't have time to mess around."

Geng Sensen quickly said: "My dad doesn't even have time to eat or sleep."

When Yu Wentao saw that the two were getting anxious, she quickly said, "I was wrong. Let me see if the porridge is ready."

Ye Fan gave his son five yuan, and Dabao went to buy steamed buns, fried dough sticks and tea eggs.

After returning from Hangzhou, Ye Fan went straight home because she bought three boxes of seafood. The fish were hung in the yard, the shrimps were thrown in the refrigerator, and after packing up her own seafood, Ye Fan sent a box to her mother.

Coincidentally, Chen Xiaohui was at home today. When she saw Ye Fan coming in with a box, she ran out to take it and asked, "What did you buy?"

Ye Fan: "Seafood!"

Chen Xiaohui immediately put it on the ground and opened it. Seeing that the prawns were very big and the yellow croaker was very fat, she couldn't wait to shout into the house: "Mom, let's have seafood for lunch."

Tao Chunlan is old and her legs and feet are not as nimble as before. She slowly came out and said, "Make whatever you want to eat. Fanfan, where are Dabao and Erbao?"

Ye Fan: "I bought a computer for Dabao and he's playing on it at home."

Ye Fan's little niece Liangliang's eyes lit up: "Aunt, do you have a computer at home too?"

Ye Fan laughed: "Pack some clothes in the afternoon and go to my aunt's house to stay for a few days. Share a room with Erbao?"

The little girl immediately goes to her milk, okay?

Tao Chunlan: "Bring your winter vacation homework."

The little girl nodded repeatedly.

After lunch, before the pots and bowls were washed, Ye Jingjing asked Ye Fan when he would go home. Seeing this, Tao Chunlan asked Ye Fan to go home first and bring Dabao and Erbao to stay for a few days.

Ye Fan asked Chen Xiaohui: "Are you on vacation?"

Chen Xiaohui nodded: "Is your house renovated? Do you want me to come over and take a look?"

Ye Fan: "Can you go by yourself? I just came back and want to rest for a few days. I don't want to go there recently."

"They all know me." Chen Xiaohui said, "Do you want to buy a few more vases? I know someone who is planning to go abroad, and he wants to sell all the cheap things at home."

Ye Fan's mind moved, and he remembered something and asked, "The cheap things have been sold, but what about the expensive ones? Did you watch him take them out?"

Chen Xiaohui: "It's their own stuff——"

"Aren't there rules about what can't go out?"

Chen Xiaohui nodded subconsciously: "But I don't know if he has anything illegal."

"You can report this to the relevant departments," Ye Fan said, "Once a national treasure leaves, it will be difficult for it to return."

Chen Xiaohui: "Then I will try to hint at him. If he is so mysterious and really has something that can be called a national treasure, I will tell the leader."

Ye Fan: "Then buy me a few things. No more than 5,000 yuan."

"It's a good time to ask around then." Chen Xiaohui sent them both to the car, and when she got home she contacted the man who wanted to sell her the late Qing Dynasty porcelain.

Ye Jingjing spent five days at Ye Fan's house. Ye Fan's eldest brother called her to go back, so Ye Fan asked Dabao and Erbao to send her off. The siblings hadn't been to their grandmother's house for a long time and planned to stay there for two days.

On the second night that the brother and sister stayed at Ye's house, Geng Zhiye came back and drove back alone.

Ye Fan was worried: "The road is icy, it's very dangerous for you to drive alone."

Geng Zhiye: "Then you can stay with me in the army for a few days?"

Ye Fan was speechless for a while, and he really knew how to take advantage of opportunities: "You can go, tell me what you did the other day."

Geng Zhiye was shocked: "How did you know I wasn't in the capital a few days ago?"

Ye Fan first said that she called twice but no one answered, and then asked: "Isn't he going on some special mission?"

(End of this chapter)