Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Geng Zhiye chuckled.

Erbao ignored his taunting and said, "Mom, are you asking me and my brother to sleep on the floor?"

Ye Fan: "Your father has arranged it. Geng Zhiye, don't keep me in suspense!"

Geng Zhiye: "Let's go back to the dormitory first."

It was almost five o'clock when the mother and her two daughters set out. The sun was about to set. Ye Fan went to the dormitory and asked Erbao if she wanted to take a shower. It was the first time for Erbao to come to the military camp since she was a child. She was curious about everything. She leaned on the window and looked around: "Mom, take a shower."

Ye Fan: "I'll wash it after dinner."

Erbao said, "I'll wash after dinner too."

Geng Zhiye said: "After dinner you can only go to the public bathroom."

Erbao looked carefully before going upstairs. "There is no solar energy outside, and no water heater inside. I can tell at a glance that I have to use a thermos to pour water for bathing. It's too troublesome. I'd rather go to the public bathroom."

Geng Zhiye glared at his disobedient daughter and poured Ye Fan a glass of water: "It's just right, not too cold or too hot."

Erbao turned around after hearing this: "Dad——"

"Pour it yourself!" Geng Zhiye didn't like children.

Erbao was angry: "I shouldn't have come!"

"Who asked you to come?" Geng Zhiye asked, "It wasn't me."

Erbao stamped his feet in anger: "Mom!"

Ye Fan had a headache: "Can you let me rest for a while?"

The father and daughter were incompatible with each other. They glared at each other and ignored each other.

Seeing this, Ye Fan's forehead was filled with black lines. How old is he?

Fortunately, Erbao knew that she couldn't be disrespectful and rude outside, so she turned into a little lady again when eating. Geng Zhiye just wanted to laugh when he saw his daughter pretending. Ye Fan, who was opposite him, noticed something and stepped on his foot.

Teacher Geng instantly turned into a good father, asking Erbao if he wanted fish and asking his son if he wanted meat.

The brother and sister looked at each other, wondering what he wanted to do.

Erbao suspected that her father was trying to please her and wanted her to sleep on the floor!
Don't even think about it!
I would rather sleep in the car than on the floor!

After dinner, the female comrade from the telephone company came to Geng Zhiye, who pointed at Erbao and said, "My daughter, you will stay with me tonight!"

Erbao's pupils are shaking, it's better to sleep on the floor!
Ye Fan stroked his daughter's hair and said, "Sister's room has a public bathroom and a single bed. You can open the window when you sleep at night. It's cooler than Dad's room."

Dabao played badminton for dozens of minutes, and then played table tennis for dozens of minutes. After getting familiar with the people, he knew who he would sleep with at night. He saw his sister's unhappy face and said, "Me too."

Erbao: “So mom and dad live together?”

Geng Zhiye was amused: "How refreshing. We don't live together, so I let you sleep with your mother? What are you thinking?"

Erbao hugged his mother's arm: "I want to go home!"

Ye Fan: "Geng Erbao, it's the start of the sophomore year."

The young lesbian couldn't help laughing when she heard such a cute name. Erbao glanced at it inadvertently, and immediately felt embarrassed to act like a spoiled child: "Let's go!" She instantly forgot to save some face for her father outside, and glared at Geng Zhiye and said, "Don't expect me to visit you in the future."

"Just let your mother come!" Geng Zhiye said.

Erbao was so angry that he covered his chest and said, "I'm leaving!"

The female comrade subconsciously looked at Ye Fan, feeling a little at a loss.

"She's going to get the toiletries, you just go downstairs and wait for her." Ye Fan then called out, "Geng Jingjing, wait for your sister!"

When Erbao heard her mother calling her full name, her scalp went numb and she didn't dare to go out.

Dabao chased after him: "Wait for me!"

Geng Zhiye looked at Ye Fan and asked, "What should we do?"

Ye Fan had just finished his meal and felt his stomach coming out: "Let's go!"

The couple walked out of the cafeteria, and Geng Zhiye naturally held Ye Fan's hand. Ye Fan instinctively looked around. Geng Zhiye was speechless: "Legal husband and wife!"

"This is a military camp, please be careful of the impact." Ye Fan said with disgust but did not pull his hand away.

Dabao and Erbao came out of the house and saw their parents walking shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand under the street lights. Dabao snorted, looking like he couldn't stand it, and ran to the male officers' dormitory downstairs.

The female officers had separate dormitories, which were not close to the male dormitories. Erbao and the female officer sister had to pass by their parents when they returned to the dormitories. Erbao didn't say a word when they passed by, but when they were far away, he asked, "Can't you stand them?"

The female officer pursed her lips and tried not to laugh.

Erbao said, "Don't make excuses, I know everything." He said, "I can't stand them either. But they are my parents after all."

The female officer thought to herself, if she really couldn't stand it, she wouldn't call them "Mom and Dad", but the two old guys: "The division commander is pretty good."

Erbao nodded: "I'm good to you and my mom, but not to me and my brother."

The female officer wants to be autistic, so how can we chat today?

"The deeper the love, the more severe the criticism." The female officer took a while to find this sentence.

Erbao said, "You are so good at talking."

The female officer paused and said, "You are not as sarcastic as me."

"The division commander is really nice. Two female comrades liked him before..." The female officer swallowed it back hurriedly, "Two comrades liked the chief of staff, the division commander..."

Erbao said: "Excuse me, sister, do you know that I am a college student?"

The female officer was stunned. What was going on? After coming to her senses, she looked at Erbao in the light and said, "You don't look very old?"

Erbao nodded, "I'm seventeen this year. I started studying early and I'm a sophomore at the School of International Studies. I'm now a member of the school debate club. Sister, once you say a word I know what you're going to say next. Although I'm not as smart as my brother, my emotional intelligence and IQ combined are higher than his."

"So?" The female officer didn't quite understand.

Erbao said: "Two lesbians like my dad, how does my dad react?"

The female officer couldn't help but stand up straight. If you look closely, you can see that she leaned back slightly, obviously afraid of her: "You you——"

"I've met the Chief of Staff. He's not as tall as my dad, and he's not as well-proportioned as my dad. If a female comrade doesn't know either of them, she'll definitely choose my dad. Sister, don't hide it for my dad. Tell me, I won't tell mom."

The female officer couldn't help but say, "But my sister-in-law knows."

"What?" Erbao exclaimed, not believing it. "I'm the only one who doesn't know?"

The female officer suddenly felt she had no way to defend herself. Isn't it normal for children to not know about their parents' bad love affairs?

Erbao handed the things to the female officer: "Help me hold it, I'll go find my mother, it's such a big deal--"

"It's not a big deal." The female officer quickly grabbed the firecracker.

This child looks like a little lady when she eats.

I have to say, she is worthy of being my sister-in-law's daughter, she is just as "two-faced" as my sister-in-law.

Erbao didn't dare to get angry and throw her away, so he pulled her hand away: "They are two female comrades, isn't it a big deal?" The female officer nodded: "Sister-in-law didn't do anything, but they retreated because of the difficulty."

"My mom is so amazing?" Even though Erbao knew her mom was extraordinary, she didn't expect her mom to be so fearless when faced with such a thing. Erbao couldn't help but be curious, "Sister, from what you said, it seems like you know a lot about my dad's affairs?"

The female officer smiled helplessly: "It has nothing to do with your father. Didn't the division commander forbid you to sleep with your sister-in-law? You can't doubt his character because of this."

"I don't doubt it! I know my dad." Erbao shook his head, "But it's easy for a girl to pursue a boy. My dad is a human being, and it's possible that he would be infatuated with a beautiful woman under the lamp."

The female officer always felt that this girl wished her sister-in-law would kick the division commander.

What kind of children are these?

It's okay to watch the fun, but you have to know what the matter is.

The female officer asked, "How about I start from the beginning?"

Erbao nodded repeatedly.

The female officer started talking about the gossip about Geng Zhiye from the first time she heard it. At that time, her comrades said that the wife of the division commander Geng had never been to the army, and must be too old and ugly to face people. Although the division commander Geng was not young, he still looked young and had a bright future. He should find a wife who was worthy of him.

The female officer didn't think so. She said, "There are always people who are better than you. If you think someone young is good now, and in two years you think someone with a good family background and good looks is also good, do you still want to divorce and remarry?" Just then, her comrade-in-arms had a partner. She said, "Ten years later, if your partner thinks you are too old and ugly and wants to find someone younger, do you think that's reasonable?"

The female comrades in the telephone operation company immediately dared not talk about this matter.

The female comrades did not tell Erbao about this, they just said that they were curious whether the teacher would tell them to get out without saying a word.

Erbao shook his head, very sure: "My dad won't."

The lesbian was surprised: "How do you know?"

Erbao: "My dad doesn't like to bully girls, except me."

The female officer was amused. You are really good. You even smuggled something in at this time: "Yes. The division commander threw the things that the female comrade gave him to the guard. The guard didn't need them and asked if we wanted them. We didn't know at the time, but later we found out that it was given by someone else."

"and then?"

Female officer: "He came again. We were not very clear about it, and we also gave the things to the guards. At that time, some people talked about it privately. The commander's attitude was that he wanted to have something with people."

Erbao shook his head: "My dad is giving her a chance."

The female officer didn't understand.

Erbao: "When my brother makes a mistake and admits it in time, my dad will say, let it go for the first time. If he makes a mistake again, he will say, let it go for the second time. Sometimes he will remember it, and when it happens the third or fourth time, my dad will beat him up without saying a word. Even though my brother is 1.8 meters tall, my dad still beats him like an eagle catching a chick."

"What about you?"

Erbao pointed at himself and said, "I didn't. My mom beat me and it hurt. Even a cruel woman never beat my dad. If I didn't look a bit like her, I would have suspected that my brother and I were picked up from the garbage dump by her and my dad."

The female officer pushed open the door and said, "I'm the only one here now."

"What about the rest?"

Female officer: "Some went out to study, and some were transferred to local areas. Those who transferred to local areas were also good. I heard that it was the division commander who fought for them."

Erbao put down his change of clothes: "Go on."

Female officer: "Hearing what you said, I understand why they ran into your mother the third time they came."

"My mom?" Erbao thought, what a coincidence! Suddenly, he remembered that he didn't know when my mom would come over. "Sister, when did it happen?"

The female officer thought about it carefully and said, "I forgot the exact time. Maybe it was during the National Day?"

Erbao suddenly realized: "I remember now. Mom went home first that day, and Dad went home later. My brother said that they were a little strange. I also said that my brother was just idle and thinking about it." He snorted, "Sure enough, there is something wrong. Sister, I want to take a shower."

The female officer was stunned: "You, you don't want to know the follow-up?"

Erbao just wanted to turn around and laugh at his father: "The follow-up is that my mother felt ashamed when she faced those two women. Not to mention my father, I am a man, about the same age as them, and I would choose my mother. My mother is so charming."

The female officer couldn't help laughing: "Really not!"

"Ah?" Erbao was shocked. "Is there still such an ignorant person?"

There was not much entertainment in the army, and when there was a piece of news, the female officers could not help but pay attention to it even though they were not good at gossiping. So several of them grabbed Geng Zhiye's guard and "forced" him to confess.

The guard thought that it was not his boss and his boss's wife who were embarrassed, so he recounted what he had overheard. Several female officers were not satisfied and went to find the college student officer who bumped into the two people that day.

That guy is really a tough guy. Even when the female officer gave him half of the local specialties sent by her family, it still didn't work. Only when two more comrades contributed some local specialties did he say that they were very self-righteous.

The female officer said, "We thought there was only one at first. It was only later that we found out there were two. I heard that my sister-in-law even went to see their regiment leader. But I heard that the two were fine. I guess they were just one family."

Erbao asked: "What about now?"

The female officer shook her head: "I don't know. How about I ask? The person living next door to me is in charge of logistics. She often goes to the city, so she must know more than I do." Then she went to look for someone next door. But before she got there, the person inside came out and asked: "Is the person who just came back with you the daughter of the division commander?"

The female officer pulled her over, and when she saw Erbao, she couldn't help but exclaimed, "You're so big?"

The female officer explained that she was only seventeen and as tall as my sister-in-law. Then he asked her if she knew whether the two female comrades were still in the art troupe.

As soon as the art troupe was mentioned, the entire military camp knew that they were the two who were targeting Geng Zhiye. The female comrade in the logistics department asked Erbao: "Do you want to know?"

Erbao nodded: "I won't say anything in front of mom."

"It's okay to talk nonsense. They both went to the south. They are either in Hong Kong or Yangcheng."

The female officer was surprised: "Being transferred to civilian work?"

The female comrade from the logistics department poked her on the forehead and said, "Fool! Gangcheng is a developed area, and Guangzhou is a special economic zone. There are tall buildings everywhere, and you can make a lot of money by doing anything. It's obvious that she didn't get a high position, so she went to find someone rich instead."

Erbao doesn't think so: "My two sisters may not know that power can be exchanged for money, but money can't necessarily be exchanged for power. If I had a choice, I would not give up my dad even if I gave her 100,000 yuan."

The female officer who shared the dormitory with Erbao asked, "Is it because what they did became known and it's hard for them to get married here?"

Erbao wanted to say, no. If her reputation in the capital is ruined, her family can transfer her to another military region. If it can achieve the goal, her family will not care about these rumors.

Erbao suspected what her mother did later, but she didn't want to tell others, as it would make her mother look jealous. "Yes. Military descendants are very popular among businessmen."

The female officer was convinced: "What a calculated plan! I would be too embarrassed to see anyone."

Erbao's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Sister, I heard that the officer who played basketball with my brother was a college student, are you?"

The female officer shook her head: "I have a cousin who has some connections. I am qualified in all aspects and I graduated from junior high school. The army needs literate female soldiers, so he arranged for me to join."

The female logistics officer said, "It's also because we can take college entrance exams these years, and those who have the conditions go to military academies, so it's our turn to squeeze in."

Erbao: "Are you going to change your career soon?"

The two female officers nodded at the same time.

Erbao immediately said, "I know an uncle who is much older than you, but he has a house, money and a store. He is not ugly and a nice person. Do you want to meet him?"

The two were stunned.

Erbao felt that he was being reckless: "No? Then just ignore what I said? I'm going to take a shower!"

(End of this chapter)