Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan reminded Chang Guangrong: "This is just my personal opinion, for reference only!"

Chang Guangrong nodded: "I will ask someone who knows the business first and ask them to help me calculate the approximate cost. If it is more than hiring a spokesperson and placing advertisements, then I will just hire someone to shoot the advertisement. It will save trouble!"

Ye Fan said: "If your advertisement is placed before and after the news broadcast, the advertising fee for half a year will be enough to shoot ten episodes of TV series."

Chang Guangrong couldn't help but ask: "Isn't ten episodes a bit too few?"

Ye Fan shook his head, "Not a small amount. If you think it's too little, add two more episodes. The Dream of Red Mansions is so long that it's less than 40 episodes. Besides, grandpa and aunt don't like to watch school stories. If you add family gossip, people who like to watch campus dramas won't like it. Campus dramas are not suitable for adding love and career, they can only be filmed in the aspects of studying hard and inspiring. If you want everything, the end result will be a hodgepodge."

Chang Guangrong's wife nodded: "Sister Fan is talking about Dream of the Red Chamber. If you add Lu Zhishen to Dream of the Red Chamber, I will think the director is sick."

Chang Guangrong suddenly knew how to choose a script after hearing this: "My old friends should have connections in this area. I'll ask someone tomorrow."

Ye Fan stood up and said goodbye.

When he got home and saw Geng Leilei and Geng Sensen were about to say something, Ye Fan saw them packing their luggage and asked, "Didn't you just come back? Where are you going now?"

Geng Sensen smiled and called out "Aunt San", pointing at the bag: "This is my brother's, he's back at work. Here are our dirty clothes, I'll wash them in a while."

Ye Fan asked: "Leilei is in such a hurry? Why don't you stay at home and rest for a day?"

Geng Leilei shook his head: "My boss called me a few days ago to ask me when I would be back. I guess I'll be criticized if I rush back today."

Ye Fan: "How is your grandpa?"

Geng Leilei was speechless.

Ye Fan looked at the second brother, asking him what was going on.

Geng Sensen was also speechless: "On the day we arrived, grandma said that she hadn't eaten much in the past few days, so she found all his burial clothes. I didn't expect that he could sit up and drink some noodle soup on New Year's Eve. My grandma said that grandpa was recovering. As a result, his health got better and better. My grandma also said that we had enough yang energy, and when we went there, the black and white impermanence didn't dare to get close, so my grandpa's illness was cured."

Geng Leilei was quite helpless: "My grandma is an intellectual after all."

Geng Sen Sen: "My uncle is a government official. Isn't he superstitious as well? And my aunt, if we were still students, she would let us stay until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. I almost want to ask, I've never seen you so filial before, is it because grandpa has a high pension and you hope he can live a few more years."

Ye Fan laughed: "Fortunately I didn't ask. Otherwise your uncle and aunt would have cut off all ties with you. By the way, where's your mother?"

Geng Sensen: "My mother taught the graduating class. School started on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. She gave students free tutoring and went back on the fifth day."

Dabao and Huihui took out the washing machine. Seeing this, Ye Fan asked, "Did you boil water? Hot water washes things cleanly."

Dabao: "I used the water heater. It's almost done. Mom, do you have any dirty clothes?"

"No more. You guys go wash up." Ye Fan went back to the room and remembered something, "Sesen, Dabao and Erbao bought a lot of snacks, give some to your brother at work."

Geng Leilei: "No need. There are local specialties in the bag that my grandma bought. Originally, I bought them for my mom, but she said it would be hard to transfer if I carried too many things, so she gave me half."

Ye Fan: "You can go through the post office."

"Post office?" The nerd Geng Leilei didn't expect, "Can food be sent by mail?"

Ye Fan said: "Anything with a long shelf life and not prone to damage on the road can be sent."

Geng Leilei turned to his brother. Geng Sensen understood immediately: "I'll go to the store some other day and pick out a package of things they need and send it over."

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan asked, "When do you start work?"

Geng Sensen: “Next Monday.”

"That's the 17th. There are still a few days left, so you can take your time to choose." Ye Fan said.

Geng Leilei picked up his bag and said to his family, "Then I'm going to work."

Yu Wentao asked: "Can't we eat first and then go?"

Geng Leilei shook his head: "If my grandpa passes away someday, I will have to ask for leave. If I don't go there soon, my boss will think I cursed my own grandpa just to go out and have fun."

Yu Wentao was speechless when she heard this. If it wasn't her family's problem, she didn't believe that a seriously ill person could hold on for a while. It was said that Geng Zhiye's uncle could live longer than his uncle, aunt and younger aunt, but he didn't. This year is the third year since he passed away.

Yu Wentao: "If you can't eat at home, go earlier. Sensen, take your brother there."

Geng Leilei shook his head to indicate no. Geng Sensen asked Dabao to help him soak his clothes, and he and his brother took turns carrying the bag.

Ye Fan’s house is not as close to the bus stop as the previous one, but fortunately, he does not need to cross the road or walk far after leaving the alley. There is a bus stop less than 300 meters away.

Geng Sensen looked at the route and could only ask his brother to cross the road - he didn't have to change buses after crossing the road. Geng Sensen watched his brother get on the bus before going back. After walking back more than a hundred meters, he saw a few familiar faces: "Why are you here?"

Chu Guangming was surprised: "Sensen? When did you come back?"

"Just got back, less than two hours ago. Are you here to look for Dabao?"

Chu Guangming pulled his childhood friend and said, "His house is in front of Dabao's house." He pointed to the six-story building in the northeast and said, "His house is right there. I'm going to his house to play."

Geng Sensen remembered: "Did you buy it with the money you earned from working as a trader last summer?"

Chu Guangming's childhood friend nodded: "Don't tell your grandma. If she knew, it wouldn't be long before my parents would hear about it."

"My grandma wouldn't say anything nonsense. But don't worry, I'll pretend I don't know." Geng Sensen asked, "Are you going home or back to the compound?" Chu Guangming came out of the compound with the excuse that he was going to Dabao's house to play, so he naturally couldn't go back. Geng Sensen saw him looking in the direction of the building, so he asked them to go together. The building was a hundred meters away from Dabao's house, so they had to separate not long after walking. Chu Guangming said, "There is an alley behind his community that leads directly to the alley where Dabao lives. Come with us and go around from the inside."

Geng Sensen followed them to the gate of the community, and Chu Guangming's childhood friend invited him to go up and play again.

It was still early and there was no need for him to watch over the clothes being put into the washing machine, so Geng Sen Sen thought he could go up and have some fun.

The house should have been built a few years ago, and the stairs and walls are very new. There are three units on one staircase. The east unit is open from north to south and is a rectangle. The west unit is also open from north to south, but judging by the layout, the living room has no balcony. Chu Guangming's childhood friend bought the unit in the middle, with the living room and bedroom facing the sun.

Geng Sensen glanced towards the bedroom and felt it looked familiar: "Guangming, is this bed?"

"Did you see that?" Chu Guangming handed him a bottle of soda. "Dabao's bed. He asked Uncle Hongwei to help him get it for his new home, but the new home couldn't accommodate it, and even the study was stuffed with two Luohan beds. I suddenly remembered that there was no bed here, so I asked Dabao if he could give it to us."

Dabao's bed was not made of very good materials. It was an old bed and Dabao had slept on it for many years, so he was too embarrassed to give it away. Chu Guangming and his childhood friend did not mind, and Dabao even gave them the cabinet and desk that came with the bed.

Geng Sensen hadn't had a holiday when the move happened. He only knew that his belongings had to be moved, but he didn't know where they would go. Geng Sensen suddenly realized, "No wonder I always felt something was wrong. How could so many furniture fit into a few guest rooms? I guess some of them were given away."

Chu Guangming nodded: "I didn't know Uncle Han was going to rent a house at that time. Otherwise, these beds and cabinets would not have been moved."

Geng Sensen said: "Uncle Han probably didn't think about renting a house when we moved. He must have thought about it after the house was vacant. But, we can't just have a bed and a wardrobe."

Chu Guangming: "He used all his money to buy a water heater, paint the walls, change the door locks and buy a gas stove. When he has more money, he will buy a sofa, coffee table and dining table."

Geng Sensen looked at the young man who had been silent the whole time: "Is this also your friend?"

Chu Guangming was surprised: "You don't know him?"

Geng Sen Sen felt puzzled, should he know him?

The three of them were shocked. Chu Guangming sighed, "He lives in front of Aunt Ye's house. He's in the same class as us. He used to play basketball with Dabao."

Geng Sensen looked at him carefully and asked, "Have you changed?"

The neighbor wanted to say no, but suddenly thought of something and touched his face: "Ah? My face has become wider. I used to have a buzz cut, but now my hair is longer."

"No wonder." Geng Sensen remembered, "Were you also the one who went on a solo trip last year?"

Chu Guangming: "He wasn't there the first time, but they were together the next day."

Geng Sensen asked: "Do you want to buy a house too?"

That family has a house, but it is similar to Uncle Zhang's, with a large family living in one place. He said honestly: "I have this plan. I don't know if Aunt Ye will go this summer."

Geng Sensen also asked his aunt if he would go again this year: "Probably. By the way, are you still studying?"

Chu Guangming: "United University. It's the same school as Uncle Lai Fu's junior. Because he was there, I knew that the school was good, so I dared to suggest that my student apply to United University."

"I see." Geng Sensen asked again, "Then why are you here so quiet?"

Chu Guangming replied: pure and peaceful.

Geng Sen Sen believed it, chatted with them for a few more words and then went home to do the laundry.

Chu Guangming actually came to look at houses. Chu Guangming wanted to buy four houses, and keep 20,000 to 30,000 yuan of the remaining money to buy a computer, save the bulk, and keep the rest for tuition and living expenses.

The three of them weren't wandering around outside just now just to see if there were any houses for sale around.

If they hadn't run into Geng Sensen, the three of them would have gone to the new home of the neighbor to the west of Ye Fan's former home. Chu Guangming heard from his childhood friend that the family had also moved. Chu Guangming's childhood friend didn't agree with him buying a house in a neighborhood, because it would be easy for neighbors to guess that he was rich. There happened to be several buildings around Ye Fan's home, so Chu Guangming decided to buy a house in a neighborhood.

After Geng Sensen left, Chu Guangming asked in a small voice: "Are you still watching?"

Chu Guangming: "Let's see tomorrow."

Another person couldn't help but say: "I didn't expect software to be so profitable."

Chu Guangming said: "It's all thanks to Aunt Ye. If I went by myself, I would sell it for at most 10,000."

He asked, "So you're not giving extra lessons this year, but selling goods with us during the summer vacation?"

Chu Guangming heard his childhood friend say that it was very hard to go out. He was rich now and didn't want to exchange his life for money. But he also wanted to go out and broaden his horizons. Chu Guangming hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay! I'll bring a snakeskin bag and earn enough for the round-trip fare. I'll help you sell it after I sell it."

The two were immediately very happy and wished that tomorrow would be summer vacation.

Chu Guangming suddenly remembered that Ye Fan didn't know that he would not be giving extra lessons this year, so they locked the door and went downstairs, then went to Ye Fan's house and asked her to come back and take them with her.

Ye Fan nodded: "It's getting late, let's go home. By the way, Guangming, come to my house for dinner on the 15th."

Chu Guangming agreed and went back with his two friends.

Dabao asked: "Mom, do you want to go to the army to see Dad while he's free now? Dad hasn't seen you for a year, he must miss you a lot."

Erbao suddenly thought of his father's bad peach blossoms. Even though those two flowers were rotten, it didn't mean there was nothing else. "Mom, go ahead. Come back in the afternoon on the 14th day of the first lunar month."

Dabao: "You can come back on the morning of the 15th. Grandma and I will prepare everything needed for the festival."

(End of this chapter)