Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Chu Guangming really wanted to beat Geng Dabao.

However, Geng Dabao saw through it and ran out the door, yelling, "Let's go out to eat. I'm starving. Erbao, is the meal ready?"

Erbao disliked her brother and complained to her cousin: "Can't he speak more quietly? The neighbors can hear him."

Geng Huihui asked: "Is Dabao hungry?"

Erbao: "Aren't you already doing it? Can't you wait a little longer?"

"OK!"

Erbao was so frightened that her breathing suddenly stopped. After a while, she came to her senses and turned around to see her brother standing at the door: "What are you doing? Are you trying to scare me to death?"

"Yes. Without you, I would be an only child. Mom and Dad belong to me alone." Dabao didn't mean to scare his sister, but since he scared her, she wouldn't believe him even if he said it wasn't intentional. It would be better to admit it and save himself the trouble.

Erbao took a deep breath and picked up the big knife on the table.

Chu Guangming, who caught up with him, hurriedly pulled Dabao away and said, "Erbao, calm down. Your brother is just a bad-mouthed person!"

"So I'm going to cut his mouth off." Erbao was like a black Li Kui, so Chu Guangming knew that she was trying to scare Dabao but he didn't dare to gamble, and hurriedly shouted: "Aunt Ye, Uncle Geng, come out quickly!"

Geng Zhiye came out first: "Erbao, put down the knife!"

Erbao put down the knife and pointed at her brother: "I'll deal with you another day."

Dabao sneered: "Have I been too nice to you recently? You're so brave to use a knife on me!" He walked over and hit his sister on the head.

Erbao picked up the kitchen knife again, but it fell into Dabao's hands in the blink of an eye. Erbao was so scared that his tongue was tied: "Put it down! What are you going to do?"

"Are you scared now?" Dabao tapped his sister's head with the back of a knife. "Aren't you afraid of hurting yourself?" Then he gave the knife to his cousin.

Erbao relaxed and dared to shout again: "It's because you're giving me a headache with your yelling."

"Come here, I'll heal you." Dabao hooked his arm around her neck and led her out.

Erbao didn't want to, because she was afraid her brother would tease her: "Dad, save me!"

Geng Zhiye sighed and grabbed Dabao's arm. Dabao resisted instinctively, as if he had hit a boulder. He didn't dare to confront him head-on, but he couldn't help wondering: "Dad, are you over fifty?"

Geng Zhiye dragged him into the yard and let go: "Not even fifty yet."

Ye Fan had just left the main hall when he heard this and laughed, "Yes! Forty-nine years old."

Chu Guangming was stunned, looking like "Uncle Geng actually cares so much about his age".

Dabao was speechless for a moment.

Geng Zhiye couldn't help but sigh: "Why did you come out?"

"I'm afraid you might go too far." Ye Fan walked over and pulled the man back to the main room. The moment he entered the room, he turned around and glared at his son.

Dabao scratched his nose uncomfortably.

Chu Guangming asked in a low voice: "What does Aunt Ye mean?"

"Stop making trouble." Dabao whispered, "You made my dad angry, don't expect her to help you."

Chu Guangming: "Is Uncle Geng's hand very strong?"

Dabao: "Be more confident, you can remove the 'ma'."

"No, isn't he almost fifty?"

Dabao nodded: "So I can't understand why he is so strong at such an old age. I am in my early twenties and in the prime of my life. Even if I am not as strong as him, it won't be like an egg hitting a rock if I fight him."

Erbao came out and gave him a basin: "Go wash the vegetables if you have nothing to do! You hide every time I cook, are you born in the year of the rat?"

"It's a pity you're not a cat, I'm not afraid of you." Turning on the lights in the yard and seeing the faucet next to the vegetable garden, Dabao went over to get some water.

Chu Guangming went over to help pick vegetables and asked, "Can you cook?"

"Just because I can does not mean I want to do it." Dabao said.

Chu Guangming was speechless.

Dabao: "Let me tell you, whoever can resist doing these household chores will enjoy the happiness."

Chu Guangming heard that he was quite proud of his tone, and couldn't help but roll his eyes at him: "Then why do you wash clothes and brush shoes every weekend?"

"If I don't wash or brush them, I won't have anything to wear." Dabao said with resentment, "If I don't wash them this week, they will accumulate and I still have to wash them next week." He paused, "It's all my mom's fault. She asked me to wash my own socks when I was five or six years old. Do you think there is such child abuse? Now I feel uncomfortable when I see dirty clothes that haven't been washed."

Chu Guangming didn't want to pay attention to him: "Wash it yourself. I'll go to the kitchen to see if I need help."

Erbao and his grandmother and sister were all in the kitchen. Geng Sensen was sitting aside with nothing to do, so there was no need for his help. Geng Sensen handed him a small stool and said, "Dabao is a very active person. If you ignore him, he will calm down after a while."

Chu Guangming thought about Dabao's personality and wanted to ask, "How could he stay in the lab for a whole day like that?"

"Don't mention you. My aunt didn't expect him to choose Aviation University." Geng Sensen said, "I thought he would study business administration and help my aunt's company after graduation."

In fact, Geng Sen Sen didn't expect that he could last in the company for more than a year. He thought he would not be able to hold back and resign after half a year.

Chu Guangming used to be obsessed with earning money as soon as possible. He even thought about going to a technical secondary school before graduating from junior high school. His grandfather insisted that he finish high school and take the college entrance examination, and Chu Guangming wanted to study a major that taught him how to make money.

Thinking about the past, Chu Guangming couldn't help but sigh: "It's really surprising."

Geng Sensen didn't know he was referring to him, so he said, "Maybe Dabao thinks he doesn't need to go to school to learn how to do business. He may also think that if he wants to change careers one day, he can learn while working, so when he applied for admission, he filled in the one he was most interested in at the time."

Dabao came in with a basin: "I'm interested now too."

Geng Sensen frowned: "Can't you pretend you didn't hear us talking?"

Dabao put down the vegetable bowl, picked up the small stool and squeezed between the two of them.

Geng Sensen was speechless: "I'm going to wash my hands!"

Dabao pulled Chu Guangming up and said, "Let's go too."

Erbao whispered, "How childish!"

"Erbao, I heard it."

Erbao was startled: "You, you, what's your zodiac sign?"

"I have the ability to see and hear from afar." Dabao made a gun gesture and went out with a "biu" sound.

Erbao was tired: "Sister Huihui, are boys always so childish?"

"Maybe." Geng Huihui said, "My colleague is mature in front of students, but very childish in the office. Grandma, you know why I don't want to fall in love now."

Yu Wentao: "I'm not rushing you. Grandma is afraid that you won't wait until you're thirty. It's easier to find someone in your twenties than in your thirties. Your aunt and Lai Fu just happened to be together."

The family is lively and lively, Geng Huihui is not lonely, and she doesn't really want to find a partner. However, because her parents have a good relationship, her uncle and aunt have supported each other over the years, and her uncle and aunt are also good, Geng Huihui is not opposed to talking about marriage: "If there is a suitable one, I will look around."

Because of her words, Yu Wentao ate half an extra steamed bun at night. After dinner, she said she had eaten too much and asked Huihui to take a walk with her.

Geng Huihui looked at the time and saw that there was still more than half an hour before the TV series started, so she accompanied her out.

I didn't expect that many people would come out at night when the houses were closed during the day. However, no one was chatting in the alleys, but they were walking around the alleys, chatting while strolling.

Yu Wentao looked at the two elderly people in front of her who were leaning on crutches and whispered, "They are still out at such an old age, aren't they afraid of falling?"

Geng Huihui really wants to ask, how old are you?
In order to prevent her from saying something else and being overheard by others, Geng Huihui advised her to go back to the house to wash up after walking around.

The next day, Chu Guangming and Dabao went to school. Dabao sat on the bike and moved slowly, while Chu Guangming moved with his legs. Dabao was annoyed by his nagging and said, "You should buy a bike later."

"I have no money!"

Dabao glared at him: "Say another word!"

"I mean, in the eyes of my classmates, I have no money."

Dabao sighed, "Why don't you buy the one that everyone rides? Everyone knows that you give extra lessons to others. If you buy a bicycle, your classmates will think you are doing it to make it easier for them to give extra lessons."

"It seems so."

Dabao shook his head helplessly.

"Don't call me stupid!"

Dabao almost choked up and said angrily: "Don't ask me about your childhood friends' matters in the future!"

Chu Guangming got a headache whenever he thought about his childhood friend’s family.

But he had to care even if he didn't want to, unless he wanted to lose this friend.

On Saturday afternoon, his childhood friend came to the school to wait for him, and Chu Guangming told him Dabao's idea. His childhood friend hesitated: "Do we have to make a big scene?"

Chu Guangming: "Your parents and your brother and sister-in-law may hate you because of this incident, but your brother and sister-in-law have moved out to a new house, so your parents won't have to cook by the bed. Imagine eating, cooking and sleeping in the same room in the summer, with flies and mosquitoes buzzing around. Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable?"

His childhood friend lived in a bright and clean apartment, while his parents lived in a crowded courtyard. He was indeed so ashamed that he couldn't sleep well: "Hate them if you want. As long as they live well, that's enough."

On a weekend morning, Chu Guangming's childhood friend and his family were in the yard. He confessed to his parents that he had a small house with one bedroom and one living room.

Before his parents, brother and sister-in-law could react, the neighbors started shouting. One asked, "How much is the house?" Another asked, "Where did you buy it?" Another asked, "Are you that rich?"

My childhood friend answered perfunctorily, "The location is not good. It's 40 square meters. Actually, it's just two rooms. It didn't cost much. But I also borrowed some money from Guangming. I paid it off this summer."

The neighbor asked again: "Didn't you buy it recently?"

Childhood friend: "I saw it before the New Year and bought it at the beginning of the year."

As soon as he finished speaking, his parents, brother and sister-in-law all changed their expressions at the same time, with extremely complicated expressions. Chu Guangming saw this scene at the door of his house, and felt that his father was about to curse, but because the neighbors had all come out of the house, it was not good to jump and shout like a lunatic, so he tried his best to endure it.

My childhood friend’s mother seemed to be hesitant to speak, perhaps because she couldn’t find the right words.

The expressions of his brother and sister-in-law were so strange that even though Chu Guangming had experienced all the bitterness and sweetness of life, he couldn't understand their expressions.

The childhood friend added, "It's actually quite spacious. There's a balcony where you can put your stuff, and when friends come over, they can put up beds in the living room." He looked at his brother and said, "It can barely accommodate a family of four."

Chu Guangming: "It's not too difficult. Because the kitchen and bathroom are separate. There are two single beds in the living room, and a dining table. But there is no place for a sofa and a TV. But you don't have the money to buy them."

Chu Guangming knew that his childhood friend was rich. He understood that he said that on purpose and looked at him with gratitude.

His brother instantly understood why his younger brother dared to persuade him to buy a house. To buy a house in an ordinary location, the price was 710 yuan per square meter. The whole family had to tighten their belts and borrow some money from his wife's family to get it.

But colleagues and neighbors said that the housing prices would fall. If they fell to 400 or 500, it would be a big loss. In the afternoon, the childhood friend secretly asked his brother when he would go to see the house. His brother decided to wait. The childhood friend's eyes went dark, and he hesitated for a moment. He said nothing and went to Chu Guangming's house to ask him what to do.

Chu Guangming sighed: "Your brother's brain."

My childhood friend also wanted to sigh: "Sometimes you can't blame society for being poor!"

"Yes." Chu Guangming nodded helplessly.

My friend asked, "Why don't we just forget about it? Don't bother Aunt Ye and her family with my family's affairs anymore. They are generous and don't care, so we can't be careless."

Chu Guangming thought for a moment: "The last trick is to go to your brother and tell him that if you buy it recently, you can give him 2,000 yuan and he doesn't have to pay it back. If it's after the New Year, he has to raise the money himself regardless of whether the price goes up or down, because someone wants to introduce you to a date. If nothing goes wrong, you will get married after graduation."

"Is this okay?"

Chu Guangming: "I will be 22 years old after the Chinese New Year, and you are still a little older than me."

"It seems possible. My brother got married early, and when he was his age, my sister-in-law already had my nephew." After the childhood friend finished speaking, he went to his brother's room.

His sister-in-law was also at home. She had told her mother-in-law that if the third child hadn't gone to school, he would have found a partner, so she had no doubts about what her brother-in-law said. His sister-in-law also knew that once her brother-in-law had a partner, it would not be his business to lend him money or not.

His brother said, "Dad doesn't agree, and we can't afford it with just the few thousand dollars we have saved."

"I'll go to my parents' house to ask. And then ask my brother and sister to borrow some." Seeing that it was still early, my childhood friend's sister-in-law immediately went back to her parents' house.

The next day was National Day, and it was a holiday. Chu Guangming had a quick bite to eat and then ran to Dabao's house.

Dabao shook his head and sighed: "Here it comes again, here it comes again, Chu Daguangming is here again!"

Chu Guangming ignored him and walked towards Ye Fan: "Aunt Ye, good morning."

Ye Fan had just finished breakfast and was walking back and forth in the yard for exercise. Hearing this, he stopped and said, "I feel good. It seems that your childhood friend's family affairs have been settled."

Chu Guangming thought about how to describe it: "It can be said that after a long time, there seems to be no way out, but there is always a bright place. Because my childhood friend wanted to give his brother some money and didn't ask him to pay it back, his sister-in-law was tempted and went to her mother's house to raise money. When she got there, she found out that his brother's company had built a new house, and all regular employees could buy it at a discount, regardless of their years of service. It seems to be two or three hundred per square meter. His brother's mother-in-law suggested that his brother buy a welfare house for employees."

Ye Fan was surprised: "Your childhood friend's brother doesn't know?"

"The notice should not have been issued yet. I suspect that since the National Day holiday cannot be announced, and there is no Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, the employees will be happy if this is announced." Chu Guangming said.

Ye Fan: "If his mother-in-law knows about it, how could your childhood friend's father not know about it? Old employees have a wide network of contacts, and it seems his father hasn't retired yet, right?"

Chu Guangming was stunned, and his face became complicated when he remembered something: "Isn't his father waiting for a room like some other people?"

Ye Fan nodded: "It is possible that he thinks it is his turn given his qualifications."

“But if they really want to share, how can the factory still ask employees to buy it?”

Ye Fan: "There is another possibility. His father thought that no one would be a sucker, so he had to give it to employees for free in the end."

Dabao couldn't help but say, "When his father first heard the news, he thought the leader was making a fool of himself and was waiting to see the leader make a fool of himself. He felt there was no need to tell his brother, so his brother never knew about it."

"It's bad! If his father knew that his brother was waiting to buy the factory welfare housing, he would definitely try his best to stop it." Chu Guangming said this and ran out, not even bothering to say "goodbye" to Ye Fan.

Dabao quickly grabbed him and said, "Ride my bike back."

Chu Guangming didn’t know how to ride a bike before. When Dabao was learning mountain bikes, Chu Guangming saw that his bike was new and couldn’t help but learn it after trying a few times.

Chu Guangming thanked him, got in the car and walked out.

Dabao couldn't bear to watch: "The threshold!"

Chu Guangming hurried down and carried the car out of the front yard.

Fortunately, his childhood friend's brother and sister-in-law were busy cleaning the room, washing clothes and washing dishes, and had no time to discuss the matter with the two old people. His childhood friend's brother did not think that his father was a person who gloated over other people's misfortunes, so he went to his father to test him after hanging up the clothes and shoes. As a result, Chu Guangming could hear his childhood friend's father roaring in his own room.

After a while, his childhood friend came in, fell weakly on the bed, and asked, "Guangming, are my parents usually fine?"

"Who said it wasn't? On the New Year's Eve of the year after my grandfather passed away, your family cooked two pounds of meat, and your mother even sent me a bowl."

“There are only a few.”

"It also shows that she is kind."

The childhood friend sat up and sighed: "I really envy Geng Dabao."

Chu Guangming: "Many people in our courtyard also say that Aunt Ye is amazing. Except for Dabao's father, no man can stand her."

"This - Aunt Ye does have a strong personality, but she also listens to advice. Besides, she is bold but also cautious. You said that her relatives asked her to buy antiques, but she didn't know how to touch them. Even if she did buy, she was so rich that fifty yuan was too expensive."

This was also a coincidence. Before Ye Fan moved, Chen Xiaohui went to see Ye Fan one time. Chu Guangming and his childhood friend were going to play ball with Dabao. The childhood friend had never seen Chen Xiaohui, so he asked if she was a relative of Dabao.

Chu Guangming had heard Dabao complain about how Chen Xiaohui wanted to eat too much when she saw good things, so he couldn't help but say a few more words when he saw his curiosity. "I didn't expect you still remember?" Chu Guangming said, "Even if someone knew that she was cautious, they still didn't like her personality."

His childhood friend: "I don't think so. Aunt Ye is willing to take me north, no matter how she scolds me in the future, I will never forget her kindness. Unfortunately, I don't know her well, and she must be too lazy to meddle in my affairs."

Chu Guangming really wanted to say yes. But seeing that his childhood friend was about the same age as him and Dabao, but looked like an old man, he couldn't bear to tell the truth: "If your father doesn't get a house when the house is divided, he will definitely blame you for taking up the quota because of your brother's purchase of the house."

His childhood friend shook his head, "The newly built ones are not divided. If they are divided, they are single-person dormitories, which are those tube-shaped buildings. In the past, when the factory distributed housing, the factory leaders knew that my family had housing, so they discussed with my father about those who didn't have housing, and my father gave it to his colleagues. It seems that my brother was able to become a regular employee because of his noble character that time. If the factory leaders knew that my father was slandering me behind my back this time, they would definitely regret giving my brother a regular job."

As he finished speaking, he heard footsteps approaching and Chu Guangming hurriedly swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

My childhood friend’s brother came in. It turned out that he had just had a fight with his father and went out. His colleague was nearby, so he went to ask his colleague about the house.

His colleague told him that each room has a different price, and the one with a better orientation is more expensive, so that no one would think he was taking advantage of her and she would be at a disadvantage because the prices were the same.

His brother asked Chu Guangming, "There is a house with two bedrooms and a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen, but it is very small, only a few square meters in total. The living room is also small and faces north. Only one of the two bedrooms faces south and has a balcony. Not counting the balcony, it is 40 square meters, 210 square meters. What do you think?"

Chu Guangming: "Can a bedroom be divided into two rooms?"

My childhood friend's brother nodded: "Sure. Add a piece of plywood in the middle of the window. My colleague said that we can also put two small desks and two small wardrobes in it."

Chu Guangming: "It's great that a family of four can live together without having to set up a bed in the living room. If your son and daughter think the room is too small and cramped, just buy a long sofa and sleep in the living room when they get tired of sleeping in the house."

"But we need eight thousand. We only have four thousand. Counting my brother's two thousand, we still need two thousand."

Chu Guangming's childhood friend: "Five hundred for your mother-in-law, five hundred for your elder sister-in-law, elder brother-in-law, and younger sister-in-law, isn't that enough? You and your sister-in-law both work, and you can pay it off in a few years."

His brother sighed: "Actually, there is no need to borrow money."

Chu Guangming vaguely understood something: "You mean to ask your brother to go with you to find your father? No, big brother, this is your business. You can't let your brother spend money and effort. He pissed your father off, and you've become a good son."

His childhood friend's brother also felt that it was not kind of him and was too embarrassed to say it directly.

Chu Guangming: "Go ask your father for 4,000 yuan. If you keep pestering him for a few more days, he will definitely give you 2,000 yuan."

His brother suddenly felt that there was no need to ruin his family just for a small house. His father was not his father and his mother was not his mother. He responded casually and went home.

If he couldn't afford it, his wife would be embarrassed to make a fuss. But now she had a chance and she still didn't have to pay back 2,000 yuan. The wife, who usually didn't dare to speak loudly in front of her parents-in-law, saw that her husband was hesitating again, so she was so angry that she went to make a fuss with his parents-in-law.

The neighbors' persuasion was useless, so they changed their advice to the two elderly people - since the son's money was in his hands, just give it to the son. In the end, they only gave him 3,000 yuan.

The childhood friend heard it clearly at Chu Guangming's house and couldn't help but say, "My brother's salary is five or six thousand. My dad must think that after deducting the living expenses for his family of four, he only owes my brother three thousand."

"Your nephew and niece are only in elementary school, and they don't eat much. Your brother and sister-in-law usually don't come home for lunch, so how much money can they spend? Your father is very generous to me, an outsider, so why is he so stingy with your brother?"

His childhood friend couldn't understand it either: "An extra thousand is good, we can buy furniture."

Chu Guangming was always afraid that something unexpected would happen at the last minute, and his childhood friend was so worried that he cried. So on weekends, he only stayed at Dabao's house for half a day in the morning, went back to the slum to cook at noon, and stayed at home in the afternoon to read books and keep an eye on his childhood friend's house.

At the end of October, the house was bought. My childhood friend's father learned about it from his old leader. The leader praised his family for their high awareness. He couldn't tell the truth, so he went home and yelled at his son for being stupid. He also made indirect attacks on his daughter-in-law, as if she was the one who instigated the purchase of the house.

The daughter-in-law was so angry that she just found someone to paint the walls, borrowed a three-wheeled motorcycle from Zhang Xiaoming, bought some small things and a few beds, and I heard that she moved out with the children without even buying a dining table and chairs.

A few days later, Chu Guangming locked the door and went to live in the school dormitory, saying that he was busy at school. In fact, he went to live with his childhood friend. His childhood friend's elder brother and his family moved out, and his parents lived in a spacious house. He didn't have to feel guilty, so he stopped going back to the compound.

The neighbors envied his two sons for moving out, but at the same time felt jealous that they had raised his two sons in vain.

Chu Guangming didn't know about this, Ye Fan heard it from Zhang Xiaoming. Zhang Xiaoming watched his little daughter playing at the door in the evening. Because they lived nearby, people in the compound chatted with him and said that sons were sometimes not as useful as daughters, and then talked about Chu Guangming's childhood friend.

Ye Fan came back from the north and gave Zhang Xiaoming's share. Zhang Xiaoming took a ride with Ye Fan on the way to the bank and the two chatted about this matter.

Zhang Xiaoming sighed, "I heard from people in the compound that Guangming's childhood friend's father had 10,000 yuan. Both of his sons were driven away by him, so what's the point of keeping the money?"

Ye Fan: "They hired a nanny."

Zhang Xiaoming: "Even if he has the awareness to hire a nanny, he can't possibly oppose his son buying a house."

Ye Fan was happy: "What the hell is going on."

Wei Jianshe was also in the car. Ye Fan said, "Jianshe, come with me to Yongcheng in two days. The mold is ready. We need to stay there for a few days because we need to test it. Tell Xiaoru."

“Is the mold pulled over here?”

Ye Fan nodded: "When our computer becomes famous, we will set up a factory in Yongcheng."

"Aren't you going to Hangzhou? I heard Su Yuanhang say that."

Ye Fan: "He would also like Yongcheng. When Yongcheng develops, the city will have money to build a school on the island. If Su Yuanhang really has to choose between Yongcheng and Hangzhou, he would definitely prefer Yongcheng because people on the island can work in the factory."

"Well, as long as he doesn't mind. It's good to go there. No one dares to bully you when he's around."

Ye Fan nodded: "Yes."

"Which day exactly?"

Ye Fan: "I'll call and ask when I get home this afternoon."

In the afternoon, Ye Fan called the mold factory, but they were hesitant. Ye Fan thought they wanted to delay time again, so he said he would go there in five days.

Five days later, Ye Fan was unable to try out the mold, and had to wait another day before he could barely pass. Ye Fan took out the contract with a cold face and said, "Refund!"

Everyone's faces changed collectively.

Later the factory leaders explained that time was too tight.

However, it is already a week overdue.

Ye Fan asked Su Duofu about it. Under normal circumstances, the mold can be tested ten days in advance, because the contract takes into account unexpected factors and other factors, so there is plenty of time. Ye Fan didn't understand what he was doing, and he was not interested in knowing: "Then go through the court?"

The factory leader nodded without hesitation: "Yes!"

Ye Fan sneered, went out and asked Wei Jianshe to accompany her to the city government.

(End of this chapter)