Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

The next day, Erbao went to school to discuss her mother's proposal with her schoolmates. Ye Fan drove to the tobacco company and gave the contact number, name and company address of the trading company to the tobacco company's leaders, allowing them to negotiate among themselves.

Although Ye Fan loves money, he doesn't love it to the point of making any money. When he helped someone contact food before, Ye Fan didn't take any kickbacks, and the other party even praised Ye Fan for being righteous to Chang Guangrong.

After leaving the tobacco company, Ye Fan went to the research institute to check where the research funds went. Because she knew computers, had worked in an assembly workshop, and helped a partner in Gangcheng sell computers for several years, she was an expert, so the research institute did not dare to fool her.

The research funds were not wasted, and Ye Fan was not angry about the slow progress. After all, the country has just started in this area, and it is normal to develop slowly. It is unrealistic to catch up with foreign countries in one step.

Seeing Ye Fan just looked and left, the newcomer in the team couldn't help but ask his senior brother: "Boss Ye is so easy to talk to?"

"Boss Ye understands. That's why she doesn't give orders blindly." The senior brother said, "I've worked with her for several years and I've never seen her get angry. The premise is that you don't treat her like a fool."

Ye Fan came out of the research institute, looked at his watch, it was past twelve o'clock, and drove home immediately.

When we got home, the nanny had already washed the vegetables. When she saw Ye Fan coming in, she asked, "Auntie, have you eaten?"

Ye Fan shook his head slightly. The babysitter immediately went to cook.

Yu Wentao asked: "Huihui said that they have a mobile phone for sale now, do you want to buy one? If someone calls you, you don't have to look around for a phone to return the call."

Ye Fan: "It's as heavy as a brick and extremely expensive. It's not worth it."

"It's convenient."

Ye Fan: "It's not convenient. I have to carry a big bag to store it."

Yu Wentao stopped trying to persuade him after hearing this.

Therefore, Ye Fan thought that Dabao and Erbao would soon start working and would need pagers, but they were still students, so Ye Fan decided to buy them at the end of the year as New Year gifts.

The nights are long and the days are short, and it gets dark early, so Geng Sensen changed his return home from every day in the summer to every week. On Saturday night, Geng Sensen took the last bus home. Yu Wentao was very worried and kept persuading him to come back in the morning on weekends because it was dangerous to walk at night.

Ye Fan suddenly thought that he should give him a pager.

Before Ye Fan could ask him when he would resign, the washing machine started humming the next morning. Geng Sensen had nothing to do for the time being, so he discussed with his aunt again: "I don't want to do this anymore."

Ye Fan: "Resign immediately?"

"That won't work." Geng Sensen shook his head. "There are still a few days left in this month. It would be a shame if I quit now and don't get the bonus."

Ye Fan was speechless but wanted to laugh: "You still need money?"

Geng Sensen took on three jobs: Zhang Xiaoming's foreign trade company, Ye Fan's company finance, and Chang Guangrong's clothing factory. He was busy three days a month, and the three days of part-time work was equal to his monthly salary.

Geng Sensen's monthly salary, extra income and bonuses have caught up with his father's. Geng's eldest brother has been busy for decades, but his son is not as busy as he was a few years.

"Anyway, I don't want to give them a bargain." Geng Sensen said, "The bonus won't reach me, and they won't return it to the country."

Ye Fan: "After this month, there is only one month left in this year, and you should be thinking about your year-end bonus again."

"The year-end bonus will be available until the end of the year." Geng Sensen shook his head, "Our department is busiest after the solar year. I plan to resign on the last day of December."

Ye Fan asked: "Don't you need to resign in advance?"

Geng Sensen was not sure: "I'll ask some other day. The report needs to be submitted one month in advance, so I will submit it at the end of this month."

Ye Fan: "Go ahead. I'm busy too, come and help me. By the way, you also need to help Dabao, Huihui and Guangming calculate their personal income tax."

Geng Sensen: "Is it confirmed then?"

Ye Fan nodded slightly: "I will ask the sales staff to send a few computers over tomorrow."

"How do they deliver it?" Geng Sen Sen asked subconsciously.

Ye Fan: "There is a van. But the company needs another one. I will buy a Santana someday and you and the design department can use it together. The key is at the front desk."

When Geng Sensen heard that he had a car, he wanted to resign immediately. But when he thought that his bonus would be spent on food and drink by his colleagues, he decided to wait until the new year.

Geng Sensen's frustration disappeared, and he finally realized that the house was very quiet today: "Where are Dabao and Erbao?"

Ye Fan: "Guangming wanted to learn how to drive, so Dabao took my car out to teach him how to drive. Erbao is at school, and she called to say she'll be back in the afternoon, and she has to rehearse with her schoolmates in the morning. I don't know what a flute player like her can rehearse."

"If you learn a musical instrument, you can learn a lot of things. Erbao can play the flute, so it's not difficult for him to learn other things temporarily." Geng Sensen asked, "Where does Dabao go to practice driving?"

Ye Fan said, "There is an empty space in Chang Guangrong's factory. It's cold now and it's not a festival, so the sportswear business is bleak and the factory doesn't have overtime, so apart from the security guard, there are only the two of them."

"Then let Dabao teach me some other day?"

Ye Fan: "Ask Dabao about this and see when he has time."

After lunch, Dabao took his cousin away. After Chu Guangming practiced for a while, Dabao asked his brother to get in the car.

Erbao showed off to Ye Fan that her schoolmates were very impressive—her mother’s suggestions worked.

Ye Fan asked: "Is it lively?"

"Yes! We tried it. It wasn't very good at first, but it was more lively than the Western orchestra organized by the freshman brothers and sisters." Erbao said, "They all wore formal clothes and looked very serious. Oh, and we also found a conductor. It happened that the conductor could do somersaults, so he did somersaults and played. Mom, is our school full of talented people?"

The weather was cold, and the mother and daughter were chatting in the yard. Although there was heating in the house, it was still stuffy to stay in the house all day. The babysitter and Yu Wentao were basking in the sun not far from them. Hearing this, the babysitter couldn't help but interrupt: "Erbao, your schoolmates are all future diplomats, right? Can you do somersaults?"

Erbao smiled and said, "Why not? Just take it seriously in formal occasions."

"But the diplomats I see on TV all do that dance, just two people together."

Erbao: "That's a diplomatic ball, ours is a party. You know the Spring Festival Gala, right?"

“I’ve heard of it.” The little nanny said that there was a TV in the village, which was at the village chief’s house. Usually there were many people watching TV, and the little nanny was embarrassed to squeeze in, so she had never watched the Spring Festival Gala.

Erbao said, "One year during the Spring Festival Gala, the actor who played Red Boy was wearing a bellyband and greeting people with his bare bottom."

The babysitter was shocked.

Erbao: "The party is not as serious as you think. Besides, the school leaders also hope that we have personal hobbies. When we go to backward areas in the future, there will be no TVs, and the voltage is unstable and we can't listen to the radio. We can use our personal hobbies to pass the time. Otherwise, we will stay there for several years, and even soldiers can't stand it."

Ye Fan nodded: "The army has consolation performances from time to time. People with special skills are very popular in the army."

Erbao thought of her father and couldn't help asking when he would take vacation.

Ye Fan: "Your dad seems to have disappeared recently. I doubt he will be able to take a vacation next time he comes back."

Ye Fan guessed right.

At the end of November, the day Geng Sensen submitted his resignation report, Geng Zhiye came back with his luggage. After a day of rest at home, Ye Fan accompanied him to the hospital for a physical examination.

After coming back and resting for a day, Geng Zhiye was full of energy and wanted to drive Ye Fan out for a walk.

Ye Fan asked: "Do you want to go to the company? It seems like you haven't been there since you moved there."

"Go!" Geng Zhiye took off his thick down jacket and put on a black woolen coat, put on the leather cotton shoes bought by his son, and put on the watch bought by Ye Fan. He looked more like a big boss than Ye Fan.

Ye Fan was speechless.

Geng Zhiye looked down and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Aren't you cold?" Ye Fan asked, pointing at the coat.

Geng Zhiye: "I have autumn clothes and a woolen sweater inside, so I'm not cold. Besides, there's no wind in the car."

"I think you're going crazy." Ye Fan handed him the leather gloves on the dressing table. "Is there another drill recently?"

Geng Zhiye stretched out his hand, with a cracked but healed frostbite on his thumb: "Yes!" Speaking of this, Geng Zhiye couldn't help but smile, "This time it was a duel between the two armies, guess which side won?"

Ye Fanxin said, I can tell from your expression: "You?"

Geng Zhiye nodded repeatedly, fearing that he would be sorry for the soldiers if he was slow: "You won't believe it if I tell you, but my kitchen team destroyed the enemy's headquarters."

Ye Fan really couldn't believe it, so much so that he didn't know what to say for a moment.

Geng Zhiye put a scarf on her and said with a smile, "Everyone except me was confused at that time." He pushed her out and said, "This exercise was not in the plan. It felt like they were stepping on me."

"Step on you?"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "I am one of the people favored by the army. If he beats the person I favor, I can promote him legitimately."

"Is it because your resume is not as good as yours that you need to do this?"

Geng Zhiye: "He is two years younger than me. He went to college, but not a military school. After graduation, the Cultural Revolution happened. He didn't dare to be transferred randomly, so he stayed in one place for ten years. I was not as good as him, who stayed on the border and on the island for a few years and trained the independent brigade given by the superiors. He went to the battlefield a few years ago, but there were many people who went there. All the military regions sent people, so it was not enough to convince the public by sending him there."

Ye Fan: "If that's the case, the higher-ups should have given you some hints, right?"

Geng Zhiye: "Maybe. But it must be too implicit. I didn't understand." "Then you go up, and he goes to another unit to brush up his resume?"

Geng Zhiye said, "Even if it's not me, it can't be him. Not to mention that the commander didn't block the news, even if he wanted to block the news, he couldn't stop the rumors. The two divisions together have more than 10,000 people."

"Your kitchen team is so good?"

Geng Zhiye didn't know what to say, it felt like a lucky coincidence.

As soon as he arrived at the division headquarters, Geng Zhiye got to know everyone in detail. In addition to those who truly liked military life, his unit also consisted of some talented people with good family backgrounds and special skills.

Talented people are all a bit arrogant, and those from poor families are no exception.

Geng Zhiye did not advocate beating or scolding, but writing self-criticisms and being put in solitary confinement for minor mistakes was useless. Geng Zhiye thought of the years he had spent on the island, when the young soldiers did not want to go to the kitchen squad because the work was too much and too much and it was tiring. Geng Zhiye threw the troublemakers from each company to the kitchen squad. They dared not not work, nor did they dare to mess around, because if the food was not tasty, their loyal brothers would not let them go without the intervention of the division headquarters.

The kitchen squad also has to train on weekdays, such as building bridges over water, clearing roads through mountains, surviving in the wild, etc. The kitchen squad has a small stove, and even if there are leftovers, the big pot stew is more delicious than the big pot rice. These troublemakers saw that being in the kitchen squad would not affect their training and the food was good, so they simply stayed in the kitchen squad.

The companies were hoping that they would never come back. Geng Zhiye saw that there was no objection, so he agreed to let the troublemaker stay in the kitchen squad. With the old squad leader retiring, the current squad leader of the kitchen squad is the troublemaker among the troublemakers.

Geng Zhiye only gave the whole division one sentence: win within the rules set by the military. The military did not stipulate that the kitchen squad could not go. The military also required that it be the same as in actual combat. In actual combat, whoever encounters the enemy goes, so the kitchen squad calculated the route and cut off the enemy's command center without delaying their return to fire and cook. The division commander would not scold them, so they did it.

Geng Zhiye said: "Think about the equipment of the kitchen team."

Ye Fan: "Other officers bring their own things, and the kitchen staff have to bring their own things, and also bring pots and stoves?"

Geng Zhiye said: "They are not only physically strong. We went to the designated location to wait for the enemy, and the kitchen team had to find firewood and cook in a hidden place. It can be said that the kitchen team is as important as the headquarters. Maybe because of this, they thought of where the enemy headquarters was hidden, so they were able to take down the headquarters without any soldiers."

"The other side also has a cooking team."

Geng Zhiye smiled but said nothing.

Ye Fan felt like his face was full of - let's have a bunch of bears.

"Look how beautiful you are." Ye Fan laughed.

Geng Zhiye opened the car door and got in.

Ye Fan gave him the key.

There was a light snow a few days ago, the temperature dropped, and the road was icy. Geng Zhiye drove very carefully. It usually took less than half an hour, but it took him nearly forty minutes.

The receptionist first saw the tall man and instinctively reached out to stop him: "Please stay!"

Ye Fan tilted his head to look over. The girl at the front desk was stunned and opened her mouth: "Boss?"

"This is my lover." Ye Fan said to the front desk.

The receptionist opened her mouth to say "Boss Lady", but then realized that it was inappropriate and wanted to call her "Boss Husband", and finally said "Brother-in-law!"

Geng Zhiye raised his eyebrows, smiled and said "hmm", then followed Ye Fan into the elevator.

As the elevator door closed, Geng Zhiye couldn't help but say, "That's pretty clever."

"The receptionist has to be smart. The salary is not low, just like the clerk salary in other companies." Ye Fan said.

The smart receptionist immediately called the internal line - the boss's husband was here, don't call the wrong person.

New employees who had joined the company in the past two years had not met Geng Zhiye. When they heard about this, they went to find their team leaders and directors and asked whether they should report their work to the boss so that they could accompany them.

As a result, they were scolded by the director or team leader. But none of them behaved well and called Ye Fan's secretary to ask her when the boss would be back.

The secretary thought to himself, even if you knew, you wouldn’t have time to come down.

They didn't have time to go down, but they could lean on the window to watch.

The glass windows on the sixth floor were covered with heads. Geng Zhiye went downstairs and took a casual look, and he let out a small cry of fear.

"What's wrong?" Ye Fan looked in the direction he was looking, and everyone dispersed.

Ye Fan was speechless.

Geng Zhiye asked: "Are top students also so gossipy?"

Ye Fan: "They are also human beings."

Geng Zhiye thought of his comrades-in-arms. If they hadn't gossiped and spread the news that the actress from the art troupe was looking for him, he wouldn't have had to ask Ye Fan to step in and handle the matter.

Geng Zhiye shook his head helplessly: "How is business lately?"

Ye Fan: "Not bad. It can cover the salary."

“Won’t the old employees make a fuss if they can’t get their dividends?”

Ye Fan said: "The software development team has a good business. They are good at one thing and do many things at another. If they can't come up with working software, they will come up with plug-in programs. Selling one person is not worth much, but some companies buy them out directly and they are very valuable. The old employees are quite satisfied with the current situation."

Little did they know that this was not the case.

There are many software and computer companies around Ye Fan's company. Some of them have high salaries but a depressing environment, while others have friendly bosses who only make promises. Unlike Ye Fan's old employees, all of them have their own houses.

Having a house is like having a home, and they no longer have to worry about the future. They don’t mind if the dividend is reduced by half. Not only because they regard the company as their home, but also because they have found out that only the founders of other companies can get dividends.

Old employees can’t get bonuses even if they work for five or eight years. Even if the salary increases every year, it’s not the same as bonuses. With bonuses, you feel like you are a family with the boss. No matter how much salary and bonus you get, you are still an employee in the end.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Ye Fan's company is so stable is that her employees are the most difficult to recruit in the entire industry. Just like in the past few years, it all depends on the support of her peers.

When others asked Ye Fan how he retained employees, he told them the truth, but they thought he was talking nonsense. Some people were willing to believe that what Ye Fan said was true, but they were reluctant to give out 10% or even 20% of the net profit to the employees.

In the afternoon, Ye Fan did not go to the company and went to the movies with Geng Zhiye.

He didn't go to the company the next morning. He went to the company in the afternoon to take a look at Ye Fan and then went home. Then he disappeared for five days. The couple went traveling.

Dabao came back on the weekend and didn't see his parents. He provoked his grandmother: "Look, no one took you with them. Don't look after Ye Fan's house anymore."

Yu Wentao: "Call me Ye Fan in front of your dad later."

Dabao didn't dare. Even though his father was 20 or 30 years older than him, Geng Zhiye was like an old man in the countryside. Beating him was like beating a baby.

Geng Zhiye returned to the army, and the new year was approaching. Ye Fan drove to buy 80 packaging boxes and 30 gifts, and then went home to ask her mother-in-law and the babysitter to help her pack them.

Yu Wentao wondered: "How can I pack 80 for 30 portions?"

Ye Fan: "The remaining fifty are stuffed with money, ranging from ten to a hundred yuan."

“Then how do you distribute it to your employees?”

Ye Fan said: "Write the number on the bottom of the box, and then I will make another box and write the number on it. Whoever touches the number will get the corresponding gift."

“Why are there so many people in your company?”

Ye Fan: "Sales staff from all over the country, plus cleaning staff, security guards and front desk staff, about the same. Sales staff from other places will come here in the next few days."

Yu Wentao smacked her lips: "It's not a big deal."

Ye Fan said: "You have to spend when it's time to spend."

The cafeteria is big enough, and Ye Fan discussed with Han Dawei's wife that the cafeteria would prepare tea in the afternoon before the New Year's Day holiday, and she would hold the annual meeting in the cafeteria.

When Han Dawei's wife heard about this, she also planned to prepare a few packaging boxes. They would draw gifts at the dining area, and the canteen staff would draw the prizes in the back kitchen.

Ye Fan didn't tell anyone about this.

That afternoon, the employees were not in the mood to work, so Ye Fan said, "Pack up, have a meeting in the cafeteria and then we'll go home." He then gave the newly bought camera to the secretary and asked the secretary to take pictures.

When everyone arrived at the cafeteria, they saw many gifts on the table and exclaimed in surprise.

Then the sales manager also brought people over.

Ye Fan just said one sentence: "Keep working hard next year, come over now and draw a number."

The secretary exclaimed, "So direct?"

Ye Fan: "After so many people have drawn their gifts one by one, it's time to go home."

It was almost dark when everyone received their gifts, and they chatted for a while. Ye Fan asked them to clean up the canteen and take the snacks away, and then told the employees to go home. Those who were out of town had already received their travel expenses in advance, and those who didn't want to play in the capital for two days could go directly back to the station.

Dabao knew that his mother's company was holding an annual meeting in the afternoon. He saw his mother subconsciously checking the time, which was less than six o'clock: "Mom, it's over so early, are you holding an annual meeting?"

(End of this chapter)