Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

During the two years that Geng Zhiye was dating Ye Fan, he would go to Ye's house whenever he had a day off. His purpose was not to curry favor with his father-in-law, but to marry Ye Fan home as soon as possible.

The purpose was too obvious. Tao Chunlan was annoyed when she thought about her daughter, whom she had raised with great effort, going to Geng Zhiye, but he was "untactful". Tao Chunlan had a problem with him, and she was even more annoyed when she had to marry her daughter off due to the situation at the time. The memory was so deep that she still had a bad face when she saw him after so many years.

Geng Zhiye shook his head slightly: "It's been too long, I forgot!"

Ye Fan glanced at him helplessly.

Geng Zhiye held Ye Fan's hand: "Fanfan..."

"Speak!" Ye Fan said while trying not to laugh, very curious about what he was up to next.

Geng Zhiye actually didn't know what to say. It would be unreasonable not to visit his mother-in-law during his rare vacation, but he really didn't want to go - he was so old and still had to listen to lectures like a novice son-in-law.

"Has it been a few years since we last saw a play?"

Ye Fan nodded: "I'll arrange it tomorrow."

Geng Zhiye hesitated for a moment and asked, "Summer vacation is coming soon. There will be a lot of students and free time during the summer vacation. Will there be a lot of movies released?"

There is no such thing as a summer movie season these days. Ye Fan wanted to say this, but he also wanted to say that people nowadays don’t have the habit of watching movies. The habit of watching movies was brought about by a kung fu actor who later made a super-high-grossing action movie.

So there aren't many movies during the summer vacation. Besides, it's not summer vacation yet.

Ye Fan asked: "Want to watch a movie?"

"I seldom go out during the weekdays, and I don't go anywhere during the holidays. I feel like I am out of touch with the people."

Ye Fanxin said, you are really good at talking nonsense.

"The movie theater is mostly populated by ordinary citizens, and they can only represent a portion of the people." Ye Fan said, "How about going to the countryside for a few days? I'm afraid you'll find it too hot."

The capital city in June has not yet reached the hottest summer season. It is hot in the afternoon and cool at night. Besides, the countryside today is not like the countryside 20 or 30 years ago, where everything is available. Now many farmers in the suburbs of Beijing have ceiling fans and oscillating fans.

"I'll be back in two days."

Ye Fan nodded: "It's the weekend for Erbao, so we won't go anywhere. You still have seven or eight days of vacation left. Excluding one day for the physical examination, there are still six or seven days left. How do you plan to arrange it?"

Geng Zhiye thought for a moment. There are many entertainment venues in the capital, but he cannot go there because of his status. Actually, he can go there, but he will cross the line. He didn't care about it this time. If someone asks him to do something in the future, he may think it is a small matter. If he encounters a big matter in the future, he will think it is just a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Many people fall into depravity in this way.

Most of Geng Zhiye's comrades-in-arms, classmates and colleagues have caused big troubles over the years because they couldn't help but take care of a small matter.

Some of them also felt that they were on the wrong side and were eliminated.

Geng Zhiye sneered, saying that although there were few Bao Gongs, they were not absent. Moreover, some people hoped to achieve some achievements so that they could be promoted legitimately. There was also a situation where the backers thought that they were greedy and would cause trouble for themselves in the future, so they cut off their tails when they committed a crime.

He doesn't think about these situations, and just opens his mouth to blame himself for his bad luck. He is really unrepentant.

Geng Zhiye didn't want him to become like that, so he never even approached the door of a disco club over the years.

If he doesn't have fun, there will be even fewer places to go. Even if he goes to cafes, parks and museums, he will still have one or two days left of his vacation.

It seems that I am destined to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Geng Zhiye turned to Ye Fan: "I——"

"Drive carefully!" There were many people on the road after get off work, with bicycles and pedestrians running around, and occasionally a few cars overtaking. He drove with one hand and even turned his head, "Look at the road, not me!"

Geng Zhiye turned around and saw a bicycle with a child on it crossing the road, and he quickly looked ahead carefully.

Ye Fan said helplessly: "If my mother saw this--"

"You're scolding me again." Geng Zhiye interrupted, "Stop talking, I was wrong."

Ye Fan sighed: "Then just behave yourself when you are in front of the old couple."

"Your mother even dislikes me sitting next to you."

Ye Fan: "Who has ever disliked you for being so well behaved by my side? It's you who's the one holding my hand and putting your hand on my shoulder, as if you were afraid I'd run away."

"No, we are husband and wife. If we sit on the sofa with someone between us, we are just ordinary friends."

"Can't you just not do it?"

Geng Zhiye: "Your mother also dislikes me even when I'm next to you."

Ye Fan wanted to explain, but suddenly remembered that her mother was cooking in the kitchen and she went to help. When she arrived in the kitchen, her mother asked, "Where is your clingy guy?" Ye Fan helplessly said that he was chatting with her father in the living room. Her mother said, "He is so clingy and he is a soldier. He really brings shame to the army!"

Soldiers are also human beings, they also have private lives. How can it be a disgrace to the army at home? Besides, Geng Zhiye didn't do anything, he just sat next to her. Ye Fan was speechless, but her mother was dissatisfied with her silence, so Ye Fan could only say that she would talk to him later.

Ye Fan smiled bitterly: "The old lady was not satisfied with you before, and now she has opinions no matter what you do, just pretend you didn't hear it."

"When can't I pretend to be deaf and dumb?"

Ye Fan: "She doesn't dislike you every time."

Geng Zhiye nodded: "Indeed. When your family encountered a big problem, she didn't have time to argue with me, and she would ask for my opinion. Your mother, she is an old revolutionary, but she is just like the old feudal, Zhong Wuyan when there is something wrong, and Xia Yingchun when there is nothing wrong."

"What are you talking about?" Ye Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "If you keep making nonsense analogies, I won't go anywhere. I'll ask Huihui to help you with Chinese."

Geng Zhiye: "Huihui is heavy, please spare her. By the way, which way should we turn?"

Ye Fan looked out the window and said, "No need to turn."

Geng Zhiye walked a short distance and saw several people with special temperaments coming out of a unit. He stepped on the accelerator and slowed down the car when it was approaching, stopping just outside the door.

The car window rolled down and a man came over: "Comrade, you can't park here."

Ye Fan tilted his head and said, "It's me."

"Ye, Aunt Ye?" The young comrade wanted to call her "Boss Ye" but realized that was too unfamiliar so he changed his name. He shifted his gaze to Geng Zhiye and felt that his eyes resembled someone else's. "You are Uncle Geng, right?"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "Geng Er - Geng Jingjing hasn't finished get off work yet?"

"She doesn't have much to do today, so she should be out." After saying that, he looked inside. Geng Erbao was walking leisurely as usual. Her colleague couldn't make a loud noise, so she could only wave her arms to try to make her see.

The comrade who was with Erbao saw it first and asked him who he was looking for. Erbao looked up, puzzled for a moment and then smiled: "I'm leaving first, my mother is here to pick me up."

When he ran over and saw that the person driving the car was not his mother, Erbao was surprised and happy: "Dad?"

Geng Zhiye glanced back and said, "Get in the car!"

Erbao immediately opened the door and went in. Geng Zhiye said to the young comrade, "Thank you."

"You're welcome. Take care." The young comrade stepped back.

Geng Zhiye turned the car around and said, "Erbao, your colleagues are pretty good."

"My colleagues are all good!" Erbao raised her chin with a cocky look on her face, and those who didn't know would think she was praising her.

Geng Zhiye laughed when he saw this: "Are there any single young men of your age?"

"Dad!" Erbao leaned back on the chair, "Even if I get married right away, you and my mom won't be able to spend every day together!"

Geng Zhiye paused for a moment and said, "You're overthinking it. Does Dad dislike your brightness? Dad thinks it's a loss for you not to fall in love at your age."

"It would be a shame if I don't work hard at my age!" Erbao rolled his eyes. "When can't I fall in love? People in their seventies and eighties can still have twilight romances."

Geng Zhiye was unable to refute for a moment: "You will regret it one day!"

"I'll say this when you adults can't win over me." Erbao pouted, "Mom, why don't you let him rest at home when he has a rare day off?"

You are not the one who wants to jump for joy when you see your dad.

"Your dad has rested enough at home, come out and get some fresh air."

Erbao understood: "Come pick me up by the way." He couldn't help but say sarcastically: "Commander, thank you for your hard work."

"Well, serve the people." Geng Zhiye smiled indifferently.

Erbao's breathing stagnated. Why was he so poor?

It’s no wonder that grandma is annoyed with him.

Ye Fan patted Geng Zhiye's arm, and Geng Zhiye shut up and drove carefully.

The next day, as planned, Ye Fan went to the company in the morning and asked his secretary to bring him lunch. At five o'clock, Ye Fan left work early and went to the theater with Geng Zhiye.

I parked the car slowly, ate something, and walked around the theater to digest the food, just in time to go in and watch a play.

Geng Zhiye held the ticket and said, "It's actually at night."

Ye Fan: "I'm free at night. Who is free during the day? Didn't you notice? It's Saturday night."

Geng Zhiye didn't celebrate the weekend, so he didn't really notice what day it was today: "Erbao, aren't you going to work tomorrow?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Sen Sen went to pick her up."

Geng Zhiye swallowed the words "Why did she come back?" Noticing that no one else was talking, he didn't want to chat with Ye Fan anymore.

Today's play is an adaptation of a famous work. Geng Zhiye had read the original work many years ago and could understand the story. The actors were also very good, so he was still not satisfied and talked about it after leaving the theater.

Seeing that he really liked it, Ye Fan asked the secretary who helped her buy the tickets if there were any other interesting plays when she arrived at the company on Monday. The secretary paid special attention to it, answered her question and asked, "Do you want to watch anything else?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Take some time to go there, and come back to me for reimbursement."

The secretary is happy to do this job as he can slack off. In the afternoon, he will hand over the tasks at hand and then drive the company car to buy tickets.

In the evening, Geng Zhiye brought his daughter back and Ye Fan gave him two tickets.

Geng Zhiye thought it was a movie ticket, but after a closer look, he saw it was a play: "You like watching plays so much?"

Ye Fanxin said, "You obviously like it. I heard it's quite interesting. I don't know how good the acting is. If you are worried that it won't be good, ask Erbao to go with me later."

The scene started at 7pm, so Erbao had time to eat after work. Geng Zhiye thought Ye Fan was retreating, so he said, "Erbao must be very tired after a day's work, let her have a good rest, I'll go with you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Erbao came in and said, "I'm not tired!"

"You are tired!" Geng Zhiye said with his eyes wide open. Erbao was speechless, secretly complaining, "Childish!" He nodded helplessly: "Okay, I am tired. Who will pick me up later?"

Ye Fan: "Aren't you feeling too hot? Don't come back these few days."

"It's not the hottest time of the year yet, so it's not very hot." Erbao disliked her father for being poor and wanted to see him every day, so she went to find her cousin.

Geng Sensen has been enjoying his job, eating well, and has a belly fat. He thinks skipping rope is ugly, so he built a basketball hoop on the wall of the front yard and plays basketball every day after get off work.

Geng Sensen heard the sound and saw Erbao, so he threw the basketball over. Erbao caught it steadily, raised his wrist, and threw the basketball out easily, which landed steadily in the basket.

Geng Sensen exclaimed: "Beautiful!"

Erbao learned how to shoot from her brothers. Dabao and Sensen never taught her specifically, but they took her to play occasionally, and after so many years, she had developed a good feel for it.

Erbao picked up the basketball and told her cousin that she wanted to go home every night while her father was at home.

Geng Sensen nodded: "I'll pick you up."

Erbao immediately said, "I'll call you if there's anything urgent."

"Okay." Geng Sensen took the basketball: "Play with me for a while."

The brother and sister played for more than ten minutes, and then the nanny Xiao Wang told them to prepare for dinner.

After exercise, the body is well absorbed. Geng Sensen doesn't want to exercise in vain, so he reminds Erbao to take a bath first. After more than half an hour, the food is almost cold, so the two of them go to eat.

Yu Wentao nagging: "Can't you take a shower after dinner?"

Erbao: "My face is all sweaty and it's itchy."

Yu Wentao opened the lid of the pot: "The porridge in the pot is still hot."

Erbao passed the bowl over and filled it up, then said, "I drink porridge and eat vegetables, not steamed buns."

Xiao Wang looked at Geng Sen Sen, he waved his hand, and Xiao Wang put the steamed buns away.

After dinner, Geng Zhiye and Ye Fan took a walk in front, and Erbao followed behind. Geng Zhiye pulled Ye Fan and slowed down his pace. When Erbao came forward, Geng Zhiye said, "You said you wanted to have a boyfriend, so is it necessary for you to follow us?"

"Dad, provoking me doesn't work. Also, if you find me annoying, just tell me directly." Erbao snorted unhappily, "Why learn something else than imitating others to urge marriage!"

Geng Zhiye said: "Dad really hopes you have a boyfriend."

"Everyone has their own way of living. You have a good relationship with mom and think it's a good idea to find a partner, but I don't think so. Is that okay?" Erbao asked back.

Geng Zhiye: "Then you can go watch TV with grandma and Xiao Wang."

Erbao: "The TV show hasn't started yet, the news is playing. I don't know what news you're talking about, why do I have to wait and watch it on TV?"

The speeches of the diplomatic departments were probably proofread or written by Erbao himself, so there was really no need for her to read them again. Thinking of this, Geng Zhiye swallowed his words and said, "Follow me if you want."

Erbao loves to follow them. He followed the two of them to the back door of the community in front, and then followed them back home.

When I got home, Erbao took another shower and a TV show was on. Erbao watched one episode and then went back to his room, thought about today's work, read a book for a while and went to sleep.

The next morning, at daybreak, Erbao got up to memorize foreign language vocabulary. When he got tired, he would continue the activity for a while until the meal was ready.

Geng Sen Sen sent her to work and then drove to the company.

There was no traffic jam on the road. Geng Sensen parked his car and people from the R&D department came over in twos and threes. An employee who just joined this year saw the circles on the car logo and felt envious. When he got to the sixth floor, he told his colleagues: "The boss is really good to Accountant Geng."

Ye Fan's loose hands were recognized by the whole company. His colleagues thought that Ye Fan had bought something again and couldn't help asking, "Did you see the boss?"

"No. I saw Accountant Geng's car."

The colleague was very disappointed, thinking that the boss had disappeared for a long time these days and went out to play, and then brought back a lot of things: "That car is not his."

"Didn't the boss buy it for him?"

The colleague shook his head while working: "It's a birthday present for the boss's daughter." Only some of the old employees knew the names of the boss's son and daughter. This person didn't know and simply said: "I heard from colleagues in the sales department that the eldest daughter's workplace is far from home and it's inconvenient for her to take the bus, so she used it for work."

"Is the boss's daughter this old?"

A colleague took out a fashion magazine from the drawer and pointed to the cover: "The boss's son is bigger."

“Hey, isn’t his last name Ye?” The new employee’s sister is a fan and has many celebrity pictures pasted on her bedroom. One of them looks exactly like the person on the cover.

Colleague: "What's the boss's last name?"

The new employee suddenly realized: "The boss's son is a star."

"No." The colleague heard from an old employee that the company has two major shareholders, one is named Chang and the other is a research institute. The drama in which Geng Dabao appeared for ten minutes was an advertising drama invested by the boss named Chang. So he started by talking about why Dabao filmed a drama, and finally asked: "Besides advertising, have you seen his other dramas?"

The new employee shook his head.

The employee who was standing back to back with the two men was two years older than them. Hearing this, he turned around and said, "Don't think about it. No matter how old the boss's children are, they will never join the company. What they learn has little to do with us. It's better to pay more attention to Accountant Geng than to care about them. I feel that our company will most likely be handed over to him in the future."

New employees envy: "The boss is so nice to his nephew."

The team leader came over with a large cup of soy milk and two fried dough sticks. Seeing that many employees had complicated expressions, he couldn't help but worry that they were having wild thoughts. After hesitating for a moment, he went to the tea room.

Ye Fan ordered a few newspapers and magazines for the company, but they were not magazines like Readers. One was an entertainment newspaper, one was a professional magazine, and one was an official government newspaper. Ye Fan's copy was placed in the tea room, and the one upstairs was handed over by the front desk to the staff on the sixth floor, who took it up and put it in the public area.

The team leader searched for a while, took out a photo and put it in front of the new employee, pointing at the picture of the person on it and asking him to take a good look.

The new employee was confused and asked his colleague next to him, "What does the team leader mean?"

"Let me see." The colleague took it and took a quick look. He was surprised. They were software developers. What did it have to do with the national economy and people's livelihood? Suddenly seeing the familiar words, the employee was surprised and opened his mouth slightly.

Seeing this, the new employee asked, "What's wrong?"

"Is this person's surname Geng?"

The employee behind the two turned around, saw the full name Geng, and asked in a low voice: "Does it look like Accountant Geng?" After that, the three of them looked at each other. They thought the boss was the most powerful in the company, but they didn't expect that the most awesome one was Accountant Geng.

After the team leader had eaten and drunk his fill, he went to the tea room to wash the cups. Passing by a few people, he asked leisurely, "Did you see clearly? Every day, you discuss everything you see. Is it interesting?"

The three asked in unison: "Really?"

A long time ago, when the salary was paid, the team leader had a chat with Geng Sensen. Geng Sensen lied that his mother was a teacher and had retired long ago, and his father was a minor official who was still in office because men retired later.

The team leader believed it and praised the boss for his kindness and treating his nephew like his own son during a dinner with colleagues who joined at the same time.

This group of people worked in the residential area for two years. At that time, Dabao and Geng Sensen went to the company to play with them whenever they had time. At that time, Dabao said that his uncle and aunt were out of town, and his cousin lived in his house.

Combined with what Geng Sensen said some time ago about having to go back to his parents' home, one of the employees wondered, he used to be in another place, and now he is in the capital, what kind of person of different level can be transferred across regions when he is in his fifties or sixties?

Unfortunately, when I turned on the TV as background music, I saw a senior official named "Geng". The more I looked at him, the more he looked like Geng Sensen when he was young. Then I thought about the direction Geng Sensen went home and the place where the man might live, which happened to be in the same direction.

A few days ago, when the salary was paid, this colleague met Geng Sensen and asked him where his father worked and whether he could do him a small favor. Geng Sensen was silent for a while but couldn't come up with a specific task. The employee said sympathetically: "I'm sorry to embarrass you. I'll ask my classmates."

At a dinner party on the weekend, the employee told his guess to his colleagues, friends and classmates. After they discussed it, they calculated Geng Sen Sen's age and asked people where the wife of the senior official named "Geng" worked. They found out that she used to be a teacher and is now retired. They were able to confirm that the two were father and son.

The head of the software development team shrugged and said nothing, but it seemed like he had said everything.

Several people were stunned.

When I went to the cafeteria at noon, I saw Geng Sen Sen getting his meals and buying vegetables like them, and I thought to myself that he didn't look like the child of a high-ranking official at all.

Not all children of high-ranking officials live a lazy life and bully others by taking advantage of their power. This is only a part of them. Some have great ambitions and enter the official career early, some are like Yan Weining, making great achievements in public institutions, and some are like Geng Sensen, working steadily and doing what they are interested in.

There are also a small number of people who are developing into the film and television industry.

But because the staff were not familiar with him and had never met children of high-ranking officials of similar age before, they could not help but look at Geng Sensen every time they saw him. Geng Sensen was annoyed by their gazes and stopped eating in the cafeteria and went home at noon every day.

He didn't go home at noon. Only Yu Wentao and the babysitter were at home. Their words echoed. Yu Wentao was lonely. She was very happy to see Geng Sensen coming back. She disliked the food in the cafeteria and advised him to come back at noon every day in the future and not to learn from his aunt. Since she didn't have to go abroad, she became more and more lazy.

Ye Fan was not very diligent before. Although she was busy in the past few years, she was not busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. She was often busy for a month and rested for half a month.

Maybe Ye Fan used to disappear for ten days or half a month, but now she goes home every day, and occasionally goes to the south for four or five days round trip, which makes Yu Wentao feel that she has a lot of free time.

You don't go home to eat when you have free time, and would rather eat from the big pot in the cafeteria. Aren't you just lazy?

Geng Sensen heard this and said, "There is a lounge in my aunt's office. It's enough for her to take a nap."

This was the first time Yu Wentao had heard of this, and she couldn't help but ask, "There's a bed in the office? Oh my god, they really know how to enjoy it!"

Geng Sensen regretted saying too much: "Grandma, what are we eating tomorrow?"

Yu Wentao liked the children who showed support to her, so she immediately asked, "What do you want to eat? Grandma will buy it for you tomorrow morning."

"I want to eat little stupid chicken."

After dinner, Geng Sen Sen went to the back bedroom to take a nap, and Yu Wentao called her nephew and asked him to bring two chickens the next day.

Uncle Yu is in his early sixties, which sounds quite old at first glance, but people in the countryside cannot sit still, and he didn't want to compete with old men of the same age for manure, so he drove into the city.

In the past, it was to make more money, but now it is to kill time. Others arrived in the city at six o'clock, but he only arrived at Ye Fan's door with half a truck of various things at nearly seven o'clock.

Yu Wentao took a few dozen dollars and bought two chickens first, and then bought some vegetables.

Seeing that she bought a lot, the neighbors came to take a look. But when they heard that it was more expensive than the vegetable market, the neighbors didn't want to be cheated and suggested that Yu Wentao go to the vegetable market to have a look.

Nanny Xiao Wang said quickly: "Grandpa Li, this is grown at home, it tastes better than the ones sold at the vegetable market."

"Did he say that?" The old professor looked at the old man selling vegetables and thought to himself, he is so old and still lying, isn't he afraid of having a car accident?

Nanny Xiao Wang nodded.

The old professor had a complicated expression on his face, wondering how come Ye Fan was such a smart man, but his family was so simple.

Yu Wentao saw it and said with a subtle expression, "This is my brother from my mother's side!"

(End of this chapter)