Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Not only did the new team leader not urge Yu Wentao, he also said that he had been troubling Team Leader Geng recently, and that his aunt was working hard taking care of two children alone, and also doing the laundry and cooking.

The more polite the new team leader was, the more embarrassed Yu Wentao felt to stay: "The third brother said it's safe to stay."

"Then stay for a week." Ye Fan looked at Geng Huihui. "She has never seen the sea. When I told her I would bring her here after the college entrance examination, she was so excited that she almost performed poorly during the exam."

Yu Wentao: "She has always wanted to come here to play. By the way, where is Benben?"

Ye Fan: "They feel hot and can't stand it. I feel like I've heard this from someone else."

Dabao shook his head: "It's not me!"

Ye Fan glanced at him and asked her mother-in-law what to eat in the kitchen.

Yu Wentao first said that she had kneaded dough and rolled a lot of noodles in the morning, originally intending to dry them and eat them slowly, but she didn't expect Ye Fan to come back so soon. Then she said that she would cook whatever Ye Fan wanted to eat.

Ye Fan knew from her tone that she wanted to eat seafood noodles, otherwise he wouldn't have said that she worked hard to roll the noodles. "Let's eat seafood noodles. I'll go buy some more seafood."

Yu Wentao couldn't help but ask: "Can seafood be stewed in noodles?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Sure. It's easier to stew noodles, no need to cook."

After washing off his tiredness with hot water, Ye Fan went to the vegetable market. Dabao and Erbao missed their mother because they had been separated from her for such a long time for the first time. They held her hands one on each side, and the siblings carried a small basket in their other hands.

The next morning, Ye Fan asked Geng Zhiqin to take Geng Huihui, Dabao and Erbao to the beach for a swim. There were boats on the sea at that time, so Ye Fan was not worried that the children would be blown away by the waves without anyone to rescue them.

Ye Fan and her mother-in-law put away the unnecessary things, and then Yu Wentao rested at home while Ye Fan went to the village to find a beekeeper to buy honey.

The beekeeper left four bottles for Ye Fan. Ye Fan offered him money but he refused to take it. Ye Fan said he didn't want the honey anymore. The beekeeper immediately took the money and said if he wanted to eat honey in the future, he should write him a letter and he asked the worker from the food factory who was delivering goods to the capital to take it to her.

Ye Fan smiled and nodded, and said that if the honey was not easy to sell, he could tell her, and as long as he could guarantee the quality of the honey, she would help him sell it no matter how much he had.

After hearing this, the beekeeper felt that his future life was secure and could not help but send Ye Fan to the village entrance.

When Ye Fan got home, she said to her mother-in-law, "Let's keep two bottles and give two bottles to my mother."

Tao Chunlan has a son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, and Chen Xiaohui. The number of people in her family is no less than that of Geng's family. Yu Wentao did not think Ye Fan was partial to her because of this.

Five days later, Geng Huihui had a tan and was still not satisfied with the fun, but it was time to go back.

On the morning before leaving, Geng Huihui carried a bucket to the market to buy half a bucket of river crabs. The villager who was selling vegetables asked, "There are no river crabs in the north?"

Geng Huihui: "Yes, but the ones in the vegetable market are expensive, and they are not as big as the ones on the island."

Erbao came over and a villager selling river food gave her a cantaloupe. Erbao shook her head and said, "I have a lot of vegetables in my yard. Do you want some? I'll give them to the citizens who buy vegetables. My mother asked many people to go to my house to pick vegetables and melons."

Ye Fan had a wide variety of vegetables in her yard, but because the villagers respected her, they didn't ask her for anything. After hearing what Erbao said, she realized that she wouldn't have the chance to buy anything in the future. The villagers asked their neighbors to help watch the stall, so she went to take a look. The neighbor hurriedly said, "See if there's any coriander."

The man selling river fish helped Geng Huihui carry the bucket and went back with Erbao.

Ye Fan brought his own pots and pans to the yard and asked the villagers who were picking vegetables: "I'll scald them with boiling water and make them clean. Do you want some?"

Villager: "Leave it to the new leader."

Ye Fan felt embarrassed, after all, they were used by his family. He asked the villagers if they wanted some because he knew they wouldn't mind. "They didn't say they wanted any. Don't pull out all the vegetables."

"I know. Leave some for the new leader."

As she finished speaking, the new team leader came in and asked her if she needed help.

Ye Fan looked at the pots and pans in front of him, then at the villager pretending to be dumb, and could only ask himself: "You can't take these dishes away. I just scalded them with boiling water. Do you see?"

The new leader was not fat, but had a lot of flesh on his face. He looked very kind and said with a smile, "Give it to me, so I don't have to buy it."

"Then should I put it back?" Ye Fan asked.

The new team leader helped her put the pot back and moved the pots and pans back into the house. The new team leader looked at the clean tables, chairs, benches, and the clean floor and walls, and thought to himself that his house had never been so clean in his life.

"When do we set off?" the new leader asked, "Should I have someone take you to the dock?"

Ye Fan: "I'll leave when my lover comes back."

The new leader always felt like someone was missing, and he suddenly realized what was going on: "Where's Leader Geng?"

"Dabao wanted to say goodbye to his classmates. Geng Zhiye was afraid that he would forget because of playing, so he accompanied him personally." Ye Fan was speechless when talking about this. "He said goodbye to everyone one by one a few days ago, and he went again today. I don't know why he has so many things to do."

The new team leader smiled and said, "Dabao has been here for several years, so it's inevitable that she will be reluctant to leave." When someone asked, "Where's Accountant Ye?" the new team leader thought that the person was there to see her off, so he reminded Ye Fan to go out and take a look.

When Ye Fan arrived at the courtyard, Su Yuanhang and Su Duofu also arrived. One of them wanted to buy Ye Fan's fan, and the other wanted to buy Ye Fan's bicycle. They paid for it. Ye Fan had packed up the bicycle and fan and told the two to take them away.

Su Duofu asked the new team leader: "Shall we send Accountant Ye to the dock first and come back to get it?"

The new team leader smiled and said that it was okay to come and pick it up in the afternoon.

When Geng Zhiye dragged Dabao back, the villagers helped Ye Fan carry things, but Ye Fan himself had nothing in his hands and only a shoulder bag for food and drinks.

Dabao's eyes were red, and Ye Fan held his hand: "There is separation before there is reunion."

"The capital is so far away, when can we get together again?" Dabao just thought of this this morning. He thought he would never see him again, so he went to see his friend for the last time.

Ye Fan: "There will be a guesthouse on the island in the future. Mom will bring you here to stay for a few days during the winter and summer vacations every year?"

Dabao's eyes lit up, and he went to find the Shanxi village secretary. The secretary also came, and it can be said that all the villagers who had dealt with Ye Fan several times came. The secretary noticed that Dabao was looking at him, and said, "After two years, when we have saved money, we will build a guesthouse."

Ye Fan: "You can also ask your good friend to study hard and get into the same university as you."

Dabao went to look for his classmate again. His classmate hid behind his parents and elders. Dabao let go of his mother and ran over, grabbing his best friend: "Why are you hiding? Did you hear what my mother said?"

"You study so well, the school you can get into is definitely beyond my reach."

Dabao: "Can't you study hard? I go to bed at 8pm and you go to bed at 9pm. I get up at 6am and you get up at 5am. Why don't you study a few more hours than me?"

"Am I lazy? Am I stupid?"

Dabao: "I don't think you're stupid!"

"If you don't think I'm stupid, then I'm smart, right?"

Dabao was speechless.

Ye Fan came over and said, "Dabao, if you have anything to say, just write to me later. You can also send the information to your classmates."

Dabao's good friend was horrified. Could he understand Dabao's study materials? Accountant Ye really thought highly of him!

Dabao nodded: "Mom's idea is good." He patted his classmate's shoulder and said, "It's settled. I will write to you when I get to the capital."

His good friend couldn't help but say, "Geng Dabao, go to the capital and make new friends, just forget about me."

The boy's mother slapped him on the head: "You are useless!"

"You are the one who gave birth to a useless child." The boy ran forward, far away from his mother, and shouted confidently, "I don't even think you are not as capable as Accountant Ye, how dare you look down on me!"

The boy's mother frowned: "Who did you learn this from? It wasn't like this before."

Dabao immediately said, "It's not me! Brother Liao! I learned it from Sister Miaomiao."

It’s a pity that Brother Liao moved away.

During the days when Ye Fan was in the capital to take the college entrance examination, Liao's eldest brother graduated from junior high school, his youngest sister graduated from elementary school, and Liao Miaomiao was on vacation at home, so Zhuang Qiuyue asked her children to help her clean up.

On the day of leaving, Zhuang Qiuyue said goodbye to Ye Fan's family. Yu Wentao said that Ye Fan had gone back to the capital to pick up Geng Huihui, because Geng Huihui had always wanted to come over to play for a few days, but if she didn't come this year, she would have no chance in the future.

Liao Miaomiao went to Ye Fan's house during the winter vacation last year and saw that she was preparing for the exam, but Miaomiao didn't tell anyone. Zhuang Qiuyue couldn't imagine what Ye Fan would do at this time, so she believed Wen Tao's words without a doubt.

Zhuang Qiuyue's family and Wan Siqin's family set off on the same day and took the same bus, because their destination was Shanghai.

Liu Guihua had just finished moving the day before Ye Fan came back - she moved from the island to the city to be closer, and except for the bed and wardrobe that could not be transported, she took all the small belongings with her.

Because everyone had left and there was no way to confront each other, Dabao dared to say this.

Dabao's mother thought Dabao was a good child and had complete faith in him, so she complained that Zhuang Qiuyue did not know how to teach her child.

Yu Wentao chimed in: "Her younger sister is more sensible than her."

A few years later, all the fishermen near the family quarters knew that Liao Miaomiao was hospitalized because she attempted suicide. Ye Fan and Liu Guihua did not help Zhuang Qiuyue hide the truth, and everyone also knew that Zhuang Qiuyue changed her daughter's major, from a four-year agricultural university to a three-year normal school.

When the other villagers saw that Ye Fan did not stop her mother-in-law, they felt free to express their dissatisfaction with Zhuang Qiuyue.

It's not a big deal. Zhuang Qiuyue is just good at talking and polite to others. If you think about it carefully, no one has ever eaten a single candy from her house.

For example, Wan Siqin didn't interact with people much, but no one complained that she valued things. Liu Guihua was also warm and hospitable. When fishermen met Liu Guihua returning from the city, Liu Guihua would grab a handful of candy and give it to them, even if she was so distressed that she bled, she would not let anyone see it.

Zhuang Qiuyue said that she wanted to go to my house to eat, but when I really went to her house, no one except Xiaoshan and Xiaocao, Dabao and Erbao ate her food.

Zhuang Qiuyue gave Dabao candy, which was also exchanged by Dabao for milk candy. Erbao took two small breads, ate half himself, and gave the remaining one and a half to the three children of the Liao family.

Erbao has no idea how precious things are.

Dabao and Erbao have never complained about Zhuang Qiuyue being stingy. Over the years, Ye Fan has always believed that Zhuang Qiuyue was good in all aspects except for meddling in the children's affairs.

Ye Fan listened to everyone "attacking" Zhuang Qiuyue and unknowingly arrived at the dock. She stopped and looked at Geng Zhiye, asking, "Do you know these things?"

Geng Zhiye shook his head and put his things into the passenger ship.

Ye Fan saw Su Duofu coming up: "Don't come up."

"I'll take you to the bus station." Su Duofu said with a smile, "It's so tiring to walk to the bus stop with so many things."

Su Yuanhang nodded and said, "I'll take you to the station too. Accountant Ye, please don't be polite with us."

The villagers of Shanxi Village were about to ask how to get so many things to the train station, but when they heard what the two said, they immediately said, "Accountant Ye, ask them to take you there. If it weren't for your idea to start the food factory, Duofu wouldn't have the chance to be the factory director. If Yuanhang didn't have his own salary, he wouldn't have dared to stay at home for several months to prepare for the exam."

Su Duofu and Su Yuanhang nodded repeatedly.

The new commander who sent Geng Zhiye to the dock thought to himself that the villagers were so polite not because Geng Zhiye was an officer, nor because Ye Fan was the general's daughter.

Ye Fan smiled and said, "Then I'll listen to you."

The secretary of Shanxi was very happy: "Just listen to us. Accountant Ye, when you come back, we will definitely let you stay in the guesthouse we built ourselves."

The villager added: "We'll leave a few rooms for you. You can stay whenever you want."

Su Duofu: "Look at how stingy you are. When you make money in the future, build a small courtyard for Accountant Ye."

In order to make a lot of money in the future, everyone praised Su Duofu's idea.

The new captain felt a lot of pressure when he saw such a harmonious scene. It was not easy for him to be the garrison commander of Hengshan Island.

No matter how easy it is, after sending you thousands of miles away, we must eventually say goodbye.

The passenger ship sailed towards the other side, and Ye Fan and his family left.

The villagers' eyes were red because Ye Fan had run a food factory, paid off the foreign debt, and had savings. They dared to go to the health center to buy medicine when they were sick. Geng Dabao's good friend, deskmate, and classmate finally realized that it would be difficult to see him again in the future, and the smile on his face disappeared.

Dabao was very excited: "Mom, can you come during the winter vacation this year?"

Ye Fan: "Speaking of vacation, Mom was just about to ask you if you want to repeat a grade."

"Fail again?" Dabao was very unhappy.

Geng Zhiqin: "Textbooks in the capital are different from those here."

Dabao was shocked: "Isn't it a national unification?"

Su Yuanhang shook his head: "Even elementary school textbooks are not there. You will have a lot to learn when you go to the capital."

Erbao quickly asked: "What about me?"

Ye Fan: "You will only be in the fourth grade in the fall. What's the point of catching up on a few books?"

Erbao was very unhappy about being bullied by his mother, and squeezed into his grandmother's arms: "Let's ignore her."

If Yu Wentao hadn't been worried that she would get angry and cry, she would have really wanted to say, "People are ignoring you." Yu Wentao asked, "Huihui, have you brought the crabs you bought?"

Su Duofu: "Yes. It's here with me. If you like it, I'll have someone bring you a few boxes in the winter."

Yu Wentao didn't dare to make a decision on her own, and couldn't help but look at Ye Fan. Ye Fan said to Su Duofu: "I'll ask the deliveryman to give you a message when the time comes."

Su Yuanhang had been wanting to ask but had no chance: "Accountant Ye, how did you do on the exam?"

Ye Fan: "Not a big problem!"

Su Duofu also knew that Ye Fan was taking the college entrance examination. Hearing this, he exclaimed: "Peking University?! You are worthy of being Accountant Ye! I feel that if anyone on our island can go to Peking University, that person must be you!"

Why does this sound so comfortable? Ye Fan couldn't help laughing, "It's a pity that my major is a jack of all trades. After graduation, I can be assigned any liberal arts position. To be honest, it's not my favorite major."

Su Yuanhang: "You don't have to study only one major. Go to university and learn more about it. It's not too late to study another one if you like it."

Su Duofu couldn't help but ask: "Is there still a choice?"

Su Yuanhang nodded.

Su Duofu: "If both of them are good at studying, will they have more choices than others when it comes to allocation?"

"That's the theory." Su Yuanhang said.

Su Duofu said thoughtfully, "It seems that I have to let my daughter go to college. If she fails the first year, she will study for another year. If she still fails the third year, I will ask her to come back and sail." Su Yuanhang was speechless but wanted to laugh: "How stupid is your daughter? She has to take the exam three times after high school?"

Geng Zhiqin and Geng Huihui couldn't help but nod when they heard this.

Su Duofu thought, she is not as good at studying as you. But think about it carefully, if she is not good at English and math, she can memorize by rote. His daughter is not stupid, if she can't memorize it once, she will memorize it twice, if she can't memorize it twice, she will copy it, and learn the textbooks thoroughly. If she can't get into a key university, she can get into an ordinary university with an unpopular major.

Thinking of this, Su Duofu felt much more relaxed.

With their help, Geng Zhiye was quite strong, Ye Fan, Geng Zhiqin and Yu Wentao could all carry things, and Geng Huihui could look after Dabao and Erbao by herself, and could also carry small things, so the group arrived at the train station without much delay.

After Su Duofu and Su Yuanhang left, Yu Wentao couldn't help but say to Geng Zhiqin: "The people on the island are all very nice."

Geng Zhiqin: "Because my sister-in-law can help them make money. They used to fight each other a lot."

Dabao nodded: "They often fight over a little water or a little food. My classmates told me so."

Yu Wentao was surprised: "So fierce?"

Ye Fan put his things away and sat down opposite Yu Wentao. "The people on the island are tougher than on land. The seventy- and eighty-year-old villagers have fought with pirates."

"Pirates?" Yu Wentao felt unfamiliar with them, having only seen them in movies and scripts.

Ye Fan nodded: "I'm talking about pirates. But they are all foreign troops and merchants in disguise. It's because we used to have a vast territory and rich resources, but we didn't have guns."

Dabao blurted out: "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun!"

Ye Fan grabbed his little face and said, "You are wrong. The national system is very good and the regime is stable. It is not appropriate to use this sentence. The truth is only within the range of the cannon."

Dabao looks at his father, is that so?

Geng Zhiye nodded: "When we become strong, we will have friends all over the world. If we are still as weak as before, we will be enemies everywhere."

Dabao seemed to know what he would study in college. But when he thought about what his mother said, many majors are not available now because of a lack of teachers and equipment, he decided to listen to his mother and repeat the first year of junior high school to give the country an extra year to prepare.

Dabao leaned against his mother and saw the bucket in front of him, "Sister Huihui, you look like you are fleeing."

"Don't eat them when you get home!" Geng Huihui opened the porcelain basin on the bucket and saw another basin inside the bucket with a few sea fish in it. "Grandma, these fish won't go bad, will they?"

Yu Wentao: "I put a lot of salt on it, it won't work."

Geng Zhiqin asked: "How are we going to eat when we get home?"

Yu Wentao: "Wash away the salt with warm water, add more vegetables to the braised fish instead of salt, and add some vermicelli to absorb the soup, then the fish will not be salty. Besides, salted fish tastes good."

Geng Zhiqin felt that her mother was not as good at eating as her sister-in-law, so she asked Ye Fan if it was okay to do so.

Ye Fan: "Aren't there three fish? Try one first."

Geng Huihui was surprised: "Not for my grandma?"

If Ye Fan didn't know that the child was not intended to be given to her grandmother from the beginning, she would feel unhappy when she heard this. Ye Fan smiled and said, "Don't give her the fish. One fish is not enough for your grandmother and her whole family to eat."

Geng Huihui nodded: "My cousins ​​are all here. If my grandma and grandpa can eat even the head and tail of a fish, it means they are filial!"

Ye Fan laughed: "It's already early in the morning, do you want to find a place to sleep for a while?"

Yu Wentao: "Sleep on me."

Geng Huihui felt hot and found an empty seat on the other side of the aisle, so she pulled Geng Zhiqin over, and they occupied an entire row, looking like they were at home. When they saw the conductor coming, they immediately stood up. Geng Zhiye told them to go to sleep and he would call them when the train stopped and someone got on.

With Geng Zhiye's words, the two felt at ease. They slept for a few hours during the day and a few hours at night, and were almost not tired when they got off the bus the next afternoon.

Yu Wentao, Dabao and Erbao also looked good. Dabao slept in his father's arms all night, and Erbao slept on his mother's lap all night.

Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye looked at the old and young carrying their bags and running to the bus stop and smiled bitterly at each other. Geng Zhiye held Ye Fan's hand and said, "Let them do the laundry and cooking when we get home, and we'll catch up on some sleep."

"It's OK if there's someone cleaning the house. If my second sister-in-law hadn't been home, and no one had lived here for so long, we would have been busy."

Geng Zhiye: "You take a rest, I'll clean up."

Ye Fan smiled and nodded: "The car is here, let's get in first."

Not long after getting on the bus, Ye Fan fell asleep leaning against Geng Zhiye. She subconsciously knew that she didn't have to worry about her child running away or being abducted on the bus, and she couldn't hold on once she relaxed.

Geng Zhiqin and Geng Huihui were chatting quietly in front of Geng Zhiye. Dabao and Erbao were talking animatedly behind them, pointing at the capital's buildings. Hundreds of flies were buzzing around Geng Zhiye's ears. Geng Zhiye was annoyed and said, "Let's talk about it when we get home."

Dabao wanted to say, I didn't make a loud noise, but he looked ahead and saw that his mother was asleep. He couldn't help but mutter, "Can't you talk to her calmly?"

Geng Zhiye turned around and glared at him. Dabao was so scared that he covered his mouth and whispered, "You can tell my mom is asleep. I'm not ignorant."

Geng Zhiye: "Why do you think your mother is so sleepy?"

Dabao: "Mom didn't sleep at night? Couldn't Mom sleep on the train?"

"Guess why I didn't sleep last night?"

Dabao shook his head.

"Because I fell asleep and my hands loosened, you will fall to the ground!" Geng Zhiye said unhappily.

Dabao turned his head to look at Erbao and said, "Mom is taking care of you."

Erbao pursed his lips and shook his head, saying, "Don't talk."

There was no conversation along the way. Dabao was so pent up that he ran home with his bag after getting off the car. When he tried to unlock the door, it opened with a slight touch. Dabao was so shocked that he shouted behind him, "Dad, there's a thief in grandma's house."

Yu Wentao was so scared that she ran over with her bags in her hands, just as she was fleeing. When she reached the door, she happened to run into Geng Benben running out of the house. The six of them looked at each other and realized that they had made a mistake. Geng Benben realized it later: "Grandma? You're back? It's just you and Dabao?"

Geng Huihui ran over: "There are still us. Dabao, next time you look carefully before calling for help!"

Dabao felt guilty and said weakly, "I didn't know Benben was at home."

Geng Benben didn't want to come to his grandmother's house at first. Last weekend, his mother went to his grandmother's house for a rest and said that it was time for her to come back, so she came over to clean up the house.

Geng Benben and his mother returned to his grandmother's house and found that although there was no one at home, there was also an advantage. He bought a big watermelon on the roadside for a few cents, cut it in half, and ate half in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. There was also a fan at his grandmother's house, and he could spread a mat on the ground and sleep from morning to afternoon and no one bothered him.

Geng Benben told his grandmother that he would wait for his sister and aunt at home, and to pay attention to his sister's admission letter - Geng Huihui's application was written with the address of the Geng family's old house.

Regarding the notice, Geng Benben's grandmother couldn't refuse, so she brought him some food, asked him to heat it up in the rice cooker at noon, and then sent him to the bus.

Geng Benben is fourteen years old this year and can do many things by himself. He was dissatisfied with the slow heating of the rice in the rice cooker, so he lit the stove. Geng Benben opened the two doors and asked his grandmother if she wanted some water, and he boiled some water.

He went to the main room, put away the mats on the floor, and pointed at the big watermelon in the corner: "I bought it, grandma, do you want to eat it?"

Geng Huihui saw an enamel jar on the ground, which seemed to be filled with soda: "Life is pretty carefree."

"Then when—" Geng Benben saw his uncle and aunt come in, and immediately stopped talking nonsense. He went out to take the things his aunt was carrying, and saw the bucket in his uncle's hand, "Why are you still taking the bucket and basin? They are not worth anything."

Geng Huihui ran over and took away the porcelain basin covering the bucket. Geng Benben opened his eyes wide, and swallowed what he wanted to say. He went back to the room and grabbed a handful of change that he still had on the table. "Sister, I'm going to grandma's house to get some clothes. Tell grandma I'm not going back tonight."

Geng Zhiye: “Stop!”

Geng Benben wanted to cry: "Uncle, I——"

"Give your grandma some." Geng Zhiye took out the basin from the bucket and asked Geng Huihui to find a small basket. Geng Zhiye picked out the crabs that were still moving and put them in.

Geng Benben squatted aside and silently recited. When he reached "twelve", he called a halt and said, "There are so many people at my grandma's house, which is just right."

The river crabs that the villagers raised in the ponds and ditches were not as big as the sea crabs. Twelve of them could not even cover the grates in the steel pot for steaming buns. Geng Zhiye added six more, and Geng Benben picked up the basket: "That's enough!"

Geng Zhiye asked Geng Huihui to go with him.

Since Geng Benben was ventilating every room at home, Ye Fan washed his face and wiped his neck and went back to his room to continue sleeping. He slept until around seven o'clock. The crabs and rice were steamed, and the braised fish stew was ready.

The next day, Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye took Dabao and Erbao to Ye's house.

Ye Fan opened the refrigerator to get a drink and saw the crabs: "You didn't eat it?"

Tao Chunlan: "Eat half and save the other half for dinner. I called your brother and sister-in-law. They will be back for dinner tonight."

"It's not a good thing." Ye Fan couldn't help but say, "If you like it, I'll go back to the countryside to have a look."

Chen Xiaohui said: "There are none in the countryside. If there were, river crabs in the market would not be priced the same as fish."

"People in the countryside may not know that river crabs can be sold for money." Ye Fan's eyes lit up as he said this. "My mother-in-law should go back to her parents' home. I'll send her there and ask about it later."

When Chen Xiaohui heard that it was a no-brainer, she skipped the matter and asked, "Have you received the notice?"

Ye Fan shook his head.

Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but say, "Will you be rejected? You shouldn't have applied for Peking University the first time you took the college entrance examination."

Tao Chunlan nodded: "You have to work and take care of your two children, so how can you have time to review? And you chose a popular major. You are so careless! Was it your mother-in-law's idea?"

Chen Xiaohui: "Needless to say. She has always disliked me. I did better than Xiaoqin in the exam, and she is unhappy. She must have asked Ye Fan to apply to Beijing University!"

Geng Zhiye wanted to say something but didn't want to talk to her, so he just pretended not to hear her.

After lunch, at around four or five o'clock, Geng Zhiye said that the clothes had not been washed and the house had not been cleaned up, so he asked Ye Fan and the two children to go back.

When they got to Gengjia Hutong, Geng Zhiye said, "Your mother is going to become the second Chen Xiaohui!"

"Mom is too concerned and confused." Ye Fan did not refute what her mother and Chen Xiaohui said in the morning. It would not be too late to explain after receiving the notice.

Three days later, the postman appeared in the alley and called out to the Geng family’s door: “Aunt Yu!”

A neighbor heard the postman's voice and came out to ask if there was any letter for them. The postman said, "Wait a minute!"

"Is your Aunt Yu's letter important?"

The postman took out two admission letters. The neighbor was puzzled at first, then realized something and ran over, shouting at the top of his voice: "Yu Wentao, come out quickly!"

Other neighbors were curious when they heard the noise and came out to ask what happened. The neighbor shouted, "Fanfan and Huihui got into college!"

Ye Fan and Geng Huihui could hide the fact that they were taking the college entrance examination from Tao Chunlan, who lived a few miles away from Geng's home, but they could not hide it from their neighbors - their neighbors might pass by the examination room while taking a walk, buying groceries, or going to work, and it would be difficult for them not to see them.

When Ye Fan and Geng Huihui came out, the neighbor urged them to open the letter quickly. Seeing that it was from Beijing University, the neighbor ignored his letter and asked Geng Benben, "Do you have firecrackers at home?"

Geng Benben was confused when asked. The neighbor thought there were no firecrackers, so he asked his son to take out the leftover firecrackers from the Chinese New Year.

Other neighbors also went to the house to get firecrackers, which crackled for a long time. Then everyone in the neighborhood knew that the Geng family had two college students, and Ye Fanfan was admitted to Peking University.

Neighbors, both adults and children, crowded in front of Geng's house, asking Ye Fan how he did in the exam, not caring about the hot summer sun.

Ye Fan was confused, and Geng Zhiye wondered why the ceremony was so much bigger than when he was admitted to the military academy. Is this the treatment at the country's top university?

Geng Zhiye said, "Let's talk inside? It's quite hot outside."

The neighbor saw Ye Fan's face flushed and asked her to go in. Geng Huihui was pushed aside. Geng Huihui looked at the notice in her hand and complained to her aunt: "I should have written my grandma's address earlier."

Geng Zhiqin took the admission letter and said, "Two years ago, there were several college students in our area. Even if your aunt wasn't one of them, your admission letter wouldn't be a big deal. Besides, your aunt is an outsider, right? Her school provides a lot of subsidies, how can it be at your expense?"

"Yes. My aunt is generous. She is reluctant to put the money she earns today until tomorrow." Geng Huihui was very happy.

After the neighbor finally left, Geng Huihui asked, "Aunt, are you going to buy some meat?"

Ye Fan: "Pork in the city requires a ticket."

Geng Huihui forgot: "But the fish is not as fresh as the ones on the island."

"I'm going to my mother's house tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow I'll send your grandmother back to the village to stay for a few days. You and your aunt will come with me then. We'll go to the countryside to buy it." Ye Fan asked Geng Zhiye, "When will you start school?"

Geng Zhiye: "I'll go to school around August 20th. But I seem to have forgotten to tell my mother-in-law that she's not coming back for vacation this time?"

The couple thought about it carefully, and realized that Ye Fan had indeed not told them about his visit to Ye's house a few days ago. Tao Chunlan probably thought he was on vacation and didn't ask.

Dabao and Erbao saw that their parents looked unhappy and decided to stay at home with their grandmother the next day. In fact, they didn’t want to go to Ye’s house with their parents to be scolded.

The next day was also a coincidence. It was the weekend, and the elusive Ye Jin was at home, as was Li Mingyue. Geng Zhiye asked Ye Fan to take out the notice first to make his mother-in-law and her family happy.

Chen Xiaohui was stunned when she heard that Ye Fan was admitted to Beijing University, but no one noticed that she looked strange. Ye Fan was surrounded by his brother and sister-in-law, Tao Chunlan's attention was on the admission letter, and Geng Zhiye was thinking about how to confess later.

No one paid any attention to Jing Jing. Jing Jing went to look for her aunt. Chen Xiaohui came to her senses and took Jing Jing's hand to play with her. She actually lowered her head to hide her discomfort and asked, "What major?"

Ye Fan: "It's just an ordinary major, Chinese Language and Literature."

It is one of the top majors in Beijing University. All the teachers are famous people before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is not ordinary. Chen Xiaohui is tired. It can't be compared. It really can't be compared.

Chen Xiaohui didn't dare to look up, fearing that her smile would be uglier than her cry: "It's more popular than my major."

Tao Chunlan couldn't help but say, "You finally admit that your major is not popular? But it's still more popular than archaeology. Fortunately, you didn't major in archaeology. If you don't want to work in a government agency after graduation, you can still be a history teacher."

Tao Chunlan had said this before, and Chen Xiaohui ignored her because she thought she didn't understand her ambitions and ideals. Now when she heard this, she felt that Tao Chunlan thought she was not as sensible as Ye Fan.

But Ye Fan's school is better than hers, and Ye Fan is smarter than her. Compared with these, it doesn't matter even if she really dislikes her for being ignorant.

Chen Xiaohui felt uncomfortable, but she wasn't afraid that Ye Fan would notice: "You love business so much, I thought you wouldn't choose this major."

Ye Fan: "Peking University doesn't offer economics. It used to, but it was discontinued for more than ten years. In the past ten years, it has been a planned economy, so the economics teachers are almost returning all the knowledge they knew to the school."

Speaking of majors, Geng Zhiye wanted to complain a long time ago: "She also wants to apply for law. Ye Fanfan, are you planning to continue to exploit loopholes in laws and regulations? Fortunately, you didn't open it!"

(End of this chapter)