Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Yu Wentao was happy to see the grandchildren she raised being annoyed by the Chu family's kissing her, so she went back to the kitchen and told Geng Zhiqin to get out.

Geng Zhiqin came out angrily.

Geng Huihui couldn't help but ask: "Did you have a fight with grandma?"

Geng Zhiqin said unhappily: "I'm free."

Geng Huihui nodded and said, I see you are quite free.

Geng Zhiqin was speechless because of her attitude, so he went to bother Dabao again.

When Dabao heard that his cousin came back, he immediately came out of the bedroom. When he reached the door, he almost bumped into his aunt and was frightened by her. Dabao looked at his aunt speechlessly and asked, "Are you very free?"

Geng Zhiqin touched his nose, turned around and asked, "Huihui, do your grandparents still work on Sundays?"

Geng Huihui subconsciously said, "I'm not working."

"Then why don't I have time to deal with you two?" Geng Zhiqin signaled to his nephew with his eyes.

Geng Zhiye came out of the main room: "I want to know, too."

Geng Huihui saw her uncle's serious expression, as if he was going to ask her grandparents for an explanation, so she hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "It's not that she's ignoring us on purpose. A few days ago, my aunt bought a house near my cousin's workplace, and it seems that my cousin's fiancée is getting married because of this. My grandparents took my cousin, as well as my uncle and aunt, to have dinner with the girl's family. My uncle and aunt were busy with the decoration." She glanced towards the southeast, "That's the house. There are only a few of us kids at home. My cousin asked me what I wanted for lunch, and I didn't want to serve him, so I said grandma cooked for us."

Geng Zhiye frowned: "Your uncle won't be home at noon?"

Geng Huihui: "They should be on their way home now. But since my grandma and grandpa won't be back at noon, my uncle and aunt must not have bought many vegetables in the morning, so there's nothing delicious."

Geng Benben nodded and asked, "What are we having for lunch?"

Yu Wentao poked her head out of the kitchen: "Are you hungry?"

There were a lot of people on the bus on Sunday. The brother and sister didn’t want to squeeze in, so they walked there and walked back. They had already digested the several kilometers of walking back and forth, so they were definitely hungry.

Ye Fan: "There are peaches in the room."

Geng Benben went into the house to get four, washed and wiped them in the kitchen, gave one to each of his sister and brother, and asked, "Where's Erbao?"

Ye Fan looked across the kitchen. Geng Benben went to Erbao's room and asked, "Little Erbao, what are you doing?"

Erbao is learning painting at the Children's Palace. He has recently become obsessed with painting and draws whatever he thinks of, like a little artist.

Ye Fan didn't want Erbao to lose patience with painting because of the constant interruptions from her family, so she didn't allow her family to disturb her. Otherwise, Dabao wouldn't be playing checkers with her alone in the bedroom.

Seeing that the little girl was very serious, Geng Benben put the peach on the table and left, closing the door.

Outside, Geng Benben saw his sister eating peaches with big mouthfuls: "Is it sweet?"

Ye Fan was puzzled: "Didn't you two eat before?"

In the morning, Ye Fan bought peaches and went to the stall with Zhang Xiaoming. I don’t know if the children ate the peaches. At that time, Geng Benben and Geng Huihui had just finished breakfast and had no appetite, so they didn’t touch the peaches.

When Geng Benben arrived at Chu's house, he felt thirsty and planned to wash a peach to taste. His grandmother happened to be going out. Geng Benben put the peach on the coffee table and sent his grandmother out. When he came back, the peach had been put away by his aunt.

Geng Benben was too embarrassed to ask his aunt for peaches, so he poured himself a glass of water. Later, he didn't want to eat anymore. Geng Benben told him about these things, and Geng Zhiye frowned: "When did your aunt become so good at living?"

Geng Benben shrugged indifferently to indicate that he didn't know.

Ye Fan: "Maybe because she just had breakfast, her aunt didn't feel hungry so she put the peaches away first."

Geng Huihui muttered, "Who knows what she was thinking. I said I didn't want to buy it but you forced me to." She muttered softly, "You might as well give me the money."

Ye Fan was speechless but wanted to laugh: "Going to your grandma's house, do you want to go empty-handed?"

Geng Huihui: "My grandma is very sensible and won't care about such a small matter."

Ye Fan immediately smelled tea: "You can keep this to fool your mother. They are busy with research and organizing materials every day and don't have time to think about these things. They think your grandmother is your grandmother before your mother got married."

Geng Huihui couldn't refute it, so she curled her lips and changed the subject: "Grandma, how many dishes do you have for lunch?"

"How many dishes do you want?"

Yu Wentao's voice came from the kitchen. Geng Huihui moved to the kitchen door and saw cucumbers, tomatoes and edamame on the table. She exclaimed: "Have the cucumbers and tomatoes grown?"

Ye Fan moved to the other side of the kitchen door and said, "It's grown in the village."

Geng Huihui looked towards her own vegetable garden and asked: "Why are the cucumbers planted by grandma just blooming?"

Ye Fan: "They planted early, and because they were worried about freezing, they covered the cucumbers with straw mats. When we make enough money to buy plastic film this year, we can plant them a few days earlier, and maybe we can have cucumbers in early May."

Geng Huihui couldn't help but ask: "Why plant so early?"

Ye Fan: "Grow them early and sell them early. They can be sold for 50 cents a pound now, 20 or 30 cents in half a month, and by the end of June, they can be sold for 1 cent a pound, so you can pick whatever you want."

Geng Huihui suddenly realized: "So that's how it is." Then she couldn't help but say, "I didn't expect there is so much knowledge in farming."

Ye Fan: "If you want to have high yields and make money, you have to use your brain. Otherwise, there is no need to set up an agricultural university."

Geng Huihui nodded in agreement.

Ye Fan heard the door open, turned around and saw Er Bao coming out with a peach. Ye Fan waved, and Er Bao leaned against his mother to eat the peach. Ye Fan asked, "Are you tired of drawing?"

Erbao shook his head, took a bite of the peach and swallowed it, then said, "Mom, I like this crispy peach."

Ye Fan patted her little head: "Then mom will buy some more tomorrow. Soft peaches are delicious too. In a few years, you and your brother will be older and you won't need mom to hold you on the train. Mom will take you to the peach producing area to eat peaches."

Geng Benben and Geng Huihui looked at Ye Fan at the same time, as if asking, what about us?

Ye Fan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "Can we all go?"

The brother and sister were very happy. Geng Huihui saw her grandmother had finished cleaning the dishes and said, "Grandma, come out and I'll cook."

"Have some peaches." Huihui came back once a week. Yu Wentao felt sorry for her hard work in studying and rarely let her cook or wash dishes.

Geng Huihui entered the kitchen: "I'm done eating. Grandma, your cooking isn't as good as mine."

Yu Wentao stepped aside and saw Geng Huihui put the cooking pot on the stove, poured hot water into it, and then blanched the beans. She couldn't help but say, "It's not too troublesome."

"If you don't blanch it, it will have a bean smell." Geng Huihui likes to blanch the food before stir-frying, but Yu Wentao finds it troublesome and puts it directly into the wok. Even though she thinks Huihui's cooking is delicious, she doesn't want to spend time blanching the food.

Geng Huihui cut some more mustard tuber and made fried mustard tuber with edamame and eggs. After the dish was cooked, she covered it with a pot. Geng Huihui boiled some Chinese sausage in hot water, sliced ​​the sausage and fried it with cucumber. Finally, she fried tomato with loofah.

After the three dishes were ready, Yu Wentao took the rice cooker to the kitchen, and Ye Fan asked Benben and Dabao to wash their hands.

Geng Zhiye and his sister came out from outside.

After dinner, Geng Zhiqin cleaned up the kitchen. Yu Wentao asked Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye to go and have a rest while she looked after the children.

Ye Fan had just finished her meal and didn't want to lie down. Seeing her mother-in-law taking the children out, she didn't have to worry about her mother-in-law hearing her, so she asked Geng Zhiye, "Did you ask Xiao Qin?"

Geng Zhiye woke up early today and felt a little sleepy. He was slow to respond: "What?"

"Second Spring. I saw you two coming in from outside before dinner. Weren't you chatting with the old man outside?"

Geng Zhiye rubbed his eyes and said, "Yes. But Xiaoqin didn't ask directly, she just said that she is not yet 60 years old. If she lives to 80, she will be a widow for more than 20 years. It's a normal sentence, right? I don't know how to stimulate her, she is so angry."

Ye Fan: "Just these few sentences?"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "Xiao Qin also sounded innocent when she talked about this. I thought that she had just taken care of my father and didn't want to take care of an old man again, so I didn't think of looking for another one."

Ye Fan: "That's possible. Although your dad doesn't need her to wipe his shit or urine, he has to go to the hospital for checkups frequently. I can't stand it if it were me."

Geng Zhiye laughed: "Can you say that in front of me?"

Ye Fan nodded: "So take care of yourself. If you become paralyzed in bed, I will divorce you."

Geng Zhiye stood up.

Ye Fan was surprised: "Angry!"

"I'm sleepy." Geng Zhiye pulled her up, "Let's talk on the bed."

Ye Fan: "What are you talking about? I told you to just let it go. You two are the ones worrying about nothing. Earlier, my eldest sister-in-law came back from her relatives' house and wanted to introduce a date to Xiaoqin. She's a relative of a relative, and she knows everything about him. Xiaoqin thinks my eldest sister-in-law is too controlling. My daughter asked me to go on a blind date - if it wasn't her biological child, Aunt Yu would skin her with a kitchen knife."

Geng Zhiye took off his shoes and nodded: "You are right."

Ye Fan: "Looking for a life partner is not like looking for a long-term meal ticket, nor does it mean you have to get married."

Geng Zhiye almost fell off the bed: "What did you say?"

Ye Fan: "When they are happy, they stay together. When they are unhappy, they separate. Young people can date without getting married, but old people can't?"

Geng Zhiye was speechless, and after a long while he managed to say, "He is being a hooligan."

Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him: "Old antique!"

Geng Zhiye stared at her: "Ye Fanfan, tell me the truth, if it wasn't for the situation back then, would you have wanted to do this?"

"Just because I said this means I have thought about it?" Ye Fan rolled his eyes. "I am a reasonable person who thinks about others."

Geng Zhiye said unhappily, "Yes, you think of things that others can't think of."

"Don't be so sarcastic." Ye Fan pushed him and said, "Go sleep on the Luohan bed. You are not welcome here."

Geng Zhiye leaned towards her and said, "Don't even think about it in this life."

"You are sick too." Ye Fan turned over with her back to him, and Geng Zhiye turned her over. "Don't you have the face to face me?"

Ye Fanqi laughed: "I'm afraid of you? Believe it or not, I will go to your father-in-law right now and tell him that you bullied me, and we can get divorced tomorrow?"

Military marriages protect soldiers. A divorce can only be granted if the soldier says so. Otherwise, the non-military party can only sue and be granted a divorce by the court. If the other party is Ye Fan, there is no need to go through so much trouble. Ye's father can talk to Geng Zhiye's leader and it will only take a few minutes.

"You're using my father-in-law to pressure me again." Geng Zhiye couldn't help but feel wronged. "Why hasn't my father-in-law retired yet?"

Ye Fan was speechless: "He can work until he is 70 years old. He is only 68 this year."

"Two more years." Geng Zhiye nodded. "People are gone, and the tea is cold. I will settle accounts with you in two years."

Ye Fan wanted to laugh again: "Are you trying to comfort yourself? When a person leaves, the tea gets cold and the 'leaving' is death, just like your father."

Geng Zhiye couldn't help but sigh: "Can you stop talking about my dad all the time? He is your father-in-law."

"I haven't heard you call me dad either. Every time you talk to me you always call me father-in-law. How many times have you said 'your dad and your mom'?" Ye Fan pushed him away. "You raised your first child until he was four, and your second child until he was two. My dad and my mom have done you a great service."

Geng Zhiye came up again, "I didn't say anything at your house. We went out together after we got engaged, and I sent you home at four o'clock, but your mother thought it was too late. It's as if I wanted to kidnap you. And last weekend, you said that Dabao and Erbao were going to the Children's Palace to study, and she said that Dabao and Erbao didn't want to go to their grandmother's house. It's totally unreasonable!"

Ye Fan also felt that her mother was a little unbearable.

Geng Zhiye didn't come back last weekend, but he came back the Saturday before last. The next weekend, he went to the village with Zhang Xiaoming. After selling vegetables for a while, Ye Fan asked Zhang Xiaoming to drive south to the entrance of her mother's alley.

Taking into consideration that Chen Xiaohui was usually not at home and it would be difficult for her mother to buy groceries for the child alone, Ye Fan bought several kilograms of each vegetable and twenty eggs to send to her mother.

Tao Chunlan asked Ye Fan when the tickets would be sold out. Ye Fan said around 11 o'clock. Tao Chunlan asked Ye Fan to bring Dabao and Erbao over. Ye Fan said they went to the Children's Palace.

When Ye Fan and Zhang Xiaoming got home, her mother and Chen Xiaohui came with Liang Liang, saying that they missed Dabao and Erbao and wanted to come and see them.

Geng Zhiye was also at home that day, and Tao Chunlan nagged him for not bringing Dabao and Erbao to Ye's house.

Geng Zhiye didn't dare to anger his mother-in-law, so he said, "Next time, I will definitely go."

The next time is today. Geng Zhiye accompanied Dabao and Erbao to the Children's Palace. They came out of the Children's Palace at 11 o'clock, so they had enough time to go to grandma's house. But Geng Zhiye pretended that nothing had happened and took the children back directly.

Ye Fan: "If you bring Dabao and Erbao over today, won't she stop making trouble?"

Geng Zhiye closed his eyes and said, "Go to sleep. It will be dark if you don't."

Ye Fan glanced at him helplessly.

One got up early and the other had been busy for a long time. They were both very tired, so they fell asleep as soon as they calmed down for a while.

At two o'clock, Yu Wentao asked Dabao to go to the main room.

Dabao jumped onto the bed, and Geng Zhiye sat up out of instinct. Dabao was startled: "He's pretending to be dead!"

"Shut up!" Geng Zhiye saw that the person in front of him was his own son and relaxed. "What?"

Dabao: "Grandma asked me to wake you up. Mom, I saw your eyes move, so get up when you wake up."

Ye Fan stretched out his hand, and Dabao pulled his mother up: "You really are my ancestor."

Geng Zhiye was amused by his helpless look: "What do you mean?"

"My ancestors are not as troublesome as my mother. Isn't my mother the ancestor?" Dabao jumped off the bed, "Hurry up."

Ye Fan: "Why are you getting up?"

"Let's go to the park." Dabao ran to his bedroom, took out two shoes with four wheels, a piece of iron and several ropes, and waited for his parents in the yard.

Ye Fan couldn't help but frown when he saw this simple pair of skates: "Dabao, aren't these shoes ugly?"

Dabao: "Buy me a nice pair."

The good-looking ones have to go abroad, and neither the Ye family nor the Geng family has overseas connections. "Mom doesn't know where to buy them."

"Then you still dislike it?" Dabao sat on the ground and put on his clothes, then reached out, "Dad, pull me up."

Ye Fan stepped forward and said, "The road outside is uneven, and there are cars on the side of the road."

Dabao: "Then I'll take off my shoes and put them on in the park. Can you hold them for me?"

Ye Fan nodded.

Dabao took off his skates and handed them to his mother: "These shoes are so heavy."

"Why did you ask your grandma to buy it?" Ye Fan looked around. His mother-in-law should have gone out. "Your grandma's pension will be squandered by you sooner or later."

Dabao: "I didn't try to coax grandma. Grandma said that if others have it, Dabao should have it too."

Ye Fan was too lazy to scold him and asked Geng Zhiye to get a kettle. Geng Zhiye slung his bag over his shoulder and said to Ye Fan, "Let's go directly to school from the park later."

Ye Fan: "Then wash the remaining peaches."

Dabao nodded: "Dad, take it. Mom will buy more tomorrow."

Geng Zhiye washed half of the clothes, seven or eight, stuffed them into his bag, and then went to the park with his wife and children.

When the family of three arrived at the entrance of the alley, they saw Erbao, Huihui and others approaching the park. Someone turned around and saw them, and waited for them there.

When Ye Fan came over, Erbao teased, "Mom, it's not dark yet, why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "I was dreaming. The dream was full of Erbao, sometimes crying, sometimes making a fuss, sometimes wanting to eat, sometimes wanting to pee."

Erbao's face turned red with anger: "Don't talk nonsense!"

"I'm not kidding. You were like this before you were two years old." Ye Fan said seriously, "Do you remember what you were like before you were two years old?"

Erbao doesn’t remember: “Brother, was I this noisy when I was a kid?”

Dabao: "Your two years ago is my four years ago. Do you think I will remember it?"

Erbao turned to her mother and said, "Are you just relying on the fact that we don't remember?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Yes."

Erbao was so angry that he didn't want to talk to her: "Dad, come here!"

Geng Zhiye went over and asked: "Want to change your mother?"

Erbao's pupils trembled. Didn't Dad wake up? Erbao hurriedly looked for his mother: "Mom, Dad wants to change his wife!"

Geng Zhiye paused for a moment and said, "Geng Erbao!"

Erbao let go of his father and ran forward.

There was a bicycle on the side of the road. Geng Zhiye was afraid that the bicycle would hit her so she didn't dare to chase it. She asked Dabao to catch up and watch Erbao to make sure he didn't run around.

Dabao said helplessly: "Why scare her?"

Ye Fan: "When was it not your sister who first bullied us?"

The eldest child scratched his head, and so did the second child. They usually didn’t talk much, but when they opened their mouths, they either criticized their dad or ridiculed their mom. No one knew who they learned this from.

Dabao sighed and trotted after him.

Yu Wentao laughed: "Look how worried he is."

Ye Fan: "She's only eleven and a half years old, but she acts like she's grown up every day." Then he asked her mother-in-law why she wanted to go to the park.

Yu Wentao glanced at the shoes in Ye Fan's hand, "Dabao wants to go to the park to practice this. Erbao said that her painting teacher asked her to go out more often, and Huihui and Benben think that being at home is boring."

Ye Fan asked Geng Zhiqin when he would go to school.

Geng Zhiqin: "Let's take a bus there after dinner at 7 o'clock tomorrow. By the way, sister-in-law, isn't Xiao Ming afraid to go to the countryside alone before dawn?"

Ye Fan: "He went to the village after dinner at six o'clock, and arrived at the village at about six forty. He stayed at my uncle's house for one night and came with my uncle in the morning. I agreed with my uncle that it would be one dollar a day, including meals, and asked my aunt to keep a note of it."

Geng Zhiqin asked, "So you or Third Brother were free to accompany him, so he went there early in the morning like today?"

Ye Fan nodded: "He was reluctant to part with this dollar at first, because it would be 20 to 30 dollars a month. I said we should pay for it, and Uncle Zhang was also worried about hooligans robbing/robbery, so he told him to listen to me."

"It's better this way, it's safer." Geng Zhiqin thought to himself, my sister-in-law is really thoughtful.

In her previous life, Ye Fan left home at the age of sixteen to live in a boarding high school, then went to another province to attend university, and then went to a first-tier city to work hard. If she was not careful and cautious, she would have been eaten up by others without leaving even a bone.

Geng Zhiqin added: "We were waiting for you in the alley just now, and we heard Aunt Zhang telling someone that Zhang Xiaojun's wedding was set, on National Day."

Yu Wentao sneered.

Geng Huihui, who was walking in front of her, couldn't help but turn around and said, "Grandma, is it a hindrance for someone else to get married?"

Yu Wentao: "The eleventh day is exactly the fourth day of the ninth month. I have checked the almanac and it is not auspicious to get married. The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family knows what the Zhang family is like, but she still deliberately wants to make a three-way transfer. She is so ignorant. It is enough for the Zhang family to bear. Zhang Xiaoming's mother is so happy that she is like marrying a fairy. Your third aunt married your third uncle, and I am not as proud as her."

Ye Fan: "You mean National Day is not a good day?"

Yu Wentao was anxious: "Don't put a label on me. The whole country celebrates National Day, so it must be good! But good doesn't mean it's suitable for marriage. We are not afraid that the couple's small bodies can't bear it."

Ye Fanxin said, here comes another superstitious person.

Geng Zhiye also asked her to ask Zhang Xiaoming to ask Aunt Zhang when she would find a partner for Zhang Xiaoming. The younger brother's child cannot be a bystander when the older brother is not married yet.

Yu Wentao was worried at first about Ye Fan's partnership with others, but three months later, the accounts were clear and Zhang Xiaoming knew even less than Ye Fan how much money he had earned. Yu Wentao was very satisfied with him.

Yu Wentao also knew that the Zhang family had spent all their money on cars. The money Zhang Xiaojun used for his wedding was all earned by Zhang Xiaoming. Zhang Xiaoming was able to make money because her daughter-in-law was smart. Rounding it off, Zhang Xiaojun was spending his daughter-in-law's money.

Thinking of this, Yu Wentao felt unhappy and decided to go back and ask Aunt Zhang about it.

In the evening, Geng Zhiqin and Geng Huihui cooked. Ye Fan put a bath cover in Dabao's room and let Dabao take a bath first. The room was warm, and Ye Fan got a basin of hot water for Erbao to take a bath. Geng Benben was catching up on his homework in Erbao's room. Yu Wentao had nothing to do for the time being, so she went out to chat with others and talked about Zhang Xiaoming.

Zhang Xiaoming had never had a proper job before and his family didn’t have a house. People in this alley sympathized with him, but they were not kind enough to introduce him to a date.

Now they heard that the Zhang family could afford the "three turns and one ring", and guessed that Zhang Xiaoming had made money. When several aunts and uncles heard Yu Wentao asking Zhang Xiaoming when he would get married, they told Aunt Zhang that one of their relatives was single and they would ask Xiaoming to meet one later.

Yu Wentao didn't expect it to be so smooth and was quite happy. However, they talked more and more about other things, even including arrangements for Zhang Xiaoming to have children in the future, and what schools the children would go to and what partners they would find. Yu Wentao couldn't stand it anymore and came back to complain to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan had just dressed Erbao. Yu Wentao came in and put away the bath cover, saying, "Those people didn't even talk about finding a partner for Xiaoming before, but now they've even decided where Xiaoming should live."

Ye Fan: "Didn't you take the opportunity to say you would buy a house for Zhang Xiaoming?"

Yu Wentao shook her head: "It's no use talking about it. The Zhang family - don't think that Old Zhang is open-minded just because he asked Xiao Ming to do business with you. His family had no other choice, and they thought it was not shameful to do business with you, so they let Xiao Ming set up the stall. In fact, they are not as good as me in their bones. If the three brothers of the Zhang family want to move, it will be the second and third brothers who move, and the old house will belong to the eldest brother."

Geng Dabao was sitting in the yard with a towel on his head, looking at the stars. Hearing this, he turned around and asked, "Are they just those two houses?"

Yu Wentao couldn't help laughing when she saw her grandson's disgusted expression: "Just those two houses."

"If I were Zhang Xiaoming, I would say leave it to little brother Zhang." Dabao got up to wipe his sister's head. When he felt that the water was no longer dripping, he asked his mother to touch it.

Ye Fan took the towel and said, "Wipe it for a while longer." He glanced at his son and said, "Little brother Zhang didn't provoke you. I heard from Xiao Ming that if it wasn't for his little brother asking for it, the car wouldn't have been bought."

Dabao muttered: "Then leave it to Zhang Xiaojun."

No one knows a son better than his father. It is impossible for Uncle Zhang not to know what kind of person Zhang Xiaojun is. Unless Uncle Zhang is old and blind, he would never dare to expect Zhang Xiaojun to support him in his old age.

In fact, getting a house and a wife are trivial matters. Ye Fan is only worried that Zhang Xiaojun, who is obsessed with money, will quit his job tomorrow and compete with Zhang Xiaoming for business.

Fortunately, the Zhang family doesn’t have the money to buy another car now.

Ye Fan hopes to earn back the money for the car as soon as possible, see Zhang Xiaojun's attitude, and then eliminate this hidden danger as soon as possible.

But Ye Fan had to go to classes regularly, and Zhang Xiaoming had to go to the countryside alone. His small body definitely couldn't handle the trip back and forth several times a day.

Zhang Xiaoming is not as tall as Ye Fan, and not as healthy as Ye Fan.

Ye Fan decided to figure out a business that wouldn't require him to run around everywhere.

On a Sunday in mid-June, Ye Fan brought Dabao and Erbao to the Ye family, and Dabao took Erbao and Liangliang to buy popsicles. Seeing the popsicles, Ye Fan had an idea, but when she thought that she could only make a penny from each popsicle, and salt water popsicles might only be a few cents, she looked down on them.

After lunch, everyone went to take a nap. Ye Fan went to Chen Xiaohui's room and asked, "Has Shen Cheng looked for you recently?"

Chen Xiaohui: "I wrote a few letters. I opened them at first and saw that they threatened me in the letters. I didn't even read the rest and burned them directly."

Ye Fan: "When you are on summer vacation, they may not be able to resist and come to find you. If you have made up your mind, I will tell mom and ask her to call the police. Or you can write a letter to Shencheng now, saying that you have asked the police and that their behavior is a crime. If they bother you again, call the police. If they don't believe it, you can ask the local police."

In her previous life, Chen Xiaohui was used to listening to Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping. She was so "rebellious" that she couldn't help but feel flustered: "Should we wait a little longer?"

"You won't get any share of the money earned during the summer vacation!" Ye Fan turned and left.

Chen Xiaohui quickly stopped her and said, "I'll write it!"

Ye Fan was not surprised at all, and stood beside the desk to watch her write. After she finished writing, Ye Fan said, "Xiao Qian, you may not be interested in it."

"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat."

Ye Fan said, "In the future, we will sell vegetables in the morning and popsicles in the afternoon. Zhang Xiaoming will do it first, and I will go to the popsicle factory in the afternoon when I have summer vacation. I will put two boxes at the entrance of the park and the station. Do you dare to do it?"

Chen Xiaohui looked down on the popsicle business. She thought Ye Fan was going to the south to trade in goods.

Ye Fan really wanted to go to the south, but she didn't have that much money, and the capital was not a special economic zone, so big businesses would most likely be considered speculation. The popsicle business was small, and even if it was reported to the public security bureau, the police would criticize the person who provoked the incident.

Ye Fan: "You and Benben will go to the station later? You two will split the money equally? Xiaoqin and Huihui will take Dabao and Erbao to the two parks near my home. If you are sure, then do it."

"I will think about it."

Seeing her staring at the letter in her hand, Ye Fan probably thought that she was more afraid of Chen Kuanren coming to find her than making a small amount of money. "Then you take your time to think about it."

When he got home in the evening, Ye Fan held a meeting with the whole family and talked about the popsicle business.

Yu Wentao said: "Don't go to the station. There are many thieves at the station, and the money you earn is not enough for the thieves to miss."

BenBen asked: "Then where should I go?"

Yu Wentao blurted out: "Children's Palace."

Dabao's eyes lit up: "Yes, brother Benben and I will go to the Children's Palace. We can have classes in the morning and sell popsicles in the afternoon. Mom, let Xiaoming sell popsicles and you bring us food. We won't be back at noon."

Ye Fan was shocked: "Your piggy bank is full. Mom has never lacked your pocket money. Do we have to work so hard?"

Dabao: "Didn't you say that? No one is selling popsicles now, so it's faster to make money with a single business? In two years, when I grow up, there will be people selling popsicles everywhere, and it will be too late for me to make money."

Ye Fan regretted that he had nothing to do but keep mumbling at home: "Aren't you going to your uncle's house this summer vacation?"

"Uncle won't run away." Dabao shook his head, "It won't be too late to go during the summer vacation when I go to college."

Geng Huihui said: "Benben, there are many people in the Children's Palace, let's ask who is selling a house."

Geng Benben raised his hand and saluted like his third uncle, indicating that he was willing to complete the task.

Seeing how motivated they were, Ye Fan couldn't bear to say anything else: "We'll split the money 40% to 60%, 40% for us and 60% for you."

Dabao nodded: "Okay. Pulling popsicles requires burning oil, and Xiaoming will have to work hard."

Ye Fan: "You should call me Uncle Xiao Ming."

"Xiao Ming said that whatever you call me is fine." Da Bao said, "He also said that Xiao Ming brother sounds young."

Ye Fanxin said, with so many truths, you might as well change your name to Li Dabao. "Dabao, if someone asks you if your family is very poor, why would you sell popsicles? How would you answer?"

Dabao: "You found out about this? Considering how poor I am, buy me some popsicles."

Ye Fan was speechless.

Do kids of this age not care about what others think?

Ye Fan looked at Geng Huihui and Geng Benben, "Do you think so too?"

Geng Benben: "No one would believe us if we said we were rich. They would think we were just bragging."

"Okay!" Ye Fan was sure that he didn't care about other people's opinions, "Then it's settled."

Erbao was unhappy: "Mom, don't you even ask me?"

Ye Fan: "I thought you and my brother had the same idea. Isn't that right?"

Yes! Erbao couldn't refute it, and felt that his mother had fooled him, "I don't want to sell popsicles, I want to make popsicles with Xiaoming."

Ye Fan nodded: "Okay!"

One afternoon when get out of class ended early, Zhang Xiaoming drove to the school gate to wait for Ye Fan. After picking up Ye Fan, he went to the popsicle factory to buy a box of popsicles.

The boxes were made by villagers, as were the cotton quilts that wrapped the popsicles. Yujia Village made a total of eight boxes, using this year's new cotton to make popsicle quilts. Ye Fan asked Zhang Xiaoming to buy six from villagers. When Yu's cousin saw that Ye Fan needed so many for one car, he asked his wife to make four more, and then he would see how Ye Fan sold them, and they would sell them together with Ye Fan.

There were no small shops near Ye Fan's home, so when he pulled a box of popsicles over there, they were all bought up by neighbors and passers-by getting on and off the bus in half an hour.

Ye Fan accompanied Zhang Xiaoming and Yu's uncle to the popsicle factory again. The two knew how to get the goods, and it was safe to go to the popsicle factory during the day. So the two families separated and whoever finished selling the vegetables first would go first.

The boxes are temporarily placed at Ye Fan's house - Ye Fan's house is a courtyard house, and there are two rooms on both sides of the south gate corridor. One room was converted by Ye Fan into a place for spittoons and bathing in summer, and the other room is used to store some unneeded things. The popsicle box is placed in this room.

On the last weekend of June, Zhang Xiaoming had just returned home from selling vegetables before ten o'clock, but he already had two boxes and his second child ready to go to the popsicle factory.

When Erbao got off the car, she called the older ones "uncle" and those younger than her father "brother". When people asked who Zhang Xiaoming was to her, Erbao would say "Brother Xiaoming".

People thought that Zhang Xiaoming had to sell popsicles while taking care of his sister, and they felt sorry for the little girl for coming out in such hot weather, so they gave her a red bean flavored popsicle.

Erbao is very happy.

On the way back, Erbao was exposed to the sun and regretted her decision. The final exams were over and she had summer vacation. When Ye Fan asked her to go, she said she had to do her summer homework.

Erbao works so hard every day, and by the time the popsicle-making project officially begins and classes start at the Children's Palace, she has finished her summer homework.

Geng Benben was incredulous when he heard this: "Erbao, are you a good student?" Before Erbao could answer, he said, "Luckily, I don't have summer homework when I start high school."

Ye Fan: "Geng Benben, don't forget, study in the morning and start selling popsicles at noon. If your studies fall behind and your parents blame me for corrupting you, I will send you to your grandma's house."

Geng Benben hurriedly swore that he would bring his textbooks to the Children's Palace.

Dabao said, "Brother Benben, take out our old clothes from last year."

Geng Benben: "It doesn't fit me well."

"We all sell popsicles now. If we wear new clothes every day, we will be considered to have only one new set of clothes. If we wear old clothes and sit on the ground and they get damaged, we tear them up and leave them for grandma to make shoes." Dabao said, "Mom, am I very smart?"

Ye Fan had a headache. Geng Dabao should change his name to Geng Pixiu: "Don't let me hear you trying to be frugal again!"

(End of this chapter)