Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan was shocked. Isn't the army the place where rules and principles are most adhered to?

"You didn't know anything about it before?" Ye Fan asked.

Geng Zhiye put on his shorts and white vest with a speechless look on his face. "My former unit didn't know either. When I learned about this, I immediately left school early and went to Ningbo. My former unit even asked me why I left school early."

Ye Fan had learned a lot. Really a lot. "What should we do then?"

When you reach Geng Zhiye's level, you can directly meet the chief of the Ningbo Naval Headquarters. The chief had participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Civil War, and was a tough killer on the battlefield. He called the capital on the spot, and then the two sixty-year-old veterans started to curse at each other over the phone, and their tempers were more explosive than each other.

It is no wonder that Geng Zhiye, the former military commander, was angry. The investment in naval construction is huge, the cycle is long, and the effect is slow. If the same amount of money is put into the air force, the planes can fill half of the capital, but the navy has only a few warships, which gives the people the illusion that the navy is not as popular and valued as the air force. The training of the navy is indeed hard, so many excellent talents first consider the air force, and if they fail the physical examination of the air force, they consider the army.

The people who finally joined the navy either really loved the sea or had to join the army because of poverty and to have enough food. Many of the people selected from the grassroots could not read a single word, and because the number of people joining the army was small, the number of talents that could be trained was much less than that of the air force and the army.

We finally picked out a few successors and sent them to military academies for further studies, but one of them was snatched away by the army which has no shortage of people. This is intolerable!
However, the information was filed, and Yongcheng had no choice but to let Geng Zhiye go. Because of this incident, the Yongcheng Navy sent people to pick up the officers who were studying abroad.

Ye Fan frowned: "You've been on ships every day and never touched a tank before, what can you do in the army?"

Geng Zhiye couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In the past, the navy had fewer people, so when a ship was added, some people were transferred from the army to the navy for training. During the Cultural Revolution, more people were recruited than laid off, and both the navy and the army were not short of people. Cases like Geng Zhiye were rare, almost nonexistent.

Because of this, Geng Zhiye hurried to Yongcheng when he heard that his file had been transferred by the Army. When he arrived in Yongcheng, the leader hung up the phone, and Geng Zhiye realized that because the college entrance examination had been suspended for ten years, the Army was also short of comprehensive talents.

Although some old generals only attended private schools for three years, they were not talents, but geniuses! Geniuses only appear once every ten years, so the army must naturally use talents to fill the gap while waiting for geniuses to appear.

Ye Fan was anxious: "Speak up."

Geng Zhiye sighed, feeling a little embarrassed. "There are very few naval ships. Apart from getting familiar with the various equipment on board, we spend most of our time training like the army, and the training is more intense than the army. I originally thought that someone like me, who is in my forties, would definitely not be able to compare with officers in their thirties, but -" Geng Zhiye felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry when he thought of the past two years.

Ye Fan rolled his eyes and turned away.

Geng Zhiye subconsciously grabbed her.

Ye Fan glared, and Geng Zhiye instinctively let go. Seeing this, Ye Fan was speechless but wanted to laugh, he was really obedient. "Aren't you too hot?" Ye Fan asked and left.

Geng Zhiye poured out the bath water, washed the towel, and took a small stool to the gate corridor to find Ye Fan.

The sun was setting, and the heat was fading. The corridor was ventilated from north to south, and there were tiles above to block the breeze, so it was very comfortable. Ye Fan waited for him to sit down and asked, "What was the result?"

Geng Zhiye: "People who are older than me, who are not as strong as me, and who are five or six years younger than me, have stopped preparing for the military academy entrance exams like you. After joining the army, they also have the opportunity to study further, but it is either a year or a few months. It is nothing compared to me who has studied ancient and modern Chinese and foreign culture for several years. They can't understand Sun Tzu's Art of War and usually ask me to translate it for them."

Ye Fan nodded to indicate that he was listening.

Geng Zhiye continued: "I helped them, and they took the initiative to help me make up for my shortcomings in order to thank me. As a result, I was not the best in a single subject, but my overall performance was the best. You often asked me to bring some fruits over, and fresh fruits cannot be kept for too long. I distributed them to my classmates when I arrived, and they spoke well of me. When the head of the capital came to inspect, the instructor said that I was the best." After saying this, he couldn't help but sigh, "It's that simple."

Ye Fan: "Why don't they use their own direct descendants?"

Geng Zhiye: "Many people have been laid off in the past few years. Many people were replaced in the rectification after the Cultural Revolution. How can there be pure direct descendants? They chose me to be trained as a direct descendant."

"Since I'm training you as my direct descendant, why would I kill you first and ask for your permission later?"

Geng Zhiye said: "I may be willing to stay in the capital, but my former unit leader will definitely not agree. Soldiers are bound by their duty to obey orders, and my former unit leader thinks highly of me. I will definitely follow his arrangements first, and then consider my personal family issues."

Ye Fan understood: "It's useless to ask you. If you ask your leader, he will definitely refuse. Why don't you just do this? Then where will you be in the future?"

I can't say! Geng Zhiye shook his head: "I'm not sure yet. I haven't officially reported to the army yet. The Navy has set up a reinforced regiment similar to the Marine Corps in the past two years, and the Army is also going to set up an independent brigade. I'm probably going to be the chief of staff."

Actually, he is the brigade commander.

The main purpose of the army chief's inspection of the military academy was to select the brigade commander. There were originally several candidates for the military academy, but they were outclassed by the navy when they arrived at the military academy. The navy only had two or three small boats, and it would be a waste to give them all the talents. It would be better to focus on the army first. Geng Zhiye had touched the weapons and equipment of the army in the military academy and had used almost all of them when he was stationed at the border. Although he was a little rusty after many years in the navy, the independent brigade was originally a combination of several arms that needed to be adjusted, and it would not be too late for Geng Zhiye to practice again by then.

Ye Fan couldn't help but frown when he heard the chief of staff of the brigade: "Didn't they say that if you graduate successfully, you will be a deputy division commander?"

Geng Zhiye: "Most troops have now abolished brigade-level units. The treatment of the brigade I joined is the same as that of a division-level unit. My salary should be the same as that of a deputy division commander. It's just that such a large unit cannot train in the city."

Ye Fan understood: "It's impossible that you go home for dinner as often as you did on the island? It's almost the same as my dad, who comes back once every ten days or half a month. Maybe you go to the military family compound?"

Geng Zhiye nodded and said, "I'll try to get a house nearby. If the safety measures are the same as those in ordinary communities, I'll give the house to someone else and I'll go home and live there."

"There are spies in the city, right?"

Geng Zhiye: "There must be enemy spies. They don't want to fight with a soldier like me. It's better to guard against hooligans on the street than enemy spies. Enemy spies only deal with those who need to be dealt with, while hooligans bully indiscriminately."

Ye Fan remembered that Chen Xiaohui and Geng Zhiqin were almost bullied a few days ago. Fortunately, Ye Fan had told them that the streets were in chaos. Geng Zhiqin took out the fruit knife from his bag, and those grandchildren were scared away.

Ye Fan: "You can't tell me the unit number, right?"

Geng Zhiye smiled silently.

Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him: What a joke!

Geng Zhiye held her hand and said, "I was too anxious and forgot to tell you. I made you worry."

Ye Fan: "It's good that you know. Dabao, that naughty kid, has been saying every day these days that you were poached by a vixen."

Geng Zhiye suddenly exerted force on Ye Fan's hand. Even if it was only for a moment, Ye Fan noticed it. Ye Fan pulled his hand back and stared at Geng Zhiye with a burning gaze, not allowing him to quibble.

Geng Zhiye touched his nose guiltily: "There is such a person in the military academy, but it may be that I am overthinking."

Ye Fan snorted: "I don't know if your son is already in middle school?"

Geng Zhiye coughed awkwardly: "I don't have age spots yet, and I don't smell like an old person."

Ye Fan got up and left.

Geng Zhiye held her back and couldn't help muttering, "What a bad temper."

"You just found out today?" Ye Fan asked unhappily.

Geng Zhiye pulled her to sit down. "I'll be honest, I'll be honest. I really didn't know at first. My roommate in the same dormitory said that she might have some intentions, and since then I've avoided her whenever I saw her. Whenever the school held activities, I was with a few roommates. I was on high alert against her. Don't be angry."

Ye Fan: "She knows that you often go home on weekends, right?"

Geng Zhi said: "You should know."

"That means there's nothing wrong with our relationship. We still have two ties. Where does she get the courage?"

Geng Zhiye thought about it carefully: "It's possible that I'm to blame for this."

Ye Fan raised an eyebrow.

Geng Zhiye: "You just mentioned enemy spies. Some unimportant positions in the army may have enemy spies, so we don't tell the details of our own situation, for fear that they will start with our family members. When my classmates asked me what I did, I thought it would involve my father-in-law, so I said I was an ordinary person, just a salesperson."

(End of this chapter)