Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

The male passenger was holding the chicken feet, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Ye Fan asked his son: "Is this what your grandma and your aunt said?"

"Yes." Dabao relied on the fact that his grandmother and aunt were not here, and his mother could not confront them in the car, so he was not afraid at all, "Sister, being fat doesn't look good, brother will eat for you, brother is not afraid of getting fat."

Erbao shook his head: "Brother is not afraid of being fat, and Erbao is not afraid either!"

Dabao was suddenly choked and speechless.

Seeing this, Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "You are so smart."

"Mom, give it to me!" Erbao stretched out his two little paws, "I can eat two."

"Let's talk after we finish eating!"

"I can do it!" The little girl stared at her mother, as if to say that she must give me two, otherwise she must give me two!
Ye Fan couldn't get used to her: "Don't want to eat?" She pretended to eat it herself. Seeing this, the little girl hurriedly snatched it away. Ye Fan thought to herself, "You thought I couldn't control you."

After the chicken legs were shared, there were still two duck legs. Ye Fan saw that the passenger opposite him was too embarrassed to eat the chicken feet, so he gave him two duck wings. The other party waved his hands hurriedly: "No, that's enough."

Geng Zhiye: "There are still eggs and pancakes. If you don't finish them, they will go bad tomorrow."

Why prepare so much food when you can't finish it all? The man hesitated.

Ye Fan handed him the duck wings: "The eggs and pancakes were prepared by my mother, and the roast duck and braised chicken were prepared by Dabao's grandmother."

Dabao nodded: "Mom, give me a chicken wing. Eating chicken wings will make you run faster."

Seeing that he was almost done with the chicken drumstick, Ye Fan picked out a chicken wing for him. Erbao stretched out his little hand to take it, but Dabao snatched it away with his backhand: "Can you finish it?"

Erbao didn't waste any words and bit his hand. Ye Fan held her little face and said, "Don't force me to hit you."

"If you don't want to eat, then don't eat!" Erbao glared at his brother and moved to the innermost part of the carriage, away from his father, mother and brother.

Geng Zhiye wanted to say something, but Ye Fan handed him a duck leg. Geng Zhiye instantly understood that if you have something to eat, you can't stop eating. Geng Zhiye took it with a smile: "You eat it too."

Erbao ran to her father and said, "Is it delicious? Dad."

Geng Zhiye nodded: "It's delicious."

Erbao asked curiously, "Can I try it?"

"Of course!" The girl was really polite. Geng Zhiye held her in his arms and said, "Bite here, there's more meat here."

Erbao raised his head and smiled: "Daddy is so nice."

"Eat." Geng Zhiye said with a satisfied look on his face.

Erbao took a small bite, and Geng Zhiye asked, "Is it delicious?"

"Savory."

Geng Zhiye: "Bite more."

"Okay, Dad."

Dabao looked up but didn't look at the father and daughter. Ye Fan turned his head and rolled his eyes. The passenger opposite frowned slightly. Why are the mother and son like this? Could it be that they are a reconstituted family, with the woman taking care of the eldest child and the man taking care of the second child? But the youngest child also looks like this lesbian. The passenger looked at Erbao and was immediately dumbfounded.

Erbao took his father's hand and tore off a big piece. Before the male passenger could tell him not to drop it, he caught it with his little hands, slid off his father, and quickly moved to his mother's side. He leaned against the bed, taking a bite of chicken leg and a bite of duck meat, squinting his eyes happily.

Geng Zhiye stared at the duck leg with only a little meat left for a long time, unable to come back to his senses.

Dabao sighed in a mature manner, with an expression that said, "I knew it would be like this."

Ye Fan's mouth was full of meat. He wanted to laugh but was afraid it would burst out. In a blink of an eye, his face turned red.

Geng Zhiye reacted and looked at his daughter with mixed feelings. He didn't need to hit her, nor scold her. He could only ask helplessly, "Are you a hairless monkey?"

"I'm not a monkey." Erbao shook his head, "I'm Erbao."

Geng Zhiye choked up: "...Even meat can't stop your mouth!"

Erbao was not afraid, angry, or talkative. He nodded obediently and tasted the half duck leg he snatched from his father, as if any grunt would mean one less bite of meat.

Ye Fan handed him a chicken wing. Geng Zhiye took it and complained: "Why didn't you remind me?"

"Isn't she your daughter?" Ye Fan asked.

Dabao: "Does Dad believe what Mom says?"

Geng Zhiye didn't believe it because his daughter was only two years old and still a baby.

"How do you know I don't believe it if you don't tell me?" Geng Zhiye was stubborn.

Dabao: "My second uncle and second mother didn't believe it before."

"I'm not them." Geng Zhiye glared at his son. How dare you compare me with them?

Dabao rolled his eyes, it was unreasonable!
Geng Zhiye's breathing suddenly stopped: "Geng Dabao——"

Ye Fan interrupted: "Dabao's father——"

"I dare not be his father." Geng Zhiye said unhappily.

Ye Fan nodded to show that he understood: "Let me ask you a question. Where do you think is the hardest part of a roasted duck?" As he spoke, he handed over the duck head.

Geng Zhiye took it habitually and said without thinking: "Mouth." Is there any need to ask?

The man opposite burst into laughter, and the chicken bones that he hadn't thrown away in time were scattered all over the floor. Geng Zhiye understood something, and was angry but wanted to laugh. He glared at Ye Fan and said, "I think you are full."

Erbao was too young to understand: "Uncle, what are you laughing at?"

The male passenger suppressed his laughter and said, "Your mother said your father is stubborn."

Erbao tilted her head to look at her father. Is he very hard-mouthed? I can't see that he is no different from his mother, brother and her.

Geng Zhiye's face flushed: "Geng Erbao, give me back my duck meat."

"Daddy told me to eat." Erbao suddenly didn't dare to stare at her dad, and moved to the innermost part, far away from her dad.

Geng Zhiye was too embarrassed to grab the child and give her a beating: "Ye Fan, you just want to piss me off." "You are Ye Fan?" the male passenger was shocked.

Is this world so small?

Ye Fan was surprised: "Do you know me?"

"My mother's hometown is in the west of the city, the accountant of Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative?"

Ye Fan: "Hey, you really know me. But I don't think I've seen you before."

"I've heard of your name more than once." Geng Zhiye looked over. The man was afraid that he might misunderstand, so he hurriedly explained: "My name is Duan Rulin, and my home is south of the Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative. I heard from my parents' neighbors that since you became an accountant, the supply and marketing cooperative has more agricultural and sideline products. For example, there were few vegetables in the past, but one cent could buy a handful of spinach. In the days to come, one cent could buy two kilograms of amaranth. There were no Chinese toon around the Qingming Festival, and no locust flowers at this time of year. I don't know where you harvest them. It must be very hard, right?"

Ye Fan originally thought that he had a history with the Ye family, and now that he knew that she was not their biological daughter, he said, "It's not hard. Those things are all from the mountains. We didn't have them before because the supply and marketing cooperative didn't have a car and couldn't go to the countryside to collect them."

"So that's how it is." Duan Rulin couldn't help but nodded.

Geng Zhiye thought to himself, you really believe it.

Duan Rulin had no reason not to believe it. He subconsciously believed that Ye Fan had no reason to lie to him: "Where are we going?"

"To where my lover works."

"What about the supply and marketing cooperatives?" Duan Rulin sat up straight with an anxious look on his face.

Dabao: "There is an auntie in the supply and marketing cooperative."

Duan Rulin: "Do you have any sisters?"

There was no need to explain too much when we just met by chance. Ye Fan nodded and said that she had gone to high school like him, and Chen Xiaohui had spent a few years in the countryside, so she was better at dealing with farmers than she was.

Duan Rulin thought that it was not enough to just know how to socialize, but also to know how to drive. I heard from my parents and neighbors that Ye Fan often drove to the countryside herself. But when they met for the first time, Duan Rulin was embarrassed to question her sister: "Will you come back to Beijing in the future?"

"My husband's family and my parents' family are both from the capital." Ye Fan didn't wait for him to ask, "Are you on a business trip?"

Duan Rulin followed her line of sight and saw his briefcase: "A machine in a factory in Hangzhou broke down. It's all in foreign language, and the repairman can't understand it. The one who can speak foreign language doesn't know those professional terms. The letter is too slow, and the telegram can't explain it clearly. The leader asked me to run a trip. Where are you going?"

Geng Zhiye: "Yongcheng."

"Not close."

Geng Zhiye shook his head: "It's not far. If we are lucky, we can leave after breakfast and have lunch in Hangzhou."

"Dad, I'm done eating." Dabao moved to the opposite side of his dad.

Geng Zhiye saw that his hands and face were all greasy: "Frustrating..."

Ye Fan handed over a wet towel. Geng Zhiye took it and was shocked: "Why is it hot?"

"I wet it with water from the kettle." Ye Fan picked up the sleepy Erbao and said, "How can a dry towel wipe it clean? Hurry up and wipe Dabao, it will scab over in a while."

Geng Zhiye wiped his son clean. The towel was so dirty that it was unbearable to look at: "Throw it away?"

Ye Fan smiled and understood him.

"Throw it away?" Duan Rulin couldn't help but ask.

Ye Fan: "It's now clean and shiny. He wanted to use it to wipe his feet a few days ago, but I refused."

Geng Zhiye spread out the newspaper that wrapped the lunch box, put the towel and the bones on it, rolled it up and asked the flight attendant to throw it away. Ye Fan asked the two children if they wanted to go to the toilet. The second child grabbed his mother's clothes and wanted to sleep, and the first child took off his shoes and climbed into bed.

Duan Rulin asked: "Are you tired of eating?"

Ye Fan looked at her watch: "It's past one o'clock, time for a nap." She put the second baby on the other side of the first baby and covered the two children with the coats she and Geng Zhiye wore in the morning.

Duan Rulin: "He was quite well behaved when he fell asleep."

Ye Fan nodded: "That's right."

Geng Zhiye came in and said, "Stop talking. Take this opportunity to rest. You won't have a day off tomorrow."

He had to catch the train, take the bus, and then take a boat. Ye Fan felt a headache just thinking about it: "Is there no direct bus?"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "There is one bus in the morning and one in the afternoon, but the morning bus is late, and the afternoon bus has to wait for an hour or two at the station. It's better to take the train. You don't have to leave the station, and you can buy the ticket on the train."

Ye Fan: "This is quite convenient."

Duan Rulin wanted to say it was inconvenient to carry two children and two big cloth bags that were taller than Dabao, but suddenly he remembered something, swallowed his words, and went to the berth to rest.

The next day, Duan Rulin woke up and felt the train slow down. Seeing Geng Zhiye packing his luggage, he hurried down to put on his shoes and look for his bag: "Are we there?"

"About ten minutes left. Fanfan, take care of the luggage while I take Dabao to the toilet." Geng Zhiye asked Duan Rulin again if he wanted to go.

Duan Rulin didn't know if anyone would come to pick him up. It was his first time in Hangzhou and he was afraid of getting lost and not being able to find the toilet when he turned around: "Let's go." He asked Erbao if he wanted to go.

Ye Fan was speechless but wanted to laugh: "I'll take her there."

"Look at me, I am confused after sleeping." Forgetting that Erbao is a girl, Duan Rulin was embarrassed and ran out first.

Geng Zhiye muttered: "Nerd!"

The leader dared to let the nerd go on a business trip alone, so he was obviously not that stupid. When he got off the bus, he carried his bag and briefcase in one hand and held Dabao in the other. After getting off the bus, he held Dabao and escorted Geng Zhiye and his family to the bus. Geng Zhiye put away the luggage, and he and Ye Fan sat down, each holding a child, before Duan Rulin left the station.

Ye Fan: "They say the world is in chaos now, but there are still many good people."

Geng Zhiye: "Most people will help if asked. I came here on a fishing boat."

“Are there still fishermen on the island?”

Geng Zhiye: "There is a Hengshan Commune on the island, with about 10,000 people, 70% of whom are fishermen. However, seafood has been difficult to sell in recent years, so fishermen have begun to learn to grow rice, cotton, and various fruits and vegetables. The fishing boat I was on last time was delivering tea. We have loquats right now. In a few days, we will have bayberries. You don't have to buy them, they are available on the mountain."

"Isn't that more convenient than being in the capital?"

Geng Zhiye felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, and he didn't dare to look at Ye Fan out of guilt.

(End of this chapter)