Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

According to Ye Fanyi, getting married and divorced is as easy as buying cabbage.

Geng Leilei didn't dare to refute, and said hesitantly: "Aunt, marriage is not just a matter between two people, it involves two families."

Ye Fan: "You are wrong! Political or business marriage involves two families. My company does not need help from his family. Your father is more powerful than her father, and he does not need help from her family. It is your business to marry her."

"Her family doesn't think so?"

Ye Fan glanced at him and said, "Marriage is free! If her family disagrees, won't you sue? With your father's position, which nosy civil servant would dare to hold you back from getting a divorce? Unless you don't want to get a divorce. If you don't want to get a divorce and you lose interest in your work because of her family's annoyance, it's your own fault."

"It's hard for an honest judge to settle family disputes." Geng Leilei muttered, "How can it be that easy?"

Yang Mengxia wanted to speak, but Geng Zhihua grabbed her arm. The couple listened to Ye Fan say, "Her family didn't dare to go to your father's workplace to make trouble. If the court forces a divorce, what else can her family do? Threaten you by jumping off a building? What does it have to do with you if she wants to die? Don't take the responsibility on yourself!"

"But I dare to go to the door of your company." Geng Leilei said.

Ye Fan chuckled: "Leilei, do you know how many people in my company are paying attention to her? If her family dares to make trouble, there is no need for your father or uncle to intervene. The city government's arrest of the leaders of high-tech industries is enough to make her family suffer! And you think your aunt is selling vegetables at a stall, a low-class "trader"? If you don't believe it, just wait and see."

Geng Leilei asked subconsciously: "What are you waiting for?"

"We'll know in a few days."

Geng Leilei looked back at his parents, and the couple shook their heads together. They didn't know what Ye Fan was going to do. But Ye Fan was right. Compared with large state-owned enterprises, her company was a small company, but in the field of high-tech industries, Ye Fan's company was already a leading private enterprise in the city.

There are many software development companies in the Ye Fan Company building. Geng Leilei's fiancée's family went to Ye Fan Company to cause trouble, and they wanted to make things difficult for the municipal government.

The district head and the street director can't do anything to her family, so can't the city's top leader deal with them?

Ye Fan's car was in the compound. He drove to the compound and then changed to his own car to go back.

The engagement was arranged today because Geng Leilei was on vacation recently. In mid-November, Geng Leilei was away from home for many days, the weather turned cold, and Ye Fan carried a bag of things to his unit.

Geng Leilei's company has strict entry and exit rules, so Ye Fan was naturally blocked at the door. Ye Fan asked the guard to call her boss and tell him that she was Ye Fan from Fanhua Company.

Five or six minutes later, two people came out. Before they even got to the front, they stretched out their hands and called "Mr. Ye" and asked if Ye Fan's car was hers. Seeing Ye Fan nod, one of them asked the guard to register and let Ye Fan pass directly when he came by himself.

The other person got into Ye Fan's car and said apologetically, "Why did you come here in person?"

Geng Leilei's unit had business dealings with Ye Fan, and asked the factory owned by Ye Fan to process a batch of chips. Ye Fan's chips were far inferior to those made abroad, and because they were used in special places, his unit would rather use backward domestically made ones than use advanced foreign ones.

Recently, his company is planning to ask Ye Fan to buy a batch of computers, hoping to make them all domestically made. His company will take care of this, but Ye Fan, an industry insider, can get the money together with just a few phone calls.

The two thought that Ye Fan came to discuss the computer. Ye Fan did talk to them about it and told them that it could be delivered before the New Year.

The two said sheepishly: "It's just a small matter. Just let the manager come over."

Ye Fan said: "By the way, come and see my nephew."

The two well-informed people lost their composure and asked in disbelief: "Is your nephew in our unit?"

"The sales manager came to deliver goods a few days ago and saw him. He was afraid that he was dazzled, so he went back and asked me if he worked here. Then I guessed he was here." Ye Fan smiled and said, "It's okay to keep it confidential."

The two men accepted the compliment with a smile, and then asked his nephew's last name.

Ye Fan directly said the name "Geng Leilei" and then asked: "Are you at work?"

"They should be there." The two of them were in charge of administrative work and were not clear about the situation in the scientific research department. They asked Ye Fan to contact Geng Leilei's leader when he arrived at the office.

When Geng Leilei heard his boss say "someone from his family is here", he instinctively thought his father was here to inspect. Geng Leilei was puzzled as he walked to the office building. His colleagues were busy with their own things and didn't look like they were here to welcome the boss.

When he arrived at the office, Geng Leilei was shocked: "Xiao, Xiao Aunt?"

Ye Fan smiled and handed the things over: "I saw the weather forecast, it will snow in the next few days. Sen Sen bought you some thick clothes. I wanted to wait for you to come back and give them to you. I came here for something small, so I brought them to you. Oh, and there are some food. If you are too busy to eat, just eat them."

Upon hearing what Ye Fan said, the two leaders who received him reminded Geng Leilei that "health is the capital of revolution" and so on.

Geng Leilei was completely stunned.

My aunt seems to be very familiar with the leaders of the administrative department.

But how is that possible?

Geng Leilei couldn't figure it out, but he didn't doubt Ye Fan's words. Since Geng Sensen went to work at his aunt's company, Ye Fan didn't stop him from making extra money. Geng Sensen, who had enough money, often bought things for his brother.

In fact, he complained that his brother's clothes were too tacky.

Ye Fan often buys snacks for the younger generations at home, so it is normal for him to give snacks to Geng Leilei.

Geng Leilei took the snacks, and Ye Fan told him to get busy. After that, he exchanged a few words with the two of them, and then Ye Fan went home on the pretext of going to the research institute.

Within a few days, Geng Leilei discovered that his colleagues in administration were very polite to him, which frightened him to the point that he thought his colleagues and leaders knew who his father was.

After asking his colleagues and leaders several times, they only mentioned his aunt and occasionally his uncle. Geng Leilei felt relieved and found it even more incredible.

During the New Year's Day holiday, while drying the quilts, Geng Leilei saw his brother fiddling with his Walkman. He took off his headphones and asked, "Aunt's company business has come to my unit?"

Geng Sensen was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and asked, "Did the leader look for you?"

"No, no, I met my aunt once at work."

Geng Sensen: "That's it? I thought your boss asked you to ask your aunt for a discount."

"No, you missed the point. My company actually asked Aunt to buy computers. Is Aunt's business so big?"

Geng Sensen nodded: "If it's still a small business, how can we afford to advertise on TV? No, you just found out?"

"My aunt didn't inform me either." Geng Leilei said subconsciously.

Geng Sensen choked: "Society has changed. Has society informed you? You have become stupid after working at work day after day." Suddenly, she felt that something was wrong with him. "You don't still think that your aunt is just a small trader, do you?"

"I knew my aunt made computers, but I didn't expect that even my company would ask her to buy one," Geng Sensen said. "It felt incredible and a little weird."

Geng Sensen: "Maybe one day your company will need to cooperate with my aunt."

"What cooperation?"

Geng Sensen: “Software programming.”

“We have no shortage of talent in this area.”

Geng Sensen: "Thirty or fifty? Fifty is not as much as my aunt's company."

"so many people?"

Geng Sensen said, "It occupies one floor all to itself. I heard that it will take two floors next year. In a few years, maybe except for the first floor and the fifth floor where my aunt is, all other parts of the building will become R&D departments."

"That would require thousands of people. Wouldn't it take several days to develop a software?" Geng Leilei was shocked.

Geng Sen Sen nodded: "Yeah." Then he became happy again, because those people all came to him for their salary.

Geng Leilei hit himself.

Geng Sensen asked hurriedly: "What are you doing? Are you really stupid?"

"Is my aunt so powerful?" Geng Leilei asked in disbelief.

Geng Sen Sen: "Your dad is not as good as him. Why don't you act like this in front of your dad? What's irritating you?"

"No, you don't understand." After Geng Sen Sen grew up, he didn't have much in common with his brother, unlike Da Bao and Er Bao who were still able to play together at their age: "I don't understand, and I don't want to understand." After saying that, he put on his headphones and hummed along with the tape.

Geng Leilei had a complicated expression, as if he thought he was abandoned by his whole family and that he was actually lost.

Seeing that he was acting stupidly, Geng Sen Sen gave him a chair and asked him to sit down and act stupidly to prevent himself from tripping over due to his distracted mind.

Geng Leilei came to his senses and finally realized how powerful his aunt was. He also finally believed that he didn't need to make any sacrifices in his marriage because his elders were so powerful.

Other people’s second babies don’t have this kind of worry.

Erbao has long realized how powerful his parents are.

In fact, Erbao's unit is full of highly educated and qualified people. After a few months of experience, she seemed to be reborn. For example, Geng Sensen's former leader was 10 to 20 years older than Erbao, but he was not as capable as a little girl like Erbao.

Anyway, after New Year's Day, Geng Leilei's wedding was approaching. Geng Leilei was too busy with work to take care of it, so Geng Sensen drove to pick up his mother to help his brother decorate the new house whenever he had time.

Down quilts are popular now. There is a town under Hangzhou that specializes in down business. When Yu Wentao heard about this, she asked Ye Fan when her nephew would go on a business trip south, and asked him to bring two quilts with her as a wedding gift to Geng Leilei.

Team Leader Yu's daughter had grown up, and it was time to prepare a dowry. When Ye Fan heard about this, he said he could make a special trip. There was no need to make a trip. Ye Fan and Wei Jianshe asked him to go to the south to get goods, as well as Yu Yinxing's husband and Chang Guangrong's brother-in-law. The latter two bought goods to prepare for the start of school next year.

Down jackets were cheap there, so everyone except Ye Fan bought a few down jackets. Fortunately, Ye Fan rented a truck to transport goods, and the down jackets could be stuffed into the truck, otherwise he would not be able to take all of them.

Geng Zhiye went home when he had time, and Ye Fan talked to him about this matter. Geng Zhiye couldn't help but ask, "From what you said, you didn't buy it?"

"It's not as soft as a quilt. And their quilt cover is not as soft as the one Aunt Yu made for me." Ye Fan pointed at the quilt on his body, "It's not as close to the body as this one."

Geng Zhiye touched the quilt: "It's so soft, how come it feels like a new quilt?"

Ye Fan: "Yes. After using our quilt for a few years, Aunt Yu asked her brother to take it back and re-fluff it. I heard there is a professional fluffer in town."

“It’s also good to have some rural relatives.”

Ye Fan said, "We are lucky to have these two good families. Your father definitely doesn't think so. Helping her sisters won't end well."

"The old man is too principled."

Ye Fan sneered: "How many people of their generation don't stick to principles? If they didn't stick to principles, they would have followed Chiang Kai-shek long ago."

"That's true." Geng Zhiye smiled. "If he hadn't stuck to his principles, he wouldn't have been able to hold on to victory despite the hardships he faced back then."

Ye Fan said, "Actually, I should buy a few beds. Dabao came back a few days ago and heard about this and asked me if I had bought any."

"They bought so much, didn't the down jacket factory leave you a contact number?"

Ye Fan's eyes lit up: "We can ask them to send it over. We can also ask the local employees who are attending the annual meeting to bring it over."

Geng Zhiye: "Won't they be annoyed if I come here to draw a prize and then go back?"

Ye Fan: "This time I asked them if they wanted to attend the annual meeting. If they didn't, I would convert their travel expenses into cash and give them their year-end bonus. They all wanted to come and play for a few days. From what they said, the company would send a car to pick them up if they came to the annual meeting, and they wouldn't have to find a hotel by themselves. If they came by themselves, they would have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation."

"Is it a public-funded trip?"

Ye Fan: "Yeah. I went home right after the first annual meeting. I guess my family scolded me for not spending a few days there. I stayed two more days the next time I came and brought back a bunch of special products from the capital. Hangzhou doesn't lack anything, so I don't know why they love the things here so much. I heard from the secretary that they brought four roast ducks before leaving last year. Even if they were delicious, they were cold when they got home. How could they be as delicious as the local ones freshly baked?"

Geng Zhiye thought that it was possible that the local freshly-oven roast duck was not as fragrant as the one cooked here.

But he thought about the ancient saying "There is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below" and Hangzhou can't be short of delicious food, "Let's try something new. By the way, I may not be able to come back on Lei Lei's wedding day."

Ye Fan touched his crew cut and said, "Brother and sister-in-law didn't include you when they calculated the number of people to prepare for the banquet."

"This boss..." Geng Zhiye snorted, "How many tables are you going to prepare?"

Ye Fan: "Let's do it together, eight tables, all with close relatives."

"When Dabao gets married, choose my vacation time."

Ye Fan was happy: "Your son lives such a carefree life. By the time he gets married, you may have retired."

"Where's the second treasure?"

Ye Fan: "Erbao may not have a wedding. She was annoyed when Huihui got married, and she grumbled that the wedding was for relatives."

"Just get a certificate and that's it? You're not going to give my daughter of this age to someone else without telling anyone?" Geng Zhiye was so angry that he sat up.

There was heating in the room, and he suddenly got up. Ye Fan also felt cold: "Lie down!"

Geng Zhiye just lay down obediently.

Ye Fan tucked in the quilt and said, "I find your daughter's matter very difficult."

"What do you mean?"

Ye Fan: "Even if you get married and live with us, what good family would agree to that?"

"Erbao, you have such ideas?" Geng Zhiye turned over and turned to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan opened the quilt he had just tucked in, and couldn't help but sigh: "Even though Erbao's parents are us, she can still find a young talent, right? How can we bear to let a top student raised by his parents with great effort live in our house? It's useless for the child to have his last name. Unless his parents want something from us. Then again, Erbao will definitely not look down on such a person."

"so what?"

Ye Fan: "Be prepared for your daughter to not get married."

"Not necessarily." Geng Zhiye said, "Find her a man with many brothers. His parents would like him to get out of here. But I'm afraid Dabao's partner won't agree. How can a married sister-in-law live with her husband's family?"

Ye Fan sneered: "If she doesn't agree, just get out! I bought this house, I can let anyone live in it if I want."

Geng Zhiye smiled and said, "Be careful that people won't take care of you when you get old."

"It's impossible for Dabao to find someone who doesn't have a job. Will she have time to serve me if she has a job?" Ye Fan said, "It's better to rely on Xiao Wang than on her." Speaking of Xiao Wang, Ye Fan really hopes that she will continue to work at home. "I plan to give Xiao Wang a raise."

Geng Zhiye asked casually: "How much?"

"It's increased to 500. In addition to four seasons of clothing, there's also a year-end bonus." Ye Fan said, "But she has to get married eventually. When we were having dinner tonight, we talked about Lei Lei. Aunt Yu urged Sen Sen to find a partner, and she helped Aunt Yu persuade him. It seems that she also wants to find a partner. If we want to keep her, I'm afraid we have to find her a partner."

Geng Zhiye thought of several people in an instant: "Although Xiao Wang is not from another place, she is from the countryside, and even from the mountains. The citizens of the capital must think her family is poor. She is a nanny in our family. Even if she earns more than many people, some people will think this job is not decent."

"What do you want to say?"

Geng Zhiye: "After the New Year, a group of people will change jobs. Among them, there will definitely be people from the capital. Nine out of ten will become police officers in police stations."

"Temporary worker?"

Geng Zhiye: "Formally. The capital has developed rapidly in recent years, with a large influx of foreign population, and the police station is short of staff. But temporary workers don't look down on Xiao Wang either."

Ye Fan: "Xiao Wang doesn't think highly of him."

"Don't be so stubborn. There aren't many people who can ignore worldly views." Geng Zhiye held her hand and said, "Don't worry, not everyone is like you, a top student from Peking University who wants to set up a street stall."

Ye Fan asked with a half-smile: "Are you praising me?"

"I'm praising myself at the same time." Geng Zhiye hugged him into his arms. "Businessmen don't care about gossip. Zhang Xiaoming knows a lot of businessmen. Instead of worrying about it here, why don't you let him come out and ask."

(End of this chapter)