Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan took out a bag of beef jerky and milk candy from his bag, "It's not like I won't let you rest."

The receptionist took it and asked, "Did you buy it on the grassland? Can you not put it at the reception desk over there?"

Ye Fan: "Leave it for yourselves. Give some to the security guards."

"I know, I know." The front desk clerk put it in the cabinet.

Ye Fan laughed: "Has Team Leader Liang's lover been here?"

The receptionist's eyes lit up, as if a paparazzi had caught a married superstar cheating on his wife.

Ye Fan asked: "Did you send him away?"

The receptionist whispered, "Didn't you say that people without work permits are not allowed in?"

Ye Fan nodded. Even the canteen workers had to show their work IDs to enter. "And then?"

"She said she was Team Leader Liang's lover. The security guard asked if Team Leader Liang was in the company, and if so, he told me to call Team Leader Liang to come down to pick her up. She said no, but she was looking for the director. The security guard asked why she was looking for the director. She thought the security guard's tone was like interrogating a prisoner. The security guard said that in such a big company, no matter whose family member was looking for the director, I would ask the director to come down, how could the director do anything." The receptionist wanted to laugh when she thought of this, "She said she could come in and wait. The security guard said non-employees were not allowed to enter. She said again that she was Team Leader Liang's lover, and the security guard asked her to prove that she was not, and the security guard said she was making trouble for no reason."

Ye Fan: "That's it?"

"Of course not! How could someone so easily dismissed dare to look for the director? She came again the day before Team Leader Liang came back, bringing her marriage certificate. The security guard asked her to wait at the reception desk next door." The receptionist said, "I felt a little rude for not going over to serve tea and water. But she wanted to go up by herself within half an hour. Fortunately, you need to swipe your card to reach the sixth floor, and other elevators cannot reach the fifth and sixth floors."

Ye Fanxin said, it seems that we really need to set up a gate.

"Have you waited for the director?"

The receptionist shook her head: "The director knew she would have to come the next day, so she came to the company early in the morning to get the key from me and went to the research unit. She came back when I was about to get off work. She couldn't wait, and asked when the director would come down before leaving. I said the director was not in the company, and she blamed me for not telling her earlier. I asked, do you believe me if I told you? She was stumped by my question, and probably because she saw that my tone was not good, she didn't dare to act tough, so she left in shame. I guess she had a quarrel with Team Leader Liang. These days, I saw a mark on Team Leader Liang's chin and ear, like a scratch by a fingernail."

Ye Fan sighed: "I'm used to it!"

The receptionist nodded: "If I were Team Leader Liang's wife, Team Leader Liang's money would be mine to spend. He would be at the company most of the time and would not have time to go home and be a big boss. I would definitely take good care of Team Leader Liang."

Ye Fan laughed: "Well done. I'll tell Accountant Geng later."

The receptionist was surprised and delighted: "Thank you, boss!"

Ye Fan was startled: "Not much money."

"I don't think a meal is too little."

Ye Fan nodded: "There is still a meal." Then he went upstairs.

As soon as the elevator door closed, the security guard ran over and asked, "What are you talking about?"

The receptionist gave him a handful of candy and some beef jerky: "The boss said he would give us a bonus, but it might not be much, just one or two days' salary."

The security guard looked at himself and asked, "What haven't I done recently?"

"The matter about Team Leader Liang's lover."

The security guard said with shame: "Boss, you are so polite."

Ye Fan felt that it was right, so he went upstairs to tell Geng Sensen about it. Geng Sensen wrote it down and said, "Why get married? It's so much more comfortable to be alone."

Ye Fan asked: "Never date someone in your life?"

"Being in a relationship doesn't mean you want to get married."

Ye Fan: "Just act like a hooligan. Be careful or you might end up in jail for hooliganism someday!"

Geng Sensen smiled and said, "Don't worry, that day will never come."

"I finally understand why your dad is always worried that you'll become a bad kid!" Ye Fan shook his head helplessly and went back to the office.

After a busy day at the company, Ye Fan called the director before leaving get off work in the afternoon. Five minutes later, the director came down and reported to Ye Fan: "The Municipal Bureau is very satisfied with us and said that they would treat you to dinner another day."

Ye Fan smiled and said, "Just listen to this for now."

"Maybe I really want to treat you to a meal. I heard that some departments only have one or two people who know computers, so they will have to trouble us frequently in the future." The director added, "It's not like they are spending their own money."

Ye Fan: "If they are investigated someday, we will also be called over to assist in the investigation."

The director didn't think that far and asked tentatively: "No way?"

"It's normal for people who are used to eating and drinking with public funds to be investigated. Just because they haven't been investigated in the past few years doesn't mean they can live in peace for ten or twenty years." Ye Fan said, "If the higher-ups can't stand it anymore and set up a lifelong accountability system, they may go to jail even after retirement."

The director wanted to say that it was not necessary, but suddenly he thought of the years when he graduated from college and the capital was cracking down on criminals and parading criminals. The director found it unreal for a moment that after the reform and opening up, they were still using such old-fashioned tricks.

"Then if they say that in the future, I will say you are busy."

Ye Fan turned off the computer and asked, "What's going on at Team Leader Liang's home?"

"I was planning to tell you about this tomorrow. When you asked me to pick a few people, I didn't consider Lao Liang because he was suitable for R&D. He hinted that I should change my position before, but I pretended not to understand him and asked you." The director confessed, "Yesterday he told me that he would not transfer again. He is not stupid, so why would he go against money?"

Ye Fan asked: "Did I get it right? Are you going to leave?"

"They fought at the head of the bed but made up at the foot of the bed. Maybe they will make up in a few days." The director knew his old classmate, "He is henpecked and very nagging when it comes to relationships. He is not a man at all."

Ye Fan raised his eyebrows: "Why don't you just do it. When are you getting married?"

"Nothing unexpected happens, but I heard that the sales manager is also getting married on November 11th. If it's November 11th for him, then I'll get married on New Year's Day. He's older than me, so I'm not in a hurry."

Ye Fan was very surprised: "Is it finally going to be a wedding?"

The director wanted to laugh when he thought of the sales manager: "Come to think of it, it was you who introduced him to his girlfriend."

"How come I don't know?" Ye Fan was very surprised.

The director suppressed his laughter and said, "Listen to me. He originally had a girlfriend and planned to go to his mother-in-law's house on the sixth day of the New Year to see what she thought. His future mother-in-law didn't have many requirements, only two points: live in the woman's house after marriage, and the child will take the woman's surname-"

"Wait, this isn't marrying into the family?"

The director nodded, "They said it wasn't a marriage. But that's a lie. The key is that his partner has brothers, and they don't need a daughter to carry on the family line. He thought his mother-in-law looked down on him as an outsider and was deliberately making things difficult for him, so he said it was impossible. His mother-in-law said they should break up, and then they broke up. A few days later, they had a blind date in the hotel next door, and Team Leader Yu asked him to go and see, but he was embarrassed, and Team Leader Yu said he would go because you were not there."

Ye Fan: "Found it?"

"Yes. The woman is also a local, and her family is not bad." The director thought carefully, "It's considered well-off. Her father is a skilled worker, and her mother is an elementary school teacher. Her brothers bought welfare houses, and her parents are now taking care of her sister's children. They also said that they will take care of her children in the future. In the future, the elderly will be taken care of by several families in turn."

Ye Fan asked: "Is the woman also a teacher?"

"Instrument nurse in the surgical department." The director's mother fell ill a few years ago and didn't know which specialist to see, so Ye Fan gave him Sun Laifu's pager number. After the director's mother was discharged from the hospital, she invited Sun Laifu to dinner, but he didn't go. So he bought a lot of food and supplies for Sun Laifu and sent them to Sun Laifu's home. Thinking of this, the director asked, "Is he from Dr. Sun's department?"

Ye Fan said: "It's possible. His ex-girlfriend didn't regret coming here to make trouble, right?"

"Maybe she thinks that a sales manager is still a salesperson and she never went to college, so it's extremely difficult for her to find a capital girl with a stable job. So she waits for the manager to come back to her. Maybe she thinks she can meet someone with better conditions than the manager." The director wanted to laugh when he said this.

All the old employees of the company, whether in sales or R&D department, own a courtyard house and one or two buildings.

Many working-class people in the capital can't afford to buy a house even after working hard for half a lifetime. It's much harder for a woman to find a man with better conditions than a manager than for a manager to find a doctor.

The director is not partial to his own people. A few days ago, he went to school to play basketball and met the manager. He casually asked him if he wanted to go. He went with him because he had nothing to do. During the break, the manager told the director that his girlfriend's colleague thought he had good conditions and wanted him to introduce her to someone.

His girlfriend's colleague should be a medical worker, but she didn't think he was in a bad condition. The director told him it was incredible. The manager said he had asked his girlfriend this question. The manager's girlfriend said that most medical workers don't earn as much as sales managers.

The sales manager is a former security guard who is very self-disciplined, keeps in good shape, and owns several houses, making him worthy of a doctor in a general department.

The director also realized that the social trend has changed and hiring employees from private companies is no longer a taboo.

Ye Fan said: "Remind him later that if he wants to get married, he should live a good life and cut off all ties with the past!"

The director smiled and said, "Don't worry, his ex-girlfriend's family is too insulting, there is no way they can get back together."

"I don't care about that." Ye Fan said, "Keep a close eye on Team Leader Liang. I don't want him to get into trouble because of insomnia. Firing him won't make up for the loss."

The director stopped laughing and said, "I will. One more thing, some projects don't require so many people at a time. I plan to divide them into four groups."

"You decide on the arrangements." Ye Fan said.

The director was speechless and moved. How could he trust him so much?

Sometimes the director is afraid that he will become too arrogant and think of himself as a regent, and then be slapped down by Geng Sen Sen.

When Ye Fan got home, the babysitter had already prepared dinner. Ye Fan thought it would be hard for her to find a suitable partner, so she said to Xiao Wang during dinner, "You can take Sundays and Mondays off from now on."

Xiao Wang suspected that he had not heard clearly, and asked in disbelief: "Two days off a week?"

Ye Fan nodded: "But you need to get up early on Sunday, buy groceries, and wash your clothes and shoes."

There is a washing machine for washing clothes, and if you happen to buy vegetables, you don’t need to go to the vegetable market, you can buy them directly from Uncle Yu. The only thing that Xiao Wang needs to work hard for is brushing shoes. There are only a few people in Ye Fan’s family, and it is worthwhile to work for two hours before and after meals and then take a day off.

Xiao Wang was very happy. After dinner, he hummed a pop song while washing the pots and dishes. Ye Fan was busy at the company for a few more days. After breakfast on Friday, Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye were about to go out. Yu Wentao asked, "Are you coming back at noon?"

Ye Fan thought for a moment and said, "Let's eat outside." He then asked Geng Zhiye if he wanted to go to a Western restaurant.

Geng Zhiye hadn't been to a Western restaurant for several years and immediately expressed his desire to try it.

Ye Fan thought about how hard it was for her mother-in-law to cook for the whole family every day: "Aunt Yu, how about you?"

Geng Zhiye suddenly turned to his stepmother, as if he was afraid that she would go. Yu Wentao said speechlessly that she and Erbao would go together on the weekend.

Geng Zhiye was satisfied. Ye Fan teased him on purpose and wanted to call her parents to ask if they were going. Geng Zhiye snatched her mobile phone away and said, "Ask Chen Xiaohui to take them."

Ye Fan deliberately said: "Her salary is not high, and she has to support her daughter."

"Your parents have a pension, why keep it and not spend it?" Geng Zhiye said bluntly.

Ye Fan choked and said, "You deserve it that my mother dislikes you!"

Yu Wentao added: "I have despised it for half my life."

As long as she didn't follow him, Geng Zhiye didn't care what she said. "The day after tomorrow is the weekend."

Yu Wentao said unhappily, "Do I need you to remind me? Hurry up and leave!"

Ye Fan pulled Geng Zhiye out.

Xiao Wang couldn't help but say, "Uncle is sometimes even more childish than Dabao."

The people who had just left the main courtyard heard it clearly and couldn't help but stop. Ye Fan dragged him out the door: "Ignore her. You drive."

"I don't know how to get there."

Ye Fan said, "Let's go to the mall and buy you some clothes first. You haven't bought summer clothes in years. The collars of your old white shirts and T-shirts have turned yellow and deformed."

Geng Zhiye looked at his knee-length shorts and tugged at his dark green T-shirt: "This is fine. Don't buy white."

"Haven't you worn enough clothes in the army?" Ye Fan wanted to complain when he saw his clothes. He wore military uniform all year round, and when he bought him clothes on vacation, he chose colors close to those of the military uniform.

Geng Zhiye: "Don't you think this color suits me?"

"You're used to wearing it!" Ye Fan glared at him, "Drive carefully."

Geng Zhiye nodded: "It's your money anyway, as long as you are happy!"

Ye Fan wanted to remind him that he was spending the common property of the couple. Seeing that he didn't care about the money, Ye Fan chose to keep quiet, so that he wouldn't go to the mall and complain about the price, then find the cheap ones and complain about the cheap ones, and finally buy nothing after a round.

When going to the mall by private car, Ye Fan didn't have to worry about his money being stolen, so he brought more money and paid in cash. In a store, he selected three sets of clothes for Geng Zhiye, spending more than a thousand yuan, which was almost his monthly salary, and Geng Zhiye still looked like he was taking advantage of him.

Ye Fan asked: "What else do you want to buy?"

"You're not buying it?"

Ye Fan: "I'll go to Hong Kong City to buy more. Besides, I buy clothes every year and I have too many to wear."

"Then choose two sets for Dabao and Erbao."

Ye Fan: "Let them go out and buy it themselves on the weekend."

Geng Zhiye asked, "Then let's take a look at the shoes?"

Ye Fan asked: "Leather shoes?"

"I don't want it!" Geng Zhiye refused.

Ye Fan said: "Then buy some sports casual shoes."

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The couple went downstairs to the shoe store and saw a few people inside. Ye Fan whispered, "Will you accompany me to the skin care counter?"

Geng Zhiye was not interested in skin care products, but he wanted Ye Fan to be beautiful, so he took Ye Fan with him. Ye Fan picked out the products for Erbao first, and then for Dabao. When Geng Zhiye heard the saleswoman mention the words "men's perfume", he got up from the sofa and asked, "Are you buying it for me?"

Ye Fan was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses and didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You and Dabao each have a bottle?"

“I don’t use the same one as him.”

Ye Fanxin said that people don’t want to use the same one as you.

The salesgirl asked tentatively, "Who is Dabao?"

"My son." Geng Zhiye said.

The salesgirl was speechless for a while, fortunately she thought it was my brother-in-law. The salesgirl picked two more bottles and handed them to Geng Zhiye. Geng Zhiye thought one of them was too greasy and pointed at the other one: "I want this one."

The salesgirl couldn't help but complain inwardly, why was this old man talking like a child asking for gifts?

Ye Fan asked the salesgirl to get a new bottle and wrap the other one. Then she chose her skin care products and asked casually, "Do you have any men's cream?"

"Yes, we only have this one." The other tellers confirmed that it was a big customer and came to serve him, and asked Ye Fan if he wanted anything else.

Ye Fan picked out a set of skin care products suitable for her skin type, and Geng Zhiye opened his wallet to pay. Ye Fan reminded him, "Not enough."

Geng Zhiye took out the card: "Use this? How much is it?"

After receiving the bill, Geng Zhiye took a breath and asked in disbelief: "Is your face worth so much?"

Several salesgirls were stunned for a moment, and didn't dare to answer. Ye Fan slapped him on the waist: "What nonsense! These are mine alone? Put them away! Go next door and pick two for your mother."

“She uses clam oil!”

The young salesgirls looked at each other and thought he was such a filial son!

Ye Fan pinched his waist and said, "Shut up. You're spending my money, not yours."

"You're talking as if we're not a couple. Your money isn't mine?"

Ye Fan opened his mouth and said helplessly: "Don't make trouble."

"No matter how good the old lady's medicine is, it's useless. These are external applications. She is too old to be applied internally. She needs internal care."

Ye Fan nodded: "Then why do you still eat the abalone and fish maw she stewed?"

"She said abalone is not as fragrant as braised pork, and fish maw is not as tender as fish meat. If she doesn't eat it, you can't finish it, so you blame me?" Geng Zhiye turned the tables, "I haven't even said she was wasteful, and you still have the nerve to criticize me."

Ye Fan grabbed his waist again. Geng Zhiye hurriedly admitted his mistake, and there was a "puff" sound behind him. Ye Fan froze, and Geng Zhiye turned around and asked, "Is it funny?"

The young woman's smile froze when she saw his frosty face. The salesgirls who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to suddenly fell silent - they were used to seeing local tycoons and officials, but Geng Zhiye didn't belong to any of them. The dark green shirt made them guess - Geng Zhiye looked about fifty years old, and a soldier of this age must be a high-ranking officer in the army.

The clever salesgirl quickly tried to smooth things over, asking Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye to rest aside, asking a colleague to get some water, and then winked at another colleague to take the young woman aside. The man who came in with the woman naturally followed. Geng Zhiye couldn't help but take a second look, refused the salesgirl's water, and pulled Ye Fan out, saying, "You've been spoiled by your father."

"how do you know?"

Geng Zhiye: "My daughter went shopping in a skin care product store, and her father followed her. Isn't she spoiled? The things in this store are so expensive. Anyone who buys several items must be rich or noble, and she dares to laugh at her." He added, "She has no sense at all. She is not as good as our second child!"

"Is there anyone who would take this opportunity to praise his daughter?" Ye Fan smiled and turned around, seeing the profile of the man in the store, "Have we met somewhere before?"

Geng Zhiye looked back and said, "Shoe store."

Ye Fan thought about it carefully: "The shoe store I went to before? It seems they are there. But that gay man looks familiar to me."

"Have you seen it in the business world?" Geng Zhiye deliberately dropped the bag of clothes. The people in the store heard the noise and looked outside. Geng Zhiye calmly picked up the bag and asked, "Did you see it clearly?"

Ye Fan felt embarrassed to meet several pairs of eyes, so he turned around and pulled him away: "It seems to be my high school classmate."

Geng Zhiye instantly forgot about that episode and asked hurriedly, "Are you sure?"

Ye Fan was surprised: "Why are you more excited than me?" He seemed to have a classmate who joined the army in his memory. "Could it be that he is your soldier?"

"How is that possible!" Geng Zhiye felt that he had answered too quickly, and tried to make up for it, "Look at him, he's bald, and his belly is bulging like he's four or five months pregnant. How does he look like one of my soldiers?"

Ye Fan didn't understand what baldness had to do with being a soldier: "Don't take this opportunity to insult me. After all, I'm your classmate."

Geng Zhiye deliberately hummed: "I can't even remember that we were classmates."

Ye Fan opened his mouth: "You, let me think about it!"

Geng Zhiye said, as if he would not be able to remember it even after three days: "Okay! Take your time to think about it."

(End of this chapter)