Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Ye Fan signed and explained: "The director has a lot of experience. He was almost tricked into transferring the house. Fortunately, he was busy with work and needed to go on a business trip. He was separated from his partner for a few days. He gained some experience outside and came to his senses. He stopped the loss in time. It can be said that every failure makes you wiser."

"From what he said, he has a good relationship with Team Leader Liang. Team Leader Liang doesn't know about this?"

Ye Fan said: "Team Leader Liang may think that if he doesn't find someone who loves to spend money and dress up, he won't encounter such a thing."

Geng Zhiye laughed: "Naive! But I'm curious, are all those people upstairs so naive, or are he and the director unique?"

"Half and half. But the salary is high, so both men and women can feel confident at home. Their families don't dare to make things difficult for them, so there aren't many troubles." Although Ye Fan didn't ask everyone one by one, she often went upstairs and could tell something from the employees' mental state.

Geng Zhiye nodded: "For example, in my family, your mother always thinks that I am not worthy of you."

"Come on." Ye Fan glared at him, "Don't bring up my mom for everything. My mom doesn't owe you anything. Also, go back in a couple of days and replace the TV and refrigerator at home."

Geng Zhiye: "Why not keep Ye Jin's money?"

Ye Fan: "I'm offering this as a gift. Any problem?"

"Then it's time to change ours as well." Geng Zhiye said.

Ye Fan nodded: "Switch. Bring Aunt Yu along and let her choose."

"What about the old one?"

Ye Fan: "Ask Uncle Yu if anyone needs to sell it at a discount. It's not worth selling it to a scrap collection station. A refrigerator costs only ten yuan."

"So cheap?" Geng Zhiye wondered if he had been in the army for too long.

Ye Fan raised his eyebrows and looked at him, as if to say "how expensive do you think it is?"

Geng Zhiye sighed: "Second-hand ones are really worthless."

Ye Fan suspected that he was actually teasing Team Leader Liang by talking about the refrigerator. Ye Fan had a lot of things to do and was too lazy to argue with him.

Geng Zhiye replaced the two electrical appliances, stayed at home for another day, and then returned to the army.

Originally, Ye Fan thought that given Team Leader Liang's personality, he might regret before the divorce. Perhaps both of them were angry, no one tried to calm them down, and the director was stirring up trouble, so the divorce certificate was processed very quickly. However, his ex-wife was not polite and accepted the 50,000 yuan.

Considering what his brother-in-law had done, Ye Fan felt that his ex-wife's family might go back on their word, so he asked the security guards to keep a close eye on them.

In early June, when the salary was paid, Ye Fan gave the front desk and security guards three extra days' wages, which were the hard work compensation for the days when Liang's ex-wife came to look for people. The security guards and the front desk were very motivated after receiving the money, and they worked like they were investigating spies every day.

More than half a month later, Ye Fan saw the news about the "Taiwan Strait" and realized that Geng Zhiye did not tell the truth that day, saying that he could speak foreign languages ​​and that the higher-ups were reluctant to release him. It was clear that at this critical juncture, it was best not to move.

Ye Fan estimated that Geng Zhiye would not be able to come back recently, and it was not suitable for her to go there. As expected, the phone call could not be reached, and Geng Zhiye seemed to have disappeared. After being a military family member for many years, Ye Fan was used to it and was busy as usual.

On the last day of June, a sign was hung on the empty office on the seventh floor - Mingguang Software.

An employee asked Team Leader Liang: "Isn't this our company's office? Why are you renting it out?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the director came out of the office and said, "Using the company's office and water and electricity will count as our initial investment. We will be a sister company in the future."

Team Leader Liang heard the director mention it a few times: "I seem to have heard the word Mingguang somewhere before?"

Director: "He is from Aviation University. He created a software and sold it for hundreds of thousands before he even graduated from university."

Team leader Liang suddenly realized: "Chu Guangming? Isn't he in a scientific research unit?"

"Not free." The director looked at everything and waited for someone to come over. "His team has more than ten people, and except for him, they are all fresh graduates. Don't bully them."

Team leader Liang laughed and said, "How can that be possible? But what are you researching?"

Ye Fan told the director. The director also felt that since they were all family members, there was no need to hide anything: "Anti-virus software. It is different from our focus. But if we need your help, don't be stingy. His company is profitable, and our company can get dividends. The boss's hands are as loose as the waist of an old lady's cotton pants. She may prepare something for us in the annual meeting in a few years when she has money."

The new employee asked, "Could it be a car?"

"Luxury car? I can't even imagine it! A three-wheeled motorcycle with a cape is more like it." The director said unhappily.

New employee: "That's good. It won't be blown by the wind or wet by the rain. I heard that not all luxury cars are good. There are many where it rains lightly inside even though it's raining heavily outside."

The director thought to himself, what nonsense.

"Then I will suggest to the boss to prepare a few three-wheeled vehicles in two years." The director was too lazy to argue with the employees about such trivial matters. Just like Ye Fan was too lazy to talk nonsense with him about some trivial matters. The director wiped his hands and prepared to go downstairs.

Team leader Liang stopped him and asked, "He only works on this kind of software?"

"Speak directly if you have anything to say."

Team Leader Liang: "If we also do research, would it be considered a waste of resources?"

The director had not thought of this when he talked to Ye Fan. He asked Ye Fan to think outside the box and see what else the software group could do. Ye Fan mentioned chat tools and professional forums, hoping that computers would no longer be computers, but a network world with everything.

The director told everyone on the seventh floor about this.

Before he finished speaking, an employee showed a "fantastic" look. The director took out his mobile phone from his pocket and said, "Would you have dared to imagine this ten years ago? Would you have dared to imagine that the Municipal Bureau would seek cooperation with us ten years ago?"

Team leader Liang did not dare to think about it, but it was actually realized. Hearing this, he said: "We can try. But how can a computer be equipped with so many software?"

Director: "Then ask the research institute and engineering team to update the motherboard and add memory. Why does the company invest so much money every year?"

Everyone in the software group suddenly realized.

On the morning of July 1, the director came out of the tea room and saw a female employee running upstairs: "What's going on upstairs?"

His assistant said, "I didn't expect Chu Guangming to be the real Chu Guangming. He is much more handsome than in the TV commercials. Before you came, I blamed you for deliberately hiding it."

Chu Guangming had been to the company with Dabao several times before. In recent years, the director stayed in the capital for the New Year and visited Ye Fan's home to pay New Year's greetings, and he also saw him. The director was used to seeing him and didn't think that the boy was so handsome that it was worth hiding him.

Director: "My brother-in-law isn't ugly either."

"Who dares to stare at the leader?" the assistant whispered, "Besides, he is not a star, and he doesn't know any stars."

Director: "Isn't Dabao better looking than him?"

"That's the young master's family, it's different."

The director couldn't understand: "No -" He suddenly remembered something, "Don't they want Chu Guangming to help them chase stars?"

The assistant shrugged.

The director shook his head: "This aspect really has nothing to do with education or age!"

Chu Guangming thought that everyone would have some complaints about him intruding, but he didn't expect that he would be so popular. He couldn't fail to show his appreciation for the favor they gave him. In the afternoon, he drove to buy a bunch of food and drinks and served them as afternoon tea for everyone on the seventh floor.

Since they were so good at dealing with things, they were considered a family, so the two families soon became friends. After a little more discussion, Chu Guangming's employees discovered that they were actually junior brothers and sisters of the software team.

Now we are truly a family.

However, no matter how much they played, they were all in the tea and rest area. Chu Guangming's people did not enter the software group office, and the software group employees did not stay at the door of his company's office. When the two groups realized this day, they couldn't help but "tsk" in their hearts, and added, "Who cares!"

Ye Fan learned from the director that the people upstairs were getting along well, so she stayed at home for a few days and then went south with a few employees.

Arriving in Ningbo, the boss of the injection molding factory, Ma Jianhua, invited Ye Fan to dinner. Since the two had known each other for many years, there was nothing fancy during the meal. Apart from work, they just talked about family matters. When the yellow croaker was served, Ma Jianhua casually said, "The seafood is not very good recently. It's all caught near the coast. Let's just eat a little this time. If there's something good later, I'll ask the employees who are on business trips to the capital to bring it over."

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Ye Fan once again confirmed that the coastal areas would not be peaceful this year. In her previous life, there had been no major changes in the inland areas since she was born, so it was clear that although it was dangerous, it would eventually be resolved.

Ye Fan felt relieved and also wanted to enjoy the food: "I heard from the staff in Hangzhou that your parents and family are all there?"

Ma Jianhua is Ye Fan's partner in Hong Kong. His parents came from the mainland. When he was a child, his family's living customs were exactly the same as those in the mainland. He also talked about those memories with Ye Fan, which is why Ye Fan dared to persuade him to come back to invest.

Ma Jianhua's parents once said that if they wanted to return to the mainland, they would go back to their hometown. However, there were no relatives in their hometown, and there was no homestead for them in the village. Their hometown felt like a foreign land, so Ma Jianhua persuaded his parents to move to Jiangnan.

The investment environment in Jiangnan is good, and it is not as humid and hot as Lingnan. The living conditions are similar. There are rice, seafood, bamboo shoots, sausages, etc. on the table. And if you move here, you don’t have to worry about the old and the young being bullied.

Ma's parents spent a week in Hangzhou, got a thorough understanding of the situation, and decided to listen to their son.

At first, Ma Jianhua's father-in-law's family disagreed, and his sisters and brothers strongly opposed it.

Hong Kong will return to China next year, and some wealthy people in Hong Kong are worried that their private enterprises will be transferred to state-owned enterprises, so they have been busy transferring assets in the past two years. Ma Jianhua's wife told her family that they were unfamiliar with the place and had to look at other people's faces. It would definitely be better to go to the mainland to be protected by the local government than to stay abroad.

His father-in-law's family thought it made sense and agreed to let his daughter move back. Ma Jianhua explained to his family that he didn't want a penny from the money from the sale of the house his parents moved out of. His sister was concerned about the money and was the first to agree. On the day Ma Jianhua's parents and wife arrived in Hangzhou, he was in Ningbo. It was raining heavily and windy in Ningbo, and the train was delayed, so he called Ye Fan's employees and asked them to help him pick up his family. So Ma Jianhua was not surprised that Ye Fan knew about this.

Ma Jianhua nodded: "My parents' house was sold a few days ago. I wanted to sell my properties, but the prices show no signs of falling, so I plan to wait a little longer."

Ye Fan: "Wait until the Spring Festival. When the water is full, it will overflow, but you don't know when it will be full. Maybe it will be at its peak during the Spring Festival, or maybe it's only 80% full. Even if it's only 70%, you can still make a lot of money."

Ma Jianhua held up three fingers to indicate a three-fold net profit.

Seeing this, Ye Fan said, "It's a lot." He paused and said, "I don't understand Hong Kong's economy, but there must be fluctuations before and after the handover. We are not gamblers, and we shouldn't put our chips on the line until then to try our luck."

Ma Jianhua: “Yes!”

"Then what about your company in Hong Kong City?"

Ma Jianhua said: "My wife's brother used to be my assistant, and now he takes over. He has always believed that eggs should not be put in one basket, and suggested that I move my assets abroad. Later, when he learned that I knew the leaders of the Ningbo and Hangzhou municipal governments, he changed his mind and asked me to move part of my assets to the mainland. I plan to keep only one house and the office floor of the company. My father-in-law and mother-in-law are in Hong Kong, and my wife and I go back several times a year."

Ye Fan nodded: "It's safe to live in your own home. Where are your children?"

Ma Jianhua sighed, "I'm abroad. I don't want to come back. But the class stratification there is serious. I don't like it, and neither does my wife. When we go to visit them, the foreigners look at us as if we are inferior." He suddenly remembered something, "I almost forgot. My wife heard me say that you also run a clothing business. She asked me if you mind telling her the source of the goods."

Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "Your wife wants to open a clothing store?"

"There is a wholesale market in Hangzhou. It is said that a store can earn millions a year. She wants to give it a try."

Ye Fan opened the bag, took out a notepad and pen, wrote down a few addresses and tore them up to give to Ma Jianhua. Ma Jianhua and his assistant were stunned, looking at him with a look of "how can you be so straightforward?"

Ye Fan smiled and said, "I don't have any clothing business in Hangzhou, so there's no need to be so stingy."

Ma Jianhua took it and thanked him.

"You're welcome. I admire people who are willing to work." Ye Fan wrote down another number. "If your wife has any questions, she can talk to this person. We've had dinner together, Zhang Xiaoming."

Ma Jianhua: "Yes, you said that he was in charge of the foreign trade company? Is he still doing foreign trade business now?"

"He is working on it. But he doesn't go out to do business. Foreigners often go to Xiushui Market to ask him to contact manufacturers." There is one thing that Zhang Xiaoming didn't say. If he didn't have a way to get something, he would ask Ye Fan. Ye Fan contacted state-owned enterprises, but he didn't want commission from the state-owned enterprises, so he asked Zhang Xiaoming to ask foreigners.

Because he often troubled Ye Fan, Ye Fan mentioned withdrawing his shares last year, but Zhang Xiaoming disagreed. Although without Ye Fan, he could turn to his brother-in-law. But Zhang Xiaoming was afraid of being disliked by his brother-in-law, so he would rather share the money with Ye Fan and save himself from worrying about it. He would not have to look at his brother-in-law's face when he went to his father-in-law's house during the holidays.

If his brother-in-law spoke to him in a sarcastic tone, he would not dare to refute, and Dong Ying could also fight back with confidence. Otherwise, he could only accept whatever his brother-in-law said.

Zhang Xiaoming is used to being nagged by his family. He is not afraid of it, but he does not want his wife and daughter to suffer because of him.

By the way, when things got back on track in Yongcheng, Ma Jianhua set up a factory in Hangzhou. He usually stayed in Hangzhou and came to Yongcheng several times a month. Fortunately, the transportation was convenient because it was close to the city.

Ye Fan stayed in Ningbo for two days and then went to Hangzhou with Ma Jianhua. Ma Jianhua's wife went to pick them up. In the past, Ma Jianhua's wife always felt that Ye Fan was too powerful and not the same as her, and she once complained that Ye Fan didn't know how to enjoy life. Later, when Ma Jianhua's business grew, he needed her to accompany Ma Jianhua to attend events. Other rich wives could help their husbands chat with business partners, but she only knew how to dress up and cook soup, so she felt inferior.

After several attempts, she also wanted to join the company. However, Ma Jianhua's company mainly dealt in electronic products. She couldn't even get a TV signal or figure out her phone bill was in arrears, so how could she understand computers?

When she heard that Ye Fan knew the owner of a clothing factory in Hangzhou and that she was good at dressing, she felt that her chance had come. So she was very enthusiastic when she saw Ye Fan and invited him to her house for dinner.

When they got home, Ma Jianhua's parents had just finished cooking. Ma Jianhua's wife personally served soup to Ye Fan. After the meal, there was dessert, and she even invited Ye Fan to stay at her house.

Ye Fan didn't like staying at other people's homes, so she said that this place was far from her company's office and she needed to go to the office for a meeting early tomorrow morning. Ma Jianhua's wife winked at him. Ye Fan saw it and said, "Old Ma said that sister-in-law wants to open a clothing store? I plan to go to the wholesale market after I finish my business in the store. When do you have time?"

Ma Jianhua’s wife was very excited and blurted out, “Anytime!”

Ye Fan: "Then you stay at home and wait for my call?"

Mrs. Ma nodded repeatedly, and walked Ye Fan downstairs to watch the staff take her away before going upstairs: "Mrs. Ye is a very nice person."

Ma Jianhua sighed, "Bad habit!" He remembered something and said, "Her husband's surname is Geng. I call her Ms. Ye not because she took her husband's surname, but because her original surname is Ye."

"Ah? She doesn't take her husband's surname?"

Ma Jianhua: "There is no such rule in the mainland. She was called Ye Fan before she got married, and she is still called Ye Fan after she got married."

"——I thought it was her husband and her last name. Ye is the Ye of tree leaves, and Fan is the Fan of pear blossoms."

Ma Jianhua was shocked.

His wife was ashamed: "Well, you didn't say which Fan it was, nor did you say what her husband's last name was. You can't blame me for this."

Ma Jianhua took a deep breath and said, "I'll say it again. In the mainland, there is no such thing as taking the husband's surname. There is no such thing in Lingnan, Jiangnan, the capital, the northeast, northwest, and southwest!"

"I know, I know." Mrs. Ma couldn't help but mutter, "I didn't expect the mainland to be like this."

Ma Jianhua: "It's always like this! There are also some situations that are different from the mainland. In the future, if you hear something different from what you heard in Hong Kong, you should carefully observe the other person's expression. Some women in Hong Kong think it's good not to go out to work, while the mainland is just the opposite. Many people in Hangzhou say they like sons, but don't think they don't like daughters. If you really follow their words and say something bad about your daughter, you will definitely offend people. I don't care how much money you make, but there is one thing: you can't make enemies for me!"

The fact that the "Ye" in Ye Fan's name was not her husband's surname had a huge impact on her. Mrs. Ma could not help but take it seriously and solemnly stated that she had remembered it.

Ye Fan probably never dreamed that Mrs. Ma always thought her husband's surname was Ye.

By the way, Ye Fan returned to the capital, and the employees recruited this year have passed the internship period and officially stayed in the company.

Ye Fan walked around the stairs and found that the only thing missing was the public relations department, which made him feel more at ease.

Ye Fan was very satisfied with the company's achievements twelve years after its establishment. After finishing the company's backlog of tasks, she took a few days off.

In the evening, Ye Fan had nothing to do, so he went to pick up Erbao from get off work.

Seeing Erbao coming out with several male and female colleagues, Ye Fan waited for her to get in the car and then asked, "Erbao, are you dating someone?"

"Mom!" Erbao was very unhappy: "Do you want me to hate you?"

Ye Fan glanced out the window and said, "That male colleague asked because he likes your mother."

"You don't even know her name!" Erbao rolled his eyes.

Ye Fan nodded: "It's because I don't know him that I can tell he likes you. It's strange that your mother can tell when you're playing around with your classmates and friends."

"Well, then, you can't say it either."

Ye Fan: "You want mom to pretend to be blind? Erbao, mom is not urging you to get married."

"I know, dating doesn't mean marriage. Mom, can you please forgive me for not being as open-minded as your generation?"

Ye Fan nodded: "We are catching up with getting rid of all kinds of old ideas and customs. You are indeed not as open-minded as us." He sighed, "People of our generation would pursue anyone they liked directly. You think twice before you go -"

"You weren't guilty of hooliganism then, but you are now!" Erbao interrupted, "I don't want to discuss this with you."

Ye Fan: "You love work and don't have time to find a partner, mom respects you. The premise is really like this, and it's not because of the secular view that you have to get married after dating, and you don't dare to find a partner because you are afraid of getting married."

"Am I that timid?"

Ye Fan said: "Then if someone invites you out to play, will you go?"

"If my classmates or friends invite me, I will go. But if your business partners or the children of your father's comrades-in-arms invite me, I won't go. I'm not familiar with them!"

Ye Fan stopped the car and waited for the red light, then touched his daughter's head.

Erbao opened it with one hand and said, "This trick is useless. Mom, if you are free, go play with Dad. Also, if you want to hold a grandchild, go find your brother."

"Your brother is an unfilial son. Who knows where he has gone now?" Ye Fan hasn't seen his son for several months. He should be at some satellite launch base.

Erbao: "Where's my dad?"

Ye Fan looked at her with a half-smile: "You don't know?"

The diplomatic department has been very busy recently, with diplomats in the front and the military in the back. It is impossible that there is nothing going on in the back when the front is busy. Erbao and his colleagues are talking nonsense in the front, and the back must be on high alert.

Realizing this, Erbao thought of her dad not having time to go home: "No wonder you're so free to bother me!"

"I'm not free to pick you up?"

Erbao likes her mother to pick her up, saying, "I didn't ask you to pick me up!"

(End of this chapter)