Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Chen Xiaohui couldn't understand why Ye Fan was so sure that Ren was lying to her.

Ye Fan had never even seen the person.

When they reached the main street, Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but ask, "How do you know he's a liar?"

Ye Fan: "What good family would sell things on New Year's Eve? Don't you think it's unlucky? Think about it, if you need money urgently, why not do it last weekend?"

Chen Xiaohui: "I said I was busy during those days."

Ye Fan looked back and raised his chin towards the supply and marketing cooperative: "Two miles, half an hour late is enough for getting home after get off work at noon."

Chen Xiaohui was speechless.

Ye Fan sighed: "Don't get too excited when you hear about old things."

Chen Xiaohui: "Then how do you know what Ming and Qing furniture looks like?"

Ye Fan: "I've been looking for books to catch up these days. I looked carefully at the furniture you bought before coming here. They are all Ming-style furniture, but not necessarily all from the Ming Dynasty. Shunzhi and early Kangxi furniture are no different from Ming Dynasty furniture."

Chen Xiaohui was very surprised: "You went straight back to your room that day just to read a book?"

Ye Fan glanced at her and said, what else?

Chen Xiaohui's face flushed: "What about the expert professor you mentioned?"

Ye Fan: "Nonsense. They don't believe what others say. My last name is Ye, and I haven't been kicked out of the Ye family yet. It's not difficult for me to find a few professors."

Chen Xiaohui was a little unconvinced: "I'm back too."

Ye Fan: "You went to the countryside after graduating from high school. You have never met anyone in the antique circle. He is not afraid of you finding out. Secondly, you made him feel too eager. You left him alone for three months, and in the end he didn't sell it. Furniture like that, not to mention that every household in the imperial city has it, you can find three out of ten households. Now it's a buyer's market, whoever buys it doesn't matter."

Chen Xiaohui thought about the end of the revolution the year after next and the reform and opening up less than four years away, and the market economy after the reform and opening up. She couldn't help but feel anxious, as if she was making less money every day.

Ye Fan was worried that she hadn't given up. "You're lucky that you didn't lose money on those things at home. If you don't enrich yourself and rely on luck to get those things, you will lose them sooner or later because of bad luck." He paused, "If you think that Zhao Ruping and Chen Kuanren will take your money if you keep it, then go to the second-hand store. Although it's more expensive than shopping around, at least there are no fakes in the state-owned stores. You can also go to the scrap collection station. The things there are sold by pound. It's worth buying a hundred pounds and finding a good thing."

Chen Xiaohui: "But if I bring the waste home, the neighbors will have to talk nonsense to my mother again."

Ye Fanxin said, "So you knew it."

"Then go to the store." Ye Fan reminded, "Buy small items. Put them in your bag and no one will notice. Then no one will say anything."

Chen Xiaohui nodded without saying anything.

Seeing this, Ye Fan stopped talking nonsense. When Chen Xiaohui returned home, he reminded her mother not to give Chen Xiaohui money. Chen Xiaohui wanted to save face, so she would never ask anyone for money. She could spend her own salary as she pleased. If she didn't spend money, it might benefit Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping in the future.

This year, the Geng family was the same as usual, with the second brother Geng's family of four, Ye Fan's mother and daughter, Geng's father, and Yu Wentao's mother and daughter. The New Year's Eve dinner was very different, with more abalone and kelp, and a bowl of seaweed egg drop soup. There were also fresh shrimps and sea fish. Before Ye Fan came, he asked Geng Zhiye to buy half a bucket, put ice cubes at the bottom and on top. It was the coldest month of winter, and the temperature in Jiangnan was not below zero, so the surface ice melted a lot. Fortunately, the weather became colder when the car passed through Shanghai. When it arrived in the capital, it was icy and snowy, and the ice no longer melted. When Ye Fan received the goods, they were still very fresh.

Su Duofu was smart and suggested that the buckets could be shipped cheaper or by truckloads.

Ye Fan asked: "What if we can't sell them all? In the north, we have river shrimps, crabs, grass carp, crucian carp and carp. We may not be used to eating marine fish. Unless the cost is reduced, the supply and marketing cooperative has a large freezer where we can sell them slowly."

Wooden boxes and cardboard boxes cannot hold ice, so foam boxes must be made to order, and ice must be bought from ice rinks. Not only does this increase the cost, but it also cannot be sold too expensively. There are many people in the capital, and even more ordinary workers. Ordinary workers would rather spend a bag of kelp than a pound of prawns. Thinking of this, Su Duofu realized that this would not work, at least not now, but he might try it later when wages rise.

By the way, the Geng family made dumplings on the night of New Year’s Eve just like in previous years.

On the first day of the new year, Dabao and Erbao urged Ye Fan to go to grandma's house after receiving their New Year's money.

Ye Fan rode a 28-inch bicycle with two children in front and behind to go home, and happened to meet her father coming back. Father Ye got off the bike and hugged Erbao who was sitting in the front chair. Erbao stretched out his little hand and said, "Happy New Year, Grandpa."

Ye's father had just returned from the army and his mind was full of work. After a moment's pause, he took out a wad of money from his pocket.

Erbao exclaimed: "That's a lot."

Ye Fan reached out and took it away, gave her ten yuan, gave Dabao ten yuan, and stuffed the rest into her father's pocket: "Even if you have money, you can't give it all away."

Chen Xiaohui heard the sound and came out of the house just in time to see this scene. She thought that no matter which life, the Ye family would always favor Ye Fan. At this time in the previous life, her child was about the same age as Dabao and Erbao, and her father had never been so generous.

However, Chen Xiaohui forgot that Dabao and Erbao were raised by Ye's father and mother. Her two children only visited their grandparents during the holidays, and were not very enthusiastic about their grandparents, nor did they greet them as soon as they opened their mouths like Erbao did.

Who wants to put a cold face on a warm butt?

Ye Fan turned around and saw Chen Xiaohui was in a daze, not knowing where her mind was wandering. She shook her head helplessly: "Xiaohui?"

Chen Xiaohui shuddered: "Ah?"

Ye Fan sighed: "Please move aside, I will push the car in."

Chen Xiaohui nodded and made way. Dabao held out his hand: "Auntie, carry me down."

Chen Xiaohui subconsciously picked him up. Dabao said "thank you" and ran into the house, "Grandma, grandma, happy new year."

Tao Chunlan: "Grandpa didn't give you any New Year's money?"

Dabao nodded: "Grandpa gave it to me."

Tao Chunlan deliberately made things difficult for him: "Did you kowtow to me?"

Dabao knelt down and kowtowed.

Chen Xiaohui was dumbfounded: "Da-Dabao, how-"

Ye Fan was surprised: "What's wrong?"

Chen Xiaohui didn't know how to put it: "You just knock on it when I say so?"

Ye Fan thought that Dabao had knocked his head and said, "No, today is the first day of the new year. If we don't knock today, will we do it after dinner or tomorrow?"

Chen Xiaohui shook her head: "I mean, he is so straightforward and doesn't hesitate at all."

Ye Fan couldn't understand: "Dabao kowtowed to Mom, he's not an outsider, why are you hesitating?"

Seeing Ye Fan was very confused, Chen Xiaohui said, "I can't explain it either."

Father Ye told the driver to drive slowly. Today was the first day of the new year and many factories were closed. The road was full of people who were out having fun or visiting relatives. Then he came in holding Erbao and said, "Xiaohui, do you feel embarrassed to kowtow to your elders?"

Chen Xiaohui had never kowtowed to anyone in her life, so she nodded involuntarily.

Father Ye smiled and said, "Because you don't often visit your elders. Didn't you often visit your relatives in the past?"

Chen Xiaohui thought about it carefully. As far as she could remember, she had only visited relatives a few times in her life.

Father Ye saw that she needed to think: "It seems so. If you don't visit each other often, your grandpa won't be as close as your neighbors. Relatives are also wrong. Children, if they don't want to kowtow, then don't kowtow. Therefore, if you don't give lucky money and make a fuss, your children will become reluctant to visit relatives."

Dabao stretched out his hand: "Grandma, there's Erbao's. Grandpa said it doesn't matter if we kowtow or not."

Tao Chunlan took out another ten yuan: "It's my monthly salary." She tapped his forehead.

Dabao covered his forehead and said, "No, it's not true. My mother said that you earn more than her." He gave Erbao ten yuan, "My grandma gave it to me."

Erbao stuffed it into his pocket and said in a childish voice, "Thank you, grandma."

Tao Chunlan smiled and said, "Come down, Grandpa is tired."

As soon as Erbao came down, he took out the money and gave it to his mother. Chen Xiaohui was surprised that Erbao was so sensible.

Ye Fan took it and said, "Give it to me?"

Erbao: "Mom, buy some candy."

Father Ye teased her deliberately: "This is given to you by your grandparents."

Erbao nodded to show that he understood, and still told his mother.

Ye Fan put the money in his pocket. Er Bao was worried and patted it hard. The pocket was flattened by her and no money could be seen. He nodded his head with satisfaction: "Okay."

Ye Fan picked her up and said, "Little clever girl. Why didn't you give me what your grandparents gave you?"

Erbao: "Erbao buys candy."

Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but say: "Erbao, your mother is rich."

Erbao thought: "Mom doesn't have any New Year's money."

Dabao nodded: "Yes. Mom, is that enough?"

Ye Fan: "Can I help you keep it?"

Dabao shook his head decisively: "I will keep it myself."

Yu Wentao sewed a small pocket and a button inside his cotton-padded jacket. Dabao put the money in his pocket and said, "Mom, do you have a pocket inside your clothes? Ask grandma to sew one for you."

Ye Fan: "I can do it myself."

Father Ye invited everyone into the house.

Ye Fan realized something was wrong when he arrived at the main room: "Where's my eldest brother?"

Tao Chunlan was upset when she talked about this: "Your eldest sister-in-law and his younger brother's wife quarreled. They didn't quarrel during normal times, but they quarreled during the Chinese New Year. I don't know what they were thinking. I didn't invite them to go, but your brother and mother-in-law called every now and then, as if the phone bills were free."

Chen Xiaohui nodded: "She called before I had breakfast in the morning and said she wanted a divorce." In her previous life, Chen Xiaohui was at her husband's house at this time. She seldom went back to her parents' house. She was not sure whether they divorced in the end or not, so she did not dare to express her opinion and asked Ye Fan if she wanted to call and ask.

Ye Fan asked her mother: "You didn't tell me why?"

Tao Chunlan said bluntly: "Why have you quarreled every year in the past few years? You are idle. You and Zhiye both have jobs and have to take care of the children. Why don't you quarrel?"

Chen Xiaohui was surprised. Is Geng Zhiye so good-tempered?

Ye Fan sat down opposite Chen Xiaohui and could see her expression when she looked up. She was speechless. Didn't she think that Geng Zhiye's white moonlight might be named Ye Fan? Or maybe Geng Zhiye just made up a lie because he didn't want to find a partner.

Ye Fan: "He is often not at home. I can't find him even if I want to argue with him. Just like today, he must be in the army."

Dabao couldn't help but say, "The same is true for Mid-Autumn Festival."

Ye Fan poured her father a glass of water: "Dad, what did you eat this morning?"

Father Ye: "Dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork. Is it almost noon?"

Dabao and Erbao slept late last night, and it was nine o'clock when they had breakfast. Ye Fan felt it was getting late, so he looked at the clock and it was past eleven o'clock: "Dad, Mom, you sit down, I'll cook."

Chen Xiaohui said she was washing vegetables. Before her parents could say anything, she followed Ye Fan. Ye's father was very surprised and asked his wife in a low voice: "These two children seem to be better than before?"

Tao Chunlan: "Maybe I told Xiaohui that Fanfan had nothing to do at home so I cleaned up all the junk she bought."

Father Ye's expression changed drastically: "Buy again?"

Tao Chunlan shook her head: "I don't know how Fanfan fooled me. He said he didn't want to buy furniture."

Father Ye's heart skipped a beat: "Buy something else?"

Tao Chunlan thought of Ye Fan's words: "Let her do whatever she wants. She doesn't have much left after spending all her salary." Seeing the two children listening with their eyes wide open, "Dabao, don't tell Auntie that Grandpa and I said she loves shopping."

Dabao shook his head. Erbao followed his brother's example and shook his head as well.

However, Chen Xiaohui did not go to Ye Fan because he was helping her clean the furniture: "Are you just not going to care about the affairs of your sister-in-law, your brothers and sisters?"

Ye Fan didn't understand: "Guan?"

Chen Xiaohui: "Just talk about it, and forget it?"

Ye Fan handed her a handful of celery. "Even their parents can't take care of the couple's affairs, so how can distant relatives take care of them? I know what my eldest brother and sister-in-law are doing when they go back." Seeing the shrimps in the cupboard, "Didn't you eat them yesterday?"

Chen Xiaohui looked at the cupboard and said, "They ate half of it. They boiled it in water with ginger and scallions. My sister-in-law said it was delicious. My mother said to save half for her when she goes back to her parents' home. When she left in the morning, my mother asked her to take it, but she said she wasn't going to give it to them, but to make it for Dabao and Erbao."

Geng Zhiye asked Su Duofu and Su Yuncheng to give half of the seafood he brought back to her husband's family and half to her parents' family.

Yu Wentao and Geng's father often complained that Tao Chunlan had snatched the eldest and second children. Tao Chunlan thought Geng's father was snatching the children from her, but the two elders never said anything to Ye Fan, saying that whatever she had, she would get half of it. Or neither family would get anything.

Ye Fan put the shrimp back and said, "Dabao, my second uncle and my second aunt are at home these days, and my mother-in-law cooked all the fresh fish and shrimp. They have had enough. I put it in the refrigerator - I forgot, Dad hasn't eaten it yet, let's cook it." After saying that, he took it out again.

Chen Xiaohui: "Where's the hairtail?"

"Let's braise it. Prepare some star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, and dried chili peppers."

Chen Xiaohui found what she wanted and said, "According to you, it would be useless for Big Brother and Big Sister-in-law to go."

Ye Fan turned on the stove: "It was a waste of time anyway. Otherwise, Mom wouldn't be so upset when she talked about my sister-in-law's family."

Chen Xiaohui: "What if we really get divorced?"

Ye Fan didn't even think about it: "Just divorce. Whoever divorces can't live."

Chen Xiaohui's hands froze as she was peeling onions. She told Ye Fan that Geng Zhiye had someone else in his heart, but Ye Fan obviously didn't take it seriously. Was it because she was not afraid of divorce? She even thought that if she divorced Geng Zhiye, she might be able to find someone better.

Chen Xiaohui felt that she had discovered the truth.

But why isn’t Ye Fan afraid of divorce?

Chen Xiaohui couldn't understand it, just like she didn't understand why Dabao kowtowed to Tao Chunlan without any psychological burden.

Perhaps this is the difference between her and Ye Fan.

After staying in this family for a long time, she might slowly understand.

Chen Xiaohui asked if one scallion was enough.

Ye Fan nodded: "Didn't Mom buy any groceries?"

Chen Xiaohui: "There's a crucian carp hanging outside, it's been pickled with salt."

Ye Fan: "Bring it here so I can wash it with hot water and cook some soup. Stir-fry the celery with meat, and stew the cabbage with oil residue. Four dishes and one soup, that's enough."

“Do more.”

Ye Fan and Chen Xiaohui were startled and turned to see Tao Chunlan approaching with a sullen face. Ye Fan was curious and asked with a smile, "Who made our old lady angry again?" As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a car entering the yard. Ye Fan was surprised: "Brother and sister-in-law are back?"

Ye Jin looked towards the kitchen: "Is Fanfan here?"

Dabao and Erbao came out of the house: "Uncle, aunt, happy new year."

Li Mingyue laughed out loud: "Happy New Year." She took out twenty yuan from her pocket: "Uncle, ten yuan and I'll give you ten yuan. You two can divide it among yourselves."

Dabao gave ten yuan to his sister and kept ten yuan for himself.

Ye Jin parked the car and picked up his nephew: "You're smart again."

Dabao wanted to get down: "I am a primary school student, you can't hug me."

Ye hugged him tightly and went to the kitchen: "Fanfan, Dabao just turned five last month. Can he remember pinyin if he starts learning so early?"

Ye Fan: "I've been able to remember things since I was three years old. Big brother, is your brother-in-law divorced?"

Ye Jin snorted coldly and said unhappily, "Divorce! I didn't agree back then. Your sister-in-law insisted that she didn't want to live with me. It doesn't matter whether I agree or not. Now - Li Mingyue, do you still think so?"

Li Mingyue came over holding her niece: "My brother is a loser, but he will marry her even if the whole family opposes."

Chen Xiaohui frowned. Isn’t Li Mingyue’s younger brother very capable?

Tao Chunlan turned around and saw Chen Xiaohui's expression. She was speechless and amused for a moment: "Your sister-in-law means that her brother is afraid of his wife, not that he has accomplished nothing."

Chen Xiaohui suddenly realized: "But, if you are afraid, how dare you quarrel with others?"

Ye Fan was equally curious and signaled her brother to talk about it with her eyes.

Ye Jin sighed and said that his brother-in-law's mother-in-law and father-in-law were ordinary workers. His brother-in-law's two brothers-in-law were about the same age as Ye Fan, and one was under 18 years old. When Ye Fan needed a job, his brother-in-law quietly gave the job to his brother-in-law. Ye Jin could understand that one was his sister's sister-in-law and the other was his wife's younger brother. If he were in his place, he would also be biased towards his own family.

Chen Xiaohui suddenly understood why Li Mingyue annoyed her so much in her previous life. In her previous life, she didn't dare to join the army and didn't want to go to the countryside. Tao Chunlan asked Ye Jin to think of a solution. Not long after, Ye Jin said that his brother-in-law had a job. In this life, she didn't take the job of Li Mingyue's brother and brother-in-law, and the couple quarreled every year. If it was in the previous life, they would quarrel every day.

Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but sigh.

Ye Jin laughed: "Why are you sighing? It's my brother-in-law who should be sighing."

Ye Fan: "Brother, is it because your brother-in-law disagrees and thinks that eating is ugly?"

Ye Jin nodded: "Work is so busy now. How can he arrange one thing after another? I told his brother-in-law to try the Air Force. If he passes the physical examination, he can stay in the army for half his life. The old couple felt sorry for him and said flying a plane is dangerous."

Li Mingyue was speechless: "My sister-in-law said the same thing. She told my brother to find you and your brother. Your brother once asked my brother to find you a job, but he secretly gave the job to his brother-in-law. How can I bother you and your brother now?"

Chen Xiaohui thought to herself that it was indeed that job.

Ye Fan: "Your sister-in-law said that your brother wants to save face, or doesn't want to contribute?"

Li Mingyue: "She said my brother looked down on her family. I went over and said that I looked down on her family, too. She was so angry that she almost died. I said, if she died today, I would introduce her to someone tomorrow."

Chen Xiaohui opened her mouth wide. Why did she have the same temper as Ye Fan?

Ye Fan: "Stop arguing?"

Li Mingyue nodded: "Go to the countryside in the spring!"

Tao Chunlan was outside the kitchen. Upon hearing this, she came to the door again and said, "I called you two one after another this morning to urge you to come over. Was it to ask you to arrange work?"

Li Mingyue: "My parents hope they can leave as soon as possible and have some peace and quiet. I don't think it will last long."

No one expected this to happen so quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fifth day of the Chinese New Year. Ye Fan took Dabao and Erbao to Geng's house to spend the day, and returned to her mother's house in the evening to pack her luggage. The next day, the three of them boarded the train to the south. Ye Fan took the sleeper this time, did not bring much luggage, and did not ask Geng Zhiye to go to Hangzhou to pick them up.

Geng Zhiye took a fishing boat and a bus to Yongcheng Railway Station. The moment he saw Ye Fan, he couldn't help but complain: "You still remember to come back."

Ye Fan asked him to hold Dabao, and then gave him the handbag, while he carried the handbag and held Erbao: "You talk as if you are spending the New Year alone."

Geng Zhiye just came home yesterday, and Ye Fan could tell at a glance that the rice, flour and oil were not missing. Geng Zhiye didn't dare to continue talking about this: "You didn't sleep all night, did you?"

Ye Fan: "The traffic is not stopping in the middle of the night, so I can rest assured and sleep for a few hours. No one has come to see you these days, right?"

Geng Zhiye recalled the first time the food factory sold goods, many fishermen blocked his door: "There is no time. Either they go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, or go out to sea to fish. They can't wait to sell a batch of goods before the Lantern Festival."

Ye Fan held Erbao's head and let her sleep well: "Can't you?"

Geng Zhiye shook his head: "The weather is bad, it's wet and cold and the crops can't be dried in the sun. It rained on New Year's Eve, snowed on New Year's Day, and it was only clear yesterday. There's a lot of rain in the spring, and it's a blessing from God that we can ship on February 2."

When they reached the bus stop, Geng Zhiye put his son down, took Erbao in his hand and asked Ye Fan to take a rest.

Ye Fan asked Dabao to lean on her legs: "Are you still sleepy?"

Dabao is not sleepy, Dabao is tired. After changing trains from Hangzhou, Ye Fan held Erbao and carried the luggage, while Dabao walked alone. Afraid that his mother would worry about missing the train, Ye Fan asked him if he was tired, his little face flushed and he smiled and said no, Dabao is a primary school student, he has grown up.

Geng Zhiye comforted his son: "It's good to be home. Dad will go back with you later."

Dabao hugged his mother's legs and looked up and asked, "Can Dad go back?"

Geng Zhiye: "Dad has his annual leave - the car is coming." He picked up the bag, "Fanfan, you carry Dabao up first."

Ye Fan held Dabao in his arms and sat in the car without letting go.

The fishing boat swayed and Dabao fell asleep. Ye Fan put him on the bed, and Dabao slept for another hour before waking up.

Erbao laughed at him for being lazy.

Dabao dug his sister out of the quilt and put a coat on her: "Where are mom and dad?"

Erbao pointed outside: "Dad went to work. Mom is planting vegetables."

Ye Fan heard from Su Yuanhang that it rarely snowed on the island, and there were not often "late spring cold snaps". Tao Chunlan gave Ye Fan a lot of rapeseed, and Ye Fan had nothing to do after a nap, so he decided to plant half first and plant the remaining half when the weather warmed up around Qingming Festival.

Liao Miaomiao helped with a small hoe and asked Ye Fan if he wanted flowers.

Ye Fan: "What flower?"

Liao Miaomiao: "Rose flowers climbing the wall. My classmate gave them to me. My mom doesn't allow me to plant them, saying that shade vegetables can't grow big. I planted them outside the wall, but even if the flowers bloom inside the wall, how much sunlight can they block?"

Ye Fan smiled: "If I plant it, you can plant it too?"

Liao Miaomiao nodded: "My mother said, it's right to learn from you."

Ye Fan: "Okay. But if a naughty kid picks it before it grows up, don't fight with him. If you fight over a flower, your mother won't let you plant it anymore."

Liao Miaomiao threw down her hoe and went to the fishing village to find her classmates.

Dabao pulled Erbao out and saw a small hoe in front of his mother. Dabao picked it up and said, "Mom, I'll help you."

Ye Fan didn't dare to ask him to move, his arm was not as long as the hoe: "Take your sister to play with the older brother and younger sister."

Dabao asked his sister to wait for him, and he went back to the house to look through his bag - in the bag was the delicious food that Li Mingyue bought for him and Erbao at the Friendship Store. Dabao found a bottle of Coke, held it in both hands and went out: "Mom, is this okay?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Let's go to my eldest brother's house. You are not allowed to drink outside."

The fishermen worked hard for half a day for a dollar, but Dabao drank it in a few gulps, which was too hateful. Thinking of this, Ye Fan was worried and reminded his son: "Tell your elder brother and younger sister to drink it secretly. Otherwise, it will be like the time when Tian Xiaofeng said that you will not live long."

Dabao nodded obediently: "Erbao, hurry up."

Erbao threw down the clod of dirt and rubbed it on himself, then with his clean little hands he pulled his brother's clothes and followed him to the next room.

Ye Fan couldn't help but frowning when looking at the handprints on her daughter's new coat. Other people's boys are always sloppier than their daughters, but why is it just the opposite in her family?

Ye Fan sighed, continued digging the hole and filling it with soil, waiting to eat vegetables two months later.

Hearing the footsteps, Ye Fan thought the two little ghosts had come back again. He looked up and saw Su Yuanhang: "Is there really someone watching me?"

Su Yuanhang pushed the door open and came in: "You said you would be back on the sixth day. Captain Geng was very unhappy because you left a day early. You definitely wouldn't dare to delay until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

Ye Fan: "Who do you look down on?"

Su Yuanhang: "You don't want to see Captain Geng angry."

Ye Fanqi laughed: "Are you teasing me?"

"No, it's not." Su Yuanhang first said that there are a lot of fruits and seafood in Yongcheng, and then he said, but Ye Fan didn't let him continue, interrupting first: "They are not your responsibility."

Su Yuanhang nodded: "But——"

Ye Fan: "Everyone has a heroic dream, and if they succeed, they should help the world. I understand. But you are just one person, and it is enough for you to take good care of your fellow countrymen. We should only ship goods to the capital, right? If the local secretary really cares about the people, he would have gone to Shanghai or Hangzhou to sell them. You didn't agree, did you?"

Su Yuanhang shook his head: "My father said--"

"Ignore your father! Those who look for him are just like him. If things don't work out, they'll complain that you're young and ignorant, and if things work out, they'll at most give you a few words of praise. The first time you went to the capital, you didn't want to buy food, you drank water and ate cold burritos all the way. Who cared about you?"

Su Yuanhang was surprised that she even knew this: "Yuncheng said that?"

"Su Duofu said so. The train stops at a big station for a long time, and Su Duofu asked you to get off and buy some food, but you said you could just make do and get to the capital." Ye Fan said, "How close is Yongcheng to Shanghai? If you're lucky, you can leave in the morning and come back in the evening. You don't even want to go, and wait for you to bring food to your mouth, you're dreaming! Go back and tell your father that there's only one thing on this island, and he won't serve you more! I'm getting the salary of an ordinary worker, but I'm doing the job of the director of the Municipal Revolutionary Committee. Am I crazy?"

Su Yuanhang suspected that Ye Fan was calling him mentally ill.

Ye Fan: "You should think about how to keep the capital market. Tell Su Duofu and Su Yuncheng that next time they deliver goods, ask the ordinary employees of the supply and marketing cooperative if anyone has come to see the director recently. Don't ask the director, because he doesn't tell the truth."

After Ye Fan threatened him, Su Yuanhang immediately stopped taking on the task. As a result, he quarreled with his father again when he got home. His father scolded him for being so arrogant after being the factory director for only three days. Fortunately, he was not the secretary of the commune, otherwise he would not care about his parents.

Su Yuanhang ignored it. His father didn't dare to look for Ye Fan, so the matter was left unresolved.

Geng Zhiye's prediction was correct. God was not kind to him. He didn't have enough seafood to fill a truck by the end of the month. The cannery had canned oranges made last winter, and it took sixty boxes of canned oranges to fill a truck.

This time, Su Yuncheng and Su Duofu followed the car again.

There is more rain in February, so only one truckload of goods is shipped in March. When the director of Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative saw the two of them, he said, "I thought you would come again in February. I was worried about how to sell so much. There are no festivals recently."

Su Duofu explained that it rained every day and sometimes the sea was rough and the fishermen did not dare to go fishing.

The director thought that Ye Fan had calculated based on the sales volume in previous years that the supply and marketing cooperative was not doing well and that a truckload of goods could only be sold for a few months: "Will there be a lot of rain in April?"

Su Duofu: "During the plum rain season, every household has rain."

Director: "Try to come once in late April. And once in late May. You don't need to come in June and July of the lunar calendar because it's too hot to start cooking. You have to hurry up in August."

Su Duofu asked Xicheng and Dongcheng if they wanted to. The director said he had sent someone to inform them, and then asked them if they wanted to go to the office to rest for a while.

Su Yuncheng said that if he slept during the day, he would not feel sleepy at night. After the director and Su Duofu went in, Su Yuncheng found Geng Zhiqin and asked her if there were any new faces with southern accents coming to the supply and marketing cooperative recently.

Geng Zhiqin said he had never seen it.

When workers from Xicheng and Dongcheng came to pick up goods, Su Yuncheng went to help and asked casually if anyone wanted to discuss business with them, such as canned goods. He asked on behalf of the cannery.

They also said no, Su Yuncheng was surprised. He told Ye Fan about this when he returned to the island.

Ye Fan couldn't figure it out.

Su Duofu talked to the people at the cannery for a while and expressed his guess: "Is it because no one dares to follow our example in this world and sell dog meat under the guise of mutton? More than one person said that we are brave. I feel that even if a food factory is set up by the seaside commune outside the island, it would not dare to sell to the capital, fearing that they are unfamiliar with the place and might not be able to return if something goes wrong."

Ye Fan: "It's possible. But we still need to be more careful. The market is like a battlefield, it changes rapidly. For example, oranges, once we find many varieties, we must make plans early and sell as many as we can. Or we can go to more places."

Su Duofu had a large fishing boat and was experienced. He nodded continuously, "That's right. Oh, by the way, this is the letter Chen Xiaohui sent you. I almost forgot about it."

Ye Fan took over: "Are my parents okay?"

Su Duofu shook his head: "Your sister-in-law didn't say."

Ye Fan: "Then you go back and rest early."

The two of them rode back on Ye Fan's bike - it was newly bought by Geng Zhiye.

Geng Zhiye came out of the children's room and stretched out his hand to Ye Fan. Ye Fan smiled and handed the letter over: "There are no teeth on the letter."

"She can't even take care of herself, how can anything happen to her?" Geng Zhiye said as he opened the letter, "She will only cause you trouble." After seeing the content clearly, he widened his eyes slightly.

Ye Fan moved to his side, and Geng Zhiye handed the letter to him: "My eldest brother-in-law's eldest brother-in-law is divorced."

"Or was it his wife who proposed it? Because her younger brother went to the countryside?"

Geng Zhiye: "Every family in your mother's family has a stupid person."

Ye Fan twisted his waist and said, "Is your family not stupid?"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "Aunt Yu would never ask Xiaoqin to divorce even if she has so many problems. She would definitely say, don't worry about us, just live your life well."

Ye Fan: "She will definitely regret it."

Geng Zhiye stood up and went to the kitchen to close the stove: "Maybe people think that love is enough to keep you full, but being heartless is enough to keep you in a cold house."

Ye Fan followed and threw the letter on the stove and burned it: "I don't think so. Her parents might say that if they dare to ignore your brother now, they will also dare to ignore you when you are sick in the future. It is better to leave early while you are still young and find someone who listens to her and does what she says."

Geng Zhiye put down the kettle and said, "Go to sleep."

Ye Fan: "Don't you need to be on duty?"

Geng Zhiye shook his head: "I originally thought that after Baldy's death, someone would take advantage of the situation to cause trouble. But after more than a month of preparation, nothing happened."

Ye Fan: "You said the new king would do something to shock the world. I told you it would be a mess, but you still didn't believe me."

Geng Zhiye closed the kitchen door: "Don't underestimate it."

Ye Fan sneered, "It's just that there are not enough warships. Otherwise, we could have surrounded him with one ship after another for three months and conducted exercises. He would be more obedient than anyone else. He just deserves to be punished!"

Geng Zhiye couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's a good idea. But where can we get so much firepower?"

(End of this chapter)