Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

The next morning, Geng Zhiye woke up and saw that Ye Fan was still asleep. He couldn't help but kiss the corner of her lips.

Ye Fan opened his eyes, and Geng Zhiye froze in fear. Ye Fan blinked, and it was indeed not a dream. He put his arm around his neck and said, "Are you not angry anymore?"

Geng Zhiye reacted and felt a little guilty and embarrassed. He coughed lightly and avoided her sight: "Let's talk about it later!"

"Again?" Ye Fan raised his eyebrows.

Geng Zhiye lifted the towel blanket and said, "It's dawn, time to get up."

Ye Fan subconsciously grabbed his arm. Geng Zhiye paused for three seconds, turned over and pressed his forehead against hers, "Continue?"

Geng Zhiye didn't say anything nonsense yesterday evening. He really had to go back to the army today. Ye Fan understood that he didn't dare to do that. He held his face and smiled and said, "Okay." Then, he pressed his lips against his.

Geng Zhiye's face was stiff. He wanted to refuse but also wanted to continue, and his face slowly turned red.

Ye Fan couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Geng Zhiye realized that he was being fooled, and used both hands to tickle her waist. Unfortunately, Ye Fan's waist was extremely sensitive, and she couldn't help but dodge. Geng Zhiye hurriedly said, "Don't move!"

Ye Fan wanted to say something, but her legs seemed to hit something, and she looked at him in astonishment. Geng Zhiye hugged her to calm down for a moment, took a deep breath and sat up: "How old are you and still staying in bed!"

It's not you now? Ye Fan couldn't reach him, so he kicked him.

Geng Zhiye easily hid beside the closet and picked up the military uniform hanging on the wall: "Dabao and Erbao, it's time to wake up."

Ye Fan glared at him and got up to put on his clothes. Then he went to the bedroom of the two children opposite and saw the eldest and second children sleeping sideways, one at the head of the bed and the other at the foot. He wanted to laugh but was also scared. Was he fighting with someone or running in his dream?

Geng Zhiye leaned against the door frame and watched Ye Fan put the two children down: "You can get up now."

Ye Fan: "I won't feel sleepy all day if I sleep until I wake up naturally. But it's easy for Dabao and Erbao to have problems sleeping like this. I'll ask a carpenter to make a bunk bed someday."

Geng Zhiye suspected that she was too tired last night and still hadn't woken up: "Bunk bunk?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Put a railing on the side to block it. Erbao is only three years old and doesn't dare to sleep alone. But look at this room, there is a desk, two wardrobes, and two chairs. Where can I put another bed?"

Geng Zhiye: "Where is this bed?"

Ye Fan looked towards the north and said, "Put it over there. We won't have to deal with them when Aunt Yu and my mom come next time."

Thinking of his stepmother and mother-in-law, Geng Zhiye nodded: "Even if we don't separate them, we have to make another bed. I'll listen to you. I'll go wash my face and cook. You go buy groceries?"

Ye Fan bought crabs and fish last night because she considered that Geng Zhiye could not be at home to celebrate the festival today. But even if he was not at home, she and Dabao and Erbao would also celebrate.

Ye Fan's family of four only had two kilograms of meat coupons per month. This month, Ye Fan hadn't used up his meat coupons yet, so he went to the market and exchanged them for pork belly and a few seafood dishes.

When he got home, Ye Fan cut a pound of pork belly and stir-fried it for a while, then added a little water to stew the green vegetables and tofu. Then he fried a dish of squid. Geng Zhiye put out the firewood and went to the yard to call Dabao and Erbao to eat.

Before Ye Fan arrived at the market, Dabao and Erbao woke up. The brother and sister sat up in a daze as usual, and when they heard some noise outside, they put on their clothes and went out in their slippers.

When he arrived at the yard, he saw his father washing his face and brushing his teeth. The brother and sister were squatting under the eaves watching him. From Geng Zhiye's side, it was the two children staring at him, but he suspected that the two children were not awake and were squatting in a daze. Geng Zhiye watched them brush their teeth, and then washed their faces. The brother and sister finally woke up, and turned from lazy kittens into energetic little tigers.

Geng Zhiye asked them to go play. The siblings didn't know where to go, and it seemed that the neighbors were still asleep. They just happened to hear the training horn, and the eldest child was going to teach the second child Tai Chi. The siblings were about to start, and Liao Miaomiao came over with her younger brother and sister.

Then Liu Guihua came with a carrying pole to press the water.

Liu Guihua envied the fact that Ye Fan's children could learn Tai Chi at such a young age, but she was not jealous. For example, Liu Qing and Tian Xiaofeng both believed that if Ye Fan had not been in the Ye family, she would not have been so successful. It just so happened that Liu Guihua had seen good shoots grow from bad bamboo. Parental education is important, but you also have to strive for excellence.

Liu Guihua herself is not aloof, and she asked her children to learn Tai Chi from Dabao when she got home. Her two children are about the same age as Liao Miaomiao and Liao Dadi, and they think that they are big kids, and it is shameful for them to be apprentices of little brats.

Without saying a word, Liu Guihua picked up a rolling pin and wanted to beat them up - they were not destined to be rich, but they had a lot of diseases. The brother and sister were so scared that they ran to Dabao's house, planning to go around here and go home, and then they saw Liao Miaomiao and her two siblings through the fence at the entrance of the alley.

Since there is someone to accompany you when you are embarrassed, what is there to be afraid of?

Geng Zhiye "drove" his five children away and forced them to wash their faces and hands: "I should have known not to wash your faces."

Dabao opened his eyes wide and said, "You want me to teach you with eye boogers?"

Geng Zhiye almost choked on his saliva: "——How old are you and you already have an apprentice? You talk like a child." He wiped his face with a towel and said, "Ask your mother to apply Meijiajing on you."

Dabao shook his head and refused.

Ye Fan scooped some and put it on his face. Dabao rubbed it helplessly and said, "I am a man. Mom, do you know what my classmates say about me? My face is as white and tender as my sister's."

"You are a child now. Ask your father if he wants his face to be like tofu." Ye Fan picked up a piece of tofu for his son.

Geng Zhiye came in holding his daughter: "I'm fine like this, I look manly!"

Dabao nodded vigorously: "Mom, you heard it, right?"

Ye Fan: "The same spirit as charcoal?"

Geng Zhiye opened his mouth and thought of something: "Business is more important, let's talk about it another day."

Ye Fan rolled her eyes at him and asked Er Bao whether she wanted porridge or meat. Er Bao pointed at the vegetable bowl and asked for some meat. Ye Fan picked up a piece for her and said, "It's a little hard, don't be stubborn. I have another pound left, and Mom will make it for lunch."

Dabao swallowed the tofu in his mouth and asked, "Mom, can I make braised pork?"

Ye Fan thought of the braised pork rice: "I'll try it."

But one pound of meat was not enough for the three of them. After dinner, Ye Fan asked the two children to play at home while she went to the market to buy a fish. She also asked when the fish seller would take a break.

Before the festival, the food factory had good business, and the fish sellers were able to get some money. They said happily, "I'll get off work at 11 o'clock. Accountant Ye, are you going to buy a fish today for the festival?"

Ye Fan bought twelve more white crabs. For lunch, he had braised pork rice, three crabs, and a dish of clams. For dinner, he had braised sea bass, steamed crabs, and a dish of conch. Fortunately, he didn't cook porridge, or he wouldn't be able to finish it.

Dabao drank some water from the enamel pot and burped: "Mom, are you going out to play?"

Erbao threw down his chopsticks: "Brother, wait for me!"

Ye Fan pulled his daughter over and said, "Wipe your face before you go. Dabao, wait for your sister!"

Dabao stopped outside the door, turned back and sighed: "Erbao, eat with your mouth, not your face."

Ye Fan let go of his daughter: "You were like this when you were a child."

Dabao thought to himself, "I'd better shut up."

Ye Fan: "Right at the door."

"I know. I say it every day, Mom, you are more nagging than grandma." After saying this, Dabao pulled his sister and ran away.

Ye Fan was worried, so he cleaned up the living room and kitchen and went out.

The brother and sister, three siblings from the Liao family, and four or five other children were playing in the open space between Ye Fan's house and the Liao family's house.

The fire was not very strong, and Ye Fan estimated that it would take half an hour to heat up the water in the steel pot, so he just stared at the child at the door.

These kids were used to being watched by Geng Zhiye, so they weren't nervous when Ye Fan took over and just played as usual.

Zhuang Qiuyue used to dislike the noise. But Ye Fan was not as busy as anyone else in the city, and she couldn't send her children away. Unable to fall asleep before seven o'clock, Zhuang Qiuyue came out to chat with someone. When she saw Ye Fan, she came over and asked Ye Fan why the chickens and ducks raised by the brigades were not sold in the vegetable market.

Ye Fan: "There are some in the vegetable market. If Geng Zhiye wasn't at home, it would be too tiring for me to kill and cook them all by myself. I have to buy a chicken today."

Zhuang Qiuyue was silent for a long time, but still didn't have the courage to ask if it was tiring to kill chickens and stew meat.

"Too few. There are only eight ducks and chickens in total."

Ye Fan nodded: "There's nothing we can do about it. The chicks we hatched last fall haven't grown up yet, and the chicks we hatched this spring are still chicks. By the way, can you eat geese? I'll ask them to get some big geese some other day. I can't do it."

Zhuang Qiuyue wouldn't either: "I'll ask Liu Guihua some other day."

Don't talk about people during the day and don't talk about ghosts at night.

Talking about others during the transition from day to night would result in both of them having their hearts pounding with fear.

Zhuang Qiuyue saw clearly that the person who scared them was Liu Guihua, and pushed her in anger. Liu Guihua staggered back two steps and giggled: "Two cowards."

Ye Fan was helpless: "You are in such a good mood, what good things happened to you when you went home on vacation this time?"

Liu Guihua shook her head: "Nothing good happened at home. But I heard something about you. Do you want to know what it is?"

Ye Fan: "Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles!"

Liu Guihua admired him: "You are worthy of being Accountant Ye." She was afraid that Dabao and Erbao would have wild thoughts, "I heard that you had a quarrel with Geng Tuan Shang?"

Ye Fan: "Which Captain Geng?"

Liu Guihua didn't want to pay attention to her.

Seeing that she looked like she was about to have a heart attack, Zhuang Qiuyue wanted to laugh: "What nonsense are you talking about. Can she quarrel with Captain Geng? When they quarrel, you and Deputy Captain Niu will have to fight."

Liu Guihua didn't believe it either, but she didn't see Ye Fan when she was pumping water: "Your house is very quiet this morning."

Zhuang Qiuyue: "She went to buy groceries this morning. Captain Geng was cooking in the kitchen. They had already started cooking when I got up."

Liu Guihua was puzzled: "Then why did they say that you were in a bad mood these days and it's best to avoid you when they see you?"

Ye Fan: "Who cares about me so much?"

Zhuang Qiuyue sneered, "Who else could it be? There are those people who try to please you in front of you, but secretly wish you and Captain Geng would divorce. I really don't know what they are thinking about all day long. Rice and flour are not rich enough to feed them."

Liu Guihua nodded: "If I like you, I'll be nice to you. If I don't like you, I'll ignore you." She shook her head. "I don't understand. Maybe there's not much work to do at home. I fetch water and cook in the morning, wash the pots and dishes after dinner, and cook again before I can rest for a while. In the afternoon, I collect firewood and wash vegetables, and then cook dinner. I don't even have time to clean up the yellow cucumbers."

Ye Fan: "How old is your son?"

Zhuang Qiuyue: "The same age as Miaomiao, a few months younger than her. The second child is one year older than my second child."

Ye Fan calculated: "One is under thirteen years old, and the other is ten years old? He can light the fire, cook, and wash clothes."

Liu Guihua subconsciously said that the child was young. Ye Fan didn't say that Thirteen was not young anymore, and asked her how old she was when she started cooking and washing clothes. Liu Guihua raised her voice: "I was not the same as now. When I was a child, I was hiding from raids all day long. If I wasn't careful, I would be separated from my family. I had to learn how to wash clothes and cook."

Ye Fan: "Last year, my eldest child knew to sit in front of the stove and watch the firewood to make sure it didn't fall or go out. Now he can put on his slippers by himself, and wash his face and teeth by himself. He just likes to be lazy, and his face becomes chapped within a week after he washes it. The second child also knows to put away the dishes and chopsticks after dinner."

Liu Guihua thought about it carefully: "Erbao is three years old? Aren't you afraid that she will break the bowl?"

Ye Fan was not afraid: "Break it and buy it again. If you are afraid of this and that, you will never achieve anything." Zhuang Qiuyue was very curious: "Were you like this when you were a child?"

In the past and present lives, when I was a child, my parents were busy. Ye Fan shook his head: "When I was a child, my parents were very busy. They either asked my grandparents to take care of me or asked my grandparents to look after me."

Zhuang Qiuyue: "Miaomiao can also wash clothes and cook."

In fact, she was reluctant to order Miaomiao around. Considering that Miaomiao would go to the countryside in a few years, she would definitely suffer if she knew nothing. Zhuang Qiuyue wanted to give her daughter everything she had learned in the past two years.

Liu Guihua was very shocked, even more surprised than hearing that Dabao could cook, because she had never seen Liao Miaomiao wash clothes or cook, and Zhuang Qiuyue had never shown off her daughter's diligence to her, so she was always worried that she was not doing well enough and was not a good mother in the new era.

Liu Guihua looked at the two of them and said, "You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Ye Fan was surprised: "Because you just frightened us on purpose, and we took the opportunity to deceive you?"

Zhuang Qiuyue rolled her eyes at Liu Guihua: "Who is as boring as you?"

Ye Fan nodded and asked loudly whether Dabao and Erbao were tired and whether they wanted to go home for a bath.

Dabao was sweating and waved his hands: "Mom will wash first."

Ye Fan looked at the two of them, Liu Guihua waved her hand, and Ye Fan went home to take a shower. Liu Guihua pulled Zhuang Qiuyue's arm and asked, "My mother didn't pay attention to raising children before, and only five of us nine siblings survived. I feel that when I become a mother, I must not learn from her. Also, isn't it said that no matter how hard life is, children should not suffer? Why do you and Accountant Ye know something different from what I know?"

Zhuang Qiuyue: "Is your eldest son going to the countryside or serving in the army?"

Liu Guihua couldn't help but sigh when talking about this: "I wanted him to join the army before. But recently, they said that they would streamline the army in the last few months of the year. The railway troops will be returned to the local area, and the army and military district organs will be reorganized. The air force will also be reorganized. Who knows how many people will be laid off. The army doesn't need people anymore."

Zhuang Qiuyue heard about this from Political Commissar Liao. Political Commissar Liao was glad that there were no redundant soldiers on the island when he arrived last year, otherwise they would have been busy in the next few months.

This incident also shattered Zhuang Qiuyue's hope of getting Liao Miaomiao to join the army: "If he doesn't want to learn now, he will have to go to the countryside to learn. Who will be free to teach him by then?"

Liu Guihua nodded: "Hey, I can learn a lot from chatting with you and Accountant Ye. I won't talk nonsense with those women anymore. By the way, what were you two talking about just now?"

Zhuang Qiuyue thought to herself that this was just nonsense.

"I said there were too few chickens and ducks in the market, and Accountant Ye said they hadn't grown up yet. He asked me if I wanted to eat goose meat. Maybe some brigade had geese."

Liu Guihua pointed at herself and said, "I can. My family loves to eat goose and duck. Accountant Ye, do you want to learn?" Then she looked towards Ye Fan's house. Zhuang Qiuyue pulled her to the door of her house to prevent her from suddenly going in and seeing Ye Fan taking a bath.

Zhuang Qiuyue: "Accountant Ye likes roast duck. I didn't buy any chicken or duck today, so I bought some spare ribs. It's not enough for the kids, so I want to buy some goose and make a pot to satisfy their cravings."

Little boy, you are eating your father out of money. Liu Guihua originally wanted to eat the duck she bought today for two meals, but it was eaten up by her mother and her two daughters in one meal. Liu Guihua was cleaning up the dishes while grumbling that if she was in her hometown, one duck would be enough for the whole family to eat for two days.

But she was not in her hometown. Other people raised their children to be very beautiful, while her own child was as shriveled as a cucumber vine. Just thinking about it, Liu Guihua couldn't help but blame herself for not having suffered enough and making her child suffer with her.

Liu Guihua: "I want to buy geese, too. Why aren't they for sale? Logically, there should be a lot of chickens, ducks and geese here, as there are many mountains and valleys and it's close to the sea."

Zhuang Qiuyue couldn't understand why her hometown had to build pigeon nests on trees when they had the conditions. "I'll ask Accountant Ye some other day."

The next day was Sunday, and Dabao and Erbao didn't go to school, so Ye Fan went to the army to borrow a three-wheeled motorcycle, and then took the two children to the Lotus Brigade. Ye Fan didn't go into the village, but saw the members who came back from the sea at the entrance of the village, and asked them to help her call Su Yuanhang.

The members first went back to their homes, poured out half of the seafood, put the other half in a basin, and then put it on the roadside, and then went to the door of Su's house to find Su Yuanhang.

Su Yuanhang met Ye Fan with half a basin of seafood.

Ye Fan was speechless: "What are you doing with this?"

"It was given to you by someone." Su Yuanhang put it in the car. "Do you want to talk to me about something?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Let's talk while we walk."

Su Yuanhang got in the car, Ye Fan slowed down and asked him what else the Lotus Brigade grew besides lotus roots and rice.

Lianhua Brigade is not close to the mountains, and there are no fruit trees. The yards of every household are not big, and it is impossible to raise dozens of chickens and ducks. Su Yuanhang said that now during the slack season, he goes to the sea in the morning and evening, and usually rows a boat or fishes on the shore.

Ye Fan: "Is there a chicken farm in the brigade with a lot of chickens?"

Su Yuanhang: "Every household can raise chickens, so there's no need to set up a chicken farm, right?"

Ye Fan nodded: "That being said, there is a chicken farm that can grow chickens faster than free-range chickens. If it were in the north, I wouldn't dare to suggest this. There are vegetables on the island in winter, and it would be a waste if we don't raise more chickens and ducks. Or you can talk to the team to stagger the time of raising chickens, and try to raise them every three or two days?"

Su Yuanhang nodded: "But, Accountant Ye, you often say that you are not in a hurry, but I still feel that time is running out."

Ye Fan: "Have I said more than once that once someone follows suit, our business will be over? Not this year, not next year, what about the year after? Raise now and sell at the end of next year, or the year after. Raise next year and sell the year after. Do you know what the situation will be like then? Have you read the newspaper recently?"

The topic changed so quickly that Su Yuanhang didn't react: "Reading the newspaper?"

Ye Fan nodded. "At the beginning of the year, the higher-ups held a meeting and mentioned economic development again. Then they started to make drastic changes. The troops have already started to reorganize. How long will it take to get there?"

He could understand every word, but when they were put together, Su Yuanhang felt like he was listening to a foreign language: "How come I don't know anything about it? My father didn't even mention it."

Ye Fan: "It's too late to get to your father."

Su Yuanhang: "Did you hear it from your mother and mother-in-law?"

"They don't understand." Ye Fan shook his head. "Don't blindly expand the scale of breeding, otherwise let them figure it out on their own. By the way, pick the lotus seeds in mid-November of the lunar calendar. Send them to the capital by the end of November at the latest."

Three words popped up in Su Yuanhang's mind: "Laba porridge?"

Ye Fan nodded: "They definitely don't want the lotus seeds if I sell them to them normally."

Su Yuanhang got out of the car: "Can we take another cart of lotus roots?"

Ye Fan: "Ask the Ningbo Supply and Marketing Cooperative in the name of the food factory if they want it. I have nothing to do recently, so go to Hangzhou to ask. Ask me to reimburse the round-trip fare and food expenses. By the way, release two chickens, two ducks and two geese to the vegetable market every day."

Su Yuanhang: "Sell it to military dependents?"

The island is populated by locals, except for military personnel and their families. Locals are reluctant to buy chickens, ducks, and geese even when they go to the market occasionally. Besides, almost every household has a few, so there is no need to buy.

Ye Fan also knows this situation: "Yes. I don't want to eat it. I want to buy it when I see it. Everyone has this mentality."

Su Yuanhang immediately went to the team leader - someone in the Lotus Team raised geese. They called in the morning and at night, and sometimes at night when they were too hungry. Su Yuanhang couldn't sleep well, but he didn't dare to kill them, so he could only persuade himself to get used to it.

The opportunity is right in front of you now, you must be crazy not to do that.

The team leader went to a goose farmer's house and asked if they wanted to sell geese. The family immediately gave two geese to the team leader.

The next morning, Zhuang Qiuyue and Liu Guihua each carried a big goose to Ye Fan's house.

Ye Fan's heart skipped a beat, and he asked tentatively, "Is there something wrong with the goose?"

Liu Guihua said quickly: "No problem. Why does Accountant Ye ask that?"

Zhuang Qiuyue was a little slower, but she understood something: "I didn't come to you when I had a problem. Xiaoye, we will clean up the geese at your doorstep later."

Ye Fan heaved a sigh of relief: "Don't throw away the goose feathers. There is a clothing factory in Shencheng that has been trial-making down jackets for the past two years. If you have enough, ask someone to bring them to shore to sell for you."

They both asked in unison: "Making clothes out of goose feathers?"

Ye Fan: "Duck feathers are fine too. Haven't we been selling clean ducks to the shore recently? The duck feathers won't be lost."

Having said that, the two of them couldn't help but believe it.

Liu Guihua stared at Ye Fan's head and wondered what he looked like. His head shape was better than hers, so he was smarter than her.

Ye Fan went back to the house to cook.

Liu Guihua turned to Zhuang Qiuyue and asked, "Do you believe it?"

Zhuang Qiuyue couldn't believe it, but Ye Fan didn't want to lie to her, so he whispered, "I'll ask the members of the Shanxi Brigade later."

The Shanxi brigade members kept the feathers of the ducks they sold and the geese they ate at home, but they didn't really believe they could make money from them.

Ye Fan planned to wait until Geng Zhiye was not busy and ask him to stay home to look after the children, while she and Su Yuanhang went to the garment factory in Shencheng to make down jackets. Before she told Geng Zhiye about this, Ye Fan received a letter.

In early October, the next afternoon after Political Commissar Liao's vacation ended and he and Captain Niu were on duty, Geng Zhiye went home early and happened to see the postman handing a letter to Ye Fan. Geng Zhiye rushed over and asked, "Whose letter is it?"

Ye Fan was speechless: "Dabao and Erbao together are ten years old, are you still afraid that I will run away? Chen Xiaohui's."

If it wasn't for the letter from his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Ye Fan would not return to the capital. Geng Zhiye felt relieved and immediately said unhappily: "Why did she look for you? I don't know what your relationship is?"

Ye Fan: "Keep your voice down."

Geng Zhiye: "Are you afraid that people will know?"

Ye Fan suspected that people said they quarreled because Geng Zhiye often spoke loudly: "I haven't seen it yet."

"Let me take a look at it for you." Geng Zhiye reached out and took it away.

Ye Fan: "Then you stay at the door and watch over Dabao and Erbao. They are playing with others at the intersection. That side is closer to the well."

Geng Zhiye nodded, thinking that the well had a cover and he would not fall in. But he had a bad feeling when he thought about it, and he went to the intersection while opening the letter. When he arrived at the intersection and did not see the two children, Geng Zhiye was panicked and ran to the well without thinking. When he saw the two children, he immediately wanted to grab them and beat them up - they were both lying on the edge of the well looking down.

Geng Zhiye was afraid of scaring them, so he quietly walked behind them. He heard a child mutter, "Is this the well that Geng Dabao's mother jumped into?" Then another child asked in confusion, "It's not scary. You can see water. Geng Dabao, does your mother not know how to swim?"

Geng Zhiye held the eldest child in one hand and the second child in the other, quickly put the two youngest children aside, and slapped the other children on the head: "What are you looking at? Liao Miaomiao, you are still young? Go home and help your mother cook!"

A seven or eight-year-old child didn’t understand, but Liao Miaomiao knew that it was because Ye Fan accidentally fell in that Geng Zhiye got angry when he saw the well: “We won’t dare to do it again in the future. Don’t be angry, I’ll go home now.” He grabbed his younger brother in one hand and his younger sister in the other.

Geng Zhiye looked at the other children and asked, "Where's the manhole cover?"

Seeing that he had a scary stern face, five or six children obediently put the manhole cover back up.

There was a hole on the side of the manhole cover, and a nail on the side of the raised manhole. The rope was tied to the nail through the hole. It was a knot that could not be cut without scissors. Geng Zhiye looked at the rope that was violently pulled apart and said, "I'll have a meeting with your parents tomorrow!"

Five or six children covered their faces and ran away.

Geng Zhiye laughed angrily and turned to his two children: "Did Daddy ever tell us not to play here?"

The eldest and second child looked at each other, held hands, counted silently one, two, three, and ran!

(End of this chapter)