Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Chen Xiaohui's heart skipped a beat, and she was worried that God would take Liu Qing away, and people who didn't know the truth would blame her, and then blame Ye Fan. Chen Xiaohui asked Liu Guihua, Zhuang Qiuyue and Wan Siqin to tell everyone the truth if they asked.

Ye Fan couldn't help but frown: "This matter ends here!"

Chen Xiaohui: "But——"

Ye Fan interrupted, "No buts." He said to Liu, Zhuang, and Wan, "Sister-in-law, since Liu Qing doesn't dare to let anyone know, you three should just pretend you don't know. Otherwise, if it gets to Captain Gao's ears, he will feel ashamed and want to retire, and the headquarters will definitely think that Geng Zhiye is incompetent or intolerant."

Chen Xiaohui subconsciously said, "What does it have to do with Geng Zhiye?"

Zhuang Qiuyue thought to herself, you are related to Ye Fan, and Ye Fan is Geng Zhiye’s wife.

Wan Siqin said bluntly: "Accountant Ye is right. Captain Geng has been here for more than a year. An old driver wants to be transferred to civilian work, and a battalion commander wants to be transferred to civilian work. Even if he knows nothing, the headquarters will have something to say."

"Geng Zhiye really doesn't know anything. I didn't say anything." Ye Fan turned to Chen Xiaohui: "Do you understand?"

Chen Xiaohui felt that Ye Fan was worrying too much: "Then let's just forget about it?"

Ye Fan opened his mouth and said, "No, I've already pushed him into the shit pit, what else do you want? A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated! Even rabbits bite when they are angry! Besides, Liu Qing is a wolf that can pretend to sleep!"

It seems to make sense. Chen Xiaohui reluctantly accepted it with an "Oh". Ye Fan was worried: "You stay at home honestly, I will go shopping with you in the afternoon, don't cause trouble for me."

She didn't like what she heard, and Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but retort: ​​"I'm not Dabao! Do I need you to remind me?"

Ye Fan: "Erbao knows to quit while he's ahead!"

Zhuang Qiuyue hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Accountant Ye, you're going to be late for work. Comrade Xiao Chen, do you want to go to the beach? We'll go with you. We're not going to work."

Wan Siqin was worried that the two would start a fight, so she pulled Ye Fan aside and said, "Accountant Ye, go get busy."

Ye Fan warned again: "Don't talk too much!"

Chen Xiaohui said impatiently: "I know."

Ye Fan handed her the key. Chen Xiaohui took it and waved her hand. When Ye Fan walked away, she muttered, "You've been a mother for too long."

Zhuang Qiuyue wanted to laugh immediately: "Comrade Xiao Chen, Accountant Ye is also worried about you. You made Liu Qing fall into a big trap, and she will definitely try every means to get revenge on you. It's easy to deal with her alone, but she has two accomplices. If three of them block you, you will definitely suffer."

Liu Guihua asked curiously: "Why did you think of pushing them into the pit?"

Wan Siqin had also heard from others that Chen Xiaohui was a coward. If Ye Fan hadn't admitted it himself and Chen Xiaohui hadn't sworn to heaven that it was her who did it, Wan Siqin would have suspected that Chen Xiaohui had an accomplice: "Yes. We really thought they slipped and fell in by themselves."

Chen Xiaohui: "I can't beat the three of them alone, and I definitely can't wait for them to get up." She didn't dare to say that she didn't dare to hit anyone, "If I hurt them, I would have to pay for their medical expenses."

The three of them nodded repeatedly, this was indeed the only way.

Chen Xiaohui asked: "You're not going?"

The three of them were stunned for a moment, and then Liu Guihua asked, "Liu Qing's house? Why go? The more I persuade him, the more excited he becomes. Let's go pick up crabs. The locals are too lazy to eat them, so it's a good bargain for us."

After Zhuang Qiuyue's words, Chen Xiaohui didn't dare to act alone. She was the only one at home, and there was no TV broadcast yet. She was bored and hesitated for only three seconds before going to get the bucket.

Zhuang Qiuyue curiously asked why Chen Xiaohui came alone and why her mother didn't come. Chen Xiaohui lied that she was on a business trip and passed through Yongcheng and came to see Ye Fan.

After getting off the train, I had to transfer to the bus and then take a boat. It was not convenient at all. Zhuang Qiuyue thought, are you two so close?

But how is that possible? Wan Siqin carefully probed: "Accountant Ye just said that to you, don't take it to heart."

Chen Xiaohui shook her head: "It was my own fault for not thinking it through. She was also anxious."

Zhuang Qiuyue was afraid that Ye Fan would be angry and exaggerate the matter to Tao Chunlan when she returned to the capital. Comrade Tao Chunlan then wrote a letter to Ye Fan, saying, "Don't you think Accountant Ye's words are unpleasant?"

Chen Xiaohui thought for a moment: "It's not that bad, is it? Oh, she has a bad temper. Don't you know? She has that temper. This is nothing. At the beginning, I -" she quickly swallowed the names of Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping, "I was almost cheated once -" she coughed pretending to be embarrassed, "She threatened those two people as soon as she opened her mouth, saying that she would take me to the police station."

Zhuang Qiuyue: "This shouldn't be a scare, right?"

Chen Xiaohui shook her head: "I haven't lied to you yet, but I just wanted to do it. I was scolded at the police station. If those two people get scolded, I will get scolded too. It will have a bad influence if it gets out. Ye Fan won't do that. But those two people were frightened by her impolite look and almost knelt down to kowtow to her."

Liu Guihua didn't think too much about it and exclaimed: "Accountant Ye is really amazing."

Chen Xiaohui nodded: "Many people in our area are afraid of her. When she left, it was like, when there is no tiger in the mountain, the monkey becomes king. She would also bully people by taking advantage of her power. It is not a derogatory term. She only bullies bad people." Then she said that since Ye Fan left, some comrades at the agricultural and sideline products purchasing station have been very rampant, just like villains who have succeeded. Fortunately, Ye Fan set up a food factory and shipped seafood to the capital every month. Because the people at the purchasing station wanted to find the supply and marketing cooperative to buy seafood and buy cheap canned food to visit relatives, they did not dare to show off to the comrades at the supply and marketing cooperative, and the supply and marketing cooperative could buy agricultural and sideline products at the door of the purchasing station.

Wan Siqin couldn't help but ask: "Can you buy things directly from the people?"

Chen Xiaohui: "At the door of the purchasing station, if someone asks, we tell them not to bother the purchasing station comrades, just give it to us directly. If we hand it over to the purchasing station, the purchasing station will just pass it on to us, which is unnecessary. The purchasing station does not report it, and the people do not report it after receiving the money. Who knows we do this?"

Zhuang Qiuyue: "You just said again, so you've done this before? Was it Accountant Ye's idea?"

Chen Xiaohui nodded: "Who else would dare to do this except her? She is not named Ye in vain."

Liu Guihua asked casually: "Why is your last name still Chen?"

Wan Siqin and Zhuang Qiuyue glared at her, so how could she ask directly?

Chen Xiaohui was stunned. After she came to her senses, she didn't dare to tell the truth: "I'm used to it. Even if I change it, when I need to provide archival materials, there will be a former name 'Chen Xiaohui'. I will have to explain it then, which is troublesome."

It was unclear what the names of the people had been before, so Zhuang Qiuyue changed the subject and said that small seafood could be picked up even on days with high tide.

Liu Guihua didn't dare to ask nonsense, so she asked Chen Xiaohui whether she liked to eat octopus, crab, or conch.

Chen Xiaohui has never lived by the sea in her past or present life: "The crabs Ye Fan bought are delicious."

Liu Guihua: "Now is the time to eat crabs. Crabs as small as Erbao's fist are very heavy and full of crab roe." Pointing to a stone in the distance: "Go over there, there are a lot of crab roe in the corners."

There are not only crabs in the cracks of the rocks, but also small seafood that were washed up by the sea water and couldn't return.

Chen Xiaohui found clams and small octopuses everywhere: "So many?"

Liu Guihua: "That's just a few. There will be more on high tide. By the way, when are you going back?"

Chen Xiaohui: "I asked about train tickets, and there are tickets for tomorrow morning."

Liu Guihua was surprised: "Just here for one day?"

Zhuang Qiuyue and Wan Siqin looked at each other. One day is not enough? If he stayed a few more days, she could make Captain Geng transfer to another job.

Speaking of Geng Zhiye, since I didn't hear the conversation between Ye Fan and Chen Xiaohui clearly, I only knew that someone fell into the toilet until I came back at night, but I didn't know who they were.

When Geng Zhiye got home, he saw Ye Fan cooking in the kitchen. He went over to help, but he was so busy that he forgot to ask. He only remembered Chen Xiaohui: "She hasn't packed her luggage yet. Are you sure she's leaving tomorrow?"

Ye Fan: "Sure. Besides, what luggage does she have? A few clothes, packed in half an hour after dinner. By the way, are you busy tomorrow?"

Recently, Deputy Regiment Commander Niu, Political Commissar Liao's team and the Chief of Staff's team were on land and sea respectively. Geng Zhiye had no defense mission and did not need to stay in the army 24 hours a day: "It is okay not to be busy."

Ye Fan: "I'll take the delivery fishing boat to pick her up this morning. Will you pick up Dabao and Erbao?"

Geng Zhiye frowned: "He's not a child."

Ye Fan: "With two bags of stuff and her own luggage, it's not easy to get on the train."

"Things for my mother-in-law? Well, okay." Geng Zhiye said this, but he was actually worried. The next morning, watching Chen Xiaohui pack her luggage and making sure that Ye Fan's luggage was not there, Geng Zhiye said, "Ask Ye Fan to take it to you."

Chen Xiaohui shook her head: "No, we can take the bus after getting off the boat."

Ye Fan picked up the bag containing seaweed, dried shrimps and small abalone and said, "Let's go. The fishing boats still have to deliver goods to the purchasing station." Then he reminded Geng Zhiye not to forget to pick up Dabao and Erbao after school.

Dabao said loudly: "Mom, Dad doesn't need to pick me up. Erbao and I know the way."

Ye Fan: "If I can't make it back in time, will you two cook for yourselves?"

Dabao turned to his father and said, "Aren't you coming back at noon?"

Geng Zhiye: "If you don't let me pick up the phone, why would I come back at noon? Go back and forth for half an hour to bask in the sun and enjoy the sea breeze?"

Dabao was very unhappy when his father said something to him. He carried his schoolbag and pulled his sister along: "Let's go to school."

When Ye Fan heard this in the courtyard, he hurriedly stopped and said, "The school isn't open yet, how can we go to school? We'll go at eight o'clock!"

Dabao pulled his father's arm and saw that it was only seven o'clock. He sighed again: "Why is it only seven o'clock?"

Ye Fan told Chen Xiaohui to hurry up. Chen Xiaohui looked back as she walked, and saw that Erbao hadn't caught up with her: "Isn't Erbao very close to you? Why isn't he sticking to you at all?"

Ye Fan: "They are different from other kids. They don't cling to others."

That’s because the eldest and second child know that mom will come back after she leaves, so they don’t worry about not seeing her.

In Chen Xiaohui's opinion, the two children are too rational, not in line with their age, and can be called indifferent. But Dabao and Erbao are not usually indifferent. When Ye Fan comes home from get off work, they jump into Ye Fan's arms. When they come back tired from playing outside, they look for their mother first.

Chen Xiaohui couldn't figure it out and couldn't help shaking her head. She inadvertently saw a few familiar faces.

Seeing her slow down, Ye Fan wanted to ask her what she was looking at, but turned around and saw Liu Qing and the others: "Why are you at the intersection so early in the morning instead of buying groceries and cooking, or sleeping in?"

Chen Xiaohui thought of Zhuang Qiuyue's words: "Block me?"

Ye Fan said coldly: "She dares!" Chen Xiaohui handed the bag to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan didn't answer: "Don't make trouble. Just leave!"

Chen Xiaohui thought to herself that they might not let me go directly.

After walking a few dozen steps forward and preparing to turn, Chen Xiaohui was stopped. Chen Xiaohui gave Ye Fan a look, saying, "It's not me who is looking for trouble, it's the trouble that is looking for me."

Ye Fan doesn't cause trouble, but he's not afraid of it either. He asked Liu Qing, "What's the matter?"

Liu Qing: "Let's talk to Chen Xiaohui about something."

Chen Xiaohui gave the bag to Ye Fan and walked over. Ye Fan felt that the person was not friendly, so he threw the things on the ground and chased Chen Xiaohui. Chen Xiaohui wanted to talk to Liu Qing, but Liu Qing slapped her in the face without saying a word. Chen Xiaohui was caught off guard and forgot to dodge. She closed her eyes instinctively. She didn't feel any pain on her face or body. Chen Xiaohui was confused, wondering what was going on.

Chen Xiaohui opened her eyes and saw Ye Fan grabbing Liu Qing's arm. Chen Xiaohui subconsciously asked, "Why are you here?"

Ye Fan looked back and said, "Back off!"

Chen Xiaohui was a little slow to react and subconsciously took a few steps back. Ye Fan pushed Liu Qing's arm hard before letting go: "Why can't you just say it nicely?"

Liu Qing: "It has nothing to do with you!"

Ye Fan laughed: "Chen Xiaohui is the biological daughter of my mother, Comrade Tao Chunlan. Since Tao Chunlan raised me, sent me to school, and helped me take care of my children, it has something to do with me!"

Liu Qing turned to Ye Fan and stared at her: "Do you really have to care?"

Ye Fan: "You can't touch her unless you knock me down."

Chen Xiaohui finally realized that Liu Qing was not looking for trouble but for "revenge", and immediately became angry: "Ye Fan, get out of here! It's just a fight, I'm afraid of you!"

Ye Fanxin was tired: "Can you fight?"

Chen Xiaohui didn't know how to do it. She opened her mouth to say something, but Ye Fan didn't give her a chance and asked first, "Liu Qing, you're not leaving, right?"

Liu Qing: "I'll say it again, this has nothing to do with you. Otherwise, don't blame us for not giving face to Captain Geng."

Ye Fan sighed: "Do you think I don't know why you are looking for Chen Xiaohui? You should be glad that it was Chen Xiaohui yesterday. If it were me, I would smear some shit on your mouth. My last name is Chen!"

Liu Qing's face suddenly changed, and the two people who came with her took a half step back involuntarily, looking at Ye Fan in disbelief, as if asking her how she knew. How could Chen Xiaohui even tell Ye Fan about this? Ye Fan had been occupying the magpie's nest for 25 years, shouldn't Chen Xiaohui take this opportunity to make trouble?

Ye Fan rolled up his sleeves and asked, "Do you still want to fight? I have learned military boxing from Old Ye for several years, but I have never used it. This is a good opportunity to try it out."

Liu Qing bluffed: "Who are you trying to scare?"

Ye Fan waved his hand, and Liu Qing took a step forward. Ye Fan slapped her in the face, and Liu Qing subconsciously raised her hand to block. Ye Fan deliberately slowed down and grabbed Liu Qing's arm, pulling and twisting it, pinning Liu Qing's arm behind her back like a piece of cake, and easily pushed her down.

Before Liu Qing's two accomplices could react, Liu Qing knelt on the ground. They were so scared that they screamed, "What are you doing? Let go!"

Ye Fan let go and took two steps back: "Are you still fighting? Don't think you know me well just because you heard a few rumors. Since you know my last name is Ye, you should know that when I was a kid, I was touching real guns, and you were still playing in the mud. When I was learning military boxing with my father, you were skipping rope. I know much more than you think!"

The four of them nodded subconsciously, including Chen Xiaohui.

The three of them dared not speak, and Chen Xiaohui could not help but ask: "Why haven't I heard you say that?"

Ye Fan: "You didn't ask."

Chen Xiaohui: "But, but - by the way, you said that you were weak before. I didn't pay attention to it that day, and later I forgot to ask, you are in such good health now, is it because of these exercises?"

Ye Fan carried the bag and handed one to her: "Let's go."

Chen Xiaohui chased after him: "Slow down, what else can you do besides military boxing? Does your mother know how to do it? I'll go back and learn from her." After learning, he dared to fight with others, "Is it too late for me to learn now? How many years will it take? I don't have much time." There are only two years left before the resumption of the college entrance examination, "Are two years enough?"

Even Tang Seng had to call her Master. Ye Fan had a headache: "Get on the boat first!"

Chen Xiaohui nodded. When they got on the boat, she continued to ask if two years was enough.

Ye Fan: "I do know military boxing, but I haven't practiced it since I had Dabao and Erbao."

Chen Xiaohui shook her head: "You are so light, Liu Qing knelt before I could react."

Ye Fan: "That's Tai Chi. I practice Tai Chi often. I didn't practice it during the few days you were here. I didn't have time to cook in the morning. I don't usually cook in the morning, but salted duck eggs or pickles, or boiled prawns. I'll practice it when I have time."

Chen Xiaohui: "Who did you learn this from?"

Ye Fan: "My sister-in-law knows how to do Tai Chi, and my mother also knows how to do it, but they are not as smooth and skilled as me, and it has become an instinct in their bodies."

Chen Xiaohui decided to ask Comrade Tao Chunlan and Comrade Li Mingyue for advice when she returned. Suddenly she thought of something: "Where is Liu Qing?"

Ye Fan was speechless but wanted to laugh: "You just remembered it?" If Liu Qing heard it, she would think you were insulting her.

Liu Qing felt humiliated when Ye Fan pressed her to the ground. But she didn't hate Ye Fan. Liu Qing put herself in his shoes and thought that Chen Xiaohui was stupid for not taking the opportunity to gossip. Chen Xiaohui didn't mean to visit Ye Fan, she just followed her parents' orders. Chen Xiaohui told Ye Fan the truth because she was timid and didn't dare to hide it.

If Liu Qing hadn't looked for Chen Xiaohui, she wouldn't have been pinned down by Ye Fan. So it was all Chen Xiaohui's fault.

Liu Qing got up from the ground and started to scold Chen Xiaohui. Her two companions said Ye Fan was too much. Liu Qing shook her head: "Ye Fan would not dare to let Chen Xiaohui get into trouble under her nose. I did not expect this. Even if Ye Fan wanted Chen Xiaohui to jump into the sea and die, she could not jump into the sea on Hengshan Island. Ye Fan would definitely watch Chen Xiaohui get on the car with his own eyes, and then send a telegram to Tao Chunlan."

The two recalled what Ye Fan said when he mentioned "Tao Chunlan": "Yes. We didn't expect Ye Fan to send her off in person. Today is Saturday, and Ye Fan still has to go to work."

Liu Qing: "Anyone can do the work at the food factory. It's okay if she doesn't go for three months." When she thought about all the military families, only Ye Fan had a stable job, and Liu Qing felt upset. "I don't know what the higher-ups were thinking, giving the food factory two formal workers. When did formal workers become so easy to get?"

The most timid female comrade among the three said, "Keep your voice down."

Liu Qing: "I didn't say anything wrong." She said this, but her voice was obviously lower. "By the way, no one saw it just now, right?"

The other two shook their heads together. At this time of year, every household was cooking and no one was hanging out.

Liu Qing thought about how there were no people around when she asked Chen Xiaohui to stop, and she felt relieved immediately: "Go back."

They both said in unison: "Forget it?"

Liu Qing snorted coldly: "You wish! It's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge!"

But Chen Xiaohui was far away in the capital, so Liu Qing had no choice. Her husband was a soldier under Geng Zhiye, and Liu Qing didn't want to confront Ye Fan unless it was absolutely necessary.

Liu Qing pondered for a moment and said, "I'll think of another way." Passing by Tian Xiaofeng's house, she saw through the crack in the door that the yard was full of grass, and Liu Qing had an idea.

Tian Xiaofeng had written to her, and she knew how to contact Tian Xiaofeng.

Liu Qing knew very few words, so while her husband was leaving for the army and her children were going to school, she held a dictionary and wrote letters, in which she cursed Ye Fan for bullying her, Chen Xiaohui for being a fool, for bringing shame to her, and for taking advantage of her power to bully others, etc.

Not long after, Liu Qing received a reply from Tian Xiaofeng. Tian Xiaofeng wrote a full five pages. The first two pages cursed Ye Fan, the third page talked about her recent situation, and the fourth page said that her husband was busy with work, but it was easier than before, and she didn't have to stay in the army all day, and she could go to the city to buy things. The first half of the last page said that people can't always be so lucky, and cursed Ye Fan to be unlucky. The second half meant that she shouldn't let her seize the opportunity, otherwise she would definitely trample Ye Fan to death.

What Liu Qing wanted was more allies, so she happily wrote back to Tian Xiaofeng, 30% of which was compliments, 40% was envy, and the last 30% was asking for more contact in the future.

Tian Xiaofeng could see Liu Qing's envy of her through the text, so she wrote back and asked Liu Qing to wait for her news.

What news could the driver's family have? As of the Gregorian calendar year, Liu Qing had not received any letter from Tian Xiaofeng. Liu Qing probably knew that Tian Xiaofeng's ability was limited, so she was not in a hurry at all.

Zhuang Qiuyue and Liu Guihua saw that Liu Qing looked normal, and Liu Qing thought that Ye Fan had not told them that she was pushed into the toilet by Chen Xiaohui. Liu Qing was still the same as before, saying some ambiguous words during the chat.

In the past, Liu Guihua didn't know what kind of person she was, and she forgot what she had heard. Now she knows that this woman is not a good person, because she can't make things awkward if she doesn't see her when she looks down, so she just lets it go in one ear and out the other - Liu Qing, don't think of using her words to make things difficult for Ye Fan.

But Ye Fan has been in a bad mood recently because a great man passed away!

Geng Zhiye was therefore in no mood to flirt with Ye Fan.

Seeing that their parents were smiling less, Dabao and Erbao became very obedient. They played when they were told to play and did their homework when they were told to do it.

There was a martyrs' cemetery on the island. Geng Zhiye chose the Qingming Festival to take officers and staff who had no defense tasks to the mountain to sweep the tombs and repair the graves.

Ye Fan found some paper from the warehouse of the supply and marketing cooperative on the island and burned it at the intersection.

Liu Qing finally seized the opportunity and told people that Ye Fan was promoting feudal superstition.

Perhaps Liu Qing felt that Liu Guihua was stupid, so she didn't avoid Liu Guihua when she said this. Liu Guihua spoke quickly and asked without thinking: "You don't have a grandfather or elders?"

Liu Qing felt pain in her chest. "I said Ye Fan, not you. Besides, when a person dies, it's like a light goes out. There's no afterlife. Is it necessary to burn paper money?"

Liu Guihua nodded: "You are right. Give me your home address, and I will write to your parents to ask if your family does not need to repair the graves for the ancestors. If your parents say so, I will go with you to the headquarters to sue Ye Fan."

The timid wife whispered, "Don't quarrel. My husband said last night that we would go to the Martyrs' Forest Park to visit the graves today."

Hearing this, Liu Qing felt guilty but didn't want to admit it: "Sweeping the graves doesn't mean burning paper money."

Liu Guihua: "Yes, we don't burn paper money. What if there are ghosts and gods and they need paper money? Do you feel better if the martyrs die hungry and poor?"

Liu Qing was anxious: "Don't make it too serious! I said, Ye Fan, what are you talking about martyrs?"

Liu Guihua: "You also know that it's too much? Burning a few pieces of paper money is spreading feudal superstition. What's the point of your parents repairing their graves every year? Counter-revolution!"

(End of this chapter)