Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

Geng Zhiye laughed angrily: "You have a worse temper than me!"

Erbao arrived at the door, stopped and turned back to glare at her father: "You don't understand anything!"

Geng Zhiye nodded: "I don't understand. You, your brother and mother should go back to the capital later."

Erbao: "I'll go back!"

Geng Zhiye smiled and asked, "Mom is taking care of you two, isn't she tired? Geng Erbao, you are so filial."

The second child wanted to say I don’t want my mother to hold me. The first child covered his sister’s mouth and said, “Your legs are not even as long as Daddy’s arms. You refused to let Mommy hold you. You fell down in exhaustion before we even reached the train station.” “Dad, how old are you? Can’t you let your sister hold you?”

Erbao grabbed his brother's hand and said, "I won't let Daddy give in!"

Dabao pulled her out and said, "Dad is ignorant, and you are also ignorant, right?"

Erbao subconsciously said: "I am sensible!"

Geng Zhiye was happy: "That's great--" Seeing Ye Fan glaring at him, he whispered: "It's easy to coax. It's fun to have Dabao as big as Erbao. He gets angry when you tease him!"

Ye Fan was speechless: "Are you happy? Erbao is not happy."

Geng Zhiye: "She forgot it after she slept. What are we having for dinner? I, the chef, will show you my cooking skills."

Ye Fan didn't know: "Make something appetizer?"

Geng Zhiye waved at her, and Ye Fan followed him to the kitchen. There were clams and barnacles in the basin under the chopping board: "Did you buy them? These two are the fattest around August of the Gregorian calendar."

"Someone else gave it to me. I didn't want it at first." Ye Fan pointed at the barnacle, "It's so ugly. But I don't want it, just like I look down on him. Because I've accepted things from others before."

Geng Zhiye: "Are you also a member of the Shanxi Brigade? You keep comparing yourself with others. Aren't you uncomfortable sitting at home doing nothing in such hot weather?"

Ye Fan: "Stop criticizing me. How do I eat?"

Geng Zhiye: "Boil it in water. I'll make a sauce and add some vinegar to stimulate the appetite. Erbao doesn't like smashed cucumbers, so I won't make a cold dish. I'll stir-fry some tomatoes and eggs, and cook some noodles to mix with the noodles. Our tomatoes are sweet and sour, and Dabao and Erbao should like them."

Dabao and Erbao like pasta. Tomatoes are appetizing, and eggs fried with lard are very fragrant and suit their tastes very well. Once they are full, it means we can continue tomorrow.

Geng Zhiye asked: "Erbao, do you know who made dinner?"

Erbao smiled sweetly and replied, "Dad."

Geng Zhiye: "Dad doesn't mean he doesn't know everything, right?"

Erbao blinked his eyes, looking like he was saying, "I don't understand what Daddy is saying."

My old father is so angry!

Geng Zhiye raised his hand helplessly: "Go out."

Erbao is five years old this year. How could she forget what she said before dinner? Erbao jumped into the yard and waited for her brother to come out. She covered her mouth and whispered, "Brother, I lied to Dad."

Dabao: “I see.”

Erbao was nervous: "Where's Dad?"

Dabao: "Dad is the leader. A fool can't be the leader. Dad hasn't eaten yet, and doesn't want to argue with you."

Erbao suddenly stopped feeling proud: "I thought Dad was fooled by me."

Dabao: "You can't even fool me, so how can you fool dad? Just eat for another two years."

Erbao nodded obediently and stretched out his little hand. Dabao felt hot and didn't want to hold hands, but he still pulled his sister to the next door. The Liao family next door had just finished dinner. Zhuang Qiuyue wanted to ask Liao Miaomiao to wash the dishes and pots, but when she saw Dabao and Erbao coming in, she asked the three siblings to go play with them.

Seeing this, Liao Miaomiao thought to herself that if she didn't want to work in the future, she would go next door to find Aunt Ye.

Liao Dadi and Liao Xiaomei thought that when they wanted to go out and play someday, they would ask Dabao and Erbao to come find them after dinner.

But after just a few days of playing, the Chief of Staff came back.

A few days after the chief of staff and his family returned, it was Political Commissar Liao's turn to take a vacation and go to the military region for a full-body check-up to prevent him from encountering an emergency while on duty and suddenly falling ill and becoming a martyr.

During the time when Political Commissar Liao went home, Geng Zhiye led his men to the Five-Star Battalion again and blew up a piece of mountain area, thus clearing out all the dangerous guys that could be regarded as antiques in the army.

The large rocks that were blasted out were left on the side of the mountain to build the foundation of the factory building, and the rubble was taken away by members of each brigade. Some were used to build their own houses, and some were used as pads on the muddy road at the doorstep.

The road from the military family quarters to the vegetable market was too beautiful, like two different worlds from the production team. The members of the Five-Star Brigade thought, we don’t have Accountant Ye’s skills, and we are not as good as her at building roads and planting flowers and grass. Accountant Ye deserves to look down on us and thinks we know nothing.

One member took advantage of the collective labor to try to say, "We should repair the dirt roads in the village so that people can come out to get some fresh air after the rain. In the future, when comrades from the garment factory want to come into the village and see that the production team is cleaner than the city, they will definitely think that our duck feathers and goose feathers are really clean."

Duck and goose feathers are very profitable for fishermen. When members hear the word "feather", they think of money. People who are tired of poverty are motivated by the thought of money.

But there are not many people in the team who grow flowers, so where can we get the seedlings?

If there are not many small flowers, then you don't have to pick the varieties. You can plant acacia flowers at the intersection, peach flowers outside the door, and osmanthus flowers that bloom all the time on the opposite road. Plant edible daylilies on the edge of the field. Daylilies grow short and do not affect the growth of crops. Osmanthus flowers can be used to cook glutinous rice balls, and acacia flowers can be steamed and eaten. Jasmine flowers or honeysuckle flowers can also be soaked in water for drinking.

It's simply a feat.

The members who talked about this were very puzzled. They used to complain that they had to eat fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs, so why didn't they think of growing these to improve the diet?

Because if everyone is the same, then everyone is the same, and no one will look down on anyone. Now you have secretly made the production team very good, what do you want to do? Are you leaving other teams behind? Even if the "five-star" team leader said that the members did those things purely out of idleness, other production teams would not believe it. It was still early for rice harvest and early for Mid-Autumn Festival shipment, and many members were completely idle, so they chose the morning and evening when it was neither too cold nor too hot to level the road in front of their homes, or several people worked together to clean up the road at the entrance of the village.

The team leaders were surprised at first because they avoided the work in the production team whenever possible and felt that they were at a great disadvantage if they worked one minute longer. Now that no one asked them to work, why were they so enthusiastic?

Once when he went to the food factory to deliver seafood, Captain "Lotus" saw the colorful flowers at the entrance of his office and realized the power of role models!

Ye Fan knew nothing about these things.

She was in the capital, had just gotten off the train, and the scorching heat almost sent her back to the island.

Erbao lay in his father's arms, frowned and said, "Why is it so hot? Dad, I want to go home."

Yu Wentao came over: "We're home."

Erbao raised her eyelids to look at her grandmother, then lay on her father's shoulder again. Yu Wentao touched her forehead and asked, "Are you sick?"

Geng Zhiye explained that it was too hot on the train.

Yu Wentao immediately said, "Don't come back at this time next year. Even during the winter vacation - it's not possible, it's snowing heavily. I'd better go over."

Tao Chunlan touched her grandson's forehead, which was covered in sweat: "Xiaohui, let's go home quickly."

Ye Fan took into consideration that Geng Zhiye's second sister-in-law would be at home on Sunday, so her mother-in-law wouldn't have to cook for the elderly and children, and Chen Xiaohui wouldn't have to go to work, so Comrade Tao Chunlan wouldn't have to cook for her. If they wanted to pick up Dabao and Erbao, they could go over at any time, so she chose to arrive at the station on this day.

But Ye Fan didn't expect Chen Xiaohui to come even in such a hot weather. She took Ye Fan's bag and asked, "Have you heard? The higher-ups are planning to resume the college entrance exam."

Ye Fan had never heard of this in her life, and it hadn't been published in the newspapers. She couldn't explain why she knew about it, so she deliberately frowned. When Chen Xiaohui was hysterical, she asked, "What college entrance examination? Who told you that?"

Yu Wentao subconsciously came over when she heard the word "college entrance examination" and found that Chen Xiaohui was next to her, so she turned to Ye Fan. Chen Xiaohui curled her lips and rolled her eyes.

Ye Fan wanted to laugh when he saw this scene. Is it necessary to dislike each other so much? "Aunt Yu also knows?"

Yu Wentao: "Your second sister-in-law's mother is a professor at Peking University. Wasn't she exiled to the countryside a few years ago? A few days ago, the city sent someone to pick her up and arrange a house for her. All the confiscated items were returned to her. Your second sister-in-law is now-"

Ye Fan interrupted: "After all the hardship comes happiness?"

Yu Wentao didn't mean that. She wanted to take the opportunity to make some sarcastic remarks, because this relative was different from Tao Chunlan. Tao Chunlan thought she was unstable, talkative, and short-sighted - she could only see what was in front of her. She didn't despise Yu Wentao's family for being illiterate. She herself was lucky enough to join the art troupe, took a shortcut at a young age, married Geng's father who was much older than her, and became a mother of three children. So Yu Wentao could go to Hengshan Island with Tao Chunlan, and didn't mind living under the same roof with her.

Seeing the bustling crowds at the station, Yu Wentao swallowed her words, thinking that being heard would make her seem immature, and said, "Xiaoqin is going to take the college entrance examination. I told her that she will be 24 next year, and what if she fails the exam? I told her to find a date and take the college entrance examination at the same time, so that both won't be delayed. She said that I was making such a blind arrangement. So annoying——"

Geng Zhiye interrupted, "You are making a blind arrangement. If you fail this year, you can take the exam next year. If you fail next year, you can take the exam the year after. The educated youths in the same class as Fanfan are thirty years old. Xiaoqin will not be older than them even if he takes the exam three more times."

Chen Xiaohui nodded subconsciously.

Yu Wentao: "But thirty years old——"

Ye Fan: "There is no shortage of older young people in universities. It's easier to find a partner after you get into university."

Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but say: "No matter who you look for, it's better to look for someone who has married a wife in the countryside than to look for someone now."

Yu Wentao couldn't help but glare at Chen Xiaohui: "Xiaoqin is not blind——"

Ye Fan stopped her, "Xiao Hui is afraid that Xiao Qin will be cheated. Xiao Qin may not be young in your eyes, but he is several years younger than them and lives in a simple environment. They can easily cheat you and Xiao Qin."

Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but nodded.

Ye Fanxin said, "You should leave first." "There is one more thing. If Xiaoqin passes the exam and her boyfriend fails, and you think he is not worthy of Xiaoqin, what will the neighbors say about you? For example, they advised you to wait but you didn't listen, and now you are despising the poor and loving the rich and breaking off the engagement. If this reputation gets out, will good families dare to marry you in the future?"

Tao Chunlan: "I told her to look further. She said her eyes were small and she couldn't see far."

Yu Wentao stared and nodded.

Dabao burst out laughing.

Tao Chunlan rolled her eyes at Yu Wentao. Did you see that? Your grandson is laughing at you. "Dabao, do you want some soda? Grandma will buy you some Beibingyang. Let's drink it before we leave."

Dabao took out a few dimes from his pocket. Tao Chunlan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Grandma has money." They bought six bottles of soda, one for Dabao, one for Erbao, two for Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye, and two for Chen Xiaohui and Yu Wentao.

Ye Fan gave hers to her mother: "Erbao, just drink a couple of sips. I'll drink hers."

Erbao wanted to drink a few more sips, and Ye Fan asked in a low voice: "Are you uncomfortable with diarrhea?" Erbao gave the soda to his mother.

Chen Xiaohui looked at what she had in her hand, then at Tao Chunlan's soda, and frowned slightly. Why didn't she think of giving hers to her mother, or asking her mother to buy another bottle?

How come Ye Fan has such a thoughtful brain?

Ye Fan is not careful at all, he just got used to being thoughtful in his previous life.

Geng Zhiye drank half of it and gave it to Ye Fan. Ye Fan shook his head: "You drink it. I've been drinking water and eating melons these past two days, and my stomach and head are all cold. If I drink more, I'll feel sick. Dabao, don't drink too fast."

Dabao nodded: "I want to warm up the soda before swallowing it."

Yu Wentao spurted out: "——Don't talk!"

Dabao pouted his lips, which was really funny.

Ye Fan wet a towel with water from a kettle and wiped the faces of Dabao and Erbao. The brother and sister felt much better, and the family went to the roadside to take the bus.

Yu Wentao asked Ye Fan to go back to Geng's house. This time Tao Chunlan didn't fight with her. The city had been hot in recent days. The houses around Geng's house were low and the population density was not high. The wind from the suburbs could come in, which was much more comfortable than in the city.

Sure enough, it was stuffy when I just got off the train, but it became cooler when I got off the bus and arrived at Geng's house.

Geng Zhiqin came out of the main room when he heard the footsteps: "Sister-in-law, Third Brother, I froze the watermelon. Do you want to cut it now?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Cut it." He pulled Dabao to the water well and wet the towel again to wipe his face and arms: "Are you comfortable?"

Dabao tilted his neck up. Ye Fan wiped him again. Erbao came down and said, "Mom, wipe it for me."

Ye Fan wiped her body.

Yu Wentao couldn't help but say, "Well water is cold. It's easy to get sick if you switch between hot and cold."

Ye Fan: "If you don't wipe it, you will get heatstroke. Xiaoqin, do you have any uniced watermelon? Cut two pieces for Dabao and Erbao. They just drank ice soda." He wet the towel again and handed it to Geng Zhiye.

Geng Zhiye wiped the sweat from her face.

Geng Huihui came out to pull Erbao, and seeing this, she couldn't bear to watch, so she picked up Erbao and went back to the house. Ye Fan caught a glimpse of this scene from the corner of his eye, and pushed Geng Zhiye away: "You wipe it yourself. I'm going to eat the melon."

Geng Zhiye: "Eat less."

Ye Fan waved his hand: "Eat a piece to quench your thirst."

Geng Huihui stopped when she heard this: "Aunt San, there is mung bean soup. My mother cooked it this morning."

Ye Fan: "Give me a bowl." Geng Huihui opened the small refrigerator. Dabao saw the Coke and wanted to reach out, but Ye Fan pulled him back: "Drink it tomorrow." Then he brought out the mung bean soup: "Captain Geng, would you like some?"

Geng Zhiye threw the clean towel on the rope: "Give me a bowl. By the way, Xiaoqin, on the way back, Aunt Yu said you want to go to college? You haven't been to high school, so it's harder for you to study than others. Do you want to quit your job?"

Yu Wentao was choking on the melon. Geng Huihui hurried to help her pat it: "Uncle, my parents also said the same thing. My aunt wants to study while working."

Geng Zhiqin nodded: "Your aunt Yu doesn't agree with my resignation. If Chen Xiaohui passes the exam and I don't, I will resign and concentrate on reviewing."

Yu Wentao finally spat out the watermelon seeds and was able to speak: "If she passes the exam, you don't have to resign. If she quits, you can be an accountant. After graduation, you might be assigned a job that's worse than an accountant in a supply and marketing cooperative."

Ye Fanxin said that it was no wonder that Comrade Tao Chunlan disliked him: "Xiaoqin can be a teacher after graduating from university, can work in a public institution, can join a government agency. If he doesn't go to university, he can only work in a supply and marketing cooperative. He doesn't dare to resign even when being bullied."

Yu Wentao: "But you also said that she passed the exam. Like the third brother said, she didn't even go to high school. How could she pass Chen Xiaohui? Or can she pass those who graduated from junior high school in the past two years? She gave all her junior high school knowledge back to her teacher a long time ago."

Ye Fan: "Xiao Qin is your daughter. Since you said so, I will listen to you."

Yu Wentao suddenly became anxious: "No, I—I haven't even graduated from elementary school, how can you listen to me?"

Geng Zhiqin said bluntly: "You still know? You don't listen to the words of the second brother and his wife and the third brother and his wife, so who do you want to listen to?"

Yu Wentao just wanted a guarantee, but who would dare to guarantee something that Geng Zhiqin himself couldn't guarantee?

Geng Zhiye handed Ye Fan a piece of melon: "Huihui, where are your parents?"

Yu Wentao snorted coldly: "I went to my mother-in-law's house."

Geng Huihui smiled nonchalantly: "My grandma's family is short of everything. My parents went shopping for her."

Geng Zhiye: "Where's your uncle? Where's your grandpa?"

Yu Wentao snorted again, "They are all here. I was suppressed for a few years and I didn't dare to go out to buy things. I was worried about this and that. I don't know why I am so timid. I am not afraid of anything."

Geng Zhiye thought to himself that your family had been poor farmers for three generations and walked barefoot every day, so of course you were not afraid of anything: "Do you want my help?"

Geng Huihui shook her head: "It will take a few weekends to finish the work today. You have been busy for a year and finally you can relax and have a good time with Third Aunt."

Yu Wentao couldn't help but nodded: "Huihui is still sensible. Follow me. If she follows her grandmother——"

Ye Fan interrupted: "That's almost it."

Yu Wentao shut up.

The Geng family looked at each other, finally someone could control her mouth.

Yu Wentao doesn't think so. Can I avoid it even if I can't convince her?

The next morning after breakfast, Yu Wentao and her husband took their four children out - Dabao, Erbao and Geng Zhiye's nephews and nieces. Geng Zhiqin and her second brother and second sister-in-law went to work. Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye finished washing clothes. There was nothing to do at home, so they went out for a walk.

Walking into the bustling park, Ye Fan couldn't help but say, "I haven't been back for a year, and I feel a bit like a country boy coming to the city."

"Because this year people dare to go out of their homes, they don't have to worry about being accused by people wearing red armbands." Geng Zhiye asked, "Just go to the park?"

Ye Fan: "On such a hot day, should we go to the department store or to the film festival to sweat?"

"Steaming?" Geng Zhiye was happy. "Let's come back in winter next year. Although it's cold, you can wear something thicker and go anywhere. It's not like now where you might get heat stroke if you stay in the sun for a while. By the way, did Dabao tell you where he and Aunt Yu went to play?"

Ye Fan: "Dad can't walk too far with his cane, so he must be at a neighbor's house nearby. But she seemed to be carrying something when she went out. Huihui and Dabao both had bags on their shoulders. Maybe she went back to her mother's house."

Geng Zhiye frowned: "Going back to your parents' home at this time?"

Ye Fan: "The countryside has fewer people and more trees, so it's cooler than the city."

“Who will pick them up?”

Ye Fan had never been to Geng Zhiqin's grandmother's house, but he had heard from Geng Zhiqin that it was only two miles away after getting off the bus: "Is there a bus that goes directly there? Or maybe Aunt Yu went back a few days ago and said that we arrived yesterday, so she can bring the kids back to the village to play today and ask her sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law to wait at the bus stop?"

Geng Zhiye: "You're just causing trouble for others. The countryside has limited food just like us. If six people go there for one meal, they'll have to eat vegetable soup for the next three days."

Ye Fan wanted to laugh for some reason: "It's not that serious. Besides, I didn't go there empty-handed." He saw a female comrade coming over. There were only her and Geng Zhiye under the tree. He didn't know her. "I'm looking for you."

"What do you want to talk to?" Geng Zhiye was thinking about turning around and telling his stepmother to come back to her house less often, but he didn't react for a moment when he heard that.

Ye Fan pushed his head and raised his chin to signal him to look back. Geng Zhiye turned sideways and the man stopped. Geng Zhiye thought about it carefully, but didn't have any impression. He turned back to look at Ye Fan and asked in a low voice: "Looking for me?"

Ye Fan looked at the man, who was a little shorter than her and about the same size as Chen Xiaohui. Chen Xiaohui looked aggressive, which was completely different from her temperament. The man with a delicate face and a gentle look said, "He looks about 34 or 35 years old. Apart from my former colleagues at the supply and marketing cooperative, I don't have any friends that old. He could be your high school classmate, or -" Suddenly, a possibility came to mind, Chen Xiaohui's white moonlight, Geng Zhiye.

"I remember now. My grandmother's neighbor's little daughter, who was two years younger than me, seemed to be called Qin Shuyi." Geng Zhiye turned around to confirm. The female comrade Qin Shuyi was almost behind him. Qin Shuyi seemed embarrassed for coming uninvited. She took another step forward and stopped, smiling uncomfortably. "I saw someone who looked like you on the street, but I didn't dare to recognize you. It turns out it was really you."

Ye Fan thought, shouldn't the first sentence be to introduce myself? Or is it because I am not worthy? Thinking of this possibility, Ye Fan's hand went around to poke Geng Zhiye's back. Geng Zhiye thought Ye Fan wanted him to get rid of him quickly: "Is there something wrong? We have something else to do."

Qin Shuyi's smile froze.

Should I be so direct? Ye Fan suppressed his laughter and asked, "I am Ye Fan, Geng Zhiye's wife. What is your name, elder sister?"

The corner of Qin Shuyi's mouth twitched, and she looked like she wanted to curse but held back: "I am Brother Geng's junior sister, and I live next door to his uncle. Brother Geng used to live at his grandmother's house, and we often went to school together."

Geng Zhiye couldn't help but nod. When he was a child, Lao Geng and his mother fought in many battles. He and his half brother and second brother lived with his grandmother, and went to and from school with the other kids in the alley every day.

Qin Shuyi's face lit up with joy when she saw Geng Zhiye's actions. Ye Fan immediately wanted to slap Geng Zhiye, idiot!
Ye Fan nodded to show that he understood: "So you are neighbors. But isn't grandma's home in East City? Why are you in West City? You haven't ridden a bike yet."

Geng Zhiye seemed to have just woken up from a dream: "Yes, why are you here?"

Qin Shuyi couldn't help but let out a bitter smile: "I'm afraid you'll laugh at me if I tell you this."

Ye Fanxin said, "Hurry up and tell me, let me smile." She looked very concerned about the other person, "You are not an outsider. If you have any difficulties, tell us. Even if we can't help, we can give you some advice."

Geng Zhiye nodded.

Qin Shuyi saw that he also wanted to know: "I'm divorced."

Geng Zhiye and Ye Fan subconsciously responded to show that they understood.

Qin Shuyi was very confused when she saw this: "Do you know?"

The couple shook their heads subconsciously.

Qin Shuyi was getting more and more confused. Why was his reaction so calm? "But, don't you think it's strange? I..." After thinking for a moment, "My parents couldn't accept it when they heard that I wanted to divorce."

Ye Fan: "Your parents were born around the Gengzi Year, right? The Qing Dynasty had not yet fallen at that time, so their ideas were inevitably old-fashioned. Don't take it to heart. Marriage is free now, and divorce and remarriage are normal."

Geng Zhiye nodded: "It's not a big deal. Don't be sad. You are still young in your thirties. He doesn't know how to cherish you. He is blind. You will definitely find someone better in the future."

Qin Shuyi looked at him hopefully: "Do you think so too?"

Geng Zhiye thought, isn't what I said clear enough? "Isn't this what everyone in my generation thinks?"

Qin Shuyi couldn't help but laugh: "So you-are you doing well now?"

Geng Zhiye looked at Ye Fan. Is there any need to ask? Can a couple with bad relationships go to the park together? Geng Zhiye wondered, wasn't she very smart when she was a child?

Ye Fan: "That's good. But your divorce doesn't seem to have much to do with you here, right?"

Geng Zhiye couldn't help but nod: "Yes, I haven't told you why you are here. How are you going to get back later?"

Qin Shuyi: "Bus. There is a bus stop at the entrance of the park. I heard that the bus just passed by and the next one will take half an hour, so I came in to hide for a while. I didn't expect to run into you. You must have been very busy these years, right?"

Geng Zhiye thought, you still haven't told me why you're here. Are you so embarrassed to ask? Then I simply didn't ask: "In the army, as long as you don't go to the battlefield, there's nothing to be busy about."

Qin Shuyi opened her mouth, and seeing Ye Fan hesitated for a moment, "I heard from your grandma that you got married earlier than me, so your child must be quite big, right?"

Geng Zhiye: "The eldest will be in the fourth grade in the fall, and the second will be in elementary school in the fall."

Qin Shuyi was surprised: "Two?" She couldn't help but look at Ye Fan. Pigs? They are so fertile.

Geng Zhiye: "The eldest is a boy, and the second is a girl. Compared with your five brothers and sisters, it's not much. But it's enough."

Qin Shuyi's face twisted for a moment. Ye Fan saw it carefully. He thought to himself, are two children too few? Think about people of this generation. Generally, they have three or four children. Liu Guihua and Wan Siqin both have only two children because their parents-in-law can't take care of them. In addition to themselves, their sisters-in-law also have children. The two have said more than once that they didn't have two more children when they were young.

Compared in this way, only their eldest and second children are indeed missing.

Ye Fan: "I have to work, and he has to work too, and I can't take care of both children."

Qin Shuyi couldn't help but ask: "Do you have a job?"

Ye Fan frowned. What kind of words are these? It's as if I don't deserve a job.

Geng Zhiye was also wondering in his heart, what does "you have" mean? You can work in the post office after graduating from a technical secondary school. Isn't it normal for Ye Fanfan to have a job after graduating from high school?

Geng Zhiye: "My wife used to work at the Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative as an accountant."

Qin Shuyi looked at Ye Fan: "You?" Suddenly she noticed a word, "Before - that is, not in the supply and marketing cooperative now?"

Ye Fan: "Now I work as an accountant in a food factory."

Qin Shuyi couldn't help but raise her voice: "So you still live separately?"

Geng Zhiye wanted to speak, but Ye Fan said, "Yes." Before she could speak, he asked, "Is the bus coming soon?" He poked Geng Zhiye on the back. Geng Zhiye immediately said, "Go back quickly. It's easy to get heatstroke when the sun is high."

Ye Fan glanced at him and thought he was really caring.

Geng Zhiye didn't understand what was going on. Did he say something wrong? Seeing Qin Shuyi standing still, as if her feet were frozen, Geng Zhiye asked, "Anything else?"

Qin Shuyi looked at Ye Fan, hesitant to speak, and after a moment, asked, "Can you stay at home for a few days?"

Geng Zhiye disdained to lie about such trivial matters: "You can stay at home for ten days."

Qin Shuyi: "Then are you going to your uncle's house?" Geng Zhiye nodded. Qin Shuyi smiled and said, "Then we'll talk again when we meet."

Geng Zhiye nodded again and said as usual: "Be careful."

Qin Shuyi smiled and waved as she retreated, until there were flowers and plants behind her, and then she had to turn around and walk properly.

Geng Zhiye frowned as he looked at her from behind: "Why has she become so strange now? Is she unhappy with her life and mentally distorted? Just like Chen Xiaohui——"

Ye Fan slapped him on the back: "What are you talking about?"

Geng Zhiye: "Did I say something wrong? Don't you think Chen Xiaohui is weird? It's ok outside, but sometimes she acts like a thief in her own home."

Ye Fan: "Can you blame her for this?"

Geng Zhiye: "Blame Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping. But we all said they were worthless, but Chen Xiaohui still bought clothes for them. Aren't you afraid that bad company will corrupt you?"

Ye Fan told Chen Xiaohui too much about this, but she couldn't stand up on her own. What could Ye Fan do but let her grow up slowly: "Speaking of this person, it's not that she is weird, it's that you are stupid."

Geng Zhiye was very unhappy: "If I am stupid, how can I be the head of the group?"

Ye Fan: "I want to rekindle our past relationship with you, but I hesitate to speak several times because I am an eyesore."

Geng Zhiye immediately looked like he was talking nonsense, then touched her forehead and said, "You're not suffering from heatstroke. She's only three or four years younger than me. I have something in common with her. Do I need to go on a blind date with you?" He rolled his eyes at her and said, "You should have a limit to your nonsense."

Ye Fanqi smiled: "How about making a bet? The loser has to promise the winner something."

Geng Zhiye thought to himself, I just want to find out what happened to your first love when you were sixteen or seventeen years old: "You are not allowed to regret it?"

Ye Fan grabbed his hand and said, "High five!"

"But everyone has left."

Ye Fan: "Let's go to your uncle's house tomorrow. She couldn't help herself in front of me, I don't believe she could have done it before. Your uncle and aunt must know something."

(End of this chapter)