Erbao stretched out his two little hands to wrap his mother's face: "Daddy loves mommy."
Dabao: "Mom, Dad will be sad when he hears this."
"What's so fragrant?" Ye Fan asked.
Dabao rolled his eyes helplessly: "Don't say anything else! Mom, I'm talking about you. Have a good attitude!"
Ye Fan grabbed his ear: "Who has a good attitude?"
"Me, me, mom, please save my life, dad, help me -"
Ye Fan interrupted: "It's no use calling me grandma."
"It helps sometimes." Geng Zhiye opened the door and came in, "Don't bully him. I'll put the porridge out of the pot and boil half a pot of water. You can wipe your body with hot water and wash your hair." Then he asked the two children, "Have the tofu fish ready?" Are you still eating? ”
The brother and sister did not see Ye Fan in the well with their own eyes, and because in their eyes their mother was very powerful and their father could do things that mother could not do, the two children did not panic when they saw Ye Fan soaked all over. However, the two smart guys also noticed that their mother was not in good spirits, and they did not dare to make trouble even though they felt hungry after eating the porridge for a while.
But it was different when dad took the initiative to bring it up. The brother and sister said in unison: "Yes!"
Dabao came down to put on his shoes: "Dad, I can eat a big steamed bun."
"I didn't buy any noodles. It's time to cook in the cafeteria. I'll go to the cafeteria later and see if I can buy some." Geng Zhiye said to Ye Fan, "Take a rest and get some water for you."
Ye Fan didn't want to be alone, so he put on his coat and pulled on his shoes.
Seeing this, Geng Zhiye brought over the porridge in the enamel basin, took four pairs of bowls, chopsticks and spoons, filled half a bowl of porridge for the two children, and a bowl each for himself and Ye Fan.
Dabao looked at his mother's and father's bowls and then at his own bowl. He was so angry that he could hang an oil bottle on his little mouth.
Geng Zhiye was speechless and wanted to laugh: "There is still more in the basin. Serve it after eating." Use Erbao's small spoon to scoop out a spoonful of tofu fish. "Eat slowly, don't get stuck." He also reminded Ye Fan to use a spoon.
Dabao couldn't bear to be angry and asked seriously with a small face: "Where is mine?"
"Is your hand injured?" Geng Zhiye said after all, and gave his son a spoonful, "Er Bao, is it delicious?"
Erbao liked it very much and nodded repeatedly: "It's slippery, daddy eats it."
Geng Zhiye turned to Ye Fan: "How many more pounds will I buy tomorrow morning?"
Ye Fan was busy making money in his previous life, but in this life he is busy raising children and working, and has never played with aquatic products: "Buy a few more things, and I will learn how to make them from you."
Dabao nodded with satisfaction: "Mom, that's right."
Ye Fan glared at him: "You talk like a child, look how old you are." Speaking of his eldest son, he couldn't help but imitate Geng Zhiye, "Those children who play with him with sandbags, he doesn't even know how old he is. What's your name? You're so much older than him, but you still dare to play with others. Geng Dabao, don't you weigh how much you weigh when throwing sandbags at others?"
Dabao blurted out: "I'm not trying to be brave."
Ye Fan choked.
Geng Zhiye wanted to laugh: "No more talking, let's eat first."
Dabao digs out a spoonful of tofu fish and watches her mother put it in her mouth, but won't give it to you.
Ye Fan rolled his eyes, how naive are you?
Geng Zhiye pretended not to see it: "Fanfan, when I was shopping for groceries, I met a few people who said that the furniture was ready. You can see how to arrange it at home. I asked them to deliver it for us."
"Don't you want to buy steamed buns?" Dabao hasn't eaten steamed buns for several days.
Geng Zhiye: “Buy it and go back.”
Dabao was lying on the table, protecting the bowl with one hand and scooping porridge into his mouth with the other, his eyes rolling around and his little brain thinking. Ye Fan was opposite his son and raised his eyes to see his little face: "Geng Dabao, tell me what you have to say."
"Is that okay?" Dabao sat upright.
Ye Fan: "I'm in a good mood now."
"I'm in a good mood too."
Ye Fan wanted to roll his eyes again: "Don't imitate me. Speak quickly!"
Dabao immediately said: "Dad, I know how to buy things."
"I know. But the steamed buns that are freshly baked are hot." Geng Zhiye did not say that the road on the island was uneven and he would easily fall while carrying the steamed buns. Otherwise, Geng Dabao should have sworn that he would not fall, and he might even pick up the porridge. Basin proved it to him.
Dabao nodded his little head in disappointment.
Geng Zhiye: "It's okay tomorrow. Dad will take you, mom and sister out to play."
Dabao asked curiously: "Is it big here?"
"It's more than ten kilometers long and seven or eight kilometers wide. It's not small." Geng Zhiye said, "But there are many mountains and the fields are like tofu blocks. There is a small ditch just a few steps away. It's different from my hometown. You two should like it. ”
Erbao put down her little spoon and announced loudly: "Dad, I like to play in water."
Dabao hurriedly covered her mouth: "Why are you telling the truth?"
Erbao turned to his brother and blinked his eyes exactly like Ye Fan. Can't you tell me.
Dabao nodded, we just need to know.
Erbao nodded, "Okay, brother!"
Ye Fan was so hungry that he didn't want to eat. He reluctantly finished the porridge and poured the porridge from the enamel basin into Geng Zhiye's bowl. Geng Zhiye asked: "Give it to me and you won't eat it?"
"Do you want Dabao and Erbao?" Yefan asked.
Dabao wanted to say that his mother was partial, so he opened his mouth and burped, and suddenly became weak.
The second treasure is very smart, but she is small and the eldest treasure doesn't speak. She doesn't know what to say and just shakes her head obediently.
Ye Fan put her empty bowl into the basin. When Geng Zhiye saw this, he said, "Leave it there while I wash it. It's time for the water in the pot to be hot."
Ye Fan filled a half basin of water and went to wash his hair under the eaves.
Geng Zhiye mixed two ladles of hot water and one ladle of well water into the bucket, and carried it to Ye Fan: "Rinse it with the water here."
"My hair is too long, please cut it off for me. It's too troublesome to carry water to wash my hair."
Geng Zhiye: "I choose."
"..." Ye Fan asked helplessly: "Are you not at home? Just cut it to the shoulders and tie it up. By the way, is there anyone who can buy hair?"
Geng Zhiye: "...Can't I feed you? Wash it quickly and don't catch a cold." He went into the house and cleaned the pots and pans, holding an enamel basin with a lid, "Dabao, Erbao, are you going with daddy?"< br>
Dabao: "Is it far?"
Geng Zhiye nodded, and Erbao stretched out his hand: "Dad, hug me."
"...How can you be so smart?" Geng Zhiye trained as if he was carrying the weight.
However, he didn't expect to have to hold two fat babies when he came back. My arms were sore by the time I got home. Ye Fan saw him rubbing his arm: "Dabao didn't remind you not to be brave?"
Dabao covered his face and shouted as if he was angry: "Don't say it!"
Ye Fan rolled her eyes at him and took the clothes out. There were only two thick sticks and a clothesline in the yard. She couldn't help but sigh - and she forgot that there was no pressure well here, let alone running water.
Geng Zhiye came out and took the basin away: "Tomorrow I will carry water to wash."
Ye Fan was quite tired: "Captain Geng, have you ever heard of a saying? People are alive!"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "I know, I asked someone, the geology here is not easy to drill a well. If we really want to drill a well, you have to be prepared to have holes all over the courtyard."
Ye Fan: “You don’t have to plow the ground to grow vegetables.”
"Now that I've decided, will I ask someone when I'm pulling out the furniture, and then ask them to come over and take a look?"
Ye Fan was a little worried: "I can't understand the local dialect. Are you here?"
"I'm back early. I still have a few days of vacation." Geng Zhiye pulled the dining table aside and stretched out his hand to Ye Fan. Ye Fan handed him the money. Geng Zhiye nodded to her and walked out.
Dabao was very surprised: "How did mom know that dad was asking for money?"
"Don't pay for pulling furniture? Stupid!" Ye Fan went to the kitchen to carry a bucket of water and washed clothes under the clothesline.
Dabao is a new arrival. He is unfamiliar with the place and doesn’t know where to go. He carries two small stools and sits opposite his mother with Erbao, one on the left and one on the right, like two doorkeepers.
Ye Fan: "Why don't you go play with your new friends?"
Dabao lay on his lap and said unnaturally: "I don't know where Sister Miao Miao's home is."
"Don't know how to ask?"
"Who are you asking? I don't know anyone."
Ye Fan wanted to laugh but held it back. If it weren't for the fact that he was only four years old, I would have to say that you, Geng Dabao, would also have a timid day.
"It's to the east of our house. When you two were buying steamed buns with your dad, I saw the three siblings playing in the yard." Ye Fan saw him getting up, "Why are you in a hurry? Sit down! If you are doing homework, What?”
The first baby sat down, and the second baby also sat down obediently.
Ye Fan: "How many bottles of Coke are left?"
Erbao held out two fingers: "One bottle for brother, one for Erbao." After that, he asked for a Coke.
Her teeth haven't even grown yet, so Ye Fan dares to ask her to drink Coke for several days: "Where are the candies?"
Dabao: "There are many more. Mom, dad promised to buy me two catties."
"You also promised not to tell grandma and grandpa what happened today. Did you abide by it?"
Dabao looked anxiously: "Is it also my fault that Erbao said?"
"Er Bao won't remember it if you don't remind him." Er Bao hasn't remembered anything yet, and she will have forgotten it when Geng Zhiye goes on vacation next year. Ye Fan didn't want to talk nonsense with him, "You keep your word, I'll tell you what to do."
The clothes were all worn this morning. Before they got dirty, Ye Fan hung them on the line while talking to the two children.
"Okay, okay." Dabao glanced at his mother with an expression of "I'll let you once", "Can you tell me?" Ye Fan waved to the two children, Dabao and Erbao stood up, and Ye Fan walked away carrying two benches. In front, Dabao and Erbao were running behind with their calves in full swing, as if they were walking puppies if they didn't look carefully.
Ye Fan put the bench against the wall: "Wait."
The brother and sister sat down and waited.
Ye Fan went to her and Geng Zhiye's room to grab a handful of toffees. There were roughly twenty of them. Ye Fan took five or six and stuffed them into Erbao's two trouser pockets, then stuffed a few into Dabao's pocket, and finally left a few for each of the two children: "Dabao, go next door and ask sister Miaomiao if she's at home first. If anyone is there, Tell her if she wants to do homework at home. If she says she wants to do homework, tell her that if she doesn’t have to do homework, you and Erbao can play with her and treat her to some sweets.”
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Dabao: "Don't you invite the eldest brother and the younger sister?"
Ye Fan subconsciously wanted to ask about the eldest brother and younger sister, but suddenly remembered that there were two children behind Liao Miaomiao when she came to her house before: "Her younger brother and sister? Please. If her parents are at home, you can't be stingy. They belong to your father." Friends, just like the director of the supply and marketing cooperative is my mother’s friend.”
Dabao nodded: "Mom, when are you going?"
"You can do it now. There are many rocks on the road, so you hold your sister. If the door to her courtyard is closed, ask if there is anyone inside. If the door is open, go to the main room and knock on the door. If someone sees you, go in. Even if the door You can’t go in directly even if it’s open.”
Dabao is very obedient when he encounters those who don’t understand. He and Erbao went to the next door and saw that the courtyard door was open and subconsciously looked in the direction of his home. Ye Fan raised his hand to him in the courtyard. Dabao took his sister to the door of the house. There was no one in the living room. Dabao knocked on the door and asked, "Is there anyone there?"
Political Commissar Liao's lover Zhuang Qiuyue came out of the room, holding a sewing box and shoe soles. She didn't react for a moment: "Are you...?"
"My name is Dabao, and this is my sister Erbao. My father is Geng Zhiye, and my mother's name is Ye Fan."
Zhuang Qiuyue had an impression: "I saw you two in the morning, right? Come in."
"Is Sister Miao Miao at home?"
Liao Miaomiao has come out of the room.
Dabao first asked her if she wanted to do homework according to her mother's instructions. Zhuang Qiuyue had never seen such a young child who was so eloquent, so she said there was no need to worry. Liao Miaomiao couldn't help but wonder if she heard it wrong. When did her mother become so talkative?
Dabao asked if he could play with her.
Liao Miaomiao turned sideways to the bedroom door: "Come here first, I have some homework, I'll be done in a minute."
Dabao stretched out his hand and asked her to eat sweets, and Erbao followed his brother and asked her to eat sweets too. Dabao took the candies from his sister's hand and gave them to Zhuang Qiuyue and the Liao siblings, one each.
The four of them looked at each other, and Liao Miaomiao asked: "What are you eating?"
Dabao and Dabao patted their trouser pockets together.
Liao Miaomiao felt relieved and took them into the house.
Zhuang Qiuyue couldn't help but click her tongue, he was indeed a child from a big place.
There are few things going on on the island, and even the smallest of things can attract people's attention, let alone something as big as carrying the wrong child. Zhuang Qiuyue was carrying water at noon, and along the way she met three people who asked her if she knew her new neighbor Ye Fan was actually named Chen.
The immoral things Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping did caused Zhuang Qiuyue to have mixed feelings about Ye Fan. Political Commissar Liao came back for lunch. Zhuang Qiuyue asked him what he thought about this matter. Political Commissar Liao asked her if she was willing to give away the daughter she had worked so hard to raise. Zhuang Qiuyue said that the Chen family had returned Chen Xiaohui. When Political Commissar Liao was with Cement, his mind was free to think of something, so he told his wife that based on the conditions of the Ye family, the Chen family would be willing to accept Ye Fan as their son.
It wasn't that Ye Fan stayed at Ye's house, Zhuang Qiuyue felt much better about her. Seeing that Dabao Erbao was so sensible, she couldn't help but think that Ye Fan's job could be given to Chen Xiaohui. Her experience and knowledge over the years were better than anyone else's. Can't take it away.
Therefore, Ye Fan, whose surname is Chen, is also the new neighbor she is looking forward to.
Zhuang Qiuyue went to the door of her daughter's bedroom and asked, "Dabao, does your mother know that you and your sister came to see Miaomiao?"
Dabao nodded: "Mom knows."
"What is your mother doing at home?"
Dabao: "My dad is buying furniture, and my mom is waiting for dad at home."
Zhuang Qiuyue wanted to go next door to see if she could help: "Let's play." She opened both doors of the living room and put the soles in the living room. When she heard something moving next door, she glanced over her shoulder, put down her needlework, and went next door to help carry the furniture.
Zhuang Qiuyue thought there were only a few pieces, but when she arrived she saw a bench that could seat three people: "Commander Geng, why do you make so many? Do you plan to live here for the rest of your life?"
"It will be needed in a year or two." Geng Zhiye and the carpenter lifted the bench down.
Zhuang Qiuyue picked up a chair and almost let it go: "Is it so heavy?"
Geng Zhiye: "It's made of real wood. Fanfan, don't touch it. I'll take it off and you can take it again." He took out a chair and handed it to her.
Zhuang Qiuyue moved the chair towards Ye Fan: "Where to put it?"
"Living room. Put it against the wall first. There are still two cabinets and cabinets that have not been removed." Ye Fan said, "My name is Ye Fan. My sister-in-law can call me Xiaoye."
When Zhuang Qiuyue said her name, she could call her sister-in-law. She was a few years older than Geng Zhiye.
Ye Fan saw that she was not shy when talking and holding a chair, much like Liu Guihua who had helped her out in the morning, so he smiled and called "sister-in-law".
Zhuang Qiuyue said politely, but she was wondering what the Chen family's parents thought of giving such a handsome daughter to the Ye family. Could it be that Chen Xiaohui looks like a fairy?
She had never seen Xian'er in her life. Zhuang Qiuyue thought it was impossible. The old couple of the Chen family must have been kicked in the head by a donkey.
Seeing Geng Zhiye and the carpenter carrying a wardrobe over one meter high, he quickly made way to the north: "Captain Geng, aren't you making a wardrobe?"
"You mean the big wardrobe? It's in Fanfan and I's room. It's for Dabao and Erbao."
Zhuang Qiuyue: "Two children, one for each?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Keep things separate to avoid fighting."
So particular! Zhuang Qiuyue looked into the two children's room: "A bed?"
"The second treasure is too young. We will make bunk beds for them in two years." Geng Zhiye made a plan. "If the second treasure is still here, the second treasure dares to sleep on his own before we share a room."
Zhuang Qiuyue wanted to explain that she didn't mean it this way. She thought the two-year-old Erbao was sleeping with his parents.
But Geng Zhiye and Ye Fan were running in and out and had no time to chat with her, so Zhuang Qiuyue helped to get the chairs, move the bench, and open the door in the living room.
There was help and the furniture was put away in minutes.
Zhuang Qiuyue was curious about Ye Fan, who came from the capital, and didn't know what to talk about, so she asked Ye Fan if he wanted rapeseeds.
When Ye Fan was questioned, Zhuang Qiuyue realized that she had made a mistake. How could a young lady who had never used an earthen stove know how to grow vegetables? Zhuang Mingyue said hurriedly: "I——"
Geng Zhiye interrupted: "Is there any rapeseed at my sister-in-law's house at this time of year?"
"Yes." Zhuang Qiuyue looked at Ye Fan and replied, as if asking her if she wanted it. Ye Fan smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, please give us some."
Giving her face like this, Zhuang Qiuyue felt comfortable and immediately went home to get rapeseeds. Geng Zhiye hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, there is also a hoe." Then he asked Ye Fan in a low voice: "Can you use it?"
Ye Fan helped Tao Chunlan plow the ground in spring and autumn: "I plowed the land in my yard. I don't know if Chen Xiaohui knew how to plow the land for her. Comrade Tao Chunlan's waist is not good."
"She has been in the countryside for seven years, what do you think? Don't worry about it."
Chen Xiaohui gave Ye Fan the impression of being ignorant, and her words before leaving convinced Ye Fan that she was careless. It would be nice if a heartless person could take care of himself.
"Doesn't it mean there is something alive in the eyes?" Ye Fan couldn't help but say.
Geng Zhiye: "I will send a telegram to my mother-in-law another day. If she sees the telegram and thinks of you, if she has any dissatisfaction with Chen Xiaohui, she will definitely not be able to help but write you a letter."
No one expected that Geng Zhiye returned to the army for a week, arranged training patrols and other tasks, and could go home for dinner with peace of mind. However, he met the postman on the way and gave him a letter.
Geng Zhiye wanted to tear up the letter when he saw the sender. It's a pity that he didn't dare.
When he got home, he saw many people in the courtyard, including adults and children, dozens of families. Geng Zhiye subconsciously stopped and looked to the left and right. It was his home. Geng Zhiye was very uneasy and slowly approached: "What are you looking at?"
Liu Guihua was startled: "Walking silently? It scares me to death in broad daylight."
"What are you doing?" Geng Zhiye asked again.
Liu Guihua said very curiously: "Collect the water. This pressure well is really easy to use. Although the pressure is a little slow a little bit, it is clean. Commander Geng, is this well expensive?"
Geng Zhiye: "Eight holes were drilled and the ninth was drilled. The pressure well pipes and pressure well heads were all brought by fishermen to the shore. What do you think?"
"I think it's half a month's salary from you."
Geng Zhiye shook his head: "It's not that many, but it's not cheap either. Do you want to get one too? I'll tell the secretary of the commune and ask him to arrange it——"
"No need!" Liu Guihua hurriedly stopped him from continuing: "My home is behind your home, not far away."
Liao Miaomiao's voice came through the crowd: "Aunt Osmanthus, your bucket is full."
Liu Guihua picked up the pole and carried two buckets of water. She walked half the distance than before, and she didn't have to worry about the buckets falling into the well. Liu Guihua was in a good mood, weighed the bucket and said with a smile: "Xiaoye, come and play at my house another day."
Ye Fan said yes. Geng Zhiye didn't see anyone. He stood on tiptoe and saw Ye Fan behind Zhuang Qiuyue and the chief of staff's lover. He also saw seven or eight buckets in the crowd: "The water here is like well water."
Zhuang Qiuyue: "How can the well water be pumped clean by myself? I thought it wouldn't work two days ago, but I didn't expect the water came out yesterday."
Dabao couldn't help but said: "Dad, the water was yellow yesterday. Mom pressed hard and it became clear."
"Did you help?"
Dabao: "My sister and I help, but my mother doesn't allow it."
"You haven't pressed the water well yet. Bring your sister over here and don't get in the way." Geng Zhiye waved, "Boss, have you cooked?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "I didn't know you would come back today, I plan to do it later."
"I'll go." Geng Zhiye picked up Erbao and waved to Dabao: "Help me light the fire."
Geng Zhiye was not at home these days, so Dabao was pressed in front of the stove by his mother and stared at the firewood to keep it from falling. Dabao is not afraid of making a fire, and will complain when he goes to the kitchen. Dad is not at home, and mom is not allowed to do this or that, which is annoying.
Geng Zhiye: "You are not allowed to play?"
"Let's have fun, but, but, mom is annoying!"
Geng Zhiye deliberately asked: "Is it because her name is Ye Fan?"
Dabao nodded.
Geng Zhiye laughed: "Dabao, you said you and your mother had a quarrel, should I help you or should I help her?"
(End of chapter)