When Geng Zhiye arrived home, he was greeted by a quiet and empty living room. Geng Zhiye subconsciously headed towards the kitchen. From the corner of his eye, he saw the door to his children's room was closed. He turned around and stopped in front of his children's bedroom door: "Geng Dabao, Geng Erbao, come out!"
The sound of footsteps floated out through the crack in the door, and Erbao exclaimed: "Brother! Hide, let's hide." Then there were two plops, and the sound of heavy objects hitting the bed came out. Geng Zhiye could imagine that his two children quickly climbed onto the bed and shrank into a corner, covering their heads with a towel and blanket. As for whether he cared about his tail, Geng Zhiye guessed not.
Geng Zhiye quietly walked around to the eaves of the corridor outside. From the corner of the window, he saw two small bulges on the bed, with their feet exposed and their heads wrapped tightly. He suddenly wanted to be angry and laugh at the same time: "Dabao, Erbao, I'm coming in."
The two kids suddenly pulled away the towel blanket, looked towards the door, then turned to look at each other and asked where their father was.
Geng Zhiye pushed open the ajar window and waved: "Dad is here."
The two children were so scared that they hugged each other and screamed.
Ye Fan had to come out of the kitchen: "What's wrong?"
Dabao immediately complained: "Dad deliberately scared my sister and me."
Ye Fan: "Open the door, I'll hit daddy."
Dabao jumped out of bed and opened the door without even thinking about it. Geng Zhiye couldn't bear to look out the window, covered his eyes and sighed: "Dabao, daddy is not in the house, why did you open the door?"
Dabao turned his head and saw his father outside the window. He reacted and wanted to close the door. Unfortunately, it was too late. His mother came in. Geng Zhiye raised an eyebrow at his son and disappeared out of the window. Dabao suddenly panicked and was at a loss. He looked around, with nowhere to hide. He wanted to go to bed, but there was no way out. He hugged his mother's waist and said, "Mom, daddy, hit me!"< br>
After the words fell, Geng Zhiye appeared behind Ye Fan. Erbao flattened his mouth and was about to cry. Geng Zhiye said first: "If you don't cry, don't fight!"
Erbao held back the tears in his eyes.
Dabao hugged his mother and dared not let go: "Mom, dad is lying!"
Ye Fan: "What did you two do?"
The brother and sister suddenly wilted like eggplants beaten by frost.
Geng Zhiye confessed for them: "I lie down at the mouth of the well with a group of teenagers, seven or eight years old, and look down." He glared at Dabao and Erbao, "What are you looking at? There is a treasure in the well? Aren't you two afraid of falling in and not getting up?" ”
The great treasure and the second treasure are not afraid of the sea, so how can they be afraid of a well? Unfortunately, it was not the right time to talk back. The brother and sister were able to bend and stretch, shaking their heads vigorously.
Ye Fan asked: "How many times?"
The brother and sister raised a finger in unison. Ye Fan nodded: "Since it's your first offense, let's write it down first. Next time it will be calculated together." He said to Geng Zhiye, "With interest."
Dabao was shocked: "Interest?!"
Ye Fan nodded: "There is interest for depositing money in the bank. No interest for you two for making a mistake? How can such a good thing happen? Let go and mom will cook."
Dabao subconsciously grabbed his mother's arm: "Mom, I - I am only five and a half years old, and my sister is only three years old." After saying this, he turned around and winked at Erbao, who got out of bed and hugged his father's leg, weeping. Looking at him.
Geng Zhiye is often away from home and is worried about his two children getting separated from him, so he is usually very tolerant towards them. The second treasure of Dabao was so similar to Ye Fan when he was a child that Geng Zhiye couldn't help but feel soft: "Fan——"
Ye Fan interrupted: "That's it. Commander Geng, light the fire!" He pulled Dabao's arm away and turned around. Geng Zhiye gave his children a look that was asking for blessings. Dabao and Erbao stomped their feet angrily, could dad please be more successful?
Ye Fan went to the kitchen and lectured Geng Zhiye: "Can we have some principles?"
Geng Zhiye smiled and said: "I didn't do anything, didn't I?"
Ye Fan: "What else do you want to do? I will scold you here and coax you there. How can I care if they like you and hate me in the future? No matter what I say, they will think that I am deliberately trying to make things difficult for them. By the way, you find them and beat them ”
Geng Zhiye shook his head.
Seeing that he didn't think about taking care of the children, Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "You didn't even say a few words, did you?"
Geng Zhiye scratched the bridge of his nose a few times, picked up matches and leaves, and lit a fire.
Ye Fan put his hands on his hips: "You-can you be shut out by them?"
Geng Zhiye wanted to chase the two children, but the gravel road was uneven and he was worried that they would fall down if they ran too fast. Winter came extremely late on Hengshan Island. The first and second babies were still wearing single clothes, and their skin would definitely be bruised if they touched the ground on their knees.
Geng Zhiye: "I didn't expect that they hid in the house and knew how to bolt it from the inside."
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him: "Don't you know how smart your children are?"
The clever Dabao Erbao was in the bedroom, holding the door frame of the bedroom and looking towards the kitchen. When he heard his mother scolding his father, he sighed feebly and sat on the floor, looking at each other in silence. After a while, the brother and sister got bored and got up and moved against the wall. They moved to the door and ran out.
Geng Zhiye looked up when he heard the noise, and saw the brothers and sisters' backs disappearing quickly before his eyes, and couldn't help laughing. Ye Fan asked curiously: "What are they doing again?"
"How did you know it was the two of them?" Geng Zhiye asked.
Ye Fan: "We are a family of four. We are here. Who else is there besides them? Or do you think of something that makes you happy - wait, where is my letter?"
Geng Zhiye even forgot about it in his pocket. Geng Zhiye took it out, and Ye Fan hurriedly said: "Don't burn it!"
Geng Zhiye laughed angrily: "Am I that ignorant?"
"Are you sensible and I didn't look at you first?" Ye Fan took out the blanched vegetables and asked, "What does she want from me?"
Geng Zhiye: "Shen Cheng asked her for money. The letter said what she planned to do. I felt like she was asking for your opinion. When did you two have such a good relationship?"
Ye Fan doesn't want to be nice to her, he's tired! "You haven't given it yet?" Ye Fan asked. Geng Zhiye: "Waiting for your reply. Did I burn it?"
Ye Fan nodded.
Geng Zhiye was quite surprised: "Don't look at it? Do you trust me so much?"
Ye Fan: "When she saw my reply, she said she was talking about the city gate building. When I replied, do you think she would ask Xiaoqin what I meant? I will tell your father-in-law when the time comes that you are with me and Chen Xiaohui. Making trouble among themselves!”
Geng Zhiye pretended to be angry: "Whose family are you with?"
Ye Fan: "We can't be indifferent to your family. I'll just fry the vegetables. Go ask Dabao and Erbao to eat."
Geng Zhiye burned the letter and went out to look for the child.
When Dabao and Erbao heard "eat", they instinctively ran home. When they reached the gate of the hospital, they suddenly stopped when they thought of something, and looked at Geng Zhiye's expression with wide eyes.
Geng Zhiye laughed: "I won't beat you. If your mother says to write it down, write it down first."
The brother and sister jumped in, one on the left and the other on the right, holding their father's hand.
After dinner, Geng Zhiye went out to watch the children playing. Ye Fan wrote back to Chen Xiaohui, asking if he had any money, and if he wanted more money, he would return to Shencheng. As she wrote about the agricultural and sideline products on the island, Ye Fan wrote again that if she wanted to go back to Shanghai to take a look, she should wear clothes that were bleached or pilled, and don't take the express and spend two days in the car in disgrace. Don't stay in a guest house when you arrive in Shanghai. You can buy delicious food. Chen Kuanren asked where the money had gone, and she happened to say that it was used to buy food. If Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping asked for money when they saw her, they could give it to her, but before leaving, ask them to buy tickets and food for the road, and then ask them for money just in case. It's better to give them ten dollars and get eight dollars back. I really don’t know what to do, so I just think about my poor relatives who are fighting against the autumn wind.
Ye Fan finally wrote that if Chen Xiaohui wanted to thank her for helping Chen Xiaohui, she would take the time to go to the supply and marketing cooperative in Shanghai and ask if she wanted seafood from the island. If you still have time, go to the clothing factory.
In mid-October, Chen Xiaohui received Ye Fan's letter. After reading it halfway, she felt that Ye Fan's method was shameless and couldn't help but wonder if she was really helping her. Seeing that Ye Fan relied on her for help in the end, Chen Xiaohui thought that Ye Fan did not dare to lie to her. It was not the New Year and there was not much to do at the supply and marketing cooperative. Chen Xiaohui took six days off. Counting the two Sundays, there were eight days in total, which was enough for her to go to Shanghai to visit Chen Kuanren's family.
Chen Kuanren received Chen Xiaohui's letter and went to the train station to wait for her early in the morning. Chen Xiaohui was carrying two bags of things, one bag of food and one bag of old clothes - some were patched and some were frayed, but none of them were new.
The two daughters-in-law of the Chen family disliked it, so Chen Xiaohui said that the clothes were very good. The clothes given by her colleagues were better than the clothes she wore in the countryside. Many people in the countryside only have one pair of trousers all year round.
Zhao Ruping asked Chen Xiaohui where her money was. Chen Xiaohui said yes - Ye's father and Ye Qian were not at home, and Tao Chunlan went to the island to help Ye Fan take care of the children. She had to spend her own money for food and clothing. I should also add that for some reason, Tao Chunlan never asked her if she had any money.
Tao Chunlan really didn't give her money. Chen Xiaohui didn't dare to ask for it because her self-esteem couldn't stand it - she was embarrassed to ask her elders for money at the age of twenty-six. Secondly, Tao Chunlan still doesn't know that she was almost cheated. She feels guilty and dare not withdraw the money.
Zhao Ruping scolded Tao Chunlan for being partial and regretted asking Chen Xiaohui to return to the capital. Chen Xiaohui followed her words and said that she couldn't get used to living in the capital. The winter there was extremely cold, the wind was like a knife, and her hands were covered in frostbite.
Zhao Ruping held her hand distressedly, and her two sisters-in-law changed their faces. Because after Chen Xiaohui left, her room was given to her two nieces. When she came back, her niece had to share a room with her brother.
When Chen Xiaohui said this, she was afraid that Zhao Ruping would blurt out: "If you don't want to be in the capital, just come back." When she saw her sister-in-law, she was very panicked and wondered whether Ye Fan was a ghost. Why was he so clever? She could have expected this.
Seeing that Ye Fan's idea was feasible, she became more confident, and she didn't even think twice about throwing dirty water on the Ye family.
Chen Kuanren was so angry that he called Ye's father a wolf-hearted person. Chen Xiaohui lowered her head with a guilty conscience. Chen Kuanren thought she was sad and wanted to accompany Chen Xiaohui to the capital to find Ye's father. Chen Xiaohui was panicked. Her sister-in-law stopped Chen Kuanren before she did, saying that since ancient times, people have not fought with officials.
Chen Xiaohui immediately said that Shen Cheng also had Ye’s father’s comrades. It's not good to offend him. She only found out about this recently. In fact, Father Ye rarely talks about the army. The Air Force has recently been reorganized, and Ye's father has not been home for half a month.
Lying was embarrassing and embarrassing at first, but I got used to it as I talked about it.
Chen Xiaohui didn't like to lie before, and no one in the Chen family doubted her. The next day, Chen Xiaohui said she wanted to see if Shen Cheng had changed and asked her mother to accompany her. Zhao Ruping went through Chen Xiaohui's bag at night and found less than five yuan here and there. After removing the fare, she still had two yuan left. Two dollars is not enough to buy a set of clothes. If Chen Xiaohui wants clothes, she is not allowed to pay for them.
Zhao Ruping said that it was hard for her to cook and take care of the children every day, and asked Chen Xiaohui to go out by herself. Chen Xiaohui took this time to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to discuss business, naturally using the name of an employee of Hengshan Food Factory.
Chen Xiaohui went to the clothing factory again and helped Ye Fan ask if the factory wanted duck and goose feathers. They were all clean and good-quality feathers, and the address of the Hengshan Food Factory was also given.
After doing this, Chen Xiaohui felt that she owed Ye Fan nothing. She looked very happy when she returned to Chen's house, completely different from when she arrived yesterday.
Zhao Ruping woke up at three or four o'clock and told Chen Kuanren that Chen Xiaohui liked Shen Cheng. He also said that if it was not for work, he would definitely not stay in the capital. She spent all the money she saved in the capital to buy us clothes and came to visit us, which meant that her hard work for a whole year was in vain. It also depends on Ye Fan's face and the Ye family's anger. Chen Xiaohui must have felt that it would be better to come back.
For breakfast in the morning, Chen Xiaohui drank two bowls of porridge and two steamed buns, but Zhao Ruping advised her not to hold on.
Chen Xiaohui didn't have such a big appetite before. Tao Chunlan didn't know what to talk to her at the dinner table, so she advised her to eat more and bike to work every day. If she didn't eat enough, she would be hungry at ten o'clock. Chen Xiaohui didn't want to get into trouble with Tao Chunlan, so she was embarrassed to refuse. As time passed, even she didn't realize that her appetite had increased.
Chen Xiaohui thought Zhao Ruping felt sorry for her, so she said Wan Xiaowo Wo Tou was small. After saying that, he filled another half bowl of porridge and took a steamed bun.
Zhao Ruping became more and more convinced that Chen Xiaohui would not be easy in the Ye family, so she wanted to persuade her to come back. When the two daughters-in-law of the Chen family saw their mother-in-law, they couldn't bear it. They first said that the neighbors praised Chen Xiaohui for the beautiful clothes she bought for her parents. Then the two daughters-in-law winked at their parents-in-law, wondering if she would have any new clothes for the New Year when she came back.
But Chen Xiaohui cannot be allowed to eat like this, otherwise there will be a famine this month. In the afternoon, Zhao Ruping persuaded Chen Xiaohui to return to the capital, acting as if she was thinking about Chen Xiaohui and worried that her work would be compromised.
Chen Xiaohui was very sad, and she wasn't pretending this time. Even if she followed Ye Fan's instructions to fool and scare the Chen family, deep down she still didn't want to admit that Ye Fan knew the Chen family very well, and she didn't believe that the person who raised her was so cruel.
Seeing that she didn't want to go back, Zhao Ruping persuaded her to get married and move out.
Chen Xiaohui looked at Zhao Ruping's distressed look and couldn't help but think of her past life. In her previous life, she complained to Zhao Ruping that the Ye family favored Ye Fan, and Zhao Ruping cried in discomfort. At that time, Chen Xiaohui really thought that Zhao Ruping loved her. But if you think about it carefully, Zhao Ruping has never done anything except hurting her. Knowing that her salary was low, Zhao Ruping never refused every time she gave her money. On the contrary, Ye's parents told her not to buy anything more than once. They also often told her that they didn't have enough food to eat at home and asked her to take it back and eat it with her husband's family.
At that time, Chen Xiaohui thought that the Ye family couldn't finish the food, so she thought of giving it to her.
She has been at Ye's house for more than a year in this life, and Tao Chunlan hasn't used her at all. Li Mingyue came back on Sunday and took her to buy clothes. Chen Xiaohui was embarrassed to ask her to pay, so Li Mingyue said it was money given by her mother.
If Li Mingyue hadn't bought her clothes and shoes, her salary wouldn't have been spent, and she wouldn't have had the money to buy a house full of Ming-style furniture.
Did Ye Fan expect that she would be disappointed when she came to Shanghai this time? Are you afraid that if she doesn't come back, you'll seduce her with the supply and marketing cooperative and the garment factory? Do you think you are that stupid in her eyes? Chen Xiaohui stayed on the train for two nights before, but the holiday was actually only one day old. After three days at Chen's house, she still had four days off. Chen Xiaohui decided to ask Ye Fan face to face.
(End of chapter)