Liu Guihua knew as well as Ye Fan that Zhuang Qiuyue had not been very supportive of Miao Miao's preparation for the exam. Liu Guihua also knows how hard Miaomiao works. Every time she sees her son being lazy, she will say, Miao Miao has better grades than you and works harder than you. Liao Miaomiao also told Liu Guihua that she must pass the exam so that her mother would look at her in a different light.
Is this the result?
Liu Guihua felt suffocated just thinking about it, let alone the person involved.
No wonder Miaomiao doesn't want to live anymore.
Liu Guihua pulled Ye Fan: "We have to think of a way. Miaomiao is only sixteen years old this year. If such a young child - regardless of whether Zhuang Qiuyue will regret it in the future, but tells me to ignore it anyway, I will definitely have a bad conscience. .”
Ye Fanxin said, who is not?
A human life is alive.
Ye Fan asked Geng Zhiye: "What do you think?"
Geng Zhiye: "I will find a solution for Lao Liao. In fact, Lao Liao's problem is not big. If he conflicts with Miaomiao, I will ask Lao Niu or the chief of staff to take a vacation and let Lao Liao take over the rest of the work. It is February in the Gregorian calendar now, right?" There are still five months until July, and I have to arrange several more shifts. The main problem is how to separate her from her mother.”
Liu Guihua couldn't help but nod: "This is the most important point. Accountant Ye, my mother and I were outside when you advised Miaomiao to have her stomach lavaged. Zhuang Qiuyue also said that she has such a temper at such a young age, who can bear it in the future."
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Geng Zhiye asked: "Do you not know why Miao Miao committed suicide?"
Ye Fan: "It's useless to know. She thinks it's for her own good to help Miaomiao change her career. She doesn't want her to go to the countryside to farm after graduation."
Liu Guihua frowned: "But Miaomiao doesn't want to live anymore."
Ye Fan sighed: "Isn't Miaomiao not dead? Zhuang Qiuyue may think that Miaomiao is deliberately scaring her. She may also think that the rat poison on the sweet potato is not poisonous to death."
"That's because I didn't use poison or rat poison!" Liu Guihua told the truth, "If it weren't for the naughty two in my family, I was worried that they would accidentally touch each other and then eat without washing their hands. Miaomiao would really have passed by today."< br>
Ye Fan added: "The older generation often told us that I eat more salt than you eat rice. If Zhuang Qiuyue thought the same way, she would think Miaomiao was ignorant. She would be embarrassed if she lost her temper and went to the hospital. .”
Liu Guihua suddenly wanted to curse: "You are right. She really said that she has never been so embarrassed in her life. I - I actually advised her not to worry about the child. Fortunately, you persuaded Miao Miao. If you die without proof, ,Miao Miao is so unjust.”
Geng Zhiye: "Sister-in-law, I have an idea, which may require some effort from you."
"I'm fine!" Liu Guihua said without thinking, "My Xiaocao can wash clothes and cook. I can go to Liao's house and keep an eye on them all day long."
Geng Zhiye shook his head: "Don't be so troublesome. Didn't Miaomiao often go to the food factory with you to help Fanfan? Ask Xiaocao to call Miaomiao to your home on weekends, and ask her to go to the food factory with you to read books on weekdays. This is a matter for Fanfan It’s not convenient to show up.”
Liu Guihua asked Ye Fan: "What's wrong?"
Ye Fan understood why Geng Zhiye said this: "I discovered Miao Miao's poisoning, and it was I who took the decision to send her to the health center. Geng Zhiye knew about it in the army, and our neighbors must also know that something happened to Miao Miao. I don't know now what happened. I will know about it later. If Zhuang Qiuyue wants to save face, will he blame me for being troublesome? Besides, if Miao Miao didn't mention Zhuang Qiuyue, would Miao Miao ask me for my opinion? "
"Where are you?" Liu Guihua couldn't help but said: "You also hope that Miao Miao will get ahead. To put it this way, the textbook materials used for Miao Miao and Xiaoshan's review were found by Commander Geng."
Ye Fan nodded: "That's right. If Geng Zhiye and I don't support it, Miaomiao won't be able to prepare for the exam, so wouldn't this matter today be over?"
"It's simply unreasonable!" Liu Guihua couldn't help but cursed "Mother", "Didn't she go to school? Why is she not as good as me who never went to school?"
Ye Fan: "If she were you, she wouldn't even dare to secretly change her choice of name even if she couldn't write her own name."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Just because I know a few words, I feel like I know everything. Who said agriculture requires going to the countryside? Ignorance!"
Liu Guihua couldn't help but ask: "No need?"
Geng Zhiye: "Going to the countryside is just like the experts who were sent to the island before, giving verbal advice to the farmers. Have all the experts on the island gone back in the past six months? I heard that some have entered public institutions, some have gone back to school, and some have continued to work Scientific research.”
Liu Guihua remembered: "He is the expert who taught the members of the Shanxi brigade to plant trees? Didn't they get paid before?"
Geng Zhiye: "The salary has been stopped. But I heard that it will be repaid. My second sister-in-law's mother's salary was stopped for a few years, and she made it up as soon as she returned to her original employer."
Liu Guihua asked: "More than ordinary workers, right? Isn't it a big sum in a few years?" After roughly calculating how much it would cost, Liu Guihua couldn't help scolding Zhuang Qiuyue, "Don't you just have to be dirty and work hard if you are a farmer? Not good? What’s not hard about being a teacher and having to work night shifts every day?”
Ye Fan: "Sister-in-law, it's too late to say anything now. Let's do this for now?"
Liu Guihua thought of her bucket and pole, and her children were still waiting for her at home: "Go home first. I'll cook some rice porridge and send it to Miaomiao. Accountant Ye, you are so close that it's inconvenient to go over and keep an eye on it. You can't call the children." Something happened right under our noses.”
Ye Fan nodded: "Commander Geng, go home or return to the army?"
"Go back to the army and tell Lao Liao." Geng Zhiye said and turned back to the army.
Liu Guihua pulled Ye Fan in the opposite direction: "How did you find out?"
"Er Bao said it."
Liu Guihua paused, then asked as she walked: "Second treasure?"
Ye Fan roughly recounted Er Bao's "last words" and said, "I was still surprised at the time. Zhuang Qiuyue didn't let Miaomiao prepare for the exam. Miaomiao came to my house crying like Liu Bei and didn't say anything about death. Why didn't he confiscate it for a while? I can’t think about it anymore when I get the notice.”
Liu Guihua hurriedly asked: "Is it that time? Miaomiao came to me and asked me to talk to her mother? Did you teach her to say that?"
Ye Fan nodded: "In Zhuang Qiuyue's opinion, it is easy for me to get into college. If I come forward, she will say that Miaomiao is not you."
Liu Guihua couldn't help but ask: "If I ask Miaomiao to go to my house later, will she think I am nosy?"
Ye Fan: "I think you are too careful. Miaomiao is not that fragile."
"That doesn't matter!" Liu Guihua exclaimed, "We adults can't bear this important matter of a lifetime, let alone a child."
Ye Fan: "Sister-in-law, keep your voice down."
The two of them walked quickly, and Liu Guihua raised her head and realized they were at the intersection of Shanxi Brigade. It was lunch time, and there was no one at the intersection. Liu Guihua breathed a sigh of relief, glad that she didn't have to bother to fool him. However, when we arrived at the family area, many people were outside, including Dabao and Erbao.
As soon as Ye Fan arrived at the door of Liao's house, Dabao ran to his mother and asked, "Aunt Wan said you went to the hospital. Mom, why did you go to the hospital? Mom, what's wrong with you?"
"Mom is fine." Ye Fan looked towards Wan Siqin. Wan Siqin was at the door of Ye Fan's house. When he saw this, he took a few steps over and explained that he had also heard from the members of the Shanxi brigade. Then Wan Siqin asked Ye Fan what happened.
Ye Fan half-truthfully said, "Miaomiao has been under a lot of stress lately. She didn't eat well and passed out."
Wan Siqin didn't expect that Miao Miao would dare to commit suicide, so she believed it was true: "No wonder you are so anxious. Are you okay?"
Ye Fan: "It's nothing serious. I'm in the hospital for glucose transfusion. I'll teach my eldest brother and my little sister how to make some food for her?"
Wan Siqin nodded, then turned around and told everyone it was no big deal.
Liu Guihua looked toward the entrance of the alley: "Dabao, where are my bucket and pole?"
Dabao: "Brother Xiaoshan and Sister Xiaocao took them home."
Liu Guihua smiled and said: "They are quite sensible. Accountant Ye, what can I do for you?" She saw Ye Fan winking at her, "Dabao, Erbao, you two go home first. Your mother and I will go and do it for Miaomiao." Order something to eat.”
Dabao nodded: "Mom, hurry up, the steamed buns in the pot are getting cold."
Ye Fan waved to his children and said to the Liao brothers and sisters: "Come in!"
Brother Liao could see clearly that his sister had not fainted, so when he got into the room he asked: "Aunt Ye, what happened to my sister?"
Ye Fan: "Your sister ate rat poison and doesn't want to live anymore."
The brother and sister were immediately frightened.
Ye Fan: "You two, remember what I'm going to say next, and you can't tell anyone."
Brother Liao nodded subconsciously, looking very uneasy, "You, you say, I listen!"
Ye Fan: "Actually, your sister could have been admitted to college. Your mother secretly changed her choice——"
Xiaomei Liao couldn't help but said: "I know. My mother said it was for my sister's benefit. My sister cried in anger."
Liu Guihua wanted to greet Zhuang Qiuyue's eight generations of ancestors again.
Now that he knew it, Ye Fan stopped talking nonsense and asked directly: "Brother, what do you like, be a doctor or a teacher?"
Brother Liao: "I want to be an officer who knows everything like Uncle Geng."
Ye Fan: "What do you hate most?"
"Teacher!" Brother Liao couldn't stand the teacher saying "If you don't study hard, you will have no choice but to do whatever you want in the future."
Ye Fan: "If you could get into the military academy, and your mother secretly changed your choice to a normal school, and said that being a soldier was dangerous, being a teacher was safe, wouldn't you want to die too?"
Brother Liao put himself on his behalf and couldn't bear it, "I won't take rat poison!"
Liu Guihua nodded: "Yes! Even if you die, you will take your mother with you!"
Ye Fan took a breath and said helplessly: "Sister-in-law, don't say anything yet. Brother, murder is illegal and you can't do this. Besides, your mother is gone, what do you want my little sister to do?"
Brother Liao never thought about dying with his mother. Maybe Zhuang Qiuyue was usually too powerful, so Brother Liao didn't have the courage: "Aunt Ye, I won't do it."
Ye Fan: "Your sister's friends used to come to play with her a lot, but now they don't come to see her, and your mother treats her like that. Your sister is very sad. I'm worried that if your mother runs against her later, she will want to die again. You two should spend more time with her. She just said that she would live well and not go home for exams in the future. “Little sister, can you not tell your mother what I said?”
The younger sister is timid and dare not deceive her mother.
Ye Fan saw that she was silent: "Little sister, do you prefer to be a teacher or a doctor?"
"I like singing."
Ye Fan smiled and said: "That's it. In your mother's eyes, singing is a low-level job. It's better than your sister studying agriculture. Even if your mother supports you on the surface, she will secretly change your choice when you are admitted to the music conservatory."< br>
Brother Liao couldn't help but ask: "Can singing also help you get into college?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Of course. Mr. Xian Xinghai, for example, went to the Conservatory of Music."
Liu Guihua asked: "Little sister, if you don't help your sister, your mother will use this method to deal with you. Don't think I'm scaring you."
Nowadays, high school and junior high school are two-year courses. Ye Fan calculated the time: "If Miao Miao is admitted to college in July next year and graduates in four years, it will happen that my eldest brother is admitted to college. At that time, your mother will say, if you don't listen to me, I will I won’t give you living expenses. Brother, you can go to your sister’s place during the winter and summer vacations. Younger sister, you’re a college student and you can get a room as soon as you graduate. Don’t worry about becoming a beggar.”
The eldest brother and the younger sister's eyes lit up, as if they saw hope.
Ye Fan: "So helping your sister is for yourselves." Liu Guihua said in her heart, Accountant Ye is really good at speaking.
Ye Fan: "Little sister, can you promise me?"
Liao Xiaomei nodded: "I won't tell my mother."
Brother Liao: "Let's just pretend we don't know what happened to our sister."
Ye Fan smiled and said: "There is no need to cook for your sister."
Liu Guihua immediately said that she would go home to cook porridge and send her to the health center later.
Brother Liao couldn't help but said: "Thank you Aunt Liu. Aunt Ye, thank you for telling us so much."
Ye Fan added: "Your mother will definitely say that your sister is ignorant when she comes back. Just pretend you didn't hear anything. Don't agree. If you can't stand it, go out or go back to the room to read your homework."
Brother Liao and Xiaomei Liao nodded.
Ye Fan asked: "Have you cooked?"
Brother Liao shook his head: "My mother said to cook the noodles. The vegetables have been washed and the water has been boiled. I don't know how to make the noodles."
When something like this happened, Ye Fan was also worried that the two children would have random thoughts at home: "Let's go to my house to eat."
They were embarrassed and subconsciously looked at Liu Guihua and asked her opinion. Liu Guihua held one in each hand. Ye Fan locked the door behind him, and then closed the gate of the Liao family's fence.
Dabao and Erbao were waiting for their mother in the living room and were about to fall asleep. Hearing the footsteps, the brother and sister got up and ran outside: "Mom?"
Ye Fan: "Here we come. My younger sister and my eldest brother are having lunch at our house. You two take them to wash their hands. Mom is going to cook."
Ye Fan had been in the health center for a long time, and the fire was no longer burning. Fortunately, the hairtail cooked quickly. Ye Fan cooked the fish, pounded the eggs and garlic together, poured sesame oil on it, and went to pick up the steamed buns.
The steamed buns are not cold, but they are not hot either. When he came back half an hour late, Ye Fan wanted to heat steamed buns.
Ye Fan carried the vegetables and steamed buns to the living room and took out the glass of water: "Brother, little sister, drink boiled water and make do with it. I really don't have the strength to make soup."
The brother and sister nodded together and thanked Ye Fan again.
After the meal, the brother and sister helped Ye Fan clear the dishes, wipe the table and sweep the floor. He looks very skilled, and he works a lot at home.
Ye Fanxin said, Zhuang Qiuyue is better at teaching children than me in this regard. But when it was such a big deal to take the exam, how could she be confused?
Ye Fan really couldn't understand it and simply didn't want to think about it.
Because the school was on holiday, the eldest brother, younger sister, Dabao and Erbao didn't have to go to school, so Ye Fan let the four of them play in the house.
The elder brother and the younger sister were not in the mood to play. Dabao and Erbao thought they were worried about Liao Miaomiao, so they comforted them and said, "Mom doesn't lie. Mom said Sister Miaomiao is fine, and Sister Miaomiao must be fine."
The elder brother kept the two spinning tops and it was of no use, so he gave one to Dabao a few days ago. Ye Fan found the top and pulled the tables, chairs and benches to the wall, leaving a large space for the two of them to play the top.
Ye Fan asked Erbao and his younger sister to go back to the bedroom to read comic strips or turn flower ropes. Ye Fan said he was tidying up the vegetable garden, but he was actually staring at the next door in the yard. Ye Fan was already staring at him when a Sanbengzi appeared in front of Liao's house. The driver was Political Commissar Liao and Liao Miaomiao was the only one in the car.
Liao Miaomiao was so disappointed with her mother that she probably didn't bother to argue with her. If Miaomiao didn't say anything, it meant that Zhuang Qiuyue still felt that Miaomiao was ignorant and didn't want to ride in a car with her.
Do mothers and daughters care so much? It's not a special situation like her and Zhao Ruping. Ye Fan estimated that it would be a while before Zhuang Qiuyue got home, so he put down his hoe and went next door to ask, "Commissar Liao, how is Miaomiao?"
Political Commissar Liao opened his mouth: "I, Accountant Ye, I will never thank you for your kindness. If you have anything to do with your family in the future, just ask me."
Ye Fan shook his head and did not answer the words, seeing that Miaomiao was not energetic: "Miaomiao, you rest first, I will talk to your father about something."
Liao Miaomiao thought Ye Fan was persuading her father to let her continue studying for the exam, so she nodded obediently.
Ye Fan and Political Commissar Liao came to the courtyard, but Miao Miao probably couldn't hear him. Ye Fan asked, "Do you think Miao Miao is angry?"
Political Commissar Liao looked embarrassed: "I didn't expect her to be so angry." Political Commissar Liao also didn't expect Geng Zhiye to call him a grandson because of Miao Miao, in front of the Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander Niu. Unexpectedly, the chief of staff said he went too far, and deputy commander Niu said he was aiding the evil.
Ye Fan: "You will feel that the sky has fallen when you are suddenly advised to retire from the army. In Miaomiao's eyes, getting into college is her sky. Her sky has fallen, and it was her trusted mother who revealed it. This is equivalent to your discovery. You were persuaded to retire because your comrade-in-arms partner Geng Zhiye did it behind your back.”
Political Commissar Liao nodded: "I realize it."
Ye Fan: "You may be trying to make up for yourself. If Miaomiao gets good grades, she can do better in the exam by reviewing for half a year to July. If Miaomiao gets sick that day and encounters a car accident on the way to the examination room, Miaomiao still has the strength. Take the exam again? You are an officer, and you must have heard of the saying, "If you try hard, you will fail again."
Liao Miaomiao never received the notice, so Political Commissar Liao advised her that next year would be better. Miaomiao asked what if she failed the exam. Zhuang Qiuyue said, how could you fail the exam if you study hard? Therefore, Political Commissar Liao never thought about getting sick in a car accident.
Ye Fan: "I heard from Xiaocao that during the time Xiaoshan was preparing for the exam, her mother served her brother like a living ancestor. She wished she could cook eight meals a day. Political Commissar Liao, how many late-night snacks did your family make for Miao Miao?"
Political Commissar Liao didn't know when he was not at home, and when he was at home, he never thought that Liao Miaomiao would be hungry at ten or eleven o'clock. He had told Miaomiao several times to pay attention to his health and rest early. Miaomiao didn't listen. He was very proud and told Deputy Captain Niu that his daughter might be able to pass the exam if she was sensible and worked hard.
The reason why I dare not guarantee it is because Liao Miaomiao did not go to high school.
Ye Fan: "Miaomiao is completely hopeless now. She needs you very much. Talk to her."
Political Commissar Liao nodded: "I'm causing trouble for you."
Ye Fan added: "You may not know that Miaomiao was afraid that I would see it, so she didn't dare to say goodbye to me, but she told Dabao and Erbao a lot. If they hadn't said that Miaomiao was weird, I suspect that Miaomiao was too stressed and couldn't think about it. Look, Miaomiao may be dead by the time you two find out.”
On the way here, Political Commissar Liao was still wondering how Ye Fan knew that Miao Miao had taken rat poison. He didn't dare to ask Miaomiao for fear of irritating her. Hearing this, Political Commissar Liao suddenly felt frightened and didn't dare to take chances that she was just impulsive.
When Ye Fan got home, he told his eldest brother and younger sister that their sister was back.
The brother and sister wanted to go home, but Ye Fan reminded: "Wait in the courtyard for a while, and then go in if there is nothing going on in the house."
Dadi: "I know what to do."
Ye Fan was worried and stared at them in the courtyard. Brother Liao stopped at the door of his house. He probably heard someone talking in the house, so he sat under the eaves with his sister. When Zhuang Qiuyue came back, they got up and went in.
Dabao thought his mother was very strange: "Mom, what disease does Sister Miao Miao have? You seem to be very worried about Sister Miao Miao."
Ye Fan: "Invisible disease."
"I don't want to say forget it. I'll ask Sister Miao Miao myself."
Ye Fan wanted to say "no", but suddenly thought that he could. Geng Zhiye scolded Dabao for holding the pen incorrectly, and Dabao would retort. The uncle said that no one had specified how to hold the pen. If he knew that Miao Miao's wish had been changed, Dabao would only scold Zhuang Qiuyue.
Ye Fan: "Ask me. But not today."
"I know. I'll ask after Sister Miao Miao recovers." What Dabao wanted to do was to go to Aunt Zhuang to pay New Year's greetings the day after tomorrow, so I would ask.
He failed to go to Zhuang Qiuyue's house on the first day of the new year. Ye Fan did not allow him to go, saying that Liao Miaomiao's illness was not cured yet.
Even if Dabao felt that his mother was lying to him, he would not dare to go over and disturb Miaomiao's rest. Dabao just wanted to go tomorrow.
The next morning, Dabao was ready to go, and the postman delivered a telegram.
When Dabao heard the telegram, he immediately forgot to visit Miaomiao next door and asked curiously: "Did grandma and grandma miss me?"
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him: "Can't it be my mother who misses me?"
"Can't we think about it together?" The telegram was too simple for Dabao to understand. "Mom, what do you mean?"
Ye Fan: "Your aunt and your grandma came by train today. Your grandma asked me to pick them up at the station the day after tomorrow. Your grandma forgot which bus to take and where to get off."
Dabao exclaimed: "Grandma and sister-in-law are coming? Are grandma coming?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "I didn't mention Chen Xiaohui twice, so I guess she didn't pass the exam. Your grandma needs to study with her at home. But if you don't study well at home, why are you running here?"
Dabao also couldn’t figure it out: “You can ask my aunt when she comes.”
On the morning of the fourth day of the first lunar month, Ye Fan met her sister-in-law at the station and asked if something happened at home.
Yu Wentao was the first to answer: "The house is too lively, and Xiao Qin can't concentrate on reviewing." Then he added that she would go back by car and not enter the island.
Ye Fan was worried that her body couldn't bear it. Yu Wentao showed off that she came in a sleeper berth, and she would go back in a sleeper berth. He also said that he didn’t have any money with him and was not afraid of being stolen.
Speaking of this, Ye Fan didn't ask her to go back. Ye Fan first looked at her ticket. There were still two hours before departure time, so he took her to the city for a meal and then sent her to the station.
Geng Zhiqin was not used to traveling far away for the first time and had no energy. Ye Fan took her home and asked, "Did you quarrel with your mother?"
Geng Zhiqin touched his face: "Is it so obvious?"
Ye Fan wanted to ask how obvious it had to be. "Your mother wouldn't be in such a hurry to go back without the quarrel. The second sister-in-law is not busy before and after the year, and dad has her to take care of her. Why is Aunt Yu going back? She doesn't want the first and second children?"
Dabao and Erbao only saw that their sister-in-law was very disappointed. Hearing this, Dabao advised: "Sister-in-law, what are you and grandma arguing about? She is ignorant. Don't argue with her."
Geng Zhiqin muttered: "Your grandma is really ignorant."
Ye Fan asked: "What's going on?"
Geng Zhiqin sighed: "I didn't want to enroll in a normal school, nor did I plan to major in accounting. She insisted that teachers and accountants are an iron rice bowl, and asked me to choose one of several key universities close to home. Don't say I didn't go to school. Even if I went to high school, there are so many educated young people in the capital, and I might not be able to pass the exam.”
Ye Fanxin said, luckily, he didn't change his mind secretly: "Do you listen to her?"
Geng Zhiqin: "Dad also said that the iron rice bowl is stable. He also said that like my second sister-in-law, my mother was very respected even when she was sent to the farm. He is so old, how dare I ask him to worry about it. As a result, the gears slipped and the couple couldn't "It's just a mistake." He snorted, "It's because she was having trouble with me. By the way, Chen Xiaohui didn't write to you, was she?"
Ye Fan: "Don't tell me that she applied to the highest university in the country - Beijing University!"
Geng Zhiqin was shocked, how could her sister-in-law be so powerful.
Ye Fan had a headache: "It's true - she is reviewing at work and wants to get into Beijing University? It's not that I look down on her, but with such a high IQ, will she be fooled by Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping?"
Geng Zhiqin: "She said she is not as emotionally intelligent as you."
Ye Fan said angrily: "Thank you for thinking so highly of me!!!"
Geng Zhiqin wanted to laugh: "Your mother reminded her to try it in the first year. Aunt Tao also wanted to write to you to tell you what happened. Chen Xiaohui said she would tell you after she passes the exam."
(End of chapter)