For officers coming from the mainland, shrimp, soldiers and crabs will be very rich.
The headquarters Geng Zhiye mentioned is not far from Hengshan Island, and there is no shortage of seafood. After several meals of clear soup and water, and then a table of seafood, it is just a small thing that makes the mouth taste bitter, and it is very likely to make people in the headquarters vomit.
Ye Fan: "You are bad."
"Running in the wind and waves consumes a lot of energy, but we have to train, otherwise Chang Kaishen's today will be our tomorrow. We can't train people to death - when they return from the army and return to the army, their families will also be useless. Lao Niu, Lao Liao Ji and I People, as well as the cooking team, try their best to replenish everyone's health. Isn't it just a waste of time to get water from a bamboo basket? "
Ye Fan: "Can the headquarters still snatch the pigs you raise?"
"Of course the head of the headquarters is embarrassed. When the ship returned from patrol, everyone on the ship said they wanted to drink hot broth. The cooking class came to our cooking class to wipe their tears. Who has the nerve to ask them to return empty-handed?" Geng Zhiye couldn't help but shook his head, "Since I know I can't bear it, it's better not to let them find out in the first place."
Ye Fan was very curious: "Political Commissar Liao and Chief of Staff also agree?"
"I didn't agree at first, and I was embarrassed to do this. I said that they are the political commissar and chief of staff of Hengshan Island. Their own soldiers are in desperate need of food, and they want to help others. They are simply trying to save face and suffer the consequences!"
Ye Fan: "Aren't they the ones suffering?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Yes. Pigs are often killed in the vegetable market. Their lovers buy the meat and they are full. What about the more than a thousand lovers who are not on the island and are even single." I can't bear to say so much. Let’s complain, “A typical full man doesn’t know what a hungry man is hungry for!”
Ye Fan held his face with both hands: "Don't be angry if you fooled me. If you are angry, you will become ugly."
Geng Zhiye smiled: "Isn't it ugly now?"
"It's darker than before." Ye Fan touched his crew cut, "The pigsty is so big, and there is such a big vegetable field. The people in the headquarters are not blind."
Geng Zhiye: "I'm sure you haven't been close to the army station, otherwise you would find that the pig pen is far away from the dormitory and training ground, like a production team thing."
Ye Fan understands the rules and has never been there: "Why repair so far?"
"Pig manure stinks. When the sea breeze blows in summer, the smell wafts ten miles away. If you don't cover a distance, the troops will stink every day. How can we bear it?" Geng Zhiye went to the company dormitory. Because there are so many people living there, even if the shoes and socks are clean, , the room also smells bad. Geng Zhiye couldn't help but think of his years in the military academy. "Not to mention that the dormitory was filled with the smell of stinky feet all year round."
Ye Fan: "Do you get the stinky sweat from exercising every day?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "The shoes are not easy to wear. But they are much better than before. Seeing that the fishermen on the island have a bumper harvest this year, our treatment will definitely get better and better."
"Yes." Ye Fan leaned against him when he was tired from standing. "The people are active in production, and they are willing to consume when they have money. If factories process more, they pay more taxes. If the government has money, the national defense budget will definitely increase significantly."
Geng Zhiye touched her face, which was cold and cold: "Go back to the house?"
Ye Fan: "What time is it?"
Geng Zhiye raised his watch and looked at it under the dim light, "It's half past seven."
"Wait a while." Ye Fan rubbed his eyes, "What time do you go to bed in the army?"
Geng Zhiye: "Turn off the lights and go to bed when the whistle sounds, otherwise you will not have the energy to deal with emergencies during the day."
"Who will be on duty when you come back tonight?"
Geng Zhiye said deliberately: "I can't tell you."
Ye Fan chuckled: "I know even if you don't tell me. In the evening, I saw Political Commissar Liao chatting with people at the gate of the hospital. Zhuang Qiuyue didn't cook and he was not in a hurry. It was because he didn't have to go back to the army and it would be okay to eat later. Captain Niu and Staff Officer Chief? I just don’t know which one is at the beach and which one is in the military duty room.”
"Keep guessing?"
Ye Fan: "I didn't go to Sister Liu's house today, otherwise I would have guessed correctly."
"Comrade Liu Guihua doesn't know either."
Ye Fan shook his head: "I asked her if Commander Niu had a military coat."
Isn’t it as warm as the watch room on a seaside ship? Geng Zhiye was silent for a moment and sighed: "Fortunately you are a family member of our army."
Ye Fan put his forehead against his shoulder and laughed: "Is it warm in the cabin?"
"It's very warm in the north, but it's cold in the south, Ye Fanfan." Geng Zhiye looked at the dark dome, "I don't want to stay in the house every winter. I feel like the people below are annoying me. They don't sit in the office and go out every day. What are you dangling about?”
Ye Fan stopped laughing: "I didn't know you were basking in the sun?"
Geng Zhiye: "I never said that. It's just a good opportunity to scare them so that they don't have to be free after the training."
"Dad!"
Erbao's voice came over, Geng Zhiye raised his head, and Erbao ran over from outside Wan Siqin's door. Geng Zhiye was surprised: "It was pitch black, how did she know it was me?"
"I heard your voice." After Ye Fan finished speaking, he called to Erbao, "Here he is. What are you doing?"
Geng Zhiye let go of Ye Fan, and the next second Erbao came to him and shouted: "Mom!"
Ye Fan asked: "Don't play anymore?"
Erbao handed both the hat and gloves to Ye Fan: "Brother won't help me get them."
Ye Fan was funny: "Brother, why are you having fun when I help you get things? Go home slowly."
Erbao waved his little hand and started running two or three steps away from her mother. Ye Fan sighed, "I'm not afraid of falling."
Geng Zhiye: "It won't hurt even if I wear thick clothes. Come and have a look."
Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye did not stop outside Wan Siqin's house. Instead, they walked slowly to the intersection to the vegetable market and came back slowly. Then they asked the two children to go home to wash up and sleep.
Probably tired of playing, after Geng Zhiye changed the briquettes and closed the door, he went to the children's room to see if they were asleep. The two children were fast asleep.
The next morning, another pig was killed in the vegetable market, and Ye Fan went to buy pork. In the evening, Geng Zhiye came back to make pork with dried plums and vegetables, and steamed rice with leaves. The rice was mixed with fat but not greasy meat, and the delicious prunes soaked in lard made Dabao burp.
Dabao put down the bowl and chopsticks and ran to Ye Fan, holding her hand: "Mom, touch my belly."
Ye Fan didn't know why: "What's wrong?"
"Satiated."
Ye Fan was speechless and wanted to laugh: "Dabao will definitely be as tall as his father in the future."
Dabao turned around and leaned against Ye Fan and raised his chin at his father: "Taller than you!"
Geng Zhiye couldn't help but say: "Is it childish?"
"I'm a child, what's wrong with my naivety?" Dabao sat back on his little bench and saw his sister stuffing grains of rice into her mouth, "Er Bao, don't eat if you don't want to eat."
Erbao looked at his mother pitifully and said, "Mom, I have too much rice."
"Did mom ask you to eat it first before adding more?" Ye Fan reluctantly brought it over. Geng Zhiye, who was sitting next to her, reached out to take it and poured it into his own bowl. Ye Fan stared at his daughter, "I won't do this again!"
Erbao nodded obediently: "Mom, I want to drink water."
Ye Fan gave her his cup. Erbao only took two sips, then put down the cup and went out to play.
Dabao put on a hat and scarf for his sister. Erbao didn't want to wear it because it was in the way. He muttered, "Brother is so annoying." Ye Fan coughed lightly. The little girl was startled, as if she was worried that Ye Fan would hit her, so she pulled him My brother ran outside.
Ye Fan didn't bother to remind her to slow down. Anyway, he would be honest if he fell and hurt.
Considering that the temperature on the island was high during the day, Ye Fan cleaned up the kitchen and salted the meat she bought today - she used all the leftover fat from yesterday to boil oil.
When Ye Fan was buying meat today, the market employees said that too many pigs had been killed this year and each production team was almost out of stock, so the director decided to kill one more on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, and two more on the 15th of the first lunar month after the new year.
Ye Fan calculated the time and found that his sister-in-law couldn't eat fresh pork during the time she was on the island, so Twenty-nine went to buy meat again, chopped it into minced meat, kept part of it for making dumplings at night, and part of it steamed meat buns.
Dabao and Erbao like to eat meat buns very much. They heard that their sister-in-law came over a few days ago. Dabao and Erbao each took two and asked their mother to put them away for their sister-in-law.
Ye Fan smiled and joked: "If your sister-in-law doesn't prepare any New Year's money, she will be sorry for your filial piety."
"My sister-in-law is not married yet." Dabao was not sensible before he was five years old. When he saw his grandparents giving him New Year's money, he asked his sister-in-law why he didn't give it. Yu Wentao gave Geng Zhiqin a few dollars and asked her nieces and nephews to have one dollar each. In the past few years, I don’t know who I have heard saying that unmarried people don’t need to give new year’s money to their juniors. Last year, Geng Zhiqin came to Ye Fan’s house to prepare for the exam. When he saw Dabao and Erbao, he took out the new year’s money. The brother and sister said like little adults: "Sister-in-law, keep it and buy it." Review the information.”
Ye Fan was fortunate that the cold current had been moving south these past few days, and when he woke up in the morning, the water beside the pressure well had a thin layer of ice. Unfortunately, the ice melted before Ye Fan could make breakfast. However, it was cold in the room, so Ye Fan was not worried that the meat buns would taste bad.
On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, when the sun came out, Ye Fan took out the quilt from the guest room to dry, and threw Dabao Erbao's cotton shoes into the courtyard to be exposed to the sun. He was about to make a bed for his sister-in-law when Su Yuncheng came.
Su Yuncheng was carrying something in his hand, and there was a man behind him. The man was in his forties or fifties, with a reserved look and a short stature. He looked somewhat similar to Su Yuncheng. Ye Fan thought for a moment and realized that this was his father. Ye Fan smiled and said: "Come in."
Su Yuncheng, who was outside the fence gate, immediately went in. He thought of something and then stopped and looked back, as if he was worried that his father had not followed.
Ye Fan went into the room and poured two glasses of water and asked the two of them to sit down. Su Yuncheng's father said in a panic: "You're welcome, Accountant Ye, pass -- pass --"
"Happy New Year!" Ye Fan interrupted with a smile, "Warm your hands since the weather is cold." He gave him the enamel jar and saw the meat and fish that Su Yuncheng put on the coffee table, "Come and bring something."
The Chinese New Year is not an ordinary time, and Su Yuncheng would be embarrassed to come to the house without bringing something with him.
In fact, during the New Year on the island, we don’t visit relatives. In other words, it’s different from visiting relatives in the north. We just invite close relatives to have a meal together. The way I go to your house today and his house tomorrow. Su Yuncheng heard from his classmates that when visiting relatives in the north, they usually carry apples or brown sugar or white sugar. Some of them are Mi San Dao and Yang Jiao Mi. However, there are no apples, Mi San Dao or Yang Jiao Mi on the island, so Su Yuncheng decided to take a piece of meat and a fish. .
Su Yuncheng smiled and said: "It should be."
His father nodded: "It's not that Accountant Ye said that if Yuncheng fails the exam, he can still go back to work. Yuncheng will definitely not be able to review."
"Actually, I lied to him." Ye Fan told the truth.
The father and son were shocked.
Ye Fan nodded: "I originally thought that if he didn't pass the exam, he would go to the vegetable market to help." He asked Su Yuncheng's father, "Have you heard about it? Set up a stall in the vegetable market to do business with people from outside the island?"
Father and son nodded. Because Su Yuncheng's mother dug bamboo shoots and his father caught fish, he often asked his neighbors to take a team of tractors to the vegetable market.
Ye Fan added: "I asked Su Yuanhang, and he said that there are more than three universities in Hangzhou. He looked for which school had lower scores in which major. If Su Yuncheng was not sure, he would apply to that school and he would be able to pass the exam if he performed normally. ”
Su Yuncheng couldn't help but said: "Brother Yuanhang didn't say that." "I'm afraid you might not perform well under the pressure." Ye Fan was happy for him, "I didn't expect you to perform exceptionally well and do as well as Miaomiao in the exam."
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Su Yuncheng also felt that it was unreal when he evaluated the scores, and he was hesitant between Agricultural University and Hangcheng Normal University. At that time, Su Yuanhang had already gone on vacation, so he asked Su Yuanhang for advice. Su Yuanhang asked him whether he wanted to be a teacher or enter the education department, or whether he wanted to study crops and treat animals.
Su Yuncheng's parents hoped to have a scholar in their family. Due to their illiteracy, they did not dare to express their opinions, so they reminded them in a subtle way that the teacher had winter and summer vacations. Su Yuncheng didn't dare to enroll in Hangcheng Normal University when he heard about the holiday.
Last summer, besides Liao Miaomiao and Su Yuncheng, there were three candidates on the island. The three first went to Liao Miaomiao to make sure she applied to the Hangzhou Normal University, and then went to Su Yuncheng. When Su Yuncheng said that he doubted that he had done well in the exam, the three of them encouraged Su Yuncheng to apply to the Hangzhou Normal University.
One of the three people applied to the Agricultural University and got into the exam, but he was admitted at the tail end. Su Yuncheng reported to the Agricultural University, but he had nothing to do. The other two asked Su Yuanhang for advice. Su Yuanhang provided two schools, one medical school and one engineering school. The medical school majored in nursing and the engineering school majored in civil engineering. Probably because those who wanted to be nurses chose health schools, and civil engineering was not popular. It's also possible that both schools added several majors last summer and were dissatisfied with the declining scores, but both of them were admitted.
Even though Su Yuanhang had talked with Ye Fan about helping people fill in their applications, Ye Fan was mentally prepared and was surprised to hear that he passed all five exams.
After hearing Ye Fan's words, Su Yuncheng's thoughts about taking exams and filling out his application still felt like a dream: "I still have to thank you. If you didn't say that, I must have been nervous during the exam."
Ye Fan nodded: "I'll accept that thing. Just this once?"
Su Yuncheng: "I originally wanted to come here last summer to thank you. Brother Yuanhang said that you and Captain Geng were going back to your hometown. I didn't know when you would come back. My dad said that we would wait until I go on winter vacation and wish you a happy New Year."
Ye Fan: "I originally planned to spend a few more days. But the heat in the north is different from that on the island. The island is cooler at night, but the weather in the north is sultry and I can't sleep at one or two in the morning. Dabao and Erbao will have enough in a few days. When I got home, I said I wouldn’t go back until summer vacation.”
Dabao came out of the bedroom: "Mom, do you still want to go back?"
Su Yuncheng and his son were shocked.
Ye Fan glared at him: "Not polite!"
Dabao immediately called Su Yuncheng uncle and his father and grandfather. Su Yuncheng's father smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay."
Su Yuncheng asked: "What are you doing in the house?"
Since Dabao and Erbao often went to the office to look for Ye Fan, Su Yuncheng and Su Duofu used to often receive goods at the vegetable market, so they inevitably bumped into Dabao. Dabao was familiar with them, so he said, "Go to sleep."
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Su Yuncheng: "Sleep in the morning? Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Ye Fan: "Don't listen to his nonsense. It's windy outside and cold inside, so I'm sitting on the bed reading and playing chess."
Su Yuncheng asked: "Playing chess? Erbao is also in the room?"
"Er Bao is here." Er Bao replied loudly.
Su Yuncheng couldn't help but smile: "Er Bao, don't come out. I'll leave in a while."
Ye Fan: "Is there anything else?"
Su Yuncheng nodded: "Go and visit the home of the teacher who helps me with tutoring."
Ye Fan stood up: "Let's go now. It's past ten o'clock."
The father and son didn't have watches and didn't know the time. They stood up immediately after hearing this.
After Ye Fan sent the two of them outside, he saw a large 28-inch car parked next to the fence, which looked like Su Yuanhang's car. There was also a bamboo basket on the car. Ye Fan suspected that there was a piece of meat and a fish in it, but Ye Fan paid more attention to the car: "Is this Su Yuanhang's car?"
Su Yuncheng smiled uncomfortably: "Yes. Brother Yuanhang's cars are almost in a group."
"No one rides him when he's not at home, and it gets rusty if left alone." Ye Fan heard Su Yuanhang say that his father still had a bicycle, but his wife and his mother couldn't ride it. One of Su Yuanhang's brothers-in-law wants it, but there will definitely be conflict between his three brothers-in-law, who will give it to whom and who will not give it to whom. Su Yuanhang simply refused to give it to anyone.
Su Yuncheng nodded: "Brother Yuanhang said the same thing. He also said that if it breaks, help him fix it, and whoever wants to ride can ride."
"Go quickly." After the words fell, Liao Miaomiao came out of the courtyard. Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "Yuncheng, are you and Miaomiao still classmates?"
Su Yuncheng shook his head: "Our majors are different. Her scores are higher and mine are lower. But we came back together last year. Brother Yuanhang is busy at school and is a few days behind us."
Liao Miaomiao walked over and heard the last two sentences: "There is also Niu Xiaoshan."
Ye Fan: "A chance encounter or a special appointment?"
Liao Miaomiao smiled and said: "We made an appointment. How can there be such a coincidence."
Su Yuncheng explained: "One time I went to Sudi with my classmates on a weekend and happened to meet Niu Xiaoshan. We chatted for a while and found that the holiday time was almost the same, so we agreed to buy tickets together."
"It's good. You don't have to worry about being scared on the way." Ye Fan said, "Go quickly."
Su Yuncheng asked his father to sit in the back first, and then he would ride the bike. When Ye Fan saw this, he thought he could just jump up. Seeing Su's father's small body, Ye Fan swallowed his words back. After the father and son walked away, Ye Fan asked Liao Miaomiao if he had seen Su Yuncheng's mother.
Liao Miaomiao nodded: "I heard that he also applied for Hangzhou Normal University last year. I thought of him when I received the notice, so I asked Xiaoshan to go with me to ask if he had passed the exam. Because you and Uncle Geng said there were bad guys on the train, I I just want to go to school with him.”
"Is his mother taller than his father?"
Liao Miaomiao nodded: "What's wrong?"
"It seems that Su Yuncheng is as tall as his mother."
Liao Miaomiao: "His sister, his brother, and his younger sister are like his father."
Ye Fan frowned: "He has so many brothers and sisters?"
Liao Miaomiao wanted to say, don’t you know? You have been colleagues for several years. Suddenly something came to mind, and Liao Miaomiao understood why she didn't know: "His family only has one brother and one sister. His sister was adopted to his uncle, and later he hired a son-in-law."
"No wonder it doesn't match what I know. Is his sister married?"
Liao Miaomiao shook her head: "Originally, his family was poor, so he planned to ask his sister to get married first, and the man would give her some gifts, and then she would save some more to marry Su Yuncheng. It happened to be that year that the food factory was recruiting temporary workers, and a round trip cost several yuan. , Su Yuncheng is rich and confident, so he is not allowed to do that.”
Ye Fan expected that Su Yuncheng's mother was in charge of the family, because his father's submissive behavior did not look like the boss of the family.
"What happened next?"
Liao Miaomiao: "If he keeps working in the food factory, his family will make money, and his mother will look down on ordinary families. The year before last, Su Yuanhang had to take the exam, and his mother - I am speechless when talking about his mother. I told Su Yuncheng to be nice. He will marry his sister to Hangzhou in the future."
Ye Fan found it funny: "Those who don't know better would think that Su Yuncheng went to Hangzhou to become an official."
"That's what Xiaoshan said. I also heard what Xiaoshan said. He played around with a few people from the Shanxi brigade last summer, and he knows everything about everyone on the island." Liao Miaomiao wanted to go to Ye Fan's house, because these days She was so choked up when facing her mother at home, and when she was about to say this, she couldn't help but open her eyes wide.
Seeing this, Ye Fan looked behind him and his eyes suddenly opened wide. She didn't react until someone arrived: "Aren't the tickets for the sixth day of the Lunar New Year coming tomorrow?"
Geng Zhiqin said helplessly: "Ask her." After saying that, he went back to the house with his bag as if he were at his own home.
Liao Miaomiao immediately followed: "Little Qingu, are you tired? Why are you here so early? Did you take a sleeper to Hangzhou on New Year's Day and transfer to Yongcheng this morning?"
Geng Zhiqin nodded and felt there was no movement behind him. When he turned around and saw her sister-in-law staring at Chen Xiaohui to explain, she couldn't help but gloat and shouted with a smile: "Dabao, Erbao, aunt is here."
Ye Fan sighed helplessly: "Go inside first! You'd better have a valid reason!"
Chen Xiaohui relied on Ye Fan to turn her back to her, curled her lips and cursed, she had such a bad temper!
Ye Fan went inside and Geng Zhiqin was taking the things out of his bag. Ye Fan took another look and smiled: "Dabao and Erbao love this most."
Erbao raised his head and looked at it: "Rock sugar twist?"
Dabao immediately asked if he could take it apart and try it.
"I bought it for you two." Geng Zhiqin opened a package as he spoke.
Ye Fan poured the water from the enamel jar into the wash basin and explained to Geng Zhiqin and Chen Xiaohui: "Two guests came just now, but they didn't touch the glasses."
Geng Zhiqin: “Then use this jar.”
Ye Fan poured half a cup of boiled water: "Sit down and rest for a while." He poured half a cup of water for Chen Xiaohui, "Let's talk about it."
Chen Xiaohui washed her hands and sat down: "Let me drink some water."
Ye Fan: "You can hide from the first year of junior high school, but you can't hide from the fifteenth day."
Geng Zhiqin didn't mind watching the excitement: "If you don't want me to tell you, I'll tell you?" Before Chen Xiaohui could say anything, "Aunt Tao asked her to go on a blind date."
Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "That's it?"
Chen Xiaohui frowned slightly: "Is this still young? I finally got into college -" Suddenly it occurred to Ye Fan that she didn't know that she had memories of her previous life, and couldn't understand her desire for college, "Even if we get married on a blind date, I have to wait until I graduate soon. We are on a blind date now, but I will have a baby next year. Should I take a break from school?”
"You can tell mom about that."
Geng Zhiqin nodded: "Yes. At the end of the year, she received another letter from Shanghai, saying that she would introduce a college student to Chen Xiaohui and ask Chen Xiaohui to come over and meet her after the year. Chen Xiaohui said that she had to accompany Aunt Tao to your place. She was afraid that the Chen family would look for her. In the past, I asked Aunt Tao to go to the Air Force compound to spend the New Year with your father, and asked your brother to accompany your sister-in-law back to her parents’ home.”
Ye Fan was speechless: "——You, can't you refuse directly?"
"What should I do if they come to school to find me?" Chen Xiaohui asked, "They are shameless, but I still want them."
Ye Fanxin said, you are too shameless, otherwise they would not dare to come to you again and again, "You have escaped this year, but what about next year?"
Chen Xiaohui shook her head: "Let's talk next year. By the way, do you have any money? Lend me two hundred yuan."
"You really don't care!" Ye Fan said angrily, "The school's subsidy is not enough for you?"
Chen Xiaohui: "A relative of my classmate plans to go abroad. If everything goes well, he will be able to go abroad this year. Their family used to hide a lot of good things, and they are worried that the customs will not go through them before selling them. Don't worry, I will buy one for you. How much will it cost you? I’ll give you back a lot when the time comes.”
Ye Fan rubbed his forehead: "How many antiques have you learned in just a few days?"
"After passing this village, there is no such shop." Chen Xiaohui heard the clicking sound and saw Dabao eating. Her eyes lit up, "Dabao, this is the New Year's money from grandma and uncle to you and Erbao." From Bao Bao He took out a few red envelopes and asked, "Do you and Erbao have a lot of lucky money?"
Ye Fan quickly stopped him: "That's enough!"
(End of chapter)