Chen Xiaohui did a rough calculation. Oh my god, she is almost forty years old, an advanced maternal age? She didn't live to be fifty in her previous life, and she couldn't live to be in her early forties just because she had a child.
"Can mom agree if I don't find a partner?"
Ye Fan wanted to say that he would object because you are too busy. Comrade Tao Chunlan hopes that you will get married immediately. "She is not old-fashioned. The prerequisite is that you can take care of yourself."
It's a pity that Chen Xiaohui didn't understand: "I don't need her to take care of me."
Ye Fan: "If you are assigned to Dongcheng after graduation, more than ten kilometers away from home, your parents, brothers and sisters are not with you, and Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping come to you, how are you going to deal with it?"
Geng Zhiye: "If you don’t want to step in and sever ties with them, let others step in. Who can be with you every day?"
"I can't just find someone to marry because of them?"
Ye Fan didn't want to talk, Geng Zhiye said: "What Fanfan said is to search quickly, not just casually."
"Isn't it okay that I made a mistake?" Chen Xiaohui rolled her eyes at him and said to Ye Fan, "I understand."
Ye Fan picked up his niece and said, "I'll go to the bedroom to see if they have changed."
Geng Zhiye wanted to go to the bedroom of his father-in-law and mother-in-law with Ye Fan, but if Chen Xiaohui was left alone in the living room, she would definitely follow him, so Geng Zhiye took out the things they bought and gave them to Chen Xiaohui, telling her to put them where they should. .
Chen Xiaohui was being bossed around by Geng Zhiye and had no time to bother her mother and Ye Fan.
In the evening, Ye Fan's sister-in-law Li Mingyue came home, and Ye Fan asked her sister-in-law to help her cook. Tao Chunlan wanted to help in the kitchen, but Ye Fan asked her to rest.
Tao Chunlan was very pleased and said to Dabao and Erbao: "Your mother knows how to be filial to me."
Li Mingyue didn't think so. She sat by the kitchen door picking vegetables, staring at the yard with one eye and looking at Ye Fan with the other: "Is something wrong?"
Ye Fan nodded: "I told you not to be angry?"
"I'm still angry for my own sake." Li Mingyue laughed, "If you're right, I'll listen. If you're wrong, I'll pretend I didn't hear you."
Ye Fan: "Don't let your parents take care of Liangliang. I know that your parents have been looking forward to this child for many years - I feel bad, but pampering does not mean being locked up in the house. In my opinion, pampering refers to both material and spiritual things. In terms of wealth, Liangliang in ancient times should be a noble lady from a famous family, not a stingy girl who has never seen the world. ”
Li Mingyue actually realized that the pretty girl was different from the girls Dabao and Erbao were when they were young, "I found out. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given her to my mother. When I went back to my mother's house last night, my mother was still nagging me. Why did you leave your beauty to your mother-in-law? I just said that you are back and you haven’t seen your aunt in more than a year.”
Ye Fan: "There is also Xiaohui. She doesn't know how to take care of children. She doesn't know what to say. She's pretty but not sensible. It's hard to change after learning a lot of bad habits from her."
Li Mingyue was surprised: "What did she say again?"
Ye Fan raised his eyebrows: "Said before?"
"I didn't say anything unpleasant, it was just nonsense. I said that in the future, I will buy a house for Liangliang. If a girl has a house and has a conflict with her husband in the future, she will not have to wrong herself, and she will not have to look at the face of her parents-in-law." Li Mingyue couldn't help but vomit when she thought of this. Oops, "Everywhere."
"Don't pay attention to her."
Li Mingyue was startled, turned around and was startled again when she saw Geng Zhiye standing by the door: "When did you come? Have you ever been a scout before?"
Geng Zhiye: "When you said the previous sentence, I came from the opposite side. Don't worry, it's just me. They are waiting in the room to watch "News Network"."
Li Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief: "How can we ignore it when we live under the same roof?"
Ye Fan: "She may have taken her own place. In the past, in the Chen family, as she said, she had to share a small bed and a wardrobe with her niece. How dare you get divorced in this situation? You can't go back to your husband's family if you leave her husband's family. Here With her eldest brother, she subconsciously thinks that just like the Chen family in Shencheng, once she gets married, she will be a guest when she comes back, and she has no confidence to stay there forever. "
"But we only have one pretty one."
Ye Fan: "You used to say you didn't want to have children and then you gave birth to Liang Liang. Now you say you only want Liang Liang. She may think you are just talking about it and want a son like many people."
Geng Zhiye said: "She can think of so much in her head? She just doesn't speak through her brain. She forgot after she said it, and you two are here analyzing and analyzing. It's just too much salt."
Ye Fan couldn't help but glare at him: "You're free! Come over and cook!"
Geng Zhiye turned on the faucet and washed his hands.
Li Mingyue exclaimed: "Isn't it cold?"
"It's not like taking a bath with cold water." Geng Zhiye came in wiping his hands and asked Ye Fan to rest.
Li Mingyue said helplessly: "As long as you are happy. Fanfan, what did Xiaohui say today?"
"Say that you and your eldest brother didn't come back last night, so you don't want her anymore."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "What a fart!"
Li Mingyue was a little angry at first - how could she say that to a child? When she heard this, she couldn't help but want to laugh: "Did she offend you?"
"If you don't mess with me, I'll be annoyed when you see her." Geng Zhiye said bluntly, "She probably owed me something in her previous life."
Could Chen Xiaohui have been so brainless in her previous life? Ye Fan couldn't complain about this: "Don't talk nonsense. Hurry up and cook. Once the vegetables are done, I'll cook the noodles."
Geng Zhiye: “Isn’t there rice in the rice cooker?”
Ye Fan: "After the water boils, steam the egg custard. I originally wanted to steam a small bowl for Liangliang. Dabao and Erbao also want to eat it. I will make it in a basin later."
After the meal, Li Mingyue took her daughter to wash up, and then went back to the bedroom to play with her. It wasn't until the child was tired that Li Mingyue came out to wash up. Seeing that Ye Fan was still awake, she couldn't help but ask: "Fanfan, what are you doing?"
Ye Fan: "Er Bao feels that the bed is not warm, so I will fill her with a bottle of salt water."
Erbao ran out in autumn clothes. Ye Fan asked her if she was cold. Erbao shook his head: "Not cold!"
Li Mingyue was about to persuade Erbao to go back to the house. Geng Zhiye came out and grabbed her daughter in, like she was carrying a bucket of water. Li Mingyue was so frightened that she quickly said: "Be gentle!"
Erbao yelled angrily: "I am definitely not the child of you!"
Geng Zhiye: "Your mother gave birth to her, and I raised her with my salary."
Erbao couldn't refute and stopped.
Ye Fan was worried that the father and daughter would get into a fight, so he rinsed the salt water bottle and went back to the house, "Geng Erbao, go to bed quickly. Your dad will have to go to the station to buy a ticket tomorrow."
Erbao: "Are you going back?"
Dabao glanced at his sister as if he were an idiot, and Erbao raised his arms: "Believe it or not, I will hit you?"
Ye Fan pulled her to his side and tucked her into bed: "Can you survive the beating? The school will distribute new books in a few days."
Erbao calculated how many days it was and immediately pulled up the quilt and covered his head, "Mom, turn off the lights!"
The next morning, Geng Zhiye bought a ticket and came back. He passed by a roast duck restaurant and bought a roast duck and a roast chicken. He had a feast at his mother-in-law's house and took his wife and children home.
The only Geng family members are Yu Wentao, Geng Zhiqin, Huihui and Benben. Geng Zhiye asked her sister: "Should we spend the Lantern Festival at home or go to the second brother and second sister-in-law's place?"
Geng Huihui said: "The Lantern Festival is this Saturday. My parents go to work, and we have to prepare dinner when we get there. Instead of going to my grandma's house, my uncle, aunt, cousins and sisters all go there, and each of them just says The noise gave me a headache.”
Ye Fan: "Get up early tomorrow and I can buy you some food?"
Yu Wentao said no. Geng Huihui was overjoyed and said: "Grandma gave me and my brother 20 yuan each. This semester's pocket money is 500 yuan for my sister-in-law, and we can buy it ourselves."
Ye Fan smiled and said: "Then buy it yourself. But don't keep so much money on you."
Geng Zhiqin: "Then I save it?"
Ye Fan asked Geng Zhiye to save four hundred and fifty with her. Geng Zhiye exchanged the four ten-dollar bills belonging to his nephew and niece into change of 12 cents and 12 cents.
The whole ticket turned into change, and one ticket turned into many coins. The siblings exclaimed, "We are rich!" Dabao took the opportunity to ask them to buy a piggy bank. When using it, they would take one and put the remaining change back.
This is what Ye Fan taught him. Ye Fan looked at his son as helpless as a little teacher and wanted to laugh.
The next morning, a family of four took Yu Wentao on the southbound train. Yu Wentao was as excited as if he were going out to play.
She was tired from resting at night, and the next day was the Lantern Festival, so she was helpless, as if there was no money in her pocket and no rice in the vat.
Ye Fan thought she was tired and didn't care.
The next day, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Ye Fan was still behaving in the same manner, so Ye Fan had to pay attention. But the mother-in-law had just lost her husband, so she must have been feeling uncomfortable. At this time, it was not a matter of taking things seriously, so Ye Fan just waited for Geng Zhiye to come back.
On the evening of the 22nd of the first lunar month, Geng Zhiye arrived home. Ye Fan asked him to help in the kitchen and took the opportunity to whisper that his stepmother had been in low spirits these past few days and was no longer like her.
Political Commissar Liao did not dare to make mistakes, which caused Geng Zhiye to worry about food and supplies, as well as his soldiers. Having done too much ideological work, Geng Zhiye understood the reason after thinking about it for a moment, "I used to live here for a day and a day, and I must have wanted to go out and see the island every day. Now I have to live there permanently, and the old man is gone and Xiaoqin is at school. Huihui and Benben have grandparents, and no one needs her. She must be feeling empty and uncomfortable.”
Ye Fan: "If she were my mother, I would ask her to find a wife who is a few years younger than her and has a pension."
Geng Zhiye almost got his hand burned by firewood: "I didn't hear anything."
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him: "It's not you who said that. How can your father-in-law cut you into pieces?"
"If you say that, then I'm not polite?" Geng Zhiye asked directly, "Why do you have to be a few years younger?"
Ye Fan: "People like young people. Like you!"
"Be more serious." Geng Zhiye was eight years older than Ye Fan, so he didn't have the confidence to say that he didn't like it.
Ye Fan said: "Women live longer than men."
Geng Zhiye's breathing paused for a moment: "——It seems that I have to go to bed early and get up early to take care of myself."
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him: "What should we do about this? She is your stepmother, not our nanny, and we can't treat her like an old mother. Besides, Xiaoqin feels bad when she finds out."
Geng Zhiye: "Aren't you going to pick up Dabao? Let her pick up the second baby and prepare lunch. You have been a little careful. My dad didn't pass away suddenly. She was mentally prepared three years ago. If he hadn't been in poor health, Xiaoqin would have been the first Will you listen to him when you fill out your application for the college entrance examination for the first time?”
"Then let me try."
On the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month, Monday at 11 a.m., Ye Fan asked her mother-in-law to steam rice in a rice cooker at 11:30, and then went to pick up Erbao at the school gate, while she went to pick up Dabao.
Considering that only Yu Wentao was left in the house after she left, Ye Fan added: "If you're busy, just prepare the dishes. I'll cook them when I get back."
Yu Wentao waited for her to go out and then went to the kitchen to see what was under the chopping board and inside the cabinet. Then he prepared onions, ginger and garlic, and then went to the vegetable garden to pick up a handful of green vegetables and a handful of garlic sprouts.
Yu Wentao had a watch. After washing the vegetables, he found that it was almost half past eleven. He washed the rice, turned on the rice cooker, and went to the village primary school located in the northwest corner of Shanxi Brigade.
We arrived at the school gate just in time to catch up with the students after school. Yu Wentao felt like he had picked up Huihui and Benben two years earlier. When Erbao came out, she couldn't help but smile and asked: "Erbao, are you tired?"
"Grandma, are you here to pick me up?" It was strange for Erbao to be picked up by his grandma for the first time.
Yu Wentao nodded: "Are you hungry? Grandma has washed the vegetables and we will cook them when we get home. Your mother and your brother will come back just in time for dinner."
"I've been hungry for a long time." Erbao asked: "Would you like rice cakes? Grandma, can you eat the sausages my mother made years ago? I want to eat fried rice cakes with sausages."
Ye Fan bought a lot of meat before the New Year and learned how to make sausages from the farmers on the island, planning to eat them after the New Year. Unexpectedly, such a coincidence, the sausages tasted good, and something happened in his hometown.
The sausage has been kept in the kitchen, and Yu Wentao saw it on the first day he arrived on the island. Because pigs were slaughtered on the island on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Ye Fan bought fresh meat. Later, he ate seafood and had no chance to fry sausages.
Yu Wentao asked: "Er Bao wants to eat it? Then I can go back and wash two slices and put them in the rice cooker?"
"Does mom agree?"
Yu Wentao thought about Ye Fan's temper and style: "If we don't waste anything, your mother won't criticize us. By the way, Erbao, your mother has been writing calculations these days. Is the factory very busy? But I I didn’t see her going to the office.”
Erbao was asked and said he didn't know. When he got home and saw the book on the coffee table, Erbao understood: "Grandma, my mother is going to college."
Yu Wentao was stunned for a moment. When Erbao asked her to cut the sausage, she almost cut it into her hand.
When Ye Fan came back, Yu Wentao looked at her with a complicated expression. Ye Fanxin said, is it useless to take on Erbao?
"Aunt Yu, light the fire and I'll cook." When Ye Fan was about to cook, he asked her what was wrong.
However, Yu Wentao sat in front of the stove and asked: "Do you want to take the college entrance examination?"
Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that because of this, "I have this plan, but I'm not sure where to take the exam yet. I'm afraid that you and my parents will be worried if they find out. I plan to tell you in a few days."
"Your parents don't know either?" Yu Wentao felt very comfortable, "Does Xiaoqin know?"
Ye Fan: "I had a few chats with Xiaoqin. Xiaoqin may think that I will take the exam next year. The second brother and the second sister-in-law know. The eldest brother and his family don't know."
Yu Wentao asked again: "Where is Chen Xiaohui?"
Ye Fan shook his head.
Yu Wentao finally had a smile on her sad face: "Don't tell her. Xiaoqin said she wanted to go to Beijing University at first? Just apply to Beijing University!"
Ye Fanxin said it was really my mother-in-law who thought so highly of me.
"I think so too." Yu Wentao said: "I will definitely pass the exam. From now on, I will buy groceries, cook and pick up the second baby, and you will be responsible for the second baby - for the second baby and yourself."
Seeing her high morale, Ye Fan regained her former vitality and said with a smile: "Okay!"
At night, before going to bed, Ye Fan told Geng Zhiye - Done!
"Pick up and drop off the second treasure? Is it that easy?"
Ye Fan: "I found out that I planned to go to college, so I was asked to go to Peking University, which Chen Xiaohui especially wanted to go to."
Geng Zhiye was happy: "I'm not surprised at all. By the way, do you want Er Bao to live with her? Dabao can be separated from Er Bao."
Ye Fan: "Don't think they can pinch each other three times a day. If they really want to separate, they will definitely have objections. Later, you go to Dabao and I'll go to Erbao. I just said that Aunt Yu is not used to staying in the guest room alone this time, so I'll call her Erbao." Bao sleeps with her and takes naps and homework as usual in Dabao’s room.”
Geng Zhiye: "First ask Erbao if he wants to sleep with grandma. The little girl doesn't have big ideas."
The next morning, Ye Fan took Erbao to the vegetable market. Geng Zhiye took his son to the public toilet, one person in charge of the other. When they got home, the couple looked at each other and knew it was done.
As soon as Dabao and Erbao went out, Ye Fan told her mother-in-law about this. Yu Wentao thought that Ye Fan was afraid that she would be lonely living alone, and said that she did not need Erbao to accompany her. Ye Fan said that since Dabao is older, the brother and sister can try to separate.
Yu Wentao thought she was too particular: "Dabao is not yet eleven years old. When my brother was this old, I shared a bed with him."
"Isn't it because your family is poor and doesn't have a quilt?" Ye Fan asked curiously.
Yu Wentao choked and didn't want to pay attention to her, so she went out to watch her granddaughter and grandson playing Tai Chi.
Geng Zhiye held back his laughter and asked, "Do you want to piss her off to death?"
"Your stepmother is not as good as my mother." Ye Fan curled his lips, "My mother can arrange whatever she wants."
Geng Zhiye said angrily: "You are your mother's baby, your mother is willing to say 'no'?"
"You are so arrogant." Ye Fan said, "If you don't talk about this, let's just say that when they came to our house before, my mother would say whatever I bought was fine. Unless she was worried that I didn't have the money, she would find reasons to stop me from buying. Other times, she would I didn’t say anything else. Your stepmother muttered, but I didn’t see her eating less.”
Geng Zhiye thought to himself, otherwise why would my mother-in-law think she has too many things?
If Geng Zhiye's father hadn't been gone and Yu Wentao was alone at home after Geng Zhiqin started school, Tao Chunlan would never have let Yu Wentao and Ye Fan go to the island.
Geng Zhiye: "She was like this when she first came to our house. She didn't eat many good things, she wanted to try everything, and she was reluctant to buy things because her family was poor, so she struggled back and forth. At first we thought she wanted to buy things but were afraid that we would dislike her. Spending money, but later found out that she was doing the same with her own salary, so she turned a deaf ear to her words. ”
"Why does it look a bit like Chen Xiaohui?" Ye Fan asked.
Geng Zhiye thought about it carefully: "It's different! None of her brothers and sisters dared to ask her for money. They thought I was asleep that night when I held dad's wake. Several people were there to talk about her future affairs. She said that she had a pension and didn't need it. We take care of her without bothering Xiaoqin, and then we say that if we don’t have any money to give to her brothers and sisters, she will keep it for her old age. How dare Chen Xiaohui say that to Chen Kuanren?”
Ye Fan couldn't help but said: "Chen Kuanren can't kill her!"
"Chen Kuanren would definitely not dare to do anything for fear of death. But Chen Xiaohui would think that he dares! Her brain is better than Xiaoqin's!" Geng Zhiye was puzzled.
Ye Fan: "Put the noodles in."
Geng Zhiye put the wet wheat noodles into the pot. This noodles was rolled by Yu Wentao.
Before Ye Fan went to the vegetable market, she asked her mother-in-law what she wanted to eat, and Yu Wentao said anything. It was cold in the morning and evening on the island. Ye Fan said to cook some thin rice noodles with seafood and put in a few slices of ginger. Dabao would be warm after eating it and he would not feel cold while sitting on the bicycle.
When Ye Fan came back from shopping for groceries, Geng Zhiye winked at the kitchen in the living room and asked her to go and have a look. Ye Fan was curious and went to the kitchen to see her mother-in-law rolling out noodles.
Ye Fan said there were dried noodles and thin rice noodles in the cupboard, so she didn't need to roll them out. Yu Wentao said it would be a waste to buy and eat it, then quickly cut it and let Ye Fan do whatever he wanted.
When Ye Fan saw the noodles, he thought of her mother-in-law's style, "Isn't she used to thin rice noodles?"
Geng Zhiye: "The noodles I eat are lighter than wheat noodles. Maybe because of this."
“But there are noodles.”
Geng Zhiye: "Dried noodles are also blander than hand-made noodles. Isn't your mother like this? She doesn't want to cook, so she makes do with dried noodles?"
"She can just say it."
Geng Zhiye said: "I'm afraid you think she's troublesome. She doesn't need to roll it out and can eat more comfortably, so just treat her as frugal."
Ye Fan: "Your stepmother has a good appetite. You don't need to boil it until it's cooked. Serve it out when it's cooked. I'll call Dabao Erbao."
Dabao Erbao washed his hands and came in. When he saw the wheat noodles, he exclaimed, "Is it so good to eat in the morning?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Grandma rolled the noodles, mom cooked the noodles."
Dabao immediately said: "Grandma has worked hard. Mom has worked hard too." After saying that, he looked at her mother eagerly.
Ye Fan nodded and Dabao picked up the chopsticks: "Let's eat!"
Erbao took a sip of the soup: "It's delicious! Grandma, can we make this again tomorrow?"
Yu Wentao said in her heart that her granddaughter really gave her face.
"Grandma makes it every day if she likes it." Yu Wentao watched the second baby drink the soup and couldn't wait to eat the noodles. She said to her heart that it's lucky that I'm here, otherwise Miss Ye would have to go to work and review, and she would starve my second baby to death. What.
After taking a mouthful of soup, Yu Wentao looked surprised. How could it taste better than the last time he came here?
The last time I came here, the purchase of rapeseed oil was restricted. Pork had to be paid with a ticket. You could buy ten kilograms of pork at a time. Ye Fan bought five kilograms of fat meat to make oil a few days ago. Today, he used lard to fry eggs. He put more oil in it than before. There are no poached eggs yet, and only a little rapeseed oil is added, so it is naturally more delicious than last time.
Ye Fan had to prepare for exams and work, and had to pick up and drop off Dabao. He had no energy to roll out noodles and made them twice a month on average. Dabao and his two children couldn't eat enough, but Ye Fan couldn't bear to tire himself, so he could only wrong them, and they missed him more and more. Seafood wheat noodles cooked with poached eggs.
Otherwise, Dabao wouldn’t say “it tastes so good” when he sees it.
Yu Wentao thought Dabao meant that the noodles were rich in eggs, seafood, and vegetables, so she asked if the noodles were difficult to make.
Geng Zhiye said: "It doesn't take much. Just fry the eggs, boil them in hot water, add seafood, noodles, and finally add vegetables."
Ye Fan nodded: "It's troublesome to roll out noodles."
Yu Wentao immediately expressed that she didn't mind the trouble.
Dabao couldn't help but say: "Grandma is so kind. My mother finds it troublesome."
Yu Wentao was immediately complimented by him and didn't know what to do.
In the evening, Yu Wentao took Dabao and Erbao out to play, and Geng Zhiye accompanied Ye Fan to do questions. When Ye Fan was tired and resting, he remembered another meal of wheat noodles in the evening, and couldn't help but said: "Dabao can make Aunt Yu better if he is willing." The pension money was wiped out.”
"Fortunately, my son is kind." Geng Zhiye thought of something and felt that this was the right time. "I may be transferred soon."
Ye Fan: "Where to go?"
Geng Zhiye shook his head, "A few people came here a few days ago to stay for three days, and they were quite satisfied when they left. The higher-ups plan to entrust me with important tasks, and they won't ask me to go to the comfort zone of a big city."
Ye Fan was no longer tired in an instant: "You didn't use shrimp soldiers and crab generals this time, did you?"
Geng Zhiye laughed: "I'm not stupid. I came here before the first month of the year. Obviously I didn't come for military supplies. It wasn't because of logistical supply problems, and no one committed any trouble. They could only come for me. The day after they arrived here I’ll ask the cooking class to kill a pig.”
Ye Fan couldn't help but say: "It's too clever."
"During the meal, they revealed in their words whether it was because they came over that I asked the cooking team to have extra meals. I didn't think they heard it. It was a coincidence that I took them to the vegetable field after the meal. The sky shows up, and the spinach and green vegetables planted years ago are lush and green, and some garlic sprouts are as thick as wheat sprouts." Geng Zhiye thought about that day. The situation made me laugh, "When they came up, they asked, isn't this from the folks on the island?" I took them to the pigsty again. There were four fat pigs in the pigsty, leaving food for Yue Yue and Xia Yue. There were seven or eight little pigs, and a few medium ones. The pigs had mud and vegetable leaves on them. It looked like I had someone buy them and throw them in on the fly.”
Ye Fan felt relieved: "They didn't say anything?"
"I didn't expect you could grow vegetables and raise pigs on the island. I said that the soil for growing vegetables was pulled from the mountain. Because there were a lot of rocks, every vegetable had to be planted by hand at the beginning, and I couldn't afford to damage it with a hoe. "Geng Zhiye didn't say that because the clothes, shoes, and weapons were all issued by the above, he couldn't modify them without authorization, and he couldn't subsidize the money saved to the officers and soldiers, so he asked the cooking team to find the production team to buy chicken, duck, meat and eggs.
Geng Zhiye's guard wouldn't have grown five centimeters in a few months if he hadn't done this.
Ye Fan: "You don't need to buy vegetables when you grow them yourself. Where's the money in the account?"
Geng Zhiye said: "If you buy some books and go to the study room to read them, no one will get into a fight because of the gossip."
Geng Zhiye did not fool the people sent from above. The army has two study rooms, one for books and one for table tennis. Table tennis tables were unavailable on the island and too expensive to buy in the city, so Geng Zhiye asked the carpenter of the production team to make six simple models.
Ye Fan: "They didn't expect it either?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Those who don't know when they see these facilities think they are the ace units of the Army and Air Force."
Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "Have you forgotten that you are also a member of the navy?"
"I haven't forgotten." Geng Zhiye said, "I couldn't help but smile bitterly when I said it. But Lao Liao was not very happy and said that I shouldn't show off like this. He knows a hammer! I have worked hard here for five years, and I didn't let the superiors know when I left. , leaving it to others to find opportunities to show off?”
Ye Fan nodded: "Even if these things are your idea, you can't do it without their help. The higher-ups can think of you, and they can also think of them. The higher-ups let you eat meat, but you can't let them drink soup?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Pretend to be poor when it's time to show off your wealth. From now on, they can only drink cold water!"
"What do the Chief of Staff and Commander Niu say?"
Geng Zhiye: "They are a little worried that those few people did not come for defense. But it's okay if they don't. The officials and civilians guarding the island are treated the same, except for ours, which they can't explain to the capital. Besides, they have always envied the treatment of the Air Force. , racking your brains to get more money, how can you take the initiative to reduce it? ”
Ye Fan couldn't help but think of her father and brother. They couldn't drink alcohol normally, but they always had a bottle during the holidays. If the Yejia Cunjiu is sold in a few years, she will be able to grow up handsomely.
Geng Zhiye had been on the island for several years, and Ye Fan had never seen him bring wine to his house.
In terms of rank, Geng Zhiye is not much lower than her brother.
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The couple made all kinds of preparations, but they never expected that another group of people would come from above in the middle of May.
From the family area to the garrison area, those people disembarked from the ferry behind the market. Although they were all in plain clothes, their spines were too straight, and they looked like they were from the army. The fishermen did not dare to get acquainted with each other and watched them cross the family area.
When the fishermen looked at them secretly, they also looked at their surroundings calmly.
There were seven people in this group, two of whom had been here six years ago. The family area had not changed much, except that there were more flowers. One of the two people joked: "Commander Geng deserves to be from the capital. He is better at living than us."
Cross the family area and reach the intersection to the Shanxi brigade and the station. They stopped for a moment to hear the islanders' impressions of the garrison officers and soldiers. They looked around and saw a large tombstone first. There was a red five-star on the tombstone, and the group couldn't help but get closer. When they got there, they discovered that the former mound of dirt had been replaced by a mansion.
The comrade who had previously teased Geng Zhiye wanted to take back his words.
Vegetable fields and pig pens can be faked, but the Martyrs' Garden cannot be faked, and even this large tombstone cannot be built overnight.
The group of people felt that there was no need to conduct overt and covert visits, but even though they were here, they still had to go in and take a look.
There are no sentries in the pig pens and vegetable fields because there is no need for them. People in the production team will not steal pigs and vegetables. There are too many vegetables at home. We keep the good ones for eating, keep half of the bad ones for ourselves, and throw the remaining half to the army pigs. Feed the pigs in the pen.
Around ten o'clock, it was neither the time to pick vegetables for cooking nor the time to feed the pigs. There was no one around. The group of people passed by smoothly and found that three big fat pigs were missing. They thought to themselves that the pork they sent people over last time was Geng Zhiye really didn't ask the cooking squad to kill him specifically.
The group was very satisfied.
Entering the defense area, except for the smooth road, there is no difference from before.
Geng Zhiye was training at the beach, the chief of staff and his people were floating on the sea, and the only people in the office were Captain Niu and Political Commissar Liao. Political Commissar Liao was writing materials, while Captain Niu was drinking tea and puffing away like a soldier.
When the group of people arrived at the door and saw this scene, they couldn't help but frown slightly. The leader coughed in dissatisfaction. Captain Niu turned over and Political Commissar Liao slowed down.
A few people did not notice this subtle difference, because Captain Niu's behavior made them suspect that the quality of the entire team was not high. After revealing their identities, they ordered Captain Niu to call everyone to assemble.
Captain Niu first secretly asked someone to find Geng Zhiye, and then asked someone to blow the assembly whistle.
The officers who were in the dormitory rushed to the training ground. If you look at one person alone, there are hundreds of people in one place, and they are obviously taller and stronger than these seven people. After Captain Niu entered the queue, the seven people noticed the muscles on his arms and stared blankly for a moment. It turned out that he was not a lazy soldier.
Among the seven people was an instructor in his thirties, who proposed to compete with Captain Niu.
Captain Niu was previously worried that his superiors would cut down on expenses after seeing that they were eating well. Last month, they were still losing money as before, so Captain Niu felt that Geng Zhiye had done the right thing.
In the past, people came for random inspections in the second half of the year, but now that May has not yet passed, the seven people are definitely not here for military needs. If we examine them, we cannot be humble at this time.
Captain Niu knocked down his comrade who was nearly ten years younger than him in just a few strokes.
The faces of the seven people turned green - he was worthy of his surname Niu, and he was full of brilliance. Unfortunately, they thought he was an opportunistic soldier who did not do anything serious.
Since you are so disrespectful, don't blame them for being rude. At a time when the landlords had no surplus food, these people were also greedy. After looking around, they asked Political Commissar Liao whether they would kill pigs today.
Political Commissar Liao wanted to say yes, but Geng Zhiye rushed over and said first: "It's too late at noon."
If the group of people hadn't seen Political Commissar Liao nodding, they would have said forget it. Geng Zhiye is such a thief, the leader of the seven people said: "Then we will kill him in the afternoon and do it in the evening."
Do you have to eat it? Geng Zhiye muttered in his heart, "It's too late at night. I'll find a few more people to help in the cooking class. Maybe it can be done before two o'clock."
(End of chapter)