On the afternoon of February 28th in the Gregorian calendar, Ye Fan had no classes. After lunch, he took Zhang Xiaoming to Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative to meet his four uncles.
Yu Wentao's two brothers finally decided to buy a car. Since the car was expensive, they asked two cousins to take the risk. According to seniority, Ye Fan should be called Yu Wentao's cousin and uncle, and they are also here, so they are four uncles.
The director of the supply and marketing cooperative accompanied them to the motorcycle factory. When he arrived at the factory, Ye Fan gave the money to the director, who came forward to give the money to the sales director, which was 10,000 yuan for two cars.
After completing the formalities, the director and Ye Fan drove to Ye Fan's house. Ye Fan sent the director to the bus and went home to teach several uncles and Zhang Xiaoming how to ride motorcycles.
Three-wheeled motorcycles are very easy to use. When a few uncles dared to hit the road, Ye Fan took them to refuel, and then took Zhang Xiaoming to take the uncles back to Yujiacun.
By the time Ye Fan got home, it was already seven o'clock in the evening. Zhangjiayuan's little boy couldn't leave the car, so he parked it at Ye Fan's house. When Ye Fan arrived home and saw Geng Zhiye, he was shocked: "When did you come back?"
Geng Zhiye: "I saw you driving your motorcycle south as soon as I got off the bus. Are you tired?"
After running around to several places for a long time in the afternoon, Ye Fan couldn't stand it due to his high energy and couldn't help but nod.
Geng Zhiye said in his heart that it was really rare that after knowing her for so many years, he finally waited for her to admit that he was tired.
Ye Fan was not in good health the year he went on a blind date with Geng Zhiye. She exercised regularly for two years. During this period, Tao Chunlan was not afraid of spending money and bought her chickens and fish to replenish her body. Ye Fancai was no different from ordinary people.
After getting married, Ye Fan was not in a hurry to have a child, but the quality of family planning supplies at that time was mediocre, and it was almost two months before she realized she might have a baby.
Ye Fan did not resist giving birth to a child, so he left Dabao behind. After Dabao was born, Tao Chunlan encountered a job transfer and she also reached retirement age, so she simply retired and took care of Dabao at home.
Tao Chunlan thought that one more girl would be perfect. Ye Fan just thought that this kind of thing would take its course, and then he naturally had the second treasure.
Ye Fan's salary at the supply and marketing cooperative was high, and Geng Zhiye gave her the salary. She was willing to spend money on herself. When someone gave birth to a five-year-old child, she took good care of her as if she had never given birth.
At first, when Dabao was born, Tao Chunlan was worried about insufficient milk, but Ye Fan said not to worry. Tao Chunlan wanted to ask if the milk was sufficient. However, before she could ask, she heard Ye Fan asking Dabao to drink milk powder.
The second baby also grew up drinking milk powder.
Tao Chunlan was superstitious and believed that milk powder was not as nutritious as breast milk. She felt sorry for the cruel mother of the two children, so when she could give her eldest daughter and second child complementary food, Tao Chunlan either made eggs or fish every day, raising them until they were two years old. I've never been sick before.
Tao Chunlan's mother was more attentive than Ye Fan's mother in his previous life, so whenever the old lady didn't make any excessive demands, Ye Fan would always satisfy her.
Geng Zhiye said: "Then I will take Zhang Xiaoming to Yujiacun tomorrow?"
Ye Fan: "How do you know I'm going to Yujiacun tomorrow?"
Yu Wentao came out of the kitchen: "I told you to go to Yujia Village tomorrow to fetch a pig and a sheep. The food is hot. After you eat it, you can wash up and go to bed. I will get up and clean up tomorrow."
Ye Fan nodded: "Where are Dabao and Erbao?"
Geng Dabao said loudly: "Dabao does his homework, and Erbao also does his homework."
Ye Fan pushed aside the people in the side room and saw Dabao and Erbao lying in a row doing homework. Opposite them was Geng Benben, and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Are you working so hard?"
Dabao nodded: "Grandma will take us to the Children's Palace tomorrow. Mom, I haven't been to the Children's Palace yet."
Ye Fan wanted to say, your mother and I have never been to the Children's Palace in my last life.
"Don't run around wherever you go." Ye Fan said.
Dabao raised his hand and said, "Go and eat."
Ye Fan nodded: "I'm leaving!" Then he said, "I want to ask you if you have any money."
Dabao immediately came down and grabbed his mother: "Mom, are you tired? Sit down and rest for a while. Dad, go and serve my mother some food."
Geng Zhiye rolled his eyes at him and pulled Ye Fan up. Geng Dabao took his mother's other arm. Ye Fan couldn't laugh or cry, "Let go."
Dabao stared at his father: "I told you to let go, didn't you hear me?"
Ye Fan: "I'm talking about you two!"
Geng Zhiye let go, and Dabao had to let go when he saw this, but he moved to the opposite side of Ye Fan to block her way: "Mom, I was wrong, it was because I was ignorant, please forgive me once, okay? If I do it again, you, you, hit me Butt!”
Geng Dabao wanted to save face and forbade his parents to spank him, but he was afraid of giving the child a concussion if he was hit on the head, and if he was hit on the body he was afraid of accidentally breaking his ribs if he got angry, so Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye seldom did it in the past two years.
Geng Dabao said so. Ye Fan nodded and took out three dollars: "One piece for each of my sister and brother."
Geng Benben was surprised: "And mine?"
Ye Fan: "Your aunt is in a good mood today, and she's there for you."
Geng Benben immediately got down from the chair: "I wish my aunt a big sale of pork and mutton tomorrow."
Geng Zhiye didn't look at it and grabbed Ye Fan again: "Let's go!"
Dabao took the money and waved his hand: "Mom, go slowly. Dad, close the door."
It was a cold spring and the room was very cold. Geng Zhiye was worried that his child would catch cold and get sick, so he did not deliberately go against his child. After the door was closed tightly, Geng Zhiye and Ye Fan went to the kitchen.
The kitchen was warm, so Ye Fan simply ate in the kitchen.
After the meal, Geng Zhiye cleaned up the kitchen and prepared to wash up with Ye Fan before going to bed. Er Bao came out of the Dabao room. Ye Fan asked: "Have you filled a hot water bottle?"
Erbao nodded.
Ye Fan was worried and went to Erbao's bed to touch it. It was very hot inside and asked Erbao to rest early.
The next morning, Yu Wentao got up as usual. After washing, Yu Wentao cooked porridge in a rice cooker, and then put a few tofu and cabbage buns in the pot.
At around six o'clock, Geng Zhiye got up and washed up, just in time to have porridge and steamed buns.
At dawn, Geng Zhiye drove out and called Zhang Xiaoming. Zhang Xiaoming woke up at five o'clock in the morning, got up to go to the toilet, and purposely passed by the door of Ye Fan's house. Seeing that it was pitch dark inside, he went home to take a nap. The lights were on in Ye Fan's courtyard. Uncle Zhang, who had gotten up early, saw it and asked his wife to turn on the stove to cook.
After dinner, Zhang Xiaoming wrapped himself in his father's military coat and wandered back and forth in the yard with only his eyes exposed. When he heard Geng Zhiye calling him, Zhang Xiaoming went out immediately.
Last weekend, Ye Fan bought two scales. Geng Zhiye went to Yujiacun and Zhang Xiaoming to first collect the vegetables and then load the pork and mutton. The pigs and sheep in Yujia Village are still taken care of by the villagers themselves, and Ye Fan gets a commission. The vegetables are sold to Ye Fan according to the price at the purchasing station.
Geng Zhiye's car was full and he met at his uncle's house.
Uncle Yu is too old to run out for a day, so he does logistics at home. Uncle Yu and a cousin of his run a stall, and the money earned is shared equally among the four families.
Uncle Yu also pulled a pig, a sheep and some vegetables in the car.
Zhang Xiaoming and Uncle Yu's cousin are both thin, and their total weight in the car does not exceed 400 kilograms. The car ran without any fuel consumption and was effortless, and we arrived at the park gate before eight o'clock.
Considering that the two uncles of the Yu family might be timid about selling things for the first time, Ye Fan waited at the entrance of the park to help them while Geng Zhiye drove Zhang Xiaoming to the neighbor's house in front.
A neighbor's daughter-in-law is getting married today. A few days ago, she asked Yu Wentao if her daughter-in-law could get pork and mutton. Money is not an issue.
That's why Ye Fan was in such a hurry - he got out of the stall as soon as he bought the car.
The neighbor saw that the pigs and sheep were freshly killed and the pork was still warm inside. He was very satisfied and asked for ten pounds of pork belly, ten pounds of ribs and five pounds of mutton.
Pork and ribs cost one pound each, and mutton Geng Zhiye costs one pound and eight. When the accounts were being settled, other neighbors heard that the mutton was only 18 yuan and asked Geng Zhiye to cut two pounds for her.
Other neighbors are envious, and two kilograms of mutton are enough to make their wages disappear in a few days. The neighbor said: "The mutton in the vegetable market costs $9.00, which is not as fresh as Comrade Geng's."
After the words fell, an old man approached and asked: "Comrade Geng, how do you sell sheep heads?"
Geng Zhiye said: "Do you think so?"
Pig waste costs 30 cents per catty, and pork is half the price of mutton. The uncle dare not say too little, for fear of making Geng Zhiye angry, and fear of being ridiculed by the neighbors: "70 cents per catty?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Just seven cents. It's not very clean. You can take it home and clean it up. Do you want haggis? The haggis is also priced at this price. The haggis is not cleaned carefully."
The uncle looked at the haggis and washed it twice before putting it in the pot. "Give me the haggis too."
A neighbor also wanted haggis, but he was too embarrassed to fight with the uncle, so he wanted pig intestines and a pair of livers. The pot she brought cost less than three yuan to fill, which was enough for the whole family to eat for lunch and dinner. She immediately felt it was a good deal.
When other neighbors saw this, they asked for pig trotters and pig ears, saying that one pig ear can make a cold dish, and four pig trotters are enough for the whole family to eat. However, so many items only cost one yuan and a half, which is less expensive than a pound of mutton. Neighbors who buy pig trotters also think it is a good deal.
Geng Zhiye heard a neighbor complaining about being late, so he said: "There are still vegetables in the market."
"I don't want to go to the wet market." The neighbor muttered. Because many workers felt superior to others, the neighbor would rather spend a few cents more to buy Geng Zhiye's.
Geng Zhiye asked: "Do you want vegetables? There are three baskets of vegetables, all picked in the morning."
Neighbors looked at it and said it didn't look good. Just then an aunt came over and said: "It will definitely not look good without adding a little water. This kind of dish is affordable. Comrade Geng, weigh half a catty for me. All my children will come over today and make a soup with spinach."
Geng Zhiye winked at Zhang Xiaoming, who hurriedly took the title. His aunt watched him grow up and was very dissatisfied with his brother taking away his job with lame excuses, so she comforted him: "Don't worry."
The reason why the aunt used robbery was that two of the Zhang family's children were going to the countryside. Uncle Zhang wanted his eldest son to go to the countryside with his second son. But the second child didn't want to, so he let his sister, who was one year older than him, go.
In the early years, the number of places to return to the city was limited, so the eldest brother gave it to his younger sister, and then Uncle Zhang said that he would wait for the eldest son to come back and let him take over.
The boss came back in 1978, which happened to be the year Uncle Zhang retired, and it turned out that the person who went to work was Zhang Xiaoming's younger brother. So much so that the nearby neighbors felt worthless for him.
Zhang Xiaoming smiled sheepishly, weighed half a catty and asked his aunt: "Is that much?"
When the aunt saw the tall weighing, she nodded with a smile: "Pour it into the basket." She handed over the shopping basket, "Are there any green onions and garlic sprouts? If there are, I can weigh another pound of pork so I don't have to go to the vegetable market."
Geng Zhiye answered yes, but not many.
The aunt saw that there was not much dirt on the onions and garlic, and they were very clean. There was no need to pick and choose, so she grabbed two handfuls and asked Zhang Xiaoming to weigh them for her.
The vegetables, garlic sprouts and scallions are similar to those in the wet market, but his weight is high, and the smart uncle and aunt feel that Zhang Xiaoming's half a catty is equivalent to six taels in the wet market, so they might as well buy it from him.
Because there are so many people here, passers-by who like to watch the excitement came over and were disappointed when they saw that they were selling vegetables and meat. They were about to leave when they heard Geng Zhiye say, "I won't sell the big bones, so I'll give them to you."
Passers-by squeezed in and asked, "Are you giving me bones?"
Geng Zhiye: "Gone?"
The big bones were not picked out at first, so they were not given to the neighbor who married his daughter-in-law. The neighbor who married her daughter-in-law today was in a good mood. She saw that all the neighbors were at her door. She was in a good mood because of her popularity, so she helped Geng Zhiye greet the neighbors.
Geng Zhiye picked out the meat, and the neighbor asked him how to sell the bones. Geng Zhiye gave two big pig bones to the neighbor who had his daughter-in-law.
The neighbor who married his daughter-in-law held a bone in one hand and explained with a smile: "I buy more and give them away."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "A few dozen kilograms."
Passersby saw the word "HI" on the door and instantly understood why she wanted so much meat. Passers-by saw the mutton and asked: "Is it mutton?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "One yuan and eighty pounds."
"It's not like we don't have money."
Geng Zhiye said with a smile: "Let's talk it over first to avoid misunderstandings. How much do you want?"
"Cut me two pounds. I happen to be at home today, washing the pot." A passerby gave him money.
Geng Zhiye collected the money and Zhang Xiaoming weighed it. The passers-by stared at the scale and thought that Zhang Xiaoming would move forward when they saw the scale. As a result, Zhang Xiaoming put down the scale and tied the meat with hemp rope. It was much more refreshing than buying meat at a butcher stall, and the passers-by were very happy.
This passerby also had a scale in his family. His grandfather used it when he walked around the streets in the early years. When he came home and weighed his weight, it didn't fall even if it weighed two kilograms or one liang. He couldn't help but tell his family that these two gentlemen were really honest.
It was almost nine o'clock, and only 40% of the contents of the car that Geng Zhiye was pulling were left. Geng Zhiye asked Zhang Xiaoming to get in the car and continue selling in another place.
The aunt who was more sympathetic to Zhang Xiaoming said: "Wait a minute." She went to her house to get some water and sprinkle it on the vegetables. "It looks so beautiful. Comrade Geng, go back and find a bottle. When the vegetables are dry, sprinkle some water on them."
An old man said: "You should tell Xiao Ming this. Comrade Geng must go to class."
Geng Zhiye smiled and said: "Thank you, aunt. Xiao Ming also heard it."
The aunt rolled her eyes proudly, then glared at the uncle before she went home.
After leaving the familiar neighborhood, Geng Zhiye asked Zhang Xiaoming to sell vegetables, and then reminded him that he could ask for 10 cents, 15 cents, or 6 cents for 1 cent or 2 cents. Don't say how much yet, just add some vegetables to the other party to make up the 2 cents. If the other party says it’s only a dime, take the dish down.
When asked at first if he was a vegetable seller, Zhang Xiaoming kept nodding. Geng Zhiye wanted to kick him out. But he also knew that this matter could not be rushed, so he greeted himself and explained that in addition to vegetables, there was also meat. Tomorrow there will be eggs, duck eggs, chickens and ducks.
Zhang Xiaoming was very active during the weighing. Seeing that he still had some sense, Geng Zhiye forgave him for not being able to speak. In the end, only a few kilograms of vegetables and meat were left, and Zhang Xiaoming dared to learn to say hello.
Ye Fan is faster than Geng Zhiye because all the adults in the park know her and call her friends when they see her. Ye Fan said that he would help his uncle sell vegetables, but also said that he could no longer give away anything, so he still gave people a few spring onions and garlic sprouts.
Just put a little bit of condiments in the dishes to adjust the flavor, and even adults and adults don't have too much.
It was also because the person receiving the money was Yu Wentao's younger brother, so both the uncle and the aunt believed that Ye Fan was helping out on a voluntary basis this time.
At half past ten, two cars arrived at the door of Ye Fan's house.
Geng Zhiye calculated his money, and Ye Fan helped his two uncles settle the accounts. Because it was not the first time, both husband and wife were very skilled and sorted out the accounts in no time.
Geng Zhiye took out the commission from the meat and gave the remaining money to his uncle: "Go back and help me give it to the villagers."
The uncle nodded: "Should our money be divided now or at the end of the month?"
Ye Fan was speechless. Ask her about this? Ye Fan asked: "How did we reach the agreement in the first place?"
They signed an agreement to buy a car together, and Ye Fan also took them through the process. The small money from selling vegetables and meat was not necessary, so Ye Fan didn't know how they negotiated.
Yu Wentao's cousin said: "I didn't know how much money I could make at that time, so I just said I would sell the things first."
Ye Fan: "Why don't you use the money earned in the first three days as your capital? Then divide it on the fourth day? Aren't you going to ask the villagers to collect eggs, duck eggs, chickens and ducks tomorrow? It will definitely require a lot of money."
Zhang Xiaoming heard this and said: "Then we will split up in three days?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Okay." He took out his account book and wrote down how much money he made today.
Yu Wentao's two younger brothers were not very literate, so Geng Zhiye provided them with notebooks, and Geng Zhiye helped them write them down. After memorizing it, Geng Zhiye gave the notebook to his uncle: "When I go home to settle accounts, I will write it down even if I earn two yuan. This way, there will be no conflicts in the future."
Both uncles felt that he was too careful, so they would not have conflicts over a little money. Since Geng Zhiye was not a nephew, they didn't dare to complain, and because Ye Fan was helping them make money, the two of them nodded solemnly, saying that if it's troublesome, just be troublesome.
There is little rain in the north, and it took half a month for the spring rain to arrive.
It rained in the middle of the night. It was impossible to drive on the road the next morning, so Zhang Xiaoming took it as a holiday. Several uncles in Yujiacun also took a break.
On the second day, the five of them were not at ease. On the third day, when they could barely walk on the road, the five of them began to panic. On the fourth day, they were finally able to collect eggs and duck eggs, and they were very energetic.
On this day, Ye Fan had to go to school and was unable to participate. The three "cowards" went out to the stall together, and they went to the same place where Ye Fan sold pork.
Some people knew Uncle Yu and asked, "My nephew and daughter-in-law are not here?"
Uncle Yu showed an honest smile: "I have to go to school." He explained to his peers, "This is Xiao Ming, a neighbor of Fanfan's family. He and Fanfan bought the car, and the money earned was half of Fanfan's."
The uncle couldn't help but say: "Your nephew-in-law is really good at doing business."
My brother-in-law said that he wanted to raise a child, and the subsidy given by the school where the couple went to school was not enough to raise a child. In fact, Geng Zhiye is paid. The army paid him a salary, plus school subsidies, which was not much less than what he had received on the island. But everyone prefers to hear Uncle Yu say this.
This was also what Ye Fan said.
When people in the village asked Uncle Yu how much money he made, he said that he had to eat in the city, refuel the car, repair tires, etc. The money he earned was shared equally among the four families. He didn't know when or what month he would be able to earn the money for the car. return.
Even if the villagers thought he was talking nonsense, they could not be envious because they never heard him say how much money he made.
There is a car in the village so that the villagers can go out to plant things, so everyone is planting things in the fields as soon as the weather gets warmer.
When the toon buds appear, the villagers go to cut the toon buds. When the acacia flowers bloom, the villagers dig the acacia flowers. When the amaranth grows, they pick amaranth. As long as the weather is good, Zhang Xiaoming and his two uncles will appear in the streets and alleys of the capital, selling. It’s all agricultural products too.
The dishes they serve are fresh to the naked eye, and occasionally include fresh and hot eggs and duck eggs, so everyone who knows them likes to buy things from them.
On the last day of May, Zhang Xiaoming and Ye Fan returned to Ye Fan's house. Ye Fan divided the money equally, calculated the accounts, and asked Zhang Xiaoming if he knew how much he had earned in three months.
Zhang Xiaoming: "Total?"
Ye Fan nodded.
Zhang Xiaoming: "More than a thousand years old?"
Ye Fanxin said, he was so honest, he didn’t even do the math himself, “We will each share one thousand and ten yuan!”
Zhang Xiaoming was speechless: "This, this - so many? Then it won't delay my brother's wedding on November 1?"
Ye Fan was speechless. He only thought of his brother: "You don't have a partner yet, right?"
Zhang Xiaoming scratched his head and smiled shyly: "I'm not in a hurry."
"You are already thirty and you are not in a hurry." Ye Fan said about him and glanced at Geng Zhiqin sitting aside. Geng Zhiqin stood up and went out: "I'll help mom cook."
Ye Fan smiled angrily: "Did I tell you?"
"I will definitely marry someone suitable." Geng Zhiqin waved his hand, "I'm only twenty-seven, and I'm not even older than my third brother when he got married."
Coincidentally, today is the weekend, and Geng Zhiye is also at home, saying: "I'm as old as you and engaged to Fanfan."
Geng Zhiqin: "How do you know that I can't get engaged in the second half of the year?"
Geng Zhiye said: "There is not even a person of the opposite sex around you, who are you engaged to?"
Geng Zhiqin pretended not to hear and asked her mother what she would eat for dinner.
Yu Wentao said angrily: "You won't eat it!"
Geng Zhiqin went to his nephew's room and asked Dabao what he was playing with. Dabao glanced at his sister-in-law: "Are you annoyed? Sister-in-law, if I were you, I would bring one back tomorrow to stop their mouths."
Geng Zhiqin: "Don't set a trap for your aunt. I heard your grandma told you how many classes she has enrolled you in the Children's Palace?"
Dabao: "Actually, it's just for fun."
"Is it fun?"
Dabao nodded: "Some are fun, some are silly. Grandma also asked me to go on it, saying it can temper my will. I am not yet twelve years old, so if you practice at such a young age, you are not afraid of wearing me out."
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Geng Zhiqin laughed: "Do you like Erbao?"
Dabao: "Erbao is learning French from an old man. The uncle said he likes Erbao and will teach her for free. Sister, I think you are going to have a stepfather."
Geng Zhiqin almost bit his tongue: "You - don't talk nonsense! Do you know what a stepfather is?"
"Why don't you know? Grandma is the stepmother." Dabao nodded, "Really. At first, I thought the old man was a big liar who brought imported candies and chocolates to Erbao in an attempt to defraud Erbao. Grandma said I thought too much. , Erbao is smart and good-looking, and I just like him. I spent a few days with Erbao and found out that the French taught by my uncle is related to grandma. You will know after I go to the Children's Palace next weekend. "
This is no small matter.
Geng Zhiqin asked: "Does your mother know?"
"My mother said spring comes to old people too, just let nature take its course."
Geng Zhiqin: "Don't tell your grandma yet, I'll ask your mother."
Ye Fan was still in the main room trying to persuade Zhang Xiaoming to ask Uncle Zhang for money.
Geng Zhiqin went over and asked: "Brother Xiao Ming, did Uncle Zhang say that when you earn back the money you paid to buy the car, you will pay some living expenses to your family every month like your second brother?"
Zhang Xiaoming shook his head and asked; "What's wrong?"
Geng Zhiqin was speechless: "You three brothers. If I don't explain clearly, if your second brother gets married and has a child, will you still make money to support his family?"
"I am the eldest brother——"
Geng Zhiqin interrupted: "You are not a parent, why should you be raised? You originally earned ten yuan a day, so you could send your son and daughter to the Children's Palace, but the money was divided by your brother, and your son and daughter did not get a better education. , let them wake up early and work late at night like you in the future? ”
Ye Fan: "You can't live in your family, so you should consider the housing problem. Besides, I don't know how many years I can do this job of selling vegetables. If I don't save some money, your second brother will make a fuss about this and that, and the money will be wasted by him. Your parents are sick, what do you do to treat them?”
Zhang Xiaoming also felt that with his own conditions, he did not need to pay a lot of money to buy the woman "three turns and one ring". Three turns and one beep refers to watches, bicycles, sewing machines and radios. His family doesn't need a sewing machine or a radio for the time being. His father's bicycle can still be ridden, so there is no need to buy a new one.
If the woman says she won't get married until the first sign of three turns, then let's break up.
What kind of daughter-in-law can be found under any conditions? Even a mud-legged girl can’t afford to raise a princess.
Geng Zhiqin mentioned his children again. Zhang Xiaoming hoped that his children would be as good as Ye Fan. Even if they couldn't get into Beijing University, they could go to Agricultural University or Lin University.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoming felt that he should talk to his father, but he was embarrassed to be so understanding with his father, so he looked embarrassed.
Ye Fan looked towards the kitchen: "If you can't say anything, buy your Aunt Yu some delicious food and ask her to ask for it for you."
Zhang Xiaoming saw his mother chatting with Yu Wentao as soon as he entered the alley. When Yu Wentao saw Ye Fan coming back, she went home to cook. Zhang Xiaoming thought of the two old ladies chatting and laughing, and felt that it was okay to say a word when asking her to chat.
"Let me think about it." Zhang Xiaoming said again, "Go back and ask my father if you want to buy Xiaojun's partner a three-turn and one-ring ring."
Geng Zhiqin: “Ask when you get back.”
Ye Fan gave Zhang Xiaoming the money he earned today, "It's time for your family to cook, so go home first. Have a good rest in the afternoon. You have to get up early tomorrow."
It's early in the morning now. Zhang Xiaoming got up at around four o'clock, went to the countryside after having dinner at around five o'clock, and almost arrived in the city before seven o'clock. Although I can come back before twelve o'clock every day, it's still the same as working eight hours a day.
Besides, Zhang Xiaoming has to drive. If he doesn't take a good rest, he will easily get into a car accident. Zhang Xiaoming doesn't dare to tell him: "I know. Brother Geng, you should also take a good rest."
Today, Geng Zhiye and Zhang Xiaoming went to the countryside and came back to sell vegetables for Ye Fan and Zhang Xiaoming. Geng Zhiye raised his hand to reassure him. When he went out, Geng Zhiye shook his head: "An honest man is still foolish and filial. Fortunately, he met my Ye Fanfan, otherwise he would have been a bachelor for the rest of his life."
Geng Zhiqin nodded: "No one who knows his family dares to marry him." Speaking of marriage, he thought of her mother and whispered: "Sister-in-law, Dabao said that my mother is going to have a second love?"
Geng Zhiye didn't hear clearly and asked her to say it again.
Geng Zhiqin instantly understood that her brother didn't know. She took a small stool, sat across from her brother and sister-in-law, and said, "Dabao said that an uncle in the Children's Palace is interested in Comrade Lao Yu. Does my sister-in-law know about this?" She stared at Ye Fan and waited for her answer.
Ye Fan nodded: "Geng Dabao, a clever little guy, told me the day he found out about this."
"What do you think?"
Ye Fan: "That's your mother. I should ask you what you think."
Geng Zhiqin: "How can a daughter stop her mother from getting married?"
"There is no daughter-in-law who forbids mother-in-law to marry." Ye Fan said, "Dabao didn't tell me that I said let nature take its course?"
Geng Zhiqin asked: "Are you pretending not to know?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Otherwise? If I talk too much, you should think I'm teasing her. If you talk too much, you should think I'm teasing her."
"This old lady doesn't look young. The old man who can speak French must be very fashionable, and he can actually like Comrade Lao Yu." Geng Zhiqin couldn't understand, "Comrade Lao Yu doesn't even know the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. Look, What are you doing with her? When the uncle said "La Traviata", Lao Yu heard it as Zhu Yingtai, and when others said "Notre Dame de Paris", Lao Yu said "The Palace Museum", why don't we fight every day?"
Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "Who lives like this?"
"So what can we talk about when we wake up at three or four in the morning and can't sleep? She can talk about the anti-Japanese war with my father, and also talk about this with the uncle? The uncle may not be interested in fighting."
Ye Fan: "The key to the problem lies with Auntie. Auntie Yu is not happy, so no matter how much we talk, it will be in vain."
"How about I go ask?" Geng Zhiqin said and went to the kitchen.
Geng Zhiye wanted to stop her, but before she could say a word, she arrived in the kitchen. Geng Zhiye couldn't help but ask: "She wants to be scolded again."
As he finished speaking, he heard Yu Wentao shouting: "You have so much time to cook!" After saying that, he came out and cursed, "You're sick in the brain!"
Geng Zhiye was happy: "It seems that the old lady has no intention of starting a second spring."
Ye Fan: "I'll go ask her what she said. She's so angry that she can't help but curse." After saying that, Geng Huihui and Geng Benben came in from the outside. Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "Why are you two here at this time? Grandma didn't call you. Dining at their house?”
This morning, Ye Fan reminded his nieces and nephews that it was time to visit the Chu family after a few weeks. When Xiao Ming came back, Ye Fan helped them buy a few kilograms of early peaches grown in the village and asked them to take them over.
Geng Huihui rolled her eyes: "Forget it, I have no time to talk to us. Grandma, have you cooked? Make more, we will eat at home."
(End of chapter)