Ye Fan and Chang Guangrong returned to the house. It was getting late, so Ye Fan asked, "What's for lunch?"
Chang Guangrong spoke quickly: "Are you in charge? How about some seafood?"
Ye Fan said angrily: "I think you are quite fresh!"
"Just kidding, just kidding." Chang Guangrong saw the fish in the yard and thought of Yongcheng seafood, and Yangcheng delicacies also flashed through his mind. Chang Guangrong loves going south, and Yongcheng seafood and Yangcheng delicacies are indispensable.
Chang Guangrong is not a person who has never eaten good food, but he spent the first half of his life in the north, including the years when he went to the countryside. The first time I went to Yongcheng, I found a random roadside stall and there were all kinds of fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs. Chang Guangrong once wanted to move here.
But he also thought about it.
Ye Fan simply asked Dabao what he wanted to eat for lunch.
Dabao asked the person next to him: "Chu Guangming, where are you?"
Chu Guangming was stunned, wondering if it would be my turn to order.
Geng Zhihui: "What do you have at home?"
It's cold in winter, so there's a natural refrigerator outside. You're worried that wild cats will eat your food and hang it on the rope. Ye Fan walked to the door and looked at the rope: "There are chickens, fish and meat."
Geng Zhihui: "Chicken stewed with mushrooms, sweet and sour fish and pot-roasted pork, and three more vegetarian dishes. Xiao Chang, do you think it's okay?"
Chang Guangming said sincerely, thank you, but please stop calling "Xiao Chang".
Ye Fan took a look at his family. Geng Leilei and Geng Sensen didn't go to his grandma's house because of the heavy snow. Counting Chu Guangming and Brother Geng, they had to prepare two tables.
Ye Fan nodded: "That's all. Second treasure, Huihui, come and help."
The two girls went to the kitchen with her.
Ye Fan knew that guests would be coming in the next few days, so he went to the vegetable market in the morning and bought a few sheets of tofu skin and a pound of green peppers. Ye Fan first blanched the bean skins, asked Geng Huihui to wash the green peppers, and asked Erbao to peel the onions and garlic.
Geng Huihui asked: "Isn't green pepper expensive?"
Ye Fan: "A few dollars per pound is more expensive than meat."
"Do people in Yujia Village grow off-season vegetables?" Geng Huihui washed the green peppers and soaked the hazelnut mushrooms. Ye Fan bought hazelnut mushrooms from a department store, but the supply and marketing cooperatives didn't have them in stock.
Ye Fan took out the bean curds and washed the hard fish with warm water: "Villers who are not related to your uncle built two sheds. The vegetables your uncle sold years ago were all picked from their sheds."
Erbao asked: "Why don't relatives plant seeds?"
"There are also relatives. Your grandma went back to the village to help mother find a nanny. They thought that your uncle and uncle looked down on them, and they got angry whenever they saw the two families. The two families didn't want to suffer from this cowardice, so they hired outsiders to do the dishes in winter. "Ye Fan can understand a noble person, but if she needs money to support her, Ye Fan can't do it. Because this is not about kneeling down to beg or stealing.
Geng Huihui: “Don’t you regret it?”
"The one you regret is your grandma's cousin. The relationship between your grandma and her is like you and Erbao. Her cousin has no time to grow vegetables, so he looks for relatives in the village to get vegetables."
Before New Year's Eve, my uncle Yu was selling vegetables for the last time, and he specifically asked Ye Fan if he wanted some. Ye Fan has a large family, so he chose a dozen pounds and chatted with him for a while. Hearing what his uncle said, his cousins didn’t want to buy food from relatives of the same clan.
Uncle Yu can bargain with outsiders. Some dishes don't look good, so outsiders give him some, and Uncle Yu gives them to citizens who buy more. Going to relatives to buy groceries is not such a good thing. If you miss a point, you will cry like you are poor.
He and his eldest brother's family took turns using Uncle Yu's car. At the end of the year, the two families settled accounts and divided the money. Uncle Yu was lucky that he had a quarrel with his relatives because his sister came to the village to look for a nanny.
Geng Huihui said: "It's so complicated to have so many relatives."
Ye Fan: "People in the city live in scattered places and usually have to go to work. It's embarrassing to have conflicts when we see each other once in a while. Relatives in the village live together, and we can't see each other without looking up, and we can get into trouble even after eating."
Erbao brought in the chicken and meat: "Mom, what should I do first?"
Ye Fan: "Steam the rice, and then use a steel pot to heat up a handful of steamed buns. The steamed buns are heated through, and mom stews the mushrooms with the chicken. Put the chicken out and cover it with a basin, and mom fry the fish and meat slices. You cut the vegetables and mom prepares them. Stir-fry with sweet and sour sauce.”
Geng Huihui: "Sounds fast?"
Ye Fan: "Prepare the side dishes in advance, turn up the fire, and cook a vegetarian dish for two to three minutes. By the way, Erbao, besides fried bean curds with green peppers, what else do you want to eat?"
Erbao: "Scrambled eggs with lotus root slices and tomatoes?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Find the vegetables."
When the chicken is stewed with mushrooms, add more side dishes and make two full pots. Ye Fan's fish was big, so she cut it in half and put it on two plates. At first glance, it looked like two fish. There are also two portions of Guobao Pork and several vegetarian dishes.
Ye Fan didn't prepare any soup, but took out juice drinks and wine.
It doesn’t look like much, but the six dishes served on the table are quite sumptuous. Chu Guangming couldn't help but swallow. When Dabao saw this, he wanted to make a joke but was worried about making people cry, so he gave him a piece of pot-wrapped pork: "It's rare for your Aunt Ye to cook, please try it quickly."
Ye Fan is lazy and saves the trouble. The sweet and sour sauce on the fish and the pot pork are the same. Chang Guangrong teased her about how to cook. Geng Zhihuai praised how delicious it was, and he missed this bite at work.
Ye Fan almost wanted to ask him about his specific job, but luckily he held back. Geng Huihui couldn't help but said: "I don't know if my mother ate it."
Dabao subconsciously shut up.
The room was quiet for a moment, and Chang Guangrong smiled to smooth things over: "Your mother can still starve herself if she's not stupid."
Yu Wentao asked Geng Zhihui: "Which hospital is Huihui's mother in?"
Chang Guangrong: "Is this Peking University Hospital? Laifu is at work today. I have his office phone number and can I ask him to come over and have a look?"
"No need. Erbao, cook some dumplings after dinner and take them with your sister to have a look. If your second mother eats them, she will send them to Laifu and leave them for him to eat at night." Ye Fan said the last sentence and looked at Laifu. sister.
Chang Guangrong's wife smiled and said: "Laifu doesn't mind, as long as you have something to eat."
Yu Wentao couldn't help but ask: "Is Xiaoqin home alone at work?"
Chang Guangrong: "Maybe at my house. They went there two days ago. My mother-in-law hopes that she and Laifu will stay with them for a few days."
Yu Wentao said in her heart that she was quite sensible.
Geng Huihui winked at her aunt, "You're trying to scare me."
Ye Fan felt that it had something to do with her blunt statement that "Chang Guangrong despised her." "You can go home and ask her to stay for a few days. Her room is still available in the back. It's close to Laifu's work here, so Laifu Easy to commute to and from get off work. ”
Chang Guangrong's wife didn't want her brother to ride home from the night shift, so she told Xiaoqin to pack up his things when he got back.
After the meal, Chang Guangrong didn't even bother to ask which institution Geng Zhihua worked for. After the meal, he and his wife took the bus to his parents' house. Chang Guangrong couldn't help but sigh: The second child is not like Geng Laoshan or Geng Laosan. The scientific researcher in his imagination is embodied in him.
These words did not arouse any gossip from his parents. Chang Guangrong was scolded by his father, who thought his mouth was looser than the waistband of his cotton trousers.
Chang Guangrong dared not mention the word "Geng Zhihui" from now on.
Then again, Dabao was worried about his sister, so he dragged Chu Guangming with him. Geng Leilei and Geng Sensen wanted to accompany him, but Dabao waved his hand: "Don't cause trouble for my uncle."
Geng Leile asked: "Aren't you afraid of causing trouble for your third uncle?"
"My dad is an iron-blooded soldier. When I cause trouble, people say that tiger fathers have no sons." In fact, Dabao didn't dare to go near the hospital, so he stopped at the entrance of the hospital. He said that the hospital was filled with the smell of disinfectant, but he couldn't smell it. Habit.
This was not the first time Erbao and Geng Huihui came here. They met a familiar nurse. Geng Huihui gave her grandmother's name and asked the nurse to help her find out which ward floor she was on.
As they approached the door of the ward, Erbao carried the food box behind him and called "Second Mom".
The Chu family disliked Ye Fan and therefore disliked Erbao, and looked away when they saw her and Huihui. Erbao asked: "Has Erma eaten?"
Chu Fenghe's lips turned white, and he obviously didn't even drink any water.
Geng Huihui handed over the water glass. Chu Fenghe took a sip and looked at his daughter. Geng Huihui explained: "Dumpling soup." Erbao opened the food box: "Er Mom, I cooked it for you."
The moment Chu Fenghe saw the dumplings, she thought of the Chu family. Er Bao's words made her embarrassed to let the dumplings out. She ate seven or eight before she slowed down.
Ye Fan cooked sixteen and was worried that Chu Fenghe wouldn't be able to finish them, but in the end she even drank the soup.
Erbao wanted to go back, but when her second mother didn't say anything like "it's getting late", she could only endure the Chu family's scrutiny and chat with her second mother.
Dabao and Chu Guangming were also looked at at the entrance of the hospital. Dabao suspected that the beggar mistook him for a hooligan and did not dare to approach him even though he was well-dressed.
Dabao couldn't stand it and whispered: "I'll try him."
During the Spring Festival, most self-employed people want to take a break, and some want to take advantage of this time to make more money. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there will be more stalls, so they can take a break. So on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, there were still people roasting sweet potatoes at the door of the hospital.
Dabao wrapped the sweet potatoes that were on the stove and the ones that were almost roasted inside. He carried several kilograms of sweet potatoes and walked towards the old man who was covered in patches five meters away: "Can sweet potatoes be okay?"
The old man obviously didn't expect that Dabao was not a gangster but a good boy, so he hesitated for a moment before nodding. Dabao looked around and saw that there was no one there. He stuffed more than one yuan of change left over from buying sweet potatoes into the sweet potato bag: "Go home early on such a cold day." After that, he ran towards Chu Guangming.
Chu Guangming: "That uncle will bow to you before he leaves."
Dabao turned back: "Aren't you going to the suburbs?"
Chu Guangming carefully looked at the three-way intersection where the uncle went. No matter which way he took, he was heading to the city: "People in the city are so poor?"
"It must be another unfilial son. For citizens of his age, the country can arrange as much as possible, and if it can't, there will be minimum relief food." Dabao said, "I hope his family will flee to the capital. If there is a natural disaster, he will have to find another place to survive. If he encounters a man-made disaster, he will It’s disappointing.”
Chu Guangming did not expect Dabao to say these words: "You are very good."
"I know."
Chu Guangming almost bit his tongue, you're so rude.
Dabao patted him on the shoulder: "I'm not very kind. If you meet me, I'll help you if you have nothing to do. But you have to do what you can."
"I know better than you."
Dabaoxin said: Before I knew it, I gave all the money your father had saved to your aunt! Dabao didn't want to make him sad, so he changed the subject: "Go in and see why Erbao doesn't come out."
Chu Guangming was afraid of meeting the Chu family: "I won't go!"
"Then continue to wait." Dabao stamped his feet from the cold and mentally greeted the Chu family members except Chu Guangming and Chu Fenghe. After the second greeting, the second treasure came out. Dabao ran over: "Sister Huihui, is your grandma dead?"
Chu Guangming was almost shocked by his words. Did anyone speak like this?
Geng Huihui said calmly: "Soon."
Chu Guangming immediately wanted to ask his grandfather what he thought.
Dabao was unhappy: "So the second mother can't go home today and has to stay in the hospital all night?"
Chu Guangming opened his mouth and whispered: "Dabao, let's go home and say it, it's not good for others to hear us."
Dabao is not afraid that the Chu family will hear it, but he also doesn’t want his second mother to be in a dilemma: “Go home first. By the way, has your second mother eaten?”
Er Bao nodded: "Second Mom devoured the food. The elders of the Chu family are so ignorant that they don't even know how to ask Second Mom to eat."
Chu Guangming comforted in a low voice: "Your second mother is not stupid."
Erbao: "If they don't take the initiative to say it, the second mother wants me to go get something to eat. They can't say, my mother is going to die, and you still want to eat?"
Chu Guangming was dumbfounded: "——You have to eat something."
Dabao patted him on the shoulder: "You have normal thinking and cannot understand those people. Say less."
When he got home, Dabao reported the situation in the hospital for his sister and sister.
Ye Fan pondered for a moment and said to Dabao: "I will go south with Chang Guangrong in two days. You are not allowed to run to grandma's house. You must keep an eye on me at home."
Dabao stopped being careless and said: "I promise not to let our family be bullied!"
On the afternoon of the 13th of the first lunar month, Ye Fan came back.
On the morning of the 14th, Ye Fan took Erbao to Chang Guangrong's house to pick things up.
Chang Guangrong thought that school was about to start. He had all the stationery and trinkets, and Erbao picked them out for his own use. Erbao gave him fifty yuan, and Chang Guangrong was shocked: "Are you setting up a stall?"
Erbao: "Sell it to your classmates."
Chang Guangrong was speechless for a while and sighed: "As expected of your mother's daughter. What do you want? I'll help you!"
"I want to choose myself, you don't know what we like."
Chang Guangrong wants to say, you have quite a lot to do. Suddenly it occurred to him that after watching Erbao choose, he would know what the teenage girl likes.
After the second treasure was picked, Chang Guangrong said, "Let me check the price." In fact, he put a check mark behind the price to remind himself to buy more of these goods next time.
In the afternoon, Erbao had nothing to do and went to the clothing store to ask Chu Guangming if he wanted half of what she picked.
Chu Guangming's clothes and shoes were very old before. After school started this year, his clothes and shoes looked brand new, so his classmates could naturally see them. They asked Chu Guangming if his family had become rich.
Chu Guangming was too embarrassed to tell the truth because of his parents being like that, even though many classmates knew about his family's situation. He quickly said that the clothes and shoes were given by Geng Dabao, but it was a pity that he was too fat to wear them.
Other students naturally asked him about his relationship with Geng Dabao. Chu Guangming didn't want to say that his biological father and Dabao's second mother were cousins who hadn't even graduated from the fifth server, so he just said that Dabao was a nice person.
Chu Guangming's story is that his grandfather is no longer here, and Dabao's mother often calls him over for dinner.
From then on, his classmates were very kind to him. Chu Guangming has been working in the clothing store these days to keep track of his wages. He is embarrassed to earn pocket money from his classmates: "I can't do it."
"Then I'll sell it myself." Erbao believed it and went home.
Ye Fan was resting at home and saw her coming back so soon: "Am I right? Although Guangming needs money very much, he has a strong will in his heart."
"What do you mean, I have no bottom line?" Erbao asked.
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at her: "I don't want to argue with you!"
"I just want to argue with you." Erbao climbed onto the Arhat bed and knelt down opposite his mother. "I guessed that Chu Guangming might not want to tell his classmates that he was poor and needed money all the time, but it was my guess after all. Don't ask. When I meet him when he goes back to sell things, I feel like I’m eating alone.”
Ye Fan: "My second child has really grown up knowing how to consider others."
"I-Mom, when was I born?"
Ye Fan couldn't laugh or cry: "It's 1972."
"This year is eighty-seven, and I will be fifteen years old in half a year." Erbao said, "The ancients calculated age in vain. I have already reached the age of hairpins, so I have grown up."
Ye Fan: "Why don't you say that the average age of ancient people was thirty? Nowadays, thirty-year-olds are called young people. Your father is middle-aged if he is over forty, and your grandma is an old person."
"Anyway, I've grown up." Erbao couldn't help but lie on her. Dabao came in and pulled his sister away: "Mom has been out for a few days and it's been very hard!"
Erbao fell down on the bed. Ye Fan pulled the quilt in the corner and covered her with it. Dabao frowned: "She's not cold, leave her alone!"
"The anger is so strong, drink some tea to calm it down." On the second day of the new year, Ye Fan returned to her parents' home and saw a brand-new teapot with the characteristics of Ru kiln. She looked at her a few more times, and Chen Xiaohui asked her how she was doing, looking like she wanted to show off but was holding back. Ye Fan replied, "If it's mine, it's good. If it's not mine, it's just a pot." But Chen Xiaohui was very depressed.
A new pot was not made by a famous master. Chen Xiaohui saw the color and wanted to buy a few. However, instead of just selling, Chen Xiaohui gritted her teeth and bought a few tea sets. One is put away, one is used as a decoration in her room, and the other is kept in the main room for use. It's just that no one is making tea at home, so forget it and there's no one to use it. You have to be careful about Liang Liang being naughty and breaking it.
There are no ignorant children in Ye Fan's family, so Chen Xiaohui gave her this tea set.
Before leaving on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Ye Fan asked Chen Xiaohui to see her off. Chen Xiaohui said she thought it was troublesome, but she, Ye Fan and Dabao took turns carrying the tea set onto the bus.
Ye Fan never gave tea to her parents because the Ye family had good tea, but the whole family just chewed peonies. Chen Xiaohui went to Ye Fan's house, and Ye Fan brought her two bags of black tea. Worried that she didn't know how to cook tea eggs, he specifically told her that they cost 100 yuan a pound in department stores.
Chen Xiaohui said that she could waste the money, then stuffed it in her bag and went home.
What Ye Fan brewed today was the one that cost dozens of yuan per pound in the store, because she wasn't particular about making tea. She washed it with boiling water and drank it. There is no such thing as a second- or third-infusion tea pet.
Ye Fan picked up the azure cup and poured a cup for his son. Dabao picked it up and took a sip and said impatiently: "I saw that my second uncle and my second mother went to the hospital again. Isn't my second uncle tired?"
Ye Fan: "He feels sorry for your second mother who came to the Chu family to be punished and left alone."
"The old lady is no longer good, and a son still wants to find fault." Dabao taunted, "If I go to Dajue Temple to ask for a peace charm to hang on the old lady's bedside, maybe she will become energetic when she sees her son being so filial. Mental illness will be fine.”
Ye Fan is funny. He is superstitious at the age of seven. Why is he still so superstitious when he is almost an adult?
"Mom, I am very serious, sincerity leads to success!" Dabao said seriously.
Ye Fan nodded perfunctorily: "Mom knows that Dabao is really filial, and they are just saying filial piety. They all look very nervous. The old lady of the Chu family will call the doctor if there is any trouble, maybe she is afraid that she will lose a large amount of pension if she dies. , and the Chu family’s connections were also lost.”
Dabao's face was full of astonishment, obviously he didn't expect this.
It's not surprising that Dabao usually talks one thing after another. In fact, he only turned eighteen in the twelfth lunar month of this year. Even though he knows more than his peers, he never imagined that people's hearts are so complicated.
"Is money more important than life?" Dabao asked confused.
Ye Fan: "Everyone has to live."
"Their family is not poor. Because my second mother talks too much, the Chu family bought two courtyard houses in addition to the houses assigned by the work unit." Dabao snorted coldly, "Not satisfied!"
Ye Fan said: "This is reality!"
"No! We are both children. The second mother can bear not to quarrel with them, but they can't bear it?"
Ye Fan held his son's shoulders: "You are too jealous. Son, it's easy to be tough! It's hard to say that they don't have any filial piety, but they usually take good care of the old lady. On the contrary, your second mother can't help her wash clothes and serve tea. .”
Erbao: "If you don't have milk, then you are a mother?"
Ye Fan was stunned for a moment, then laughed dumbly: "Mom surrenders, you two win!"
Dabao said: "Mom, I don't say that because I hate the Chu family. I have seen filial piety. Aunt Li's son is a middle-level leader of a state-owned enterprise and is usually very busy. A few years ago, Aunt Li had a cold, and her son took two days off to help his mother. He gave me medicine and gave him fluids without even telling my brothers and sisters.”
The reason why Dabao knew so well was that Aunt Li's son asked Dabao where Zhang Xiaoming's store was. He didn't have a special car and didn't dare to drive in the snow, so he rode Zhang Xiaoming's three-wheeler to take his mother to the hospital. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Aunt Li's daughter paid New Year's greetings to her and shouted in the hospital, "Are you sick? Are you feeling better? Have you gone to the hospital for a checkup?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Aunt Li also has a pension. She can't move in the hospital bed. Her eldest son won't worry about losing her pension when the old lady leaves."
Erbao: "Maybe because Aunt Li's pension is small, her son looks down on her, so it cannot prove that he is more filial than the Chu family."
Dabao was so angry that he glared at his sister: "Whose side are you with?"
Erbao: "I only tell the truth!"
"I just want you to shut up!" Dabao said angrily.
Ye Fan poured another glass of water for his son: "Is it time to go to the station?"
Dabao School is about to start, and he has to go to the station to pick up his little boy on the island: "The train is on time at two o'clock in the afternoon, and will be late at three or four o'clock in the afternoon. It's not eleven o'clock yet."
Ye Fan: "What about cooking at 11 o'clock? It snowed a few days ago, and there is water and ice on the road. The buses don't dare to drive fast. It will take you an hour or two to get to the station."
Erbao sat up: "I'll go too!"
"Why are you going?" Dabao asked, "I'm not your friend."
Erbao: "The train is late. I will accompany my brother at the train station."
Dabao, who was full of anger, couldn't help but laugh: "Who wants you to accompany me?"
Erbao climbed up to him and sat down side by side with him. Ye Fan poured her a glass of water: "Where is your sister?"
Dabao was speechless: "She went shopping with Brother Sensen and Aunt Xiaohui." Speaking of Geng Huihui, he thought of Geng Leilei, who was also a graduate student. On the tenth day of the new year, Geng Leilei was called away by a phone call from his tutor, "Sister Huihui." Why is she so free? What can she come up with?”
Ye Fan was funny: "She doesn't need to go to the lab. The books she checked in the library can be taken home and read. Didn't you see her notes? They are thicker than mom's account books."
"That's about right. Otherwise, I would really be sorry for the country's training." Dabao said.
Ye Fan touched his son's head: "Where is your grandma?"
Dabao glanced to the west.
Ye Fan: "Isn't she the best with Aunt Li?"
"With Aunt Li, Uncle Zhang, and Uncle Xibian, the four of us were playing dominoes. A pile of money was placed in front of each person. If you look closely, you can see that they are all one-cent or two-cent. What's the point of one family taking it all?"
Ye Fan: "If you don't let her play, why should she do it in such a cold weather?"
Dabao doesn't understand that people in their sixties or seventies are like children playing house.
Ye Fan added: "She won't be so free in another half a year."
Erbao: "Is my sister-in-law going to have a baby? Can't grandma stop taking care of her?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Okay. But your grandma can't be cruel. Your second mother goes to the hospital every day, and your second uncle goes with her because they are soft-hearted."
Erbao stood up and determined: "I want to be a heartless person!"
Ye Fan suddenly felt that she was sick, a secondary disease!
Dabao thought she was embarrassed and felt embarrassed for her: "Sit down!"
Erbao sat down honestly: "Mom, I mean everyone except you and dad."
"Grandma doesn't want it anymore?"
Erbao: "Grandma has a sister-in-law. Grandma and grandpa have an uncle. You and dad only have my brother and me."
Ye Fan didn't know whether to praise her for her filial piety or not: "Stop feeding me the ecstasy soup!"
"Speaking from the bottom of my heart!" Erbao exclaimed.
Ye Fan picked up the tea cup: "If you are as busy as your second uncle in the future, you will be powerless even if you have the will."
Erbao forgot that this situation existed and was stunned.
Ye Fan pulled her ponytail to wake her up: "Go and wash the vegetables with your brother. There is hot water on the stove, add some cold water and wash with warm water. Mom will do whatever you want to eat and wash."
Erbao stood up and asked: "Mom, the situation you are talking about is that it has been difficult to have both loyalty and filial piety since ancient times?"
Ye Fan: "You don't have to worry. Mom is rich and doesn't need you to be filial to her bedside. Besides, I still have your dad. I'll give him children and stabilize the rear. When I get old, I'll ask him to serve you tea." Water.”
Dabao subconsciously looked out the window, but outside the window was the wall of the wing and could not see anything.
Ye Fan said: "Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. Your dad has to arrange things today and leave the company tomorrow."
"I'm really afraid that he will show up suddenly." Dabao was frightened by his father.
No one in the family knew where Geng Zhiye's army was, but one thing was certain. It was closer to the army from here than from the army family home, so there were times when Geng Zhiye fell from the sky just after dinner. One weekend evening, Dabao was talking to his sister about his dad in the courtyard, and his dad appeared from behind, so that Dabao now habitually looks out when his dad is mentioned.
Ye Fan: "Erbao, go to the store tomorrow morning and ask your cousin to hang a sign outside saying it will close at four o'clock during the Lantern Festival, and then ask Chu Guangming to come and eat glutinous rice balls."
Erbao regarded Chu Guangming as a relative of her second mother, and subconsciously hoped that her second mother would have another family member, so she asked Geng Huihui to accompany her the next morning.
The two little sisters chatted while walking. Erbao asked: "Did you find the treasure yesterday?"
Geng Huihui: "I'm not sure. But it's cheap, just a few yuan. Buying a nice ornament in the store costs that much. By the way, Erbao, smash your piggy bank."
"What are you doing?" Erbao looked wary.
Geng Huihui was speechless. Erbao deservedly grew up with Dabao. He was really a little Pixiu.
"The jade that Chen Xiaohui bought last year has increased by ten yuan this year. Xiaohui asked us to use all the new year's money to buy jadeite and Hetian jade."
Erbao: "My mother definitely doesn't know. Otherwise, my mother will definitely scold her. I'm afraid the thief doesn't know she is rich."
"She knows the salesperson in the state-owned store, and people don't tell others."
There is no airtight wall in the world. Erbao said: "You should go to Taobao."
However, she was young and had soft ears, so Geng Huihui rubbed her hard all the way until Erbao couldn't help but let go at the door of the clothing store.
Erbao and Dabao had a row of piggy banks. Erbao only smashed two of them and warned her sister: "Only this once!"
Ye Fan mentioned that "greed is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant." In fact, Geng Huihui is also afraid that her appetite will be greatly reduced in a few years. So she didn't dare to take out all the money, leaving 30% for emergencies.
But she encouraged her grandmother to prepare some things for her aunt's future child.
Although Yu Wentao hopes that her grandson will be like Geng Zhihui, it is possible to have a daughter. Yu Wentao gave her three months' salary and asked Geng Huihui to help her choose.
On Sunday in the second half of the first lunar month, Geng Huihui called Dabao and Sensen and followed Chen Xiaohui to the store.
Wages are not high these days, and many people are not willing to exchange their hard-earned money for stones, so there is not much increase after the year. Unfortunately, she met Yu Gingxing that day. Yu Gingxing's child was small, and Ye Fan's store didn't have such small clothes, so she went to the store to buy two sets, planning to go back to take care of the child next weekend.
Yu Gingxing didn't believe Chen Xiaohui because Yu Wentao said that she had poor vision. But she believed that Geng Huihui couldn't hide the jade from Ye Fan. Ye Fan didn't stop it, which meant it was valuable for collection.
Yu Gingxing asked her husband to discuss spending 200 yuan to buy this much regardless of whether it went up or down, and he would not follow the trend in the future.
The two children will go to primary school in Yujiacun this semester. When Yu Gingxing returned to her parents' home, she said that the money owed to her brother might be delayed. Her mother asked her if she had any difficulties, and she said it with a straight face.
Yu Gingxing didn't say a word after being scolded. It wasn't until her mother asked her to withdraw that she said that Huihui also bought it. As a result, her sister-in-law heard it and asked Ye Fan if he knew.
Yu Gingxing said that she estimated that Ye Fan knew about it, and her sister-in-law immediately calculated the family savings. Yu Ginkgo quickly reminded: "Don't blame me if you lose."
"We only buy a few hundred yuan. In the future, your nephews and nieces will get married and give them as betrothal gifts and dowry. I feel uneasy when I think about our family being so poor that we didn't even have a copper coin. What if the money is gone one day and the things are still there? I can change some money.”
Yu Ginkgo thought it made sense and asked her sister-in-law to tell her cousin. It's impossible to keep things a secret when several people go to the city one after another to buy things.
Not long after, everyone who went to Ye Fan's house to pick up goods would ask: "Dabao's mother, I heard that jade is as valuable as gold now."
Ye Fan didn't even guess that the root was with Chen Xiaohui, and he passed it on to dozens and dozens. Ye Fan said directly: "If you buy gold, no matter how much you buy, I will support it. But for jade pendants, you should do what you can. This industry is deep and it is easy to get obsessed, which is similar to gambling."
"So you bought Erbao a gold bracelet, but never a jade bracelet for her?"
Ye Fan can hold it back, but the people doing business with her may not be able to hold it back: "Yes! Also, if you have old things at home, just keep them, be it tables, chairs, benches, vases, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings. Go to the antique market less often. You can't help but buy the same thing. It can’t be more than five yuan.”
Ye Fan has always been very cautious. Everyone believed her and passed her words on as an imperial edict.
It is estimated that Chen Xiaohui was at home at noon on weekends and Ye Fan called her to scold her. Chen Xiaohui did not expect that many people would buy jade from her and Geng Huihui. She was worried that the news would spread that there were many jade pendants in her room, so she did not dare to go near the jade cabinet in the store for a year.
Naturally, this matter also reached the ears of Chang Guangrong. Chang Guangrong was rich. Others paid two or three hundred, and he paid two or three thousand. Today's jade is still not as valuable as gold. His two to three thousand dollars bought several jade bracelets, jade pendants and other items.
The news spread that Boss Chang liked jade, and within a few days, someone asked him if he wanted the rough stone. Chang Guangrong had previously wondered why buying jade was like gambling. When people talked about what rough stones were and the benefits of buying rough stones, Chang Guangrong finally understood that buying them was actually a "gamble".
Chang Guangrong quickly explained that his wife had been suffering from him for many years. He used to have no money to buy jewelry for his wife, but now he has money to make up for it. In addition to jade jewelry, he also has gold jewelry. He prefers golden gold to stones.
The people who came to him to bet on stones thought that he was full of copper odor, a common man, and not a member of the same religion.
Zhang Xiaoming always felt that he was not worthy of Dong Ying, and wanted to compensate her in other ways. When I first heard about jade jewelry, I bought a few pieces for Dong Ying and her two daughters, and then stopped.
When he saw Chu Guangming, Zhang Xiaoming took Chu Guangming into the store and picked him a Guanyin pendant of average quality.
Chu Guangming was reluctant to part with it, so Zhang Xiaoming took out the red rope he had prepared and said, "Bless you to go to college smoothly." In fact, just in case Chu Guangming ran out of money, he had a small thing on him that could be used in emergencies.
The helpless person wanted to have someone to rely on, so he spent a winter vacation's salary to get this thing.
Maybe it was a psychological effect, but when Chu Guangming returned to his empty home, he didn't feel that he was alone.
In the middle of the third month of the lunar calendar, on the first day of Geng Zhiye's vacation, Ye Fan did not go to the company. After dinner, the couple did some cleaning and prepared to go out for a walk. The next door neighbor's daughter-in-law was going to the store. She took off her cotton-padded clothes because of the hot weather, and Ye Fan saw a red string around her neck. When they arrived at the intersection, Han Dawei's wife lowered her head to put away the dishes and chopsticks. Ye Fan saw that she also had one on her neck and was speechless.
Geng Zhiye arrived at the bus stop and asked: "What happened just now?"
"It's not Chen Xiaohui's fault." Ye Fan started talking about how she bought jade like crazy last year, and said she still didn't give up this year: "I reminded her that people will know if she goes there often, but she still doesn't believe it. Now many people They all suspected that she was being honest because she had a lot of jade pendants in her hand." She shook her head helplessly, "How can such a big person be so successful if I don't pour all the money into the company? The thief visited.”
Geng Zhiye thought they had turned into white-eyed wolves, and Ye Fan was angry. He felt relieved after hearing this, and he couldn't help but want to laugh: "It's not like I just realized that she is careless. It's not worth getting angry with her."
Ye Fan: "I think it's better to find a partner for her. In the future, my parents are no longer here, and she has been separated from her brother and sister-in-law. She has a crazy mind. Now the room is full of treasures, and she will be able to be coaxed out of nothing in the future. Home can be returned.”
Geng Zhiye: "Chen Xiaohui is thirty-eight years old, and you said she is not suitable for childbirth. This will screen out many people. She does not want to be a stepmother, and will screen out many people. Find a well-matched person from a small group of people and do not let her touch antiques and Jade is still difficult for her.”
Ye Fan had a headache: "What do you think we should do?"
"Leave her alone! You will be honest when you hit the wall."
Ye Fan looked at him in disbelief: "Doesn't your mother-in-law feel sorry for her that she has a bloody head? Does it feel good to see your mother-in-law in pain?" He kicked him in the leg and said, "You have a grudge against me." He saw the car coming. Get in the car.
Geng Zhiye limped up and followed. Ye Fan pointed forward and said with a cold face: "Stay away from me!"
Geng Zhiye sat down next to her, "Those who don't know would think we are an unmarried couple."
Ye Fan nodded.
"Then if people see me holding your hand, they will be regarded as a hooligan." Geng Zhiye took her hand, "Hooliganism is punishable by shooting. You have a grudge against me."
(End of chapter)
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