It was almost eleven o'clock when he came out of Xiushui Market. Ye Fan sent Wei Jianshe to the store, then went to his own store to have a look, stayed at the sales office for a while, and then went home for dinner.
After dinner, Ye Fan went to the company.
After replying to several factories in the south and calling the processing workshop to inquire about the computer shipment status, Ye Fan went to the canteen.
Ye Fan suddenly came over, and the cafeteria staff were very nervous. The person in charge was not nervous at all, because the cafeteria was neat and clean not just for Ye Fan to see, but every day.
The cafeteria is full of female employees with long hair, so everyone wears a hat. There is not a single hair on the floor.
The chopping board is messy, but messy but not dirty. Ye Fan remembered that his children liked to eat the buns made by Han Dawei's wife, so he asked her to put fifty buns in food bags.
If you buy more, you will naturally have to pay for it. Han Dawei's wife was not polite this time either.
There were many people on the road during off-duty hours, so Ye Fan walked half an hour early to buy a pack of real big steamed buns on the street. After taking the steamed buns and steamed buns back, Geng Benben made two steamed buns and six steamed buns. After dinner was ready, he drank another bowl of corn ribs soup and ate two large steamed buns.
Geng Huihui was so surprised by her brother's appetite that she kept looking at his belly - he didn't even have a belly after eating so much. She also looked at him from the side to see if it was sticking to the back.
Geng Benben had a black line on his forehead: "Are you concerned?"
After he finished speaking, he heard the sound of footsteps. Geng Benben looked outside and saw Geng Zhiye coming in. Ye Fan looked at the gray sky: "Didn't I tell you not to come back because it's too late? You haven't eaten yet?"
Geng Zhiye nodded and went to wash his hands.
Ye Fan took out the steamed buns from the cupboard and asked him to eat the steamed buns and then eat the steamed buns tomorrow morning because the steamed buns were cold. The buns made in the cafeteria are filled with cooked lard. When the buns are cold, the lard will solidify and the filling will become greasy.
The family all went to rest. Geng Zhiye changed his calm attitude in front of his family and acted like a young boy. He asked anxiously: "Where is the watch you bought for me?"
Ye Fan was speechless and wanted to complain, but in the end he just glanced at the bedside table.
The bedside table has three drawers, with coins, batteries and other items placed on the top. The second layer contains jewelry that Ye Fan doesn't need for the time being, including bracelets, pendants, rings, etc., all placed in small boxes. There are only five small boxes on the third level. Geng Zhiye opened it and saw that it was a watch. He took out all five boxes and put them on the bed. He tried them one by one.
Ye Fan sat opposite him, resting his chin on his knees and looking at the five watches on his wrist.
Geng Zhiye was about to take it off and put it back when he raised his eyes and met Ye Fan's gaze. He was immediately embarrassed, ashamed and angry: "What are you looking at? Go to sleep!"
Ye Fan hugged his calves and fell on the bed: "The person in charge of this watch thought that I was a big customer and said that he would let me choose first when there is a new watch."
Geng Zhiye was silent for a moment and said, "Five yuan is enough for me to wear."
When Ye Fan saw that he didn't say "no" right away, he knew that he really liked it and wanted to buy it, "I also want to buy two pieces every year. This brand of expensive watch maintains its value."
Geng Zhiye had only heard of the value preservation of gold and jade antiques, and he couldn’t help but ask: “Watches also maintain their value?”
Ye Fan: "If you don't wear it often, the damage will be small. In a few years, it may be sold at the original price. Some styles can even increase a bit. Although it can't be compared with gold or houses, it won't become a piece of scrap metal."
"Since the value is preserved, buy a few more." Geng Zhiye said it, and suddenly remembered that Ye Fan's company was a gold-eating beast, "Buy it if you have enough money."
Ye Fan was so happy that he turned over and sat up, holding his face: "Why are you so cute."
"What are you talking about?" Geng Zhiye took her hand away unceremoniously, "I can be a grandpa now, and he's so cute."
Ye Fan suppressed a smile and nodded: "Not cute, not cute at all!"
Geng Zhiye couldn't help but stare: "Can you speak?"
"I'm teasing you." Ye Fan lay down again, "I haven't taken a vacation this year, when will I take a vacation?"
Geng Zhiye: "Not recently. I will go home when I have time. If I don't have time, don't come looking for me."
Ye Fan understood, he had a mission.
"I will go south to pick up the goods next month and ship out the goods for the fourth quarter before it snows."
Geng Zhiye put the watch away and put it back: "Are you working with the same company as before?"
Ye Fan nodded: "There are also people looking for them, but if you work with me, you don't have to worry about shortages. The prices they offer are low, and they haven't thought about changing suppliers. The cooperation for several years is about to end. Well, should I give them some gifts? A relative of Chang Guangrong bought a batch of low-priced grains through their brokerage.”
"Can we still import grain?" Geng Zhiye was shocked. Is the market open to this extent?
Ye Fan shook his head: "It's not an individual. The unit where his relatives work is a state-owned enterprise."
"No wonder." Geng Zhiye said, "I was shocked."
Ye Fan: "I won't touch anyone with strict control."
"Then how much money are you going to spend on gifts?"
Ye Fan said: "Just give me a thought. We may never interact with each other forever, so there is no need to send valuables. Besides, I may have stolen many antiques from our country in the past. If I didn't feel that I had more friends and fewer enemies, I wouldn't bother to send them. .”
"Then the management of the company are all men?"
Ye Fan: "There are women too."
Geng Zhiye: "If you give something practical, you won't be able to get cheap ones. You don't plan to give antique jades, and you can't give famous cars, watches, gold calligraphy and paintings, so you can only give food?"
"It's okay to eat. They don't lack food, they lack processed snacks. Then I can prepare a few bags of the capital's specialties?"
Geng Zhiye said: "You can give them to lesbians. But men, you can't give them wine. Our wine is not as spicy as other people's, so we will probably be disliked. Buy two pairs of mid-range cigarettes."
“The good ones are not expensive either.”
Geng Zhiye said: "Buying two is a small amount of money for you. If they like smoking, what if they often call you and ask you to send two?"
Ye Fan: "Yes! Then I'll find a few people later, each of them will take one with him and give it to me on the train. This will prevent the police from suspecting me of smuggling when I get on the train."
Geng Zhiye asked: “Aren’t you going next year?”
"Let's go one or two more times," Ye Fan said.
Geng Zhiye: "It's okay if you don't do it. The people there are tough and the society is turbulent. I couldn't help but worry when I heard that you were going."
"Don't worry. If I encounter bandits, I will give them the money."
Geng Zhiye said: "I'm worried that they took money and hurt people."
Ye Fan said in his ear: "I have a dagger."
Geng Zhiye suddenly turned his head: "You, you are handing someone a knife!"
"It's not that exaggerated. The maximum damage to the enemy is 500, and the loss is 1000." Ye Fan said, "He won't even think about it if I bleed."
Geng Zhiye wanted to say something. He was silent for a moment and sighed. He didn't just meet her today, so it was useless to say more. "Try to protect yourself."
"I will." Ye Fan hugged his waist, "Don't be brave. You are already fifty."
Geng Zhiye said angrily: "No need to remind me how old I am."
Ye Fan couldn't help laughing.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, Ye Fan saw that his children did not wash their faces or brush their teeth, but instead played badminton in the courtyard: "Dabao, Erbao, is it the weekend today?"
Dabao waved his racket and said, yes.
Ye Fan: "Where are we going to play today?"
Dabao: "Ask Brother Benben. I risk my life to accompany the soldiers."
Erbao asked: "Mom, is my brother sensible?"
"It's okay." Ye Fan went to the bathroom.
Erbao hurriedly said: "Mom, wait a minute, Brother Benben's salary is low——"
"Your brother is rich!" Ye Fan said and closed the door.
Geng Zhiye was convinced: "Geng Dabao, why don't you keep so much money?"
"Keep it to raise the baby." Dabao blurted out, and Ye Fan almost swallowed the toothpaste. Geng Zhiye was speechless. Erbao said: "Not only do I have to raise my baby, I also need to buy a house for my baby."
Dabao: "Then I will buy two sets, one for my son and one for my daughter."
Geng Zhiye wanted to pretend that he didn't hear it, but the problem was that he heard: "Dabao, the state stipulates that you can only have one child."
"Then keep one to live in and rent out the other to use as pocket money for the baby."
Erbao couldn't help but said: "This is a good idea. Brother, buy me two sets too."
Geng Zhiye wanted to complain about his son's stinginess, but first he heard his son say happily: "Okay!" Geng Zhiye took a breath and just kept being stingy with him and Ye Fan.
I can’t take any more of that bear thing! —
Geng Huihui put down the bowl and chopsticks and ran back to the room. Geng Zhiye didn't know why: "What happened to her?"
Ye Fan: "Put on makeup and change clothes."
Geng Zhiye asked: "A date? Doesn't she not like that person very much?"
Ye Fan: "People say that if we break up, we will stop contacting each other. If we reconcile, we will get along well. This is a good attitude. I feel that she puts on makeup every time she goes out, giving Yan Weining the feeling that she is serious, so she wanted to break up before, and Yan Weining didn't Believe it or not, look for me urgently.”
"Don't you think so now?" Geng Zhiye asked.
Ye Fan: "I guess I think Huihui just likes dressing up, not dressing up for anyone. This is good, so as not to make him feel bad about himself."
Geng Zhiye chuckled: "There were so many people chasing him in the past that he didn't know how much he weighed."
Ye Fan glanced at his son: "Do you think he knows?"
Dabao: "Mom, I saw it."
"It's you I'm talking about. I'm not afraid of you seeing it."
Dabao put down the dishes and chopsticks: "You wash the pots and dishes. I have to go meet Guangming and help him read his watch."
Ye Fan was embarrassed to ask his nephew who was busy at work and who was on vacation to wash the pots and dishes, so he turned to Erbao. Erbao shook his head: "I don't have time. This year's New Year's Eve party our debating club will have two programs. One for the group and one for the individual. The individual is chosen from everyone. I have to practice the flute."
Yu Wentao said: "I'll take care of it."
Geng Zhiye stood up: "I'm leaving."
Ye Fan accompanied him to the door and watched the car drive out of the alley before returning to the house: "Er Bao, practice the flute after eating. Aren't you afraid of blowing the food in?"
"Don't be afraid!" Erbao said, and still helped grandma clear the dishes.
Ye Fan asked: "Since you don't want to do it, let's hire a part-time worker."
Yu Wentao was not surprised when he heard this: "I knew you wanted to hire a nanny again."
Ye Fan: "My mother has a nanny at home."
"I know, you chose it. Your father asked the nanny to provide subsidies. Who will provide subsidies in our family?"
Ye Fan opened his mouth, why is this old lady so stubborn?
"Why don't you ask if there is no subsidy?" Ye Fan asked, "If you feel uncomfortable with multiple people in the courtyard, there are a few guest rooms in the south, and you can ask the nanny to live in the front yard. Erbao goes to school, I go to the company, and there are people to talk to you. Chat.”
Yu Wentao glanced at the two grandchildren: "You have a few young men at home, you have to hire an old nanny."
Geng Sensen rolled his eyes: "My colleagues and classmates are so outstanding, I have never thought about falling in love. Do I have time to talk to the nanny about a partner?"
Yu Wentao: "You don't have time because you have to work and study. Don't you have time when you get home?"
"——That doesn't make sense to you." Geng Sensen winked at his cousin, let's go!
Ye Fan: "Sensen, I'll take it as your consent. Erbao, what about you?"
"I'm embarrassed to use a nanny."
Ye Fan said: "You go to a restaurant to eat, and a waiter about your age brings the dishes and serves the food. Are you embarrassed?"
Erbao nodded.
"Isn't that enough?" Ye Fan turned to his mother-in-law and said, "Shall I go to the agency to have a look?"
Yu Wentao: "There are so many documents in the study and so many valuables in the house. I don't feel comfortable inviting an outsider to my home."
Ye Fanxin said, how many things are there.
"Let her accompany you to buy groceries and cook. We will do the cleaning ourselves. From now on, my study will be locked."
Yu Wentao: "That's okay."
Ye Fan drove to the job market and wandered around for a long time to choose eight female workers for Chang Guangrong, but he couldn't find his own nanny.
Seeing Chang Guangrong driving the person away in a pickup truck, Ye Fan couldn't laugh or cry.
After the eight female workers entered the factory, they chatted with the old employees about their daily lives. When one of the employees heard about this, she introduced her cousin to Ye Fan. Her cousin was eighteen years old. Her family was poor and went to school late. She was not admitted to a technical secondary school and had no money to go to high school. So her family asked her to go to school and work in farming. At the same time, she planned to go to the south to work with her fellow villagers after the Chinese New Year - the villagers asked her to go to the south to work. He didn't come back until the end of the year.
The nanny Xiao Wang’s hometown is less than 50 kilometers away from the capital, but she is indeed from the mountains and is poorer than Yujia Village ten years ago.
Xiao Wang's best clothes turned white after being washed, and he was half a head shorter than Er Bao. Ye Fan did not take out Er Bao's old clothes for her, but took her to choose two sets of clothes, saying they were work clothes, and they were worn every season. There are two sets.
Xiao Wang first went to her cousin's factory. She originally wanted to work in the factory, but she didn't know how to use a sewing machine. The workers in the factory worked on a piece-rate basis, so she could only earn twenty or thirty a month. The nanny at Ye Fan's house paid $100 a month, so her cousin asked her to work at Ye Fan's house until the end of the year. If she made enough money to live a better life at home, she would go to the factory and slowly learn.
As soon as the nanny Xiao Wang heard that the monthly allowance for food and accommodation was only 100 yuan, he immediately thought that being a nanny would be a good idea.
Because she knew that workers in the factory had to wear work clothes, nanny Xiao Wang believed it when she received Ye Fan's clothes.
Nanny Xiao Wang's first day at work happened to be October 1st, and she went back to the army. Geng Zhiye was also in the army, but everyone else was at home. Ye Fan's family had to use a steel pot to cook porridge for breakfast. The nanny was helping Yu Wentao in the kitchen when she heard voices in the courtyard: "Grandma Yu, your house is really lively."
Yu Wentao said: "That's just two more."
Xiao Wang: "Won't Erbao's uncle, aunt and second aunt come back?"
Yu Wentao took a breath and thought that her uncle would not be lively at home when he came back: "Her uncle is in another place, far away, and he won't be able to come back during the Chinese New Year. Her second uncle can't kick anything, and he's not here in the capital Same.”
"Where is Erbao's second mother?"
Yu Wentao: "Not much to say."
"Isn't it serious?"
Yu Wentao said in her heart, not as serious as her boss, "It's okay. It's easy to talk to." She just likes to talk nonsense, "Don't worry. It's Erbao's mother who pays you wages. Erbao's mother wants you to take care of me again, you listen to me Both, leave them alone.”
Xiao Wang asked: "Are you going out today?"
"Let's go to the vegetable market. They must have gone to find their classmates and friends. Maybe they will bring back a whole family of children."
Yu Wentao was right. Just as she and the nanny left, Dabao's Fa Xiao came and Chu Guangming came over with Fa Xiao and his friends. Dabao used to play ball with his friends when they were young, and they have seen each other in the past two years, and the barrier has disappeared after just a few words of greeting.
Dabao took him to the study, Geng Huihui was picked up again, and Erbao dragged his cousin to follow her brother.
Ye Fan said: "Er Bao, your two brothers don't want to go."
"Then the four of us play mahjong?"
Ye Fan's family has a pair of mahjong, which Dabao bought last winter. Ye Fan said: "Wash your clothes and shoes first."
Erbao muttered: "I want to practice the flute!"
Ye Fan went up and grabbed her ears. Erbao immediately didn't dare to make excuses, so she accompanied her mother to clean her shoes and then went to wash her underwear. Ye Fan stared at the washing machine.
When the nanny Xiao Wang came back and saw Ye Fan hanging clothes, he hurriedly said: "Auntie, I'll come."
"Bring the food to the house first."
The nanny Xiao Wang came out to wash his hands, and Ye Fan hung the clothes to dry. Ye Fan said: "Let's talk to grandma about what to eat for lunch."
Yu Wentao smiled and said: "Xiao Wang, come here, she thinks you are in the way. Do you want to go out and play?"
Spend money to go out and have fun.
The little king shook his head like a rattle: "There are so many people outside, it's not fun. Erbao, what do you want to play? I'll play with you."
Erbao said feebly: "I don't want to play with anything. Mom, please hire someone to wash clothes and brush shoes."
Yu Wentao asked: "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to school. Grandma, after the Gregorian calendar year, I'm going to have an internship. The place where I'm doing my internship is very hard. For the sake of my hard work, Mom, please find someone else."
Ye Fan: "You may have to live in the workplace during your internship. You won't be able to enjoy it if I hire ten more people."
"Why? Is it far from our home?" Erbao calculated where her work unit was, and her eyes lit up. "Mom, can you buy me a house near the work unit? It's okay not to buy a house, but buy me a car. ”
(End of chapter)