Geng Zhiye, who had been dating Ye Fan for two years, ran to Ye's house as soon as he was on vacation. The purpose was not to curry favor with his father-in-law, but to marry Ye Fan home as soon as possible.
The purpose was too obvious. Tao Chunlan was annoyed when she thought that her daughter, whom she had worked so hard to raise, had returned to Geng Zhiye, but he still "didn't know what to do". Tao Chunlan had objections to him, and was increasingly upset that she had to marry off her daughter due to the circumstances at that time. The memory is so profound that even after all these years, I still feel embarrassed when I see him.
Geng Zhiye shook his head slightly: "It has been too long, forget it!"
Ye Fan glanced at him helplessly.
Geng Zhiye held Ye Fan's hand: "Fanfan..."
"Say!" Ye Fan said while holding back a smile, curious as to what he was up to.
Geng Zhiye actually didn't know what to say. It was a rare vacation for him not to go to his mother-in-law's house. It would be unreasonable in every aspect, but he really didn't want to go - how old he was, and he still had to listen to lectures like a stupid son-in-law.
"Have we not watched a play in a few years?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Arrange it tomorrow."
Geng Zhiye pondered for a moment and asked: "Summer vacation is about to start. There are many people and students are busy during summer vacation, so movies will be released together, right?"
There is no summer schedule these days. Ye Fan wanted to say this, but also wanted to say that people nowadays don't have the habit of watching movies. The habit of watching movies was brought about by a kung fu actor who made an action movie with a high box office.
So there aren’t many movies during the summer vacation. Besides, it's not summer break yet.
Ye Fan asked: "Want to watch a movie?"
"I seldom go out during the day, and I don't go anywhere on vacation. I feel like I am disconnected from the people."
Ye Fanxin said, you are really good at talking.
"Most of the people in the cinema are ordinary citizens, and they can only represent a part of the people." Ye Fan said, "How about going to the countryside to stay for a few days? I'm afraid you will find it too hot."
The capital has not yet reached the hot summer season in June, and it is hot at noon and cool at night. Besides, today's rural areas are not like those of 20 or 30 years ago, where many farmers in the suburbs of Beijing now have ceiling fans and oscillating fans.
"I'll be back in two days."
Ye Fan nodded: "It's the weekend for Erbao. We're not going anywhere, and there are still seven or eight days of your vacation. Excluding one day of physical examination, there are still six or seven days left. How do you plan to arrange it?"
Geng Zhiye thought for a moment. There were many places for recreation in the capital, but his identity prevented him from going there. In fact, it is possible, but it will step on the line. He didn't take it seriously this time. If someone asks him to do something in the future, he might think it's a trivial matter, and if he encounters a big event later, he might think it's just a once-in-a-lifetime event. This is how many people fall.
Geng Zhiye's comrades, classmates, and colleagues have mostly failed to hold back on a small matter in recent years and then caused big things.
Some of them still feel that they are on the wrong team and being eliminated.
Geng Zhiye sneered. Although Bao Gong was rare, it was not impossible. What's more, there are still some people who hope to achieve some good results and get a good reputation. There is also a situation where the backer suspects that their greed will harm them in the future, so they cut off their tails when they commit an offense.
If you don't think about these situations, if you open your mouth, you will be unlucky. You are really unrepentant.
Geng Zhiye didn't want him to become like that, so he never even came close to the door of the disco club in these years.
If he didn't have fun, there would be even fewer places to go. He would go to cafes, parks, and museums. He only had one or two days left in his vacation.
It seems that I am destined to visit my father-in-law and mother-in-law.
Geng Zhiye turned to Ye Fan: "I——"
"Drive well!" There are many people on the road during off-duty hours. Bicycles and pedestrians bump into each other. Occasionally, a few cars overtake him. He drives with one hand and even turns his head, "Look at the road, don't look at me!"
Geng Zhiye turned his head and saw a bicycle carrying a child crossing the road, and quickly stared ahead seriously.
Ye Fan said helplessly: "This makes my mother see——"
"You have to scold me again." Geng Zhiye interrupted, "Stop talking, I was wrong."
Ye Fan sighed: "Then just stay calm when you are in front of the old couple."
"Your mother feels uncomfortable when I sit next to you."
Ye Fan: "Behave by my side. Who has ever disliked you? It's not you. Sometimes you hold my hand, and sometimes you put your hand on my shoulder, as if you are afraid that I will run away."
"No, we are husband and wife. The person sitting in the middle on the sofa is an ordinary friend."
"You can't help but do it?"
Geng Zhiye: "Your mother doesn't like it when I'm next to you."
Ye Fan wanted to explain, but suddenly he remembered that one time her mother was cooking in the kitchen, and she went to help. As soon as she arrived in the kitchen, her mother asked, "Where is that clingy guy in your family?" Ye Fan said helplessly that she was chatting with her father in the living room. . Her mother said again, "Ni Ni Wai Wai is still a soldier. He is really embarrassing to the army!"
Soldiers are human beings too and have private lives. Why do you embarrass the army at home? Besides, Geng Zhiye didn't do anything except sit next to him. Ye Fan was speechless, but her mother was dissatisfied with her silence, so Ye Fan could only say that she would talk to him later.
Ye Fan smiled bitterly: "The old lady was dissatisfied with you before, but now she has opinions no matter what you do, just pretend you didn't hear her."
"When was the first time I pretended to be deaf and couldn't act dumb?"
Ye Fan: "It's not like she dislikes you every time."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Indeed. When your family encounters big things, she has no time to argue with me and will ask for my opinion. Your mother, luckily she is still an old revolutionary, but she is just like the old feudal people. When there is something to do, there is no beauty, and when there is nothing, there is no summer. Welcome the Spring.”
"What are you talking about?" Ye Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "If you continue to make silly metaphors, you won't go anywhere. I'll ask Huihui to help you with your Chinese."
Geng Zhiye: "Hui Hui is heavy and heavy, please let her go. By the way, where to turn?"
Ye Fan looked out the window: "No need to turn."
Geng Zhiye walked straight for a short distance and saw several people with special temperaments coming out of a unit. He stepped on the accelerator. When the car approached, he slowed down and stopped just outside the door.
The car window was down, and a man came over: "Comrade, you are not allowed to park here."
Ye Fan raised his head and said, "It's me."
"Ye, Aunt Ye?" The young comrade originally wanted to call him "Mr. Ye," but he changed his name when he realized that it was too confusing. His eyes moved to Geng Zhiye, and he felt that his eyes looked like the same person, "Are you Uncle Geng? ”
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Geng Er—Geng Jingjing hasn't gotten off work yet?"
"She doesn't have much to do today. She should be out." After saying that, he looked inside and saw that Geng Erbao was as unhurried as usual. Her colleague couldn't make a loud noise, so he could only wave his arms to try to get her to see him.
The comrade who was with Erbao saw it first and asked Erbao who he was looking for. Erbao looked up, confused for a moment and then smiled: "I'm leaving first, my mother is here to pick me up."
When he ran forward and saw that the driver was not his mother, the second child was surprised and happy: "Dad?"
Geng Zhiye glanced back: "Get in the car!"
Erbao immediately opened the door and went in. Geng Zhiye said to the young comrade: "Thank you."
"You're welcome, please walk slowly." The young comrade backed away.
Geng Zhiye turned the car around and said, "Er Bao, your colleague is a good one."
"My colleagues are all pretty good!" Erbao raised his chin with a stinking look on his face. Unexpectedly, he thought he was praising her.
Geng Zhiye laughed when he saw this: "Are there any single young men of similar age to you?"
"Dad!" Erbao said, leaning on the back of the chair, "Even if I get married right away, you and my mother don't want to get along day and night!"
Geng Zhiye took a breath and said, "You're overthinking it. Does Dad think you're too bright? Dad thinks you'd be in trouble if you didn't fall in love at your age."
"I'm at a disadvantage if I don't work hard at my age!" Erbao rolled his eyes, "When can we not fall in love? People in their seventies and eighties still fall in love at dusk."
Geng Zhiye couldn't refute for a while: "There will be times when you will regret it!"
"I'll say this if you adults can't help it." Erbao curled his lips, "Mom, why don't you let him rest at home when it's rare for him to take a day off?"
You are not the one who wants to jump up when you see your father happy.
"Your dad has rested enough at home. Come out and get some fresh air."
Erbao understood: "Come and pick me up by the way." He couldn't help but said in a strange tone: "Chief, thank you for your hard work."
"Well, serve the people." Geng Zhiye smiled carelessly.
Erbao's breathing was stagnant. How could he be so poor?
I really don’t blame grandma for annoying him.
Ye Fan patted Geng Zhiye's arm, and Geng Zhiye shut up and drove properly.
The next day went as planned. Ye Fan went to the company in the morning and asked his secretary to prepare lunch at noon. At five o'clock, Ye Fan got off work early and went to the theater with Geng Zhiye.
I parked the car leisurely, had something to eat, walked around the theater a few times to relieve my appetite, and happened to go in to watch a play.
Geng Zhiye held the ticket and said: "It's actually night."
Ye Fan: "I'm free at night. Who is free during the day? Didn't you notice? It's still Saturday night."
Geng Zhiye didn't pay attention to the day of the week since it was just the weekend: "Er Bao won't go to work tomorrow?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Sensen went to pick her up."
Geng Zhiye swallowed back the words "Why did she come back?" Noticing that no one else was talking, he couldn't chat with Ye Fan anymore.
Today's play is an adaptation of a famous work. Geng Zhiye had read the original work many years ago and understood the story. The actors were really good, so much so that he left the theater to talk about it.
Ye Fan saw that he really liked him, so when she arrived at the company on Monday, she asked the secretary who bought the tickets for her if there were any other interesting plays. The secretary paid special attention to it and answered her question by asking: "Do you still want to see it?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Take time to go there and come back to me for reimbursement."
The secretary is very happy to do this job. In the afternoon, after explaining the matters at hand, he drove the company car to buy the tickets.
In the evening, Geng Zhiye brought his daughter back, and Ye Fan gave him two tickets.
Geng Zhiye thought the movie tickets were for a drama, but upon closer inspection he asked, "Do you like dramas so much?"
Ye Fanxin said, you obviously like it: "I heard it's quite interesting. I don't know how the acting is. If you're afraid it won't look good, ask Erbao to accompany me later."
The scene started at seven o'clock in the evening, and Erbao had time to have some food after getting off work. Geng Zhiye thought that Ye Fan was trying to make progress instead of retreating, so he said: "Erbao is very tired after a long day of work. Let her have a good rest. I will accompany you."
After the words fell, Erbao came in and said: "I'm not tired!"
"You're tired!" Geng Zhiye said with wide eyes. Erbao was speechless, secretly complaining, childish! He nodded helplessly: "Okay, I'm tired. Who will pick me up later?"
Ye Fan: "Don't you find it too hot? Don't come back in the next few days."
"It's not the dog days of summer yet, and it's not very hot either." Erbao thought her father was poor and wanted to see him every day, so she went to see her cousin.
Geng Sensen's job has gone smoothly, his food tastes delicious, and he has a swimming ring around his waist. He thought the squeaky rope skipping was unsightly, so he built a basketball hoop on the wall of the front yard and would play and shoot when he came back from get off work every day.
Geng Sensen heard the sound and saw Erbao, so he threw the basketball over. Erbao caught it steadily, raised his wrist, threw the basketball easily, and dropped it steadily into the basket.
Geng Sensen exclaimed: "Beautiful!"
Erbao also learned how to shoot from his brothers. Dabao and Sensen didn't teach her specifically, but they occasionally took her to play, and after so many years, it was enough to get her hands on it.
Erbao played basketball and told her cousin that she hoped to stay home every night while her father was at home.
Geng Sensen nodded: "I'll pick you up."
Erbao immediately said: "I'll call you if something happens."
"Okay." Geng Sensen took the basketball and said, "Play with me for a while."
The brother and sister played for more than ten minutes, and then the nanny Xiao Wang told them to prepare for dinner.
It should be absorbed well after exercise. Geng Sensen didn’t want to exercise in vain, so he reminded Erbao to take a shower first. After waiting for more than half an hour, the food was almost cold, so the two of them went to eat.
Yu Wentao nagged: "Can't you take a shower after eating?"
Erbao: “My face was covered with sweat and it was itchy and uncomfortable.”
Yu Wentao opened the lid of the pot: "The porridge in the pot is still hot."
Erbao handed over the bowl to fill it up, and said: "I drink porridge and vegetables, not steamed buns."
Xiao Wang looked at Geng Sensen, he waved his hand, and Xiao Wang put away the steamed buns.
After dinner, Geng Zhiye and Ye Fan walked in front, with Erbao wandering behind them. Geng Zhiye pulled Ye Fan and slowed down. When Erbao came forward, Geng Zhiye said: "You said you wanted to have a boyfriend, but do you want to follow us?"
"Dad, the method of stimulating generals is of no use to me. Also, if you find me annoying, just say so." Erbao snorted angrily, "What's not good about learning? Just imitate other people's methods of urging marriage!"
Geng Zhiye said: "Dad, I really hope you have a boyfriend."
"Everyone has their own way of living. You and Mom have a good relationship, and you think it's good to find a partner. I don't think so, is that okay?" Erbao asked back.
Geng Zhiye: "Then you can watch TV with grandma and Xiao Wang."
Erbao: "The TV series hasn't started yet, and the news is being broadcast. I don't know what news you are talking about, and I still have to wait in front of the TV to watch it?"
The manuscripts for the speeches of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were probably proofread by Erbao or written by Erbao himself. There was really no need for her to read them again. Thinking of this, Geng Zhiye swallowed his words: "If you like, just follow."
Erbao loved to follow them, and walked with them to the back door of the front community, and then walked with them home.
Erbao took another shower when he got home, just in time to watch a TV series. Erbao goes back to his room after watching an episode, thinks about today's work, reads for a while and then goes to sleep.
The next morning, when the sky was dark, Erbao got up and memorized foreign language vocabulary. When he was tired of memorizing, he continued the activity for a while until the meal was ready.
Geng Sensen sent her to work and then drove to the company.
There was no traffic jam on the road. Geng Sensen parked the car and people from the R&D department came over in twos and threes. The employees who just joined the company this year saw a few circles on the car logo and felt envious. When they arrived on the sixth floor, they told their colleagues: "The boss is so kind to Accountant Geng."
Ye Fan's looseness was recognized by the whole company. His colleagues thought that Ye Fan had bought something else and couldn't help but ask, "Did you meet the boss?"
"No. I saw Accountant Geng's car."
The colleague was very disappointed, thinking that the boss often disappeared for half a day these days to go somewhere to play, and then brought back a lot of things: "That car is not his."
"Didn't the boss buy it for him?"
The colleague shook his head while working: "It's a birthday present for the boss's daughter." Only some old employees knew the names of the boss's son and daughter. This one didn't know, so he simply said: "I heard from my colleagues in the sales department that the eldest daughter's workplace is far from home, so she takes the bus." It’s not convenient, it’s for work.”
"The boss's daughter is so old?"
A colleague took out a fashion magazine from the drawer and pointed to the cover: "The boss's son is bigger."
"Here, isn't his surname Ye?" The new employee's sister is a star-chasing fan. She has many celebrity pictorials posted in her bedroom, one of which looks exactly like the person on the cover.
Colleague: "What's the boss's last name?"
The new employee suddenly realized: "The boss's son is a star."
"No." A colleague heard from an old employee that the company has two major shareholders, one named Chang and one from the Research Institute. The ten-minute drama Geng Dabao appeared in was an advertising drama invested by the boss named Chang, so he started from Dabao. When talking about why he was filming a drama, he finally asked: "Besides commercials, have you seen any other dramas of his?"
The new employee shook his head.
The employee who was working back to back with the two of them was two years older than them. Hearing this, he turned around and said, "Don't think about it. No matter how old the boss's children are, they will never join the company. What they learned has little to do with us. If you care about them, it's better to pay more attention to Geng." Accountant. I feel that our company will be handed over to him nine times out of ten.”
New employees are envious: "The boss is so kind to his nephew."
The team leader came over with a large glass of soy milk and two fried dough sticks. Seeing that many employees had complicated expressions, he couldn't help but worry that they were thinking wildly, so he hesitated for a moment and went to the tea room.
Ye Fan ordered several newspapers and magazines for the company, but they were not magazines like "Reader". An entertainment newspaper, a professional magazine, and an official government newspaper. Ye Fan's copy was placed in the tea room, and the one upstairs was given to the staff on the sixth floor by the front desk, who took it up and placed it in the public area.
The team leader rummaged around for a while, pulled out a photo and showed it to the new employee, pointing at the picture of the person on it and letting him take a good look.
The new employee didn't know what was going on, so after reading it he asked his colleague next door: "What does the team leader mean?"
"Let me take a look." The colleague took it and took a quick look. He was wondering, what does their software development have to do with the national economy and people's livelihood. Suddenly seeing familiar words, the employee opened his mouth slightly in shock.
The new employee saw this and asked: "What's wrong?"
"Is this surname Geng?"
The employee behind the two turned around, saw the full name of Geng, and asked in a low voice: "Does it look like Accountant Geng?" After that, the three of them looked at each other, and then looked at each other. They thought that the boss in the company was the biggest, but they didn't expect that the most awesome one was Geng. Accounting.
After the team leader had eaten and drank enough, he went to the tea room to wash the cups. He passed by a few people and asked leisurely: "Did you see clearly? Every day, I talk about what I see. Is it interesting?"
The three of them asked in unison: "Really?"
The team leader had a few words with Geng Sensen during salary payment a long time ago. Geng Sensen said nonsense that he was a teacher and had retired long ago. His father is a minor official, and because men retire at a later age, he is still in office.
The team leader believed it and praised the boss for his kindness and righteousness during a dinner party with his colleagues who came in at the same time. He treated his nephew like his own son.
This group of people had worked in residential areas for two years. At that time, Dabao and Geng Sensen would go to the company to play with them whenever they had free time. At that time, Dabao said that his uncle and aunt were out of town and his cousin was staying at his house.
Based on Geng Sensen's words some time ago that he had to go back to his parents' house, one of the employees wondered, before he was in other places, but now he is in the capital, at what level can a person in his fifties or sixties be transferred across regions?
Unexpectedly, one time I turned on the TV as background music and saw a senior official named "Geng". The more I looked at him, the more he looked like the young Geng Sensen. Then think about the direction Geng Sensen went home and where that person might live, which happened to be in the same direction.
A few days ago, when this colleague was paying wages, he met Geng Sensen and asked which unit his father worked in and if he could do him a small favor. Geng Sensen held it in for a while but couldn't figure out the specific work. The employee said empathetically: "I'm sorry to embarrass you. I'll ask my classmates."
At a dinner party on the weekend, the employee told his colleagues, friends and classmates about his guess. They added it up and calculated Geng Sensen's age. Then he asked someone to find out which unit the wife of a high-ranking official named "Geng" worked in. The result was that He used to be a teacher but is now retired. Several people can confirm that the two are father and son.
The leader of the software development team shrugged and said nothing, as if he had said everything.
Several people were stunned.
I went to the cafeteria at noon and saw Geng Sensen buying meals and groceries like them. I thought to myself that he didn't look like a kid from a high-ranking official.
Not all the children of high-ranking cadres just hang around and bully others. This is only part of it. Some have lofty ambitions and entered official careers early, others like Yan Weining flex their muscles in public institutions, and some like Geng Sensen work hard and do things they are interested in.
There are also a handful of people who are developing into the film and television industry.
However, because the employees were unclear and had never interacted with senior cadres of a similar age before, they couldn't help but look at Geng Sensen every time they saw him. Geng Sensen was annoyed by their gazes, so he stopped eating in the cafeteria and went home at noon every day.
I didn't go back at noon. There were only two people at home, Yu Wentao and the nanny, and their words were echoed. Yu Wentao was lonely. She was very happy when she saw Geng Sensen come back. While she disliked the food in the cafeteria, she persuaded him to come back every day at noon and not to follow his aunt's example. Since she didn't have to go abroad, she became more and more lazy.
Ye Fan wasn't very diligent before. Although she was busy in the past few years, she was not busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. She was often busy for one month and half a month off.
Maybe Ye Fan used to disappear for ten and a half days, but now he goes home every day, and occasionally goes to the south for four or five days, which makes Yu Wentao feel that she is very relaxed.
If you don't go home to eat in your free time, you would rather eat from the big pot in the cafeteria. Isn't that just lazy?
Hearing this, Geng Sensen said: "My aunt has a rest room in her office. One visit is enough for her to take a nap."
Yu Wentao heard about this for the first time and couldn't help but ask: "Is there a bed in the office? Oh my god, I really enjoy it!"
Geng Sensen regretted talking too much: "Grandma, what will we eat tomorrow?"
Yu Wentao liked the children who cheered for her and immediately asked: "What do you want to eat? Grandma will buy it tomorrow morning."
"I want to eat little stupid chicken."
After dinner, Geng Sensen went to the back bedroom to relax for a while, and Yu Wentao called her nephew and asked him to deliver two chickens tomorrow.
Uncle Yu was in his early sixties, which at first glance sounded like a very young age, but rural people couldn't afford to sit idle, and he didn't want to compete with old men of the same age for shit, so he drove into the city.
I used to do it to make more money, but now I do it to kill time. They arrived in the city at six o'clock, and it was almost seven o'clock before he pulled half a car of various things to the door of Ye Fan's house.
Yu Wentao took dozens of yuan to buy two chickens first and then vegetables.
The neighbors saw that she bought a lot and came over to take a look. But after hearing that it was more expensive than the ones at the wet market, the neighbor didn't want to be taken advantage of, and even hinted that Yu Wentao could go to the wet market.
The nanny Xiao Wang said quickly: "Grandpa Li, this is grown at home, and it tastes better than the one in the vegetable market."
"What did he say?" The old professor looked at the old vegetable seller and thought to himself, if he is still lying to others at such an old age, isn't he afraid of driving accidents?
Nanny Xiao Wang nodded.
The old professor had a complicated look on his face, thinking to himself that for such a shrewd person like Ye Fan, how could his family be so simple?
Yu Wentao saw it with a subtle expression and said: "This is my natal brother!"
(End of chapter)