The face of the neighbor's aunt and daughter-in-law turned red, and she held back a sentence for a long time: "The work unit is so good, why don't you just say it?!"
Her father-in-law asked: "Did you say something that other children are too embarrassed to say directly?"
The daughter-in-law remembered it and said she might know Leader Erbao.
Erbao said directly like a slap in the face. The aunt's daughter-in-law realized this and was embarrassed to complain: "The Geng family is so humble."
Her mother-in-law couldn't help but said: "Aren't you the ones talking about speculation? You told us to stay away from others, and they didn't have the chance to tell us this. If you rush to tell us, you can't think that they are mentally ill."
The son and daughter-in-law did not dare to answer the phone.
At the same time, Erbao was also talking to her mother: "Why was that eldest sister just so self-righteous?"
Ye Fan: "You have good academic qualifications and a good job, so you can't help but show off. People like this are very common, don't worry about it."
"Then are you still going to Xiushui store?"
Ye Fan: "Are you busy? If not, let's go together."
"I made an appointment with Liangliang to go shopping."
Ye Fan: "Let's go. It will get hot in a while."
Erbao stretched out his hand.
Ye Fan slapped her palm. Erbao took a breath of pain, hugged her mother's arm and said coquettishly: "Mom——"
"Stop!" Ye Fan said helplessly: "The wallet is in the living room."
Erbao turned around and ran away. He took a hundred yuan, fearing that it would be taken away while shopping, so he changed it into a few fifty and ten yuan bills and stuffed them into his bag. Putting on his bag, Erbao came out and saw his cousin coming from behind: "Brother Sensen, are you going shopping?"
Geng Sensen waved his hand: "I will help with the decoration of the boss's house."
For the convenience of travel, Geng Sensen drove the Santana assigned by the company before getting off work yesterday.
Ye Fan asked: "Your brother's house is not close to the work unit, so he doesn't live in the work unit?"
"Junior sister thinks the soundproofing of the building is not good, so she says she lives in an apartment when she is busy and goes home when she is free. I suspect that junior sister is so obedient and has no problem with her elders getting engaged or getting married just because my brother owns a single-family courtyard house. "Geng Sensen's junior sister is actually a few months older than him. He deliberately called her junior sister, and those who didn't know would mistakenly think that his brother was his brother-in-law.
In order to take advantage of this, he never tired of it.
Ye Fan didn't bother to correct his statement and said bluntly: "If your family can afford it, there is no need to marry for a house."
"Affordability does not mean buying." Geng Sensen said: "Her family is liberal and conservative. You say feudalism and support freedom of marriage, so my junior sister is twenty-seven and has not yet gotten married. To say that she is liberal does not mean she has no chance. Rural people who accept new ideas also think that raising It's always the son's business. The family property belongs to the son, and the daughter doesn't need to buy big things like real estate. If you want to be partial and prepare a lot of dowry, you don't want my brother to buy gold, silver, and jade." He shook his head, "I don't understand. I’m leaving.”
Erbao held the key and followed him out.
Yu Wentao asked Ye Fan: "Where are you?"
"I'll go to Ginkgo and have a look." I said I was recruiting students before, but I don't know if they have found any.
Ye Fan drove to the door of the store, and a girl of sixteen or seventeen years old ran out and said sharply: "Sister, you are not allowed to park here."
Yu Gingxing subconsciously glanced outside, hurriedly ran out, and pulled the little girl behind him: "Sister-in-law is here?"
The little girl was stunned.
Ye Fan smiled and said: "You're very dedicated. When did you find it?"
"Last weekend." Yu Gingxing breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she was not angry, "It's my first day at work today."
Ye Fan nodded and headed towards the store.
The little girl asked weakly: "That is?"
"Boss." After Yu Gingxing finished speaking, her face turned pale. Yu Gingxing held her hand: "Don't be afraid. The boss is easy to talk to, and it was she who suggested that I recruit a work-study student. It's also my fault that I forgot to tell you that this car belongs to the boss."
The little girl didn't dare to approach Ye Fan when she entered the store, and she was just arranging her clothes with her hands and feet. Seeing this, Ye Fan turned to Yu Ginkgo: "Is there nothing going on in the store?"
Yu Ginkgo nodded: "There are a few summer clothes."
Ye Fan: "Then go back to Xiao Ming's store and have a look. If you don't have a few more days, go to the south and have a look. You should be busy."
"Why don't you take a break?"
Ye Fan looked at the shop assistant, thinking that if he stayed there any longer, she would faint from fear.
Yu Gingxing helplessly muttered "cowardly" and then sent Ye Fan out.
Ye Fan went to Zhang Xiaoming's store to sit for a while, then went to Wei Jianshe's store diagonally across the street. Qian Xiaoru also said that there were few styles, so Ye Fan went to Chang Guangrong's store.
Fortunately, I have a car and can visit four stores in two hours.
Finally, Ye Fan went to Xiushui Store.
Zhang Xiaoming told Ye Fan that there have been more styles and choices in the past two years, and they must keep up with the times.
Ye Fan went home and called Yu's store. They also said that there were many people looking at it and leaving. Ye Fan felt that it was because summer clothes were cheap and young people who loved beauty and cool dared to buy more but didn't want to wear similar ones, so they thought there were few styles.
I called Wei Jianshe that night and asked him when he would be free.
Wei Jianshe wanted to find Ye Fan in the past two days and asked her if she would go to the south to get the goods. When she called her, she told her that she was ready to leave at any time. Ye Fan was in such a big company and couldn't leave without saying hello. She stayed in the company for two days and took care of the important matters before taking a few sales staff south.
When they arrived in the south, they were divided into two groups as before. Wei Jianshe took people to the Commodity City to buy small trinkets. Ye Fan went to Yongcheng first, selected a batch of clothes, and then went to Hangzhou. One carriage was almost full.
Chang Guangrong drove a pickup truck to pick up the goods. When he saw a lot of things piled up into a hill, he exclaimed: "My sister, have you forgotten that you have stopped dumping goods to the north?"
Ye Fan: "You and Xiao Ming should go back first. Let's go back to rest. We feel like we're going to suffer from heatstroke."
As soon as Chang Guangrong heard that she was feeling unwell, he urged her to go home quickly. He contacted everyone to pick up the goods.
Yu Gingxing felt that since she didn't like the conventional style, she would choose clothes with bold and exaggerated colors. It happened that Ye Fan tried to get a few packages of exaggerated clothing this time, and Yu Gingko picked a third of them.
Her sister-in-law reminded: "Only hooligans wear this kind of clothing."
Yu Gingxing: "Little hooligans can't afford our clothes. I heard that office workers are serious during the day and go to discos after work to shake their heads. We can sell them to them."
Zhang Xiaoming was worried that the two of them would quarrel, so he said: "If it's not sold out, I'll keep it for a buy-one-get-one-free event."
Don't worry about getting it in your hands, her sister-in-law picked half a pack.
Others saw this and thought they might be able to attract customers with these fancy clothes, so they also picked some of them. By the time everyone left, half of the goods were missing. Neighbors watched the crowded store come out and asked Zhang Xiaoming: "Do you have so many customers?"
Zhang Xiaoming: "They are all relatives and friends. Even if we sell so much in a short time, we will not make as much as you did in one day."
The neighbors didn't believe it.
Zhang Xiaoming explained who was his friend and who was a relative of Ye Fan's family. When the neighbors heard that they were really relatives, they said, "Why don't you let them get it themselves? It's not enough to make a little money on such a hot day."
Zhang Xiaoming couldn't help but curse, you really let me say anything.
Ye Fan really suffered from heat stroke.
Geng Zhiye arrived home before the sun went down and saw her lying motionless on the sofa. He was very surprised: "Will the tireless Boss Ye get sick?"
"As we get older, our immunity declines." Ye Fan opened his eyes and said feebly: "Don't recruit me."
Geng Zhiye touched her forehead and said, "No fever. It's just heatstroke. Have you eaten?"
The nanny looked at Ye Fan from the other side and whispered, "Auntie has no appetite."
Geng Zhiye: "Cook some white porridge and some sweet and sour dishes. Make what you are good at."
Nanny Xiao Wang is good at many dishes. When she went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator, she saw shrimps and wanted to make them prawns. But Ye Fan had no intention of peeling the shrimp. Xiao Wang also dares to cook a dish she likes, and Ye Fan will not scold her. Yu Wentao would chatter a few words, but she would forget about it just like her elders.
Unfortunately, Geng Zhiye is at home today, and Xiao Wang is afraid of him.
Xiao Wang cooked the porridge first, then took out the pork she bought in the morning, cut it into strips and marinated it for later use. She peeled and shredded the potatoes. Put the shredded potatoes into the water, and then she went to the yard to pick a few tomatoes to make tomato and egg soup.
Halfway through, Yu Wentao came in to help, and within half an hour, the sweet and sour pork loin, hot and sour shredded potatoes and soup were ready.
Ye Fan didn't touch the soup, drank half a bowl of porridge, ate some vegetables, and then lay down.
Xiao Wang asked in a low voice: "Grandma, are you still cooking tonight?"
Yu Wentao: "What do you want to eat?"
"Eat steamed buns. The leftovers from lunch are cold but not hard, so there is no need to heat them."
Yu Wentao asked Geng Zhiye what he wanted to eat. Geng Zhiye didn’t want to eat cold steamed buns: “Cook me two packs of instant noodles and I’ll eat them in tomato soup.”
Xiao Wang cooked the instant noodles, and Geng Zhiye poured the soup into the bowl containing the noodles. The instant noodles without any seasoning instantly turned into tomato and egg noodles.
There was half of the tomato and egg soup left, just in time for Yu Wentao and Xiao Wang to drink it.
Ye Fan smelled the fragrance and opened his eyes and immediately wanted to laugh: "Are you full?"
Of course, two packs of noodles are not enough. Two more bowls of white porridge made Geng Zhiye feel full for a while. He would be so hungry that his chest would stick to his back before he could go to bed at nine o'clock. Geng Zhiye said: "I'll call Sensen and ask him to bring me some."
Geng Sensen and Erbao got off work at six o'clock. I haven't come back for dinner at 7:30 now because I went to the night market with my friends. After Geng Zhiye finished speaking, he picked up the phone and asked his eldest nephew to bring him supper.
The streets are chaotic these days, so the two of them don't dare to play too late. At around eight o'clock, Erbao sent Liangliang home, and Geng Sensen sent his friends and colleagues home, then bought a handful of barbecue and some noodles for his uncle to take back.
Ye Fan had already taken a shower and was ready to sleep.
Geng Zhiye sat in front of the dressing table and looked around. The bedroom was filled with the smell of barbecue and fried noodles. Ye Fan was upset: "Can't we go out to eat?"
Geng Zhiye opened the window: "It'll be ready in a moment. The barbecue is good, want a skewer?"
Ye Fan suspected that he was eating in the bedroom because he wanted to get up and eat more: "Geng Zhiye, don't blame me for not reminding you. This is your first time eating roadside barbecue. If your stomach is not used to it, you may have a stomachache."
Geng Zhiye shook his head slightly, as if he didn't care: "It's just a few skewers of meat."
In recent years, in the military life, although the dishes are still cheap, they can achieve a balanced nutrition with meat and vegetables. Another thing about military cooking is that even if it cannot take care of everyone, it must take care of most people, so there are not many dishes that are heavy on oil and spicy. Although there are also sweet and sour dishes, fried pork with chili peppers, etc., the taste is moderate.
There are elderly people in Ye Fan's family, and they have to take care of their stomach and intestines. The meals are mostly light. Geng Zhiye eats these all year round. He eats a handful of mutton skewers with mutton fat and a fried noodles with heavy oil. It's strange that he doesn't have a stomachache.
Seeing that he didn't listen, Ye Fan didn't bother to persuade him: "Don't drink ice water."
Geng Zhiye looked at the ice soda he had just taken out of the refrigerator and thought to himself, this is how we should eat and drink in summer.
But the madam certainly didn't mind him eating too much, she was really thinking about him. Geng Zhiye reluctantly pushed the soda away and went to the living room to pour a glass of warm water.
After drinking a glass of water, Geng Zhiye felt full and did not want to eat noodles or meat skewers: "Fanfan, there is still a lot left."
"Are you stupid? You can't eat hard food!"
"Waste!"
Ye Fan sat up and said angrily: "Choose between spoiling your stomach and wasting your time!"
Geng Zhiye put the noodles and skewers on the coffee table in the living room, came in and said: "We should raise a native dog, a native dog will eat everything."
Ye Fan: "The barking is disturbing the people!"
"Then ask the neighbors. They must also be worried about thieves coming in in the middle of the night." Geng Zhiye said.
Ye Fan sighed: "Sleep or not?"
"You go to sleep first!" Geng Zhiye sweated all over and went to the bathroom to take a shower and brush his teeth. When he came back, he closed the window. After a while, the room became cold.
Geng Zhiye wrapped himself in a quilt and sighed: "It's still comfortable at home."
Ye Fan thought, there was no way the dormitory for a freshman officer like him didn't have air conditioning. Since there is no shortage of air conditioning, isn't it just like being at home?
It seems different, she is at home.
The irritability in Ye Fan's heart disappeared instantly and he fell asleep next to him.
Geng Zhiye touched her forehead to make sure Ye Fan didn't have a fever, and he relaxed physically and mentally.
The next day, the cat woke up Geng Zhiye. Geng Zhiye opened his eyes as if he was dreaming. When he saw the person in his arms, he also opened his eyes and made sure he was not dreaming: "Do we have a cat at home?"
"No." Ye Fan rubbed the corners of his eyes, "Is there a cat meowing?" He suddenly woke up after saying this, "Why is there a cat in our house?"
Geng Zhiye picked up the watch on the bedside table, it read half past five. I fell asleep at almost ten o'clock last night, more than seven hours was enough. Geng Zhiye stood up: "I'll go take a look."
Opening the bedroom door, Geng Zhiye was angry and funny. The leftover kebabs from last night were eaten by the cat. Big Lihua used his fat paws to eat the fried noodles. Because the foam lunch box had a lid, it couldn't open it, so he was so anxious that he "meow meow" .
Geng Zhiye closed the door, closed the curtains and changed clothes.
Ye Fan turned off the air conditioner: "Is it a cat?"
Geng Zhiye nodded: "It doesn't look like a wild cat. It must have been raised by a neighbor. I don't know how it came to our house."
"In the living room? Didn't you tear anything?"
"No. I'm eating my leftover fried noodles from last night."
Ye Fan paused with the hand holding the skirt: "Can cats eat fried noodles?"
"Who knows. If you can't eat it, it's too late to stop it now."
That makes sense! Ye Fan ignored the uninvited cat. After changing his clothes, he suddenly remembered that his mother-in-law had woken up early at this time every day: "Where is Aunt Yu? Are you going to let the cat eat like this?"
Geng Zhiye didn't see his stepmother, and there was no movement in the courtyard: "Let's go for a walk. Didn't you say that she should take care of her body and wait for you to buy her a hand and a phone? I'm telling you, she's getting older, so don't draw. Cake, otherwise I will ask for your phone number every day and midnight.”
Ye Fan: "My parents are more than ten years older than her, and they are not sick or in pain. What can happen to her? She can live until her elder brother becomes lighter."
"No, is that thing heavy?"
Ye Fan said: "Chang Guangrong has one, which weighs half a catty. Do you like it? I'll buy you one later."
"Domestic?"
Ye Fan shook his head slightly.
"Forget it. I'm worried that it will suddenly explode while it is being used, or that there may be eavesdropping equipment inside." Geng Zhiye put on his pager, "My pager is still safe."
Ye Fan opened the door, and when he heard the noise, the cat turned around and Geng Zhiye came out. The cat suddenly jumped out and disappeared in an instant. The couple were shocked.
Geng Zhiye looked at Ye Fan: "You are so awesome, even cats are afraid of you!"
"Afraid of you!"
Geng Zhiye: "I just watched it for a while, but it didn't notice me. It ran away as soon as you came out. Are you afraid of me?"
Ye Fan rolled his eyes at him, childish!
Walking over and seeing the mess on the coffee table, Ye Fan couldn't help but frown. Upon seeing this, Geng Zhiye threw the bamboo stick lunch box into the trash can and said, "I'll clean it up. You go wash your face and brush your teeth."
He picked up the rag and wiped it roughly, then went to the kitchen to pour hot water. There is a steel pot on the stove with a lot of grains in it. It looks like cooking eight-treasure porridge. Geng Zhiye looked across and saw that the door of his stepmother's room was open, but there was no one in the room. She probably got up around five o'clock, cooked porridge and went to the park for morning exercises.
Geng Zhiye ignored this, wet the rag, cleaned up the coffee table, and then threw away the garbage.
However, as he was about to go home, he was stopped by Professor Li and asked, "Will your uncle come back today?"
Geng Zhiye was stunned for a moment and then realized: "Are you buying vegetables? I don't know. If there is food in the village, come over. But he should have just gotten up at this time. Just wait."
Professor Li smiled and nodded: "Don't you need to live in the army?"
Geng Zhiye: "The military family home is not far from here. Going back to the home is almost like going home. Although there is no compound here, my rank is low, and I am not a rare scientific researcher. It is not worth the trouble for others to get me. ”
Geng Zhiye's immediate boss said in a joking tone a few days ago that it is better to guard against one's own than to guard against outsiders.
The people he refers to are bullies and gangsters.
The reason why I say this is that a few days ago, a soldier went home to visit relatives and was bullied to death by local bullies. It was not from their military region, and the head of the military region was also very angry, so he even communicated with the public security department.
Professor Li had never dealt with Geng Zhiye before and was not as familiar with him as Aunt Li. Ye Fan was busy eating without stopping her from running over to chat. Professor Li used to see him with a serious face and thought he was cold and hard to get in touch with. But now he hears him speak more kindly than Ye Fan, and there is a smile on his face: "You are so humble."
Geng Zhiye asked with a smile: "Go and sit at home for a while?"
"No need." Old Professor Li heard that he wanted to go home, "You are busy with your business, I am just walking around here to exercise."
Geng Zhiye entered the hospital and saw that the door of the nanny's room was closed. When he went to the bathroom door of the main hospital, he saw Ye Fan putting on a facial mask and cleaning the sink, and asked: "Xiao Wang went to bed earlier than us, why haven't you woke up yet?"
Ye Fan: "She slept late."
"Give it to me." Geng Zhiye said.
Ye Fan took two steps back and let him wash his face: "Xiao Wang helped Dabao tidy up the room a few days ago and saw some novels. Seeing her curiosity, Dabao asked her if she wanted to read them. She picked a few and read them after eleven o'clock every night."
"She even reported this little thing to you?"
Ye Fan: "She yawned when she woke up in the morning. I wondered what she was doing at night. She said she wouldn't read anymore. I asked her to watch ten o'clock and set the alarm clock for six o'clock. It's time to wake up later."
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Ye Fan tore off the mask and put it on Geng Zhiye. There was still a little mask liquid left in it and applied it to his hand. "Look at the clock and take it off in ten minutes." After saying that, he took off his own mask and put it on his neck.
Geng Zhiye joked: "You really know how to pass it."
"It's a convenient thing." Ye Fan put it in the trash can for a few minutes.
Afterwards, the two of them packed up and came out of the bathroom when they heard movement in the front yard. Ye Fan whispered: "You heard me."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Her parents never came to see her again after they returned?"
"No. Maybe that incident made her realize that her cousins would come over once the store opened, so she took the initiative to tell Aunt Yu that she would still work at our house next year." Ye Fan sighed, "It shouldn't be so difficult for this child. It's a pity that he has a pair of ears. Parents who are soft and want to save face.”
Geng Zhiye: "People are not like each other——"
The phone rang, and Geng Zhiye trotted to the living room, worried that the call was for him.
(End of chapter)