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Chapter 49 smoke cloud.2

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Because he left in such a hurry, Tao Zutai was short of breath when he got home and couldn't speak.The child jumped to his side, hugged his thigh, and called "Daddy", but he couldn't help but rub the child's head with his hands.After a long while, he struggled to say a word: "Where's mom?" Before the child could answer, Tao Zutai saw at a glance that his wife's newly made blue silk shawl was no longer on the hook on the wall. He sighed dejectedly, took the child's hand, and wanted to sit down, but he didn't. Waist, softly, as if unwilling to speak, asked:

"That——Mr. Zhu, Mr. Zhu, the teacher, have you been here?" The child looked up at his father, with a pair of small eyes wide open; his father's face was too ugly, and his voice was too strange, he was afraid, and he threw his face on his father. Tao Zutai patted the child on the back, and said in a gentle accent: "Hey, kid!" "Father. Mom, playing cards at Uncle Huang's house next door." The child revealed his face and looked at his father again. "Mom said, buy a foreign bubble, give it to the baby, and go buy it together when Dad comes back."

Tao Zutai forced a smile, picked up the child and walked out without saying a word. He carried the child and went to the Huang's house next door.As soon as I walked into the small damp courtyard, I heard the laughter of "men and women" playing with cards.He suddenly shivered, and he suddenly thought: "Let her go,—let them go: why bother to suffer punishment." But he still walked forward, unconsciously, he added pain to his arms. It made the child in his arms feel uncomfortable. The long, narrow old-fashioned side compartment.The electric light was turned on, shining on the four red and shiny faces.As soon as Tao Zutai walked in, the first person he saw sitting opposite his wife was Mr. Zhu who was a teacher.However, the first person to see Tao Zutai coming in was Mrs. Huang, whose half back was facing the door of the wing room; she seemed to be avoiding some kind of hand and hand movement on the table, and turned her face away, but she saw it Tao Zutai is gone.She greeted immediately:

"Mr. Tao, come play a few laps. Mrs. Tao is not lucky." "Hahaha, Mr. Tao has come! Haha!" It was Zhu's voice.Tao Zutai felt harsh. "We just finished four laps, Zu Tai, you can replace me!" Mr. Huang stood up after speaking. "No, no; you are the winner!" Mr. Zhu yelled again, and the pair of owl eyes on his fat face winked at Mrs. Tao.Whether Mrs. Tao "reacted" or not, but Tao Zutai couldn't see her because her back was facing the door of the wing room.He put down the child, and leaned behind Mr. Huang, answering with a wry smile.

"I won't come, I won't come; Brother Yi Nian, you are welcome." "Old Zhu." Huang Yinian said with a smile: "Then, you are the loser, why don't you rest for four laps?" "No, no; I want to make money! Mrs. Tao, are you right: no substitutions are allowed, we all have to make money!" Mrs. Tao smiled and remained silent.She glanced casually at her husband, then at her son, counting the remaining chips.The son ran over and leaned against her, but she ignored him. Overturned the seat.Mr. Zhu became Mrs. Tao's family. The child got the apple given by Mrs. Huang, and he had long forgotten Yang Paopao.Tao Zutai sat behind his wife, called "Guanchang", and was actually "studying" Mr. Zhu's eyesight.

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