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Chapter 50 smoke cloud.3

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Tao Zutai's worrying has become an open secret in the past month.When Huang Yinian and Mrs. Huang first discovered this phenomenon, they also said that "Tao Zutai has gone crazy again."Behind Tao Zutai's face, but in front of Mrs. Tao and Mr. Zhu, Huang Yinian and his wife still vaguely pointed to this incident as a joke.Mrs. Huang even complained on behalf of Mrs. Tao: "Mrs. Tao, this is disrespecting your personality, how unreasonable! Feudal thinking!" What is "personality" and what is "feudal thought", Mrs. Tao doesn't quite understand.She has been in elementary school for three years, and she can barely read books like "Tianbaotu". Since she married Mr. Tao, she has also read Tolstoy according to Mr. Tao's wishes, but one of them started when she was pregnant ( That was in the second year after marriage) From that year, I haven’t finished watching it until now; it was the first time she saw a big scene in Hankou, and she blushed when she saw strangers when she first came.

But she loves to play cards.Sitting in the game, even if there is a strange man, he forgets to blush.What's more, Mr. Huang is an old friend of her husband, and Mr. Zhu is a friend of Mr. Huang's; what's more, although Mrs. Huang is only in her twenties, she doesn't seem to be a young person or a woman. She entertains everything, and it is common for her to chat and laugh with the male guests. This is what Mrs. Tao saw and understood after she arrived in Hankou.So when Mrs. Huang complained about "personality" and "feudal thinking", although Mrs. Tao didn't understand very well, she thought in her heart: "How funny! No, Mr. Huang has never been so extreme,— Evil shape."

She doesn't "protest" to her husband, but unconsciously she talks and jokes more with Mr. Zhu, and unconsciously she has to go to Mr. Huang's house to play cards every Saturday. But that was a month ago!Now, Mrs. Tao doesn't feel that she is any different, nor does she think that Mr. Zhu is any different, but Huang Yinian and his wife feel that Mr. Zhu is very different, and Mrs. Tao is also a little different.Now, Huang Yinian and his wife dare not make jokes about Tao Zutai's troubled "worries" anymore, and they sympathize with Tao Zutai. Now Mrs. Tao also understands her husband's intentions for her better, but she is used to it, she doesn't find it annoying, and she never complains angrily, just "let him go"!

She also couldn't feel anything "wrong" with Mr. Zhu.Naturally, when playing cards, Mr. Zhu would often stick out her "cards" and release the "guns".But it was just a small game, at most seven or eight dollars to win or lose, what does it matter?Therefore, sometimes behind Mr. Zhu's back, when Huang Yinian and his wife vaguely mentioned that Mr. Zhu seemed to be a bit "that", Mrs. Tao thought it was because Mr. Zhu let her go when he was playing cards.She just thought that the surname Zhu would be funny. Now, just got her to sit on Mr. Zhu's lower head, and she, who loves petty gain, is so happy.She had completely forgotten Tao Zutai's "worried worry".

It was not the first time that she and Mr. Zhu took turns going up and down the house.In the past, when Mr. Zhu touched Mrs. Tao's thigh with his own leg for the first time, Mrs. Tao was taken aback, but then she realized that it was Mr. Zhu who reminded her that she had played a wrong card, and she calmed down again. , she welcomes this leg to leg.When she was anxiously waiting for "Zhang", she often touched Mr. Zhu's leg with her toes. Such "little gadgets" are too used to, and Mrs. Tao doesn't think it is "immoral"—for Tao Zutai or Huang Yinian and his wife.

Playing cards, or half depends on "luck".It is hopeless that the upper family does not have the "wanted Zhang" from the lower family.After reading a round of cards, Mrs. Tao still made no progress.She was a little anxious.Mr. Zhu also accompanied her fiercely.He simply didn't want to draw the cards himself.Take a good deck of cards and dismantle them randomly.Based on this, Mrs. Tao only "ate" two.Huang Yinian glanced at Mr. Zhu again and again, touched his chin and smiled.Mrs. Huang couldn't bear it even more, and shouted loudly on purpose: "Ah! Mr. Zhu's hands are so loose. Mrs. Tao is full!"

"Hahaha!" Mr. Zhu smiled smugly, and took another "Wanzi" in his hand. Mrs. Tao ate again.Mrs. Tao couldn't help her heart beat. "Hi!" Mrs. Huang yelled in surprise, slapped a card in her hand heavily, and said angrily, "Hmph, there is such a way to play cards!" Mrs. Tao blushed a little. Huang Yunian still smiled coldly, but raised his eyes to look at Tao Zutai, as if to say, "Did you see that?" "Hahaha," Mr. Zhu laughed strangely again. "Pastime, win or lose is not big, just plan casually. ——Go back to Hai Guochun for dinner, I'll treat you!"

Tao Zutai saw and heard everything, even though he was not very smart about sparrows, he was clear-eyed; but what could he do?Besides sitting on the sidelines and "being punished"?He couldn't stand it, yet he didn't want to go.He hoped that there would be no so-called "Saturdays" in the world. Even if there were Saturdays, teachers should not be allowed to "walk" across the river in schools. The child played with the apple like a ball.The apple rolled under the card table, and the child tugged at the hem of his father's coat. Tao Zutai bent down to find a "ball" for his son.He saw the round thing run out from under the table by itself, but he also saw one leg in a tunic tunic touch the other foot in stockings.Tao Zutai was taken aback when he saw it for the first time, but immediately thought it was a coincidence.He has that "mass".He picked up the apple casually.But maybe the floor was uneven, and the apple rolled under Mrs. Tao's chair again.At this time, Tao Zutai suddenly saw again, and he could see clearly, the pointed toe of a high-heeled shoe was lifted up and stabbed on the large trouser leg of the Chinese tunic suit; it was indeed Mrs. Tao's foot!Moreover, the pointed toe of the high-heeled leather shoes was suddenly caught by the folds of the trousers, and after a few swings, it was "free".

Tao Zutai's heart was pounding, the apple was already in his hand, but he couldn't lift himself up.He suddenly felt afraid to meet people, and felt that the "world" was too small to accommodate him. "Hahaha! Mrs. Tao..." It was Mr. Zhu's weird smile again.Tao Zutai trembled from the laughter.He didn't hear what was under "Mrs. Tao". However, after shaking for a while, he felt a fever all over his heart and face.He straightened his body, and stared at Mr. Zhu, his eyes seemed to say, "I call you despicable..." But since he is "despicable", he felt disdainful again, and he Looking back at his wife, he felt that the red tide on her face was receding, her eyes were downcast, and he felt sorry for "this woman".

The four players seemed to be concentrating on the cards, and none of them noticed Tao Zutai's strangeness.Tao Zutai heaved a sigh of relief, but he was not sure what to do, his eyes were on the faces of the people, but his heart was on the legs and feet of the people under the table. Mrs. Tao still couldn't make a deal of that set of cards.When Mrs. Huang shuffled the cards, she was able to talk and laugh freely.Tao Zutai was still holding the apple in his hand.Although the child had forgotten the "ball", Tao Zutai still called him over and gave it to him.At the same time, he dragged a stool and placed it at the corner of the table between his wife and Mr. Zhu. He sat down with his legs stretched out, forming a "line of defense" under the table.

He was glad that no one noticed his method. Another deck of cards began, and the "warriors" became even more nervous.Mrs. Huang always hit hard every time she dealt a card.Tao Zutai's heart was in his lap.His two legs were touched from two directions at the same time.At first, he was both angry and amused.But then he found another way; no matter which side came, he would return it. At the end of the second "four rounds", Mrs. Tao still lost.She got angry and stopped fighting. Mr. Zhu didn't lose much, so he must "treat guests".
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