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Chapter 51 smoke cloud.4

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At eleven o'clock at night, Tao Zutai and his wife both went home. Mr. Zhu treats Hai Guochun to dinner.After dinner, Mrs. Tao mentioned that she hadn't seen a movie last week, and that Mr. Zhu wanted to "be the host" again.Tao Zutai couldn't stand it anymore, even Huang Yinian and his wife felt that Mr. Zhu's "style" was too bad, and they all sponsored Tao Zutai's idea: everyone pays for himself. At eleven o'clock at night, the neighborhood was silent, and there were no lights.The child had already fallen asleep, and in his dream he suddenly called out "buy foreign bubbles".Tao Zutai and Mrs. Tao didn't seem to be going to sleep, but they didn't speak. Mrs. Tao leaned on the square table in front of the bed, and Tao Zutai paced back and forth in the room.This pair seems to be insisting on each other: whoever speaks first will go to bed first.

It was the first time Mrs. Tao put on such a "posture". Mr. Tao couldn't figure out what to do, and he was pacing and guessing. In Haiguochun, Mrs. Tao was always talking and laughing; when she proposed to go to the movies and caused disputes about who should treat the guests, Mrs. Tao only pouted occasionally, and she was still in a good mood; when buying tickets at the cinema, Mrs. Tao She went there first——not letting Mr. Tao buy it for her, nor buying it for Mr. Tao, she just bought one for herself, but at that time she still said with a smile: "Everyone will know their own money, I'm not welcome!" She He also rejected Mr. Zhu's usual "style" and bought one as a gift for her; Mrs. Huang felt that she "couldn't" let Mr. Zhu down too much in front of many people at the ticket office, but Mrs. Tao Insist on Mr. Zhu to return the extra one.

But as soon as she entered the scene, the lady suddenly stopped talking and laughing, until after watching the movie, until now after returning home. Tao Zutai recalled a little scene that no one had noticed when he first walked into the movie theater: Mr. Zhu rushed forward to occupy a seat, and immediately took out a towel to wipe a few on the empty seat next to his own. Then, he called "Mrs. Tao"; but Tao Zutai took the seat that Mr. Zhu had specially brushed off, and put himself between Mrs. Zhu and Mr. Zhu; "Oh!" Tao Zutai thought of this. I said to myself in my heart, "Is this why? Unexpectedly, she...

It will fall to this point! " Tao Zutai's heart trembled, and his palms were slightly sweaty; he stopped, looking at his wife who was leaning crookedly in front of the square table. The face is buried in the crook of the arm and cannot be seen; the sleeves are extremely short, almost touching the "new life"; too many white arms are exposed; the hair has been permed, but it is beautiful enough if it is not permed; Cheongsam, stockings, high-heeled leather shoes; Tao Zutai suddenly seemed to be in a dream, and murmured in his heart: "This, where is she; this, where is A'e from half a year ago!"

Six months ago, Mrs. Tao had nothing to do with all these fashions. "However, it's as easy as changing a suit of clothes. Has she ever changed her personality and heart?" Tao Zutai continued to think. He approached his wife, watched quietly, and thought quietly. He thinks his wife is a good lady on weekdays, except for Saturdays; but even on Saturdays, even today, he thinks his wife's behavior is not so much "frivolous" as "playful" and "loves to make fun of others". ——Also, "fighting and acting like a baby". He stretched out his hand and placed it gently on the lady's shoulder.

Madame doesn't seem to notice. He shook his lady's shoulder blades lightly. The lady raised her head and looked up at her husband.She seemed surprised that her husband was not asleep yet, but her own eyes were full of sleepiness, and her face was covered with tiredness; she was really tired. Tao Zutai suddenly felt that his wife was just pitiful, so pitiful; he stood blankly and looked at his wife in a trance. The corner of Madam Tao's mouth twitched, as if she was about to laugh, but she held back.
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