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Chapter 53 smoke cloud.6

Mao Dun's Novels 茅盾 999Words 2018-03-19
The oleander has withered, the pomegranates have bloomed, the branches have grown tiny pomegranates, and the new lotus leaves are the size of copper coins floating on the water; how many "Saturdays" should there be in between!And every "Saturday", what kind of "punishment" does the kind Mr. Tao Zutai suffer! Huang Yinian and his wife knew that Tao Zutai was suffering "punishment"; Tao Zutai even set up a "defense line" under the poker table (Even if Mrs. Tao and Mr. Zhu were "opposites", Tao Zutai would have to set up a "defense line"). It was known to Huang Yinian and his wife; Huang Yinian thought it was too pitiful for a husband to do this, but Mrs. Huang felt that Tao Zutai was "too open-minded". "When a woman's love changes, she should let it be." ——Ms. Huang said this repeatedly.

"But Lao Tao still needs his wife to subsidize him economically!" Huang Yinian answered his wife like this, and felt that Tao Zutai's only solution was to "take strict precautions." No one knows Tao Zutai's "noble ideals" and "great concept of responsibility", even if someone knows, they will not understand. Tao Zutai had no friends to talk to, so he had to bear his "cross" lonely.Enduring the pain, he secretly observed his wife's actions, to see how her "heart" had changed.Even if it wasn't "Saturday," he couldn't settle down.

If Tao Zutai came home from get off work on a non-"Saturday", if his wife was sitting idle, he would sit opposite to her. When she walked from the living room to the bedroom, or went to the kitchen to have a look, he would follow behind, come and follow. Go, like a shadow; he seldom speaks, but looks at his wife darkly. Sometimes his wife would talk to him, and he would respond casually a few times, and suddenly get excited again, bringing out his set of "big principles" to repeatedly "enlighten" his "loved one"; Madame became "dumb". This made Mrs. Tao very afraid of "non-Saturday", very afraid of "non-Saturday".

husband coming home from get off work. Tao Zutai never raised the "Mr. Zhu question" directly to Mrs. Tao. He was unwilling to ask his wife formally: "Do you love someone surnamed Zhu?" "It should be he and his wife who left.Otherwise, it is the "ugliest life" in the world.Moreover, he believed that if he broke up with his wife for "selfishness", he would "harm" his wife. As far as Mrs. Tao was concerned, she naturally felt that Tao Zutai's "root disease" was what it was.However, Mrs. Tao thought it was ridiculous when she thought about it. She felt that she still treats her husband the same as before; she likes to play cards with Mr. Zhu, laugh and even play with Mr. Zhu. , will only "speech" to her.

Before arriving in Hankou, she would never have thought that if her husband couldn't play with her, she could find someone else to play with her; but in the past six months, she saw that "it's like this in the field", and she believed that she didn't have to be too "country". She was born with a character of "extremely easy-going" and "extremely good at enjoying life"; except for playing cards, she never used her brain much, and except for playing cards, she never knew how to "scheme".It was her "characteristic" that Tao Zutai fell in love with her at first (and still is), but it is also her "characteristic" that makes Tao Zutai "distressed" now.

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