Chapter 54 smoke cloud.7

One day, it was Friday, and it was getting dark. Tao Zutai made an exception and still didn't go home. Mrs. Tao and the children were bored waiting for the young head of the family to come back for dinner. Mrs. Tao made origami figurines and horses for the children. Suddenly Tao Zutai came in dejectedly.When Mrs. Tao saw him, she was surprised and exclaimed: "What? You look like a drowned chicken! It's not raining!" Tao Zutai shook his head, looked around the room, as if he did not recognize the room, and then said in a low voice: "Go and pay the car fare. I came by car!"

Mrs. Tao paid the fare and came back, and saw Tao Zutai still standing in the road like that, but bent over, hugging the child—as if the hug was too tight, and the child was screaming in fear. "Ah—" Mrs. Tao also exclaimed, "You!—Hurry up and change your clothes! The baby is also made into a wet person by you!" Only then did Tao Zutai let go of the child, straightened his waist, looked sadly at his wife, then at the child, and lazily went upstairs. The child walks up to the mother.Mrs. Tao touched the child with her hand, frowned and said to herself, "Being insane for no reason. What is it?" Then she picked up a paper horse and put it on the tip of her index finger.

There were a few drops of water on the child's hair—perhaps dripping from the father's head, which shone brightly in the light. When Tao Zutai changed his clothes, dinner was also set out.Tao Zutai's complexion was the same, but paler than usual. He just lowered his head to eat, but suddenly stopped his chopsticks, and looked at his wife in a daze. First, his wife let him watch, pretending not to notice, but then turned his face away Go, chuckled a bit. Such a posture of not turning his face away, such a crisp laugh, Tao Zutai used to feel very useful, but at this moment he suddenly shed two tears.He didn't turn his face away either, but just now he saw the shiny drops of water on the child's hair, he brushed them away casually, and at the same time said hesitantly:

"A'e, today, I—almost committed suicide again." "Heh!" Mrs. Tao shouted, but the element of "surprise" was less, "suddenly" There are many ingredients.Now it was Mrs. Tao who looked at her husband blankly. "Thinking that tomorrow is Saturday again,—uh, Saturday, I—feel that I don't have the courage to live anymore, and I don't have the courage to fulfill my—responsibility. It's a terrible—punishment!" Tao Zutai lowered his head and said, like a criminal confessing; he paused, looked up at his wife, and continued: "Crushed to death on the track, it's terrible;—I—walked to the river. I—went into the water. But, but, the water was up to my waist, and I realized—now—it's not me who unloaded On the day when I was carrying a burden, I called for help——I was so flustered that my legs were weak. I came back by car later.”

He shook his head and smiled wryly again. "Heh—yo!" Mrs. Tao screamed, dropped the bowls and chopsticks, stood up and ran outside. This was out of accident, Tao Zutai also stood up in exclamation, but the child grabbed him desperately and cried loudly, the child thought that father and mother were going to fight. Tao Zutai was so anxious that he wanted to pick up the child and chase his wife, but he didn't know whether it was the child who refused to move, or he was so flustered that he couldn't lift it up.He had no choice but to hug the child and sighed. But someone came from outside, it was Huang Yinian and his wife, followed by Mrs. Tao.

"What's wrong? Old Tao!" Huang Yinian asked hastily. "Nothing." Tao Zutai replied weakly. "Your wife said you committed suicide!" Mrs. Huang's voice. "No." He looked like he wanted to hide. "I just—I said almost killed myself today." The child struggled out of his father's grasp and ran to grab the corner of his mother's clothes. Seeing that Tao Zutai was really well, Huang Yinian wanted to leave, but Mrs. Tao, who had never spoken, suddenly called out: "Don't go! I'm afraid! Mrs. Huang, I'm afraid! I can't wake up when I fall asleep. Think about it. I wake up at dawn and see him dead beside me. I'm afraid! Don't go, Mrs. Huang!"

Both Huang Yinian and his wife turned to stare at Tao Zutai, but Tao Zutai just shook his head and said: "Oh, I really don't understand!" Mrs. Huang comforted Mrs. Tao, and Huang Yinian said to Tao Zutai: "Old Tao, I really don't understand you." "Ha!" Tao Zutai gave a strange laugh, and then asked himself softly: "Understand people, people understand, you understand, the more you think about it, the more difficult it may be?"