Chapter 59 smoke cloud.12

The next morning, Tao Zutai went to visit his wife's distant nephew. The content of "difficult to explain in a word" has finally been "detailed"; the nephew stammered: "After you left that day,... the waiter came to ask me to buy an official cabin ticket,... I bought a ticket, I, I'm looking for my aunt; aunt, open the purse... It's not enough..." "Well, not enough..." Tao Zutai's eyes fixed on his nephew's mouth, and his breathing was short. "It's not enough... eh...Ask Mr. Zhu,...Mr. Zhu also said no,...No, I——I have no choice but to move back to the steerage..."

"Where's your aunt?" Tao Zutai asked out of breath. "Aunt, Aunt,——At that time, Aunt was at No. 34." The nephew lowered his head, avoiding Tao Zutai's needle-like gaze. Tao Zutai breathed a sigh of relief, rubbing his hands together: "and after?" "Later, later? I don't quite understand. I'm in steerage." "You don't have to hide it from me!" Tao Zutai's breathing became short again. "It seems...it seems that my aunt... moved back...to No. 20." Tao Zutai's eyelids twitched, and everything he saw was dizzy; he was still clear in his heart, there were many questions surging there, but there seemed to be an ugly and cold thing rushing to his face from the tip of his heart, His lips trembled, and he could not speak.

When slightly shaking better, he kept saying "nothing, nothing" as if he couldn't control himself, and left that nephew. He walked like a ghost in the street.The nephew's words seemed to have been forgotten, and what came and went in his mind were just two old concepts: "escape" or "responsibility to the end"?He went around many circles unconsciously, but perhaps because of the habit of his feet, he finally came to "home" unconsciously. It was past one o'clock in the afternoon, and the "home" was quiet. The old lady, wife, and children were all sleepy.It was the hottest time of the day, Tao Zutai's big shirt stuck to his back, but his fingertips were icy cold.

He floated to his wife like a wandering soul, and when he saw his wife who was sleeping sideways, he suddenly seemed to wake up; he remembered every sentence his nephew said, especially bad, he also remembered last night when his wife was very good receive him. These two kinds of memories were mixed together, and he trembled again, he was afraid, he felt that Madam was a great magician, he dared not touch Madam's body with his hands, but his feet seemed to be nailed there and he couldn't do without , he made up his mind again, and had to say a few words.He had to wake up his wife. Mrs. Tao turned over and turned outwards, without opening her eyes, but responded with "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu".

"Get up! I have a few words!" Tao Zutai said, putting all his strength on his tongue and lips. "Heh—oh——" Mrs. Tao responded again, half-opening her eyes. She felt that her husband's expression was weird, so she gave a chuckle, but the smile was only halfway through, and she could tell that there was something in the husband's strange expression. Horrible, her eyes widened. She hesitated and asked: "Have you eaten yet?" "Ask you: Why did you move back to No. 20?" Tao Zutai's question came out at the same time as his wife's question. The wife obviously didn't hear clearly, but felt that her husband's voice was too high-pitched, so sharp that it pierced the ears.She stared blankly at her husband.

"When you came back, why—why did you withdraw to the No. 20 official cabin?" "Oh—oh—" the lady got up, hooking her slippers on her toes: "Is that?... Hey, later, later, quickly The ship started, and there were male guests living in the official cabins No. 30-4, and they were very frightened, like the military... I thought, after all, Mr. Zhu is an acquaintance, so I moved back." When Mrs. Tao said the second half of the sentence, she was drinking tea, although Tao Zutai's gloomy eyes did not leave her face for a second, but her expression was still the same as usual.

She wasn't lying, and she didn't think it was a big deal to "move back to No. 20". When she got home, she had long forgotten about it. Mr. Tao has lost his mind.He sat down, lowered his head, and wondered if he should ask again, for example—"What are you doing in the same room with the surname Zhu?" But Tao Zutai is not Tao Zutai if you ask these questions.As for the wife, she sat beside her quietly as usual, not talking. Finally came up with an idea, Tao Zutai sighed softly, and was about to start with "It's not a big deal for a single woman and a single man to share a room in a ship, but it's just that the surname is Zhu...". Calling "Sister A'e" came, and there was a slap in the face, Mrs. Tao responded, took a leisurely look at her husband, moved the corner of her mouth with a half-smile, and walked away lightly.