Chapter 60 smoke cloud.13

Downstairs is the ringing of cards, and upstairs is the sound of Tao Zutai's pacing.He has already walked a circle of cards.What he "studied" was still inconclusive. Suddenly his child came in softly.Tao Zutai looked at the child for a while, then knelt down, embraced the child and asked softly: "Baby, be good, and talk to Dad——Mr. Zhu, have you been here with the baby, mother, and the same boat, Mr. Zhu?" The child tilted his head, shook his head, but said, "Come here." "When did you come?" "The second half of the day." "Well, no,—what day?"

The child shook his head, but turned his small eyes a few times, and suddenly pulled Tao Zutai to the square table in front of the window, pointed to an old flannel tiger on the table and said, "Tiger, grandma hasn't bought it for the baby yet." "Is Mr. Zhu here to play cards?" "Do not hit." This answer came as a surprise to Tao Zutai, who was at his wits end and was about to ask another question, for example—"What are Mom and Mr. Zhu doing on the boat?" But the child automatically said: "Mom pays Mr. Zhu foreign money, Mr. Zhu doesn't want..."

"Well, mom won't pay it back?" "Mom doesn't want it either. The money is on the coffee table..." "Oh?" "Later, Mr. Zhu took it, and Mr. Zhu invited his mother to the theater." "Hehe,—is grandma going?" "Grandma isn't home." "Oh—is the baby going?" The child shook his head.Tao Zutai's heart beat, and there were many questions stuck in his throat, but he couldn't speak.The child climbed up a stool to get the velvet tiger.Tao Zutai handed it to the child and asked again: "Mom is going to the theater, when will you be back?"

The child was playing with a tiger and didn't answer, but he seemed to remember it, turned around, pointed to his own little bed and said: "The baby is asleep, mother comes, the baby wakes up, and mother gives the baby a piece of foreign sugar." Tao Zutai's heart trembled a little, he closed his eyes, and was speechless for a while.Opening his eyes again, the child had already left, Tao Zutai stared straight and looked around the room.He moved objects on the table aimlessly, opened a drawer aimlessly, and closed it again; he opened and closed it several times, and suddenly a voice woke him up:

"Ah! Aren't you hot when you're bored upstairs? Let's go down!" This is Mrs. Tao.Mrs. Tao's voice was a little strange this time.But Tao Zutai didn't pay attention, his wife pulled him, and he followed. The "comrades" downstairs, besides the old lady, were the two unknown female guests from yesterday.Mrs. Tao suddenly insisted that her husband take over a few times, but Mr. Tao would definitely refuse, so he sat behind his wife, just like when he was in Hankou. Mrs. Tao was originally a loser, but now she has turned "wind".She was elated.Tao Zutai, who was sitting behind her, was thinking wildly all by himself, and suddenly a thread popped out of the chaos: "My wife never asked him to play cards for me. Isn't that strange?" Is it strange to pull him down to "dissipate boredom"?

These two "monsters" made Tao Zutai unable to sit still if he realized something.He quietly walked upstairs, quietly and purposefully opened the drawers and opened the wardrobe. In the drawer of the "chamber box" in front of the bed, he saw his long letter and another letter that was not too long.He also saw several old letters from a long time ago, all of which were written to him by friends.Just as he was about to close the drawer, he casually glanced at the cover of the long letter, and suddenly remembered the mood when he wrote this long letter in Hankou.This letter is his "proud work", although it can only make his wife doze off.He dazedly picked up the heavy envelope, dazedly pulled out the letter.But to his surprise, he saw that it was not his handwriting.Looking again, his long letter is also there, but there is another letter, which is also quite long.

As soon as he saw the address at the beginning, his heart skipped a beat.He glanced down before it was too late, as if there was a tight band on his head; finally, he leaned back and fell on the bed, gritted his teeth and struggled to say a word: "It's so shameless and ugly!" Now he finally understood: not only did he understand what his wife and Mr. Zhu were doing on the boat, but he also understood what the baby said about Mr. Zhu asking his wife to go to the theater. When the baby woke up and saw his mother, it was already dawn; But he also understands that after this time, Mr. Zhu is not in Shanghai—he has gone back to his hometown.

Tao Zutai was confused and painful for a while, but he felt relieved.Now his emotions are simplified: he hates his wife and Mr. Zhu; he also despises his wife and Mr. Zhu! Finally, it became only contempt again. "Shameless! Such a letter can be written!" He thought, "The most obscene book is nothing more than this! Shameless! I can't think of her doing those ugly things. I have never seen her do that—bass!" He had a complete realization and swore to himself: "It's not worth it, it's not worth my worry, my protection! Forget it, you'll be free!"

He sat up and stared straight ahead, as if he wanted to know the room for the last time, all the furniture and everything.Mrs. Tao suddenly came in quietly.Her eyes immediately fixed on the letter in Tao Zutai's hand, at this moment her face turned slightly red.There was a sound in her mouth, which seemed to be a sigh, and she sat in a chair with her head lowered, like an imbecile elementary school student waiting for the teacher to punish her. Tao Zutai seemed to have blood all over his body pouring into his eyes, he stared at his wife, he didn't expect her to just sit silently like this, he wanted to scold, but when he cursed, he only scolded Mr Zhu:

"It's a hooligan, tearing down the white party, a beast, a dog..." The strange thing is that Mrs. Tao didn't respond to such abuse, as if she didn't know the person being scolded at all. Tao Zutai took a step closer to his wife, and said with a feeling of hatred and pity: "When I was in Hankou, how did I say it? How did I plan for you? But you didn't reveal anything! You lied to me, you lied to me for half a year!" "Heh-heh!" Mrs. Tao suddenly stood up, "In Hankou, I won't lie to you. Hey, hey, I'm like a dream, I'm like a dream."

Because it was from the side, Tao Zutai suddenly saw clearly that his wife's fatness when he first arrived last night was actually just a bulge in the lower abdomen, which was pregnant.He shivered as if he had received a needle, pointed at his wife's stomach and said with a sneer: "This is the proof. You still say you won't lie! It's not mine, it's not mine!" He turned and left.He heard his wife yell, "It's yours, it's yours!" He heard a sound, and he couldn't help but look back. His wife was crying on the table.He stopped.But then I changed my mind and kept walking.