Chapter 021 Annoyed
In her memory, the profession of a soldier always gives people a sense of security and solemnity. She used to think that Zhao Weiguo also had that kind of righteousness, but now, there is no righteousness in Zhao Weiguo, there is only an undisguised ruffian. gas.
"Xu Tao." Zhao Weiguo called Xu Tao's name with a chuckle.
"..." Xu Tao looked at her subconsciously, only to feel that her name was called a thousand times over and over again, which made people throbbing inexplicably.
"Who told you that a man who has been in the army has to be serious?"
No one said it, but subconsciously felt that soldiers should be strict, anyway, it would be completely inconsistent with Zhao Weiguo.
Xu Tao didn't answer, but Zhao Weiguo was very patient: "What are you afraid
of?" "Who is afraid!" Xu Tao was anxious, and subconsciously retorted and raised her chest, which was exactly the same as Zhao Linan's proud expression.
Zhao Weiguo chuckled again, seeing that Xu Tao was really timid and not too arrogant. He continued to stroke her wrist with his thumb, and then released his hand: "Go to sleep!"
"..." Hmm! ?
Xu Tao gave Zhao Weiguo a puzzled look, and she didn't realize what the man was trying to do. She thought that this man wanted to declare sovereignty over her today, and was going to enter the house and rectify her on the spot.
As a result, after the thunder, the dark clouds dissipated? Just let her go back to the house and sleep?
Xu Tao was stunned for a moment, she really didn't understand how things were going, but subconsciously she slipped back into the room and locked the door.
With the door closed, Xu Tao raised her hand to suppress her pounding heart, took a deep breath, and then climbed onto the bed in annoyance.
"I can bear this, isn't it a man?" Xu Tao secretly complained.
She was a little flustered, but Zhao Weiguo really spared her, and she couldn't help but feel a little lost. She didn't know why she was lost. She shook her head to shake her thoughts out, and rubbed the small stove Zhao Linan closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Zhao Weiguo stood in the same place for a long time, watching Xu Tao hurried back to the house and locked it. He couldn't hold back the chuckle at the corner of his mouth. He even wanted to tell Xu Tao that it would give her a sense of security and feel that he could take him away. The door lock that blocked the door, in his opinion, was just playing with it. He could pick it up with a small wire.
But he didn't say that he scared her almost tonight, and he gave her a proper wake-up, so that after she was mentally prepared, he still understood what it was like to be too late.
This night, Xu Tao, who has always slept well, was a little unable to sleep, thinking about what Zhao Weiguo's idea was.
In fact, she can understand Zhao Weiguo's thoughts. They are husband and wife after all. He wants to exercise the rights of a husband. Of course, she is mainly used to Zhao Weiguo's upright gentleman during this period of time, and she suddenly felt a little flustered by his ruffian side.
She had a big heart and always regarded Zhao Weiguo as a normal shared roommate, but this roommate suddenly told her today that they were husband and wife.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Tao was a little annoyed, and blamed herself for being inexplicably weak.
As a well-informed woman in later generations, she was easily teased by an old man who was retro in the 1980s, which made her look good, and how could she not be annoyed.
Angrily tossing and turning in the middle of the night, Xu Tao kicked both feet in the air, and then slowly fell asleep.
"Mom..."
Xu Tao didn't fall asleep soon, but was pushed awake by the little guy Zhao Linan, who called his mother anxiously.
"What's wrong?" Xu Tao asked the little guy, shaking his head in confusion.
"I want to pee." Zhao Linan covered his bottom with some shy hands, and hurriedly stood up and jumped on the bed: "Quick, I'm going to pee." The little guy was so anxious.
Seeing Zhao Linan's appearance, Xu Tao subconsciously got up, hugged the little guy and quickly went out to the toilet.
"Mom, it's too late." Zhao Linan had a crying expression on his face.
Xu Tao subconsciously held the little guy's hands for a while, then looked at the yard again, and quickly put the little guy down. As soon as Zhao Linan's feet landed, he immediately urinated, only three meters away from the toilet.
"..." Xu Tao didn't wake up much in the middle of the night, but after seeing the little guy released and then looking up at her in embarrassment, her sleepiness finally dissipated a lot.
"Little Ancestor, can't you endure it for another ten seconds?" Xu Tao asked amusingly, but she was also a little fortunate that the little guy knew the reminder, otherwise he might urinate on her.
"Hehe!" Zhao Linan just smiled.
Xu Tao reluctantly picked him up, because he screamed in a hurry just now, so he didn't put on shoes for him. The child stepped on the ground with bare feet to urinate.
Zhao Weiguo has always been vigilant. It may be that he has been in the military for too long. Even when he sleeps, he will be subconsciously vigilant. Xu Tao is anxious to go out of the room with Zhao Linan in his arms. Guy wakes up with pee.
"I'll beat you up next time you take a shower." There is an old saying that children play with fire and water during the day, and most of the time they have to wet the bed at night.
Zhao Linan has been obediently all night until dawn these days, and today must be because of the bathing and playfulness.
Xu Tao carried Zhao Linan in a threatening tone and walked to the sink in the yard. She also saw Zhao Weiguo, who was shirtless. Why did this man wear no clothes in the middle of the night!
She cast a gloomy look at Zhao Weiguo: "Wake up you?"
"Well, I woke up when I heard the sound." The Yangcheng side is developing fast, but it is also chaotic. The Old Eight Lane on Shuiyin Road is a residential area. It can be regarded as a relatively good place for public security, but in the middle of the night, there are often many chaotic things happening around, all kinds of fights, or some land grabs and so on.
This is why Zhao Weiguo told Xu Tao to close the doors and windows in the dark.
"Oh!" Xu Tao nodded perfunctorily, still not daring to look directly at the man.
Through the dim light in the main room, she naturally saw the man's eight-pack abs and the mermaid line that made people scream. His body was not the exaggerated muscular body of the gym later, but he would not give it to ordinary women. pressure.
"Take out the hot water bottle in the kitchen and wash Xiao Nan's feet with hot water." Xu Tao fills the hot water bottle with hot water every day when he takes a bath and boils water before going to bed.
"Okay." Zhao Weiguo walked to the kitchen with strides.
In fact, he also noticed Xu Tao's dodging eyes, secretly amusing, he didn't mean to be shirtless, it was hot in Yangcheng, and there was no fan in the house in summer, so he slept alone, so naturally he was shirtless.
He came out without thinking too much when he heard the sound just now. He originally wanted to go back to the room and put on a piece of clothes, but seeing Xu Tao's avoidance of sight, he subconsciously dismissed the idea of wearing clothes.
He is also kind, the purpose is to let her adapt in advance! As husband and wife, the two will be more intimate in the future.
Zhao Weiguo brought a hot water bottle and a foot basin according to Xu Tao's instructions. He poured the hot water into it and added cold water to wash Zhao Linan's feet.
Xu Tao hugged Zhao Linan, the little guy woke up to pee, and fell asleep after washing his feet again, and now he has fallen asleep leaning against Xu Tao's arms.
When Xu Tao was washing Zhao Linan's feet, she lowered her gaze as much as possible, reminded Zhao Weiguo to let him rush to Zhao Linan's masterpiece in the yard just now, and carried Zhao Linan back to the room. He couldn't hold back and said, "Can you put on some clothes when you're at home in the future?"
"Okay!" Zhao Weiguo couldn't help but agree with a smile.
Xu Tao heard the chuckle of the man behind her, her steps quickened, and then she bit her lip in annoyance.
"Military ruffian!" Tucao, Xu Tao quickly returned to the room to turn off the light and lock.
Zhao Weiguo leisurely filled the basin with water to wash away Zhao Linan's masterpieces in the yard, and went back to his room to rest in a good mood. He was humming a little tune in pleasure.
Xu Tao was lying on the bed, and naturally heard Zhao Weiguo's humming outside, and turned over to sleep angrily and helplessly.
Two or three hours later, the sky was bright outside, and Zhao Weiguo woke up to exercise in the morning. Xu Tao was disturbed by Zhao Linan in the middle of the night, and she was half asleep and half awake. When she heard a sound outside, she knew that Zhao Weiguo got up. After the morning exercise, I did not continue to lie down.
People were too tired to lie down, Xu Tao stretched and got up to make breakfast.
Quickly wash rice and cook porridge, then dig two salted duck eggs from the jar, and at the same time let Zhao Weiguo go out to buy a few fried dough sticks, and the breakfast will be finished.
Zhao Linan didn't get up early, the little guy was still sleeping sweetly in the room, and there were only Xu Tao and Zhao Weiguo at the dining table.
Because of Zhao Weiguo's behavior last night, Xu Tao was still a little uncomfortable after sleeping. He lowered his head and drank porridge silently throughout the whole process, searching for topics a thousand times in his head to break the embarrassment between them.
"Well, have you sent a telegram back to your hometown recently?" Both her luggage and Zhao Linan's luggage were left on the train, and they didn't carry the contact information of their hometown with them. Therefore, they have not been in contact with their hometown for the past few days.
"On the day I received you and Xiaonan, I went to the post office and sent a telegram." Zhaojia Village and Xujia Village in Fenghuang County, Wen Province are both poor villages. Some wealthy villages may have installed a telephone, but Zhaojia Village and Xujia Village The home village is not there yet. People who go out basically rely on telegrams and letters to communicate with their families.
Of course, they will leave their hometown this year, and there are not many people who even cross the province.
"Then did you tell the family about our situation?"
"No, it's not clear in the telegram." Because telegrams are expensive, the cost is calculated by the number of words, so now people send telegrams in a simple way. The explanation of the matter is not clear, and the second elder in the family must be anxious to get angry: "I will write a letter in two days!"
"You want to send a letter to tell me, and I have to write a letter to my parents' family, and you help me send it back together." Xu Tao took half a salted duck egg and said, "By the way, how long does it take to send a letter from Yangcheng back to my hometown?"
"Sending a letter from Yangcheng back to my hometown, it should take ten days for inter-provincial letters. If there are fewer letters, it may take longer. !" Zhao Weiguo is experienced in this regard.
He has been a soldier in Yangcheng for more than ten years, and his contact with his hometown is basically by writing letters. Sometimes letters can arrive in seven or eight days, and sometimes it can take as long as a month.
Chapter 022 Shanghai Stock Market
"It's really slow." Xu Tao couldn't help sighing.
She is used to carrying mobile phones with her in later generations, and the various express delivery industries that have risen. She has returned to the past eight years and realized that traffic basically depends on walking, communication basically depends on roaring, and heating basically depends on shaking. She is really not used to it.
Zhao Weiguo looked at Xu Tao's mood, and was silent for a while: "Are you homesick?"
"No."
Xu Tao said no, but Zhao Weiguo didn't believe it: "I see that you have few clothes and shoes, do you want me to buy some for you? A dress?"
She looked a little sad, wondering if buying clothes would make her happier?
Xu Tao grew up in Wenzhou since she was a child. Before coming to Yangcheng, she had never traveled far. Now, because he came to Yangcheng, he needed to get used to the environment here, and he also abandoned the familiar family and friends in his hometown. He didn't want her So unhappy.
"No." Xu Tao naturally refused.
She is not very used to the current style of clothes. She has a rustic feeling when wearing clothes, although her eyes may be quite fashionable now, just like this light yellow skirt on her body, In the past eight years when most people's clothes were not too gorgeous, it can be said to be a very temperamental dress. Therefore, Xu Tao didn't have too many strong ideas about wearing it.
"By the way, I'm going to the Shanghai stock market with the car today, and it may take a week before I come back." Zhao Weiguo was full, and watched Xu Tao eat breakfast leisurely, but he didn't want to disappoint but said it anyway.
"Go to the Shanghai market, why did you say it now?" Xu Tao looked at Zhao Weiguo in surprise and asked.
"There are not many people in the company who can drive a big car. This trip to the Shanghai market was a temporary decision yesterday. I ordered a batch of pagers and tape recorders from the Shanghai market. I can get a few hundred yuan for a trip back. "Zhao Weiguo didn't hide Xu Tao's thoughts.
"Hundreds of dollars? That's a lot!"
In the current situation where wages are generally dozens of dollars, Zhao Weiguo can get a few hundred dollars in more than a week for one trip. No wonder they say that transportation is rich. Really rich!
"Then you can go!" Xu Tao's eyes became bright, and she spoke in a rather financial-obsessed way. For the sake of money, other things seemed to be of little importance.
"Take care of yourself and Xiaonan, and close the doors and windows when it's dark." Zhao Weiguo explained that he used to be on assignments in the army, and the time of return was uncertain, but he had never tasted the worry of leaving.
"I know."
"I'm not at home, so don't sleep too deeply at night." She was a weak woman with a two- or three-year-old child who slept soundly at night. If someone touched the door, she probably didn't know.
On the first day she entered her room, Zhao Weiguo knew that she usually didn't have much security awareness.
"...Huh?" Xu Tao looked at Zhao Weiguo suspiciously, as if he didn't understand why Zhao Weiguo said such a sentence on purpose, and always felt that the man seemed to be implying something to her.
"What do you mean don't sleep too deeply?" Can people still control their sleep quality?
"I'll be back as soon as possible. If anyone asks, don't tell me I'm going far away. Try not to go out after seven o'clock after dinner." Zhao Weiguo couldn't help worrying.
"Okay." Xu Tao felt Zhao Weiguo's seriousness, and knew that Yangcheng was influenced by some foreign cultures. During the period around the 1980s, some gangs in Yangcheng seemed to be quite famous, and naturally understood why Zhao Weiguo warned like this. . "I'll call back when I arrive at Shanghai Stock Exchange. You can go to the phone booth
at the entrance of the alley at four o'clock in the evening the day after tomorrow."
, it is cheaper to answer, and more expensive to make calls across provinces.
"Okay, you pay attention to safety on the road, don't drive fatigue, I will take Xiaonan at home." Xu Tao responded to him seriously.
"Well." Zhao Weiguo saw that Xu Taoyou heard his words in his ears, so he felt relieved, and before leaving, he casually packed up two sets of clothes and took them away.
As soon as Zhao Weiguo left, Xu Tao lost her appetite to continue eating breakfast. She warmed the porridge prepared for Zhao Linan in a large kitchen pot, and started writing a novel with a pen and a notebook.
Zhao Linan slept for a long time, and at 9:00 in the morning, the little guy woke up and climbed out of bed by himself: "Mom." He called out in a soft voice, and then climbed onto Xu Tao's knees with both hands and feet.
Xu Tao stretched out her hand to pick up the little guy and put it on her lap and sat down, holding his back with one hand and rubbing his head with the other: "Wake up, are you hungry? Mom made porridge."
"Yeah." Nodding his head , the little guy didn't plan to get off Xu Tao's knee.
"Then mother will take you to wash your face and brush your teeth." Xu Tao looked at the little guy who was relying on her, but she had a good temper. She picked up the little guy with both hands and walked out, and then cleaned the little guy.
Zhao Linan usually washes his face by himself, but today he is lazily relying on Xu Tao to act like a spoiled child, which also makes Xu Tao's heart soft, so he has to help him wash.
"Ah! Open your mouth, drink water, rinse your mouth, and spit it out."
"Ah! Gudu!" Zhao Linan took a mouthful of mouthwash, and then the little guy deliberately swallowed it in his stomach: "Hehe." The cute little baby turned back and rushed With Xu Tao showing an innocent and naughty smile.
"Stinky boy, did you deliberately make trouble with your mother? Just rinse your mouth and eat." Xu Tao pinched Zhao Linan's face, and the little guy just slapped his skin. He washed up obediently, and then sat at the table for breakfast.
Xu Tao accompanies him to breakfast, while holding a pen and writing a novel sentence by sentence.
"Mom..."
"Huh?" Xu Tao looked at the little guy and responded with a nasal voice.
"Mom!" The little guy continued to laugh, as if he was deliberately telling her to wait for her response.
"What's wrong? It's not honest to eat, right?"
"Hehe." Xu Tao asked, and the little guy laughed at Xu Tao again.
Xu Tao was called out by the little guy, knowing that the little guy was just waking up in a good mood, so he showed his nature as a child.
Xu Tao likes to see changes like Zhao Linan's, but she can't help but feel a little worried. She always feels that this little ancestor will give her a headache in the future. After all, this little guy is too smart, and smart children often don't give people peace of mind. .
"Eat obediently." Xu Tao gestured to him with majestic eyes.
"Xiao Nan, we're going to play hide-and-seek, Xiao Zhi is a ghost, do you want to play it!" Just then, Shi Shi appeared at the gate of the yard with a few children, who was asking Zhao Linan who was in the room with a loud voice.
"Yes." Zhao Linan replied in a hurry, and finally started to eat breakfast honestly holding the sea bowl.
"Eat slowly." Xu Tao knew that he was in a hurry to play, and reminded softly as he watched him gobble.
Zhao Linan's playfulness was aroused, and after eating three mouthfuls, he slid off the stool by himself: "Mom, I'm going to play." Leaving a word happily, his short legs rushed out.
Seeing his energetic appearance, Xu Tao chuckled and shook her head. She cleaned up Zhao Linan's rice bowl and washed it in the kitchen before continuing to write novels.
She writes books very fast. She is going to start with 40,000 to 50,000 words and mail them to publishing houses and newspapers. However, because there is no computer to type, all the plots have to be written by hand. Therefore, Xu Tao will write the first draft at will, and then copy it. Send the content in correct handwriting once to the post.
In the afternoon, Xu Tao, who was addicted to writing, put the pen aside, relaxed his eyes, and walked around the yard. At the same time, while the sun went down, he watered the budding greens, eggplants, cucumbers, etc., and the sun was shining all day. , these vegetables are a little wilted.
After pouring vegetables Xu Tao, he started to cook dinner. When it was time for dinner, Zhao Linan, who was playing wildly outside, ran home by himself.
"Mom, I'm hungry."
"Dinner will be ready soon." Xu Tao fry a small green vegetable and took it out. Seeing Zhao Linan following her, she stopped in a funny way.
The weather was hot and she had no appetite. Zhao Weiguo went to the Shanghai market again. With just two people, she was not very interested in cooking, so she discussed with Zhao Linan: "I will make small green vegetables today, and my mother will cook you an egg custard to eat, okay? Okay?"
"Okay."
"Go to the yard and get a washbasin. Mom will fill you with hot water to wash your hands and face, and then you can eat." Xu Tao reminded the little guy again.
"Hmm." Zhao Linan obediently moved his short legs and went into the kitchen with the washbasin.
Xu Tao filled the washbasin with hot water: "Can Xiaonan hold it? Or is it my mother's help?"
Zhao Linan looked at the washbasin, the little guy was a little tangled, pouted and seemed to want to rely on himself to carry the washbasin out. Then she shook her head at Xu Tao: "Xiao Nan can do it."
"Okay! Then you should be careful." Xu Tao was also big-hearted. She didn't put too much water in the washbasin, and she also liked to cultivate the little guy's ability to be independent. If he was willing to clean it himself, Xu Tao basically didn't plan to help.
The child now has the mind to do the cleaning by himself. If she intervenes to help, it will greatly affect the enthusiasm of the child.
Zhao Linan held the washbasin and swayed for a long time. The water in the washbasin was also spilled, and the clothes on his body were also wet, but the little guy was very happy. He wiped his face and hands with his small towel and washed his hands. Just ran to the kitchen to show off.
"Mom, look." The two fat little arms were raised, and the fingers were spread out.
"Xiao Nan is awesome." Xu Tao added firewood to the stove and put a bowl of eggs into the pot to steam. Seeing Zhao Linan coming in, she hugged the little guy and praised her.
"Hehe." Zhao Linan, who was praised, smiled at Xu Taole.
The dinner was very simple. Xu Tao also followed Zhao Weiguo's instructions. As soon as it got dark, he immediately locked the courtyard door. He usually took Zhao Linan to bed. Zhao Weiguo occasionally came back late, even twice. When did he come back, she I don't know, but she's not afraid of being nervous either.
But today, knowing that Zhao Weiguo went to the Shanghai stock market, she took Zhao Linan at home. As soon as it got dark, for some unknown reason, she became uneasy for no reason. She coaxed Zhao Linan to sleep, and Xu Tao thought about taking a firewood as thick as a baseball bat and put it in the house. The bedside in the room, sleeping at night, is not like before, sleeping very solidly, always in a state of preparedness.
Chapter 023 Phone
Zhao Weiguo's first night in Shanghai went to Shanghai without incident, and Xu Tao's nervousness after being reminded by Zhao Weiguo also disappeared.
The days were normal and warm, but Zhao Weiguo was suddenly not at home, and both Xu Tao and Zhao Linan were a little uncomfortable, Zhao Linan was the most obvious, the little guy asked Xu Tao suspiciously after not seeing his father for two days.
"Where's Dad?" Zhao Linan usually goes to bed early and wakes up late, so he doesn't have much time to see Zhao Weiguo.
But for two days in a row, he didn't even see his father's shadow when he got up early and at dinner, so the little guy was naturally puzzled.
"Dad went to work!" Xu Tao replied casually.
She still remembered Zhao Weiguo's exhortation that Zhao Linan was just a child, and there was no need to explain Zhao Weiguo's whereabouts to him, so as to save the little guy's mouth.
"Oh!" Zhao Linan didn't continue to ask, and didn't think Xu Tao would lie to him.
Xu Tao didn't think it was wrong to perfunctory the child. When the child was full and played in the alley, she continued to write novels, and she seemed to be quite free every day.
After three o'clock in the evening, Xu Tao changed into a suit and went out to answer Zhao Weiguo's call.
"Xiao Nan, mom is going to make a phone call, are you going?" Xu Tao closed the doors and windows, and when he came out, he asked the little guy who played games with Shitou and the others.
This group of children in the alley is very good to pass the time. Every day, there are different games to pass the time. Yesterday, hide-and-seek, today hopscotch, and the small games are extremely enjoyable.
"Huh?" Xiao Nan looked at Xu Tao with a tangled face.
Xu Tao didn't bother the little guy, so she went to answer the phone, it shouldn't take too long: "Be good and play with your brothers, mother go by yourself, you can't run around, you know?"
She is not always the same these days. I stared at the little guy all the time. At first, I was afraid that it would be unsafe to play in the alleys. I would come out from time to time to check the situation. Now I feel a lot more relieved, especially after chatting with Fan Qiumei, the mother of Stone next door, knowing that she is not only at dinner time to say hello to Stone. Other than that, he doesn't care about him at other times.
Xu Tao was not as big-hearted as Fan Qiumei, but she was not worried when she went to answer a phone call.
"Hmm." Zhao Linan nodded.
Xu Tao patted his little head, and went to the phone booth at Laoba Alley on Shuiyin Road to answer the phone, saying it was a phone booth, but in fact it was just a simple little stand with a telephone set on it, and a middle-aged man sitting there. The man pays the fee, and the fee is written on a piece of paper next to it,
one yuan per minute for making calls, and five yuan per minute for answering the phone.
Zhao Weiguo was very punctual, Xu Tao just stood next to the phone booth for a while, the phone booth rang, and the middle-aged man picked it up and looked at Xu Tao.
"Is Xu Tao there?" Although the phone booth was simple, it was a small coordinate point, so there were a few people standing beside it.
"Yes, I am." Xu Tao replied immediately.
"Your phone." The middle-aged man put down the receiver: "You are answering a long distance. If you answer more than two minutes, you will be charged 20 cents.
" Put the receiver to his ear to answer: "Hello."
"Xu Tao, it's me." Zhao Weiguo's voice came over, and the voice was not as clear as there, and it changed a bit.
"Well, are you here?"
"Arrived."
"..." Xu Tao was silent for not knowing what to say.
Zhao Weiguo also paused: "The Shanghai market is very prosperous, I have the opportunity to bring you and Xiaonan to play."
"Okay!"
"Then I'll hang up."
"Well." Xu Tao naturally nodded.
The conversation between the two was very brief. They received a dollar for more than a minute. After Xu Tao paid, he walked to the canteen across the street. There were not many things sold in the canteen, but there was a foam box at the door with the words on it. Popsicle two characters.
"Boss, how much is a popsicle?"
"Five cents for the original flavor and eight cents for the cream flavor." The boss immediately opened the foam box, and then lifted the thick quilt in the foam box.
Xu Tao was stunned when she heard the time-sharing: "Give me six original popsicles."
"Okay." The boss counted six popsicles and handed them to Xu Tao. After Xu Tao paid the money, he took the popsicles and went home while eating.
When Xu Tao finished eating an ice lolly, she just walked back to Laoba Alley and saw a group of children having a good time, all dancing sweaty.
"I've eaten popsicles. Auntie bought them." Xu Tao greeted the children when she saw that the popsicles were about to melt.
When Xu Tao came back, several children noticed it, and when they heard Xu Tao say ice lolly, the eyes of several children lit up, and then swarms rushed towards Xu Tao.
"Ice popsicles!"
Several children were greedy. These children were all familiar with Xu Tao. Recently, they were either eating snacks or xiaolongbao, and they have long lost their politeness.
Xu Tao counted the popsicles bought by the head, and divided one for each person. The last remaining one was given to Zhao Linan. The little guy was the youngest and cutest. When she distributed it to other children, he watched obediently without being in a hurry or domineering. Xu Tao was delighted to be small. The guy's generosity, he carefully opened the transparent thin plastic paper on the popsicle to the little guy.
"It's delicious."
"Mmmmm, it's so sweet."
Several children began to lick the popsicles, praising the popsicles in various ways.
"It's hot, you don't want to go out in the sun, you know?" Xu Tao saw that the children were having a good time, and after a casual exhortation, she went home and continued to write the novel "Fate Come So Close".
Today, the novel has already written 20,000 to 30,000 words at the beginning, and after a few days of writing, it can be mailed to the publishing house.
"Wow! I want to eat popsicles, grandma, I want to eat popsicles." Lin Xiaoqiang next door was crying loudly.
"Hmph! Xiaoqiang doesn't have popsicles! Oh!" Shitou's deliberately mocking voice was not small.
Sitting in the room, Xu Tao roughly heard the conversation and knew what was going on outside. Don't think about it, it must be Lin Xiaoqiang from the Lin family next door who was greedy and crying!
Sure enough, within a while, the mean voice of the old lady of the Lin family came: "You little bastards, don't get away, you are greedy for my little strong, immoral things every day.
" He pretended to be vomiting, and then swarmed to Xu Tao's house.
Xu Tao saw the children running into the yard, sitting in a row on the threshold of the yard, eating ice cream while deliberately provoking Lin Xiaoqiang, just thought it was fun.
Xu Tao sat in the small living room and didn't go out when she could see a few children. She smiled and continued to write novels, and she didn't mind that the children continued to feud with the old lady of the Lin family next door.
...
The weather was hot, and Zhao Weiguo went to Shanghai for six days in a flash.
Xu Tao solves the mother and son's three meals a day every day, and writes novels in her free time. The number of words in "Fate Come So Close" has also increased from more than 30,000 to more than 50,000 words.
After finishing the novel, Xu Tao went out and mailed it.
The post office on Shuiyin Road is not far away. It takes about ten minutes to walk from Laoba Alley, and you can reach it by bypassing a zoo next to it.
Xu Tao had already finished arranging the manuscripts and the like, and copied the mailing address. He took the mailing list and filled in the address in detail, and then went to the window to mail it.
"Humph!" When Xu Tao was standing at the window, she heard a light hum, and when she looked at the sound, she saw Lin Fang sitting at the window next to her, with an arrogant expression.
Xu Tao glanced at her and didn't care, and smiled at the female staff member at the window in front of her: "Excuse me."
"Yes." These staff members are somewhat arrogant these days. He looks average, but his attitude is extremely impatient.
Xu Tao didn't care. After mailing the things according to the procedures, he was ready to go home.
"Stop!" Lin Fang was very upset with Xu Tao's attitude, she stood at the window and called to Xu Tao.
Xu Tao heard it but pretended not to hear it.
"Hello!" Lin Fang raised her voice, and everyone in the post office looked at her.
Xu Tao couldn't help rolling her eyes, and then she stopped and turned back: "Is something wrong?"
"..." Lin Fang stared angrily, she saw Xu Tao stop, stood up very upset, and passed the glass small Window, through a railing-style door next to it.
"Why haven't I seen Big Brother Zhao recently?" Lin Fang still knew the taboos, her tone of inquiry was obviously lowered, and she looked around with a guilty conscience.
Ah! Xu Tao's eyes did not converge, she looked at Lin Fang like she was looking at the goods, and then sneered: "You still care about my man."
"..." Lin Fang stared at Xu Tao angrily.
She doesn't know what's wrong with herself? Knowing that Zhao Weiguo is getting married, she should give up, but she is not reconciled.
These days, she couldn't help pinching her to get off work every day. She just wanted to meet Zhao Weiguo just like that day. She didn't want to, but she couldn't help but want to see him and talk to him.
But for several days, her expectations were all in vain, and she even deliberately looked into the yard a few times, but didn't see him!
Her heart seemed to be scratching her head for a few days. When she saw Xu Tao today, her urge to ask could not be suppressed.
"You take care of me." Lin Fang rolled her eyes and Xu Tao retorted.
Xu Tao simply clicked her tongue in amazement. She could see Lin Fang's thoughts. This woman did not hide her purpose at all, but what left Xu Tao speechless was that she could question her confidently, as if they had reversed each other's identities. Now, do you want to know three and be three?
Xu Tao snorted softly: "You are really the Lin family." Just as brazen and blatant as Mrs. Lin.
"I'm asking you something! Don't tell me something." Lin Fang urged impatiently.
Xu Tao's eyes and attitude somewhat stimulated her.
"Am I your mother?"
"What do you mean by you!" Lin Fang glared at Xu Tao, feeling angry at Xu Tao's ignorance.
"I'm not your mother! Then why should I answer all your questions!" Xu Tao sneered, turned around and left sarcastically.
"Stop for me." Lin Fang wanted to get angry and shouted fiercely.
However, Xu Tao ignored her, and walked away without paying attention to whether Lin Fang was standing in the same place with smoke coming from his head.
However, her good mood when she went out to mail novels fell to the bottom of the valley when she encountered this wonderful flower. To Xu Tao, Lin Fang was like a mosquito. It buzzed in your ear and didn't bite you, but it disgusted you!
Chapter 024 Quarrel
Xu Tao came out of the post office and went to buy some vegetables to go home. It was only when she walked to the entrance of the alley that she saw a lot of people standing in front of the house, looking at something wrong, Xu Tao subconsciously accelerated her pace.
Because Zhao Linan was young and the scene was chaotic, he stood on the outermost side, and when he saw Xu Tao, the little guy ran in the direction of Xu Tao: "Mom."
"Xiao Nan." Xu Tao looked up and down at the little guy, but found nothing wrong , and then bent down and hugged him with confidence.
Zhao Linan put both hands around Xu Tao's neck and leaned into her ear: "Mom, quarrel."
Xu Tao raised her eyebrows suspiciously when she heard the little guy, and looked at Mrs. Lin who was yelling. She would be standing in the alley. Angrily pointed at Stone's mother Fan Qiumei: "Fan Qiumei, you have no conscience, you will pay me 20 yuan for the bride price. If you don't pay, I will go to your house and eat and drink yours.
" Mrs. Lin, you are so funny!" Fan Qiumei was so angry that she held her stomach with one hand and panted, "No one in our Old Eighty Alley knows what you are like, that second sister Tian doesn't look down on your second child Lin. What's the matter with me, what's the point of you blaming me?"
"Besides, you didn't tell me when you went to your house to propose marriage. I carried a pound of pork and a pound of dried noodles, and I wanted to use this broken thing for a daughter-in-law. Come back, Rentian's family is not a vegetarian. If you don't let you succeed, you come back to piss me off. You didn't bring your things to my house. You have the ability to ask Tian's family to return it and ask me for twenty dollars as a betrothal gift. Tell you, I won't pay you a dime." Fan Qiumei didn't back down with a big belly.
"It's not your fault, it's the matchmaker for the line security you went to lead." Old Madam Lin pointed at Fan Qiumei, her right hand was beating hard on her chest, and she looked like she was about to faint: "You just have to pay me money."
"What do I call a matchmaker? It's obviously your family who fell in love with the second sister Tian. You think she's stupid, so you come and ask me to be a middleman. I thought, we are all neighbors, and I happen to know the Tian family too. Man, I kindly wanted to help you run a trip, but the man didn't give you the right words, so you brought something and said to propose a marriage, I really laughed out my teeth!" Fan Qiumei regretted it very much.
"What, I came to ask you to be the middleman, from the beginning to the end, it was you who matched my second child, and it was also what you said in front of me that Tian Ermei could work and have a son, and I reluctantly agreed, otherwise what would my second child be? People can't marry, so do they have to find that second sister Tian? I think it's you and their family who colluded to deceive my family." Mrs. Lin never suffered a loss. It was the first time she took the initiative to take something out, but she lost everything. The daughter-in-law didn't get it either, but instead lost a pound of pork and a pound of dried noodles.
"Oh, what a joke. Your family is so poor, is there anything else you can cheat?" Fan Qiumei sneered, not intending to entangle with Mrs. Lin: "Stone, we're going home."
"Okay." .
She didn't intend to talk to the old lady of the Lin family at first, but since everyone was neighbors, she had been forbearing, but the old lady of the Lin family was relying on her.
Xu Tao hugged Zhao Linan, and after listening to what Fan Qiumei said, she probably knew the reason for the incident, and she was amazed.
To be honest, she had a very bad impression of the Lin family. She couldn't even think of what kind of family would raise a daughter like Lin Fang. Mrs. Lin herself was the best. Peach's cognition of the so-called superb.
Really, the best litter is all piled up in the Lin family! Thinking about it, Xu Tao turned around with Zhao Linan in her arms and prepared to go home.
"No, you are not allowed to leave, you will pay me the pork noodle money!" Old lady Lin refused to suffer, and stepped forward to grab Fan Qiumei's wrist.
"Let go, you must have a bottom line to take advantage. Don't be a faceless person of your age." Fan Qiumei shook off old lady Lin's hand.
The old lady Lin didn't look pale and thin, but the old lady had a lot of strength. She grabbed Fan Qiumei, but Fan Qiumei couldn't shake her off at all, and she almost fell with her big belly.
"You mad woman, you are trying to kill me and the child in my womb!" Fan Qiumei reluctantly stopped in panic.
Several neighbors around were also frightened, including Xu Tao. After all, Fan Qiumei almost fell down just now, and she had a big belly. If she fell, she might be killed.
"You pay me, or this will never end." Mrs. Lin continued to insist.
"Haha, I really have never seen someone as shameless and skinless as you." Fan Qiumei replied coldly, looking at the old lady Lin's eyes and becoming extremely disgusted: "I warn you, don't try to take a single cent. I can't pay you the money. Besides, I advise you to let go of my hand, otherwise I will have something wrong, and my Fan family wants you to look good!"
Fan Qiumei is also confident, there are few Sun family members, and Sun Tonghai's parents died early, but she There are many family members of her family, Fan, and if something happened to her, this old lady Lin might regret it.
"Mom, forget it." Second Lin, the second son of the old lady of the Lin family, came out of the house with a downcast face, shrugged his head and didn't dare to look at the neighbors around him.
"What's the matter? Are those things just like that?" Old Mrs. Lin also knew that the Fan family was a big family, but she still felt bad for something, clapping her legs and crying unwillingly, "You useless bastard, you are even a woman. I can't figure it out, I told you to put Tian Ermei to sleep, but you dare not, what's the use of me giving birth to you and raising you so much."
"..." Lin Lao Er just bowed his head and let the old lady scold you. .
Xu Tao was already sighing at Lin Fang's behavior. It was 1983. In this age, he dared to know the third and be the third. It was shameless. Now, when he heard the words of Mrs. Lin instigating her son, she immediately rolled her eyes to the sky. up.
Excellent! This kind of top quality is really rare in the world, and it really proves the old saying that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked.
Xu Tao shook her head and fled home. The other neighbors in the surrounding alleys went out to watch the excitement and slipped away. After all, they all knew what Mrs. Lin was like, but they didn't want to be stained, so everyone dispersed in tacit understanding.
A group of playful children were also brought home by adults. In the alleys outside, there was only Mrs. Lin who was not ashamed to abuse her son, and by the way, cursed Fan Qiumei.
...
In the evening, Xu Tao brought Zhao Linan to water the small green cabbage seedlings. The weather was hot, and the vegetables grew very fast. The small shoots that appeared before Zhao Weiguo went to the Shanghai market have grown a few centimeters taller. In ten days and a half months, you can pinch some fresh and tender vegetables to eat.
"Mom, that's great!" Zhao Linan poured a little water on the vegetable seedlings and turned around to ask Xu Tao for praise.
"Well, mom is great!" Xu Tao nodded in agreement.
The little guy was waiting for Xu Tao to praise him, but when he heard Xu Tao's praise, he somehow felt that something was not right. He puffed out his cheeks and patted his chest: "It's Xiao Nan Bang!"
Pfft! Seeing Zhao Linan's cute appearance, Xu Tao couldn't help laughing: "Well, my Xiaonan is so good, she will help her mother to water Caicai."
"Mmmm! Xiaonan Gang." Zhao Linan was praised, and then he showed his little white teeth with satisfaction.
"Okay, come over here, will my mother make cold noodles for Xiaonan today?" Zhao Weiguo was away from home, so there was one less person to eat, and Xu Tao's cooking weight was reduced. Zhao Linan was still a little boy, so he always ate it. Not much, Xu Tao also has a small appetite.
Xu Tao was a little too lazy to cook. In recent days, he has been thinking of ways to make some food, which is simple and does not take much time.
"Hmm." Zhao Linan didn't actually know what cold noodles were, but out of blind trust in Xu Tao, the little guy nodded with a smile.
The two happily finished their dinner. Zhao Linan was very enthusiastic about Xu Tao's cold noodles and ate it with a bulging belly.
"Mom, a story." Zhao Weiguo was not at home recently, and Xu Tao and the children were at home. When Xu Tao was bored at night, he told the little guy a bedtime story to pass the time.
Zhao Linan is a very ghostly child. After hearing the story on the first day, he fell asleep without going to bed in the past few days, making a noise to hear the story.
Xu Tao found something for herself to do, and also broke the child's well-behaved sleeping schedule. She was deeply annoyed, but she still told him stories in a low voice, until the little guy fell asleep unconsciously after listening to the story.
Seeing that the little guy was asleep, Xu Tao also turned off the light and lay down.
Zhao Weiguo has been going to the Shanghai stock market for six days. He said that after a week, he should be able to come back tomorrow.
I don't know why, but Xu Tao knew that Zhao Weiguo was coming back, and his heart felt a lot more at ease.
At night, there was a squeak outside, and Xu Tao fell asleep with the sound of insects, but at eleven or twelve, a faint sound was vaguely heard. She was in a deep sleep, and she turned over and was about to go back to sleep, but she opened her eyes in fright, the confusion disappeared instantly, and her heart began to beat because of the sound.
In her sleep just now, she seemed to hear someone jumping over the wall and entering the yard. She would prick up her ears and hear footsteps.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Tao stretched out her hand and touched the wooden stick placed by the bed. She slowly got up and walked to the door, holding the stick carefully to listen to the voices outside, thinking that if the thief dared to break into the house, she would be killed. The stick knocked him out.
Kacha Kacha -
In the darkness, Xu Tao's eyes saw that the door handle was turned a few times, but the thief did not keep quiet.
"Fuck! Bitch!" The person outside the door scolded a swear word.
Xu Tao frowned in panic. She leaned against the door, so she also heard the swearing outside, and her heart was directly raised in her throat.
Pa-ta-
suddenly along the light under the door, Xu Tao saw that the lights in the small living room outside were turned on, and the thieves who climbed over the wall and broke into other people's houses in the middle of the night dared to turn on the lights openly?
"Open the door!!! Uh!" After the light was turned on, the door to Xu Tao's bedroom slammed again the next moment.
Xu Tao panicked, holding the stick, and felt terrible for the daring man outside, who broke into other people's houses openly, and even turned on the lights and even slammed the door directly. What is this for?
Even if there is no surveillance video all over the world these days, no one dares to be so arrogant! But the man outside continued to pat the door, and Xu Tao didn't dare to open the door to find out.
Chapter 025
There was a lot of noise in the small living room outside the house, and the people who came were quite arrogant. Xu Tao nervously held the stick against the wall and took a deep breath. She looked at Zhao Linan, who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, thinking about how to deal with it. The hand holding the stick couldn't bear it. Live trembling.
Xu Tao asked herself that she was not a timid person, but she didn't know how to calm down.
It was a man who broke in from outside. Once she opened the door, the chance of her defeating the other party was very small, so she absolutely could not open the door.
Papapa——
Xu Tao's nerves were tense and her ears were pricked up. She was in a panic. Suddenly, the glass window of the room connected to the kitchen corridor was slammed. When Xu Tao looked up, she saw a man's distorted face lying on his back. on the window.
abnormal! ! !
"..." Xu Tao was so frightened by the twisted face that she stopped breathing.
Dong Dong Dong -
The heart is like a thunder drum, the sound is so loud that it seems to jump out of the chest at any time.
When Xu Tao fell asleep, she did not completely close the hanging curtains, but left a slit on purpose. The man's face was against the glass, his hands were on his eyes, and by the moonlight outside, he looked at the room and saw that he was standing in the room. Xu Taohou, who was holding a wooden stick by the door, showed an evil smile.
"Hehehe..."
The man at the window let out a penetrating laugh, making Xu Tao's legs instantly weak at night. She was holding a wooden stick, and the mainland couldn't help but feel a little despair.
Damn, the man outside is a big pervert, and he actually put on a horror movie for her. The scene of his face slammed into the glass is enough to make her feel a shadow, and she was watching the principal in a movie called "The Furnace" by herself when she watched a certain Bangzi Kingdom alone. Same.
The scene of the toilet looking down could not be easily erased in her mind.
Clap clap...
The window was clacked again, and the man was lying on the window: "Little widow, open the door for brother!"
"...?" Xu Yu bit his lip blankly, holding a big wooden stick with his backhand to turn on the light in the room. Since the other party found out that she was at home, she didn't plan to continue hiding. She glared at the man outside and asked, "Who are you and why? Breaking into my house at night?"
"Who am I, I am your future love brother." The man smiled pervertedly, his expression very disgusting.
Xu Yun didn't dare to get too close to the window. After turning on the light, he could see the people outside clearly. The man was a little ugly. He had yellow teeth and looked very wretched.
"I don't know you!" Xu Yu said firmly.
She has a good memory and basically knows everyone she has met, and she is pretty sure she doesn't know this person.
"I'll get to know you later! Open the door, brother, I'm about to die!" The man blushed and stepped back, while burping.
It looks like he has been drinking a lot!
Seeing the man, Xu Yu felt disgusted, grabbing the wooden stick and threatening him: "You are breaking into the house privately, I can call the police and arrest you."
"Bitch, I see you are pitiful, and I came to give you some money with good intentions, you Do you still want to call the police?" The man shook his head a little unsteadily, and when he heard Xu Fu say calling the police, his reaction was very strong, and it could be seen that he was quite disgusted by the word "calling the police".
"I tell you, you open the door honestly and let me in. If I'm happy today, I'll give you some money to spend, otherwise how can you support your son as a widow!" The man propped the window with one hand and spat beside him, With a proud tone.
"I'm not a widow, I have a man!"
"I'm not a widow, bah! I've been watching you for several days, and you bring a kid in and out every day, and you don't see a man." The man stared at you Don't lie to my look.
He has been staring at her for several days. She is a beautiful woman and a two- or three-year-old kid who came in and out. He also specifically asked Lin Fang next door, and the woman also said that the new neighbor brought her own children. Never heard of any man!
He only came boldly when he learned that there was no man in this family. Anyway, there was only one woman and a child. He was not afraid at all. As long as he was finished, he would naturally be honest.
"Who told you that I'm a widow?" Xu Yu felt that if it wasn't for some reason, this man couldn't be so bold and arrogant.
"Mom!" The conversation between Xu Tao and the man, Zhao Linan on the bed fell asleep but woke up. The little guy sat on the bed in a daze, looking at Xu Tao and calling.
"Xiao Nan." Xu Tao grabbed the stick and walked to the side of the bed, and patted Zhao Linan's little head soothingly: "Don't be afraid! Mom is
here!" When Zhao Linan woke up, he smiled and showed his big yellow teeth, and patted the window scarily.
"Mom..." Zhao Linan was a little scared when he saw the man, and the child didn't understand what happened. He just leaned against Xu Tao's arms.
Xu Tao patted Zhao Linan on the back and looked at the man outside with a defensive gaze.
"You'd better get out quickly, or I will call someone and you will have to go to prison." Xu Tao warned the people outside.
She only warned the other party for the safety of herself and Zhao Linan. It would be best if she could scare away the people outside. She would definitely not be able to beat him.
Xu Tao also really did not expect that people would be so courageous these days. Without the world of big data surveillance, and the lights and cameras that can be seen everywhere, people seem to be very lawless.
"I'm afraid!" The man didn't take Xu Tao's threat seriously.
Bang -
just at this moment, a sound came from the corner of the yard, and a figure jumped down neatly, carrying things in large and small bags.
Xu Tao hugged Zhao Linan and looked out the window. When she saw Zhao Weiguo, her nose became sore. She had been brave before. After all, if she was scared, it would only make it easier for the perverted man outside to act, so she kept reminding herself not to be afraid. do not be afraid.
But when Zhao Weiguo climbed over the wall and came in, Xu Tao's heart was relieved when she mentioned her throat, panting, and her eyes were red.
I really want to throw myself into a man's arms! Xu Tao had never felt that Zhao Weiguo was so handsome for a moment. At this moment, he really felt that Zhao Weiguo was particularly handsome.
"Dad!" Xiao Nan immediately smiled and spoke to Xu Tao.
The man outside the window turned around when he heard the sound. He didn't hear Zhao Linan calling his father in a low voice, so when he saw Zhao Weiguo, he immediately narrowed his eyes: "No wonder you hate me, it turns out that you already have a relationship.
" He should have panicked when he arrived, but on second thought, he was even more arrogant.
This person also came in through the wall. Obviously, the little widow has some unclear relationship. Since everyone is a fellow man, he has nothing to be afraid of.
In order to prevent him from publicizing it, the little widow might have to be tortured by him honestly. Thinking of this, the man who drank alcohol became hot all over.
" Who are you
"I'm Xiao Baogui, a member of the Green Gang, and the area around Laoba Alley is my territory." The man raised his hand and buckled his teeth, his face arrogant: "You are also a good friend of this little widow?"
"The Green Gang?" Zhao Weiguo With the word Qing Gang in his mouth, he immediately put down the bag he was carrying, turned to approach the man, and kicked the man to his knees with one kick.
Zhao Weiguo moved very neatly. Xu Tao hugged Zhao Linan and looked outside through the window, and also saw Zhao Weiguo's neat skills.
Chill out! ! !
Xu Tao knew that Zhao Weiguo used to be a soldier, but at this moment, he truly realized that Zhao Weiguo's undisguised domineering, a man who has been a soldier is really fucking handsome!
"Running to my house at night to scare my wife and children?" Zhao Weiguo kicked the person on the ground, grabbed the other person's collar with one hand, and waved his fist down.
The words that came out of the man's mouth were unpleasant, and he thought about what situation Xu Tao and Zhao Linan would face if he didn't come back in time. He was still holding it tightly in his hand and didn't have time to let it go.
Time to freak out! Zhao Weiguo thought distressedly, the beating action became more and more fierce.
"...Ah!" The sound of fisting to the flesh was accompanied by a miserable cry.
Xu Tao returned to her senses, held Zhao Linan to unlock the door of the room, and hurriedly walked out, only to see Zhao Weiguo unilaterally kicking the perverted man on the ground, directly beating him to the death.
"Zhao Weiguo." Xu Tao whispered to him.
Zhao Weiguo stopped and turned around, pushing the garbage-like man away, and approaching with a very secure pace, his eyes flicked over his son's face, the little guy was still in good spirits, but Xu Tao, whose beautiful face could not be hidden. She was terrified, her eyes were even red: "Scared?"
"Hmm." Xu Tao nodded.
Could she not be frightened? She suddenly came to break into a pervert at night. Fortunately, he just came back. She didn't dare to think about what would happen to her and what would happen to Zhao Linan if Zhao Weiguo didn't come back in time.
There are many scenes of tragedies in this year, and many tragedies have ended without a hitch.
Because the investigative techniques are not in place, once the crime is absconded, the probability of being caught is not high.
"Dad." Zhao Linan rubbed his eyes.
"Yeah." Zhao Weiguo raised his hand and touched his son's head: "Come in! I'll handle the matter."
Zhao Weiguo didn't even ask Xu Tao anything, he just comforted Xu Tao and asked Xu Tao to bring Zhao Linan back to the house.
"Okay." Xu Tao glanced at the man on the ground and obediently led Zhao Linan back to the room.
Zhao Weiguo's handling methods are very cruel, and it is easy to speak from the man's mouth. After being beaten to death, when Zhao Weiguo asked anything, the man answered honestly.
"You said that Lin Fang next door encouraged you to come?" Zhao Weiguo frowned.
"Yeah! I thought she was a widow and she was pretty, so I just wanted to take advantage of it. It was Lin Fang who said that she often saw men nearby who were confused with this little widow at night. Missed this great opportunity. She is so beautiful, wearing a light yellow dress seems to be seductive..." The man was beaten into a pig's head and sat on the ground to defend himself.
Speaking of the back, I couldn't help but lose my mind.
Ga La -
Zhao Weiguo clenched his fists instantly when he heard those unpleasant words, his knuckles rattled, and he smashed a few of the man's teeth with a fist.
"Um..." He was punched. The man raised his hand to cover his mouth, and he spat out the red blood mixed with two yellow teeth.