Peach Branch Bubbles

Tao Zhi stepped into the house on the nine o'clock minute hand.

Tao Xiuping and Ji Fan held tea cups and a Coke can: "I'm back."

Ji Fan took a sip of Coke: "Are you back?"

Tao Zhi got out of the taxi and ran back all the way from the gate of the community. She stood on her knees at the entrance of the porch, panting, silently, and waved to them.

Tao Xiuping glanced at his watch and calmly put down his teacup: "At nine o'clock, you are quite on time."

"It's quite punctual." Ji Fan just drank the Coke in his hand and threw it into a trash can that was less than an arm's distance from his feet in an exaggerated basketball throwing motion.

Tao Zhier finally panted well. She took off her shoes and walked to the sofa. She fell into the sofa and didn't want to talk.

She felt a little tired after she finally rested when she got home, and she obviously didn't do anything this night.

She sat on the sofa cushions for a while, and her stomach gurgled twice.

Tao Xiuping glanced at her: "Not full?"

"Did not eat." Tao Zhi said honestly. She got up and walked to the kitchen. "Is there anything to eat at home?"

"The dishes in the evening are cold," Tao Xiuping put down the notebook in his hand and walked over, "Daddy, give you egg noodles?"

Tao Zhi responded.

She leaned against the island in the kitchen, watching Tao Xiuping take out the eggs and tomatoes from the refrigerator: "You go to your little boyfriend, why haven't you eaten dinner yet?"

Tao Zhi didn't speak.

Tao Xiuping noticed that she was not very emotional, and deliberately joked: "He won't give you food?"

The man's eyes were dark. Since the last time he came back, he hasn't been on a business trip again, but he didn't seem to relax because of this. It even seemed that there were more things to be busy every day.

Tao Zhi did not answer, and suddenly called him: "Dad."

Tao Xiuping knocked the eggs into the bowl and broke them up: "Huh?"

"Are you going bankrupt?" Tao Zhi asked suddenly and endlessly.

"..."

Tao Xiuping looked at her in surprise, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Everyone else's kids want their father to make more money. Why do you expect me to go bankrupt every day?"

Tao Zhi frowned, "I feel like you are tired recently."

Tao Xiuping's smile constricted, and he took a deep look at her. He opened his mouth and paused again.

After a while, he laughed again, put the beaten eggs on the counter, and raised the faucet to wash the tomatoes: "Adults are always like this. Even you don't have your own troubles now, why can't dad have them?"

Tao Zhi nodded, thoughtfully: "So do you have a woman you like? Are you getting married?"

Tao Xiuping was shocked by her words.

Tao Zhi said very thoughtfully: "If you really have an aunt who likes you to marry back, it's not unacceptable for me."

She is very open to this aspect. Tao Xiuping is all up to her to do what she wants. When Tao Xiuping is here, if he really has someone he likes, Tao Zhi has no reason to stop it.

In that case, she would be too selfish.

She has people she likes, things she wants to do, and her own life. Tao Xiuping should have them too.

Even though she may feel a little uncomfortable in her heart, she can work hard to accept and overcome it.

What a selfless and kind peach.

Tao Zhi was moved by his understanding.

Tao Xiuping watched his daughter's expression change for a while, from tangled to firm, and finally relieved, he felt a little funny.

Children are cute when they are young, and they have more bizarre thoughts when they grow up, and they are quite fun.

He raised his hand, and brushed her with the water stains on his hand: "What are you thinking about? Except Zhizhi and Afan, Dad doesn't have anyone he likes."

Tao Zhi waved his hand, with a "pretend it" expression on his face: "I see."

Tao Xiuping: "..."

Tao Xiuping’s cooking is delicious, although it is rarely eaten, the tomatoes are peeled and diced, and the sweet and sour taste is mixed into the thick noodle soup with minced eggs. The noodles are full of strength, even if there is no meat. Bowl of plain noodles, Tao Zhi also eats with relish.

Halfway through the meal, Ji Fan also ran over, stretched his neck and looked at the kitchen: "Old Tao, is there any more here?"

The boy had enough appetite, and he was hungry for a few hours after dinner. Tao Xiuping cooked a pot and served him a large bowl.

Ji Fan sat next to Tao Zhi and sucked noodles.

Tao Xiuping sat opposite, watching them eat.

There is an indescribable, strange sense of satisfaction.

Although it is difficult to manage, sometimes I don't know how to educate them, and I will repeatedly consider whether this will produce counter-effects, and it is difficult to balance the center of gravity between family and work.

But in this quiet moment, there will be another kind of indescribable happiness.

Probably, Ji Jin is also like this.

As long as you watch them eat and sleep, and watch them learn and grow, you will feel very happy.

During the years when he devoted himself to work and making money, she was alone in this house, and all she had beside her were these two children.

At a certain moment, Tao Zhi and Ji Fan suddenly raised their heads at the same time and looked at him.

Tao Xiuping came back to his senses: "What's the matter?"

"You just sighed." Ji Fan said with noodles in his mouth, speechless.

Tao Zhi nodded and said, "Sure enough, he is about to go bankrupt."

"..."

Tao Xiuping squinted his eyes: "There are so many messy thoughts, no! I'm not bankrupt!"

Ji Fan didn't think it was too much to watch the excitement: "It might just be because your boyfriend didn't give you food."

Tao Zhi: "..."

"By the way, that kid...boy, is it Jiang Qihuai, right?" Tao Xiuping asked.

Tao Zhi buried his head in eating noodles, pretending to be deaf and dumb.

Tao Xiuping: "How did the affiliated high school switch to the experiment? I heard that I lived with his grandfather since I was a child?"

Tao Zhi paused with the fingers of the chopsticks, and she raised her head.

Tao Xiuping asked casually, "What do his parents do?"

"How do you know he grew up with his grandfather?" Tao Zhi said.

Tao Xiuping let out an "Ah", looked at Ji Fan, and didn't speak.

"Don't say I heard Ji Fan say it," Tao Zhi interrupted him, "I never told Ji Fan about his family situation, right?"

She changed her face in an instant, and even Ji Fan didn't react.

Tao Xiuping took a deep breath: "Zhizhi..."

"Have you checked?" Tao Zhi burst into flames involuntarily. "It's because your daughter had a relationship with him, so you even turned the bottom of your family upside down, right, Mr. Tao. ?"

Tao Xiuping also raised his voice: "It is because my daughter wants to fall in love with him, so I have to know what kind of person he is!"

The restaurant suddenly became quiet, Ji Fan glanced at Tao Zhi, then at Tao Xiuping, and silently moved the noodle bowl back.

Tao Xiuping sighed, "I asked you today. I just want to know if you understand this. Do you know what's going on in his family?"

"I don't care what is going on in his family," Tao Zhi said stiffly, "I like him. It doesn't matter whether he has money or not."

"Do you think Dad cares about his family's conditions? Does he have money?" Tao Xiuping took a deep breath and stood up, "It's not such a simple matter."

Tao Zhi looked at him silently.

She thought of the man tonight and Jiang Qihuai's reaction at the time, and suddenly she couldn't say anything to refute.

Tao Xiuping pulled the chair away and walked upstairs into the study.

After a while, he came down with a portfolio and placed it in front of Tao Zhi: "Let's take a look."

Tao Zhi hesitated, put down his chopsticks, pinched the rope on the portfolio, and took it apart in circles.

She pinched the thin sheets of paper and looked at them line by line. Every time she read a word, the hand that held her heart slowly closed a few minutes.

"I was in the orphanage before the age of four, and was later found and taken back by his grandfather. I don’t know who his mother is. His dad is a **** and has no job. He was sent to jail for robbery and wounding. Fortunately, the victim did not die and sentenced to more than a dozen. Nian, and because of his good performance in it, his sentence was reduced for a few years and was recently released." Tao Xiuping squeezed the corner of his eyes and said slowly, "Has he told you about this? No, right."

The last bit of blood on Tao Zhi's face completely faded.

No wonder.

Tao Xiuping, who has never been too conscious of what time she will go home at night, suddenly set her entrance guard so early.

It's no wonder that she didn't even say anything about her early love.

Tao Zhi pinched the edge of the paper and tightened her fingers little by little. She lowered her head, her eyes reddened little by little.

She quickly retracted her hand, the sharp edge of the paper cut through the fragile skin in an instant, and bloodshots leaked out of her fingers little by little.

She pinched the bleeding fingertips and said, "What do you mean by showing this to me?"

"I want to know how far you know," Tao Xiuping didn't hide it anymore. "And you are easy to do things on impulse. Dad hopes that you can also look at things sensibly. You have to understand that your temper is too simple, and some People are not for you."

Tao Zhi was silent for a while, and then slowly nodded: "You are indeed, you have always been very sensible."

Tao Xiuping frowned: "Zhizhi..."

"I fight with people, and I was asked by my teacher to find a parent. What you are most concerned about is never my feelings, but telling me how to solve the problem better. I'm used to it, you have always been like this."

She whispered: "But shouldn't he be the hardest one?"

Tao Xiuping looked at her calmly.

Tao Zhi’s voice was a little choked: "Thinking that he could finally have a home, but in the end he had to face such a father. He was the happiest when he was a child, and he was the most unscrupulous when he was a child. Why did he always have to Growing up so hard?"

Tao Zhi couldn't help wondering what she was doing when she was five or six years old.

I want to listen to bedtime stories about my mother, and I want a lot of new stuffed dolls with my dad, and make mischief and fight with Ji Fan everywhere.

If you get into trouble, you will shrink into your mother's arms, you don't have to worry about anything, anyway, no matter what happens, there will always be father and mother to help her take care of it.

There will always be an invincible sky above her head.

But Jiang Qihuai never had the sky from the beginning.

He has nothing.

So every thing he got, every love, maybe even every candy, in his view is a kind of generous charity, it is the blessing of fate, he stole it, and it is very extravagant for him. lucky.

Tao Zhi’s eyes were red, and tears fell uncontrollably: "He is really good. He can do everything well. He is the most powerful person I have ever seen. He has tried so hard. Let himself become better, he tried so desperately to escape from the mud..."

"But you want to drag him back in such a simple way? You want to tell him in this way that he doesn't need to work hard, because no matter how much he struggles, no matter how well he does it, he will get rid of it all his life. Can't you drop it?"

Tao Xiuping looked at her blankly, unable to say a word.

Tao Zhi's vision was blurred. She raised her hand and wiped her eyes vigorously, then stood up, choked and said, "Dad, you are unfair, you are too cruel to him."

Without looking at Tao Xiuping's expression, she pushed aside the chair and turned and rushed out of the house.

The streets at night were fascinated by the lights, Tao Zhi got out of the taxi, crossed the road, and ran towards the alley of Jiang Qihuai's house with all his strength amidst the sharp and somewhat piercing sound of the car whistle.

At the bus stop not far in front, she saw his shadow from afar.

Jiang Qihuai got off the bus, and the figure was fascinating under the street lights. His facial features were hidden in the night and he couldn't see his expression. The only thing he could feel was his unchanging upright and arrogant body.

He stood a little in front of the bus stop sign, suddenly raised his head, looked at her from a distance, and then stopped.

Tao Zhi tried his best to run towards him.

The cold wind seemed to be mixed with icy ballast, mixed with tears, causing pain on his face, but Tao Zhi didn't seem to feel anything.

She threw straight into the boy's arms.

The powerful impact led Jiang Qihuai to retreat. He looked surprised and unconsciously opened his arms to catch her. After being hit by her, he took a half step back and barely stabilized his figure: "What's the matter?"

Tao Zhi hugged his waist tightly, buried his head deeply in his arms, absorbing his warmth and taste almost greedily.

She shook her head and rubbed the tip of her nose against him, her voice still cried hoarse: "Cold."

Jiang Qihuai frowned: "Why did you come out without wearing a coat?"

"I'm too late," she rubbed her head again, "I am anxious to see you."

"Let go." Jiang Qihuai said.

Tao Zhi shook his head, holding him firmly without letting go.

Jiang Qihuai sighed, "You let go first, and I won't run away."

Tao Zhi slowly and reluctantly let go of his hand.

"Don't move." Jiang Qihuai pulled the zipper of her jacket down, took off, and then wrapped her whole person with a sullen face.

The warmth cut off the coldness in an instant.

His coat was very long for her, hanging down to her calf. Tao Zhi stood still obediently, letting him bend over and put her in, stand up the collar, and zip up the zipper.

After wrapping up the person, Jiang Qihuai straightened up and looked at her.

The corners of the girl's eyes were red, with wet tears.

Jiang Qihuai raised his hand, rubbed her red eyelids lightly with cool fingertips, and whispered, "Smuggled?"

Tao Zhi thought for a while, and felt more like an uproar.

She nodded: "Yeah."

"Are you scolded?" Jiang Qihuai asked again

She shook her head again: "No."

"Why are you so eager to see me?" he asked at last.

Tao Zhi didn't say a word again. She stared at him blankly for a few seconds, then leaned forward again and hugged his waist tightly, sticking to him sticky and refused to let go.

Jiang Qihuai smiled, and he let her hold him, seeming a little helpless: "What are you doing?"

"I want to become a piece of rice cake." Tao Zhi whispered.

Jiang Qihuai lowered his eyes, touched her hair, and asked obediently: "Huh? Why do you want to become a rice cake?"

"So that I can stick to you all the time, so that you can't tear it off." Tao Zhi said dully.

"Why should I tear you off?"

"How do I know, then you have always despised me because I pestered you." Tao Zhi complained dissatisfied, "You won't tell me anything."

Jiang Qihuai paused and fell silent.

Tao Zhi didn't notice his reaction.

She is very simple, with a stick in her mind, there is no way to be as rational as Tao Xiuping, and she doesn't want to think so much.

Tao Zhi only wanted to do things on his own thoughts and impulses.

Because I like it, I get closer, because I like it, I work hard, and I don’t want him to be alone because I like it.

What he did not have, she gave it to him, and what he lost, she helped her make up for it.

If he has to bear everything alone, then she becomes his sky.

She dropped her hand a little, looked up at him, and said seriously: "Your Highness, if someone you hate comes to you again, you have to tell me that I will protect you."

Jiang Qihuai's eyelashes trembled, and then dropped: "Huh? How do you protect me?"

Tao Zhi didn't conceal his plan from him. There were still tears in the corner of her eyes, but she said cruelly: "I asked Ji Fan and asked him to beat that person until he couldn't get up and be hospitalized for half a year. He is so yummy, he is the best at doing such things, so that people can't even notice who made the hand."

Jiang Qihuai: "..."