Chapter 56

Tao Zhi rushed into the door of the house with a minute hand at 9 o'clock.

Tao Xiuping and Ji Fan held a teacup 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 from the entrance of the community. She stood at the entrance with her knees and gasped in her breath, without saying a word, and waved her hands at them.

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

"It's quite punctual." Ji Fangang finished drinking the Coke in his hand, and made a basketball throwing action and threw it into the trash can less than an arm away from his feet.

Tao Zhi'er finally breathed evenly. She took off her shoes and walked to the sofa, and fell into the sofa without wanting to speak.

After finally resting when she got home, she felt a little tired, and she obviously did nothing that night.

She sat in the sofa cushion for a while, and her stomach rumbling twice at a time.

Tao Xiuping glanced at her: "Isn't you full?"

"I didn't eat." Tao Zhi said honestly, she got up and walked towards the kitchen, "Is there anything to eat at home?"

"The dishes were cold at night," Tao Xiuping put down the notebook in his hand and followed him, "Dad puts you egg noodles?"

Tao Zhi responded.

She stood beside the island counter in the kitchen and watched Tao Xiuping take out the eggs and tomatoes from the refrigerator: "You are going to find your little boyfriend, why haven't you had supper yet?"

Tao Zhi didn't say anything.

Tao Xiuping noticed that she was not in high spirits and deliberately joked: "Will he not give you food?"

The man's eyes were dark and dark. Since he came back last time, he had never been on business, but it seemed that he had not been idle because of this, and even seemed to have more things to do every day.

Tao Zhi didn't respond and suddenly called him, "Dad."

Tao Xiuping knocked the egg into the bowl and beat it apart: "Hmm?"

"Are you going bankrupt?" Tao Zhi suddenly asked without hesitation.

“…”

Tao Xiuping looked at her in surprise and couldn't help but smile: "Everyone, other children want their father to make more money, why do you expect me to go bankrupt every day?"

Tao Zhi frowned: "I just feel like you are very tired every day recently."

Tao Xiuping's smile was restrained and he glanced at her deeply. He opened his mouth and stopped again.

After a moment, he laughed again, put the beaten eggs on the countertop, and lifted the faucet to wash the tomatoes: "Adults are always like this. Even you don't have your own worries now, so why can't your dad have it?"

Tao Zhi nodded and thoughtfully said, "So do you have a woman you like? Are you going to get married?"

Tao Xiuping was shockingly choked by her words.

Tao Zhi said very considerately: "If you really have an aunt who you like so much that you want to marry, I can't accept it."

She was very open about this. Tao Xiuping would let her do whatever she wanted. Then when it comes to Tao Xiuping, if he really had a partner he liked, Tao Zhi would have no reason to stop him.

In that case, she would be too selfish.

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

Even if she may feel a little uncomfortable in her heart, she can try 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 entanglement to firmness, and finally felt relieved and felt a little funny.

Children are cute when they are young, but when they grow up, they have more strange ideas in adolescence, which is quite fun.

He raised his hand, and the water stains on his hand were dusted at her: "What a mess I think about? Apart from Zhizhi and Ah Fan, my father has no one he likes."

Tao Zhi waved his hand, with a look of "You just pretend": "I know, I know."

Tao Xiuping: "..."

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Tao Xiuping cooks very 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 chopped eggs. The hand-rolled noodle noodles are full of strength. Even if there is no meat, it is just a bowl of vegetarian noodles, the pottery branches are still savored.

Halfway through the meal, Ji Fan also ran over and stretched his neck to look into the kitchen: "Lao Tao, is there any other side?"

The boy had enough food and had just finished supper and was hungry again a few hours later. Tao Xiuping cooked a pot and served a large bowl for him.

Ji Fan sat next to the pottery branch and sucked noodles.

Tao Xiuping sat opposite him and watched them eat.

There is an indescribable and strange sense of satisfaction.

Although it is difficult to manage, sometimes I don’t know how to educate them. I will repeatedly consider whether it will have the opposite effect if it says this, and it is difficult to balance the balance between family and work.

But in this quiet moment, there will be an indescribable happiness.

Probably, Ji Jin is the same.

Just watch them eat and sleep, and watch them learn and grow, and you will feel very happy.

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

At one 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 wrong?"

"You just sighed." Ji Fan said in a slight mouth with noodles in his mouth.

Tao Zhi nodded and said, "It turns out that he is about to go bankrupt."

“…”

Tao Xiuping narrowed his eyes: "There are so many messy ideas in the little kid? No! I haven't gone bankrupt!"

Ji Fan was not worried about the big deal when watching the fun: "Maybe it was just because your boyfriend didn't give you food."

Tao Zhi: "..."

"By the way, that little boy, is he called Jiang Qihuai, right?" Tao Xiuping asked.

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

Tao Xiuping: "How did you transfer to the experiment in such a good school at the affiliated high school? I heard that I lived with his grandfather since I was a child?"

Tao Zhi's fingers holding chopsticks paused, and she raised her head.

Tao Xiuping asked casually: "What did his parents do?"

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

Tao Xiuping said "ah" and looked at Ji Fan, but had not spoken yet.

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

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

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

"Have you checked?" Tao Zhi rushed up without saying a word, "It's just because your daughter has a relationship with him, you've even turned the rest of the family upside down, right? Mr. Tao?"

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

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

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

"I don't care what's going on at his family," Tao Zhi said hard, "I like him. Whether he has money or not has nothing to do with me."

"Do you think your father cares if his family is in good condition and whether he has money?" Tao Xiuping took a deep breath and stood up, "It's not that simple."

Tao Zhi looked at him without saying a word.

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

Tao Xiuping pulled out his chair and walked upstairs, entering the study room.

After a while, he took a file bag and placed it in front of Tao Zhi: "Look at it."

Tao Zhi hesitated for a moment, put down the chopsticks, pinched the rope on the file bag, and took it apart one by one.

She pinched the thin pieces of paper and read them line by line. Every time she read a word, the hand holding her heart slowly closed a few points.

"Before he was four years old, he was found in an orphanage, but his grandfather later found him and took him back. I don't know who his mother is. His father is a gangster and has no job. He was imprisoned for robbery and injured people. Fortunately, the victim did not die later and was sentenced to more than ten years. Because he performed well in it, he reduced his sentence by several years. Recently, he was released." Tao Xiuping pinched the corners of his eyes and said slowly, "Have he told you about these things? No."

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

No wonder.

Tao Xiuping, who had never been very good at caring about what time she would go home at night, suddenly set up such early access control for her.

No wonder she never said anything even though she knew she was in love early.

Tao Zhi's fingers tightened their fingers on the edge of the paper, and she lowered her head, her eyes turned red little by little.
To be continued...