Chapter 156: Protect Your Strength
The door opened, revealing Zhao Li's pretty face with cloudy sideburns.
I haven't seen her for a while, and Zhao Li has obviously lost weight.
Under the appearance of excitement, there is the bitterness of bitter words. So much so that her whole person gives people a feeling that no one else can enter.
seems to have encountered a lot of things, suppressing her cheerful nature, thus deriving a little cold and arrogant temperament.
Faced with this situation, Wu Tao, who has never been good at expressing his feelings, couldn't help but open his warm arms.
Zhao Li's heart was sour, and her left foot just took half a step forward, but she stopped her body vividly, and tightened the comic manuscript and brush in her arms and said, "Come in." ”
Stepping into the courtyard gate, you will see a chaotic scene, even mixed with the smell of coaxing.
It can be seen that the Zhao family's family background was originally very solid and decent.
Five large tiled houses, with corridors, plus bungalows in the East and West Houses, more than ten rooms, spacious and bright, revealing the atmosphere.
In addition to this, the courtyard is even more spacious.
The antenna erected high in the yard indicates that there is at least one 21-inch color TV in the house.
Such conditions, several times in the entire Binhu Town, are not common.
But now, there is no longer the dignity and arrogance of the past.
The courtyard was littered with sticks, bricks, and tiles, and the doors and windows of the east and west houses were smashed, and the stains under the porch of the hall were even more unsightly.
If Wu Tao's expectation is good, this stinky smell comes from here.
In addition, the most conspicuous thing is the snowflake-like drawings, some of which have been trampled into the mud, some of which have been crumpled into a ball, and the footprints are stepped on, and the thick phlegm is spittle.
Walking to the middle of the courtyard, a frightened little girl ran out of the hall, about seven or eight years old, and her eyebrows were very similar to Zhao Li.
"This is my sister, Xiaofu. ”
Zhao Fu ran to her sister, put her head on her stomach, and looked at Wu Tao with two big eyes.
"Sister, are they debt collectors?"
"No, don't talk nonsense!"
Wu Tao took out the only remaining White Rabbit toffee in his pocket and gave it all to Zhao Fu. This was originally wanted by Xiao Jiang and Heidan, and tonight I can only let them down first.
Zhao Fu's little padded jacket was already stained with stains, and it hadn't been changed for a while.
Peel off a toffee and put it in your mouth. Zhao Fu immediately smiled, revealing neat white teeth: "Sister, it's so sweet, you can eat one too." As he spoke, he peeled one and put it in Zhao Li's mouth.
Step down the hallway and enter the hall.
In the end, the room was pitch black, and it was impossible to see it really, but Wu Tao still noticed that it was no different from being looted inside.
All valuable items were emptied, not even the dining table was left.
There were only a few small benches left in the hall, and the doors at both ends were removed, revealing an empty room.
Even the beds were improvised from leftover boxes and large benches.
To put it bluntly, there are only four walls left.
Bang, Wu Tao clenched his fists and hammered them together heavily: "Why don't you call me?"
"The phone at home has long been stopped......"
Song Zhuang stepped aside to turn on the lights, and with two clicks, the first-class fluorescent tubes were empty.
"Not only was there no light, but the electricity was pinched. ”
Zhao Fu put all the milk candy in her pocket, took out a candle head from the room, polished the match and lit it.
"Where's my uncle and aunt?"
They hid in the social yard behind the house. Zhao Li explained, and said to Zhao Fu: "Sister, go and call your parents back." ”
Zhao Fu hurriedly ran out of the door and went around to the mouth of the gable alley on the east side.
"There is no one in the village to help?" Wu Tao really didn't expect that being asked for an account would lead to such a situation.
Zhao Li's clear voice worked hard to interpret the strong, "It's too late for them to see the jokes, how can they come to help?"
"Then why didn't you inform me?" asked for the second time, Wu Tao looked directly into the eyes of his table companions for many years.
Zhao Li knew that this time, it was not the excuse that the phone was stopped could be fooled.
"I think I can carry ......"
It's like a hunger strike with my parents during the summer vacation.
What a stubborn woman!
Wu Tao was also helpless, and was about to say a few more words, but saw the two of them, still stained with fine straw, and walked in the door.
It seems that he was hiding in a haystack, otherwise he wouldn't have so much straw on his body.
The middle-aged man who walked in first was undoubtedly Zhao Dafu, with a puffy face, with excessive fat and wine, and he didn't look like a standard rural person.
However, in addition to fading her fat appearance and the puffiness of being beaten, Zhao Li's appearance is inherited from him.
followed by Zhao Li's mother Peng Xiaojuan, who is 1.7 meters tall and absolutely tall in the countryside. Even if she is a little embarrassed, she does not lose her feminine demeanor. It can be seen that most of Zhao Li's body genes come from her.
"Paint, paint, paint, all day long, I know how to draw that Rausch broken painting. Spend so much money to get you to go to high school, and then you get a picture to fool me?"
“…… If it weren't for your high school, would our family have ended up in this field?"
“…… You broom star, you can hurt our family......"
Peng Xiaojuan also wiped her tears and said: "This year, how can you spend it!"
Wu Tao wanted to get up and say hello, but when he heard Zhao Dafu complaining like this, he owed a debt, and sat back again, and his face turned cold.
Zhao Li hugged the comic manuscript in her arms more and more, her fingers were white, and her pretty face was tense, whitewashed with strength and persistence.
Looking at this scene, Wu Tao felt distressed for no reason.
It's not about feelings, it's more like a shock of admiration and incomprehension.
"Uncle Zhao, with all due respect, your business, even if it is not affected by Zhao Li's divorce, will fail sooner or later!"
"Who are you?" Zhao Dafu immediately turned his face and pointed at Wu Tao's nose.
Zhao Li, who had always been silent, stood up and resolutely stood in front of Wu Tao.
Wu Tao grabbed the persistent soft shoulder in front of him, pulled her to his side, and faced Zhao Dafu and continued: "Since your business is so easy to be killed, it means that it does not have the value of survival!"
“…… You may be able to rely on relationships and resources, but they are not core competencies. The real core competitiveness is to rely on yourself, which is the foundation of business!"
“…… Having said that, because of one divorce, the other party can kill your business and your family to such a situation. ”
“…… The morality of the rivers and lakes is still exquisite, and it will not be possible to harm his wife and children!"
“…… This kind of person and family who has no morality, who will be retribution, and ruthless, if you marry your daughter, have you ever thought that she can be happy?
In the end, Wu Tao had already called him by his name, because he felt that the other party was really not worthy of calling him 'uncle'.
Zhao Dafu's face turned the color of pig liver, and he couldn't say a word when he opened his mouth.
Peng Xiaojuan came back to her senses in a daze, leaving tears of shame and muttered: "He's right, Lao Zhao, he's right." I really can't complain about Xiaoli......"