Even you are partial to him

Tao Xingye hadn't finished his meal when several people from the convoy burst into his tent, looking troubled. Realizing something was amiss, Tao Xingye stood up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Boss Tao, my hometown is just downstream. My parents said... all the houses there were flooded... but the breach hasn't been sealed yet..." The man burst into tears as he spoke, and knelt at Tao Xingye's feet with several brothers behind him, refusing to get up no matter how much they helped. "Several tons of rocks can't sink to the bottom. As soon as they enter the water, they are immediately washed away. Now there is really no other way. We can only move the truck and let it sink with the rocks. There is hope..."

"Mr. Tao, if you do us this favor, our whole family will remember you in the future..." The man grabbed Tao Xingye's legs, and Tao Xingye finally understood.

The trucks in this fleet were all transferred from his family's transportation company. They belonged to the company, and if they sank, it would be the company's money that would be lost. But if they didn't sink, it would probably take a while for so many trucks to be found.

The breach hadn't been sealed yet. He'd personally participated in the rescue yesterday, so he knew how difficult it was to save a single person. If it was so difficult upstream, how much more so downstream, where the flood was still raging?

"Money is not as valuable as human life," Tao Xingye helped the older brother up, "I'll go with you to shunt the car, and the Tao family will cover all the expenses.

He walked out, and several people followed him. Lin Yu watched them go away, feeling a surge of anxiety. She wanted to follow, but she knew she wouldn't be able to help. Moreover, she was still needed to distribute supplies. Although she could only contribute a small part, it was better than doing nothing.

but……

"Tao Xingye!"

Her loud voice passed through the layers of people and finally reached the ears of the person standing in the front. The man froze for two seconds, then turned around and smiled brightly, "Don't worry, your brother Tao will be back soon." He blinked at Lin Yu, looking confident, but only he knew how uncertain he was.

Without looking back, he turned around and drove a truck with a team of people to the breach.

The wind whistles and the Yi River is cold; the warriors leave and never return. The weather was very bad that day. Lin Yu looked at the backs of the group of people walking away and inexplicably thought of this poem.

The breach was already crowded with people from all walks of life: commanders, armed police, and caring individuals from the industry, all of them filled with worry. Strong winds ripped at everyone's clothes, and muddy water, engulfing trees, roared over the breach. The water and sky merged into one, the dim sky bearing down on everyone like a flooded seabed.

Dull, blurry, noisy, so many people gathered at the mouth, yet they seemed as small and helpless as mayflies.

Every time a giant object in the water hit the embankment, the ground beneath our feet trembled.

"Brother, I can't open the gate here. The water is too high." The man said, covering his head and running back. Zhang Junyu grabbed the man's collar and pulled him back. "Coward, think about the villagers below. If you still dare to take this step, don't follow me anymore!"

"Brother! I have old parents and young children to support. I am not like you who have not started a family. If I get into trouble here, the sky will fall on our family. How will my wife and children live? Mr. Tao, Mr. Tao, you can't force me to do this." The man knelt at Tao Xingye's feet and looked at him pleadingly, which attracted the attention of everyone around him.

Now that they were in public, his open kneeling made it seem as if Tao Xingye was forcing him. Tao Xingye didn't want to talk to him any more. He simply helped him up and looked at the others in the team. "You are all members of my Tao family's team, but I won't force you to do anything today."

A light rain began to fall, and time was running out for them. Tao Xingye spoke faster, "I won't stop you from leaving. For those who stay, regardless of success or failure, just get in the car and you'll get a reward of 300,000 yuan each. I won't bother with anything else."

"Keys," Tao Xingye looked at Zhang Junyu and took the keys of the first truck from the man.

The division of labor among the surrounding personnel has been basically completed, and enough bricks have been piled on the accelerator of each vehicle so that after they jump out of the vehicle, there will still be enough power to drive the truck completely to the fracture.

In fact, when Tao Xingye came here, he didn't intend to drive a truck. He didn't expect the water in the break to be so turbulent. He originally thought that this was a simple job like driving a normal car.

But at this moment, he felt that he had to do something. Most of the people driving trucks to block the gap were employees of his fleet, and he couldn't stand on the shore and watch them take risks, and then stand aside and comfort them not to be afraid.

"Please tie a safety rope for me." Tao Xingye opened his arms and allowed several staff members to wrap several circles of finger-thick hemp rope around his waist. Now that resources are scarce, professional safety rope sets are left to the front-line rescue workers. They can only use a thick enough hemp rope to wrap many circles to ensure safety.

"Tie it for me too." Tao Xinghai's lively voice broke the gloomy atmosphere. He nodded indifferently at Tao Xingye, "Why are you looking at me like that? You are only allowed to do good things on behalf of the Tao family. I am also one of the heirs of the Tao family, okay?"

He was the only one who still had the energy to joke at this point. Tao Xinghai hammered Tao Xingye's shoulder and said, "I'll go first."

As he spoke, he snatched the key from Tao Xingye's hand. Before Tao Xingye could react, he jumped to the driver's seat of the truck. Immediately afterwards, the truck loaded with boulders rushed towards the embankment steadily and quickly.

Getting closer and closer, the front wheels of the truck were in the air. "Jump, jump down!"

The people in the car ignored it until the front half of the truck crashed into the water, then Tao Xinghai leaned out and jumped onto the shore.

For a moment, everyone held their breath. He jumped too late, already beyond the safe range. At the last moment, his feet touched the shore, and Tao Xingye breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the next moment was unforgettable for Tao Xingye. The ground under his feet was slowly breaking apart, and he fell towards the water.

"What are you standing there for? Pull the safety rope!" Tao Xingye rushed to the shore almost instantly and grabbed the rope tied to his brother. Tao Xinghai's figure reappeared in his sight. Tao Xingye breathed a sigh of relief, followed by anger.

"Are you fucking deaf or slow to react? I've been yelling 'jump, jump, jump' so many times, and you're still rushing around? This isn't a disaster movie, why are you trying to be a hero? It only took a moment to save you, but the second car is already down. Go back to your station!"

Tao Xinghai had never expected that he would be scolded like this by his brother in front of so many people just after being rescued. He pushed Tao Xingye away indignantly and lost his temper, "You don't need to lecture me, Master Tao!"

Tao Xingye listened to his brother's sarcastic voice and realized that he had gone too far. He lowered his eyes to catch his breath and was about to explain, but Tao Xinghai had already disappeared.

"Mr. Tao?" someone came from behind and asked in a hurry.

Tao Xingye waved his hand and walked towards the truck. Before getting in, he glanced somewhere. The surroundings suddenly became quiet. Lin Yu's crisp voice rang in his ears. He tensed his face, adjusted the steering wheel, and drove towards the broken part.

The flood in front of him was getting bigger and bigger, closer and closer, roaring with the momentum of swallowing up the entire truck. Tao Xingye's heart was pounding, and it was not until the truck shook that he reacted and jumped to the side.

The people around him had experience, so the moment he reached the shore, they tightened the hemp rope and brought him to safety. After two consecutive successes, the others felt confident and rushed forward.

Tao Xingye wiped his face, trembling with pain from the wound on his thigh. He held his waist and tried to sit on the cargo box beside him, but a hand quietly touched his shoulder.

Looking up along his arm, Lin Yu smiled at him lightly.

"Xiaoyu..." All the fatigue washed over him. Tao Xingye was like a small boat drifting in a rapid current, finally reaching the shore. He closed his eyes tightly, leaned on Lin Yu's waist, and hugged her with his arms.

Lin Yu raised her hand to smooth his hair. He rubbed his chin against Lin Yu's arm, and his stubble made Lin Yu itch. Lin Yu noticed his shoulders trembling, which she found interesting. When he wasn't paying attention, she took out her phone and secretly took a photo.

"Xiaoyu, you don't know how scared I was when we were driving just now. My legs were weak when I jumped out. Although I knew I could reach the shore, my feet were in the air and the water was so close to me. If there weren't so many people watching me on the shore, I would have been so scared that I wanted to scream." Tao Xingye raised his head and rested his chin on Lin Yu's waist. Although his eyes were pitiful, they still revealed a bit of cunning. "Shouldn't you comfort me?"

"Then why don't you comfort Xinghai?" Lin Yu put his hands behind his waist and pried Tao Xingye's hands apart. "Come with me to talk to your brother and make things clear."

"If I don't tell him, he will complain. Now even you are biased towards him." Tao Xinghai shook off Lin Yu's hands, his stiff face showing a bit of disappointment.

Lin Yu was so perceptive that she naturally realized that Tao Xingye was not joking. She slowly sat on the cargo box opposite Tao Xingye and said, "Even if I am partial to him, it is because you are partial to him."

Lin Yuanran met Tao Xingye's surprised gaze. Her cheeks were hot, but she was not as timid as before. She met Tao Xingye's fiery gaze and continued quietly and firmly, "I think I like you a little."

I like his nagging, I like his innocence in front of me, I like him coming to my house in the heavy snow, I like him waiting by the playground with the cat in his arms.

But I also don't like the fact that he is always so overbearing, so arbitrary, and so outspoken.

"I want to have a future with you, but I can't imagine what our future will be like." Lin Yu clutched her wrists. The wind was so strong around her that her black hair was floating in the air. Half of her face was hidden, leaving only a frown.

"Tao Xingye, I'll give you a chance, and I'll give myself a chance, too." She held her head high, trying hard to hold back the tears in her eyes. "I want to let go of everything in the past, and I want to start over with you. If this time, we both end up hurting each other, then we'll separate and have no contact with each other in the future."

Her eyes were surprisingly firm, dark and bright, and every word she said lingered in Tao Xinghai's mind like an oath read out from the mouth of a god. He opened his mouth to speak but no sound came out, and in the end he just nodded.

They sat opposite each other. No other couple could push each other to the end of their relationship like them, yet they couldn't let go.

They were only twenty-two, as young as they could be. They took their relationship too seriously, too persistently. If they were twenty-seven, perhaps after five years of getting along, they would have figured out the best way to resolve their current predicament.

But at this moment, the childhood injuries, the threats during marriage, and the coercion during quarrels all turned into an unbridgeable gap between the two of them. What kept them together was love wrapped in hatred.

There is only one way to save a marriage that is on the verge of collapse - start over.