Chapter 35: Reverse Scale
Faced with Tao Shouxin's rage, Tao You and Feng Chun'e had no idea how to respond.
This was originally a trap set by Tao You and Feng Chun'e to send Tao Nanfeng to the farm to suffer, and it would be best if he never came back. Only in this way would Tao Shouxin belong to them forever.
But can I honestly say this? Absolutely not.
Feng Chun'e's first marriage was unfortunate. She married from the countryside to the city, thinking that she could change her fate. However, her husband was an alcoholic and despised her for giving birth to a daughter, so he would beat her until she was bleeding. She held her daughter in her arms, feeling anxious all day long, and felt that the future was bleak.
After a lot of effort, her dead husband fell into a water tank and drowned after drinking. She took his place as a worker in a factory, but the work was tiring and dirty. Her parents-in-law often came to her house to ask for money, beat and scold her, and everyone around her said that she had a miserable face that would bring bad luck to her husband.
It was not until she was introduced to Tao Shouxin and married him that Feng Chun'e's life gradually got better. My husband is kind-hearted, he treats my daughter sincerely, my stepdaughter is well-behaved and sensible, and I don’t have any parents-in-law or poor relatives. I never dared to dream of such a life before!
Thinking of this, Feng Chun'e stretched out her hand and tried to grab Tao Shouxin's arm, but he dodged her. Feng Chun'e's face twitched, and she felt pain and regret in her heart.
Obviously, things are a thousand times, a hundred times better now than before. My husband is gentle and refined, my three-bedroom apartment is spacious and bright, and I am a professor's wife, and everyone envies me when I go out. But why am I still not satisfied? Why can’t we tolerate Tao Nanfeng?
There is no medicine for regret in the world, Feng Chun'e explained while crying.
"Tao You has always been a carefree child. She is politically ambitious and insisted on going to the hardship farm to train herself. As a mother, I didn't dare to hold her back, so I let her change the place where the educated youth were assigned. I didn't expect that Nan Feng would be the one to go later. As a matter of conscience, we didn't mean to harm Nan Feng!
Later, Tao You broke her arm, and I didn’t know if I could go later. The only person I could rely on was Nanfeng, so I had no choice but to beg her to go. Thank you Nanfeng for your understanding and for taking Tao You's place to go to the farm, but I feel guilty!
I...I was afraid you would blame me, so I didn't dare tell you. It's my fault for hiding it from you, my fault! When Nanfeng comes back, I will kowtow to her and beg for her forgiveness, okay? ”
By the end of her speech, Feng Chun'e was out of breath, her face was pale, and she could barely stand.
Tao You hurriedly supported her mother and started crying too.
"Dad, since I walked into this house at the age of ten and you put a piece of candy in my palm, I have believed that you are my father and I will respect and take care of you all my life. I didn't hurt Nanfeng on purpose. How could I hurt Nanfeng? She is my dearest sister, a sister with deep sibling love, who goes to school and does homework together with me."
Tao Shouxin already had something on his mind and could not listen to these nice words at all.
Tao Shouxin is an upright and strong-willed person.
In the book that Tao Nanfeng had read, when Tao Shouxin received the news of his daughter's death, he blamed himself and felt remorseful, his hair turned white overnight, and he resolutely stopped associating with Tao You and Feng Chun'e. He moved out of the professor's building alone and found a dormitory to live in alone. If Feng Chun'e hadn't been crying and making a fuss, he would have divorced her long ago.
"I don't listen to what you say, I only watch what you do! Don't cry, it's Nanfeng and I who should be crying. You don't need to explain, Nanfeng and I are not fools.
What political demands are there for advancement! Why didn’t Tao You say a word when I was at home? When I was using my connections to confirm the location for my rural assignment, Tao You didn't tell me. Instead, he waited until I left home to change the location to Xiufengshan Farm in the neighboring province?
What do you mean you can go later if you break your arm? When you discussed privately with Director Liu from the Youth League Office, everything was clear to you!
You are taking advantage of the fact that my Nanfeng is kind, honest and willing to suffer losses. You just want to secretly drive her out while I am not at home! You can't even tolerate my only bloodline, and you still want to have a good reputation... Bah! Such a vicious person! ”
Every word written by Tao Shouxin is like a knife, pointing directly to the core and extremely sharp.
With that last spit, Feng Chun'e and Tao You's faces twitched in pain.
My soul has never been whipped like this, and my heart has never been crushed like this! It felt as if I had been stripped naked, tied up on a high platform, and was being judged from all sides.
Rotten eggs, rotten tomatoes, broken shoes, saliva...all kinds of dirty things were thrown at you, making you feel ashamed.
Having been used to a comfortable life, Feng Chun'e and Tao You never expected that there would be a moment when they would be exposed. They misjudged Tao Shouxin, thinking that he was a gentle and non-confrontational person who would tolerate and compromise even if he knew they made mistakes.
Tao Shouxin is not a stupid person. He has clear thoughts, sharp thinking and broad knowledge. He is just too kind.
Whenever he thought of the suffering his daughter endured on the farm and the cold violence she suffered at home, he became furious. Is someone who has no sense of propriety, righteousness, and integrity worthy of living with me?
"Tao You is not my biological daughter. I have raised you until you were 18, provided for your education, and arranged a good job for you. I have done this with a clear conscience! Now that Nan Feng has returned home, Tao You should move out. Nan Feng has suffered on the farm for a year and a half, so Tao You should forget about enjoying life at home!"
Scholars are stubborn, but once Tao Shouxin becomes heartless, he will not recognize his relatives.
"Comrade Feng Chun'e, you are working in the school printing factory now. You have a salary and pension, so you can support yourself without any problems. If you are willing to live in this house, I have no objection. If you want to live with Tao You, I also agree."
Hearing this, Feng Chun'e and Tao You were dumbfounded.
Feng Chun'e fell to her knees at Tao Shouxin's feet and begged, "No, no, no, I won't go out. I'll live here. You're busy with work and you can't cook. I want to serve you for the rest of my life."
Tao You also knelt down, crying out of breath: "Dad, Dad! I won't leave either, I will stay here with you, you are my real dad!"
Tao Shouxin was determined and unmoved: "Feng Chun'e, you protected my books and did me a favor, so I allowed you to continue living here. But Tao You repays my kindness with ingratitude, and I don't want to see her for even a minute! Let her move out and change her surname back to her own. I won't recognize her as my daughter.
I did not hold her accountable for deliberately transferring her to a hardship farm and pretending to break her bones to avoid going to the countryside. I have done my best. For nine years, I have hurt her wrongly! ”
"No, no, no, Dad, please, I won't change my surname, I won't change my surname, you are my dad, I only recognize you as my dad..." When Tao You heard that she was asked to change her surname, she was scared to death, cried until she was hoarse, and begged bitterly.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Feng Chun'e had no choice but to accept her fate and spoke while secretly glancing at Tao Shouxin's expression.
"Teacher Tao, you can let Tao You move out. After all, she is already eighteen or nineteen and will eventually get married. But changing her surname... just pity this poor child and let it go for now.
When she came to you, she was battered from head to toe. She was beaten by her own father so hard that she dared not even speak. You finally gave her a stable life. She has had the surname Tao for eight years. Why should she change it? What's the reason to change it? Please be magnanimous and forgive her this time. ”
Perhaps Tao You cared too much about the last name "Tao" and no longer dared to beg to stay at home. He slumped to the ground, sobbing and muttering to himself.
"I will move, I will move right away. But I won't change my last name! My last name will be Tao, and I will keep it for the rest of my life."
Feng Chun'e wanted to say something else, but when she looked up at Tao Shouxin's face, the face that made her obsessed, admired and respected was now emitting a fierce aura. Thinking of the past, her shoulders slumped, and her energy seemed to be taken away from her, and she no longer had the strength to argue.
One wrong step leads to all wrong.
If you touch Tao Shouxin's reverse scale, you will have to bear his wrath.
Feng Chun'e and Tao You felt as if the sky had fallen. Tao You packed her personal belongings and started moving, crying. Feng Chun'e cheered herself up and planned to wait for Tao Nanfeng to come home before she lowered her posture and begged him, trying to win back her husband's heart.
Tao Nanfeng had no idea about this. He ran with Chen Zhilu for a whole day and learned a lot.
In that era, it was a planned economy, and everything was subject to unified purchase and sales, and it all depended on personal connections and relationships. Chen Zhilu's father, Chen Dayu, was the head of the purchasing department of Jiangcheng Fertilizer Plant, and he knew a lot of people. His youngest son was ambitious, and as an educated youth he became the deputy head of the mining department. Chen's father was very pleased and gave him personal guidance.
"You are in the phosphate mining department, which is the place with the most fertilizer and water. Our country is now in the era of large-scale agricultural production, and the demand for nitrogen fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer, and potash fertilizer is huge, but there are few fertilizer plants and the fertilizer output is low, so every fertilizer plant is built and burned down. Every year during the spring ploughing season, the fertilizer plant has to receive countless buyers.
But at the same time, fertilizer factories are also worried about raw materials. As long as the phosphate fertilizer factory near you knows that Xiufengshan Farm has a large amount of phosphate mines, they will come to your door immediately and you don’t have to go out at all. What you need to do is to keep your original intention. Phosphate mines belong to the country and must never become private property. It’s okay to make money, but it has to be legal, compliant and in accordance with procedures.
A corrupt official was executed not long ago. Wasn’t he the leader of a rural credit cooperative? A man embezzled 50,000 yuan and spent it all, all! How will you deal with so many buyers coming to you in the future? This is all knowledge. ”
When Chen Zhilu first learned that Xiangbei had obtained a mining license, he thought he could make money by selling the mines. It was not until the road was opened that we gradually realized that under the planned economic system, all minerals were state resources and private trading was not allowed. I suddenly felt a little depressed.
The reason he came back this time was to ask his parents how to make the farm rich quickly.
Chen Dayu shook his head and laughed, "You, you only thought about making money when you were studying. Now that you are an educated youth, you are still like this. Have I ever let you suffer a loss as my son? I really don't know where you learned this habit of loving money like your life and being greedy for money from."
Chen Zhilu winked at his father mysteriously and said, "I learned it from my mom."
Chen Dayu laughed even more happily: "Your mother? Most people are really no match for her. Come on, let me tell you how to make the mining department rich."
After that, Section Chief Chen Dayu grabbed Deputy Section Chief Xiao Chen and taught him how to report plans and ask for targets, how to deal with the Industrial Bureau and the Planning Department, and how to receive buyers from fertilizer factories who came to buy minerals...
The more Chen Zhilu listened, the brighter his eyes became, and he instantly admired his father very much.
That's the experience! Valuable experience that is kept secret.
When Chen Dayu saw the beautiful and quiet Tao Nanfeng, he liked her very much. When he heard that she was the professor's daughter, he became even more curious about her. He wanted to hold down his youngest son's head and force him to marry her immediately.
Unfortunately, Chen Zhilu didn't understand at all. He just stiffened his neck and said, "She is my sister! She is very strong and I can't beat her."
Chen Dayu was so angry that he stamped his feet, but children have their own blessings, and Section Chief Chen, who has always been open-minded, did not force it.
With the help of acquaintances, the network of relationships was gradually established, and finally connections were established with the Industrial Department and Planning Department of the provincial capital of Hunan Province.
Chen Zhilu acted like an elder brother. He said, "It's too tiring to take the train. It's not convenient for a girl like you to travel outside. I can go alone. You wait for news at home." He sent Tao Nanfeng to the gate of Jiangcheng University of Architecture and then went back.
At 6:30 in the evening, the street lights came on.
Just as Tao Nanfeng walked to the door, a person suddenly jumped out from the darkness and grabbed her.
This man has delicate features and tear marks on his face. It is Tao You.
"Nanfeng, I have always treated you as my own sister. Can you persuade Dad to forgive me? I don't ask to move back, I just hope that I can come back to visit my parents from time to time.
It was all my fault. I shouldn't have broken my arm at that critical moment, which forced me to go to the countryside as an educated youth. I shouldn't have gone so long without even writing you a letter, and I shouldn't have not sent you some money after I started working. I know I was wrong, please forgive me! ”
If such evil deeds as hers can be forgiven, then where is justice in this world? Tao Nanfeng shook her hand away with a cold face and walked away.
As soon as she entered the house, she saw Feng Chun'e kneeling down with a plop, and she reached out and hugged her calves.
"Nanfeng, you're back. It's my fault, everything is my fault. I shouldn't have been so selfish as to let you replace Tao You as an educated youth, and I shouldn't have concealed the news that you went to the farm. I kowtow to you, I kneel down to you, and beg you to have mercy on me, and persuade your father not to be angry with me. I have been good to you and this family with all my heart..."
Why did these two people suddenly admit their mistakes together? Tao Nanfeng felt a little puzzled.
Tao Shouxin came out of the study upon hearing the noise, pulled Tao Nanfeng away and protected him behind him: "What are you going to do?"
Feng Chun'e's tears fell like crazy, her face pale and haggard: "Teacher Tao, I apologize to Nanfeng and beg her to forgive me. Can we go back to the past as long as Nanfeng forgives me? It's not easy to build this family, we can't destroy it so easily..."
Outside the house, Tao You was pushed away by Tao Nanfeng and almost fell down. He was so scared that his heart was pounding: It turned out that after going to the countryside, even people became rough.
She heard the noise in the house and stood in the yard crying, deliberately raising her voice.
"Nanfeng, if you are angry, you can hit me or scold me, but don't let Dad and Mom fall out. Mom and Dad have experienced the pain of losing a loved one, and they have been married for eight years without a fight. Who in the neighborhood doesn't envy their good relationship? You...you only come back once a year and a half, don't make Mom and Dad sad for you."
The family made so much noise that their neighbors came out of their houses and started to try to stop the fight.
"How can family members hold grudges overnight? If you have something to say, just talk it out."
"Nanfeng used to be a very obedient child, how come he caused such chaos at home when he came back?"
"Even if I went to the countryside to work for Tao You, you wouldn't be so resentful, right?"
"Feng Chun'e is Nanfeng's elder after all. Kneeling on the ground and crying like that... It's really pitiful. Nanfeng, please be magnanimous and forgive her."
When Tao Nanfeng heard the neighbors' discussions, a sneer appeared on his face.
forgive? How can I forgive?
Feng Chun'e did the laundry, cooked, served tea and water, and showed concern for others in front of her father and neighbors. Everyone praised her as a virtuous person and could not find any fault with her.
But after Tao Nanfeng passed away, she couldn't wait to deal with all his belongings; when her father filed for divorce, she tried to commit suicide and cried to everyone she met, using all kinds of moral blackmail; when Tao Shouxin couldn't bear the harassment and moved out to live alone, she spread rumors everywhere that he had an affair; after her father died, she and Tao You immediately sold the ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, collectibles and jade artifacts in the study, including the jade button that "found a new life".
In her first marriage, Feng Chun'e jumped from the countryside to the city; in her second marriage, she changed from a worker to a professor's wife and inherited a large inheritance.
This woman is very scheming. She acts one way in front of people and another behind their backs. She plays the role of a weak person to gain benefits.
If it weren't for the fact that she was his father's bedmate and legal wife, Tao Nanfeng would not be willing to say another word to her or even give her a glance.
Tao Nanfeng bent down, met Feng Chun'e's eyes, and whispered, "If I pity you, then who will pity Tao Nanfeng who lost his life on the farm?"
Facing Tao Nanfeng's cold and beautiful eyes that looked like Tao Shouxin's, Feng Chun'e felt a chill down her spine for some reason and began to stutter unconsciously: "What, what do you mean by losing your life? You're not living well!"
Every word and sentence in the book came to Tao Nanfeng's mind, and a faint sense of sadness welled up in his heart.
She straightened up, turned her head and looked at the sycamore tree at the gate of the yard. Some of the brown bark on the branches of the sycamore tree has fallen off, revealing mottled colors, and the withered yellow leaves are swirling in the wind.
If villains like Feng Chun'e and Tao You can become the protagonists of a book, then the author of this book is definitely not a good person. Since God has allowed me to survive by chance, I must seek justice!
"Please don't cry, the one who should be crying is me, my father!
You are so smart and calculating. First, deliberately change to the most difficult place, then pretend to break my arm, and send the weak me far away, preferably to die in a foreign land. In this way, my father, my father's resources, our house and furniture will all be yours, right? ”
When Tao Nanfeng said this, everyone was stunned.
Are there really such vicious people in this world? If it's true...if we don't drive him away, will we keep him for the New Year?
When Tao Shouxin heard his daughter's words, his heart was filled with shock: Losing his life on the farm? How could that be?
For some reason, he suddenly remembered the name of the jade button - Escape from Despair.
Is it possible that if the daughter had not worn this jade button and had not possessed the magical power, she would have died alone in a distant place?
Tao Shouxin shuddered at the thought of this.
At that moment, his heart hardened and he said to Feng Chun'e firmly: "Let's get a divorce!"
Professor Tao is a simple person.
Originally, according to his idea, household affairs should be handled at home, without making it public, let alone inviting a group of onlookers to give others something to talk about after dinner.
But now, since Feng Chun'e and Tao You are willing to make a big deal out of this, why should I care too much about my dignity and face?
"Let's get a divorce!" As soon as these five words came out of his mouth, Tao Shouxin suddenly felt that the shackles that bound him were untied, and he felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.
The second marriage was forced by form, not love.
But in Tao Shouxin's eyes, even if there is no love, there is responsibility. Feng Chun'e had an unhappy marriage and was accused of being unlucky in marriage, so she had a hard time at the factory. When his leader introduced her to him, he really didn't like her.
Before he could refuse, she knelt down in front of him and said, "Please have mercy on me and give me and my daughter a way out! If I don't find someone to marry in the city, my daughter will have to be sent back to the countryside, and I can't bear to leave her behind..."
Tao Shouxin also has a daughter. Tao You is the same age as Nanfeng, but she looks like a bean sprout, thin and with a sallow face. At this moment he felt compassion. Anyway, he had to marry a worker as required by the organization, so he decided to help the poor mother and daughter.
He remembered clearly that when he agreed to get married, Feng Chun'e cried and laughed, and kept promising him: "Don't worry, I will take good care of the household affairs and won't let you worry about anything. I will take good care of Nanfeng and serve her like a princess."
I felt a little guilty at the time, so I comforted her in a gentle voice: "Don't be so restrained. You will be Nanfeng's stepmother in the future. Just care for her as you do for Tao You."
Originally, Tao Shouxin thought that if he married a woman who had suffered, she would know how to cherish him better. Treat Tao You well, and she will treat Nan Feng sincerely.
Who knew that she almost killed Nanfeng!
Tao Shouxin looked at his daughter. Her face was also a little pale, but she pursed her lips and said nothing. In front of such a pitiful person, my daughter's kind and noble character will inevitably suffer.
I can't let my daughter suffer any more injustice.
Tao Shouxin was very clear-headed at the moment, and said in a deep voice: "Feng Chun'e, don't quarrel or make a fuss. I will not live with a woman like you anymore."
Tao You, who had been crying outside the yard, felt secretly happy as she listened to the neighbors' discussions. A tree has a layer of bark, a person has a face, are you, Tao Nanfeng, a person living in a vacuum? You still have to have some shame. If you get a bad reputation, I wonder how you'll walk around campus in the future.
Tao You thought that if he and his mother took a two-pronged approach by pretending to be pitiful and weak, noble people like Tao Shouxin and Tao Nanfeng would definitely be soft-hearted and give in. No matter how angry or dissatisfied they are, they have to weigh the power of the masses, give up sharp confrontation and choose gentle compromise.
Unexpectedly, the course of events was completely unexpected.
divorce? Tao You couldn't believe his ears. She ran into the house screaming, "No, we can't get a divorce! You are my father, a father that no one can replace!"
Feng Chun'e was so scared that she dared not shed tears and begged for mercy in a hurry: "Teacher Tao, please, don't divorce us. If we get divorced, will we still have a good reputation? Will we still have Nanfeng's reputation? If this gets out, how will you let the children work and get married?"
Tao Nanfeng smiled slightly, but his eyes were cold as ice.
"You have to lose something to gain something, I understand this principle. You have no shame, but I am not afraid of losing face! Reputation is nothing compared to justice.
You and your daughter have done so many disgusting things over the years. I will explain them all to you one by one, and let others judge whether this marriage should be divorced or not! ”
The neighbors who were watching the excitement also realized the seriousness of the problem at this time and shouted: "Go and call the director of women's affairs and the chairman of the labor union. Something has happened to the Tao family. It's a big thing!"
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