Tao Zhiyun held Qiqi's hand and waited at the gate of the community.
Seeing Lin Mai and the others coming, mother and son rushed to greet them.
The two children were very happy to see each other and chatted non-stop. For those who didn't know, they thought they hadn't seen each other for a long time.
Tao Zhiyun glanced at the gifts carried by Zhou Caiyun and the others, and said angrily to Lin Mai, "I'm here to treat you to dinner. Look, you guys brought so many things."
Lin Mai smiled and said: "These things cost nothing. They are all sent by the families of Zhuoran's patients."
The group entered the family area and met Section Chief Lu head-on.
Tao Zhiyun turned his head away in disgust.
Section Chief Lu saw this and felt extremely unhappy.
But Tao Zhiyun's eldest brother and sister-in-law were so powerful that he couldn't resist them. Even if he was unhappy, he could only endure them.
Although he had evil thoughts in his heart, the more the proud Tao Zhiyun looked down on him, the more he wanted to suppress her and humiliate her, making her unable to survive or die until she was submissive.
However, he could only think about such evil thoughts because he was afraid of incurring revenge from Tao Zhiyun's brother and sister-in-law.
Lin Mai has a delicate mind by nature.
Although she just met Section Chief Lu and passed each other, she had already caught the malice in Chief Lu's eyes.
Moreover, Tao Zhiyun and Section Chief Lu ignored each other, which made people think deeply.
There were no outsiders present anyway, so Lin Mai curiously asked Tao Zhiyun: "What happened between you and Section Chief Lu?"
Tao Zhiyun said calmly: "Nothing."
Lin Mai guessed that she might not want to say anything, so he didn't ask further.
The group entered the gate of Tuanjie House where Tao Zhiyun lived.
When Lin Mai came to see Tao Zhiyun for the first time, he met the quarrelsome mother and daughter who were preparing dinner in the kitchen of their house, which was less than an square meter.
In their home, several little carrot heads no more than ten years old were lying on the folding dining table doing homework.
When the mother and daughter saw Tao Zhiyun bringing several men and women home, their eyes immediately shone with gossip.
The daughter asked Tao Zhiyun: "Take the guests home."
Tao Zhiyun hummed indifferently and ignored her.
The woman shut up boredly and continued to prepare dinner with her elderly mother.
Tao Zhiyun had already prepared the dishes for the guests. The meat dishes were placed on the stove to keep them warm, and the vegetables and cold dishes were all placed on the stove.
She unlocked the kitchen and brought the dishes into the room with Lin Mai and others.
Lin Mai thought about the first time he met the mother and daughter, they kept saying bad things about Tao Zhiyun to her, a stranger.
Lin Mai asked with concern: "Are those mother and daughter still slandering you behind your back?"
Tao Zhiyun put the two plates of food he was carrying on the dining table and said with a sneer: "She doesn't dare anymore. Not only does she not dare, but other people in the factory probably don't dare either."
Lin Mai was quite surprised: "What method did you use to make everyone in the factory afraid of you?"
"Use the order form." Seeing that all the dishes were on the table, Tao Zhiyun took chopsticks from the kitchen and gave each person a pair.
"When the mother and daughter spoke ill of me again, I didn't argue with her.
Go directly to the factory manager and tell him that he doesn't care if the mother and daughter next door spread rumors about me?
If you don't care, there will be no orders next month.
The factory director panicked and found the mother and daughter that day.
Warn them that if they dare to say a bad word about me again, they will take back their daughter's job, give it to her brother-in-law, and let them and their whole family go back to the countryside."
Lin Mai was surprised and said: "Even if the woman's job is taken back, it should be given to her brothers and sisters. It's not her brother-in-law's turn anyway."
Tao Zhiyun took out another bottle of red wine bought from Fuduoduo and poured wine for everyone.
"The woman didn't have a job. Her husband was injured at work and died without resuscitation.
The factory asked her to take over her husband's job, so that she could bring her children and her widowed mother to the city and take root.
If she really wants to take her job back, of course it should be given to her brother-in-law."
Zhou Caiyun had been eating in silence. When he heard this, he said in confusion:
"Both her mother and daughter don't have men.
Why are you so pitiful and still spreading rumors about others? Isn't it good to live quietly?"
Lin Mai snorted coldly: "So, there must be something hateful about poor people."
Tao Zhiyun drank two glasses of red wine and spoke without any scruples: "I suspected that that woman was having an affair with Ma Tao, so she tried her best to smear me and slander me, Hongxing, for having an affair."
The woman was unattractive, even a little ugly, and she had a shriveled and old look. She looked more than ten years older than that beast Ma Tao.
If Ma Tao could have sex with her, he would really accept everyone who comes.
Lin Mai felt sick just thinking about it.
Tao Zhiyun spent a lot of money on this meal, which included chicken, duck, fish, and several braised vegetables bought from Fuduoduo.
The aroma of various meat dishes and braised vegetables wafted out of the house.
The children next door all came over with a bowl of yellow-black rice cooked from old rice.
They gathered in front of Tao Zhiyun's house, staring eagerly at her table full of delicious food and salivating with salivation.
Tao Zhiyunli ignored him.
Before the divorce, some children from next door came over and wanted to have a bite. Tao Zhiyun saw how pitiful they were and always satisfied them.
But their grandmother and mother are not the same thing.
Their children ate hers and drank hers, and they still spoke ill of her and ruined her reputation. Why should she be nice to those children?
When the mother and daughter saw several children gathered at Tao Zhiyun's gate, but no one paid attention, they felt embarrassed and scolded the children and sent them home.
After finishing the meal, everyone started to clear away the dishes together.
Fang Zhuoyue accidentally dropped a plate and broke it into pieces.
He squatted down to pick up the fragments and cut off his hand carelessly.
Lin Mai was speechless on the sidelines.
Not to take care of his face, she wanted to say: What can you do? Take the plate and throw it, pick up the pieces, and cut your fingers.
Tao Zhiyun hurriedly took purple liquid, Yunnan Baiyao and gauze to treat Fang Zhuoyue's wound.
Raising a boy like Qiqi at home is bound to be rough and tumble. She has all these external medicines at home.
Tao Zhiyun's hands were very soft and his movements were very gentle. He didn't feel any pain even when he applied purple liquid to Fang Zhuoyue, and it was even less painful when he applied Yunnan Baiyao and bandaged the wound.
Tao Zhiyun's gentleness made Fang Zhuoyue feel very comfortable and enjoy it very much. The feeling was too wonderful to be expressed in words.
Tao Zhiyun quickly bandaged Fang Zhuoyue's wound, raised his head and smiled at him: "Okay."
That smile made Fang Zhuohuo bewildered.
…
When he got up in the morning, Fang Zhuoyue brushed his teeth and washed his face.
After sleeping all night, he forgot about the injured finger. When the wound saw water, a burst of pain hit him, and he remembered it.
After washing up, he went downstairs with a few dull hairs on his head, ready to have breakfast.
Seeing that his eldest brother and sister-in-law were both there, he suddenly thought of the scene when Tao Zhiyun bandaged his wound yesterday.
He also wanted to experience the relaxing and comfortable feeling, so he immediately walked toward Lin Mai with his injured middle finger raised.
In Fang Zhuoyue's understanding, a woman must be found to bandage wounds so that she will feel gentle.
There are only three generations of women in the family: Grandma Fang, sister-in-law, and Doudou.
Grandma Fang Fang Zhuoyue ignored him and scolded him when she saw him, saying that bandaging his wounds would not be gentle, let alone enjoyable.
Doudou can't expect that, let alone bandaging her wounds, she will definitely use her little fingers to pick his wounds.
The last time he sat with her on his head, the little villain used his hands to dig out his eyes. He still remembered it clearly.
That's why he chose Lin Mai with a clear goal.
She is beautiful, speaks sweetly and waxy, and is a girl.
If you ask her to bandage your wounds, she will definitely be more gentle than Tao Zhiyun.
When Fang Zhuoran saw Fang Zhuoyue running towards Lin Mai with his middle finger raised, his face turned dark: "Don't you want your middle finger anymore?
If you don’t want it, donate it to those in need!”
Grandpa Fang and his wife didn't understand the meaning of the middle finger, so they looked at their two grandsons inexplicably.
Fang Zhuoyue poked his injured finger under his elder brother's nostril: "I didn't mean to raise my middle finger. It's because my middle finger is injured and I want my sister-in-law to bandage it for me."
Fang Zhuoran glanced at the finger and said sarcastically: "It's really serious."
Fang Zhuoyue immediately said confidently: "That's why I want my sister-in-law to bandage it for me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Zhuoran continued: "I'm really afraid that the wound will have healed before the bandage is finished."
Fang Zhuoyue was suddenly embarrassed.
After breakfast, Fang Zhuoyue rubbed his hands and asked Lin Mai to bandage his wounds.
Fang Zhuoran said: "Do you think that I, the surgeon, am dead?"
He bandaged Fang Zhuoyue's wound himself.
In fact, the wound is half healed and no longer needs to be bandaged.
But Fang Zhuoran was afraid that Fang Zhuoyue would keep pestering Lin Mai, so he bandaged him.
Not only did Fang Zhuoyue not experience the feeling of walking in the clouds, but he also experienced the cold treatment from the surgeon.
When it was time to go to work, the family changed shoes in the entrance hall.
Fang Zhuoran stared at the pair of expensive leather shoes that Fang Zhuoyue was wearing.
Fang Zhuoyue was stared at with horror by him, and he laughed dryly and said: "I work as a coolie during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and my sister-in-law rewards me for doing so, hehe!"
Lin Mai also hurriedly explained: "The shoes I bought for you are much more expensive than the shoes I bought for Zhuoran."
Fang Zhuoran nodded gently to her, turned to Fang Zhuoyue with a serious look on his face: "You don't have to look at me like a savage beast.
I won't be jealous because your sister-in-law bought you leather shoes.
My elder sister-in-law is like my mother. She buys you anything but treats you like a son. What should I be jealous of?"
The corners of Fang Zhuoyue's mouth twitched. His elder brother's two words made him look a generation shorter.