windy city rainy season

Father Tao is a graduate of the third class. He went to the countryside as an educated youth and stayed in the countryside for many years.Some of the educated youth who were at the same time as him planted their roots in the local area, and some abandoned their wives and children in order to return to the city. Father Tao did not waste his youth in the years of poverty and poverty. When the college entrance examination resumed in 77, he was admitted to the Petroleum Institute at the age of 27. Became a student of Grandpa Tao Yu.Tao's mother is eight years younger than her husband, and they both entered university in the same year, with different majors.

After graduation, the two got married, and Tao Yu was born the following year.At that time, Tao's father was not called a certain chief, but an engineer. The potter spent more than half a year in the remote areas of the motherland, engaged in energy field exploration and development, and did not start to turn to administration until he was 40 years old.Mother Tao was assigned to a state-owned enterprise after graduation. As a rare college student in that era, she received key training from the unit. Bring considerable profits to the group.From then on, Mother Tao officially entered the decision-making level, and sat all the way to the seat of group executives.

When Tao Yu was in middle school, people in his family often came to ask for errands, and his parents always politely sent away people and things. In his impression, the strict parents, how could financial problems be involved?Hearing the gossip about Liu Jingyang, he silently sorted out some important documents during his study abroad, including certificates of enrollment and transcripts, scholarship certificates, rental contracts, medical records of injuries, surgery and rehabilitation expenses, and what his father had done for him at the time. sought compensation.He listed the large income and expenditure for several years, backed up all the documents, and took them home in a brown paper bag.Mother understood what he meant with a glance, put away the documents, told him not to think about it, and it was serious to take care of his body.

The conversation incident was like a stone falling into the sea, with no follow-up; this also seemed to verify the attitude of the parents, and there was nothing to worry about.However, what I didn't expect was that one day after the long Spring Festival holiday, my mother was "asked away" at work and did not go home.

Tao Yu stayed at his parents' house like an ant on a hot pot, and waited until midnight to return to his father.Father Tao seemed to have been robbed of his energy and spirit, and he sank tiredly on the sofa, telling his son the news he heard that day.

"Misappropriation of state assets?!"

Tao Yu looked at his father in disbelief, "How could my mother do such a thing!"

Father Tao said in a hoarse voice: "A few years ago, they had a subsidiary that suffered serious losses. The senior management decided not to invest in manpower and material resources, but to hire a team from outside to run the business. The group charges a certain percentage. At that time, your mother signed a contract with that team as a representative."

Tao Yu thought it sounded like renting a storefront to do business, earning money to pay the landlord’s rent. The difference was that the mother’s unit was rented out as a company shell, and it was state-owned. Presumably, the team would use this name to get them more easily. project.

"...The company that was about to close down has come back to life in the past few years, which is indeed a win-win situation for both parties. But last year, the two leaders of that team partnered with others to establish a private company, and there were many accounting problems in the process. , suspected of transferring the business income here to a newly established private company. The two responsible persons have been put on trial today, and your mother is now only suspended to 'assist in the investigation' and has not entered the detention center."

Tao Yu couldn't figure out what was going on, so he raised his voice and asked, "It happened to the other party, what does this have to do with my mother?"

Father Tao looked up at him and said, "Do you know who the partner of their private company is?"

"Who?"

"Your cousin Fang Xiaolong." Father Tao put his brows together after finishing speaking, and then continued, "He was also taken away this morning."

Tao Yu stared at his father with wide eyes and remained silent for a long time.Fang Xiaolong is his aunt's son, three years older than him.Tao Yu didn't like this cousin since he was a child. When he was young, he spent the New Year at his grandfather's house together. When the adults were away, the cousin took the lead in making trouble. When the adults came back, he taught his younger siblings seriously, so Tao Yu secretly called him "double-faced".Reluctantly, this "double-dealer" had good grades and belonged to the five stripes in school. He was taught "what about your cousin" since he was a child, and Tao Yu naturally deepened his hostility towards "other people's children".Although it was a child's anger and there was no deep hatred, but the brothers were not close when they grew up, and they didn't get in touch once a year in Beijing.Hearing his father's words now, he realized that his mother was implicated. This was not an ordinary economic lawsuit, and it was not a civil case involving state-owned assets.

"Did my mother know beforehand?" Tao Yu asked in a low voice.

Father Tao shook his head, then sighed and said, "It's the most difficult to tell who is related."

"How much is the amount?" Tao Yu heard his voice tremble.

"7000 million..."

Father Tao got up and left without saying a word, shutting himself in the study.

After half a month, Tao Yu moved back to his parents' house. Neither father nor son had a good rest. They went to a lawyer and submitted income and deposit certificates, as well as the documents prepared by Tao Yu, which showed that there was no illegal income in the family, but Tao's mother still did not. go home.Father Tao and the lawyer speculated that they were waiting for the first-instance judgment of the two persons in charge before deciding the nature of the case.

Tao Yu's insomnia became more and more serious, even the added amount of sleeping pills couldn't make him sleep well, and several times he even wanted to swallow the whole bottle of medicine

Tao Yu's aunt came to the door several times and cried. Tao Yu knew that his father hated Fang Xiaolong in his heart, but he couldn't say it because of the affection of his relatives, let alone speak ill of his wife's sister.Tao Yu couldn't help with other things, so he took the initiative to stop the aunt for his father, and patiently listened to her crying in the living room all afternoon, saying that such a son had no hope for the rest of his life.

Once again, the aunt stayed at home and refused to leave. In her heart, she probably thought that the two families were advancing and retreating together in the same boat, and kept asking Father Tao how he talked with the lawyer.Tao Yu watched her mouth open and close, but the voice seemed to come from far away, hallucinations kept drifting past in front of her eyes, she wanted to escape but couldn’t move, that feeling was unforgettable, as if returning to the night when she lost blood and was on the verge of death .He clutched the clothes on his chest with both hands, gasped for breath, and suddenly woke up. The aunt was still sitting opposite, looking at his strange appearance in surprise, she stopped talking.

Tao Yu couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and said coldly: "Auntie, your son killed my mother, you only have one son, and I only have one mother! You go, don't come here again, you are here, my mother The problem is even more unclear."

The aunt jumped up from the sofa and asked him what he meant.

Tao Yu didn't want to say anything, and invited the hysterical woman out of the house.My own mother can't protect herself. After this incident, the Tao family and the aunt's family may not have any contact with each other.

As soon as I sent this place away, my uncle who was far away from other places came to look for work again, and he was looking for the house left by my grandfather.That suite was bought by the old man with his years of service, housing provident fund, and tens of thousands of dollars. It is a small-property house and cannot be sold in the real estate market.The old man has two daughters and a son. Both daughters are in Beijing, and the youngest son is out of town.At that time, they thought the house was not easy to divide, so Tao Yu's family proposed that they buy the two-thirds of the other two at the market price.At that time, both my aunt and my brother-in-law’s family had no objection. At that time, the housing price was far from as crazy as it is now. The Tao family gave each family 90 yuan, which was actually higher than the market price. [-] yuan in the early [-]s was a huge sum.The three signed the contract and notarized it, saying that the matter of the house is over.Who would have thought that the house price has risen dozens of times like a rocket over the years, and my uncle's family has long been thinking about coming back to find this house, and suffers from the financial problems of being often taken care of by the second sister, so they can't open their mouths.Now that something happened to the eldest and second family, he came back and asked to redistribute the house.

Father Tao has no time to take care of the house right now, and Tao Yu tried to reason with his uncle, but the other party insisted on redistribution, or make up the difference at the current market price.

Tao Yu was so aggrieved that he couldn't sleep or eat for a long time, so he swallowed it with force, and vomited it out after a while. He was already so thin that he lost his shape.Liu Jingyang accompanied his parents to Hainan for vacation during the Spring Festival, and returned to Beijing after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.As soon as he came back and heard about the Tao family, he immediately went to find Tao Yu, and met Tao Yu's uncle who threatened his nephew to tear down the door.Without saying a word, Liu Jingyang first found his brother who was a policeman nearby, and bluffed Tao Yu's uncle away, and then went to the building materials city to buy a copper anti-theft door, and immediately sent someone to replace Tao Yu's room. up.Once the door was locked, Tao Yu was taken to his home.

Tao Yu from Liu Jingyang's family was used to going there when he was a child, and he was also familiar with Liu's parents. Liu's mother shed tears immediately when she saw him like this, and cooked him soft noodles.Tao Yu ate half a bowl, but he didn't vomit afterward.

After staying at Liu's house for a day and a night, Tao Yu was worried about the house, and he didn't bring any medicine with him. When Liu Jingyang went out the next day, he went back to his house.His father was not there. He took some antidepressants and sat on the sofa for two hours. His mind was a little dull and he couldn't think of what he was going to do.After sitting for a while, he got up and left his parents' house, walking aimlessly in the compound.

As he was walking, he was stopped by someone who dragged him into a building and kept talking.It took Tao Yu a while to realize that the man asked him to open the door.He looked sideways at the brand new anti-theft door, feeling strange in his heart, not knowing where it was.He wanted to go, but the man blocked the way, so he sat down on the ground and put his hand into the pocket of his coat in boredom.His fingers touched a small bottle and he took it out and shook it. The sound reminded him of the chocolate beans he ate when he was a child.He unscrewed the lid and poured one into his mouth. It was a bit bitter, so he frowned, poured out another and ate it.The person in front of him had been yelling all the time, but suddenly stopped, looked suspiciously at the bottle in his hand, then turned and ran away.

Tao Yu smiled, and continued to put one pill after another into his mouth. Gradually, he felt dizzy, so he closed his eyes against the anti-theft door behind him...

After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Tao Yu vaguely felt a familiar figure in front of him when he woke up, but his vision was blurred, as if he was standing underwater looking at the outside world.Cold droplets flowed from the back of his left hand, and his left arm made his whole body feel cold. He moved uneasily, and his hand was wrapped in a warm and familiar palm.

Tao Yu moved his lips slightly: "Chang Zheng?"

"I'm here."

A voice echoed in his ear.

Tao Yu moved the corner of his mouth, closed his eyes and whispered, "I want to go home..."