half thorns, half joy

"Linlin, you don't have to worry about this matter. Don't go to my mother's side anytime soon." Xiao Zihan told Cai Lin, took the phone and started contacting the nanny of Xiao's house.

Cai Lin stood awkwardly, looking at Tang Xuan and Xiao Zihan uneasily.

Although she had good intentions at first, but now she has caused trouble for everyone, and she is also guilty in her heart, but no matter how guilty she is, she also knows that she cannot tell the truth.

Anyway... the truth is similar to the current situation, Cai Lin comforted herself.

Because of this episode, the moods of several people became much heavier, and they no longer had the mood to joke around. They all sat silently, thinking about their own affairs.

It was Tang Xuan who broke the heavy atmosphere first. Tang Xuan smiled and said to Cai Lin, "Linlin, thank you for helping us speak with Zihan's mother."

Cai Lin was already nervous, but when Tang Xuan called her by name, she almost jumped up from her chair in shock, "Ah! No, no, don't thank me, I didn't do anything..."

"But you've tried your best to help us. That's enough." Tang Xuan shrugged and said relaxedly, "This is not an easy task. Just do your best and obey the destiny."

"Hmm..." Cai Lin forced a smile after hearing what Tang Xuan said, but felt more and more embarrassed.

Seeing that Cai Lin was still brooding, Tang Xuan stopped talking, turned to Xiao Zihan, and asked Xiao Zihan who was frowning and thinking about something just after calling, "Zihan, what are we having for lunch, why don't we have dinner together?" .”

"Huh?" Xiao Zihan came back to his senses, and glanced at Cai Jinyu, "I can do it, how about you Jinyu, if possible, I'll ask the nanny to cook a few more dishes, and I'll send them over later."

"Okay, let's eat together."

Xiao Zihan asked Cai Lin again, "What about Linlin, can I do that too?"

When Cai Lin heard Tang Xuan's proposal, she thought of Deng Langyue. In front of her brother, she couldn't think of a reason for her refusal, so she nodded bluntly, "Uh...that's fine."

Even so, Cai Jinyu still keenly noticed something was wrong, he squinted his eyes and turned to Cai Lin, "Are you busy at noon?"

"No." Cai Lin didn't dare to look directly into Cai Jinyu's scrutinizing eyes, and smiled sheepishly, "I had a dinner appointment with a friend, so it's okay if I don't go."

"Which friend?" Cai Jinyu asked again.

Cai Lin swallowed nervously, and said vaguely: "Just an ordinary friend, someone you don't know..."

Cai Jinyu wanted to ask again, but the phone in Cai Lin's bag rang suddenly, and the abrupt ringtone interrupted Cai Jinyu's question.

"You guys talk first, I'll answer the phone." Cai Lin took out her phone and glanced at it before leaving the ward in a hurry.

Cai Jinyu looked at the door of the ward and frowned.

Xiao Zihan saw all this in his eyes, and he couldn't help asking Cai Jinyu, "What's wrong, his face suddenly looks so ugly."

Cai Jinyu looked back, sighed, and said slowly: "I feel... something is wrong."

"What's wrong, Linlin?"

"Um……"

Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan looked at each other, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong? What did you find?"

"That's not true..." Cai Jinyu shook her head, "I just think Linlin is a little weird, she seems to be very afraid of me, she is hiding something from me, and she is always on the lookout for me."

"This...could it be that you are thinking too much?" Seeing that Cai Jinyu was distressed, Tang Xuan tried to explain, "There was indeed something wrong with Linlin just now, but it may also be because she messed up this matter, so she It's also more uncomfortable."

Cai Jinyu knew more about this younger sister than Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan, so he couldn't share his intuition, so he could only sigh again, "Maybe so."

Despite what he said, Cai Jinyu was still worried. He waited for a long time, but couldn't wait for Cai Lin, so he simply got up and went to look for Cai Lin outside the ward.

Cai Lin was not outside, Cai Jinyu was puzzled, walked through the corridor, and just about to enter the stairwell, she saw Cai Lin coming out of the stairwell.

"Brother?" Cai Lin called Cai Jinyu in surprise.

Cai Jinyu nodded, and glanced at the mobile phone in Cai Lin's hanging hand, "Did you finish the call?"

"Yeah." Cai Lin twitched the corners of her mouth, "My friend asked me about the meal, and I just told him that I won't go there to eat."

It sounds like there is nothing wrong with this, but Cai Jinyu just finds it indescribably strange and indescribably inconsistent.

"Cai Lin." Cai Jinyu stopped Cai Lin who was walking towards the ward.

Instead of using intimate nicknames, they are called by their first names.

Cai Lin stopped and looked at Cai Jinyu suspiciously, "Brother, what's wrong?"

Cai Jinyu noticed his younger sister's erratic eyes and hands that didn't know where to put them, and suddenly felt a little unbearable. He was silent for a moment, and then slowly said in a more gentle tone: "Linlin, do you still remember what brother told you before? What's the matter, I want to tell my brother."

"...Yeah." Cai Lin bit her lip, "I remember."

Cai Jinyu did not delve into the lack of confidence and nervousness in Cai Lin's tone. He stepped forward and patted Cai Lin on the shoulder, "Just remember, I'm afraid you will forget."

After Cai Jinyu finished speaking, she walked towards the ward.

"..." Cai Lin stood where she was, watching Cai Jinyu twist the doorknob and enter the ward, her fingers tightly twisted together.

The nanny brought lunch and set the table, Cai Lin and Cai Jinyu sat around the bed and ate together.

Cai Lin secretly glanced at Cai Jinyu's expression from time to time, absent-minded about eating.

In contrast, Cai Jinyu was much calmer. He ate his food quietly and talked to Tang Xuan from time to time. His calmness was not like his own.

After eating, Cai Jinyu took the initiative to clean up the mess, got up and said to Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan, "Then you guys take a lunch break, I still have something to do, so I'll go back first."

"Okay, go about your business and don't worry about us."

"Yeah." Cai Jinyu turned to look at Cai Lin, "Where's Linlin? Are you staying or going with me?"

Cai Lin quickly replied: "Of course I will go with you!"

"Okay, then let's go first."

Tang Xuan waved to Cai Lin, "Goodbye, be careful on the road."

"Bye bye, sister Tang Xuan, bye, brother Zihan."

"OK Bye Bye."

After Cai Jinyu and Cai Lin left, Tang Xuan and Xiao Zihan rinsed their mouths and lay down.

The ward was quiet for a while. Tang Xuan stared at the white ceiling and seemed to be talking to herself, "Why do I think Jinyu and Linlin are both weird?"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Xiao Zihan, who was about to close his eyes and rest his mind, couldn't help opening his eyes when he heard this sentence.

"I can't tell." Tang Xuan, as a person who has always been sensitive, observes other people's emotional changes very carefully. She recalled Cai Jinyu and Cai Lin just now, and said uncertainly: "It just feels like the relationship between the two of them is like There is a gap, not as close as before."

Xiao Zihan was a big deal in this regard, and he didn't have the time to pay attention to it, so when he heard Tang Xuan say that, he basically didn't feel anything.

But even if he didn't feel it, Xiao Zihan was not a casual person. He thought for a while and said to Tang Xuan, "I'll ask Jinyu carefully to see if something happened."

"Well, let's find a chance to ask." Tang Xuan sighed and said with emotion, "These two brothers and sisters have helped us a lot these days, so don't let our affairs affect them."

"Don't worry, it won't." Xiao Zihan was still very confident about his relationship with Cai Jinyu.

……

In the private car that was driving slowly, Cai Jinyu was sitting in the driver's seat, her eyes were looking straight ahead, expressionless.

Cai Lin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked at the congested road ahead, and at Cai Jinyu, who had very low air pressure, and hesitated for a while before speaking.

"Brother, if you don't want to see me off, you can go back to the company directly, and I'll just take a taxi back by myself."

Cai Jinyu's voice was flat, "It's okay, it's not far."

Cai Lin frowned, "Huh? The company is still quite far from our house, and it's not on the way. You're wasting most of your time on the road."

At the red light ahead, Cai Jinyu stepped on the brakes, glanced at the rearview mirror, and said, "I'm not going back to the company."

"Not going back to the company? Then where are you going?"

"Go do something." Cai Jinyu finally turned to look at Cai Lin, "Are you busy this afternoon?"

"Huh? No, it's fine."

Cai Jinyu let out a long breath, "Then I'll take you back."

Cai Lin saw that Cai Jinyu was in a very bad mood, and even if she approached Cai Jinyu, she would respond lukewarmly, so she stopped talking and stopped talking.

In the awkward and cramped silence, Cai Jinyu drove the car to the gate of the villa. Cai Lin got out of the car, closed the door, and bent over to say goodbye to Cai Jinyu through the car window.

"Well, let's go back." Cai Jinyu still had a serious face, and after saying this, he started the car.

Cai Lin didn't move. She watched the car turn at the end of the road and disappeared. Then she took out her phone from her bag, which kept vibrating.

Deng Langyue's cell phone number, seemingly tireless, flickered on the screen.