half thorns, half joy

The customers of the cafe opened the glass door and walked out. Tang Xuan put away all her emotions, held the door, and walked in.

The decoration and layout of this cafe are very elegant, adding a lot of green plants and picture frames. While following the literary style, it also provides a considerable privacy space for the guests.

Tang Xuan glanced at her watch. There were still a few minutes before the time she had agreed with Zhao Suizhi. Thinking that Zhao Suizhi would not be the one who would arrive early for her, she looked around and planned to find a seat first.

However, at this moment, the glass door was pushed open, Tang Xuan turned her head and saw Zhao Suizhi whom she had not seen for a long time.

Zhao Suizhi also saw Tang Xuan, she stopped in her tracks and looked at Tang Xuan, her face was so gloomy that ink dripped out.

The waiter at the cafe came forward holding the drink list, glanced at Tang Xuan and Zhao Suizhi, and made a gesture of invitation with a sweet smile, "Are you two? Please come inside."

Tang Xuan couldn't bear to be stared at by Zhao Suizhi, she turned her head and smiled at the waiter, and walked towards the seats inside first.

The waiter took Tang Xuan and Zhao Suizhi to a corner. After Tang Xuan and Zhao Suizhi were seated, he handed over the drink list and asked with a smile, "What do you two want to drink?"

Tang Xuan: "Latte."

After the waiter wrote it down, he asked Zhao Suizhi, "What about you?"

Zhao Suizhi pursed his lips tightly and remained silent, not giving Tang Xuan a look.

The waiter looked at Tang Xuan in embarrassment. Tang Xuan felt even more embarrassed, so she smiled mischievously, "Same, latte."

"Okay, please wait a moment." The waiter saw the silent gunpowder between the two, and quickly slipped away.

After the waiter left, Tang Xuan stared at the small alarm clock on the table without making a sound.

Even though Zhao Suizhi kept silent, she could tell that Zhao Suizhi was really angry and hated her. Otherwise, Zhao Suizhi, who pays attention to politeness and etiquette, would not be so indifferent to an innocent waiter.

"You still have the face to see me."

The two were silent for a while, the waiter brought the coffee, and when the coffee was almost cold, Zhao Suizhi finally spoke through gritted teeth.

Tang Xuan looked up at Zhao Suizhi, and seeing Zhao Suizhi's whole body trembling slightly, suddenly she was at a loss for words.

She opened her mouth, and it took a while before she said, "I'm sorry."

"Yes, you should be sorry. You are sorry for my trust in you, and you are sorry for the Xiao family's trust in you." Zhao Suizhi's voice was filled with superior indifference, "Tang Xuan, you are really a white-eyed wolf."

Tang Xuan: "..."

"I don't want to mention the past. The reason why I came today is to tell you clearly that I will not let my son continue to be with you. Don't think about it anymore."

Tang Xuan nodded slightly, "I knew you would say that."

"Since you know, don't make me waste time. Your methods are indeed very high. If they are not high, our Xiao family will not fall on you, a little girl, but some methods can only be used once. I don't mind It will make you hit our Xiao family again and again. You'd better leave my son immediately and don't force me to do anything to you. "

"Do it? What, are you planning to make me disappear from this world?" Tang Xuan sneered, "Just like what Xiao Mingyuan did to those girls back then?"

"You—" Zhao Suizhi's face was full of anger, she raised her hand, and mercilessly poured the latte in her hand on Tang Xuan's face.

The warm, sweet latte flowed down Tang Xuan's cheeks and into Tang Xuan's mouth.

Thankfully, it wasn't hot.Tang Xuan thought to herself.

"Little girl, I advise you to be more careful when you speak, and don't make insinuations like this. I have lived to this age, and I can hear what your words imply."

Tang Xuan sighed, fumbled for a pack of tissues from her bag, and pulled out some coffee to wipe her face.

After wiping it, she put away the dirty paper and held it in the palm of her hand, then looked at Zhao Suizhi calmly.

"First of all, I didn't make any insinuations. What I said was very straightforward. I didn't mean what I said." Tang Xuan said frankly, "It's your guilty conscience that's why you're so angry and excited."

Zhao Suizhi's mind was punctured, and his face changed again and again, so livid that it was frightening.

"Secondly, the reason why I came today is not to persuade you to accept me, nor to ask you to forgive me. I came to tell you a story."

Zhao Suizhi's eyes showed confusion, with a little wariness.

Tang Xuan smiled slightly, stretched out her hand to hold her coffee cup, and slid her fingertips over the cup.

She looked at the mellow coffee in the coffee cup, and slowly said: "You know, we don't have coffee of this quality in our hometown, and we can't drink it, and that small city doesn't even have decent cafes. "

"There is none now, let alone eight years... No, it was nine years ago. Nine years ago, we didn't even have a cafe there. You can't imagine it, it's true. Our place is really very behind."

"In such a backward place, my parents have passed away long ago, and my relatives are afraid of being dragged down. It is very difficult to find a part-time job or a part-time job to find some money, let alone earn money to pay for tuition. I really, many times persisted. If I didn’t come down, I almost gave up, and I wanted to go to a restaurant to wash the dishes, and it wasn’t that hard.”

Zhao Suizhi interrupted Tang Xuan impatiently, "Tang Xuan, I'm not interested in your miserable life experience. I know you are miserable, but there are many people worse than you. You can't impress me, and you can't convince me. Don't waste your time."

Tang Xuan was not annoyed by being interrupted, she smiled and shook her head, "No, what I want to tell is not my story."

Tang Xuan continued: "When I was in the most difficult time, my cousin Qianqian helped me. She encouraged me to study hard and secretly gave me money from time to time. She said that she always wanted to study for college, but She is not material for studying, so I hope I can fulfill her dream."

Speaking of her cousin, Tang Xuan's eyes gradually turned red even though she was originally in a stable mood.

"In your opinion, does this sound like an old-fashioned story from decades ago when there was not enough food and clothing? Actually, it's not," Tang Xuan shook her head. "In poor places, this kind of thing counts as a few years ago. , and there are quite a lot.”

"Our place didn't make much money, so Sister Qianqian came to this city with the people who flocked to the big cities at that time, and came here to work. She found a job in a hotel and started to make money. Send money, call me and tell me how nice it is here."

Zhao Suizhi's expression gradually became complicated when Tang Xuan said the word hotel.

Tang Xuan saw the change in Zhao Suizhi and nodded, "That's right, it's Xingda Hotel, your Xiao family's hotel. Although she's just an ordinary waiter, she might be looked down upon by people like you. But she was really happy."

"She called me during that time, and I could feel how happy she was through the phone. She said that she planned to work for a long time, and she would do a good job to become a small foreman. She also asked me to come here for the university entrance examination. take care of me."

Tang Xuan finally couldn't hold back and shed a stream of tears.

"However, all her good wishes and all her fantasies about life were brutally ended in your Xiao's hotel."

Tang Xuan wiped away her tears and tried not to sound too excited, "Excuse me, the famous Mrs. Xiao, can you tell me what she did wrong? She is full of hope for the future, but she is only two A girl in her early teens, why did she die so ignorantly? Could it be that the lives of the poor are not their lives? Could it be that the lives of ordinary people can be ruined?"

Zhao Suizhi pursed his lips uncomfortably, avoiding Tang Xuan's sharp gaze.

"As far as I know, Mrs. Xiao, you were not born rich and powerful. You used to be a member of an ordinary family. Even if life is not so embarrassing, it's not that you can't understand the feelings of ordinary people."

Tang Xuan looked down at the almost-dried coffee marks on her body, took a deep breath and said, "I did feel sorry for Xiao Zihan, I hurt him, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you splash me with coffee, I accept it. But, I didn't feel sorry for your Xiao family, everything I did before was just to get back the justice that should belong to that girl who is no longer alive."

"Your husband is locked in prison because of something wrong. You feel so uncomfortable and blame others so much. Think about it in another way. If you care about someone who is dependent on you and dies innocently, how would you feel and what would you do? Bar."

Tang Xuan got up, "I've finished what I want to say. I don't know how much you can listen to this story. But let me tell you, the dead girl is not a mechanical symbol. Her favorite flower is the lotus. The color is white, and she used to be a living person. It was your Xiao family who cut off her life."