half thorns, half joy

"Miss Cai, are you taking you back to Cai Shao's house?" After the car drove to a prosperous area, the driver of Xiao Zihan's family asked Cai Lin respectfully.

Cai Lin looked away from the phone and looked at the passing scenery outside the car window. The uncontrollable smile on the corner of her mouth slowly expanded, "No, I don't want to go anywhere."

Then, she said briskly, "Go to Xiaolong Cave."

Xiaolongdong is a restaurant that specializes in hot pot. Because the layout of the restaurant is a bit like a cave, it is named Xiaolongdong.

This hot pot restaurant is very famous in this city, and the price is particularly expensive, which discourages many people who admire it.

The driver nodded slightly upon hearing this.

"Yes."

After a while, the private car parked in front of the Xiaolongdong Hot Pot Restaurant.

Cai Lin got out of the car cheerfully, and waved goodbye to the driver in a particularly good mood.

She looked up at the red signboard with a bit of ancient style, then lowered her head to type on the phone screen: I'm stuck in traffic, maybe half an hour.

After typing this line and clicking send, she happily entered the hot pot restaurant.

Seeing someone coming in, the waiter of the hot pot restaurant stepped forward to greet him, "Hello, do you have a reservation?"

Yes, if there is no reservation in this store, there will be no seats.

Cai Lin said: "My friend is inside, surnamed Deng. Well, let me take a look—table 37."

The waiter immediately turned sideways and said politely, "Please follow me."

Cai Lin has only been to this restaurant once after returning to China, and it was a dinner with the whole family. Her evaluation of this restaurant is that it has a spicy pansidong.

No wonder Cai Lin made such comments. The internal structure of this store is really a bit like a pansi cave, with winding paths leading to secluded places. The lights along the way are dim, and the waiters are dressed in very old fashioned styles. Walking in it is like traveling through Journey to the West. Same.

It's just a hardcover edition.

The waiter took Cai Lin around, walked to the end, bent slightly, "Hello, please."

Deng Langyue, who was sitting in the chair, heard the sound, raised her head, saw Cai Lin, and asked in confusion, "Aren't you... stuck in the road?"

Cai Lin raised her eyebrows playfully, "Hmph."

To be clear, it was deliberately made up to play Deng Langyue.

But Deng Langyue wasn't angry, instead she was a little happy because Cai Lin came earlier than he expected.

"I thought you came late, so I didn't order in advance. You can order now." Deng Langyue gestured and called the waiter to come over. He saw that Cai Lin was wearing white clothes, and told the waiter, "Bring her an apron." come over."

The waiter nodded and went to pick it up. Cai Lin picked up the tablet and started ordering the bottom of the pot.

Deng Langyue took a sip of black tea and said lightly: "I ate it before I came out, you can just order what you eat."

"Ah? You don't want to eat?" Cai Lin frowned suddenly.

Hearing Cai Lin's unhappy tone, Deng Langyue immediately changed her words, "Eat, I just eat less. It's okay, you can order whatever you want, whatever you want."

"Let me see, what do I want to eat... What about the bottom of the pot, spicy pot? Mandarin duck pot?"

"...Mandarin duck pot." Deng Langyue didn't pretend, she told the truth, "My legs are recovering and I can't eat spicy food."

Cai Lin looked up at Deng Langyue, and said in confusion: "Your current physical condition is not suitable for eating hot pot. Then why are you still coming out?"

Deng Langyue did not answer Cai Lin's question.

Because the answer is obvious.

Cai Lin also thought of it after asking, she pursed her lips in embarrassment, looked at the fat cow on the menu and muttered: "You don't have to force yourself to accompany me if you can't eat, I can eat other things too."

Deng Langyue looked at Cai Lin, pulled the corner of her mouth and smiled, "It's okay, I just can't eat spicy food, it's not that exaggerated."

He managed to find an opportunity to ask Cai Lin out, seeing Cai Lin eating so cutely opposite him, even if he was really asked to eat spicy food, he would eat it without changing his face.

Cai Lin's cheeks were red, she pouted, and wanted to say a few more teasing words, but when she raised her eyes, she could feel the tender gaze of Deng Langyue in front of her, and she couldn't say a word immediately.

Since meeting at the banquet that day, she and Deng Langyue have been in touch again.

At first, it was just sending text messages, saying hello, some did not talk about things encountered in life, or told a few jokes.

In the back, Deng Langyue would find an opportunity to ask her out and ask her to come out.

Although Cai Lin also wanted to see Deng Langyue, but considering Deng Langyue's leg injury was inconvenient, she could only politely refuse. From that day to now, except for today, she only came out once.

That time, Deng Langyue just sat in the park and went back.

Because the bodyguard followed Deng Langyue, the two of them were too embarrassed to be too close, but they really looked like innocent high school students, they just sat side by side, talking and laughing for a while.

After Cai Lin chose the dishes, she ordered without asking Deng Langyue.

After placing the order, she put the tablet aside, looked around, and asked Deng Langyue, "Didn't you bring your bodyguard out today?"

"...Bring it." Deng Langyue replied.

"Huh? I didn't see it." Cai Lin looked carefully at the surrounding tables, but she couldn't see the bodyguard, so she couldn't help being puzzled.

"Not here, but outside." Deng Langyue could see that Cai Lin was deliberately looking for a topic to make the atmosphere easier, he smiled helplessly in his heart, and changed the subject, "Xiao Zihan's son is actually one year old. It's really incredible."

Speaking of this, Cai Lin was also very moved. She nodded heavily, "Yeah! I also find it incredible. I feel that brother Zihan is about the same age as me, but he even has children, which is very strange. But , Brother Zihan's child is really cute, he is chubby, and he likes to laugh."

Cai Lin said while recalling that she really liked Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan's baby, and her eyes rolled when she mentioned the baby.

"What's the name of Xiao Zihan's child?" Seeing that Cai Lin was in a good mood, Deng Langyue continued to ask.

"It's called Xiao Yuebai, Yuebai Fengqing, that Yuebai, sounds nice."

"Well, it sounds good."

Cai Lin laughed straight, "It's really nice to listen to, and it's literary and gentlemanly. I really like them."

Deng Langyue felt a little uncomfortable when he heard Cai Lin talking about Brother Zihan. Even though he and Cai Lin had reconciled now, he still firmly remembered that Xiao Zihan was Cai Lin's first love.

But it was hard for him to reconcile with Cai Lin again. He didn't want to repeat the same mistakes, destroying the relationship between the two because of imprudence and impulsiveness.

Deng Langyue hesitated for a while before turning the corner and asked Cai Lin, "Then...Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan, who do you like more?"

"The two of them?" Cai Lin didn't know the little Jiujiu in Deng Langyue's heart, and answered seriously: "I haven't thought about this question..."

"You should be more familiar with Xiao Zihan." Cai Jinyu picked up the teacup and pretended to drink tea, but in fact her eyes were fixed on Cai Lin's expression.

Cai Lin nodded, "I'm more familiar with Brother Zihan. However, I really like Sister Tang Xuan. I not only like her, but also admire her. She is really, really good. If we have to compete If not, I should like Sister Tang Xuan more. Her life is too difficult."

Deng Langyue had heard about Tang Xuan's deeds, but he was not very interested.Hearing Cai Lin comment on Tang Xuan in such an admiring tone, he was slightly startled.

After all, most of the gossip he heard were slandering Tang Xuan.

"It seems that you really like their family." Deng Langyue put down her teacup and said with emotion.

"That's right. Actually, it's mainly because of Sister Tang Xuan and Brother Zihan. They have suffered a lot to get to where they are today. It's too difficult. Besides liking them, I love them more. They have suffered so much and gone so far. Detours, they deserve to walk the rest of the way happily."

When Cai Lin said these words, the white light of the Virgin seemed to be shining on her body.

Cai Lin has been protected and loved by everyone since she was a child. She has no hostility, let alone resentment towards life.

These exclamations of hers are not pretended, but from the heart, and she sincerely hopes that others will be happy.

She is like a warm jade, able to make those who are close to her feel the tranquil warmth.

Such traits are precisely what Deng Langyue does not have, and are extremely lacking in Deng Langyue's life so far.

At this moment, Deng Langyue almost blurted out: I have also suffered a lot, and I have taken many detours, can you, can you also feel sorry for me.