half thorns, half joy

Xiao Zihan opened his eyes suddenly, and saw Cai Lin walking in anxiously, standing in front of the desk.

As if she just realized that he was sleeping, Cai Lin said embarrassedly: "Brother Zihan, did I wake you up?"

"It's okay." Xiao Zihan rubbed the center of his brows, hiding the disappointment in his eyes, "Why are you here?"

"Are you really okay?" Cai Lin's face was full of worry.

Xiao Zihan smiled slightly, without further explanation.

Cai Lin sighed, knowing that even if she kept asking, it would be useless, she explained: "When Baby Yuebai called just now, I happened to be next to my sister. I was worried, so I came to have a look."

"So..." Xiao Zihan was silent for a moment, before asking: "She...is she okay?"

He is such a high-ranking person, but now he asks so cautiously, it is really heartbreaking.

Cai Lin didn't want to see him sad, so she said, "Fortunately, when Baby Yuebai said that Aunt Zhao was ill, I could see that she was actually quite worried. It's just that she was in a complicated mood, so she didn't say anything."

Xiao Zihan pursed his lips tightly after hearing this.

"Brother Zihan, don't worry, it's just hard for my sister to get out of that knot now, and she will definitely come back after a little more time."

"En." Xiao Zihan nodded, but suddenly thought of another matter, and asked again: "That Huang Tingting, you see nothing wrong."

In terms of attitude towards Huang Tingting, Xiao Zihan and Cai Lin are the same, they can only be regarded as friends of people they care about, not their friends, so Xiao Zihan's tone of questioning Cai Lin does not need to be euphemistic.

Cai Lin thought about it carefully before seriously answering: "There should be nothing wrong with her. She seems to have learned to behave well this time. She eats and sleeps peacefully every day, and she doesn't act strangely. It's just that it's different from before. What's more, she is in a daze most of the time now, as if she has something on her mind."

Combining with what he learned, Xiao Zihan hummed, expressing that he knew.

But he was still worried. After all, Tang Xuan and the child were outside, so the safety factor was very low, so he told Cai Lin, "Keep an eye on her. If there is any change in her, please report to me immediately."

"Okay, brother Zihan, leave this matter to me."

After explaining this matter, Xiao Zihan accompanied Cai Lin to see Zhao Suizhi who was ill in bed.

Zhao Suizhi's head was wrapped in gauze, and he was lying on the bed with a pale face, smiling lightly, listening to Xiao Yuebai telling stories word by word beside him.

Cai Lin walked in and called Aunt Zhao.

"You're here." The corners of Zhao Suizhi's mouth curled up, even the welcoming smile was extremely weak.

At first, she thought it was not a big deal, but after seeing it with her own eyes, Cai Lin realized that she had miscalculated the situation, which was obviously very serious.

But in front of Zhao Suizhi, Cai Lin never showed the right emotion, she asked softly: "Aunt Zhao, are you okay?"

"...I'm fine." When Zhao Suizhi said this, his brows frowned, as if he was panicking from a headache.

The doctor on the side quickly said: "Madam, you are too weak now, it is better not to talk too much."

Cai Lin was even more worried after hearing this.

Is it so serious?
Because she couldn't speak or have emotional fluctuations, it was useless for Cai Lin to stay. She stood with Xiao Zihan for a while, and then left the bedroom.

Anyway, Zhao Suizhi still had Xiao Yuebai by his bedside, so he didn't really need them.

Standing in the corridor, Cai Lin couldn't help asking Xiao Zihan: "Brother Zihan, what's going on with Aunt Zhao, I think it's serious."

"...It's quite serious." Xiao Zihan sighed, "She hasn't eaten well recently, and has been in a state of hypotension and hypoglycemia, so when she went upstairs today, she fainted."

"Oh my God..." Cai Lin covered her mouth in fright, "The wound on Aunt Zhao's head must have been caused by a faint."

Xiao Zihan sighed harder, with a bit more self-blame in his tone: "Yes, yes. It's all my fault. I thought that when Yuebai came, she would recover, so I didn't ask anyone to keep talking all the time. Looking at her, who knows that this kind of thing will happen as soon as she relaxes."

"How can I blame you? This is also unexpected. Is Aunt Zhao's head injury serious? I just saw her face, and it seems very ugly."

Cai Lin only hoped that she was wrong, and that nothing happened.

After all, the current situation is already chaotic enough, and there are enough things, but there must be no other troubles.

But as the saying goes, the leak in the house happens to rain overnight, and sometimes, things are in a hurry.

Xiao Zihan's wry smile almost turned into a miserable smile, "It's quite serious, a slight concussion, I want to send her to the hospital, but she refuses to go anyway, hey."

"Oh my god..." Apart from these two words, Cai Lin didn't know what to say anymore.

This was much worse than what she had imagined just now.

The two stood in silence for a while, Xiao Zihan's cell phone rang, it was his assistant calling, reminding him that the time is up, there is a multinational meeting today, and Xiao Zihan needs to participate remotely.

Xiao Zihan hung up the phone and was about to go to the study to attend the meeting. Before leaving, he said to Cai Lin, "Don't tell Tang Xuan about this, lest she worry."

Cai Lin was puzzled, "But, if my sister knows, isn't it a good thing, she may have come back because she was worried about Aunt Zhao."

"No, don't do this." Xiao Zihan shook his head, "I don't want to force her like this, our Xiao family has already done enough to let her down, there's no need to make her feel uncomfortable anymore."

Cai Lin watched Xiao Zihan leave silently. She could understand what Xiao Zihan meant, but she couldn't help feeling sorry for Xiao Zihan.

Indeed, my sister is a kind person. The reason why brother Zihan doesn't want her to know is because she doesn't want to sell her miserably to make her change her mind. Although this is a good way, in the final analysis, it's a bit out of date.

Cai Lin couldn't help but think that Zeng Zihan's brother did not hesitate to threaten and imprison his sister in order to keep his sister by his side.But now, he would rather swallow all the pain by himself than suffer any grievances for his sister.

he's changed.

Become mature and restrained.

……

That night, Tang Xuan and Huang Tingting made hot pot together.

Like all universities, at the Normal University where Tang Xuan studied, the students' dormitories also had power cuts. Cook instant noodles in the dormitory and cook in a small hot pot.

Tang Xuan was poor at the time, and she also had a pot like this. When she was tired of eating in the cafeteria and was reluctant to go out to eat in restaurants, she would buy some vegetables and eggs and cook noodles by herself.Sometimes, on Saturdays and Sundays, I cook a small hot pot with Huang Tingting.

While washing the vegetables, Huang Tingting recalled: "Xuanxuan, do you still remember that the dipping sauce sold in the supermarket outside our school is very delicious, and the taste is not much different from the hot pot restaurant. Every time we cook a small hot pot , the dipping sauce is a must to buy, if there is no dipping sauce in the small hot pot that time, the hot pot meal will be tasteless and tasteless at all."

"Of course I remember." Thinking of the past, Tang Xuan showed a nostalgic smile, "I still remember when you were still telling me to eat more meat and less vegetables, but I don't like meat boiled in clear water at all, and you always forced me to eat it .”

"I was worried about your body. Who made you so thin? You are the tallest in our dormitory, but you wear the same size as us."

Tang Xuan took the meatballs out of the refrigerator and put them aside to thaw, then picked up the peeled potatoes and started slicing them.

No matter how simple and beautiful the past was, it is already in the past.

Although at that time, Tang Xuan had to worry about living expenses, investigate the cause of Sister Qianqian's death, and do her homework and exams to earn a scholarship, but at that time her mood was far from as heavy as it is now.

It seems that as people grow older, life will gradually increase the burden on people's shoulders, tear away the beauty of the surface little by little, and let people know what it means to grow up.

It's no wonder that those adults always look lifeless and lifeless.

After washing the vegetables, they are cooked.

The baby is still too young, not to mention eating hot pot, even the smell is unbearable. The hot pot with chili oil is too irritating, and the baby is prone to sneezing.

So, Tang Xuan went to feed the baby, and Huang Tingting was in charge of putting the cooking pot on the table, watching the cooking pot.

When the spicy oil soup in the cooking pot started to boil, Tang Xuan was almost done feeding her. She gave the babysitter to hold and coax her full baby while she went to the living room to have hot pot with Huang Tingting.

"Come on, come on, I'm ready to serve the beef." Huang Tingting handed Tang Xuan a pair of chopsticks, "The beef should be cooked after a while, otherwise it will be old."

Tang Xuan sat down next to Huang Tingting. Today's hot pot meal was for the two of them to reminisce about the past, so naturally only the two of them ate it.

Looking at the boiling chili oil in the pot and the various vegetables and meat on the table, Huang Tingting felt in a daze that she had returned to her college days.

No scruples, everything is still in time in college.

"Wow, it smells so good. I've eaten so much at hot pot restaurants that I forgot to make hot pot myself. It's so delicious." Tang Xuan took a bite of the beef and was full of praise.

Huang Tingting raised her eyebrows proudly, "Huh, what do you think, I don't even look at who made the hot pot seasoning. I've been making it for so long, so it's no wonder it doesn't taste good."

"Amazing." Tang Xuan gave her a thumbs up in admiration.

This action is exactly the same as before.

It seems that only at this moment can they forget all the unhappiness and completely let themselves be as happy as before.

……

This meal, both Tang Xuan and Huang Tingting were overwhelmed.

When it was time for the baby to sleep, Tang Xuan hugged her stomach and went back to the bedroom to put the baby to sleep.And Huang Tingting also returned to her bedroom.

Going to the bed, she thought about it for a while before picking up her mobile phone that was placed by the bed.

The notification light on the phone is on, indicating that there is an incoming call.

Huang Tingting unlocked it with her fingerprint, stared blankly at the unfamiliar number, and clicked on the unread text message.

In an instant, she was so frightened that her whole body went limp.