half thorns, half joy

When Lin Qiaoer left, she was helped into the car by the nanny. She cried until she collapsed and could hardly walk normally.

Maybe it was because he really liked Xiao Zihan, so when facing Xiao Zihan, he also showed his fragility and helplessness.

Although, Xiao Zihan didn't give her a positive response.

After Lin Qiaoer left, Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Xiao Zihan stretched out his hand, took Tang Xuan's hand and pulled Tang Xuan to sit by the bed, and asked Tang Xuan with a smile, "What are you thinking?"

"It's nothing." Tang Xuan shook her head.

"Ok?"

"I'm a bit emotional." Tang Xuan lowered her head and said, "The last time I saw Lin Qiaoer, the situation between me and her was completely different from what it is now."

Xiao Zihan frowned, "Don't compare her to you, if it wasn't for her, you wouldn't have suffered those crimes."

Tang Xuan smiled, "I'm just feeling emotional."

Xiao Zihan stared at Tang Xuan for a few seconds, making sure that Tang Xuan wasn't pretending, but was genuinely feeling emotion, so he said truthfully, "You can face her so calmly. A little surprised."

"Don't you think so?" Tang Xuan laughed, "Do you think I'll get angry at her and drive her out?"

Xiao Zihan thought for a while, then shook his head, "That's not the case, it probably won't give her a good face."

Hearing what Xiao Zihan said, Tang Xuan also said helplessly, "I didn't intend to give her good looks, but seeing her kneeling like that, I was completely dumbfounded, so I don't care about good looks or bad looks. "

"……OK then."

"Why, aren't you surprised that she knelt like that?" Tang Xuan was puzzled.

Xiao Zihan replied very simply: "It's okay, I'm generally surprised. I heard something about her family before she came."

"Then is her father really gambling so seriously?"

"It's true." Xiao Zihan nodded, "I only found out about this later, I guess he will continue to gamble, but what I didn't expect was that he actually dared to gamble with those people's hard-earned money. "

Tang Xuan shrugged, "Gamblers are the most dishonest people in the world. People who like to gamble can do anything."

Xiao Zihan heard the resentment in Tang Xuan's tone, and was immediately curious, "Why do you feel that you hate gambling people? Is there any special reason?"

Tang Xuan didn't expect Xiao Zihan to spot her because she was so obvious.But she had nothing to hide, and nodded generously.

"What's the reason?" Xiao Zihan asked.

Tang Xuan changed her sitting position, squeezed Xiao Zihan's hand and spoke slowly.

"The man next door to my hometown is a gambler. Whenever the family has money, he gambles. Beat your wife to vent your anguish."

Xiao Zihan frowned as soon as he listened, "Why doesn't such a man choose to divorce?"

"It's a long story. One is that we dare not leave. After all, our place is small and we know each other well. That man is bossy and unreasonable. If a woman divorces, the woman's family will definitely have a bad life. So women don't Dare to leave. And..." Tang Xuan sighed heavily, "That man is pretty good sometimes, he often regrets and blames himself, and plausibly says he wants to quit gambling, but..."

"But you can't quit at all, right?" Xiao Zihan continued Tang Xuan's words.

Tang Xuan nodded heavily, "Yes. Every time he loses a bet and a woman gets into a fight, he says he wants to quit, and he swears that if he gambles again, he will jump off a building. But it doesn't work, and he still hasn't quit. "

"Then his wife and children are miserable." As a man with a strong sense of responsibility, the first person Xiao Zihan sympathized with was that man's wife and children.

"That's right. Ann's birthday is just a few days away." Tang Xuan smiled wryly, "That woman is very nice, and she even gave me some mooncakes and stuffed buns during the holidays."

When Xiao Zihan heard that the woman was kind to Tang Xuan, he immediately had the idea of ​​saving the woman, "What about now, is the man still gambling? What about the woman and the child?"

Tang Xuan paused before replying, "No, that man is already dead. In my third year of high school, that man lost a gamble and bought alcohol. In winter, he was too drunk to walk home. He fell into a ditch and died. .”

This turning point surprised Xiao Zihan.

But when you think about it carefully, it makes sense.

"As for the woman and the child." Tang Xuan continued, "She took the child to work elsewhere. It seems that she has a new family. I haven't been back for a long time, so I don't know anymore."

"...Okay." I didn't expect the story to end so abruptly. Xiao Zihan put away his desire to help, and held Tang Xuan's hand tightly, "It's no wonder you hate gamblers so much."

Tang Xuan held Xiao Zihan back, and said with a smile, "At that time, every time I heard ghosts and wolves howling in their family, I was very glad. I was glad that although my parents were gone, I would not live such a miserable life. Hehe, I am Not quite gloating."

"Of course not." Xiao Zihan affirmed: "People are like this. When they see others are less fortunate than themselves, they feel that they are not so unlucky."

"seems like it."

Looking at Tang Xuan's frank and sincere smile, Xiao Zihan sighed in his heart at Tang Xuan's wonder. It was difficult for a person to climb out of the mud pit, but what was even more rare was that he could crawl out of the mud pit without being contaminated by those dirty things. Dirty shortcomings, not only that, but because of the past, it has been polished more and more clear and clean by the years.

What a beautiful, desirable trait.

"Out of the mud but not stained..." Xiao Zihan muttered to himself.

After hearing this, Tang Xuan let out a groan of doubt, and turned her head to look at Xiao Zihan.

Xiao Zihan suddenly felt it. He stretched out his other hand, put it on the back of Tang Xuan's neck, pulled himself towards him, and then kissed her.

"Hmm..." Tang Xuan was slightly taken aback by being kissed unexpectedly.

But she reacted quickly, adjusted herself, and kissed Xiao Zihan.Xiao Zihan's lips were as soft as cotton candy.

Before she knew it, Tang Xuan became intoxicated.

"Sister, let me tell you, I overslept, I..." Cai Lin suddenly opened the bedroom door, and rushed into the bedroom in a hurry.

Then, after seeing the two people kissing, they immediately stopped talking like a cut-off cassette.

Tang Xuan also reacted when she heard Cai Lin's shout, and then pushed Xiao Zihan away.

"...Uh, what did you say?" Tang Xuan looked at Cai Lin, blushing up to her ears in embarrassment.

Cai Lin also blushed, she shook her head quickly, and waved her hands unnaturally, "No...it's nothing, you guys go on, go on."

With that said, he bowed his head and stepped back.

Seeing Cai Lin like this, Tang Xuan didn't feel so embarrassed. She smiled and called Cai Lin to stop, "Stop making trouble, what you wanted to say just now, go ahead."

Cai Lin stopped in her tracks, "Ah...it's nothing, I just woke up from sleep and went to Aunt Zhao's side to check. She has already got up to see the baby, so I'll report to you."

"She went to see the baby?" Tang Xuan was puzzled, "Isn't she seriously ill? Why did she go to see the baby?"

"I... I don't know about this. Before I came here, Aunt Zhao was in the baby's room." Cai Lin replied weakly.

Tang Xuan was a little angry, but she knew that she couldn't just lose her temper like this, so she said to Cai Lin, "You can help her go back to rest, the baby is so small, she doesn't have any immunity, she can get sick easily, you can let her go back to bed to recuperate. "

Seeing Tang Xuan's serious expression, Cai Lin didn't dare to play tricks, so she quickly agreed, "Okay, I'll go over now."

After she agreed, she glanced at Xiao Zihan, and seeing that Xiao Zihan had no objection, she immediately went out to do errands.

After Cai Lin left, Tang Xuan looked at Xiao Zihan and asked, "Is it too cold and unkind for me to treat your mother like this?"

"Fortunately, you should not approach the baby when you are sick. This is what you should do." After all, it is a mother, Xiao Zihan still said something for Zhao Suizhi, "But my mother is so eager to go to see the baby because she likes the baby and wants to see the baby." Look at the baby more."

"Well... I know..." Tang Xuan didn't want to get into trouble with Xiao Zihan because of Zhao Suizhi's matter, so she changed the subject, "By the way, I just remembered after seeing Cai Lin. She told me earlier that she wanted to recognize me as a Sister, you still want to go to my hometown with me."

Xiao Zihan's eyes widened, "Really?"

"correct."

"That won't work, I haven't gone yet, why is she going to join in the fun." Xiao Zihan frowned and said, "Take me back first, and she will talk about it later."

Tang Xuan couldn't stop laughing, "Pfft, you have to argue with her about this, what's the point of arguing?"

Xiao Zihan snorted, "Anyway, I have to go first, I've been there before, and then it's her turn."

"Okay, okay, you go first." Tang Xuan coaxed Xiao Zihan like a child, "Then, when your leg injury is healed, the company is not busy, and the child is older, let's take the child back together."

"Okay." Xiao Zihan became serious, "I should also visit your parents' graves."

Tang Xuan nodded, "Yes."

Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan at this time did not expect that the journey back to their hometown they were looking forward to would not be a happy event, but instead, it would be the prelude to uncovering old wounds and unspeakable secrets.