coffee and snooping

"Bring me a cup of coffee, please."

Chen Mi never imagined that the first time he really saw this man clearly was at his part-time job. At that time, he just took off his mud-stained apron, and the decibels of children screaming in his ears were separated by the tea room. Suddenly, he was about to make himself a cup of coffee when someone made a sound behind him.

"It's American style." Li Ting supported the marble table, and looked at Chen Mi in a playful manner, "Why, I didn't expect us to meet in this way, did I?"

While speaking, Li Ting had already passed Chen Mi to pick up the coffee bag and ice cubes on the table, and quickly mixed a cup of coffee for himself. The brown texture continued to spread like flowers under the stirring, and Li Ting slowly poured a little sweet milk , blending pure white and brown, presenting an abstract picture.

Li Ting pushed the coffee to Chen Mi, and then ordered an iced Americano for himself.

Chen Mi took the cup of coffee, and poured the bitter-sweet coffee into her mouth with the coolness of ice cubes. I have to say that Li Ting's technique of mixing coffee is very good. It turns sunny.

"Why are you here?" Chen Mi put down the cup, very puzzled.

Li Ting took a sip of his drink in a leisurely manner, and then said slowly: "Didn't Teacher Chen recommend my child to come to Galaxy Mall? Of course I also came as a guardian."

The tea room is connected to the outside, only separated by a glass door. From here, one can clearly see that Li Shuyang is wearing an apron, tightly pursing his lips, trying to stand up the clay in his hand, looking very hard.

Chen Mi only felt that the world was really small, and Li Shuyang was actually Li Ting's son.

"Aren't you welcome?" Li Ting suddenly approached Chen Mi in a daze, his magnetic voice was low and lingering in his ears, instantly staining half of Chen Mi's face red.

How can it be!

Chen Mi slandered, he was just a part-time employee of the Children's Paradise, how could he reject his customers.

But he doesn't want to meet Li Ting in this way at all!The offer should also find a clean coffee shop, instead of meeting in a place where children are screaming and may not be able to find the north.

But with Li Ting's face there, it's impossible to spoil the scenery.

While the two were enjoying coffee, Chen Mi quietly looked at this man. As expected of a mature man, he was of high quality. A breath of mystery.

Looking up, the Adam's apple rolled up and down as the owner drank the coffee, and Chen Mi swallowed subconsciously. Looking up, those eyes were the icing on the cake. The already tall nose bridge combined with the deep eyes looked like a mixed race .

When a man lowers his eyebrows and drinks coffee, his eyes are like a vast ocean, unfathomable.

Then, the wave hit Chen Mi's face: "What's wrong? What's on my face?"

Chen Mi didn't dare to meet the other party's possibly puzzled expression, she wished she could stuff herself into the coffee cup, but the coffee had bottomed out, Chen Mi took two deep breaths of air and shook her head frantically.

What he didn't see was that Li Ting's face was not confused and doubtful, but a narrow smile, and the waves in his eyes were choppy, as if he wanted to swallow something up.

For a moment, Li Ting held up an empty coffee cup and looked at him flatteringly: "Mr. Chen, can I have another iced Americano?"

This time Chen Mi was afraid that the man would come over again, so she hurriedly took the cup and made coffee for him.

Li Ting stood behind him, watched his flustered movements, and smiled from the bottom of his heart, it was exactly the same as before.

When Chen Mi finished her second cup of coffee, Li Shuyang looked up with an aggrieved expression, as if she was silently saying, "Why do you follow Dad all the time and not come to see me?"

Chen Mi hurried out, lifted up the clay in Li Shuyang's hands, and molded the soft clay into a bucket shape with both hands, then he said patiently: "Don't use too much force when molding the clay, look, just like this, slowly put Knead the mud into the shape you want."

Under Li Shuyang's shining eyes, Chen Mi turned the crooked mouth of the bottle into a budding flower, and then put the bottle in the oven to dry.

After a while, Li Shuyang got a gray-white porcelain vase, and Chen Mi brought him some paint. The children's thinking has always been unconstrained, so they decided not to use Chen Mi's textbooks, but insisted on coloring by themselves.

The two let him go, taking this opportunity, Chen Mi also went to take care of other children, such as the kid in front of him who was caught in the sand and still didn't forget to wave a small shovel, he was showing his teeth to the boy in front of him, swearing to die Block the small sandcastle behind you.

"Hey, don't fight, don't fight." Chen Mi fished the child out of the sand, patted his trouser leg, and asked with concern, "What's the matter?"

The kid grinned and cried, showing his leaky front teeth: "He's going to push my castle! Woooooo..."

The boy saw his teeth and wanted to smile but couldn't: "I don't, you talk nonsense!"

Seeing the rapid eruption of anger between the two, Chen Mi, who had no experience in raising children, was very distressed, and planned to say a few weak words to get along.Li Ting suddenly knelt down, rubbed the child's head, and smiled softly: "Good boy, we don't cry, he just wants to be friends with you, can you let him play with you?"

"But……"

Li Ting took the boy's elbow again, smiled and said to him: "I know you don't mean that, just talk to the kids carefully in the future."

So the children who might have been fighting together miraculously reunited and piled sand together hand in hand.

Chen Mi looked at him persuading this and talking about this, and the conflict was resolved after a while. It really is a man with a child, so gentle.

For a while, Chen Mi just stared at Li Ting's side face, those deep eyes were smiling brightly, and there were some small wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, but it didn't make him look old, but more like a mature man .

"My child, just be patient and coax it." Li Ting stood up and smoothed the wrinkles on his suit. He patted Chen Mi's back. When he looked up, Li Shuyang had just finished the project, and he carefully held up the small bottle as a signal.

After drying, the small porcelain bottle has a blue body that looks like the night sky. The neck of the bottle is dotted with pale yellow moon spots, and the base is a crooked music score drawn by Li Shuyang.Xiao Shuyang held his father's hand, jumped up and down, and asked for the fifth time: "Is the teacher really not going to play with us?"

Although the child's eyes were very sincere, Chen Mi rubbed his old waist and told him regretfully that the teacher was off work and really wanted to go home.In fact, on the other hand, I also hope to hide from Li Ting, because I always feel that the atmosphere between the two is too awkward.

"But the teacher and dad didn't play with me all night, they have been taking care of other children." Li Shuyang pouted aggrievedly, rubbing the porcelain bottle reluctantly.

"Shu Yang, what did Dad tell you, don't bother others all the time, the teacher is also very tired at work," Li Ting knelt down and pinched Xiao Shuyang's chubby face, and looked up at Chen Mi again, with the eyes Filled with the word regret, "Teacher Chen is tired, go home and rest, we can contact on WeChat!"

"Father!" Li Shuyang tugged at Li Ting's sleeves dissatisfied, silently accusing his father of separating himself from his teacher with moist eyes, causing people in the shopping mall to turn their heads to watch the show.

Chen Mi raised her forehead, what crime did he do, there was such a big one and a small one, he was the one who just took advantage of Li Ting two days ago!

After half an hour...

"Teacher, this puff is delicious, try it!" Sitting in the shopping cart, Li Shuyang stretched his arms and stuffed the last puff on the tasting table into his mouth.

The sweetness of the butter spread in the mouth, and the crispy shell became soft after being moistened with saliva. The sweetness complemented the bread and was just right. Chen Mi chewed the puff in her mouth and gave him a thumbs up.

Li Ting miraculously reached out and wiped the cream from the corner of Chen Mi's mouth, and at the moment when Chen Mi was petrified, he clenched his fist with one hand to cover the twitching of the corner of his mouth, and explained: "Cough, don't believe him, this kid just wants to Eat puffs."

Li Shuyang sat in the shopping cart and kicked his legs, with an expression of "you can make it up", but Li Ting ruthlessly opened his mouth: "This kid has only a few teeth, and he still thinks about sweets all day long."

Chen Mi looked at the empty gums in Xiao Shuyang's mouth. Compared with the crying children in the children's playground, he laughed out loud.

"Xiaomi?"

Chen Mi turned her head and saw her parents who were also shopping. They were pushing a shopping cart full of them and looking back and forth between Li Ting and Chen Mi. It took so long that Chen Mi almost thought that her parents had noticed the ulterior motive between him and Li Ting. relation.

The first to break the silence was Chen Mi's mother, she looked straight at Li Ting: "Xiao Mi, this is?"