city ​​garden without flowers

The next day, Lu Chuanhuan first went to Lin Yi's house to pick up Tongtong, the car was parked downstairs, Tongtong ran over with his schoolbag on his back, and opened the back door with ease, seeing Xia Yang immediately excited: "Brother Xia Yang! "

Lu Chuanhuan said with gusto, "Why don't you call Dad first?"

Tongtong lay on the back of the driver's seat, and kissed Lu Chuanhuan: "Long time no see, Dad! I miss you so much!"

Lu Chuanhuan rolled his eyes and said happily: "Sit down in your seat, let's go to eat first."

Xia Yang sat in the back with Tongtong, and said briskly, "Today we're going to eat rabbits in sour soup!"

"Good!" Tongtong cheered immediately.

"You two are alike, you get excited when it comes to delicious food." Lu Chuanhuan opened the navigation with a conniving tone.

This store is located in Jiefangbei, next to the elevator on Kaixuan Road, a famous scenic spot. It is a 20-year-old brand with a booming business, but there are not many tourists in the store.

They ordered rabbit in sour soup and duck with glutinous rice. Both Tong Tong and Xia Yang liked sweet-scented osmanthus cake, so they also ordered a portion.

People in Chongqing love to eat rabbit, and there are various ways to eat it.

The rabbit meat in this pot of sour soup rabbit is completely deboned, pounded into meat paste and then boiled in the pot. The method is similar to shrimp slippery. The rabbit meat is soaked in the sour soup, tender and delicious.

The rabbit meat is big, scoop it into a bowl and take a bite, it is soft and chewy, which makes people feel very satisfied.

The side dishes are also generous, sauerkraut, noodles, taro, Xia Yang's favorite taro, with a spicy millet dipping plate, two mouthfuls can swallow one.

"How about we go to Green Planet in the afternoon? You said you wanted to go to the indoor zoo." Lu Chuanhuan asked Tongtong.

Tong Tong was pouting and blowing soup, when she heard this, she suddenly raised her head, shook her head first, and then said, "Daddy, let's go to Raffles City, shall we?"

Lu Chuanhuan felt strange: "What are you doing at Raffles City? Do you want to go shopping?"

Tongtong blinked at him and hesitated for a while without saying why.

Xia Yang picked up a piece of glutinous rice duck, which is famous in Chongqing for its glutinous rice duck, and he chewed half of it leisurely.The glutinous rice is soft and elastic, and the duck meat is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. When the two collide, the mouth is full of fragrance.He said: "Tongtong can go wherever she wants, anyway, it's just to play with you."

Lu Chuanhuan took a sip of tea and looked at Tongtong seriously: "Why?"

Tongtong sighed and frowned, "Because mom is going there for a date today!"

Lu Chuanhuan was choked up: "Then why are you going to join in the fun?"

"I just want to know, what's so good about that person." Tongtong was wronged as she spoke, "I only want Dad."

Lu Chuanhuan's expression froze, and his voice became severe: "Tongtong."

Tongtong lowered her head, visibly saddened to the naked eye.

"I understand, Tongtong wants to be a little detective today, right?" Xia Yang smiled, reached out to touch Tongtong's side face, and said lightly, "Detectives always have assistants, can my brother apply to be your assistant?" ?”

"Really?" Tongtong raised his head immediately, his eyes were bright.

"Really." Xia Yang rubbed Tongtong's head, "But we have to finish our meal first before we can become detectives."

Xia Yang and Lu Chuanhuan looked at each other, and Lu Chuanhuan smiled reluctantly.After a while, Xia Yang's phone vibrated, and it was a WeChat message from Lu Chuanhuan.

"Brother Lu: Thank you."

Xia Yang held the phone and looked at it for a while, "the other party is typing" jumped for a while, but in the end Lu Chuanhuan didn't send any other words.

Xia Yang looked at Lu Chuanhuan worriedly, but because Tongtong was still there, he didn't say much.

After dinner, they drove to Raffles City, Xia Yang still sat in the back with Tongtong, he asked her: "How did Tongtong know that your mother is going on a date today?"

Tongtong said mysteriously: "Yesterday I overheard my mother's phone call! They said they would meet at Raffles City at two o'clock in the afternoon!"

Xia Yang nodded, and continued to ask with the gentle tone and expression of talking to a child: "Then tell me where we are going to be detectives in order to catch them?"

"Elevator entrance?" Tongtong suggested.

"A very good idea." Xia Yang smiled and praised Tongtong earnestly. He was born with a strong affinity, and no matter adults or children, they would unconsciously get close to him.

"But there is more than one entrance from the garage to the shopping mall. If we do this, we might not meet them. Is there a better way?" Xia Yang said, "Tongtong think about it again."

They arrived at their destination soon. Lu Chuanhuan parked the car and said to them, "You guys go up first, and I'll come over later."

"Okay." Xia Yang answered quickly, then turned to Tongtong and said, "Then let's go first, does the little detective need new equipment?"

Tongtong nodded vigorously, and pulled Xia Yang's men out of the car.

After the two of them had gone far away, Lu Chuanhuan put down the window of the car. He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, which was already a bit flat.

He shook the cigarette case a little irritably, took out one and held it in his hand.

The lighter approached, but Lu Chuanhuan stopped before lighting it up.He sighed, not wanting to leave the smell of cigarettes in the car.

A few minutes later, Lu Chuanhuan got out of the car. He lowered his head to light his cigarette, leaned against the wall and slowly exhaled the cigarette.

This scene has happened many times. Before he and Lin Yi divorced, he was standing in the underground garage smoking like this.Lu Chuanhuan almost couldn't remember what he was thinking at that time, but he felt very tired, and emotions would overwhelm people.

At that time Zhang Rui asked him why he hesitated since he had no feelings anymore.

Lu Chuanhuan's answer was: "I don't understand either."

Halfway through the cigarette, Lu Chuanhuan's cell phone rang.He looked up and glanced at the caller ID.

"Xia Yang?"

"Brother Lu, are you okay?" Xia Yang's voice came out, and it sounded very clear in the empty garage.

Lu Chuanhuan subconsciously wanted to say it's okay, but when he said it, he felt that this was too disappointing to Xia Yang. Xia Yang worked hard to take care of his and Tongtong's emotions, so he shouldn't use a fake sentence of nothing to perfuse him.

Lu Chuanhuan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "It's not very good."

"I know." Xia Yang's voice was very gentle, "That's why I thought of calling you when Tongtong went to the toilet."

Lu Chuanhuan gave a soft "hmm".

"I don't know how to explain it to Tongtong. She will accept what I have to say." Lu Chuanhuan felt a little painful, and the smoke slowly ignited, "I'm really bad, a father like me..."

Xia Yang was silent for a while, his breathing was very quiet, as if he was remembering something.

Lu Chuanhuan didn't speak. He heard footsteps in the garage. It should be a couple who just got out of the car and were looking for the elevator hall.

Everything seemed too silent.

"Brother Lu, my mother sacrificed a lot for me. After she met her uncle, she kept hiding it from me because she was afraid that I would not accept it. But I think there is nothing unacceptable." Xia Yang said.

Lu Chuanhuan lowered his eyes, he felt his chest was heavy, only Xia Yang felt breathable when he spoke.

Xia Yang breathed a sigh of relief: "After all, I want my mother to be happy. She loves me very much, and I love her too."

"As for how Sister Lin Yi plans to deal with this matter, it's not something you should worry about." Xia Yang said directly.

It’s not that Lu Chuanhuan doesn’t understand many things, like 80.00% of his marriage is caused by impulsiveness and responsibility; like when Lin Yi filed for divorce, he knew that they had indeed come to an end; like he couldn’t kidnap Lin Yi and let her go Be a great mother.

On the answer sheet of life, he was crossed all over, and he didn't know how to correct it.

All these Lu Chuanhuan swallowed by himself, and the only exit was the silent smoke in the garage.

Lu Chuanhuan found that he was so dependent on Xia Yang that he felt saved when he saw that it was Xia Yang who called.

"So don't be harsh on yourself, okay?" Xia Yang said softly.

Lu Chuanhuan held the phone very hard, and there was a sharp pain in his chest. He slowly exhaled the stagnant air, first said "yes", and then added "thank you".

Xia Yang smiled on the other end of the phone, and said playfully, "Don't thank me all the time, Brother Lu, I am willing to be your remedy."

It was only after hanging up the phone that Lu Chuanhuan realized that his heart was beating violently.