"Oh..." Xu Hongdou's mother suddenly realized: "Is it that Lin Ze?"
Xu Hongdou felt helpless towards this mother who seemed to see everything happening around her even though she was thousands of miles away. She could only nod her head to confirm her guess.
"Didn't you say that he also traveled there? Why did he open a coffee shop and a B&B?" Xu Hongdou's mother asked deliberately.
Xu Hongdou didn't notice her mother's strange expression, and replied with some annoyance: "He recently bought these from his friends. I happened to be here, so he asked me to help him manage them."
I don’t know why I feel upset when I hear Lin Ze’s voice now.
"Oh..." Xu Hongdou's mother said "oh" meaningfully, "Then your trip is over like this?"
"Uh... not really, I'll just help you for a while." Xu Hongdou himself didn't believe this.
"Then you are not planning to return to Beijing?"
"Ah?" Xu Hongdou hasn't told her family about her resignation yet. Why does it feel like her mother has guessed it?
Just when Xu Hongdou was confused, Xu Hongdou's mother suddenly attacked and said, "Were you with Lin Ze yesterday?"
"Well... no! No!" Xu Hongdou quickly denied: "That's not true! Yesterday I went to the ancient city with my neighbor's sisters."
"That's right!" Xu Hongdou changed the subject and said, "Don't you and dad have nothing to do if you stay at home? Why don't you come here to travel with me?"
"Forget it!" Xu Hongdou's mother refused: "I'm too lazy to bother with it any more."
Seeing that she had barely managed to fool him, Xu Hongdou breathed a sigh of relief.
It's not that she doesn't want her family to know that she has a boyfriend, but that this person is Lin Ze, which makes her a little worried.
You have to wait for a while, right?
After all, Chen Nanxing is her best friend, so she always feels sorry for her when she does this.
"Nan Xing..." Xu Hongdou looked at 'Our Agreement' on the wall and fell into deep thought for a while.
After hanging up with Xu Hongdou, Xu Hongdou's mother looked at Xu Hongdou's father and said, "Hongdou is probably in love with that Lin Ze."
"Let's just talk! It just so happens that Hongdou is getting older and it's time to find a boyfriend." Xu Hongdou's father said happily.
Xu Hongdou patted Xu Hongdou's father angrily, "Is that all you can see? That Lin Ze is Nan Xing's husband, and besides, he is still married for the second time."
"It's not like you don't know about Nan Xing and him? Nan Xing was already ill at that time, and the marriage was just to fulfill Nan Xing's dream. What's the point?" Xu Hongdou's father retorted.
Xu Hongdou's mother said worriedly: "You know this, I know it, but others don't know it? Otherwise, why would Hongdou go to such lengths to hide it from us?"
"Alas..." Xu Hongdou's father sighed helplessly: "This is also a problem."
"Forget it! I have nothing to say to you." After saying this, Xu Hongdou's mother called her eldest daughter Xu Hongmi directly, leaving Xu Hongdou's father with a look of astonishment.
"Red rice!"
Xu Hongdou put on the Bluetooth headset and asked: "Mom...what's going on?"
Xu Hongdou's mother asked: "Hongdou may be dating someone in Dali. If you have time, help me go over and take a look."
"Is it useful?" Xu Hongmi said softly and hard-heartedly: "Isn't it normal for an adult like her to talk to someone? What if she scares others in such a hurry?"
"Look at you child!" Xu Hongdou's mother said anxiously: "You don't even look at how old Hongdou is now. She is already in her thirties. Get married early and have children early. Do you want your sister to be an advanced mother?" "Okay...Okay...Okay." Xu Hongmi just said a few words casually, saying that she must go.
"I happened to take Ling Ding there for a trip during the summer vacation." Xu Hongmi comforted her.
Xu Hongdou's mother said with satisfaction: "That's pretty much it, by the way! The identity of Hongdou's partner may be a bit special, so be careful when you meet her."
"I know, just be at ease."
The next day.
Xu Hongdou rolled his eyes at Lin Ze who was sitting in front of him and said, "What are you doing here?"
"Hehe..." Lin Ze smiled cheekily and said, "Isn't this house about to start construction? So I'm going to stop by and take a look."
"Okay..." Xu Hongdou said speechlessly: "Why do I remember that the construction site is completely in two opposite directions from here."
"This is not important! The earth is round and it will be the same no matter which way you go."
Xu Hongdou rolled her eyes helplessly at the shameless Lin Ze and continued to clean the cup in her hand.
"Here you go." Nana got a glass of juice for Lin Ze and walked towards the guest with the prepared lemonade.
Lin Ze's eyes lit up when he saw the coffee machine nearby and said, "I heard that you and Nana learned how to brew coffee by hand?"
"Can I have a drink for you?" Xu Hongdou was worried that no one would be her first guinea pig. She looked at Lin Ze with interest and asked.
And...
The corners of Xu Hongdou's mouth turned up slightly, and she had been thinking about how to deal with Lin Ze for a while.
"Okay." Lin Ze didn't realize that he was throwing himself into a trap, and looked at Xu Hongdou expectantly.
"Turn...turn...turn..." Xu Hongdou turned the crank in his hand with great effort, finding it so difficult for the first time.
"It's interesting, right? The coffee is for me, right?" Xu Hongdou said angrily to Lin Ze.
"I'll do it, I'll do it." Why did Lin Ze feel that Xu Hongdou had a problem with him?
Lin Ze glanced at Nana, and seeing that she hadn't come back yet, he simply walked in from the front desk, hugged Xu Hongdou from behind, put his hand on hers and turned it gently.
"Why do you feel like you are angry with me?" Lin Ze asked while turning around.
"No..." Xu Hongdou was duplicity, and her body moved restlessly in Lin Ze's arms.
"Isn't it because I didn't keep you here yesterday?" Lin Ze put his mouth next to Xu Hongdou's ear and whispered quietly.
"You're thinking too much." Xu Hongdou removed Lin Ze's hand and poured the ground coffee into the cup.
"Tsk, tsk..." Nana, who had been waiting silently for a long time, finally couldn't help but said, "I feel like I'm a bit redundant."
Lin Ze said without hesitation: "It's a little bit. How about giving you a day off today? Aren't you and Xiaoxia studying video shooting together?"
"Okay, okay." Nana rolled her eyes angrily, "Then I can walk, right?"
"No!" Xu Hongdou stopped: "I don't know how to do some things!"
"Can't we just take them off the menu?" Lin Ze said indifferently.
"Hmph..." Xu Hongdou looked at Lin Ze and said angrily: "Didn't you say you were going to the construction site? After a while, you left and let me work alone, right?"
"Actually, it's the same with or without me." Lin Ze looked at Nana, who was still standing there blankly, and said, "Why are you still standing there? Don't you want to take a vacation?"
"Okay!" Nana handed the apron she was wearing to Lin Ze, "Then I'm really leaving!"