We perform a lattice simulation to investigate the doubly charmed tetraquark 𝑇 + 𝑐𝑐 observed by the LHCb collaboration, slightly below the 𝐷 * + 𝐷 0 threshold, with flavor content 𝑐𝑐 ū d and isospin-0. Two-meson interpolators are implemented to explore the isospin quantum numbers 𝐼 = 0 and 𝐼 = 1. We observe attraction near the 𝐷𝐷 * threshold for 𝐼 = 0 and repulsion for 𝐼 = 1. Moreover, we also include diquark-antidiquark interpolators to study their effect on the energy spectrum. There is no significant shift in the ground state energy when adding diquark-antidiquark interpolators to the interpolator basis when the heavy quark mass is close to the physical charm quark mass. However, we observe a non-negligible shift in the second energy level. This effect has to be taken into account to extract the scattering amplitude of the 𝑇 + 𝑐𝑐 . Finally, with a higher mass (close to the bottom quark), the ground state is shifted down significantly. The simulation is performed on 𝑁 𝑓 = 2 + 1 CLS ensembles with 𝑚 𝜋 ≃ 280 MeV.