Sincerely waiting to return to the building, the twilight is deep

The various smells intertwined in the venue made people feel bored.

Mingcheng greeted Minglou and stood alone on the balcony.

"Brother Ah Cheng?" The young woman in a water-colored cheongsam called out to him.The light makeup makes her look innocent.

Seeing his puzzled look, the woman twisted her waist and covered her mouth, laughing like a silver bell: "Brother Ah Cheng, you forgot, I am Xiaoya."

Xiaoya?Looking at the beautiful woman in front of him, it was difficult for Mingcheng to have any connection with that dirty little girl back then.

The woman couldn't get a response from Mingcheng, her complexion changed, she tilted her head, lit a thin cigarette, and contrary to her innocence just now, took a sip elegantly and coquettishly: "Mr. Let's go." She took a puff of cigarette at Mingcheng.

"I..." Mingcheng wanted to refute, but was choked by the smell of smoke, and frowned and coughed a few times.

"Forget it, let's just think we met by chance." The woman twisted her waist and walked towards the inside.

"Qiaoqiao!" Mingcheng stopped her, "You are Qiaoqiao."

The woman paused, then turned back: "Only brother Ah Cheng would call me Qiaoqiao."

During the time Ah Cheng left, the people in the alley were sick, old, and running away, and Ah Cheng seemed to be the best among them.

Qiaoqiao is the child bride-in-law of someone else's family. After her mother-in-law died, she was sold into a brothel by that gambling man.

She ran away and the man was beaten to death by debt collectors.

She has been a beggar and a thief, and later she recruited dancers in the ballroom, and she has been doing it now.No one would have thought that this coquettish woman was still dissatisfied.

Or a girl.

"Brother Ah Cheng, you are a big shot now. I'm getting married in two days, can you come? I'll show the neighbors in the neighborhood." The girl wrote him an address.

Although Mingcheng knew that this invitation might be caused by a woman's vanity, he didn't know how to refuse it.

The girl got the result she wanted, she tiptoed, and when Mingcheng was in a daze, her pink lips tapped Mingcheng's cheek: "This is a thank you."

Mingcheng was picking out clothes, Minglou looked at his upturned mouth, and shook the newspaper in his hand teasingly: "Why, you are going to a wedding, not a wedding, it's almost over."

Mingcheng raised his head and glanced at Minglou: "I know, but at least it's taking some face from the Ming family."

He compared the two ties in his hand: "Brother, which one is better..."

Minglou's expression changed, and he folded the newspaper in two or three strokes: "You have been busy with this since last night, let's go have breakfast first..."

Mingcheng put down his tie, obediently followed Minglou out of the room.

When he came to the dining table, Ming Jing instructed Ming Tai: "...Look at Manli, she is a girl, she will be scared..."

"Eldest sister, what happened?" Mingcheng finished, and filled a bowl of porridge for Mingjing.

"Something happened, the newspapers said it this morning, yesterday..." Ming Jing had just started, but was interrupted by Ming Lou.

"A Cheng and I are going to the department store, is there anything Elder Sister wants to bring?"

"I want that shirt, I want a watch..." Ming Tai lazily shouted.

"Eat!" Minglou cast a sharp look at Mingtai.

"Oh." The cowardly Mingtai buried his head in the porridge.

Ming Jing laughed: "I don't have anything to buy, why don't you buy something and bring it to Manli, she's a girl, it's not easy."

Minglou readily agreed.

In the car, Mingcheng looked at Minglou with closed eyes in the rearview mirror: "Brother, what happened to you today?"

"Drive, don't talk." Minglou didn't want to talk.

Mingcheng let out an oh, but underestimated in a low voice: "What's the matter, big brother?"

Gathering people to chat seems to be another human instinct.

Especially women.

Before it was time to go to work, several women got together and muttered together, with various expressions on their faces.

There is pity, there is contempt, there is fear, it doesn't matter...

Mingcheng has always been not interested in women's morning topics, when he reached out to pick up the daily newspaper, Minglou had already taken it, and walked towards the office first.

Today, Mingcheng went to meet with Nightingale and asked her to help find a way to use No. 76's equipment to find a mysterious sending signal.

This signal sends a telegram to the outside every few days, with a fixed time, a fixed number of words, and a fixed number of times.

They believed that such a strange signal must have been noticed by the Japanese, but it was strange that no action was taken.

Unless, this is the signal of the Japanese.

Mingcheng took the milk from the waiter, paid a little tip, and Chu Hui took the milk away: "You can't drink it. Give this gentleman a glass of water."

Chu Hui watched him sip water, and patted the back of his hand: "When are you going to tell Minglou?"

Mingcheng shook his head: "I don't know what to say."

Chu Hui patted the back of his hand: "Tell him everything, including Mingyue."

"I'm not afraid that my elder brother will ask me to leave, but I'm afraid that he will let me leave in order to protect me." Mingcheng rubbed his stomach with his hands. This morning, Aunt Gui asked herself why her elder sister was so kind to her suddenly and made soup for him .

Chu Hui picked up the coffee and took a sip: "It's not a problem to keep it a secret. I have a meeting in the afternoon, so you can drive back by yourself."

When he reached the door, Mingcheng was about to turn around and leave, but Minglou finally said, "Come in!"

Mingcheng entered the office obediently, and sat down at Minglou's request.

"Ah Cheng, I have something to tell you." Minglou pointed to the briefcase next to Mingming Cheng, "Open it and take out the newspaper."

newspaper?Mingcheng looked at the newspaper in his hand, it was the one his elder brother read this morning, and it was folded in all directions.

He was wondering, but saw a line of headlines and the address involved in the first sentence of the news.

He jumped to his feet and flung the paper away as if it were a worm.

"Impossible." Mingcheng wanted to pick up the newspaper, but his whole body was stiff, he couldn't believe it.

Before he could react, Minglou hugged him from behind: "Ah Cheng, you have to calm down!"

"How can I be calm!" He broke away, "She can't die, I'm going to see."

"Ah Cheng!" Ming Lou looked at him as if he had lost his soul.

"I'm going to take a look." Mingcheng clenched his hands tightly into fists and placed them by his side.

There are two dead bodies in the well-decorated small building.

If one of them can still be called a corpse.

She was dismembered into pieces of minced meat, which were packed in transparent containers and soaked in liquid according to the structure of the bones.The two eyeballs closest to Mingcheng are kept in the liquid with the optic nerve, like two little tadpoles.

Mingcheng felt unwell in his stomach, and rushed out the door, retching for a while.

"Let me just say that the Japanese are all lunatics. It's a pity to see such a beautiful girl."

"Two days ago, she told me that she was getting married."

"terrible."

"No, I heard that the Japanese doctor was still laughing when he was arrested."

"What a pity."

"That doctor seems to be called Takeda, and he even showed it to my granddaughter!"

"Takeda Xiong!" Mingcheng spit out a mouthful of blood every word.

Listening to the discussion of the people next to him, Mingcheng held back his tears, that girl was the only one.

That dirty little girl who called him Brother Ah Cheng will never be seen again.

He regretted it, he shouldn't have been involved in her life, she could have been very happy!

At this moment, he calmed down instead.

The policeman next to him told him that they had already caught Takeda Yuki, but a group of people came out from nowhere, chattering and snatched him away.

Mingcheng listened, keeping a note in his heart.

He will make Takeda pay for it.

Mingcheng didn't eat dinner, but went straight into the bedroom, laying on the bed reclined, in a daze.

He still felt it: Ming Lou took off his coat, took off his shoes, and stuffed him under the quilt.

It's time for him to sleep.

"Thank you, big brother," Mingcheng said like a mosquito.

"Go to sleep, when you wake up, everything will be over." Minglou coaxed him softly, just like coaxing the child who had a nightmare back then.

"Don't go, I'm afraid." Mingcheng looked at Minglou, "Don't go."

"I'm not leaving, go to sleep," Minglou saw Aunt Gui holding a bowl of water, and shook his head to signal her not to come in.

In the living room, except Ming Jing, everyone else was sent away.

Minglou poured the elder sister a cup of hot tea.

Mingjing stuck to Minglou's ear: "Fall asleep."

Minglou nodded: "I fell asleep, but very lightly."

Ming Jing sighed: "What do you think this is? One after another, why are they all directed at Ah Cheng?"

Minglou pressed his temple: "Eldest sister, don't worry, Mingcheng is fine."

Ming Jing scolded: "It's not that you don't know, Ah Cheng is the most thoughtful, we all have something to say to him, why did he reveal half a word? Another example is such a big matter, he doesn't even have tears, Mrs. Su said back then But according to Ah Cheng's temperament, sooner or later something will happen."

Ming Lou glanced at the half-closed door: "Sister, there is something I want to tell you."

"Let's talk." Ming Jing picked up the cup.

"Don't look for any more blind dates for Ah Cheng." Minglou said, "Ah Cheng won't want to marry now."

The cup of tea was put down again without taking a sip. Ming Jing looked at Ming Lou: "What's wrong? Who said I was on a blind date with Ming Cheng again?"

Minglou looked at his elder sister's expression and felt strange: "Didn't you call a teacher Jin today and say that you want Ah Cheng to meet her?"

The eldest sister stomped her foot lightly: "Hey, what are you talking about, Mr. Jin, the man is my former classmate, and now he is teaching economics at the university. Aren't you busy? I want Ah Cheng to talk to him about Shanghai's economy. Anyway He's your secretary general."

Minglou breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly.

But the eldest sister did not let him go easily: "What happened?" After thinking about it, her face turned blue and white, "You don't want to say that you and Ah Cheng... two people have..." Rao is a bright mirror It's hard for such a female hero to say such a thing.Although she already knew about it, she was surprised that Minglou dared to bring it up on the table.

Minglou nodded silently.

Ming Jing waved his hand and slapped Minglou hard on the back a few times, the muffled slapping sound was extraordinarily loud in the empty hall: "You, it's really you."

Minglou waited for the eldest sister to stop: "I have no way to give Ah Cheng a proper identity, not because I don't want to be responsible, but because I am afraid of how others will look at Ah Cheng. I want to protect him, and I even want to put him Lock him up, if he can be locked up. I don't know what I should do." As he spoke, he couldn't help crying.

Ming Jing felt that the man in front of him was not a man in his thirties, he was clearly the little boy who would lie in his father's arms and act like a baby, make faces at himself and shave his nose.

A string of Minglou's relationship with Mingcheng is too tight, on the verge of collapse.

If something happens to Mingcheng, Minglou will undoubtedly collapse.

Ming Jing comforted him: "Mingcheng will always be a part of our Ming family, blood is thicker than water, there is no escape."

After thinking about it, Ming Jing confirmed, "Have you talked about everything?"

Minglou blinked and nodded again.

Ming Jing didn't think too much about it: "Now that we've chatted, I think you'll take Mingyue to find the elders of the clan some other day. Mingyue is a descendant of the Ming family, so it's only reasonable to write it into the family tree. It's a pity, Ah Cheng, alas!" She only cared about talking to herself, and didn't pay attention to Minglou's expression next to her.

Beneath that calm face was a frightened and beating heart.

"Hey, by the way, you should treat Ah Cheng better now, and don't let him do things if you can." Ming Jing was still talking, and turned his head to see Ming Lou in a daze, "I'm talking, did you hear me?"

"I heard it, I heard it!" Minglou hurriedly agreed, and at this moment he was not in the mood to go for a fight.