The heart of the pretender is sincere

Lingxi was going to look for Ah Cheng with a stack of documents, but when she came out of the room, she saw Ah Cheng painting oil paintings in the living room, and the eldest brother was discussing the content of the painting with Ah Cheng while holding a glass of wine. , looks very comfortable.

"What's the name of this painting?" Minglou asked.

"What name do you want for a landscape painting?" Ah Cheng didn't think about the name, so he answered casually, "No title."

Minglou looked at the painting thoughtfully, and thought for a long time before saying, "I want to call it...home."

"Homeland?" At this moment, Lingxi came right behind Ah Cheng. She looked at the content of Ah Cheng's painting, which was a landscape painting. It was beautiful, but it was just a home, a broken thatched cottage?She couldn't help laughing, "Brother, whose home looks like this, this is a humble room, but my Dexin?"

Ming Lou looked at Ah Cheng's paintings, and looked very contented, "I think my future home will look like this, next to the lake and next to the woods, it looks like a shabby room on the outside, so it's fine to decorate the inside."

Lingxi frowned, and couldn't understand why the interior and exterior should be done better together, "Then why don't you consider buying a mountain top, building a yard, planting trees and flowers, raising some cats and dogs, and bringing your future sister-in-law with you?" Two people in one house, three meals for four seasons, and two children later, even occupying the mountain as king is better than this thatched cottage."

Minglou took a sip of champagne, "Your words are somewhat Zen-like, but your future sister-in-law doesn't know where she is right now, and you also said that this is a shabby house, but my Dexin must still be thatched. The house is more suitable."

Lingxi shook her head and sat on the sofa with the stack of documents in her arms, "Then you can live by yourself, the eldest sister and Mingtai will definitely not live in your home."

"It's better if you don't come. I live alone in a quiet place. Look at how quiet I am these few days." It is rare for Minglou to be in such a relaxed state. return?"

Lingxi put the documents in her hand on the coffee table and arranged them one by one according to the color of the cover, "Eldest sister said she was going to Suzhou, so she will be back two days later."

"Look, I can be clean for another two days." Ming Lou picked up the wine glass and took another sip, with a very contented expression on his face.

Lingxi smiled knowingly, the eldest sister is not at home, the elder brother is the boss, no one dares to care about him, so it is clean, she arranged the documents in her hand one by one and looked at Ah Cheng, "Brother Ah Cheng, your painting Stop for a moment, all my piles of documents are prepared for you, come here and let me explain to you."

"Ah?!" Ah Cheng turned his head and looked at the three stacks of documents of different colors. He looked around and finally stuffed the paintbrush into the hands of his elder brother and sat next to Lingxi to look at the documents. The person with the green cover flipped through it, "It's all for me, where did you get so many documents?"

Lingxi took the documents and explained to Ah Cheng, "These are all properties under your name, and they need to be signed by you or the elder brother. Before you were abroad, the documents that needed to be signed were all signed by the elder sister. Now the elder sister is going to Hong Kong has spoken before. Since you have returned to China, she will not sign for you. Please sign it yourself. As for saving so much, one is that there are indeed a lot of documents that need to be signed recently. Besides, my eldest sister and I are not there. I stayed in Suzhou for nearly a month, and I only had time to tidy up when I came back, so it became like this."

Ah Cheng put the document in his hand back, and flipped through the other books, "Then what are these red, yellow, and green covers, and what are these 1 and 2 written in pencil?"

"The color represents the priority of the matter. The red envelope is very urgent. You must sign and give it to me before next Monday. The yellow envelope means that you can give it to me within this month. As for the green envelope, you can wait." Take a look, you can sign it to me when you finished reading it years ago. As for the numbers, 1 is for the elder brother to sign, 2 is for you to sign, if you have both, it means you need to sign both of them, I It's all marked out."

Ah Cheng put down the document in his hand, changed the only one with a red cover and flipped through it. He found that Lingxi seemed to have studied the economic policies promulgated by the new government, and every item on the document was in line with the requirements of the new government. "Lingxi, I found that you are very familiar with the economic policies of the new government."

"That's not true. The first rule of life-saving rules these days is that the people should not fight with officials." Lingxi tilted her head and looked at Ah Cheng, her eyes were full of cleverness and complacency.

Ah Cheng was amused by Lingxi. He just felt it was a pity when he saw Lingxi put her hair up. Now that she was sitting close, she realized that she was using a pencil to tie her hair up. ?"

"A hairpin is actually not as easy to use as a pencil." Lingxi turned her head to show Ah Cheng the hair that was coiled behind her head, "You see, I have a lot of hair and it's long, and hairpins are always cumbersome if you want to make all kinds of tricks , not as convenient as a straight pencil.”

"What about the jade hairpin, isn't it similar to a pencil?" Ah Cheng touched the place fixed by the pencil with his hand, "It seems to be pretty good and won't fall apart."

"My hair is relatively smooth, and jade hairpins are too slippery for me, and they will be heavy. My eldest sister once bought me all kinds of hairpins, including gold, silver, jade, and wood. In the end, the pencil is the uncrowned king."

The two looked at each other with a smile and didn't talk anymore. He looked at Lingxi, who was close at hand, and suddenly felt a little distracted. Before Lingxi's hair was put down, he thought it looked good, but now the hair is coiled up, and the whole side of his face and neck are exposed. The neckline is very graceful and charming, which is another kind of beauty, and when the two sit close, he can always smell a faint scent of gardenia on Ling Xi's body, which is very light and natural, completely different from the smell of perfume , Ah Cheng tried hard to take back his thoughts, he felt like an idiot now, it was really out of place, "cough cough, isn't this coming next Monday, then tell me now."

Lingxi nodded and took the documents in Ah Cheng's hand and explained them to him one by one. In fact, she had already circled the important parts with a pencil, but she hadn't explained two of them. Ah Xiang stood with a large bouquet of roses He walked to the door of the living room, and called her very happily, "Miss Lingxi, someone sent you roses again."

Ah Cheng heard the words and looked up at Ah Xiang. Ah Xiang was standing at the door of the living room with a large bouquet of flowers in his arms and did not come in. He caught a keyword "again", so did many people send flowers to Lingxi? ?

"Well, I see." Lingxi was quite calm and didn't raise her head, she just continued to drag Ah Cheng to explain the documents in her hand, "Look here, and here are all things that need to be signed by the elder brother..."

Ah Xiang stood at the door with the big bouquet of roses in her arms, a little hesitant, she was a little reluctant to throw out such a big bouquet of flowers, "But this time there are 99 roses, Miss Lingxi, why don't you take a look?"

Lingxi looked up helplessly at the flowers in Ah Xiang's hand, 99 flowers are indeed a big bunch, and it is indeed very lethal for a little girl like Ah Xiang who has never seen such a battle, " Alright, I've seen it, now according to the rules we set, quickly throw this flower out."

"Oh." Ah Xiang hugged the flowers with a look of reluctance, but still obediently turned around and prepared to go out and throw them away.

"Wait." Minglou beckoned to Axiang, as if watching the excitement is not a big deal, "Why are you throwing out such beautiful flowers, take them here and let me have a look, there are many people sending flowers to Ling Xi?"

"Brother, what's so good about a bouquet of flowers." Lingxi was very helpless, she simply put down the documents in her hand, "It's just some boring things done by some boring people."

Ah Xiang saw that there was hope for leaving flowers, and it was ordered by the young master. Anyway, she did not break the rules, so she happily came to Minglou with flowers, "Yes, many people gave Miss Lingxi before." Flowers, but every time Miss Lingxi doesn’t look at them, she throws them out and doesn’t allow us to pick them up. She also made a rule that no one will be allowed to enter the Ming Mansion when someone sends flowers to her door, and all of them are thrown out. The eldest lady said it’s a pity. Otherwise, you can save a lot and you can go to a flower shop, but this time there are 99 roses, it’s the first time I’ve seen such a big bouquet of roses.”

Minglou thought about it for a while and thought it wasn't an exaggeration. Lingxi's appearance is really outstanding, and it's not surprising that there are many suitors. He found the card from the bouquet and read it solemnly, "You are the moon in my heart , is my sun, the brightest star in my heart, I love you the way you can't help laughing, please be my girlfriend."

"Brother, please don't read it. Don't you feel that you have lost your identity as an officer when you read it?" Lingxi covered her face and felt ashamed to face others, and it was nothing more than a social death.

It was rare for Minglou to smile so happily. He flipped through the card back and forth, "This person's level is not very good, and he didn't sign it. I don't know who gave it to him."

"Brother!" Lingxi was really helpless.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anymore, Axiang, you should throw this flower out, or our Miss Lingxi will be angry." Minglou looked at Ah Cheng's face, which had turned dark several degrees, and his eyes were full of teasing With a calm look, he stuffed the card back into the flower without any hassle.

She didn't expect to be thrown out in the end. Ah Xiang felt very sorry, "Ah, I still have to throw it out? Miss Lingxi, don't you think it's very romantic, 99 Duoye, and wrote a love letter."

"Where is it romantic? This so-called love letter has a total of 45 characters and there are several grammatical errors. The sun should be in front of the moon. I can't help laughing, but I can't use it together with laughter, and the usage of deed is not correct." Lingxi She felt that she had sighed all the anger for this month, and said to Axiang earnestly, "Axiang, you are still young, don't be fooled by these external things, if you have this spare money to buy 99 flowers, it is better to donate them to the orphanage or school It’s very useful, obediently throw this flower out.”

"Oh." Ah Xiang went out with the flowers in her arms. She barely read a few words. She didn't quite understand Miss Lingxi's words, but she felt that Miss Lingxi would definitely not lie to her. She wanted to come here to deliver flowers. People really have no culture and are not worthy of Miss Lingxi.

Hua threw out the document and still had to continue to read it, Ah Cheng finally suppressed his restless heart and listened to Lingxi's lecture seriously, while Minglou was changing "his" "homeland" with a paintbrush, For a while, only the voices of Lingxi and Ah Cheng's discussion could be heard in the living room, which meant that the years were quiet.

After the document is finished, the rest needs to be taken back and read carefully. Ah Cheng looked at Lingxi, "Let's do this first, if there is any problem, I will come to you."

Lingxi nodded, "Sure, you can come to me anytime, as long as I'm free."

At this moment, the phone in the living room rang, and Ah Cheng sat close to him and answered the phone. It turned out that Liang Zhongchun came to ask Ah Cheng for help, and Ah Cheng naturally knew what Liang Zhongchun was calling for. The black smuggling business was still stuck at the pier and Acheng needed to help coordinate, so Acheng did not hesitate to say a few words and was about to reach [-]% of the profit, and then made an appointment with Liang Zhongchun to meet at the pier in half an hour.

Ah Cheng hung up the phone and went to get the coat on the shelf, "Lingxi, Liang Zhongchun told me that you found your wallet, and I just went out and brought it back for you."

"Really?" Lingxi couldn't believe it was so fast, "Then I'll wait for you to come back."

"Then it's unnecessary. I've been out for two hours and I can't come back. Now it's past eight o'clock and it's almost eleven o'clock when I come back. Can you put these documents in my room for me, okay? I'll bring it to you, you go to bed early."

Lingxi nodded, "Well, then be careful on the road."

"Don't worry." Ah Cheng nodded, and he did not forget to tell Ming Lou before going out, "Brother, don't damage my painting!"

At this moment, Minglou is holding a pen and moving non-stop on Ah Cheng's painting, and responds to Ah Cheng confidently, "This painting is about my home, not yours."

***

When Liang Zhongchun gave the wallet to Ah Cheng, he just opened it and took a look at the photos inside to confirm that the photos were still there, and then he received them in his pocket. Now that he was back in the Ming mansion, he was about to take it out for a closer look, only to find that the door of Lingxi's room was open and the light was on, obviously waiting for him.

Ah Cheng came to the door of Lingxi's room lightly, and saw that she was sitting at the desk and writing seriously. He didn't notice his existence at all, so he knocked lightly on the door of the room.

Hearing the voice, Lingxi looked back and was very surprised to see Ah Cheng, and quickly got up and walked towards him, "Brother Ah Cheng, you are back."

Ah Cheng looked at Lingxi's plain face, there was almost no difference between before and after makeup, her skin was more transparent under the light without makeup, he took out his wallet and handed it to her, "It's so late and you don't sleep, Are you really waiting for me?"

"I didn't wait for you specially. There are a lot of things these two days, so I've been busy before I know it." Lingxi took the wallet and took out the photos to look carefully. After confirming that the photos were intact, the hanging heart was relieved. After coming down, she looked up at Ah Cheng, "Thank you."

"Thank you." Ah Cheng smiled. He saw that Lingxi's hair, which should have just been washed, looked extraordinarily fluffy and soft. He resisted the urge to touch it with his hands, "I can take a look at your hair." Photo?"

Lingxi handed the photo to Ah Cheng. In the photo, the little girl with high ponytails was sitting between her parents, holding their hands. She grinned happily with her crooked eyebrows and eyes. You could tell her at a glance. Her parents must love her very much and treat her like a jewel. The little girl is probably still young, with a childish face and baby fat, but it can be seen that she has a good appearance. Looking at the parents on both sides, it is obvious that she is married. With all the good looks of his parents, Ah Cheng returned the photo to Lingxi, "How old were you?"

"14 is old."

"So you were so pretty when you were young."

"Probably, it's hard to give up on a natural beauty."

For a moment, both of them laughed, but unconsciously, their eyes became entangled, and suddenly there was some ambiguity.

Lingxi's face was slowly stained with a blush, she felt that Ah Cheng's eyes staring at her were too hot, she subconsciously wanted to avoid his gaze and turn her face away, the lonely men and widows at night Standing at the door of her room chatting didn't seem too good, she bit her lips and met his gaze, "It's late and I'm going to bed, you go back quickly, good night."

"Wait a minute." Ah Cheng took Lingxi's hand, the girl's hand was as soft as boneless, soft and slippery, it was really comfortable to touch.

Lingxi wanted to pull out her hand, but Ah Cheng refused to let go and his eyes became even hotter, causing Lingxi to be at a loss for a while and almost lost the strength to speak, "Just say what you want, hurry up Let go of your hands."

Ah Cheng's mind that has been turbulent all night has ripples again. Before the eldest brother and Ah Xiang were there, he couldn't do anything. Finally, there are only the two of them left. He must not miss such a good opportunity. Rubbing the back of Lingxi's hand lightly, "After get off work tomorrow, let's go for a walk by the river together."

Ah Cheng's voice was very soft, but on such a quiet night that only the sound of the two people's breathing remained, his voice was full of temptation like the ghost in the mountain. Lingxi looked into Ah Cheng's eyes, and from his pupils She saw her own reflection, that is, at that moment, she nodded her head out of nowhere, as if she agreed to his invitation.

Ah Cheng was very happy, "Then we have agreed, I will wait for you at home tomorrow afternoon, I will get off work early, and you will also get off work early."

Lingxi's face was already blushing, she lowered her head and dared not look at Ah Cheng, she just reflected on how she agreed to Ah Cheng to go out on a date, now she just wants to be a turtle and shrink herself into the turtle shell Don't let anyone see it.

"Lingxi." Ah Cheng lowered his head and brought his face closer to Lingxi. He naturally knew that Lingxi was shy, but he didn't finish talking now, and he didn't know when it would be next time.

Ah Cheng got too close, and when Lingxi raised her eyes, she saw Ah Cheng's handsome face magnified many times. Cheng grabbed his hand for a long time, and then directly pushed Ah Cheng out of his room, "Okay, I understand."

Looking at the closed door, Ah Cheng couldn't help but smile a lot from the corner of his mouth, "I'll go back to sleep first, Lingxi, good night."

Lingxi hid behind the door panel, holding her hot cheeks with both hands, feeling embarrassed at the same time and sweet at the same time, only when she saw the pile of documents on the table did she realize why she agreed to Ah Cheng Well, she's had a lot of things recently, and it's too late to regret it now.