The heart of the pretender is sincere

On the night of returning from No. 76, Ming Lou took the initiative to confess to his eldest sister his identity in Chongqing because of the explosives, and personally prepared a special itinerary for the Sakura train for her. Ming Spiegel had always been suspicious before, but now he can personally Hearing her brother's confession, she felt relieved that he could distinguish between loyalty and evil, good and evil, and wholeheartedly serve the country, but at the same time, she was worried about his safety.Facing his sister with tears in his eyes, Minglou didn't feel heartbroken. He also wanted to be a pure scholar, but the Ming family is a family in Shanghai and he knows economics. Under such circumstances, no one can take his place!In the end, Ming Lou also promised his eldest sister that he would return to Paris to teach after the war was over. They all hoped that the war would end as soon as possible, so that their family could be regarded as real members of the regiment.

Afterwards, the Cherry Blossom was successfully detonated, and people from both sides of Chongqing and Yan'an received orders to keep silent, and the whole of Shanghai became jittery. No. 76 started arresting people everywhere on the street again, and the atmosphere in the Ming Mansion was not too good. Speaking of being very strong, he sent a few people to the family, two drivers, one with Ming Jing and one with Lingxi, and the other two were guarding at home, which is a bit like a nursing home.

Lingxi usually drives to and from get off work by herself. Although she is not used to the driver assigned by her elder brother, she accepts it readily. However, the elder sister is very unacceptable to this driver. The two elder brothers are at home because of this matter. They quarreled fiercely, ignoring each other for several days.It's just that the driver now goes in and out with the eldest sister every day, so Lingxi specially discusses with Ah Cheng what to do, and Ah Cheng really has no other choice, so he just said that the two little ghosts should not get involved when the gods fight. Well, otherwise it is easy to be accidentally injured.

The atmosphere of Lingxi's family has been very harmonious since she was a child, and the atmosphere of Ming's family is also very good after she arrived at Ming's family. This is the first time she has encountered such a situation where the elders of the family have been fighting for a long time. I kind of accepted this new driver, but I couldn't bear to take the initiative to make peace with my eldest brother, and my eldest brother didn't know what was going on, and my eldest sister had a subdued attitude, so he didn't come to apologize. Of course, this is also a inspiration Xi misunderstood Ming Lou. These days he was under pressure from both the Japanese and No. 76 because of the explosion of the Sakura. Noticed the mood change of the eldest sister.

Mingjing is Lingxi's salvation after losing her parents, and the warmth of Ming's family is something she can't let go of. She can't watch her elder sister and elder brother keep fighting, so she decides to find a chance to ease the relationship between the two.

After dinner that day, everyone was sitting in the living room, and Mingjing and Minglou each occupied a single sofa, as if the Chuhe and Han realms did not disturb each other, and Lingxi sat alone on the couch in the middle, facing Ah who came out of the kitchen. Sincerely beckons. "Brother Ah Cheng, come quickly, let's play guessing games."

Ah Cheng was holding two cups of coffee, one for Minglou and one for himself. The eldest sister in the Ming family only drank tea, Lingxi quit coffee on her own initiative and now only drinks plain water.

"Okay." Because Lingxi greeted Ah Cheng in advance, he is very cooperative now. "Tell me how to guess."

"Let's talk about the rules first. I will give you a question and you will answer it. If you answer wrong, you need to give me 10 yuan per question. Otherwise, I will give you 20 yuan per question, and I will give you a reminder before answering the question!"

"So I'm sure I won't lose money." Ah Cheng smiled and touched Lingxi's head, "Then let's talk about it first, don't cry when you lose."

"I won't lose!" Lingxi smiled smugly, "Brother, you can come together, you can't let Ah Cheng lose money alone."

Minglou put down the newspaper in his hand, looked at the eccentric look of the little girl in front of him, and didn't refuse since she had nothing to do, "Okay, count me in, and see how you let me and Ah Cheng lose together."

"Then eldest sister, do you want to contribute too? It's better for a family to lose evenly if they lose."

Ming Jing looked at her dotingly, "Hey, little girl is not too young, I don't believe that you can live with the three of us alone! Be careful and lose your salary for this month, I'm I won’t pay you to buy Ximanlou’s Hibiscus Cake, so if you want to eat it, you can bear it for a month!”

"Hey, I'm sure I won't lose!" Lingxi smiled brightly, she sat up straight, and cleared her throat solemnly, "Now answer the question, please listen to the question, please, why is the sea blue? ?The tip of this question is, don’t think about the serious answer about the density of light reflecting water, please spread your thinking and think about other aspects!”

Ah Cheng originally wanted to talk about the reflection of light, but the road was blocked all of a sudden and he had to diverge his thinking. He turned his head to look at his elder brother, and found that his elder brother was also frowning and thinking. It looks like he's not the only one who can't figure it out, so it's fine, let's all give money together.

The three of them had never guessed questions like brain teasers, so naturally they couldn't figure it out. In the end, Lingxi took the initiative to announce the answer. She vividly made a picture of a fish spitting bubbles in the water, "Because the fish in the sea are always blueblueblue in the sea..."

Hearing this answer, Ah Cheng and Minglou were obviously stunned for a moment and cooperated with Lingxi's movements before they realized that as the eldest brother, Minglou still had to maintain his own image, so he just sat on the sofa with an obvious smile, while Ah Cheng laughed so hard that his stomach ached and he couldn't get up on the sofa. He choked a mouthful of coffee into his trachea and coughed violently.

Lingxi patted Ah Cheng on the back and shook his head, "Brother Ah Cheng, even if you choke, I will not waive your ten yuan."

Only Mingjing looked at the two younger brothers with a confused face. Seeing this, Minglou had no choice but to hold back a smile and explain the word blue to the eldest sister. Mingjing understands French but not English. After listening to Minglou's explanation, he also took the handkerchief. Covering his mouth and smiling happily, "You narrow-minded ghost, your answer is due to the fact that there are two English-speaking people here, otherwise no one can cooperate with you."

"The three of you can say whether my answer is reasonable or not. Should each of you give me ten yuan?" Lingxi helped Ah Cheng, who was staggering beside him, with a proud expression on his face.

"This answer is barely passable, let's move on to the next question." Ming Lou stopped reading the newspaper and drinking coffee at the moment, looking very serious.

"Okay, all three, please listen to the second question." Lingxi took Ah Cheng's coffee cup and Ming Jing's tea cup and put them together, "Excuse me, how can I make this small coffee cup into a big tea cup? The hint for this question is, please refer to the answer to the first question, and continue to diverge your thinking to go further."

"You didn't have this hint." Ah Cheng shook his head, but he still couldn't figure it out.

Ming Jing also shook his head and looked at Lingxi, "Let's announce the answer directly, I don't think anyone can guess it."

"Sister, it's not necessarily true." Minglou took a sip of his coffee gracefully, "I think I guessed it."

"So smart? Tell me quickly." Ming Jing didn't believe it.

Ming Lou looked at the elder sister and pointed to the cup in front of her, "To turn the small cup into a big cup, then recite the Great Compassion Mantra for this small cup."

Ming Jing froze for a moment, thinking about what the Big Cup Curse was for a long time, and then Minglou explained to her that it was the Great Compassion Curse, and then she realized that she couldn't help laughing and cursing, "I really want to open your head to see what's inside. Put something on."

Seeing the three of them laughing together, Xi was also very happy, she made a pitiful look, "Brother has mastered the rules of answering the questions so quickly, you have to be merciful, my salary is limited, and if I lose, I won't be able to afford it." Let's eat."

"It's okay if you can't afford food. I'll deduct how much you lost today from Ah Cheng's salary."

Minglou's teasing expression made Lingxi's face a little hot, and the picture of her holding Ah Cheng that night appeared unconsciously in her mind, and she forced herself to pretend that nothing had happened, "No need , I can win it back immediately!"

"Yo, I'm very confident, so come on!" Minglou has always been measured in his work, and he will just go as far as the little girl is thin-skinned. Assisting such things is not expensive.

"Huh!" Lingxi made a face towards Minglou, "Please listen to the third question. I will earn 30 yuan for the first round of answering the questions. In the second round, only the elder brother who answered the question correctly equals my income of 0 yuan. Now In the third round, the big brother said that he would pay the big sister and brother Ah Cheng together and would give me a total of 100 yuan, may I ask why?"

Ming Jing and Ah Cheng looked at Ming Lou at the same time, "Why did you give her one hundred yuan?"

"I didn't promise to give her one hundred yuan." Minglou spread his hands, always feeling that it was a trap whether he could answer this question or not.

This time Lingxi did not pretend to be mysterious, but directly pulled Ah Cheng and Ming Jing, and whispered their answers in their ears respectively. They brought these two little ones here to cheat my money."

Mingjing looked at Minglou and smiled without saying a word, but Lingxi replied very seriously, "Brother, we are all one family, how can a family be called a pit, it should be called a gift!"

Seeing the little girl's smug face, Minglou took out ten French coins from the wallet, "You haven't told me the answer yet! You must let me give it to you."

Lingxi took the money and put it in her pocket without any hassle, "The answer is, of course, you are happy, brother."

Minglou thought about it carefully, but he was willing to do so. He could afford the money today, "You are more naughty than Mingtai."

"Brother, you don't give me this money for nothing today. It's rare that everyone is fine. I'll play the piano for you." Lingxi got up and sat down in front of the piano. She is going to get busy recently, and the next time she has time to play the piano, at least it will be until the Chinese New Year , "Because the elder brother paid for it, I allowed the elder brother to order what he likes, and the elder sister and brother Ah Cheng can only listen to what I play."

"That depends on how well you play. If you play badly, you will be charged."

"Lingxi plays the piano very well, better than the three of you." Ming Jing became interested when he heard that he was going to play the piano, "Let's play "Hemerocallis Flowers", I like this song."

The piano sounded, but it was not the prelude to "Hemerocallis Blossoms". "Sister, you can't order songs. I'll bring you my favorite song "Dao Xiang". Brother, you can tell me what you want to listen to."

Both Ah Cheng and Minglou heard Lingxi playing and singing for the first time. They thought they would play some famous songs like "To Alice", but it turned out to be a song they had never heard before. Although the lyrics are all in plain language, But the writing is very warm and catchy, especially the sentence "You said that home is the only castle" touched Minglou very much, and it was also the cold war between him and the eldest sister that scared the little girl these days, so he tried his best To ease the relationship between the family.

At the end of the song, Minglou ordered "Hemerocallis Flower" under the threat of Mingjing, and Lingxi naturally did not refuse. The two songs are not difficult to sing, and Lingxi's voice is sweet, which is very suitable for such songs.

"Lingxi, your song is very different from the ones out there. I haven't heard it at all." Ah Cheng heard such a refreshing singing style for the first time. Now it is difficult for most songs to have bel canto.

"That's right, this is exclusive to the family, and you can't hear it outside! Brother, do you think about what to listen to next?"

If Minglou still doesn't understand Lingxi's intentions, then he will really be blinded to the wisdom of Chief Ming, he looked at the elder sister, "I have never heard Lingxi's song, how about you come to me, elder sister? "

Ming Jing thought for a while, "Why don't we sing the song "Fulfillment of Wishes", neither of them has heard it before, this song is so good, let him listen to it twice."

Lingxi also likes this song very much, the lyrics are really well written, "It's okay to sing, but big sister, can you guarantee that you can hold back your tears after I sing it?"

"Hold it, hold it back, I will definitely hold it back this time." Ming Jing nodded seriously, "But I hold it back, you have to hold back yourself and don't cry."

In fact, Lingxi has sung this song twice, maybe the lyrics are too good, maybe Lingxi's voice is too contagious, or there may be other reasons. After all, Mingjing shed tears every time he listened to it, which made Lingxi cry. Xi also shed tears, and the end result was that the two of them cried together, which would scare Axiang every time.

Lingxi didn't speak any more, and played the prelude naturally. She turned her head to look at Ah Cheng and found that he was also staring at her. When the two eyes intertwined, they looked at each other and smiled tacitly. She turned her eyes away again. Back to the piano, in fact, many people have sung the song "Fulfillment of Wishes". Lingxi likes Xiao Yiqing's version the most, and she will subconsciously imitate his singing.

You are, the long way

Lights in the mountains and fog

...

After singing a song, Lingxi's eyes were a little red but she didn't shed tears. She went to see her elder sister proudly, and found that her eyes were red but she didn't cry, so she just ran to her and squeezed a single sofa with her to hug her Acting coquettishly, Ming Jing also hugged her and stroked her long hair, feeling more pity for Lingxi in his heart.

The three children in the family, Mingtai was still young when he lost his mother, and he has no memory of his father at all, so apart from occasionally thinking of his parents in these years, his life is generally quite comfortable. Ah Cheng’s life is not as good as that of Mingtai. The orphan grew up in an orphanage. He had an adoptive mother who thought he could end such a lonely and helpless life, but was abused by the adoptive mother. Fortunately, 20 years have passed, and Ah Cheng’s daily life will no longer be affected by what happened when he was a child. influences.

As for Lingxi, she lived a happy life since she was a child and there was only this one daughter in her family. Since she was a child, she had received all the love from the elders in the family, but unfortunately lost her father at the age of 14. In the following year and a half, she lost four relatives from the grandparents and then two. She lost her mother a few years ago, and there is no relative in this world who is related to her by blood.Lingxi is different from Mingtai Ah Cheng. Only Lingxi grew up and watched her relatives leave one by one soberly. Then she encountered the war in Nanjing. Nanjing at the end of 1937, she couldn’t even think about it. The existence of being willing to think, how strong a will must be for a girl to survive so many blows, Ming Jing subconsciously looked at the watch on Lingxi's left hand, but fortunately she also survived with strength.