The heart of the pretender is sincere

The weather in France is relatively fickle. During the Chinese New Year, there was a heavy snowfall. Now it has been sunny for more than a month, and there is no cold breath at all.Today is the first weekend after school starts, and it’s rare that everyone has nothing to do. Mingtai is impatient and went out to play with his classmates, while Minglou sat on the sofa in the study and read the letter. They only received it a week ago. Eldest sister's letter, I didn't want to receive another letter early this morning and it said Minglou's personal letter, but the content of the letter surprised him a little.

At this time, Ah Cheng was standing in front of the bookshelf with his back facing him looking for a book to read. Ming Lou looked at Ah Cheng's back. His handsome and straight appearance had always attracted girls. In the past, there were many girls who wrote love letters to Ah Cheng. , there are also some courageous Chinese girls among them, but A Cheng rejected them one by one. It seems that A Cheng has not seen any movement since the breakup of the relationship three years ago. ?

Minglou glanced at the letter in his hand again to make sure that he was thinking correctly, then cleared his throat seemingly unintentionally, "Ah Cheng, I have something to ask you, you sit beside me."

Ah Cheng nodded and sat beside him as requested by his elder brother, "What's wrong, elder brother?"

"Have you had a girlfriend recently?"

Ah Cheng shook his head, "No."

"Then, do you have a girl you like?"

"...No...Yes..." This was a bit against my will. Ah Cheng still remembered the girl he met in Nanjing last year, but he probably didn't have the chance to meet again.

With such a hesitant look, he insisted that he didn’t have it, and Minglou didn’t want to expose him, he just threw out his trump card, “Where’s your pocket watch, why haven’t you seen you wear it recently?”

"Well, let's stay in the room... It was too cold to wear a pocket watch before..." Ah Cheng was a little afraid to meet the gaze of his elder brother who seemed to see everything, he just scratched his head and lowered his eyes, the pocket watch was given away by him, And the other party didn't want him to force it to others!

Minglou smiled, and handed the letter to Ah Cheng, "Let's read the elder sister's letter."

The letter from Ding Jing was just for one thing, asking Ah Cheng if he knew a girl named Li Lingxi. The girl was very young, only 20 years old, but because she didn't ask her permission, she didn't have a photo. The reason why I asked this was because she In his hand is Ah Cheng's pocket watch that he has worn since he was a child and has never left his body since childhood.

Mingjing will know Lingxi. She took people to inspect the mine years ago. This girl was lying on the side of the road and was dying. During this time, the workers in the mine also picked up some people in the mountains. Almost all of them were from Nanjing. For those who escaped, Ding Jing couldn't bear the suffering of compatriots, but if they met those who were alive, they would take them to be treated and give some money and travel expenses, and those who died would help to bury them so that their corpses would not be exposed in the wilderness, but this girl was different from others, her Hanging around his neck is Ah Cheng's pocket watch that he almost never leaves his body.

She brought the girl back to the old house, and the servants took a lot of effort to clean her up, only to find out that this is an extremely beautiful and young girl, but she has a high fever, even the doctor said that she might not be able to save her. , Whether you can live or not depends on good luck.Fortunately, after seven or eight days of careful maintenance and medication, the girl was finally pulled back from the death line, but she was still very weak after she was out of the critical period, and finally Ming Jing simply brought her back to Shanghai.

Now the known information is limited. I only know the name, age, and the fact that both parents are dead. There are no other relatives in the family. I used to study in the United States and just graduated from university this year. I appeared in the mine because I escaped from Nanjing with a group of students. In the end, she was the only one left.Her explanation about the pocket watch was that she bought food for a homeless man, and the other party took the pocket watch as collateral because he had no money to pay. She wanted to return the pocket watch but could not find anyone.

Ah Cheng looked at the three characters Li Lingxi on the letter and smirked. He thought the name was very nice, but he didn't know if Lingxi already knew his own name. He suddenly wanted to write a letter to her, but it was just this credit. Why do you write this? You have to think about it!

Minglou knocked on the table, "The homeless man came back to his senses, although the weather is better, it's still winter now, so don't miss spring!"

After being exposed by his elder brother, Ah Cheng's cheeks felt a little hot, he folded the letter and put it back in the envelope, "Ahem, I sent the pocket watch."

Ah Cheng felt that this was probably fate. He explained to his elder brother how he and Lingxi met. It was a little unbelievable and seemed to be destined. He once thought it was a big dream and he would never meet that beautiful woman again. But the elder sister's letter clearly told him that the girl he had been thinking about for a long time appeared, and that was not a dream. He had really met her before, and now he knew her name, her name was Li Ling Xi!

He has seen Lingxi only once, and it has been almost two months now, and he still can't forget the stunning appearance at the beginning, his eyes are clear and agile, his skin is delicate and rosy, his facial features are exquisite without makeup, he really complied with the saying that clear water comes out of hibiscus to carve naturally, Her beauty is incomparable to any woman Ah Cheng has ever seen before.

"Later when I came out of that cemetery, I couldn't find that place again when I looked back. I once suspected that what I encountered was a female ghost, or a fairy descending from the earth, or an angel in the Western world."

"Attempt to see sex?" Minglou is a little curious now, what does this girl look like, she can make the eldest sister praise her as extremely beautiful, and she can also make Ah Cheng think that she is a fairy descending from the earth.

"Brother!" Ah Cheng was a little annoyed, it must have been love at first sight, how can love be so ugly!

"Okay, I won't talk about it, you can go and reply to the elder sister by yourself." Although there are various doubts about this matter, it is rare that Ah Cheng has a girl he likes, and Minglou can't bear to break the beautiful yearning in his heart.Besides, this girl's life-saving grace to Ah Cheng is real, and the initiative to give the pocket watch is also in Ah Cheng's hands. It seems that he has to find someone to check the girl's background carefully. If there is no problem, then he still supports Ah Cheng. These days the mountains and rivers are broken and the wind and rain are precarious, and it is also a happy thing to meet someone you like.

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The fact that Ah Cheng returned to China to Nanjing years ago was due to the needs of the mission, and he absolutely could not tell his elder sister, so he had no way to admit to his elder sister that he gave the pocket watch by himself, so he could only put this matter on a friend, saying that the pocket watch was a gift. I lent it to a friend. My friend had received help from this girl in Nanjing before. If she is really homeless, please ask the eldest sister to take care of her.

It’s just that after replying to the letter, Ah Cheng felt a little lost. He wanted Lingxi to know him too, he wanted to write a letter to Lingxi too, but he couldn’t find a reason. He made up the identity of an unfounded friend, but he didn’t want to. Contacting her with a false identity, he really wanted to stand in front of her and say to her: Hello, my name is Mingcheng.

Maybe it's because he never forgets that there must be echoes. Ah Cheng thought that the fate between him and Lingxi would end here, but he didn't expect that a small bookmark he made before would become a bridge connecting him and Lingxi. Within ten days, he actually received a letter from Lingxi specially written to him.

The content of the letter is actually very simple. The sun flower bookmark he gave to Eldest Sister, Ling Xi liked Eldest Sister very much and gave it to her directly, but she still felt that he should ask for his own consent, so she wrote this letter and gave it to her. I folded a small butterfly as an exchange.

Her letters are different from other people's letters. They are all in vernacular and written horizontally. Ah Cheng thinks that she graduated from university at the age of 20, probably because she went abroad earlier and was influenced by foreign ideas, but her handwriting is beautiful. Children's handwriting is generally relatively soft and graceful. She writes in block letters but her bones are delicate and her writing is strong. I think it is the result of years of practice, and her character can be tasted even if the strokes are not connected.

With the main story, Ah Cheng happily went back to the room to write a reply to Lingxi, but he wrote many versions back and forth, some were lively and steady, and some showed her fancy skills to teach her how to make bookmarks. But in the end, he denied all of them and threw them into the trash can. Ah Cheng had a headache. How should he reply to this letter, so that they can keep in touch without being obtrusive, but he has been dawdling until past eleven o'clock in the night. Still haven't finished writing this reply letter, Ah Cheng let out a long sigh and dropped the pen in his hand, let's do this for now, I'm going to bed and I'll think about replying to the letter tomorrow.

That night, Ah Cheng had a dream. In the dream, Lingxi was still in the cemetery, and Lingxi was still the same Lingxi that day, but he was no longer the sloppy look before, but wearing a neat suit. He walked to Lingxi Putting the pocket watch on Lingxi's neck in front of him, Ah Cheng seemed to see Lingxi lowering her head shyly.He embraced the girl in his arms and gently lifted her chin to kiss her. The distance between the two of them was getting closer and they were about to kiss, but he didn't want the girl in his arms to suddenly sound like a piece Like glass, a spider web cracked from the middle and shattered into pieces and fell to the ground into a pile of glass slag. Cheng was startled and woke up from his dream.

Ah Cheng opened his eyes and looked at the alarm clock next to the bed. It was already 09:30. Fortunately, today was the weekend and there was nothing to do. He rubbed his face and got up and opened the curtains to look at the obvious hole in the window and the broken glass on the floor , He pushed open the window and the elder brother downstairs seemed to be teaching Mingtai to play tennis. Mingtai who heard the sound was still holding the racket and waving at him with a smirk. Could this unlucky boy smash his glass two minutes later!

"Brother Ah Cheng, I'm sorry, I didn't do it on purpose. You finally woke up. The weather is so good today so don't sleep in. Come down and teach me how to play tennis. I'll fix the glass later." Mingtai has recently become obsessed with tennis, so he The early Minglou practiced with him, but the novice was not very good at controlling his strength, so he smashed Ah Cheng's glass without paying attention.

"Okay, wait for me, I'll come down right away." Ah Cheng picked up the tennis ball that was caught by the curtain and threw it back downstairs. He looked at Mingtai's heartless smile with a grim expression, just wait and see. Boy, watch how I teach you today.

Ah Cheng quickly cleaned up the glass shards in the room, changed into sportswear and went downstairs after washing, Minglou was still teaching Mingtai how to handle the ball, seeing Ah Cheng approaching with a smile, he threw the racket in his hand to him .

Before the start, Ah Cheng made a special agreement with Mingtai. You can’t lose your temper and stop practicing just because you lose. After all, it’s normal for beginners to lose. , and then in the next two hours, Ming Tai was beaten by Ah Cheng to shut himself up.

He has been losing games with his elder brother, but the elder brother is mainly teaching, so he plays very gently, and Brother Ah Cheng didn't know what happened today. Although he was also teaching him in his mouth, he played very hard one by one. , It seemed to hit him several times, Mingtai was hit by the ball and had to go to pick up the ball, and the unhappiness in his heart would overflow the entire yard.

But Mingtai thought he was a manly man, and since he promised not to give up casually, he really insisted on being abused. It wasn't until two hours later that Minglou couldn't stand it anymore, so he used the meal as an excuse to let Ahcheng end the tennis game teaching.

The evil fire in Ah Cheng's heart was sent out, and he threw the racket to the elder brother to cook easily, but it was pitiful. Ming Tai made up his mind not to play tennis in his life, so Ming Tai also stuffed the racket and ball into the elder brother's hand In the middle of the day, he went back to his room angrily to change his clothes. Minglou looked at the racket and ball in his hand with a speechless face, thinking that young people nowadays are really hard to guess, but their minds are really small!

Afterwards, Ah Cheng’s reply was still suppressed. He wrote and scrapped several versions and finally decided to use the first version. The reply was very calm, objective and rational, so that people would not have the slightest misunderstanding, Ah Cheng thought. Now that Lingxi has lived in the Ming mansion, there will be more opportunities for them to write letters to each other in the future. He should restrain himself and not be abrupt, or he might scare people away.

For the next three days, Ah Cheng had the same dream every night. He held Lingxi in his arms and wanted to kiss her in the same cemetery, but every time he saw that the kiss was about to happen, something happened. The first time he woke up by himself, the second time a man and woman came out of the cemetery claiming to be Lingxi's parents chasing him and beating him, and the third time Lingxi pushed him away, saying that he didn't like him at all. Ask him not to pester him any more and wake up Ah Cheng with fright.

After four consecutive days of not sleeping well, Ah Cheng went to teach the students with dark circles under his eyes. After class, the students were very concerned about why their teacher was so tired, and Ah Cheng dealt with it one by one. However, on the way home, he was beaten by his elder brother again. After asking again, Ah Cheng still didn't dare to tell the truth to his eldest brother. He couldn't say that he was not satisfied with his desire for four days of spring dreams.