there are bandits

Ah Cheng had already found out the whole story that night.On the evening of the 4th, the train bound for Nanjing that Nantian was on got the news that the heavy rain and landslide ahead could not pass through Suzhou.During the Ching Ming season, the heavy rain in the south is really heavy. It is hard to say when it will be possible to pass again and ensure safety.Nantian then decided to notify the nearest Suzhou side to send a car to pick them up. It happened that their economic meeting was held in Suzhou, and Suzuki arrived in Suzhou directly from Japan on the 7th.I don't know what kind of thoughts Nantian has in mind about this former subordinate, but it is certain that she will meet Suzuki in Suzhou for a while.Mingtai and the others could only temporarily change their original ambush plan and come to Suzhou.

The ancestral house in Suzhou is not a Western-style building, but a flat structure of inner and outer houses.The outer house has three entrances - the entrance hall, the tea hall, and the main hall, and the inner house has two two-story horse racing buildings, and the buildings are connected by double corridors.There are ladders under the corridor to shelter from wind and rain.

Standing at the window of Minglou's house, even though it is separated by a courtyard, you can still see Mingtai's house.At this moment, the lights in the two rooms were on, Minglou was listening to Ah Cheng's report, and the room at the other end of Mingtai was probably discussing how to act.

"Brother, Mingtai is so impulsive today, presumably he is eager to ask you for an explanation because he wants to do it face to face."

Minglou glanced at the time on his watch, and then looked at the lights in the room that were still on. It was already 11 o'clock, and this kid was still awake.He propped his forehead with his hands, and it rained a little later in the day, and now he heard such a report, it seems that tonight's sleep will be ruined by headache again.

"Nantian should have arrived in Suzhou by now. She didn't send anyone to look for me, which means she doesn't want too many people to know her itinerary, because once we meet, it will leak if it's not complete. Maybe she really just made up a temporary plan I want to see Suzuki. Of course, it is not ruled out that she has a premonition of danger, and people like her are different from ordinary people's alertness to danger."

"We are all uncertain about her itinerary, let alone the Liaison Station and Mingtai in Suzhou."

"So, in Suzuki's scheduled itinerary, the most likely place of action is..."

Ah Cheng quickly interfaced: "On the 7th, there will be a reception feast at Deyue Tower!"

The host was Suzuki Juichi, and the host was a person from the land of Suzhou, saying that he was doing the landlord's favor, and Minglou was just an accompanying guest.In the meeting of the executives at the economic gateways of the provinces, two of them were Minglou's classmates when he was studying abroad.Returning to the motherland, as they said at the time, means returning home, and we must build a good home, become rich, and become strong.Although the big "family" at that time was no longer a family, compared to the current situation, Minglou wanted to ask them, if they chose again, would they go home?But when they saw Minglou for the first time, they took one step and then two steps back, and the dry smile on their lips was uglier than a withered trumpet flower, Minglou gave up.

Those two people sitting in their current position, coming to such a meeting, may not be very clean, let alone bow their heads.However, compared to Minglou, who is the deputy director of the secret service committee, he always looks much cleaner.At least, they think so.Ming Lou doesn’t care, so just stay clean, I beg you to stay here, keep clean, stay clean until I can’t get out of this swamp, and I can still see you striding towards me, With blooming rhododendrons in spring.

"You must not do anything during the banquet. There are too many people in the banquet. Even if he succeeds, there is no guarantee that he will not accidentally injure him. The subsequent interrogation and review one by one will not be exhausting for everyone." He Minglou can protect many people. There are many, and the ones that can be picked clean cannot be discarded.

"Mingtai must be able to make two-handed preparations. If he is the one who is blocking the outside, if he can't do it, then the restaurant is likely to be..."

Yu Manli.

Minglou shook his head decisively.There is no large private room facing the street in Deyue Tower, and it is impossible for anyone to close a door and open a window.If you want to do something during the banquet, it will be a close-range assassination.As for Yu Manli, Minglou absolutely didn't want her to meet Suzuki face to face right now.He took a pen and quickly drew the topographical map outside Deyuelou on the paper. The three brothers knew every street in Suzhou by heart, and they had eaten in Deyuelou more than once.For the ambush, it must be more convenient to escape afterwards in the street.The crux of the problem is how much time is left for Mingtai on the street.Ming Lou and Ah Cheng have evolved on paper for most of the night, counting every possibility and everything they can do.

On the 6th, Ming Lou continued his meaningless meeting, Ah Cheng was on the go all day, but Ming Tai and Yu Manli disappeared.

On the 7th, Minglou got up early in the morning, and ran a few laps across the atrium into the small garden, stretching his body while breathing in the smell of his hometown in the morning.The garden of the Ming family is small and exquisite, and there is not much ink, but the connection between the front and the back is natural.In front of the court are camphor magnolia and pear tree wintersweet.There are not many flowers, enough to last for four seasons; the grass is not luxuriant, but enough to be evergreen.

The brothers of the Ming family all liked this small garden, and Mingtai climbed those trees a lot, and definitely did a lot of things like digging out eggs and beating sparrows.Ah Cheng was the one who gave Mingtai the tools behind his back, and Minglou himself was usually the one who was pushed to the front to replace the two little ones after getting into trouble.Of course, he will not replace the penalty in vain, first of all he must get benefits.And the benefits he wants are usually so weird that Mingtai and Ah Cheng are completely confused. Sometimes they only need a smile, and sometimes they have to copy several pages of books to pass.Mingtai has always said that what he is most afraid of is his elder brother.He was not entirely afraid that his elder brother would attack him, but more probably because he was afraid that he would grab his seven inches in such a vicious way.I'm also afraid that when my elder brother said to him seriously, "the grass grows to know the integrity, and the wood decays to know the strength of the wind", I can only know the surface layer but not the inside.Later, when Mingtai was in front of Minglou, he still acted like a fool who refused to learn, but behind his back he read all the books he knew that Minglou had read.But he didn't say it, he just refused to say it.He felt that he had missed that opportunity, and where was the right time when he couldn't find it again?

After running around ten laps, Minglou was ready to go back to the house, and just turned under the white pear tree and saw Yu Manli.The person stood there looking at him prettyly, but he was startled.

"Why do you get up so early?" Minglou looked at the sky, which was only dawn at six o'clock.

"I'm afraid I overslept...I didn't see you yesterday, and I'm afraid I won't see you today."

Minglou was half a head taller than her, so Yu Manli needed to raise her head slightly to speak.Such an angle, coupled with her crooked eyebrows and eyes when she smiled, gave her a charming charm.She spoke every word clearly, without swallowing a single word, without the shyness of a girl.With a whiff of sweetness in the April morning breeze, Minglou stood in front of her and listened, neither avoiding nor interrupting.For a very, very short moment, he was a little dazed. What he saw was Wang Manchun more than ten years ago, pointing to a pair of lotus flowers with parallel pedicles and saying that he was afraid of being separated.

"I'm going to be really busy today, with a lot of people to meet, and one or two not-so-pleasant meals."

"So Mingtai said to buy you your favorite breakfast. There is no chai slice wonton you want here. He said he went to buy green poplar wonton, as well as crab roe siu mai and jujube cake."

Minglou smiled: "Do you believe him too? These are not usually available at the early morning stalls. I am picky eaters. The Luyang Wonton shop is far away from here. The jujube cake is from Caizhizhai, and the crab roe siu mai is the only one." Deyuelou is good."

Yu Manli put her hands back, and said proudly: "He left very early, and the note he left on the door told me to keep my elder brother. I think, if he is so sincere, he can at least buy it back." Come on as well."

"It's rare for him to be so sincere, but I really don't have much time to wait for him. Are you going out today?" Ming Lou asked casually.

"Well, I'm going out." Manli nodded, reached out and gently tugged at Minglou's sleeve: "If he buys at least the same price, can you promise me one thing?"

"what?"

"Come back at night, let's all have dinner together, don't go to any unpleasant dinner."

"I'll try my best. I can't help myself."

"If Chief Ming agrees to what has been decided, it must be something that can be done. If you can't help yourself, then turn your body around and let me take care of it."

Yu Manli really let go of the sleeves she was holding to pull his shoulders, she spoke brightly and giggled to herself.Jian Minglou looked as if he was standing and being pulled by her, but he couldn't move his body no matter what, like a wooden stake rooted there.She pouted after a few pushes, twisted her waist, turned around and walked back.

"Manly"

As soon as the person behind spoke, the corners of Yu Manli's mouth curled down, she stopped and didn't move, but she didn't turn around.

"It's raining." Minglou took two steps forward, and covered Yu Manli's head with his hand.

The rain was a light drizzle, not dense.During the Ching Ming season, such misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River is common.Misty rain is a poet's romantic description, and it is more like the ubiquitous moisture shrouded in mist. It is its special greeting to wet your coat mischievously.

No matter how big a palm can be, no matter how sparse the rain is, he can't stop it.When Manli heard him say that it was raining, she instinctively looked up, and what she saw was the deep lines in her palm and the five fingers that were joined together tightly without a single leak.She wanted to see his love line and life line, but what she saw clearly were the calluses on his knuckles.His fingers are long, and his palm is quite wide.Manli stretched out her index finger to the center of his palm, and scratched it lightly.Minglou was stunned by the touch of the palm, muttered a few words, pointed down and held the troublesome finger.

Man Li looked at her grasped finger, tilted her head and asked him, "What did you mutter just now?"

"Golden lock and silver lock, rattle, rattle, lock, touch and count, it's what you do..." Minglou repeated: "It's a boring game I played when I was a child. Many children put many fingers under their palms, and whoever catches them will lose. .”

"Then what do you do now that you've caught me? This counts as a catch, right?"

Minglou was a momentary conditioned reflex, and after catching him, he was a little dazed.He let go of his hand with some nostalgia, and covered her forehead again: "What I want to say is that Chief Ming is not very powerful, and what I can cover is only this size."

Following the movement of his hands, Manli carefully stepped back a little on tiptoe, ensuring that she could see the lines on his palm when she raised her eyelashes, and reached out her hand to grab the corner of the clothes of the person next to her.

"Understood. I walk slowly, and I can see this shelter as long as I raise my eyes. Even if I still get wet, as long as he is here, I feel good."

"And...some things I promised, decided, and did...I can't help myself..."

"Oh," Manli paused, then let out a long breath suddenly, turned around and stood on tiptoe, put her hands in front of Minglou's forehead, and then retreated immediately, "I can't help myself, I can't help myself The earth can't stop the wind and rain in front of you", she frowned, and added: "I can't help but feel hungry now!"

From the center of the garden to the porch, in just a dozen or so steps, Manli moved on tiptoe almost the whole time, while Minglou took care of her hands and blocked it one by one.They walked very slowly, and they walked through the ten years without each other; they were thinking about the ten years that they might be able to accompany each other in the future, the future in the future, and the ten years after ten years.

Mingtai leaned against the porch pillar outside the house, just watching the two people walking towards each other step by step.He felt that these two people were acting out a picture book.At first, it was Manli who was alone under the pear tree, and then it was the little swift who walked in the rain.No matter what the original intention of the author of this song was, after these two days, he felt that he had a better understanding of life and death, his eldest brother, Man Li, and his own beliefs.Although he still can't explain the subtle emotion in his heart, at least he feels that the relationship at this moment is very good and beautiful.No matter what happens in the future, he will remember that the bright moon is with us now, and the colorful clouds return together.

"Good morning, brother." He greeted from a distance, and put on a hippie smile again.

Minglou withdrew his hand, and pointed to the empty hands on the Mingtai: "What did you buy?"

"I bought what I should have bought." Mingtai pointed his thumb behind him: "Green poplar wontons and jujube cakes, Brother Acheng is setting the table inside. The only difference is the crab roe roasted wheat in Yuelou, I will go there at night Buy it back, brother, remember to come back and eat."

Minglou's eyes kept looking into Mingtai's eyes, just like his expression every time he checked whether he was lying or not.In the past, he could always see through his younger brother with a single glance. Today, he has added another layer of veil.He hoped that this would be a layer of iron cloth covered with golden bells, which could protect the Mingtai today.

Minglou stretched out his hand to pat Mingtai's shoulder, and wiped off the rainwater stuck to his coat: "No need. I'm at Deyuelou at noon today. If you want to eat, I'll ask Ah Cheng to buy raw food, and we'll bring it back tonight. Just steam it yourself."

"Okay, then Yu Manli and I will wait for you to come back for dinner."

At 11:[-] noon, Minglou's car approached the entrance of Huqiu Bantang Yefangbang, getting closer and closer to this old shop that was built in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.The road is not too wide, there is no martial law, there are other pedestrians on the side, and the car drives slowly.Looking from the car, a small car had just stopped in front of Deyue Tower, and Suzuki Juichi was getting out of the car.

"The face is a bit long, the hair is a bit oily"

Ah Cheng held the steering wheel steadily, put the gear in first gear, and grinded forward slowly.Listening to Minglou's words, he glanced in the rearview mirror: "Why did you get into trouble with someone else's hair?"

"It's not that you said that I put too much wax on my hair all day long, and I really look like a traitor. Now when I meet a colleague, I feel a sense of intimacy spontaneously!"

Minglou emphasized the word "spontaneously", and Ah Cheng burst out laughing.

"Then remember to ask him which brand he uses during the dinner, and I'll buy it for you."

"Okay. If you can still eat later. Remember to buy crab roe siu mai."

What will happen in a while, both of them knew in their minds, and they didn't say a word about what was going to happen all the way.Next, it will be the first collaboration between the three brothers.They don't even know what the other is going to do.The gamble is based on the connection between brothers; the basis is the life and death that devils don't understand.