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Minglou was sent to the Army Hospital, where he was diagnosed with heatstroke, and his tinnitus was caused by excessive fatigue. The doctor's order even included a sentence of suspected malnutrition.Suzuki Chrysanthemum was dumbfounded when he saw it, and it was alright with heatstroke, how could so many people with the title of the dignified Ming family's young master and government economic adviser be malnourished? ?

When he handed over the diagnosis to Ah Cheng, Ah Cheng felt a little guilty.After Ming Lou received a bottle of IV in the hospital, Ah Cheng took him home.

When he woke up in the middle of the night, Mingtai was lying on his stomach in front of the bed staring at him with big eyes, which really shocked Minglou.

"Little bastard, I want to scare your brother to death."

Minglou stretched out his hand to touch Mingtai's head, and sat up to pull the desk lamp, but Mingtai held down his hand.

"Brother, don't turn on the light, I just want to accompany you for a while. When I was sick and had a fever, my elder sister was always with me. Every time I opened my eyes in a daze, I saw my elder sister sitting on the edge of the bed and guarding me. But Do you know..." Ming Taizheng looked at Minglou with bright eyes, and seemed to be excited, "Once, I opened my eyes and saw you. You were sitting on the sofa Dozing off, I was so happy. That day I pretended to sleep all night, afraid of being discovered by you, and secretly squinted and looked at you all night, afraid that I would open it again and you would go away."

"That's why your fever lasted all night, and I was told by the eldest sister that I didn't take good care of you."

Mingtai grinned, and climbed from the footstool in front of the bed to Minglou's big bed: "Brother, please squeeze."

Minglou moved to the side: "I've already come up, so I still ask. I'm a sick person now, and I don't have the strength to kick you down."

Mingtai didn't lean over, he sat cross-legged on the bed, and pulled the thin quilt to cover Minglou's chest.He imitated his eldest sister and chattered: "You can't be greedy for coolness in summer. What we scholars pay attention to is to be calm and cool naturally. If you really feel that it's too hot, you can recite the Heart Sutra silently, 260 characters, upside down..."

"I don't see how familiar you are with 260 characters."

"If you don't know how to memorize it, it would be better if you can fall asleep by memorizing half of it. There is no hindrance, no fear, far away from upside-down dreams, and Nirvana."

Minglou watched as Mingtai put away his usual playful and disrespectful colors. Although his mouth still kept on chattering, every word he uttered became more and more congested in this sweltering summer night, making his chest ache and his throat ache. tight.

"Mingtai..."

As soon as Minglou opened his mouth, Mingtai interrupted him again: "Brother...no, sir."

"It's on the bed at home now, did anyone crawl on the officer's bed and talk about the officer's subordinates?"

Yu Manli knew the identity of Minglou from the task of "removing Minglou" assigned at the beginning. At that time, Mingtai was accompanying Mingjing in Zhangjiakou.When he came back, he saw Minglou and Yu Manli getting along, and after knowing the situation of that mission, he also knew the true identity of his big brother, Wang Puppet.However, the two brothers never discussed this matter in detail, and continued to pretend to each other tacitly.

Mingtai parted the corners of his lips, and sweetly called out to this serious big brother after snatching the candy that Minglou gave Brother Ah Cheng when he was a child: Big Brother.

The corners of Minglou's eyes softened, and he blinked several times.In fact, he is already familiar with the darkness, and the Mingtai is not far away.It was okay at first, but when the big brother called, it made people feel like a thousand miles away.There are many ways to respond in Minglou's mind, should he slap him on the head or stab him, should he not answer or call him brother?

In the end, when the grace was suppressed from the throat, many layers of caution were added.

Mingtai was dumbfounded, then burst out laughing, leaned forward on Minglou's stomach and looked up at him: "Brother, you're nervous!"

Minglou was really nervous, even his toes started to cramp.Being thrown so lightly and lightly by Mingtai, his legs jumped up instinctively like a knee-jerk reaction, and he grinned in pain.He raised his hand and went to hit Mingtai: "Stinky boy, can you be more serious?"

Mingtai didn't hide this time, last time Minglou pressed him on a stool and beat him because he wanted to escape and had nowhere to escape, but today he could hide but didn't want to hide.He let Minglou slap his butt firmly, rolling from his stomach to his heels with laughter.Then he rolled both sides of the spread quilt inward, and wrapped Minglou's feet tightly like candle wraps so that he couldn't move.Then he hugged the feet in his arms with the quilt, and he said: "Brother, I still remember the summer when I was 6 years old. My dear, I’m afraid that you only love him and don’t want me anymore. Lai cries and makes a fuss outside and refuses to go home. You insist on carrying me. The water is not clean, the water in the gutter is overflowing, and there are all kinds of rubbish debris You rolled up your trouser legs and carried me in the water, and I kicked you on your back. You were so unwilling to cooperate. When you got home, the eldest sister cried when she saw the cut on your foot."

Minglou thought about it, and it was true.He was strictly controlled since he was a child, unlike other peers who like to play with water or something.He understood that besides dipping his feet in the swimming pool and bathtub, when had the young master ever touched such sewage.He chuckled: "Why, is the road outside our house still flooded now? If you ask me to carry you on my back now, I won't be able to carry you on my back. So, when I get to work, tell Ah Cheng to find someone to repair the road. To wear this kind of leather, you have to do this kind of self-serving business."

"Brother, is everything I've done since I was a child very stupid and annoying to you? In fact, I understand it, and it's not dishonest. It's just that you don't explain it to me. The relationship between you and Brother A Cheng The tacit understanding of not telling until the end makes me anxious sometimes. If you don’t tell me, I will just guess and do it, and if I do it, it will add to the chaos.”

"Who says you're stupid? You complete every mission very well, and the lunatics didn't recruit you just to make things difficult for me." Minglou leaned over, grabbed his hand and clapped it in his palm: "The world The most rare brother. You have done what you don’t want to do, and the most important thing now is to live well. Big brother said, as long as you live, I can forgive you for anything. What else do you want to hear that I didn’t explain clearly?”

"What is Yu Manli doing?" Mingtai asked out of nowhere, out of the blue.

"Ah? You two are partners in life and death. You come to ask me what she is doing?" Minglou asked him back, with doubts in his eyes.

Under Minglou's questioning eyes, Mingtai was stunned for a long time.Then, the courage that Chu Chu mustered up when he entered the door finally retreated like the flood in his memory.

He couldn't ask, if only he could put his hand down his throat and pick out what he wanted to ask.Ask him why Man Li was with Wang Manchun on the 76th?Ask him, is it because the military commander ordered Man Li to shoot?Ask him, how did he tell Dr. Su, tell the eldest sister about this?Ask him again, how should he face her, and how can he forget her?

"She's not... Eldest sister said that I will call her sister-in-law sooner or later. Elder brother..." Mingtai tried his best to show his usual noisy tone: "Be nice to her, just treat me as good. She will be good when she goes on missions in the future Holding half of my life!"

"You boy! Wang Tianfeng is here. You've been taking care of my eldest sister recently, you know?"

"Understood. Brother, if I don't have a task recently, I want to move to the flour mill to live for a while and study the things in the mill, so as to avoid others' suspicion."

"Okay, make more money, brother is waiting for you to retire."

Minglou knew that something must have happened to Mingtai.Landing as brothers, why should we be blood relatives.Mingtai has been clever and clever since he was a child, he is not as stupid as he said, and he has never bothered him.It goes without saying that the elder sister dotes on Mingtai, Ah Cheng also thinks that Mingtai likes it when he sees a good one.When it comes to him, although it's not as tacit as when Ah Cheng is always by his side, in fact, from the bottom of his heart, he loves Mingtai more.He understands the significance of Yu Manli to Mingtai, and therefore, he has never told Mingtai directly about the matter of being with Manli and letting Manli stand between him and Suzuki.

It's not that he refuses to explain clearly, but that there are always some things that he can't say and doesn't know how to say.

Mary.He muttered these two words, what have you done, what are you doing now?

It was like a dream come true.When Minglou woke up the next day, he saw Yu Manli.To be precise, he was awakened by the vinegary aroma of hot and sour simmered rice noodles and sugar and oil cakes on the bedside table.

"Why are you here?" He took her outstretched hand and brought it to his lips for a kiss.

"Come and see a fat man who is malnourished." Manli scratched the stubble on his chin with her fingers, and blinked her eyes with narrow starry eyes: "I'll be the chef and guard again. What about the food?" It's done, now please get up and wash up, sir, I want to shave you!"

"What?" Minglou's eyes widened suddenly, turned over and pulled the quilt to cover his head: "No, no, I can promise you anything, this is too dangerous, no."

"Then do you still eat simmered rice noodles, or do you want to eat sugar oil cakes? I'll pour them out."

"Hey", Minglou grabbed her hand with a bitter face.Lost in the back and forth seesaw of eyes, the strong man nodded like a severed wrist: "Eat!"

Manli happily went into the bathroom to prepare shaving foam and look for a razor.Minglou shrunk his nose at the hot and sour simmered rice noodles, dipped his chopsticks in it and tasted it, satisfied.

Manli stood on tiptoe, took the razor and slapped the place above the Adam's apple and below the nose of Chief Ming who was covered with shaving cream.The razors and razor blades are specially ordered by Minglou from abroad, the chief is very particular about this aspect.The thin blade is embedded in the knife holder, and the handle is held by the slender fingers. There is a window in the bathroom, and the sunlight only needs to squeeze in a little to reflect on the blade.

Originally, it was a pleasure for Minglou to shave every morning in such morning light, but today he could only close his eyes tightly and dare not look at it.She raised her head in case Manli couldn't reach it, and lowered her head in case the razor in her hand would scratch her Adam's apple.His whole body was tense, which made Manli feel funny.

"It's not that you didn't put your life in my hands, regret it?"

Manli turned her wrist, and the cold blade slid down against Minglou's skin. The shaving foam stuck to the blade like white cream, and the short stubble fell down smoothly from her hand.Minglou closed his eyes, and the breath in his heart followed the perception on his face and turned around in his body, stopping and smoothing, smooth and suffocating.Like the moment before the peak of love, the surrounding air is like being wrapped in balloons, everything is ready, waiting for the final knife, either tender and tender, or the dust settles.

She was right, it's not that she didn't give her life to her.When they first met many years ago, he gave his life to her who was a stranger.He had bet his life on the bottle of Mongolian medicine powder that made him almost faint from pain.

He believed her for no reason.It was as if he was born to trust her, and she was born to win his trust.

Minglou opened his eyes, and the woman's face was right under his eyelashes, making him unfamiliar with her seriousness and solemnity.Xu Shi never prepared for him to suddenly open his eyes again, and before she had time to withdraw the tears in her eyes, her hand just hung in mid-air abruptly.The two looked at each other, and the anger in Minglou's heart suddenly fell, falling, so that he had nowhere to cling to, and he couldn't bear to hear the sound of shattering and turning into smoke.

Yes, they don't need a reason to believe in each other, and it's just a moment when they can understand each other.

He put his arms around her waist and hugged her forward, completely ignoring the knife in her hand.She softened her body and leaned up obediently, her face pressed against his chest, she turned on the faucet on the sink, and put the razor under the water column to rinse.The foam on the knife gathers at the drain, swirls, and spirals downward.Everything is going according to the logic it should have, orderly, without episodes.

Listening to his chaotic heartbeat, she put down the knife in her hand, turned off the water, put her hands around his neck, sniffed it on her face, and fainted with a soft smile.

"Look, I did it all. Chief Ming is very energetic today, it doesn't look like malnutrition. You deliberately cheated the gift."

"And... any gift?" He also smiled, pretending to be a happy man who received it at first glance.

"The food is already outside, and the face has been served. I also brought you a pipe as a gift. It's from England and made of briar."

"I don't smoke a pipe."

"Leave it there and smoke it later. When you get old, you won't be so nervous and smoke calmly. I'll fill you with shredded tobacco, I like the curvature of the pipe," her fingers brushed over his lips, and he followed After taking a sip, she said, "Let the taste of the shredded tobacco slowly disappear in your mouth, taste it slowly, and then exhale slowly. I heard that it takes 40 minutes to smoke a pipe. If you have time...you can wait for me."

"Okay, later, when I get old..."

She kissed him on the lips, and said briskly: "Wash your face quickly, the powder and sugar oil cakes are going to be cold. I'll go get you a pipe."

"it is good……"

Alright, it's the only word that Ming Lou can get out of his throat at the moment.The others seemed to be sealed by the blade just now.As soon as Yu Manli went out, Minglou turned around and punched the cold tiles.

The pipe was later placed in a mahogany makeup box inlaid with emerald jade and painted with auspicious patterns of dragons and phoenixes that Minglou took out.There is also an emerald jade bracelet and an emerald ring lying in the makeup box.

Looking at the items in the makeup box, Man Li suddenly said, "So it is like this, I have collected five items."

"Well, this is the sixth one."

Minglou picked up the jade bracelet and put it on her wrist, and then put the ring on the cigarette holder and laid it down in the makeup box.

In the future, later.

My pipe, your ring.

Manli twirled the jade bracelet on her wrist, and murmured in a low voice: "It's hard work, after going through so many levels, I finally came to this sentence. Why did you get so wide that you jumped around your wrists?"

Ming Lou leaned over and grabbed her lips from bottom to top.

Both of them opened their eyes wide, as if they wanted to see the kiss forever, see the age and the white head.

"Death and life are broad"

He spoke firmly and forcefully.