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Mingtai called Yu Manli to his house today in the name of his eldest sister.On the phone, he talked about how important the solar terms of the vernal equinox are, how the vernal equinox worships the day, and the autumn equinox worships the moon, which are the great ceremonies of the country.Yu Manli thought to herself, isn't this just a sacrificial offering? It's so big.He said a word to him, your family worships the heavens and the sun, worships the ancestors, you go to find your fiancée, what is it to find me?The partner is not responsible for this!Later, it was Ding Jing who answered the phone, and simply said, come to eat at home, the eldest sister misses you.

When Yu Manli came, she was still indifferent to Mingtai.

Ming Jing was originally begged by Ming Tai to help with a few words, but in the end, he started talking about embroidery.Manli knew that the Ming family's hometown was in Suzhou, so at first she thought her eldest sister had learned Suzhou embroidery.I didn't understand until we talked in depth, the elder sister would read it.She understands the difference in stitches and their respective characteristics of the four famous embroideries, and she has time to turn these into daily conversations and business transactions.Ming's business is so extensive that she doesn't have time to sit down and actually pick a thread, thread a pinhole, and draw a pattern.

The elder sister likes to see the girls sitting there quietly embroidering with an embroidery frame.That was her inner child, who she wanted to be.

She likes to watch Yu Manli.

And Yu Manli doesn't like herself as she is now.

When she came to the Ming family before, she yearned for and liked the atmosphere of the Ming family. She tried her best to seize even if it was just a little bit closer to each other. You have the kind of dependence that other members of the Ming family support you, which sometimes surpasses family affection.Like the loyalty written in the comic book of the brother next door that I moved on the bench when I was a child, like the love between the world and the rivers and lakes mentioned by my brother later, and like the life and death partners mentioned by Wang Tianfeng in the military academy.There is always someone behind you to support you, and there is always someone who will let you rest assured that your back will be handed over.

Once, that person was Mingtai.So she was happy to come to the Ming family, face the eldest sister, and face other people.

Now, she didn't know if it was Mingtai or not.At least today, she didn't feel safe with him sitting on the windowsill behind her.She lowered her head and chatted with Ming Jing, threading needles with her hands, feeling panicked.She was ashamed to accept the warmth that Mingjing gave her with such a self.

Until Minglou came home.

Until Minglou was preaching to Mingtai at the dinner table, Ah Cheng helped Minglou by holding Mingtai's chopsticks with his chopsticks.

Until, a sudden spring rain left people behind.

After dinner, Minglou took a newspaper and sat on the single sofa in the small flower hall to read it.Ming Jing said why it was so rare today, and went into the room to read some shady documents without finishing eating.Mingtai and Ah Cheng derived the chopstick fight on the dinner table into a competition who can peel pears quickly and continuously.

Man Li and Ming Jing were still in the dusk posture, and they were sitting on the couch studying the embroidery patterns in their hands.

"Manli, you embroider faster and better than in the afternoon." Ming Jing held up the embroidery frame in his hand and watched it carefully under the light.

Manli felt that her back, which had been tensed all afternoon, finally relaxed, and the warm yellow light above her head shining on the white brocade in her hand no longer dangled.The feeling of slowly calming down and gradually becoming stable made her eye sockets swell for a moment.

She said: "I was unfamiliar at first, but now I eat the meal cooked by the eldest sister, my heart is warmed up, and my hands are steady."

Minglou raised his eyes from behind the newspaper, twirled the embroidery frame in the elder sister's hand, and then moved to the two people who were peeling pears.Wrinkled his nose, and then coughed, the small blade that was spinning in Mingtai's hand trembled, and the pear skin broke.

"This..." Mingtai looked at Minglou with a bitter face: "Brother, you don't cough sooner or later, cough at this time, did you do it on purpose to let Ah Cheng win."

"With a cough, the knife broke the skin. If I want to give you a gun, don't you go off and collapse yourself?"

"Then I will collapse if I want to collapse..." Mingtai's words went back halfway, he felt that the elder brother's eyes had turned into knives, and the edge of the knife in the hand of Ah Cheng, who was holding the knife by his side and finished peeling the pears, had been turned directly To him: "Hehe... Isn't it because you are the one who coughs? The most vicious person in the whole family is the elder brother, is the elder sister right?"

Ming Jing looked at Manli in a blink of an eye, she was bending over to serve the scented tea on the coffee table, with a slight smile on her lips.

"Don't talk nonsense." Ming Jing immediately denied Ming Tai: "Why isn't Ah Cheng afraid? Your elder brother bought you a watch, a belt, and a shirt. Don't think that your sister doesn't even know."

"It's because you are not good at learning." Yu Manli answered softly.

"Yes, just these four words." Minglou put down the newspaper in his hand, pointed to the pear that Mingtai had aggrieved and held up high, and followed up, "Look at the pear that Ah Cheng peeled, and then look at the pear you peeled. It looks like a dog chewing on it. The peeled skin is of different thicknesses, go into the kitchen and practice your knife skills!"

For no reason, Manli recalled that this person said that he used a Japanese gun to disembowel him. Presumably his knife skills should be very good.At that time, the wound was so deep, would there be a scar?

The teacup was tilted slightly, and the tea moistened her lips along the rim.As she thought about it, her gaze naturally followed her mind to that person.Minglou seemed to have sensed something, and turned his head to look.I don't know if it was the hot air from the tea or the hot air from her mouth, it curled up and spread in the air, causing his Adam's apple to roll down subconsciously.

This tea is really delicious.Mary thought.

Listening to Yu Manli's words, Mingtai thought that this was the first sentence she said after the quarrel without too much gunpowder, so let's just listen to it.He found himself a step down, held up the pears and said: "Not all of them are the same in your mouth, and the ones with more meat and less meat will not all end up as meat dregs."

He held a fruit knife and was about to cut it vertically, but Manli stopped it with a scream.

"Pears can't be eaten directly from the core." She knelt down on the carpet, snatched the pear and the knife from Mingtai's hands, placed the plate that Axiang handed over, and cut off the pear cores one by one . "I haven't heard that splitting a pear means separating it. Does it mean to separate? You can slice a pear if you can't eat it, but you must not split the pear core."

After cutting, she held the two ends of the pear pit with her thumb and middle finger, raised her little orchid finger that was hooked by the silk thread, and handed a plump pear pit to Minglou with downcast eyes: "Pear pit Now, the backbone is there, so it can't be separated, right, Chief Ming."

"The backbone of this family is the elder sister. The elder sister has the final say, not me."

"But shouldn't it be the eldest brother who gnaws the hard bones in the family?"

She raised her head, smiling sweetly, with lively eyebrows and eyes.For a moment, the silence of the room seemed to be waiting for Minglou's affirmative answer, and it seemed that once the word "yes" was answered, she would be caught in an invisible net in her sly black eyes.

He didn't respond, but also stretched out two fingers to pick up the pear pit to express his compromise.

In order to win Ah Cheng, Mingtai chose a small pear, so the pear core is naturally not big.There is a trembling pear handle in the middle of the pear head, and the fingertips of the two people are touching.One manicure is slender and full, and the other is clean and round.At the end of the pear, the man's strength overwhelmed the woman's dexterity, she did not retreat first, he patiently grasped the strength.

In just this second, the filament of the pendant chandelier trembled and became brighter.

When the rain stopped, Manli wanted to say goodbye.Cheng Jinyun hung up the phone, Mingtai held up the receiver and said wait, Minglou came out of the room again, already putting on his coat.A reason for eating too much and wanting to walk around to eliminate food, took on the task of escorting the beautiful woman grandiosely.

Minglou drove by himself, and when he reached the Waibaidu Bridge, Yu Manli, who was speechless all the way, finally said, "Didn't you say you want to digest your food, you park the car here, let's walk over. It's not far after crossing the bridge."

The humidity in the air after the rain is obviously heavier, and it is by the Suzhou River again.The river water is connected to the Huangpu River and is not clear.Shanghai people's awkward and selfless love for the Huangpu River is similar to that of the people of the whole country for the Yellow River, especially Minglou, who was born and raised in this place, was once different from it and now finally returns to it.

He sniffed and said something, it smells like green grass.Manli originally wanted to say that it was a bit smelly, but after hearing this, she obediently shut her mouth and walked beside him.

Minglou blocked himself on the outside of the driveway, letting Manli inside to protect her.Reluctantly, the little girl, contrary to her silence when she was in the car, happily walked up to him in two or three steps, as if she had never walked on the bridge before, and bounced back to him.He even wondered if this was Yu Manli, or Mingtai's ADHD kid pretending to be Yu Manli.

With the sound of a car horn, Ming Lou knew Yu Manli's identity and her agility, but he still gave her a hand.A heavy and forceful one, bearing subconscious worries and instinctive fears.As a result, Minglou leaned against the railing of the bridge, and Yu Manli fell into his arms without any struggle, and pressed against his chest.

Manli looked at the Suzhou River under the bridge through Minglou's shoulder. With a slight movement of her toes, a small stone fell into the river.There are no ripples, not even the sound of falling water can be heard in this noisy environment.She moved the corner of her lower lip, thinking to herself, the water is so deep.

She didn't move, and Minglou didn't move either. Fortunately, she was still wearing a thin wool coat, and it didn't hurt to hit her back against the railing.His eyes naturally slipped to her earlobe, without any earrings.Don't you like the earrings from last time?

Manli felt that his hand covering her waist was about to be released, and she suddenly said, "Mr. Ming, can you...please do me a favor?"

"En?" Ming Lou was taken aback, but his hand still rested on her waist and did not leave: "What?"

The corners of Manli's lips curled up even wider.In the case of an emergency, there is one ten-thousandth of a second, and the instructions of the brain will first receive the language, and there is no time to transmit it to the body.Wang Tianfeng said.

"Can you help me remember that I like to eat hot and sour simmered noodles, and there should be a lot of vinegar in the noodles."

"You... out of your mind?"

"No." Manlyon raised her chin and rested it on Chief Ming's shoulder, feeling much more comfortable: "I just hope that one day someone will tell me, this is what you like, that feeling, no Tried, but must be good."

"What's hot and sour simmered rice noodles?" Minglou continued to ask without pausing for a moment.

"It's a kind of Hunan rice noodles. If I find the ingredients, I'll make it for my brother."

"I don't like mature vinegar, nor do I like balsamic vinegar and white vinegar. In terms of jealousy, I like rice vinegar. It is light in color and tasteless."

Minglou spoke in a serious and earnest manner.It seems that the topic of discussion between the two is about the varieties of Chinese vinegar.

"Eating jealousy is so particular." Yu Manli turned her small head to the left on Minglou's broad shoulders with her chin as a fulcrum, and muttered to him, "I also like sugar and oil cakes. I eat three in the morning. Full of energy in the morning."

Minglou also turned his neck, and the corner of his mouth was full of surprise that represented 'you can eat so much': "Then I can only order a piece of rice cake, and a bowl of small wontons with chai slices to match."

"Yes, Chief Ming." Manli raised her face playfully, but raised her hand to salute Minglou's temple.

Ming Lou glanced at her fingertips with the corner of his eyes, and vaguely felt the trembling when the two of them pressed against the tip of the pear just now: "You are a senior officer for a while, and a big brother for a while, what do you call me?"

"What do you want to hear my name?"

She was in his arms, and the two of them were so close.He only needs to lean forward a little to kiss her lips, although he hasn't tasted it yet, but the breath from their mouths has long been raging and entangled.

What do you call me?Minglou's mind was spinning, but there was no hesitation on his face. He smiled and wrinkled the corners of his eyes, leaned forward, and pressed it against Manli's ear, and said two words in a very soft but steady voice: " Ming-lou"

If the pebble fell into the Suzhou River just now and there were no ripples, then these two words fell into Manli's heart definitely like waves.

"And you, what should I call you?"

Facing Minglou's question, Yu Manli didn't know how to speak.

who I am?Jinse is the name she wants to say, but this name is attached to her most embarrassing past.She didn't dare to say, she still couldn't give up this trust.Yu Manli?So the elder brother's surname, Yu Manli, is a female spy of the military command, a black widow who came down from the execution ground.

Who are you?Minglou knew about her past and present, but he wanted to hear it from her.Whether it's Jinse or Yu Manli represents how much weight he holds in her heart, and how much he... has control over her?

"...Manly..."

When Yu Manli finally spoke, Minglou nodded without blinking.The hand wrapped around her waist pressed down, retracted to the side of her waist, and hugged her more deeply in her arms.

On the Waibaidu Bridge, the lights of the cars are bright, and the horns are loud.There were no stars in the sky after the rain, Minglou looked up at the sky and frowned, he couldn't even tell whether tomorrow would be gray or clear.

When the false is true, the true is also false, and when there is nothing to do, there is nothing.Minglou fell silent in his heart.