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There are three women in one scene, and there are four women in the kitchen. Why did Ming Lou feel panicked that he might not have dinner today when he returned home?

In the kitchen, Ah Xiang and Aunt Gui were fighting.Mingjing and Manli wore an apron and lowered their heads to cut and chop on the cutting board, and the two whispered from time to time.Ming Jing pointed at the noodles cut by Manli's hands and joked that the noodles she cut were uneven in thickness, how could they be 12 centimeters?

When Manli was told, both hands left the cutting board immediately, and the knife in one hand hadn't been put down yet, Ming Jing was so frightened that his vision blurred, she leaned back a little to avoid the kitchen knife and said with a smile: "Oh, you child, don't you Surprised!"

"No, sister, should I cut it or not?"

"Cut, why not cut it, my family doesn't pay attention to their appearance, even a litter of kittens can be swallowed by those three big men."

Minglou stood at the door of the kitchen, his view from that angle was blocked by the piles of things on the cooking table, and he couldn't see clearly what they were chopping.It's just that as soon as these words fell into his ears, he immediately felt that his throat was blocked, and his stomach was churning, which made him uncomfortable.

"Hey, I seemed to hear the sound of a car just now, did I hear wrong. Ah Xiang, go and see if the young master is back." Ming Jing continued talking without noticing anything.

"Come back, stand there!"

Minglou, who wanted to put oil on his feet, was betrayed by Manli's sound, so he could only stand there and say awkwardly: "Elder sister, you go ahead. Call me when dinner is ready."

Ming Jing turned around and looked at Minglou standing at the door, not knowing how long he had been standing there.What's the matter recently, Mingtai is also, this walks like a cat, lightly and unbelievably.Whether the soles of their leather shoes are too soft or the floor of the house is too firm, every one of them seems to be a changed person after going out for a while.

"Hey, don't go, it's just right, I'm waiting for you to come back, go and get your hairpin. Manli's hair is too loose, and she can't work smoothly, so she has to coil it up, otherwise she will be a hair of flour after finishing it." the white-haired girl."

"Hairpin? What kind of hairpin?" Minglou looked at his elder sister inexplicably.Isn't the hairpin a woman's thing? Ask me a big man? "Is it in your room? Why don't you ask Ah Xiang to get it?"

"What's in my room, what's in your room!"

Does he still have hairpins in his house?Even Manli was surprised, what kind of person is this, with earrings and hairpins.Ah Xiang and Aunt Gui who were nearby were also confused.How come there are women's things in the young master's room?

Ming Jing also saw the doubt on Manli's face, afraid that she really thought Minglou had some eccentricity, so he immediately glared at the confused person at the door: "I put it there for you, remember that box? "

This time Minglou finally understood.Ben still remembered that Ah Cheng said that the elder sister had exposed the trick and went home and had to kneel in the ancestral hall, but he didn't think that it would be like sending it out again.He was still a little uncertain, and he was about to open his mouth to ask again.Here Ming Jing almost hates iron for being weak: "Do you have it or not, Young Master Ming?!"

"Yes, I have, I have" Minglou hurriedly said, nodding his head as if smashing garlic.Turning around and slightly arching his back, the whole person rushed forward to the room.

Man Li watched the interaction between the siblings as if they were playing charades, and then looked at Minglou's 180-degree sharp turn, the figure that disappeared before she could say a word to him, and slowly laughed silently.That smile is like a lamp in darkness, like a cloud in drought.

Ming Jing looked back and saw Man Li's stupid look clearly: "What are you laughing at?"

"he…"

Just this one word, there is no further words, and there is no need to say more.

Later Ding Jing always remembered this picture of Yu Manli.The girl in the apron, with a kitchen knife in one hand and flour in the other, was clearly a fierce and funny scene, but the way she looked at the door and the word "him" on her lips almost made Ming Jing almost cry.Yu Manli at that moment made her feel that she might not need to wait until the year of the monkey to hold a wedding at Ma Yueming's house. At that moment, Yu Manli and Minglou, who had gone away, seemed to be completely isolated from the space at that time and place in the eyes of Ming Jing. And two people who exist independently.

The Minglou in Manli's eyes is her twilight, and the Manli behind Minglou is his spring breeze and herbal fragrance.

When Minglou returned to the kitchen with the silver-gilt leaf-shaped hairpin, Manli still had a lump of flour in her left hand, but the knife in her right hand was gone, and she was pressing the coiled hair on her head anxiously. Waiting for the hairpin holder.

"Where's Eldest Sister?" Ming Lou looked at the kitchen where only Man Li was left and asked strangely.

Man Li didn't want to answer this question anymore, the eldest sister obviously left space for the two of them on purpose.She didn't want to twitch, but her hands were really a little sour at this time.

"You can help me put the hairpin in first, okay? Eldest sister combed my hair for me and then left. I'll wait for your hairpin until my hands are about to fall apart."

"Oh, good." Minglou held up the hairpin and looked at the mess of hair in front of him but didn't know where to start.He looked left and right, and gestured back and forth with a hairpin, but he couldn't insert his hand: "Where... do you insert it?"

"Here." Manli raised her index finger pressing her hair and moved it to point out the direction: "Look at the point, don't lick it on the scalp."

As soon as I said this later, Chief Ming, who was about to strike, trembled again, lowered his head and squinted his eyes, thinking about this black hair again like studying some ancient writing under a magnifying glass.

"Minglou"

"kindness?"

"Do you still remember what you said back then? One hairpin and one ear, you can be with you for a lifetime. You gave me a pair of earrings, and I will confiscate the hairpin too, otherwise I will be lonely, right?"

The hairpin in Minglou's hand finally found a point where it could be inserted without hurting her scalp. He let out a long breath of relief, and carefully completed this extremely difficult job.It made his heart tremble more than dismantling a bomb.

"En" he replied.

Manli felt that he was finished, she blinked her eyes and looked at him mischievously, and raised her voice with doubts and uncertainties: "Huh?"

Minglou thought carefully about what she said just now, pursed his lips, raised his brows slightly, and nodded with control over his face, "En. Do you want any other answers?"

"It's gone, it's fine. I'll take it."

Manli shook her head violently, causing some strands of her hair to slip out again.Minglou looked anxious, but didn't want to admit that he didn't have a good hairpin, so he quietly reached out and pinned the two broken worry wires behind her ears.While diverting her attention, she pointed to the cut strips on the cutting board and asked, "What is this? Simmered powder?"

"No, I'll make it for you next time. This is a snack, called Xiaohuapian, or cat's ears."

Minglou took two steps in the kitchen, confirming that there was nothing he could do in the kitchen.He simply supported her with both hands, and sat on the cooking table to accompany her: "No wonder the eldest sister said just now that big cats and small cats are cats. Delicious? Sweet and salty?"

"Sweet, a little salty, fried in oil, crispy." Manli's mind turned, and she suddenly realized that she looked up at the person who was as tall as her at the moment: "You don't eat sweet?"

"Don't eat too sweet."

"Oh, what should I do? I put too much sugar water just now. How about adding more salt later?"

Minglou couldn't help but bend down, and carefully examined Manli, who was earnestly looking at the worried man in front of her: "Are you serious? Is that okay? It seems that I should not expect too much from your simmered rice noodles."

Manli paused for a while, then she couldn't help but raised her head and laughed: "Of course it's not serious. Elder sister reminded you that you don't like sweet things. You're not a child anymore. Children love sweet things. Tomorrow Tai likes sweet things, but let's ignore him today."

Minglou also smiled, and stretched out his hand to scrape off the white flour on her nose.

"That boy should make trouble. He, the young master, has the trump card of our family, big sister."

"He likes to eat sweets, let Miss Cheng do it. Besides, it was the eldest sister who asked me not to put too much sugar. Today the eldest sister stands by me."

"Yo, that's amazing!... Hey, don't blow your hair out."

Manli lowered her head and rolled up the strips of skin on her hands, and let Minglou hold back her hair with helplessness.

"It's fine if you don't see it. Didn't you just want to slip away, why don't you leave now?"

"Just now was just now, now is now."

"What's the matter now?"

Now?I really hope that in the involuntary time being swept away, I can stay for a while.

"Happy here, don't miss Sichuan."

During dinner, the seat was rearranged by Der Spiegel.The seat of Minglou on her right hand was moved to the side, and Manli took his seat.Ah Cheng was driven to the opposite side of Minglou, next to Mingtai.

Manli combed her hair again, and the silver hairpin was shining brightly on her head.Ah Cheng took a glance, and winked across Minglou with a bowl in his hand.

"Brother Ah Cheng, did you get sand in your eyes?" Mingtai was the most confused person, his eyes wandering between Minglou and Manli.

"Nothing, this location is good. You should start school."

A few words managed to choke Mingtai into silence.Ming Jing also remembered this incident, and said to Man Li: "There are still two weeks left, are you going back to Hong Kong University together?"

Manli looked at Mingtai and smiled: "No. My family said that Hong Kong is not peaceful now, and Shanghai is better in the concession. I plan to let me study Latin here first, and then go abroad to study when I find a chance."

Ah Cheng was muttering about his food, thinking that Yu Manli was really suitable for the spy job.Lying without changing face and heartbeat, this lie is quite reasonable, in short, there is a reason to continue to appear in Shanghai.On the contrary, the eldest brother said that the matter of Mingtai and Hong Kong University should be settled, and I don't know what the plan is.

"Latin, let Minglou give you tuition. He was a teacher when he was in Paris, and he can read this Latin much better than Mingtai."

Manli lowered her head and said nothing, but Minglou opened her mouth first: "This won't work."

Ming Jing put his chopsticks on the table with a slap: "Why can't it work? Oh, you are a busy person who has time to do things for the Japanese, but you don't have time for Chinese tutoring."

"No, I mean..." Ming Lou glanced at Man Li who was sitting beside her, she hung her head and fiddled with the cat ears on the plate without saying a word: "I mean, I can't concentrate on tutoring her! "

Ah Cheng almost squirted out after taking a bite of the meal, and kicked Ming Lou directly under the dining table.Even Der Spiegel could only grin when he said this.Yu Manli stuffed the cat ears on the chopsticks into Minglou's bowl without changing hands: "It's salty, eat it quickly."

"Eldest sister, can I stop reading it?" Mingtai looked at Mingjing bitterly, wanting to take advantage of Yu Manli's storm and settle things together.

"What did you say?" Ming Jing was not so easy to be fooled: "Ask your elder brother."

"Big Brother"

"Break your legs!"

It was night, Mingtai knocked on the door of Minglou, stood at the door and asked very solemnly: "Brother, you and Yu Manli..."

Ming Lou raised his head from the book on the table, and replied unhurriedly, "You don't miss Hong Kong University, do you?"

"Yes"

"then get out"

"But…"

"To read or not to read?"

Mingtai's foot moved, and he turned his head the moment he was about to turn the doorknob. This time, there was hesitation and unspeakable expectation, apprehension and uneasiness in his eyes.The eyes mixed with so many emotions made Minglou want to straighten his body, but he instinctively restrained himself from any stress reaction.He heard Mingtai ask:

"Brother, are you a traitor?"

Sooner or later he would have to ask.

After Mingtai asked this sentence, the emotion in his eyes calmed down, and he was no longer nervous or afraid.He thought, no matter what the elder brother answered, he could only accept it.Just like when his mother died in front of him when he was a child, and he was brought back by the Ming family, he also asked if you were bad people?What about yes and no?When he was young, he couldn't escape to live alone, and now he couldn't let go of his worries.Yes and no he is his family, the big brother who yells at breaking his legs but still fills his wallet with pocket money.And he even thought that his elder brother might not answer him anything.

Sure enough, Minglou retracted his gaze as he wished, looked at the pages of the book in his hand again, and said calmly: "Next weekend, Qingming, I happen to have a meeting at my hometown in Suzhou. I told my eldest sister, and this time I will replace You go to visit the grave. It should be another week when I come back. Before you start school on the 15th, I will deal with the matter of the University of Hong Kong."

Until Minglou silently counted 300 times in his heart, and the door was closed silently, he didn't even look at Mingtai again.The latest news he got is: Yoko Nantian will go to Nanjing to report on his work on April 4, and may return to Japan after directly retiring from the post of Super High School in Nanjing.The person who will replace her will probably be Suzuki Juichi who returned to China from Japan again.Suzuki will directly participate in the Suzhou Economic Talks with his new orders in Japan.

As for Suzuki Juichi's new mission, no one knows now, and his new mission for Mingtai is to kill Nantian.

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