[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

19# Love and Death

When Lu Sheng woke up, the first thing he saw was Mana sitting beside him.Mana wrung out a cold towel and put it on his forehead, seeing him look over, she showed a reassuring smile.

"Mr. Zhen said that there is no serious injury, and it will recover after a few days of care. Ms. Ji Chuan has been with you for a long time, and was just persuaded by your mother to go to rest." She gently helped Lu Sheng's forehead hair that was wet with sweat, "I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble this time."

"What's the matter?" Lu Sheng smiled at her, "I'm the one who caused you trouble. Those people came after me, but they got you involved and hurt you."

"I didn't suffer any injuries. But Lu Shengjun..."

"I'm fine. Didn't Zhen also say that, just raise it for a few days."

Mana didn't speak, just looked at Lu Sheng quietly.Until the boy reached out to caress her cheek, showing a helpless smile.

"Really, no problem."

In the end, Mana just sighed softly.

"Next time...don't do this." She smiled wryly, "I can't stand this...I really can't stand it, Lu Shengjun."

Lu Sheng patted her head comfortingly, and said, "Okay, there will be no next time."

Mana hesitated to speak, but finally just smiled and tucked up the quilt for Lu Sheng.

"What did you want to say just now?" Lu Sheng asked.

"It's nothing..." Mana put down the sleeves that she had just rolled up for work, "Mr. Zhen told me to call him when you woke up. I'll call him over first. By the way, Lu Shengjun hasn't eaten yet, right?" , I’ll go to the kitchen to see if there’s anything to eat, and I’ll bring it over later.”

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome..."

Before Lu Sheng finished speaking, the sliding door was opened with a swipe, and the young man with light blond short hair rushed to Lu Sheng's side almost as if plunging in, and Mana had to avoid it with such a swift momentum.Lu Sheng looked at his sworn brother's expression of wanting to apologize by harakiri, and suddenly his whole body was in a bad mood.

"Lu Sheng, are you awake! The wound still hurts—cough cough cough cough—poof—!!!!"

Lu Sheng watched with a blank expression as Zhen Zai spat a mouthful of blood onto his quilt under emotional agitation, and slowly reached out to wipe off the blood spots that jumped onto his face, his eyes were dead.He couldn't bear to see Mana's expression at this moment.Only the slightly embarrassed voice of the girl was heard.

"Mr. Chen, please calm down first..."

"No, no, I'm fine—cough——!!!"

"Mr. Poison... 〒▽〒"

Lu Sheng took down the warm towel in the midst of the chaos, and wiped his face expressionlessly.

...Ah, a lot of blood.

...It's better to wait until Zhen spits out blood before wiping.

— half an hour later —

"Cough, cough...so, this is your girlfriend, Lu Sheng?"

After Chen finally calmed down, the first sentence he said made Mana's eyes slightly widen.The girl showed a helpless smile and shook her head slightly.

"Lu Shengjun and I don't have that kind of relationship..."

"It's not that kind of relationship." Lu Sheng smiled, "Because I haven't chased her yet."

“………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ..."

There was a moment of silence.After a while, Zhen almost spit out another mouthful of blood after understanding the meaning of Lu Sheng's words.

"Hahaha you haven't caught up yet?!"

Lu Sheng looked at Mana who didn't know how to react, and reached out to support his forehead.

"Don't see it yet?"

He said.

"I fell in love with you at first sight."

***

"Hey, little girl, do you want to sit down for a while?"

Nuliang Huapiao sat on the corridor and waved to the girl at the end of the corridor.Mana hesitated for a moment, but still walked over with the tray.

"You are... Lu Shengjun's grandfather, right?"

The old man looked over in surprise.

"Oh? How did you see it?"

The girl smiled and compared his head shape, and said, "Your head looks a bit like Lu Shengjun when he turned into a demon."

The bong in the old man's hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and he coughed violently with a puff of smoke in his throat.The crow standing next to him slipped and fell to the bottom of the corridor, making a loud bang.

"Cough, cough, cough...she is really a special little girl, cough cough..."

Mana stretched out her hand and patted the old man's back, until he was relieved, then bent down to pick up the bong on the ground, and handed it to the old man.

"It's better for the elderly to smoke less." At the end, I couldn't help but add such an exhortation.

"When I'm old, I only have this hobby." The old man smiled and smoked a cigarette, "You are the girl that kid Lu Sheng likes, right?"

"……Eh?"

"The way that kid looked at you, I could tell at a glance, it was exactly the same as the way I looked at Yingji back then." The old man's eyes showed a little nostalgia, "I heard that he was injured this time to save you. Don’t show such an expression, I’m not blaming you. It’s an honor to live and die for the girl you like, it’s a man’s romance. It’s Lu Sheng’s luck to serve a beautiful girl like you.”

"I don't think it's a good thing to like me like this." Mana smiled bitterly, "If I'm still alive, I can meet Mr. Lu Sheng and be liked by him, if I can give the future... That must be a very good thing. I might like him too."

"...but I'm dead."

The clear light of the cold moon falls on the courtyard, and the courtyard is like stagnant water and the sky is bright, and the shadows of weeping cherry blossoms are swaying, casting among them, like dazzling flowers in the water.The moonlight also shone on the person in the corridor, making the girl's face whiter and whiter.She looked up at the white moon among the clouds, and smiled quietly.

The old man quietly smoked his pipe and exhaled a puff of smoke. The white smoke curled up and drifted away in the night wind.

"Death...?"

He knocked on the cigarette rod, knocked off the ash, and met the gaze cast by Mana, the gaze of this big monster who lived for an unknown age was so wise and deep.

"That kid Lu Sheng doesn't care about that." The old man laughed, "Nurliang's men won't shrink back for such a reason."

Mana was startled.

"That brat, I will trouble you in the future."

Before she left, this was the last sentence Nuliang Huapiao left her.

***

Yatengu flew to Nuliang Hualao.Lowered his voice.

"General, that lady..."

The old man just knocked on his bong, and when he raised his head again, his eyes were already sharp, which belonged to the generation of the famous Nuliang group back then.

"She's a good girl."

He sighed.

"However, Lu Sheng is still too young. Young people just have too little experience~"

Nuliang Huapiao silently cast his gaze into the darkness that engulfed the girl's back.

"...It seems that I forgot, that little girl. But it's okay to forget, if you think about it, she won't be as cute as she is now."

The white smoke rose again, and Nuliang Huapiao smiled contentedly in Yatengu's anxious eyes.

"It's okay, children and grandchildren have their own blessings."

***

Zhen changed the bandage on Lu Sheng's waist.

"What the hell did you provoke this time?" He frowned and looked at the wound on Lu Sheng's waist, "Such a strong resentment... I don't know what monster's [fear] can produce this effect."

Lu Sheng watched the black air appearing and disappearing on the wound, and sighed helplessly.

"There was an accident, I didn't expect to become such a big guy."

Mana happened to push open the sliding door, and asked curiously when she heard the two people's questioning.

"What big guy?"

Lu Sheng said: "It's nothing, what you hold in your hand is..."

"I saw some rice and grilled eels, so I made eel tea." She put down the tray with a smile, and looked at Zhen with her blue eyes, "Mr. Zhen, would you like to have some together?"

"Oh! Then I'll..." Zhen swept Lu Sheng's eyes, and changed the subject quickly, "Then I'll go back first, my maid should have left something for me."

Lu Sheng looked at Zhen with a smile, and said, "Don't make He wait any longer, she's terrible when she gets angry."

Zhen (with dead eyes): "I'll go first."

Lu Sheng withdrew his gaze in satisfaction, watching Mana skillfully arrange the bowls and chopsticks, add the grilled eel to the rice, and sprinkle some seaweed and chopped green onion on the thinly sliced ​​eel, and then sprinkle some With a layer of white sesame seeds, he picked up a teapot on one side and poured the fragrant fish bone soup. For a while, the tempting fragrance and the rising heat permeated the room, causing Lu Sheng's fingers to move unconsciously.

"Okay." Mana clapped her hands lightly, "People with wounds can't eat soy sauce, and also avoid spicy food, so I didn't put these two seasonings. If you think it's bland, you can add some salt. The salt shaker is here."

Mana got up and opened the closet of his room, walked to the other side with a quilt in her arms, put down the quilt and helped Lu Sheng sit up, carefully preventing him from touching the wound, and placed the quilt she just took out on the back of his waist , supporting him to prevent the muscles from straining and hurting the wound.

"You're good at taking care of people."

"...How should I put it..." Mana smiled a little embarrassedly, "At first I wanted to be a good sister, but then I gradually became a habit of worrying."

"Although it's not your brother, you are really a good sister."

Mana handed the bowl and chopsticks to Lu Sheng with a helpless smile.

"Okay, okay, hurry up and eat your meal, brother Lu Sheng."

Lu Sheng took the bowl, but held onto Mana's hand.Under the girl's slightly surprised gaze, he slowly squeezed her hand tightly.

"I don't think of you as my sister."

He took her hand and kissed her fingertips lightly.