[The Pretender] Minglou Center Short Story Collection

Mingtai couldn't wake up.

After a blank dream, his consciousness was awakened, but his eyelids could not be opened. He wanted to move, but every part of his body seemed to be pressed by a huge boulder, and he couldn't move even a little bit.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but he could clearly hear the sounds from downstairs. Ah Xiang woke up and was preparing breakfast in the kitchen. The knives and pans were pinging, the water was rushing, the elder sister woke up, and her high heels were rattling. Knocking on the floor, Ah Cheng came up, making the sound of leather shoes stepping on the wooden stairs... In his room, is the sound insulation so bad?

There was a knock on the door, and Ah Cheng shouted outside: "Mingtai, get up."

Mingtai couldn't wake up.

He is conscious, but his head hurts badly, as if his head was smashed by a giant with a hammer last night, there are dull pains everywhere, and he is still dizzy.

"Mingtai." Probably because of the elder sister's order, Ah Cheng relentlessly knocked on the door outside.

Mingtai couldn't open his eyes, and was disturbed by Ah Cheng's voice. He was angry and anxious, and tried desperately. Then, as if a nerve had snapped, he finally opened his eyes in severe pain. Eyes opened.

He hugged the pillow, moved top-heavy, and opened the door, leaning against the door frame, Mingtai said weakly: "Brother Ah Cheng, please spare me."

"Hurry up and go down to eat." Ah Cheng said with a straight face, "Stop thinking about messing around."

mess around?Mingtai covered his mouth and yawned lazily: "Did I drink too much last night? My head hurts."

But Ah Cheng had already turned around and went downstairs, as if he had woken up Ming Tai and told him to go to dinner, even if he had completed all the tasks.No matter what Mingtai chooses next, it is not something he should care about.

It is also impossible for Mingtai to choose to go to sleep again. He is vaguely afraid that sleep will make him fall back into the state just now, unable to move or wake up.He was sitting by the bed, covering his ears with his hands, a nerve seemed to be beating wildly in his head, and he had a splitting headache.

Reluctantly standing up, Mingtai randomly searched for a set of clothes from the closet, after thinking about it, he felt that it was too perfunctory, so he changed it again, so it was too late.

Mingtai walked downstairs unsteadily, three people sat around the table and waited for him, Mingtai didn't feel embarrassed at all, he slumped on the chair, he looked at Mingjing and smiled: "Sister, good morning .”

"Wake up so late, how can it be morning?" Ming Jing smiled and shamed him.

"My head hurts." Mingtai said, "It hurts so badly that I can't even open my eyes. Brother Ah Cheng is still outside knocking on the door."

"Hey, are you sick?" Ming Jing became anxious when he heard that, and raised his hand to touch Mingtai's forehead: "Do you have a fever? I'll contact Dr. Su in a while."

"I don't think he has any illnesses, and he will be fine after a lesson."

Mingtai followed the voice and looked over, the person who spoke was someone he didn't know, maybe a guest at home?Thinking of losing his manners in front of the guests, Mingtai felt a little uncomfortable, and complained in his heart that Cheng didn't tell him earlier, but the guest's words were too harsh, and Mingtai felt uncomfortable, so he didn't care who he was, and stabbed him directly: "Who are you? How do you talk."

The man glared at him and said forcefully, "It should be how you speak?"

"Okay." Ming Jing smoothed the situation in the middle: "Minglou, don't quarrel with your brother early in the morning. You two brothers, what's wrong with you?"

"Who is his brother?" Mingtai called out, "Sister, I don't know him at all."

"you--"

"Why don't you know?" Ming Jing tugged at Ming Tai, and said in a good voice, "You don't even know your elder brother?"

"Big sister, haven't you and Brother Ah Cheng always been in the house? Where did the elder brother come from?" Mingtai felt very baffled, there were only three people in the family, and a fourth one suddenly appeared early in the morning, and everyone felt it was very abrupt.

"Mingtai, you're going too far." Minglou frowned, and the low pressure in his tone caused Ah Cheng to raise his head involuntarily, signaling Mingtai with his eyes that enough was enough.

"But I really don't know who you are." Mingtai insisted, and then suddenly realized that it made sense: "Oh, that is to say, you are the big brother I have never met, who came back from outside, right? ?”

"What came back from 'outside', we have lived together for so many years." Ming Jing always feels that something is not good by intuition, and her intuition is always accurate.She looked at Minglou, with a rare look of asking for help: "This is your elder brother Minglou."

Minglou just looked into Mingtai's eyes silently. If Mingtai was playing a prank on weekdays, no matter how deeply he deliberately hid it, Minglou could always catch the slightest cunning in his eyes, but now , there is nothing in Mingtai's eyes, calm and clear, imprinted with the image of Minglou, even that image seems to be full of doubts.

"You know him?" Ming Lou pointed to Ah Cheng.

"I know." Mingtai replied straightforwardly: "Brother Ah Cheng."

"You know her too?" Ming Lou gestured to Ming Jing again.

"I know, it's Eldest Sister." Mingtai turned his head and smiled flatteringly at Mingjing.

"Do you know Ah Xiang?" Minglou asked again.

"Of course I know." Ming Tai said.

"You don't know me." Minglou's heart sank gradually, and then he saw Mingtai shaking his head.

"I don't know. I saw you for the first time today."

It feels bad.

Mingtai sat on the chair, watching the doctor ask him back and forth, all kinds of cumbersome questions, big enough for him to remember his own life, and small enough for him to remember what he ate yesterday and whom he met, Just because he didn't know a person, his mind and health were questioned, but in Mingtai's heart, he didn't forget anything.

It's not that he doesn't remember that person, it's just that he doesn't know him at all.This person never existed in his memory, and he had never even heard of the name "Minglou".

When he got impatient, he was finally let go. The doctor politely expressed his regret and powerlessness to Ming Jing. Ming Tai was too lazy to listen to their noise, and turned around and slipped out of the room. He saw Ah Cheng standing in the corner of the corridor, So he jumped and ran over.

"I'm finally relieved." Mingtai said with a smile, "There are so many questions, I'm almost tired of being asked."

"Do you remember?" Ah Cheng looked at him.

"What do you remember? I haven't forgotten anything." Mingtai said stubbornly.

"But you can't remember about big brother." Ah Cheng reminded him.

Mingtai frowned: "But I don't even know where he came from."

"He is the younger brother of the eldest sister, and at the same time he raised you with the eldest sister." Ah Cheng said: "You even have the same name. He didn't come out of nowhere."

"But I remember being brought up by you and eldest sister." Mingtai muttered in his heart: "Do I want to call you elder brother too?"

But he didn't dare to say that Ah Cheng's expression was too frightening. Mingtai had never seen such an expression on Ah Cheng's face. In his memory, although Ah Cheng was not as loving as his elder sister, he was not an easy-going man. A person who loses his temper.

Mingtai felt aggrieved, but didn't dare to say anything, so he could only ask, "Brother Ah Cheng, don't you have to go to work today?"

Ah Cheng seemed to want to say something more, but he still shook his head: "Since you have already got results on your side, I'll leave now."

"So it's because you care about me." Mingtai smiled.

Ah Cheng gave him a cool look: "I'm not the only one who cares about you."