[The Pretender] Minglou Center Short Story Collection

Mingtai has not yet reached the age of insomnia.

At his age, he should be the most carefree. He is full of energy during the day, and can fall asleep when he touches the pillow at night.

In the past, he was more energetic. Before dawn, he jumped up and ran around the room, kicked the stairs, yelled loudly, and tried to wake everyone up, or else Ah Cheng yawned. He persuaded him to go back to the room, or Ming Jing looked tired and disgusted, wishing he could kick him back to the bed.

When he got older, he started to stay in bed instead, unable to wake up in the morning, and let Ah Cheng slap the door loudly, and was later forbidden by Mingjing to lock the door. Every morning, Ah Cheng would directly break into the house, throwing off the quilt first, and then the person, Ah Cheng His strength is stronger than him, and he can directly lift people to the floor when he is not careful.

Mingtai tried to insert the image of Minglou into these trivial memories, either replacing Mingjing or Ah Cheng, and he started laughing endlessly, because he couldn't think of the sound of Minglou chasing him He reprimanded him sharply, but he couldn't think of a scene where Minglou threw him up with great strength.

No, Mingtai thought happily, Minglou looked like someone who would settle accounts after autumn, maybe he wouldn't wake himself up at all, but deliberately didn't call out, and then made himself late.In the end, Mingtai had to face the scene of being scolded by the teacher and scolded by the elder sister when he returned home.That person stood aside and watched, maybe he would just say "see if you have a long memory next time".

Mingtai doesn't know whether his thinking is right or not, but one of the advantages of thinking wildly is that he doesn't have to consider reality or not.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, the sound was very soft, Mingtai turned his head, thinking he heard it wrong, but the knock sounded again, he jumped out of bed, randomly stuffed Minglou's photo under the pillow, and went to open the door.

Ah Cheng stood outside the door, and Mingtai couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed.

"Can't sleep?" Ah Cheng asked, holding a cup of hot milk in his hand.

Mingtai nodded, knowing his current situation, not to mention a cup of hot milk, even soaking it in milk is useless.

"Are you worried?" Ah Cheng said.

"Brother Ah Cheng, do you know what I'm worried about?" Mingtai joked.

"You are worried that you will forget it when you wake up tomorrow." Ah Cheng said.

Mingtai's eyes lit up: "Brother Ah Cheng is really perceptive."

"It's not me..." Ah Cheng subconsciously denied, and then stopped in time.

Mingtai took the milk and complained: "Today is Minglou, tomorrow maybe it will be you and eldest sister, maybe the day after tomorrow I will forget it all, can I not worry?"

"What did you call him?" Cheng's emphasis was different.

"Minglou." Mingtai was confident and confident, without any shame.

"Neither big nor small. Called 'big brother'."

"I don't remember, don't call me." Mingtai turned his head: "Besides, he treats me badly."

"Not good for you?" Ah Cheng looked like he wanted to hit him.

"Anyway, Brother Ah Cheng and Eldest Sister are not nice to me. I asked him to talk with me, but he ignored me." Mingtai said: "There is someone in the family that I don't remember, and they are exercising the power of the parents. I am afraid .”

"No conscience." Ah Cheng was so anxious that he could almost poke Mingtai's nose with his finger: "If you see others treating you well, you are treating you well. If you can't see others treating you well, then it doesn't exist?"

"Then let him show it to me." Mingtai rolled his eyes and said.

Ah Cheng immediately calmed down, knowing that he had almost fallen into Mingtai's trap, he stretched out his hand and patted Mingtai lightly, and repeated: "Go to sleep, it's okay, even if you forget about it tomorrow, we will still support you."

"Really?" Mingtai concealed his emotion, and said with a smile: "Who are you? How long are you going to raise me? When can I cook in the New Year?"

Ah Cheng turned around and left, leaving behind Ming Tai who was clutching the milk cup, and the other party chuckled a series of times.

Minglou leaned against the window, looking at the scenery outside intently. The night was dark, and he couldn't actually see anything from this window. When the door was pushed open, Minglou didn't look back, but he had already felt something. Ask: "How is he?"

"You can eat and drink, you can care about everything, and you can joke around." Ah Cheng answered succinctly: "Worrying about him for nothing."

"Very good." Minglou smiled.

Ah Cheng didn't understand how he could laugh, so he remained silent.

Minglou turned around and saw that he hadn't left, and he was still silent, so he understood: "Mingtai is fine, are you unhappy?"

"Mingtai is too outrageous." Ah Cheng couldn't bear it anymore, he never liked to gossip in front of his family members, it was his best to be able to say this, and also because he knew Minglou would understand, so there was no need to say more.

Ming Lou looked back at the night, as if he was talking to himself: "That depends on what angle you stand at... You like to defend me from my point of view, and of course you think Mingtai thinks he is outrageous. What about the angle? Maybe I'm just indifferent..."

"Big brother is different from Mingtai. Mingtai, Mingtai..." Ah Cheng couldn't continue. In fact, the anger in his heart had been reduced by half at the beginning. Just facing Minglou, the annoyance in his heart was extinguished What's more, the instigator is Mingtai, the youngest brother of their family, who was pampered by three people since he was a child, scolding him is almost equivalent to scolding himself.

"It's not a bad thing." Minglou explained, "At least he didn't do it on purpose, at least he still remembers that there is a big sister and you in the family."

A Cheng has nothing to say.

Ming Lou said, "Go and rest too, we still have a lot of things to do tomorrow."

"Then Mingtai...?"

"Didn't you make a decision a long time ago?"

Ah Cheng was dumbfounded, thought about Ming Lou's words, and lowered his head.

Minglou was calm, and everything did not deviate from the established route. Ah Cheng was in awe, and knew that there was no need to say anything.

Mingtai fell asleep very late, this morning Ah Cheng didn't knock on the door to call him, Mingtai woke up naturally after sleeping, it was really late, the sky was bright outside, and the sun looked unscrupulous through the white curtains.

Mingtai jumped up, took out the photo from under the pillow, looked at it over and over, and poked Minglou's face on the photo with his finger: "I remember, your name is Minglou." Fuck off, contentedly hiding the photo under the mattress.

Mingtai cleaned up, changed his clothes and went downstairs. He thought there was no one at home, but Ah Cheng was sitting at the table, reading a stack of newspapers seriously.

Ah Xiang smiled and asked Ming Tai if he had breakfast.

"Breakfast or lunch?" Mingtai asked.

"Master said breakfast is breakfast, and lunch is lunch." Ah Xiang replied flexibly.

Ah Cheng put down the newspaper and looked at the two of them, then said, "Don't bother, this is lunch."

"Brother Ah Cheng," Mingtai immediately approached, "Why are you at home today?"

"Oh, it seems you still remember me." Ah Cheng said.

"Of course I remember. Eldest sister is out?"

"Sister is very busy. Do you think everyone has nothing to do like you?"

Mingtai was not convinced: "I am also very busy, I... busy with my studies, busy..."

Ah Cheng showed an expression of "don't do this", Mingtai's voice gradually died down, and Ah Cheng continued: "Speaking of your studies, my elder brother and elder sister discussed it yesterday, and according to the original plan, I still want to send you abroad study."

"Wait." Mingtai was dumbfounded.

Ah Cheng looked at him: "You even forgot about this?"

Mingtai recalled, and there was indeed such a thing.

This proposal was put forward by Der Spiegel.

Mingjing wants Mingtai to go abroad to broaden his horizons and see the world so that he can decide his future.

Although Mingtai didn't know why Mingjing proposed this idea, he did agree, and he agreed very reluctantly.The reason for agreeing is nothing more than thinking that the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so he doesn't have to be controlled by his family when he goes abroad.

"But can you still send me abroad now?" Mingtai questioned.

"What can't you do? You can do everything, and you don't have amnesia." Ah Cheng said unmoved: "The bit of memory you lost won't affect your studies."

"But..." Mingtai is now in a state of confusion, and simply pretends: "I won't go."

"Why did you change your mind again?"

"I forgot about Minglou."

"Called 'Big Brother'. Forget...it won't affect your health."

"No, my memory is missing, I will always think about it, and then I have trouble sleeping and eating-I want to stay at home."

"The schools over there have been contacted. Do you know how much the family spent to manage it?"

"No."

"Mingtai," Ah Cheng said with a straight face, "don't always think about messing around."

"Ming Lou also decided like this?" Ming Tai asked back.

"Called 'Big Brother'."

"not called!"

There was a disagreement, the two words were full of anger, they stared at each other, and finally Mingtai was defeated: "When?"

"Three days later. Spend more time with eldest sister at home." Ah Cheng tidied up the newspapers, rolled them into a roll and held them in his hands, then stood up: "I'm going out."

"I answered you, you should answer me too." Mingtai said.

Ah Cheng didn't turn his head back: "Brother, of course I don't want to hinder your future, I just hope that you can earn some energy yourself, and don't be confused outside like you are in China."

Too upset, Mingtai really wanted to mess with his hair.

Ah Cheng walked like a gust of wind.

Mingtai couldn't catch up with him, and if he did, he didn't know what to say.Everything was proceeding step by step, except that he suddenly forgot about one person, but the key person behaved so calmly that Mingtai didn't know what to say.

After lunch, Mingtai decided to make trouble for himself.

If Ah Cheng hadn't mentioned it, Mingtai would never have thought of setting aside a large section of memory and simply recalling what happened at a fixed time. He stayed in his room, recalling that since he promised his eldest sister to go abroad, he had given himself a vacation without authorization. Fortunately, no one restrained him, mostly because he just stayed at home and read a book and didn't go anywhere.

Going forward, Mingtai remembered that when he promised Mingjing to go abroad, he was actually unhappy, which was not like him.

The half-read novel three days ago was placed beside the bed, which proved that Mingtai's memory was correct.He sat by the window, opened the book again, and the bookmark slipped out, but Mingtai was sure that he should remember which page he saw, but his mind was in a mess, and he couldn't read a single word.He tossed the book aside, feeling slumped.

He still wanted to see Minglou.