Pretenders are unattainable

While Manli was recovering from her injuries, the rare winter sunshine in Shanghai was warm.After Manli could stand and move independently, Mingtai accompanied her for a walk in the garden every morning, read newspapers and magazines for her when she was basking in the sun, and insisted on feeding her three times a day for the first week, until Manli insisted on giving him Mingtai showed off her new nails, showing that she could still do the meal by herself, so Mingtai gave up.But he still kept an eye on Manli's diet. He sent her to the room after lunch to see her fall asleep, and then went out to the flour mill to "inspect" the work in the afternoon, and then he must rush home before dinner, staring at After dinner, Manli scrubbed her, changed her dressing, read to her to amuse her, and stayed until Manli fell asleep before going back to her room.

Ming Jing looked at this younger brother who had become a personal care worker, and complained to Minglou and Mingcheng jealously: "Others marry their wives and forget their mothers. I think he has a partner and forgets his sister!" Mingcheng teased Eldest sister: "Then you still have to force us to go on a blind date!" Ding Jing scolded me, and it was nothing more than: "You are so old, and you don't have a girl by your side. I can't care about your elder brother." , you want to be angry with me now, don’t you! I’m puzzled, the three of you brothers are all handsome, how come you haven’t married me a single sister-in-law!” Accused Minglou: “ Don't be confused with me and that Wang Manchun anymore! Seriously, find me a good girl and come back!" Threatening Mingcheng: "You have to meet Teacher Jin next week, otherwise, or I will let your elder brother arrest you Tie it to the past!" Then he was worried about Mingtai: "Who is his fiancee! If he continues like this, Miss Cheng will be angry!"

Mingcheng often slips away quickly at this time, leaving Minglou alone to bear Mingjing's censure.Minglou Weiwei responded, and the majestic, murderous deputy director of the Secret Service Committee, chief of the military intelligence department, and head of the Shanghai station of the underground Communist Party was so trained by his elder sister that he couldn't even lift his head.

However, after learning about Manli's arrest and torture in detail, Mingjing couldn't stop feeling pity and love for this seemingly weak girl.Sitting on an armchair on the lawn of the garden under the winter sun, she looked at the paired figures of Mingtai walking with Manli in the distance. For some reason, she suddenly thought of standing outside the gate of the Ming mansion in the pouring rain more than ten years ago. Heartbreakingly, another girl called Minglou's name.She saw Manli's face shining under the sunlight, and Mingtai's eyes full of love. This is another silly child who devotes his life to loving others!But it seems that the men of the Ming family have a habit. She watched Mingtai support Manli's petite body, and use his hands to tidy her temples from time to time. Does this child really belong to Miss Cheng?Horror, even he himself didn't figure out where his feelings belonged, right?

Thinking of this, Ming Jing couldn't help but cast a disgusted glance at another man from the Ming family who "just eats this way" sitting beside him drinking tea, his own brother, sighed, thinking to let them go, Which of these three younger brothers is willing to listen to him!Minglou quickly caught the expression of the eldest sister, got up immediately, bid farewell to Mingjing, and fled quickly under the pretext of work.

The Ming family fell in Shanghai, and after Ming Lou returned to Shanghai from France to join the government, he finally enjoyed a rare and peaceful time.Manli felt that life here was as beautiful as a dream. At first, Mingtai worried that she would not be able to bear the boredom and loneliness during the recovery period. Among all kinds of people, I only read books with Mingtai every day, learn how to cook with Axiang, embroider handkerchiefs for Mingjing, and sit at the dining table every night to eat reunionly. It is already a wonderful day , such a life, even if she lived for ten years, twenty years, or a lifetime, she would never feel bored or lonely!

Mingjing waited for the three brothers to come back for dinner before dinner, quietly observing Manli who was sitting on the sofa in the living room and concentrating on reading, the more she watched, the more she liked this girl.So when Minglou entered her room after dinner and mentioned Mingtai's marriage to her, because the current situation was unstable, it was better to take it easy, and she agreed without saying a word.Seeing Minglou's surprised eyes, she couldn't help being anxious: "Do you think that if the eldest sister is not married, she can't understand? Look at Mingtai and Manli. Mingtai clearly loves her. I don't know if this kid is in love with her." What's so awkward! If he and Miss Cheng get married in a hurry at this time, it will be something that all three of them will regret for life. It's good to take it easy, let Mingtai see clearly who is the most suitable person for him, wait for him Think it over, no matter which girl he chooses, I will support it!"

Minglou groaned when he heard the words, and said to the eldest sister in a low voice: "Yu Manli once fell into prostitution..."

Ming Jing took a long breath, covered his mouth with both hands, and said with disbelief, "You said this girl once..."

Minglou nodded gravely: "She was bought into a brothel by her adoptive father when she was 14, and she lived on the street waiting to die when she was 16 years old. She was rescued by a businessman surnamed Yu, so she got the name 'Yu Manli'. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. A year later, her benefactor's elder brother was killed by bandits. Yu Manli avenged her brother, found these three nemesis, raped them, and killed them one by one on their wedding night. Received a reward, had nothing to love in life, surrendered to the government, was discovered and trained by the military command in the death penalty room, entered the military academy to study, and became Mingtai's life and death partner."

Ming Jing was so shocked that she couldn't say a word. She felt that she was 17 years old because her father was seized and murdered by Wang's family. It was already a tragedy for her to grit her teeth and bring her 15-year-old brother to support the Ming family's Nuo Da property. But after all, her cousin Mingtang and branches of the Ming family gave her a lot of support, but this girl was born in a wandering life, alone, betrayed by her relatives, half her life was humiliated, and she was on the verge of death several times.No wonder... no wonder... Mingtai loves her but doesn't know it, no wonder she has always been reserved and respectful in the Ming family, and obviously has obvious admiration for herself and this family, but every time she calls her humbly The four of them are "Chairman Ming", "Mr. Ming", "Mr. Ming" and "Group Leader".At first, Ming Jing thought that she was not familiar with the Ming family, so it was inevitable that she would be restrained, but in the past three weeks, their relationship has become closer, and she still abides by this rule, as if she can firmly protect her state of being able to withdraw at any time.

Seeing that the eldest sister was silent, Minglou couldn't help asking tentatively: "Eldest sister, you don't think you will dislike Manli because of this, right..."

"Nonsense!" Ming Jing was furious: "Since the fall of Shanghai, and then the fall of the capital Nanjing, do you know how many people died in Shanghai and Nanjing? You were still abroad at the time, and you didn't see the tragedy of the Battle of Songhu! Corpses are everywhere! , bleeding! Men died on the battlefield, women guarded the city, do you know how many women were brutally humiliated when the Japanese captured Shanghai and Nanjing? How many children died tragically in the arms of their mothers?" Ming Jing wiped his face Tears: "Are these humiliated women guilty?! Are all the girls who are ruined in troubled times dirty?! Because they have been insulted and raped, they cannot and do not deserve love and happiness Did you?! Minglou, if you hold such superficial thoughts, you are not worthy of being a man of the Ming family!!"

Ming Lou was infected by the elder sister's anger, and his eyes were red. He responded in a low voice: "I know, elder sister, I know all about these miserable situations! That's why I came back to Shanghai! When I come back here, as a Chinese, I should Things to do!"

Ming Jing took a step forward, hugged his younger brother tightly, and couldn't help weeping in his arms, crying for Manli's withered life experience, crying for his own strong support, crying for the birth and death of his three younger brothers, crying for the fragmented, bloody corpses. Dyed picturesque mountains and rivers.

Minglou let out a long sigh, forcibly held back the choking in his throat, hugged his elder sister in his arms, and the hot tears that shed fell on Mingjing's shoulder drop by drop.

Mingtai in the corridor was sitting curled up outside the eldest sister's door, with his back leaning against the door, with a fist firmly in his mouth, weeping uncontrollably.