【Lou Cheng】 How easy is another day

This was an answer that Minglou never expected.So much so that when he first heard it, he thought he had heard it wrong, but after thinking about it again, he blushed—annoyed.

Ever since Minglou was sensible, let alone that he didn't know what it was like to be hungry, everyone he knew in his world shouldn't know the word either.Not to mention anything else, every year at the end of the year, the rice noodles produced by the flour factory under his Ming family's name are measured in tons.And now, in his home, the child he has known since childhood, said to him, I am hungry.

Minglou was so angry that his brain ached.

His strange expression obviously frightened Ah Cheng.The latter shivered for a while, and came over to pull his sleeve after a long time: "Master, I was wrong, I'm not hungry. I'm really not hungry. It's my fault, I shouldn't steal something to eat. You punish me."

Ming Lou was shocked, grabbed Ah Cheng's hand, frowned and shouted at him: "Nonsense! Don't apologize! You have to apologize for what you did wrong! What does this have to do with you? Who said it was your fault? "

After shouting, he saw that Ah Cheng was trembling even more. Minglou calmed down, he let go of his hand, and after a long time, he patted Ah Cheng's head: "...Ah Cheng, the doctor said your stomach is too weak. You can only drink plain porridge, and when you are well fed, I promise, I will never let you be hungry again. Just bear with it, okay?"

Ah Cheng looked at Minglou, wondering if he really understood the meaning of the word "guarantee", but he definitely knew the taste of "forbearance". After all, this was his only loyal companion in a difficult childhood.

Ming Lou looked at him and nodded obediently, and heard him say to himself: "Got it... Eldest Young Master, that, I'm really not hungry."

Minglou considers himself to be strong-tempered, but seeing such a villain try every means to comfort him, for some reason, he just feels sore eyes.

A Cheng like this can't be seen much.Minglou turned his face away. At this moment, his hanging fingers just touched the pocket of his trousers, and touched a small hard object. When he took it out, he saw that it was two candies.

Minglou reckoned that the eldest sister stuffed it into her pocket while he was not paying attention, and Mingtai might have a few extra pills.He originally wanted to put it back, but changed his mind after seeing Ah Cheng's eyes.

He handed a pill to Ah Cheng, but Ah Cheng didn't figure out what it was after taking it for a long time.Minglou couldn't stand it anymore, so he took it back, peeled it off, and handed it to him: "It's sugar, it's okay. Eat it."

When Ah Cheng heard the word "sugar", he laughed, and there was no fear or anxiety on his small face, only complete joy.Minglou didn't know that one piece of candy could have such a big effect, so he couldn't help but peel off the remaining one and stuff it into his mouth.

After eating it, I found that the sugar is still sugar. The almond milk candy made by the French is not very sweet, but the milk taste is very rich.But what he didn't expect was that Ah Cheng had just stuffed the candy into his mouth, and then spit it out again, with a strange expression on his face, he couldn't tell if he was confused or not.

Minglou's first reaction was that the candy had gone bad, but the next moment Ah Cheng picked up the spit-out candy, and his movements were so quick that Minglou didn't even see it clearly.After eating again, this time I really showed my satisfaction.He ate this candy for a long time, and after eating it, Minglou worried about his bad teeth and advised him to swallow it quickly, but he still couldn't bear it, hid the candy on one side of his cheek, and stared at Minglou as if he was being arrested upright chipmunk.

The young man's expression caught Minglou's eyes, which made him a little funny at first, but after thinking about it later, he only felt sad.He poured a glass of water and handed it to Ah Cheng: "It's just a piece of candy. Come on, rinse your mouth, and when you recover from illness, you will have it every day. It won't be worth it if your teeth are broken."

Ah Cheng has always been such a sensible and well-behaved villain, he bit the candy into pieces, swallowed it slowly, and took a small sip of water to let the sweetness disappear in his mouth more slowly.

Seeing that Ah Cheng's mood had stabilized, Minglou temporarily left his room to find servants and asked them to make some white porridge for Ah Cheng.Although it's not easy to be hungry if you have a fever, and Ah Cheng's spleen and stomach are still weak, but he has been malnourished for too long, Minglou thought, he should try his best not to have an empty stomach.Later, I heard that the doctor specifically told me to abstain from water and rice for a day, so I gave up.

In the short time between Minglou's back and forth, Ah Cheng, who was already exhausted, fell asleep again.Minglou probed his forehead, tightened the quilt for him, and finally remembered the study room where the "criminal evidence" hadn't been packed in time, so he woke up and went to deal with the aftermath quickly.

At the dinner table that day, Ming Lou told Ming Jing that Cheng had a fever again, and explained the cause.After finishing speaking, the dining table was silent for a long time. Mingtai was unhappy when he heard that Ah Cheng was ill again, while the two older ones remembered the day Ah Cheng had just been rescued. Well, then quickly give him something to eat, but the way Ah Cheng ate the food made Ming Jing cry when he saw it, and Ming Lou was furious.At this time, Aunt Gui came to beg for mercy and forgiveness, and he rushed out angrily, yelling at her: "You want to humiliate a child, you want to torture and kill a person, I just want him to grow up, become a healthy person, a normal person, A highly educated person. I will not live up to your original intention of adopting this child."

With this roar, he made up his mind and blocked the way for Ah Cheng to return to Aunt Gui's side and Aunt Gui's way back to Ming's house.

After a long while, Ming Jing finally opened his mouth slowly: "As for this child, Ah Cheng, since you decided to stay, then we should raise him well. This is a real person, we can't just let him have food and clothes."

"I know. Miss."

"He suffered so much when he was a child. I don't know how long it will take to get over it...doing evil." Ming Jing remembered Ah Cheng who ate and vomited until he cried that day, and was still reluctant to part with food after crying, his eyes were red again.

Minglou went over and patted the elder sister on the back: "Eldest sister, I said, I want him to become a talent, and I will definitely do it."

Ming Jing went to see her younger brother, the only person in the room who was related to her by blood.He was just a young man, but at this moment, his expression was resolute and decisive, as if he had grown up overnight.

Without saying a word, she held his hand and offered his elder sister's support and love.

Mingjing and Minglou didn't eat well that meal.In the next few days, Minglou didn't sleep well, and when he turned off the lights, he thought over and over again, what to do with Ah Cheng.

Ah Cheng is not the Mingtai of the past.He was already ten years old, his body was frail and scarred, he could not read a single word, and the slightest disturbance was enough to make him tremble with fear.He is afraid of people, sounds, and everything unfamiliar.

But once Minglou made up his mind, he didn't care about anything.Nothing can trouble him.

He patiently waited for Ah Cheng's health to recover, and then took him out.Wherever Shanghai is crowded, lively, bright, he will take Ah Cheng there.Sometimes it was just the two of them, and sometimes a family of four—Ming Jing hugged Mingtai, he led Ah Cheng, and went to Xiafei Road to rub the road.Once, when I met an acquaintance in a department store, the other party came over the crowd to say hello. Seeing an unfamiliar face, he asked who it was. Before Ming Jing could speak, the young master of the Ming family politely and proudly pushed Ah Cheng, who was trembling all over, to the front of the people. , Said: "It's my family."

After speaking, he whispered to Ah Cheng, "Ah Cheng, call someone. This is Mr. Zeng."

Ah Cheng greeted tremblingly.

The Ming family has a big business, and the clans are so intertwined that outsiders can't tell them apart, so they call him "Master Ah Cheng" with a smile.Ah Cheng was dumbfounded, opened and closed his mouth a few times, Ming Lou responded for him as a matter of course: "Ah Cheng has been ill for a while, and his spirit is not good. Please forgive me, Mr. Zeng."

Within a few days, Ah Cheng really became what outsiders call "Master Ah Cheng".

After a while, the gossip newspapers in Shanghai came out from nowhere. It was rumored that the old master of the Ming family had raised a concubine before his death, and left behind a bastard. The young lady and the young master of the Ming family recognized it.

At that time, Minglou was 14 years old. On the way home, he saw the newspaper. Without further ado, he turned around and asked the driver to take him to his factory. He called a dozen of the strongest workers and smashed the lace tabloid office without hurting anyone. , After smashing it, he threw down the ticket and said: "I smashed you for nothing else. One is because you called my old man to raise people outside, and the other is because you called my brother a bastard."

According to those who were present at the time, Minglou was not angry at all when he spoke, and even smiled.

The newspaper published an apology the next day, but the story of the young master of the Ming family smashing the newspaper spread overnight, and some people praised "the tiger father has no dogs" - this reminded the ancestors of the Ming family who made their fortunes by selling horses in the Northland Some people shook their heads in private, "This Ming family really raised a bandit, and I'm afraid they will get sued for decapitation in the future"—this is the opponent who suffered under Ming Jing's hands.

Mingjing was in Suzhou at the time of the incident. When he came back and heard about it, he first took a whip and whipped Minglou firmly after asking about the ins and outs, then turned around and went to Nanjing in person. I don't want to be so slandered after my death. There are quite a few people in Shanghai who wear the human skin of a journalist, but actually do things that are not as good as pigs and dogs. My brother He was still young and was always weak, and he fell ill again after hearing such bastard words."

Seeing such a delicate beauty crying like rain, the central government, apart from comforting her, ordered an investigation and asked the newspaper to conduct a self-examination.

When Ming Jing came back from Nanjing, as soon as he entered the house, the living room was empty. When he rushed to Minglou’s room, he found that everyone was there: the oldest one was lying on the bed, his exposed arms and his entire back were red. He doesn't care about the welt marks, he just hums "Catch and Release Cao" along with the record player——

Seeing this thief sleeping and lying down is really chic, and sleeping peacefully is like a frog in a well.A thief is like a dragon without scales, and a thief is like a tiger without teeth.If I don't fight a tiger in a cage, how can I let the tiger go back to the mountain and arrest the man again?

He was sitting on the Mingtai beside the bed, his chubby calves tapped once and again to the beat of the drum, and he did not forget to smile and clap his hands to say hello.Only Ah Cheng was the most conscientious. After running, he brought water for a while and medicine for a while, and sweated out.

The three brothers were busy with their own business, but no one noticed that the elder sister was back.

In the end, Mingtai was the first to discover the bright mirror by the door, shouted "big sister", jumped off the bed cheering, and ran towards her sister.

Ming Jing looked at her younger brothers, smiled and picked up Ming Tai, and walked towards Ming Lou and Ah Cheng.