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Chapter 182 Miserable Childhood
"Slow down, don't fall."

Minglou knew that Lin Mu went to Mingjing to work as a free "library reader" to please Mingjing.This is a small prelude to Lin Mu's "commitment". He exchanged a glance with Ah Cheng and asked, "Are you all right?"

"It's going well, and he can't wait to use our channels for intelligence."

Minglou and Mingcheng walked into the study, "He's been here before." Minglou said flatly.

"Yes. Very quick hands and feet."

Minglou opened the briefcase, took out the documents, looked at the first document that said "Military Supplies Department's Purchase Plan Timetable", and said with a smile, "He's throwing stones to ask for directions."

"Well, purposeful and friendly talks." Mingcheng said, "Mingtai is a smart person, seemingly transparent, but actually complicated."

As soon as Minglou waved his hand, Mingcheng stopped talking and changed the subject: "You told me to start from the 'destruction room' in the confidential room to obtain some Japanese military correspondence. It is very difficult. I managed to get some pieces back , recovered several documents related to the area delineation of the artillery blockade in the second theater, and I put it in the third box of your file drawer."

Minglou stretched out his hand to open the drawer, and took out a document that had been pieced together. From the cleanliness of the document, it was not difficult to see that Mingcheng put the document back together, dried it with air, and put it on the desktop very refreshingly.

Mingcheng continued: "Missy rented three safes at the Hong Kong Bank the day before yesterday, two of them, and someone deposited valuables that afternoon. It is estimated that Missy is making wedding clothes for others." A very thin card was placed on Minglou's desk, on which were the numbers of the three safes.

"Liang Zhongchun's brother-in-law, Tong Hu, has been very aggressive outside recently. He has arrested many young students and anti-Japanese activists. None of them are genuine. Liang Zhongchun is showing off everywhere, supporting the scene for his wife and brother. Wang Manchun and Liang Zhongchun will have a relationship sooner or later. It was a vicious battle." Mingcheng continued to report.

"Okay, it would be great if dogs could bite dogs." Minglou said, "Ah Cheng, you've worked hard."

Mingcheng was taken aback.

Minglou came to his senses and pointed upstairs, but didn't know how to speak.However, he promised Ming Jing to be a lobbyist for Aunt Gui, even though he knew he shouldn't say it, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Ah Cheng, you have to know that there are many things, I'm talking about family matters, I'm not alone After all, it’s not something I can change.”

Mingcheng didn't answer.

"As long as you say to let Aunt Gui go, I will definitely respect your wish and let her go. However, I think she has indeed changed a lot. Perhaps the hardships of life have changed her character."

"The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change."

"Why don't you give each other a little more time? I won't force you to go along with the decision of anyone in the Ming family, including the eldest sister, who will not make the decision for you. Aunt Gui's fate depends on you."

"I don't want to see her." Mingcheng said simply.

"Okay." Minglou said, "I will let her leave this afternoon."

"Thank you, brother." After finishing speaking, Mingcheng turned around and went out the door.

Minglou flipped through the pasted recovery copy. Although some words were missing and some numbers were blurred, he could still see the whole picture: Japanese Army Type A Division, 2.4 people assembled: Our Eighteenth Group Army's 115th Division, 120th Division, The 129th Division is fighting to the death, and the decisive battle against the enemy is imminent.

Thick gunpowder smoke faintly protruded from the damaged documents, the sound of gunfire was rolling, and there was a sea of ​​blood.

Lin Mu was half lying on Ming Jing's bed. The bed was covered with bright silk and satin, which happened to be used as a soft backrest for Lin Mu. He was reciting fragments of the novel loudly in broken Latin. He knew that Ming Jing couldn't understand. Just to show off my language talent in front of my sister.This trick really worked, and Ming Jing was also happy to hear it, although he didn't know if he read it correctly, anyway, it was like that.

Lin Mu was thinking about the matter between himself and Feng Manna, and he didn't know how to tell Ming Jing that today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Ming Jing is so happy, should he risk telling it?Seeing Ming Jing's satisfied smile again, he hesitated again.

At this time, Mingcheng knocked on the door and walked in. In order to maintain his image as a "linguistic genius" in front of Mingjing, Lin Mu immediately shut up and stopped reading.

"Eldest sister, are you looking for me?" Ming Cheng stood with his hands down.

"Ah Cheng, sit down."

"I won't sit down." Mingcheng said in a low tone, "If you have something to do, just tell me."

"Ah Cheng." Ming Jing sighed slightly, and said, "I know that you are unhappy because of Aunt Gui's matter. The pain of childhood is not something that can be forgotten just by forgetting... Aunt Gui made a piece for you in the countryside. Cotton robes, she herself said that those made of thick needles and linen are not flattering. However, she also carried them from thousands of miles away, so you should keep them anyway and give them a thin noodle. In the afternoon, I will arrange for her to go, and you will give her a courtesy .”

Mingcheng didn't answer, but clenched his hands into fists.

Lin Mu closed the scroll, rolled to the edge of the bed, propped his head and said deliberately: "Brother Ah Cheng, why do you hate Aunt Gui so much? I think Aunt Gui is very pitiful."

"Children are not allowed to interrupt!" Ming Jing yelled at Lin Mu.

Lin Mu rolled back to the middle of the bed, pretending to read a book.

"Ah Cheng... I know I shouldn't force you."

Mingcheng stretched his hands, and picked up the padded robe from the small carved table beside Mingjing: "I will definitely come out this afternoon to give her a gift." He didn't say any more, and was about to step back when Mingjing stopped him.

"Ah Cheng, forgive her, she is also old, the doctor said, she was just a poor paranoid back then."

Mingcheng didn't speak, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he slowly exited Mingjing's room.Holding the cotton robe in his hand, he happened to meet Aunt Gui as he walked into the aisle.Aunt Gui avoided his gaze shyly, but Mingcheng watched Aunt Gui walk past him with a cold face.

Mingcheng returned to his room, a little dizzy and emotionally unstable.He threw the padded robe onto the chair and looked at the hard-won "confession" gift, the first New Year's gift from his adoptive mother, which he exchanged for the so-called "Family" gift, cry.

He has endured ten years of suffering and suffered ten years of torture. In his mind, Aunt Gui is like a witch, always showing her dark back.Aunt Gui's color is gloomy, and the image she brings to Mingcheng is also heavy.

Mingcheng was adopted by Aunt Gui when he was about two years old. When he first came, he loved him very much. Aunt Gui paid for everything he wore, ate, and used.Aunt Gui didn't even let him wear the good old clothes from Minglou. Aunt Gui said privately that even if her son was poorly dressed, he would wear new ones instead of old ones.

Mingcheng doesn't know which year the weather changed, and he doesn't remember when it started, but it was about five years old.Aunt Gui seemed to be crazy, staring at herself with her eyeballs in a daze at night.It didn't take long for Aunt Gui to have two faces.He hurt him in front of others, and stabbed him behind his back.

Every day before dawn, Xiao Mingcheng was driven up by Aunt Gui with a feather duster to carry coal and boil water, forcing him to chop heavy logs with an axe.He was often hungry, suffering from hunger and cold, and fainted from hunger, which was just a violent beating.If Mingjing and Minglou hadn't happened to pass by Aunt Gui's house once, and accidentally found a little slave tortured by Aunt Gui to the point of death and scarred, he would have been tortured to death by this cruel "adoptive mother".

Minglou seldom gets angry, at home and in front of Mingjing, he is always gentle and polite.This time, Minglou made the decision, for Mingcheng's sake.He asked someone to pack up Aunt Gui's things and put them all at the gate. When Aunt Gui came back, he told her to leave.Although Ming Jing was a little bit reluctant to part with Aunt Gui, after all, he had been working for more than ten years, and there was a relationship between master and servant, but seeing Mingcheng's injuries made his heart chill.

Only when Aunt Gui came back did she realize that the overall situation was settled. She cried for a long time at the gate of the mansion, begging the eldest lady to forgive herself, but no one came out to answer her.

She kept crying in front of the door, saying that she had worked for more than ten years, and the Ming family could not treat her like this.

Minglou asked the servants to go out and tell Aunt Gui that the Ming family would not pay her wages, and if she persisted, he would call the police and sue her for abusing her adopted son, and sue her for trial in jail!
Minglou asked someone to tell her that if you want to humiliate a child or kill a person, I want him to become a healthy person, a normal person, and a highly educated person.

I will not disappoint your original intention of adopting this child.

When Aunt Gui heard these words, she knew it well, and she was completely discouraged, and since then disappeared in the vast Shanghai Bund.It is said that she returned to her hometown in Northeast China, and no one saw her again.Three or four years later, Ming Jing received a letter from Aunt Gui, and nothing but regret was sad.Later, Aunt Gui went to see a doctor and issued a medical certificate for "psychic paranoia", saying that she had been taking medicine to see a doctor, and her life was very unsatisfactory and financially difficult.Ming Jing began to feel compassion, and began to send some money to help her.

From then on, Aunt Gui and the Ming family continued to maintain correspondence.

After Mingcheng went abroad, it is said that Aunt Gui once went back to Shanghai to see the mirror, but she didn't live at home, and still lived in the church's shelter.Later, Aunt Gui disappeared.

Mingcheng once thought that one day, this dark and vicious woman would beg him to take her in because of poverty, disease, and hunger, and let him vent the anger of the past ten years.

Now, here she is.Although it is not as down and out as I imagined, but I don't have the slightest sense of pride and pleasure.Such a poisonous woman who beat herself up got what she deserved, moreover, she had the cheek to come to her own eyes to make a living, she should be happy, why is it so unbearable.

He feels depressed and sad.

He would have preferred her to be well off in the country.

Mingcheng's heart was bitter and bitter, and tears fell like rain.He didn't know why he was crying, but he just wanted to cry.Suddenly, he heard slight footsteps at the door, and he recognized that it was Minglou's footsteps.In the end, I still couldn't bear the depression, couldn't control my sadness, and cried very sadly.

Minglou heard the slight cry and sighed slightly. He thought, Mingcheng was too kind, so kind that he wronged his heart, and he had to take care of a person who almost tortured and killed him.

In the troubled world, it is really rare to have such a kind and filial son.

The afternoon sun was beautiful and dazzling.

On the lawn of the Ming family mansion, the ground was covered with fireworks that had bloomed last night and then shattered to pieces. A piece of water-soaked red and ice water were closely related and fell on the wet lawn. The eyes were full of the festive afterglow of New Year’s red. .

Ming Jing and Aunt Gui came out together, and Lin Mu and Minglou followed behind them, sending each other off out of courtesy.Mingcheng was the last one to come out with a suitcase, and quickly walked to the door to call a rickshaw for Aunt Gui.

Aunt Gui was talking homely to Ming Jing, her eyes almost all fell on Ming Cheng,

Everyone watched Mingcheng's every move and saw him put Aunt Gui's suitcase on the rickshaw.Aunt Gui knew that she should go.Holding Ming Jing's hand, he said some words of gratitude.

"Miss, I'm leaving. I will come to see you after I find a new owner."

Der Spiegel nodded.

Aunt Gui has always been afraid of Minglou, so she just nodded slightly to thank Minglou.

Lin Mu wanted to pretend to be warm with her, but seeing that the whole family was tense, he didn't dare to be too presumptuous, so he just smiled at Aunt Gui and said, "Goodbye."

An inexplicable sadness haunted everyone.

Aunt Gui walked up to Mingcheng and said, "Thank you."

Mingcheng replied indifferently: "Take care."

It took 20 long years for the mother and son to go from hating each other to being strangers to each other.

Mingcheng saw that Aunt Gui's legs were a little unsteady, from her vigorous strides before to her faltering appearance now, he couldn't bear it in his heart.He saw that Aunt Gui's back was small and humble in the sunlight, her movements were slow and her reactions were slow, her shoulders shrugged slightly, and he could feel that she was crying.

Mingcheng walked over quickly, stopped the rickshaw driver, reached out and picked up Aunt Gui's suitcase, and then carried it back without looking back.

Mingcheng felt that when he put down the suitcase, his heart was heavy and plummeted, and when he picked up the suitcase, his heart was like a bright moon, extremely light.The relationship between the mother and the child has completely returned to the original point and started again from the moment the suitcase is put and lifted.

The people of the Ming family had a lot of feelings and joy in their hearts.

Lin Mu ran back after Ah Cheng, and asked with a smile: "Brother Ah Cheng changed his name to Brother Chun Xiao, no, Brother Liang... Brother Xiao, okay? You can smile all day long, without having to keep a straight face."

Ming Jing was very warm in her heart. After all, the Ming family had cultivated a kind person who knew how to understand. She was afraid that Lin Mu's mouth would be unrestrained, and Aunt Gui would lose face. Put a seal on it, and he is not allowed to mess around."

Minglou smiled faintly.

The sun is really gorgeous, and it hits everyone's heart directly.

(End of this chapter)