Lan Ruochan

Chapter 58

Zu Dianzhi and Kou Guanyun both have femoral strength,

When talking about academics, all the quotations are very particular, and I can't stop even if I want to.

The two chatted from noon until late at night, and even forgot to eat. Who can remember those little misunderstandings during the day?
The Taishi quickly recovered a happy and happy life.

However, the big change in Shaoshi was not revealed so quickly. Led by Feng Liang and assisted by Master Juefa, Lanruo Temple conducted a thorough investigation of the guest monks in the Siyi Pavilion, as well as the new low-level novice monks and monks who entered the temple, and interrogated them in batches .

Qing Yun and the others naturally didn't need to wait alone because of their relationship with the Little Dragon King, but Xiao Yan was kindly told that they had to wait in line for questioning.

When everyone was away, these inquiries were almost done, and there were only a few people still queuing.

Xiao Yan and Tai Shi Shuming were naturally at the bottom, and in front of them were Zhi Dalu, Su Lu, Xu Huangyu and Depression.

Qingyun asked the second daughter to help Liu Ying and Miss Mochou to rest first, and he was here to accompany Xiao Yan.

After all, Xiao Yan is a nobleman from the south, so he might be detained on purpose. It would be better if there are multiple witnesses.

After a while, Depression was called in, and only Zhi Dalu, Su Lu, and Xu Huangyu were talking in the Sanhan dialect in the waiting room.

Xu Huangyu was originally from Southwest and Dongli, but unexpectedly, he could speak the Sanhan dialect fluently.

Seeing her looking at Sulu, Qingyun secretly sighed in his heart that love is great.

The more the three chatted, the more excited they became, and their voices grew louder. Qing Yun caught a few words inadvertently, and suddenly frowned.

Xiao Yan cast his eyes on Qingyun, as if asking,
"What? Do you still understand the Sanhan dialect?"

Qingyun smiled and shook his head, his expression no longer so serious.

At this moment, Depression had already pushed the door out, and the three of Zhidalu went in instead.

Qingyun and Youyou are acquainted. Seeing that she came out so soon, it was inevitable to ask questions.

"So fast! What are the questions inside?"

Depressed, he spread his arms and shrugged his shoulders, Qingyun's eyeballs trembled accordingly.

Just listen to the former casually say,
"Just asking, what are you doing these days, who are you with, and what suspicious people have you seen?
I just said that I was robbing a man, and I kept pestering that heartless man, and I didn't see any suspicious people, except for the stinky woman who robbed me of a man.

Master Feng Liang seems to be very interested in that stinky woman.

I said that the stinky woman was beaten until she took off her clothes and ran off to nowhere.

He looked a little nervous, but he let me out without asking any more questions.

By the way, where is the heartless man? "

"Oh? Are you asking the second brother?"

"Otherwise, who are you asking? Asking you? Are you an immature kid who can handle it?"

Depressedly speaking, he stood up and took a few steps towards Qingyun.

Qingyun's optic nerve was just bombarded by Miss Mochou today, and now he squeezed forward depressed, the graphics processor fan in his brain suddenly started to spin, buzzing, and the brain made up thousands of frames of pictures, and suddenly he couldn't Calm down.

Hastily begged for mercy,
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, I know!

It's just that the second brother, he will stay in the Taishi for a few days to catch up with Taoist Guanyun, so..."

"Hmph!" Before Qing Yun could finish speaking, he turned his head depressed and left.
"Want to hide from my mother? Where is it so easy to hide?
Hiding in the cracks in the ground, my old lady can dig you out and tie you around your waist! "

"It's so tough!"

Tai Shi Shuming was secretly speechless.

"Hey, I don't know whether I should say that the second brother is lucky or that he is unlucky."

Xiao Yan also sighed,

"Yin and Yang complement each other, and each other produces and kills each other. The male and female films are combined, so there is nothing.

Safety and danger are exchanged, and blessings and misfortunes are born together.Hurry up and fight each other, gathering and parting is completed. "

"Zhuangzi's words are used to explain the relationship between men and women. This is true, true, and appropriate..."

Originally, Qingyun wanted to retaliate against Xiao Yan, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that was the meaning, and finally he admitted it.

Without the loud voices of those Koreans, the three southerners can finally talk a little bit.

Until they were interrupted by another noise, they knew it was their turn to enter the room together for questioning.

Unexpectedly, Feng Liang glanced at the three people's faces, showing a strange expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, and said to Qing Yun and Tai Shi Shu,
"Pindao wants to have a private talk with Mr. Xiao. I wonder if the two of you can make it easier?"

The two looked at each other, and could only back out.

Taishi Shuming wondered,

"Will there be any tricks?
Others can ask together, do we still need to confess to each other?this

It's a serious trial! "

He was complaining here, but he saw another person queuing up.

The leader leading the way was the master Foxian whom he met in Gou's town during the day, and Yang Shaoxian was following behind.

The latter lowered his head, his eyes flickered, and he looked guilty, not knowing what was going on.

Qingyun hurriedly greeted Master Foxian, who also smiled back,

"We meet again! I didn't see Little Dragon King in Gou's Town during the day, could it be that he has other important business?"

Qingyun quickly responded, roughly mentioning the matter of the nobleman's assassination of the Little Dragon King leaving the temple.

"Oh, that's not a coincidence. A while ago, Pindao and Juefa were too devoted to transcribing the martial arts scriptures, so they neglected their duties and left Erzhu Xinxing. Now they finally got back their personal certificates and are going to discuss with the Little Dragon King. Unfortunately he was not there.

That poor man can only discuss it with Feng Daoyou first. "

Qingyun looked at Yang Shaoxian whose eyes were flickering, and wondered, how could it be him?
Isn't he acquainted with Layman Yang Lie?

Layman Yang Li is someone whom even Hu Shiyu and Taoists trust.

Thinking about it in my heart, I couldn't help but ask,

"Young Master Yang, didn't you come from Qiuchi together with Layman Yang Li?"

Seeing Qingyun asking this question first, Yang Shao hurriedly called out,
"I, I was wronged. Yang Wei is my aunt, Master Kongkong is my cousin, how can I have a problem?"

Qingyun turned his attention to Foxian, obviously wanting to know the answer.

The latter snorted coldly, pointed at Yang Shaoxian and said,
"That day you hired two donkey carts to drive from Sili to Goushi Town.

Those things hardly stopped in Goushi Town, and then they were transferred to the northwest again.

According to Feng Daoyou's secret report yesterday, Erzhu Xinxing has already shown his face in Pingcheng.

If he didn't leave with your convoy and avoid interrogation, how did he fly to Pingcheng?
What are the two carts of goods you took away from the temple? "

Yang Shaoxian suddenly shut up when he heard this, and stopped speaking.

Qingyun suddenly bulged out a very strange sentence, which didn't seem like the language of the Central Plains.

When Yang Shaoxian heard it, he jumped up like an electric shock, and looked at Qingyun with ghostly eyes.

Qing Yun looked at his reaction carefully, and suddenly let out a long sigh, and floated away.

At this time the moon was already on the willow shoots, Qingyun returned to the Jiekong hall, did not go to see Liu Ying first, but went to the next door to the women's house, and gently knocked on the door.

Mo Chou's voice sounded first, "Huh? But Liu Lang?"

"No, it's me, Qingyun?"

"Senior Brother Qing, are you here to talk to me?"

Yin Seke let out a laugh like a silver bell, and cried out happily.

"Oh, no, I have something to say, and I want to talk to Fourth Sister alone."

"Hmph!", Yin Seke, this little girl was obviously furious, and stopped making a sound.

After a while of chattering, Caiting put on a coat and came out to meet her.

The moonlight shone on her face, she blushed slightly, thinking about it, she was quite happy in her heart,

"Brother Yun, what's the matter?"

Qingyun covered the door, took Caiting's hand, sat on the porch, suddenly repeated what he had said that shocked Yang Shaoxian, and then asked Caiting,
"What does this sentence mean?"

"Hey? This is the Sanhan dialect, how can you know it?"

"I heard what Zhidalu and the others said. Please tell me first. What does this sentence mean?"

"This sentence means that you should stop holding such unrealistic ideas!"

"Oh." Qingyun realized something, and then asked again,
"Fourth sister, when you were in the teahouse during the day, you said that one day I would be like General Xiaolie, riding horses and swearing to Kongtong!
Why swear Kongtong?Does it have any special significance? "

Cai Ting's complexion became redder when asked, and he replied with some embarrassment,

"No, it's not Kongtong, it's Kongku.

It is actually a Korean dialect. "

"So it means Restoration, right?"

Cai Ting was a little surprised,

"How do you know? This word really means Jianguo."

"I understand Fourth Sister's thoughts very well, that's probably what I guessed when you said that the other day.

I heard that Zhidalu and the others had been talking about this today, so I figured it out.

But I found another thing, I remember Master Kong Kongkong once said that he came from the Houqin Yao family, right? "

"Yeah, when he was preaching, he mentioned it."

"The Yao family belongs to the post-Qin royal family, do you think he also has the intention of restoring the country?"

"You mean, huh? Kongku Kongu?"

"Correct!"

"How is it possible! Do people in the later Qin Dynasty speak the same dialect as us?"

"I remember the fourth sister once said that the Sanhan dialect was greatly influenced by the Jizi and Buyeo people."

"That's right."

"The Fuyu people have the Yu family and the Yao family name.

The Yao clan in Xiliang was also changed from the ancient Yao surname, claiming to be a descendant of Emperor Shun of the Yu clan. "

"Ah? Right."

Cai Ting was not very familiar with the origin of the Yao family in Xiliang, so he responded a little perfunctorily.

"You come with me!"

Qingyun suddenly took Caiting's hand and was about to leave.

"Wait a moment!"

Cai Ting's outer garment was just casually draped at this time, and when Qingyun pulled it, most of it suddenly slipped off, revealing the inner lining of the bellyband.

After all, the bellyband is just a pocket, how can you hold the infinite spring?
Although it is only a glimpse, but out of instinct, a man's eyesight in some aspects does not need a teacher to help highlight the key points.

Qingyun saw Huangshan's beauty in one day, like no worries; Huashan's precipitousness, like depression;

(The author’s case: According to the "Book of Wei Wuji Biography", the name of Wei in Changbai Mountain is known.)
The moonlight is like silk, the blue silk is like a waterfall, the red clothes are like clouds, and the mountains are hidden in the mist, making people even more reverie. Once again, Qingyun is amazed by the Hucai Pavilion under the moonlight.

Caiting's temperament is not as domineering as depressed, nor cowardly as Mochou.

Her generosity comes from the heart, not deliberately.

She didn't bother about Qingyun's recklessness at all, as if nothing had happened, she just tidied up her coat, looked at Qingyun who was still in a daze, and urged,
"What are you doing in a daze? Aren't you in a hurry?"

Only then did Qingyun come back to his senses, and hurriedly explained,
"No, it's not really urgent, I'm just excited?"

"what?"

"No, it's not. Fourth sister, I mean, I thought I had a big discovery, so I was very excited."

When Qingyun explained this "big discovery", he couldn't help but use body language, holding his hands in front of his chest and slowly opening them.

But when he saw the killing intent gradually condensed in Hu Caiting's eyes, he felt that he was really becoming more and more dirty, so he stomped his feet and wanted to come to Caiting again.

He stretched out his hand halfway, but felt it was wrong, turned around and fled, leaving only a graceful running posture behind his hands.

Cai Ting naturally knew that Qingyun didn't mean to take advantage of her, seeing this little brother being embarrassed by him, she also smiled and followed her up.

Qingyun came to the meditation room where Master Kongkong lived, knocked on the door, changed his voice and called the door with a newly learned Korean accent, and then put his ear on the door panel to listen carefully for the movement inside.

Cai Ting gave Qing Yun a thumbs up, indicating that what he said was really good.

But Qing Yun's face became more and more ugly after listening for a while.

He pushed the door open with all his strength, and the meditation room was indeed empty.

"This is empty, the whereabouts are really mysterious."

"Indeed. You go to explore the back mountain, and he will be a hindrance.

Erzhu was missing, and he was the first to arrive at the scene.

In the first night attack, he and Juefa felt it at the same time.

By the way, when Yuan Taixing was poisoned, he was also the one who carried the corpse first.

It must be him, yes, Jianguo Jianguo, it is him!

We're going to dig him out now! "

"Okay, let's go!"

Qingyun closed the door, turned around and left.

Now it was Cai Ting's turn to be dumbfounded.
"Such a big mountain, where can we find it?

There are still many scary prohibitions in the back mountain, and you will die if you walk around! "

"I said that I have made a big discovery, and I will definitely not disappoint my sister."

Qingyun narrowly winked at Caiting.

Cai Ting spat lightly and followed.

Qingyun took Caiting to the back door where Mochou led them into the temple that day, and went out for a secluded path, which was quite creepy in the night.

Cai Ting couldn't help following a little closer, and almost put her body on Qing Yun's body.

"Fifth brother, where are we going?"

"Do you remember Princess Pengcheng?"

"Naturally remember."

"She appeared on this mountain road before, and her whereabouts are unknown. Even the Baoyi Army didn't find her."

"What does this mean?"

"Today I heard that Yang Shaoxian pulled two trucks down the mountain on the day Erzhu Xinxing disappeared."

"and then?"

"Livestock are not allowed to pass through the front gate of the monastery, so he must have walked this way.

His two carts were not actually taken from the temple.

If those things were really piled up in the temple, Master Fo Xian would be able to find out what was transported and why they were smuggled, and he would not be so entangled with Yang Shaoxian. "

"what do you mean?"

"There must be a relatively hidden foothold here, maybe there are some secrets hidden."

"But what does this have to do with our search for Master Kongkong Kongkong?"

"Kongkong Kongkong is Yang Shaoxian's cousin."

"Wait, let me stroke it."

Qingyun shrewdly dressed up all these details, which doesn't mean that everyone's thinking can be as delicate and sharp as his.

Even if he drew out all the key points, Hu Caiting couldn't seem to digest it immediately.

The mountain road is very narrow. When I was depressed and fighting for the road with Princess Pengcheng, there was a fierce battle. Therefore, as long as one person crosses the road, the future is almost cut off.

In front of him was a man in coir raincoat and deep hat, walking slowly on the night path, as if he sensed someone approaching, who turned his head vigilantly, and looked at Qingyun and Caiting.

The hazy moonlight was torn into gratings through the dense clouds.

The moonlight cannot penetrate the dense jungle, but only illuminates the path that is one person wide.

The trunks of the old trees were slightly hunched, and they were squeezed together to form an arch-like side wall. The black shadow supported by the coir raincoat was full of light like a porcupine, and the backlight stood proudly, dragging a long and strange path on the ground. shadow.

Cai Ting was frightened and quickly hid behind Qing Yun, who also had cold sweat on his forehead.

He put his hand on the hilt of the sword, lowered his voice, and asked with his newly learned Korean accent,

"Sickness is caused by sad thoughts, and disease is caused by dirt. How about doing this wine?"

(Korean: stay safe)

Qingyun thought to himself, if the person who came was really empty, he would definitely not be able to see his own face clearly at this distance, maybe it would make him show his feet first.

Who knew the other party sternly asked,
"Who are you? What are you talking about?"

The accent sounded like a stranger.

Seeing that the other party was not his target, Qingyun changed his mind slightly and continued to ask,
"Are you looking for the princess? Or the master?"

"Tell me clearly, which princess? Which master?
Who are you?For what purpose? "

Qing Yun thought to himself, why does the other party have more problems than himself?

Walking on the back mountain path in the middle of the night, which road is it?

Before he could answer, the tone of the person on the opposite side became even more sinister.
"The one behind you is a woman?"

This, what does this mean?
Not only was Hu Caiting completely shrunk his head and face behind Qingyun in fright, even Qingyun himself couldn't help taking a few steps back.

Seeing that Qingyun felt guilty, the man suddenly shook his coir raincoat and ran forward.

The huge shadow on the ground could not stop shaking, swaying like a prehistoric monster, shaking its mane.

Qingyun gently pushed Caiting away a few steps, drew his sword with both hands, braked quietly, his eyes were like knives, and greeted the person coming.

Suddenly the bright moon flashed and turned into two rounds. A scimitar was drawn across the man's head like a horse, and it was separated from the moon when it was slightly heavy.

The light of the knife cuts through the sky, cuts through the shadow, the momentum, the speed, seems to be able to cut through everything in the world, invincible.

Qingyun knew that he couldn't block the strike, but he had to.

Cai Ting is behind her, she can't see the coming of this knife, if he dodges, what will Cai Ting do?
From the tone of the man just now, it is clear that he is a pervert who has special thoughts about women.

He must not dodge, and he must help Fourth Sister carry the sky.

He was really angry at this time, and his attack was a killer move, Lei Tian was so strong, he never did it lightly!
Six shades, sheep and goats touch the feudal domain!
The yang goat came to the vassal state, today it is called the antelope hanging horns,
The hexagram word cloud: Can't retreat, can't succeed, no profit; difficult is good.

Can't retreat, can't run, struggle is useless, only hard just has a way out!

The sword that Qingyun slashed in Lu's mansion that day was already earth-shattering, but at this moment today, he concentrated his breath and backed up with the method of exhaling and exerting force passed down by Juefa himself, and he did not retreat or evade.

With the timing of this back-and-forth battle, how could the power of the sword that is struck now be more than ten times stronger than before?
Before the sword moved, the mountains and haze rose suddenly, and the leaves on both sides swayed and rattled with the wind.

The snow-like moonlight seemed to be swept up by the strong wind, forming a cyclone, which seemed to condense the air in Zhang Xu into gelatin in an instant, no matter how strong the force was, it would be blocked.

The swordsman in coir raincoat has extraordinary knowledge, he can see through the pros and cons at a glance, and immediately slows down his forward momentum.

The sword light fell ahead of time, and slashed at the strong wind formed by the opponent's sword energy, hoping to complete this contact at a safe distance, taking advantage of the situation to retreat, avoiding its edge, and hoping to make a comeback.

Although he withdrew his strength beforehand, the two brilliance still collided together,
The light of the saber has been deflected, its purpose is not to defeat the enemy, but to unload the force.

If so, the domineering aura of the epee "Taste the Break" is like Pangu swinging an axe. It has the power to open up the world, split light and capture shadows, and any obstacle is like a mantis holding a chariot.

The brilliance in the swordsman's hand was cut into two pieces, without even making a sound.

The swordsman flies back, the blade breaks, the bamboo hat flies, the coir raincoat falls,

The broken blade was bitten by an ancient tree beside the path,
The flying bamboo hat was split in half by the moon,
The flying coir raincoat was chased by the night wind and fled in all directions.

Against the background of the bright silver moonlight, everything faded, only black and white remained, and a splashed ink-like afterimage surged up, and the man knelt softly on the ground with a plop.

"""""Knock on the blackboard time"""""

The author has said long ago that Western learning is not necessarily scientific and comprehensive.In many ways, they did not try to understand Dongxue, and the conclusions they got were very one-sided.Of course, the bigger the conclusion is, the harder it is to prove it, so we start with a rock.

Let me talk about one thing mentioned in this chapter first, where does the etymology of Korean come from?According to the classification of Western languages, only from the three perspectives of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, they believe that Korean and Japanese are branches of the Altaic language family, but they are very different from other languages ​​​​of the Altaic language family, making it difficult to classify them.This tamad is all crap.From a historical point of view, Koreans used Chinese in ancient times, reading Chinese books and writing Chinese characters.Modern Korean did not appear until the [-]th century, and it was widely used after the [-]th century.How reliable is this classification method when the connection between Chinese and Chinese is cut off?

But the author also doesn't like overly subjective arguments, let's analyze oriental languages ​​objectively.First of all, the author would like to say that the Altaic language family originated in the Altai region, and is actually an oriental language family in the border area between China and Mongolia today.Even the study of ancient Chinese is inseparable from the Altaic language family.But why there is such a big difference between Chinese and Altaic languages, it is because Chinese has already jumped out of the category of Western language analysis methods, not only has sounds, methods, words, but also shapes.The degree of freedom in Chinese is one more dimension. Chinese has pictograms and ideology. These functional alphabet languages ​​do not provide them, and Western comparative linguistics has no comparison samples.

Chinese is the earliest language that evolved due to aesthetic needs.This is not bragging. When Chinese produced poetry, most languages ​​did not have meter.The Western "Homer's Epic" does not even have rhymes, but only isosyllabic rhythms, just like the Sanzijing without rhymes.But the oriental literature has been closed to Guan Jujiu, eating the wild duckweed, and sharing the same robe with the son, and there is no food for me.The evolution of ancient Chinese to ancient Chinese and middle ancient Chinese is moving in the direction of ensuring the beauty of rhythm by the basic setting of the language.The vast majority of languages ​​have language first, and then characters, Chinese characters and other oriental languages ​​such as Altaic are no exception.It is only when the Chinese characters are formed that the syllables are separated by the shape of the characters, and the natural setbacks of pronunciation are produced thereupon.This point is also inherited to a certain extent in Japanese and Korean.This splitting of syllables affects the pronunciation in turn, making the pronunciation of the three major eastern languages ​​different from other languages.Western mainstream academics did not make further analysis on this point. They simply compared the modern phonetics, so they could not find the kinship relationship among the oriental languages, and they used this to divide the history of Far Eastern civilization.

Chinese is a language used for games and creations. It can play sounds. We can play alliteration, end rhyme, leaf rhyme, duality, overlap, and homophony that can be played in the West, and it is more playable. We can also change the tone of the conversation. mediocre.It can also play with shapes, and you can split characters from left to right and up and down to spell sentences with words of the same structure, giving up meaning and taking shapes.Western studies on languages ​​lack one dimension, and they cannot understand some problems at all, such as Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese Nom, and even Khitan, Xixia, which are included in the Altaic language family, and some Chinese minority languages, etc. It is the product of the combination of phonetic language and pictorial language.

Among the three major comparison standards of Western languages, in addition to pronunciation, Chinese and Western languages ​​also have completely different logics when it comes to vocabulary formation and grammar.There is no doubt that Chinese vocabulary is free and unlimited. Hundreds of new words are born every day. The key is that they can be understood by everyone without special annotations. (For example, the birth dates of these two words are different, but the birth principle is the same.)
When it comes to grammar, if Western grammar is like putting together Lego blocks, Chinese grammar is like pinching plasticine.Western grammar pays attention to this article/preposition/modal verb must be followed by such and such metamorphosis.Chinese encourages more freedom and plasticity.Some Western scholars criticized the lack of rigorous Chinese grammar for this reason. For example, the famous prophecy "The father dies before the mother" is grammatically correct, but there are two interpretations.please!Do these Westerners have any culture? Language is for fun. This kind of "fuzzy body" is intentional. In Chinese history, how many people have been saved and how many people have been killed by similar word play is beyond count.The same expression "the father dies before the mother", if it is said "the father dies before the mother" or "the father dies before the mother", there is no difference.The words are almost the same, and the meaning is the same. Many tricks can be translated into Chinese, and it also makes sense grammatically.This back door is reserved for breaking the shackles of creation, and even intentionally creating puns.Similarly, grammatical minimalism like "Thinking carefully and fearing" is also very common, and you can choose to open long sentences or pack them into short sentences.In other languages, it is not that such a situation does not occur, but the frequency and ease of understanding are completely incomparable with Chinese.The logical divergence of Chinese in the details has caused the logical divergence of national behavior in the details. This has advantages and disadvantages, but there is a basis for saying that language determines logical habits.

Let’s not talk about the distance first. From the perspective of the geographical plate, in the eastern languages, the two-dimensional languages ​​are roughly equivalent to the so-called “Altaic languages” in the West. The [-]-dimensional languages ​​are Japanese, Korean, Khitan, and Xixia. Ancient Vietnamese and other languages ​​that hyphenated phonetics, borrowed phonetics, dismantled phonetics, and mixed phonetics.The three-dimensional language is our Chinese.Tracing back to the source, this is a large language family, because in this work, a large number of word examples with the same origin between Chinese and Altaic languages ​​(Mongolian-Turkic language family) will be listed.Some ethnic groups deliberately de-Sinicize for the sake of national self-esteem, and reduce the dimensionality of their own national languages. The final cultural influence will be revealed in the longer-term historical process.

Western comparative methodologies often have flaws in their setting, but when they write books and preach like preaching, you just follow their path.Why does language comparison only compare phonetics and morphology?So Hokkien and Jin are not in the same language family (note that defining these two concepts as two languages ​​is a Western definition, and Eastern scholars tend to define them as dialects from the cultural background), although Jin and Hokkien It is completely different in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, and the difference is even greater than that of Estonian (Uralic) and Latvian (Indo-European).But does the relationship between Jin dialect and Hokkien dialect need special explanation? Such a comparison is simply absurd.But helpless, at this time the world's academic mainstream.

(End of this chapter)