The ugly concubine is all over the city, the prince is blind

Chapter 336 Finale (12)

Seeing Shen Jinyan's still cold expression, and thinking of the panic, fear and helplessness on that woman's face just now, Huang Pu Xize couldn't help but think of the top of Jinxia Mountain, where he personally shot the arrow into the woman's body, In the end, he himself jumped at Su Yuqing instead.

I heard Shen Jinyan talk about her childhood experience earlier, she was insecure and caring.

He once said that he wanted to give this woman the best, but he didn't want to let this woman completely leave his sight before he could make up for it after taking advantage of her.

"Shen Jinyan, if I let go now, will you leave me?"

"Huang Pu Xize, don't you think your question is stupid?" Shen Jinyan mocked coldly.

Thinking that she dreamed about what happened on the top of Jinxia Mountain just now, she didn't even know when this man came in, and she was seen by this man just now, it must be very ugly and painful, this man saw her like that I don't know how to be happy with the picture.

"Huang Pu Xize, even if you don't let go, I can also make you let go."

After finishing speaking, Shen Jinyan gathered his internal energy directly into his hands, and abruptly shook Huang Pu Xize's hands away, then got off the bed, got dressed, and directly ignored the extremely hot gaze on her, and walked to the Comb your hair in front of the makeup mirror, and fetch water to wash your face.

When Shen Jinyan went out, Shi Chenyi and the others had already prepared dinner.

The word dinner made Shen Jinyan stunned. Realizing that time was passing too fast, she went directly to eat, but called Ayi and Jin'er out of habit. When she saw that the person who appeared at the door was Huang Pu Xize At that time, she was stunned for a moment, and the expression on her face became stiff, and then, as if she hadn't seen Huang Pu Xize, she picked up the bowl and slammed the food on the table.

Huang Pu Xize, who came with him, turned even paler when he heard Shen Jinyan call Ayi, Qiao Jinling's name, but he pretended to be nonchalant, as if he didn't see the dissatisfaction on Shen Jinyan's face Same, sat down at the dinner table and started to eat.

And just after he took two bites, Shen Jinyan, who was sitting opposite him, put down the bowls and chopsticks and went out.

Whether he didn't want to take care of the wounded every day, Shen Jinyan told Shi Chenyi that Huang Pu Xize could not eat chili, and told them not to put chili in their next meal, and then left Bai Xinli at Aunt Zhang's house, and gave birth to a child. Before she left, she didn't see what Jun Wuxie said.

Shen Jinyan just told the story, but didn't say how to deal with it, so Shi Chenyi reported the matter to Huang Pu Xize. After careful consideration, Huang Pu Xize asked Shi Chenyi to send someone to Aunt Zhang's house to see if they were still there. Just take people over now.

At night, Shi Chenyi came back, but he brought only a sleeping baby.

At night, when the baby was crying, Shi Chenyi and his party didn't know what to do, so they had no choice but to find Shen Jinyan.

I thought that Shen Jinyan would be furious, but unexpectedly, Shen Jinyan asked Bai Xinli in a nice way?
Hearing this, Shi Chenyi heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly started a long speech.

At that time, Shen Jinyan also learned from them that after waking up, Bai Xinli used the excuse of wanting to see the child. After Aunt Zhang handed the child to Bai Xinli, Bai Xinli said that she hated and hated the king. Wu Xie hated that child even more, so she tried to strangle the child to death, when Shi Chenyi just arrived and rescued the child, who knew that Bai Xinli committed suicide directly when they were not prepared.

At the same time, they also received the news that Jun Wuxie brought Shen Jinyan to live in this village, and finally ordered someone to transport Bai Xinli's body out of this place, intending to hand it over to Jun Wuxie for disposal.

Although Jun Wuxie and Bai Xinli are not bothered, even in the past, Shen Jinyan would not have revenged her kindness, not to mention, she had saved Bai Xinli two days ago, and she delivered the child herself.

The so-called doctor's parents' heart may be that in the past five years, many children have been delivered, so that Shen Jinyan has a new understanding of life. In her view, a child is the crystallization of love between two people and the continuation of life.

Maybe this statement will be denied by many people, but at least she believes that a child is a complete family in one's life, even if the child grows up in the future, it will not be as expected in her mind.

"When the child cries, it's not just because he's hungry and needs to eat. It may be because you're holding it incorrectly, or the child may be wet. In short, check all the reasons one by one." Shen Jinyan said solemnly.

Hearing her words, Shi Chenyi hurriedly began to check, only to find that the child's diaper was wet.

So, Shi Chenyi directed Fu Shaohang and others to help start changing diapers.

But after all, they are people who practice martial arts, and they are not yet married, let alone hold this kind of baby who is only two days old, and the diaper has not been changed. Several times, they almost shot.

Looking at their rough hands and feet, Shen Jinyan was really worried that the child would be accidentally crushed to death by them.

"Give me the baby and I'll take care of it."

"Empress, this—"

Seeing Shi Chenyi's embarrassed face, Shen Jinyan frowned, "Will you, a grown man, take care of children?"

Shi Chenyi subconsciously shook his head and said no, at that time, Shen Jinyan's face became even colder.

"Since you don't know how to take care of children, what are you talking about, why don't you hurry up and hug her?"

Hearing this, Shi Chenyi glanced at Huang Pu Xize, but saw him nodding in acquiescence, Shi Chenyi hurriedly handed the child into Shen Jinyan's hands as if he had been pardoned.

Holding the child, Shen Jinyan ordered Shi Chenyi and the others to boil hot water, then carefully put the child on the bed, and then went to the box next to Yunjin to put the diapers and clothes that Yunjin had used before. All the old clothes were taken out.

Not long after, Shi Chenyi brought hot water, and Shen Jinyan began to bathe the child, while explaining to Shi Chenyi and others how to take good care of the child and what the standard posture for holding the child is.

Shen Jinyan spoke seriously, Shi Chenyi and others listened carefully, Huang Pu Xize watched from the side, and felt that Shen Jinyan's breath was much gentler. At that moment, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would not have believed it. When holding the child, there will be no sense of disobedience.

Thinking of the child, Huang Pu Xize couldn't help but think of that child Yunjin, thinking that he missed the child's childhood, and missed watching Shen Jinyan coaxing the child, and his heart became mad with jealousy.

Because of Jun Wuxie's child, Shen Jinyan had more and more opportunities to get along with Shi Chenyi and others. Everyone found that Shen Jinyan was still the same as before, except for Huang Pu Xize, whose face was a little colder.

Unknowingly, more than ten days passed, Shen Jinyan changed Huang Pu Xize's dressing again, only to find that the injury on Huang Pu Xize's chest was not healed, but worsened, she couldn't help frowning, and then understood That man Huang Pu Xize did it on purpose.

Thinking of Huang Pu Xize, a man who wanted to win her sympathy by using his wound as an excuse, Shen Jinyan became furious.

In the end, holding back his temper and changing Huang Pu Xize's medicine, Shen Jinyan used the pretext of something to go straight out of the house. When they moved here, he accompanied Gu Miaoyu to the neighboring village next door to pay homage to his son. Ninglu Temple of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

In this temple, for the past five years, they have always come here to make a wish among Qiao Jinling and the others on birthdays and major festivals, and then went to Yuelao's room to steal some red strings Go back and use it wherever you need it.

At this time, Shen Jinyan revisited the old place and his memory recovered. Standing under the wishing tree, he couldn't help thinking of the scene when he came here for the first time. He also understood that she would probably lose her memory. It happened without her knowing, probably because of the strange scent when flying to the wishing tree.

Regarding the matter of amnesia, she really doesn't blame the witty words, and she doesn't blame Qiao Jinling for making such a selfish choice at that time. For her, maybe amnesia is also a good thing, let her use the simplest and unconscious way to escape. everything.

She thought a lot at once, until someone accidentally bumped into her, Shen Jinyan came back to his senses, smiled and said nothing to the person who bumped into her, turned around to get the paper and pen, and wrote a note casually, After adding some sesame oil and money, I took a small cloth bag, put the note into the small cloth bag, and then walked under the old tree.

A few years ago, when they came over, they just hung the cloth bags where they could reach them like ordinary people.

This time, Shen Jinyan planned to put the bag in the same place as the last time, and then tapped his toes, flew up the ancient tree again, and landed on the top of the tree, but found that there was a bag that was the same as her last time. The cloth bags were put together and tied together with a very familiar concentric knot.

She could tell that it was the bracelet that Qiao Jinling wove when he wanted to learn how to weave.

Guessing that it might have been put by Qiao Jinling, Shen Jinyan subconsciously opened the cloth bag and opened the note inside.

"Tie hair as a husband and wife, love and love are not condensed."

Seeing the two names Ayi and Xiaoxi written at the end, Shen Jinyan still couldn't help but get red eyes.

At this moment, she finally understood why Qiao Jinling let her go this time without hesitation, allowing her to restore her memory, probably because she understood the sentence on the note.

Back then, when she wrote down the words "Death and life are broad, talk to Zicheng, hold your hand, and grow old together with you", from the bottom of her heart, she wanted to make up for Qiao Jinling with a relationship that was deeper than a friend and shallower than a lover, but I don't want to lose my memory in the future, and I think it should be Qiao Jinling's compensation.

There was a human scream, and Shen Jinyan, who was silent in sadness, realized that she had attracted attention again, and immediately tied the two cloth bags back. .

Just when Shen Jinyan was about to untie the two cloth bags and tie the three cloth bags together, she suddenly felt a familiar sight. She subconsciously turned her head and saw a white figure at the corner of the temple. After she saw her, she turned around and walked away. Although she walked in a hurry, she could tell at a glance that the figure was Qiao Jinling's.

Thinking that it was Qiao Jinling, Shen Jinyan didn't have time to tie the cloth bag, so he tapped his toes, flew down from the top of the ancient tree, and chased after the figure in the direction where he left.

I just don’t know why, there were always few people in the square of the temple, but today it suddenly became more crowded. Walking in it, Shen Jinyan couldn’t move an inch, pushing and shoving among the crowd, and the cloth bag in Shen Jinyan’s hand was accidentally squeezed down on the ground.

Seeing the white figure go further and further away, Shen Jinyan was very helpless, and he didn't care about picking up the cloth bag. He tapped his toes, and immediately flew up, chasing after the white figure in the direction where it left.

After chasing for a long distance, Shen Jinyan couldn't catch up to the white figure even when he reached the stone step ladder when he came up the mountain.

A white figure beside him disappeared in a flash, and Shen Jinyan ran up to that person, only to realize that it was not Qiao Jinling.

Standing by the roadside, watching the people coming and going on the stone steps, Shen Jinyan finally sighed helplessly.

There are two possibilities for not being able to catch up with someone. One is that the person is not Qiao Jinling, and the other is that the person is really Qiao Jinling. Obviously, he is avoiding her and refusing to see her.

Living in the same place, if a person wants to hide, it must be impossible to find easily, let alone hide in any corner of the whole world, it is even more difficult to find someone, like finding a needle in a haystack. No longer entangled, thinking that if she and Qiao Jinling were destined, they would meet again sooner or later.

Shen Jinyan suddenly thought of the purpose of her coming here, and then remembered that the cloth bag for wishing was lost just now, so she went back the same way to find the cloth bag, but when she returned to the square, there were not many people there, and the cloth bag Also completely gone.

After searching for a long time, Shen Jinyan still couldn't find the cloth bag. She intended to write a new one, but after thinking about it, she gave up again. She thought that some things might not really belong to her.

Glancing at the two cloth bags hanging on the highest part of the ancient tree, a smile appeared on the corners of Shen Jinyan's lips, and then he turned and went down the mountain, but she didn't see that not far behind her, behind a certain rock, Qiao Jinling, who was wearing a white robe, kept staring at her leaving back in a daze.

After Shen Jinyan's figure completely disappeared from the field of vision, Qiao Jinling looked away, looked at the cloth bag in his hand, then opened the cloth bag, and took out the note inside.

"There are trees in the mountains, and the trees have branches, and the heart is pleasing to the king, but the king does not know."

Qiao Jinling murmured softly, and when she understood the meaning, her face became very ugly, and she finally closed her eyes in pain.

Yun Jin next to him looked at him, and called out a little worriedly, "Godfather——"

One sentence brought Qiao Jinling back to his senses, and when he turned his head, he realized that Yunjin had arrived beside him at some point. Thinking of the note in his hand, he hastily put away the cloth bag and the note in his hand, Hiding behind her back, she put away all the thoughts in her eyes, looked down at Yunjin, and said with a smile: "Jin'er, today is your fifth birthday, your mother is at the foot of the mountain, if you chase now, you can still watch Yun Jin." Get her, you-"

"Godfather, I should tell you this sentence. Since you understand my mother's heart, as long as you chase out now and explain everything to my mother, you can still live like before. Why don't you go out?" See my mother?"

Facing Yun Jin's questioning, Qiao Jinling knew that he had seen the contents of the note, so he no longer hid it, and put the note back into the cloth bag, looked at the way down the mountain, and smiled faintly.

"Jin'er, some people and things always have regrets, which is the most beautiful." Qiao Jinling said flatly, maybe in that case, keeping a regret is also a good thing, but also a miss.

For Shen Jinyan, he is the one who created the situation today. He doesn't want forever, not forever, but wants to have it once. The five years of the stolen five years may still be in the hands of that woman, Shen Jinyan. Keeping a miss in his memory is enough for him in this life.

"Godfather, this is your last chance, are you really going to give up like this?" Yun Jin asked unwillingly.

"I believe your mother wanted to find her happiness." Qiao Jinling said with a smile, glanced at Yunjin who looked like a little adult, and asked again, "This walk will last five years, before leaving with me, Jin Are you going to see your mother?"

"The person mother wants to see most is godfather, you. If you don't go, what's the point of me going to see mother? After all, it's just adding to the sadness, and with mother's current temperament, I might not be willing to part with it." Should I leave? If that’s the case, it’s fine if I don’t see you.”

"Since you don't want to see your mother, come with me. Wherever we go in the future, we will be home."

While speaking, Qiao Jinling stretched out his hand in front of Yunjin, Yunjin responded in a low voice, and put his little hand in Qiao Jinling's big hand, when Qiao Jinling turned around and walked out, Yunjin walked towards him not far away. A tree with a lot of branches and leaves took a look, then looked away, and quickened its pace to keep up with Qiao Jinling's.

Waiting to watch the two of them walk away slowly, Shen Jinyan, who was hiding on the tree that Yunjin saw just now, flew directly to the ground, and then smiled shyly. She knew that Qiao Jinling must have discovered her too. Trace, so said those words.

Taking out the notebook from the smart bag, she casually flipped through some of the things she had spent time rewriting in the past few days, and after finding that there was nothing missing, Shen Jinyan closed the notebook.

After determining the direction in which Qiao Jinling and the others were leaving, Shen Jinyan quickly detoured and rushed in front of them, stopped a passerby casually, gave the person a few taels of silver, and described Qiao Jinling's appearance before handing over the notes in his hand to the person Someone, ask that person to hand over that notebook to Qiao Jinling.

Qiao Jinling was a little surprised when he received the notes that Shen Jinyan asked the person to bring him. When he found that the notes had become thicker, he subconsciously flipped through them. There are few new contents, and those new contents are what happened in the past five years, Qiao Jinling's lips curled into a smile.

Shen Jinyan had no doubt that he recognized the handwriting.

Thinking that the woman wrote so much content in just a few tens of days, she must have stayed up a lot of nights. Before this diary was thrown away by him, now in his opinion, this diary is the best for him in this life Interpretation, with this notebook in hand, it is enough for him to miss it for a lifetime.

After putting away the notes, Qiao Jinling and Yunjin continued to walk forward without looking back. As for where to go next?He really doesn't know, in his words, wherever he goes, he is home, he just walks casually, and rests when he is tired.

Five years is enough for him to travel to many places!

Immersed in the memories of the past, the somewhat absent-minded Shen Jinyan walked slowly on the stone steps going down the mountain alone, when a familiar voice woke her up like a dream.

"Empress Empress—"

Shen Jinyan subconsciously looked up at Shi Chenyi who was half kneeling in front of her, and frowned involuntarily.

"You follow me?"

"The empress misunderstood, I didn't follow you."

"You didn't follow me, then how did you come here? What are you doing here?" Shen Jinyan asked with a full face of guard.

"Empress, after you left, Jun Wuxie's child woke up and cried again. We all couldn't coax him well, and even went to the village to find someone who can take care of the child to look after the child. But I still cried a lot, in desperation, I had no choice but to inquire about your empress, and when I heard that you have come to this Ninglu Temple, I rushed over, and I wanted to invite you, empress, to go back and see the child."

As soon as Shi Chenyi's words fell, there was a loud crying sound, Shen Jinyan subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound, and saw Huang Pu Xize walking up from the stone steps below with Jun Wuxie's child in his arms .

"Shen Jinyan, this child can't be coaxed well no matter what. He is crying so hard that he can't breathe. Take a look."

Hearing this, Shen Jinyan frowned subconsciously. Although he didn't want to talk to Huang Pu Xize, he could hear the child's crying getting weaker and weaker. He thought that if this continues, it is possible for the child to cry and die.

With a bit of impatience, Shen Jinyan quickly walked over to take the child from Huang Pu Xize's arms. The child seemed to be familiar with her breath, and the moment she picked it up, the child stopped crying and continued to cry.

"Empress, the child was crying so loudly just now that we couldn't coax it. Empress, you just hugged him, and the child stopped crying. This is really amazing."

The echo sounded in the ear, Shen Jinyan cast an angry glance at Shi Chenyi, who was flattering, and didn't know what to say for a while, she could say that it was not a miracle, but because she hugged this child the most, and was in the process of adding The child is dependent. Once he loses his very familiar breath, will he start to feel restless and cry?
The child stopped crying, and everyone heaved a sigh of relief. Looking at their appearance, Shen Jinyan was not going to get angry for a while, thinking that after Jun Wuxie came, she would not care about the child's life or death.

Shen Jinyan originally planned to go down the mountain to go home, but after taking a look at the early morning sky and Huang Pu Xize's wound that opened at some time, she turned around and walked up the mountain.

Because they often come to this Ninglu Temple, and they donate a lot of incense money every year, they are also very familiar with the abbot. live for a while.

In order to take it for granted, Shen Jinyan directly exposed Huang Pu Xize's identity to the abbot, and said that Huang Pu Xize came here for a private visit, and said that he would allocate funds to rebuild the temple for them in the future, and the abbot is also a person who often does good deeds. Moreover, the temple has been in disrepair for a long time, so it is very good to spread such a good thing, so Shen Jinyan and his party are arranged to stay.

Shen Jinyan had just fed Jun Wuxie's child some milk squeezed from other women with children, when Shi Chenyi knocked on the door of her room, saying that Huang Pu Xize's wound was open and bleeding a lot The blood, I hope she will help to bandage it.

Logically speaking, Huang Pu Xize's wound should have healed a long time ago, but it has not healed now. It is because the man was behind her back and didn't know how to toss the wound. Today, she was able to treat the wound because of the man. It's good enough to stay here, but asking her for help now that she's bleeding is simply delusional.

Thinking of this, Shen Jinyan sent Shi Chenyi away directly on the grounds of coaxing the child. When coaxing Jun Wuxie's child to sleep, Shen Jinyan seemed to have returned to the scene of bringing Jin'er back to the beginning.

After coaxing Jun Wuxie's child to fall asleep, Shen Jinyan gradually fell asleep. In a daze, he felt the door of the room being pushed open. After a while, he felt footsteps gradually approaching.

The familiar scent of sandalwood came, Shen Jinyan knew that it was Huang Pu Xize, she didn't know what that man was going to do, she simply pretended to ignore it, and continued to pretend to be asleep, but when she felt the footsteps getting closer, Shen Jinyan wished she could Jump up directly and drive the man away with a loud voice.

But she knew that if she really did that, it would probably be in vain.

After all, Huang Pu Xize, a man, used to want to see his child sleeping soundly a few days ago, and although she was still thinking about the scene on the top of Jinxia Mountain back then, it seemed inexplicable in her heart that Huang Pu Xize didn't see it. Jin'er decided to have some regrets because of her grown-up appearance, so she agreed to Huang Pu Xize's requests one by one.

And because of that man Huang Pu Xize often pushes forward, if she opens her eyes and chases that man away at this time, he will probably use that as an excuse to stay.

If she wanted to leave, but Jun Wuxie's child would not sleep well and then burst into tears, she had to stay, thinking of this gave her a headache.

Shen Jinyan didn't know what to do for a while, but at that moment, Huang Pu Xize had already walked to her bedside.

The strong smell of alcohol wafted over, and Shen Jinyan, who was pretending to be asleep, couldn't help but frowned. She knew that Huang Pu Xize had been drinking, and judging from the smell of alcohol emanating from his body, this man drank a lot.

Time passed by, Huang Pu Xize didn't speak, Shen Jinyan didn't know what he was going to do, just when she was considering whether to speak, a hoarse voice sounded above her head.

"Shen Jinyan, I know you haven't fallen asleep, but you haven't spoken for a long time, probably because you don't want to talk to me."

Hearing this, Shen Jinyan wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Huang Pu Xize paused at the beginning to wait for Shen Jinyan to speak, but he didn't hear a response for a long time. Huang Pu Xize, who had known this result for a long time, couldn't help being disappointed in his heart.

"Shen Jinyan, in fact, you don't have to guess what my intentions are sitting here. Don't worry, I have no plans for you. In other words, even if I have plans, I will not do anything to you now. The matter on the top of Jinxia Mountain is my responsibility." I'm sorry for you, and that incident made me completely lose your news for five years. It is a gift from God to me that I can meet you now, although I don't know how long this kind of life can last, and I also know that I hope I can't get too much, I'm sitting here now, I just want to stay here for a while, and I want to get closer to you, so you can sleep peacefully, I won't do anything to you."

A helpless voice sounded above her head, and Shen Jinyan's heart was a little shy for a moment, thinking that she didn't speak just now, but now she was speaking, which was a bit hypocritical, not to mention that she didn't know what to say. After thinking about it, he continued to pretend to be asleep.

The room fell into silence again, so quiet that even the sound of each other's breathing could be clearly heard.

Until Shen Jinyan could speak, Huang Pu Xize also knew that Shen Jinyan would not talk to him anymore. He knew Shen Jinyan quite well, and he understood that the more Shen Jinyan quarreled, the more that woman cared. If the quarrel wasn't severe, but if it quieted down all of a sudden, it would prove that the woman didn't care anymore. Thinking of Shen Jinyan's calm response at this time, he felt lost but also relieved.

He doesn't care whether Shen Jinyan still has him in his heart, as long as he has Shen Jinyan in his heart, as long as this woman doesn't drive him away for a day, or disappear without a trace again like last time, then he will continue to play thick-skinned This specialty continues to stick.

He believed that after seeing people's hearts for a long time, he would understand sooner or later with a deep heart.

"Shen Jinyan, are you asleep? If you are not asleep, you have heard these words. If you are asleep, I will not tell you these words a second time. Except for your news, you are not with me. During these years around me, I lived alone in a huge palace, and I slept very late every night, and my sleep was very light. Chen Yi and his party were very worried about me, so they often stayed by my side, but my decadence The appearance made them even more worried. Seeing each of them worried about me, eating and sleeping well, I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, so I had no choice but to show my strong side in front of the group of them. Get drunk."

"Every time I get drunk and tired from doing things, gradually, you slowly dissipate in my memory, and then I fall asleep. At those times, I was almost drunk every day, awake for you Anxious, I met you in my dream, but every time I was woken up by the arrow I shot at you on the top of Jinxia Mountain, and the words you cried and said you hated me, I always woke up with wet clothes and quilts , At that time, I was thinking, if one day, I can meet you again, even if it is enough to know that you are still alive and living a good life, but at the moment when I really saw you, I realized that My own jealousy has risen again."

"I can't stand your amnesia, even walking with that man Qiao Jinling. I think it would be great if you regained your memory. Then I would have another chance to keep you. You are making a choice. I must I will respect your decision, but now that I am like this, I have a feeling of worrying about gains and losses. This feeling is more painful than letting you not restore your memory. Shen Jinyan, time can smooth the love you have for me in your heart, and let you When facing me, I am very ordinary, I believe that time can also let you see whether my heart is true or not."

Huang Pu Xize's words were still resounding above his head. In the dark night, Shen Jinyan couldn't help clenching his hands hidden under the quilt, and opened his mouth to say something, but when the words reached his mouth, no sound came out. Shen Jinyan laughed from the bottom of his heart. In the end, he didn't speak again, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief. After the bottom of his heart relaxed, he went straight to sleep.

I don't know if it was because of what Huang Pu Xize said just now or what, but Shen Jinyan slept surprisingly well.

(End of this chapter)