Not because I'm cute

Chapter 6 Death of Mimosa

1
The time for the New Year's Day party was set on the night of Christmas. Before the party officially started, Qin Luo shivered in the living room wrapped in her big padded jacket. Another host, Cheng Xiao, looked at her worriedly: "Why are you so cold? ? Have you put warm baby on it?"

Qin Luo shrank his neck: "I've pasted everything I could, but it's still very cold. To be fair, it's absolutely torture to host a party in a dress with legs and arms exposed in such a near-subzero temperature! It's a serious violation of the humanitarian spirit! "

Cheng Xiao handed her the hand warmer in his hand: "Haven't you heard a saying, if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight!"

Qin Luo almost collapsed: "I don't want this crown, can't I? Can I wrap up in my padded jacket and host on stage later?"

Chen Jian's voice came from the door: "Of course, if you are not afraid of being 'clicked' directly by Queen Jiang." He stretched out his hand and made a gesture on the neck.

Seeing that it was him, Qin Luo complained, "Why did you come here!" Then he glanced at his empty hands, "Where's the milk tea I asked you to bring me?"

"I forgot." Seeing her crying expression, Chen Jian added, "But I asked someone to bring it for you, and he should be here soon!"

As soon as the words were finished, Gu Yanshen walked up to Qin Luo with a cup of hot drink in his hand: "I didn't buy the red bean milk tea you asked for, but I replaced it with ginger cola to keep you from the cold. You should be warmer after drinking it."

Qin Luo took it flattered: "Thank you, brother." Because it was very hot, she could only hold the cup and suck it in small sips. I don't know if it was a psychological effect or the magical effect of ginger cola, but she actually felt a little warmer.

Seeing this, Gu Yanshen warned again: "If you still feel cold, stand up and move around."

Qin Luo nodded obediently.

Chen Jian yelled strangely from the side: "I'm cold too, why don't you care about me?"

Gu Yan squinted at him: "Your skin is so thick, you shouldn't be afraid of the cold."

With a hurt expression on her face, Chen Jian covered her chest and sang, "You hurt me, and you just laughed it off."

Several people in the lounge were amused by him.

Gu Yanshen interrupted his affectionate singing: "Okay, I'll go first, contact me after you finish."

Hearing this, Chen Jian immediately put away his flamboyant performance and asked, "Where are you going? Are you not going to the party?"

Gu Yanshen pushed open the door and walked out: "Don't look at it, Professor Qu just called me and said something happened, I'll go find him now."

Seeing Gu Yanshen walking away, Cheng Xiao leaned up to Qin Luo and asked gossipingly, "You have a good relationship with Senior Brother Gu?"

"Well, Senior Brother Gu always came to discuss debate topics with us in the previous debates, and we got to know each other once we came and went."

Cheng Xiao said enviously: "Brother Gu treats you so well."

Qin Luo looked down at the ginger cola in his hand, his thoughts drifted away bit by bit.She shook her head, threw away those messy thoughts, and said with a smile: "He is very good to everyone, and he has always taken care of us during the debate before."

Chen Jian looked at Qin Luo with a ghostly expression on her face: "I'm afraid you met a fake Gu Yanshen, right? Why does the Gu Yanshen I know hate me when they disagree?"

Qin Luo thought about it for a while, and Gu Yanshen has indeed developed a proficient ability to hate people, the kind that can piss you off with a serious face.She looked at him sympathetically: "Maybe it's because you have a face that makes people want to hate you?"

Chen Jian: "..."

Sure enough, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, Qin Luo has learned from Gu Yanshen now!What a kind and lovely little girl!
After the party, Qin Luo and Xiao Tong went back to the dormitory together, discussing the program of the party just now while walking along the way.

Xiaodao: "The two little brothers who sang "Moonlight" just now are really handsome, and they sing very well. I want to contact you!"

Yi Yi: "I still prefer the cross talk between those two girls, every word hits my heart!"

Lin Han: "I suddenly got the handsomeness of Brother Chen today. He just stood on the stage in a suit, and he really overwhelmed the audience!"

Several people were discussing vigorously, unaware that one of the objects they were discussing was walking behind them at this moment.

Chen Jian spoke sullenly behind them: "What are you talking about me?"

Scared the little boy so that he jumped three meters away, turned around and saw him, and said angrily: "I didn't say anything bad about you! Lin Han just praised you for being handsome!"

Chen Jian smiled like a flower: "Really? Is it more handsome than your Senior Brother Gu?"

It was only then that everyone noticed Gu Yanshen who was following behind him, and they all warmly greeted "Senior Brother Gu".Chen Jian said dissatisfiedly: "I am also a senior brother, so the difference between you guys is too obvious!" He asked Lin Han, "You just said I am handsome, but where am I handsome? Or are you saying that I am handsome everywhere?"

Lin Han: "He's pretty handsome when he's not talking..."

Gu Yan laughed softly: "Then this is really embarrassing for him, you Senior Brother Chen likes talking the most, even talking in sleep when you fall asleep."

puff……

Brother Gu, does your conscience really not hurt?

2
After the New Year's Day party, it is the exam week of the legendary "one book a day, one semester a week".

The exam week of the law school dominated the whole school with its huge amount of recitation.

Lin Han complained in the dormitory: "I went to the library to review in the past two days. When people heard that I was from the law school, they looked at me with more respect."

Yi Yi looked hopeless: "Now I really want to travel back and kill myself who chose to major in law regardless."

Xiao Suo comforted them: "You guys are reviewing, you have some impressions in your mind, but I'm previewing, my mind is blank!"

The three of them looked at Qin Luo in unison: "Xueba, please guide me!"

Qin Luo handed over a notebook: "I reorganized the contents of the teacher's lectures from the beginning. 80.00% of the test points should be here. If you memorize them all, you can at least pass."

The three happily took the notebook as if they had found a treasure.

The little coward boasted: "Old Qin is the review book in our dormitory. With her, are you afraid of failing?"

Yi Yi took over her words: "That is, you said that our old Qin people are good-looking, can host, and have good academic performance. I really don't give other girls a chance to survive. I'm going to be jealous of her!"

Lin Han also put on a smiling face: "After all, she is the famous almighty goddess of our law school!"

Qin Luo shook the goosebumps on his body: "Even if you praise me to the sky, if you don't endorse me, you will have to hang up."

The little counselor did not give up and said: "I don't need to memorize the book, Lao Qin, just sit next to me during the exam!"

Qin Luo glanced at her bitterly: "Have you forgotten how your jurisprudence was passed?"

Yi was on the verge of laughing and bursting into tears: "She forgot me, but I still remember, this guy took a B-book and copied your A-book, but he still copied it all. If you don't hang up, you will be a ghost!"

Lin Han asked: "This semester is also divided into AB papers?"

Qin Luo nodded: "The college has issued a notice. In order to prevent fraud, every exam will be divided into AB papers."

With a long sigh, "Women in the law school will never admit defeat", she squatted in the corner and endorsed the book with tears in her eyes.

After the last exam, the little counselor walked out of the exam room with a face ashamed: "I suspect that the teacher who made this question wants me to die!" She asked the three people behind her, "Are you A paper or B paper?"

All three answered that it was the B paper, and Xiao Counselor asked with a sad face, "Why am I the only one who got the A paper? Is the A paper more difficult?"

Qin Luo looked at her sympathetically: "It seems so. After passing these few exams, I found that the A paper seems to be generally more difficult than the B paper."

Xiao Suo cried out in grief: "I'm all A rolls! Don't talk about it, I'll die first."

Qin Luo: "May there be no A roll in heaven."

Yi Yi comforted her: "You fail when you cry, and you fail when you smile. Why can't you fail with a smile? Even if you fail a subject, you have to pass it brilliantly and beautifully! A university that has never failed a subject..."

Xiao Gui interrupted her: "Don't tell me what's wrong with 'a university without passing a course is an incomplete university'. My university can no longer be more complete. If it continues to be complete, it should be a student status warning , my father will kick me to the other side of the ocean!"

Qin Luo patted her head: "Don't cry, shall we have a meal together to celebrate the winter vacation?"

Everyone felt that this proposal was feasible, and actively discussed where to eat later, and walked outside the school while talking.

Xiao Dong is from this city, and her family lives close by. After eating, she went home directly, saying that she would go to school to pack her luggage in two days.

Both Lin Han and Yi Yi bought tickets for the next day to go home, and when they returned to the dormitory, they hurriedly began to collect things, while Qin Luo looked at them leisurely from the side.

Qin Luo was probably the last one to leave their dormitory, because she had to wait for Liang Jue to join him, and Liang Jue probably had two days to go on vacation.Qin Luo watched them pack their luggage in full swing, and suddenly felt a little sad. She would be the only one left in the dormitory tomorrow night.

Lin Han was the ticket early in the morning, Qin Luo didn't even get up when she set off, he just struggled to wake up, said "goodbye" to her, and then fell asleep again.

When Qin Luo woke up, Lin Han had already left, and Yi Yi was also getting ready to go, she suddenly wanted to cry.She rushed over and hugged Yi Yi: "Remember to miss me when you go home, and bring me a lot of special products when you come next year."

It's easy but also somewhat reluctant: "Sleep alone in the dormitory and remember to lock the door at night. Our old Qin is so cute, what if it is stolen."

Maybe it's because it's winter, when Qin Luo sent Yi to the train station, it was only after five o'clock, and it was already dark, she was sitting alone on the bus back to school, looking at the passing cars outside the window, thinking in a daze , the weather forecast said that it will snow in the next two days, and I don't know when the snow will fall.

3
The next day, Xiaodao went back to the dormitory to pack her things, and was surprised to see Qin Luo alone in the dormitory: "Why did they leave? You know, they bought tickets to go home so early, so I won't go home and stay here for two days It's sad to think that I didn't even say goodbye to them."

Qin Luo sighed: "Yeah, I'm quite reluctant."

Xiao Gui asked her: "Are you afraid that you will be left alone in the dormitory?"

Qin Luo glanced at the empty dormitory: "It's nothing to be afraid of, I can't live for two days anyway."

"If you're afraid, I can stay with you for two days. Anyway, my house is close, and I'll be home by taking the subway after leaving school. I'm not in a hurry for a day or two."

"No need, I'm super courageous."

After seeing off Xiao Gui, Qin Luo went to the cafeteria to have dinner, and she even walked a little extra to eat the boiled fish in the second cafeteria.

The weather is really getting colder and colder, and she dare not go out unless she is fully armed to the teeth. The cold wind blows straight into her neck, and Qin Luo feels that her hairline is about to be blown back.

The sky was dark, as if it would collapse at any moment, but it was already pitch black at 05:30.

After coming out of the cafeteria, Qin Luo wandered around the school aimlessly. Anyway, she would be bored when she returned to the dormitory by herself, so it's better to take some walks to digest food and let the cold wind blow away the smell of oily smoke from her body.

Maybe it was because everyone went home for the holiday, or maybe it was because it was too cold and everyone huddled in the dormitory and didn't want to come out. There were very few pedestrians on the road, and even if there were, everyone was in a hurry. No one was as leisurely as her.

When she passed the chicken chop shop in the central district, she went in and bought a chicken chop. While waiting, the boss chatted with her: "Why are you alone? Where are the girls who often hang out with you?"

"They're all home."

The boss handed her the chicken chops: "Yes, we will be closed and go home in two days!"

Qin Luo walked and ate all the way, the cold wind quickly blew the steaming hot chicken chop cold, and it was completely cold when he ate the last piece.

After eating a chicken chop, she touched her stomach contentedly. Since she couldn't control her mouth, she had to work hard.

She wandered around casually for a while, and when she was about to go back to the dormitory, the sky suddenly snowed without warning. At first, it was very fine snowflakes, which melted before they hit the ground, and then gradually grew larger. , can clearly see the shape of each snowflake, each one is unique.

Qin Luo reached out to pick it up regardless of the coldness, and stood there blankly watching the snowflakes fall from the sky.

When Gu Yanshen came out of the laboratory, he saw such a scene: there was a little fool standing under the street lamp having a great time playing, his face had the expression of joy and contentment that only a child could have, the snowflakes flying all over the sky and the darkness The dark night is the most natural background, and the place where she is standing is the only light source in this world. It is as beautiful as a scene reproduced from One Thousand and One Nights. He almost subconsciously took out his phone to freeze the frame This scene.

Qin Luo was so forgetful of himself that he didn't notice the person standing beside him until he asked, "Is it cold?"

When she heard the sound, she turned around and found that it was Gu Yanshen. She greeted her with a smile, and her excitement could not be concealed: "Senior brother Gu, it's Chuxue!"

Gu Yan looked at her deeply, with a smile that couldn't be melted in his eyes: "Well, it's Chuxue."

Qin Luoru looked at the snow in bewilderment: "With such a heavy snow, I don't know if there will be thick snow when I wake up tomorrow morning. I really want to roll in the white snow!"

Gu Yan called her deeply: "Qin Luo," and then beckoned, "Come here."

Qin Luo didn't know his intention, but moved to him anyway.

Gu Yanshen put the padded jacket hat on her head for her, untied her scarf and tied it again, and finally patted her on the head: "Let's go, I'll take you back to the dormitory."

Qin Luo: "..."

Her whole body was tightly wrapped, only a pair of eyes were left wandering outside, she stretched out her hand and pulled down the scarf twice: "Brother, I have always wanted to ask you a question."

"Ok?"

"Does your family have pets?"

Gu Yanshen tidied up the scarf for her again: "I just got a dog not long ago, why are you asking about this all of a sudden?"

Qin Luo finally said what he had been holding back for a long time: "I just said how you have become more and more proficient in patting my head recently. Every time I feel like a stupid dog wagging its tail in front of its master and acting coquettishly cute!"

Gu Yanshen rubbed her head on purpose again, raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh? Then show me how to act coquettishly. If you behave well, you will be rewarded."

Qin Luo: "Wang..."

Gu Yanshen seemed quite satisfied with her performance: "Let's go, let's buy candy."

Then he really took Qin Luo to the school supermarket to buy candy.

Qin Luo hugged a giant lollipop, dumbfounded, Senior Brother Gu is so naive?
After arriving downstairs in the dormitory, Gu Yan asked her deeply: "You should be on vacation, why haven't you come home yet?"

"I'm waiting for my friend, but he hasn't had a holiday yet. How about you, brother, haven't you had a holiday yet?"

"I still have several experimental reports in my hand. When will I finish writing and when will I be on vacation?"

Qin Luo said with emotion: "It's so pitiful."

"Yes, it's so pitiful. You hurry up, it's cold."

Qin Luo rolled his eyes, took advantage of his unpreparedness, suddenly stood on tiptoe and quickly touched his head: "Touch his head, the report will be finished soon!" Then he ran away.

Gu Yanshen looked astonished, and then laughed. It turns out that this is how it feels to be rubbed on the head.

4
The first thing Qin Luo did when he got up the next day was to open the window to see if it was snowing outside, but the sun was shining brightly outside the window, and there was no trace of snow falling, as if the snow last night was a dream she had. .But the giant lollipop on the table told her clearly that all this was not a dream, it happened for real.

I made an appointment with Liang Jue to go home tomorrow, and after waking up, she started to pack her luggage one by one. When everything was almost packed, she looked at the pot of mimosa on the window sill and started to worry, so she just threw it in the dormitory for a month. it will die, right?Then what should I do, return it to Senior Brother Gu?Or take it home?

She held onto the phone and hesitated for a long time, but she still couldn't send even a single punctuation mark to Gu Yanshen.Forget it, she should take it home and raise it.

So when Qin Luo appeared in front of Liang Jue dragging a huge suitcase and holding a pot of mimosa in his arms, he really couldn't believe his eyes: "I said what are you doing with a pot of grass? Pick it up halfway Is it? Or is it a gift for me?"

Qin Luo raised her foot and was about to kick him: "You don't care about me!" But she was wearing too thick winter clothes, and she almost lost her center of gravity and fell if she didn't kick her.

Liang Jue quickly stretched out his hand to pull her: "I said you should slow down, don't sit on the ground and cry when you fall and eat shit later."

Qin Luo punched him: "You are the only one who talks a lot, you talk all day long!"

Liang Jue tugged at the leaves of the pot of mimosa: "Are you really planning to take it home? Can this thing pass the security check?"

Qin Luo slapped his hand away: "Take it lightly! It can pass the security check, I checked it!"

"Then remember to keep a distance of at least three meters from me later, I don't want to be treated as a psycho like you."

Qin Luo hugged the grass and rushed forward: "Tch, who cares to walk with you!"

"Hey! You don't want your suitcase?"

"You drag it for me!"

The two lived in Yunshi, which was not far from Jiangcheng, and it was only about an hour's journey by train.

Qin Luo's father was waiting at the gate of the train station. When Qin Luo saw her father, he rushed over to prepare for a loving hug. Unexpectedly, her father nimbly moved half a step to the side to avoid her hug and smiled. Going forward to take the suitcase from Liang Jue's hand, leaving Qin Luo messed up in the wind, how long has it been since she came home?Has her father forgotten that he still has a cute little daughter?

The first thing Qin Luo did when she got home was to place the pot of mimosa that she had been holding all the way steadily on the balcony of her room.Liang Jue followed her into the room, and sat down on her bed fiercely: "Why are you so concerned about a pot of broken grass? Why, who gave it to you?"

"none of your business!"

Liang Jue rushed to the balcony and held up the pot of mimosa, threatening: "The hostage is in my hands, if you don't believe it or not, I will tear up the ticket now?"

Qin Luo looked at him calmly: "Then you believe it or not, I will rush to your room right now and smash all your precious handicrafts to pieces?"

"If you dare to touch my figurine, I dare to tear all the surroundings of your 'idou'."

"If you dare to move around my 'idol', I will blow your dog's head off."

Liang Jue resentfully put down the pot of grass and came over, the two brothers hugged Qin Luo's shoulders kindly: "How can a pot of broken grass affect our solid friendship!"

Qin Luo poked his chest hard with his elbow: "Stay away from my grass!"

Liang Jue clutched his chest and exhaled in pain: "Qin Xiaopang, you really did something deadly!"

The two were at a stalemate, and Qin Luo's mother called them from outside the door: "Two little babies, pack up quickly, we are going out for dinner!"

Because the two of them went home today, the parents of the two families agreed to go out for a good meal together.

At the dinner table, Liang Jue's mother kept adding vegetables to Qin Luo's bowl: "Eat more, I'm hungry and thin at school."

Liang Jue heard that he choked on a mouthful of rice and coughed non-stop: "Mom, do you have any misunderstanding about being thin?"

His mother flew over with a sharp eye: "Eat your food well, why are you talking so much!"

Qin Luo made a grimace at him in embarrassment - I deserve it for you to say me!

Liang Jue shrugged disapprovingly.

5
But Gu Yanshen's pot of mimosa still couldn't survive to the end, it died in the hands of Qin Luo's little cousin.

During the Spring Festival, my little cousin visited Qin Luo’s house and saw Qin Luo’s mimosa on the balcony. He pointed to it happily and said, “Sister! I know this one. It’s called Mimosa. The nature teacher told us that it The reason why it is called Mimosa is that when you touch it with your hand, its leaves will shrink, as if shy."

Qin Luo gently pinched his face, and his tone was full of praise: "Yuan is really smart!"

"Sister, can I play with it for a while?"

"of course can!"

Soon, Qin Luo paid the price for her generous "yes".

Three or ten minutes later, when Qin Luo came in again, he saw that the mimosa had been uprooted and the leaves were torn to pieces.She couldn't accept the picture in front of her for a while, closed her eyes and opened them again, and found that she was right, her little cousin was indeed poisoning the pot of mimosa.

Qin Luo exclaimed: "Luo Mingyuan, what are you doing?"

The cousin, who was cute and sensible like a little angel just now, has completely changed his appearance, like a little devil with two horns on top of his head.He glanced at Qin Luo complainingly: "Sister, what are you making such a fuss about? I'm doing an experiment. The mimosa is really amazing. I want to see if its leaves will grow back by themselves after being pulled out."

Ok?Then why don't you try to see if your butt will automatically heal into two parts after being beaten into eight parts by me?

In the end, the little cousin was naturally beaten severely, of course it was not Qin Luo who beat him, but his own father, who beat him until he burst into tears and wailed.

Qin Luo looked at the wreckage of mimosa all over the ground and was very worried. How should she tell Senior Brother Gu the sad news?

After struggling for a while, she still took out her mobile phone and sent Gu Yanshen a message: Is Senior Brother Gu there?

Gu Yanshen quickly replied to her: Yes.

Qin Luo: Brother, have you had dinner yet?
Gu Yanshen: Yes.

Qin Luo's nails were almost bald, and he didn't know how to talk to him about it, so he finally sent a text message: Brother, have you had enough for dinner?
Gu Yanshen: Next, are you going to ask me what I had for dinner?
Qin Luo: No, what I want to ask is whether you are in a good mood now...

Gu Yanshen: Not bad.

Qin Luo: Then I have something to tell you, I hope it won't affect your good mood...

Gu Yanshen looked at the line of words she sent on the screen, and the corners of his mouth slightly turned up. He was really curious about what she was going to say to him.

Gu Yanshen: Tell me.

Qin Luo took a photo of the wreckage of the mimosa and sent it.

Gu Yanshen dialed her directly, and Qin Luo answered "Hello" nervously.

Gu Yan's deep and calm voice came through the receiver: "Tell me, what did you do to my mimosa."

His voice doesn't sound too angry?Qin Luo was a little relieved: "It's not what I did to it, but what my little cousin did to it." Then she explained to Gu Yanshen what happened.

After listening to her, Gu Yan was silent for a while before asking, "How old is he this year?"

"Eight years old, in the fourth grade."

Gu Yan tapped his index finger on the table lightly: "It seems that there is still too little homework."

Qin Luo seemed to have been opened up to Ren and Du's two veins suddenly, and he suddenly realized "Oh": "Senior brother is right, it's because there are too few homework!"

Qin Luo had already started to think about what kind of exercise book to give to his cousin when he was a guest at his cousin's house in two days.

Finally, she hesitated and asked, "Then senior brother, about the mimosa..."

Gu Yan's voice was pleasant: "It's okay—" Qin Luo thought he was going to say "It's okay, it's just a pot of mimosa, don't worry about it", but he said, "When school starts, buy me a new pot of mimosa. Just do it."

Qin Luo's "Thank you, senior brother" was on the tip of his tongue, and he abruptly changed it to "That's okay".

This friend is really unwilling to eat at a loss!

Qin Luo counted, and it seemed that the holidays were only a few days away, and she was going to pack her bags and go back to school soon.

The day before school started, Qin Luo was packing her things in the room. Liang Jue turned over from the balcony and walked into her room as if no one else was there: "Qin Xiaopang, do you want to go out for supper?"

Qin Luo has long been used to his elusiveness, without turning his head: "You don't leave the good door, you have to turn over the balcony every time, do you want to practice your skills to be a thief?"

"It's so convenient to turn over the balcony, why should I take a long detour?"

Both Qin Luo and Liang Jue lived in rooms with balconies, and their balconies happened to be adjacent to each other. When the anti-theft net was installed, the adjacent side of the two balconies was not installed, which left Liang Jue with an unimpeded path. path of.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Liang Jue took the little doll on the bed and threw it at her: "Hey! Didn't you hear me when I said go out for supper?"

Only then did Qin Luo stop what he was doing and looked at him: "Where are we going to eat?"

"The snack street next to the school, didn't you still think about going there last time?"

"Is the snack street open?" The excitement in Qin Luo's voice fluttered out like wings.

"The door opened early, and it was open when I passed by two days ago."

Qin Luo grabbed his arm and ran out: "Eat! Let's eat now!"

The snack street is still the same as before, the first thing Qin Luo went to was the bean curd shop she used to eat: "Boss, I want a chocolate bean curd! Put less..."

The boss took the second half of her sentence with a smile: "Put less chocolate sauce and more coconut, right?"

Qin Luo looked at him in surprise: "You still remember?"

The boss made tofu curds for her swiftly: "I remember, of course I remember. At that time, you would come to my place to buy a tofu curd every night after your study, the unshakable chocolate bean curd." , "I still remember him. He is the one who accompanies you to buy bean curd every day. You two have such a good relationship. I have met so many young couples, and you two are the longest couple!"

Qin Luo almost choked on his own saliva, and waved his hands again and again: "No, no! We are neighbors, we grew up together!"

The boss handed her the finished bean curd: "Gan Qing is still a childhood sweetheart!"

Qin Luo's face turned red immediately: "No, no, we are young, not a couple..."

She still wanted to explain, but Liang Jue called her impatiently from behind: "Let's go! So much nonsense!"

Watching them walk away, the boss smiled and said to the people next to him: "The little girl is shy. I saw that they are a couple. The boy never took his eyes off her for a moment!"

Qin Luo thought that she would never come to this store to eat bean curd again.

(End of this chapter)