Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 120 Reunion

The car dealer stopped at another city gate around the town. At that time, Li Diaozhu was looking at the miscellaneous notes taken out of the small drawer on the car that had been prepared.

Hearing the movement, he put the book down, stared at the delicate glass-shaded lamp on the table, and twitched the corners of his mouth mockingly.

The curtain of the car was lifted, and Cui Jiu jumped up with a big stride.

After sitting firmly, he ordered in a deep voice, "Let's go!"

"Yes!"

After saying that, the carriage changed from sprinting to walking slowly.

Li Kongzhu looked at the man in the purple robe with dark patterns of gold threads, and smiled lip-smackingly, "Lonely men and widows live in the same room, the emperor is not afraid of outsiders?"

"I'm extremely happy that my sister-in-law's wife, Cui Jiu, called Cui Jiu, so it seems a lot more appropriate!" Cui Jiu straightened her clothes and looked at her with a smile.

Li Kongzhu poured him a cup of tea calmly, "In the past it was fine to not know the identity of the emperor, but now it is absolutely impossible to be so presumptuous. The ministers, wives and husbands are still far away from the border, it is better to know a little bit of propriety! "

Cui Jiuting looked at her deeply, and saw that she raised her eyes to meet him with neither humble nor overbearing.

In the end, he coughed lightly with some guilt, "Madam, do you think about the risk of going here?"

"Has your majesty heard the allusion that life is in the same quilt and death is in the same hole?"

Seeing him open his mouth, the woman was stunned again, "I forgot, the emperor has many concubines, even though he has not established a queen, he should know it after all!"

Cui Jiu's eyes darkened, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.

Seeing this, Li Kongzhu raised the corners of his mouth without fear, and read the book again.

Cui Jiu stared at her for a long time, finally gritted his teeth and said, "Since you said such rebellious words, have you ever thought about your family?"

"Family?" The woman moved her eyes from the book, "Except for my husband and son, the lives of other people in my family have nothing to do with me..."

Before she finished speaking, she seemed to think of something, and said casually: "Well, actually, you should still care." After finishing speaking, seeing him raise his eyebrows and look like he knew it, she said again, "If this trip I'm with you If my husband is unharmed, I may care about the lives of some people. If there are accidents... Heh, I can't even take care of my son, let alone other people's lives? What should I do, From now on, let’s resign ourselves to our fate!”

A trace of surprise flashed in Cui Jiu's eyes, and she felt that this woman was crazy.

Abandoning the big family business that was so easy to win, can you even abandon your son?When you say something that offends him, can you ignore the relatives around you?
Does this mean that she is cold-blooded?Or should we praise her for her deep affection?

Li Kongzhu saw that he was staring at him, so he buried his head in the book again.

She cared about her son very much, saying this was just out of anger.In the past year, although she can't do anything about what this bastard has done, can't she show her strength in words and ask for some interest?
Thinking of this, she frowned again, "If the emperor has nothing to do, please get out of the car! You are old and precious, and you should not be jolted, but my wife is not rushing to die. If it is a few minutes later at night, my wife will really I'm really afraid that I will be separated from my husband forever!"

Cui Jiu choked when he heard that.

With a face like a pig's liver, he felt that his heart was in a panic. He wanted to question her, but he didn't care about his questioning at all.People are going to die, are you still afraid of his questioning?

After thinking about it, Cui Jiu finally couldn't think of a solution, suddenly snorted coldly, turned his head and yelled out of the car, "Gui Ren!"

"Hey! Your Majesty!"

"Hand over my things!"

"Yes!"

As soon as the words fell, a small box was handed in at the window.

Cui Jiu took the box and shook it vigorously, "Take it!"

Li Kongzhu raised his eyes, stared at the golden nanmu box on the table, and then turned his eyes away, "Is it poison?"

"Mr. Li!" Cui Jiu was completely mad, "If you speak wild words again, be careful..."

"Copied the Nine Clans? That's right, just copy them all, to save a bunch of top quality, I'm still bothered!" The woman flipped a page of the book, imitating the man's paralyzed expression.

"You..." Cui Jiu pointed at her for a while, and finally snorted angrily, shook his sleeves, and said with great reluctance: "This is a letter written by Hua Lao with Jun Yizhi, since you are going to Once you cross the border, let’s take all of these with us!” Let’s expose them all.

If Jieshi Junyizhi wants to take revenge on him, let him take revenge.Anyway, it can't be cured now, and I don't know what the situation will be. It's better to let him find a vent instead of being unclear when he was introduced.

Li Kongzhu looked at him almost going crazy, thinking about how he got along with Mr. Hua at his home last year.

Perhaps, when he was young, he might be a lively, immature and funny boy.Growing up like this, I am afraid that he also had an extremely helpless experience.

But even so, Li Kongzhu didn't want to sympathize with him.

Push the box over. "Since the emperor has intercepted it, let's keep it. It's useless to hand it over now. Don't worry, I won't tell you right away after I go. If it's really about to be separated forever, by then, I will naturally come out completely and say that I will come out. At that time, the emperor can rest assured that he will not have the ability to retaliate against you."

So, this is to make him bear the debt of conscience for the rest of his life?
Uncle is like this, so is she?
Why are they all in such a hurry to die now?In a hurry to draw a clear line with him?
What did he do wrong?He is the emperor!
Cui Jiu frowned, trying to threaten her with imperial power: "You really don't want it!"

The woman looked at him and threw the teacup on the table.

The sound of "Crack!" frightened the car dealer to stop immediately.

A group of guards quickly surrounded them nervously, shouting, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

"Get out!" Cui Jiubai shouted with a face inside, "Go on your own."

After hearing this, the people outside immediately dispersed and continued to walk.

As for the two people in the carriage, after Cui Jiu turned his head and finished drinking, he immediately turned his head to look at the woman in horror.

I saw the woman, holding the broken tea tiles in her hand, leaning her neck indifferently, pressing the tiles against the fair neck, and smiling at him, "Your Majesty, this should be the case, you can continue to question the crime." !"

Cui Jiu looked at her, she was so shocked that she was speechless, tried her best to hold back her trembling hands, pointed at her and said: "Crazy, crazy! Since you are so determined to seek death, then go .parking!"

The car stopped, and he rushed over with a stride, lifted the soft curtain, and quickly jumped down, "Give me more strength, and I will deliver this crazy woman to you within ten days." place, did you hear it?"

"Yes!"

Qi Qi's ear-splitting shouts made Li Kongzhu in the car proudly raise one corner of his mouth.

Before she could stop smiling, she heard another shout, "Let me go right away, let's go now!"

"Yes!" As soon as the words fell, the guard who was driving the carriage slammed his whip, and it sounded like a horse was in pain. After a loud hiss, the carriage suddenly rushed forward like an arrow off the string. .

Li Diaozhu inside was pulled backward by this inertia, but fortunately she stabilized the corner of the table in time and quickly adapted.

When she saw the small wooden box that was still on the table, the woman snorted softly, picked it up immediately, and threw it out of the car window, "Your Majesty, don't forget to get your nanmu box." go back!"

The woman's voice was so loud that Cui Jiu and the generals, who were far away from her behind, could hear clearly.

Cui Jiu's face turned black immediately, and he turned around with a cold snort, and when he jumped into the car that belonged to him, he wanted to yell angrily and let the car go away.

But in the end, when he was about to give the order, he turned around reluctantly and yelled at the chief eunuch beside him, "Gui Ren, go and pick up that box for me!"

"Yes!"

……

Li Kongzhu's convoy, after Cui Jiu's order, ran day and night non-stop.

In the meantime, in the passing post, he changed horses five times in succession.

And Li Diaozhu in the car, boarded and lived in the car every day.Except when it was extremely inconvenient, the carriage would stop for a while. At other times, no matter how bumpy the carriage was, no matter how painful she was, she still gritted her teeth and remained silent.

It's the beginning of August now, if she doesn't hurry up, after the fifteenth day of August, when the frost falls, then what she wants will be gone.

In addition, it snows half a month earlier in winter in Yasukuni than in Bianguo, that is to say, in terms of climate, it is colder in Yasukuni earlier.

What about frost?
Li Kongzhu was in a heavy mood along the way. After a few days, his rosy face became thinner and sharper due to too much thinking and exhaustion.

On the seventh day, the car dealership finally entered the border of Dajing.

Li Kongzhu asked the guard driving the car, "How long will it take to arrive?"

"In two days, we will arrive at the camp where General Jun and the others are!"

Li Kongzhu nodded, lifted the curtains of the car and looked at the green grass outside.

Suddenly, her sharp eyes saw a piece of land with weeds, and there were many familiar plants that she wanted to use.

"parking!"

Li Kongzhu shouted loudly.

After hearing this, the driver immediately stopped the horse.

Looking around, he saw that it was all flat ground and weeds, and then he said to the people inside with some embarrassment: "Madam Jun, can you change to another place?" There is really no place to hide in such an open place!
Li Kongzhu knew that he had misunderstood, but he lifted the curtain without further explanation.

Seeing this, the guard driving the car quickly jumped off the rafters and put the stool on the ground.

When Li Kongzhu stepped on the stool, he quickly ordered the guards who followed him, "Turn your back quickly and walk half a mile away!"

"No need!" Li Kongzhu waved his hand to stop them from coming without waiting for the crowd to act.

The guard choked when he heard that, and immediately stuttered to the woman with his face like a boiled shrimp, "Jun, Jun, Mrs. Jun, this, this is not very good!"

Li Kongzhu gave him another look.

The young man was so frightened that he blushed immediately and lowered his head, "This subordinate should be damned!"

Li Kongzhu didn't pay attention to it, and only ordered in a low voice, "You all follow me!"

Follow her?

Everyone looked at each other, you all looked at me, and I looked at your standing there, not knowing what to do.

Li Diaozhu didn't pay any attention, and went to the turf first, and pulled down a very tall Artemisia annua.

"I need this, and you all come and help me out, the more you talk about, the better!"

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but looked at the weeds in her hand in confusion for a moment.

The guard driving the car immediately asked, "Madam Jun, why do you want to pull up this weed? It's not far from the camp now, and the emperor has ordered it, but it has to arrive in ten days, so don't delay!"

Li Diaozhu pulled out several trees one after another, "Isn't it going to be there in two days? After pulling out in a while, after arriving at the next destination, you set aside half of the people to pull out for me, and the rest we continue on our way. It will be delayed!"

After the guard heard what she said, it was not easy to refute. After thinking about it, he turned around and waved at the guards behind him.

Everyone understood, and immediately followed quickly, pulling up the weeds that the woman showed them.

While pulling the woman out, she instructed: "Look carefully and pull it out. This leaf is green on both sides. You must not pull it wrong. The one with the white bottom of the leaf is Chen Ai. They are very similar, but they are obviously different. ,Understand?"

When everyone saw her solemn expression, they immediately followed suit.Nodding his head, Qiqi replied: "Understood!"

Li Kongzhu hummed.

After tearing up the Artemisia annua in the area she found, they tied it up with ropes made of straw, and threw horses and horses, and jammed carts.

Li Kongzhu ordered to leave the car, sat in the car, and loosened the bundled Artemisia annua a little, then lifted the curtain to let the wind out.In this way, it can prevent the tying for too long, fever, and burning the grass leaves.

According to what Li Kongzhu said, when passing through the next place where there is Artemisia annua, half of the people came immediately, and she and the other half used horses and carriages to continue northward with the previously picked ones.

After another day and night of rushing, on the morning of the third day, that is, the morning of the ninth day when Li Kongzhu left Huancheng Town.They finally arrived at the place where Zhao Junyi camped.

At that time, when their carriage was only half a mile away from the camp, they were stopped by patrolling soldiers.

After the driving guard flashed his token and explained his purpose, the patrolling soldier immediately ordered his companions to rush back to the camp to report.

And he came to lead the horses himself, and led them to the place where the camp was located.

Li Kongzhu in the car secretly lifted a corner of the car curtain, looked at the vast and boundless gravel area outside, and thought, this is where the men camped?
Hearing the sound of horseshoes, Li Kongzhu's heart suddenly tightened as he slowly approached the camp that looked like blooming white flowers.

Thinking about the man she was going to meet for a while, she didn't know what kind of image he would stand in front of her.Is it thinner or darker?Or is it a little more calm and sophisticated after being baptized by the wind, frost and war?

Li Kongzhu's heart beat faster and faster, thinking that Mr. Hua was walking in front of her and knew she would come, so did he tell the man that she would come?

But if he told her, with the man around him, why didn't he arrange to pick her up a few steps earlier?

Or, Hua Lao didn't tell him at all?
While the woman was thinking wildly, the car dealer had already entered the camp.

At that time, Hua Lao, who heard the report, immediately walked over quickly from the military doctor's shed.

When the car stopped at the gate of the camp, the guard lifted the curtain and Li Kongzhu got out of the car.

The old man was overjoyed immediately, "Girl, are you really here?"

At this time, Li Kongzhu was standing on the rafters of the car, high above her, her eyes swept over the crowd of soldiers who gathered around and looked at this!

The expected figure was not seen, Li Kongzhu couldn't help feeling a little lost in his eyes.

Hearing Mr. Hua's question, she chuckled again, "Yes! I'm worried, so I brought something here!"

The old man shook his head, turned his head and shouted at a group of soldiers with green eyes and full of giggles: "Go, go, go, why are you all staring so big? Look again, be careful of eyeballs! dug it down."

After hearing this, all the soldiers were not afraid. Some of the thick-skinned ones immediately laughed and asked loudly, "Is that Chinese military doctor, this beautiful young lady, really the wife of our general?"

"That's right! Miss Sister looks much younger than the general, it doesn't look like it!"

Li Kongzhu listened to the crowd's uproar, but he smiled heartily, "Thank you for your compliments. Although I look very small, I am not young. In the countryside, I am as old as I am. Children can make soy sauce!"

"really?"

"really!"

Li Kongzhu nodded, Hua Lao came to pick her up and got off the car, and looked at her with a smile, but gave her a meaningful look.

Seeing a group of brawny men scrambling to look at them, they turned to a young soldier who was very close, and immediately slapped him violently, "What are you doing so close, boy, what the hell are you going to do with your wife?" , Hurry up and train your body well, after this incident, take down Jingdu and make meritorious service, you can ask for as many houses as you want!"

"And you, don't squeeze. Don't scare the girl, be careful when your general comes back, and pull off your skin one by one!"

When everyone heard him talk about meritorious service, they were a little depressed.After hearing him say the general again, they all laughed and shouted, "The general will not use punishment indiscriminately!"

"Yes! Although the general looks extremely cold and strict, he is actually a very good general!"

"Yes, yes! We just want to see what the general's wife looks like! We don't intend to offend you!"

"That's right! Pretty lady, don't hate us!"

"Yes, yes! Don't count on hating us!"

After everyone agreed, they immediately burst into laughter.

The sound of laughter made people's eardrums buzz.

Such unscrupulous ridicule, if it were an ordinary lady with a thin skin, she might have stomped her feet and was ashamed to death.

But Li Diaozhu smiled kindly when he heard it, "No wonder! If it's okay, can everyone stop calling me Miss Sister? Or the general's wife?"

"What's that called?"

"Call me sister-in-law!" The woman smiled heartily, "Your husband and everyone on the battlefield are life and death brothers. He is the leading brother, and I am his wife. Being a sister-in-law should be worthy!"

Most of this group of soldiers are from farming families, and they usually have a loud voice in training, plus the rough old man, if they speak in a jerk, it will make them very unhappy, so it's better to follow their liking Sex, mingle with them.

When Li Kongzhu thought this way and said it, all the generals present were stunned for a moment when they heard it. The next second, there was a thunderous cheer, "This is what I love to hear. If my sister-in-law doesn't dislike it , then from now on, we will call you sister-in-law? You must not think we are big bosses!"

"Of course!" Li Kongzhu nodded.

Amidst the clamor of the generals, he walked towards the general's tent step by step.

When they arrived at the general's camp, the generals began to stop.

Li Kongzhu stood by the door tent and was not in a hurry to go in, just smiled and said: "I have a small request, that is, when your general comes back later, can you temporarily hide the news of my arrival?"

When everyone heard what she said, they suddenly understood.

The big bastard immediately patted his chest and shouted loudly: "Don't worry, little sister-in-law, we promise to cover this matter tightly, just watch it!"

"Hey, thank you big brother!"

Li Kongzhu laughed, and amidst the clamor of the crowd, he began to lift the curtain and walked in with Hua Lao.

As soon as she entered, the desk and sand table that she was looking at unexpectedly bumped into the woman's eyes.

Li Kongzhu looked around, and saw that although the camp was big, it was extremely simple.

The entire camp except for the table case and the exercise sand table.Then there is a screen hung with camp cloth, on which is a pair of marching maps.

Li Diaozhu didn't have much interest in the map, so he turned around and walked around the screen, and saw a simple single-person camp bed behind him.

On it was a thin quilt and a small pillow with a big head.

The bed was touched by a woman, and she could feel a lot of gravel on it.

The orderly outside came in with tea.

Li Diaozhu and Hua Lao went around to the front again.

At this moment, the noisy soldiers outside had already dispersed, and the uniform footsteps of patrolling soldiers could be heard from time to time in the entire camp.

Seeing that she was almost finished reading, Mr. Hua invited her to sit on the only chair behind the desk.

At this time, Li Kongzhu didn't want to pretend to give up his seat, it was because the bumps and exhaustion of the journey made her extremely tired.

After saying thanks, he sat down.

"I have already sent someone to report to him. Now, in order to keep the hearts of the soldiers healthy, he is personally monitoring the water source of the big river every day. He is afraid that if he misses again, someone will find another opportunity to release the dead body!"

The people of Yasukuni drink this great river.As for the epidemic, in addition to their military transformation, the Yasukuni and more than a dozen farms on the edge of the river have also been infected with the epidemic one after another.

It can be said that the emperor of Yasukuni even ignored his own people in order to destroy them. He was really ruthless.

Li Kongzhu nodded his head, took another sip of tea, and inadvertently exhaled foul air.

Seeing this, Mr. Hua said with a smile: "Since you arrived two days later than me, you must have traveled fast along the way!" It fell apart.

Thinking of coming here, the old man put down the cup, "You go to the back and rest for a while!"

Li Kongzhu had this intention long ago, smiled, got up and greeted him with courtesy.

Hua Lao nodded, turned around and walked out of the camp.

When he reached the door, he seemed to think of something, "That's right! I didn't tell that kid about the family affairs!"

Li Kongzhu raised his eyebrows, did he want to wait for her to say it himself?
"I see!" The woman nodded, and opened her mouth to say something else, but after she finished speaking, she lifted the curtain and strode out of the tent, so she closed her mouth.

"If you think about it, he won't believe it!" With a helpless smile, the woman thumped her extremely sore shoulder, turned and walked towards the camp bed behind.

After climbing onto the bed, the woman opened the quilt, and immediately a familiar smell mixed with the smell of sweat came rushing to her nostrils.

She frowned, and although she didn't feel the smell, the extremely tired woman still managed to cover herself up, and lay down on her back.

But with a snap of the fingers, the woman lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep!

I don't know how long it took, the sleeping woman felt a little uncomfortable and hummed lightly. In a daze, she felt that something was staring at her, which made her turn over in extreme displeasure.

She didn't want to, but the moment she turned over, a pair of powerful palms moved her back like iron inserts.That eye-catching thing started staring at her again, making her uncomfortable.

Reluctantly opened his eyes, and saw that the camp tent, which was still bright just now, was now dark and numb.

He straightened his hands and stretched his waist, and when he was about to yawn, that compelling gaze came over again.

The woman frowned, turned her head to look, and froze on the spot for a moment.

Although the field of vision was a little dark at the moment, the man's extremely bright phoenix eyes and that incomparably handsome silhouette had long been branded in her mind, and they were extremely clear.

Surprised, he stood up immediately.

Standing up together, the distance between him sitting on the head of the bed and facing him was less than ten centimeters.

The woman stared at him blankly, and the man also looked expressionless, with bright eyes looking at her right and wrong.

After a while, when the two said, "You..." at the same time, they suddenly stopped at the same time.

The woman reached out to touch his handsome face, and the man also used his big palm to smooth her sleepy temple hair.

"You've lost weight!" The edges and corners of his handsome face became more and more prominent. Due to the dark sky, the woman couldn't tell whether his background was dark or not. She reached out her hand and took his hand that was curling her hair.

The rough gravel and the ravine cut by the tiger's mouth made the woman's nose sore, "I don't even brush my hands carefully!" Last year, his hands were still slender and white with clear joints, and this is less than a year. In the short time, it has become so rough.

The man hummed lightly.

Thinking of the time when he was retrieved by the old Hua faction, although he didn't know her arrival, he was inexplicably flustered for a while.In addition to returning to the camp, some soldiers winked at him, making him think that something serious happened.

The corner of his mouth twitched silently. He originally planned to go to Mr. Hua's place to ask in person, but was forced into the tent by a group of soldiers.

He still remembered that the moment he entered the tent, he immediately felt the breath of another person in the tent.

This discovery made him squint his eyes immediately, holding the knife in his hand, and quietly searched for the extremely soft breathing.

But the moment he walked around the cloth screen, he was dumbfounded on the spot.

At that time, when he saw the woman on the camp bed inconceivably, the shock and longing in his heart were like a flood, constantly pounding his usually calm heart.

Walking forward slowly, looking at the familiar little face pressed somewhere in my heart, I have recalled it many times.

Although she was still fair and beautiful, it was not difficult to see from the rosy lips that had peeled and the tiredness between the woman's brows that she must have suffered a lot from the boat and car work all the way.

Strolling to the edge of the bed in distress, she sat down, and the bed, which could not bear the weight, made a loud creaking sound.Even such a loud voice did not make the woman sober.

It can be seen that I am very tired!

Raising his hand, the man gently stroked a strand of messy hair on her forehead, and with deep phoenix eyes, he found that the woman seemed to have changed somewhat after not seeing her for nearly a year.

But what was the difference, he couldn't say.

His heart sank immediately, and the dissatisfaction and annoyance wrinkled between his brows made him very upset.

Sitting there, staring at the seemingly familiar but somewhat changed face, the man began to stubbornly try to see something from it.

Looking at it, he saw that it was going to be dark, staring until the woman opened her eyes in displeasure, and then gave up.

Recovering from the memory, the man stared at the woman's big palm, and wrapped her slender hand in the big palm with a backhand, his voice was low and indifferent, "Why did you come here?"

Now that this place is in danger, why is she so disregarding her own safety?

While the man was thinking, he saw some disapproval in her eyes.

But the woman leaned towards him lazily, feeling his body froze for a moment, she broke away from his slender hand in satisfaction, opened her arms and hugged his strong waist, "I miss you!"

For more than 300 days, although she has been forcing herself to be busy, even though she was pregnant and gave birth, she did not show her frailty, but somewhere in her heart, she still couldn't help thinking about him in the dead of night, even though she hated him His indifference, but lovesickness, who can suppress it?
The man hugged her back into his arms, resting his chin against the top of her soft hair, his heart sank, but he said calmly, "I just thought, I shouldn't come at this time, you should know ..."

"Of course I know, I'm here to live and die with you!"

"Nonsense!" The man's face darkened at her teasing.Regarding these words, he was extremely unwilling to listen to them, pulled her out of his arms, and said with deep eyes, "Tomorrow I will get into the carriage and send you back! Just go back and wait for me at ease!"

"What if I say no?"

"Don't mess around!"

"What if I want it?" The woman raised her eyes and looked at him very seriously, as if she was fighting him.

But the man also looked at her unquestionably, and said in an extremely cold voice, "No!"

The woman shrugged, "If you can't, you have to!"

The man squinted his eyes, while the woman quickly went over and put her arms around his neck, and said coquettishly, "It's so easy to sew it back up again, are you willing to let me go?"

The man's Adam's apple rolled.

Seeing that it was effective, the woman quickly continued to attack in a soft voice, "You know, you have traveled for such a long time, and you haven't written half a safety letter, even if you forgot what you promised me at the beginning. You know that I am What kind of person, why are you so cruel and indifferent? Or, I will never be ranked in your heart? "

The man was left speechless by the question, he choked his throat and wanted to say something, but in the end he felt that it would be wrong to say it again, after a while, he only heard him say: "I'm sorry!"

The woman shook her head, "You didn't feel sorry for me!" Cui Jiu and him were the ones who felt sorry for her.

She will let the man deal with Cui Jiu. As long as that kid has a little conscience, she doesn't believe that with her current meritorious service and the man's future meritorious service, she can't move back to Yicheng to frustrate his arrogance?

As for the men's punishment, it was also mixed in Cui Jiu's punishment!

The woman gritted her teeth and thought, she hugged the man's neck and began to cry again, "Let me stay here, I, I brought a folk remedy, I want to help you! Yizhi!"

(End of this chapter)