Hua Mulan won the second championship of the big competition, and she didn't ask for a promotion to make a fortune, but she just hoped to go to a better meal and be able to eat enough to go to the battlefield again.

The army is not a place of equality and friendship, and even among recruits, there are class differences due to strength, status, origin, etc. There is no shortage of this situation in the main armies of the left and right armies.

The relationship between the Hu, Xianbei, and Han people is complicated, and the right army is mixed with dragons and snakes, and there are people of all ethnic groups, and the situation is even more complicated. can be the fire chief, either relying on the big clan behind him, or he really has the ability under his fist.

Mulan was very unfortunate to follow a "gilded" Xianbei aristocratic general in the army, and she was on par with "military merits", with such a general, the soldiers under her were all like this, and it was normal for Mulan to be such an outlier that she couldn't even eat a full meal.

It's just that the generals in the army are the majority after all, and it is common for them to use a little means to suppress the newcomers below, even if Xia Hong heard her unwillingness and annoyance from Mulan's words, he can't break the "unspoken rules" in the army, so after he heard the request of the "champion", he didn't show annoyance, just smiled and ordered a general to come out.

"General Wang Meng."

"The last general!"

When General Wang saw that General Zhenjun was at this time, he knew his thoughts in his heart.

"This Mulan said that he has a big appetite, I want to think about it, except for you, the 'good old man', there is probably no general in the right army who can open up to let the people below eat enough. Shall I transfer Mulan to your command as a personal soldier?"

General Wang is now the protector general of the sixth grade, with three military merits, and can have eight personal soldiers. It stands to reason that he agreed, but he thought about it and said something that surprised everyone.

"Mulan's military merits are enough to be promoted, right? General, this Mulan has such martial arts, and it is really aggrieved to be a well-guarded soldier by my side......"

No grievances, no grievances!

Mulan screamed in her heart.

The soldiers are good, the food is good, the treatment is good, and as long as you protect the main general, you don't have to worry about anything else!

Helplessly, General Wang couldn't hear her heart, and continued: "I still have a position of General Jiupin Pi under my command, and I can lead a team of five hundred. Originally, he wanted to stay and promote the new military class of martial arts, but now it seems that this Mulan is also suitable as a general."

Although General Jiupin Pi is not high in rank and has nothing to offer, he is a small general who is in charge of five hundred people after all. The general is also a "general", even if it is not as good as the miscellaneous general, this official position must be reported to the imperial court, and the official letter is officially issued to accept the fate.

At this moment, countless people became jealous of Mulan, and Di Yefei was even more disappointed and wanted to bury his face in the sand.

is a man who has the dream of leading troops out of battle and killing the enemy to make meritorious contributions, Di Yefei knows that with his own background and appearance, only by climbing to a high place and being protected by a loyal deputy general will not make people look down on him, and he is more and more eager for that position.

It's just that after all, his skills are not as good as others, and if he can't fight, he can't beat him, and although he loses, he doesn't have much resentment.

General Zhenguo didn't expect Wang Meng to be so interested in Mulan. He always thought that Mulan was a general, he couldn't be a handsome talent, and his knowledge and ambition were insufficient, so he just wanted him to be a fierce general and a general.

But Wang Meng asked him to lead the troops at the beginning, because he really felt that he had the talent to lead the army.

Wang Mengzu is also a Han who is a heirloom of poetry and books, although he has fallen into a military household, but he is also a brave and resourceful outlier in the right army, and he has both a strange and accurate look. If he hadn't saved his life back then, he would have started to emerge from the right army, and I am afraid that he would have been sent to the Chinese army by the military division a long time ago.

Thinking of this, the general of the town army nodded.

"In that case, then Mulan ......"

"General Qiyu, I don't dare to receive this official position!" Hua Mulan knelt down on one knee and explained earnestly with the hot gaze behind her: "I have been in the army for less than a year, and I am soft-spoken, and I have no ability to lead the army. Soldiers, big things too. I am willing to start from my own soldiers, and when I learn the skills of General Wang, it is not too late to lead the army."

Are you kidding! Receiving 500 people?

With a general like her who doesn't dare to ask for more military merits, I'm afraid that she won't even be able to eat, right?

"It seems that Mulan still doesn't have much motivation to improve." Su Hejun, who was dressed as Xia Hong's own soldier, whispered behind him: "But it's okay like this, if he becomes a general, I won't be able to get mixed up with him. Please follow his idea first, let him start with the fire chief under General Wang, and then stuff me in."

Xia Hong got the request of the leader of the egret here, and he also knew it in his heart, and his face sank at the moment, and he shouted in a low voice:

"Appointment in the army, how can you want it, and if you want it? Mulan, since you don't want to be a general, you don't have to start as a soldier. You're worried about not having enough to eat when you're participating in martial arts, aren't you? Then I will grant your wish, you go to General Wang's command and become a fire chief! "

The fire chief is in charge of the distribution of military rations and supplies sent down by the fire, and also takes care of cooking. The fire chief in the new barracks has to cook for himself, while the fire chief who enters the main camp is cooked by the unified fire head in the army, and he is only responsible for the distribution. Of course, when it came time to march, or in order to improve the food, the fire chief still had to settle the matter of setting up camp and setting up stoves.

The general of the town army bluntly said that Mulan was a "rice bucket", which caused the people around him to laugh. Even more gloating at the moment, he whispered nonsense and mocked.

In the army dominated by Xianbei people, "why don't men bring Wu hooks" is a common thing. If you resign from the position of leading the troops, you will be looked down upon, and you will not be said to be modest and cautious.

Wang Meng didn't expect Mulan to be such a choice, except. [,！ Sighing and regretting, I can only receive the appointment.

He admired Mulan very much, and once gave away his short-haired weapon "Ugin Dagger" for his life. What's even more valuable is that he has never told anyone about it, and he is happy to be an unknown "Bole".

He looked at her because he saw something different from Mulan's behavior that she was different from the other soldiers.

Compassion, indifference, calmness.

This is the quality of a responsible general.

Because of this good fate formed by cherishing talents, Hua Mulan, who survived, said that Tugui led the army to return to the army at great risk and saved his life, which can be regarded as repaying the cause and effect.

At this time, Mulan finally arrived under his tent, and it can be said that a drink and a peck are all providential.

Everyone has regrets, some are puzzled, some scold Mulan lard is confused, and there are all kinds of things, but Mulan originally participated in the big competition just to be able to eat enough, and now the goal has been achieved, although the better treatment of the pro-soldiers can't do it, it can be regarded as unsatisfactory, and they can eat enough.

Afterwards, Di Yefei went to find Mulan.

"How the hell did you see through my trick?"

He has always felt that he has practiced this life-saving trick extremely purely, even if he is in the army, he may not be able to see it clearly.

……

Mulan blinked.

She fought him for dozens of rounds, and she didn't know which move he was talking about.

In her opinion, his tricks are all similar, the so-called see through or not......

Dear, anyway, it's just a block, you have to see through what to do!

"…… I...... That's it...... "Mulan doesn't know how to explain how she played.

It's something that can't be explained in words.

"You don't need to say it......" Di Yefei showed a devastated expression.

His moves are so shallow that they don't need to be seen through at all, and they can't be called any hidden killing moves for her?

This Mulan also knows to save him some face, how can he be an ignorant person!

"Huh? You asked me first." Mulan is also innocent.

He stopped her and asked such a question, and she had racked her brains to think about what great trick she had blocked, but before she could finish it, the Dimei said that she didn't need to say anything.

Mulan looked curiously at the face of this beautiful woman in the army, and wondered if there was something wrong with her brain, but there was a kind of beauty that always diverted the attention of others, and gradually her mind went elsewhere.

His skin is still so white. The skin looked rough, but it wasn't cracking like she did.

Having said that, in a place like Mobei, where there is no difference between wind and knives, how does he protect his skin?

Although she doesn't care about her appearance or anything, it hurts to wash her face every morning!

In the eyes of outsiders, Mulan and Di Yefei are "looking at each other affectionately".

And this outsider is the "Mr. Egret" Su Hejun who is watching with his head raised.

At this time, he was hiding behind a tent, watching the movements of these two people curiously.

Could it be that this Mulan is not good for women, not good for fame and fortune, good for this mouthful?

It's not right, he also inquired a lot of news, and he didn't hear anything wrong with his fire before.

Or is it that only a natural "stunner" like Di Yefei can attract his attention?

That's the end of it.

A man like Di Yefei with a beautiful face like a woman, and an exotic style, I'm afraid that there are not a few in the entire Great Wei.

If he hadn't come to the army and was born in such a small place, I'm afraid he would have been taken away by the high-ranking officials and nobles of Pingcheng.

Even if Hua Mulan loves this kind of beautiful man, he can't ask His Majesty to go to those aristocratic homes and ask for someone else's domestic and beautiful Hu male pet, right?

Su Hejun didn't quite believe that people like Mulan would love men, so he waited and watched the changes, and only observed silently in the back.

Just as Mulan was looking at the figure and skin of Di Yefei, the defeated general under her subordinates, Di Yefei was also looking at the man who defeated him.

It's not more than seven feet tall, so it's not tall.

The appearance is mediocre, the eyebrows are also dull, only a pair of eyes can be regarded as bright and bright, and the inverted face has a brilliance.

The shoulders are not wide, and the pectoral muscles are ...... It should also be practiced a little sturdy.

Overall, it doesn't look like someone with that kind of divine power at all!

Where does his strength come from?

From the bones?

When Di Yefei noticed Mulan's fingers and tiger mouth, he was even more surprised!

He raised his hand and looked at his palm and arm, clenched his fist slightly and asked Mulan:

"Can you please ...... Let me see your palm?"

"What do you think of this?" After all, Mulan is still a woman, and when she sees that he wants to see her hands, she can't help but feel a little weak. What's more, she has practiced riding and archery since she was a child, and her hands are not good-looking.

Take pity on her heart and liver, which has nothing left.

"This is important, please show me!" Di Yefei had an expression of not giving up until he achieved his goal.

'Actually, you've been spoiled without knowing it.'

Mulan sighed helplessly in her heart.

This world, only.[,!] If you look good, men can eat it.

She spread her palm and handed her right hand, which was full of calluses.

"Please take a look."

Di Yefei was not polite at the moment, grabbed Mulan's palm and looked at it.

Mulan's hands are not ugly, on the contrary, his fingers are slender, and his knuckles are more delicate than those of most men.

Di Yefei has practiced halberds and spears since he was a child, so he naturally knows where the cocoons are distributed after practicing sticks. He touched her tiger's mouth and palm, little finger everywhere, and was shocked beyond measure:

"You...... You didn't use a gun before?"

These cocoons are all new cocoons, and when you look at them, they won't be more than a year at most!

A newcomer who has been using a gun for less than a year actually saw through his killing moves lightly, and even defeated him under the horse?!

"Ah, my grandfather taught ......"

At that time, she was her daughter's family, and her grandfather taught her more riding and archery. The daughter's home gun stick is too ugly, and the flower mother and the eldest sister of the flower family are against her making a thick callus, so she only learned a basic marksmanship, and did not practice every day.

"I'm ashamed to say that my sword skills and spear skills are still those superficial moves that I started in the army, but I am only proficient, and I can't compare with you people who have family roots. As for family heirlooms...... My grandfather is just a mediocre person, and he is limited in what he can teach me."

In other words, there is probably a family heirloom stunt, but her father's qualifications were not good back then, and he was disabled.

Di Yefei let go of her hand and took a few steps backwards in despair.

'There is such a person in this world who is born to know, and he can defeat me with only a few superficial skills. It's ridiculous, and I also said that if I work hard in the future, I will be defeated by him in the future. Could it be that if I run forward, he won't be able to climb? When he got one or two good marksmanship and knife skills, I really couldn't beat the horse! ’

Di Yefei glanced at Mulan with a complicated expression, and suddenly stepped forward and hugged her.

"Thank you, Your Excellency, for letting me know what it means to have people in the heavens and heavens to have heavens outside the heavens! I will not be so chaotic in the future, eager for quick success, there are people like your Excellency, if I don't work hard, won't I have a better day?"

He loosened the magnolia and roared as if to cheer himself up.

"Next time, I'll be on that podium!"

"Ha, haha, what's ......?"

Mulan was completely stunned by him.

"I'm sure you'll do it."

Although there are many recruits in the right army, he still has a lot of strength.

This is not perfunctory.

"Thank you for your good words!"

Di Ye Fei thanked him and strode away into the distance.

……

Hua Mulan looked at Di Yefei's "graceful" back and touched her head in wonder.

"…… What the hell is he here for?"

Whatever!

He stood on that table, and he couldn't care about her eating!

Just for a moment, Mulan was happy again

Soon after the two left, Su Hejun, who had been hiding behind the shelter and looked at it, walked out with a frown.

How does this situation look like "Lang is affectionate, but the concubine has no intention"?

It seems that Di Yefei has fallen in love with Mulan and intends to talk, Mulan is a stunned boy, and he can't see the other party's overtures at all.

This hand has also been pulled, and the hug has been hugged (fog), why is it still only a giggle?

…… Is this useful information, and can it be used by him?

The seasoned spy figured it out in his mind.

Otherwise, the idea is to let this Di Yefei also go to Mulan's side, and when Mulan and him are happy, maybe they can still find a way to do it?

Two months later, Di Yefei really overwhelmed the second battalion of black and white, became the new "champion", and entered the main army camp of the right army.

At this time, Mulan has already risen high. The right army is different from the recruit camp, if you can still release water in the black and white camp regardless of military merits, or give military merits to others, in General Wang's place, he even divided a team of people to record military merits to prevent the situation of ripping on the battlefield.

Mulan was the fire chief first, and then her military exploits in this fire rose rapidly like climbing the ladder, and each became a centurion, just because she was used to it, Mulan still ate with them at noon, as if she was a fire companion in the past.

Su Hejun, who was in the same fire before, used a lance that was rare for ordinary soldiers in the army, and his origin was never publicized, but there were rumors in the army that he was a son of the Wuchuan Suhe clan.

This makes Mulan's fire rarely crowded. Wuchuan Town is the most united military town in the six towns of the Great Wei Dynasty, often Wuchuan points soldiers, servants are like clouds, in the army, recruits from Wuchuan are also easy to rise.

Slowly, the centurion became a general, and then became a miscellaneous general, and Hua Mulan also brought thousands of people, and had the prestige of "Tiger Might".

It's just that an even bigger crisis is coming.

It's getting hotter, and I can't wear the thick winter coats. In the army, she can go home to visit her relatives once every six months, but she is afraid that she will not dare to go back, so she has to prepare the spring and autumn clothes and summer clothes by herself.

Even if she goes to the nearest town to buy ready-to-wear clothes, she always has to try them on, not to mention that there are not necessarily ready-to-wear clothes to buy. In addition, after the hot weather, she will inevitably have to wash her face and wipe her body after the practice, and she has no separate account now, nor does she have the qualifications to ask for a separate account

[,！ ]

Even General Wang, although he got a separate account, still had four personal soldiers living together.

……

Only if she climbs up quickly, and when she rises to the next turn of military merit, she can ask the two generals to live together in the same account.

It's easier to cover up in front of one than four.

When she finally got the treatment she wanted, she was shocked to find that her new roommate was actually Di Yefei, who had already been booked by the vanguard army and had already made a name for herself?

"Why are you going to settle accounts with me? I'm not in the same camp as you! "

Mulan was a little nervous and a little curious.

If Di Yefei is really a woman as rumored, then she can rest assured.

"It's okay to ...... here" Di Yefei saw the clean camp tent that had been cleaned up, and looked at Mulan with some expectation in his heart. I've been kicked out of the Vanguard."

He grinned, obviously a rude gesture, but because of his appearance, he looked extraordinarily frank.

"Those guys in the same account wanted to take advantage of me, and I pinched my eyeballs."

……

Mulan felt some pain in her eyes.

"Ah...... Then you're not afraid of me?"

Mulan stumbled.

"General Wang said that I can't beat you anyway, if you really want to do something, I can only admit it." Di Yefei's face darkened at the mention of this. I'm sure you're not that kind of person. How can someone who can practice such martial arts be a nasty person who only thinks about this kind of thing in his head all day long! "

He looked at Mulan, who still had no chest, raised his eyebrows and said:

"Why, are you?"

"Of course not!"

She shook her head wildly, and suddenly felt that this Di Yefei and her account were not bad.

"I won't peek at you changing clothes, showering, wiping your body, or touching you. Of course, in order to avoid suspicion, if I want to change my clothes and wipe my body, I will also avoid you. I won't ask to sleep with you, although we have one account, you take care of your own business, I will take care of mine, how about that?"

"Why are you avoiding me? You should take a shower and change your clothes or do it yourself. You don't really think that I'm a daughter who joins the army for my father as others say, do you?" Di Yefei laughed and directly opened his shirt. You see, I'm such a man."

Di Yefei's fair and flat chest is hard to convince others that he is a woman. Even though Mulan has faintly felt that her breasts, which were not very obvious recently, are developing in a firmer and firmer direction, they are still slightly bulging after all.

This Di Yefei really only has chest muscles, and the curve of his upper body is also rigid rather than soft.

Hua Mulan was a little dumbfounded by Di Yefei's "boldness".

"Oh, I'm not afraid you'll think about it......"

"Then it's settled." Di Yefei unexpectedly covered his shirt and threw his things to the right side of the tent. We'll be living together in the future, and hopefully we'll all get used to it soon."

He took off his armor and collapsed on the mat made of wool felt without a figure.

"It's been a long time since I've slept soundly. With roommates like you who can fight, I can sleep peacefully."

He is willing to come here because he said to General Wang, "Mulan will not let people touch you under their noses".

For a period of time later, Di Yefei may have slept soundly, but Mulan has never been able to sleep well.

It's another night.

Mulan sat up suddenly, lifted the curtain and went out the door, catching up with two creeps peeping out of the tent.

What a hell! I actually came to peek at them in the middle of the night to sleep!

After a long time, the fact that she is a woman may be exposed by Di Yefei!

Hua Mulan punched them one by one, beating them with gold stars in the eyes, and then threw them to the ground, and said viciously: "Today is to beat you up, and the next time I secretly want to come in in the middle of the night, I will let you know what it means to 'kill people in my dreams!'" "

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Hua Mulan solved the two cowardly guys, and when she returned to the camp, Di Yefei had already opened her eyes and looked at him with an angry face expressionlessly.

"Thank you, although it doesn't affect me, but it's weird and annoying that someone suddenly touches me in the middle of the night."

"You've been like this before?" Mulan couldn't believe it.

"It's so ...... every day," Di Yefei turned over with a flat expression, "Night and night."

Mulan went into the futon in a trance and didn't sleep all night.

She was thinking that if she was found to be a woman in the army, would she be like Di Yefei, who would stop when others stripped off their clothes and found that she was really a man, or would she continue.

If she continues, with her force, I am afraid that she will kill herself......

When it was dawn, she shook her head and threw all her thoughts out of her head.

She looks so ordinary, she is not handsome as a man, she is not beautiful as a woman, who will hit her attention?

But it is undeniable that since then, Mulan's attitude towards Di Yefei has been getting better and better.

This is a complex feeling of "sympathy" and "sympathy".

On the one hand, Mulan always felt that this Di Yefei blocked the knife for her and stood beside him, even if she was a real woman, no one could see it, it was all up to him.

Second, this paoze who eats with the same fire and lives in the same tent has a good character and loves cleanliness, which keeps her away from all kinds of troubles from pig teammates such as snoring, grinding teeth and foot odor

Three, is sympathy. Growing up like this, whether it is male or female is a tragedy and a kind of luck, as long as . [,！ Having the power to protect oneself is a great advantage; But if you don't even have the ability to protect yourself, then it's only a tragedy.

When the battle is over, if he doesn't get ahead, I'm afraid there will be a more terrible ending waiting for him.

I heard that some dignitaries and nobles don't care whether the beauty is male or female.

The holy decree of the Son of Heaven arrived in the army, and the left and right armies and the Chinese army were ordered to accompany the army to march in person.

Hua Mulan of the right army has always been reluctant to go to the Chinese army to serve allegiance, he refused the solicitation of other generals, and others did not risk offending Xia Hong and this general to force him.

Although Mulan is brave and good at fighting, she is not combative, which has also become Xia Hong's biggest headache.

To fight with Emperor Wei, this passive state will annoy the king.

"Your Majesty, based on the observation of the minister, this Mulan is indeed a person with an indifferent heart and a simple personality." Egret Su and Jun wrote very clearly in the letter." He is really not good at fame and fortune, and he is not interested in honor, grace and family. Danchen was by his side for several months, and found that his feelings for Di Yefei, the general of light vehicles, were extraordinary, and he could start from this aspect."

"But where there are lovers, most of them are like glue, hoping to stand side by side. If Di Ye flies to the sky in one step, in order to be worthy of this 'close friend' in the army, Hua Mulan will change her mind and try to catch up."

Su Hejun didn't know if his idea was correct, but he felt that this method was not risky or troublesome, so he could try it.

On the other side, Di Yefei was also tormented by his increasingly strange mentality.

Once, he saw Mulan fighting hard, covered in blood, and even erected a tent in a place like the battlefield, where everyone was in plain sight, and was almost beheaded by the Rouran people in fear, but it was Mulan who relieved him of the siege.

He is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of becoming the kind of monster in other people's mouths.

If that's the case, it's better to die!

At this time, the generals of the town army of the Central Army and the Right Army sent someone to order him.

An order he couldn't refuse, full of joy.

"You're leaving?" Hua Mulan looked at Di Yefei with some sadness.

After he left, he couldn't find such a good "roommate" again.

"…… Hmm." Di Yefei took the hand of the thing and paused. His Majesty was about to travel to Montenegro, and the army transferred ten people with high martial arts and good character to serve as His Majesty's close guards, so that His Majesty could inquire about the military situation of Montenegro at any time."

He licked his lips, a little afraid to look into Mulan's eyes.

"General Monxia values it, and in the right army, I was ordered."

Although it was ten people, six of them went from the Chinese army. After all, the Chinese army is the elite of the first army. There are many Xianbei nobles in the left army, so there are also three people in the left army. When he came to the right army, maybe General Xia thought he was the most "good-looking", or maybe there were other reasons, so he ordered him to go.

The desire to make a career was too strong in his heart, and with all the terrible premonitions ahead, he just wanted to get out of here as soon as possible.

In this way, goodbye in the future, you can still have an old face.

Mulan didn't think much about it. She knew how eager this fire companion was to get ahead, to make everyone who laughed at him "neither male nor female" afraid and regretful.

What's more, the Great Khan's tent is heavily guarded, and there are definitely not so many people who sneak in at night to find "sexual encounters" here.

So although she had some regrets, she was kind enough to help him pack up his things.

"That's a good thing, I congratulate you. Come on, come on, I remember how many clothes you tore on? I'll sew you before you leave."

Mulan took out the needle and thread, and enthusiastically asked Di Ye to fly to get the torn clothes.

Su Hejun was about to call Mulan to eat, and he was stunned when he lifted the tent.

Di Yefei sat on the cushion with a sad face, and Hua Mulan lowered her head and gently threaded the needle for him.

The atmosphere in the room was too weird, and Su Hejun secretly rejoiced in his heart that his construction must be completed, and quietly withdrew from the camp.

What a touching atmosphere!

Hua Mulan will definitely work hard to spur herself, and she will squeeze to the side of His Majesty's □ with enough strength!

Di Ye flew away, leaving behind a legend in the right army, and Mulan, who was comforted by countless people every day.

Although Di Ye was a little reluctant to fly away, he could finally sleep in a tent by himself, and he was a little excited to think about it.

Mulan rolls happily around on the soft collapse.

No one will sneak in at night, and no one will be glared at during the day.

Anyway, in the eyes of my colleagues, everyone is a "lovelorn" fellow person, and it seems that the relationship is closer than before.

Yes!

I don't even have a spring dream!

Sure enough, he was stimulated by Di Yefei, who was looking for clothes everywhere naked!

It's just that occasionally at night, when someone passes by the small school field where they practice archery, they can also hear Mulan singing a long song that Xianbei people often sing.

"The water flows low, and the birds fly high.

Men are born to fight, women are born to weave.

The warrior looks ahead, and the crow looks down.

If you have been born as a man, you will die."

Half a year later, Hua Mulan is still fighting happily in the right army, drinking wine with her comrades, practicing riding and archery, although the Rouran people who beat lost their armor, but their fighting spirit still did not improve at all.

'I'm sure I'm going to chase him!' Su Hejun knelt in front of the Wei Emperor Tuoba Tao with a bad face in his heart. [,！ I had to run to the right army and shake Mulan hard.

Di Yefei has now been promoted to Yulin General, wow!

Tuoba Tao looked at Su Hejun with an aggrieved face, and touched the hilt of the sword as if he was inadvertent.

'Daddy! How to explain to the emperor now! "

Su and Jun didn't dare to raise their heads.

The good script is not sung like this at all, wow!