"The Ming room has been declining for a long time, the prince's merits are towering, and the living beings look up. Since the prince raised the army, the unicorn was born, the phoenix came to the ceremony, the yellow dragon appeared, the golden harvest was born, and the manna fell. The prince should be in favor of the heavens, and he will be in the ...... early. ”

"Sage Yun: The name is not right, the words are not good, now the prince has won two of the three points of the world, all the people look up to him, the world returns to the heart, the name is right, what is there to discuss? Don't you listen to the heavens and take the blame, but suffer the blame......? ”

"Young uncle, how many times did you persuade Sun Quan to be the emperor in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? How can I not find it? ”

"In the ninety-eighth round, it is difficult for Zhang Wen and Qin Mi to defend the heavens, and break Cao Pi and Xu Sheng to attack with fire." Wang Shaobo replied with a wry smile, and hurriedly reminded: "But the owner, you must not plagiarize this paragraph, the phrase 'in the middle of the river, the yellow dragon appears repeatedly', it is absolutely inappropriate to persuade the prince to be the emperor - it is almost the same as using it to insinuate that the owner has the ambition to be the emperor." ”

"Really?" Lu Fatzi replied casually, while looking at the pirated second-hand "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" bought with three pennies, when he saw Wang Shaobo mention this paragraph, Lu Fatzi groaned slightly, and immediately patted his thigh and said: "That's right, this passage must not be copied, now the prince is 108,000 miles away from the Yangtze River, and I am only a few miles away from the Yangtze River, it is absolutely inappropriate to copy this passage!" - Young uncle, how many times did you persuade Sima Yan to be the emperor? ”

"The one hundred and nineteenth time, the fake surrender trick turned into a lie, and then the gourd was painted by Zen." Wang Shaobo replied with a wry smile, and persuaded kindly: "Owner, this kind of pen-based thing, let's let the students do it for you." Don't be angry when you say it, the student polishes the draft for you and then asks you to copy it, no matter how bad the writing is, it is better than your nondescript plagiarism. ”

"I know you're kind, but you don't understand." Lu Fatzi shook his head, looked at the pirated version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and said: "Such a big thing, I don't personally conceive it, can the prince still think that I am sincere about this matter?" Is it out of a red heart? The papers I used to test Xiucai were all picked out of the waste papers, and the articles you wrote were sent to Shaanxi and Gansu, and the prince couldn't see at a glance that I was looking for a gunman to ghostwrite? Don't you have to scold me for not being sincere? ”

"Hey, sure enough, it's in the one hundred and nineteenth chapter, the young uncle is really knowledgeable, good at remembering, okay, this paragraph can be copied." Turning to the section where Sima Yan represented Wei Zili, Fat Lu was even more overjoyed, and quickly lifted the brush and dipped it in chicken blood, and buried his head in the letter paper and copied it crookedly.

"What the owner said may be reasonable...... Since Wu Lao Han Jian hinted in his reply that Lu Fat Man persuaded him to be the emperor - of course, he hoped that Lu Fat Man was a sincere and sincere person, if Lu Fat really found a few gunmen to ghostwrite, copied the letter and sent it to Wu Lao Han Jian, Wu Lao Han Jian saw at a glance that it was the gunman who did it, and naturally he would not be happy to go there, but it was Lu Fatzi's plagiarized and bullshit sentences that were obviously written by himself, which might be against Wu Lao Han Jian's love for martial arts.

"Boss, although your words make sense, have you taken this into account?" Wang Shaobo suddenly found that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Now the owner of the Great Zhou Dynasty is like Zhongtian in the army, famous all over the world, the prince hinted that you persuaded him to be the emperor, and it was clear that he wanted you to play a leading role, driving all the Great Zhou soldiers to support the prince as the emperor, and your persuasion table The prince must be made public so that everyone in the world can see it, you copy such a nondescript persuasion table and send it to the prince, and the prince takes it to the public, isn't it to be laughable and generous?" ”

"Of course I have taken this into consideration, but do you think that I will send this persuasion form to the prince? Will the prince ascend the throne and become the emperor immediately? Lu Fatzi continued to write hard with chicken blood, and said with a sneer: "The prince will definitely reply to scold me for a bloody dog, and then I will write another persuasion table, and the prince may just consider my suggestion and discuss this matter in a small area, until I go to the third persuasion table, the prince may reluctantly ascend the throne and become the emperor of the Great Zhou." ”

"Understood." Wang Shaobo nodded, no longer nagging to disturb Lu Fatzi's heartfelt words, but said respectfully: "Then the second and third persuasion of the owner, let the student ghostwrite, and the owner and the prince are satisfied." ”

"You can start writing now." Fat Lu waved his hand, "Nanjing is thousands of miles away from Shaanxi and Gansu, and I don't know how much time it will take to delay a few times, so you can write the last two persuasion forms now, and we will send a messenger to Shaanxi and Gansu every ten days, so that there will be no delay in time - you can also save killing chickens again." ”

Wang Shaobo agreed, and hurriedly sat down opposite Lu Fatzi to spread out the paper and pen, and also dipped the brush in the blood of the rooster, conceived it at will, and then picked the most gorgeous rhetoric and the most passionate words to write. At this time, just as the unscrupulous master was writing the persuasion form with emotion and joy, Xiao Erlang suddenly sneakily touched into Lu Fatzi's signing room, and whispered: "Young master, Lord Wang Xu, Suo Guard, and Wu Guard, they are here again, saying that they want to see you, and they are waiting in front of the Xingyuan Gate. ”

"Tell Doctor Zhu to send them." Fat Lu replied without raising his head: "Let Doctor Zhu tell them, and say that the young uncle and I went to the Taiping Mansion to inspect the people's harvest and harvesting, and it will be about two or three days before we come back." ”

Xiao Erlang took the order and left, leaving the unscrupulous master to continue to write the words that deceived the world and confused the people in the signing room, and it was a long time, until Lu Fatzi and Wang Shaobo had stopped writing and finished work, and the villain with a teacup knocked Erlang's leg to rest, and Zhu Fangdan and Xiao Erlang came in from outside. As soon as he entered the door, Zhu Fangdan shouted bitterly: "Dongjia, next time you should call someone else for this kind of thing, the students have been pestered by them for more than half an hour, and they refuse to believe that the Dongjia You really went to the Taiping Mansion." If it weren't for Xiguan being mad and stopping them, they would definitely have come in and search. ”

"Let's just let them entangle for a while, the longer they entangle, the better it will be for us, right?" Fat Lu shook Erlang's leg and said: "Today is August 13, when all the autumn grain in the field is threshed and put into storage, the recruits are mature, and the firearms are manufactured in large quantities, we can free up our hands to play with the dogs." Accompany some smiling faces now, and find them back in the future. ”

Zhu Fangdan smiled, deeply agreeing with Lu Fatzi's point of view, and at the end, Zhu Fangdan smiled again: "But the owner, Wang Xu is not bad to you, you coax him to play like this, and in the future, the owner will suddenly tear his face with Mangou, and your friend will not be able to explain to the Mangou court." ”

"There's no way, beautiful woman, why is it a thief?" Fat Lu sighed and said: "When Hemangou completely tears his face, I will try my best to keep him behind, if he can agree, of course it is the best, if he is still obsessed, I can't help it, it's over." ”

"Yes, Lord Wang is indeed a rare good official, but he chose the wrong master." Wang Shaobo sighed and agreed, and said: "Owner, when we and Mangou completely tear their faces, what do you think the Mangou Emperor will choose?" Is it to concentrate the main force of the full dog around us and flank us with all your might? Or is it as Wang Xu and Huang Ji said, Emperor Mangou took Yue Le's suggestion, abandoned Shaanxi and Gansu to hold Tongguan, and sent the main force of Shaanxi and Gansu to Jiangnan to fight a decisive battle with us? ”

"It's possible, but I'm not afraid of any of that." Lu Fatzi said lazily: "The Emperor of Mangou let the main force of Mangou around us attack us with all their might, and we have friendly troops who will take advantage of the fire behind us and take the initiative to share the pressure for us." It took too long to transfer the main force of Shaanxi and Gansu to deal with us, and without the granary of the south of the Yangtze River, the Mangou Imperial Court mobilized such a huge army and marched such a long distance, and there would be big problems in terms of money and food, and even if we could reach the battlefield, it would not be possible to fight on a large scale for a long time, which would also be beneficial to us. ”

Speaking of this, Fat Lu glanced at the persuasion table on the table again, with a solemn look on his fat face, and couldn't help but say again: "What I'm most worried about now are the three situations." ”

"Those three situations? Can the proprietor say it explicitly? Wang Shaobo asked tentatively.

Lu Fatzi hesitated for a moment, but still said: "First, Mangou is beating me at any cost now, and would rather turn Jiangnan into a scorched earth, everyone doesn't want this Jiangnan cornucopia, and they don't give me time to gain a foothold in development - but fortunately, it's been four months since we took Jiangnan, and our footsteps have basically stood firm, this possibility is not big, even if Mangou wakes up now, we still have hope to resist the enemy outside the house." ”

Wang Shaobo nodded, and then asked, "What about the second situation?" ”

"The second situation is that Mangou gave up Zhejiang, concentrated on northern Jiangxi, and let Geng Jingzhong come and bite me." Fat Lu replied.

"Full dog out of Zhejiang? The Emperor of the Full Dog is crazy? Will you make such a stinky move? Wang Shaobo was taken aback.

"Wrong, if the Mangou Emperor really does this, not only is it not a stinky move, but it is still a wonderful move!" Lu Fatzi explained: "You can imagine what will happen if the main force of Mangou in Zhejiang abandons northern Zhejiang and moves to the battlefield in northern Jiangxi? We and Geng Jingzhong have to fight to the death for the sake of Hangzhou, Huzhou, a good place where the fat is flowing oil? Fight to lose? Even if we can give up Zhejiang for the unity of the righteous army, after Geng Jingzhong occupies the entire territory of Zhejiang, and directly borders the more prosperous and wealthy Jiangsu, can he not be greedy, and he will not fight with us for half of the south of the Yangtze River? When the time comes, we don't think about internal friction, and we certainly won't. ”

"Understood." Wang Shaobo patted his leg and said: "When we and Geng Jingzhong fight to the death for Jiangnan, the main force of the full dog who is sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight suddenly comes out, not only can kill us and Geng Jingzhong, but also hope to recover half of Jiangnan and the entire territory of Zhejiang!" ”

Fat Lu nodded, and said: "In addition, there is another wonderful point in this move, that is, to use our strengths and avoid our new firearms, Geng Jingzhong has the new firearms bought from the prince, and we have the new firearms produced and sold by ourselves, although the number is not very large, but it will also cause huge casualties to the main army of the dogs." If the main force of Mangou can let us and Geng Jingzhong merge first, we will inevitably use a large number of new firearms in order to eliminate the other party as soon as possible, and when our new firearms are almost finished, that is, the opportunity for Mangou's archery and horse riding and archery will show their might. ”

"The proprietor is clever, and that's true." Wang Shaobo slapped his thigh again, and patted his ass and said: "Fortunately, the Emperor Mangou and the Mangou Imperial Court didn't think of this trick, otherwise, we would be really difficult to do, the south is the insatiable Geng Jingzhong chasing and fighting, and the west is the main force of Mangou, so we have to suffer a big loss." ”

"The Mangou Emperor may not have thought of this trick, but there are many capable people in the Mangou Imperial Court, and there are many people who can see this." Lu Fatzi waved his hand, "It's just that even if these people can see this, they may not dare to propose it to the Mangou Emperor, even if they have the courage to risk the world's disapproval and propose this crazy plan, the Mangou Emperor may not dare to adopt it." Hmph, how much courage and courage does it take to give up Hangzhou, Huzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing, which are so fertile and oily? Does Kang Mazi have such courage and courage? I'm pretty much the same! ”

"That's right, in the whole world, only the owner (young master) has such courage and courage." Wang Shaobo, Zhu Fangdan and Xiao Erlang nodded their heads and slapped their ass. At the end, Zhu Fangdan asked curiously: "Dongjia, what about the third situation you mentioned?" What is it? ”

"The third situation is also the variable that I am most worried about right now." Lu Fatzi's fat face rarely showed some worry, and he said slowly: "What I'm most worried about now is not that the dog is going all out, but - the prince!" ”

"Are you worried that the prince will turn against us? Impossible, right? Zhu Fangdan asked in surprise.

"Of course not." Fat Lu smiled, "The prince is not stupid, no matter how dissatisfied I am with taking risks, no matter how worried I am about taking advantage of the opportunity to read and have different intentions, he will not turn his face with me now, at least he has to wait until the road is opened with me, otherwise he will only cheapen Mangou, Zheng Jing or Geng Jingzhong for nothing, and force me to abandon him - what I am most worried about now is not his attitude, but his body!" ”

"Worried about the prince's body?" Uncle Wang finally came to his senses and hurriedly asked, "Dongjia, do you think that the rumors that the prince is seriously ill are true?" Is the prince really sick? ”

"I'm sure that the prince is not only sick, but also not lightly ill!" Fat Lu pointed to the persuasion table on the table, and said solemnly: "Otherwise, why would the prince imply that I persuade him to be emperor?" Don't forget, we only played the banner of anti-Qing and Ming restoration in October last year, although the situation of the prince is now very good, Mangou has only the ability to parry, and there is no power to fight back, and it is only a matter of time before he wins the world. But now it's less than a year, and the prince can't wait to plan to become the emperor, regardless of what the world thinks of him, what is this signal? What's possible behind this? ”

"What signal? What is possible? Wang Shaobo, Zhu Fangdan and others were confused, after careful analysis, Wang Shaobo finally came to his senses and blurted out: "The prince is terminally ill, and he understands that his time is running out, so he wants to set his name quickly, have a good time, and arrange the future affairs in the future!" ”

"It's possible!" Zhu Fangdan hurriedly echoed: "In fact, as early as when I was in Jingzhou, I found that the prince's wind dizziness was in danger of aggravating, and I wanted to suggest that the prince give up the western expedition and concentrate on recuperating his body, but unfortunately the students were soft-spoken, and they didn't have the opportunity to talk to the prince at that time, and then the prince hurried to the battlefield in Shaanxi and Gansu." The mountains and roads in northern Sichuan are dangerous, the climate is cold, and the prince's wind dizziness is not only likely to be aggravated, but it is also possible to have a sudden stroke! ”

"Doctor Zhu, are you sure?" Fat Lu asked.

"Of course." Zhu Fangdan said confidently: "The student has seen the prince and knows that the prince sometimes has a tongue headache for no reason, sometimes he can't see in one eye, and he has blood from the nose, which are all precursors of stroke. ”

"That's it." Fat Lu nodded with satisfaction, and said in a deep voice: "This is also what I am most worried about, the prince's body is placed here, in case he really ...... suddenly, then the hidden danger of our Great Zhou army will suddenly break out!" In our Great Zhou army, apart from the prince, who else can suppress the scene, and who can absolutely obey the public? Wang Shisun Wu Shifan? Second Prince? Hu Guozhu? Guo Zhuangtu? Can they? ”

"Not at all!" Wang Shaobo replied categorically: "Wang Shisun is only twelve years old, and he will only be indulged by others when he comes to power!" The second prince is greedy and brainless, brave and unscrupulous, and he is the same enemy as Wang Fuchen, the heavy general of our army, and coming to power will only split our army. Hu Guozhu has the ability but no courage, and he can't suppress the arrogant soldiers under the command of the prince! Guo Zhuangtu is even more miserable, he has no courage and no ability, and if he stays in Yungui and has not made an inch, no one will obey him! These four people, no matter who comes to power and who succeeds to the throne, will only lead to a complete split of our army, and it will inevitably lead to internal strife and internal strife! ”

"That's it." Lu Fatzi spread his hands and said helplessly: "If the prince really happens suddenly, the good situation will be buried, and Mangou will also have a chance to turn defeat into victory, and we will have to participate in the internal strife of the Great Zhou army, and we will be completely isolated." Judging from the actions of the prince now, it is likely that this matter has already appeared, can I not worry about this worst-case scenario? ”

Wang Shaobo nodded again and again, and then asked, "Boss, since you are worried about these three situations, do you have a solution?" Stay ahead of the curve? ”

"No, the situation is too complicated, and there are too many variables, I really can't take precautions and prevent them in advance?" Lu Fatzi spread his hands again, and said with a wry smile: "The only way now is to take one step at a time, to respond to all changes without change, and to desperately improve our comprehensive strength, with food, guns and troops in our hands, in order to deal with all variables." ”

Wang Shaobo nodded again and again, deeply agreeing with Lu Fatzi's words, but Zhu Fangdan slapped his thigh and said: "Owner, I have a way, I have a way to prevent these variables!" ”

"Mr. Zhu, please speak." Lu Fatzi was stunned, and said in his heart, when did Zhu Fangdan become more powerful than me?

"Let me go to Shaanxi and Gansu!" Zhu Fangdan said confidently: "Please ask the owner to let the student go to Shaanxi and Gansu, the student knows very well that although the student cannot cure his illness at all, but for the prince to carefully recuperate, the student is still ...... to prolong his life for ten years." Owner, young uncle, why do you look at me like this? What did I say wrong? ”

It was also said that at this point, Zhu Fangdan suddenly discovered that Fat Lu and Uncle Wang actually looked at him together with idiotic eyes, and their eyes were not only full of doubts and ridicule, but even some anger! After being confused for a long time, Zhu Fangdan finally came to his senses, slapped himself lightly, and blamed himself: "What are the students talking nonsense, the prince's illness is so serious, no matter how high the student's medical skills are, he is helpless." ”

"You're smart!" Fat Lu snorted coldly, and ordered again: "If you are too idle to panic, hurry up and study a few more gold sore medicines, and when it is time to fight with Mangou, it can come in handy." ”

"Yes, yes." Zhu Fangdan nodded again and again, and hurriedly said flatteringly: "Actually, the students have also found a new gold sore medicine, the juice squeezed from garlic and water, applied to gauze to bandage the wound, which has a miraculous effect on the wound anti-inflammatory. (This method is not fiction, before the invention of penicillin, during World War I, the United States [***] team generally used this method to treat wounded soldiers.) ）

"Then hurry up and experiment." Lu Fatzi shouted: "Let Qin Yong help you pick up a few full dogs from the prisoner of war camp to experiment, if it really has a miraculous effect, it will be popularized for the whole army of military doctors." And remember, those dog-filled prisoners of war must be killed! Zhu Fangdan hurriedly nodded and agreed again and again.

Knowing that the situation is too variable to be predictable, Lu Fatzi can only adopt a strategy of responding to all changes with the same, desperately expanding his military strength and strength, gathering grain and slowing down the king, and being a low-key man, trying to restrain the army from provoking the surrounding armies, and trying to gain time for development. But it's a pity that Lu Fatzi is fine, and the enemy is not stupid, after being deliberately hidden by Lu Fatzi for more than half a month, Wang Xu finally began to doubt his friend and understood that he was being killed by his friend.

On the 20th of August, Wang Xu came to the front and back of Lu Fatzi's line again, and did not let the fat soldiers in front of the door report, took out a chair from the gatehouse and sat down in front of the gate, and then told the fat soldiers guarding the door, "Please report to Lord Lu, I know that he is in the yamen, please don't hide anymore." If he doesn't see me today, I'll die here on a hunger strike!" Anyway, I have vouched for him with the surname of the whole family, he saved me once, I can't repay him, just repay him with the life of the whole family and myself! ”

Wang Xu said it to this point, and Fat Lu had no choice but to wrap his ankles with gauze, and then let Xiao Erlang come forward and invite Wang Xu to him, and then cried with tears: "Brother Zizhu, you misunderstood the little brother, the little brother did go to the field a few days ago to supervise the harvest and harvest of the autumn grain, and he definitely didn't deliberately hide from you, Brother Zizhuo didn't believe it, please see, when the little brother went down to the farmland, he injured his foot, and he just came back." ”

"Really?" Wang Xu's thin face was full of disbelief, but Wang Xu didn't bother to bother with Lu Fatzi, so he directly took out the holy decree of Kang Mazi from his arms and said: "Three good brothers, don't say a lot of foolish brothers, this is the emperor's holy decree to make you the king of Zhennan, do you accept it or not?" If you take it, what conditions do you ask the virtuous brother to ask, if you don't answer, the foolish brother will leave immediately and go back to Beijing to ask the emperor for his guilt! ”

"This ......." Pitted his friend who had a lifelong friendship to this point, Lu Fatzi was really a little unbearable, but when he thought that there were at least forty percent of the rice in Jiangnan that had not been threshed and put into storage, and the large number of firing needle guns and sub-mother guns had also entered a critical stage, Lu Fatzi still gritted his teeth and asked shamelessly: "Brother Zizhu, then that thing, did you bring it?" ”

"What's that?" Wang Xu asked.

"Danshu Iron Contract!" Lu Fatzi said confidently: "The emperor did not give the criminal minister the iron deed of Danshu to avoid death for three generations, so how can the criminal minister dare to rest assured anyway?" ”

"Do you still want the Danshu Iron Deed?" Wang Xu almost didn't cry, and hurriedly said: "Brother Sanhao, we have never had a Danshu Iron Deed in the Qing Dynasty, how can you call Brother Fool to get it?" ”

"We don't have it in the Qing Dynasty, but other dynasties do." Lu Fatzi said aggrievedly: "Brother Zizhuan, don't you know how big the younger brother's previous sins are, how many enemies there are in the Qing court, if the emperor doesn't give the little brother the Danshu Iron Deed, how can the little brother dare to rest assured anyway?" ”

Wang Xu was completely speechless, and wanted to scold, but his good upbringing made him unable to speak, and he wanted to smash a fist on Lu Fatzi's aggrieved fat face, but he couldn't bear to do this - and there was a group of lackeys of Lu Fatzi next to him, but he was afraid that as soon as his hand was raised, the lackeys had already pressed himself to the ground. In desperation, Wang Xu had no choice but to choke up and said: "Three good brothers, the foolish brother has vouched for you with the surname of the whole family, do you really want to let the foolish brother die in the whole family?" Are you sincere anyway, foolish brother begs you, you just give a word of accuracy! ”

Fat Lu couldn't bear it, lowered his head, and only after a while did he come up with a sentence, "Please ask Brother Zishu to ask for the Danshu Iron Deed for the younger brother." ”

Facing his friend who had reached this point, Wang Xu really wanted to cry without tears, and only said after a while: "Sanhao, what if the foolish brother asks for the Danshu Iron Deed for you, and you go back on your word?" ”

Lu Fatzi finally couldn't bear to continue to deceive Wang Xu, lowered his head and stopped talking, and Wang Xu saw Lu Fatzi's expression, and his heart suddenly understood, but he still refused to give up, just choked up and asked: "Three good brothers, you want the Danshu Iron Deed, the foolish brother can ask for it for you!" Brother Fool only wants you to remember that when Brother Fool went south this time, he had already vouched for you in front of the emperor with the surname of the whole family, and if you deceived Brother Fool, Brother Fool really didn't know what to do. ”

Fat Lu still didn't speak, just lowered his head lower, and only hoped that Wang Xu would see that he was faking and walk away. But to Lu Fatzi's disappointment, after Wang Xu choked for a long time, he actually said again: "Three good brothers, foolish brother will go back to write a note and ask for an iron deed for you." Now the Yellow River has burst its banks, affecting the canal, and it will take about twenty days before there is a response, and after twenty days, Brother Yu will try to bring you the Danshu Iron Deed. When the time comes, I only hope that ...... you will be able to keep your word. ”

After that, Wang Xu repacked Kang Mazi's Zhao'an Holy Decree and left with tears. Seeing Wang Xu's thin penny-like back, Fat Lu also shed tears and muttered, "Brother Zishu, why are you suffering?" No matter how stupid you are, you understand that I am lying to you, why don't you go back immediately to save your wife, children and parents? Why trust me one more time and push your family into the fire pit? ”

More than 20 days later, September 12 of the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Xu, the ambassador of the Qing Dynasty and the secretary of the Ministry of War, asked to see Lu Yifeng, the pseudo-Zhou thief, after the decree was appeased, the thief Lu Yifeng categorically refused, and the Qing court took half a year to appease the thief Lu Yifeng, and finally ended in complete failure. Later, Wang Xu resolutely refused Lu Yifeng's surrender, led the envoy to leave Nanjing without saying a word, and on the way back, when crossing the river, Wang Xu committed suicide by throwing himself into the river to apologize for his crimes. When the news was transmitted back to the capital, Wang Xu's family was escorted to the vegetable market for beheading.

Six years ago, they met.

Six years ago, he saved him, and they respected each other.

Six years ago, he repaid him.

Six years later, he deceived him.

Six years later, he believed in him, and he apologized with death.

(To be continued)