Chapter Twenty-Three: Yellow is Yellow
Liang Shangfei became a monk halfway, from an ordinary farmer to a state-owned enterprise worker, in the melting pot of state-owned enterprises, he has no intention of tempering himself into a good piece of steel, he is very sober about his own catties, seizing all the opportunities that may make a fortune in reality is the only direction in his life. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the Jiaxin company, he was exposed to the eyes and ears, and practiced the things that the world disdained to steal rats and dogs, and did it in front of a prosperous business, and acted again and again, and succeeded again and again, and the continuous success made him forgetful, and his family's living conditions also made a qualitative leap. People have thin skills, and they don't have to worry about going hungry wherever they go. Regarding the fact that he made a fortune by relying on crooked ways, Liang Shangfei never felt any shame. stealing private things, being called a thief, this kind of behavior is despised by Liang Shangfei; Stealing the public's property, that is called a ability, and others can only be jealous in their hearts when they know it. Moreover, Liang Shangfei has always been cautious and made this matter relatively secret, and there has been no mistake so far.
In just six or seven years, Liang Shangfei's mental outlook seems to have changed. Every time I returned to the village, my body was always brand new, without even a single wrinkle, and I gave the impression of a city man from the outside; He never smoked before, but now it's different, and when he greets people, all he takes out of his pocket are high-end cigarettes; The broken bicycle under the crotch has long been unknown where to throw it, and now it has been replaced by a brand motorcycle with a kick; The most impressive thing is Liang Shangfei's house, when it comes to the house, he laughed at his cousin, saying that he was very grateful to the village leader for pushing his family's house at the beginning, which saved him a lot of things, otherwise he would have to spend money to hire someone to demolish it, without the help of the village cadres, he would not have been able to make that determination anyway, let alone take the lead in building this unique two-story building in the village.
Regarding the changes in Liang Shangfei's family, the eyes of the people in the village were full of envy. Everyone only knows that he went to work in a company of a state-owned enterprise, but they don't know what kind of work he does in the company, they only think that the income of employees of state-owned enterprises is very high, or that Liang Shangfei has done a big official in the company, anyway, I admire him from the bottom of my heart that he is a capable person.
Liang Shangfei is indeed a capable person, and he uses his courage and diligence to change his life. In order to make his career bigger and stronger, he used the money he saved to buy a three-room two-kitchen house on the outskirts of H City, which became not only his nest for stolen goods, but also a new place for his family to settle down. He took his wife and children from the countryside to the city, and spent money to send all the children to schools in the city. After his wife entered the city, she didn't find anything to do, so she cooked at home during the day, and helped Liang Shangfei when she had the opportunity at night.
There are ten bad habits in the world, that is, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, smoking, cheating, cheating, cheating, and stealing. Liang Shangfei is a secular person, neither wise nor foolish, where the sky is blue, and yellow is yellow. Since he learned to be sneaky at Jiaxin, he has extra spare money in his pocket; With extra spare money in his pocket, he will inevitably have to get involved in a few worldly hobbies.
The packaging workshop of the salt production branch is one of the few positions in the poor working environment of Jiaxin. The poor working environment is mainly based on the following two points: First, the salt dust in the workplace is too large. If you don't wear a hat when you go to work, you will become a pulsatilla in less than an hour; Second, the quality of personnel is not high, and graduating from junior high school is considered a high degree here. Dragging salt bags is hard work, and people who are crepe can't do this work, because they don't have a few taels of energy, they can't get the hundreds of pounds of salt bags at all, and besides, people with a little culture don't bother to do this kind of manual work, and feel ashamed.
The particularity of the type of work determines the composition of the packaging workshop personnel, in addition to being able to endure hardships, but also to be able to endure hard work, therefore, most of the employees in the packaging workshop are migrant workers from the surrounding towns and villages of the company, of course, there are also from afar, Liang Shangfei is one of them. Migrant workers have the simplicity and simplicity of migrant workers, and migrant workers also have the vulgar slang of migrant workers. Gags in words and uninhibited in behavior are the main style of their self-satisfaction at work. Jiaxin Company implements an eight-hour work system, and the operating personnel are divided into four shifts and three shifts. Because the packaging workshop is full of hard work and the physical energy consumption of the employees is too great, each shift is divided into two groups for two hours of reverse work. After the two-hour work of dragging the salt code bag is completed, the next two hours can be used freely, playing cards and sleeping a lot, as long as you don't go out of the production area. and those who were weak and tired went to the hot stack of salt and lay down to rest, and gathered up their strength and waited for two hours before they could do it; There are those who are energetic and high-spirited, and they begin to coax and gamble. There are playing cards in the locker all the year round, everyone is free to combine, act separately, and sit on the high salt stacks one by one, that is, the leaders of the company come to check the work, and they can only watch at the bottom, not knowing what is going on above. These boys play cards with their hands and mouths not idle, often with a smile on their faces, swearing in their mouths, and the thin cards in their hands are crackled and smashed. As for the bets, they are all negotiated in advance, and there are all kinds of bets, some directly bet money, some gamble on after-work dinners, and even bet on stealing money from prostitutes in the hair salon at night.
Liang Shangfei is also good at gambling, and the gambling products are not too good. When he comes to cards with people, he is fun with some of the means of stealing cards, hiding cards, and playing with others. In the packaging workshop, he has several fixed partners, several of whom have long-term practical experience, and they pick the stupid cat who is addicted to gambling to gamble. Although the cards are scolded each other, but a few people can be called a heart, the other party wants to play their own cards, that is the absolute tacit understanding, will not go wrong, otherwise, behind the scenes they are really going to scold. After each endgame, a few people who partner with each other sneakily go into a no-man's corner to meet the account, see how much you win today, how much he loses, and then make up for each other, winning and losing evenly. Therefore, Liang Shangfei's gambling most of the time is to win more and lose less, and his luck is generally good.
Liang Shangfei is not only good at gambling, but also good at prostitution. When he first arrived at the packaging workshop, he gave the impression of being relatively honest, and he had never heard of any bad performance in terms of style. Helplessly, there are a few perverts in the class, and when they have nothing to do, they like to brag about their affairs together, this one says which lady in the hair salon is good-looking, and the other says which lady in the bathing center is plump; This said that Miss So-and-so worked well on the bed, and that said that Miss So-and-so's crotch means were excellent, and when it came to the details, it was spittle flying sideways, painting sound and color, which made people can't help but be fascinated when they heard it, and they thought about it, and the Ha Lazi in their mouth almost smashed the surface of their feet out of the hole.
Others chew their tongues there, Liang Shangfei has no history in this area, so naturally he can't interject, so he can only be an honest listener on the side, listening to it, he can't say that he has no ideas in his heart, in addition to showing envy on his face, when he sleeps in bed at night, he occasionally has a lustful feeling in his dreams.
It is true that men learn to be bad if they are rich, and women are rich when they are bad. Later, Liang Shangfei had money in his pocket, and it was not enjoyable to be an audience again. The heart yearns for it, and the two legs under the crotch no longer obey the call, so he secretly concealed his wife and followed those pervert colleagues to the shampoo room for a few times, and after tasting different women, Liang Shangfei looked back at his woman, and often felt deflated.
To be fair, Liang Shangfei's woman is actually quite beautiful when she is a girl. Due to the perennial work with the loess, wind and sun, and hard work, the skin is certainly not much better. In addition, after giving birth to three children, country women do not pay attention to maintenance, and their posture is becoming more and more unbearable. Liang Shangfei prostituted the women in the city, and when he came back, he faced his yellow-faced mother-in-law, how did he think that his woman was old-fashioned, black and not slippery, dragging and croaking, how to say? Horizontal and vertical is not pleasing to the eye, even when I go to bed at night to do that, I feel that the woman under me is as rigid as a piece of wood, let Liang Shangfei do it, I have no interest, no interest.
As the saying goes, house flowers don't have the fragrance of wild flowers, and men are sometimes so cheap. They like to eat from the bowl and look at the pot. The women in the family looked unsatisfactory, which made Liang Shangfei think more and more of those girls in the city, thinking that they had fine skin and tender meat, all kinds of amorous styles, and the things in the bed could make men want to die. Since I had the experience of stealing fish, I suddenly realized that I had been working in vain for many years, thinking about every time I used to be with my wife Yunyu, now it seems that I was just venting **** in a hurry. The feeling of hugging a woman in the city is really comfortable! let him really understand what is called mandarin duck playing in the water, it turns out that the little between men and women can make people so soul-crushing.
Sometimes after getting off the middle shift, after cleaning up, it is already more than one o'clock in the middle of the night, and Liang Shangfei, who should go home to rest, has no heart to go home to raise the corpse, he often rides a motorcycle around the streets and alleys on the outskirts of the city, the purpose is to find a personal video hall to watch a few hours of colored ****** movies to have a good time. When he saw that he could not help himself, he went out to the alleys to find the hair salons that were not closed. If the doors of the hair salon are closed, he chooses a hair salon that he usually thinks is good and starts knocking on the door, knocking on the women who sell meat can't sleep, and scolding ugly swear words in the house, but he still knocks persistently as if he didn't hear it, and he must pull those hair salon girls out of the bed, until they open the door and let go of the few drops of bad water in their stomachs.
Because he likes to prostitute women, Liang Shangfei also won a nickname in the packaging workshop. This nickname is closely associated with his surname, and everyone calls him "Liang Da Xuan".
The nickname spreads much faster than the original name. Since this nickname was called, everyone is no longer accustomed to calling him Liang Shangfei, usually whether in the company or outside the company, as long as colleagues see people, they often call his nickname to greet him.
There is also an allusion to the origin of this nickname.
Once after the morning shift, Liang Shangfei and a few colleagues used the money they earned in the class to go to the restaurant, and after they were full of wine and food, someone proposed to go to the bathing center to take a bath. Taking a bath is fake, looking for a lady is the real idea. In this regard, everyone tacitly agreed, so they all coaxed to the bathing center.
After arriving at the bathing center, everyone stripped off their clothes as usual, soaked in the big pool for dozens of minutes, and then got up one after another and climbed to the bath couch to lie down, waiting for the ladies to come and solicit business. Miss is Miss, it seems that she has been in the field for many years, and she no longer knows what shame is. They walked out of the side door on the side of the bath, and entered and exited the meat forest as if they were in a no-man's land, all of them were smiling like flowers, and soon captured the old men one by one into their private rooms.
Liang Shangfei also fell in love with a lovely woman, and he put his arms around her neck and entered the side door. came to the private room with only one bath couch, Liang Shangfei did not rush into the alley, but leisurely lit a cigarette, lay on the long bath couch and waited for the young lady to come and serve. When the young lady saw this scene, she could basically conclude that Liang Shangfei was an old prostitute, so without saying a word, she first stripped off a few pieces of cloth yarn on her body, and then tore off the big bath towel covering Liang Shangfei's belly, lay on her side next to Liang Shangfei, and began to rub it gently.
It is said that wine can help sex, and Liang Shangfei found that it was not the case at all. He lay there with his eyes closed and enjoying the strokes of the young lady, and he was waiting for the young lady to guide him step by step. But the thing under the crotch doesn't give him much face today, no matter how young lady's jade hand plays, he just doesn't want to look up. In front of you is beautiful and delicious, the chest is **** and burned, but the guys are always soft, do you say Liang Shangfei is ugly? The young lady seemed to be as anxious as Liang Shangfei, because the nature of their work was more work and more rewards, and the sooner they let go of the bad water in the stomach of the man in front of them, they could go to the next wronged boss as soon as possible to earn a share of money, so she had to take out the last trick, and she licked and licked with her tongue between his crotch and sucked with her lips, so she tinkered for a long time, and she didn't see any improvement in Liang Shangfei. The young lady was busy enough, and Liang Shangfei was so embarrassed that he was embarrassed, and seeing that the time was not short, he had to get off the bath couch in a daze, and walked out of the private room with a large bath towel.
Several colleagues also finished their own things at this time and came to the hall to get dressed. Liang Shangfei got dressed and followed everyone to the bar outside to settle the bill. Others pay both the bath fee and the prostitution fee, Liang Shangfei only paid the bath ticket, and just as he was about to turn around and leave, he was stopped by the lady who charged at the bar: "Sir, you haven't paid the back money yet!" ”
The word "knocking on the back" is a jargon in the **** industry in H City, and it is the code word for a deal between a young lady and a prostitute, referring to the little thing between men and women.
Liang Shangfei said: "I didn't knock on the back, where did I get the money?" ”
The barmaid said, "No! There was a word from inside that it was your number one. ”
So, the two great guys watching the scene at the door stopped Liang Shangfei and didn't let him go out. The barmaid quickly called the lady who served Liang Shangfei and asked her if she had served this gentleman.
The young lady turned her face to look at Liang Shangfei and said to the bar lady: "This gentleman is my reception, and he should pay the bill." ”
Liang Shangfei was anxious when he heard this, and yelled at the young lady: "What did you serve me?" Did I prostitute you? I didn't do anything, why should I pay you for prostitution! ”
The young lady was not intimidated by his voice, and shouted loudly at Liang Shangfei: "You know what you know!" If you don't pay for it, then haven't I been busy for half a day? ”
Liang Shangfei said: "You are busy in vain, that can only mean that you have no ability." Uncle, I'm still in a panic, and I've been very unhappy! ”
The young lady sneered: "Is it because I have no ability, or are you not capable?" It's not that people didn't let you touch it, it's obvious that you can't do that job, can this depend on me? ”
The two men quarreled at the door of the hall like this, one wanted to leave, the other blocked the way, and each other was at a stalemate. Disputes are disputes, and the matter cannot be reported to the police, and there is no other way except for private. The quarrel alarmed the owner of the bathing center, an old man in his fifties, who came up from the upper floor and asked the young lady what was the matter. When the young lady saw her boss and knew that the person who presided over justice was coming, she cried and said, "This guest has entered my private room, and now he refuses to give money!" ”
Liang Shangfei is a frequent visitor here, he has long known the owner of the bathing center, seeing that the young lady said something in front, he grabbed the owner of the bathing center, dragged him to his side, and commented with the boss, he asked the boss: "Tell me, what is prostitution?" ”
The owner of the bathing center saw that Liang Shangfei was full of alcohol, and knew that he couldn't have anything to do with this kind of drunk, so he asked Liang Shangfei with a smile: "I really don't understand!" Can you explain to me what the word prostitution means? ”
Liang Shangfei said: "You have been the boss for so many years, and you don't even know what prostitution is!" Prostitution is a woman asking a man for money! Why do women ask men for money? It's because women use their bodies to serve men. This woman's body is not used by me today, how do you think I can give her money? ”
The young lady listened to it and cried and defended: "Can this be blamed on me? I've done everything I can to help you get it for so long, it's because your own thing can't get up, and it's not that I don't want to. ”
Liang Shangfei took the young lady's words, divided his hands, and said, "So, I didn't do anything, how can I pay for it?" ”
The boss of the bathing center heard the reason, he seemed to be more sympathetic to his employees, and turned his face to Liang Shangfei and said, "Sir, since Miss has served you, the problem is yours, and you should still pay this account." ”
Liang Shangfei said: "Why? You should pay attention to the facts in everything! ”
The boss said, "The fact is that you entered this lady's private room. ”
"Boss, it's not right for you to say that!" Liang Shangfei opened his mouth to retort. He stretched out his hand and pointed to his crotch, then reached out and poked in the direction of the crotch of the young lady, and said, "What do you call the truth?" The fact is that this thing of mine has to enter her thing, and that is called a fact. Today, I can only be regarded as an attempt to prostitute at best, and I will definitely not pay for this prostitute! ”
Liang Shangfei's actions and words caused the people present to laugh, and Liang Shangfei's face was red and white for a while, and he also felt awkward.
The onlookers at the door of the bathing center are gathering more and more, and it is the time for the bathhouse to be people, and the boss thinks that it is better to rest the matter, so as not to delay the business at night, so he turned a corner and said to Liang Shangfei: "Brother, do you think this will work?" Let's all take a step back, I will treat you with the bath ticket money today, and I don't want the commission that this young lady handed over to the bathing center, you only pay half of the prostitution fee, how about giving the lady's share? ”
Liang Shangfei saw that there were so many people around to watch the excitement, and several colleagues were standing beside him, and his face had long felt unbearable, so he had to accept the compromise plan proposed by the boss, and reluctantly took out the money.
This incident was later spread in the company by those colleagues as a laughing stock, and the nickname of Liang Da was born.
For someone calling him Liang Da Xuan, Liang Shangfei would smile and scold back a few words at first, but later he got used to it, and he didn't mind listening to it. If you want to shout, you can shout, and you won't drop a piece of meat on your body, besides, being able to prostitute women is also a kind of man's ability, and some people can't come if they want to prostitute! But sometimes there will be times when you are in a bad mood, when others call him Liang Da prostitute, he will always rush to say, do I prostitute your woman? The choking person is awkward, and his face is red and white for a while.
It's really strange to think about this society, women are red and apricot out of the wall, which is called bad morals; When a man gets involved in flowers and grass, he has become a capital worth showing off, and the world is so unfair. Isn't it? If a woman has a problem with her style, then she doesn't know how much worldly saliva she has to endure. On the other hand, if the woman is replaced by a man, the result will be different, and people's opinions will be different. In addition to thinking that the man is physically strong and energetic, he will also think that he is rich. Full of warm thoughts****! The rich can have a group of wives and concubines, and the poor can only be alone, and this situation cannot be avoided in any dynasty. Besides, the pastime of prostituting women is originally a thing done by people with spare money, **Dog B also throws a baked cake head, and there is no burning paper in his pocket, and that woman is willing to sleep with you?
Unless you have power in your hands. Only in the face of power and money would women who love vanity and lowly manners be willing to sell their flesh.
is also a cheating man, in real life, people's perception of them will be slightly different. When the secret of a man's affair is revealed, history will brew a poignant or romantic story for them, so that people disdain to mention their original woman; And a mediocre man, after his cheating is known, can only be called a pervert, seeking sensual stimulation, no different from a cat stealing fish.
Since Liang Shangfei and Ma Shengli had their first cooperation, both of them have a feeling of hating each other. Since then, the two of them have been in cahoots, and they have each opened a new era of making a fortune.
In the matter of stealing salt, Ma Shengli was more active than Liang Shangfei. Because behind his ass, there will always be people who follow to collect debts. For this reason, every time it was his turn to work the night shift, he would take the initiative to contact Liang Shangfei, if Liang Shangfei had an act of stealing salt one night, he would make some preparations in advance, such as going to the cooked vegetable stall to chop some cooked vegetables, and then go to the small shop at the entrance of the company to carry a few bottles of liquor, and gather the brothers in charge of patrolling together, push cups and change lamps, drink wine and eat meat, talk freely about friendship, and talk about the world. If you have wine to drink for free, and meat to eat for free, do you still have the heart to go out on patrol? If you go out on a patrol and come back, and all the good things are in someone else's belly, then you will not become a fool? Therefore, everyone gathered around the table and was reluctant to leave, praising Secretary Ma for being refreshing, and said that he must follow behind the Ma squad leader in the future. Whether he is happy or not is only Ma Shengli's heart, his purpose is just to let Liang Shangfei throw off his arms and do a great job, if any brother wants to leave during the banquet, he will stop him accurately, and hold the wine glass in his hand to drink with that person. If Liang Shangfei didn't plan to steal salt one night, Ma Shengli's class would be very boring, in addition to feeling frustrated, feeling that the good time had been wasted, he couldn't even keep up his spirits when he was patrolling.
Liang Shangfei has his own plan for stealing salt, and his plan is closely linked to the needs of customers. He didn't want to turn his home into a warehouse for salt, which was both eye-catching and risky. The salt industry law enforcement brigade of H City will often go to the private houses to investigate and secretly visit, mainly to the citizens' kitchens to see what kind of salt is eaten in your salt tank, if your salt bags are not marked as the general distribution of the H City Salt Industry Company, then they will be as excited as a hound smelling their prey, and feel that someone has arranged a dinner after work. Since there is something to do, they will never give up if they don't trace this matter back to the source and find out clearly. These people also went to Liang Shangfei's house before, but fortunately, all the goods in the house were sold out that time, and those people didn't check anything. With such a warning, Liang Shangfei no longer kept salt at home, basically stealing salt that night and shipping it that night, if no one asked for salt, he would never go to Jiaxin Company. Fortunately, now that he has Ma Shengli as a cover, he no longer has to allow customers to wait until he works the night shift to give salt, which makes him more handy in doing things. If necessary, you can do it every night now, and then you only need to temporarily notify Ma Shengli to arrange time in the company, and he will stabilize the doorman brothers in the guard room, and the warehouse of Jiaxin Salinization Company can be said to be his own warehouse.
In ancient times, there was a good story about managing Bao and dividing gold, and now there is a mess about sharing the spoils. Guan Bao Fenjin is talking about the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya partner in business, when dividing the money, Guan Zhong will take more money in front of Bao Shuya every time, Bao Shuya never thinks that Guan Zhong is a greedy person, because he knows that Guan Zhong's family is poor. In real life, Liang Shangfei did not hesitate to play the role of Guan Zhong, not because his family was poor, nor because Ma Shengli was kind and deceitful, he thought that it was hard for him to steal salt and sell salt, and he also took a certain risk, so he should take more. Besides, everything was handled by himself, and Ma Shengli could only estimate how much it was sold, and he didn't know the actual number.
Time flies, and the years go by. The common goal and close cooperation made the pockets of Liang Shangfei and Ma Shengli swell day by day. Ma Shengli not only paid off the debts between colleagues in the class early, but even Wu Youwei's tens of thousands of yuan had already been repaid. Ma Shengli's own waist is thick, and of course he has not forgotten to promote his top boss at the beginning, otherwise Comrade Ma Shengli would have no foresight. The three festivals of the year can not be forgotten, and the number of offerings cannot be too stingy, if the leader feels that he is picking at the rope, the squad leader's black gauze hat is afraid that it will not be able to be kept.
Ma Shengli didn't care about the title of this squad leader, and the squad leader didn't get much money compared to the workers; He didn't want to climb up. People know that they have not graduated from junior high school, and their abilities are there, and then they are promoted, isn't it difficult for leaders? Besides, if you look at the office of the Ministry of People's Armed Forces, there are more than a dozen people in charge of the guard class, but although the sparrows are small, they are all organized, and the desks inside have been crowded to the door, don't you think that those desks are all furnishings, when you go to work normally, there is a head in front of each table to work there, the main and deputy ministers, the main and deputy secretaries, the security officers, the people's armed forces officers, the propaganda officers, the organization officers, the entertainment officers, the discipline inspection officers, the small departments have long been overcrowded, If you don't do your best to squeeze in again, not only will there be no place for the office desk, but I am afraid that the new title will give the leader a headache. If the name is not right, it is not good, there is no name, how can you be embarrassed to take that high salary?
Of course, these are just the unambitious Ma Shengli pondering in his heart. He really underestimated the brains of the leaders of the Schwab Company, when would the leaders worry about the addition of a few new titles? It's really not a vegetarian meal officer! In ancient times, what kind of false titles such as foreign man, invited by the court, and special advancement, in state-owned enterprises, what does it matter if you get a few cats that only consume food but do not take rats?
Ma Shengli is a young talent, and his purpose in giving gifts is actually only one, which is to keep the position of squad leader. If he keeps the position of squad leader, he can use his power to make some oil and water, that is, to keep the common financial resources between him and Liang Shangfei.
How many years have passed, the personnel adjustment of Jiaxin Company has never stopped, Ma Shengli because of his willingness to be filial, he is firmly in the position of the guard squad leader is sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai, and sent away the top boss after stubble. The hobby of gambling has not been lost, but the confidence when there is money and no money has been very different, the tone is obviously much bigger than before, no matter how big or small the bet is, as long as someone can open his mouth, he dares to accompany him to the end. It's just that Secretary Ma's luck is still not too good, and it seems that this hat will not be able to be taken off for a while.
When it comes to gambling, Liang Shangfei actually has an idea about Ma Shengli in his heart. He thought that it was not easy for him and Ma Shengli to get a few dollars, and Ma Shengli lost to those who were busy calculating him all day long, which made him very heartbroken. That money was carried out by him Liang Shangfei from Jiaxin Company one by one! How much suffering has been endured, how much tiredness has been suffered, how many risks have been taken, how many sins have been suffered, and among them, who can understand the joys and sufferings? It is himself who goes into the water, and Ma Shengli just stays on the shore every time and waits for the money, so Ma Shengli is willing to gamble, and he is willing to gamble, the key is to lose nine out of ten bets, which is lamentable, angry and hateful. Did those people win the money of the horse's victory? No! It's clearly drinking my Liang Shangfei's blood. Since Ma Shengli is so generous, stupid, I, Liang Shangfei, as his good partner, shouldn't I get a piece of the pie from him? (To be continued.) )