Ruolan suddenly remembered the situation where the two of them ate venison and mixed mouths, guessing that it was Jin Chan and Zhu Wen who accompanied the gift, and left in the direction pointed by Guorui. After turning to the cliff, he listened to Zhu Wen's laughter, and hurriedly hid himself aside and eavesdropped. I only heard Zhu Wen laugh and said: "The damn flower was not picked and sprinkled with the petals on one of my ends." Over there, I want the one that leans out of the northwest corner.

Who wants to take such a big one home and use it as firewood?" Ruolan suddenly smelled a faint fragrance and looked ahead, it turned out that there was a big plum tree growing on the side of the cliff, and it was very luxuriant. Zhu Wen stood on the ground and pointed out that the golden cicada and the orangutan were separated from the plum branches. After a while, Jin Cicada picked the small horizontal branch that Zhu Wen wanted, but the orangutan picked a big branch five or six feet long. After the golden cicada and the orangutan went to the ground, they handed the plum blossoms to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen glanced at Jin Cicada with disgust and said, "I don't want you if you picked it." "After that, I took the long plum in the orangutan hand, and turned around and was about to leave." The orangutan was very naughty, and he also learned the human language and said to the golden cicada: "I don't want you." Annoyed, Jin Cicada stepped forward angrily and raised his fist to fight. Frightened, the orangutan jumped off the cliff without a trace. Jin Chan said to Zhu Wen: "Are you still angry with me, next time I won't talk to you again." “

Zhu Wen stood there and just ignored it. Jin Cicada still kept saying good things, and he was sure that Zhu Wen would take the plum blossom he picked. Zhu Wen was entangled by him, but he was about to reach out to pick it up, Ruolan couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly held back and said loudly: "It's not early, you are still picking plum blossoms and playing with the senior sisters, they called them back to open up Ningbi Cliff." ：“

Zhu Wen couldn't help but blush when he saw Ruolan suddenly appear, no longer paying attention to Jin Chan, and turned around and left. Jin Cicada couldn't just follow behind Ruolan. As soon as they walked to the entrance of the cave, everyone was there, and the Condor had already flown back, and Ying Nan did not pick it up. Guo Rui was holding a white half-arm in his hand, and was talking to Qiongyu and Zhixian, and the three of them couldn't help but step forward. I only heard Guorui say: "Because I miss Sister Yingnan, I plan to ask Senior Brother Jinyan to carry her to open up the Ningbi Cliff with us. I didn't want Senior Brother Jinyan to come back, so I only brought the one she was wearing, and asked it with half an arm, but at home, it only shook its head. Did she go out with her master again?"

Qiong Yu said: "The Condor Fei must be not in the nunnery. But who this half arm is, and what is the purpose of bringing it, is difficult to understand. "Just as he was saying this, the Condor suddenly used its steel beak to pull the corners of the country's clothes a few times, and then let out two long whistles towards the side of the Liberation Slope. Guo Rui said to everyone: "I have lived a lot with Senior Brother Jinyan, and his actions are nineteen, I can guess that it will want me to go to the Slope of Liberation." Mo Feiying's male sister was seriously ill and no one took care of her, so she brought me the half arm she was wearing and asked me to go to see her?" Zhu Wendao: "What's so difficult about this, anyway, the liberation slope is not far from here, why do we have to discuss this trivial matter, just discuss, I see that the sky is not early, please ask the senior sister to lead everyone to open up the Ning Bi Cliff, I will go to the liberation slope on behalf of the national sister to take a look, if there is a disease, I still have the pill given by the second elder of Songshan here, and she will eat two pills and carry her here." "Guo Rui was overjoyed when he heard this, so he told Zhu Wen the direction of the liberation slope and asked Zhu Wen to ride the carving. The eagle didn't wait for Guo Rui's order and squatted down next to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen was more and more happy, and he rode on the back of the eagle and flew back to the sky.

Here, everyone was anxious to open up the Ningbi Cliff, everyone laughed all the way, turned around and walked into the cave. As soon as he walked to the door of the cave, Guo Rui suddenly turned around: "Huh:". Qiong Yu asked why. Guo Rui said: "That liberation slope is not far from here, why did the eagle not fall down when it got there, but flew to the southwest?" Look at the aura of carrying Wen Mei on its back, there must be a reason for this. This carving has been passed through the gods, and Wen Mei is not weak, and she will know when she comes back when she is young. Let's do our thing. ：“

After that, Guorui led the way in front, and Qiongyu and the others followed behind, and went in the direction designated by Mrs. Shangqing. It turned out to be half a stone chamber, and the stone wall at the end was very solid. The estimating location was right, so Ruolan took out the purple smoke hoe and hit it on the stone wall. Immediately, purple light flashed all over the cave, and the smoke clouds and large stones flew with it. After a dozen times, the stone wall of several feet has been hoeed, and the stone gate that is six or seven feet long and two feet wide can accommodate one person to enter and exit. Qiongyu stopped Ruolan and moved slowly, and first went in to take a look. It turned out that this place used to be the entrance of the back cave, and the stone wall was moved from elsewhere to close. The area of the cave is only more than two zhang, it is still a slope, and next to it is the deep pool of ten thousand zhang, and the clouds and mist are full and there is no bottom. In the cave, a large stone with a square circle of three or four feet thick is covered with charms on all sides, and I know that below is a shortcut to the blue cliff. Ruolan leaned in and stood in the direction and hoeed on the stone. After hoeing down, the golden light is shining, and the stone is still not moving, and even if you half of the master, the treasure of the mountain is also invalid. Qiong Yu saw that the purple smoke hoe was useless, and knew that it was the Buddhism of the white-eyed monk, and hurriedly stopped, Ruolan led everyone to kneel down and silently wish Fan Wenfan. Zhu got up, and the spell on the stone with a golden light in front of him disappeared. He ordered Ruolan to do it again, this time the hoe went down, and the boulder was actually broken by hand. Qiongyu and Guorui also drew their swords at the same time, and without dissipating the meal, they smashed the big stone into pieces, revealing a stone cave. Ruolan used a hoe to remove the rubble from the stone cave. Qiong Yu saw the black hole below and said: "This hole must be a shortcut to the Ning Bi Cliff." But Wen Mei went to the liberation slope again, and the black hole below didn't know the depth. Just wait for her to come back and shine it in the Sky Escape Mirror. Ruolan suddenly thought that the golden cicada was a pair of discerning eyes, could see things in the dark, and could lead everyone down. When I looked back, I was not in front of me. It turned out that when Zhu Wen rode away, Jin Chan wanted to play with him, and he could also use this to make amends with Zhu Wen, but he was afraid that his sister would stop him, and he deliberately walked behind everyone. Qiong Yu and the others didn't notice him because they were in a hurry to open up Ning Biya. When he saw everyone entering the cave, he had already withdrawn to chase after Zhu Wen. Qiongyu found that Jin Chan was not in front of him, guessing that he was chasing Zhu Wen, and the two of them were not here, so they couldn't go down, so they had to wait for the two of them to come back.

Who knew that after waiting for two hours, Zhu Wen and Jin Chan had to turn around and see Guo Rui and said, "The Yu Yingnan you said was probably robbed by someone." "Guo Rui was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked. Zhu Wendao: "After I rode on the carving, I went straight through Bashan for six or seven hundred miles, and I have not descended, and my party is very strange." From time to time, the Condor turned back to me and made a long roar, flying faster than the sword light we were driving, and flew out for hundreds of miles, landing in an unknown mountain. After getting off the back of the carving, I walked not far and saw a cave, the door of the cave was closed, and the scenery was very good. I was thinking about it there, and the Condor suddenly ran over and crouched down, meaning that I wanted to ride it. I first suspected that it was tired of flying, and it rested for a while before flying forward. Whoever thinks I'll ride it a second time, and it will fly back.

After a while, I met the cicada brother and rushed to ride the eagle's back together, and then flew to the liberation hermitage you said and landed. When I saw an old Buddha woman reciting sutras with a sad face, she was very frightened when she saw us flying down from the sky. I explained to her what I was trying to do, and she said that she was originally a Guangming teacher, and later followed Guanghui Shitai. Mrs. Guanghui sat down in the nunnery five days ago, and Yingnan buried Mrs. Guanghui with her, and then Yingnan said that the master ordered her to go to the back mountain of Emei to join Sister Guorui. She also knows that you have not returned from abroad, and she has to go to the back mountain to see you every day, and you have never come back. On the third day, Fan Wen suddenly came to the Taoist aunt surnamed Yin, saying that she was destined to take her as an apprentice. Ying Nan insisted on refusing, but that Dao Gu's spell was very powerful, so Ying Nan couldn't help but obey her, so he had to reluctantly worship her as a teacher. That Dao Gu was going to take Ying Nan to a mountain to cultivate, Ying Nan always wanted to delay, and it took a lot of lips and tongues for you to come back to see you, so Dao Gu allowed her to stay for another two days. She is afraid that you will come back to find her, so she has no special way to come to the back mountain to leave a letter with you. This morning, the aunt took her away. When she went, she gave everything in the temple to the old Buddha. He repeatedly told her that after she left, if a little girl surnamed Li came, she would explain the above situation to her in detail, and it was important to do so. The old Buddha mistook me for you and told me so many things. I asked her what the aunt looked like, and the old lady was so old that she couldn't tell her very clearly. Listening to her tone, that aunt is definitely not a good person, and the young man must have been forced to be robbed by others. The place where the Condor led me must have been the nest of the Dao Aunt, and I don't know. ：“

When Zhixian heard this, she suddenly remembered that when she entered the cave yesterday, she picked up a letter on the stone table and wrote: "Sister Qiong personally demolished:". At that time, Guorui went out of the hole to feed the carving, because he saw how many people were kind enough to collect it for Guorui, and somehow fell asleep and forgot about it. Listening to what Zhu Wen said, Yingnan was still in the temple last night, and was forced to leave by that aunt this morning, didn't he make a mistake, and people couldn't help but be ashamed, anxious, and embarrassed to say it directly. I was embarrassed when I heard Guo Rui say anxiously: "The old Buddha said that Sister Ying Nan had left a letter in my cave before leaving, how did we not see it:" Zhixian knew that Guo Rui and Ying Nan had a very good relationship, and then in order to conceal it, fortunately, he was an unintentional mistake and hurriedly said: "Yesterday, when I entered the cave, I saw a letter next to the stone couch, and I didn't see what was written on it, because I was very sleepy at that time, and I casually stuffed it under the mattress, and I didn't know whether it was or not

When Guo Rui heard this, he was too busy to answer Zhixian, and hurriedly rushed to the bed, took out the letter, and saw that it was indeed written by Yingnan himself. The letter said to the effect

Ten days ago, Yingnan came to the back mountain to look for her, and saw that the door of the cave was closed, thinking that she was wandering around the left, looking for everything, and there was no trace of her. At first, I was suspicious that she rode an eagle to travel, and then came several times in succession, and the last time I moved the stones in the cave away, and when I saw the letter I left, I realized that she was led by Chichengzi to the Kunlun Sect Female Sword Fairy Yin Sutang, and the Condor Buddha had flown away in advance. She thought that Fan Wenzhen couldn't help but go back and tell Mrs. Guanghui about the past. Mrs. Guanghui was surprised when she heard that she was picked up by Yin Sutang, and said that Yin Sutang had now broken away from the Kunlun faction, and if she was taken away, I am afraid that there would be no good results. and said that he was going to die the day after tomorrow, and he wanted to ask Yingnan to live with her in the back mountain, and he didn't want to make a mistake halfway, so he was worried about Yingnan. Yingnan is worried about his friend and will never know when he sees his teacher, and his heart is extremely sad, and he can't think of crying every day guarding Guanghui Shitai. After two days, Mrs. Guanghui really sat down. That old Buddha was a famous female snitch on Xichuan Road back then, and the invincible Tang family mother-in-law was ambushed by Guanghui Shitai because of the robbery of a large family, and since then she has washed her hands and converted to follow Guanghui Shitai for more than ten years, and she is extremely loyal. After the British man and the Tang family's mother-in-law buried Mrs. Guanghui, they went to the back mountain to see if Guorui came back. Yingnan thought that even if the country did not come back for the time being, the Condor Buddha would always come back. If you meet the Condor, ask it to carry yourself to the Baimei Zen Master, ask the Baimei Zen Master, if that Yin Sutang is a good person, he will try to find it, and worship with Guorui, under her door, if Yin Sutang is a bad person, it is good to ask the Baimei Zen Master to save Guorui, still go back to Emei to live together, who knows how many times I have not met. On the third day, I went to the back mountain again, and suddenly met a middle-aged female Taoist aunt, claiming that she was a female sword fairy Yin Sutang, and asked Yingnan to go back with her. Later, when I asked Ming, I learned that she asked Chichengzi to lead Guorui to pass by Mangcang Mountain and met the enemy Shi Nanxi, who was seriously injured. Fortunately, I met Zhu Mei, the dwarf among the two elders of Songshan, and gave a few life-killing pills to save his life, and he turned to Zaohua Cliff for a few days to ask for revenge. Yin Sutang heard that Sun Guorui, who she was going to collect, was left in a ruined temple in Mangcang Mountain, because Shi Nanxi and the Flame Patriarch could not be found for a while, so she put down the matter of revenge first, hurriedly drove the sword light, and searched for Guorui along the way, but there was no trace. It is guessed that she has turned back from the original road, so she followed this country to Rui, but did not go home. happened to meet a young man, and when he saw that she was very thick-rooted, he wanted to take her as an apprentice. Yingnan heard that Guo Rui was left alone on the way, because he heard from the master that Yin Sutang was not a good person, and he couldn't help but be happy when he saw that Guo Rui was not caught by her. But I heard Yin Sutang say that Guorui was alone in the barren mountains and broken temples, and there was no trace of him, and he was very worried. In addition, Yin Sutang saw that Xun Guorui was not insisting on taking her away, and was afraid and unwilling. Later, Yin Sutang forced Ying Nan with a flying sword, and was forced to repeatedly mourn and falsely say that the matter was not over after the death of the teacher, please allow her to live in the Liberation Nunnery for a few more days, and then go with her, and spend a lot of lips and tongues. Ying Nan's mouth was sweet, and he actually coaxed Yin Sutang to believe it, but she was not allowed to delay it longer, so she could only wait for two more days. Yingnan couldn't just agree. Her original intention was only because Guorui said in the letter that the Condor would only go for more than ten days and come back, so she wanted to survive until the Condor came back and rode away. and pretended to say to Yin Sutang that she was in love with Guorui, and at first she was reluctant to go with her because she was reluctant to go with Guorui. Asked Yin Sutang to allow her to visit Guorui in the back mountain in the past two days, and if she came back, wouldn't it be good if she came back to apprentice with her. Yingnan secretly wrote this long letter with Yin Sutang on his back, and left it with Guorui to ask Guorui to come back, and ask the divine eagle to go to Zaohua Cliff Yin Sutang to carry her back, and then flee together to Baimei Zen Master to settle down.

After reading this letter, Guo Rui was sad for a while, almost shed tears, and immediately asked Qiong Yu and others to try to save Yingnan, Qiong Yu said, I think Yin Sutang, since she cherishes talents like this, Yingnan is in no danger with her. We don't want her to go to the side door to pick her up. However, there is no need to be busy at this time, wait until Ning Biya is opened up, and then discuss how to think about it in the long run: "Everyone agrees with what they heard." Although Guo Rui was impatient, he had to let Qiongyu dispatch. At that moment, he entered the stone cave again, and Qiongyu ordered Zhu Wen and Jin Chan to hold the Heavenly Escape Treasure Mirror as the lead. When I first went down, the cave was only allowed to enter and exit, and the gravel that had just fallen down was obstructed, and the top of the road was not high, so I had to lean over. When I walked down, I felt that the air was fresh. Qiong Yu hurriedly asked Zhu Wen to put away the treasure mirror. Sure enough, I saw a piece of light, just like the dawn that came out in the morning. So he went down to the place where there was light, and made a few rounds, but the more he went, the brighter it became. When they reached the end, they had come out of the cave and there was a cliff in front of them. The entrance to the cave was half flat and jutting, and only a hole about a few feet wide was exposed, and there was nothing on all sides. Looking up, I saw clouds and mist, but I couldn't see the blue sky, and I didn't know how high it was from above. Then go to the side of the cliff and look down, and there is also a stratus cloud partition below, and you can't see the bottom. Ruolan laughed and said: "This is Ning Biya, there is no world on the outside, there is no earth, there is such a black hole inside the cave, we don't want to escape and take refuge, so what's the point of running here to live here?"

Before the words were spoken, Jin Chan suddenly shouted: "Here: "It turns out that everyone thought at first that Mrs. Shangqing said that Ning Biya was a place for white-eyed monks and Zen Yue, and also told Jiuhua not to go back, only to learn the Tao here, and estimate that there must be extraordinary scenery." When he came down, he was full of curiosity. After walking for a while, the black road is easy, and the future is full of light.

When it came to the end, it was a dead cliff mouth with no grass and boring taste. Except for Qiongyu, the elder knew that Mrs. Shangqing had no ulterior motives for calling everyone to live, or that she and everyone had not yet reached the ground. Those who have been to Guorui already know that this is definitely not Ningbi Cliff. Most of the rest of the people were disappointed. Before Guorui could speak, Ruolan had already said something unsatisfactory. The golden cicada was even more anxious, he saw that the cliff mouth was covered by clouds, and he couldn't help but say, snatched Zhu Wenbao's mirror into his hand, uncovered the brocade, and took a photo. Coupled with his pair of discerning eyes, the clouds and mist were scattered everywhere, and he had already seen a wide cliff below, and there were many strange flowers and plants clustered up and down, and the trees were shady, and the streams and waterfalls were reflected around, and it was indeed a fairy cave house. I couldn't help but shout with joy in my heart.

At this time, Guo Rui was saying to Qiongyu: "This is not Ningbi Cliff, where has I been to Ningbi Cliff in the past, it is like this:"

Everyone heard the golden cicada shouting happily, and they all gathered around, although they couldn't see it as clearly as the golden cicada, and they could see that the mountains and rivers below were green, and there was no cave, and the sky was really worthy of it: "Ning Bi:" two words. Then they discussed how to go down with their swords. Qiong Yu said

"I think this road ends here, and it will be so easy to go down with a sword light. Since Mother told us to open up from above, there must be a way to go. It didn't take much trouble for us to go down, Qiu and Li, the two girls didn't know how to fly with the sword?"

Jin Chan said: "My sister is always like this. Isn't this the way we came down from above?

As for the two sisters, Qiu and Li, you and Sister Zhu are both strong in swordsmanship, won't you carry them down?" Qiong Yu said: "That's not what I said. A person always has to do things thoroughly, not to say that he is afraid of difficulties, and Gou An only does half of it. Guorui sister gave birth to fairy bones, and she had to smell the fairy sword, ate a lot of fairy medicine, and the spirit fruit was as light as a leaf, so she only had to practice according to her father's mantra, and I would be able to fly the sword in a month with a little guidance. Zhixian sister is much more difficult, she has to practice for at least three and five years. In the future, I will often have to go in and out, only I can take her in and out, if we have something to do, wouldn't it be inconvenient for him to go:" Jin Chan also had to argue, Zhu Wen preemptively said: "Since we see the scenery below, it is not necessarily Ning Biya, so let's go to the bottom with the strap on the back of Qiu and Li to see if the location is or not, and then we will go together to find the shortcut below."

Jin Chan was convinced when he heard this, and most of the young people agreed with it. Qiongyu had no choice but to agree. It was agreed that Qiongyu would take Zhixian Zhu Wen and Guorui, together with Ruolan and Jin Chan, a total of six people.

Just as he was about to raise his feet to hear the sound of the eagle on the top. Guo Rui heard the sound of the Buddha and the slave, and hurriedly called everyone to stop for a while and then go down. After a while, sure enough, Buddha Nu strickened his wings from the hole in the cliff above, and then sat down on his back, and the gorilla sat on it. Ruolan said with a smile: "This orangutan will enjoy the blessings, don't you ask the Condor to carry it to Ningbi Cliff?" The orangutan saw his master jumping off the eagle's back and lying on the ground. Guo Rui said: "This time, I don't have to carry Sister Qiu with the two sisters. "After that, he pulled Zhixian and rode on the back of the eagle." The eagle waited for the two to sit down, pounced on it, stretched out its two steel claws, grabbed the underground orangutan, spread its wings, and flew diagonally into the hole. Ruolan clapped her hands and laughed: "They're good at tricks." In the future, when I have the opportunity, I will also ambush a Condor to ride. Zhu Wendao: "You don't have to envy others, go down quickly." "At the moment, the four of them, Jin Chan, Qiongyu, and Ruolan, flew down with their sword lights, and they landed on the ground after a while.

Guorui and Zhixian had already arrived first, and smiled at everyone: "This is Ning Bi Cliff, where I was carried by Senior Brother Jinyan in the past, don't you see that there are two big characters on the cliff over there, 'Ning Bi'?" The lone peak on the left side of the hundred and ten zhang rises from the ground, and the posture is exquisite, vivid, as if it is about to fly away. The Ning Bi Cliff and the Lone Peak are side by side, there are seventy or eighty zhang high, the cliff wall is covered with vines and roses, covered with many unknown strange flowers and flowers, and the nose is fragrant. The cliff on the right side is very steep and steep, and there is a strange stone that looks like a dragon's head at the corner, and a sharp waterfall of two or three zhang thick and thin flies down from the end of the stone. Dozens of zhang high from that strange stone, there is a thick half an acre of square circle, about ten zhang high, the top is plump, the bottom is sharp, the pen tube is as straight as the peak of the lonely peak, like a bowl is bearing that big waterfall. The water vapor surrounded the white dragon-like waterfall like a cloud and mist, and it fell directly on the small lonely peak, making a loud thunderous sound. The waterfall reached the summit and splashed many feet high. The waterfall is scattered here, turning into countless large and small waterfalls, falling down from the small lone peak. The stone shape of the peak is different, because it is the upper abundance and the lower sharp, the original waterfall flows into a thin and transparent crystal curtain, some are as thick as several feet, some are as thin as a long rope, swaying in the air with the wind, all flow to a deep pool below the lonely peak, go down the river to the back of the cliff and go around. The sound of the water falling on the rocks, accompanied by the sound of the spring in the pool, is like a wonderful music. When you hear the heart, even the rumbling sound of the peak and waterfall will be forgotten. The thousands of splashed droplets of water fell on the green grass, and the shiny ones rolled with the wind from time to time like pearls. The flowers and plants near the peak were moistened by this spiritual spring, and the soil became more and more unearthed, and the moss and green flowers were like a smile.

When everyone met such a fairy scene, they stood there one by one, silently listening to the fairy sounds of nature, and seeing the endless beauty, they were so silent that they had to stop breathing. The golden cicada was extremely happy, and suddenly let out a wild cry in the silence. Everyone unconsciously cheered and jumped up to each other, and they appreciated Fan Wen Array together. Guo Rui pointed out to Qiongyu and others in front of the cliff a towering old Nan tree that was green like a canopy and covered several acres of ground, saying that this tree was the place where the white-eyed monk knotted Mao in the past, and made up a lot of previous events.

Just as he was talking happily, suddenly a black shadow flew down from the top of the tree, and then with a snort, a black thing slipped down to scare Zhixian. When I looked closely, it turned out to be the Condor with an orangutan on its back, and a string of Buddhist beads and a note on its claws. Guo Rui took it and saw that it was left by the ancestor Baimei monk. It is to the effect that he has already calculated that they are going to live here, there is a cave on the cliff, there are more than 100 stone chambers in the Danfang, which was originally opened up by Changmei Zhenren when he was preparing for the Guangmen Courtyard, but then it has not been used, and it has become an immortal, and no one has used it. Since the white-eyed monk came here, a spiritual spring has been borrowed, and a spiritual spring has been transplanted from the blessed land of the major famous mountains, and many elixirs have been transplanted, and the Yao grass and Qi flowers have added a lot of color to this place. The stones in the cave were originally a transparent texture, bright day and night, and most suitable for monks to live in. There is an ascending road to the west of the cave gate, leading directly to a stone cave that has been closed next to the Feilei Ridge Bearded Immortal Li Yuanhua Cave Mansion in the back mountain. There is also an ascending road to the south, which is the Qiyun Cave where Sun Zhen's father and daughter live. After the Buddha beads were given to the country, they came from the wonderful use of words.

When Guo Rui saw that the note mentioned her father, she couldn't help but be moved to tears when she missed her family. Qiong Yu comforted her a few words, then took the string of Buddhist beads from her hand, and when she saw it, there were only eighteen in total. In the hand, the fluttering non-gold, non-jade, non-wood, non-stone, are evenly round, and have the size of a dragon's eye. The black and swarthy hair that came out. Knowing that it is a treasure will be useful in the future, and it is still handed to the country in his hand.