The ancestor died two days ago.

In other words, he went home after the Cheng family's practice and died immediately.

There must be something strange about this death.

Wang Qilin said: "There is no doubt that someone is manipulating this matter behind his back, he arranged for Mr. Zu to do things on the bright side, and after using him, he killed him!"

Cheng Fubo muttered: "How, how can this be? Why is this so complicated? Isn't there a ghost, no, there is a fox demon entangled in my family's Erlang? Why is Mr. Zu still dead?"

Xie Toad picked up the fox marrying girl and looked at the bottom of the box over and over again, and said: "Immeasurable Tianzun, it's still not quite right, if it's a fox marrying girl, then it should be the fox clan marrying team, what came just now is really a ghost, not a fox clan." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Master Xu, what do you think of this matter?"

Xu Da said: "Back to the seventh master, the uncle is standing behind you and watching." ”

"Seriously, what about you," Wang Qilin frowned again, "What do you say?"

Xu Dadao: "What does the Seventh Master say, then what to do!"

Wang Qilin walked around the courtyard with his hands behind his back, and walked to the wing, he had to go to see the main owner first.

The person hiding in the wing room was called Cheng Yinbao, a young man about twenty years old, and he was hiding in the corner of the wall at this time, with his hair scattered.

Wang Qilin went up to look at him, and saw that his face was pale, his eyes were blank, and his lips were squirming vigorously but no sound came out, which was indeed a little crazy.

Wang Qilin leaned in to talk to him, but he didn't say anything, just squirmed his lips, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

Seeing this, he shook his head and walked out of the yard, and when he shook his head, the Cheng couple cried sadly.

Li Ta comforted them and said: "Don't cry, my seventh master is the most capable, with him, your Erlang will be fine." But why don't you go to me to listen to the heavenly prison when you encounter a strange matter? If you report this case as soon as possible, why did you make such a fuss today?"

Cheng Fubo said with a sad face: "Master Li Mingjian, Xiao Lao'er once wanted to report the case, but Mr. Zu said that he didn't need to report the case, saying that he could solve the matter, so Xiao Lao'er reported his luck and didn't go to you." ”

Wang Qilin called Xu Da and Li Ta's men over and asked them to go out to check some information, and he and Xie Toad walked out of the street.

"Which tree did your eldest son hang himself from in his Chinese New Year's Eve?" he asked the couple as he turned his head.

Cheng Fubo said in a panic: "It wasn't hanged on this street, it was in the alley behind, and there was a willow tree behind it, so he hung a belt on it and hanged himself." ”

Wang Qilin stepped directly on the wall and went upstairs, and jumped down again to look at it.

The alley is narrower, and there is a large willow tree at the head of the alley.

The night breeze blows, and the dry willow branches sway back and forth, like endless dry hands shaking.

As long as the wind blows, it is a rattling sound.

Wang Qilin walked over and circled around the willow tree, looked up for a while, and after pondering, he returned to Cheng's small building and asked, "Is your eldest son hanged?"

Mr. and Mrs. Cheng nodded together: "Yes." ”

"At that time, my family Erlang went out to look for him, and the neighbors heard the shouting and came out to see, but someone saw him hanging from a tree and quickly came to inform my family, and when we went to see, he had already stuck out his tongue and hanged himself. ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Fubo couldn't help but start wiping his tears again: "Pity my eldest son, he is an honest and honest child, obedient and motivated, why did I force him to death?

Wang Qilin frowned and said, "Isn't it, hanged?"

He thought for a while and said to Cheng Fubo: "You take me to Ling Lang's grave to have a look." ”

Cheng Fubo was stunned: "Huh?

Wang Qilin stared at him and asked, "What's wrong with this?"

Cheng Fubo looked up at the sky and said fearfully: "My lord, it's already late, my eldest son died horizontally, so he was not buried in the ancestral grave, but buried in an old grave outside the county, that place is very evil, I am afraid it is dangerous to go to the old grave at this time......

Wang Qilin said: "Don't worry, no matter when, only the demons and monsters are afraid of me, and there is no part of us who are afraid of demons and monsters!"

Categorical and proud.

Xu Da pulled out the Glaive Knife and made an angry look behind his back.

But Cheng Fubo still hesitated: "My lord, it's not that Xiao Lao'er is timid, it's just that the villain is worried that something will happen to us when we leave the house?"

Wang Qilin said: "It's simple, you husband and wife take Erlang together, with us by your side, no accidents will happen!"

Cheng Fubo blinked, there was nothing to say.

He had no choice but to ask his wife to take his son, and the three of them walked in front, leading Wang Qilin, Xie Toad and others out of the door.

When the group walked by a big mansion when they left the city, Cheng Fubo glanced up and shuddered violently: "By the way, my lords, the little old man suddenly thought of something!

"What's the matter?"

"Mr. Zu left my house two days ago, but Xiao Lao'er was worried that without him sitting at home, the demons and monsters who came to marry would come again, so he wanted him to stay for two more days. But he refused, saying that someone had asked him to do something again, and he couldn't afford to offend this person!"

Wang Qilin said impatiently: "Open up, who is looking for him to do something?"

Cheng Fubo said helplessly: "Little Lao'er doesn't know, I only remember that Mr. Zu said that this person is a big family in Shangyuan Mansion, and he has been a big official, but his in-laws are in my Lubo County, and this person often travels back and forth to Lubo County, so he knows his reputation." ”

Hearing this, Wang Qilin's heart moved, the big family in Shangyuan Mansion, the in-laws are in Lubo County, and there is something strange at home-

He looked at Xie Toad, and Xie Toad asked softly, "The Zheng family of the General's Mansion?"

Wang Qilin said: "This is the matter, let's go and investigate." ”

Xie Toad nodded and said, "It should be so, the old Taoist priest felt that it was not normal for Zheng Bushi, the son of the Zheng family, to marry the Liu family. ”

The mass graves are located at several mounds, which are continuous with each other, undulating continuously, like a giant python lying on the ground.

Protruding graves and tombstones are scattered haphazardly, most of the graves do not have tombstones, and some of them do not have surnames, but are just a light board or with the words 'Tomb of the Unknown' written on it, and you can see ghost fires floating in them from a distance.

But when they got closer, the fire was gone, and only the darkness of the night remained.

The night breeze blew in the first month, and Li Ta subconsciously pulled off his clothes and muttered, "It's a cold wind." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Be careful, this is a yin wind, which can blow away people's yang energy, and at least it will make people's luck low in recent days, and at worst, they will go back to a serious illness." ”

He groaned for a while, found Xie Toad and whispered a few words, and when he raised his head again, he said: "Big guy, be careful, follow the Dao Chief, the wind is too strong on the mass grave tonight, so I have to let the Dao Chief find a way to avoid the wind." ”

Cheng Fubo pointed out the approximate location, Xie Toad nodded and threw out a talisman from his sleeve, and shouted: "The way of heaven is over, three or five percent, the sun and the moon are together, out of the misty, into the underworld, the qi preaching, the qi is clear, the evil ghosts and thieves are all gone!

As he recited the formula, the talisman began to glow, eventually burning into a flame that floated in the night sky.

The night wind and the yin wind blew one after another, and the flame that blew rolled vigorously, but it was not extinguished.

They followed the flames around the hills, which were lined with ownerless graves, and Rita quietly looked to the right and left, and found that not a single weed had grown on these hills, and that they were bare, bleak, and dead silent.

This made him feel that something was not quite right, aren't all these graves fierce? The corpses buried inside should have resentment or evil spirits, so the soil of the grave that he rushed to was lifeless, and even the weeds could not grow.

So the path taken from this kind of grave can be the road to avoid the yin wind?

The wind was blowing in gusts, and he didn't know if it was a psychological effect, he felt colder and colder.

After digging over a mound of earth, a new grave was finally found, and this tomb had no tombstones, just a few new earths.

Wang Qilin grabbed a handful of soil and sniffed it in front of his nose, he closed his eyes and circled around the grave, Li Ta looked inexplicable, what is this?

He nodded at Xie Toad, and Xie Toad asked in a deep voice, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Seventh Master, do you really want to take this risk?"

Wang Qilin said: "Call it!"

Xie Toad handed him a talisman and went to take the others away.

Li Ta couldn't help but ask, "Dao Master, what is the Seventh Master going to do?"

Xie Toad said with a solemn face: "The Seventh Master wants to call the ghost to inquire, let's go first, there are countless unjustly killed ghosts and dead ghosts on this mass grave, once the Seventh Master calls the ghost, maybe it is not Cheng Jinbao's ghost, it may be the evil ghost trapped here." ”

Cheng and his wife subconsciously glanced at each other, and Cheng Fubo asked hesitantly: "Lord Wang can still call the ghost of my eldest son? This is already the night of his soul, his ghost should have entered the underworld and cannot come out, right?"

Xie Toad said: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, it stands to reason that this is indeed the case. But when you bury his body here, his ghost will stay here for some night, and there will be many ghosts in the mass graves, and there may be ghosts who will communicate with him and know something from him. ”

"My adults are actually trying to call these ghosts out and ask them out of their mouths. ”

Cheng Fubo exclaimed: "Lord Wang is really cultivating to the sky." ”

After they left the mass grave, they looked into the distance, and indeed saw a little fire in front of Cheng Jinbao's grave, and then a black shadow staggered around.

Cheng Yinbao, who was stupid and like a walking corpse, howled in horror, and violently pushed away the Cheng family who was holding him and ran away: "Ghost!

The group hurriedly chased him, and when they pacified Cheng Yinbao, Wang Qilin had already arrived in a plunder.

Li Ta asked, "Seventh Master, have you found anything?"

Wang Qilin said with a solemn face: "I have found something, but it is still foggy, let's go back and talk about it." ”

This trip took nearly two hours to go back and forth, and by the time they returned to Cheng's small building, it was already midnight, and Xu Da and Li Ta's subordinates had returned from their investigations.

Wang Qilin asked Xu Dadao: "Is there any valuable news?"

Xu Da touched his head and said, "There is not much value, but there is a piece of news that is quite strange." ”

According to the uncle's inquiry from the neighbors, this Cheng Jinbao is an honest man, he only knows how to go to the family shop and the fields outside the city to work on weekdays, and he has never heard of him going to Goolan Courtyard, let alone which flower girl he is involved with. ”

"On the contrary, the little Langjun of the Cheng family, hehe, he is a prodigal son of Goolan Courtyard, and he has to sleep in Goolan Courtyard for 200 days out of more than 300 days a year. However, this Xiao Langjun is clever and intelligent, and he is deeply loved by the Cheng family and his wife, so although he is a loser in Goolan Courtyard, Cheng Fubo and his mother-in-law rarely blame him. ”

Wang Qilin nodded solemnly and said, "Everything is understood!"

"Got what?" Xu Da asked.

Wang Qilin waved his hand and motioned for Li Ta to take the three members of the Cheng family to the post house.

Cheng Fubo's face was full of inexplicability: "Lord Wang, what are you doing?"

Wang Qilin didn't speak, and walked out with a gloomy face.

Lubo County is the closest to Shangyuan Mansion, and its specifications are a little higher than other county seats, so whether it is a yamen or a post office, it is more majestic than ordinary county seats.

Wang Qilin sat down in the lobby after entering the post house, took out the iron captain seal and slapped it on the table: "Bang!"

A group of well-dressed Youxing wrestlers who had just woken up from their dreams ran out one after another, and formed two teams with waist knives in their hands.

Seeing this battle, the Cheng family and his wife suddenly fell to the ground with weak knees, and Cheng Yinbao turned his head in the lobby in a daze, his face was full of blankness.

A small halberd pointed and shouted: "Who is the sinner, who is so bold and reckless, and he doesn't even kneel in my court to listen to the heavens?"

Wang Qilin waved his hand and said, "He's pretending to be crazy now, don't worry about him." ”

Hearing this, Cheng Fubo raised his head violently and looked at him in shock.

Wang Qilin slapped the table with the seal of Tie Wei again, and asked with a solemn face: "Cheng Fubo, are you willing to tell the official the truth about the murder of your eldest son?"

Cheng Fubo said blankly: "What is the truth? My lord, the little old man doesn't understand what you mean." ”

Wang Qilin crooked his mouth and smiled coldly: "Very good, you don't understand very well, then the official will mention you." ”

"You said that your eldest son killed himself by hanging a tree branch, right?"

Cheng Fubo nodded in a panic: "My lord, please Mingjian, that's right, he committed suicide and died, my neighbors can testify to this, in fact, it was Ding Laosi behind my family who found him hanging first!"

"And there is also a record of this incident in the Yamen, who went to examine the corpse, and my eldest son died of a neck bone detachment, his tongue sticking out, and his face was congested and turned blue, and he said that this was hanged. ”

Cheng followed and said: "Yes, my lord, you know it, he was hanged." ”

Wang Qilin shook his head and said, "But this is not what the official asked about the ghost!"

"Your eldest son was strangled to death!"

"Strangling can also cause your tongue to stick out and your face to turn blue. ”

The old couple of the Cheng family widened their eyes in surprise: "Huh?"

Wang Qilin glanced at the two of them deeply and asked: "Cheng Yinbao is the biological son of the two of you, isn't that Cheng Jinbao?"

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was shocked!

Li Ta subconsciously shouted: "You two still don't tell the truth?!"

Wang Qilin stood up and walked to the front of the hall, looked at the old couple and couldn't help but shake his head: "You guys are too much, Cheng Jinbao is filial and honest, but it's a pity that his stupid mouth won't make you happy." ”

"And Cheng Yinbao is a loser, just because he has a sweet mouth and can coax people, you favor him everywhere?"

Cheng Fubo said in shock: "No, my lord, we don't!"

Wang Qilin said categorically: "Don't deny it, this official has already asked the ghost to find out the truth!"

"It was Cheng Jinbao who really got the dowry of the fox dowry, this Cheng Jinbao happened to save a fox last year, and the fox was grateful to him, so he was willing to commit himself to marry. The fox clan accepted Cheng Jinbao's dowry, but Cheng Jinbao didn't know that what he gave to the fox clan would be regarded as a dowry by them. ”

"But Cheng Jinbao later knew that he was favored by the fox clan when he left the peach blossom luck, and he told you about it, I wanted to make you happy and let you know that your Cheng family was going to be developed. ”

"But Cheng Yinbao was jealous, he learned that the fox girl was charming and magical, so he coveted it, he wanted to be the son-in-law of the fox clan!"

"He has been robbing his brother's things since he was a child, and every time he robs you, he favors his younger brother, thinking that this time he robbed his brother's marriage, and his brother would agree. ”

"As a result, I didn't expect Cheng Jinbao to be determined to keep his marriage this time, so Cheng Fubo, you said that you once quarreled with him because of the marriage of your eldest son, this matter is true, but it's not that he takes a fancy to the prostitute and you don't want to, but you want him to give the fox girl to Cheng Yinbao and he doesn't want to!"

"In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, you finally had the most powerful dispute, and Cheng Yinbao strangled Cheng Jinbao to death by mistake for a while!"

"At this time, in order to keep Cheng Yinbao, you simply didn't do anything, and secretly hung Cheng Jinbao on the willow tree to create the illusion that he committed suicide!"

"More than that, in order to prevent the truth from being found out, you also asked Cheng Yinbao to go to Goolan Courtyard to find a girl who knew him to act in front of Cheng Jinbaoling and blame him. ”

"In the end, evil will be rewarded! You wanted to keep Cheng Yinbao and let him get to the bottom of the fox girl to marry the fox girl, but how can the fox clan be so easy to deceive? When they found out that you killed their son-in-law, they decided to take revenge on your Cheng family!"

"Didn't your Cheng family want the second child to marry a capable daughter-in-law? Okay, then attract the ghost to marry him, but not to marry him, but to marry him to be a son-in-law for the ghost!"

After Wang Qilin finished speaking in one breath, everyone changed color, and the eyes of the three people of the Cheng family were really like knives.

Cheng Yinbao was so frightened that he shrank and hugged his father.

Cheng made a gesture to push him away, and said angrily: "Vertical nonsense!"

Cheng Fubo hurriedly answered: "Lord Wang, what you said is too sensational, we haven't heard it at all, this is impossible!"

"And do you have proof? What proof do you have for what you're talking about?"

Wang Qilin looked at them sadly and said, "Do you really have no conscience? What has Cheng Jinbao done, you look down on this son so much? Why do you have to protect this second child who is a traitor, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling?"

"And, one thing you guys couldn't be more wrong!"

Wang Qilin stared at the old two and said slowly: "In the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Cheng Yinbao did not strangle Cheng Jinbao, people are not so easy to die. He faked his death, and if you leave him alone, he will wake up again after a while. ”

"As a result, you hung him unconscious on a willow tree and strangled him to death!"

Li Ta had a fiery temper, reached out and pulled out a knife from the waist of the wrestler beside him and shouted: "There is such a family as you? Seventh Master, cut them, cut them first and then report them!"

Wang Qilin shook his head and said: "The old couple of them are just accomplices and concealed the truth, the real murderer is this Cheng Yinbao." ”

Xu Da went up and grabbed Cheng Yinbao's neck and pulled him back.

Cheng hurriedly went to grab his son, Cheng Yinbao struggled hard, opened his wail, Li Ta went up to help, and two tower-like strong men went up to lock Cheng Yinbao.

But Cheng Yinbao was still twisting his body, and Xu Da was shocked: "This ramming is so powerful!"

Cheng Yinbao just relied on a mouthful of explosive power, and soon lost his strength and fell into their hands like a dead dog.

Cheng Fubo shouted at Wang Qilin: "Lord Wang, all this is fake, it's not like this, Xiao Lao'er's family didn't kill Cheng Jinbao, how could Xiao Lao'er do such a thing? You must have made a mistake!"

Wang Qilin said proudly: "It won't be wrong, this is the truth that this official asked for ghosts in the mass graves, and it was Cheng Jinbao's ghost who told these ghosts!"

Cheng shouted: "But this is fake, my family Yinbao didn't do such a thing, we didn't kill Jinbao!"

Xu said angrily: "The old pious woman still has a hard mouth now?

Cheng Fubo said sincerely: "Ladies and gentlemen, please be aware of it, it's really not like this, we didn't kill Cheng Jinbao, he committed suicide by hanging the beam!"

Wang Qilin asked, "Do you have any evidence, do you have evidence to prove all this you said?"

Cheng Fubo was stunned, he was stunned and asked, "Shouldn't it be your lord's you to show evidence?" ”

Wang Qilin said: "If you can't come up with evidence to prove that it was not Cheng Yinbao who killed Cheng Jinbao, then it can be considered that Cheng Yinbao killed Cheng Jinbao!"

When they heard this, the indignant servants felt that something was wrong.

Is this logic wrong?

I heard that the heavenly eunuchs said that Wang Qilin arbitrarily judged strange cases, but today it seems that he is not worthy of the name?

Cheng thought for a while and said: "There is evidence, we have evidence, the neighbors in the back alley of my house can testify, and if Cheng Yinbao strangles Cheng Jinbao, then Cheng Jinbao will leave finger marks on his neck anyway." The yamen has examined the corpse, but there are no traces of these at all!"

Wang Qilin pondered for a while and said: "Then tomorrow you will find the yamen and witnesses to come to the post house, and the official will listen to what they have to say when the time comes, and tonight this Cheng Yinbao will be locked up in our post house first." ”

The Cheng couple was unwilling, Xie Toad shouted: "Immeasurable Tianzun, there are demons and monsters in your family, Cheng Yinbao is dangerous to go back, although there is no freedom for a while in our post house, it is safe." ”

Cheng Fubo looked at his wife and said helplessly: "Then there is a labor official, this is really wronged, the little old man's family is wronged!"

Wang Qilin put on an arrogant and domineering side, saying that he would never wronged a good person in judging a case, and if they could overturn his assertion, then they would speak with evidence tomorrow.

Cheng's husband and wife supported each other and went lonely.

When the two returned home, the porter who had run away before appeared like a ghost, Cheng closed the door, and Cheng Fubo closed his eyes and shook his ears.

The porter said, "There are no outsiders anymore." ”

Cheng Fubo didn't care about his words, he walked around the yard, opened his eyes and said, "There is no one left." ”

The porter rolled his eyes and spat on it.

Cheng Shi stretched out his hand and rubbed the corners of his forehead and the edge of his cheeks, and slowly tore off a human skin mask, revealing an ordinary woman's face: "What's going on?

Cheng Fubo said in a deep voice: "Don't be afraid, everything is just a coincidence, I didn't hide my true face when I went to the fifth taste to put down this pressure box bottom for disaster, I guess they just followed this point to find it." ”

Cheng said angrily: "Don't be afraid, I heard that the heavenly eunuch touched our door and detained the old fire, do you know what it means?"

"It means that they don't know our identity, otherwise they won't be detaining Lao Huo, but they will find gold and silver generals to come out to arrest us!" Cheng Fubo said impatiently.

The porter subconsciously shouted, "What? The old fire was detained by Wang Qilin's sloppy dog?"

Cheng Shi said stupidly: "Yes, then Wang Qilin said that Cheng Yinbao, who was pretending to be Lao Huo, killed Cheng Jinbao, so he was detained." ”

The porter said blankly, "How did it become like this?"

"Who the knows?"

"The old fire is detained, this is troublesome!"

Cheng Fubo walked a few steps in the courtyard with his back hand, and said: "The current trouble is not Lao Huo, as long as Lao Huo continues to pretend to be stupid, Wang Qilin will not be able to find anything out of him." At present, our trouble is how to use ordinary means to fish out the old fire. ”

Cheng said irritably: "Lao Huo is also unlucky, how did Wang Qilin investigate this case?

"Could what he said be true?" Cheng Fubo asked, "Our understanding of the Cheng family is only superficial information, who knows if his eldest son was strangled to death by his youngest son and hung on a tree?"

Cheng said angrily: "You ask your mother? This family was chosen by you, how could you choose such a family to settle down?"

Cheng Fubo was even more angry and said: "This is the boss's arrangement, he asked us to come to this family to settle down, and when he comes, you can ask him!"

The porter was confused, and he asked, "What happened after I went out? Why was the old fire detained by the Heavenly Supervisor and you two quarreling?"

"What are you going out for?" Cheng scolded, "You monkey runs fast, blind chickens run!"

The porter said angrily: "If I don't go out, who will marry the ghosts? If I don't marry the ghosts to attract the attention of the heavenly eunuchs, they are clearly here to check on us, what if we really find out what to do? At that time, Wang Qilin was hiding in the house!"

He said again: "As soon as Lao Tzu opened the door, he saw that group of people, and quickly notified you to let you act well." You just have to act and drag them down, and I'll go out and avoid their eyes and ears and cast spells to attract their attention, and what will happen to you? You can't even do this, and when the boss comes, I must sue them properly!"

"Sue sue, sue your mother. Cheng scolded him.

The porter scolded: "Scolding and scolding, you will scold and criticize when you grin all day long, did God give birth to a stinky criticism in your mouth?"

Cheng Fubo shouted: "Stop arguing, don't quarrel! Now think about it, what should we do with the old fire? How can we rescue it?"

Cheng said coldly: "It's a big deal to go to the post house to rob the prison, anyway, it's a small county post house, it's not easy for the three of us to break in and save an old fire?"

The porter asked, "You said it simply, then you came face to face with Wang Qilin when you were in the house, why didn't you simply kill him?"

Cheng said angrily: "He has a spirit beast with him, and can't he see that stinky Taoist priest following behind him? How can the old lady do it? Wang Qilin can be killed by us with one move? The stinky Taoist priest is outside, it doesn't take a move to rush in, the boss is not here, the four of us are not necessarily the opponents of the two of them!"

Speaking of this, she scolded the porter again: "You stinky stupid critic, fuck your mother, didn't you say that according to your arrangement, we can beat Wang Qilin alone?"

The porter said unconvinced: "According to my arrangement, it should be like this, the little lady of the fifth taste is clearly his concubine Wang Qilin, and she will follow Wang Qilin wherever he goes, and send it for approval for thousands of miles." ”

"So let's design his concubine, according to common sense, he Wang Qilin should be able to solve this matter by himself, it's just a disaster, he Wang Qilin must be confident that he can solve it." ”

"Who knew he had pulled a bunch of people to do this, and this grandson was too cautious, right?"

Cheng Fubo turned around in circles with his hands behind his back and a gloomy face, and finally said: "Forget it, tonight the post house will fish out the old fire, and then withdraw and abolish this foothold." ”

The porter hesitated: "But the boss said that we are not allowed to startle the snake." ”

Cheng Fubo shook his head and said: "This is not a scareless snake, just because a family has disappeared, you can guess that we are twenty-eight houses by listening to the heavenly prison?"