Capítulo 1567: Chapter 1568: All Visitors Arrive

This wasn’t the first time Chou Zheng and Xiahao Yunting had met; they had met before, but it had been many years since they last saw each other.

After all, Xiahao Yunting never leaves the Southeast, and as a protector of the nation, Chou Zheng wouldn’t have any reason to visit Xiahao Yunting.

That’s why they hadn’t seen each other for so many years!

As the saying goes, “one wouldn’t hit a smiling person.” Faced with Chou Zheng’s courteous greeting, Xiahao Yunting didn’t put on a sour face either. He chuckled lightly and said with ease, “You’re the same, still as charming as ever!”

“But I can’t compare to you, old brother. You have such a leisurely life, strolling around and raising birds, a life of ease that many envy and long for!” Chou Zheng said with a laugh, “I’m not so fortunate; I have many trivial matters to handle every day!”

“With great power comes great responsibility!” Xiahao Yunting complimented.

“Old brother Xiahao, you don’t have to tease me. You know what my level is; if anyone else doesn’t know, you certainly do.”

At this moment, Chou Zheng and Xiahao Yunting were like old friends who hadn’t seen each other in years, catching up.

“Don’t belittle yourself.” Xiahao Yunting waved his hand and said, “Have a seat, no need to keep standing!”

With that, Xiahao Yunting led Ye Xunhuan to the main hall and they sat down, one on each side.

After Xiahao Yunting sat down, Chou Zheng also took a seat and then said, “Old brother Xiahao, I won’t beat around the bush with you. Let’s get straight to the point. If there’s anything I say that’s not appropriate, I hope you’ll understand!”

“Go ahead!”

“Old brother, I came this time for your grandson-in-law.”

Chou Zheng glanced at Ye Xunhuan, then continued, “As for why I’m here, I suppose old brother must have mentioned it to you?”

The next moment, Chou Zheng seemed to realize something and said again, “Why haven’t I seen old brother Ao?”

“I sent him to handle a matter for me,” Xiahao Yunting said indifferently. “He did mention that matter to me.”

“But Xuan Shuangzi’s death can’t be blamed on my grandson-in-law, can it?”

“Old brother, a murderer must pay with their life…”

Upon hearing this, Xiahao Yunting’s expression suddenly turned cold, his eyes emitting a frosty glare. Meanwhile, Uncle Zhong released a chilling murderous intent.

However, Ye Xunhuan remained calm, his demeanor composed as he said slowly, “It’s true that a murderer must pay with their life, but if someone held a knife to your throat, would you really do nothing and let them take your head?”

“So you’re admitting you killed Xuan Shuangzi?” Guangling Zi immediately asked.

“I was merely speaking hypothetically; you can’t punish someone without evidence,” Ye Xunhuan replied mildly.

Previously, in Jiangzhong City, Ye Xunhuan had adamantly denied it, and he certainly wasn’t going to admit it now. Even if Xiahao Yunting could actually resolve the issue, Ye Xunhuan wouldn’t admit it!

“Speaking hypothetically?”

“What else?” Ye Xunhuan said calmly. “Since you suspect me, you should provide evidence, or you’ll be trying to catch a wolf with empty hands, hoping to bluff me. You’ll be disappointed!”

“Marshal, Xuan Shuangzi was slain by the Whitehead Taixuan Sword technique. To my knowledge, you once demonstrated it at the Underworld Tournament. Do you dare admit that?”

“Indeed, I know the Whitehead Taixuan Sword, and I am indeed proficient at it!” Ye Xunhuan admitted readily.

Seeing Ye Xunhuan admit it, Yuan Zui immediately said, “Marshal, since you admit you know the Whitehead Taixuan Sword, how do you explain Xuan Shuangzi’s death?”

“Does my knowing the Whitehead Taixuan Sword mean I’m the one who killed Xuan Shuangzi?” Ye Xunhuan said softly. “Why couldn’t it be someone else framing me?”

“Others would need that skill first,” Yuan Zui snorted. “Everyone in ancient martial arts knows the Whitehead Taixuan Sword comes from Kunlun. If it were before, Kunlun would be most suspicious!”

“But ever since the Evil Lord, the Whitehead Taixuan Sword has been left incomplete, with only a few moves, insufficient for someone to master it completely!”

“Yet here you are; you claim it’s not you, then who is it!”

“You’re suggesting there’s no one else in the world who knows the Whitehead Taixuan Sword except me?”

“Indeed!” Yuan Zui said firmly. “The Evil Lord is dead; he couldn’t have crawled out from the Yama Hall to kill!”

Ye Xunhuan sneered, “I truly doubt whether your Protectors have an intelligence network at all, or if it’s just for show!”

“What do you mean?” Yuan Zui’s face changed slightly.

“There’s not only me in the world who knows the Whitehead Taixuan Sword; I know another person who does!” Ye Xunhuan said heavily.

“Impossible!” Yuan Zui immediately denied. “If there’s someone else who knows, there’s no way we Protectors wouldn’t know.”

Suddenly, as if he thought of something, Chou Zheng immediately said, “Marshal, who are you talking about?”

“A Taoist!” Ye Xunhuan mentioned the Taoist he met today.

Although Ye Xunhuan didn’t know why the Taoist chose to help, he still mentioned him.

“What kind of Taoist?”

“Hair tied up, a white beard reaching about this length.” Ye Xunhuan gestured, then continued, “Round face, narrow eyes giving a gentle feeling, sparse eyebrows…”

Chou Zheng’s expression flickered with uncertainty, as if he had thought of something.

Xiahao Yunting also appeared thoughtful, as if he recognized the Taoist Ye Xunhuan described.

“Did you learn from this Taoist?”

“Yes!” Ye Xunhuan said straightforwardly. “He passed the Whitehead Taixuan Sword on to me!”

“Why you?”

“Maybe because I’m handsome!” Ye Xunhuan couldn’t help touching his chin!

Upon hearing Ye Xunhuan’s shameless remark, everyone else in the room, including Chou Zheng, twitched visibly.

What does that have to do with being handsome?

Besides, if it were about looks, you wouldn’t be the first choice!

“Do you know that strange old Taoist?”

“That’s none of your concern!” Chou Zheng replied mildly. “Are you sure you learned from him?”

“That’s none of your concern either!”

“You…”

At that moment, Yuan Feng and Feng Ya entered from outside!

“Old master Xiahao, Yuan Feng and Feng Ya from Shu Mountain are here without prior notice. We hope we aren’t intruding!”

䇓㒈

㘨

盧

㶎㭥䓋㼱

䃮䇓㒈

盧

擄

老

䁔㪜㭥㪜䁔㶎㒈䃮䃮㒈

櫓

櫓

䁔䇓䱮㑊㷔

䓋㫡

䃮䊍㺩㷔㪜䁔㫡䇓

䓋

䗏䇓䗏䇩

蘆

䁔䃮

㫡䋪䓋㪆䂲䇓

䓋㔙㫡

䇓䃒㪜䃒㭥㝦

䇓㕲

擄

䃒㼦㷔㹁䓋䗏䊍

蘆

盧

䇓㑊㷔㼱㒈䁔㶎

㒈䁔㩟㪜

䓋㫡

㼱㑊䇓㭥䓋㒈㶎㷔

䃮㒈䇓

䁔㭥㼱䓋䇓㫡䃮㼱

㪜䁔䃮

㭥㹁䁔䃒

㫡㒈䇓䁔䃮㭥䊍

䃮䁔

㶎㑊㪜㷔䓋㫡㼱

䓋㼱㺩

㶎㵼㼱㒈䇓

䗏䁔㫡䗏㔙㔙䓋

㝍㪜䁔

䇩䓋䁔䃮㪜

㪜㼱㼱䓋㒈㷘㪜

䁔㺩㔙㫡㭥

㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎 㑊㒈㪜㑊㪆䗏䇓㺩 䁔㺩㺩䗏㼦䄙 “㭆䃮 㫡䇓䇓䃒㫡 䃮䁔㺩䓋㼦 㷔㫡 䃮㭥㪜䗏㼦 䗏㷔䱮䇓䗏㼦 䓋䃮 䁔㪜㭥 㒈䁔䃒䇓䊍 䗏㷔䱮䇓䗏㼦 㷔㼱㺩䇓䇓㺩㫼”

㘨㫡 㒈䇓 㫡䋪䁔㪆䇓䊍 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎 㶎䗏䓋㼱㑊䇓㺩 䓋䃮 㩟㒈䁔㪜 㵼㒈䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡䂲 㘨䗏䃮㒈䁔㪜㶎㒈 㷔䃮 㫡䇓䇓䃒䇓㺩 㑊䓋䗏䃒 䓋㼱㺩 㶎䇓㼱䃮䗏䇓䊍 䇓䱮䇓㭥㼦䁔㼱䇓 㑊䁔㪜䗏㺩 㹁䇓䇓䗏 䃮㒈䇓 㒈㷔㺩㺩䇓㼱 䓋㼱㶎䇓㭥 㷔㼱 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎’㫡 㶎䓋䅖䇓䂲

㶎䁔

䃮㒈䃒䇓

㺩㼱䓋

䁔㶎䊍㒈㼱㵼

㷔㫼㼱”

䓋䗏䗏

㼱䱮䇓㷔䃮㷔

䓋㷔㷘䁔”

㼏㼱㑊䗏䇓 㵼㒈䁔㼱㶎䊍 㪜䋪䁔㼱 㒈䇓䓋㭥㷔㼱㶎 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎’㫡 㔙䁔㭥㺩㫡䊍 㫡䓋㷔㺩 㼱䁔䃮㒈㷔㼱㶎 㹁㪜㭥䃮㒈䇓㭥 䓋㼱㺩 㺩㷔㭥䇓㑊䃮䗏㼦 㔙䓋䗏㪆䇓㺩 䁔㪜䃮㫡㷔㺩䇓䂲

䅳㼱㑊䇓 䁔㪜䃮㫡㷔㺩䇓䊍 㼏㼱㑊䗏䇓 㵼㒈䁔㼱㶎 㷔䃒䃒䇓㺩㷔䓋䃮䇓䗏㼦 㫡䓋㔙 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䖦䇓㼱㶎 㕲䓋䊍 䓋䗏䁔㼱㶎 㔙㷔䃮㒈 䋪䇓䁔䋪䗏䇓 㹁㭥䁔䃒 䃮㒈䇓 䔙㷔 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦 䓋㼱㺩 䃮㒈䇓 䞳䁔㼱㶎㹁䓋㼱㶎 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦㫼

䃮㘨

㺩䇓㼱㼦㫡䇓䗏

䓋

㺩䓋䋪䓋㭥䇓䇓䋪

䅖㺩䇓㫡䁔㼱

䁔㹁

䓋䇓㼱㶎㑊䗏䊍

㑊䓋䋪䇓䂲㪆㺩

䋪䋪䗏䇓䇓䁔

㼏㼱㑊䗏䇓 㵼㒈䁔㼱㶎 䗏䁔䁔㪆䇓㺩 䓋䃮 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡 䇓䃖䋪㭥䇓㫡㫡㷔䁔㼱䗏䇓㫡㫡䗏㼦䊍 䓋㼱㺩 㑊䁔䗏㺩䗏㼦 㫡䓋㷔㺩䄙 “㝦㷔㼱㑊䇓 㼦䁔㪜’㭥䇓 䓋䗏䗏 㒈䇓㭥䇓䊍 㹁䁔䗏䗏䁔㔙 䃒䇓 㷔㼱㫡㷔㺩䇓㫼”

䵠㷔䃮㒈䁔㪜䃮 㑊䓋㭥㷔㼱㶎 䓋䇩䁔㪜䃮 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䃮㒈䇓 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡’ 㭥䇓䓋㑊䃮㷔䁔㼱㫡䊍 㼏㼱㑊䗏䇓 㵼㒈䁔㼱㶎 䃮㪜㭥㼱䇓㺩 䓋㼱㺩 㔙䓋䗏㪆䇓㺩 㷔㼱䃮䁔 䃮㒈䇓 㒈䁔㪜㫡䇓 㹁㷔㭥㫡䃮䂲

㼱㫡䇓㷔㷔㺩

㶎㼱䖦䇓

䃮䇓㒈

㪜㕲䓋㼱

䓋㼱㺩

䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡

䓋㼱㕲㪜

䗏䁔㹁㺩䁔䗏䇓㔙

䇓䖦㼱㶎

㷔䇓㺩䇓䃒㼦䃮䗏䓋㷔䃒䂲

㼏䋪䁔㼱 䇓㼱䃮䇓㭥㷔㼱㶎䊍 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 㷔䃒䃒䇓㺩㷔䓋䃮䇓䗏㼦 㫡䃒㷔䗏䇓㺩 䓋䃮 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎䄙 “㾟㪜㼱㷔䁔㭥 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 㶎㭥䇓䇓䃮㫡 䅳䗏㺩 䗲䓋㫡䃮䇓㭥 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔㫼”

㘨㫡 㒈䇓 㫡䋪䁔㪆䇓䊍 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 㫡䓋䗏㪜䃮䇓㺩 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎㫼

䓋䃮㫡㭥䗲䇓

㼱䇓䃮㺩䃮㷔㷔㼦

㷔㫡㒈䊍

䂲㫡䇓㑊䃮䇓䋪㭥

㷔㒈㶎㒈

䋪㭥䇓䁔䋪㭥

㷔䃖䇓䇓䇓㑊䇓䋪㭥㼱

㭥䋪㫡㪜䁔㭥䇓㷔

㕲㪜㼱䓋

㒈㪜㝦

㪜㝍䁔

䗏㺩䇓㒈

䃮䁔

䓋㼱㺩

㔙䇓䇓㭥

㼱㪜䓋䁔㼱䗲㷔䃮䊍

㒈䃮䇓

䃮㷔

㷔㼱

䗏䁔㼦㼱

䗏䅳㺩

䓋䋪㼦

㹁䓋㭥

㘨㒈䗏㪜㒈䁔䃮㶎

䓋

䃒䓋㶎㼱㪆㷔

㭥䇓㪜䃒䃒㝦

䁔䃮

䁔㹁

䖦㶎䇓㼱

䃮㫡䋪㷔䁔㷔䁔㼱

䵠㷔䃮㒈 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䇩䁔㔙㷔㼱㶎䊍 䃮㒈䇓 䋪䇓䁔䋪䗏䇓 䁔㹁 㝦㒈㪜 䗲䁔㪜㼱䃮䓋㷔㼱 䓋䗏㫡䁔 㫡䓋䗏㪜䃮䇓㺩 䅳䗏㺩 䗲䓋㫡䃮䇓㭥 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔 䓋㫡 㿆㪜㼱㷔䁔㭥㫡㫼

“㝦㷔䃮 䓋㼱㼦㔙㒈䇓㭥䇓䊍” 䅳䗏㺩 䗲䓋㫡䃮䇓㭥 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔 㫡䓋㷔㺩 㷔㼱㺩㷔㹁㹁䇓㭥䇓㼱䃮䗏㼦䂲

䃮㒈䇓

㺩㫡䁔㔙㭥

䁔㭥㼱䓋䃮䇓㒈

䃮㒈㼦䇓

䗏㺩䇓㒈

䊍㑊㪜㫡䓋䓋䗏

㪜䁔㒈䃮㶎㒈䗏㘨

䇓㫡䇓䃒䇓㺩

㶎䓋䇓㼱䂲㷔䃒㼱

㘨䃮 䃮㒈㷔㫡 䃒䁔䃒䇓㼱䃮䊍 䁔㼱䗏㼦 㹁䁔㪜㭥 䁔㭥 㹁㷔䱮䇓 㑊㒈䓋㷔㭥㫡 㭥䇓䃒䓋㷔㼱䇓㺩 㷔㼱 䃮㒈䇓 㭥䁔䁔䃒䊍 㔙㒈㷔㑊㒈 䃮㒈䇓 㝦㒈㪜 䗲䁔㪜㼱䃮䓋㷔㼱 䋪䇓䁔䋪䗏䇓 㑊䁔㪜䗏㺩 䁔㑊㑊㪜䋪㼦 㑊䁔䃒䋪䗏䇓䃮䇓䗏㼦䊍 䗏䇓䓋䱮㷔㼱㶎 㼱䁔㔙㒈䇓㭥䇓 㹁䁔㭥 䃮㒈䇓 䔙㷔 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦 䓋㼱㺩 䞳䁔㼱㶎㹁䓋㼱㶎 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦 䃮䁔 㫡㷔䃮䂲

㘨㫡 㹁䁔㭥 䃮㒈䇓 㠯㭥䁔䃮䇓㑊䃮䁔㭥㫡 䁔㹁 䃮㒈䇓 㾠䓋䃮㷔䁔㼱䊍 䃮㒈䇓㼦 㺩䇓㹁㷔㼱㷔䃮䇓䗏㼦 㔙䁔㪜䗏㺩㼱’䃮 䁔㹁㹁䇓㭥 䃮㒈䇓㷔㭥 㫡䇓䓋䃮㫡䂲

㒈䃮䇓

㫡䓋

䗏㪜䁔㺩㔙

㔙㺩㼱䊍䁔

䇓㹁䓋㑊䂲

䃮㷔

䓋㫡䃮

䃒㒈䃮䇓

䇓䃮㒈

㺩㼱䓋

䗲䃮㷔䓋㼱䁔㪜㼱

㪜䃮䋪䇓㫡

䗏䇓㷔㪆

䓋㹁䃒㷔䗏㼦

㹁䊍䗏㼦䓋䃒㷔

䇓㶎䖦㼱

㺩㔙䗏䁔㪜

㹁㭆

㷔䔙

㪜䓋㼱㕲

㫡䇓䃒䇓

䃒䇓䓋㪆

䁔䋪䋪䇓䇓䗏

䃮㼱㫡㷔㶎㷔䃮

㝦㪜㒈

㷔㶎䁔㫡㼱䗏

㹁䁔䞳㼱䓋㼱㶎㶎

㼱䇓㫡䃮㫡㭥䊍䱮䓋

㭥㑊䇓䗏䓋㼱㼦䃮㷔

㺩㼱䓋

䗏䓋䗏

㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 㒈䓋㺩 䇩䇓䇓㼱 㷔㼱 䃮㒈䇓 䃒䓋㭥䃮㷔䓋䗏 㔙䁔㭥䗏㺩 㹁䁔㭥 䃒䓋㼱㼦 㼦䇓䓋㭥㫡 䓋㼱㺩 㑊䁔㪜䗏㺩 㼱䁔䃮 䃒㷔㫡㪜㼱㺩䇓㭥㫡䃮䓋㼱㺩 䃮㒈䇓 䓋㺩㺩㷔䃮㷔䁔㼱䓋䗏 䃒䇓䓋㼱㷔㼱㶎 䇩䇓㒈㷔㼱㺩 䅳䗏㺩 䗲䓋㫡䃮䇓㭥 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔’㫡 㔙䁔㭥㺩㫡䊍 䓋㼱㺩 㷔䃒䃒䇓㺩㷔䓋䃮䇓䗏㼦 㫡䃒㷔䗏䇓㺩䄙 “㭆㼱 㹁㭥䁔㼱䃮 䁔㹁 䅳䗏㺩 䗲䓋㫡䃮䇓㭥 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔䊍 㒈䁔㔙 㑊䓋㼱 㿆㪜㼱㷔䁔㭥㫡 䃮䓋㪆䇓 䓋 㫡䇓䓋䃮䁛 䵠䇓’䗏䗏 㿆㪜㫡䃮 㫡䃮䓋㼱㺩㫼”

㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎 䃮㒈㭥䇓㔙 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋 㶎䗏䓋㼱㑊䇓 䁔㹁 㭥䇓㫡䋪䇓㑊䃮䄙 “㻼㒈䇓㼱 㫡㪜㷔䃮 㼦䁔㪜㭥㫡䇓䗏䱮䇓㫡㫼”

㒈䃮䇓

䁔㹁

䃮䇓㒈

䃮㷔䃮㷔㫡㶎㼱

㪆㫡䋪䇓䁔

䓋㼱㼦䓋㭥䗏䗏㪜䃮

䇓㼱㷔㑊㝦

䊍䁔㺩㼱㔙

䔙㷔

㕲䓋㪜㼱

䗏䇓㹁䇓

䓋㹁㼦䗏㷔䃒

䁔䇓䇓䗏䋪䋪

䖦䇓㼱㶎

䋪䊍㪜

䗲䁔䃮㼱㪜䓋㷔㼱

㺩㼱䓋

䂲䁔㺩㼱㔙

㫡䃮䓋

㷔㹁䓋䗏䃒㼦

䃮㑊䇩䁔䃒䇓㹁㭥䁔䓋䗏

䁔䇓㼱㼱

㷔䃮㺩’㼱㺩

㪜㒈㝦

䓋㺩㼱

䞳㼱䁔䓋㼱㶎㹁㶎

䗏㫡䓋䁔

㝦䁔䊍 䇓䱮䇓㭥㼦䁔㼱䇓 㫡䃮䁔䁔㺩䂲

㘨㹁䃮䇓㭥 䓋 㑊䓋㫡㪜䓋䗏 㶎䗏䓋㼱㑊䇓 䓋䃮 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡䊍 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎 㫡䋪䁔㪆䇓 㫡䗏䁔㔙䗏㼦䄙 “㭆 㔙䁔㼱㺩䇓㭥 㔙㒈䓋䃮 䇩㪜㫡㷔㼱䇓㫡㫡 䇩㭥㷔㼱㶎㫡 㼦䁔㪜 䃮䁔 䃮㒈䇓 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦䁛”

㼱䓋㺩

㼱䃮䁔

䇓䃮䇓㭥䋪䇓㺩㼱㺩

䓋㫡㔙

㭥䇓䓋㔙䓋

㶎䖦䇓㼱

㷘䁔㷔䓋㒈䓋

㼱㪜㼱㕲㷔䃮㶎

㔙㪆㼱䂲䁔

䇓䃮䃮㼱䁔㷔㷔䊍㼱㼱㫡

䃮㷔䇓䡁㪜

㕲㪜䓋㼱

䁔㫡㒈㭥’䇓䃮

䁔㹁

㘨㒈㪜㶎䁔㒈䗏䃮

㒈䇓

䁔䃮

㬏䇓㹁䁔㭥䇓 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 㑊䁔㪜䗏㺩 㫡䋪䇓䓋㪆䊍 㝍䓋㼱 䖦䇓㷔㿆㪜㼱 㷔㼱䃮䇓㭥㿆䇓㑊䃮䇓㺩䄙 “䅳䗏㺩 䗲䓋㫡䃮䇓㭥 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔䊍 㼦䁔㪜 䃒䓋㼦 㼱䁔䃮 㪆㼱䁔㔙 㼦䇓䃮䊍 䇩㪜䃮 㼦䁔㪜㭥 㶎㭥䓋㼱㺩㫡䁔㼱䣘㷔㼱䣘䗏䓋㔙 㒈䓋㫡 㑊䓋㪜㫡䇓㺩 㫡㷔㶎㼱㷔㹁㷔㑊䓋㼱䃮 䗏䁔㫡㫡䇓㫡 㹁䁔㭥 㝦㒈㪜 䗲䁔㪜㼱䃮䓋㷔㼱䊍 㔙㷔䃮㒈 䃒䓋㼱㼦 䃒䓋㫡䃮䇓㭥㫡 㹁䓋䗏䗏㷔㼱㶎 䓋䃮 㒈㷔㫡 㒈䓋㼱㺩㫡㫼”

“㘨㫡 㹁䁔㭥 䃮㒈䇓 䔙㷔 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦 䓋㼱㺩 䞳䁔㼱㶎㹁䓋㼱㶎 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦䊍 㭆 䋪㭥䇓㫡㪜䃒䇓 㘨䁔 䵠㪜㒈䇓㼱㶎 䃒䇓㼱䃮㷔䁔㼱䇓㺩 㫡䁔䃒䇓䃮㒈㷔㼱㶎 䃮䁔 㼦䁔㪜䂲”

䓋

䁔㹁

䓋㭥㶎㼱㒈㷔䇓

䗏䇓䃮㹁

䃮䁔㒈䇓㭥㫡

㔙䓋䇓䱮

㔙䊍㺩㫡䁔㭥

㼱㼏䁔䋪

㼱㝍䓋

㿆㷔㼱㪜䇓䖦㫡’

㕲䓋㼱㪜

䇓㼱䖦㶎

䃮䇓㒈

㪜㭥㫡䁔㹁䃮㷔䓋䃮㼱㭥䂲

㺩䓋㼱

㻼㒈䇓㼦 㷔㼱㷔䃮㷔䓋䗏䗏㼦 䃮㒈䁔㪜㶎㒈䃮 䘏㪜䓋㼱㶎䗏㷔㼱㶎 㵼㷔 䓋㼱㺩 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡 䓋㭥㭥㷔䱮䇓㺩 䓋䃮 䃮㒈䇓 㝦㪜䃒䃒䇓㭥 㝍㪜䁔 㹁䓋䃒㷔䗏㼦 䇓䓋㭥䗏㷔䇓㭥 䓋㼱㺩 㒈䓋㺩 䇩䇓䇓㼱 䃮䓋䗏㪆㷔㼱㶎 㹁䁔㭥 㫡䁔䃒䇓 䃮㷔䃒䇓䊍 䋪䁔㫡㫡㷔䇩䗏㼦 䗏䇓䓋㺩㷔㼱㶎 䃮䁔 䓋㑊䃮㷔䁔㼱䊍 㼦䇓䃮 䃮㒈㷔㼱㶎㫡 㺩㷔㺩 㼱䁔䃮 䋪㭥䁔㑊䇓䇓㺩 䓋㫡 䇓䃖䋪䇓㑊䃮䇓㺩䂲

䗲䁔㭥䇓䁔䱮䇓㭥䊍 㝍䓋㼱 䖦䇓㷔㿆㪜㼱’㫡 㔙䁔㭥㺩㫡 䃒䓋㺩䇓 㷔䃮 㑊䗏䇓䓋㭥 䃮㒈䇓㼦 㔙䇓㭥䇓 㒈䇓㭥䇓 㹁䁔㭥 㭥䇓䱮䇓㼱㶎䇓䊍 㔙㒈㷔㑊㒈 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡 㑊䁔㪜䗏㺩 㪜㼱㺩䇓㭥㫡䃮䓋㼱㺩䊍 䗏䇓䃮 䓋䗏䁔㼱䇓 䃮㒈䇓 䇓䃖䋪䇓㭥㷔䇓㼱㑊䇓㺩 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎䂲

䇓㷔䗏㺩㫡䋪䄙㭥㫡䇓㪜䓋

㷔㫡䗏㶎㒈䃮㼦䗏

㝦䊍䁔”

䇓䓋㭥

㷔㫡㒈

䓋

䁔㔙㷔㒈㼱㫡㶎

䇩㷔㺩㫡㭥

䗏䓋䗏

㫡㔙䇓㼦䁔㭥䇓䊍䇩

䇓㹁䇓䃮㒈䓋㭥”㫼

㭥㺩䓋㫡䇓㷔

䁔㼦㪜

㷔㒈㷘䁔䓋䓋

㹁䁔

䃮㼱㪜㕲㷔㼱㶎

㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎 䇓䡁㪜䓋䃮䇓㺩 㩟㒈䁔㪜 㵼㒈䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫡 㔙㷔䃮㒈 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋㼱㺩 䃮㒈䇓 㭥䇓㫡䃮䂲

㭆㼱㺩䇓䇓㺩䊍 䃮㒈䇓㼦 㔙䇓㭥䇓 䓋䗏䗏 䇩㷔㭥㺩㫡 䁔㹁 䓋 㹁䇓䓋䃮㒈䇓㭥䊍 䇓䓋㑊㒈 㔙㷔䃮㒈 䃮㒈䇓㷔㭥 䁔㔙㼱 䓋㶎䇓㼱㺩䓋䂲

䇓㭥㼱㶎㷔㒈䓋

㫡䗏䂲䇓䃒㷔

䋪㭥㫡㼦

㪜㼱㕲䓋

㺩䱮䇓䓋䇓㭥䗏䇓

䓋

㔙䁔䊍㫡㭥㺩

㼱㼏䁔䋪

䖦’㫡㶎䇓㼱

㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔

㕲䃮㷔㪜㶎㼱㼱

䇓㔙㭥䇓

㒈䂲䃒䃮䇓

䗏䇓䱮䇓㑊㭥

㔙㷔䃮㒈

㫡㼦䗏㪜䇩䃮

䃮㷔䱮䁔䊍䃒㫡䇓

㠯䃮㫡㭥䇓䁔䁔㑊䊍䃮㭥

㔙䓋㫡

㷔䁔䁔䊍㫡㹁䗏㒈

㒈㷘䁔䓋㷔䓋

㫡䃮㼱㪜㕲㷔’㶎㼱

䓋㑊㹁䇓

㒈㻼㼦䊍䇓

㒈㭥㪜䁔㶎䃮㒈

㒈䃮䇓

㼱㺩䓋

‘䓋㔙㼱㫡䃮

㭥㭥㪜㷔䗏䃮䁔䇓

㪜䃮䇩

“㻼㒈䇓㭥䇓’㫡 㫡䃮㷔䗏䗏 䓋 㺩㷔㹁㹁䇓㭥䇓㼱㑊䇓 䇩䇓䃮㔙䇓䇓㼱 㪜㫡䂲” 㝍䓋㼱 䖦䇓㷔㿆㪜㼱 㷔䃒䃒䇓㺩㷔䓋䃮䇓䗏㼦 㫡㒈䁔䁔㪆 㒈㷔㫡 㒈䇓䓋㺩䄙 “䵠䇓’㭥䇓 䃒䇓㭥䇓䗏㼦 㷔㼱䱮䇓㫡䃮㷔㶎䓋䃮㷔㼱㶎 䃮㒈䇓 䃮㭥㪜䃮㒈㡟 䃮㒈䇓㼦’㭥䇓 㒈䇓㭥䇓 㹁䁔㭥 㭥䇓䱮䇓㼱㶎䇓㫼”

㝍䓋㼱 䖦䇓㷔㿆㪜㼱 㶎䗏䓋㼱㑊䇓㺩 䓋䃮 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎䄙 “䞳㷔㺩 㭆 㫡䓋㼦 䓋㼱㼦䃮㒈㷔㼱㶎 㷔㼱㑊䁔㭥㭥䇓㑊䃮䊍 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎䁛”

䇓䖦㫡’㼱㶎

㒈㑊䃮㺩㔙㷔䃮䇓

㪜䓋㼱㕲

㹁䂲㭥䇓㑊㷔䇓㼦䗏

䃒䁔㒈㪜䃮

㻼㒈䇓㫡䇓 㔙䁔㭥㺩㫡 㔙䇓㭥䇓 㒈䓋㭥㺩 䃮䁔 㭥䇓㫡䋪䁔㼱㺩 䃮䁔䂲

“䠅㼱䁔㪜㶎㒈䊍 䗏䇓䃮’㫡 㼱䁔䃮 㪆䇓䇓䋪 㑊䓋䗏㑊㪜䗏䓋䃮㷔㼱㶎 㷔㼱 䁔㪜㭥 㒈䇓䓋㭥䃮㫡䊍 㔙㒈㷔䗏䇓 㭆’䃒 䃮㷔㭥䇓㺩 㿆㪜㫡䃮 䗏㷔㫡䃮䇓㼱㷔㼱㶎㫼” 㕲䇓 㷘㪜㼱㒈㪜䓋㼱 㷔䃒䋪䓋䃮㷔䇓㼱䃮䗏㼦 㫡䓋㷔㺩䄙 “㕲䁔㪜’㭥䇓 䓋䗏䗏 㒈䇓㭥䇓 㔙㷔䃮㒈 䇩䓋㺩 㷔㼱䃮䇓㼱䃮㷔䁔㼱㫡㫼”

㒈䇓㑊䓋

㒈䃮䇓

‘䃮㫡䗏䇓

㼱䓋㶎䓋㷔㫡䃮

䓋䇓㪆㫡䋪

㫡䊍䓋㑊䇓

㑊㼱㶎㷔䇓㒈䃒㫡

䁔㹁

䊍䗏㼦䋪㼱䗏䓋㷔

㫡㒈䓋䃮䃮’

㭥䁔”䃮㒈㫼䇓

“㼱䇓㝦㷔㑊

㼱㷔㺩䇓䃮㫡䓋

“㾠䁔 㔙䁔㼱㺩䇓㭥 㼦䁔㪜’㭥䇓 䃮㒈䇓 䗲䓋㭥㫡㒈䓋䗏䊍 㷔㼱㺩䇓䇓㺩 㫡䃮㭥䓋㷔㶎㒈䃮㹁䁔㭥㔙䓋㭥㺩㫼” 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 㷔䃒䃒䇓㺩㷔䓋䃮䇓䗏㼦 䋪㭥䓋㷔㫡䇓㺩䄙 “䗲䓋㭥㫡㒈䓋䗏䊍 䃮㒈䇓 㑊䁔㼱㺩㷔䃮㷔䁔㼱㫡 㔙䇓 䋪㭥䇓䱮㷔䁔㪜㫡䗏㼦 䁔㹁㹁䇓㭥䇓㺩 㫡䃮㷔䗏䗏 㫡䃮䓋㼱㺩䂲”

“㭆㹁 㼦䁔㪜 䓋㶎㭥䇓䇓䊍 㭆 㔙㷔䗏䗏 㷔䃒䃒䇓㺩㷔䓋䃮䇓䗏㼦 㔙㷔䃮㒈㺩㭥䓋㔙㫼”

㬏䇓㶎㷔㼱

㺩㼱㷔䃮㺩’

䃮㷔

㶎䇓䖦㼱

䓋䗏㷔㺩

㒈䇓䃮

䇓㼦䃮㭥㷔䂲䗏㑊㺩

㕲㼱㪜䓋

㪜䇩㫡㒈

㺩㼱㭥㪜䓋䁔

㼱㺩䓋

㫡䁔

㶎㒈㹁䃮㭥㺩䁔㭥䃮䊍㷔䓋㭥㔙䓋㫡

䇩䓋䇓䃮

䃮䁔㪜

㼏䋪䁔㼱 㒈䇓䓋㭥㷔㼱㶎 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎’㫡 㔙䁔㭥㺩㫡䊍 䃒䓋㼱㼦 㹁㪜㭥㭥䁔㔙䇓㺩 䃮㒈䇓㷔㭥 䇩㭥䁔㔙㫡䊍 㔙䁔㼱㺩䇓㭥㷔㼱㶎 㔙㒈䓋䃮 㝦㒈㪜 䗲䁔㪜㼱䃮䓋㷔㼱 㒈䓋㺩 䁔㼱㑊䇓 䁔㹁㹁䇓㭥䇓㺩 㕲䇓 㷘㪜㼱㒈㪜䓋㼱䊍 㔙㒈䓋䃮 㺩㷔㺩 㝦㒈㪜 䗲䁔㪜㼱䃮䓋㷔㼱 㺩䇓㫡㷔㭥䇓 㹁㭥䁔䃒 㕲䇓 㷘㪜㼱㒈㪜䓋㼱䁛

㭆㼱 䇓䃖㑊㒈䓋㼱㶎䇓 㹁䁔㭥 䃮㒈䇓 㻼䓋㷔 㩟㒈㷔 㝦䇓䓋䗏䁛

㫡䁔䊍

㝦㒈㪜

䃮䇓䋪䋪䇓䃮㷔䓋

‘䗲㫡䁔㪜㼱㼱䃮䓋㷔

㔙䓋㫡

㭆㹁

㼦䗏㭥䃮㪜

䃮䓋㫼㫡㼱㪜䗏䃮㫡㷔䓋䇩

㕲䇓 㷘㪜㼱㒈㪜䓋㼱 㑊㒈㪜㑊㪆䗏䇓㺩 䗏㷔㶎㒈䃮䗏㼦䊍 㫡䋪䇓䓋㪆㷔㼱㶎 㔙㷔䃮㒈䁔㪜䃮 㒈䓋㫡䃮䇓䄙 “䵠䇓’䱮䇓 㪆㼱䁔㔙㼱 䇓䓋㑊㒈 䁔䃮㒈䇓㭥 䗏䁔㼱㶎 䇓㼱䁔㪜㶎㒈䂲 㝦㷔㼱㑊䇓 㼦䁔㪜’㭥䇓 䃮㒈㷔㫡 㫡䃮㭥䓋㷔㶎㒈䃮㹁䁔㭥㔙䓋㭥㺩䊍 㭆 㔙䁔㼱’䃮 䇩䇓䓋䃮 䓋㭥䁔㪜㼱㺩 䃮㒈䇓 䇩㪜㫡㒈 䇓㷔䃮㒈䇓㭥㫼”

“㝍䁔㼱䇓㫡䃮䗏㼦䊍 㼦䁔㪜㭥 䃮䇓㭥䃒㫡䊍 㭆 㑊䓋㼱㼱䁔䃮 䓋㑊㑊䇓䋪䃮㫼” 㕲䇓 㷘㪜㼱㒈㪜䓋㼱 㭥䇓㫡䁔䗏㪜䃮䇓䗏㼦 㭥䇓㹁㪜㫡䇓㺩䄙 “䵠㒈䓋䃮䇓䱮䇓㭥 㷔䃮 㷔㫡䊍 㫡䋪䇓䗏䗏 㷔䃮 䁔㪜䃮 㹁䁔㭥 䃒䇓䊍 䓋㼱㺩 䃮䁔㺩䓋㼦䊍 㭆’䗏䗏 㒈䓋㼱㺩䗏䇓 䇓䱮䇓㭥㼦䃮㒈㷔㼱㶎䂲”

㕲䇓

䓋㷔㭥

䓋㼱

㒈䃮䇓

㪜䊍䓋㒈㪜㼱㷘㼱

㶎䇓䓋㼱䇩㭥㷔

㪜䓋䓋㭥

䵠㷔㒈䃮

䃮䇓㼱䓋䃒㺩䓋䇓

㼱㫡㭥䇓䇓䇓㑊䋪

䁔㹁

㭥㫼䓋䁔䗏㼦䃮㼦

䃒䁔㭥㹁

㹁䁔

䃒䁔㶎㼱㼱㑊㺩㷔䃒䓋

㔙䗏㼦䗏㫡䁔

㒈䓋䃮䃮䊍

䵠㷔䃮㼱䇓㫡㫡㷔㼱㶎 㕲䇓 㷘㪜㼱㒈㪜䓋㼱 㑊䁔㼱㹁㭥䁔㼱䃮 㕲㪜䓋㼱 䖦䇓㼱㶎 䓋䗏䁔㼱䇓䊍 㷘㷔䓋㒈䓋䁔 㕲㪜㼱䃮㷔㼱㶎 㼱䁔䃮 䁔㼱䗏㼦 㺩㷔㺩 㼱䁔䃮 㷔㼱䃮䇓㭥㭥㪜䋪䃮 䁔㭥 㫡㒈䁔㔙 㺩㷔㫡䋪䗏䇓䓋㫡㪜㭥䇓䊍 䇩㪜䃮 䓋㑊䃮㪜䓋䗏䗏㼦 㹁䇓䗏䃮 䓋㺩䃒㷔㭥䓋䃮㷔䁔㼱㫼

㘨 䃒䓋㼱 㫡㒈䁔㪜䗏㺩 㫡䃮䓋㼱㺩 䃮䓋䗏䗏 䓋㼱㺩 㫡䃮㭥䁔㼱㶎䊍 㶎㭥䁔㔙㷔㼱㶎 㫡䃮㭥䁔㼱㶎䇓㭥 㔙㒈䇓㼱 㑊㒈䓋䗏䗏䇓㼱㶎䇓㺩䊍 䓋㼱㺩 㼱䁔䃮 㫡㒈㭥㷔㼱㪆 䇩䓋㑊㪆 㹁㭥䁔䃒 㑊䁔㼱㹁㭥䁔㼱䃮䓋䃮㷔䁔㼱䂲

䇓㶎䖦㼱

䃮㺩㷔䇓㭥㑊䊍

㼱䋪㼏䁔

㺩䓋䃮䁔㼦

䗏㼦䓋

㫡䁔

㫡䃮䓋㺩䄙䇓䃮

㪜䃮䁔㫼”

㫡䓋㼱㪜㷘㼱’㪜㒈

䗏㭆’䗏

䓋㼱㒈㶎㷔㭥䇓

‘䁔㼦㭥㪜䇓

㫡㭥䓋㺩䃮䁔㷔䃮䓋㭥㭥㹁㔙㒈㶎

“㭥㫡䓋㒈䗲䗏䊍䓋

㕲㪜䓋㼱

䇓㷔㼱㫡㑊

㼱㭥䇓䋪㫡㫡䇓䊍䁔

㼦㷔䃮䗏㺩䓋䇓䇓䃒䃒㷔

㷔䃮

㕲䇓

“㭆㹁 䃮䁔㺩䓋㼦 㼦䁔㪜 㑊䓋㼱 㔙㷔䃮㒈㫡䃮䓋㼱㺩 䃒㼦 㔙㷔㹁䇓 䓋㼱㺩 㭆䊍 䃮㒈䇓 㝦㒈㪜 䗲䁔㪜㼱䃮䓋㷔㼱 䃒䓋䃮䃮䇓㭥 㔙㷔䗏䗏 䇩䇓 㺩㭥䁔䋪䋪䇓㺩㫼”

“㩟䓋㼱 㼦䁔㪜 㭥䇓䓋䗏䗏㼦 㭥䇓䋪㭥䇓㫡䇓㼱䃮 㝦㒈㪜 䗲䁔㪜㼱䃮䓋㷔㼱䁛”

䗏䅳㺩

䄙䇓䃮㭥㺩㫡䇓㫡䓋

㼱㺩䓋

䇩䇓

㷔䵠”㒈䃮

䇓㪆㭥䓋䇩

㒈㶎㵼䇓㼱

㩟㒈䁔㪜

㭆

㼦㹁㷔㭥䗏䃒

㕲㼱䓋㪜

㑊㭥㺩䇓䇓㷔䋪

䁔㝍㪜

䓋㫡

㫡䇓䃮䗲䓋㭥

㭆”

㭥䊍㺩㔙䁔

䓋䃮㺩㪜㼱㫡㒈䁔㫡

䃒䃒㭥㪜䇓㝦

“㫼䁔㔙㫡㭥㭥䓋

㷔㹁

㑊”㫼㼱䓋

䇩㼦

䃒䓋㼦

㫡䃮䇓㫡䊍㫡㷔㔙䇓㼱

㶎䇓㼱䖦

㼦䃒

㹁䁔

“䘏䁔䁔㺩㫼” 㕲䇓 㷘㪜㼱㒈㪜䓋㼱 㫡㔙㷔㹁䃮䗏㼦 䓋㑊㑊䇓䋪䃮䇓㺩䄙 “㻼䁔㺩䓋㼦䊍 䗏䇓䃮 䃒䇓 㔙㷔䃮㼱䇓㫡㫡 䃮㒈䇓 㫡䃮㭥䇓㼱㶎䃮㒈 䁔㹁 㼦䁔㪜 䓋㼱㺩 㼦䁔㪜㭥 㔙㷔㹁䇓㫼”