small town story

Chapter 5

The arrival of the police from the police station quieted the shirtless man. The two old men who had been standing behind the man kept talking about housework. The two policemen urged them to disperse, but the onlookers remained motionless.

Su Youqin wanted to pull Xinxin back, but Xinxin secretly pushed hard, shook her hand, and called auntie softly.Shen Qianyao looked back at the little girl, smiled at Su Youqin, and stood beside Teacher Wang.

"What's going on, tell me?" The middle-aged policeman motioned to the young policeman holding a small book behind him, and the young policeman nodded.

"No..." The shirtless man just opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Teacher Wang: "Comrade policeman, this is the family member of Teacher Wu in our school. We will accompany Teacher Wu to see the teacher's dormitory she is assigned to. I don't know whether this gay man and Why did his parents come with him? He disliked the small dormitory, so he suddenly beat Teacher Wu. Teacher Shen stepped forward to pull him, and he pulled Teacher Shen's hair, and wanted to do something to us. It's really unreasonable!"

Mr. Wang has been a logistics teacher for decades, and his voice is calm, and everyone around him can hear him clearly.

Standing behind Shi Mi, Teacher Wu lowered his head slightly, and did not speak or move. The middle-aged policeman stared at the shirtless man: "Is that so?"

The shirtless man seemed dissatisfied: "For our family of five, this kind of two-room dormitory is not enough!"

"That's not the reason for you to hit someone." Shen Qianyao opened her mouth, "You can apply to the school if you don't live enough, Mr. Wu. What kind of skill are you doing, madman? Suddenly hit someone."

"Hmph, apply. Is it useful for Wu Han to apply? This woman is useless. I have been teaching in the town for two years, and I haven't seen her bring back some good things for the family..." The shirtless man hadn't finished speaking, and the onlookers People started talking loudly.

"what."

"It's really unreasonable."

"What kind of person is this? Why would the teacher choose such a man? You are blind."

"I really want to beat this girl."

……

Overwhelmed by the discussion, the shirtless man roared, "None of your business?"

"Okay, what are you shouting about!" The middle-aged policeman said in a deep voice, and turned to signal the young policeman: "Take this man back to the police station first." He turned to Teacher Wang again, and said in a soft tone: "Mr. Go to the police station."

The two old men behind the shirtless man hurriedly said: "Police..." The middle-aged policeman glanced at them and interrupted: "Stop talking. Are you the parents of this man? The daughter-in-law is a teacher, and you old men should understand Reasonable. If you want to say anything else, let’s follow along and send out the saying.”

Without waiting for the old man to respond, the middle-aged policeman nodded towards Mr. Wang, and together with the young policeman got into the car with the shirtless man.Several teachers followed to the police station. The two old men didn't move at first, but seeing people around them watching them and discussing, they hurriedly followed behind the teachers.

Shen Qianyao turned around and smiled at Su Youqin, then squatted down slightly and stroked Xinxin's hair before leaving with several teachers.

Su Youqin led Xinxin back to Huazi's shop.

Huazi was playing mahjong, and there was a table missing one person. Huazi went to fill it up by himself. His wife Daling stood by the door, looking at Su Youqin and smiling: "I wanted to catch Xinxin, but someone just came to buy something. I saw you holding her, so I stayed in the store. Thank you."

Su Youqin smiled and shook her head.

Da Ling and Hua Zi were married for the second time. When she married Hua Zi, Su Youqin had already left home to go to university in other places.When Su Youqin came back this time, the two of them hadn't chatted yet.

Daling pulled Xinxin to her side and continued to ask, "How is it over there? Are you all right?"

Su Youqin shook her head. She couldn't share what happened with Da Ling, so she pointed in the direction of Guolin Road. Da Ling smiled, "Go for a walk, go quickly. It's cooling down now."

Su Youqin waved to Xinxin and walked towards Guolin Road alone.

Some of the people who watched the excitement just now came out for a walk, and they also walked towards Guolin Road. Along the way, everyone talked a lot, and almost all of them were condemning the family of Mr. Wu.

I don't know how this will be resolved in the end.

Everyone has curiosity, and Su Youqin also wanted to know how such an unreasonable man would be educated when he went to the police station, and whether he would be locked up for a few days.It would be great if he could be locked up for a few days. This kind of man who can only beat his wife will be scared to death when he encounters something. Only the police can extinguish his arrogance.

The speed of information dissemination in the small town is no slower than that of the Internet, but the time for information dissemination is far longer than that of the Internet.For several days, diners in the breakfast shop were chatting about Teacher Wu and her husband in the second grade of elementary school.

Some of the customers' relatives were in the same place as Mr. Wu, and Su Youqin, who had been listening in the store, slowly pieced together the tragic life of a rural teacher from the real and fake chats.

Teacher Wu graduated from a teacher college back then and was supposed to be assigned to the village primary school as a regular teacher, but that year the person in charge of the village primary school had a rift with Teacher Wu's family and only gave her the status of a substitute teacher.After two or three years, the person in charge of the village primary school passed away due to illness, and the new person in charge turned Teacher Wu into a regular teacher.

After becoming a regular teacher, Mr. Wu went to the village to participate in competitions, was favored by the school in the village, and was transferred to the village after a few years.

It was also in the past few years that Mr. Wu married her husband under the leadership of her family.The husband ran a business in a state-owned coal factory and earned a lot of money a year. His conditions were considered very good by the villagers at the time, and the two were considered a good match.

It's just that after Teacher Wu was transferred to the village primary school, the state-run coal yard where her husband worked gradually went downhill and closed down within a few years.Her husband goes home to do farm work, and when he has nothing to do, he uses a motorcycle to entertain customers and earn some pocket money. The family's expenses depend entirely on Teacher Wu's salary.

Teacher Wu stayed in the village primary school for more than ten years. During this period, she gave birth to her eldest son and a 38-year-old daughter.The growth of the two children required a lot of expenses. Teacher Wu’s salary gradually failed to keep up with the family’s expenses. The frequency of the two quarrels gradually increased. Occasionally, Teacher Wu was the one who was beaten.

This may be the reason, Mr. Wu found some connections, and with years of teaching experience, he got the opportunity to be transferred to the primary school in the town.

My husband didn't want Mr. Wu to come to the town. He felt that the town was more crowded and complicated than the village, and Mr. Wu would be out of his control when he came.Teacher Wu asked her younger brother for help, and her younger brother taught her brother-in-law a lesson, and Teacher Wu finally came to the primary school in the town.

With the living distance, the relationship between Mr. Wu and her husband improved.It happened that the youngest daughter was also at school age, and the primary school in the town would allocate a dormitory for the teacher to live in. The two discussed letting the youngest daughter come to school in the town.

But I didn't expect that my husband would beat her again because he was dissatisfied with the dormitory assigned by the school, and also involved other teachers, and finally made a fuss to the police station.

Mr. Wu's husband seemed to have quarreled with Mr. Wu that day because of his parents' affairs.Those two old men who seemed to be in good spirits had also done a lot of fighting between their son and daughter-in-law for so many years.

The pieced together life of Mr. Wu made Su Youqin sigh.Sister Cui expressed her hatred for iron failure, and said that with Mr. Wu's conditions, it is impossible to find any kind of person, but she has to be tied down by an unreasonable family.

Su Youqin smiled, unable to respond to Sister He Cui's words.

From the standpoint of a bystander, she agrees with Sister Cui, but there is a saying "like a person who drinks water, he knows whether he is warm or cold." Su Youqin saw Teacher Wu's reaction that day, and she did not show any complaints against her husband during the whole process. , Mr. Wang and Shen Qianyao's appearances are most likely meaningless, and she will forgive her husband in the end.

Shen Qianyao didn't come to the breakfast shop for a week in a row.Shi Mi came to pack breakfast the day before the holiday. Sister Cui asked her how to solve the matter of Teacher Wu, and a group of people around listened with pricked ears.

Shi Mi said that the school rearranged the house for Mr. Wu.This solution is not relieved, and the listeners lose interest.

This incident gradually faded away after the small town people's gossip.

The breakfast shop is closed once a week.After the business closed on Saturday, Su Youqin went back to the house to get the case book, and went to the city hospital for reexamination.

The car accident that happened more than half a year ago was extremely shocking. When she returned to the small town, Su Youqin's body was fine, but she still had to go to the monthly checkup to check the fractures, the scars on her face, and her throat. .

Because there is no need for biochemical tests, Su Youqin made an appointment for the first test at 11:30.The departments to be inspected are different, and I was worried that I would not be able to finish the work for most of the day, so Su Youqin was not going to come back that night, so she brought the overnight items along with her.

She carried a backpack, put on a hat and mask, and stood in front of the door waiting for the bus.An old man who lived on the same highway and watched Su Youqin grow up just passed by here. Seeing her like this, he straightened his slightly hunched back and called her, "Going to study?"

The old man's daughter-in-law followed her, smiled apologetically at Su Youqin, and said in the old man's ear, "He graduated early."

The old man was surprised, and then he smiled and said: "Graduation is good, graduation is good. After graduation, you will work? Is it a bachelor's degree?"

Su Youqin followed suit and nodded.

"The undergraduate is good, then you have to assign work."

The time of the old man is still decades ago. Even if she heard others say that college students don't pay for assignments now, she still can't understand.

Neither the daughter-in-law nor Su Youqin wanted to explain. Seeing the bus heading for the city, Su Youqin smiled at them, waved and got on the bus.

The upper administrative region of Pingcun Town is Pingchuan District, and the upper level of Pingchuan District is Yuanchuan City.

The downtown area of ​​Motokawa City and the district center of Pingchuan District basically overlap, so people in the district of Pingchuan District do not have the concept of district center, and they only talk about going to the city on weekdays.

Pingcun Town is actually very close to the city center, but it is separated by a north-south Yuanshan Mountain. , several sections of S-shaped winding mountain roads, it takes two to ten minutes for a car to pass by, and the bus will be slower, about three to ten minutes.

As soon as Su Youqin got into the car, she closed the curtains, lowered her hat, and closed her eyes to catch up on sleep.When the person in the car who got off early told the driver to stop, she opened her eyes and found that the bus was almost entering the city.She sat up straight, tidied up the backpack in her arms, got off at the bus terminal, and took a taxi to the Central Hospital.

Just in time for the 11:30 appointment.

She went to the orthopedic department first to check the recovery of the bones.

Su Youqin's fracture was in the leg.

When the car accident happened, her right leg was squeezed directly against the door by the corner of the overcoming cart, and she was unconscious when she was rescued.She didn't even know how she was pulled out when she was stuck like that.

Fortunately, there was no comminuted fracture in the crushed place.After three months of recuperation, her bones recovered pretty well, but in the first week back to the town, when she was running around without a head at home, she suddenly fell and touched the fracture, and it hurt for a few days.

Since then, on rainy days, there will be faint acidity at the fracture site.

I came for an examination last month, and the doctor said that this is normal. Let her go home to rest and exercise, and see if it will continue this month.

It has rained a few times this month and the soreness persists.After the doctor's examination, no major problems were found, so she was asked to keep her legs warm, wear less shorts, and try moxibustion if conditions permit.

Su Youqin was lucky. When she ran to the filming place, the filming office was not closed yet. She was the last one to finish the filming. She went to have lunch easily. After lunch, she returned to the waiting area outside the filming room. Went to the consulting room.

After reading the bones, she went to the ENT department again.Because I have seen her twice, she is very special, and the doctor has an impression of her.

There is still no problem with the throat after inspection.Combined with her situation, the doctor once again suggested that she see a psychiatrist.

When she woke up from a coma and found that she could not speak, the doctor's examination showed that there was no problem with her throat. After a period of time, her throat did not recover. The doctor suggested that she see a psychiatrist.

She went, three times.

Useless.

Three things, she told herself, and finally gave up.

After leaving the ENT department, she went to the dermatology department again amidst the constant hustle and bustle of the hospital.

The dermatologist is a middle-aged doctor with two students.

The doctor called up her medical records and looked at them for a while, and after reading the medical records Su Youqin brought back from outside, he asked Su Youqin to sit upright, and explained to the two students on the spot the scars on Su Youqin's face: "This patient is a typical patient. The scar constitution, this scar has been produced for more than half a year, but the recovery is very slow, you see, this should be scalded by the heat after rubbing..."

The doctor spoke seriously, not realizing that there was something wrong with doing so.

Without the patient's consent, he explained it in front of the patient, without considering whether his on-site teaching would make the patient recall bad things or make the patient unhappy.

Fortunately, the patient is Su Youqin.

Su Youqin's personality has become more peaceful in the past few years. In addition, she knew the pain of doctors and medical students, so she simply sat still and let the doctor and two students observe the scars on her face. Become a great doctor.

Before coming out of the hospital, Su Youqin made a surprise trip to the Laboratory Department.

She has a high school classmate who works in the laboratory department in the city center, and the two have become friends.

After Su Youqin got into a car accident, she said in Moments that she had an accident. The high school classmate asked her a few words, and learned that Su Youqin might return to the town to recover from her injuries, so that she could come to the city to find her when she had time.

Su Youqin had an average relationship with that high school classmate.

The one who really has a good relationship with her is Su Youqin's first girlfriend, Ai Yun.

Her high school classmate was in the corner behind the glass window, with her mask pulled up to her chin, half leaning against the table, talking to a young male doctor with a smile.Her circle of friends showed that her boyfriend was in the same hospital with her, but it was not known if it was that boy.

Su Youqin caught a glimpse of someone, turned and left the hospital.

It was still early in the day, but it was five o'clock in the afternoon.

It's too late to go back to town by car now, but Su Youqin thought of the overnight items she had brought in her bag and the hotel had already been booked, so she didn't want to go back.

Standing on the side of the road, she watched the empty taxis passing by one by one. She raised her hand halfway up and then lowered it. Finally, she picked up her mobile phone and used the taxi app to call a taxi to the hotel.

After putting the things in the hotel, Su Youqin was going to go shopping.

The downtown area of ​​a fourth-tier small city is not large. When I was in high school in the city, a group of students could only take advantage of the half-day holiday on Sunday afternoon to stroll around the downtown area, buy some snacks and watch rare things.

After so many years, many things in the city center have not changed. The pedestrian street is still a pedestrian street, and the food stalls are still those snacks, but there are fewer rare things and more things related to children.

After Su Youqin went to college, she rarely came to the city to play.She usually stays in the town when she goes home, and she comes to the city to do errands, and leaves at most after finishing her errands.

There are a few friends in the city who have a good relationship with Su Youqin. When she came back in previous years, Su Youqin would get together with them, but this time, she didn't contact them.

After all, even if we meet now, the communication still needs to be through the mobile phone, it is better to chat remotely.

Several students in city school uniforms passed by Su Youqin, and they said that they were going to the pedestrian street to eat steak skewers.

Su Youqin was reminded of the steak skewers.

When she was in high school, there was a shop selling steak skewers on the side of the pedestrian street. The skewers were delicious. Although the steaks were inferior, for ordinary students at that time, it was considered a side of the high-end life they could come into contact with.

Does that store still exist?

Su Youqin looked at the backs of those students and raised his heels up.

Every city has a pedestrian street. The biggest feature of the pedestrian street is that there are a lot of people. Even though everyone knows that the food that comes to the pedestrian street is not necessarily authentic, and the quality of the things you buy is likely to be mediocre, but the atmosphere still attracts many people. Especially young people.

Su Youqin didn't keep up with those students.

She turned into the middle of the pedestrian street from memory.

That store should be in a corner deep in the pedestrian street.She walked towards the direction she remembered, and just two steps away, she heard someone calling Su Youqin behind her.

Su Youqin looked back and saw that there were strangers coming and going, no acquaintances.

She turned around and continued walking, when a voice called her again from above: "Boss Su, Su Youqin!"

She raised her head following the sound, the brim of her hat blocked her view, she took off her hat, and saw Shen Qianyao leaning half out of the window, waving at her.

In Shen Qianyao's hand, there was still a smoking cigarette.

"Boss Su, wait for me." Shen Qianyao left a sentence and disappeared from the window. Within half a minute, she got out from the nearby shop.

Shen Qianyao was wearing a white T-shirt with a ponytail. On the white T-shirt was a painting that Su Youqin couldn't understand.

"Why are you here?" Shen Qianyao asked what Su Youqin wanted to ask.

Su Youqin wanted to say something was wrong, but couldn't.

She smiled, trying to get away with it, but Shen Qianyao looked at her without moving, as if waiting for her to answer herself with the mobile phone in her hand.

After looking at each other for a few seconds, Su Youqin gave up.

She opened the note on the phone, typed a few words, and handed it to Shen Qianyao: "I have something to do, let's take a stroll."

Shen Qianyao: "Is that so. Is the matter over?"

Su Youqin nodded.

"are you alone?"

Su Youqin nodded again.

"Then let me go shopping with you." Shen Qianyao blurted out, Su Youqin was stunned for a moment, then looked at the window where she was standing just now.

Shen Qianyao could see what she was thinking: "I was pushed out by my parents to meet people, and I was bored, so I just had a reason to leave when I met you." Her expression was very rich, and every time she said a word, different emotions would appear on her face.

Su Youqin was delighted to see the accusation on her face turned into slyness, and finally nodded in agreement.

Shen Qianyao smiled brightly: "Then wait for me, I'll go say hello." She turned around and took two steps, then turned her head and said: "Don't move, help me."

help her?Su Youqin was puzzled.

Half a minute after Shen Qianyao entered the shop, she leaned out of the window and poked out two heads at the same time, a young girl and a middle-aged woman.

Su Youqin met their eyes, the young girl was startled for a moment, then smiled and waved at her, while the middle-aged woman looked at her expressionlessly.

Su Youqin didn't respond.The two quickly retracted their heads.

After a while, Shen Qianyao came out of the shop again. This time, she was carrying a small brown-green bag and a bag of things.

Shen Qianyao walked up to Su Youqin in a few steps, and shook the bag in her hand: "I brought a delicious cake, let's eat it together later."

She approached Su Youqin, tilted her head and leaned over: "Are you going to have dinner?"

The distance was too close, Su Youqin took a step back, glanced at the window, and caught the middle-aged woman's head just in time.

"Let's go, are you going to have dinner?" Shen Qianyao continued to ask as she stood up straight without realizing it.

Su Youqin nodded and pointed towards the depths of the pedestrian street.

Shen Qianyao hummed lightly, and followed Su Youqin forward, even though she couldn't get a verbal response, she still said happily: "What do you want to eat? There are hot pots in front of you, are you going to eat hot pot? By the way, over there There’s a steakhouse where we used to have dinner when we were in high school, even though the steak was kind of bad.”

Su Youqin stopped slightly, Shen Qianyao didn't smile, and looked at her suspiciously.

Su Youqin picked up the phone with a smile, opened the QR code, and shook the phone.

Shen Qianyao reacted quickly, and took out her mobile phone from her bag: "Do you want to add friends?"

Su Youqin nodded.

With a beep, Shuitututututu will add you as a friend.Su Youqin looked at the name, clicked through, and sent a message asking: "Are you short of soil in the five elements?"

Shen Qianyao smiled: "I don't think so. My mother said that my name is the two words my father picked out from the two pages I turned out after I was able to flip through the dictionary."

What name was used on the account at birth?

Shen Qianyao seemed to see Su Youqin's curiosity, tilted her head slightly and said, "The name on the birth certificate is Shen Yi."

Shen Yi?Su Youqin smiled.

Shen Qianyao's parents are a little interesting.Su Youqin continued to ask her, "How old are you?"

"It's 26, where is Boss Su?"

Su Youqin was a little surprised, she thought Shen Qianyao was only about 24 years old.

However, if you think about it carefully, you clearly mentioned that Shen Qianyao is the only postgraduate teacher in the primary school in the town. She has been in the town for two years. According to the normal school age, she is 26 years old, which is normal.

"28 years old." When she solemnly told others her age, Su Youqin was in a daze.

She remembered that when she just turned 27, she planned to get married at 28, divorce at 30, and leave all the days after 30 to herself. , became dumb.

Shen Qianyao was surprised: "You are two years older than me, I thought we were about the same age."

Su Youqin smiled.Seeing that she was almost at the end of the pedestrian street, but she didn't see the familiar sign in her memory, she asked, "Isn't that steak skewer shop here?"

Shen Qianyao frowned: "Do you want to eat that? It's still a little ahead. They moved the store last year, and the main entrance is outside the pedestrian street."

Su Youqin followed behind Shen Qianyao, and heard the other party ask: "Which restaurant did you plan to eat at first?"

"When we were in high school, we often came here to have dinner together. We haven't eaten here for many years." Su Youqin's fingers flew fast, and the news followed one after another: "At that time, his family's business was very good."

"We all like it."

"Although the steak tastes average."

After Su Youqin posted her evaluation of the store, she continued to ask, "Which school is your high school?" This is what she really wanted to ask Shen Qianyao.

Shen Qianyao pointed to a small storefront in front: "Here we are, that's the back door." She replied to Su Youqin's words: "I was in the city's No. [-] middle school in my first year of high school, and I transferred to Shizhong in my second year of high school. What about you?"

city?Su Youqin's eyes lit up: "In the city."

"Ha, it seems that you are still my senior." The smile on Shen Qianyao's face was confiscated: "No wonder everyone loved coming here when they were in high school. The first friend who brought me here was also my senior. "

Su Youqin felt joy for no reason.The fate of graduating from the same school will make people feel close.

It was meal time when the two arrived at the store.There are many customers in the store, the lobby is noisy, the sizzling sound of steak is mixed with the aroma of skewers, and the smell in memory is oncoming.

Hearing that you can sit in a box for an extra fee, Su Youqin chose the box without hesitation.Shen Qianyao followed behind her, raising her voice slightly: "It's been a long time since I came here, but the business is still so good."

Su Youqin nodded habitually, caught a glimpse of Shen Qianyao's eyes on the tables of the people around her, and realized that she just sighed casually.

The two sat in the small box.

It is said to be a box, but it is actually a semi-open area. The square tables, stools and chairs for two, four, and six people are separated by a grid, which does not avoid sound and smell, but it is indeed quieter than the lobby.

"When I came here in high school, I would just sit outside and yell together. It was louder than anyone else. Now I can sit in a box." Shen Qianyao put the cake bag on the table and wiped the table in front of him with a tissue: "This is adulthood. The difference between a person and a minor.”

Su Youqin was amused, she couldn't tell what was so funny about this sentence.Probably Shen Qianyao's casual exclamation made her feel that the other party was very interesting.

Shen Qianyao laughed, and while scanning the codes on the table, said: "If Boss Su is two years older than me, when I transferred to the city for my sophomore year, you happened to be a freshman. Did you study liberal arts or science?"

Su Youqin just scanned the QR code on her mobile phone. She didn't send a message, but reached out to Shen Qianyao and wrote a text. Shen Qianyao glanced at it and said with a smile: "Then do you know Fu Lili? She should be in the same class as you, and she is also a liberal arts student." students, only to repeat it later.”

Fu Lili?

When the long-lost name was mentioned, Su Youqin half smiled. She glanced at Shen Qianyao and nodded.

"Wow, what a coincidence." Shen Qianyao buried her head and quickly ordered the dish she wanted on the phone screen. When she looked up again, a smile and inquiry appeared in her eyes at the same time: "She is my ex-girlfriend."

Su Youqin moved her fingers slightly, and accidentally dropped a brain freeze that she didn't want to eat.

She opened the interface for placing an order, canceled the frozen brain flower, and clicked to place an order.

She looked up and watched Shen Qianyao open her mouth: "You and Fu Lili are a bit alike."

After many years, this sentence appeared again.

Su Youqin felt annoyed and amused, she sneered, and typed quickly on her mobile phone:

"Ok, I know."

"My ex-girlfriend said the same thing."

"She also said that she was going to marry Fu Lili."

"pity."

"They are each married now."

Shen Qianyao's mobile phone beeped one after another, showing that the person who sent the departure message was not at peace.

until the beep stops.The sneer on Su Youqin's face was suppressed back to the bottom of her heart.

The complexity on Shen Qianyao's face reached its peak when the last message came out. She stared at these words for a long time, then pressed the phone off and held it in her hand.

She asked Su Youqin firmly: "Is your ex-girlfriend Ai Yun?"

Her eyes were bright, and there was no other emotion in them except probing.

The skewer pot was brought up by the waiter, and the choking smell of spices came from a close distance. Su Youqin frowned slightly and nodded.

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The author has something to say:

According to domestic administrative planning, townships are actually at the same level.But in some places, towns are larger and more prosperous than townships.

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This is Su Youqin and Shen Qianyao's first dinner date (meeting), right?

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I have finally reached the word count to participate in the essay competition, although this story has only a little bit of a nod until now, haha.