Chapter 26 The twenty-sixth chapter of the dangerous heart Yinti Jin whispered maliciously to blame the ministers of Sheji

After about a quarter of an hour, Kangxi gradually woke up, his face was no longer flushed, he looked haggard and tired, as if he had aged ten years all of a sudden, he only glanced at everyone, sighed deeply, and said: "I am I'm old... I'm old..." After finishing speaking, he took a sip of the tea Li Dequan handed over, shook his head and said, "My heart is palpitating, I want to be quiet for a while, leave Tingyu here to serve, and everyone else will leave..." "Long live..." Zhang Tingyu's face was full of tears. Thinking of the situation just now, she was still in shock, knelt in front of Kangxi's couch, choked up and said, "You must take care, this is not the time for something to go wrong... just now I almost bluffed to death I am a slave! Just in case... who can control the current situation?..." "I know my illness well, and I won't die for a while." Kangxi said with a wry smile, "You take the golden skin on the tea table The box was opened, and there was Suhexiang wine, which I made myself, and poured a Gu for me... I know some medical skills, and this wine is the prescription passed down in "Mengxi Bi Tan"! I heard that your father, Zhang Ying, also had heart palpitations and dizziness. What's wrong, I said I would give it to you, but I forgot, and I will copy a prescription for you tomorrow..." Zhang Tingyu said "Yes" with tears in his eyes, and then waited for Kangxi to take the medicine and lie down.

Sure enough, Kangxi's color changed after a while.He lay on his back with piercing eyes and looked at the algae well on the top of the hall, as if he was looking back on his magnificent past, and seemed to be contemplating how to straighten out the messy situation. After an unknown amount of time, he smiled self-consciously: "Heng Chen, I remember that it was New Year's Day of the second year you entered the study, after the court celebration, I had a banquet for you and Tong Guowei?" "yes……" "Don't be so respectful. Get up and sit down." Kangxi said, "At that time, I laughed at Li Shimin. He was a hero, and his achievements shined through the annals of history. , no matter how others run on you, you can't call the prince a motherless child. Suo Etu said, "If you have a stepmother, you will have a stepfather." It just hit the spot... Sigh! In the end... under a hundred generations, there must be someone who laughs at me for being arrogant and ignorant..."

Zhang Tingyu hurriedly leaned back and replied: "Long live, don't think too much about it. The prince's ministers were the first to know about it. Long live has really done the best of benevolence and righteousness. Even if what happened today, long live is worthy of the future generations. The prince's failure of morality is his own fault, everyone's heart I understand. But since Long Live has said this, the servant has to say something for the prince. He has his difficulties... The servant does not believe in it, and the prince will have the courage to send troops into the garden, and he does not have the scheming... We must calmly investigate and deal with it You have to deal with it slowly, and only then can you be peaceful..." Zhang Tingyu was thinking more than that, and he always believed that the crown prince was not completely incompetent.But the system of the Qing Dynasty was different from that of the previous Ming Dynasty. The princes were entrusted with fiefdoms as soon as they landed. These elder brothers all had a team, and each of them held power in their hands, intervening in government affairs, meddling in personnel affairs, and making things difficult for the prince.But this one is related to the ancestral system of Manchuria. Not to mention him as a Han official, even Kangxi may not dare to oppose all the nobles of the Eight Banners and resolutely reform.Even with these few words, he also felt that they were too heartfelt. Just as he was feeling uneasy, Kangxi nodded and said, "I understand what you said, and I also know that there are drawbacks here. But the system of the former Ming Dynasty is not necessarily good. Except for the crown prince, the rest of the sons They are all raised as stupid as a hog deer, they only know how to play with women to eat! Li Zicheng ruined Luoyang, and the King of Fortune piled up gold and jade in his treasury. He didn’t know how to spend his money to motivate the defenders of the city... That would not work..."

The two monarchs and ministers were having a heart-to-heart conversation, when Xing Nian tiptoed in and said softly: "He Meng from Tai Hospital came to see Wansui's pulse." Kangxi said: "Don't make it so public that the whole world knows that I am not sick. " Zhang Tingyu got up quickly, followed Xing Nian to the porch outside, and ordered: "Xing Nian took the imperial physician to wait in the Dongpei Hall. It's best if you don't have anything to do. Listen to the announcement whenever you have something to do." After speaking, look at the sky. It has accumulated more than three inches deep. Thinking about my brothers kneeling outside, how can I bear it?I was thinking about how to go in to intercede with this group of thousand-year-olds, but I saw Yinti as the leader, followed by Yinzhi, Yinzuo, Yinyou, Yinhu, Yinyu, Yinyu, Yinti, Yinli and other elder brothers hurriedly Snow, coming along the corridor under the palace lanterns, couldn't help being stunned: What happened tonight?Is it endless?

This group of elder brothers is here to challenge big elder brother. Yinti delivered the decree to Jiedeju in the courtyard, and sent Yinreng. Seeing that everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, he was shocked, so he comforted him: "brothers, don't panic. The emperor has already said that the matter of Yinreng Not to be implicated. It is the second younger brother Yinfeng, as long as he abides by the way of ministers, rests and thinks about his mistakes, it is not a big deal-everything is maintained by the elder brother, so don't do it for no benefit." Seeing his flushed face, Yinzhen looked proud He bowed his head and laughed softly: "Mynah, tenth younger brother, the eldest brother ate bee droppings today, and his bones are as heavy as ever. Look at how frivolous he is!" Yinhu smiled, and pretended not to hear, That Yinqi was born with a troublesome nature, tilted his head and smiled, got up and bowed, and said with a smile: "Brother is so faceless, seeing that you have a share in this battle, I have to congratulate you! What's the matter with us? What is 'Don't Panic', and what is 'Don't Get Involved'? You see, we are downcast, it's freezing! I wish I had a few buckskin mats, otherwise my mother would have froze to death!" Hecking their hands and stomping their feet, the little elder brothers started to complain about the exorbitant price.

"How is it?" Yinbi winked and smiled, "Brother is now a guest, we are all prisoners, you are guarding Ama's warm smoked cage, you can still walk around, have the heart to ask your younger brothers to kneel here and drink the northwest wind? Look at the third brother, you still know how to come and kneel with us for a while-at least you should be considerate to the younger brothers! I know that you dare not call the house to avoid the snow, and tell them to light a few fires to roast, and you are considered a benevolent king! To be honest, if you accumulate this blessing, you must be in the East Palace early!" Yinti is not a fool at all, but he has been too excited and happy tonight, so he didn't hear the teasing meaning in Yinji's words, and said repeatedly: "How early? Unexpectedly! I am in charge of this matter—spread a message to tell the eunuchs of Su La to light a fire for you to keep warm! Be careful, Long live tonight, Long Yan is furious, and even the words of the second child are not called substitutes. I just went to see He, he said to me: "Father said that I am wrong in every way, and I can bear it, but I never thought about it when I said that I conspired to rebel and kill the king." Asked me to play, I had to say: "This It’s so good to speak face to face, but I can’t help it now.'”

Kneeling at the side, Yinzhen thought about it in the middle of the night, and had already made up his mind. There was no other way out in the current situation. Instead of swallowing and being humiliated, it is better to bite the bullet and continue to protect the crown prince. Then he said coldly: "They are all brothers and sisters, why bother? It's so unfeeling! It's nothing more than a thousand words, it's very important, why don't you just play it?" Yinxiang also poked his neck and said: "Brother, there are so many clouds in the sky, maybe it's raining ! The second brother is in trouble now, we have to have some kindness!"

It was only then that Yinti realized that everyone's thoughts were completely different from his own. He deeply regretted that he had shown off too much, and said with a dry smile: "Why did you come at me? It is the emperor's order not to perform on behalf of me. Who dares to resist the order?" "Forget it, big brother!" Yin said with a strange smile, "My lord must have a lot! You are so ruthless when the father said something in anger! Who doesn't have a good fortune every day? The son said, 'Sister-in-law drowned and helped him If you don't follow the authority, you are a beast, not to mention that the second elder brother was our master!" Seeing everyone's speech against him, Yinti knew that it was his own complacency, so he secretly screamed, but said in his mouth: "It's not that I don't want to, I dare not. Now that the case is unclear, even you are charged with crimes! Why should everyone be spared?"

"If you don't play, I will play!" Yinzhen didn't expect that the eighth princes would also help him speak, and he became more courageous, standing up with his hands on his hands, "Brother, I am now the prince, and I am in charge of the House of Internal Affairs, and I also have a meeting The right to play straight, are you going to play or not?" Yinhu and Yinhu also got up one after another, and the crowd was chaotic: "Let's go! Let's go together!" Yinti originally wanted Yinreng to fall, at least the third and eighth elder brothers took advantage of their wish and would not vent their anger with Yinzhen, seeing this situation, he muttered, pondered for a long time, and sighed deeply: "Why do you do this? The second child is unlucky, it feels good to look at me? We are making clay figurines together, raising katydids and watching ants climb trees, and there is no time for you!——I want to calm down for a while, long live calm down and speak slowly, since brothers Everyone said that, I have to bear it again..." After saying that, he turned around and left.Brothers who are willing to give up such a big favor to this Yinti, they all followed each other after giving each other a wink.It was Yinzhen who was the first to propose and quietly held Yinxiang still...

Zhang Tingyu was stunned for a moment, but did not return to the hall immediately, turned around and walked towards Yinti, and asked, "What are you doing?" Yinti saw that his face was ashen, and he had never seen such a majestic minister, so he was asked for a while He was startled, and then said after a long while: "I... came back to pay the order. Brothers... I just saw the imperial doctor, and I was thinking about long live, so I came in to say hello..." "This is too unreasonable." Zhang Tingyu was clear-eyed. This picker brother has his own plan, so he said coldly: "Whether you pay the order to pay your respects, you have to talk about the rules. When you are called, there will naturally be an order. Don't It is said that it is the royal family, it is a small family from a small family in the mountains, how can there be any reason to torment the old man in the middle of the night?" Seeing that the boss was stared at by the question, Yinzhen smiled inwardly, and took a step forward and said: "We didn't dare to say that at this moment. It alarmed Wansui. I only heard that Wansui is not safe, and he was so anxious that he couldn’t kneel down—how is Wansui doing now? Just let us take a look through the door...and feel better..." I don’t know which sentence touched him, Yinzhen's voice was choked with sobs, and she wiped away tears as she spoke.Zhang Tingyu hated and laughed, thought for a while, and said: "Long live this time, I will see no one but me. You stand for a while, and I will go in and have a look." After that, he ignored everyone and went in alone.

Unexpectedly, it took more than an hour to go in, and the elder brothers could not advance or retreat, and stood in the corridor with their hands tied.This place is no better than the patio, anyway, there are still a few piles of fires burning there, and I am really tired, so I can rub my hands, stomp my feet and warm my body when I go to the toilet; although it is not open to the air, the draft blows in like a knife, wrapped in snow flakes , his face, which was numb from the cold, was so painful that he couldn't move.While waiting, this restless night finally passed. The snow was so vast that the entire villa had already been covered tightly, a world of glass covered in silver.Seeing the little eunuchs blew out the palace lanterns hanging in the corridor one by one, everyone became a little more energetic. The first one couldn't help stamping his feet to keep warm, and couldn't help cursing his mother in a low voice. All hands and feet up. Kangxi was finally woken up by them, he opened his eyes, looked at the white window, his expression was somewhat confused, seeing Zhang Tingyu sitting sideways beside him dozing, he said, "I'm so sorry for you, I haven't seen you all night." Sleeping, it’s already bright outside, did I oversleep?” Zhang Tingyu woke up all of a sudden, hurriedly tucked the quilt for Kangxi, and said with a smile: “Long live God has slept deeply these two hours! It’s still early! It’s just that the snow is falling heavily , the window is bright...Long live, you sleep a little longer, the time has come for the wolf to be ugly, Zunzhi didn't dare to come in, so he just asked someone to hand over a message of greetings, and a map of the garrison deployment. You rest for a while, and the servant will accompany you Back to Yanbo Zhishuangzhai..." Kangxi heard that the snow was falling heavily, his eyes flashed excitedly, he got up and put on a big cloak, while kicking on his boots, he said: "Really? It's snowing very thickly? I want to get up and have a look ——Who is outside, who looks like he is stomping his feet, this eunuch eunuch is becoming more and more lawless!" "A few elder brothers——" Zhang Tingyu swallowed helplessly, "They heard that the master is not well, and they wanted to come in to have a look, but the slave stopped them and reprimanded the men..." "You trained well!" Kangxi lived his life I love walking on the snow to enjoy the scenery. When I heard this, I immediately lost my interest. I sat back and said with a sneer: "Where are they here to say hello? They want to piss me off! I have a special order for you: From now on, when you see this There's no need to salute to the evildoers!" He was gasping for breath as he spoke.Zhang Tingyu said with a smile: "Master, you are here again! This 'Do not do evil' is the teaching of the sages, and the slaves dare not follow the edict. Even if you teach elder brother, you are disciplined as a prince and a tutor..." Kangxi ignored Zhang Tingyu's words, cleared his mouth, stood up, took two steps, and said, "Call Big Brother to come in!" Yinti stepped into the hall with big strides, a warm current melted all over his body immediately, and he was indescribably comfortable. He skillfully saluted Qian'er for Kangxi, bowed and smiled and said, "Is Ama rested well?" Wiping his face with a towel, he sneered and said, "Of course I want to have a good night's sleep. Just listen to you, brother with guards, your feet are stomping like thunder outside, can you sleep? You come at night to pass the order to Yinfeng, What did he say?" Yinti hurriedly said: "Yinfeng is fine, my son is afraid that he will commit suicide, so he arranged for two eunuchs to wait on him." Then he repeated Yinfeng's words, only avoiding Yinzhen and his elder brothers that matter.At the end, he said: "The younger brothers are waiting outside to pay their respects. Ama, it's hard to kneel down for them all night in this cold weather. My son tells them his love. Please don't kneel." "Well." Kangxi nodded noncommittally, and said, "You are right. Yinfeng's words will determine his life and death. I am also very puzzled. Although Yinfeng has no way, his shoulders are not broad and he is also timid, so he may not dare to hit me. This idea." Yinti looked at Zhang Tingyu who was standing there with a tired face and indifference, and approached Kangxi and said, "Zhang Tingyu is a minister of the emperor, not an outsider. My son has something in his heart. I don't know if he should say it or not?" Kangxi said casually: "You are so strange! What is the gap between father and son, monarch and minister? Just say it." Yinti hesitated for a moment, as if he was pondering over his words, and finally said politely: "The emperor is very right! My son also weighed it over and over again last night. The turmoil in Chengde was scary and surprising. It was too strange. Second brother is not a brave man. He never dared to claim that the soldiers forced the palace. But the other elder brothers have different temperaments and high intelligence. It’s hard to say.” Kangxi suddenly felt startled, raised his eyes to look at Yinti, and asked, “According to your knowledge, what is the reason?” "It has been rumored in the capital that the prince has fallen out of favor for several years." Yinti frowned and said, "Although it is a villain's rumor, but my brothers are on the side of Ding Xuan, and there are some ulterior motives, so it is inevitable that they will frame the prince There may be something. This time, the accident happened in a hurry between the elbow and the armpit. It is not for nothing that it can be so thoughtful." Kangxi nodded and sighed: "This is reasonable, why not? But I never thought about it. Abolishing the crown prince, he reaped the fruits of his innocence, you have to be considerate of my heart." Encouraged, Yinti smiled and said: "As the saying goes, 'When a rabbit comes out of a ridge, everyone shouts together', such as a rabbit running out of the field, it is inevitable that people People are clamoring to catch the rabbit, but when the rabbit is caught, everything will be calm." Hearing this insidious metaphor, Zhang Tingyu couldn't help being moved, and hurriedly bowed and said: "Long live, I guess the memorial to Beijing is about to arrive, how about I go to Yanbozhishuangzhai to sort out the details?" Kangxi laughed and said: "You don't want to Let's go, listen to the elder brother's knowledge—you tell me, what should we do?" "Ye Lai Erchen is very worried." Yinti said, "Think about the long live, long live is really difficult. The so-called Qingfu is not dead, Lu Nan is not over, Yinfeng has been in a party for many years, and private officials are all over the world. So Yinfeng is here one day, There will never be peace in the imperial court, but it is up to the emperor to decide, and it is also about the relationship between father and son. To share the worries of the Lord and relieve the worries of the father, I think that as the eldest son, I have a duty to shirk..." The following words were hard to come out, and Yinti stopped.The more Zhang Tingyu heard it, the more startled he became, his back was like a thorn, but Kangxi didn't seem to notice it, and asked with a smile: "What do you mean—?" Yinti smiled sinisterly, gritted his teeth and said softly: "Let the son dispose of it." Yinfeng. Once this person is eliminated, the emperor can rest in peace." Kangxi seemed taken aback, and stared at Yinti as if he didn't know him. After a long time, he smiled and said, "Hengchen, did you hear that? Eldest elder brother is very knowledgeable! It's really a three-day farewell, and you should look at him with admiration! Yinti, you If you think about it this way, aren’t you afraid that future generations will say you are cruel? The pen of history is like iron, and the words of people are terrifying!” Zhang Tingyu laughed dryly, and only said “yes”, not daring to mix in a single redundant word.Yinti saw that Kangxi was not angry, so he said: "This is my filial piety, words are not enough to be sympathetic, and the destiny is not to be feared. For the sake of the father, I am not afraid of death, but afraid of those ignorant people who will make unreasonable comments?" Kangxi listened silently Without saying a word, cold light waves flowed silently in his eyelids. He stood up, took two steps leisurely, and said suddenly, "Zhang Tingyu, send an order to tell all the elder brothers outside the hall to come in." Yinti was proud of his secret statement, and was thinking of how to use words to include Yinzhi, Yinzhen, and Yinti parties, so as to shatter the dreams of these younger brothers who were eyeing the position of the prince. The younger brothers all came in, and couldn't help being taken aback, stupefied on the spot, watching Zhang Tingyu go out, seeing Yinzhi, Yinqi, Yinzuo, Yinhu and others rushing in, and was speechless for a while. "I asked you to come in for two reasons." Kangxi said with a smile, "the first one is that there was an unsuspecting case last night. Someone issued an order to step up the order in a sealed letter, ordering Ling Pu, the capital of Rehe, to enter the imperial garden with two thousand cavalry. This matter must be clarified, who dared to be so bold? The note is here, Ting Yu, show them, if it is the prince's handwriting, it is fine, if not, it is necessary to find out who it is. " "tie!" Zhang Tingyu promised, carefully took a few sheets of paper, and handed it to Yinzhi with both hands.Although Yinzhi had read the note twice, he still took it and pretended to read it carefully, thinking about how to answer the question posed by Kangxi.It took a long time before handing it over to Yinqi, who was ranked fifth, with the most honest and honest nature, took it with shaking hands, his heart beat like a deer, and when he looked at it in a panic, there were only a few lines on it: The crown prince Yinfeng issued an order: The emperor's close attendants, Elundai and others, were ordered to move to Fengtian Zhili and other places, and Ling Pu, the capital of Rehe, led his personal guards to the villa and waited for the restraint to be used for defense.This encyclical. The handwriting is very scribbled, which is very similar to the style of Yinreng Linhuai Sutie.There is obvious deliberate tracing between the brushstrokes, and a few stipples are slightly modified.Yinqi secretly shook his head and handed it to Yinzuo, and then Yinyou, Yinhu, Yinyu... circulated it one by one, but they didn't say a word. Even the big cannon, Yinji, just rubbed his eyes and nose without making a sound. "How is it?" Kangxi said in a heavy tone, with great coercion, "It's not for nothing that I stayed overnight and precepted, right? Tell me, everyone said it starting from Yinti." Yinti was still thinking about Kangxi's weird look just now, and now his heart brightened: it turned out that his father immediately adopted his own policy and wanted to deal with Yinfeng!Because the first one said: "This handbook has been inspected by my son several times. Although there are traces of fabrication, judging from the sharpness of the pen and the strength of the wrist, it looks like a book written by Yinfeng himself. There are a few things that don't look like it. Maybe it was deliberately manipulated, maybe someone else misled it. I deliberately added a few strokes for audio-visual manipulations—" At this point, I suddenly became more thoughtful, and said, "However, Yinfeng has been handling government affairs for many years, and his handwriting has been spread all over the court. It is very easy for people to speculate and forge, so I dare not assert .” "Brother, you are wrong." Yinzhi shook his head and said, "From the dots, strokes, checks, and checks, this piece of paper was definitely not written by the second brother, but someone else's hand! This person is very good at copying. But he only learned I got second brother's brushwork and meaning, but I didn't learn the skill of brushwork. Second brother finished every word, and the tip of the pen had to hide the ink and pick it secretly, and he didn't make a single character that looks like it!" Yinhu interjected and said, "I think so, too. It's just similar in shape, without the elegant brushwork of the second brother." Then Yin Qi, Yin Zuo, Yin You, Yin Yu and others also said that it was not Yin Reng's own handwriting.Kangxi thought while listening, hesitantly said: "Then—who wrote it?" Yinti believed that he had figured out Kangxi's mind, and said flatly, "I think it's the second child's fault!" "No!" Yinti pushed back suddenly, "Long live, don't make a fuss, whoever wants to be the prince must be who!" After speaking, he stared at Yinti with red eyes. What he said made sense, so he looked at the third elder brother Yinzhi, and said with a smile: "The old ten is right. But even if you make fake characters, you have to have this ability. What do you say, the third?" Yinzhi blushed, and when it came to writing "ability", he was recognized as the number one, but at this moment, even Kangxi didn't believe Yinti in return, so he swallowed his saliva and said nothing.Yinti also calmed down at this moment. At this time, it is not only unbelievable for Kangxi to bite Yinzhi, but it may arouse public outrage and set fire to himself, which is even worse. I think, there is also Yinfeng's personal seal on it, and it is difficult to forge except for those close to him." This statement seems fair and reasonable.Seeing that neither Yin Zhen nor Yin Xiang came, Yin Qu gritted his teeth and said, "I look like... the old thirteen!" Everyone in the hall was shuddered by these words.In fact, when this manuscript was circulated, everyone flashed the word "Yinxiang". Even Yinzhi gets along well with this wandering god, who dares to say so easily?Yinti responded immediately: "My son thinks so too." "I also look like..." "Except for him, who would dare?" "He supervised the prince's copybook." "It's not easy for him to get a blank sheet of paper when he enters Yuqing Palace every day?" All the grievances when clearing up deficits and pressing debts were poured out from these words that seemed hesitant and sure.Yinzhi lowered his head, thinking nervously. Seeing that even Yinhu said, "You might as well ask Yinxiang to see what he says. It's not easy to make a decision on this matter." Finally, Yinzhi said: " Father, there are some interesting writings, indeed a bit like the thirteenth elder brother, please ask carefully." Yinti also said: "Please ask the father to decide, the thirteenth elder brother is always attached to Yinfeng to do his best, and Qi Ling elder brother Seeing that the crown prince's position is not stable, it may be true to listen to the villain's flattery and do this. This person has the temperament of a desperado, and he has the courage." "Hmm!" Kangxi's cheek muscles twitched twice, "That's all for this matter, I'll talk about it later. The second thing - just now the elder brother made a knee-jerk secret report, for fear that I would be killed Notorious, he is willing to kill Yinfeng himself, to get rid of Qingfu's worries, what do you think?" Like a thunderstorm, everyone was stunned. Dozens of pairs of eyes in the hall were fixed on Yinti, as if they were looking at a goblin who suddenly appeared from the ground!Under the eyes of everyone, Yinti knelt on the ground stiffly, with dislocated features on his face, looking like a ghost, and like a person who was suddenly stripped naked in front of a large crowd, so embarrassed that he couldn't bear it.Even Zhang Tingyu opened his mouth wide, not knowing that Kangxi had such a sudden outburst of Yinti. "Father..." After an unknown amount of time, Yinti Fanglue regained his sanity, kowtowed on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "What I said just now was from my heart... Mencius said, 'The state is the most important, and the king is the least' ... If it is beneficial to the situation of the Qing Dynasty, the ministers are willing to take the axe, and report the pros and cons... I hope the father and emperor will observe the loyalty and love of the ministers. If it is, take it; if it is not, discard it... The minister has no one Private thoughts." "Fart!" Kangxi hit the case with a "bang", and suddenly flew into a rage, "A stupid pig like you, you want to be a prince? You still remember the teachings of saints? What's 'catching rabbits' and what's 'destiny is not enough'?" Fear'? Wang Anshi's nonsense is brought out for me to hear! What are you, dare to say such lawless things?" Everyone's hearts seemed to be raised high, and then fell into the bottomless abyss of terror. At this moment, the tension in the hall was so tense that a single spark could explode! "Rong Erchen argues...Erchen really doesn't...doesn't have the intention of seizing...seizing the heir for himself..." Yinti fell silent, like a leaf in the autumn wind, his whole body was trembling...