The husband's son-in-law

When Yaren saw Mr. Gu, he first bowed and saluted, and said auspicious words.

Gu Zhao nodded to say hello, and Li Zhouzhou asked Yaren how many boys and girls there are brothers, and Gu Zhao is here, and Yaren answered one by one with his head bowed or a cat.

There are more boys than girls, most of the younger ones are under 15 years old, and the older ones are in their early 20s.

"...Now there are so many people to choose from. The wives of all the prefectures choose the young ones to buy back, so that they can be trained and behaved, and they will be faithful in raising them, so our dentists are eager to send the young ones first." The man replied, "My lord, madam, if you two want to be a little older and choose a mother-in-law, in fact, people in their early 20s can use it, and you can use it for a few years if you are younger."

Really picked the goods.

Gu Zhao interrupted and asked the price.

"The market is good now, and the little girl looks like a well-rounded six taels, and the boys are all five taels old." Seeing Mr. Gu's frown, the tooth man bent down with a smile and said, "Actually, it's the Chinese New Year. If you buy a lot Alright, if you are older, you can count as four or two."

Gu Zhao's frown was that this guy was talking about buying and selling goods, but after thinking about it again, he interrupted, just to avoid it on the surface, but in fact he was still doing business——

Can't escape, just such a society.

"Don't read the ones with relatives in it." Gu Zhao told Zhou Zhou.

Li Zhouzhou nodded. He knew what Xianggong meant. Xianggong told him long ago that if they were promoted in the future, they would go to other places to be more comfortable. Then they would not buy the ones with relatives, otherwise they would let their flesh and blood live together. It is not good to separate the earth.

After hearing the sound, the Yaman made arrangements for all relatives to stand behind.

Then there are more than half of them gone, there are men and women, the older ones take the younger ones.Nowadays, they sell their bodies because they are afraid that they will not be able to survive the winter. Most of them are parents with their children. If they are lucky, the wife and housekeeper of the mansion are soft-hearted and charitable, so they buy them all, so that the family can be reunited.

Again, I went to two mansions respectively, and they were in charge of food and housing, and they were also hanging for a while. They came back to life first, and there will always be a chance to see each other after they are in Beijing.

For those who are unlucky, one will be picked, and the other will not be sold for a long time.That's bad.

The place was empty, the people stood scattered, and the jacket that Li Zhouzhou gave him was suddenly revealed. Gu Zhao also saw the hemp-skinned kid huddled in the last back row. Those eyes were very bright, even though they were much thinner than when they first met, the lips were white, but the eyes were shining.

It's that nasty kid.

"How old is he?" Gu Zhao asked, pointing.

Yaren looked at what Mr. Gu was pointing at, and his face was full of expressions. There was a feeling of "it's not good for a small family to cheat, but if you don't cheat, you can't sell it if you leave this kid in your hands." After weighing it left and right, With a dark heart, he smiled and said, "My lord, you have good eyesight. This kid is 12 years old. He is good-looking, tall, and handsome. It costs four taels of silver."

... 12 years old.

Gu Zhao thought for a while, the boy said that he was 15 years old, but he kept his voice unchanged, deliberately pretending to be a seasoned voice.Gu Zhao looked at Zhou Zhou, "How is it? It's the first time I've seen you."

"I remember." Li Zhouzhou called the child out, and after a closer look, the child's face turned pale, "Is it uncomfortable?"

The dental man quickly said: "It's all about it, how dare I deceive you." If you are sick, it will be hard to sell.Immediately patted the grudge's head with his hands, "Look at what I am doing, madam, ask me, answer me!"

This kind of grievance is like someone who is pleading with him and begging him day by day. He is willing to sell himself. When he arrives at the dental shop, he will torment him. He refuses to obey the training every day. Not a good sell.

"Don't touch him." Gu Zhao said with a straight face.

Yaren hurriedly bowed his waist and said no, but he was happy in his heart, Mr. Gu was protecting this kind of grievance, but if he saw that he was going to buy it, he would just sell one, what a happy event.

"I'm fine."

The stick kid replied.The Yaren was beside him and still wanted to learn how to teach at the Yahang when he came, and he had to use a small answer, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Zhouzhou, saying: "Let's go to him first."

"Come on, ma'am, you are choosing, and there is also a young maid who looks like a juicy girl."

Li Zhouzhou and Gu Zhao had discussed buying someone before, and they didn't really want to buy the little maid.Now the maids bought by the mansion are pretty and beautiful, and the owner’s face is also bright when I take them out to meet people, but his family’s situation is different, they are all men, Fu Bao is a brother, and the little maid takes care of him, Gu Zhao feels bad.

"Is there any brother?"

The tooth man shook his head and said no, there are older ones, and they are married and married.

Li Zhouzhou looked at his husband, what do you think, how to buy?Gu Zhao said: "If you can't do it, you can choose a husband to do the stove work. If you choose a little girl, you have to buy a wife, otherwise it will be inconvenient."

This is true.

If you buy a little girl, there must be an older person next to the girl who can teach you a little bit, and Mama Lan is suitable, but if they leave, there will be no one else, so it is better to buy them all this time.Li Zhouzhou thought, but is this too much?There were only three in the room at once, the husband, the mother-in-law, and the little maid.

Not counting Mama Lan and Fang Liu.

Yaren is very happy, I didn't expect Li's family to make a move, but they picked four at once, and they were about to go forward to recommend, that little maid is good, the price is high, she has grown up and looks good, and she can do it for the young master in the future bed warmer.

"If you want to buy one, I know one person." The kid suddenly said, "It's a girl, 16 years older."

The tooth man is eager to go up and kick the grievances.

Gu Zhao glanced at the hemp boy, and said, "Choose a husband first, and then buy it if you fail."

He lost two deals at once, and his teeth were itchy. If he hadn't been picked to buy this product, he would have starved for it for two days.

The husband I bought looked very ordinary. He was 25 years old, and his average height was about 1.7 meters. He was thin, and his exposed skin was blue and red from the cold.

Li Zhouzhou chose it.

A total of two, each priced at four taels, a total of eight taels of silver.

After the Yaren collected the money and handed it over to the deed of sale, he even gave the grudge a glare when he took the man away.

The next thing was to settle down, and the two of them didn't have any luggage, so they left everything to Mother Lan to pack.There is still a vacant room in the inverted room at the front, the child with hemp pole and Fang Liu sleep in the same bunk, and just pack a bedding. As for the husband——

"Why don't you sleep in the same room with me, I'm old, you can sleep with your head against the wall, and you can light a brazier in the room." Mother Lan said.It would not be appropriate to arrange for this husband to sleep next door, and there is Fang Liu.

She is almost fifty, if she is born, she must be able to give birth to this husband.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Fu Lang said with a low eyebrow.

Mother Lan taught the rules: "You can't call me you, I'm a servant just like you, how can I shout like that, you and that child clean up first, wash them, put on clean clothes, eat, guess what? Madam and Master want you to go over and ask questions."

"Don't be afraid, madam is a bodhisattva, but if you don't follow the rules and get lazy and don't work hard, then be careful."

Fu Lang hurriedly said in a low voice that he didn't dare, as long as he had a bite to eat and survived, he would be grateful.

"What's your last name?"

"My husband's family name is Zhao."

"I mean what's your last name?"

Fu Lang didn't speak, and Mother Lan said why you are still a boring gourd, no matter how bitter you are, now that you are bought by the Li family, you are a slave of the Li family, then you are not yourself, and you still don't say it when Madam asks no?outrageous.

"My original family thought I was unlucky, and later married me to Zhao Laizi. When I gave birth, the man went to find Mrs. Wen, and she was in a hurry. My original family saw that she was hiding far away and didn't give her a hand."

Mother Lan didn't expect such a thing to happen after hearing this, "You didn't have anything to do afterwards, did you?"

"My man has worked hard to climb up, but it was a waste of time. I gave birth to a stillborn baby, and I am also a brother." Fu Lang said with dull eyes, "In fact, it's good to die, and you don't have to suffer when you die."

Mother Lan didn't ask any more questions, what else could she ask, the family thought that she was born with a cripple, and married a cripple, but the baby died, and now it's snowstorm, the cripple's leg is broken, can he walk from Ningxi to Beijing safely?Poor, they are all poor people.

"It's done, don't think too much about it now, you've come to Li's house, and you can do it for Li's house in a down-to-earth manner." Lan's mother also looked at this husband's pity, and said to her heart, "You now You are a slave of the Li family, and the life of the Li family is going well, as long as you are loyal and don't do stupid things, the master and wife are generous people, and you will be able to live in peace and well in the future."

"Yes, I understand Mama Lan."

Mother Lan finished boiling the hot water and asked the two of them to go into the shower room next to each other to wash off, "Young Master Fubao is here, and the Master and Mrs. are the most clean. You can't mess it up. If there are fleas in your hair, you might as well wring them out."

What's the matter with the hair, the life belongs to the Li family now.

Strawed short and clean.

The clothes are all old clothes that Li Zhouzhou washed clean before. Although the old clothes are also the old clothes that were washed out two years ago, Li Zhouzhou now wears robes when he goes out, and he wears a lot of clothes at home.

Changed clothes and had dinner.

Mother Lan taught the two of them the rules, led them all the way to the backyard, and asked them to wait outside the main room. She went in and communicated, and then let them in.

When they came in, the two fell to their knees.

Gu Zhao saw that the stick boy's bones were hard to grind, and he didn't know what happened during this time, but he was still young, and when he knelt, his eyes looked unwilling.

"Get up."

The two got up and stood upright.

Li Zhouzhou asked some other people in the family, although the Yaren said, but still ask clearly, both of them are alone, fleeing to Beijing, some relatives in the hometown don’t know what is going on now, this husband talks more, It's just asking questions and answering questions, and the kid with the stick doesn't talk much.

They were all dead, and he was the only one left.

Mother Lan just replied, Li Zhouzhou knew what happened to this husband before, since he didn't want to follow his original surname, he asked his name, and he said that his name was A Xia, and he was born in Xia Tian.

Later, it took the Li family's surname and was called Li Xia.

It was the turn of the Magan child, who was still stiff just now, but now he knelt down and kowtowed, "Madam, can I not change my surname? I don't want to change my surname."

"Get up, I didn't say to force you to change." Li Zhouzhou asked the child to get up, "Then what's your name?"

"My surname is Meng, and my name is Meng Jianyun." Meng Jianyun didn't get up, and kowtowed to his wife with his spine straight.

Li Zhouzhou said: "I've accepted that you kneel down and never change your name and surname. Get up."

Meng Jianyun just got up.

"Where is that 16-year-old girl you just mentioned?" Li Zhouzhou was still thinking about this.

Meng Jianyun said that the one in the same disaster shed was Meizi.Gu Zhao then asked: "Is she willing to sell herself? You just mentioned it to her."

"If she doesn't sell herself into the mansion to be a servant, then she will wait to be sold into a dirty place." Meng Jianyun's eyes were full of hatred again, and he said, "We have come all the way, and my brother gave her half a steamed bun before. "

Gu Zhao didn't ask what about your brother, Meng Jianyun was already alone, and his brother died on the way, thinking of his brother's affection, Meng Jianyun asked to help this plum?

It's all like this, Gu Zhao said: "Tomorrow the carriage is hitched, you and Fang Liu will go find it together."

Buy it if you can, and forget it if you can’t.This plum still has family members.

The atmosphere of the year is strong.

Li Da bought a couplet with the word "Fu" on it, and took out the red lanterns that hung last year, and hung them on the gate.

Gu Zhao had a teacher this year, so in the first year of the new year, he naturally had to pay a big salute to the teacher. Before the ceremony, he was in a hurry. He drank so much that he knelt down and made three bangs. The New Year can't be sloppy.

Li Zhouzhou chose the New Year gift, knowing that the teacher likes to eat, besides his own lo mei, he still wants to get something, "I bought wine and snacks, and they are all from Jufulou. Dad went to line up early in the morning to buy them."

"That's all the food, it's too little, do I have to prepare ink ingots and brushes?" Li Zhouzhou didn't understand these things, and said, "Last time, the Lin family sent a box of things, how about opening it and picking some from it?"

Naturally, the good things go to the upper floors first, and there is actually nothing good in the store.

Gu Zhao thought for a while and felt bad, "Don't move the box from the Lin family, let's go out for a stroll and have a look." He felt that giving the teacher something from the Lin family would be disrespectful to the teacher.

Things don't care about the value, but about the mind.At least Gu Zhao has this confidence in the teacher. The teacher doesn't care about expensive or cheap ones, and it's good to buy what he likes.

"it is good."

Li Zhouzhou changed into his robe and went out with his husband.Dad watches Fubao at home.

Seeing that the two fathers were gone, Fu Bao's eyes widened and he flapped his arms to follow him. Li Da picked up his grandson who was on the ground, hugged him in his arms, and said, "Fufu, let's not go, our grandson and grandson are here." Eating candy paintings in the house—"

sugar!

Fu Bao just looked anxiously in the direction of the gate, and almost burst into tears. When he heard the candy, the tears were suppressed back. He turned his head to look at Grandpa, and smiled, "Yeah, yeah."

"Hey, let's Fufu, grandpa takes Fufu to eat candy~"

Fang Liula, the family's mule cart, and Meng Jianyun went to buy someone. Gu Zhao and Li Zhouzhou walked slowly. It was rare to have a holiday. He and Zhou Zhou took a walk and wandered around. I remember the first time I traveled far in winter and Zhou Zhou."

Of course Li Zhouzhou remembered that the first time he and his husband went to town, it was also autumn and winter, it was still dark when he was discharged from the hospital, there was a sip of cold wind, the husband let him eat warm sweet potatoes, it was still sweet when he thought about it now.

"It's the first time I walked to town, Zhou Zhou, to be honest, did you walk slowly on purpose?" Gu Zhao asked.He still remembered that at the time he was half dead, he walked for a while and rested for a while, and felt that the road was so long that he couldn't make it no matter how hard he walked.

Li Zhouzhou smiled and did not speak.

Gu Zhao was shameless, and said affectionately: "I knew that Zhou Zhou loved me, and Zhou Zhou loved me back then."

"Xianggong." Li Zhouzhou whispered, "It's outside."

"Okay, okay." Gu Zhao looked closer, "It's the first time I've met Zhou Zhou, and I'm so happy with Zhou Zhou."

Li Zhouzhou's ears were turning red, and there was an uncontrollable smile on his face.

Immediately, he went out of the alley to the street, and he must not mess around. Gu Zhao kept his sense, but Li Zhouzhou added, "Me too."

"...?" Gu Zhao didn't know what Zhou Zhou said until he reacted, and he said in a particularly immodest way: "We both have grown up in our own aesthetic points, and I am happy with Zhou Zhou. I."

Li Zhouzhou smiled and rolled his eyes.

Later, when I bought Luobei paper, Gu Zhao asked not to cut it. He took it back and cut it by himself. The teacher likes the rough edge, but the edge of this paper is a little rough. It doesn’t need to be learned. People who can read and write can do it. Some people like the delicate one. Gu Zhao I saw that the paper used by the teacher is all rough.

Luobei paper is the top.

With good paper, he also picked out an ink ingot, which has carved patterns and three-dimensional patterns. Gu Zhao picked out a simple one with the word 'Kangtai' on it, hoping that the teacher will be in good health.

That's it.

Going back, Gu Zhao went into the study room, cut out the paper one by one, and before he finished cutting, he knocked on the door, "Come in." He was in the study room on weekdays, and no one would come except Zhou Zhou.

Gu Zhao stopped what he was doing, "What's wrong?"

"Fang Liu and Meng Jianyun are back." Li Zhouzhou said, "It's complicated to say that they haven't bought them back."

"Call them over, and I'll ask."

The two of them were waiting outside, and Fang Liu came in and said, "Go back to the master, we went to find the girl Meng Jianyun was talking about today, but the blood on the head hit the wall, and the ashes under the pot stopped. Blood, people can't wake up all the time, her mother saw that we wanted to buy someone, she said four taels of silver and took it away."

"I see it's almost Chinese New Year. The man was seriously injured and I don't know if he can be cured. After seeing blood, he couldn't make up his mind to pull it back after the Chinese New Year. Her mother saw us leaving and said that three taels of silver would be fine." .”

Fang Liu wanted to come back and ask, but he didn't dare to make up his mind.The master asked him to buy someone, and he was alive and able to work. If a half-dead man was brought back, what if the master didn't want it?Furthermore, it's bad luck to see blood when you bring it back during the Chinese New Year, and it's even more bad luck if you die and don't carry it over.

"How did you commit suicide?" Gu Zhao asked.

It is reasonable to come all the way, so hard, how come this juncture is going to seek death.Involuntarily, Gu Zhao thought of what Meng Jianyun said, "But her parents want to sell her into—"

Fang Liu nodded yes, he also felt sorry for the girl, but he couldn't be more pitiful.

The old woman in this family is hated too much, and her own daughter is treated like this. She is worthless now, but selling it to a dental dealer is better than sending her own daughter to a dirty place like that. A few taels, sell that kind of dirty place, as many taels as you get.

He just completely ignored his daughter's life and death.

Meng Jianyun didn't speak for a long time, but now he moved his mouth, wanting to say but didn't know what to say.Gu Zhao knew at a glance that the kid wanted to intercede and asked his family to buy plums, but he endured it and went back.

Looking at the tough bones is also soft-hearted.

"If he doesn't say anything, what do you want to say on your face?" Gu Zhao asked Fang Liu.

Fang Liu said: "My lord, when I was buying someone, I heard the nearby disaster victims say, 'My daughter is innocent, and the lord wants to buy it and take it back', which implies the meaning..."

It is plums that are not clean and have lost their innocence.

"That's because of those people." Meng Jianyun couldn't help but said, "It's too cold in the house and the firewood is almost used up. My father and elder brother went to collect firewood and didn't come back. My mother took me Just go find..."

The father and son were picking firewood at the foot of the mountain, and they didn't dare to go deep. Who knew that the snow fell and buried the father and son. When Meng Jianyun and his mother found it, his father froze to death, and the elder brother still had a breath and went back inside. It was crushed by snow.

After a few days of living in exile, there was really no way out. Meng Jianyun's mother took her two brothers to Beijing and mixed with the refugees.

His mother was beaten to death.

The two brothers walked with the victims all the way, numb and didn't know where to go. On the way, they met four members of the Mei family.

Passing through a village, the Mei family sold their eldest daughter to a widower in the village as a daughter-in-law. In exchange for food money, it was considered a place for Meizi. But in the middle of the night, the family refused to admit it, saying that Meizi had lost her innocence and was not a big girl.

Falling red.

Meng Jianyun didn't know what Luohong was, because Meizi's mother scolded Meizi all the way afterwards, saying that Meizi was too big-hearted and did some dirty tricks behind her back...

"...Later, there were two more times. Meizi's mother said that it was worthless anyway, so she just took it and exchanged it."

Meng Jianyun was 12 years old, and he didn't know what to get in exchange. His elder brother said that the litter was not a good thing, including the plums' parents and younger brothers, who were all wolf-hearted.

His elder brother took pity on Meizi. Fortunately, he ran into a frozen pheasant and exchanged a dozen steamed buns with the villagers, and gave Meizi half a piece, "... I woke up the next day, and my brother was gone. Di'er found my brother's body."

Meng Jianyun gritted his teeth, and he still doesn't know who killed his brother.

Those dozen or so steamed buns were supposed to be eaten slowly, but after a long journey, the steamed buns were robbed. They were all those disaster victims, and those who walked with them must be these people.

Meng Jianyun hated it very much.

"The first time I went to the refugee shelter, the team leader said that you sneakily beat someone to death at night. Hei's beating figure looked thinner at night. Since then, all the victims in the same shelter stayed away from you. That person was killed by Meizi Right?" Gu Zhao asked.

Meng Jianyun bit his lip but he didn't want to hide it from the master, so he hummed.

Gu Zhao nodded, feeling that Meng Jianyun was a child with a bit of iron bones and loyalty, but suddenly his relatives passed away one after another, and his eldest brother died so tragically, it was inevitable that he was a little angry, so let's look at it when he was only 12 years old.

Fang Liu felt that the master would not buy it. Although this plum is pitiful, if it loses its innocence, it will be dirty and dirty, with human life on its hands——

"I'll buy it tomorrow, and I'll invite a doctor to take a look at it, so I can do it as soon as possible." Li Zhouzhou told Fang Liu that he will be [-] tomorrow, and he doesn't know if he can invite a doctor.

Meng Jianyun didn't expect his wife to agree.

"It's your turn, go down, it's getting late." Gu Zhao knew that Zhou Zhou was soft-hearted, and when the door was closed, Li Zhouzhou said, "Buy it first, and treat the wound as much as possible. If it can be saved, wake up and find If you are not a good person, if you have a left-handed temper, then sell it to a dentist."

Gu Zhao nodded, "You should be cautious around Fu Bao, as long as you know it in your heart."

On New Year's Eve the next day, early in the morning, Gu Zhaoli took gifts and carried Fu Bao to Senior Brother Liang's residence to pay New Year greetings to his teacher.Fang Liu first drove the car to send the old lady to the Liang Mansion, and then went outside the city to buy someone.

"You don't have to rush here when you come back." Gu Zhao told Fang Liu.

He borrowed his brother's car for use.

When they arrived at the Liang Mansion, Gu Zhao held the gift, and Li Zhouzhou held Fu Bao.Fu Bao went out to pay New Year's greetings, wearing a festive, bright red jacket, and a rabbit fur hat. He laughed at everything when he was out. He had no choice but to play at home as soon as winter came. He was naturally happy when he was able to come out.

The concierge of the Liang Mansion opened the door, saluted, accepted the gift, and politely sent Master Gu's family to the second door.Liang Zizhi learned that Junior Brother Gu had arrived so early, so he came out to greet him.

"Brother, Happy Chinese New Year." Gu Zhao cupped his hands and said with a smile. He wanted to introduce his family Zhou Zhou and Fubao, so he looked at Fubao with loving eyes and said, "But Fubao?"

"Yeah, my son and Zhou Zhou's son is nicknamed Fubao."

Liang Zizhi first met his younger brother's wife, nodded his head, and said hello to Mrs. Li.Li Zhouzhou called Senior Brother Liang hello.

This is the name of the two families who are close, if outsiders are more polite, they should call Mrs. Li Zhou Zhou Gu.

"Fu Bao is called Uncle Master." Gu Zhao said.

"Hello Sub."

Fu Bao learned New Year greetings when he was at home, and he will say it seriously with his little fists raised.

Liang Zizhi was very happy, said hello to Fubao, where is the deserted appearance of the Hanlin Academy, and greeted the three of them to enter the room and sit down, saying, "Teacher is waiting."

They entered the hall of the main courtyard together, and Sun Mu sat in the main seat.

Li Zhouzhou released Fu Bao on the ground and stopped holding him, Gu Zhao lifted his robe and knelt down to salute the teacher solemnly, and then said auspicious words for the new year.

Sun Mu smiled and got up and handed out a red envelope.

Gu Zhao had the cheek to accept it.

Gu Zhao is an apprentice, it's okay to kneel down and kowtow, but Li Zhouzhou doesn't need it, he has learned how to do the salute, and he did it upright, Fu Bao looked at his father, then at his father, first he knelt on the ground, upright Kowtowed.

"Sihu, happy every year."

He got up by himself and bowed like his father.

Seeing this, Sun Mu laughed and said, "I accepted your father as an apprentice, so it's no longer appropriate for you to call me Sihu. You should call me Grandpa Shi."

"Fourth grandpa." Fu Bao nodded his head seriously and said obediently.

Sun Mu smiled, took out the red envelope and handed it to Xiao Fubao, and said lovingly: "Fourth Grandpa wishes Xiao Fubao good health, smart and happy."

"Thank you, yeah~" Fu Bao shouted happily and kissed her.

There are no wives and wives in Liang’s house, and the housekeeper arranges all the banquets. After the fruit refreshment, Fu Bao sat upright on the chair, but after a while, he became tired. Look at Daddy and Daddy, Gu Zhaowen sat down. tired?

Fu Bao nodded, and his fleshy face said, "Everyone is sitting upright and Fu Fu can't be messed up."

Liang Zizhi smiled lovingly and said, "In my house, it's Fu Bao's house. Come here as you feel comfortable."

"Thank you uncle." Fu Bao was happy.Gu Zhao picked up Fu Bao and hugged him, and Fu Bao felt comfortable leaning against his father, and said to his father, "Daddy, daddy is tired, Fufu will hug me later~"

Gu Zhaona didn't know that his son was careful, so he laughed with his teacher and brother: "He is close to his father at home, saying that he feels sorry for me and tired of hugging him, but actually wants to hug his father more."

"Little Fubao is smart." Sun Mu stroked his beard and said with a smile, but there were memories in his eyes.

Ming Yuan was also smart when he was a child, and he was also close to his mother.

So Ming Yuan went, and his wife felt depressed and didn't want to see him.