[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

In November in the Forbidden City, the ginkgo has completely turned golden, and with the brick-red stone walls, the collision of colors makes this scenery full of oriental classical beauty.

The ancient buildings are dyed with lively colors because of this touch of naughty gold.

As soon as November arrives, the number of tourists gradually decreases. One is that Beijing has entered the warning period for autumn smog days, and the other is that there will naturally be many fewer tourists traveling after the National Day Golden Week. .

The tortoiseshell kitten sleeps on the rockery in the garden of the Compassionate Ninggong, surrounded by a whole herd of deer. Tourists who come to check in can only vaguely see the cat lying on the gray stone, with its belly exposed. They all wear the Forbidden City collar cat that is in danger of falling.

The collar cat is very famous recently, because before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the dean personally went to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to hunt for cats, which was posted on Weibo by Guan Bojun, and the official blog named and criticized this naughty cat who knew the law and broke the law.

Of course, more importantly, the whole cat looks very cute curled up in the net bag, with all four paws curled up, making the butt look very big.

Two-legged beasts look at the cat first, the face first, the buttocks second, and the pads third, the arrangement varies according to personal preference.In short, although the Twolegs don't admit it, when they see cats...they really have a crooked aesthetic.It's not like ancient people at all, what they look at is the ability and fur of cats.

The buttocks are chubby, and it looks easy to rub or something, but it doesn't sound like what a serious person said.

But... due to gravity, and because of the change of fur in autumn, the fur on the round buttocks of the little tortoiseshell in the net bag protrudes from the net bag, and at first glance...it looks very fat.

Although there are also objective netizens who say that the small tortoiseshell is not fat, it is just long hair, but in the eyes of netizens who eat melons, this is fat, so fat that it can break through the blockade of the net bag!

Therefore, for a time...Xia Anran fell into a weight loss crisis.The excrement shovel officers who refused to feed the snacks actually told him that it was because he was fat.

Cats are not fat!

You human beings usually keep saying that being fatter is a blessing, and you use this as an excuse when you don't want to give snacks, but you rub other people's puffed meat while talking, and let others touch it together.

Oh, hypocrisy.

Xia Anran stretched out a paw and gently pushed away a girl who stretched out Lushan's claws, then lightly jumped to the ground, walked out of the door slowly, he used the position of the edge of the door to stretch upwards, and then shook After shaking his hair, he decided to go to sleep for a while.

The big dream was a thousand years old, and when he woke up, it really had been a thousand years.

Thousands of years ago, he was the Dasinong of the Han Dynasty, and a thousand years later, he was a cat in the Forbidden City.

When he opened his eyes, he was still holding a black rabbit in his arms. This time, he didn't carry out emotional analysis, so he naturally remembered everything clearly.

Xia Anran silently pushed the black rabbit aside, but after a while, she hugged the rabbit back again, forget it, I'm used to hugging, so let's keep it.

He had lived for a long time in that era, and he was one of the few officials in the Han Dynasty who could enjoy retirement benefits. Once he reached the retirement age, Xia Anran, the chief minister, left his job, and he didn't regret it at all.

At that time, everyone thought that he, the only civil servant who had lived to the retirement age, would miss him for a while, but Xia Anran, who finally managed to retire and receive a pension, said that he was not under any pressure at all.

Retirement is the dream of every working class. One of his senior sisters who came back to school to give a speech on outstanding graduates said in private that when she woke up early in the morning and went to work, she saw uncles and aunts who gave priority to Tai Chi. Haggard at night, when I got off work, I saw the energetic aunts and uncles splashing enthusiasm in the square... I was so envious that my nose was about to crooked!

... Although he was a civil servant and a leader in the Han Dynasty, but in ancient times without glasses, lights, and computers, civil servants were really miserable!Especially later, after being promoted and entered the Han Dynasty, Xia Anran, who was no longer the master of Yanzhou, could no longer do anything as soon as he thought of it. In Yanzhou, one-third of an acre of land was owned by himself, and everyone would not care about it. He, but when he arrived in Luoyang, he was the former subordinate of Cao Cao, so the eyes that looked at him were naturally indispensable.

And it was even worse after he was promoted and became the chief minister. In the Han Dynasty, although the chief minister sounded like the Minister of Agriculture, this was what Xia Anran was good at, but he didn't realize it until he was doing job training... No, Da Si Nong is the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Agriculture.

One person holds two positions and is in charge of finance.

He is really not good at financial matters!Can accounting or something be played in an era when there are only calculations?

In the end, the little emperor came to look for him in person. He held his hand and said affectionately, "Aiqing, I only have your teeth!!" Ever since Cao Cao's glorious retirement, he resolutely rejected the re-employment, patted his ass and ran to the west to open up the previously blocked western section of the Silk Road.

Liu Bei, one of the other three men who was still in office at the time, held his other hand, and the two Liu family members looked at themselves with expectant eyes and tears in their eyes.

Xia Anran, who had never been treated like this before, twitched her hand, but failed to pull it back. He backed away again and again, and the two Liu pressed on step by step, and finally he could only agree.

Xia Miao yawned, and walked slowly from the West Sixth Palace to the garden of the Compassionate Ning Palace.

Although he still has the body of a kitten, but because of his mental age he is already an old man, so he can't help walking very slowly.

In the last few years of his life, Xia Anran, who had experienced walking with a cane, experienced the beauty of having four legs.

It's so much easier to have an extra leg.

In fact, the longer he wakes up, the more blurred his memories of the Three Kingdoms time. This system, which is more responsible than the first world, explained to him.

This is to protect the physical and mental health of the little monsters. For example, Xia Anran stayed in the Three Kingdoms until the end of his life. Now he is affected by that world. He walks slowly, screams slowly, and looks at people with kindness. For their soft logout method, the system will not forcefully interfere... However, cats have limited brain memory.

Xia Anran could already clearly feel that her memory was a little fuzzy.

... No, it may not be because of the cat's brain, it should be because of his own memory loss after he got older in the Three Kingdoms.

If you have a bad memory, you should eat fish!

But the excrement shovel officer refused to feed the meat because he was fat.

Outrageous.

Xia Anran's cat's whiskers trembled with anger, just like the children at home, when he gets old, he'll be able to eat with one mouthful, and don't let him eat this or that.

He was not even allowed to eat dried locusts.

It's not the modern health maintenance, oil, salt, and starch, where are there so many rules...

Oh, by the way, it was Zhang Zhongjing's little apprentice who did it.

That brat, at that time his father didn't let him study medicine, so I helped make peace!As a result, when the wings became hard, they came to control me.As we get older, our sense of taste weakens, so of course we have to eat something with a stronger taste.

Xia Anran jumped up and landed firmly on top of the stone lion. He lay on top of the copper lion. At noon, the copper lion was warmed by the sun, like a large stove.

It is comfortable to hold.

Xia Anran adjusted her body, shook the fur on her body, let every wisp of autumn sunlight shine into the fur, and warmed the root of the cat's hair that was close to the skin.

He yawned. This is a quiet road between the West Sixth Palace and the Compassionate Ning Palace in the south. Because there are no famous scenic spots nearby, few people come back, and behind it is a work area where tourists are forbidden to enter. On weekdays, only the staff come and go , very quiet.

And the staff are used to seeing the cats in the Forbidden City, and they are not very good at masturbating them. Even the masturbation method is very comfortable, and they will not masturbate endlessly.Still relatively restrained.

Xia Anran's cat pad absorbs the heat from one place, and then slowly changes to another place. From a distance, it looks like this cat is swimming on top of a lion's head, scratching its paws non-stop.

Occasionally, a staff member passing by took a look and walked away calmly. The cat can play with its own tail for a long time when it has nothing to do. Now at least it is playing with the copper lion, which is not too strange.

Xia Anran feels that she is not an ordinary cat, but her IQ is restricted by her body, and her instincts cannot be changed... Forget it, let's sleep for a while.

He still wants to dream about those things before in his dreams, don't think about it, I'm really afraid that he will forget.

Just when he was half asleep and half awake, he heard a somewhat familiar footstep passing by him from far to near. Xia Anran didn't even open his eyes. According to some memories, he often lay on the rocking chair basking in the sun like this, swaying for a while.

The old man next to him did this because he did not dare to sleep deeply. The biggest danger of getting old is heart problems. Although he is not afraid of death when he is old, he is still afraid deep in his heart. When he reaches a certain age, he will never leave his body with tea, especially late at night. There is often a cup of life-saving tea, but Xia Anran is really not.

After Shen Qi's 52nd birthday, he took a step forward. Before he left, he was very calm. He was able to finish talking with Xia Anran all that should be said and should not be said. Then he pinched his ears and closed his eyes. At that time, Xia Anran An Ran was not very sad, because they had already said goodbye to the next world, and if they missed the next world, they would go to the next world.

He calmly finished the funeral and continued to stay alone in the home where the two of them lived together.

Having been together for so many years, and knowing the average life expectancy in this world in advance, and also knowing that Cao Chun's body is severely damaged, and the results of the annual physical examination are all formulated with a bunch of tonics, it is impossible to say that he was not prepared.

Husbands and wives come here less often, until this person is really gone, there is no great sorrow, but there are lingering thoughts.

It was as if a hole had been dug in my heart, and I couldn't find anything to fill it up.

It’s just that he still had things he couldn’t let go of. At that time, Cao Pi accepted his father’s wish and, together with Sun Ce and Guan Yu, marched all the way west, intending to completely open up the Silk Road that had been blocked by the civil war in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

At that time, Guan Yu was older than Cao Chun, and this battle was most likely to be his last battle in this life. Sun Ce connected the past with his lieutenant general Ma Chao and a group of young generals from the next generation for the purpose of training troops.So this battle cannot be lost.

After the war, there were a lot of things, business channels opened up, domestic goods flowed out, and the introduction of new items and new varieties made Xia Anran have to support most of the people who had no economic common sense and wanted to print currency without paying attention. Hanting.

Later, there was no gap along the way, as if the whole country had suddenly torn off its colorful coat, all of which were conflicts and disputes that needed to be resolved, so that he only had a little gap for sadness and longing during his own time at night .

Until he slowly realized that it wasn't that the country was in crisis, it was just that his students, old friends, and children were afraid that he would not be able to accept Cao Chun's death for a while, so they followed him, deliberately blowing up some things so that he had no time to distract him. .When he realized it, the adults who were already adults all stiffened their necks, saying that teacher, we can't do well if you leave us!

Xia Anran could only smile wryly, he is not a young man who can get hotheaded, how could he still do such a thing like dying for love?

And they don't only have this life, they still have many futures, and they all agreed that he will go to Cao Chun in the next life.It's just that I can't talk about it, it would be embarrassing.

It’s just the kindness of the boys, even though it’s in vain that he’s been scorching for so long… He can’t say anything, he can only sigh and take the pointers on their obediently outstretched hands one by one. Knocked a few times.

He endured it for a long time, watching the little emperor gradually become a wise master who also stabilized the country during the Little Ice Age, watching the little emperor's cubs all want to run outside, one by one He didn't even want to inherit the throne, and watched the little emperor ruthlessly dragged his eldest son back, because he liked his eldest grandson's aptitude, and asked his eldest son to hold on to the situation no matter what, so as to give his grandson a time to grow up.

Little Huangsun liked to wield knives and guns since he was a child. He was very interested in maps and weapons, and he was also very serious about his studies. He quickly attracted a group of little radish heads, thinking about making troubles every day, which made the eldest son a headache. No end, but Xia Anran could see ambition in the child's dark eyes.

is an ambition to become something beyond the existence of his grandfather.

Hardworking, eager to learn, have the heart to fight, and also have the ambition to defend the people.

If this child is really able to inherit the throne, and his future life path does not go astray... this child may become a little emperor with the posthumous title of "Wu".

But he couldn't see it.

Xia Anran was already very old when he died, even Zhuge Liang, his first student, was a little old man at that time, he had no heirs, and he was the only one left in the Xia family, so naturally Zhuge Liang was the priest, but Xia Anran I told the little boy Zhuge that he is not in good health, and he must not be allowed to be filial and damage his body after working hard for a long time.

Filial piety is not allowed to be kept, but it is enough to have a heart.

When he logged out, he was actually quite peaceful. After retirement, he teased this and played with that. Although his diet was restricted, he likes to make snacks for the children, but there is no cub on this street like his.

He didn't have any regrets when he logged out. Although the big man has experienced twists and turns, he is still a giant dragon dominating the east. There will be no Three Kingdoms, no Jins, and there will be no Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Some grains were introduced in the northwestern trade route, and barley and wheat were deeply affected. The production of barley wheat in the West and barley in the Han Dynasty both increased after the interaction.

In addition to food, Dawan horses were bought back as stallions to improve the horse genes of the Han army.Originally, as the foundation of the country, Dawan was unwilling to sell stallions, but the big man had mules.

Mules, such animals that eat less, work more, have a good temper, and are also cute, have become the best livestock for transporting goods in the East. Their animal power advantage is far greater than that of horses and camels. The mules in the past were still kept at high prices. In order to buy the mules of the Han people, the locals prepared camels for them and sold the goods to the Han people at extremely cheap prices.

The cunning Dawan Kingdom is proud of being good at tending livestock, so it wants to breed a few mules with the bought mules, and then sell them to those countries in the west.

They got a new way of eating wheat from the East, and they all needed animal power to pull the mill. Horses have a stubborn temper and don’t like to do repetitive work, not to mention camels, only mules seem to be the most suitable!

However, even if they tried to make mules give birth to young mules, the secret of how to make young mules was not solved until hundreds of years later.

The cunning Han people hid the secret that mules were not born from mules until the new dynasty did not let them know, so they obtained the right to purchase Dawan horses by relying on the line of exporting mules.

At the same time, due to the difficulty of moving the rain belt during the Little Ice Age and the shortage of land in the north, the economy in the south prospered greatly.

After Cao Cao's little friend Chen Wenguang was promoted, Sun Ce, the governor of Xuzhou, was transferred to Yangzhou in an unusual way. Restrained by the Yangtze River, which suddenly became fierce and sinister, and the necessary demand for opening trade routes in the east, the country began to invest in shipbuilding in the south. Industry.

The large-scale development of the shipbuilding industry quickly promoted the rise of the shipping industry in the east and the economic start of the coastal cities. Although it was not yet possible to go to the ocean, the danger of near-sea transportation was not great.

The prosperity of business has promoted the rapid gathering of capital. Faced with the operation of such small and medium-sized capitals, the state's attitude towards them is to support small and medium-sized capitals and suppress big capitalists.

Small and medium-sized capital is a symbol of wealth in a region, while large capital may cause chaos in ancient times.

Therefore, Xia Anran really has no regrets.

Xia Anran was sleepy and staring, suddenly found that the footsteps that had just gone away stopped and retreated, and a kind male voice rang in his ear, "Oh, it's a kitten."

Xia Miao opened her eyes, sniffed, and identified who this person was from the smell.

It is the restoration master of Jiao Weiqin in the Three Kingdoms Exhibition.

He straightened his body, jumped off the copper lion, and greeted the old gentleman in an old-fashioned way. Naturally, the old gentleman didn't understand that it was a serious expression of a cat. Instead, he bowed slightly to the cat with great interest and said, "little cat." Cat, do you want to listen to me play the piano?"

His expression was a bit lonely, "It should be the last time... Next time, this piano will be sealed."

Xia Anran shook her beard, and silently walked to his side.

The Three Kingdoms special exhibition will open in a few days. Xia Anran has slept with him for decades, but only a few days have passed here. Once the exhibition opens, what this old craftsman made will be Jiao Weiqin will naturally be placed inside the counter.

After the exhibition, Jiaoweiqin will also be placed in related museums.

Excluding him, it uses the ancient method to imitate the famous Qin Jiaowei of the Han Dynasty. Its own production technology and production techniques are already extremely exquisite, and it can be regarded as a work of art.

But at the same time, because this violin is a task entrusted to the old man by the state, the old man has no ownership, and even theoretically, he does not even have the right to use it. Qin's fate should be broken.

But this old man, because he also has some cooperation with the cultural relics restoration project of the Palace Museum, so in this matter, the staff gave him a bit of accommodation. Everyone is engaged in art, so we can somewhat understand that this kind of It feels like a son getting married.

If there were no accidents, today's piano performance should be the last piece played by the old man with this imitation Jiaoweiqin in his life.

On the old man's side, although Xia Anran is a cat, he is extremely spiritual. To a certain extent, art practitioners are quite casual.

What's more, the purpose of Guqin music is to please oneself, it doesn't matter if there is someone to listen to the music together, but the old man happened to meet Xia Anran at this moment, so he just invited him along.

He didn't expect that the quite humane underage kitten in the Forbidden City actually followed him to the front of the exhibition hall as if he understood it.

The pavilion for the National Exhibition has not been fully furnished, but the anti-theft facilities have been activated, and Xia Anran walked in with everyone who made the piano.Their eyes were all on the shopkeeper where Jiao Weiqin was.

The cover used to isolate the exhibits and tourists has been prepared and placed on the side. Jiao Weiqin is placed on a wooden frame covered with red silk cloth. It can be seen that he will be covered by a glass cover in a short time. Yes, probably this afternoon.

The old man's expression was very calm.

He walked forward slowly, and did not take down the piano again.Instead, he took off his coat and put it on the ground, and then he sat on the clothes in a squatting posture. He used the booth where the Jiaoweiqin was placed as a table case. He wanted to use the most accustomed Posture, play it again, which may be the highest masterpiece of his life.

In this way, the height of the booth just happened to allow the old man's hands to be placed at a comfortable angle for him.

Xia Anran sat beside the old man.

He squinted his eyes, looked at the old man's hand, and touched every part of Jiao Weiqin's body bit by bit. In order for people to recognize his identity at a glance, this Jiao Weiqin was naturally the same as the description of Jiao Weiqin in history. Similarly, on the tail of the piano, wood burnt marks were deliberately made.

This trace naturally did not damage Jiao Weiqin's beauty.

Xia Anran had seen the real Jiao Weiqin in the Han Dynasty. Following the transfer of Cao Cao's regime to Luoyang City, Cai Zhaoji, who had been staying behind closed doors in Yanzhou, also moved back to Luoyang.

The little emperor also specially decreed that Cai Zhaoji was allowed to inherit all of Cai Yong's property as an unmarried daughter, including Cai Yong's real estate in Luoyang and the collection of books that had not been lost.

In view of Cai Zhaoji's uninterrupted dictation of Cai Yong's collection of books in the past few years, and the behavior of allowing Cao Ying to make a collection of books and place them in the Yanzhou Library for public borrowing.

Whether it is direct or indirect, there are quite a few people all over the world who have benefited from Cai Zhaoji's contribution.

In addition, considering that although Cai Yong’s private property is still in Luoyang, Luoyang’s current housing prices are low. Even if it is really bought with money, Cai Zhaoji can’t afford it, and Cai Yong’s book collection has actually been destroyed. Most of the books left in the house It is also of low value, and all the officials of the Han Dynasty also acquiesced that this article does not conform to the rules of etiquette.

Therefore, at the housewarming celebration, Cai Zhaoji invited all of Cao Cao’s ministries to gather in her new house, which of course included Xia Anran, who had a lot of experience with Cai Zhaoji in many aspects such as paper making, book making, and library management. up.

It was also at this banquet that Xia Anran was fortunate enough to see Jiao Weiqin's true face.

To be honest, the modern Jiaoweiqin is not the same as the one in Cai Zhaoji’s hand. After all, there is no image of the Jiaoweiqin left in the world, and the master can only make Jiaowei according to the text description and refer to the Hanqin left in the world. The Jiaoweiqin is more simple.

The sound of the piano is also more low and dull.

Behind the curtain, Cai Zhaoji played for them the song that Cai Yong played before his death.

When Cai Yong played that piece, Cai Zhaoji was no longer in Chang'an. The score was written by Cai Yong in prison and handed over to the medical craftsman, who entrusted the medical craftsman to give it to Cai Zhaoji if he had a chance in the future.

But in fact, Cai Yong had no hope of being able to spread this score. However, the medical craftsman himself admired Cai Yong's character, so he recommended himself to be imprisoned for his treatment. At that time, Yong was not sick, but he had a sickness in his heart. No matter how good doctor Ren tried his best, he couldn't save a person who had the will to die.

After Dong Zhuo was assassinated, the medical craftsman escaped and went to Yanzhou. He successfully handed the music score to Zhao Ji, which was also a blessing for a good man. He happened to escape a chaotic battle in Chang'an in order to deliver the music score.

After hearing the news, the helpless medical craftsman stayed in Yanzhou, where he resumed his old profession and became a good local doctor.

This song was composed by Cai Yong when he was breaking out of the cocoon, and he was perfected between life and death in prison. This song does not have any sense of downfall, but is full of high spirits.

Especially played by Cai Zhaoji, a young lady.

Cai Zhaoji followed Cao Ying all the way, watching the vigorous development of Cao Ying all the way in her eyes, radiating Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and trying her best to turn back the decline of the great man.

Under her fingers, minus the pain of breaking Cai Yong's cocoon at that moment, more is the hearty feeling of a dragon soaring into the sky.

Later, Zhou Yu, Cao Cao, and Xun Yu, who were also good at music, were invited to come. They all brought their own instruments and asked Zhaoji to play another piece.

Xia Anran was not very good at playing the qin, so he played for the four of them. Surprisingly, Cao Chun had a good skill in playing chime bells. After they sat down again, they played together with Cai Zhaoji as the guide. This song is Cai Yong's posthumous work.

Jiaowei sings softly, Xun Yu and Cao Cao's zither sounds gather together, accompanied by winding and powerful sounds, the chime bells have the sound of gold and ge, and the sound of wooden knots is light but steady, attracting the voices hovering in the shallow abyss little by little. The crouching dragon came out across the water, and Zhou Yu's flute sounded clearer and louder, blowing away the clouds blocking it in front of the water dragon.

It is the dragon flying nine days, the wind and the clouds rise.

The old man fell into a dream, and what he saw was this scene, the fragrance was faint, and several men in Hanfu stopped their hands. Seeing that he was at a loss while holding the piano, the leader suddenly smiled, and he pointed There is still a vacant seat, "I am a guest from afar, we will meet friends for fun, sir may as well come together."

The old man showed a bit of panic, he just heard a few notes, he knew that the people present were everyone in the music, although he could play the piano, but it was only at the amateur level, seeing his refusal, suddenly there was a young man with bright eyes The man got up and walked to his side, it was the one who hit the knot, he pushed lightly with his hand, the old man suddenly staggered a few steps, when he stabilized, he was already sitting on the empty seat.

The jiaoweiqin he made was also placed firmly on the table.

He knows the qin he made best.

At this moment, every string of this violin has been taut, the wood body is shiny, and it has not been adjusted yet, it is its most perfect posture, and he wants to be played.

I want to enjoy the same stage with these famous pianos.

To the old man, this violin is like his most beloved grandson. He hesitated for a moment. Although he knew that his own skills were far inferior to these masters, he still covered the strings with his fingers. The end made a pleasant high-pitched sound, as if it was the beginning, and the person behind the curtain played the second sound. Because of the different personalities of the owners of the four guqins, although they have the same score, their songs are different.

Surrounded by two percussion instruments, the music of the four guqin gradually merged.

Like a torrential stream that eventually flows into the sea, it is pulled by the flute, and with a mighty posture, the water dragon travels across the sea and sky.

The name of the song is——

"Water Dragon Yin"

[Drip - the host task is completed, the memory editing is completed, the memory transmission is complete, the client has received it, and the client's score is: A]

[The client, Jiao Weiqin, is very satisfied with the host's mission, and the host received Jiao Weiqin's gift——Qin Xin. 】

[The heart of the piano is a passive trigger effect. When the host uses the stringed instrument, it can trigger the empathy effect and transmit the host's feelings to the listener.Congratulations to the host. 】

Quarrel……

The tortoiseshell kitten covered its furry face with its hands crossed, its whole body shrank back, and buried its body deeper into the old man's arms.

The kitten's body temperature was very high, and it was even warmer in autumn. The old man was not disturbed by his actions, but slept more soundly.

There was a joyful smile on the corner of his lips.

The author has something to say: Xia Miao: Jiao Weiqin, what you want is this master (showcasing Cai Yong)

This master... (holds out Cai Zhaoji)

It's still this

Jiao Weiqin: Both.

Xia Miao: ......

Xia Miao: Wow......

People from Dawan: The big Han people with Yuzui actually sold their male mules here Jie Jie Jie

In spring, the people of Dawan looked at the mules with happy smiles.

In Xia Tian, ​​the Dawan people looked puzzled at the mule that had not moved.

In autumn, the people of Dawan looked at the big Han people who brought the little mules to sell with tangled expressions.

In winter, the people of Dawan are gearing up to feed their mules and prepare to fight again next year.

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