When Qiao Wei returned to Qinglian house, the two children had already got up, moved a small bench, and sat at the door with a blank face.

Qiao Wei seems to be back when she lived on the mountain. Whenever she went out, the two little guys would sit on the bench at the door, Baba looking down at the direction of the mountain, which was heartbreaking and moving.

Qiaowei came forward and hugged the two little guys.

Soon, she noticed something wrong.

The two little guys still seemed to be looking in the direction of the door.

"Brother, when do you say Xiaobai will come back?"

"Catch Dabai and he'll come back."

Qiao Wei

I'm not waiting for her. I'm waiting for the white ones?!

……

Xiaobai catch didn't catch Dabai, Qiaowei don't know, but can be sure is, was bitten by Dabai red apricot let Bi Er help back.

Dabai bit the red apricot on its calf. It was fed very full. Instead of biting the red apricot as food, it was only mink Wei, so it didn't bite a piece of meat, but it also gave a lot of blood.

Qiao Wei disinfected and wiped medicine on the wound of red apricot. There was no tearing wound. There was no need to sew a needle. She wrapped a circle of gauze.

Bi'er finds her own clean clothes and lets Hong Xing put them on.

Red apricot refused to wear: "how is this funny? I'm dirty. I don't have to stain miss bi'er's clothes. "

Bi'er said quickly: "it's not mine. I didn't take care of Dabai. You're hurt. Good sister, you can wear it. I'm more comfortable with it."

The red apricot can't be changed. Put it on.

In fact, it's just a bite from a dog (red apricot thinks both of them are dogs). The life of the servant girl is worthless. It's also her bad luck to kill her. She doesn't have to take care of her so much.

Qiaowei personally sent the red apricot back to Dongfu, red apricot hurt leg, walking inconvenience, Qiaowei called a sliding rod.

Sitting on the pole, the whole person of red apricot is about to float up, and she is bitten by the dog, so she sits on the master's pole!

After arriving at the east mansion, Qiao Wei apologizes to Li. It's not a big deal. Qiao Wei takes people back so seriously. Li's face is full. He doesn't care about it at all. Instead, he looks at the girl who was bitten and says, "it's also nature. Let's go to work later.".

Red apricot stayed in the house for two years. I'm afraid the second lady didn't even know her name. Now she's called to go to the upper room. From now on, she'll never be the last servant girl. She's the girl who goes to the upper room. It's a great thing!

At this point, red apricot does not regret being bitten by the dog. She wants to find a piece of meat and bone and send it to the little white dog!

Red apricot kowtows to Li three times gratefully, but red apricot knows who she is most grateful to. When she secretly worships her ancestors at night, she brings up qinglianju, so that her ancestors can go to qinglianju and bless her.

It's night. When Qiao Wei goes to bed, she always feels chilly in her head, as if she has a pair of strange eyes staring at her

……

Dabai was finally captured.

In view of the fact that it bit the innocent apricot, Qiao Wei decided to punish it, put it in a cage, not allowed to eat!

When Xiaobai first followed Qiaowei, Qiaowei didn't want it. She wanted it to run away. Where did she want to close it in a cage? In this cage, mother Wu worried that the little master's "dog" had no place to sleep and let her man beat her.

The cage was covered with soft cotton wadding and nailed with two small wooden bowls, one for rice and the other for water. It was very considerate and comfortable.

But Xiaobai is used to bed, where would he like to go into the doghouse?

The cage then lay idle.

Later, although there was Dabai, Dabai was Jingyun's little beast. His sister's little beast could sleep in bed, so he could. So Dabai went to bed.

Since Dabai slept in bed, Jingyun felt that his breathing was smooth and his sleep quality improved a lot (that's because Wangshu's little fat leg no longer pressed his brother, but pressed Dabai instead).

Every night, Dabai is pressed miserably. It's not necessary to be cold. Dabai is relieved and squats in the kennel to enjoy his sour mink life.

But soon, he found that Diao Sheng was not as sour as he thought. Although he didn't have to be crushed by the freak little human, he didn't eat any more!

It's hungry!

Want to go out to find some food, the cage is locked again!

Dabai shakes the cage angrily!

Wangshu and Xiaobai are holding a group and sleeping soundly.

Jing Yun opened his eyes.

There is a bright night pearl in the house. With the faint light of the night pearl, Jingyun sees Dabai who desperately wants to come out of the cage. He opens the quilt, puts on his shoes, comes over, squats down his thin body, and says to Dabai, "Dabai, you've bitten. My mother says you can't let you out, so do you want to be obedient inside?"

Dabai keeps shaking the cage!

"Are you hungry?" Jing Yun asked in a low voice.Big white or shake the cage! It can't shake. Instead, it's biting. This curtain falls in Jingyun's eyes, and it becomes Dabai's hunger. They all go to eat the cage.

Jing Yun is so distressed that he takes a piece of wurensu from his sister's purse and passes it in from the gap of the cage.

Dabai saw the delicious and delicate food, the fingers of the human doll!

He opened his mouth and bit Jingyun's hand hard!

Jing Yun doesn't know what Dabai is going to do to himself. He puts wurensu in a wooden bowl and pulls back his hand. Dabai bites into the cage.

Click!

I lost my fangs

This is a wonderful one!

Diao Sheng is so desperate!

……

Joey was lying in bed, tossing and turning.

something as like as two peas in the palace. The general of the king Zhao and Nan Chu's small general were fighting because a mink was playing. The reason was that the king did not hunt the marten in the woods, so he bought a identical one. The general thought that it was only his, and he wanted to see King Zhao, and the king did not give it to him, and the two men fell out.

It's right for general Mu to beat King Zhao. During hunting, King Zhao mistakenly injured so many South Chu envoys. It's the end of his duty that people didn't drag him home to beat him. Isn't it a mink? The right should be paid to others, but king Zhao won't do it.

In fact, this little general Mu was a bit unkind. His mink had already been sacrificed. Even if this one in King Zhao's hand was really his original one, he never wanted to come back again.

Both sides are wrong, but both sides are unreasonable. The emperor has a headache and gives the burden to Ji Mingxiu.

In terms of martial arts, King Zhao was not as good as general mu, so he was beaten badly.

But in terms of power, the strong dragon can't beat the local leader. How can the foreign envoys be the opponents of the whole Zhao palace? So general Mu didn't get good fruit either.

They were black and blue, one with two broken ribs and the other with a broken arm. Their heads were all wrapped with gauze, showing only their eyes, nose and mouth. They sat face to face and looked at each other fiercely.

Ji Mingxiu did not speak. He sat on the chair and drank tea quietly.

There was a strange smell of "love and kill each other" in the room, but because of the prime minister's obscene power, no one dared to make a mistake first, so they glared fiercely and had no sleep all night.

……

The lights of luomei yard were on all night.

Ji Wan didn't go back to the government with Lin Shuyan, but stayed at Ji's home on the pretext of taking care of the injured Ji Shangqing.

The granddaughter is willing to stay at home for more time. Mrs. Ji is very happy. She is afraid that the Lin family will not be happy. She specially asks mother Rong to take a message saying that she misses her granddaughter and wants to stay at home for a few days.

There is no reason why the Lin family does not agree.

Ji Wan lived in luomei hospital.

At night, Ji Wan sleeps in old lady Ji's bed.

The joy in Mrs. Ji's heart was more than the chickens she had been fighting all day. Mrs. Ji took her granddaughter's hand and kindly said, "how do you want to sleep with me? Don't you think I smell all over? "

Ji Wanchao, old lady Ji leaned: "grandma is fragrant, where does it smell?"

Since there is no, but people get older, how many fear little guys dislike themselves.

Ji Wan got married, but in the old lady's eyes, she is always the little girl who loves smelly beauty.

Ji Laofu said: "come on, what's the matter? But my uncle is not good to you? "

Ji Wan snorted, "how dare he not be nice to me? I'm his aunt

Old lady Ji patted the back of Ji Wan's hand: "nonsense!"

Ji Wan couldn't help laughing. Originally, he should call her aunt.

As soon as Mrs. Ji heard her granddaughter's tone, she knew that she was very satisfied with her uncle, so she asked, "is your mother-in-law angry with you again?"

Don't blame old lady Ji for her thoughtfulness. It's really a marriage. They didn't match each other at the beginning. Ji Wan is bigger than Lin Shuyan. Let alone the Lin family's disapproval, Ji's family doesn't feel right.

Lin Shuyan's pursuit of Ji Wan takes a lot of effort. The more unhappy the Lin family is, the less angry she is with her mother-in-law? It's been another nine years and my stomach hasn't moved.

I also owe Ji Wan a lot of money to Ji's family. I don't know how many times I have been divorced from my mother-in-law's family.

Ji Wan said, "I'm not angry. My mother-in-law is very kind to me."

How dare Mrs. Lin not be nice to her? If her son doesn't agree, he will have "domestic violence". Mrs. Lin is scared to death. How dare she not be nice to Ji Wan?

Mrs. Ji could see that her granddaughter was not lying. She said, "why do you have to go back to your mother's house, since you don't have a good life in your mother's house?"

Ji Wan said, "my mother's family is also my family. What's the matter with me? Don't think I'm an eyesore. Don't you want to feed me? "

"What nonsense?" Mrs. Ji gave her an angry look.

Ji Wan smiles, hugs Mrs. Ji's arm and says, "grandma, are you hiding something from me?"

Ji Laofu said: "what can I hide from you?"Ji Wan asked tentatively, "about Xun, did she have an engagement with others before she married my father?"

Old lady Ji was slightly stunned for a moment, and said in the same tone: "don't you know everything? The young master of the Zhou family who died suddenly. "

Grandma is still not going to tell her! Ji Wan said, "when she was 13 years old, why did she suddenly go back to her aunt?"

"She is..." Before she finished, Mrs. Ji realized something. In the dark, she looked at her and said, "who are you listening to?"

Ji Wan couldn't tell Qiao Wei, so she said, "I visited my father today. I overheard him talking to Xun Shi."

"What did they say?" Asked Mrs. Ji.

Ji Wan said, "it's just something that happened in the past. It seems that Xun's family had more than one fiance, Duke Zhou?"

It's not easy for Mrs. Ji to find her son to prove this kind of small talk between husband and wife. Ji Wan doesn't worry about helping.

Mrs. Ji sighed: "there are really two more. One is for marriage. The one the Ji family found for her is smallpox dead. The one the Ji family found for her elopes with the girl in the brothel again. Her life is miserable."

Ji Wan also said these words to Qiao Wei. She believed them when she said them, but when she said them from other people's mouths, it seemed strange.

Ji Wan's eyes flashed and said, "did she offend anyone? To make her feel better? "

Mrs. Ji said in a deep voice: "nonsense, how can there be such a thing? Who can she offend when she grew up in Ji's family? "

Ji Wan Yin Yang strange way: "is Xu the enemy of her parents?"

Ji Laofu said: "the more she said, the less she got. Her parents are the most loyal people."

"Grandmother met her parents?"

"Your grandfather used to praise her father when he was alive."

Ji Wan whispered: "when my grandfather was alive, he often praised aunt Mo and aunt Zhao."

Old lady Ji didn't listen and didn't drop a word. She all listened: "you child, the more unruly you are!"

Ji Wan finally understands Qiao Wei's feelings and wants to take out her heart, but the other party just doesn't believe it. It's not too bad.

Thinking that she was pregnant and should not be angry, Ji Wan calmed down and said, "is she the fate of a lonely star? Why can't you get married all the time? "

Mrs. Ji said, "those people are not lucky. Don't you think it's good for her to marry us?"

Originally, Ji Wan was just angry with Xun LAN. As soon as she was told by her grandmother, she was really a little suspicious. Why can't she do anything with others, just with her father? Is it because her father is so heavy that he can hold it?

"She's had so many engagements. Why does Dad want to marry her?"

"Your father is..." Mrs. Ji stopped, "I said, did you come here to talk to me? What did Wei tell you, didn't she? "

"Does Xiao Wei know?" Ji Wan immediately became angry, "grandma, are you too partial? I'm your own granddaughter. You told a granddaughter-in-law that you didn't tell me! What did you tell her? "

Old lady Ji was confused for a moment and said, "nothing..."

"Well, grandmother, you are still saying it's nothing. If it's the water poured by the married girl, I'm not the Ji family now. I'm not as good as a foreign daughter-in-law in your heart. I'm gone! I'll never come back! I won't come back for Chinese New Year! You think I'm dead! "

Ji Wan angrily said, lift the quilt to get out of bed.

Mrs. Ji was frightened and quickly held her: "Wan Wan, don't be angry. Grandma told you, can't she tell you?"

Ji Wan is back in bed.

Old lady Ji tells Ji Wan all about Xun Lan's three marriages, which is consistent with what Qiao Wei said. It can be seen that Qiao Wei didn't cheat her.

"Grandma, aren't you really surprised?" Ji Wan asked.

Old lady Ji patted her hand: "you child, thanks to you growing up with Lan'er, it's better for Xiao Wei to trust Lan'er."

Where is the girl's trust? She's just cunning!

Ji Laofu said: "I know that Lan'er robbed your father. You are not happy all the time. But you can see how Lan'er treated you and how she treated Mingxiu and your father these years. Don't speculate about her any more. Her heart is not made of stone. If you stab one or two times, she will be miserable."

Ji Wan pulls the quilt tightly. That girl must want to kill her during the day! Because she's now I want to kill her grandmother!

……

After several twists and turns, the sixth master finally gathered all the evidence and took the sword alliance disciples to the appointed town to fight with the three parties. They were the sword alliance disciples who had friendship with Sun Xun. He was the only one who had not been infected by smallpox. He was still a little bit scared when he recalled the past. In his hand, there was a letter written by Sun Xun to Xun LAN, which clearly recorded Sun Xun couldn't control his missing and asked him to send a letter to Xun LAN, but he forgot it. When he remembered it, he heard that Sun Xun was ill and went back and forth. The letter didn't go out. Now, it has become an irrefutable evidence of their relationship.In addition to the disciples of the sword League, the servants of Duke Zhou and the girls who were familiar with Huakui in the brothel were also brought to the town.

The sixth master met them at noon on this day.

Kang min is a disciple of the sword League. Now he is a disciple of the Dingzhou branch of the sword League. When Sun Xun and some of his friends got smallpox, he was also very ill. He had a fever for several days and developed a rash. For a time, he thought he had smallpox, so he was ready to go back to his old home to find a coffin for himself, but he recovered on the way.

After thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. He just intuitively told him that he couldn't go back to Gusu, so he changed his face and joined the sword League.

Kang min is his new name.

The sixth master didn't ask what it used to be.

Mr. Zhou's servant was an old slave who poured incense at night. On the night of the incident, he heard Mr. Zhou's scream. It seemed that he was greatly frightened. Then the news of Mr. Zhou's sudden death came out.

The Zhou family was so angry that they buried all the servants who were waiting on Mr. Zhou. Because he was dumb and looked like a dog in his master's eyes, he didn't even count as a slave, so he forgot him.

As for the girl in the brothel, she was also a beauty when she was young. She and Huakui were called Shuangshu in the brothel. They were just in competition. They were always at odds with each other. Later, she became a good girl. She didn't know how Huakui was. But she was still in the brothel that year. She still knew something about them.

When they recalled the events of that year, they all mentioned one person.

Kang Min: "once, Sun Xun drank a lot of wine and used his lightness skills to turn into the yard of Xun's family. We all thought the raw rice was about to be cooked, but Sun Xun was knocked unconscious and thrown out. She should have a strong guard by her side."

Guard?

Sixth master squinted.

"My grandfather said that he saw a ghost in childe Zhou's yard," his grandson said

Ghost?

Sixth master touched his chin.

The good woman was named Yuejin.

Yue Jin said: "peony has had many guests, and Mr. Yuan is one of them. But since she has been with Mr. Yuan, she has not received any other guests, except the night before she eloped with Mr. Yuan..."

LiuYe is very sure that there is a powerful accomplice behind the whole thing. In order to prevent a long night's dream, LiuYe and several people immediately set foot on the road back to Beijing. When it was dark, they stayed in a simple post station.

As the new year is approaching, the business of the post station is very good. Visitors from all over the world crowded the post station and could not live there. The sixth master had to take people to set up several tents outside. Yuejin had a single tent, the sixth master had a tent with Kangmin and the grandsons of yannu, the disciples of jianmeng had a tent, and several other disciples were left on duty.

Pedestrians continued to move in and set up tents outside without exception.

There are more and more people. The sixth master told the disciples of the sword League to be alert and not let people touch the fish in muddy water.

In the middle of the night, they were awakened by a shrill cry.

"Please, let my wife live! My wife is about to have a baby... "

The sixth master sat up and said, "who's fighting there?"

The leader of the sword alliance disciple said: "if huiliuye, it's a few passers-by. It seems that the girl is about to give birth. Her man and a large family are all asking to live in, but where can I give them the room?"

"Ah," came the scream of her daughter.

Yuejin opened the curtain and bowed out, but was stopped by a disciple of the sword League. The disciple asked, "where are you going?"

Yue Jin said, "it seems that the woman is going to have a baby. I've had a baby. I'll see if there's anything I can do for her."

The sword League disciple said, "don't go. What if there's a cheat?"

Yue Jin took a look at the pregnant woman who was in agony: "if you don't trust me, just go and have a look with me! Aren't you disciples of the sword League? Even if there's fraud, it's hard not to reach you, isn't it? "

"You..." The sword alliance disciple choked.

The sixth master frowned and said, "go and call some of them, and say I'll give them the tent to rest."

"Yes."

The disciples of the sword alliance went and negotiated with a large family. A large family came over with great gratitude.

The sixth master opened the tent and said, "come in." And to the snoring grandparents and grandchildren: "ah, get up, get up!"

The grandparents and grandchildren turned over slowly.

Yue Jin anxiously picked up the curtain and said to the pregnant woman, "are you going to give birth soon?"

The pregnant woman supported her big stomach and said with difficulty, "my son began to feel pain. I couldn't give birth until I wanted to go to the city to find a doctor..."

Yuejin worried: "you have been having a difficult labor for so long, then It's hard to give birth to... "

The pregnant woman cried.

Her husband, her uncle and her mother-in-law comforted him.

The sixth Master said, "there is a lingzhi hall in the capital. The doctors there have good medical skills. Uncle Qiao is sitting in the house near the prime minister's residence. You can go to him. He must have a way to save you."Yuejin took out several Liang silver from her arms and put it into the pregnant woman's hand: "take it, hire a carriage from the post station, and get on the road quickly."

The pregnant woman's family knelt down and kowtowed to LiuYe and Yuejin.

Outside the tent, six disciples of the sword alliance clenched their swords and paid sharp attention to the movement around them. The voice inside the tent was big or small. People who practice martial arts can hear it even when they are in the room of the hospital.

The disciples of the sword League deliberately ignored the voice that might disturb them, and tried to be more vigilant. On the path not far away, there was a faint sound of footsteps, which could be recognized by as many as ten people.

The leader's disciple pulled out his sword: "sixth master, someone is coming."

The sixth master lifted the tent and said, "get in the carriage!"

Yue Jin, Kang min and Ya Nu immediately got into the carriage. The sixth master took the outer seat and grasped the reins: "drive!"

The carriage, like an arrow, whizzed out!

After the four disciples of the sword alliance were cut off, two of them were around LiuYe and others.

These people are all disciples of the sword League. Their martial arts are not under the red guards of King Yin's residence. They fight against one hundred with one hand. However, the group of people in black with machetes don't know where to learn their tricks. They are like ghosts. The disciples of the sword League can't stop them.

The man in black catches up with the sixth master. Two disciples of the sword League wave their swords and go up. Kang min also learns some Kung Fu in the sword League. However, the disciples of the outer room are all superficial, and they can't even compare with the fingers of the disciples of the inner room.

The two disciples of the sword League resisted for a while.

The sixth master raised the speed of the carriage to the extreme. However, without running far away, the group of people caught up like shadows.

A silver flash, six Ye was stabbed in the heart, eyes a stare, spit out a mouthful of blood, fell on the ground.

Frightened, the horse ran aimlessly and rushed into the lake with a carriage of four people, Kangmin, Yuejin and yannu.

Several people were thumping in the water.

The man in black stood coldly on the bank, watching a few people struggling like dying ants. Finally, he lost his strength and fell to the bottom of the lake.

The lake returned to a deathly calm.

At dawn, the pregnant woman's family rented a shabby carriage with the money from Yuejin and set foot on the road to Lingzhi hall.

The sun was shining on the roadside and the ground was stained with fresh blood. I didn't know whose it was.

Several people in black, wearing hats and against the light, passed by a family.

Xu smelled the blood on them, and the pregnant woman in the car retched.

The man in black didn't blink his eyelids, but passed without expression.

……

Ji Wan has lived in Ji's house for several days, but she refuses to go back to Lin's house. Old lady Ji is worried: "although I like you to accompany me, it's not a matter that you never go back to my mother-in-law's house. It's going to make people laugh when it comes out."

Ji Wan looked in the mirror and said, "who dares to laugh at me?"

Mrs. Ji glared at her.

Ji Wan put down the mirror: "OK, OK, I'll leave tomorrow morning, OK? I don't want to get in your way. "

On the last night of living in Ji's house, Ji Wan had a meal in Tongyuan. When she returned to luomei courtyard, something was wrong. Old lady Ji asked her what was wrong. She covered her stomach and did not speak.

At midnight, she suddenly grasped Mrs. Ji's arm: "grandma I I have a stomachache I'm afraid something happened to the child... "

Mrs. Ji was stunned: "child? What child? Do you have a baby in your stomach? "

Ji Wan covered her stomach and couldn't stand up in bed: "please, doctor Call the doctor quickly

Mrs. Ji's face turned white with fright: "I'll invite you! I'm going to invite you

"Wait..." Ji Wan grabbed her grandmother's hand, and the cold sweat slipped, "I I don't want people to know... "

Old lady Ji said in a panic: "I know. Lie down quickly! I'm going to call Xiao Wei! "

Ji old lady to his headache, let Rong mother will Qiaowei called over.

Ji Mingxiu has been in the palace these days, but it's not inconvenient. After giving Ji Wan the pulse, Qiao Wei's look becomes very dignified: "this, this pulse is too complicated. I haven't seen it. I'd better call my father quickly!"

Bi'er went without saying a word, but soon she came back, tearful: "the master can't leave! Ganoderma lucidum hall came to a pregnant woman who had a difficult labor for three days. It was very dangerous. The master was afraid that if he left, the pregnant woman's life would be in danger at any time! The master said that if he was not in a hurry, he would wait at home first Or Let's have a doctor... "

"Ah -" Ji Wan rolled on the bed in pain.

Qiao Wei looked like a su: "can't wait! Send people to my father! "

Ji Wan grabbed her grandmother's hand, trembled and burst into tears.

Mrs. Ji cried, "grandma is here. Don't be afraid, ah?"

"Grandma..." Ji Wan threw herself into Mrs. Ji's arms and wailed.

Old lady Ji's heart was breaking: "don't cry, you'll be ok You and the child will be ok... "Qiao Wei whispered: "the carriage is ready. Grandma, you stay at home. I'll take you to Lingzhi hall."

Ji Wan burst into tears in Mrs. Ji's arms.

Old lady Ji choked: "I'll go with you!"

Qiao Wei said bitterly, "how can that work? It's more serious... "

Mrs. Ji said bitterly, "Wan Wan is like this. I'm a grandmother. Can I leave her alone?"

The result is of course, Qiao Wei can't beat Mrs. Ji and takes her to the sedan chair.

Ji Wan's scream almost rang all the way, and even Tongyuan was shocked.

Ji Shangqing lifted the quilt and frowned, "what happened to Wan Wan?"

Xun LAN came in wearing clothes: "it seems to be a stomachache. Uncle Qiao has a patient on hand and can't go out to see a doctor, so she went by herself."

Ji Shangqing said, "send someone to have a look."

"Good."

……

The Lingzhi hall is near the prime minister's residence. It's a quarter of an hour.

Ji Wan is helped out of the carriage by Qiao Wei. Bi'er and Rong's mother help the old lady out of the carriage.

Mrs. Ji rushed into the Lingzhi hall.

Qiao Zheng is sitting on the seat. Beside him is a fat woman, a man of medium height, a couple of parents in law and a little brother-in-law.

Several people look calm, not like a scene of childbirth.

Old lady Ji was just in a daze. She didn't want to wait for her. Ji Wan, who couldn't straighten up in pain, straightened up and wiped her sweat lightly: "I'm tired to death!"

Old lady Ji's white eyebrows twisted: "what's the matter?"

Ji Wan looks at the sky.

The pregnant woman raised her hand and took off her human skin mask, revealing a handsome little fat face.

It's not LiuYe. Who is it?

The sixth master grinned.

Qiaowei also laughed.

The man, mother-in-law, and uncle-in-law also took off their masks. It was Kang min, Yue Jin, and the dumb slave grandparents and grandchildren.