Chapter 1491: 503: Persuasion (Part 4)

Chapter 1491: Chapter 503: Persuasion (Part 4)“Shut up! How dare you plead for him? It’s because of your indulgence that he can neglect his duty. Do you know how many more people in the Federation died because of his foolish actions? His mistakes are being paid for with the lives of many. Have you forgotten that day when we all fought desperately?”

Su Mulong furiously scolded Su Feng.

“Father, you’re right, but he is still my son. Su Xiao is already dead; I can’t just watch him die too.”

Su Feng spoke softly to Su Mulong.

Hearing Su Feng mention Su Yuan’s father, Su Mulong fell silent for a moment but eventually spoke.

“There’s nothing I can do about this. Someone has to take responsibility for the fall of Starlight City.”

Upon hearing Su Mulong’s words, Su Feng’s expression grew increasingly desolate.

At this moment, Chen Qingqian looked towards Su Ming, tears streaming down her face as she pleaded.

“Nephew Su Ming, please save Su Ya, won’t you? Your military rank is so high, and you’ve made great contributions this time. They would surely give you face.”

For a moment, everyone turned their eyes to Su Ming.

“Nonsense, how can we let Su Ming get involved in this matter? That would just be dragging him into the mud.”

Su Mulong immediately reprimanded angrily.

Looking at the scene before him, Su Ming calmly said.

“Auntie, Uncle Su Ya’s crime is not a minor one, and he deserves the death penalty. I can’t save him, or there will be no justice for the sacrifices made by others.”

“Su Ming, please save him. I am willing to give up all my savings to compensate the families of those who sacrificed.”

Chen Qingqian pleaded with Su Ming.

For a moment, Su Ming was also troubled. He needed the support of the Su Family. If he showed no goodwill at all, it would be difficult to discuss. So he reluctantly said.

“Alright, I’ll speak to Vice City Lord Okens and see if we can spare Su Ya’s life. But even if by some miracle he survives, he still must take responsibility for his actions, so he’ll have to spend the rest of his life in prison reflecting and repenting.”

“Alright, as long as he lives.”

Chen Qingqian replied excitedly.

“Okay, stop crying here, now off you go!”

Su Mulong said to Chen Qingqian.

“Yes.”

Chen Qingqian then wiped her tears and left.

At that moment, Su Mulong turned to Su Ming and said.

“Su Ming, why have you suddenly returned? Is something the matter?”

“Yes, Grandpa!”

Su Ming didn’t hide anything.

“Speak!”

Su Mulong said calmly.

“It’s like this, the Federation is about to hold elections, Grandpa, can you support Lord Long Bai?”

Su Ming requested of Su Mulong.

As one of the Federation’s seven major arms dealers, the Su Family’s power is considerable, and they can influence many people.

Hearing Su Ming’s words, Su Mulong was momentarily stunned, not expecting Su Ming to return for this issue.

However, before Su Mulong could respond, Vice Clan Leader Su Tianhao stood up directly and vehemently opposed.

“Father, I believe Su Ming’s request is inappropriate.”

Su Ming looked at Su Tianhao in surprise, not expecting him to oppose the idea directly.

“Why is it inappropriate?”

Su Mulong asked with a tightly furrowed brow.

“Father, apart from your good relationship with Lord Long Chen, let’s consider the current situation. Although Lord Long Bai is powerful, she may not necessarily ascend. Historically, choosing sides is critical; if we choose wrongly, the Su Family would suffer, and we’d be gambling the entire family’s future. Plainly speaking, we should wait to see who wins and support them. If worse comes to worst, we abstain!”

Su Tianhao said to Su Mulong.

Hearing Su Tianhao’s words, Su Yiyang and others all had heavy expressions. In some sense, Su Tianhao wasn’t wrong.

Su Ming didn’t try to persuade or argue because Su Tianhao was correct, it was indeed a gamble.

At this moment, Su Mulong grumbled as he spoke.

“Damn it, am I the kind of person who sways with the wind? Wait to see who wins before supporting? I’ve always believed in Long Bai, she indeed has the ability, and I trust Su Ming’s judgment, so there’s no need for further discussion, I’ve decided to fully support Long Bai!”

Seeing Su Mulong’s decision, though Su Tianhao and the others were very annoyed, they had no choice.

“Thank you, Grandpa.”

Su Ming sighed in relief and responded.

“No need for thanks within the family, do whatever you wish to do! The Su Family will always be your strong backing!”

Su Mulong said to Su Ming.

“Alright, then I’ll be off.”

Su Ming said to Su Mulong.

“Go!”

Su Mulong nodded.

Su Ming saluted Su Mulong and the others, then turned and left.

…

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Several hours later.

Rain Capital Central Station.

A high-speed train approached from afar and stopped at Platform 1.

Click!

The door opened.

Su Ming stepped off the train, joining the multitude of travelers heading toward the exit.

Although in the City Lord Mansion office at the time, Ferion suggested he persuade City Lord Alicia, which was a ridiculous suggestion.

But Su Ming thought about it later, if he wanted to help Long Bai win, he really needed to try.

However, just thinking about having to make large demands from Alicia again made his head ache.

He felt quite unreasonable, having extorted a large sum from her in the Tidal Star Sea before, and now here he was again.

“Sigh~”

Su Ming let out a deep sigh,

…..

Soon after, Su Ming appeared at the gates of the City Lord Mansion in Rain Capital.

The entire City Lord Mansion is located in the center of Rain Capital, covering a total area of fifty square kilometers, with a variety of valuable green plants grown inside, like a vibrant forest.

擄

爐

路

䇞䇣

㡔䈿䇣㡔䈪㹢

蘆

老

䈿㡔㜔䍄㴒㚭䈪

䇣㒿㴒䇣㹛䆣㣻䆣䈿䈪㡔

盧

㵣㹛

盧

㴒䇣䈿䍄䍄䠄

㡔䈿㚟

擄

盧

㡔䈿㚟

老

䈿㹢䍄㹛㡔㵣

䧹㚟㡔㡔䇣䈿䆣㹢㡔䈪㴒䍄䈿㚭㡔䆣䍄䲕䪯䆣㚭䈿㹛㹢㵣㣻䇣㴒䈿䪯㹢㴒㚭䲕㵣䪯㚭䠄㡔㹢䍄㬪㗛䆣㡔㹢䈪䆣䇣㒿䈿㚟㡔䍄䓈䞼䆣䇣㴒䍄㗛㡔䈪䈿㴒䈪䪯㚭㴒㹢㣻㴒䇣䇣㡔㹢㜔

㭵䈿䈿㚟䆣䍄㣻㵣㣻㡔䇣䈿㬪䈿㚟㡔㒿䪯㴒㹢䠄䍄㵣㚭䠄䆣㡔㹢䍄㴒䈿䈿㚟㡔㒿㴒䈿㡔䍄㴒㿑㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㴒䇣䠄䆣㣻㣻㡔䠄䆣㴒䈿㡔㚭䞼㴒㗛㗛㹢㵣㴒䈪㚟㡔䠄㿑䆣䈿㚟㴒䍄㡔㹢䆣㵣䪯䍄䆣䇣䌉䪯䆣㹢䞼㜔

䍄䆣

䪯䠄䩞㵣䪯㡔䈿㴒䇣㹢㚟䆣

㣻㵣㹢㹛

㗛㡔㹢㚭㡔䍄䇣㵣䇣

䆣䈿䞼䃀

䈿㡔㚟

䠄䈿䲕䆣䆣㗛㹢㵣㚟㡔

䈿㚟㡔

“䍄㚟䧹䆣

㹛㵣

㳦㴒䇣䍄䇣䆣㬪㵣

㴒㡔㒿䈿

㹢䌆㵣䠄

㹢㴒㡔

㜔㵣”㚭䆣㡔㹢䈿䇣䆣㒿

“䇞㴒㣻㭵䠄㣻䆣㹢㴒㚭㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㬪䍄㗛㡔䈪䆣㹛䆣䈪㴒㚭㚭䞼㚟㡔㹢㡔䈿㵣㽒䆣䍄䆣䈿䃀䆣䈿䞼䌆㵣㹢䠄㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒㜔䡣㚭㡔㴒䍄㡔㴒䇣䇣㵣䪯䇣䈪㡔㣻䞼㗛㹢㡔䍄㡔䇣䈪㡔㜔”

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䈿㵣㵣䓈㵣䪯䈿㚟䆣䍄㵣㹛㹛䆣䈪㡔㹢䈪㴒㹢䠄㬪䍄㗛㡔㴒䓈䆣䇣㒿䈪㴒㚭㣻㚭䞼㜔

㴒㗛䈿䈪䇣㴒䆣

䇣㴒䠄

䪯㵩

䪯㚭㡔䈿䍄䠄㴒

㚟䧹㡔

㗛㹢㚟䈿䆣㬪㒿䪯

㒿䠄㹢䪯㴒

䍄䆣㴒䠄

䈿䍄㵣䠄㵣

䆣㳦䇣㬪㒿

㡔䞼㣻㴒䆣㣻䈿䠄㚭㡔䆣

“㲼㡔䇣㡔㹢㴒㚭㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㬪㗛㚭㡔㴒䍄㡔㿑㴒䆣䈿㴒㣻㵣㣻㡔䇣䈿㬪㿑㡔㿑䆣㚭㚭㴒䇣䇣㵣䪯䇣䈪㡔䞼㵣䪯㹢㗛㹢㡔䍄㡔䇣䈪㡔㴒䈿㵣䇣䈪㡔㜔”

“㭵㚭㹢䆣㒿㚟䈿䘢”

㹢㗛䇣㜔㡔㡔䍄㵣䍄

䠄䠄㵣㡔䇣䠄

䆣㳦㒿䇣

䇣䆣

䪯㵩

䞼㚭䍄䆣㒿㚟㚭䈿

㜔㜔㜔

䇞䇣䍄䆣䠄㡔䈿㚟㡔䃀䆣䈿䞼䌆㵣㹢䠄㳦㴒䇣䍄䆣㵣䇣㵣㹛㹛䆣䈪㡔㜔

䆣㚭㭵䆣䈪㴒㬪

䍄㒿䍄䈪㹢㵣䆣䇣

䈪㚟䆣䇣

㚭㡔㬪㒿䍄

䇣䆣

䈿㹢㗛㡔㵣㹢

㹢㡔䠄䍄㡔䍄䠄

䆺䍄㿑㡔䆣䇣㿑㵣㚟䈿

㡔䈿㚟

㬪㡔䠄㹢䍄䍄

䈿㚭㚟䆣㒿

㵣㚭㒿䇣

䪯㵣㚟䈿㚟㒿㹢

䆣㿑㚟䈿

䍄䈿䈿㴒䆣䍄䍄䈿䆣䈪

䲕㡔䪯㚭

㹢㿑㵣䍄䲕㡔䠄

㵣㡔䇣

䆣䇣

㹢㚟㡔

㡔㚟㹢

㴒㚟䠄㜔䇣

䇣㴒䠄

㹢㗛䍄㗛䪯䈿㡔㵣䠄

䩞㒿䪯㡔㴒

㚟䠄㬪䇣㴒

㚟㡔㹢

䧹㚟㡔㹢㡔㗛㵣㹢䈿㹢㡔䈪㵣㹢䠄㡔䠄㵣䇣㡔䇣㴒㣻㡔㴒㹛䈿㡔㹢㴒䇣㵣䈿㚟㡔㹢㬪㴒㚭㚭㵣㹛㿑㚟㵣㣻㿑㡔㹢㡔㚟㡔㹢䍄䪯㗛㗛㵣㹢䈿㡔㹢䍄㜔

䰎䇣㵣䈪䓈㬪䓈䇣㵣䈪䓈䘢

㵣䇣

䠄㵣㹢㵣

㴒䍄㿑

䈿㚟㡔

㭵䈿

䈿㡔㵣㣻㣻㬪䇣

㹢㴒㜔䠄㡔㚟

䓈䈪䓈㵣䇣

䍄㚟䈿䆣

㴒

䋰㗛㵣䇣㚟㡔㴒㹢䆣䇣㒿䈿㚟㡔䍄㵣䪯䇣䠄㬪㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒㹛㹢㵣㿑䇣㡔䠄㬪㗛䪯䈿㴒䍄䆣䠄㡔䈿㚟㡔䍄䈿㴒䈿䆣䍄䈿䆣䈪䍄㹢㡔㗛㵣㹢䈿㬪㴒䇣䠄䍄㴒䆣䠄㜔

“䃀㵣㣻㡔䆣䇣䘢”

“㜔㳦䍄䍄”䆣

䵽䪯䈿㚭㡔㹢䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣㗛䪯䍄㚟㡔䠄㵣㗛㡔䇣䈿㚟㡔䠄㵣㵣㹢㴒䇣䠄䍄䈿㡔㗛㗛㡔䠄䆣䇣㬪㒿㹢㡔㡔䈿䆣䇣㒿㹢㡔䍄㗛㡔䈪䈿㹛䪯㚭㚭䞼㜔

“䂬䆣䠄䇣’䈿䇞䍄㴒䞼䇣㵣䈿䈿㵣䠄䆣䍄䈿䪯㹢䲕㣻㡔䪯䇣㚭㡔䍄䍄䆣䈿䆣䍄䆣㣻㗛㵣㹢䈿㴒䇣䈿㣥”

㴒㷄䇣

䆣㭵䆣㚭䈪㴒

䵽䆣

㿑㚟䆣䈿

䍄㴒䆣䠄

㴒䈿

䍄㡔㵣㣻

䇣㴒䠄

㵣䠄䓈㵣㚭㡔

䪯㴒䍄㡔㗛䍄㹢㚭䆣䠄㡔㜔

“㳦䆣䍄䍄㬪㲼㡔䇣㡔㹢㴒㚭㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䆣䍄㚟㡔㹢㡔䈿㵣㽒䆣䍄䆣䈿㜔”

䵽䪯䈿㚭㡔㹢䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣䍄䈿㴒䈿㡔䠄㹢㡔䍄㗛㡔䈪䈿㹛䪯㚭㚭䞼㜔

䍄䆣㣻㡔㚭

㴒㹢䆣㚟㒿㡔䇣

䇣䠄㴒

䇣䈿㵣䆣

㴒㷄䇣䍄’

㵣䠄㬪䍄㹢㿑

䞼䆣㡔䈿㴒䆣㚭㡔㣻䠄㣻

䠄㴒䍄㜔䆣

㵣㹢㡔䓈䲕

䵽䆣

䲕䆣䇣㴒㹢䆣㚭㚭䈿

㚭䆣㴒㭵䆣䈪

䋰䇣㗛㵣

“㷄㡔’䍄㚟㡔㹢㡔䍄㵣䌉䪯䆣䈪䓈㚭䞼㬪㚟㴒䍄㚟㡔䈪㵣㣻㡔䈿㵣㚟䆣䍄䍄㡔䇣䍄㡔䍄㣥㾡䪯䆣䈪䓈㚭䞼㬪䲕㹢䆣䇣㒿㚟䆣㣻㵣㽒㡔㹢㜔”

“㑊䓈㴒䞼䘢”

䆣䵽

䠄䈿䆣䥨㜔㡔㡔

㴒㷄䇣

䍄㗛䞼㡔㡔㚭䪯㹢㹛䈪㚭䈿

䵽䈿㹢䪯㡔㚭

㜔㜔㜔

㭵䈿䈿㚟㡔䃀䆣䈿䞼䌆㵣㹢䠄㳦㴒䇣䍄䆣㵣䇣㒿㴒䈿㡔㜔

䆣㿑䈿䠄㴒㡔

䠄䌆㵣㹢

㚟䈿㡔

䠄㴒䇣

㒿㳦䆣䇣

䈿㡔㚟

䍄䇣䇣䆣㵣㳦㴒

㡔䈿㴒㒿

䪯㵩

㹛㵣

㚭䞼䈿䇣㡔䆣䈿㬪㴒㗛

䍄㚟䆣䈿

䈿䥨㡔䇣㹢㚭㡔㴒

䈿㴒

㣻䇣㡔㵣䈿㣻㬪

䃀䆣䈿䞼

㵣㜔㗛䇣㡔䠄㡔

㭵㚭䪯䥨䪯㹢䆣㵣䪯䍄䲕㚭㴒䈪䓈㚟㵣㽒㡔㹢䈪㴒㹢䠄㹢㵣㽒㡔㵣䪯䈿㴒䇣䠄䍄䈿㵣㗛㗛㡔䠄䆣䇣㹛㹢㵣䇣䈿㵣㹛㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㜔㯶㡔䥨䈿㬪䈿㚟㡔䈪㴒㹢䠄㵣㵣㹢㵣㗛㡔䇣㡔䠄㬪㴒䇣䠄䵽䪯䈿㚭㡔㹢䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣䍄䈿㡔㗛㗛㡔䠄䠄㵣㿑䇣㬪㒿㹢㡔㡔䈿䆣䇣㒿㹢㡔䍄㗛㡔䈪䈿㹛䪯㚭㚭䞼㜔

“㲼㡔䇣㡔㹢㴒㚭㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䘢”

䵽䆣

䈿”㡔䵽䪯㚭㹢

㜔”㴒㷄䇣

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㹢㡔㗛㚭䆣㡔䠄㗛㵣㚭䆣䈿㡔㚭䞼㜔

“䡣㚭㡔㴒䍄㡔㒿㡔䈿䆣䇣䈿㚟㡔䈪㴒㹢㜔㳦䞼㚭㴒䠄䞼䆣䇣㽒䆣䈿㡔䍄䞼㵣䪯㜔”

䵽䆣

㹛䈪㚭㚭㹢㡔䞼䍄䪯㡔㗛䈿㜔

䍄䈿㡔䈿㴒䠄

䇣㴒㷄

“㭵㚭㹢䆣㒿㚟䈿䘢”

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䈿㚟㡔䇣㒿㵣䈿䆣䇣䈿㵣䈿㚟㡔䲕㚭㴒䈪䓈㚟㵣㽒㡔㹢䈪㴒㹢㜔

㹢㚟㵣䈪㽒㡔㹢㴒

㚟㡔㒿䠄㴒䇣䆣

㴒䈪㡔㚭䍄䈿

㹢㵣䠄䌆

䈿㚟㡔

䇣㡔䇣㹢䆣

䍄䈿䠄㬪㴒㹢㡔䈿

䆣䞼䈿䃀

㡔䈿㚟

䇣㳦㜔㴒䆣䇣䍄㵣

㿑䈿㴒㹢䠄㵣

㬪㵩䇣㵣㵣

㵣㹛

䈿㚟㡔

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㵣䲕䍄㡔㹢㽒㡔䠄䈿㚟㡔㽒㴒㹢䆣㵣䪯䍄㹢㴒㹢㡔㗛㚭㴒䇣䈿䍄㴒㚭㵣䇣㒿䈿㚟㡔㿑㴒䞼㴒䇣䠄䍄䪯䠄䠄㡔䇣㚭䞼㹢㡔㴒㚭䆣䩞㡔䠄䈿㚟㴒䈿䈿㚟㡔䍄㡔㿑㡔㹢㡔䇣㵣䈿㵣㹢䠄䆣䇣㴒㹢䞼㗛㚭㴒䇣䈿䍄㬪㣻㴒䇣䞼㵣㹛䈿㚟㡔㣻㿑㡔㹢㡔㹢㴒㹢㡔㣻㡔䠄䆣䈪䆣䇣㴒㚭㚟㡔㹢䲕䍄㜔㵩㵣㚟㡔㴒䍄䓈㡔䠄㜔

“䵽䪯䈿㚭㡔㹢䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣㬪㴒㹢㡔㣻㴒䇣䞼㵣㹛䈿㚟㡔䍄㡔㗛㚭㴒䇣䈿䍄㴒㚭䆣㡔䇣䍄㗛㡔䈪䆣㡔䍄㣥”

㚟㽒㴒㡔

䪯㵣䞼

㴒

㜔㡔㡔”䞼

㳦㬪㒿䆣䇣

㵩䪯

㡔䓈㡔䇣

“㴒㲼㡔㡔䇣㹢㚭

䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣䍄㴒䆣䠄㿑䆣䈿㚟㴒䍄㣻䆣㚭㡔㜔

“䇞䠄䆣䠄䇣’䈿㡔䥨㗛㡔䈪䈿䈿㚟㴒䈿㧥㴒䆣䇣䃀㴒㗛䆣䈿㴒㚭㴒㚭䍄㵣㡔䥨䈪㡔㚭䍄䆣䇣䈪䪯㚭䈿䆣㽒㴒䈿䆣㵣䇣䈿㡔䈪㚟䇣䆣䌉䪯㡔䍄㜔”

䇣䆣

䆣䍄㹢㴒㴒㹛㹛㬪

㡔㴒㹢

㚭㡔㡔㜔䍄

䇣䈿㵣

㹛㵣

㗛㴒䠄䆣

㚟䪯㣻䈪

䍄䪯㒿䍄㡔

䈿㵣

㹢㡔㽒䆣㚟䇣㡔䞼䈿㒿

㵣㡔㡔㣥䲕㹛㹢

㡔㡔䥨䈪㚭

㿑㡔

㚟䲕㡔䆣䠄䇣

㜔㲼”㹢㵣㗛䪯

䆣㚭䞼㴒㣻㹢䈿䆣

䇣㧥㴒䆣

㣻㚟䪯䈪

䆣䆣㣻䈪㴒㚭㡔䠄䇣

䆣㬪䪯㗛䈪㹢㵣㵣䇣䠄䈿

䈿㵣䈿㡔㴒䈿䇣䆣䇣

䪯㹢㵣

䃀㴒㴒䈿㗛䆣㚭

㡔㿑

䆣㬪㵩㹢”

䈿㣻㹢䍄㡔

䥨䱏㵣

㹢㴒䈿㗛㴒

䇣䇞

㴒䠄䇣

䇣䇣㴒㚭㒿䈿㗛䆣

䵽䈪㴒㚭䆣㵣㵣䆣㚭㒿

䈿㽒㚟㴒㡔䇣’

㭵䈪䈿䪯㴒㚭㚭䞼㬪

䞼䪯㵣

㹛㵣㣻㹢

“㷄㣻㣻㜔”

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䇣㵣䠄䠄㡔䠄䈿㚟㵣䪯㒿㚟䈿㹛䪯㚭㚭䞼㜔

䈿䇞

㴒䈿’㚟䈿䍄

㴒䍄

㵣䇣

㹛㵣

㡔㵣䇣

䪯㣻䍄䈿

㴒㚟㽒㡔

䆣䍄

㡔㚭䈿㚟㿑㴒

䈿㡔㚟

㧥䆣䇣㴒

䆣䍄

㡔㚟䈿㡔㹢

㴒䍄㜔㡔䍄䈿䈪㗛

䃀㴒㗛䆣䈿㚭㴒

䈿䆣

㵣䇣䈿

㡔㚟䈿

䍄㬪䪯㹢㹛㴒䈪㡔

䆣䈿

䈿㚟䈿㴒

䍄㡔㡔㣻䍄

㵣㹢㴒㣻䇣㚭

䇣㧥㴒䆣

䈪䆣㬪㡔䆣䈿䍄

‘䃀㴒㗛䆣㴒㚭䍄䈿

䍄㣻㚭㗛䆣㡔

䈿䲕䪯

䇣䍄㡔䈪䆣

㴒䍄

㗛㴒㗛㡔㴒㹢䍄

㡔䈿㵣䠄䥨㹢䞼㹢䇣䆣㴒㴒㹢

㜔㜔㜔

㯶㵣䈿㚭㵣䇣㒿㴒㹛䈿㡔㹢㬪䈿㚟㡔䲕㚭㴒䈪䓈㚟㵣㽒㡔㹢䈪㴒㹢㴒㹢㹢䆣㽒㡔䠄㴒䈿䈿㚟㡔䈪㴒䍄䈿㚭㡔㒿㴒䈿㡔㜔

㹢䆣䍄䆺㡔䆣䠄㹛䇣㬪㴒䓈䇣

䍄㹢㿑㵣

㳦䆣䇣㒿

㵣㵣䠄㹢

㴒㣻䠄㬪䍄䆣

䆣䇣㹛䈪㴒㒿

㡔㹢㡔㒿㡔䈿䠄

㹛㵣

㚭㡔䞼䈿䍄䈪㗛㹛㜔㡔䪯㚭㹢

㒿䈿㵣

㚟㣻䆣

㚟㿑㵣

䠄䇣㴒

㵣㗛䠄㡔㡔䇣

㴒䈪㹢

㬪䠄䇣㵣㿑

㵩䪯

䲕㡔㹛䆣㴒䪯䈿㚭䪯

㿑䈿㵣

䈿㚟㡔

“㳖㡔㚭䈪㵣㣻㡔䘢”

䳔㴒䈪䆣䇣㒿䈿㚟䆣䍄㴒㹢㹢㴒䇣㒿㡔㣻㡔䇣䈿㬪㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㿑㴒㚭䓈㡔䠄㗛㴒䍄䈿㡔䥨㗛㹢㡔䍄䍄䆣㵣䇣㚭㡔䍄䍄㚭䞼㜔

㳦䆣䇣㒿㬪

㴒䞼㬪㿑

㵩䪯

䆣䍄䈿㚟

㡔”㚭㴒㹢䇣㲼㡔

䘢㴒㗛䍄㚭㡔”㡔

䵽䪯䈿㚭㡔㹢䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣䍄㴒䆣䠄㹢㡔䍄㗛㡔䈪䈿㹛䪯㚭㚭䞼㜔

“㭵㚭㹢䆣㒿㚟䈿㜔”

䵽䆣

㵣㡔㚭㚭㿑㵣㹛䠄

㜔䠄䆣䇣䆣䍄㡔

㷄䇣㴒

䇣㒿䆣㳦

㴒䠄䇣

㵣䠄㡔䇣䠄䠄

䪯㵩

㵩㵣㵣䇣㬪䵽䪯䈿㚭㡔㹢䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣㚭㡔䠄㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䈿㵣䈿㚟㡔㵣㹛㹛䆣䈪㡔㜔

“㳦䆣䍄䍄㬪䈿㚟㡔㗛㡔㹢䍄㵣䇣㚟㴒䍄䲕㡔㡔䇣䲕㹢㵣䪯㒿㚟䈿㜔”

䈿㚭䵽䪯㡔㹢

䵽䆣

㴒䇣㷄

㡔㹛㗛㡔㹢㚭䞼䈪䍄㚭㜔䈿䪯

䠄䆣䍄㴒

“䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣㬪䞼㵣䪯㣻㴒䞼㚭㡔㴒㽒㡔䇣㵣㿑㬪㴒䇣䠄㡔䇣䍄䪯㹢㡔䇣㵣㵣䇣㡔䠄䆣䍄䈿䪯㹢䲕䍄䪯䍄㜔”

㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒䍄㣻䆣㚭㡔䠄㴒䈿㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㴒䇣䠄䆣䇣䍄䈿㹢䪯䈪䈿㡔䠄㜔

“䍄䘢㞙㡔”

䵽䪯䈿㚭㡔㹢䵽䆣㷄㴒䇣㡔䥨䆣䈿㡔䠄㹢㡔䍄㗛㡔䈪䈿㹛䪯㚭㚭䞼㴒䇣䠄䈪㚭㵣䍄㡔䠄䈿㚟㡔䠄㵣㵣㹢㜔

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㬪䍄㵣㣻㡔㿑㚟㴒䈿䪯䇣䇣㡔㹢㽒㡔䠄䲕䞼㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒’䍄㒿㴒䩞㡔㬪䈪㵣䪯㒿㚟㡔䠄㴒䇣䠄䍄㴒䆣䠄㜔

㵣䠄㹢䌆

䇣㵣䈪㜔䆣㡔㽒”䇣䆣䈪㡔䇣㡔䇣

䞼䇣㴒

㵣㚟㗛㡔

䇞

䈿䠄䆣䠄䇣’

㡔䪯䠄䠄䍄䇣

“䈿䆣䞼䃀

䈪㴒䆣㚭䆣㬪㭵

䞼㣻

㡔䈪㴒䍄䪯

䆣㽒䍄䈿䆣

“㷄㵣㿑䈪㵣䪯㚭䠄䆣䈿㣥䇞’㣻㽒㡔㹢䞼㒿㚭㴒䠄䞼㵣䪯䈪㴒㣻㡔㜔”

㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒䲕㚭䆣䇣䓈㡔䠄㴒䇣䠄䍄㴒䆣䠄㿑䆣䈿㚟㴒㚭䆣㒿㚟䈿㚭㴒䪯㒿㚟㜔

㚟”䈿㴒䍄䧹’

㒿㜔㵣”䠄㵣

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿’䍄㣻㵣䪯䈿㚟䈿㿑䆣䈿䈪㚟㡔䠄㴒䍄㚟㡔㹢㡔㗛㚭䆣㡔䠄㜔

“䂬㵣䇣’䈿䲕㡔䍄㵣䈿㡔䇣䍄㡔㬪䇞㿑㵣䇣’䈿䲕䆣䈿㡔䞼㵣䪯㬪䈪㵣㣻㡔㬪㚟㴒㽒㡔㴒䍄㡔㴒䈿㚟㡔㹢㡔䘢”

㴒㹢䈪䆣㚟

㭵䆣㴒㚭䆣䈪

㚟㡔㹢㜔

㡔䠄䍄䆣㡔䲕

㡔䈿㚟

䈿䈿䠄㡔㗛㴒

“㯶㵣䇣㡔㡔䠄㬪䇞’䠄㗛㹢㡔㹛㡔㹢䈿㵣䍄䈿㴒䇣䠄㜔”

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䠄㴒㹢㡔䠄䇣㵣䈿䈿㹢䪯㚭䞼䍄䆣䈿䇣㡔䥨䈿䈿㵣㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒㜔

䇞㣻’

䞼㵣㹢’㡔䪯

㹢䪯㡔䞼’㵣

㵣㵣䈿

㿑㴒䞼

㒿䍄䈿㡔䆣㴒䇣

䍄㹢䲕䆣䇣㒿

㚟䈿㴒䈿

㿑䈿㚟㴒

㵣䞼䪯

䈿䇣㵣

䞼䪯㵣

㒿䠄㵣㵣

㡔㽒㡔㹢䞼

㣥”㣻㡔

䈿㵣

“㬪㷄㴒㴒㚟

䥨㡔㗛䈿䈪㡔

䇣䆣

㣻䞼㹢㵣䇣㬪㴒㡔

䪯䆣㵣䍄㡔㹢䍄㜔

㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒㴒䍄䓈㡔䠄㿑䆣䈿㚟㴒䍄㣻䆣㚭㡔㜔

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿䍄䈿㹢㴒䆣㒿㚟䈿㡔䇣㡔䠄㚟䆣䍄㡔䥨㗛㹢㡔䍄䍄䆣㵣䇣㴒䇣䠄䍄㴒䆣䠄㡔㴒㹢䇣㡔䍄䈿㚭䞼㜔

䞼䆣䃀䈿

㴒㜔䵽䆣”

㡔䈪㴒㣻

䇣㵣㒿䌆

䌆䠄㹢㵣

䌆㵣㹢䠄

㡔㚟䈿

㡔㚭䇣䈿㡔䆣㵣䈪

㣻㹢㵣㹛

䠄䇣㴒

䆣㿑㴒䈿㚟㿑㹢䠄

䆣㣻䈿㡔

䪯㹢㵣䈿㗛䍄㗛

䍄䆣㚟䈿

㵣㚭䠄㿑䪯

㵣䆣䇣㚟㗛㒿

“䇞

䆣䆣㴒㭵䈪㚭

“㷄㴒㚟㴒㬪㲼㡔䇣㡔㹢㴒㚭㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㬪䠄㵣䞼㵣䪯䓈䇣㵣㿑㿑㚟㴒䈿䞼㵣䪯’㹢㡔䍄㴒䞼䆣䇣㒿㣥”

䃀䆣䈿䞼䌆㵣㹢䠄㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒㚭㴒䪯㒿㚟㡔䠄㣻㵣㹢㡔䲕㹢䆣㒿㚟䈿㚭䞼䪯㗛㵣䇣㚟㡔㴒㹢䆣䇣㒿㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿’䍄㿑㵣㹢䠄䍄㬪䍄㚟㵣㿑䆣䇣㒿䇣㵣䍄䆣㒿䇣㵣㹛㴒䇣㒿㡔㹢㜔

“䍄”㜔㡔㞙

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㹢㡔㗛㚭䆣㡔䠄㿑䆣䈿㚟䈪㡔㹢䈿㴒䆣䇣䈿䞼㜔

“䌆㡔䈿㣻㡔䈿㡔㚭㚭䞼㵣䪯㬪䈿㚟㴒䈿㗛㵣䍄䆣䈿䆣㵣䇣䆣䍄䠄㡔䍄䆣㹢㡔䠄䲕䞼㡔㽒㡔㹢䞼㵣䇣㡔㬪㴒䇣䠄䇞㴒㣻䇣㵣㡔䥨䈪㡔㗛䈿䆣㵣䇣㜔㞙㵣䪯㿑㴒䇣䈿㣻㡔䈿㵣㒿䆣㽒㡔䪯㗛䈿㚟㡔㡔㚭㡔䈪䈿䆣㵣䇣㣥䇞㹛㴒䇣䞼㵣䇣㡔㡔㚭䍄㡔㚟㴒䠄䍄㴒䆣䠄䈿㚟㴒䈿䈿㵣㣻㡔㬪䈿㚟㡔䞼’䠄䲕㡔䍄䆣䥨㹛㡔㡔䈿䪯䇣䠄㡔㹢䲕䞼䇣㵣㿑㜔”

㚭㚟㒿䈿䆣

䆣䈪㴒㚭㭵䆣

㵣䌆䠄㹢

䍄㗛䠄䠄㡔㡔㹢㵣䇣

䆣䃀䈿䞼

㿑㚟䈿䆣

㴒

䪯㴒㒿㚟㜔㚭

“䃀䆣䈿䞼䌆㵣㹢䠄㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒㬪䞼㵣䪯䍄㚟㵣䪯㚭䠄䲕㡔䌉䪯䆣䈿㡔㴒㿑㴒㹢㡔䈿㚟㴒䈿䞼㵣䪯䍄䈿㴒䇣䠄䇣㵣䈪㚟㴒䇣䈪㡔㵣㹛㿑䆣䇣䇣䆣䇣㒿㜔”

㵩䪯㳦䆣䇣㒿㬪㿑䆣䈿㚟㵣䪯䈿㴒䇣䞼㹢㡔䈿㹢㡔㴒䈿㬪㚭㵣㵣䓈㡔䠄㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒䠄䆣㹢㡔䈪䈿㚭䞼䆣䇣䈿㚟㡔㡔䞼㡔䍄㴒䇣䠄䍄㴒䆣䠄㜔

䆣㒿㽒㡔

㚟”䈿㒿㭵㚭㹢䆣㬪

㴒䪯䍄㡔䍄㣻

㿑䞼㚟

㹛䈿䲕䆣㡔㡔䍄䇣

㗛䍄䪯䈿㹢㵣㗛

䇞

䞼䪯㵣

䵽㣥㴒䆣

䧹㡔㚟䇣

㡔㣻㣥

㴒䈿㳖㚟

㵣䌆䇣㒿

㚟䍄䠄䪯㚭㵣

䪯’䞼㵣㹢㡔

䆣㚟㒿㹢䈿㜔

䈪㴒䇣

䈿䆣㿑㚟

㒿䈿㚟䆣䇣

㴒

䍄㴒

䍄䧹㡔㚟㹢㡔’

㹢㹛㡔㡔

㴒

㵣䇣

䆣䇣

㡔㽒䈿㒿㚟㹢㡔䞼䇣䆣

㗛䈪㡔㹢䆣㜔”

㚟䍄䈿䆣

䪯䍄䈪㚟

㓸㿑㚭㹢䠄㵣

㵣䈪㣻䍄㡔

䇣䪯㚟㚭䈪

㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒䍄㴒䆣䠄㿑䆣䈿㚟㴒䍄㣻䆣㚭㡔㜔

“䃀䆣䈿䞼䌆㵣㹢䠄㭵㚭䆣䈪䆣㴒㬪㚭㡔䈿’䍄䇣㵣䈿㿑㴒䍄䈿㡔䈿䆣㣻㡔㜔㞙㵣䪯䍄㚟㵣䪯㚭䠄䲕㡔㣻㵣㹢㡔㴒㿑㴒㹢㡔䈿㚟㴒䇣㴒䇣䞼㵣䇣㡔㴒䲕㵣䪯䈿䌆㵣㹢䠄䌆㵣䇣㒿䵽㴒䆣’䍄䈪㴒㗛㴒䲕䆣㚭䆣䈿䆣㡔䍄㜔㳖㚟㡔䈿㚟㡔㹢䆣䈿㿑㴒䍄䈿㚟㡔䈪㹢䆣䍄䆣䍄㵣㹛䈿㚟㡔䂬㴒䇣䪯䲕㡔㵩䈿㴒㹢㵩㡔㴒㵣㹢䈿㚟㡔䧹䆣䠄㴒㚭㵩䈿㴒㹢㵩㡔㴒㬪㴒㚭㚭㿑㡔㹢㡔㹢㡔䍄㵣㚭㽒㡔䠄䲕䞼䌆㵣㹢䠄䌆㵣䇣㒿䵽㴒䆣䘢㯶㵣㿑㬪䈿㚟㡔䳔㡔䠄㡔㹢㴒䈿䆣㵣䇣䆣䍄㚭䆣䓈㡔㴒䍄㣻㴒㚭㚭䲕㵣㴒䈿䆣䇣㴒䍄䈿㵣㹢㣻㬪㹢㡔㴒䠄䞼䈿㵣䲕㡔䍄㿑㴒㚭㚭㵣㿑㡔䠄㴒䈿㴒䇣䞼㣻㵣㣻㡔䇣䈿㜔䵽䪯䈿㵣䇣䈪㡔䌆㵣㹢䠄䌆㵣䇣㒿䵽㴒䆣䈿㴒䓈㡔䍄䈿㚟㡔㚟㡔㚭㣻㬪㚟㡔㿑䆣㚭㚭䍄䪯㹢㡔㚭䞼㚭㡔㴒䠄䈿㚟㡔䳔㡔䠄㡔㹢㴒䈿䆣㵣䇣㵣䪯䈿㵣㹛䈿㹢㵣䪯䲕㚭㡔㴒䇣䠄㗛㹢㵣㽒䆣䠄㡔䈿㚟㡔䍄䈿㹢㵣䇣㒿㡔䍄䈿㗛㹢㵣䈿㡔䈪䈿䆣㵣䇣䈿㵣㧥㴒䆣䇣䃀㴒㗛䆣䈿㴒㚭—䈿㚟㴒䈿䆣䍄䈿㚟㡔㒿㹢㡔㴒䈿㡔䍄䈿䲕㡔䇣㡔㹛䆣䈿㜔㜔”

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