The daily quiet of the next four moons — the eleventh and twelfth moons of the fourteenth year, the first and second moons of the fifteenth year — went by, by the small specific accumulating reading at the past four months at the master's hut, at the small accumulating shape the master had named.
The eleven-and-master held the small accumulating *holding-shape* readiness without any small accumulating Sui patrol coming up. By the small specific accumulating reading at the lame brother's accumulating eye-station — the southern fold's accumulating Sui-traffic was, at the past four months, at the small accumulating *zero* still. Yang Yichen had — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddlers — laid in the small accumulating *spring campaign* preparation against Li Mi at the eastern marshes. The master's hut was — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past four months — at the small accumulating *not-immediate* priority.
Heizi at the *staff-officer's bench* did the small accumulating *daily round* of the *one-mark-knowing* of the eleven-and-master. He did the small accumulating *small wooden table reading* with the master at the long evenings. He laid in the small accumulating *fourth piece* the master had, at the past two months, asked him to write — a small accumulating *fifteen-hundred-character* memorial on the small accumulating *Mandate-of-Heaven-as-running-water* shape the master had laid at the first of the eight.
The piece was — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past two months' careful work — at the small accumulating *real* shape of an accumulating apprentice's accumulating seventh-year writing.
Lao Wen, by the small specific accumulating reading at the past four months, was — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past month at the small wooden stool — at the small accumulating *thinner* shape of an old man at sixty-three and three-quarters who had, by the small specific accumulating reading at the past month, begun to take the small accumulating *winter's accumulating aging* shape that an old man at the upper hills' accumulating winter cold took.
He coughed, at certain dawns, with the small accumulating *thin small dry* cough of a man whose accumulating winter had begun to settle in his accumulating chest.
Ah Chou laid the small accumulating *huang lian* and the small accumulating *winter-tea* of the small accumulating dried herbs. The cough — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past two weeks' tea — held without worsening.
By the small specific accumulating reading at the dusk of the first day of the third moon of the fifteenth year, a small accumulating peddler came up the path with the small accumulating *spring's* news.
Yang Yichen had — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past two weeks — moved his accumulating six-thousand-troop force east toward Li Mi's accumulating headquarters. The small accumulating spring campaign had — by the small specific reading at the past peddler — begun.
By the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler — the campaign was, at this dusk, at the small accumulating *first weeks* shape of an accumulating *real* engagement. Li Mi had — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler — moved his accumulating *seven-thousand-troop* main force at the small accumulating *Wagang-eastern-marshes* defensive shape. The two armies were — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler — at the small accumulating *moving toward each other* of a small accumulating *real campaign's accumulating opening*.
The small accumulating *upper-hills patrol-traffic* would, by the small specific reading at the past peddler, not — by the small specific accumulating reading I am giving — come at this spring. Yang Yichen had, by the small specific accumulating reading, deferred the small accumulating *Wén Déxiū slip's accumulating address* until after the small accumulating campaign.
Lao Wen at the small wooden stool nodded.
He said in the small low voice: *lad. By the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler — Yang Yichen has, by the small specific reading I am giving, moved east. The small accumulating *upper-hills patrol-traffic* will, by the small specific reading I am giving, not come at this spring. By the small specific reading I am giving — perhaps not at this summer either. The small accumulating *Wén Déxiū slip* will, by the small specific reading I am giving, wait at Yang Yichen's accumulating campaign's accumulating outcome.*
He paused.
"By the small specific reading I am giving — the master's accumulating *real-end* may, by the small specific reading I am giving, have been deferred by perhaps a year."
He paused once more.
"That is — by the small specific accumulating reading I am giving — the small accumulating *small specific other accumulating real* shape the country's accumulating shifting can, by the small specific reading at certain accumulating moments, lay."
Heizi nodded.
He filed it.
By the small specific accumulating reading at the next two months at the small accumulating *daily quiet*, the eleven-and-master held at the small accumulating *real* shape of an accumulating sub-base whose accumulating *immediate* threat had, by the small specific reading at the past peddler, been deferred.
Heizi at the small wooden bench laid in the small accumulating *fifth piece* the master had, at the past month, asked him to write — a small accumulating *eight-hundred-character* memorial on the small accumulating *brothers-as-real-country* shape the master had laid at the sixth of the eight.
The piece took, by the small specific accumulating reading at the past month, perhaps three weeks of careful evening's writing.
By the dusk of the first day of the fifth moon of the fifteenth year, the piece was finished.
Lao Wen, at the small wooden stool, read it.
He laid it down.
He looked at Heizi.
He said in the small low voice: *lad. By the small specific accumulating reading at this dusk — the piece is at the small accumulating *real* shape. The lad has, at the past two years, laid in the *political reading* of an old scholar's accumulating apprentice's accumulating *seventh-year* shape. By the small specific accumulating reading I am giving — the lad has, at this dusk, completed the small accumulating *full accumulating reading* the master can lay.*
He paused.
"By the small specific reading I am giving — the lad will, at the small specific accumulating *some unfound moment* of the next two years, take up the small accumulating *real* leadership the country, by the small specific accumulating reading at the past forty years' watching, will need. The lad has, by the small specific accumulating reading at this dusk, the small accumulating *real* foundation."
He paused once more.
"By the small specific accumulating reading I am giving — the master will not, in the next moons, lay any further small accumulating *teaching*. The master will, by the small specific reading I am giving, sit at the small wooden stool with the small bound *Daxue* and the small bound *Mencius* at his old hands, by the small specific accumulating reading at the past nineteen years and ten months at this hut, at the small accumulating *daily quiet* shape. By the small specific reading I am giving — the lad will, in the small accumulating daily quiet, be at the small accumulating *seeing* shape of the master's accumulating final months."
He looked at Heizi.
"By the small specific reading I am giving — the lad will, by the small specific accumulating reading at the next year, see the master die."
Heizi looked at him.
He nodded — slowly.
He said in the small low voice: *yes, master.*
He filed it.
That night Heizi at his watch sat at the small banked fire.
He listened.
The shape of the silence on this watch was — by the small specific reading at this evening — the shape of a small specific apprentice whose accumulating master had — at the dusk — named the small accumulating *next year's accumulating real-end* and had — at the dusk — said the master would, by the small specific reading I am giving, not lay further teaching.
He filed it.
In the small lighter catalog of moments, beside the small specific dusk of the daily quiet's naming, he set: *the small specific dusk of the first day of the fifth moon of the fifteenth year, when the master read the fifth piece and named the lad's accumulating *full reading* as completed.*
The lighter catalog stood at perhaps ninety-eight items.
The dark catalog stood at twenty-three named names plus the *unnamed thousand+*.
He sat his watch through.
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