The fifth moon of the twenty-second year of Da-ye gave way to the sixth.
By the small specific accumulating reading at the past month — the *real-watching* arrangement held the small accumulating *quiet* shape Lao Wen had named at the past peddler's saying. There were no further *real-living-cost-attempts* through the sixth moon. By the small specific accumulating reading at the past two weeks' peddler-saying, the master's accumulating slip had — at the past four weeks' accumulating regional circulation — been at the small accumulating *real political-shape* that prevented the small accumulating *Sui-loyalist regional villager's accumulating real-attempt* shape.
Pang Yu had — by the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler — laid the small accumulating *new* mobilization at the southern garrison through the past two months. By the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler at the dusk of the third week of the sixth moon — Pang Yu's accumulating *second wave's* mobilization was at perhaps *six hundred Sui troops* with two senior sub-officers (Lu Mengtai of the past first wave plus a further man called *Wei Tongzhi*, perhaps thirty-six, by the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler — a small accumulating *real-engagement Sui veteran* of perhaps twelve years).
By the small specific accumulating reading at the past peddler — the *second wave* was at perhaps four to six weeks ahead of mobilization-completion at the southern garrison. The wave would, by the small specific reading I am giving, lay in at perhaps the *seventh moon* — by the master's accumulating reading at the past four months.
Heizi at the small clear ground at the dusk of the third week of the sixth moon laid the *peddler's saying* at the cot's-side at the dusk.
By the small specific accumulating reading at the past month at the master's hut, Heizi had — at the past four weeks at the small wooden bench — read the *Royal Regulations*' accumulating *frontier and military chapter* at the small accumulating *first reading*. By the small specific accumulating reading at the dusk of the third week — the lad had laid in the *response-piece* on the *frontier and military chapter* at perhaps two hundred and sixty characters.
The piece — by the small specific reading at Lao Wen's eye on it — was at the small accumulating *real* shape.
Lao Wen at the cot said in the small low voice: *yes, lad. By the small specific accumulating reading at this piece — the lad has, at twenty-seven and a quarter, laid in the small accumulating *real* shape of an accumulating *new state's accumulating frontier-military reading*. By the small specific reading I am giving — the *Royal Regulations* round is, at this dusk, at the small accumulating *complete-enough-for-the-lad's accumulating senior staff-officer's accumulating decision-shape*.*
He paused.
"By the small specific reading I am giving — the lad will, in the next moons, lay in the *Zhongyong's* fourth round at the small accumulating *steady reading* and the small accumulating *small-specific-shape-of-an-officer-whose-hand-is-in-the-country's-failure-but-not-of-it* memorial at its accumulating *expanded* shape (perhaps three thousand characters at the lad's accumulating *complete reading*). By the small specific reading I am giving — the lad will, at perhaps the small accumulating *autumn or early winter*, be at the small accumulating *complete* apprenticeship shape."
He looked at Heizi.
"By the small specific reading I am giving at this dusk — the lad has, at the past five years and three quarters at the cot, laid in what an accumulating *senior court-scholar's accumulating apprentice* lays in at perhaps the *eighth or ninth year* of an accumulating *senior court-scholar's accumulating real apprenticeship*. By the small specific reading I am giving — the lad's accumulating *one-mark-knowing* of the *eight teachings* and the *Daxue* and the *Zhongyong* and the *Liji's accumulating Royal Regulations* and the small accumulating *real political reading* of the country's accumulating failure of Da-ye is, at this dusk, at the small accumulating *real* shape. The lad is, by the small specific reading I am giving, at the small accumulating *real apprenticeship's accumulating completion* shape."
Heizi nodded.
He filed it.
He could not — at the small wooden stool — say more.
He laid one hand briefly at the cot's-side bench at the small accumulating *Royal Regulations*.
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 *senior sub-officer-and-apprentice* whose accumulating master had, at the dusk, named the lad's accumulating *real apprenticeship's accumulating completion* at the small accumulating *Royal Regulations*' accumulating finish.
The lad had — by the small specific reading at this evening — perhaps four months at the *Zhongyong's* fourth round and the *expanded memorial*. By the small specific reading at the past peddler — Pang Yu's *second wave* was at perhaps four to six weeks ahead, and the *third wave* — at perhaps six or seven months ahead — was the small accumulating *real moment*.
He filed.
He sat his watch through.
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