01 / THE EARLY TEXT
The words themselves.
An interpretive English translation. Read the translation notes. Six and nine name line types; positions run from bottom to top.
睽：小事吉。
Kui: Small matters are auspicious.
初九：悔亡，喪馬勿逐，自復；見惡人无咎。
Nine at the beginning: Regret disappears. Do not pursue the lost horse; it returns by itself. Meeting an unwelcome person brings no blame.
九二：遇主于巷，无咎。
Nine in the second place: Meeting the master in a lane. No blame.
六三：見輿曳，其牛掣，其人天且劓，无初有終。
Six in the third place: Seeing a cart dragged back, its ox checked, its driver marked on the forehead and deprived of the nose. No beginning, but there is an end.
九四：睽孤，遇元夫，交孚，厲无咎。
Nine in the fourth place: Isolated in divergence, meeting a worthy man and exchanging trust. Danger, but no blame.
六五：悔亡，厥宗噬膚，往何咎。
Six in the fifth place: Regret disappears. A clansman bites through flesh. What blame in going?
上九：睽孤， 見豕負涂，載鬼一車， 先張之弧，后說之弧，匪寇婚媾，往遇雨則吉。
Nine at the top: Isolated in divergence, seeing a pig covered in mud and a cart loaded with ghosts. First drawing the bow, then releasing it. Not raiders, but marriage seekers. Going and meeting rain is auspicious.
02 / A POSSIBLE CONTEXT
What might the question have been?
Will separated partners, companions, or livestock return, and is a frightening arrival an enemy or a misunderstanding?
A possible setting
A lost horse returns; someone meets an unwelcome person. At the end, a traveler sees a cart of ghosts and raises a bow, only to lower it when the visitors prove to be a marriage party.
How the words respond
The judgment allows good outcomes in small matters. Recovered animals, an encounter in a lane, a damaged cart, and unexpected companions build toward the final reversal from suspicion to recognition and rain.
Mistaken identity and renewed meetings make a concrete thread through the apparent estrangement.
This scenario adapts the Chinese edition's historical reading. It is a possible reconstruction, not an established single event or the only interpretation.