Chapter 4 Patrol the Village

The bull and his brothers also worked together to bring a very large and rough table to suck. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 There are a lot of smoke-emitting vegetable oil lamps on the huge wooden pillars of the info hall, and lamps made of vegetable oil are lit on the lamp stands next to the tables. Xiao Gang looked a little distressed: "Grandpa Qingsong is a carpenter, right? Can there be a chisel?" Qingsong replied: "Yes! There must be! This big table is made by me, and I also have planers, axes, and complete sets, and the young people don't like it so they don't give it to them." It's good that I didn't give them all there. Do you want to use it?" Xiao Gang stopped doing it and shouted loudly: "Call me Xiao Gang in the future, don't shout 'you' or I'll splash and roll!" Everyone burst into laughter, and the pillar rolled on the ground with laughter. The brute bull burst into tears and laughed. Manniu's younger brothers, Zhang's second monk, were confused. Grandma smiled and said, "Brother Qingsong, just follow Xiaogang! Otherwise, you see that he hasn't rolled yet, and your nephew's pillar has already rolled and spilled!" On the contrary, the pillar jumped up from the ground and said, "I didn't spill, it's so funny, our Xiaogang can't roll at all!" In fact, he wanted to say, "Xiaogang is like an old man, he doesn't even talk much! No matter how he thinks his son doesn't look like a child!" After everyone finished laughing, Xiao Gang continued: "It's a pity to burn vegetable oil! There is a chisel, and tomorrow we will get loose oil, and everyone will be able to light the oil lamp at night! When we find something, we will make candles, and everyone will light candles that do not smoke!"

The table was set up, and the brothers brought thick wooden benches, and the aunts and aunts served the meal. It was very hearty, two bamboo chickens killed the stewed chicken soup, and also killed two sheep to the barbecue Huang Cancan, the haggis soup was also served, some bacon, a lot of pancakes, the taro that the pillar was back and distributed to the Manniu family was all steamed and served in a large basin, the amount of golden butter baked by the bamboo worms was wrapped in a thin layer of soybean flour, and there was a large pot of rice, which was more grand than the New Year. Xiao Gang saw that he had finished eating?: "Grandparents should remove a sheep! Can't eat so much!" Qing Song shouted that they took the big sheep away and divided the children! No matter how big the wild cow pillar is, it is also a child!

Everyone took a seat, Qingsong asked Xiaogang to take a seat, Xiaogang didn't do it, and sat on the right hand side of Qingsong. Manniu brought a jar of wine stored in Qingsong, and poured more than half a bowl in front of everyone, and even Xiaogang had a small bowl. Then I went to the yard to eat.

Xiao Gang, who had already eaten, couldn't eat anything, so he drank some soup and tasted wine. This wine is not as good as the mash wine from the previous life, and even the degree is still poor. In the previous life, I have made grain wine, sorghum wine, and mixed grain wine myself, and it seems that I can still make some money by making wine. There is a distillation method that even the alcohol can be made, and this thing is definitely profitable! The old people can't bite into the pancakes, and the taro is very much like it, and half of the taro is eaten in such a big pot, and the taro with chicken soup and haggis soup is soft and sweet. The old people thought, 'Let your children find more of this thing in the future, and it will be good to be full.' This bamboo insect is also very good! It is fragrant and crispy, and the taste is higher than that of pork, and children will definitely grow strong when they eat this. ’

The old people eat much less than the young people, and much more than the people in the previous life. With a workout method and enough nutrition, you should live a long life. 100 years old in this life will no longer be the end.

Qing Song asked, "Have you eaten all of it?" Everyone nodded, and Qing Song continued: "Serve all the food and divide it among the children! Tomorrow we old people and Xiao Gang will live in the backyard, and in the morning everyone will come here to eat and then go to find the pine oil that Xiao Gang said." You can also gossip on the road, and if you have Xiaogang, are you still afraid that your children and grandchildren will not have enough to eat? Starting tomorrow, all the children who can cut grass and collect firewood will follow Xiaogang. Every day, they take turns to take care of the children by three strong laborers, and they are at the disposal of the child. Today, the pillar is tired of carrying it alone, right? Divide a jar of salt at home and let the pillar take it, and Xiao Gang can eat wherever he likes! In the future, the pillar will not have to do farm work at home, and the pillar will not have to do anything else with Xiao Gang every day. Everyone was not surprised, and there was no problem, so the meeting was dismissed, and the brute bull and his brothers and nephews carried them home one by one with torches. Xiaogang and his grandmother left behind and let Zhuzi go home alone, Zhuzi is a blessed child, and he should be given the opportunity to make more children!!

Qingsong, Qingshan, and Qingshi, who originally lived in this courtyard, didn't go home and stayed to watch Xiaogang, hoping that he could say something.

Xiao Gang also understood, so he spoke: "I don't have any money at home, do I dare to take out grain to make wine to make money? Will the government control our winemaking?"

The three old brothers all nodded, and Qingsong motioned to Qingshan and said, "It's a way! Today's rice will be harvested soon, and every family can have grain." The government will not control our wine-making, but if we want to sell alcohol, we must hand over samples to the government, saying that the samples should not be too small and the wine is good, because we don't have to pay taxes, so the government has to collect more samples. If the wine is good, we will report it to the king and present a tribute, and the king will return to our house as is customary to reward us with gold and silver. But if the king receives the tribute, our wine cannot be sold. The hardest part is that we don't know how to make sake at all. ”

After Qingshan finished speaking, Qingsong squinted at Xiao Gang. Xiao Gang said: "I can try sake brewing, although I don't have the strength but I know how to make sake." How about this wine on our table today?

Qingshi didn't wait for Qingsong to signal, and replied directly: "It's not a good grade, but it's already very good, this should be made of sorghum and rice! The market price of this wine is about seven catties and three taels per jar, and the price of fifty catties of rice is needed." After saying that Qingshi was very proud in one breath, Qingsong explained: "He is the most knowledgeable about wine in the whole family, but for the sake of the wishes of the ancestors, the whole family rarely drinks." Xiao Gang's ability to make sake must not be comparable to this. After finishing speaking, his eyes rolled upward, and now Qingshi was excited again, and he couldn't be excited. His hands were rubbed together vigorously in the hall, and he walked faster than the young people.

Xiao Gang asked again: "Grandpa Qingshi, how long will it take for this wine to be made and start from the grain?"

Qingshi replied: "The restaurant said it would take eight months, but I think it should be half a year." ”

Xiao Gang said: "I have a way to make wine in two and a half months, but I can't ask Grandpa Qingshi to participate." Grandpa Qingshan should personally supervise the production, and Grandpa Qingsong will make drinking utensils. Grandpa Qingshi, don't worry, I don't want you to make wine, but you are responsible for tasting and selling wine. The sake I make may not be the same as what you have drunk, and even the king has never tasted it. The starting price that must be sold cannot be calculated with how much money is a catty, and it may be calculated with how much gold or two. We can sell a lot of them before we pay tribute. If the tribute is passed, I will make other wines and continue to sell them, and I can't live on the king's reward. Once we have sold our wine, we will sell it to other countries, but we don't have to worry about that. The matter of buying and selling with other countries was given to the king, and the king also made some gold. ”

The four old men were all excited, and the grandmother who didn't leave was here. Xiao Gang opened his mouth and said that it was gold, not a matter of how much money. It is also necessary to let the king make money, but the king of small money can't look down on it. Now under this situation, let alone build a city, it will be difficult to even eat salt in the future. Still Qing Song was a little excited, and soon passed over and asked Xiao Gang: "I just don't know how much money to invest in the cost?" There are still six gold, twenty silver, and more than 800 coins at home, all of which are left by our ancestors, and our descendants are busy making ends meet and raising the population, and have not earned a penny or a penny at all, ashamed!"

Xiao Gang smiled: "Don't use coins, but if you want food and wine utensils, you must keep it secret, and Uncle Niu and my father will do this thing! Tomorrow we're going to look for pine oil, and the day after tomorrow we're going to start making barware. ”

Qingsong nodded, and then personally took Xiao Gang and his grandmother to settle down in the backyard wing, and Xiao Gang lived with his grandmother without delay.

After dawn, everyone drank rice porridge at Qingsong's house, and the group set off in a mighty way, and all the children over the age of 3 came. But I can't take them to play today, and those under the age of 5 stay. The pillar went home last night and boiled a lot of drinking water, and he loaded a bamboo tube with a big basket on his back, and the wild cow took it and carried it on his back, and told the pillar to carry Xiaogang, so that everyone could go faster. The children were escorted by three adults, and Xiao Gang followed the old men on their backs from the pillars, and soon came to the woods in less than half an hour. The pillar took out the large coarse cloth bag that Xiao Gang had explained, and climbed up the tree very neatly. At this time, the sky is not very bright, and everyone doesn't know what the pillar is going to do, anyway, Xiao Gang explained, it should be fine. I heard the pillar shouting from the tree: "Xiao Gang, hand!" The rope hung and lowered the big bag, and then climbed down from under the tree neatly. Carrying his pocket, he ran to the place where the fire was burning yesterday, and Xiao Gang hurriedly asked, "Was Dad stung?" Xiao Gang took out a small bamboo tube and ran over and quickly poured out the white liquid and smeared it, and gave the bamboo tube to the pillar: "Dad will use this to dry and wipe it on, it should be fine in two hours!" The pillar said: "The stung place is itchy and painful, and it is much better to wipe this, what is this?" Xiao Gang whispered: "In the morning, I asked the aunts to milk some milk, and this is easy to use." Dad, don't mind wiping it quickly, or it will itch and hurt. "The pillar scalp is numb for a while, but I still admit it, who can stand it if I don't wipe it!

The old people were also curious about what the two fathers and sons were doing, and followed them to the place where the fire was burning in the bamboo forest. I saw that Xiao Gang was raising the fire, and the pillar had already run away. There was still a lot of dry firewood yesterday, and the pit was also very dry, and it was too late to cut the taro, so the fire was prosperous. The pillar ran back and put the jug on it, staring here, and Xiao Gang and the old men walked towards the woods again. As he walked, he said that there was a hornet's nest in his pocket, and he would come here to collect pine oil in the future. The hornet's nest is very harmful here, and children are afraid of it when they collect firewood. Just get rid of it, and you can also enrich the food. Grandma was curious: "Xiao Gang, can this honeycomb be eaten?" Before Xiao Gang could say anything, Qingshan replied: "Honeycomb is a medicinal herb!" Xiao Gang continued to add: "Honey is sweet for bee chrysalis." Dad would take the water in the jug and boil the wasp in the pocket that would suffocate even if it wasn't scalded, but the bee chrysalis wouldn't die, and he wouldn't have much air in it! The old people agreed with this approach, and it was necessary to get rid of wasps that could sting people to death. And you can get so many bee pupae and honey, it's a good deal!" Xiao Gang said: "Actually, it's best to pick honeycombs at night, but we can't see them at night." The early honeycomb that came in the morning was not completely alive before it had a chance, and it could be cured by being stung by the peak. And the bee pupae have a great effect on milking. ”

The wild cow leaned over and said, "Xiao Gang really has a way! Such a troublesome hornet's nest can be removed in a big pocket! Isn't the bee chrysalis delicious? How about it compare with bamboo insects?" Xiao Gang replied with a smile: "It's even more delicious than bamboo insects." However, it is easy to catch fire, and it is a great tonic, so you can't eat more. Bee pupae are grown by eating honey, which is sweet and raw and can also be eaten. The bull said, "Wait a minute, give the old people a taste, eat less, and make up for their bodies." I, who was an uncle, have never made up for the old people's bodies, I'm really ashamed!" Qingshi dismantled: "Big nephew, I'm afraid you're hungry and want to try it! Yesterday's bamboo worms were delicious!"

Pointing to the conifer pine in front of him, Xiaogang said, "Let's pick pine oil first!" Holding the charcoal picked up by the fire, the bull held it and drew some marks on the tree pole. "Grandpa Qingsong, just follow these traces to chisel the bark and then chisel the tree pole a little shallower!" Qing Song put down the wooden box he was carrying, opened a layer of chisel lattice, and asked, "What size is Xiao Gang suitable for?" Xiao Gang pointed to the width of an adult's finger and said, "This is very good!" Qing Song nodded and cut the bark with a small axe, and the traces drawn by Xiao Gang also fell. But the green pine had already written down that it was a coniferous pine the thickness of a basin, and such trees were everywhere on these small slopes. Afraid of the hornet, the family has never dared to mine, now there is a way to get rid of the hornet, the future seems to be in front of the eye! Three times five divided by two, in just a few minutes, the green pine is done, and the chisel is as flexible as a finger in his hand. Xiao Gang pointed to the bottom position and let Qing Song open a small opening, and handed over a piece of bamboo: "Grandpa Qing Song, cut it into two sharp grooves and insert it upwards." He took over a very rough bamboo tube: "Grandpa Qingsong, I don't need to talk about this, right?" Qingsong opened the box, took out a knife, repaired this bamboo tube smooth and well-behaved, and used a chisel to punch a finger-thick space in the grooved bamboo knot and fix it with hemp rope. The pine oil is already beginning to drip, and not a single drop is falling into the bamboo tube with precision. Xiao Gang estimated that these pine trees are more prone to pine oil than those in previous lives, perhaps because they have not been mined, or because of the soil quality and climate. "This tree is going to come tomorrow to collect pine oil, and then once every two days." After fifteen days, a chisel will be used to gently chisel off a layer of these grooves, and after two months, a new layer of grooves will be opened downward, and the first layer will not be chiseled again. Then, each time you abandon the upper layer and open the lower layer. After the pine oil is collected, it cannot be directly used to light the lamp, and it must be purified after boiling in a large vat. It can also be used to remove rheumatic pain, and rub a little more where there is rheumatic pain. After Xiao Gang finished speaking, Qingsong explained to Manniu: "In the future, you young people will do these things by themselves." I'm going to do more important things with Xiao Gang, what if your dad dies and you won't do it?" "Daddy, you won't die, Xiao Gang can make you live a hundred years old!" "You have to do everything with Daddy, your dad will be tired to death by you!" The two fathers and sons took the time to quarrel and play again! Xiao Gang explained: "In addition to the location where the pine oil is picked, the bark must not be damaged." Qing Song nodded, took out a broad-bladed axe from the bottom of the box, connected it to the wooden handle and handed it to Manniu: "Child, it's up to you!" Manniu called the big cow over: "Child, it's up to you!" Manniu hurriedly added: "Child, wait for Daddy to be tired, you can pour some water for Daddy to drink!" Leaving Manniu and Da Niu to cut trees here, everyone continued to look for conifers to pick pine oil. The older children all spread out to collect firewood and cut the grass, and Xiao Gang shouted: "Don't go to collect firewood, wait for Uncle Niu's cut down cypress tree, can there be less dry firewood?" Sister Peach will take everyone to catch some wild birds and come back! Pay attention to when catching birds, leave people to watch the surroundings and guard against wild beasts and snakes!" Peach gestured to the firewood knife in his hand: "Okay!" and left with the older children.

Qingsong said: "Xiao Gang doesn't have to follow me, I can just bring a young man." You all follow Xiao Gang to find taro and bamboo worms! In the future, Xiao Gang will not bring you here every day, you have to learn to find them yourself. ”

Qing Song took the monkey and his father's soil eggs away, and Xiao Gang took the old people to the place where the bamboo forest was burning. The pillar is here, and the honeycomb has been processed and is waiting for Xiaogang to come back. Xiao Gang said that he could open his pocket. So, the pillar quickly opened the pocket, took out a layer of honeycomb from the inside, and put it on the big leaf. The wasp is dead, the chrysalis is still moving, and the water in the jar has been boiled again, Xiao Gang gently put this layer of honeycomb into it. Then take a wooden spoon and shake the bee chrysalis to fall out, Xiao Gang said: "The bee pupa is a hot supplement, and the honeycomb is a little cold, so it can be neutralized." Then he took out a small piece of salt the size of his thumb and threw it into the pot. The pillar carries a big back basket to the place where the children catch wild birds, and a few children should be recruited to come back and sort out some bamboo tubes to make tableware. Xiao Gang added firewood and started to boil the soup on a low fire, and the old people sat around to rest and watch Xiao Gang make the soup. After a while, the pillar came back with monkeys, black bulls, dogs, and roe deer, and some wild birds on their backs, and it seemed that the harvest was good. The pillar began to cut the bamboo, and recognized the thick old bamboo cut from the previous year. Put down two and start making bamboo tubes, the firewood knives fly, the children hold the bamboo tubes and start running, and grab a bag of stones by the fire. In a few moments, the pillar had cut three more bamboos and made bamboo tubes. The children ran back with the bamboo tube and ran with the new bamboo tube, and the soup was just started to be filled with only half of each bamboo tube. The old man was very relieved to see the children busy in an orderly manner, looking at this posture, these children were already veterans of picnics at such a young age. Xiao Gang beckoned to the pillar: "Dad's bamboo tube for soup is enough, now cut some half-year-old slightly thinner bamboo tubes like yesterday's burning bamboo worms!" The pillar replied: "Okay!"

The jug is not large, and the soup boiled only holds more than ten bamboo tubes, and they are all half bamboo tubes. The black bull came back again, and one of them brought two bamboo tubes filled with clean water, poured them into the jug, and put them on to boil. Xiao Gang started to distribute the bamboo tube filled with soup to the old people, and after distributing it, there were still 4 tubes left, just for the black cow to them. The black cow was tired and sweaty, and ran back again, Xiao Gang beckoned them to drink soup and poured the water they brought into the jug. "Brother Black Bull has worked hard, are you tired, aren't you? You and the monkey are here to help! Today you are also going to catch birds, and there will be opportunities to catch birds in the future." You can rest assured that you will supervise me personally!" After hearing this, the black bull was so happy that he was afraid that others would not hear him, and said: "That's a must! No one except you has what I can do, I don't have to wait for the monkeys, roe deer, and they are more stupid than the other." I'll be able to teach me once or twice, but they may not be able to learn five or six times!" The monkey smiled stupidly and ate all the soup and bee pupae, licked his lips and said, "Of course! Brother Hei Niu can take me with me, I don't need to be very smart!" "The black bull looked at the monkey and looked at the bee chrysalis soup in the bamboo tube in his hand a little hairy: "What do you see? I will eat it up without tasting the taste, what if my brother is not by your side?" After speaking, he shook his head while drinking soup and eating bee pupa. Xiao Gang said to the monkey: "Brother Monkey, there are still many bee pupa, you can't eat too much at one time, and you will have a stomachache if you get on fire." When you're done eating, let's go and dig another hole here! Xiao Gang pointed to a place two or three meters next to the fire, which was to prepare for an extra fire. The monkey touched his head and said, "All right!" Therefore, the black cow is really much better than the monkey, and the first to eat must work first. The black bull sat on the stone six or seven meters away from the fire, fished for bee chrysalis one by one, ate it, and drank a small sip of soup from time to time, tasting the taste, and the monkey was hungry. The dog and the roe deer did not eat up because they reacted slower than the monkey, and now they are also learning from the black bull to eat slowly. While eating, the black cow also said: "This is so sweet! It doesn't have a sour taste, and I have eaten the fruit that my father and uncle brought home before, and I know what sweetness is." But the fruit is sour and bitter, and it's still delicious. Xiao Gang broke off a small piece of raw honeycomb with eggs and handed it to Black Bull: "Brother Black Bull tastes this again, it's really sweet." He also broke off a piece of it and showed it to the black bull, caught the bee chrysalis inside, threw it into the jug, and then sucked hard with his small mouth against the hole in the honeycomb. A long-lost unfamiliar sweet taste flowed down the lips and into the mouth, soaked into the nose, and then into the stomach. The feeling of sweetness in my heart was still born, and in an instant, the blood sugar in my body rose to a certain height, and my little face turned pink. The black bull was also stunned when he looked at it, and he almost fainted when he learned from Xiaogang. The bamboo tube in one of his shaking hands was almost spilled, and after a while, he put the bamboo tube on the ground and had to untie the sack and take the honeycomb. Xiao Gang hurriedly hugged his arm: "Brother Hei Niu, you can't eat too much of this! Hei Niu smiled embarrassedly and touched his head and said, "Actually, I want to give everyone a taste." "Xiao Gang told everyone that they can't rush a few days to do it, and now those who are in poor health will have nosebleeds if they eat this. Because the black cow can only taste it when the body is better, and his face is hot after tasting it a little. Black Bull nodded: "This time, my brother really knows what is really sweet." The monkey's eyes were straight at the sack on the ground, the roe deer was stunned, and the dog's saliva went down the corner of his mouth to his chest, and he accidentally put his right index finger into his small mouth. The black bull slapped him one by one: "As for it, when you are older, some of you will eat, now you can work and go to noon to eat enough!" Not to mention that the black bull was quite powerful among them, and the slap slapped him with such a strong thought.

The old people helped to light the fire, and the children dug taro and broke bamboo tubes to catch bamboo insects. Everyone got busy, Xiao Gang asked someone to help kill two bamboo chickens, smeared them with salt and pasted them with thin mud to make called chickens, and it didn't take long to put them on the fire and start heating. The man who delivered the soup came back and said that the big tree over there had only cut a hole, and it might not have been cut down today. It's a lot of work for a big tree that's so thick. With the soup replenishment, maybe the physical strength can be much better, and there is still hope to cut it down today.

When the sun ran over everyone's heads, lunch was ready. An old man took out his horn and puffed out his cheeks and blew, and now everyone returned. The large leaves contain ripe bamboo insects for each person, and the taro is also distributed for fear that children will eat too much to support. The two lumps of soil are oily, the bamboo chicken is very fat, and there is a lot of oil, but fortunately, the soil absorbs most of it. Please smash the green mountain, rub the soil off, and the hair will fall out, and everyone will not pay attention to it, one person will squat on the ground or sit on the stone to open the whole. After a full meal, Xiao Gang asked to rest on the spot for an hour, and the two fathers and sons fell asleep on the ground when they were most tired, and Xiao Gang beckoned the two of them to move to the futon they made yesterday to sleep. Then he went to sleep on the futon, and the children all went to sleep. The old people were sleepy and chatted around the fire drinking boiling water, and they were all very excited, so life could be so full. The gods descend from the earth, what is different! Just make a few moves, and everyone will be blessed. Qingsong told the old people that it was still early! This is just the beginning, the gods have come down to support us, and our ancestors have accumulated virtues, and our generation will definitely develop and build a city, which is nothing to the gods. Qingshan also thinks so, Xiao Gang said that we can all live to be 100 years old, and the gods will not make such jokes, we can really live to be 100 years old! Qing Song used a knife to cut the bamboo, ready to make some baskets and baskets, and looked at the taro all over the ground, and if he didn't bring it back to make rations, it would be a crime. The old people were high-spirited, and they all helped to get it up, and from time to time they also talked a few words.

Time always flies so fast, and everyone sets off again after the nap. Momoko took the dog and roe deer on their backs, carrying some roasted taro and plugged bee pupal soup to the adults working in the fields, asking them to do less farm work today to carry taro all over the ground, and so many bamboo chickens and quails. When the sun was about to set, the adults also arrived, and the wild cow father and son also cut down the big tree with great might, and they were tired, no, no. A lot of roasted taro and bamboo worms were prepared, and everyone quickly finished the meal and packed all kinds of things home. At the same time as the sun went down, the brigade finally returned to the village, and everything was moved to the big courtyard, and a fire was lit, and the whole village came for dinner. After eating, each family brought a basket of taro and a tube of bamboo worms, and the whole thing was the same as the New Year, and everyone was thinking that the future would change.

After dawn, a team was sent to carry the big tree home, and the young people began to read and write with the old people. In the previous life, the culture was not high, but in this life, you must be a literate person. As a result, as soon as I learned to read and write, I found that since the words used here are small seals, many people know them. Although not all of them are recognized, it also saves a lot of energy. The old people took it for granted, and it was certainly easy for the gods to come down to learn to read and write. simply turned over some of the classics in the backyard and brought them out for Xiao Gang to see by himself, and asked the words he didn't know.

The strength of the adults is really much greater, and the efficiency is much higher, so they pack up the big trees and carry them back at noon. Removing the canopy, they are thirty feet long. More than a dozen people carried it into the courtyard, but fortunately, the courtyard gate was big enough. The green pine also returned, and it is said that all the conifers on the hill were finished. Brought back a large vat of pine oil and sent it to the backyard Xiao Gang commanded the shelf to boil it with charcoal. Use charcoal to be safe, so as not to ignite the pine oil with an open flame. He also vacated a room in the backyard and boiled some rice, which was just about to be used to make the primary koji. The koji was very secretive, so the bull and the pillar contributed, and Xiao Gang locked the door after the on-site guidance, for fear that the mouth of the family would not be strict to see. After doing these days, it was still early, Xiao Gang asked Qing Song to take out a gold ingot and explain that early tomorrow morning, Manniu took his two brothers to invite Xiao Gang's uncle.

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