Chapter 429, Yu Guan's Return to the Heart (4)
The grinding disc, usually placed on a platform made of adobe wooden frames, is usually made of two cobblestones, with holes at the junction of the two layers, and wooden rod jacks strung together to form a stressed column, which is then pulled by an ox or donkey.
However, after Lu An replaced the animal power, the effect was very significant, and the pace was much faster than that of donkeys and horses.
It's just a pity that the rice noodles were only halfway ground and the white pulp came out, and it was interrupted by the child.
Smelling Yu Guanzhi's coquettish confession, Lu Jing stopped, lying motionless on her, if it weren't for the slow snort going in and out, I would have thought it was a wood carving.
If it is said that the sisters under her were still semi-confessed before, with the help of Nanyue Ancient Town to purchase industry and semi-confess, then at this moment, she is Chiguoguo authentically expressing her heart, direct and affectionate, without any cover-up, without any hypocrisy.
Seeing that his eyes were staring at him without blinking, as if he had lost consciousness, after a long time, Yu Guanzhi's right hand moved again, swimming from the back of his head to his ears, and then to his face.
She gently stroked the little man's face and said lovingly, "It's me who is wrong, it's me who is too greedy."
Before she could finish her words, Lu An sealed her lips with her hand.
After staring at each other for a moment, he removed the woman's right hand and leaned over to take her mouth.
At this moment, Lu An couldn't care so much about this situation, and it didn't matter if it was in Nanyue Ancient Town, or whether it was under the nose of the Nanyue Holy Emperor.
He didn't want to miss this encounter!
He doesn't want to live up to the beauty!
In this way, the two were tenderly, unscrupulously, and affectionately intimate.
The children in the shop opposite were crying, and the street outside the house occasionally heard the sound of yo shouting, but the two people in the house continued to pull the grinding plate. The grinding disc above is full of strength from slow to fast, and the grinding disc below is as stable as Mount Tai, silently bearing.
Lu An is a journeyman, and he is a good hand at grinding, and the more he pulls, the more excited he becomes, and the more he pulls, the more energetic he becomes.
Although Yu Guanzhi is a young lady from a large family, he is not a pure novice, while encouraging him with loving eyes, he fed rice grains to the grinding eye, and after a while, there was milky white rice milk dripping on the grinding plate stone carving below.
Seeing that there was an output, Lu An whispered a series of touching love words in her ear, she was itchy, and her whole body was stained with a layer of red.
At one point, Lu An said: "This gauze is too thick, which affects the efficiency of rice milk, and it has to be reduced by two layers."
to be. ”
Yu Guanzhi didn't make a sound, watching him reach out and tear off the thick layer outside, leaving only the innermost layer of thin gauze.
Lu An continued to grind, and after just a few minutes, the rice milk gathered into threads on the stone carvings and flowed like rain into the wooden barrels below.
After 50 minutes, the rain lines were joined one after another, forming a rain curtain, and the grinding disc below was completely covered with rice milk.
At this time, Yu Guanzhi had harvested too much rice milk, and he had no strength to lift it, and the rice milk flowed down the barrel to the ground, forming a puddle of mud.
Lu An suddenly said at this time: "Guanzhi, the rice is almost finished, I still have a bucket of soybeans here, and I will grind some soy milk." ”
After that, the force column pressed against the gauze and squeezed into the stone mill eye, squeezed open a mouth, squeezed in an inch, many soaked soybeans were fed in, and after a while, through the gauze, a large amount of soybean milk gathered out.
At this moment, the atmosphere in the house exploded!
Yu Guanzhi's body pivoted slightly, and then arched into a shrimp, shrunk nervously, unable to speak at all, and finally all the forbidden pleasure turned into a sigh in his throat and eyes.
As time passed, the noise outside gradually became quieter, the child's crying finally stopped, and the two people in the house stopped grinding rice milk.
The stone grinding was a hard work, and Yu Guanzhi, who was paralyzed all over, hugged his back hard, reluctant to let him go.
Every time she finishes her farm work, this sister likes to reminisce, Lu An almost understood her character, and immediately without command, her mouth was like a pig's arch, kissed her mouth, and rewarded her with a 5-minute French wet kiss for her hard work and hard work when pulling the stone mill just now.
Five minutes were both long and short, and the two lingered for an endless period until they were almost suffocated before they slowly separated.
The cherry mouth was withdrawn from his mouth, and when they looked at each other, Yu Guanzhi leaned closer to kiss the corner of his mouth, and then pressed his forehead against his face, letting each other's breath hit each other's faces, without saying a word.
Obviously, she loved it and enjoyed it!
The experience just now once again refreshed the past cognition, and the man on her body once again brought her a surprise.
Lu Ann took a few deep breaths, then took some tissues from her bag with her free right hand and placed them under her stone grinder.
"Hey, there's not enough tissues," Lu An blinked, dragging out a long voice.
Yu Guanzhi's face was full of shame, but as he ripped some new paper again, she lifted her hips slightly and asked him to lay out the tissue.
"Sister Yu, you're ripe."
"It's called Guanzhi."
Lu An reached the tip of her nose with her right hand and sniffed, "Guanzhi." ”
"Little man, don't be cheap." Yu Guanzhi turned his head and didn't face him face to face again until he happily took his hand away.
After looking at each other for a long time, she suddenly asked glutinously, "Do you want me to give you a baby?" ”
This time it was different, it wasn't all outside, although it was separated by the veil, but the source was squeezed open and blocked, and the water waves still rushed in.
Lu An was silent for the first time, and kissed her seductive little mouth again, until he was extremely hot, then he let go of the earlobe that bit her and said, "Don't worry, let it be." ”
The actions of the two tonight are indeed at risk of pregnancy, and in this case, he is in a dilemma.
If he was really pregnant, all his plans would be disrupted.
But she couldn't figure out Yu Guanzhi's attitude, was it a temptation? Or is it a whim?
But as a man, he has no choice, the cause has an effect, although he is debauched, but he is not the master who takes off his pants and does not recognize people, otherwise he himself will look down on himself.
Therefore, no matter how big the risk is tonight, no matter how difficult the future of the two after pregnancy is, he follows his heart and leaves the probability of pregnancy to God.
After listening to these 9 words, her body and mind relaxed all of a sudden, and then teased herself, "I'm still a yellow flower girl, if I conceive a baby like this, my mother can't find trouble." ”
Lu An gently combed her hair with her right hand, and said softly: "Whether Auntie is looking for trouble with me or not, I will admit it." ”
Yu Guan's eyes stared at him with waves, and teased him later, "Don't worry, little man, today should be a safe period." ”
Lu An was stunned when he heard this, and didn't want to deal with her anymore, so he pulled up the stone mill again.
Yu Guanzhi's whole body trembled, his right hand was on his face, and he slowly closed his eyes.
After a long time, she suddenly opened her eyes and said, "Little man, it's almost time, let's go take a bath." ”
"So fast?" Lu An's mouth was full of meat and asked vaguely.
Yu Guanzhi brought his right wrist to him.
Luan looked up and fiddled with his watch, which showed that the time was: 4:28
It was still early, but he immediately understood that within 20 minutes, the shop on the other side of the aisle would definitely be lively again, and he would definitely get up to hold a ceremony to enter the incense.
If you want to avoid this wave of people, you only have 20 minutes to take a shower.
He knew that this sister was reserved, and he knew that she didn't want to be bumped into, so he reminded him with difficulty at the moment when the two were most in love.
Thinking of this, in order to take care of her face and maintain her image, Lu An said thoughtfully:
"It's time to get up."
"Hmm."
Luan got up from her and said as he got dressed, "I'll go outside and see if there's anyone in the shower." ”
Yu Guanzhi said yes, his eyes fell on him gently, and he never left for a moment.
After he opened the door and went out, she closed her eyes and was quiet for a long time, and after a long time she found the tissue again, and tore it in three sections and three sections, tearing several sections in a row, and then picked up the tissue with her right hand and retracted it into the quilt.
At this point, all the showers are done, and there is no one in the two showers.
But he was a little speechless, he ran into Lu Qing and Tang Xi when he went out, the two girls were chatting in the corridor whispering, but their eyes were staring at the direction of the door, and they dutifully did their job of protection.
Seeing Lu An open the door and come out, the two women immediately stopped talking and walked over together.
Lu An lowered his voice and said, "I'm about to go to Nanyue Temple for incense, and Sister Yu wants to take a bath." ”
Why Miss Yu wants to take a bath, the two girls know it.
The five people are in one room, and there is only a screen in the middle, no matter how much Mr. Lu and Miss Yu suppress their silence, they still can't help but can't control the overflowing sound when the feelings are strong.
This is also the reason why the three women work together and take turns to stand guard and take turns to rest.
However, the two girls have the ability to see, know what to ask and what to say, and after nodding with him, they pestle directly by the door, waiting for Miss Yu to come out and escort her to take a bath.
The so-called escort is actually standing guard outside the door.
Lu An stood in the aisle for a while, and did not immediately enter the house, this happened tonight, and the two of them did not see each other tonight, and she confessed.
Women, especially women like Sister Yu, need to take care of her feelings in all aspects, if she guesses correctly, this sister's spirit has been greatly impacted, and now she urgently needs a period of buffering, needs to come back to her senses, and then gives her space to clean up her body.
Thinking of the puddle of rice milk, thinking of the ripe peaches, thinking of the quilt soaking wet, thinking of her shy and charming appearance that she suppressed but couldn't suppress under herself, Lu An's blood couldn't stop boiling, and the sense of accomplishment exploded.
This is Yu Guanzhi!
This is Sister Yu!
This is the dream lover of thousands of men!
This is a woman who is willing to give up her life to protect herself, but tonight she returned to herself, and she confessed to herself emotionally!
If those men who have loved him and know her know her, know that she will take the initiative to flirt with herself, will take the initiative to confide in herself, what kind of expression will she have?
I'm afraid my eyes are going to fall to the ground!
The thoughts are wanton, Lu An is happy physically and mentally, and the whole person is about to float!
Just as he was happily enjoying the spiritual additional effects brought by a ceiling-level woman like Yu Guanzhi, the door opened.
A crack was opened.
Yu Guanzhi first poked out half of her head, then glanced at the two women outside the door, and then opened all the doors, and she said to Lu An, who turned around, "You also go to take a bath, and we will buy incense candles and paper packets later." ”
In front of Lu Qing and Tang Xi, she didn't shy away from it now, and directly asked him to take a bath.
What does this mean?
It means that she admitted in disguise that something indescribable happened with Lu An tonight.
It means that she values this relationship, values the man in front of her, and indirectly tells Lu Qing and the third daughter that she will treat Lu An the same as she will treat her in the future.
While saying this, Yu Guan's actions for a second made Lu Qing and Tang Xi stunned.
I saw that she was dusting some change of clothes on her left wrist, all of which belonged to Lu An, and while handing the clothes to him, she didn't forget to tell again: "Finish washing as soon as possible, otherwise the person opposite will get up." ”
"Yes, I know."
Luan took the clothes, happy as a bird.
What is happiness?
That's happiness. In order to show her friendship and importance to the bodyguard, Yu Guanzhi not only talked about it verbally, but also personally helped him find a change of clothes.
Lu Qing and Tang Xi looked at each other, and the two women invariably raised Mr. Lu's level to the highest level, the same level as Miss Yu.
Luan took a quick bath, and although there was rice milk, he quickly rinsed and played.
And Yu Guanzhi is different, obviously twice she felt that she had finished rinsing, but after standing up, she felt that she had to bend down again to wash, and so on several times, she put on her clothes and walked out of the shower room with a little relief.
In fact, today is not a safe period, I said that to Lu An before, just to make him feel at ease and not to let him have any burden in his heart.
For her, it was enough to get the little man's promise of "let it be, I will be responsible", and she had no more ideas.
Hearing a movement at the door, Lu An, who went back to the house first, walked over quickly, picked up Yu Guanzhi and turned around, put her down later, and said seriously, "Sister Yu, thank you." ”
Yu Guanzhi was still immersed in the hug and circle he just had, except for the intimate action that his father had done when he was a child, no one had ever treated her like this, and his emotions were inexplicably rich.
She tilted her head and asked, "Is it still called Sister Yu?" ”
"Guanzhi."
Yu Guanzhi smiled when he heard this, and asked again: "What do you want to thank me?" ”
Lu An blinked, attached his ear to it, and separated the "Xie" into several sentences.
This sentence made Yu Guanzhi like a peach blossom blooming in spring, bowing his head and smiling warmly, and at the same time, his face flushed.
In order to hide her embarrassment, she brushed the green silk behind her right hand, and finally touched the earrings, looked up at his eyes and asked, "I learned the word "shooting" very well, who else have you used it for?" ”
Lu An was not stupid, so he immediately pretended to be stupid, lifted the backpack and said, "It's time, let's go." ”
Yu Guanzhi smiled mysteriously and stared at him, until the man rushed out of the room as if he had fled, then he took his bag and followed.
5 o'clock is probably the watershed of Nanyue Ancient Town, going forward, not to mention a silence, it is also rare to be free; In the future, it can only be described as "shoulder to shoulder, full of voices".
In order to occupy a good open space, many pilgrims got up early and lined up in a long line, gathered around an offering table covered with red cloth, listened to an old man burn incense and chanted, and then chanted in unison.
One thing to say, many old people in these years have a rough cloth and look like they haven't been to much school, but people's singing, the tone and frustration are really good, and they are like an art in the ears, which is very beautiful.
Yu Guanzhi saw this kind of spectacular scene for the first time, so he couldn't take a step forward, and he took a lot of photos driven by curiosity.
In the morning, the streets and alleys were full of such pomp, and the air was filled with the smell of burning sandalwood, which was very good, and after several people had breakfast, they were also busy.
It's almost dawn soon, and there is not much time, but fortunately, the incense candle paper packets that the two of them need are not worried about buying them at all in Nanyue Mountain, and almost every store sells these things.
Yu Guanzhi curiously picked up the paper bag and touched it, and sure enough, as the little man said last night, there was rice paper on the outside, and money paper with copper coin printing on the inside, a thick stack.
Seeing that he bought 54 paper bags in one go, she was surprised and asked, "So many?" ”
Lu An said: "Two people, you and me, are divided into 27 Bodhisattva immortals." ”
Yu Guanzhi helped to mention it, checked it, and it was not as heavy as expected, "Do you want to go back to the room to write the bag?" ”
This bag is to fill in your own name, fill in the name of the Bodhisattva, etc.
Lu An said yes, and then stretched out his hand to him, "The incense paper money for the Bodhisattva cannot be paid on behalf of the Bodhisattva, let alone treated, otherwise it will be mine, and it will not bless you." Wrap incense candles and paper together, give me 33 pieces of 5. ”
"And that kind of statement?"
"That is, if you are kind enough to pay for the old man, it is estimated that people will be anxious with you."
Yu Guanzhi smiled, accurately counted 33 pieces from his bag, and then said, "There is no 5 cents." ”
Lu An fumbled in the bag for a while, and found two five cents, "Let's exchange money." ”
Yu Guanzhi took two five cents, then gave him one piece, and then gave him another five cents to pay.
Next, the five soldiers divided into two ways, and Tang Xi went to buy tickets for the Nanyue Temple.
Lu An returned to the room and began to fill in the "information" with the calligraphy, which was really filling in the information.
The cover of each sachet is divided into three areas, and the name of the Bodhisattva deity is generally filled in large bold characters in the middle. For example: Nanyue Si Tianzhao Holy Emperor.
On the right side of the sachet is the address of the pilgrim's home. For example, on the far right, it is written vertically "Several groups of villages in the former town of Hui County, Xiangnan Province, Mahuang Temple", and then the second column reads "Believer XX and his family", and then the third column reads "Knock on a pillar of Xu Baoxiang".
The area on the left is "begging", such as what wishes pilgrims ask for when they enter the incense, ask for children, wealth, health, peace, and ask for a daughter-in-law.
Finally, there is the date of payment and so on.
After writing his own, when it was his turn to write for Yu Guanzhi, he turned his head sideways and asked, "What do you want?" ”
His eyes swept over the cover of Lu An's sachet one by one, Yu Guanzhi groaned for a while, and said, "It's the same as you." ”
Lu An asked, "Is this what you mean by yourself?" Nothing special? ”
Knowing what he meant, Yu Guanzhi smiled slightly, and said meaningfully: "If you are honest, I will go to the Bodhisattva and ask for it in person." ”
Well, this Comrade Yu Guanzhi is obviously not Yu Guanzhi last night.
As soon as the morning dawned, she seemed to be a different person, last night's charming, weakness and affection were gone, and she had changed back to the original noble and intellectual thousand-pound lady.
In this regard, Lu An had already prepared in his heart and did not have much sense of loss.
After all, last night's lingering was the result of empathy in a special environment, and now that the sky is bright, the two have also separated from the world of the two, and once again integrated into the hustle and bustle of reality.
However, Lu An is very open-minded, just like a pregnancy, he pays attention to going with the flow, not deliberately, not forced, and flowers bloom with their own destiny.
It took about 40 minutes to write the sachet, and when it was almost finished, Tang Xi came back with 5 tickets in his hand.
"Alright, pack up, let's go." When he finished writing the last paper bag, Lu An shook his wrist, which was a little sore, straightened up and said.
Yu Guanzhi pointed downstairs and asked, "Don't hold a ceremony?" ”
Lu An spread his hands, looking helpless: "I want to too, but I won't do that." ”
Yu Guanzhi quipped: "I thought you could do everything, and you didn't know anything." ”
Lu An said: "Guanzhi, you think too highly of me. ”
With a different kind of "Guanzhi", Yu Guanzhi stared at him reservedly, then turned around and left the room with a light smile, and was directly killed.
The hostel where the two are located is not far from Nanyue Temple, go straight for 100 meters, turn left, go straight for another 100 meters, turn right, and walk about 60 meters.
Although it was morning, the road was full of pilgrims, dressed in strange costumes, and there was no end in sight. There are many small roadside stalls, in addition to incense, candles, paper treasures, it is the most souvenirs such as selling bracelets, swords, bodhisattvas, toy pistols, cars, flutes, and erhu.
Seeing that he had been paying attention to the roadside shops and stalls, Yu Guanzhi asked, "Want to buy some back?" ”
"Hmm."
Lu An hummed, and then said: "My little uncle wants the erhu, and those cousins want flutes, bracelets and flutes, but now is not the time, I will talk about it when I come back." ”
"Okay." Yu Guanzhi is also interested in these gadgets, even if he doesn't buy them, they are pleasing to the eye.
When passing by a stall selling hexagrams, Lu An stopped, lowered his head and picked two pairs of hexagrams, and asked the stall owner, "How do you sell this?" ”
"A dollar for a pair." The stall owner replied.
It's a bit expensive, but Lu An was too lazy to reduce the price, so he happily took out 2 yuan, and then stuffed a pair of hexagrams to the woman next to him, explaining: "Later, these paper bags will go to the Nanyue Holy Emperor to divinate one by one, and each sachet will have to wait for the holy hexagram to be sent to the incense burner outside to burn." ”
Yu Guanzhi looked at the 27 sachets in his hand and asked, "Do you want me to do my own hexagram?" ”
Lu An said: "I also fight by myself, the pilgrims you see on the road are basically your own fights, and the time period for divination is the process of you sincerely praying to Nanyue Bodhisattva, which can't fake others." ”
Yu Guanzhi thought that he wouldn't, but as soon as he heard this, he immediately stopped asking, and began to think about what he wanted, and how to learn to say good things when he was waiting for the meeting.
After buying the hexagram, I followed the flow of people, and after a while, I arrived at the gate of Nanyue Temple.
Nanyue Temple has a high status in Jiangnan since ancient times, and is known as the small Forbidden City in Jiangnan. The entire scale of the building is built according to the specifications of the Huang family, with red walls and yellow tiles, covering an area of 120,000 square meters.
How to say this temple, it is very special, there is not only a Buddha's foot temple inside, but also a Taoist palace view, the coexistence of Buddhism and Taoism is forgotten, but the main hall is indeed dedicated to the god of fire, that is, the Holy Emperor of Nanyue.
The incense here is very vigorous, all year round, not only in ancient times there was an emperor who came here to worship thousands of miles away, and now it has become a holy place for the common people to pilgrimage to incense, as a native of Xiangnan, he dares to say so, at least half of the Xiangnan people have come to Nanyue Temple to pray for blessings.
There are three big characters written on the main gate of Nanyue Temple: Lingxing Gate.
Don't look at the simple name, there are only three words horizontally and vertically, but there are only a few places in the country that dare to name it with this name.
Because the temple gate can be crowned with the "Lingxing", it must meet three conditions under the premise of producing talents and being used by the country. The first is the grand scale, and the second is the large number of talents.
The third condition is even more elaborate, and the emperor himself must issue an edict.
And the Nanyue Temple just meets these requirements, so it will be named after the "Lingxing".
Yu Guanzhi looked up, then handed the camera to Lu Qing behind him, pulled Lu An and said, "Take a group photo for us." ”
Lu An was dizzy and muttered in a low voice, "I said Sister Yu, we have already broken the vows last night, can we be sincere today, can we wait until we finish worshipping the Bodhisattva before taking pictures?" ”
Yu Guanzhi's good-looking eyes turned around vividly, only to find that among the hundreds of pilgrims who entered the door together, they were taking pictures themselves, and the others were all reverently checking in from the left entrance.
She stopped filming and pulled him quickly towards the entrance.
Lu An asked, "Do you know it's wrong?" ”
Yu Guanzhi glanced at him, smiled silently, and quickly handed the ticket in his hand to the ticket inspector.
When you enter the door, the first thing you see is the release ponds on the left and right, which are full of coins and occasionally a few copper coins.
A rough sweep, there are no less than tens of thousands of coins, but it is still not as rich as him last night, then he is really generous, and he invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Comrade Guanzhi's release pool.
This filthy thought was so frightened that Lu An quickly snuffed it out, and then secretly muttered "sin, sin, sin".
Yu Guanzhi touched his pocket and found that there were no coins, so he turned his head and asked, "Do you have any coins?" ”
Lu An said yes, and then he took out all the coins on his body, one cent, two cents, and one piece, a total of nine.
Yu Guanzhi asked: "Do you want to exchange money for this?" ”
Lu An replied, "No, I ask you." ”
Yu Guan's eyes flowed, and he smiled and threw the coins into the release pond one by one.
Beyond the release pond, you will see towering pines and cypresses on both sides of the stone road, and you will see the "Kuixing Pavilion" when you walk forward.
Seeing her look up at Huikui Xingge, Lu An acted as a tour guide on the side: "Kui Xing is the head of the civil officials, it is said that the person who is selected by Kui Xing will be connected to the three yuan, that is, Xie Yuan, Hui Yuan and Zhuangyuan, so you can see that there are many parents over there who want their son Jackie Chan to bring their children to worship." ”
Yu Guanqing couldn't help but say, "When I have children in the future, I will bring them here." ”
Lu An answered casually: "Then you have to find a husband first." ”
Hearing this, Yu Guanzhi came over and stared at him with a smile, as if asking: Little man, are you recommending yourself?
I.!
Lu An was speechless, he was really temperless sometimes, and he was really a little unpredictable about this sister.
Many times she is in a state of elegance and nobility, which makes people dare not blaspheme, and sometimes she is surprisingly bold, and she especially likes to tease him on such solemn occasions, and she highlights a vegetable and fun-loving one.
Thinking that there were several confidantes around him, Lu An silently looked away and said:
"Let's go quickly, while there are not many people in the main hall now, go and occupy a place, otherwise we will have to queue up later."
"Okay."
Yu Guanzhi responded well, and then she learned the lesson at the main gate, no longer took pictures, no longer toured the mountains and rivers, and ran straight to the main hall.
Follow the flow of people, cross the Kuixing Pavilion is the south gate, there are three arches side by side, in ancient times, only the emperor and the court officials could walk in the middle, and the people could only walk on both sides.
Passing through the south gate, behind it is the Imperial Tablet Pavilion, also known as the Hyakuju Pavilion, which comes from the 100 different fonts on the eaves around the pavilion.
Because the Nanyue Temple has suffered 6 fires before and after, there is a tablet of "Rebuilding the Nanyue Temple" in the pavilion, which is said to have been written by the Kangxi Emperor himself.
There is a clear record in the Imperial Tablet Pavilion that the Kangxi Emperor appointed Nanyue Hengshan as the main longevity mountain of hundreds of millions of subjects, which is also the origin of the "Shoubi Nanshan" that everyone often says, and the Nanshan here refers to Nanyue Hengshan.
The Imperial Tablet Pavilion is carried by a large stone turtle, in mythology, the big stone turtle is the sixth son of the dragon, the name is Gan Tuan, because it is good at writing and not martial, and good at carrying weight, the ancients believed that the tablet stood on its back, can withstand the vicissitudes of life for a long time without falling, so all dynasties have used it to camel the imperial tablet.
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