Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 101

[Chapter 70: “Double In One” This game is not good…]

The smile in Lin Chengyou’s eyes froze.

Before tonight, he had roughly touched the bottom of the three victimized pregnant women.

The recently killed wife of Rong’an Boshizi, Xiao JiangShi, is a continuation of Rong’an Boshizi Song Jian, who died of difficult childbirth three years ago, and Xiao Jiang’s sister is Jiang’s sister.

It is reported that when Song Jian first married Jiang, he was strongly opposed by his uncle and wife, because Jiang’s grandfather used to serve as an aide under a certain general in Huaixi Province, and although he had the intention to take the exam after coming to Chang’an, he repeatedly failed to do so. Such a person can be described as a cold door.

But Song Jian fell in love with Jiang at first sight, vowing not to marry her, it happened that Peng Zhen’s wife came to Beijing with her husband to report on her duties, after hearing about this, Lady Peng took the initiative to visit Mrs. Rong Amber, saying that the Jiang family and her were distant cousins, and that year in her Huaixi Province, she received the great favor of Jiang’s mother, she had long recognized Jiang’s mother as a sister, and said that Jiang was her niece.

With Lady Peng as a guarantee, the uncle and the lady were slightly loose, and although the Jiang family was not high, they could be regarded as knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and the old two finally agreed to this family affair after seeing the Jiang side with their own eyes.

After becoming a parent, Song Jian and Jiang Clan were in love with glue paint, and it was not long before they gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses. When the children grew to two years old, Jiang Shi became pregnant again, but unfortunately died of difficult childbirth when she was about to give birth, and after a month, the old lady also died of illness.

Because the uncle had no master mother in charge for a long time in the house, when the son’s filial piety expired, he intended to let his son remarry, but Song Jian insisted on refusing to continue the string.

More than a year ago, his wife and sister Xiao Jiang lived in Bofu for a while because of visiting their little nephew, and not long after, Song Jian suddenly visited lao Jian and said that he wanted to ask his wife and sister Xiao Jiang to fill in the house.

According to Yan Sizhi’s return after inquiring, the subordinates of Rong’an Bo Mansion said behind their backs that the reason why Song Jian asked to marry Xiao Jiang was not only because Xiao Jiang was the children’s aunt, but also because she looked like Jiang.

In addition, there are some unbearable rumors, such as xiao Jiang’s family had a head and tail with his brother-in-law during the period when he lived in Bofu, and Song Jian had to go to the door to ask for marriage in order to take care of the reputation of the two… It is also said that Xiao Jiang was already nineteen when he married his brother-in-law, and he refused to marry before because he fell in love with his brother-in-law when he was fifteen or sixteen years old.

The Jiang sisters are all from Huazhou, and xiao Jiang has been married to Rong Amber Province for a whole year, and happened to be six months pregnant at the time of the accident.

The victim of the second case, Shu Liniang, also happened to be from Huazhou, Shu Liniang’s parents died early, married to a fallen scholar in Huazhou at the age of seventeen, last year her husband unfortunately died of illness, Shu Liniang and her in-laws have never been together, and there is no father and brother to rely on, so they have to run to Chang’an’s cousin, this cousin is Shu Changshi of Jingzhao Province, named Shu Wenliang.

Today, Lin Chengyou originally planned to go to Shu Changshi and Zheng Shujie first, in addition to asking them about Shu Liniang’s past in her hometown, she also wanted to know why a good family woman wanted to be another housewife, but unexpectedly her head bumped into Nai Reappearance.

As for the first case…

Because Bai was victimized together with her husband Wang Zangbao, Liu Facao of the Tongzhou capital has been focusing on investigating Wang Zangbao’s side when investigating the background of the victim. For example, whether Wang Zangbao had a vendetta against people, why did he abandon his family business in the same state to come to Chang’an… As for Bai’s personality, he may have had a grudge with people in the past, but there is no mention of it in the case file.

All he knew was that Bai was twenty-two years old and five months pregnant.

After reviewing the three cases, the doubts in Lin Chengyou’s heart could not be suppressed, according to Zhuang Mu’s words, before the accident, Zhuang Mu could not have investigated the three pregnant women who were victimized?

This was somewhat at odds with what he had originally envisioned.

After Zhuang Mu said that sentence, he stopped speaking, Lin Chengyou waited for a while, got up and went to the table to pick up a pot of shrimp and toad ling, lifted the pot back to the iron cage, and loosened the bindings on Zhuang Mu’s body one by one, leaving only footcuffs and handcuffs.

After doing all this, Lin Chengyou personally poured a large bowl of shrimp and toad ling, put the bowl in front of Zhuang Mu, and smiled: “Eat and drink like this to be happy.”

Zhuang Mu swallowed his saliva, ignoring the dried blood on his hands, picked up the bowl without saying a word and drank it, grunted and drank the wine, and couldn’t wait to put the bowl on the ground, his eyes flashed with greedy light, waiting for Lin Chengyou to pour him a second bowl.

After drinking three bowls of wine in one breath, Zhuang Mucai seemed to be relieved, picked up the soup bowl on the other side, buried his head in the bowl of steaming pills, after eating and drinking enough, he was not in a hurry to put the bowl down, only silently raised his eyes, from the top of the bowl to look at Lin Chengyou.

He took a deep look at Lin Chengyou, put down the bowl, nodded his head and said in a deep voice, “I am not very old, but I can hold my breath like this.” Lin Chengyou smiled

and waited patiently.

Zhuang Mumo paused: “I can tell you everything I know, provided that you have to prepare what I want: two hundred gold, a fast horse, a place that will guarantee me a smooth exit from Tongguan – and let me go.”

Lin Chengyou laughed, “Your excellency dares to ask for a price.”

Zhuang Mu pulled the corners of his mouth: “These four points are difficult for others, but they are easy for you.” You should have expected that the murderer will soon commit another crime, but this person is too cunning, you Dali Temple has not found a useful clue, and I have really dealt with the real murderer. Lin Chengyou calmly said, “The

real murderer is willing to let you be caught by our Dali Temple, and I am sure that the clues you provide must not be found on his head, and a person who may not be helpful in judging the case asks people how to agree to these unreasonable demands you put forward.”

Zhuang Mu sneered, “Although I don’t know the true identity of the murderer, I have known more than you dali temple in a year in the past month, and I think you know this very well, so you will repeatedly run to prison to get good wine and good dishes to entertain me.”

Lin Chengyou said, “If you don’t want anything else, you can continue to refuse to eat and drink, and be willing to accept the wine and dishes I receive, doesn’t that mean that you also desperately want to deal with the murderer?”

Zhuang Mu stagnated.

Lin Chengyou poured another bowl of wine for Zhuang Mu: “I said earlier that you want to take revenge with an arrow by the hand of Dali Temple, and I want to use the clues you provide to find the murderer, you and I take what we need, but the things you know alone are not enough to find out who the murderer is in a short period of time.”

Zhuang Mu looked at the wine in the bowl with a complicated face.

Lin Chengyou smiled: “To arrest the murderer, it is not enough to tell what you know, you must at least cooperate with the Dali Temple to make a bureau, if this bureau can successfully catch the murderer, the four you said-”

Zhuang Mu stared closely at Lin Chengyou, but Lin Chengyou deliberately hesitated, and after a moment he smiled and bowed his head: “Maybe you can try it.”

Zhuang Mu looked slightly relieved, but there was a hint of hesitation in his eyes.

Lin Chengyou looked up at him: “You should know that your chances are not much, once the real murderer takes the lead in finding out the person behind your scenes, no matter how to set up the situation, it is useless, then you are useless to Dali Temple, do you guess I will agree to your conditions?”

Zhuang Mu gritted his teeth, took a sip of the wine bowl and drank it all, and suddenly said: “On the first day of March, one of my friends suddenly asked me to send me a message saying that one of his subordinates had lost an important object in the field three years ago, and last month this object suddenly appeared in Tongzhou, and the friend suspected that the thief was in Tongzhou at the moment, so I immediately went to catch the object and the thief back to Chang’an.”

Lin Chengyou did not say a word, this so-called “friend” thought that he was the real master of Zhuang Mu’ family.

“When I arrived in Tongzhou, the object disappeared in the city hall, and I found an inn in the most lively neighborhood in Tongzhou to secretly investigate the matter.”

“What kind of object?” Why do you know it all at once? Lin Chengyou said coldly.

Zhuang Mu was silent.

Lin Chengyou sneered, “Even if you don’t.”Say, I can go to the same state capital for a few days to find out, why waste each other’s energy.

Zhuang Mu shrugged his eyelids and said, “It is a Qiankun Bagua mirror, the mirror surface is not round wheel-shaped, but crescent moon shaped, known as the Moon Shuo Mirror.”

Lin Chengyou raised a long eyebrow, and it was “Yue Shuo” again.

“This mirror is yin and bright on one side, the yang side is red, and the yin side is dark, and it is said that there are demon beasts hidden in this mirror, and as long as the yin is used to face the newly dead person, it can scatter the soul of the person, even if the person turns into a powerful ghost on the spot, he will forget some things before he was killed, and from then on he will become a puppet and be willing to be at the mercy of the person who holds the mirror.”

Lin Chengyou was secretly worried, it sounded very similar to Shi Gong’s Endless Mirror, but Shi Gong’s mirror was illuminated by the anger of injustice. All objects or corpses that have been contaminated with evil spirits can only be known by using this infinity mirror, and the mirror that Zhuang Mu said can draw people’s souls is obviously a harmful magic weapon created by magic.

Suddenly, I thought that this mirror’s style of manipulating and torturing ghosts was somewhat similar to Peng Yugui’s seven-man guiding seal that tortured The Tian couple, but the evil art of the seven-mangui guiding seal had long been swept away by the emperor’s uncle’s decree, and there were only some broken versions circulating in the world today.

About fifteen or sixteen years ago, when the Emperor’s uncle heard a courtier report on a tragic case of using evil arts to harm people, the Emperor’s uncle was greatly touched, vowed to sweep away the evil door secret techniques that harmed people in the world in one fell swoop, entrusted the master to deploy this matter, and ordered the Various Taoist Temples and the Great Hidden Temple in Chang’an to fully cooperate.

With the cooperation of a group of monks, Shi Gong committed adultery and secretly cast a net, and spent four or five years before and after, finally netting all the disciples of Chang’an evil arts at that time, confiscating more than a dozen magic secret books and destroying dozens of harmful magic weapons at the same time.

Afterwards, Shi Gong locked the secret books of the evil door in the treasure cabinet of the Qingyun Temple. This is nothing more than fear that there are still many disciples in various states and counties who are pregnant with evil arts, and in case these people use magic to cause trouble, they can also understand the principle of evil magic harming people in time through these secret books.

He had been messing around in Qingyun Temple since he was a child, and he had already pried open the lock and secretly read those few secret books, one of which was the “Soul Sutra” that recorded the Seven Mangs Guiding Seal, and it was after he read this book that he knew that there were such powerful soul restraint techniques in the world.

And the secret book that recorded the evil magic of “Absolute Love” was also something he had inadvertently seen at that time.

Just thinking about it, I listened to Zhuang Mu: “This mirror has always been extremely resentful because it has swallowed the remnants of the ghostly spirits, and every cloudy day, the mirror surface will spontaneously flow out of the dirty blood, if the mirror holder carries it on his body, he is often stained with blood and does not know it, this matter is only known to my friend and several of his friends, and the thief who stole the mirror does not seem to know.” The reason why my friend knew that the mirror had appeared in Tongzhou was because several merchants from the same prefecture were talking in the Chang’an liquor store, saying that last time when a Taoist priest was walking in the city, he poured blood from his chest and abdomen in a dignified manner, and it was strange that there were no wounds on the person’s face, and after being reminded, the Daoist priest immediately hurried away…” Lin Chengyou suddenly said: “This mirror is so evil, there is nothing to pay attention to when it hurts people?”

Zhuang Mu took a sip of wine: “Quite exquisite.” Whether it is to use this mirror to ‘detain the soul’, or ‘to break the soul’, it is extremely harmful to yin morality, if the mirror holder does not want to damage his own cultivation, before using the mirror to harm people, it is best to first find out whether the victim himself did evil things before he was born, if not a good person, the fate of a soul incomplete can also be regarded as cause and effect, then the evil retribution to the mirror holder will be less, so the mirror holder often only provokes the evil person.

Lin Chengyou thought for a moment and said, “That’s how you decided that the three victimized pregnant women were not good people?”

Zhuang Mu sneered, “This murderer is not harming a single person, but several pregnant women who are pregnant with Liujia, even if I am a scoundrel, I also think that such things are too harmful, if that person does not want to take the whole body to cultivate, he will naturally consider it carefully before starting.”

Lin Chengyou was silent: “How did the murderer know what these three victimized women had done?”

Zhuang Mu said, “I don’t know, but the mirror bleeding happened a month ago, indicating that the thief had already arrived in the same state, but within this month there was no bizarre mystery, so it can be seen that this person did not pick a pregnant woman at first, why did he target Bai after a month, it should be determined that killing Bai’s cultivation was the least damage to his own cultivation.”

Lin Chengyou was silent, and the murderer not only killed Bai Shi, but also killed her husband Wang Zangbao.

Be cautious when choosing a pregnant woman, and when you kill the king’s treasure with your bare hands, you will not be afraid of harming your cultivation?

According to Liu Facao, the couple gave up their family business to come to Chang’an because they had offended the local goons.

This point has long made him feel strange, the five-cooked house opened by Wang Zangbao and his wife was handed down from the hands of his father, and had been opened in the local area for decades before, just because cockfighting offended a few goons, even the ancestral industry did not want it?

Unfortunately, in the past few days, he has focused all his attention on the Yueshuo Tongjun, and has not bothered to carefully investigate the various unusual features of the couple themselves.

“I checked for a few days without any clues, I was going to return to Chang’an to resume my life, just at this time, the inn where I stayed suddenly had two traveling merchants say that on the way into the city in the morning, I suddenly saw a Taoist monk’s Robe stained with blood, and others wanted to remind them, but the Daoist priest quickly disappeared. I found out that the place was at the foot of Wuji Mountain in the suburbs, and I was busy rushing to Wuji Mountain. Unexpectedly, on the night of staying, there was a murder at the nearby Juan Inn, and it was a young couple who died.

“After returning to Chang’an, I went to ask my friend for my life, and when my friend heard about it, he said that the murder was most likely committed by the thief, but why the thief wanted to kill the couple, the friend did not understand, and said that I had been in the same state for so long, maybe I had aroused the vigilance of the man, in order not to expose my identity, he told me to lie dormant for a while before returning to the pig iron line.”

Lin Chengyou: “But as far as I know, you have not been dormant, and on the day Shu Liniang was killed, you ran to Chun’an Lane again.”

Zhuang Mu laughed coldly twice, “It’s not because I’ve caught the thief’s plan.” I guess this thief has been eyeing me as early as the same state. I was in the light, he was in the dark, and he wanted to find out who had sent me to check on him, so as soon as he returned to Chang’an, he began to plan against me.

Zhuang Mu listened to the words of his “friend” and went to Chongrenfang to find a hostel with many foreign vendors to stay in. One day, I really felt depressed, so I went downstairs to find a liquor store to drink, drank alone for a little while, and then heard two children outside talking, saying that they saw that there was blood on the Taoist priest who had just passed by, and guessed whether the Daoist was injured.

Zhuang Mu hurriedly came out of the liquor store and chased forward along the crowd for a while, and sure enough, he saw a yellow-robed Daoist, the Daoist priest flashed into an alley, and when he came out again, he had already changed into a clean Daoist robe, and Zhuang Mu followed him silently, so he followed Chun’an Lane.

The Daoist entered the alley, and disappeared in a flash, Zhuang Mu wandered a few steps at the alley, failed to find the trace of the Daoist, but was stared at several times by the people of the alley, Zhuang Mu felt that something was wrong in his heart, and had to leave in a hurry.

On the second day, I heard that a pregnant woman had died in Chun’an Lane.

Only then did I realize that the pair of children at the door of the liquor store had probably been instructed to say those words, and I went back to the door of the inn to look for them, and sure enough, I did not see the pair of children again, and I knew that I had exposed my hiding, and if I went down in a panic to look for my friend, I would undoubtedly have fallen for the thief’s treacherous plan. So I didn’t dare to make a fuss, and just as Miyugui’s pig iron line opened the door, I returned to the pig iron line to continue working.

Lin Chengyou pondered for a moment, the murderer that Teng Yuyi saw in the spice shop that day was short in size, and his body was about the same size as Zhuang Mu.

“Is the Daoist you saw at the door of the liquor store the same person as the Daoist priest you heard about in the same state?” Is this person tall or short? “The

Daoist did a transfiguration, but the merchants in the same state said that the Daoist priest was very short, and the one I saw at the door of the liquor store was about the same size as me.”

Lin Chengyou nodded, adult men of such a short size are not common, it seems that it is probably the same person.

“On the day Lady Rong’an Boshizi was killed in the spice shop, why did you go to the back alley of the spice shop?”

Zhuang Mu let out a cold snort, his face gloomy.

He stayed in the pig iron shop for two days, the more he thought about it, the more unreliable he became, he wanted to send a letter to his “friend”, and he was afraid of being intercepted by the thief, thinking about it, he planned to go to the gambling house to find a pippi, ostensibly let this pippi go out of the city for him, and actually let this pippi help him deliver a letter without knowing it.

He went to the gambling house to gamble twice, and found that there were many tails stalking behind his back, including Wu Hou and several martial arts masters from unknown sources.

Zhuang Mu had not done anything wrong in recent days, and he had some doubts in his heart, and was secretly pondering countermeasures, when he suddenly saw a yellow-robed Daoist man leaving the gambling house in a hurry, as if he had inadvertently seen him, and he was frightened to turn around and leave.

Zhuang Mu hesitated a little, today’s Daoist figure was much taller and stronger than the previous Daoist, but the martial arts were obviously much worse, and this Daoist saw him so flustered, indicating that there were no accomplices around this person.

In order to shake off the tails behind him, he deliberately cut a short path out of the dark passage, injured the few Wuhou who were blocked in the dark passage, and chased them to the street in one breath.

At that time, it was the time when there were the most people in Xishi, and the Daoist priest was mixed in the crowd, and he was not conspicuous at all.

Zhuang Mu followed the Daoist priest into a secluded narrow alley, and the Daoist seemed to have finally noticed that there was someone behind him, and suddenly ran wildly, but before he could run a few steps, the hem of the person’s Daoist robe was covered with a blood stain.

Zhuang Mu’s eyes lit up, no wonder this Daoist priest was so panicked, the moon mirror that the “friend” was looking for seemed to be on this Daoist, he chased after it, and the Daoist became more and more confused, frightened to take something out of his body and casually throw it into the wooden barrel in the alley.

Zhuang Mu immediately stopped, the barrel contained half a bucket of blood, for a moment he could not see whether there was a mirror inside, he had to bend down and dip his two arms into the blood to fish, fished for a while without catching anything, suddenly realized that he may have been deceived.

He broke out in a cold sweat and was busy leaving the narrow alley, when suddenly someone in the ashram behind the window screamed, listening to the movement, it was clear that something big was wrong inside.

He was frightened for a moment, he was about to run up the wall, and suddenly someone on the wall pulled the rope, and the wooden barrel filled with blood was quickly lifted up in front of his eyes, zhuang Mu’s face changed greatly, and he remembered that his arm was stained with blood, but he was not allowed to wipe it at all, and Lin Chengyou appeared.

This series of events happened in a very short moment, and each step was calculated in the slightest.

Lin Chengyou looked at Zhuang Mu in the cage fixedly, even if he was not there that day, the murderer would lead WuHou to the scene, and as long as WuHou saw Zhuang Mu with blood on his hands, he would report the “facts” he had witnessed to dali temple, so that the murderer could still achieve his goal.

Whether Zhuang Mu was caught on the spot or a notice of wantedness was posted afterwards, dali temples and county officials would investigate Zhuang Mu and the main family behind him.

The murderer not only successfully obtained the three Yueshuo Tongjun, but also sent Zhuang Mu to the front of the Dali Temple, and he could reap the benefits of the fisherman without moving.

Thinking of this, Lin Chengyou’s eyes darkened a few points, this person seemed to have some understanding of his ability, as if he knew that as long as Zhuang Mu fell into his hands, it was just around the corner to find out the main family behind Zhuang Mu’s scenes.

Even zhuang mu, who is regarded as a “pawn”, has a personality and what kind of reaction he will make after the incident, this person has no bad score.

Judging from this point of view, this person is no longer a smart person at the level of Peng Yugui, but a strategic talent who can line up troops and deploy generals.

Lin Chengyou thought back and forth for a long time, got up in a deep voice, and re-picked up the whole thing in his mind, he turned back to look at Zhuang Mu: “Did your ‘friend’ say that the mirror appeared in the same state on what day?” “The

first day of February.”

Lin Chengyou stroked his chin, Bai Shi was killed on the fifth day of March, more than a month after the Moon Shuo Mirror appeared in Tongzhou.

This is not difficult to understand, the heavy suppression in tongzhou, the murderer should not be far away from Chang’an to bring the Yueshuo Tongjun for feeding, so the first Yueshuo Tongjun can only be taken in the same prefecture, but the murderer is not familiar with the local area, so it took a lot of time just to select the victim pregnant women.

The murderers either managed to transport this object to Chang’an, or they were afraid of frequent crimes in tongzhou to arouse suspicion, so they had to rush back to Chang’an to seek the next Yueshuo Tongjun.

What puzzled him was that after only twenty days, the murderer targeted and killed Shu Liniang.

Chang’an population is prosperous, pregnant women are countless, Shu Liniang is Zheng Shu’s “other housewife”, hidden in Chun’an Lane, has always lived in simplicity, after learning that she is pregnant, Shu Liniang because she wants to stay with Zheng Shu for a long time by giving birth to a child, it is even more delicate.

How can a woman who does not leave the door know that she is not a “good person”?

Unless……

Unless the murderer knew Shu Liniang in the past, even if she hid in Chun’an Lane, the murderer could find the door with no mistake.

After killing Shu Liniang, the murderer killed Rong An Bo Shizi’s wife Xiao Jiang in Xishi only one day.

A day’s work is enough to find out what a person has done in the past, which shows that the murderer has already thought that the next one is Xiao Jiang before killing Shu Liniang.

No matter how capable the murderer is, it is impossible for him to know in such a short period of time what Shu Liniang was in the past, and he also knows what evil Xiao Jiang has done, so in this way, the murderer either knows the details of the two from a certain population, or the murderer himself is well versed in the character of the two.

Lin Chengyou had a flash of white light in his head, and the time he was preparing to kill Xiao Jiang Clan was the shortest, would it mean that this person was the most familiar with Xiao Jiang Clan?

And this may be the only flaw left by the murderer.

Zhuang Mu took a sip of wine and looked down at the wine cup and said, “What, this bureau is not easy to do, right?”

Lin Chengyou turned his head to look at him and smiled, “It’s not easy to do, but you have to do it.” He pondered

for a moment, then re-tied the chain to Zhuang Mu and said before leaving: “Wait first, wait until I have confirmed a few things, and then tell you how to cooperate with the game.” ***

In the case room, Lin Chengyou briefly said the conversation just now.

Yan Ji was stunned: “This is simply unexpected… However, in this way, the murderer should not commit another crime. The pregnant women in Chang’an City have basically been recorded now, and the murderer’s slight move I will know immediately, the murderer can not investigate the background of the pregnant woman in detail, naturally there is no way to start.

Lin Chengyou said, “Before it was before, now it is now, the weight is already in the world, according to the situation of my dealings with this thing today, the yin power of this thing has not been restored, if the murderer wants to disturb Chang’an with the help of the endurance, he must seek the next Yueshuo Tongjun as soon as possible. Xiao Jiang’s family may be the key point of the whole case, I first went to find Rong Amber Shizi Song Jian. Yan

Jizhi hurriedly releasedThe scroll in his lower hand: “Let me join Lin Commentator, and when I get to Rong Amber Mansion, I will make a record.” ***

Rong Amber House.

The steward led Lin Chengyou and the others inside, and said, “Uncle Has been in poor health recently, and he has rested early, and Shizi is still a director of the outer study.”

Lin Chengyou looked around as he walked, and the corpse of Xiao Jiang was still parked at Dali Temple, but Rong Amber Mansion was already plain white, with white lanterns hanging under the veranda and eaves, and people under it were also dressed in musu.

The next person led the two people around the corner, and a handsome man of twenty or thirty years old came in front of them, it was Song Jian, the son of Rong Anbo.

Song Jian described as gaunt, his eyes were full of sorrow, although he was not wearing plain clothes, but the jade pendant fan pendant around his waist was not worn at all, he should have heard the return of the next person, specially came to welcome guests, saw Lin Chengyou in the distance, and strode over.

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