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Chapter 7 of 75

CH 7

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Opposite to Xin Yuan Shan, a couple lived in the house next to Shao Feng's house.

When Shen Tingshuang gave the apricots for free earlier, the wife felt that the origin was unknown, so she threw the apricots aside. Then when she was about to threw them away, she found that the apricots smelled good, so she kept it in the living room.

Today the husband came back from work and his wife was still cooking in the kitchen. He slumped on the sofa. He felt dry and thirsty, but too lazy to get up and pour water. When he smelled the fragrant apricots beside him, he took one.

The apricots left for a few days were softer than when they were delivered.

With a light peel, the skin fell off, and the husband took a bite. The mellow taste made him take a deep breath, if he had to say, he felt like the apricot had something added.

It must be sugar, but he also knew that even if sugar was added, the taste would not be so pure.

The husband ate the rest of the apricots in one breath. When the wife brought out the dishes, she found that her husband had eaten the apricots that were set aside. She asked in surprise, "How can you eat them?"

The husband said, "This apricot is really delicious!" The husband was about to let his wife taste it, only to find that he had finished eating all the apricots unknowingly.

"Really?" the wife asked.

"Will I lie to you? Although it has been left for a few days, it does not affect its moisture at all. It is really delicious." Not much was delivered, and hefelt like he was still in a good mood after eating.

The wife looked at the apricot peels and kernels piled up in the trash can. Her husband liked to eat, but he was very particular about food. No matter how expensive it was, he wouldn’t take a second bite if it didn’t taste good.

Now, he said that this apricot was delicious, then it must be very delicious.

After eating the apricots just now, when served rice cooked by his wife, the husband obviously has no more appetite. He put down his chopsticks and said, "I think someone in Xin Yuan Shan is selling apricots, you can buy them tomorrow and try them."

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Shen Tingshuang didn't know that the apricots she sent were eventually eaten. She only knew that at midnight, the task came again: "Please have 32 people eat the fruits you planted within 12 hours."

Yesterday, it was so easy with people from Li Ying’s company eating; it won’t be so easy today.

Early in the morning, the old customer Shao Feng arrived first. He saw the peach next to him, and it was big and ruddy: "There are new fruits! How much is a catty?" Shen Tingshuang hadn't set the price yet, so when Shao Feng asked, she fell into silent thought.

After spending a few days together, Shao Feng also knew Shen Tingshuang’s temperament: "You can price ten yuan a catty for your peaches."

Shen Tingshuang: "Okay, it’s ten yuan a catty."

Shao Feng weighed two catties of peaches, Hongmei also followed, and when she saw the peaches, she reacted like Shao Feng: "There are new peaches today, how much is it?"

Shao Feng saw that Shen Tingshuang was busy, so he left first. This meeting, the wife who lived opposite him came too. Yesterday her husband kept talking about how delicious this apricot was. She got up early this morning.

Hongmei saw her and said hello: "Eh, Jiang Yu, you also come to buy apricots."

"Yeah, you also come to buy apricots?" They are all from the same village, so Jiang Yu knows that Hongmei's children never eat fruit. Their family was also upset about their children not eating fruit.

"Yeah, my little treasure likes it." Hongmei feels happy that it can solve the problem of little treasure not eating fruit. She was worried that little treasure would get tired of eating too many apricots. She didn't expect that red peaches would be available today.

Jiang Yu was very surprised: "Your child likes to eat this?"

Hongmei chose the peaches and handed them to Shen Tingshuang, saying, "Yes, the fruits sold by this girl are really delicious, I will go back first." Today was peaches maybe her little treasure would like it more. Thinking of this, Hongmei wanted to take the fruit home quickly.

Seeing Hongmei’s reaction, Jiang Yu remembered what her husband said yesterday, and finally bought a catty of apricots and a catty of peaches.

When this wave of people left, only ten people ate the fruit grown by Shen Tingshuang, which was still a little bit shockingly far away from the target mission of 32 people.

At about nine o'clock, some people came over and Shen Tingshuang recognized them. It was Li Ying and the head of her department yesterday. There was also a new person that Shen Tingshuang never seen.

When Lu Minghui saw Shen Tingshuang, he first greeted her, and then introduced: "My colleague, Sun Ping."

After that, he said to Sun Ping: "This is what I told you, Miss Shen who grows good fruits." Sun Ping face showed surprise seeing Shen Tingshuang before finally automatically responded to Lu Minghui: "Hello, Miss Shen."

Lu Minghui was on the phone last night with the Sun Ping, He said to go to Xin Yuan Shan today, where the fruit is especially good, and next supply them to the supermarket.

Just now on the way to Xin Yuan Shan, Sun Ping was very curious about how delicious this fruit to make Manager Lu so concerned.

Sun Ping has also been guessing it can only be a middle-aged man that can grow delicious fruits, but when he saw Shen Tingshuang, he discovered that he had guessed wrong.

The other person was not middle-aged, plus she still looks so good-looking.

It was too far from the image in his heart, so it's no wonder that it took him a long time to respond.

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Lu Minghui felt that Shen Tingshuang was very sincere. She packed two big bags of fruit yesterday, and everyone in their department received at least ten catties.

In addition to his separately bought fruits, Lu Minghui also reserved a catty of apricots and peaches.

After keeping only his personally bought fruit, he took the catty of apricots and peaches to the vice president's house in charge of their department.

The department where Lu Minghui and Li Ying work was called the Property Management Department, and their company has a large supermarket chain called Bailian.

On the team building, Lu Minghui fell in love with the fruits Shen Tingshuang grew.

He believed that once Shen Tingshuang’s fruits were put on the shelves of their Bailian supermarket, the supermarket’s sales will surely rise sharply.

So Lu Minghui went to the vice president to talk about this.

Originally, when there were new products to be put on the supermarket shelves, Lu Minghui arrange it directly, especially for ordinary produce such as fruits.

Therefore, the vice president did not understand why Lu Minghui complicated the matter. After taking a bite of the apricot, the doubt in the vice president's heart was completely solved. He said: "You can do it, this apricot, let them set the price for ten yuan a catty, peaches cost 20 yuan a catty!"

The vice president turned his head fast, knowing that with such delicious fruits they should not worry about selling, especially many consumers think expensive things are good.

After the vice president ate the apricots and peaches, the smile on his face never stopped, always boasting that Lu Minghui was good in business.

Coming out of the vice president’s house, Lu Minghui felt that his future was bright. Although Shen Tingshuang currently only has two kinds of fruits, he has the confidence to grow the varieties. In the future, Shen Tingshuang can grow a variety of delicious fruits.

When he returned home, Lu Minghui found that the fruits he brought back were gone, and all that was left was a table full of fruit peels.

His wife and daughter were whining to buy more.

Lu Minghui repeatedly promised that he would bring back more.

So, when the idea was still fresh, Lu Minghui took Sun Ping, the manager of Bailian, to Xin Yuan Shan.

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Seeing that Shen Tingshuang was not busy, Lu Minghui explained his intention: "Our company has a supermarket chain, Bailian, and we want to cooperate with you to put your fruits on our supermarkets for sale."

Shen Tingshuang way of thinking was different from them, what she thought in her mind was: "Are there many people buying it?" After all, it is a chain supermarket, and there should be more people going to shop than Xin Yuan Shan area.

"Of course." Their Bailian supermarket may not be among the top 500 in the world, but it must be among the top 500 in the country.

After listening, Shen Tingshuang immediately agreed: "Then that’s OK."

Lu Minghui was stunned. He obviously didn't expect Shen Tingshuang to agree to his request so quickly. After all, if they cooperate, the two parties have to talk about their needs and prices. There was still a contract to be signed, but seeing that Shen Tingshuang is young and probably inexperienced, he can understand.

However, the other party is sincere, and he can't be too demanding: "Then, we will collect fruits at 7 o'clock every morning, and the price will be based on what you have. Apricots are 5 yuan a catty and peaches are 10 yuan a catty."

Shen Tingshuang: "No problem."

Lu Minghui brought a car: "How much do you have now? We will buy them all today."

Sun Ping on the side finally reacted: "Can I taste it first?"

Shen Tingshuang was wishing for someone to finally taste it, picked up an apricot, peeled it neatly, and handed it to Sun Ping.

Sun Ping took the apricot. The goods on the shelves of their supermarket have to go through layers of screening. Even as a manager’s recommendation, it is still the same. Although Lu Minghui has spoken and this cooperation can be considered done deal, he still has to try it.

He just saw the apricots. In terms of appearance, they are indeed much better than the existing apricots in their supermarket. It seems that these apricots were only brought down to the mountain for sale after careful picking. It's all about the same size, with reddish yellow color, it looks very nice.

After one bite, Sun Ping almost bit his tongue. Lu Minghui was personally responsible for this. This apricot was too delicious. After one apricot was eaten, Sun Ping couldn't help saying: "As what Brother Lu said, everything you have now. Can we buy all of it?"

Lu Minghui on the side showed a face I had expected your reaction a long time ago.

Shen Tingshuang: "There are some more, but however many you need I can pick for you."

Sun Ping cannot wait to put these fruits in the supermarkets: "That will be great, do we need to help you?"

One peach tree, after watering with spiritual energy, can bear about 500 catties of peaches. There are more apricot trees, so apricots can bear at least over 800 catties.

Although Shen Tingshuang now has spiritual energy and has great strength, a basket can only hold up to 50 catties of fruits. After picking these fruits, she has to go back and forth several times. Thinking of this, Shen Tingshuang said: "You just drive the car up directly. When I got to the fruit tree, I picked the fruit and put it in the car."

Lu Minghui: "Okay!"

Lu Minghui drove an off-road vehicle. The trunk and back seat were empty and could hold a lot of fruit.

It just so happened that there were some big bags on the car to hold fruits: "You get in the car and lead the way."

Under the guidance of Shen Tingshuang, the three quickly arrive next to the apricot forest.

Shen Tingshuang pointed to the outermost apricot tree: "Just pick these apricots, the rest are not yet mature."

Yesterday, after Li Ying and his team building activities ended, Shen Tingshuang watered the rest of the apricot trees with her spiritual energy. In this way, it seemed to outsiders that the fruits on the apricot trees were almost all ripe, but only when they got closer would they find that there were many small immature fruits inside.

To Lu Minghui and Sun Ping they all looked all ripe, but Shen Tingshuang was the owner of this mountain after all. They still listened to what she said. Besides, this tree only can give hundreds of catties of fruit. They didn’t bring a truck today. So it is enough.

Shen Tingshuang has recovered 5% of her spiritual veins and can water a whole tree at a time, but it takes two hours to recover her spiritual energy. She only watered a peach tree this morning.

The spiritual energy was almost restored. While Lu Minghui and the others were picking apricots, Shen Tingshuang watered an apricot tree again, and then picked all the fruits on it.

While picking apricots, Sun Ping happily asked, "Brother Lu, how did you find this treasure place." In a remote place like Xin Yuan Shan, Bailian Supermarket has always supply fresh seasonal vegetables on the shelves every day, but he never heard that there is such a place like Xin Yuan Shan.

Lu Minghui: "It was also found by people from the department looking for the team building place."

Sun Ping gave a thumbs up.

The three of them cooperated and quickly picked the apricots, and then went to the peach tree to continue picking peaches.

Sun Ping was picking the peaches, and was so tempted to take a bite. He immediately suppressed his gluttony and turned around, such delicious fruits should be put on their shelves.

Sun Ping felt much honored at this moment.

After picking the fruits, all three of them took another half an hour to weigh the fruits and put them on the car.

The apricots are 900 catties and the peaches are 500 catties. Sun Ping directly paid 9,500 yuan to Shen Tingshuang.

Even though the supermarket usually paid out payment once a month or once a week, but the two parties did not discuss a specific agreement yet. Sun Ping thought the fruit was too delicious, so he paid for it first, and Lu Minghui kept muttering next to him.

He went out in a hurry in the morning and didn't bring the contract.

After Shen Tingshuang sent Lu Minghui and the others away, prompt from the system came: "There are 60 minutes from the end of the mission, currently host task completion progress is 31.25%, if the mission fails, the spiritual veins will be deducted 6%."

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Authors have something to say:

Ah, this chapter is quite fat. .

I apologize to all the little angels, it’s been a long time since I have been writing~~~

Bow~

Now Shen Tingshuang hoped that Lu Minghui and the others can sell the fruit as soon as possible.

The nearest Bailian Supermarket to Xin Yuan Shan was 45-minute drive away.

Lu Minghui and Sun Ping felt that they were very lucky today. They hadn't encountered a traffic jam, and they almost always encountering green lights. So it only took them 30 minutes to reach the nearest Bailian.

When Sun Ping set off from Xin Yuan Shan, he directly called and told the person in charge of the supermarket here.

Therefore, the delivery personnel of the supermarket had been waiting in the back long ago, and had prepared several racks for the goods.

Seeing the car arrived, everyone hurried to move the fruits. The fruits totaling more than one thousand catties were a lot for the three people at Shen Tingshuang’s, but the supermarket had a large number of employees. Everyone moved the fruit into the supermarket in just one trip.

The salespersons were also ready to take their place. The fruits had just been placed in the supermarket, and they began to pick the fruits and put them on the shelves.

There are many people visiting the supermarket at this time. Xiao Liu was one of them. She saw a staff member placing apricots and peaches on the shelf.

These two fruits were just picked from the tree at a glance, and they looked very fresh.

Xiao Liu looked at the above listed price again, apricots were 10 yuan a catty, and the peaches next to it were 20 yuan a catty.

Look at the other apricots not far away, only 5 yuan per catty, but when she looked at the comparison, she found that the apricots at 10 yuan looked much better.

Xiao Liu weighed the apricots and peaches half a catty each.

There was a small crowd of people coming into the supermarket at noon. After queuing to check out, Xiao Liu finally walked out of the supermarket. She sighed that she would never come to the supermarket again during this time period.

Smelling the fruit scent coming from her bags, Xiao Liu took an apricot out of it, took a bite, and then turned around and walked back. She didn't expect this apricot to be so delicious!

I made a mistake, why buy so little!

There were not a few people who have the same idea as Xiao Liu. Many people have the attitude of just giving a try, and when they tasted it, they find it delicious, and then come back to buy more.

As a result, the apricots and peaches bought from Shen Tingshuang were sold out before three in the afternoon.

Sun Ping immediately asked the staff to vigorously promote these two kinds of fruits, and the advertisements of apricots and peaches were scrolled on the LED screen at the supermarket entrance.

As the head of the company's property management department, Lu Minghui went back to discuss with the marketing department. The next marketing catalogues need to have apricots and peaches.

Of course, as a gift, Lu Minghui also brought a pound of apricots and peaches to their department.

The people in the marketing department were also dedicated. They took photos of the fruits first. They were going to choose carefully, but they found that just casually taking picture of the apricot and a peach would look great.

"Old Lu is not bad." Everyone thought that Lu Minghui had carefully selected the fruits brought to ease their workload.

The photo was taken quickly, and someone took a peach and fed it into his mouth: "F*ck!"

"Why?"

"This peach is so delicious!" There were a total of ten people in the marketing department, and there were only three peaches per catty, The people who react late didn't manage to grab some, so they could only take apricots.

"Okay, after eating this fruit, I also know how to write the campaign."

"Let’s start working!"

"I hope Old Lu will bring some more over tomorrow."

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Besides Lu Minghui and his company, Jiang Yu also has the same expression on her face. It was very exciting. She went to buy apricots and peaches in the morning. Finally, after thinking about it, she tasted an apricot. It turned out that her husband was right. The apricots were really delicious.

There were also peaches, which taste better than all the fruits she has ever eaten.

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Shen Tingshuang was not idle either, every two hours she will run to the apricot forest or the peach tree to water them with spiritual energy.

After the task was completed at noon, she recovered 6% of her spiritual veins.

Just after midnight, the mechanical audio sounded: "Please let 64 people eat the fruit you grow within 12 hours." Shen Tingshuang stretched out, got up and ran to the peach grove on the mountain, and chose a peach tree to water, come back and continue to sleep.

At two o'clock in the morning, Shen Tingshuang went to water an apricot tree. At four o'clock, Shen Tingshuang watered a peach tree, and then instead of going back to sleep, she started harvesting the fruits.

Yesterday afternoon, she went to the supermarket to buy a lot of big tartan bags, in which she could pick the fruits from the tree and put them directly in the bags.

Shen Tingshuang was now stronger than ordinary people, and has a lot of dexterity in her body, she didn’t feel tired even climbing trees and harvesting fruits quickly.

One fruit tree was all picked in half an hour, and there were big bags of fruit piled under it.

After being busy until seven o'clock, people from Bailian Supermarket came over. They drove up to the mountain and put all the fruits picked by Shen Tingshuang in the car. They came today with a big scale, and they kept a record while weighing.

After loading them all in the car, they gave Shen Tingshuang a record of 903 catties of apricots and 1605 catties of peaches.

After finishing with Shen Tingshuang, they drove away. Shen Tingshuang carried a basket of apricots and a basket of peaches to the foot of the mountain. Shao Feng and others were already waiting at the foot of the mountain.

"I just saw a big truck go down from your mountain." Shao Feng said when buying peaches.

After getting along for a while, Shen Tingshuang and Shao Feng were familiar with each other, and she replied: "It's from Bailian Supermarket."

Shao Feng's head turned fast, and he quickly reacted: "Are they buying your fruit to sell in the supermarket?"

Shen Tingshuang nodded casually.

Bailian Supermarket was fairly well-known. Most of the people in their village know them and they were a little envious when they heard this news. When can the fruits and vegetables they grew go to Bailian Supermarket?

At nine o'clock, Lu Minghui came over, and this time he took the contract with him: "I was in a hurry yesterday. So I brought the contract today. If you have no objection, you can sign it."

Shen Tingshuang glanced a few times, then took the pen in Lu Minghui's hand and signed her name.

Lu Minghui knew that Shen Tingshuang probably didn't look carefully, and explained: "In the future, we will cooperate for a long time. Your responsibility is to keep the fruits fresh and delicious. We buy fruits at 7 o'clock every morning, and the payments will be settled daily."

General supermarket suppliers were definitely not using daily settlement. Lu Minghui and Sun Ping both felt that it was not easy for the little girl, so they made a special exception.

There was also the usual fixed quantity to be supplied clause, Lu Minghui also removed from the contract, for Shen Tingshuang, a little girl, it would be a little difficult for her to provide a regular few thousand catties a day.

Lu Minghui could not claim he was a kind person, but after he got along with Shen Tingshuang, he found that Shen Tingshuang was pure in nature and completely treats Shen Tingshuang as his daughter.

Shen Tingshuang : "Okay."

Lu Minghui said again: "Later they should give you the payment for today's supply. They will transfer the money to you around noon. Don't worry."

For money, Shen Tingshuang was really not worried; she was even more concerned on whether 64 people will come to buy the fruit she grew today.

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The staffs at Bailian Supermarket put the fruit on the shelf immediately after arriving.

Yesterday afternoon, Xiao Liu brought the fruit she bought to her office. As a result, the colleague Xiao Zhang next to her smelled the scent and asked a few words.

Xiao Liu thought that they had a good relationship, so he gave Xiao Zhang an apricot and a peach. At first, Xiao Zhang thought Xiao Liu was a bit stingy, so she only gave her a peach and apricot.

When she ate the fruits, Xiao Zhang found out that she was wrong to blame Xiao Liu, she was stingy, on the contrary, Xiao Liu was very generous, such delicious fruit, who will be willing to share with others!

In the afternoon, Xiao Zhang went to the Bailian Supermarket downstairs and found that the apricots and peaches had been sold out. Xiao Zhang weighed the other apricots nearby, and found that it was not the taste that she had in the afternoon.

So, at 8:50 the next morning, she ran directly to the door of Bailian Supermarket downstairs.

The supermarket opens at 9 o'clock. There was not too many people queue up early to buy things. Most of them are nearby residents. They come early to buy some fresh vegetables.

But today it seems that there were more people than usual, most of them are young people.

As soon as the supermarket opened, Xiao Zhang rushed towards the shelf, and she found that at least ten people were in the same direction as her.

It seems that many people already know that these two fruits are delicious.

Xiao Zhang grabbed one catty each, she originally wanted to choose, but the person next to her quickly grabbed some fruits and put it in the bag.

So Xiao Zhang also randomly grabbed these two fruits and returned to the company. Because she ate the fruit that Xiao Liu gave yesterday, today Xiao Zhang returned one apricot and one peach on the table for Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu went to a project outside today, and when she came back, she saw these two fruits, and she was immediately moved.

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When Shen Tingshuang just finished transplanting the last bamboo, she received a transfer of 20565 yuan.

Afterwards, she received a reminder that the mission was completed, the spiritual veins recovered 7%, and felt a bit of energy in the body, Shen Tingshuang was very happy.

Through these few days of labor, she has transplanted a drift of bamboo forest at the foot of her mountain.

Now the entrance of Xin Yuan Shan is particularly beautiful.

At the front entrance she made a fence with cut bamboo. A bamboo is cut in half, with the round side facing outside and white side facing Xin Yuan Shan.

Next are seven pillars of bamboos, each bamboo is about one meter apart.

It looks much better than before, when it was overgrown with weeds.

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Shao Feng came back very early today because his express package arrived.

The village is a bit remote, so express delivery is usually picked up at a certain pickup point, which is some distance away from the village.

However, Y express can be delivered directly to the village, but the time is slower, as they will save more express by pooling and sending few days worth of packages to the village together.

Shao Feng hadn't noticed in the past, but today he discovered that Xin Yuan Shan has changed greatly. Rows of beautiful bamboos were standing at the foot of the mountain, and there was no trace of desolation as before.

Not far away, Shen Tingshuang was taking care of the bamboo, and there was a large colorful sunset in the sky, and the scenery was beautiful. This made Shao Feng subconsciously pick up the DSLR on his co-pilot seat and shoot at Shen Tingshuang not far away. He took one photo.

He just parked his car and was going to find Shen Tingshuang, but found a Y express car was coming, Shao Feng and the courier moved the courier to his house front door together.

After finishing all this, Shao Feng looked at Xin Yuan Shan and found that Shen Tingshuang was not there on entrance anymore.

Shao Feng felt a little lost in his heart. He stood for a while at the door, moved the courier inside, and then returned to the second floor to import the photos from the DSLR to his computer.

Drag the mouse directly to the last picture, open Photoshop, and import the picture, only slightly cropped the proportion of the photo, adjusted the color, and Shao Feng clicked to save it.

Shao Feng is a self-media practitioner.

When he was in high school, he got his first smartphone. At that time, Shao Feng was obsessed with taking pictures. The pictures he took with his mobile phone were also posted on some websites, and occasionally received some copyright fees.

With these earning, Shao Feng bought the first DSLR in his life, and Shao Feng himself became more interested in photography.

It's just that the saying that DSLRs owners are poor is true. Shao Feng wants to buy a better camera and a good lens, all of which require funds, so Shao Feng began to take pictures of beautiful women on the street, and also opened a Weibo.

At first, he asked the beauties on the street for permission to take pictures. Later, after Shao Feng became famous, many people took the initiative to look for him to take pictures.

After a few years, the money to buy lens he did not need to be worried.

After these years of shooting, Shao Feng also gradually deviated from his original intention. In the beginning, he only had a mobile phone, and he only shot what he liked.

Later, in order to make money, he started shooting to cater to the tastes of the public.

Now, looking at the picture still on the computer, Shao Feng teared up. This is his original intention, the kind of pictures he wants to take deep in his heart.

Shao Feng discovered that the two had known each other for so long, and he didn't even have Shen Tingshuang's contact information. He entered Shen Tingshuang's name on the Internet and pressed Enter.

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In addition to Shao Feng, some other people also searched the Internet for news of Shen Tingshuang.

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