Renew

The housekeeper nodded anxiously, walked into the yard, raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, "Miss, do you want to know about the eldest lady?"

"I still want to elaborate." Rong Li sat on the stone bench in the yard and finally took a breath.

Hua Su also sat down, the black silk that dragged the floor was like ink spilled on the ground, when the moonlight scattered, the black silk glistened like ink flowing.She didn't say a word, and even closed her eyes, as if nothing could disturb her.

The butler stood silent for a long time, and after gathering his strength, he said: "Ma'am, she has known the master since she was a child. The Shan family was still rich at that time. Although the master fell in love with the wife, the wife already has her own heart." His words came abruptly. He stopped, and looked at Rongli worriedly.

"Let's just say it." Rongli said.

The butler sighed, and had no choice but to continue: "The master inherited the family business at a young age, and secretly ordered someone to rob the goods that the Shan family wanted to send to the palace."

"The people in the palace were furious. Although this matter was not what the Shan family thought, and there was a reason for it, but the Shan family could no longer stand in the imperial city.

Shan's family was in decline, and all the servants in the mansion were dismissed, and the master sent someone to propose a marriage, saying that he could guarantee that the Shan family would have no worries in the imperial city.

At that time, although the Rong family was far away in Qi'an, the master's hand could already reach the imperial city, how could the members of the Shan family not believe it, and immediately agreed to this marriage.

The wife married and came here, but she was under house arrest. It was even more difficult to step out of the house.At that time, she seemed unable to laugh at all, her body was already weak, and she looked even more pale and dejected.

After she became pregnant with an heir, the madam became more and more depressed. When a guest came to the house that day, the madam squeezed a smile to flatter her, and begged the master once.

she……

She wants to meet the guests who come to the house.

The old servant vaguely remembered that he was the young master of the Zhou family. He hadn't gotten married at that time, and he was at the age of high spirits.

The madam only saw the young master of the Zhou family once, and the master saw the clues. The madam had her own heart long ago, and she had given her heart to the young master Zhou.

Master, master, he..."

The housekeeper talked for a long time, as if thinking of some old incident with chills, his cloudy eyes suddenly stared.

"How?" Rong Xin jumped suddenly.

The housekeeper clenched his hands tightly, "Master, he trapped Madam in the stone room and cut off two of Madam's fingers. She was still pregnant with an heir, but... cut off her fingers, and blood dripped everywhere."

Rongli's breath stagnated suddenly, and he suddenly fainted, his body froze.

Seeing her complexion change suddenly, Hua Su raised his hand and squeezed a ghostly air between her eyebrows.

The cold air entered his forehead, Rongli Lingtai was clear, but his heart still seemed to be tightly clenched, unable to breathe.

The housekeeper cautiously raised his eyes, seeing that Rongli's face was normal, and then said in a trembling voice: "The day Madam gave birth to the eldest girl, she couldn't bear it any longer. Before she died, she was still begging the master to let her go back to the imperial city. The old servant has already done these things." I dare not mention it for more than ten years."

Rong Li stood up, feeling like a knife was twisting in his heart, thinking about the things Rong Changting had done, he couldn't help doubting, "Is... is she still in the stone chamber? Is she really there in the coffin that was buried back then?"

The housekeeper hesitated, and after telling the story, he was relieved, but the cold sweat on his forehead still couldn't stop, "The master is not willing to let the eldest lady be buried, and he wants to keep her by his side even if he dies. ...is an empty coffin."

Rong Li laughed sadly, he didn't expect her to know Rong Changting so well.

She raised her hand to hold the center of her eyebrows, a ray of chill in the altar made her conscious, standing in this courtyard, she always felt as if she was alone and helpless, she took a long time to look at Hua Su, pinched a corner of her black silk, It seems that the person who fell off the cliff grasped the life-saving rope.

Hua Su let her hold his black robe, and said softly, "Ask him where the stone chamber is going."

She pursed her lips, her face still extremely pale, "It's just that after so many years, Danxuan's soul should have been reincarnated, and you won't be able to see her anymore."

Rong Li pursed his lips, his eyelids drooped, and he was silent for a while before asking: "I don't know where to enter that stone room."

The butler covered his head with his hands, and sighed, "Young lady, come with the old servant." He took a step, but suddenly felt dizzy, and almost fell on his back, his back was supported suddenly.

The thing on his back didn't look like a hand, it was lighter and softer than a woman's hand, like a gust of wind.

The butler hurriedly turned his head, only to see that Rong Li was standing up unhurriedly, how could it be her who supported his back.His heart tightened, pretending not to care, he raised his hand and said, "Miss, come this way."

Hua Su took his hand back unhurriedly, wiping away the remaining ghostly aura on his fingertips.

After all, he saw a lot of strange things in the Rong Mansion, the housekeeper pretended to be calm, and immediately returned to his soul, chanting a few words of Namo Amitabha like a monk chanting scriptures, and then stabilized his mind.

The door of the stone room is in the main room in the courtyard of Rongchangting. The butler pushed the door open and entered, and turned the pen holder on the table. Suddenly, a cabinet rustled, revealing the secret door behind.

Standing in the room, Rong Li stared fixedly at the dark narrow passage, he couldn't see anything clearly, his heart was beating wildly.

The butler hastily raised the lamp, walked ahead and said, "Come here, girl."

Rong Li turned his head to look at Hua Su, he couldn't move his legs, she didn't seem to want to go in anymore.

Hua Su smiled coldly, "Everything must have a beginning and an end. If you go in, if you see her body, bury her properly."

Rong Li nodded, and followed the butler through the long and narrow passage.

On weekdays, she has little contact with this housekeeper, but occasionally heard Xiaofu mention that this housekeeper is not good at talking, but he does things unambiguously. , and his temper is also quite calm.

Thinking about it now, after Danxuan's death, the housekeeper changed his temper. He was afraid, afraid of retribution, and afraid of remembering that he had been a villain.

The housekeeper never talked much, but now he said to himself, "I haven't been in this place for more than ten years. In the past... when the eldest lady was still alive, I would occasionally come in to deliver meals, and I only said Madam to the outside world. The body is weak and cannot go out of the house, and the wife and the master are very affectionate and cannot be separated for half a step, so the two have always lived together."

He paused for a while, and then said: "On the day when Madam was locked in, I begged the master, but the master refused to let him go, and even said, Mrs. Dao is promiscuous, and she is already pregnant with his heir, and she even tried to hook up with other families. son."

Hua Su said coldly: "Dirty stuff, your own heart is dirty even by others."

The corners of Rong Li's lips curled up. Normally this ghost would be sarcastic and sarcastic, but what he said today hit the nail on the head.

The housekeeper held the lamp, and the lamp swayed slightly with his steps, even the light reflected on the wall rippled.

Rong Li didn't say a word, as if she could figure out what Rong Changting had done, so why waste her time asking.Her steps are light, her legs have little strength, and her body feels light when she walks, like a wandering soul that has left its body.

Hua Su looked at her for a while, then suddenly reached out and grabbed her shoulder.

From the corner of his eyes, Rong Li saw the slender five fingers grabbing her shoulder, and she didn't know what they grabbed, so she paused slightly.

"Fate." Hua Su's hand was still hanging on her shoulder and slightly closed, as if holding something, "You are out of your mind, it seems that the fire of life is about to go out."

Rong Li couldn't see the fire on her shoulders, she had no intention of intimidating the housekeeper, so she didn't want to talk to Hua Su in front of the old man, she tilted her head and moved her lips, asking "what" silently.

The pale lips fluttered, like the simple and clean epiphyllum opening and closing in the polar night.

Hua Su withdrew his hand, and the cold voice fell in Rongli's ears, "People have life fire since birth, and the life fire of ordinary people is more than three inches high. The darker it is, the dying people's lives are almost extinguished."

Rong Li suddenly wanted to ask, what about her.

She turned her head sideways, looked at her shoulder, moved her lips slightly, and chewed out two silent words.

And me.

Hua Su glanced over her shoulder indifferently, but didn't speak.

Rong Li suddenly felt a little lost, followed closely behind the butler, and coughed a few times, she is a dying person, and if she thinks about it, if there is a fire, it should be extinguished.

Walked a few more steps and turned a corner.

The butler stopped abruptly, and raised his arm to cover the rough wall with his old palm, "Girl, do you see the door in front?"

When Rong Li raised his eyes, he really saw a stone door, the door was half open, maybe no one else came in, Rong Changting didn't even bother to close it.

Her heart was hanging in her throat, and she could already imagine what would be the scene behind the door, and she didn't even want to take half a step closer.

The butler was also hesitating, and the hand holding the lamp kept shaking, "Girl, let's go."

"Go." Rongli said.

The butler approached the room with a lamp. It was very narrow and there was only one bed. The mattress was messed up, but it wasn't dirty, as if...

It seems that not long ago, someone was lying on this bed.

Besides Rong Changting, who else could it be?

The brocade quilt on the inside of the bed seemed to be wrapped in something, slightly bulging.

Rong Li breathed out suddenly, but saw the housekeeper stopped, staring at the bulging brocade quilt on the side of the bed, and said nothing.

She took all the strength out of her body before she stepped forward, and slowly lifted a corner of the brocade quilt.

A corpse slowly emerged.

Who else could it be...Dan Xuan?

Rongli loosened her two fingers, and suddenly took a few steps back, she took a long breath, her eyes trembled.

Hua Su said: "There is no soul in the stone room, she must have been reincarnated, or she has gone away."

Rong Li pursed his lips, his shoulders trembled slightly, his eyes were filled with water vapor, as if he wanted to cry, but he held back.

The butler closed his eyes, as if he hadn't expected this, and said in a hoarse voice, "Girl, this should be Mrs. Danxuan."

Rong Li stared at it for a long time, breathing faintly, "Please trouble the housekeeper, I think... let her rest in peace."

How could the housekeeper refuse, even though he was shaking badly, he still went and wrapped the skeleton in the brocade quilt, and then walked out with the brocade quilt in his arms.

The brought-in lamp was in Rongli's hand, Rongli followed the housekeeper to find an open space behind a rockery in the mansion, dug up the soil and buried the bone.

The shovel was brought by the housekeeper, and he also dug the soil. He personally put the bones of the lady of the Rong Mansion into the pit, and buried it again.

After burying it, he put the shovel aside, leaned against the stone mountain to breathe, and seemed to have aged a lot overnight.Before he wiped off the mud on his hands, he wiped it on his face, and his eyes were already moist.

Rong Li's head suddenly ached, it seemed that he didn't have a moment of leisure after the whole day, even his iron body should be tired.There is no part of her body that is not weak, but her mind is extremely clear.

It is because of the ghostly aura that Hua Su gave her that she can be so clear-headed, like a cold spring flowing from the Lingtai, washing away the chaos in her mind.

Hua Su stood on the side, with his hands behind his back, the black robe really glowed under the moonlight, like a lonely flower on a cliff, cold and lonely, no one dared to pick it.

The old housekeeper said: "Tomorrow, I will take someone to collect the monthly money, but the old servant... I will not take it."

Rong Li frowned, puzzled.

The butler said again: "The old servant will not leave. If the girl wants to leave Qi'an, she hopes to bring more money. Although the Shan family is in decline, they still have a mansion in the imperial city. Miss... may as well go to the imperial city to see it." Look, it's better to take a nursing home or two with you on the way, for a girl's house, it's probably..."

The old housekeeper said a lot slowly, as if realizing that he seemed to be too long-winded, he simply shook his head, "Forget it, the eldest girl makes up her own mind, and the old servant will stop nagging."

Rong Li nodded, "I've already made up my mind, the housekeeper doesn't have to worry."

The old butler didn't say anything more, he leaned his hands on the rock, slid down slowly, and sat on the ground slowly, with the freshly turned soil in front of him, "Sit here for a while, the old servant, it's cold in the night, but the girl If you want to leave at night, Master, he..."

"It doesn't matter, whenever I leave, he won't be able to stop me." Rong Li said softly.

She turned around, her hair fluttering in the wind, "Goodbye."

This "goodbye", I don't know if there is any fate to meet again in this life.

After leaving the courtyard, Rong Li raised his hand to cover his lips, and coughed violently several times, causing him to stagger.

"Let it go?" Hua Su said lightly.

Rong Li herself was not sure. Although her mind was clear, her thoughts were chaotic like a muddle. She was silent for a while before saying, "Maybe I didn't let it go until I left this house. It's still early, go and see Wu Niang."

Maybe she is the only one who can tell that the time is still early, and it is dark and windy at night, every house has turned off the lights, only the cats and dogs are barking, who would wander around in the yard in the middle of the night.

Hua Su couldn't bear to see the weakness of her legs, she was really desperate, she was already weak like this, and she always liked to toss herself, I don't know if she didn't suffer in the previous life, and she was crazy in this life Generally rushing to find guilt.

Rong Li walked a few steps, but he really couldn't move anymore, and stood for a long time with the support of the tree, dying of breath.

"That's all." Hua Su said suddenly, and stretched out his hand from the black robe, drawing a gust of wind, which was filled with a strong black spirit.

It stands to reason that no matter how thin Rong Li is, she wouldn't be swept away by the wind, but when the ghostly cold wind blows, she is really blown away when she lightens up.

Opening his eyes again, Rong Li is already in front of the house of the Fifth Madam Dong An'an.

The lights in Dong An'an's room were still on, and his figure was reflected on the door, clearly still sitting on the couch.

Rongli's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he saw that the black mist that swept her away gently dissipated, it came hastily, but when it left, it was peaceful.

"What technique did you perform?" she asked softly.

Hua Su snorted softly, taking it as an acquiescence, with an extremely displeased expression on his face, raised his hand again after a while, and flicked a slap between Rongli's eyebrows.

The bent index finger lightly flicked the center of Rongli's eyebrows, Rongli stared straight, and then felt another chill rushing into the center of her eyebrows, slowly sinking from her spiritual platform, wrapping around her extraordinary meridians like a wind and clouds , eating away the boredom in her body.

"You'll never die from exhaustion." Hua Su said in a neutral tone.

Rong Li raised his hand to cover his eyebrows, and knocked on the door of Dong An'an's room.

Dong Anan said in the room: "The door is not locked."

Rongli pushed the door open and entered, only to see Dong An'an sitting on the couch with his hand neatly folded on the low case, with a cup of cool tea in hand.

A lot of things happened that night, although Rong's mansion is big, but the maids and servants can't stay idle, some things may have already reached Dong An'an's ears.

Dong Anan was not surprised to see Rongli, and nodded, "Miss."

Seeing that she didn't even have a servant girl around, Rong Li closed the door and said, "Why isn't Wu Niang sleeping?"

"How can I sleep." Dong Anan said, she smiled softly, and her smile was extremely pale.

Rong Li looked at her for a while, "Wu Niang, have you thought about going somewhere else?"

Dong Anan seemed to expect that she would ask such a question, shook his head and said, "I'm not going anywhere."

"If the Rong family is in decline." Rong Li looked at her expression.

Dong An'an smiled dismally, "I have nowhere to go. If I marry someone and go back to my natal family, I will be disgusted by others, and if I don't go back to my natal family, I don't know where else I can go after leaving Rong's house." gone."

"You might as well take some money, bring a few servants, and live a leisurely life." Rongli said again.

Hua Su said from the side: "You can't persuade her."

Really unable to persuade, Dong Anan shook his head again, "Even if there are silver coins and copper coins, if you can only get out but not in, how long can you stay outside?"

"Are you really not leaving?" Rong Li asked softly.

Dong An'an sighed, "Miss, you don't need to persuade me with good words. A while ago, I expected that the mansion would not be very peaceful, but now it is true, but even if Rong Changting is gone, I still can't leave. I just left like this. As a result, Dong's family members will be tongue-tied, and their parents will also be stabbed in the spine."

She paused, and looked at Rongli softly, "But the girl is young, but she can go. If you want to go, go further, but don't look back."

Rong Li pursed his lips and nodded slightly, looking a bit stubborn for no reason.

"I don't ask about other things, and I don't want to know. These years, I haven't been greedy for anything from the Rong family, but I just want to ask for peace." Dong Anan said.

Rong Li looked at her, "I know."

Dong An'an was silent for a while, and after thinking for a while, he asked: "Young lady, you want to rest with me all night, it's cold at night, so it's hard to hurry."

Rong Li didn't want to go back to Lan Yuan, so he cast a cautious glance at Hua Su, and nodded his head slightly.

Dong An'an went to make up the mattress and went to sit in the yard by himself.

The light was still on, Rong Li lay on the bed and stared at Hua Su, Hua Su was sitting by the bed, her hair had grown a lot, loose braids hung down to the edge of the bed, winding down like black silk.

Hua Su just looked at her without moving, as if he was boiling an eagle.

Rong Li opened his eyes for a long time without turning his eyes, and suddenly he became sleepy, and said in a muffled voice, "What are you staring at me for?"

"See how far you can push yourself." Hua Suliang said in a low voice.

"Stop tossing, I'm tired." Rong Li tugged at the edge of his back, covering his lips.

"Then you are sleeping." Hua Su snorted lightly.

Rong Li had no choice but to close his eyes, and asked softly, "It seems that I haven't seen you sleep before."

Long wait for response.

The room suddenly fell silent.

After a while, Rong Li was almost falling asleep when he heard that cold voice coming from his ear.

Hua Su said, "I can't sleep."

Rong Li closed his eyes in a daze, unable to figure out why he "can't sleep".

There were rustling sounds beside her, but she couldn't hear any footsteps. She suddenly opened her eyes and saw Hua Su standing up, as if she was going to leave.

Rong Li was taken aback, and hastily stretched out his hand to grab a corner of the black robe, which was as chilly as this ancestor, "Where are you going?"

Hua Su looked back at her, "Arguing with you?"

Rong Li stood up, staring at her closely.

Hua Su simply said: "I'll go to the city to get rid of the blood, so that Qi An won't be hurt."

Rong Li murmured: "Will we meet Luo Xia and the ghost who set up the formation? If we want to fight, what should we do?"

After a pause, she took out the painting ghost from under the pillow, stretched out her palm and stretched out, "If not, why don't you take this magic weapon with you?"

Hua Su snorted, "Hold it carefully, I'll come back as soon as I go."

Rong Li watched helplessly as the ghost didn't even leave the door, went straight through the wall, and disappeared in front of her eyes.She was very sleepy at first, but now she didn't feel any tiredness at all, so she dared not sleep, for fear that she might not see the ghost come back.

But after all, she was just a mortal. She was so sleepy that she fell asleep with a twist of her body.

Early the next morning, Rongli was thinking about something, so he woke up very quickly. As soon as he opened his eyes, he had a face-to-face meeting with the ghost sitting beside him.She blinked, feeling deeply that she had made a mistake, she looked away and looked back.

Hua Su was sitting by the bed, and there was a bloodstain on Bai Shengsheng's side cheek, which was as red as the cinnabar between his brows, "Can't you see enough?"

Rong Li sat up, feeling very dizzy, stretched out his hand from the brocade quilt, put it on the ghost's shoulder, and said dully: "It's really a fight, you're injured."

"Small injury." Hua Su looked unwilling to say more.

Rong Li felt that this was by no means a minor injury, although the ghost was also injured before, but he could heal by using ghost power, but now such a scratch on his face cannot be removed, it is clearly not an ordinary wound.

Since Hua Su didn't say anything, it's inconvenient for her to ask more, so as not to bother this ancestor.

Dong Anan was still sitting in the yard, as if he hadn't slept all night, his eyes were black and blue, when he saw Rongli coming out, he stood up precariously and said, "Are you awake?"

Rong Li nodded, "I'm leaving now."

Dong Anan frowned, "Girl, remember to bring more money."

Rong Li responded and left the courtyard without looking back.

The three maids were no longer in the Orchid Courtyard, they had already prepared the carriage early, and they were all waiting for their girls in the front hall.

Although it was already daytime, Xiao Fu was still afraid, when she saw Rong Li approaching, she looked at her repeatedly for a long time, and saw that the girl was no different from usual, so she was a little relieved.

But Bai Liu was still tense, his face was extremely stiff, he didn't look like he was afraid, but the ten fingers hanging by his side were actually trembling.

Kong Qing blessed body, calling out: "Big girl."

Xiaofu came back to her senses suddenly, and whispered: "I sent the letter to Xiao's family last night, so Mr. Xiao's family should see the letter."

Rong Li nodded slightly, "Go outside the door, if you see him coming, tell me that I'm waiting in the pavilion next to the front hall."

Xiaofu was taken aback, "What if he...don't come?"

Rong Li shook his head, said softly with a smile: "I will come."

The young master of the Xiao family really came. When he came, he saw a carriage parked in front of the Rong residence, and he didn't know who was going out.

Xiaofu stood outside the door and waited. When she saw Xiao Mingchen, she looked a little flustered, but she still whispered: "The eldest girl is waiting for you in the pavilion outside the front hall."

Xiao Mingchen said "Okay" with a smile, and swaggered into the gate of the mansion, only after entering the gate did he feel that something was wrong. In this huge mansion, even individual servants could not see it.

He was followed by two servants, and they looked at each other, unable to understand.

Xiao Mingchen raised his hand and slapped his forehead, not caring so much, walked through the long corridor to the front hall, glanced left and right before seeing the pavilion, and at a glance he saw the eldest girl from the Rong family sitting in the pavilion.

Rong Li was sitting in the pavilion, with a thick and indifferent ghost standing beside him.

Hua Su glanced at him and raised his eyebrows, "How do you want to play tricks on him?"

Rong Li looked up at her, Xu Shi had just woken up not long ago, his face was still sleepy, his eyes seemed to be foggy, and he seemed to be listless.She took the painting ghost out of her cuff, and said softly: "It's not enough to tease him, I have a grudge against him, you... teach me?"

Hua Su lowered her eyes, and every time she saw the fox's obedient and ingratiating appearance, she couldn't help thinking, could she be lying to her?

Her mouth was still stiff, but her heart seemed to have been softened, and she reluctantly said with a cold face: "Trouble."

The young master of the Xiao family was walking towards this place, holding the folding fan and knocking on the tiger's mouth with the other hand, this scene seemed to be exactly the same as in the previous life.

Hua Su said in a low voice: "Drawing a puppet, you don't have to draw it too carefully. This painting is born from the spirit of ghosts, and the things drawn are said to be puppets, but because they are contaminated with ghosts, they can also be regarded as ghosts."

Rong Li raised the hand holding the pen, and passed the slender wrist in front of Hua Su, his eyelashes fluttered, as if he wanted to let this ghost teach her.

Hua Su vaguely felt that what the girl raised was not her hand, but a golden hook to catch her.

Rongli raised his hand a little higher, "Teach me."

Hua Su simply held her wrist and led her to wave the painting.

The brush and ink were splashed, forming thin ghosts in mid-air. The puppets didn't paint their faces, and their faces were blank, making them even more treacherous.

There was no one else around, Xiao Mingchen stepped into the octagonal pavilion, winked at the two servants behind him, and then opened his arms behind Rongli, wanting to hug him.

Hua Su frowned, looking unfriendly.

Two hours later, a carriage drove out of Qi An, and it was actually driven by two maids.

In Qi'an City, everyone whispered, "It seems that all the servants in Rong's mansion have run away."

"Run? Why."

"It seems to be haunted again. Today, the door of the mansion is wide open. There is no one inside or outside. Someone with dirty hands and feet wants to go in and steal something. Unexpectedly, there is a dead body lying in the pavilion. Guess who it is."

"Who?"

"It's the son of the Xiao family."

"Hey, how come the young master of the Xiao family is in the Rong Mansion?"

"Who knows, the girl who came out of the mansion said that the third wife of the Rong family had an affair with the servants of the mansion, and even stole the silver from the mansion. It seems that she still has such a... dirty relationship with the first monk. Last night Xiao Chan died. The master of the Rong family and the fourth wife also lost their breath, this night, everyone in the Rong family died and went crazy, so all the servants ran away."

"What about the young lady of the Rong family?"

"The eldest girl of the Rong family seems to have disappeared."

The person who heard it was startled, "Don't you turn into a ghost and run away?"

The eldest girl of the Rong family who was mentioned was sitting in the carriage, raised her hand and raised a corner of the curtain, looking up at the clear blue sky quietly.

Xiao Fu leaned against the side and fell asleep, her arms and legs curled up into a ball, her sleep was unsteady, and she hummed softly from time to time.

Rong Li looked at the sky, originally thought that once his long-cherished wish was fulfilled, he would be able to die with peace of mind, but after leaving the mansion, his messy thoughts seemed to be emptied by a shovel, and his whole body was extremely light, as if the previous work It's not considered alive, but now it's really alive.

She wants to live.

Rong Li put down the curtain, turned his head to look at the black-robed ghost with cinnabar on his brow, and said in a low voice, "Didn't you say earlier that you could extend my life? How long?"

Hua Su looked at her and said: "As long as you stay with me, I can continue for as long as you want."

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