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Hao Ren really liked eating rice dumplings, she didn't know, but he was being kind, and she appreciated it. Yet, those ash-stained dumplings were inedible, so she picked out the clean ones, and the particularly dirty ones she threw into the trash can.
That noon, her and Hao Ren's lunch was sitting on the flower bed outside the newspaper office building, eating until full with a bag of rice dumplings.
She treated Hao Ren to rice dumplings, and Hao Ren treated her to tea. The street trees along this road were Chinese scholar trees, in their lushest season, dense and verdant, completely blocking out the sunlight, leaving only the bright colors and cool air for the flower bed.
Su Ronggui and Su Rongxing came out from the newspaper office building while Hao Ren was raising his tea for a toast with Tu Hengsha, which Tu found a bit silly, laughingly refusing, her laughter resonating beautifully in the flower-scented noon air.