When the wintersweet on Mount Zhongnan was in full bloom, the sound of abacus beads clattering one after another echoed through the Yi School of Yuxu Taoist Temple. Zhang Yifan stood on the podium, shaking his Gilded Abacus Beads, and watched Daoist Master Yuqing use her horsetail whisk to point out the "Dao Heart Abacus" carved by Huwa. The abacus bead patterns on her grey robe complemented the beads of the abacus itself, and the "Wish-Protecting Ghost Face" on her wooden hairpin had its abacus-bead tongue licking the corner of the ledger.
"Daoist Master, your abacus skills are even more refined than mine," he chuckled, the abacus beads leaping at her fingertips to form the character for "Surplus." "Yi School tuition, Wishing Forest rent, apricot preserve dividends... to think you can calculate a 'Dao Heart Profit Margin'?" Yuqing glared at him, the tip of her horsetail whisk pointing at the "Karmic Affinity Surplus" column in the ledger. "The accounts of my temple do not calculate profit; they calculate affinity."
Huwa suddenly rushed over holding a carving knife and gouged an "Affinity Bead Ghost Face" onto the abacus, its abacus-bead eyes gazing at the silk radical of the character for affinity: "Brother Fan! The Daoist Master exchanged all the extra incense money for padded winter coats to give to the refugees down the mountain!" Zhang Yifan raised an eyebrow, and the abacus beads bounced into the character for "Warmth" at Yuqing's cuff. "I calculated long ago that the…
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