As the night mist of Mount Zhongnan, wrapped in the faint glow of the Abacus-Bead Lantern, drifted up to the roof of the temple, Daoist Master Yuqing's Daoist robe hem brushed past Zhang Yifan's newly set-up "Abacus Hexagram Stall." The "Dao Heart Red" rouge in her hair was faintly discernible in the mist, and the little Huwa figurine on the abacus hairpin suddenly stuck out its tongue—it turned out Huwa had built a mechanism inside the wood carving, allowing the abacus-bead tongue to sway with her breath.
"Is the Daoist Master here to divine a tribulation?" Zhang Yifan sat on the straw mat, shaking the abacus beads, which bounced into the character for "Fate" on the hexagram stall. "Today's tribulation readings are half price, and I'll even throw in a 'Tribulation-Breaking Wood Carving' carved by Huwa." Yuqing glared at him, but her horsetail whisk swept across the "Karma-Fate Bamboo Slips" container on the stall, the abacus-bead tassel at the end of a slip catching on the tassels of her Daoist robe.
Huwa immediately crawled out from under the table, shoving a carved wooden slip into her hand, his abacus-bead eyes gazing at the character for "Tribulation" at the top of the slip: "Brother Fan says the Daoist Master must draw her tribulation slip herself!" Helpless, Yuqing closed her eyes and drew a slip. When she unfolded it, she saw a pattern of interlocking abacus beads and a horsetail whisk drawn upon it, with "Unbroken, unbuilt" written beside it in charcoal.
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