As the sweet aroma drifted from the sugar-painting stall on Chang'an Street, Xiaotao's singing mingled with the crisp clicking of abacus beads, bouncing into the word "ballad" along Suzaku Avenue: "Cyan Ox Seven, abacus beads test, false medicine rumors put to the test! Buy medicinal herbs, check the abacus beads, bouncing joyfully are the real pearls!" The abacus beads leaped onto the Huwa wood carving in her hair, forming the word "beat," and she began to keep time with the rhythm.
Zhang Yifan shook the abacus beads as he drizzled medicinal juice into the sugar painting, and the beads formed the word "medicine" on the candy—turning the original butterfly into the shape of an abacus bead. "This is called the 'Abacus Bead Sugar Ballad,'" he chuckled, the beads rolling into the word "spread" in the container for sugar-painting sticks. "Eat a piece of candy, remember a ballad, and the rumors will naturally vanish."
Xiao Moli frowned as she gripped her wolf-hair brush: "Look here, you rascal!" The abacus beads instantly leaped to her fingertips, spelling out the word "paint": "My *Scroll of Bead-Broken Rumors* has actually been torn up by the pharmacy!" Before her voice faded, the abacus beads had already bounced onto the wall, spelling the word "wall" as they used syrup to paint a scene of Huwa holding an abacus bead to smash the rumor notice, setting the surrounding crowd into a roar of laughter.
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