When the medicinal fragrance in Chang'an's Qingniu Medical Hall mingled with the sweetness of blue crystals, the Persian merchant Abbas's pink beard brushed against the abacus bead teacup, and the abacus beads leapt into the character "PLEASE" on his trembling fingertips: "Doctor Zhang, please spare my life..." Pei Hongxiu chuckled as she stirred her tea with an abacus-bead-patterned spoon: "Master Abbas, this 'bead-bacterin tea' is brewed with lactic acid bacteria—" The abacus beads bounced into the character "REGRET" on the tea's surface, "Drink it up and learn to behave."
Zhang Yifan shook his abacus, pushed open the screen, and the abacus beads bounced into the character "EXPENSIVE" on the "Patent Authorization Price List": "The imperial certification fee is five strings of cash, the anti-counterfeiting technology fee is ten strings, and the lactic acid bacteria secret formula fee—" The abacus beads suddenly bounced into the character "EXTORTION," striking a loud "ONE HUNDRED STRINGS" on the abacus, "Considering that camels once carried abacus beads for us, I'll give you a twenty percent discount."
Xiao Moli waved her brush to paint "Abacus Suppresses Persian Merchant," and the abacus beads immediately hopped onto her painting, turning Abbas's beard into an IOU strung together from abacus beads. Huwa handed over the abacus contract with his carved figurine, and the abacus beads bounced into the character "FIRM" between the folds of the paper: "Sign it, and the Persian d…
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