As the sound of the looms in the Chang'an Pei Family's Drapery Shop mingled with the scent of ink, Pei Hongxiu's embroidered shoe stepped down hard on a bolt of Heaven-grade Dragon-patterned Brocade. The abacus beads on her golden hairpin bounced into the shape of the character for "noble."
"Yifan! This scrap of fabric sells for a thousand strings of cash? Are you robbing people?"
Zhang Yifan gave his abacus a light shake and chuckled. "This is 'Heaven-grade Dragon-patterned Brocade'—" The abacus beads leaped into the loom, forming the character for "trigram," "and the embroidery requires a mastery of the Book of Changes. Every single dragon scale conceals the pattern of the Qian Trigram!"
Xiao Moli held a wolf-hair brush and chuckled from the side. "My 'High Tang Note' has already been inscribed—" The abacus beads instantly bounced to the tip of her brush, changing the poem for the "flower and bird brocade" into "Abacus Beads Play with Flowers and Butterflies." "Each bolt of Earth-grade fabric comes with a custom poem, written in Qingniu Colors ink that will never fade in the wash!"
Huwa handed over an abacus-bead bookmark carved with a miniature sculpture, and the beads on the surface bounced into the character for "fun," automatically generating an acrostic poem with the characters for "Tao-Fan."
"Human-grade plain fabric right here!" Huwa hoisted a bolt of coarse cloth stamped with the "Qingniu Protects Agriculture" logo. The abacus beads on the logo bounced into the ch…
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