As the candlelight of the Qingniu Embroidery Workshop in Chang'an illuminated the bamboo slips of the Book of Changes, the embroiderer A-Qiao's abacus bead clicked sharply against the dragon-patterned brocade, bouncing across the dragon scales of the Qian Trigram to form the character "Wrong." "Doctor Zhang! This 'hidden dragon, do not use' pattern is supposed to be embroidered with six lines, why is there an extra abacus bead?" The Protagonist gently shook his abacus hexagram tray and chuckled, "Using an abacus bead to represent a line is the 'New Abacus Method'—" The bead leapt into the embroidery frame, piecing together the character "Auspicious." "When the Sage Emperor sees this, he will surely declare it a 'miracle of the abacus beads!'"
Xiao Moli held a wolf-hair brush, inscribing a poem for the Earth-grade fabric. Immediately, an abacus bead bounced onto the tip of the brush, changing "Flowers bloom as a twin lotus" to "Abacus beads frolic with a pair of mandarin ducks." A wealthy merchant holding a flower-and-bird brocade chuckled wryly, "Lady Xiao, could you write 'source of wealth flows in' instead?" The abacus bead instantly hopped onto the fabric surface, forming the character "Vulgar," while secretly embroidering a hidden pattern of "abacus beads rolling gold ingots" alongside it, causing Xiao Moli to double over with laughter against the embroidery rack, "The abacus bead understands how to undermine me better than I do!"
Huwa crouched amidst a pile of Human-gr…
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