As the morning sun over Green Ox Valley just began to dye the Five Elements Medicinal Field red, an Abacus Bead suddenly clattered and bounced onto the herb-drying rack, arranging itself among the piles of astragalus into the Chinese character for "CHANGE." A local farmer, who had been thinking of planting dangshen in the exact same plot where he grew astragalus last year, watched as the Abacus Bead immediately bounced onto his hoe handle, spelling out "MISTAKE": "Rule number one of crop rotation: plant adlay after astragalus, then follow with dangshen!" The farmer scratched his head: "This Abacus Bead is more long-winded than my wife..." The Abacus Bead instantly embroidered a tearful little face on his trouser leg with the words: "Rotate without changing, your soil ends up failing."
"Lesson two in reading the sky for crop ailments!" The Protagonist brandished the Abacus Bead Cloud-Observation Manual, and the Abacus Bead instantly bounced into the shape of the character for "CLOUD," hovering mid-air. The clouds to the east piled up like beads, and the Abacus Bead projected a warning beneath them: "Thunder at the Mao hour, rain at the Chen hour, hail guards at the Si hour." A mountain woman curled her lips: "Can clouds even talk?" The Abacus Bead immediately bounced into the character for "CAN," projecting an animation of rolling thunderclouds on her bamboo hat using Abacus Beads, startling her into taking three steps back.
The aroma of grape wine drifted from Xiaoxiu's Aba…
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