As the morning mist over Green Ox Valley just began to clear, the Abacus Beads burst onto Guanyun Platform with a clatter, forming the character for "cloud" right above the villagers' heads. The eastern clouds looked like mushrooms piled high with abacus beads, and beneath them, the beads materialized into a warning: "Wind at the eighth hour, rain at the ninth, rush to harvest by the tenth." A local villager scratched his head. "Mushroom clouds? Why not say they look like abacus-bead steamed buns?" Instantly, the Abacus Beads reshaped themselves into the character for "bun," embroidering a picture of a split bun leaking abacus-bead filling onto the lapel of his shirt, which set everyone off into roaring laughter.
"Lesson three on diagnosing illness by reading the sky!" the Protagonist shouted in a resonant voice, while shaking an Abacus Bead meteorological manual in his hand, which rustled crisply with every movement.
Suddenly, as if possessed of a will of their own, the Abacus Beads leaped up from the manual one after another, landing precisely in the palms of the nearby villagers. In their hands, the beads rapidly arranged and combined themselves, ultimately spelling out the character for "remember."
Chapter 245