Early in the morning, the morning mist of Green Ox Valley drifted like a light gauze, gently enveloping the herb-drying yard, while the air was filled with a rich fragrance of medicinal herbs. As this aroma drifted slowly with the morning mist, the abacus beads on the drying yard suddenly gave a crisp, rattling chime as if magic had been cast upon them.
Immediately afterward, these abacus beads seemed to come to life, leaping rapidly and colliding with one another to emit crisp sounds. They bounced and tumbled across the drying yard, as if performing a joyful dance. Before long, these abacus beads miraculously arranged themselves into a long line—performing a joyful dance. Before long, these abacus beads miraculously arranged themselves into a long line.
"The upgraded edition of the Medicinal Farmer Academy is now in session!" Xiao Moli waved her abacus bead pointer, and the beads bounced on the blackboard to form the character for "spirit"—the advanced class was actually teaching the illustrated guide to *Essential Techniques for the Peasantry* using abacus beads. A farm woman pointed at the "crop rotation compound interest chart" and exclaimed, "The abacus beads have made these accounts bloom like flowers!" The beads immediately bounced into the character for "beauty," revealing an abacus-bead floral diagram of crop-rotation profits on her textbook page.
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