When the abacus-bead merchant banners of the Chang'an West Market rolled with the foreign wind, Pei Hongxiu's Abacus Bead Whip cracked sharply against the iced medicinal chest, and the abacus beads bounced across the lid to spell the word "Fresh." "The Rhodiola bound for Persia must maintain the temperature of morning dew!" Yuqing's Daoist priests chanted the Abacus Ice Incantation, causing abacus-bead-shaped snowflakes to drift from the chest, each snowflake engraved with fluorescent patterns reading "Fresh Beads, Do Not Touch." A certain escort agency guard stared wide-eyed: "The abacus beads are more miraculous than the ice cellars of Persia!"
"Inspect the goods!" Mola, a Persian merchant, sneered while pointing at the medicinal chest. The abacus beads immediately bounced into the character "Fraud," displaying an abacus-bead animation on his eyepatch that read, "You've got no chance of fooling us with fresh beads!" The Protagonist shook the Abacus Preservation Manual and chuckled with a smile: "According to the *Essential Techniques for the Peasantry* preservation method—" The abacus beads leapt into the medicinal chest, spelling the word "Time," and a time-abacus dial surfaced at the bottom of the chest. "From harvesting to icing, it took exactly three quarters of an hour, without a single second's error!"
Big Brother Zhang from the Medicinal Farmer Academy held a wilting batch of herbs with a long face: "Abacus beads! My White Cogongrass Flower withered in the sun on t…
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