When the Abacus Alliance Banner of Green Ox Valley whipped in the winds blowing from all eight directions, the "Abacus Contract Imitation Troupes" from neighboring prefectures were crowding the medicine-drying yards, only to find their counterfeit contracts soggy and wrinkled from the morning dew. The abacus beads instantly rolled into a verification formation, revealing upon the fake contracts: "False! Genuine Abacus Contracts use Qinling Mountains snow-wave paper, which reveals abacus-bead bamboo watermarks upon contact with water!" A prefect wiped his sweat: "No wonder signing the contract led to heavy losses..." The beads bounced into the character for "Loss," embroidering a little crying face on his official robe that read: "Imitating abacus contracts brings certain losses; the sooner you realize, the sooner you turn back."
"Open the 'Abacus Alliance Assembly'!" The Protagonist flicked his sleeves, and the abacus beads arranged themselves across the open ground into the Nine Provinces Abacus Formation—representatives from each province stood in their corresponding abacus grid, while Moli held the Abacus Command Banner and explained: "The three essential elements of a contract: advance deposits must feature 'triple bead seals,' protected pricing requires engraving 'abacus scale stars,' and penalty clauses hide 'bead-thorn dark watermarks!'" The beads projected the corresponding emblems beneath the representatives' feet, and a certain county magistrate stepped on a "penal…
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