Hey, speaking of the refrigerated cellar, it has practically become Abacus Bead's personal "Crystal Palace" lately! Yesterday, when Xiaoxiu went to check the inventory, she burst out laughing the moment she lifted the cellar door. The whole cellar was full of Abacus Beads doing an "ice dance" around the ice blocks, each bead wearing tiny ice skates and gliding joyfully between the saltpeter crates. Spotting her, Abacus Bead instantly bounced into the shape of the character "Check" and projected onto an ice brick: "Three thousand catties of White Cogongrass Flower in stock, counted three times over!"
"Old Qian! Why did you use the ledger as a pillow in the cellar?" Xiao Moli shook the frozen-solid ledger, totally exasperated. Abacus Bead projected an image of a yawning Huwa onto the ledger: "It's cool at night, the beads made a sleeping mat for Old Qian!" Rubbing his eyes, Old Qian scrambled up and said, "You know, this ledger is even more comfortable than the brick kang at my place, though I did get frozen awake in the middle of the night by Abacus Bead's 'Pearl Chill Curse'!" Abacus Bead added a cheeky parting shot: "A little freeze wakes up a lazybones!"
Right in the middle of the commotion, the cellar suddenly made a crisp *crack*, and an ice block split open. The herb farmers crowded around to watch, but Abacus Bead acted as if nothing had happened, bouncing right into the crack and projecting a little patch shaped like the phrase "Mend and make do for another three yea…
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