Hey, the Qingniu Apothecary in the Chang'an West Market is buzzing with excitement today! Widow Wang clutches a wooden token and smacks the counter: "Doctor! Take a look at this. The Abacus Bead says my man's Rhodiola needs to be brewed with the Zhu Prescription, but what on earth is the Zhu Prescription?" Abacus Bead instantly leaps onto the medicine cabinet, projecting the animation of a small medicine jar: "Dummy! Boil three bowls of water down to one, and add an abacus-bead candy at the end—sweet and tasty, it chases the illness away!" Widow Wang chuckles as she watches the abacus bead bouncing around in the animation: "So the Abacus Bead sells candy too?"
"Give me a pack of White Cogongrass Flower with a token!" Huwa, wearing only a bellyband, comes to cause trouble again. Abacus Bead projects a nose-scratching animation on the token: "Little ancestor, you used the token as a shuttlecock to kick last time, and Bead hasn't even settled accounts with you yet!" But Huwa just flashes a copper coin and grins wide: "Don't be so stingy, Bead, I'll trade you for a jujube cake!" Abacus Bead rolls "rumble, rumble" onto the jujube cake and projects: "Deal! But we have a deal—kick the token again, and Bead is going to your house to steal jujubes!"
Amidst the commotion, the owner of the apothecary storms in with a gloomy face, carrying a fake wooden token: "Look at this! Copied by an apothecary in the South City, engraved with 'Qingniu Secret Recipe,' but all the herbs are moldy!" …
Chapter 294