Hey, Qingniugucame a rustic challenger today! A barefoot doctor from the neighboring county burst in carrying a medicine basket, dumped its contents right onto the table—Rhodiola mixed with dogtail grass, White Cogongrass Flower mixed with cotton fluff, looking for all the world like Huwa's "pretend play medicinal herb pack." Old Qian pinched a blade of grass and frowned: "Mister! Are you treating our standards like a child's game?" The barefoot doctor scratched his head and laughed: "It's not that I don't want to follow the rules, but we can't even recognize the abacus code word for 'bake'!" The abacus beads bounced into an alphabet card with a clatter and projected right onto the grass leaves: "Easy fix! The beads are opening a 'Rustic Crash Course,' guaranteed to teach you until you master it!"
"Xiaoxiu! Bring over our 'Bead-Chain Illustrated Ledger'!" At a shout from Moli, Old Zhou huffed and puffed as he carried over a ledger covered in crooked, scribbled drawings: "The abacus beads had Huwa draw these! The sun represents 'harvesting on sunny days,' the flame represents the 'drying kiln,' and the snail represents 'slow processing'!" The barefoot doctor beamed as he looked at the drawing of Huwa riding a cow inside the ledger: "This is even easier to understand than our 'herbal folk songs'!" An abacus bead projected a winking Huwa: "Naturally! Bead-Chain teaching, the more rustic, the more effective!"
While they were chatting, the barefoot doctor casually tossed the dri…
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