Today, the Green Ox Medical Academy's "Points Redemption Day" turned into a sweet farce. Huwa hauled a three-story-tall "sweet bean machine" into the courtyard. The machine's exterior was wrapped in coarse silk featuring dark green lions and Chinese character patterns. Every time a point-scoring sweet bean was dropped inside, it would click and whir to dispense a different reward: the first floor dispensed sweet medicine, the second floor offered advanced study tickets, and the third floor even featured a bobbing cartoon head of Huwa proclaiming, "Whoever saves up ten thousand points can have me custom-build an 'exclusive sweet prescription'!"
"Manager Qian! It's your turn!" Huwa waved a sweet flag from the third floor. Manager Qian from the Yangzhou branch rubbed his hands together and dumped a whole half-year's worth of accumulated point beans into the machine with a rattling clatter. As soon as the beans hit the bottom, the machine suddenly let out an ox-like "moo" and puffed out a cloud of osmanthus-scented smoke, spitting out a sweet ticket embroidered with "Seven-Day Tour of Green Ox Valley." The green ox on the ticket even smacked its lips, making Manager Qian's palm itch with delight.
The advanced study session at Green Ox Valley was livelier than a candy shop. Huwa had transformed the valley into a "sweet medicine laboratory," with each cave hanging a sign for a different flavor: the "Mint Cave" researched exterior-releasing medicine, the "Pepper Cave" tackled damp…
Chapter 457