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Chapter 458

Chapter 458

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The "Three-Tiered Sweet Learning System" at the Green Ox Medical Academy pulled out all the stops today. In the apprentice-level classroom, Huwa set up a "Sweet Medicine Arena." On the left was the *Rhymes on Pharmacological Properties* sweet-book team, and on the right was the Huwa-brand "Bursting Candy Bean" team. The two teams clashed in the arena with a crackling racket, turning *Rhymes of Decoction Formulae* into a rap: "Yinqiao Powder, peppermint first, Huwa's candy beans beat the best!" The magpies in the trees fluttered their wings to keep the beat, their feathers dusted with the "memory sweet powder" Huwa had scattered. In the apprentice-level "Sweet Tongue Herb Identification" class, Zhang Dama's grandson Huwa—referred to as Little Huwa—was locked in a struggle with a "Bezoar Candy Bean." "Are you a heat-clearing herb or a purgative? If you don't tell the truth, I'll lick you until you cry!" Huwa himself tapped him on the head. "Idiot! To taste candy beans, you have to look at the 'sweet patterns'—spiral patterns mean heat-clearing, and wavy patterns mean purgative!" Little Huwa did as he was told and sure enough tasted the difference between the peppermint flavor and the popping candy flavor, his eyes widening in astonishment. In the **Consultation-level "Virtual Diagnosis Room,"** the Protagonist was using Huwa's "Sweet Mist Projection Technique" to test the "treatment for postpartum wind." As soon as the virtual new mother materialized, Kim, an apprentice from …

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