The "Talent Sweet Skill Exhibition" of the Green Ox Medical Academy dazzled the eyes of Chang'an today—Huwa had set up a rainbow stage in the academy square that billowed with sweet mist, displaying the proud creations of the three tiers of sweet skills: the apprentice-tier "Herb-Property Sweet-Singing Lamp" could sing herbal medicine ballads, the resident-physician-tier "Clinical Sweet Drama" brought the *Treatise on Cold Damage* to life, and the most magnificent of all was the master-physician-tier "Plague Bursting-Cream Cannon," which fired off a blast of sweet mist inscribed with golden quotes from the *Medical Sage Plaque*, startling even the clouds in the sky into gathering into the sweet characters for "Miraculous Hands Bring Back the Spring."
"Look here, everyone!" Huwa stood on the stage, waving a lion-patterned sweet flag. "Today we exhibit the three tiers of sweet skills. Whoever's sweet medicine can make the common folk laugh till they cry... gets my 'Bursting-Cream Honor Candy' as a reward!" No sooner had his voice fallen than little Huwa, the grandson of Apprentice Zhang, rushed onto the stage holding a "Cough-Relieving Sweet Pipa." Its strings were made of licorice strands, and a single pluck produced "Almond Mint Candies." An old man with a cough licked the candy and began to sing the *Sweet Cough Ballad* along with the music, his phlegm dissolving into sweet bubbles from all his laughter.
For the resident-physician-tier sweet skill show, the Luoyang apprent…
Chapter 477