As the dysentery subsided in Guanzhong, the area right outside Qingniu Medical Hall became as bustling as the opening of Huwa's candy stall. Villagers carried stone tablets and lugged sweet beans, insisting on erecting a "Monument of Benevolent Heart" for the medical hall. Huwa squatted on the ground, scratching his head. "If you want to set up a monument, set it up, but why keep stuffing candy into my pockets? Stuff any more... and my belly is going to swell into a sweet-bean hot air balloon!"
The monument erection turned into a massive blunder. The stonemason originally wanted to carve "A Master's Touch Brings the Dying Back to Life," but Huwa insisted on adding a relief sculpture of a green ox chewing sweet beans right next to it. Once the monument was erected, the green ox's tail blocked half of the character for "Life," making it look from a distance like "A Master's Touch Brings Sweetness to Life." The Protagonist wiped away sweat with a sweet-scented handkerchief. "Huwa! You've turned a medical monument into a dessert shop sign!" Huwa clapped his hands. "How wonderful! The moment the common folk look at it, they'll know our medical hall specializes in curing 'the ailment of lacking sweetness!'"
It was a sweet and noisy comedy of monument inscriptions, with scholars arguing endlessly over what to write. One scholar suggested using a classic quote from the *Treatise on Cold Damage*, while another insisted on writing Huwa's doggerel about "Sweet-Bean Bacta-Battle Agains…
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