The Qingniu Medical Hall's "Sweet Prevention Touring Caravan" rolled into Apricot Blossom Village, sending the village entrance into an instant uproar. Huwa had modified the caravan to look like a tumbling green ox, its horns topped with a large loudspeaker blasting the "Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold", while a giant garlic model hung from the rear, slapping rhythmically against the vehicle body over every bump, looking for all the world like it was keeping time for epidemic prevention slogans.
"Come all and look! Come all and test!" Huwa walked on stilts, holding up a glowing "Prevention Token" crudely engraved with "Eating Garlic is Honorable, Diarrhea is Shameful." Darting into the crowd, he whipped out a "Tongue-Condition Sweet Mirror" and flashed it at an old man watching nearby. A cartoon dysentery bacterium holding a white flag instantly popped up on the mirror, scaring the old man into jumping three feet in the air. "Goodness me! This mirror is scarier than the King of Hell's Book of Life and Death!" Chuckling, Huwa offered him a garlic-flavored bursting candy. "Don't be scared! Eat a candy, and the dysentery bacteria surrender on the spot!"
Just as this sweet prevention masterstroke was turning into a disaster area, the "flying garlic steamed buns" newly developed by Xiaotao Eatery went on a collective strike. These buns were supposed to carry disinfectant on an air drop to the quarantine zone, but someone had apparently swapped them with Huwa's cust…
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