On the opening day of the Cute Kids' Sweet Disease Prevention Training Camp at Qingniu Medical Hall, the courtyard was filled with a scent that blended garlic and milk. Huwa had covered the courtyard walls in giant Qingniu graffiti, turning the ox's eyes into blinking windows and having its mouth hold a garlic cookie that read, "Disease prevention starts with the little ones!"
"Little warriors, assemble!" Huwa wore a mini Qingniu hat with swinging garlic-leaf tassels hanging from the brim, holding a glowing "epidemic prevention token" in his hand. "Today, we're going to scare the dysentery bacteria so bad they'll run home to their mamas! Whoever does a good job gets rewarded with garlic milk tablets from Xiaotao Eatery!" As soon as his voice fell, the children erupted in excitement—the little yak belonging to the Tibetan apprentice Dawa carried a mini disinfection stove, and whenever the copper bell on the stove rang, it sprinkled fragrant powder printed with Tibetan phonetic chants; the child of the Silla apprentice Kim rolled out a "singing medicine chest," and when the lid opened, mechanical figures popped out reciting nursery rhymes from Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold.
When the sweet-prevention teaching session went sideways, Huwa turned "garlic steamed buns" into "adorable little teachers." When pulled apart, the buns turned out to be storytelling dolls with built-in voice systems that taught children the epidemic prevention formulas from The Nine Chapte…
Chapter 514