The backyard of Qingniu Medical Hall had recently turned into a "black hole of bizarre ideas." The things Huwa and the apprentices conjured up were enough to make people's jaws drop to the floor. Today, Huwa was wearing a helmet strung together with cloves of garlic and announced that he was going to host a "Quirky Epidemic Prevention Genius Contest," grandly declaring, "The weirder it is, the more it scares away dysentery bacteria!"
First up was the "Garlic Steamed Bun 2.0 Modded Edition." The apprentices had equipped the buns with little wings and moving eyes. These "sentient" buns could not only flap their wings and fly all over the room, but they would also shout in high-pitched voices, "Eat me! Eat me! Eat me and you won't be afraid of dysentery bacteria!" One bun, getting a little too excited, dove headfirst into Protagonist's medicine pot, filling the freshly brewed Coptis and Pueraria decoction with garlic-scented foam. Protagonist stomped his feet in anger. "These aren't steamed buns, they're absolute menaces!" Huwa, however, clapped and cheered. "Master, flying buns are so creative! They're guaranteed to leave an unforgettable impression!"
Aunt Zhang's grandson, Huwa, made a dazzling entrance hugging his "bizarre invention"—a "disease-prevention fortune-telling machine" pieced together from scrap metal. The gimmick was that as long as you dropped a garlic-flavored candy into it and turned the crank, the machine would go clank-clank and spit out a slip of paper pre…
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