Overnight, the open space in front of Qingniu Medical Hall transformed into an "epidemic prevention knowledge kingdom." Huwa, wearing a mortarboard folded from the pages of Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold and brandishing a glowing garlic scepter, cried out: "Step right up, don't miss out! Come to the temple fair today and you won't just get to eat garlic-infused delicacies, you can also carve knowledge of dysentery bacteria straight into your DNA! Pass the challenge and win a garlic-flavored ice cream hot pot from Xiaotao Eatery!"
The townspeople's jaws dropped the moment they entered the fairgrounds. The "epidemic prevention archway" at the entrance featured two blinking bronze ox sculptures, their exhaled mist carrying essential verses from Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold that left fluorescent characters upon anyone's clothes. Deeper in, the booth run by the Tibetan apprentice displayed a "Tibetan medicine knowledge roulette." A spin of the pointer would yield an epidemic prevention tip written in Tibetan, while the rim of the wheel was hung with little yak dolls that sprinkled disinfectant powder. Even more ingenious was the "arithmetic riddle wall" run by the Silla apprentice: every lantern bore an epidemic prevention riddle composed using The Nine Chapters on Mathematical Art, and solving one could be exchanged for a garlic-flavored milk candy.
Garlic steamed buns had turned into "knowledge messengers." Huwa had equipped the buns with miniat…
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