The doors of the Taiji Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Tribunal had just swung open when a bizarre gust of wind, carrying a mix of garlic aroma, scorched glass, and printer ink, came rushing out. Huwa wore a "Chief Arbitrator" hat woven from garlic braids and leftover scraps of the chamber's flag, and he cradled the bamboo slips of the *Twenty Rules of the Chamber of Commerce*, which featured an automatic error-correction function. Looking down at the merchants brawling in a tangled heap below the dais, he screamed at the top of his lungs, "Stop it, all of you! Keep fighting and I'll fine you into partnership to open a 'Garlic Glass and Ink Shop'!"
Case One: The "Mutinous" Arithmetic Sesame Cake
Uncle Zhang wore a gloomy expression as he held up half a sesame cake that had grown "legs." "My arithmetic sesame cakes have been subverted!" It turned out that a newly opened pastry shop in the west of the city had used Muhammad's glass-blowing technique to equip sesame cakes with movable abacus-bead eyes, and they had even programmed the cakes to "refuse" to be eaten by customers who answered math problems incorrectly. "This is malicious competition!" Uncle Zhang wiped away his tears, "Now my cakes have even learned to go on strike!"
The defendant shopkeeper waved his folding fan while the abacus-bead eyes on the sesame cake rolled around briskly. "This is a technological upgrade! By using Shopkeeper Wang's movable-type printing, every sesame cake can generate random problems." Hu…
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