Suzaku Avenue in Chang'an was illuminated by giant glazed garlic bulbs, with abacus-bead-shaped lanterns hanging all along the streets. Huwa rode a green ox-drawn wooden cart draped with a Taiji Flag. The cart bed was piled high with garlic-skin loudspeakers that automatically broadcast "The Twenty Rules of the Commercial Alliance": "Listen up, everyone! Today is the hundred-day anniversary banquet of the Commercial Alliance. Anyone who comes up with any more outrageous inventions—" He shook the garlic-shaped ceremonial gavel in his hand, "—will be sentenced to dance backup for the yaks!"
The "Ultimate Exam Paper" with Transparent Pricing
The East Market had set up a "Taiji Pricing Arena," where Uncle Zhang's sesame flatbread stall had transformed into a giant abacus, with the abacus beads being glowing sesame flatbreads. "You can only eat a flatbread if you answer the pricing question correctly!" Uncle Zhang, wearing a "examiner's hat" hand-painted by Huwa, grabbed Ali the Persian merchant. "Listen to the question: Saffron originally cost ten strings of coins, but now costs twelve. Is this a violation?" Just as Ali shouted "Compliant!", a flatbread abacus bead suddenly popped out and stamped the Chinese character for "Integrity" right on his forehead.
Shopkeeper Wang was even more inventive, turning her rouge shop into a "Pricing Escape Room" where customers had to solve twenty pricing arithmetic problems in order to buy lip rouge. When Huwa charged in, he saw Su Wanyue us…
Chapter 582