莲
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艹
+
连
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Li Qingzhao (li) wants to add lotus (莲) to the anthill's menu, so she sets up a big water tank in the kitchen (an2). In the tank she fixes sheets of artificial lawn (艹) to the bottom of the tank using chains (连) to act as scaffold for the new lotus (莲) plants.
县
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且
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厶
:
Marie Curie (xi) and the county manager of her home county are manufacturing maps of her home county (县) inside of the anthill's bathroom (an4). The county has a very special form which you can reproduce by smashing a fake nose (厶) with a shelf (且).