"Can't you?" Du Chunzhi asked, looking thoroughly disappointed. "Since that's how it is, I won't force the issue." She smiled at Mammy Li. "Or perhaps, Mammy, you'd like to come with me?"
Mammy Li waved her hands frantically in fright. "Not me! I'm half-blind—the moment I touch a needle, I prick my finger. I can poke eighty holes in a single night."
Du Chunzhi didn't mind in the least. "Bleeding makes it even better. I can make a red puppet straight away."
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