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Chapter 344

Chapter 344

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Hey, the Hualou Loom at the Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop is "on strike" today! Master Zhang is squatting beside the loom, clutching the Pattern-Drawing Knotbook, looking for all the world like Huwa guarding his snatched candy stall: "Want us to weave Yunjin with digital codes? Not unless the sun rises from the west and Huwa passes the imperial examination!" Moli blinks, pulling a piece of "magical" Yunjin from her robe—she turns it toward the light, and the "1010" code on the fabric shifts from a cloud pattern into a silhouette of Huwa riding a bamboo horse. The little apprentice gasps in amazement: "Sister Moli! This fabric is even better at transforming than our Tangram!" "Pei Hongxiu! Go invite the Yangzhou sugar-painting master over!" shouts the Protagonist. Pei Hongxiu raises an eyebrow with a smile, instantly rushing into the weaving workshop carrying a sugar-painting carrying pole: "Watch closely! Our 'code sugar paintings' are even prettier than Chinese crabapple flowers!" She scoops up the syrup, pouring out a cloud pattern of "10" (one shuttle, one pick) and a peony of "101" (two shuttles, two picks), and finally molds a sugar figurine of Huwa holding an abacus code. Master Zhang scowls at the sugar figurine: "All flash and no substance! Can this be used as a loom?" Just as things reach an impasse, a weaver folds a code manual into a paper boat: "Miss Xiao! This paper is even softer than our fine silks!" Moli "swooshes" the manual out, revealing a head-knocking animat…

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