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Chapter 364

Chapter 364

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Hey, today the Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop is spinning the "Fabric Inspection Top Array"! Auntie Wang leans over the inspection table and mutters, "This 'smoothness test' is more exhausting than Huwa practicing calligraphy! Can't even inspect a single bolt of fabric in half a day!" Huwa crouches in the corner giggling, clutching a bamboo top in his hand—turns out he modified the "suspended-thread leveling method" from Mozi into the "spinning-top leveling method." The harder he whips it against the fabric, the steadier the top spins, and the smoother the cloth becomes. Moli watches the whirling top and chuckles, "Well, this 'Huwa Inspection Top' bounces around even better than our 'level meter'!" "Pei Hongxiu! Hurry up and bring over the 'Top Counter'!" yells the Protagonist. Pei Hongxiu arches an eyebrow with a smile, carrying a top rack carved with Huwa's portrait as she charges into the inspection workshop: "Watch closely! 'RPM to inches conversion'! For every ten turns of the top, that's '10' inches of qualified fabric!" She places the top onto the cloth, and a gust of northwest wind howls, making the top spin furiously while the counter spits out wooden tallies with spiral patterns with a rapid clack-clack. A young apprentice gasps, "That's even more dizzying than our Mawangdui Lantern!" Amidst the chaos, a weaver kicks the top like a shuttlecock: "Miss Xiao! This '1010' code top spins even more wildly than my cuju ball!" Moli swooshes and snatches the top back, triggering…

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