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Chapter 372

Chapter 372

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Hey, Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop has turned into a "bell formation" today! At the Silk Selection Station, Master Zhang is shouting at the top of his lungs: "Aunt Wang! You should ring the bell after finishing the '01 Goose-Yellow' dyeing! My '10 strands of silk' are almost piling up like Huwa's building blocks!" Over at the Dyeing Station, Aunt Wang is holding up a dye vat and stamping her feet: "Goodness knows Huwa used the 'process bell' as a cricket jar lid!" Hiding behind the jacquard loom, Huwa is chuckling to himself, clutching a copper bell engraved with the "1010" Code—turns out he has arranged the five production steps into a "bell code melody," ringing a "ding-ling" for finishing silk selection and a "dong-clang" for completing the dyeing, making it even livelier than Huwa's pellet drum. "Xiao Moli! Hurry and bring over the Bell Counter!" shouts the Protagonist. Xiao Moli blinks, pulling out Huwa's toy whistle: "Watch this! 'Whistle for inches'! Blow the whistle '10' times after selecting the silk, and '01' time after dyeing!" She hands the whistle to Master Zhang, and the old man blows it, producing the magical rhythm of "Huwa munching on a tanghulu"—which corresponds to automatically skipping process transition delays. A young apprentice gasps in amazement: "That's even punchier than our 'talking tubes'!" Amidst the chaos, a weaver bites into a bell as if it were a sesame cake: "Miss Xiao! This '10' code bell is crunchier than my sugar crisps!" With a "whoosh," Xia…

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