Behold, Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop has set up a "Light and Shadow Stage" today! Aunt Wang holds up a fabric inspection lamp and mutters, "Miss Xiao! This 'thread-leakage detection' is even harder on the eyes than Huwa reciting the Classic of Three Characters! The fabric surface looks just like Huwa's homework book, full of ink blots!" Huwa hides behind the curtain and snickers, tightly gripping a leather shadow puppet. It turns out he has applied the "pinhole imaging" principle from Mozi to create a "shadow puppet fabric inspection method," projecting it onto the fabric where the leaked threads show up like Huwa's mischievous face cast upon the screen. Moli stares at the fabric that can "perform shadow play," a look of delight on her face: "Splendid! This 'Huwa shadow puppet fabric inspection' beats our 'magnifying glass leak-checking' by a mile!"
"Pei Hongxiu! Quickly fetch the 'light and shadow counter'!" shouts Protagonist. Pei Hongxiu arches her slender eyebrows, hoisting a shadow puppet box carved with a portrait of Huwa as she charges into the inspection workshop: "Listen up, everyone! 'Shadows traded for inches'! Ten leaked thread shadows mean a deduction of sesame candy; one flawless bolt of fabric means a reward of osmanthus candy!" The weavers' eyes light up, and the shadow puppet lamps flicker briskly, creating a buzz more lively than Huwa watching a street performance, while the counter goes "clack-clack," spitting out wooden tokens adorned with shadow puppet patte…
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