Hey, today Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop has started raining "ink-scented candies"! Huwa crouches behind a dye vat and snickers, clutching a paintbrush dripping with gold powder—he is writing classic Analects quotes onto a custom batch of "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum" brocade ordered by Silla. But he accidentally writes "To learn without thinking is blind" as "To crave sweets without tasting is panicked," accompanied by a little doodle of Huwa gnawing on a candy. Moli looks at the fabric and chuckles, "Well! This 'Huwa Golden Quote Brocade' is livelier than the storytelling at the Confucian Temple!" Master Jin, the head merchant of the Silla delegation, nods repeatedly as he holds a sample swatch. "Marvelous! Our Silla scholars just love these 'adorable sage sayings'! How about adding 'Within books, there are naturally candied haws'?"
"Aunt Wang! Add some '01' binary code fluorescent icing to the 'Ren' character!" shouts Huwa. Aunt Wang mutters through her reading glasses, "Who puts frosting on words?" With a whoosh, Huwa scrambles up the loom and embeds a sesame candy right in the middle of the character for "benevolence." "There! Now the heart of benevolence is sweet!" The Abacus Bead projects a head-knocking animation: "That is a security mark, not a snack!" The loom goes clack-clack, spitting out character-woven fabric dusted with frosting. Under the sunlight, it even fluoresces with the words "sweet talk."
Just as things get lively, Dawa from the Tibet caravan b…
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