Hey, Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop has some "unexpected cattle" today! Dawa, of the Tibet merchant caravan, led ten yaks charging into the courtyard, their backs laden with coarse silk brocade chewed to a mess. "Miss Xiao!" Dawa shouted, brandishing a torn piece of cloth. "Our Chieftain says this 'Blue-green Ox Dark Pattern' has been chewed full of holes by prairie wolves!" Huwa squatted behind the yaks, snickering to himself while clutching yak milk candy—turns out he had infused the anti-counterfeiting metallic threads with a yak butter aroma, which tempted the yaks into treating the fabric like forage.
"Huwa! Go fetch the 'anti-chew anti-counterfeiting' agent!" Moli shouted. Huwa blinked, pulled out a crumb of highland barley flatbread, and pressed it into the coarse silk: "This time I've added 'Yak-Repellent' chili powder!" With a flick toward the fabric surface, the yaks recoiled instantly upon catching the scent; even "Flower Hooves," the one that loved chewing fabric the most, snorted and backed away. Dawa cried out in amazement, "Incredible! Even better than our 'lupine fence'!" Huwa stood with his hands on his hips, laughing. "From now on, we'll sew a 'spicy ox' mark on the corners of the fabric, and yaks will give it a wide berth on sight!" Abacus Bead projected an animated rapping skull: "Recommendation: apply for a patent on 'animal taste-based anti-counterfeiting'!"
The Snow Mountain pattern area was even livelier. Huwa had used fluorescent icing to represent the pe…
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