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Chapter 399

Chapter 399

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Hey, today the Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop is decked out with "bouncing colored lanterns"! Ali, from the Western Regions caravan, is wearing a drooping lion-patterned headdress and sighing: "Miss Xiao! Our Arab 'Fire Festival' calls for 'fire-breathing lions,' not 'smoke-spewing sweet cats'!" Huwa is squatting behind a pile of fireworks, snickering, clutching half a stick of unlit candy-fireworks—he has sewn a ring of heat-sensitive sugar paper into the dark blue lion pattern. As the firelight passes, the lion actually spits out red, orange, yellow, and green frosting sparks with a "roar." Moli looks at the colorful lights dancing across the fabric and laughs: "Fine! This 'Huwa Fireworks Lion' is even livelier than the sky lanterns of Chang'an!" "Huwa! Bring over the 'explosion-proof sugar fire'!" shouts the Protagonist. Huwa immediately stuffs a piece of popping candy into the lion's mouth: "Watch this! 'Crackle-pop lion roar'!" As soon as the lion opens its mouth, it bursts out with cumin-scented sugar stars, startling Ali's Camel so much that it snorts loudly. Huwa puts his hands on his hips and laughs: "From now on, no need to buy fireworks for the Fire Festival! Just tear a piece of fabric and you can 'blast sweet stars'!" Abacus Bead projects a head-knocking animation: "Suggest applying for a patent for 'safe sweet-flavored firework fabric'!" Master Jin from Silla is holding the "plain-text Chinese character brocade" and looking deeply worried: "Miss Xiao! Our 'Imperial …

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