Hey, a wave of "sweet and spicy" is drifting through Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop today! A plump merchant from the Nanyang Melaka Caravan is holding a chewed-up coconut-patterned brocade and shouting, "Miss Xiao! The mosquitoes in Nanyang are bigger than coconuts. They've chewed the 'ice-chilled lion pattern' into a 'drafty sieve'!" Huwa is squatting behind a pile of mosquito-repelling herbs, half a chili candy clutched in his hand. He has sewn a ring of "sweet-and-spicy candy beads" into the mane of the dark cyan lion pattern. With a slap on the fabric surface, a spicy mist with a lemon fragrance bursts out, startling the merchant's parrot into a flutter. Moli Xiao looks at the bouncing mist beads on the fabric and laughs heartily, "Fine! This 'Huwa Mosquito-Repelling Lion' is even more high-spirited than our 'mosquito coil array'!"
"Huwa! Quickly bring over the 'bug tooth nemesis'!" shouts the Protagonist.
Huwa immediately pours a bucket of peppermint-chili water into the loom, and the woven Arabian astrological chart starts sizzling and giving off a cool draft, along with a whiff of hot-and-sour rice noodle scent. The Melaka merchant touches it and jerks his hand back in shock, "By the Prophet! Even more stimulating than our 'chili shaved ice'!"
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