Hey, today the Yangzhou caravan has set up a "sweet little medicine banner"! As the maritime caravan reached Nanyang, a sudden outbreak of "seasickness sweet fever" struck. Holding a scorching Peace Talisman, Pei Hongxiu wailed, "Huwa! If you don't think of something, we're all going to turn into 'candied human specimens'!" Crouched behind the medicine chest, Huwa snuck a laugh as a piece of his peppermint candy "clattered" right into Su Wanyue's medicine pot—he had sewn a ring of heat-triggered bursting Huoxiang sugar beads into the Dashi Star Brocade. Slapping one onto a patient's forehead, it immediately fizzed with a cool breeze scented like tangerine peel, startling the sick man into jumping up with a yelp: "Call this curing an illness? You've practically stuck a 'sweet, chilled melon' to my forehead!"
"Huwa! Bring over the 'herbal hide-and-seek'!" came Su Wanyue's shout. Huwa immediately stuffed a handful of licorice and rock sugar into the loom, and the woven Chinese character patterns began to click-clack out medical advice: "Is it not cool to learn and constantly practice! When you have a fever, lick the character 'Benevolence'; when you have a cough, lick the character 'Righteousness'!" When Jin, the head merchant of the Silla scholar group, gave it a try, the character "Benevolence" actually exuded peppermint honey, startling his young page into shouting, "Sir! Don't eat the 'Analects' away!" Huwa stood with his hands on his hips and laughed: "Medicine is bitter? …
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