Hey, a sweet scent of paint wafted through the Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop today! A bearded Western Regions painter was hugging a faded lion-patterned mural, shouting, "Miss Xiao! The 'Desert Blazing Sun' from our Arab lands has bleached the 'Navy Blue Lion' into a 'Light Yellow Cat'! The pigment spoils even faster than my camel's milk!" Huwa squatted behind a dye vat and snickered, accidentally dropping the blueberry candy in his hand into the ochre powder. He sewed a ring of "bursting color-locking candy" into the outlines of the lion pattern, and when he brushed it across the mural, a mist of cumin-scented color fizzed out, startling a Camel into sneezing a shower of jelly-bean stars, so that even the lizards on the sand wall crawled over to lick on some color and touch up their makeup.
"Huwa! Go bring the 'Forever-Sweet Color' over!" yelled the Protagonist. Huwa immediately poured a bucket of anthocyanin syrup into the loom, and the woven Arab astrological carpet began to click and shift colors with the light: in the morning glow, it showed a navy-blue lion roar; at noon, it turned to an ochre star trail; and as night fell, it emitted a minty fluorescent glow. The bearded painter sat down on the carpet, dropping his paintbrush into the candy jar in astonishment: "By the Prophet! These 'breathing stars' are even more magical than our Persian miniatures!" Huwa put his hands on his hips and laughed, "Pigments too fragile? I call this 'sweet color preservation'!" Abacus Bead pr…
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