Hey, the Yangzhou caravan is putting up "sweet-as-can-be houses" today! The caravan from the Western Regions desert wants to build a "breathing lion-patterned fort," and Ali, his head throbbing from the heat, starts yelling, "Miss Xiao! Our Great Shi 'solar ovens' have baked the 'dark blue lions' into 'crispy candy'! The wall seams are oozing sweet oil!" Huwa crouches behind a pile of sand, giggling as the peppermint drop in his hand goes "clack" into the clay. He pours a ring of "bursting cooling candy" into the lion-patterned wall paint, and when he brushes it onto the wall, it starts to fizz and hiss with a cumin-scented cool breeze, scaring the desert scorpions into darting away "pitter-patter" while even the bricks smack their lips and lick the wall surface.
"Huwa! Bring the 'sweet cool air-conditioned wall' over here!" shouts the Protagonist. Huwa immediately pours a bucket of cactus syrup into the loom, and the woven Great Shi astrological bricks start to swallow and spit out cool breeze with a "clack-clack" rhythm: "Date flavor in the morning, mint scent in the afternoon!" Ali places an astrological brick at the corner of the wall, startling the caravan maidens so much that their veils flutter like little flags: "By the Truth! This wall breathes even better than our Persian carpets!" Huwa puts his hands on his hips and laughs: "Desert too hot? What I've got is the 'sweet breeze through-hall technique'!" Abacus Bead displays an animation of a tap on the head: "Actuall…
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