Today, a group of "sweet-talking strangers" arrived in Samarkand's Spice Alley—the Western Regions branch of the Qingniu Medical Hall was grandly opening! Huwa squatted on a camel's back, sticking "windproof sweet plaster" onto the doorframe, when from afar he saw Su Wanyue supporting an elderly merchant wrapped in a turban. Around the merchant's waist hung Huwa's custom-made "digestion-aiding cumin candy," the Persian lion pattern on the candy spinning "click-clack" with every step and making the passing caravan camels drool with envy.
"Protagonist! Come and help out!" Su Wanyue called from below. "Uncle Ali here says that after eating our 'Pulse-Clearing Dark Blue Candy,' his thirty-year 'camel's back' can bend like a new moon!"
The Protagonist hurried forward to greet them. Uncle Ali opened his robe to reveal a "lumbar spine sweet patch" drawn by Huwa still stuck to his waist, the star chart on the sticker glowing faintly with each breath—this was a "condition indicator" designed by Huwa using Arabian astrology, where green light meant improvement and red light meant it was time to change the medicine.
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