"Creak... creeeak... creeeeak..."
The Magic Fan gave off a string of irritating noises, and its blades suddenly slowed. Before long, they stopped with a harsh, grating screech.
Auntie Ailiman cast a disgusted glance at the Weideke Magic Fan on the table and raised her voice to shout behind her, "Old man, this damned Magic Fan has broken again!"
Old Kuchi came running out of the back room, drenched in sweat. He looked at the Magic Fan on the table and could not help swearing loudly.
"How many times has this damned Weideke Magic Fan broken this month?"
Auntie Ailiman snorted. "I told you ages ago that if you were going to buy a Magic Fan, you had to buy a Xinfei Magic Fan. But you wouldn't listen, and you brought home this piece of Weideke junk instead. It breaks every time we use it. Aren't you sick of it?"
Old Kuchi glared back at her angrily. "Haven't I already told you? You simply can't buy a Xinfei Magic Fan! You know perfectly well how hard it is to buy Xinfei Household Magic Machinery anywhere in the Lampari Kingdom now. Where do you expect me to steal one for you?"
"Even if you couldn't buy a Xinfei Magic Fan, you could have bought a Rige Magic Fan. Failing that, even a Silubond Magic Fan would be much better than this damned Weideke Magic Fan! Why did you insist on bringing this piece of junk home?"
The heat already made tempers flare, and Auntie Ailiman's nagging only made Old Kuchi more irritable. He waved his arms angrily and shouted, "How many times do you want me to say it? It's not just Xinfei Magic Fans that you can't buy. This year, you can't even buy Rige or Silubond Magic Fans! I'm telling