All right. That's good! So he just has to keep talking, and hope he doesn't say anything else foolish.

(It's the second half that is the sticking point, really.)

"All I'm saying," he goes on, as cheerfully as he can, "is that Madam Bar was very good at honoring our request for something sweet, and we should test her skill further by adding other flavors to the sweetness. Otherwise it will all taste the same, and who wants that?"

...says Wei Wuxian to one of the most prominent members of Gusu Lan.