It was the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month; the Spring Festival was approaching.
Li Feng reined in his horse, stopping at a newly constructed watchtower outside Chang'an City, and looked down at the imperial capital, which had been renamed "Chang'an."
Within the former walls of Quwo City, houses were laid out as neatly as a chessboard, with rows of grey tiles stretching to the horizon. Outside the walls, however, makeshift dwellings and shops had spread like wild grass, extending all the way to the distant riverside.
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