The prosperity of Lin'an far exceeded my imagination.
The streets were packed with a bustling crowd, vendors cried out their wares one after another, and various scents blended together—the wheaty aroma of baked flatbreads, the sweet stickiness of sugar figurines, and the spicy tang of unfamiliar spices. Like a country bumpkin who had just arrived in the city, I was knocked left and right.
"Make way! Make way!" A vendor carrying two baskets of live fish squeezed past me, his fish tails splashing a faceful of water at me.
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