Late at night, dark clouds obscured the moon, allowing only faint light to filter through the fog and spread across the land. A cold wind blew fiercely!
Inside the Inner City of Baojiao County, at this hour, the cold was biting, and there were no pedestrians in sight. Even the night watchmen, who came out to ring the watch, were wrapped up tightly, with heavy cotton jackets over thick trousers, and wore hunters' felt hats capable of protecting their ears as they patrolled the streets.
It was the Third Watch of the Night. The night watchman's cries of "all is well" echoed, accompanied by the sound of three gongs as he passed through the streets of Brocade Lane in the Inner City of Baojiao County.
「Brocade Lane.」
