Since the New Year was just around the corner, Yuhang Commandery was decked out in festive decorations everywhere. The streets and marketplaces were bustling with people. Thanks to the Twin Dragons Army, the people of Yuhang Commandery had enjoyed some of the best lives in the world over the past two years. Naturally, those with plenty of money to spare were happy to stock up on all sorts of things for the New Year.
The streets of every marketplace were lively and noisy. Vendors were selling all kinds of New Year candies and an assortment of strange trinkets, both large and small, that were rarely seen at other times of the year. There was so much to look at that it dazzled the eye.
Annie held aloft a sugar figure of Kou Zhong that she had molded herself. It looked rather ugly, though it did have a cute, chibi-like quality. As she walked through the crowd, her eyes kept darting this way and that, and her intense curiosity often prompted her to stop and take a closer look.
There was no doubt that the thing in her hand was something she had made herself at a sugar-figure stall. Otherwise, even if a vendor had been given a hundred times the nerve, they wouldn't have dared mold the Grand Overseer of Jiangnan Circuit into that sort of shape.
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"Eh?"
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Suddenly, just after leaving one marketplace and preparing to visit another, Annie heard the twang of bowstrings, followed by cheers and calls of approval.
And, mixed in with them, there seemed to be the playful sounds of Kou Zhong and some woman panting?
"Ha!"
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Following the sounds, she found a military camp beside the main road in Yuhang City. Like the marketplaces, it was laid out in a