Passing the journey walking and stopping, it was only after ten days that they entered Jiaodongdao, and its waterfront, which, although it wasn’t as dry as Xi’an City, was quite a bit colder. Arriving in Zhucheng county, the sky had just been painted black, and the roads were covered in a thin layer of ice, and even the leaves had fragments of ice suspended on them; on the north face, the waves roared faintly, and beat against the craggy rocks, lacquer-dark and bottomless as an Asura field, [1] and the clouds that flowed from the snow-covered hilltops were unexpectedly clear, the dense trees suffused with a pale, cold light. Li Shiyi and the others arrived late, and the weather was cold, the evil wind blowing from all four directions and pouring directly down the neck; there weren’t any passersby on the road, and even the small shops weren’t many, and it was quite easy to see the inn ahead, lit brightly by lamplight, and Li Shiyi hurriedly lifted her hands and entered. There wasn’t a