Home to more than a million inhabitants, the streets were lined with decorative redbrick buildings with painted doors, and crowded with ornate carriages. Merchants stacked their storefronts with a multitude of goods, the likes of which Guo Jing had never seen before, as the fragrance of tea leaves wafted into the street. Music hung in the air; colors, sounds, and smells overwhelmed him. Guo Jing did not know which way to look.
