Miss Truth

"Let’s go, let’s go! Otherwise, why don’t I send Wan Lu down to buy you two masks? That way, if we get separated, can’t we just meet up at the Jin River Fair?" Ran Yun was thoroughly enjoying herself, but she was only looking and not buying. With Ran Yan and Ran Yunsheng along, she had access to a purse.

Ran Yunsheng looked at Ran Yun’s sly smile and knew what she was thinking.

"Wan Lu, go down and buy two masks," Ran Yan instructed, then turned to Ran Yunsheng and said, "Brother Yun, it would be a pity to stay out of the bustle. You don’t know when you’ll be back once you leave Suzhou. Why not go down and have some fun?"

The markets of Chang’an were dozens of times busier than those of Suzhou, but Jiangnan had its own charm. Many charming little things that you couldn’t necessarily find for sale in Chang’an.

Ran Yunsheng was also tempted. "Good."

Wan Lu went downstairs for a while and then brought back two masks, "Both of these masks are the ugliest. The owner said they’re hard to sell, so I thought they’d be easy to recognize."

Ran Yunsheng casually picked one up and put it on, while Wan Lu handed the other to Ran Yan, who said, "Even if I don’t wear such an ugly mask, I doubt it would be hard to recognize me. There probably aren’t many wives on the street walking with their arms in slings."

Once they left the Jin River Inn, they immediately felt the overwhelming din and atmosphere engulfing them. If they spoke during the conversation, they had to shout into each other’s ears, or else they could hardly hear what the others were saying.