Four days later, outside the Star Engraving County.
The Star Engraving train station had been built near Haizhu Port; both the port and the station sat in Star Engraving's outer city—that is, Chengxia Village, which had no protective city walls. Chengxia Village existed by clinging to Star Engraving County, like an accessory dangling off the city's leg.
Star Engraving County's earliest inner city actually included only that small, blessed area near Mirror Lake, but after centuries of expansion and development, the population of the outer city outstripped that of the inner city. That's why an outer city wall had been built, and the Qian Yuliu clan and other commoners had finally been acknowledged as "noble cityfolk"—of course, to the natives of Mirror Lake, they were still just mud legs.
