Dumplings!

I suspect I've written far too much about this train trip, but we finally achieve New Year's dumplings! This follows on from Why Chomifong? and runs to 3,751 words.

As we pulled out of Chomifong it occurred to me that Lady Wen Cho would have exerted herself, having seen such an interesting scene, to find out who the lady from the dining car and the gentleman who’d escorted her from the train were. It then occurred to me that if Lady Wen Cho had been there with all the social advantages that she was used to, then she would almost certainly have known who they were and that the slightly lurid scenarios darting around the fringes of my mind belonged to the dark, sometimes macabre romances of the Hyo period almost two hundred years later. The only problem with that, of course, was that the estate and funerary temple might not be isolated at all – there could be a large town, albeit one without a railway station, just out of sight beyond the cemetery or beyond the visible parts of the Hsien estate.

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This is now followed by The End of The Train Trip.