"Write while you're still fired up," Bai Shan suggested, "that way it will be more heartfelt. Once the trade route is open, you can send it out."
Bai Erlang also offered a suggestion, "Just cry, write as pitifully as you can. Imagine you're alone in the Western Regions, you meet a relative and want happily to acknowledge the kinship, but instead he plots against you in various ways. Isn't that incredibly pitiful?"
Liu Huan nodded, "But..."
"There's no 'but'. Just write it like that. What's the big deal about Anxi being far from the capital and high above us? Don't they still rely on funding from the Ministry of Revenue?"
Liu Huan replied weakly, "But I'm not alone..."
However, no one listened, including Yin Huo, who said, "Moderate exaggeration is okay, but too much is no good."
