Not far along the narrow path between the fields, the procession veered onto a slightly broader wooden and stony road.
The road was founded on wooden stakes, with wooden fences as embankments. Small stones were packed between the stakes, pressed until they were even and flat. The heads of the stakes protruded a few centimeters from the ground. People walking along had to be particularly careful not to trip over them.
Zheng Qing admired the people who paved this path, perhaps this was the purpose intended by the creators of the Hundred Herb Gardens, as he watched his classmates treading carefully around it.
The wooden and stony road circumnavigated an independent herbal garden.
