The village was way larger than the folks had imagined. It took them 30 minutes that felt like forever to reach the guest room under Wang Meng's lead.
The entrance had a simple style, a demonstration of minimalism, with staircases made out of Celestine where scratches of age could be discerned. There were two stone statues of unknown beasts, looking solemn yet unthreatening. They were carrying a flaming basin each on their back. The basin was the lighting that utilized fat-burning like the other residences in the place and fierily they burned, with hushes made as the wind blew.
A middle-aged woman was standing there with queues of men and ladies dressed in green at both sides.
She stepped ahead and gave a bow at the incoming guests, "The family welcomes fellow guests." She smiled, "It is an honor for our family to be able to entertain fellow guests with our greatest hospitality, as the master has ordered. Kindly forgive us for any inconvenience caused,"
(I don't want to say but in the original, the author literally does the "cut the formality", "You are too formal" thing <literally the 90% similar wordings> and that "YC had never seen this", "YC don't know what are these" instances like few times in one single chapter that I need to come up with different ways to make them sound less repetitive. It's usually a filler-content-filler pattern on a chapter-by-chapter basis but this author seems to like it on paragraph-by-paragraph basis)