/lit/ - Literature

Does this passage match this picture?

>The stagecoach stopped in front of a clubhouse. There was a small sign mounted in front. It was disappointingly small, barren, and plain. The wooden building was no larger than the buildings back in China. The wooden floorboards frayed from use and rot. Two large red paper lanterns adorned and hung from the awning above. Four men occupied the deck. Two of them sat on the makeshift bench in front of the window, another leaned against a large post, and the fourth was the stagecoach driver standing in front of the doorway. Fei-Ming observed how the slabs curved from the weight of the stagecoach driver. This building was nothing close to what he heard.

>The buildings were supposed to be grander than the palaces of the Imperial City. Buildings were built using the finest wood and painted with gold, even Emperor Tong-Zhi would stop and marvel at the architecture. Fei-Ming once overheard an American woman back in China tell three young girls how gold was so plentiful that they could pick up gold coins directly on the streets. He never did see Mei, Sui, and Lei again.