RNP Chapter 40 Tourism
Chapter 40 Tourism
When Yang Ming returned home, the people who had gone to the market were also returning, along with a large truck. A group of people were unloading flowers from the truck, and the yard was already half full of flowers.
"How many flowers did you buy? It feels like you've swept through the entire flower market..." Yang Ming was dumbfounded.
"Zhang Yang's van couldn't carry all the flowers, so we hired a transport truck to bring them back. We also bought a lot of seeds." Wei Qingqing came up and handed Yang Ming a file folder: "The quality inspection has been done, there are no pesticide residues, it's top-quality."
"Okay, this will do." Yang Ming took the file folder and put it away.
"It's just that the quality inspection took up time, otherwise we would have been back long ago," Wei Qingqing said.
"Brother Qian, stop standing there! You're a strong man, come and help unload the truck. The driver is waiting to go home after unloading..." Sun Fangfang shouted at Yang Ming.
"Coming, coming..." Yang Ming quickly replied.
As the sun sets, it's evening again.
After seeing off Sun Fangfang and her family of three in the afternoon, Yang Ming and Wei Qingqing resumed their quiet life.
"Qingqing, how about we go to the hot spring pool..." Yang Ming leaned against the kang (a heated brick bed), a laptop on his lap, reading an online novel. To be honest, Yang Ming only went online to read novels and browse the news. He had no interest in online games, which many netizens were addicted to, and he didn't even chat on QQ.
"No... It's so much better to stay home. It hurt so much last night." Wei Qingqing's face turned red.
"I mean, let's go there and plant the flowers." Yang Ming chuckled, his smile carrying a hint of ambiguity.
"What a joke, planting flowers so late at night?..." Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes at him, put on her shoes, and got off the kang (heated brick bed).
Yang Ming quickly closed the notebook, tucked it under the covers, put on his shoes, got off the kang (heated brick bed), and, holding Wei Qingqing's small hand, strolled towards the hot spring pool together: "Speaking of which, tomorrow is Qixi Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day. What gift do you plan to get?"
"However, I don't like Qixi Festival..."
Why?
"On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge. How beautiful and poignant! If we can only meet once a year like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl after Qixi Festival, how tragic would that be?"
"You can't say that. There's a saying that a day in heaven is a year on earth. In fact, we see each other every day."
"If you use your conversion method, you're dividing a day into 365 parts. They only see each other for a few minutes each day! What can they possibly do in such a short time?"
"..."
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a month has passed. The weather is gradually turning cooler, and there are occasional light rains. These rains are different from the rains in summer; they are cool and refreshing, carrying the desolation of autumn.
As dusk approached, a light rain began to fall, pattering into the valley and dissipating much of the steam rising from the hot springs.
"Qingqing, come up when you're done washing..." Yang Ming called from inside the cabin.
The cabin was newly built three days ago. It has two rooms and an area of 30 square meters. It took half a month to build.
All the interior sides of the wooden boards used were planed smooth with an electric planer and then joined together using a matting technique. Thick glue was also applied to the gaps between the wood, making it airtight and extremely strong and tight.
The entire wooden house was built without using a single nail.
The floor was made of heavy, suspended wooden planks. Stepping on it felt quite weighty, and the "thump, thump, thump" sound was like the beating of war drums. The entire cabin was actually built on six short pillars, which were large logs wedged into the ground. The logs were about half a meter in diameter, embedded a meter deep into the ground, and the exposed part above the ground was half a meter long, making them extremely strong.
There are three wooden steps leading to the entrance. The windows are polished to a shine. The roof is pointed and slopes down, with the eaves extending a meter over the windows to prevent rainwater from getting inside. However, the interior roof is flat, with an incandescent light bulb hanging from it for illumination.
It cost Yang Ming a full 30,000 yuan to build this log cabin, even with him providing the timber.
The small valley has changed dramatically. On the outermost edge are rows of saplings, which are growing very lushly and are cleverly arranged. No matter which angle you look through the iron fence, the tree trunks block the view, and you can't see a single thing inside.
Inside were fruit trees, including peach, apple, and pear trees, which had already grown to a foot tall and were still growing rapidly, changing every day. Yang Ming thought to himself that the temperature near the hot spring pool was high, allowing the fruit trees to grow continuously throughout the winter. If they continued to grow at this rate, by next spring, these fruit trees might even be able to flower and bear fruit.
Moreover, Yang Ming purchased several more Tree of Life seeds and planted them on several small saplings. Through the effects of these Trees of Life, the air quality in this small valley became exceptionally good.
Beneath the fruit trees, various flowers and plants are planted, colorful and dazzling, and the fragrant fragrance spreads throughout the valley. Occasionally, petals blown down will even fall into the pond, giving the water a faint fragrance.
Originally, Yang Ming disagreed with planting flowers and grass around the hot spring pool because some pollen and grass fluff can irritate people's skin, and some people with sensitive skin are prone to allergic reactions. If you want to smell the fragrance of flowers, planting flowers and grass on the outside is the same. However, Wei Qingqing and Sun Fangfang insisted, and besides, the hot spring pool is a flowing pool, so Yang Ming had no choice but to compromise.
"Soaking for two hours every day is good for your skin, we still need 15 minutes..." Wei Qingqing said.
"You're soaking yourself in the floatation tank again," Yang Ming muttered.
"How annoying..." Wei Qingqing said coquettishly.
"October 1st is just a few days away, our wedding is almost here. Have you thought about who will look after our house?" Yang Ming leaned against the window of the cabin, looking at the picture of a beautiful woman bathing.
"Is that even a question? Of course it's Aunt Liu..." Wei Qingqing lay comfortably at the bottom of the pool, the water reaching up to her neck.
"My mom said we should have a destination wedding. Have you decided where to go?" Yang Ming asked.
"Hmm! I'm a bit undecided. It's in this province, which is QHD. It's close to Beidaihe, but it gets quite cold in the sea around October 1st. Going to Hainan is okay, but it's a bit far. How about going to Hong Kong or Macau? That's not good either, since everyone there speaks Cantonese, which we can't understand. Going abroad would be even less interesting..." Wei Qingqing tilted her head back, feeling the coolness of the rain, and muttered softly.
"It's boring. We can't communicate, so what's the point of playing it? Unless we have a translator..." Yang Ming laughed.
"Come on, do you even bring a translator on a trip?" Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes at Yang Ming.
Yang Ming chuckled but remained silent.
"How about we go to Jiuzhaigou?" Wei Qingqing suggested after thinking for a moment.
"Can you understand what Sichuan people are saying?"
"NMG..."
"They don't understand Mongolian!"
"Hangzhou..."
"Hangzhou is great, Suzhou and Hangzhou are known for their beautiful women..."
"Then let's not go there, let's go to XZ instead..."
"I can't stand the altitude sickness."
"So, where do you want to go?"
"Isn't it what you say?"
"Then let's go to Qingdao, it's settled..." Wei Qingqing thought for a long time, but still felt that staying in the province was better. "We don't necessarily have to go to Beidaihe! Qingdao has many tourist attractions, such as Yansai Lake, Jiangnu Temple, Laolongtou, and Shanhaiguan..."
"Okay! Wherever you say we want to go, we'll go."
Splash...
Wei Qingqing got up, walked naked out of the hot spring pool, went into the wooden house, and wrapped herself in a bath towel: "It feels so good. I feel like all my pores have been opened up and all the toxins in my body have been swept away."
"Hmph, now that your pores are open, you'd better be careful. If some irritating pollen gets in, your skin will become red and swollen again."
"Don't try to scare me..." Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes at Yang Ming, her heart actually starting to pound.
After Wei Qingqing finished drying off, she got dressed and walked home with Yang Ming: "Xiao Hua, Xiao Hei, let's go home..."
As Wei Qingqing called out, a small spotted dog and a small black dog emerged from under the small wooden house, wagging their little tails and following behind the two.
Speaking of which, the pair of disabled Dalmatian dogs that Yang Ming bought have already had two litters of puppies, each litter containing nine puppies. The third litter is already in the mother's belly, although it may not necessarily be nine puppies again, but judging from the way her belly is bulging, this litter will definitely have a lot of puppies.
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