Chapter 55 – A Travel To The Sea of Flowers
The big trees with luxuriant foliage and branches covered the hot afternoon. There were also many mottles around them, which added some luster to the grove.
Whether it was done intentionally or not, the grass of this grove was neatly cut, and there were no rough stones. Instead, there were a few small flowers that had sprung up from somewhere, blooming so beautifully, which makes people wonder if the farmer had carelessly sprinkled the flower seeds.
The tourists that choose to rest in the grove were not few. The few stone chairs and stone tables have been firmly occupied, and a few people, who didn’t mind, have chosen to sit down on the wet grass, but most of them were still reserved and still worried that their dress might get stain by the green grass mud.
They looked enviously at the father and daughter with picnic equipment. They could only sigh and turn away.
“Come and have some milk.” Yang Yi unscrewed the thermos, poured a cup of warm milk into the lid, and handed it to Xixi. “It’s a little hot, drink it slowly.”
Xixi had already eaten two pieces of lemon chicken wings. The little girl didn’t pay much attention while eating, and her face was stained with some oil, but she was very careful and threw the bones of the chicken wings into the garbage bag opened by her father for fear that it might bump into her little skirt, making it look bad!
Yang Yi smiled, sat on one side, watched Xixi drink a mouthful of milk. She then turned her attention to some small desserts made by her father.
Although Yang Yi prepared a lot of delicious food, most of them were prepared for Xixi. He himself ate relatively simple, a large portion of beef seasoned with soy sauce and tomato sandwich, plus the few lemon chicken wings left over by Xixi. After that, he slowly drank brewed high-quality black tea slowly and watched the little girl play.
Bringing fried vegetable are not very suitable for picnics, and Xixi is not used to the astringent taste of vegetables salad, so Yang Yi prepared a lot of fruits for her, such as big red strawberries, small and exquisite cherry tomato, and peeled and sliced apples.
But the little girl was, after all, less than four years old. After a while, Xixi was full. She happily squeezed into her father’s arms, found a support, and then smiled in a silly way and sweetly: “I’m so satisfied!”
Yang Yi reached out and traced the bridge of the little girls’ nose and said with a smile, “Your stomach is bulging and you’re going to be a little fat girl.”
“No, no, Xixi, doesn’t want to be a little fat girl.” Xixi sprawled to sit up. She touched her belly with some worry and looked at her father in a panic. “But it’s really bulging! What to do?”
Yang Yi didn’t tease her anymore. He smiled and rubbed Xixi’s little head, said: “Well, my Xixi is gifted, and don’t get fat at all, so what are you afraid of?”
“My hair is all messed up!” Xixi grabbed her father’s hand and said unhappily.
“It’s okay. You take a nap first, and when you get up in the afternoon to see the flowers, Papa will redo your hair.” Yang Yi held the little girl in his arms and said softly.
Now the sun is very hot outside, Yang Yi wants to let Xixi take a nap, wait until it’s three or four o’clock, and then take the little girl out to see the flowers.
“Well, I want the same one that you did in the morning!” Xixi’s big bright eyes, that are like black gem, looked up at his father.
“Um, no problem!”
In the grove, although there were some tourists, who came to enjoy the cool air, that were chatting, everyone’s voice was very consciously lowered. With the breeze gently blowing, and the leaves whirling, Xixi that was snuggling in his father’s arms, quickly went to sleep.
Of course, Yang Yi didn’t sleep. Outdoors, he was a little uneasy. Money is merely a worldly possession. The most important thing is that he must take good care of Xixi, and not have any problem!
After some time, he somewhat suddenly became vigilant, frowned and turned his head and looked at a hesitant girl behind him.
Luckily, it wasn’t a thief.
The thin, dark-skinned girl, dressed in the uniform of Jiangcheng Media University, was also clean, with a red ribbon hanging diagonally on her body that read “Jiangcheng Environmental Protection Association Volunteer.”
When Yang Yi’s sharp gaze swept over, it startled her. The girl, like a little rabbit, was shy and flustered, ready to run away.
After Yang Yi saw her school uniform, his eyes softened, and he also wondered, “Am I so scary?”
“What’s the matter?” Yang Yi asked in a low voice.
At this moment, the timid girl gathered her courage to come over. She took a look at Xixi, who was sleeping soundly, and whispered, “Please clean up later. If you have any trash, please pack it up and take it away.”
She gestured with her hands at the boxes, jars and other miscellanies Yang Yi placed on the “table cloth”.
It turned out that she came here to remind tourists to take good care of the environment and clean up the trash they left behind.
Yang Yi nodded at her and made an OK gesture.
Originally, Yang Yi also planned to clean up, but because Xixi took a nap, Yang Yi simply left it until the afternoon to tidy up. Unexpectedly, he was caught by the environmental protection volunteer.
Of course, he was not the only one that the thin and shy girl has to “take care of”. Yang Yi saw her walk away and went to the other tourists. Along the way, she bent down, picked up the water bottles and paper towels that others had dropped, and threw them into the garbage bag she was carrying.
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In the afternoon, Xixi slept fully and didn’t have the air of someone who had just woken up. Yang Yi also poured some water on her little towel, wiped her face, and then helped her sort out some of her messy hair and tied it up again!
“Let’s go!” The little girl twirled her skirt excitedly and couldn’t wait to jump around.
“Wait for Papa to pack up.” Yang Yi repacked the food boxes, put them back in the backpack, cleaned up the trash in the garbage bags, and then folded the tablecloth and arranged them in an orderly way.
When they arrived to the field at the back of the village, Yang Yi couldn’t help exclaiming, “Oh, wow!”
That mu of flower fields seems to have become a boundless sea of flowers! (TN: mu is a Chinese unit of land measurement. 1 mu = 666.66666666667 m2)
Of course, there was a boundary. It was the boundary of different color. The yellow dazzling rapeseed is separated by the red hibiscus, and at the end of red is the purple dragon bud grass, with the continuous pink cosmos…
This sea is colorful, as if it were an oil painting painted with rich colors!
“It’s so beautiful!” Xixi’s eyes couldn’t take all the scene in. Her big eyes revealed a dazzled look.
“Xixi, come, Papa will take a picture of you!” Yang Yi took out the SLR camera that he had just received yesterday and directed Xixi to pose.
Before, Mo Fei always said that the photos he sent were blurred. Well, it’s time to show some real skill!
Although Yang Yi has not studied photography professionally, at least he was also a person who often plays with cameras. In his previous life, he needed to take pictures secretly with a camera and make a plan of action…
Select a scene, focus, and snap!
Hmm? It seems to be missing something? It seems that ISO, aperture, shutter speed and the other parameters have not been adjusted!
It doesn’t matter. Just turn on to automatic mode and learn it slowly later…
“I want to see it, too!” Just finished shooting, Xixi can’t wait to come over to see the results. “Cough cough, that one was blurred, so Papa deleted it. Let’s take another one
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