Chapter 21: The Sea of Southern Smoke
Luo Yao saw the travel guide of Nanyan Island out of nowhere, so she proposed that the five of them go camping there together. There was cheering in the dormitory, and Meng Shi paused, and said with a little regret, "I just don't know if Ruoping will go, I'll go to her dormitory and ask her." Blue Eucalyptus pouted, "Come on!" She's been so focused on dating lately that she's been coming to our dorm less often......"
Sure enough, Ruoping was hesitant at first, but when she thought that her plan to go to Nanyan Island conflicted with Huo Chen's time to ask her to go shopping, she had to regretfully decline.
The four-person trip is still very lively. The silver sand beaches of Nanyan Island are long, the sky is clear and high, and the shores are full of flowers and trees.
As soon as Dan Yan found that there was a rental row of four-person bicycles at the entrance of the wooden plank road, he was not calm, "Isn't this just suitable for us to ride together?" Let's finish the ride before we set up the tent! Lan Eucalyptus, Mengshi and Luo Yao gladly agreed.
Although the townhouse bicycle is not as fast and chic as a bicycle, it is more labor-saving, and the four people pedal at the same rhythm, and Mengshi holds the steering wheel in front of him, and the bicycle runs smoothly. The salty sea breeze blew in the face, and the bright light in front of me was bright, and the sea tiles in the distance were blue and blue, shining with dazzling light. The snow-white waves crash against the emerald reef, creating a beautiful scenery.
The four girls were drenched in sweat and listened to the waves crashing on the shore all the way. The layers of waves push forward and back, stirring up white waves like blooming snow lotus, and like white pearls, clustering the jade and silver sand on the beach. The place where the sea and the sky meet is a vast wave of smoke, only to see the water and the sky, and the blue waves.
A faint flush gradually appeared on the horizon in the distance, and a few fiery clouds on the horizon stained the sky red. The sky around them slowly darkened, and the girls scrambled to set up their camping tents before it got dark.
It was so fast that in the dark blue night sky, a full moon sprinkled a faint glow, and a long pillar of light trembled slightly on the blue inky sea.
The stars lit up, pouring densely into the deep blue sky, like broken silver sewn on blue cloth, like jewels on satin.
Lan Eucalyptus suddenly thought, "It would be nice to light a bonfire at this time to warm up or grill a skewer!" Dan Yan came out of the tent, "What's so difficult about this?" When I was a child, I used to light a bonfire in the mountains and wrap it around me! Let's go to the neighborhood and find dry branches, the drier the better, we can pick up the dead branches that have fallen but are still stuck in the tree. β
Luo Yao picked up a long and heavy palm leaf and happily dragged it to the location of the camp, Dan Yan immediately stopped when he saw it, "The palm leaves are too big to burn, I seem to have seen birch and pine trees on the grass next to me during the day, the leaves and bark of these two trees are good burning materials." β
Lan Eucalyptus held a large handful of moss and pine needles in the open space in front of the tent, Mengshi collected a bundle of birch branches of different thicknesses, Dan Yan picked up a piece of moss and sniffed it in front of his nose, "These seem to have been wet by the sea, let's dry the damp part on the fire later, but ...... If I'm not mistaken, pine needles and birch can also burn when wet, because pine needles are extremely small in diameter and densely distributed, while birch is rich in sap. Dried moss and bark are also prone to burning. β
Dan Yan patiently explained to his companions as he lowered his head and enclosed a bonfire ring with stones. Then, she skillfully set up a loose fire pit with birch branches, first placing a piece of wood about 5 centimeters in diameter flat for support, and then leaning other small branches on top of it, hollowing out the bottom. Dan Yan "wiped" the ground and struck a match, and a small ball of light poked a small hole in the middle of a large area of darkness, and the small hole was as thin as a star, which was quickly ignited on the fire, and then the light rose and spread happily.
The blazing air was like a pair of hands holding a spatula, stir-frying the leaves burning in the campfire, and the leaves whispered in horror, and the sound of the rustle was mixed with the rushing sea breeze, constantly echoing in the ears.
Luo Yao asked worriedly, "Such a strong sea breeze won't blow out the fire, right?" Dan Yan calmly stirred the fire, "The wind can blow out the candle, but it can only blow the bonfire more and more!" Let's add some material and let the waves rock the bellows for us! β
The more the fire burns, the thicker the branches can be added. Dan Yan added materials to the fire in an orderly manner, trying not to block the air inlet.
Bright and dazzling tongues of fire came alive as if they had exploded, bursting into the air with excitement and sparks, and leaves dancing wildly in the flames. The flames went wild, trembling violently like strips of torn red cloth. Teal smoke rippled over the campfire, like a veil of tulle.
Meng Shi picked up a tree root and stirred up the fire, causing the flames to scatter and float around, and a warm breath surrounded her. Blue Eucalyptus quietly looked at the bonfire in a daze, her face was reflected by the bonfire, and the shadows and light were softly intertwined. Luo Yao buried her delicate little face in her knees, revealing only a pair of glass-like clear pupils.
Suddenly, waves surged and slammed into the rocks that stood majestically on the seashore, one wave after another. The vast and boundless sea was turbulent, and there was a roar of heaven and earth cracking. The sea loses its tranquility and gentleness, splashing with snow-white foam. A vast expanse of blue light blooms before your eyes, and a meandering blue coastline dances as the waves surge. Luo Yao exclaimed, "Look at it! The blue light on the tip of the wave can't be blue tears, right? β
This big surprise made the four girls scream and run to the beach, the fluorescent sand, the glowing blue waves, lit up four pairs of black deep eyes, the dark sea and the blue glow complement each other, the blue star sea on the beach and the Milky Way in the sky are integrated.
The long coastline has all turned into a crystal blue, and the sea and the beach are symmetrically reflected in the same movement, leaving a string of blue footprints on the soft fine sand, and the beach is full of blue lotus, fluttering as if in the sky.
The girls scrambled to pull up their trousers and step into the seawater, the blue tears under the water loomed, quiet and deep, the blue tears on the top of the waves danced and sang and groaned, and some blue tears rose with the silver waves, floating in the air, frolicking and chasing beside people, if they were about to leave, making people wonder if they had entered a blue fairyland by mistake.
Mengshi exclaimed, "Tonight's blue tears have satisfied my childhood fantasy of picking stars!" You can pick up a starry sky here! β
It wasn't until the surroundings were completely engulfed in darkness and black holes everywhere that they gave up, exhausted and burrowed into their tents and soon fell asleep. Only Lan Eucalyptus did not sleep, she lifted the corner of the curtain and quietly listened to the low and rhythmic call of the waves. The dark blue sea is sparkling and mysterious, with green flames like lamps, the tide rises and falls, and it is extinguished when it touches the shore, and it never stops all night.
The moon has risen, thousands of miles of smoke and waves, the water is shining, and the surface and the inside are clear. The night was quiet, and in the depths of the sky, the moon sowed silver light on the clouds, and the silver light swayed on the surface of the sea to project a complete moon. The moon is getting brighter and brighter, and the stars are getting more and more ethereal. The jade plate-like moon hangs high in the sky, looking down on the world, noble with an icy breath, like a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world.
The sea surface is swelling lightly, and the sea seems even more unfathomable. Blue Eucalyptus leaned against the side of the sea, listening to each other's heartbeats with him. At this moment, Lan Eucalyptus felt the beating pulse of the sea, and he still did not change his original intention after thousands of years. The river is the wound of the earth, and the more wounds there are, the more the sea is extensive.
Lan Yu fell asleep quietly after a burst of meditation, half-asleep and half-awake, and she couldn't remember how long she had been asleep, when the noise on the beach woke her up. Blue Eucalyptus got out of the tent with her messy long hair, everything around her was blurry, the sky seemed to be covered with a curtain, gray, and the scattered stars blinked tiredly, in this silent night sky, it was particularly beautiful and bright. Visitors sit on the reef in twos and threes, looking intently at the place where the sun rises, it turns out that those noisy tourists are specially coming to the beach to watch the sun, blue eucalyptus stretched out his hand and pulled a few upturned hair, turned around and trotted all the way, planning to go back to the tent to wake up the sleeping roommates. But the three girls were sleeping soundly, and no matter what the blue eucalyptus called, they had no intention of getting up. The blue eucalyptus had to return to the beach alone, the east slightly revealed some fish belly white, the night was slowly opened, the sky gradually became clearer, the clouds floated lightly and ethereal in the sky, like a few pure white and thin cotton.
In an instant, a faint reddish glow in the distance in the sky. The reddish faded deeper and wider, and most of the eastern sky was dyed red. The morning glow is the honor guard of the sun, and the blue eucalyptus is thrilled while watching.
There was a cheer in the crowd, and it turned out that the sun showed a small half of its face, like a red-hearted duck egg yolk dripping with oil. It is so shy, or lingering in the depths of the sea, lazily hiding most of its body, still holding the lute and half covering its face.
Perhaps to surprise people, the sun suddenly rose, and its outline spread out layer by layer like the rings of a tree, from tender yellow to golden yellow, from golden yellow to orange red, and the sky was covered with large patches of blinding crimson. The color of the morning glow is more gorgeous, and it is very layered.
The sun is still rising, higher and higher, and the sky is getting brighter and brighter. The sun hangs like a red gem in a corner of the sky, which is extremely dazzling and brilliant. A fiery red light shrouded the earth, like a newborn, and everything was gilded with a layer of gold, like the sun sprinkled gold dust on the earth.
The waves on the sea are undulating, and the reflection of the sun is also rippling, like a golden avenue inlaid with real gold and silver. Blue is the sea that goes straight to the heart, and now it is reflected in the red glow into a noble purple. The moment the gulls fly across the blue sky, sometimes flying low and sometimes circling, the moment the white gulls skim the sea, it is really worrying that the white wingtips will be dipped in purple by the seawater.
"The sunrise on Nanyan Island is so beautiful, we are so lucky, there was no fog just now, and we only came here to see the sunrise here!" A child said to his mother happily. "It seems that we have come to the right place, will we be sleepy if we get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and take the bus? There is also a scenic spot in the morning, Lantiancuo, don't doze off. The mother kindly touched the child's head.
Lan Eucalyptus, who was sitting next to her, looked at the young mother curiously, "Are you also here for a tour?" Is Lantian House close to the beach? "It's not far away, just through an alley, and if you have the chance, you must go to the Ye Shuyuan Cafe over there, I heard that the building is a European-style century-old villa." "Okay, thank you." Lan Yu eagerly returned to the tent, and Luo Yao was sitting on her sleeping bag combing her hair, "Hey, didn't you see Danyan?" She just went to look for you. "I didn't see her, and I don't know where she went to find me, so she should have come back before she found her, so we'll wait for her." Mengshi get up quickly, let's go to Lantiancuo after breakfast in the morning! I heard that it is nearby, there are many old villas and cafes there. β
Lantiancuo was an unexpected attraction on this trip, which gave the 4 girls infinite surprises. The quiet and winding alleys have a unique style, white lacquered iron gates, deep courtyards, flowers blooming and falling, so quiet, the breeze blows, and the fragrance is fragrant. The hundred-year-old trees are vigorous and verdant, and their roots are intertwined in the ground, impacting the cold and hard asphalt road with the tenacity of life. The hundred-year-old buildings here are lined up one after another, and some ancient houses are also built with a colonnade with a depth of 2 meters, and there are 14 ivory-white antique Greek Ionic columns, on which the green vines sway in the wind, and the southern smoke tune that inadvertently wafts out of the window.
Ye Shu Garden is a rococo style building left over from the last century, showing a sweet and greasy taste of a little woman. Mengshi couldn't wait to push open the mahogany round arch, the rose red large crystal glass chandelier was the first to meet the girls' eyes, the red oak fabric sofa placed in the hall has a velvet texture and smooth wooden curves, the whole space looks rhythmic and elegant, soft temperament, open extraordinary bearing, not cramped at all. The walls are lined with large bronze mirrors framed with garlands, the soft yellow curly grass pattern wallpaper is very eye-catching, the lower part of the wall is inlaid with teak wood panels, the waist line of the gold lacquer border is shining, and the ceiling and wall are connected with curved surfaces, and the lines are strong and rhythmic with wavy plaster lines.
The shop uses an old-fashioned siphon-style coffee pot, and the cups and saucers are made of precious and delicate carved bone china cups. The staff will carefully ask customers about their preferences, and whether they are used to being sour or bitter, milky or strong or light, they can find a unique coffee that suits the taste. The bar faΓ§ade is decorated with golden-brown mosaics and light green glass beads, the bud-shaped wall lamps are dimly lit, the dark maple lattice windows, the Roman curtains with dark green pinflower stripes and the wrought iron railings with grapevine patterns are also very popular, and the four girls stayed in Ye Shuyuan until the sun was about to set in the afternoon.
The two days of wandering on Nanyan Island are enough to amaze the passing years, and record the most brilliant strokes in the clear and shallow days......