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As Grape Vine entered the courtyard, four beautiful women dressed in Hanfu were busy at work. The small stove had been brought out, along with a bottle of Qingmei Wine. Besides these, Li Ziyu had somehow managed to acquire a small copper kettle and a Zisha Tea Set from somewhere. An ancient guqin and its table were set up right in the yard, unbothered by the impending rain.
"What did you bring?" Li Ziyu immediately approached Shi Tian upon his return.
"I ran into Grape Vine on the way back. Aren't we supposed to set up a grape trellis in the yard? I found someone to buy a few plants from; they were just dug up." Handing Grape Vine over to Li Ziyu, Shi Tian looked at the pile of items in the yard and asked, "What are you all planning to do?"
"It's a bit late to plant the grapes now, but we should hurry and get them in the ground. They’ll take root easily since they were just dug up. There’s some rooting powder inside; I’ll go get it." Seeing Li Ziyu head for a hoe, Yun Wan'er got up to find the rooting powder.
Watching them start their work, Shi Tian felt a twinge of regret. Perhaps he had brought everything out too early; if he had waited until tomorrow morning, it would have been better! What would they do tomorrow after planting all the grapes today?
With many hands making light work, within half an hour, they had directed Shi Tian to plant the grapes. The four women, all dressed in pristine white Hanfu, didn’t lift a finger to help but merely supervised with whips in hand!
After planting and pruning the grapevines, as they carried their things outside, Shi Tian noticed that Yun Wan'er’s ordered black canopy boat had arrived. Were they planning to go boating?
These people really knew how to enjoy themselves; it was the most beautiful season in Jiangnan with its misty rain. The misty rain of Jiangnan didn’t occur during the Mei Rainy Season in June or July but rather in April and May when warm and cold air clashed, causing moisture to condense into rain fog.
As they loaded their things onto the boat, Li Ziyu pulled out a raincoat from somewhere and draped it over Shi Tian's shoulders. With a conical hat placed on his head, Shi Tian transformed into a boatman.
Looking at the black canopy boat before him, Shi Tian rubbed his nose and stared at Li Ziyu. "Xiao Yu, can you row this boat?"
The canopy boat was somewhat unconventional; it was wider than usual and lacked the low canopy, replaced instead by a small cabin—essentially a small pleasure boat.
"Fine, it's just a pleasure boat," Shi Tian thought. "But who knows how to row this thing?"
He truly didn’t know how to row. Even among young people in Jiangnan nowadays, there couldn’t be many who still knew how!
"You’re the boatman; you have a license for that sort of thing! You can’t not know how!" With a grin, she patted the oars and turned to step into the cabin.
Following Li Ziyu’s figure inside the cabin, Shi Tian then noticed there was a small driving platform within; surprisingly, it was electric! However, the driving platform was covered by a wooden lid that resembled a cabinet sitting in one corner of the cabin.
Sitting at the stern and watching Li Ziyu steer the little boat into the lake, he realized they didn’t need to go far—just about a hundred meters from shore—and with a click of the lid, the entire little boat regained its antique charm.
The stove was lit, water boiled for tea, and Shi Tian decisively sat down at the stern. He found himself completely uninterested in their conversation and preferred to sit at the stern playing on his phone instead.
Initially thinking they had dragged him out for safety reasons, he soon found himself being pushed into work instead.
As one pot of tea brewed and water bubbled in the copper kettle, Yun Wan'er sat at the bow playing her guqin. Accompanied by a tune from "Ban Shan Ting Yu," a small drone took off. Li Ziyu controlled it as it circled around their boat several times before flying off to capture distant views. With such effort put into this outing, it seemed they were here for a photoshoot!
After the drone finished its flight, Shi Tianhua exited the scene, and Yun Tai took over. This time, it was Li Ziyu's turn to be in the spotlight.
To be honest, Taihu looked quite beautiful in the rain. After the photoshoot, they sat in a painted boat sipping Qingmei Wine. Shi Tian noticed several fish weighing over ten pounds swimming by. Unfortunately, he hadn't brought a rod; otherwise, he could have enjoyed some fish soup later that evening.
As the sky darkened and the rain continued to fall, they realized they couldn't capture the misty scenery as planned. They would have to wait until tomorrow for another opportunity.
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