The afternoon sun was shining brightly, and Yunluo and Liuxun were like a fairy couple. They enjoyed a delicious meal by the West Lake, looked at the scenery of the lake, and chatted about Liuxun's favorite novel, The Last 237 Years. If Yunluo had not been the author of this book, perhaps the two would not have met. It is interesting to think of their encounter that day.

Yunluo and Liuxun were having fun and eating happily. On the other side, Yan Chenyu and An Chuyu had no appetite in front of the table full of simple dishes such as boiled prawns prepared by Xiang Chuchunzi. The little maid was eating her fill. Xiang Chuchunzi also fed the Husky Jueye, the black cat Heitan, and the red mouse Tangtang, not caring whether Yan Chenyu and An Chuyu ate or not.

After a full meal, Liu Xun and Yun Luo stepped onto the Baidi Bridge, with full lake water and golden lotus leaves on both sides.

Baidi stretches across the lake, with a total length of one thousand meters, starting from Broken Bridge in the east, passing Jindai Bridge and ending at Pinghu Qiuyue. It divides West Lake into Outer Lake and Inner Lake, and connects Gushan and Beishan together, and is the link between the West Lake urban area and the scenic area. Baidi was called Baisha Dike in the Tang Dynasty. It was built to store lake water for irrigation of farmland and is famous for its beautiful scenery.

In the Song Dynasty, this road was the only road leading to Gushan, so it was called Gushan Road. After it was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty, flowers and trees were planted, including peach and willow trees, making the scenery gorgeous, so it was also called Shijintang.

When the great Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi was the governor of West Lake, he often wandered to Baidi Causeway and wrote a poem: North of Gushan Temple and west of Jiating, the water surface is flat and the clouds are low. Several early orioles compete for warm trees, and new swallows peck at the spring mud of literature. The flowers are so chaotic that they are dazzling, and the shallow grass can cover the horse's hooves. I love walking on the east side of the lake, and the white sand embankment in the shade of green willows.

When Bai Juyi governed Xihu City, he promoted water conservancy, built stone culverts, dredged six wells, and expanded Xihu. His achievements were obvious and he was kind to the people. Later generations missed this wise local official, so they called Baisha Dike Bai Dike. In fact, when Bai Juyi was the governor of Xihu City, he built a dike near the stone culvert bridge outside the old Qiantang Gate, called Baigong Dike, but now there is no trace of it.

The Baidi Bridge was paved with white sand in the past. Now it has been changed to an asphalt road, which is wide and bright. Weeping willows are densely planted near the lake, and the outer layer is covered with peach blossoms of various colors. In March and April, the narrow green leaves of the weeping willows are full of soft willow branches, dancing in the lake breeze, and the willow branches float down into the lake. The weeping willows and the lake make people feel the seamless harmony and deep love of nature.

Yunluo and Liuxun walked casually, admiring the willows and peach trees on both sides of the river, pink and green interlaced, peach blossoms in full bloom, red and white, and green grass. The vertical lines of the willow branches are full of vitality, and the reflections in the West Lake are all vivid and beautiful. Walking on the Baidi Road, it feels like walking in a painting or a fairy's dream.

There are two bridges on Baidi Bridge. The eastern one is the Broken Bridge, which is very famous, and the western one is the Jindai Bridge, which is less well-known. In fact, the scenery of Jindai Bridge is no less than that of Broken Bridge. Because standing on Jindai Bridge, you can overlook the Inner Lake on the left and the Outer Lake on the right, and you can also overlook the terrace of Pinghu Qiuyue. Gushan is very close, with green trees shading the pavilions and terraces, and the fragrance of lotus in summer is intoxicating.

The name of Jindai Bridge comes from two reasons. First, the bridge is located in Shijintang. Second, the bridge is flat like a belt after it was rebuilt into a stone bridge. Bai Juyi said that Baisha Dike is "a slanting belt around the waist of a green grass skirt". This bridge is like a brocade belt tied around the waist of a skirt, making Xi Shi more glorious. In the past, Yunluo and An Chuyu, Yan Chenyu and An Qingju would often take a rest and take pictures at Jindai Bridge when they were riding bicycles.

Broken Bridge is a little far from the Six Bridges of Su Causeway, while Jindai Bridge is close to Xiling and Six Bridges. So it is said that "Jindai Bridge connects to the Six Bridges in spring". Jindai Bridge was formerly known as Bihan Bridge. Although it is not as famous as Broken Bridge, it has its own moving charm. The best of Jindai Bridge is that the inner and outer West Lakes are connected by a bridge, and the blue waves are connected, but the inside and outside are different.

Standing by the bridge, Yunluo and Liuxun watched the boat creaking through the bridge hole, from the endless blue waves gradually into the depths of the lotus flowers, and the blue water and sky turned into a bustling red boat. That freshness and warmth made people feel the vigorous vitality between heaven and earth.

If it is drizzling, the pearl-like raindrops will hit the awning of the cruise ship like "big and small pearls falling on a jade plate", giving a sense of the quiet pleasure of "sleeping by the Jindai Bridge listening to the rain".

The Jindai Bridge is only a few feet high, but because it has reached the center of the lake, it has become a commanding point in the West Lake, so the Jindai Bridge is an excellent place to enjoy the scenery in the lake. Liu Xun and Yun Luo stood on the Jindai Bridge, and the beautiful scenery on all sides came to them, giving them a feeling of both reality and fantasy, and a swaying feeling.

Here, Yunluo can see Baochu Tower, Chenghuang Pavilion, Leifeng Tower, Pinghu Qiuyue, Gushan Mountain, Three Pools Mirroring the Moon, Lake Pavilion, and Ruan Gongdun. Liu Xun led Yunluo to the top of the bridge step by step, and his vision was suddenly broadened, his heart was lifted, and all the worries in his heart disappeared.

Not far west from Jindai Bridge, Yunluo and Liuxun arrived at Pinghu Qiuyue Scenic Area, which ranks third among the ten scenic spots of West Lake. Pinghu Qiuyue is backed by Gushan Mountain and faces the outer lake of West Lake. The Jingguan Lake is open to the public, including the Imperial Monument Pavilion, the water platform, the four-sided hall, the octagonal pavilion, the Lake and Sky Pavilion and other buildings.

Standing by the lake, climbing the tower to look at the autumn moon, feeling the vastness of West Lake in tranquility, and washing away the irritable mood, this is the charm of Pinghu Autumn Moon. West Lake is a vast three-dimensional landscape, with a reputation of "standing in the city and swimming in the painting". No matter where you stand, you can see a simple and elegant ink painting of Jiangnan. Pinghu Autumn Moon is even more visible from the tower, the shore, and the water.

The site of the Pinghu Autumn Moon scenery was determined by Emperor Kangxi. At that time, the original Dragon King Hall here was used as the Imperial Library. In front of the building, a stone platform that jumped out of the lake was built. There were railings around the platform, and a water pavilion was built next to it. A plaque with the imperial inscription "Pinghu Autumn Moon" was hung. Later generations built a stone pavilion on the left. Flowers and trees of all seasons were planted, and rockery and stacked stones were dotted, with pavilions and towers scattered in between.

Ancient Chinese scholars once made a wonderful comment on viewing the beautiful scenery of West Lake, saying that sunny days are not as good as rainy days, rainy days are not as good as moonlit nights, and moonlit nights are not as good as snowy nights. Therefore, one of the characteristics of viewing the scenery of West Lake is that viewing it on a moonlit night is worse than viewing it during the day.

The landscape feature of "Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake" is a poetic and picturesque night of the autumn moon over the West Lake: high pavilions towering over the waves, beautiful windows overlooking the water, wide platforms and broad fields of vision; here on an autumn night, everyone looks out into the distance and sees the bright moon in the sky, the lake and sky being one blue, the golden wind bringing coolness, the water and the moon blending together, and being enveloped in the moonlight, creating the illusion of being in the Moon Palace.

Yunluo feels that on the spiritual level, the autumn lake water, which is the calmest and clearest of the four seasons, and the bright moon on an autumn night, which is the purest and flawless, symbolize the aesthetic spirit of pursuing a noble character.

Pinghu Autumn Moon includes the remains of buildings and structures such as the water courtyard, the Imperial Library, the stele pavilion, the viewing platform, the curved bridge, and the inscriptions, as well as traditional plants such as lotus, weeping willow, and crabapple. The scenic area includes: the outer lake waters and three islands, the mountains west and south of West Lake and the lakeside landscape on the east bank, as well as the landscape on the southern foot of Gushan Mountain.

The Water Courtyard is built in the lake, consisting of a rectangular pool in the middle and buildings surrounding it. The northern boundary of the pool is the lakeshore, which is surrounded by a wall; the southern boundary is the Imperial Library; the eastern boundary is the East District Bridge and the Imperial Stele Pavilion; the western boundary is the West Curved Bridge and the Moon Wave Pavilion.

The Imperial Library is located in the middle of the southern edge of the water courtyard, facing south, with the northern entrance facing the water and the south, west and east facing the lake. The building is a two-story wooden structure with a double-eaved hip roof, with a floor space of three rooms, an outer eaves corridor, and an open lake. The Imperial Library is connected to the lakeshore in the north by a beam bridge at the central entrance and two curved bridges in the west and east. There is a rectangular viewing platform on the south side of the building, which is built on the lakeside.

Yuebo Pavilion is located at the west end of the Imperial Library and is the western boundary of the Water Courtyard. It is now a Qing Dynasty style wooden pavilion with a hip roof. The pavilion faces east and is three rooms wide. The pavilion is built above the lake, and there are beauty seats between the columns for viewing the lake.

Since its establishment, Pinghu Qiuyue has always maintained its plant features of lotus in the lake, crabapple and osmanthus trees planted by the water, and weeping willows on the shore. Every autumn, the waterside presents a vegetation landscape of shadowy flowers and swaying green willows.

The moon over West Lake in autumn has been recognized as a beautiful scene since ancient times, full of poetic and picturesque beauty. The high pavilion over the Pinghu Autumn Moon, the beautiful windows overlooking the water, the wide platform and the broad vision, here in the autumn night, you can see the bright moon in the sky, the lake and the sky are blue, the golden wind brings coolness, the water and the moon blend together, and you don't know what day it is.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Although the actual area of ​​Pinghu Qiuyue Scenic Area is the smallest among the ten scenic spots of West Lake, its display area is the largest. The undulating mountains surrounded by light mist are her outline, the colorfully lit buildings hidden among the branches of peach and willow trees are her eyebrows, and the dark blue water of the Outer West Lake with a bright moon is her eyes.

Yunluo and Liuxun explored and experienced the long history and profound culture here. As early as the Tang Dynasty, the Lake Viewing Pavilion was built here. In the Southern Song Dynasty, with the construction of the Four Saints Yanxiang Temple, a royal Taoist temple on Gushan Mountain, the Moon Viewing Pavilion was built here. "Lake Viewing" and "Moon Viewing" laid the groundwork for the future location of Pinghu Qiuyue.

In ancient times, there was a Qin Tower in the area of ​​Outer West Lake. The tower was originally named Shuiming Tower, but later it was difficult to pronounce, so it was called Wanghu Tower to make it clearer. The thousand-year-old camphor tree beside Pinghu Qiuyue is a very representative masterpiece. It seems that no other camphor tree in West Lake City can compare with it. Its canopy covers an area of ​​dozens of meters.

What’s even more amazing is that its branches extend far to the center of the lake, with the tips of the branches hanging down into the water. It ignores the tourists coming and going under the tree, and embraces the West Lake tightly, kisses it intimately, and never leaves it.

Today, the Xiling Painting and Calligraphy Academy has been established here, adding a scholarly atmosphere to the lake and mountain scenery. Pinghu Qiuyue is surrounded by water on three sides. Looking at the lake and mountain scenery here, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, sunny or rainy, it will be interesting. It can be said that "the water and mountains are bright and beautiful everywhere, and the sun and rain are always interesting."

Yunluo and Liuxun walked around casually until the evening, and then randomly chose a hotel near the West Lake to check in. When Liuxun went to wash up, Yunluo's phone rang with the ethereal sound of wind chimes. She glanced at it and saw that there was no incoming call number. Yunluo picked up the phone and it was Feng Wuyou's voice: "Aluo, tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at the West Lake Airport, the three of us will go to meet the third old friend."

Damn Feng Wuyou, that’s good, if I can kill the third level nine evolver as soon as possible, then everything will be fine.