Chapter 133
Ah Yan considered whether to watch the video tomorrow or tonight.
There are no early classes tomorrow, so it’s okay to stay up a little late tonight.
Well, it’s happily decided!
The desk lamp was turned on, and Yan put on his headphones. After watching Kaka's video before going to bed, he would definitely have a good and healing dream.
The other roommates had not gone to bed yet, but everyone had subconsciously lowered their voices when speaking. He Xing and Ding Ling had just returned to the dormitory and were changing clothes and preparing to wash up.
After Ayan sent a message to Juejue, she clicked on the latest video released by Kaka in front of her.
Now the Qingming Festival is coming soon, but Kaka has been a “missing person” for a long time.
Her most recent post on the website was an announcement of her break during the Chinese New Year, and it has been almost two months since her last travel video. Ah Yan's mealtime and bedtime healing videos have been replayed over and over again!
Finally, I finally waited for Kaka!
The scene started with an animated CG, but it was a little different from the previous ones. Ah Yan subconsciously said “Huh?”
In the past, the opening scenes were all of Kaka the little man setting off on different modes of transportation.
But this time, the picture is different.
Little man Kaka was wearing the same red down jacket as last time, with a blue woolen hat on his head and a large backpack on his back.
Is this... a continuation of the last time in Mianyang City?
The cutscene subtitles suddenly appeared.
【Travel Card is resting in Mianyang City during the Spring Festival. 】
Next, the animated CG showed Kaka queuing in a crowded snack street and watching a movie with popcorn and Coke in a packed cinema.
A Yan blinked her eyes. Kaka did not go home but stayed in Mianyang during the Chinese New Year. No wonder the Mianyang rice noodles sent to her were distributed after the festival.
[Travel Card Ka met E-person Little Sister in the mall, and then——]
The image on the screen suddenly changed to the little man Kaka, with a girl with two ponytails beside him.
The two people sat on a double sofa with a big TV in front of them. Ah Yan noticed that they both held game controllers in their hands and the game screen appeared on the TV.
【We are going together as a pair! 】
There is a clock symbol in the upper left corner of the screen, and the hands are spinning rapidly.
【We played for three hours every day, and it took us five days to complete the game! 】
Ah Yan looked at the bubble dialogue boxes that appeared above the heads of the two little people on the screen.
[Travel Card]: To celebrate your clearance, sister will treat you to dinner.
[Little Sister]: No, I have to go to cram school tomorrow, and the teacher will test me on "The Road to Shu Is Difficult", so I have to go home and memorize it. My mom said that as a fellow villager of Li Bai, I can't recite Li Bai's poems, and she will make me look bad after the Chinese New Year.
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[Travel Kaka]: Wait, Li Bai’s home?
[Little Sister]: Our home used to be in Jiangyou, Li Bai’s hometown, under Mianyang City.
Suddenly, a light bulb appeared on the top of Kaka’s head.
With a "ding" sound, a line of subtitles appeared in the center of the screen.
[Travel card triggers a new map - Jiangyou]
The video suddenly changed from the animated CG scene to real people.
It was still the rented car. At the bottom of the video, there was a little man driving on the road, and the end point in front was marked with [Li Bai's Hometown].
What particularly caught Ayan's attention was that in this video, Kaka did not directly mark the destination of the blind box trip.
The subtitle at the top of the video is [New Map Development: Jiangyou Qinglian Town]
Until now, they don't know where their final destination will be.
The small town in Sichuan should be Qinglian Town, Jiangyou, and where could the distance of 1,100 miles marked in the title be?
Ah Yan resisted the urge to search, and she prepared to wait quietly for the final revelation.
Kaka drove with his eyes forward and introduced the story to the audience in his own voice: "Today is the ninth day of the first lunar month. The reason why we stayed in Mianyang City is that it is hard to buy tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush, and my family has not prepared any New Year's goods. Going back home would be troublesome and inconvenient. On the contrary, staying in a hotel has everything available, so I might as well just lie down here."
"I played games with my sister for a few days. She said there is Li Bai's hometown here. I was really surprised. I remembered that the hometown that appeared in the poem was in Ganxi. After some research, I found that Jiangyou is the birthplace of Mr. Li Bai. There are also museums and attractions. I plan to go and see it."
"So I just recorded it casually. I'm not sure whether I should publish it or not."
After listening to this, A Yan raised his eyebrows. So this was not Kaka’s original blind box trip at all. Was it because something happened during the trip?
The one-hour loading sign appeared, and in the blink of an eye, Kaka arrived at his destination.
This place is called Jiangyou Qinglian Poetry Town. The specific scenic spot is called Li Bai's Hometown. It costs 40 yuan to enter the scenic spot, and the separate Li Bai Cultural Museum also costs 40 yuan.
"Isn't there any free-ticket poetry recitation event here?" Kaka asked someone.
“It’s only available when there’s an event going on.”
"Now that I'm here, I have to spend the 80 yuan." Kaka said with some regret. She remembered that some famous scenic spots such as Yueyang Tower and Huanghe Tower were free of charge.
The tickets here are not too expensive, but even if you can just recite "The Road to Shu" for free, it can be both challenging and fulfilling for tourists.
The main feature of blind box travel is randomness, not to mention that Kaka is on vacation now.
[Travel card to buy tickets, money -80]
At the entrance of the scenic area, there is a large statue of Li Bai. Kaka looked at it for a long time and then spoke to the camera.
"In this sculpture, is Mr. Taibai sitting on a stone or riding a horse?"
She looked for a long time but couldn't figure it out.
"It should be a stone, right?" someone nearby said.
"But the position of the hands looks like a horse, Mom," the little girl said, looking up at the statue.
Kaka turned his head slightly and saw a family of three.
"Beauty, have you bought the tickets? Have you finished watching the movie? How was it inside?" the child's father asked.
Hearing this question, Kaka was a little stunned.
"I bought it, but I haven't entered yet. What's wrong?"
"I wanted to bring my child here to be influenced by the local culture, but I called a local friend halfway and he said that these were all built later, the private scenic spots are very small, and the regular museums don't charge money, so I can just go to the free memorial museum in the city," said the child's father.
"Why are you talking about this? I've already bought the ticket for the beauty, and besides, I'm already here."
Kaka saw the child's mother glare at her husband and apologize to her with a slight accent.
"Beautiful lady, you are here to have fun, but he is a spoiler."
"It's okay, it's okay." She waved her hands. If Kaka hadn't met this family, she really wouldn't have known about it. She didn't check the relevant things carefully.
Kaka's attitude is very relaxed, "I'm just strolling around casually."
She didn't have any expectations in the first place. After all, the heyday of the Tang Dynasty happened more than a thousand years ago. There were wars and dynasties everywhere. How could there be anything left? It was just a scenic spot created by later generations. Because of the comments of the child's father, Kaka lowered her expectations a little.
There is another statue at the entrance of Li Bai Cultural Museum. What caught Kaka's attention even more was the undulating scroll above the statue, on which were lines of Mr. Li Bai's poems.
As Kaka's camera moved, the video screen in front of Ah Yan suddenly showed a barrage of poems in different colors.
[The road to Shu is harder than climbing to the sky! ]
[The sea and the sun are visible from half of the wall, and the rooster in the sky can be heard. ]
She was not the only one entering the museum at this time, especially there were many families with children.
Of course Kaka couldn't see the barrage after the video was released, but he could already hear the sound of people reciting poems with their heads raised.
Because we were filming a video, Kaka didn't hire a tour guide. This place is called a "Cultural Museum" and is basically just a display of various information on display boards and screens.
Kaka walked quickly and showed several different areas of the museum. He didn't say anything the whole time. There was only a little Kaka holding a sign on the screen that read "Visit the exhibition in a civilized manner and keep silent."
Kaka didn't speak until he walked to the cultural and creative area at the door.
“There are so many people.”
She was curious if there was any special cultural product, so she walked in and found out that it was a place to stamp and check in.
When Kaka walked out of here, A Yan saw "Blood loss 40" displayed on the screen.
[It's a huge loss of 40 dollars. What the big brother said does make sense. This museum is not worth it without cultural relics. ]
[Indeed, but Kaka is here anyway :)]
A Yan thought about it and realized that official museums are free to enter, and general paid exhibitions are often cultural relics borrowed from abroad.
During the winter vacation, they took Chu Shen to the Forbidden City. The ticket to the Forbidden City during the off-season was only 40 yuan! The Treasure House, where you can see so many treasures, only cost 10 yuan.
Of course, it is understandable that this private museum charges admission.
After leaving the museum, Kaka entered the "Li Bai's Hometown" scenic area, where she heard even more poetry recitations and the exhortations of different parents.
When Kaka passed by, he saw a child reciting poems to the statue at the request of his parents. He suddenly felt like he was "watching a performance" and a mysterious smile appeared on the corners of his mouth involuntarily.
Li Bai's former residence and Taibai Stele Forest are filled with the poet's poems and poetry walls.
Although the weather was very cold, Kaka still bought a cultural and creative ice cream.
In the picture, Kaka is standing in front of the scenery of Yaoyue Terrace. She is holding up an ice cream, and the ice cream is a chubby Q version of Mr. Taibai holding up a cup.
"The Immortal Poet raises his glass, I will raise the Immortal Poet's glass." Kaka said hurriedly.
Behind her is also a huge stone sculpture of Taibai holding a cup, and behind the stone sculpture is a crescent moon made of jade.
Raise the cup to invite the bright moon, hence the name Yaoyuetai.
The field of view of the picture became higher and wider, and she flew the drone to take panoramic photos.
"It's a pity it's not night now." Kaka suddenly sighed.
Although this is a later built scenic spot, everything related to Shixian makes people feel enthusiastic and want to pick up a glass of wine and admire the bright moon here.
"When has the moon appeared in the blue sky? I stop drinking and ask." Kaka recited a line from his favorite poem "Asking the Moon While Drinking".
At this moment, she suddenly saw a line of system words floating in front of her.
[Travel Card randomly triggers blind box travel destinations - Taibai special. 】
Kaka was stunned. She was still on vacation, yet she could still take the initiative to trigger it.
Several unknown travel blind boxes suddenly appeared in front of her, and she randomly chose one to open.
When Kaka saw the destination, he was even a little confused. Why was it here?
What does this place have to do with Mr. Taibai?