Tang Miao didn't say much to Qi Yuan.
Qi Yuan should have been tired. After the autograph session ended last night, he complained about He Xiao for being tired. But after complaining, he still managed to stay energetic and went with He Xiao to return the tables and chairs to the organizer, and negotiate the performance fee.
After finishing all this, the group went to a food stall, and he was responsible for ordering food and getting wine. After the food and wine were served, in order to prevent Tang Miao from feeling uncomfortable, he kept looking for topics to talk to her and let her integrate into their group.
After finishing the work and eating, they drank more than usual. Although Qi Yuan only said that Ji Bang was dizzy and vomited, he also drank too much, so he was probably in a similar situation.
But even though the situation was similar to that of Jibang, he still had to get up early to contact the driver to the high-speed rail station, call the other three members of the band, and take care of the hotel check-out issue. After doing all this, he went to the high-speed rail station, got the tickets, and took the three people to find a carriage to take the high-speed rail.
Music fans call Qi Yuan "Qi Mama".
His position in the whizzing past is really almost like a "mother" who works hard to deal with daily trivialities, while He Xiao is like a "father" who is only responsible for working to make money and then turns a deaf ear to the outside world.
I was chatting with Qi Yuan just now, and Qi Yuan said that He Xiao said he didn't sleep much last night, so he went to sleep as soon as he got in the car. When they asked He Xiao what he did last night, he didn't say.
Last night, he remembered to give He Xiao the hot compress tool later, and he came directly to her room, Qi Yuan and the others didn't know. Compared to Qi Yuan and the others, she might know more than them.
But Tang Miao didn't know much more because she had lost consciousness. He Xiao came to her room in the early morning and applied the ointment on his fingers, but he probably finished applying it around 3am.
After the application, she had no idea what happened between her and He Xiao, or what He Xiao did.
The only one who knew was He Xiao, who was already asleep.
Since Qi Yuan and the others didn't know that He Xiao came to her room yesterday, in order to avoid them asking too many questions and wondering too much, she didn't plan to tell Qi Yuan and the others.
Let’s wait until He Xiao wakes up before asking him about everything.
Thinking of this, Tang Miao said to Qi Yuan, "I wish them a safe journey and a smooth performance," and stopped chatting with Qi Yuan and the others. After putting down his phone, Tang Miao sat on the bed for a while, got up, packed up, and prepared to go out.
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Qingcheng is an ancient city.
In addition to the band culture and lush vegetation, a small county town under Qingcheng has ancient city ruins and some green tourist attractions.
After Tang Miao finished chatting with Qi Yuan on WeChat, she simply tidied up the room. After tidying up, she applied hot compress to her fingers, went to the hotel for breakfast, and then left the hotel.
Because it is one of the most famous attractions in Qingcheng, there is a bus not far from the hotel. Tang Miao went over to buy a ticket and got on. Not long after, the bus set off.
Tang Miao sat on the bus, looking at the scenery outside the window through the thick glass.
After she came to Qingcheng yesterday, she slept for the whole afternoon, and in the evening, she went straight to the music festival. The road to the ancient city ruins is in the opposite direction to the music festival, and the scenery is a little different.
When we went to the music festival, the suburbs there were relatively flat, and there was even a large open space for the music festival. On the way to the ancient city ruins, we drove more and more remote, even around the mountains, and it felt like the car was driving into a secret forest.
It is August now, the time of year when vegetation is most luxuriant. Tang Miao looked out the car window at the green scenery outside. Just by looking at it, he could feel the rich oxygen concentration.
Half an hour later, the bus stopped at the entrance of the scenic area. After the bus stopped, Tang Miao got off the bus with other tourists.
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The ancient ruins of Qingcheng are not a big attraction, but they are still famous in this city and several surrounding cities. In addition, the music festival ended very late, and some fans, like her, stayed here that night. The next day, they thought that since they were here, they might as well walk around the city. So in general, there are not few tourists in the scenic area.
After getting off the bus, Tang Miao first looked around the gate of the ancient city. After looking around, she went to the entrance of Jingcheng to read the tourist guide. After memorizing the general route, Tang Miao walked into the ancient city.
Tang Miao had been to some ancient city ruins like this. Originally, Nancheng was an ancient city, and there were many such places. And a big city like Nancheng, with concentrated scenic spots, could easily become a tourist destination for people all over the country. After becoming a tourist destination, it is natural to avoid the commercialization of tourist sites.
The ancient cities she visited had very few ruins left, all of which had been replaced by modern imitations of ancient buildings. Although those buildings were ancient in style, the traces of modern building materials were too obvious, and they had nothing to do with ancient relics.
In addition, there are many businesses in those buildings, holding toys, food and souvenirs wholesaled from the Small Commodity City to attract tourists.
Basically, Tang Miao and his colleagues went there to climb the mountain.
But the ancient city ruins of Qingcheng are different.
The city is too small, and the ancient city ruins are not famous. The number of tourists here is much less than that of the ruins in the south city. Although there are few people coming, what is displayed is a real ancient city.
This ancient city has three streets, each of which is not very long. Both sides of each street are lined with traces of the ancient city’s past. Even the moss under the eaves, the stone slabs in front of the doors, and even the bricks on the paths carry a simple yet real sense of historical weight.
Tang Miao was in such an ancient city. Even though there was no tour guide, he could feel a completely different atmosphere just by looking at it by himself.
This kind of atmosphere seems to separate you from modern society and allow you to truly enter the ancient times without any information connection. Every brick and tile, every blade of grass, is real and without any impetuousness, quietly sitting in the ruins of this ancient city.
Tang Miao walked from one end of the ancient city's streets to the other, and when he entered the last street, he felt like an ancient person.
Although the ruins have a strong sense of antiquity, it is still a modern society after all. Some of these ancient buildings are still the residences of local people. After this place was planned as a tourist attraction, it attracted some tourists, and the locals also started to sell some local specialties in their homes.
Although they are both selling specialties, they are completely different from the specialties of ancient cities like Nancheng. The specialties here really feel like they are local, fresh and beautiful.
In addition to some local food, there are also quaint silver jewelry shops. Qingcheng once had silver mines, so the silver produced in Qingcheng is also very good. The abundant metals naturally stimulated some related industries. There are also some relatively old silversmith shops here, where craftsmen are using the most basic tools to make silver jewelry.
The oldest silversmiths would use a thick wooden board as a base for the silver ornaments, and then use a spray gun to melt the metal. They would also use special tools to carve flowers or other patterns on the silver ornaments.
In fact, in modern society, the processing of heavy metal jewelry is already very advanced. However, the patterns or flowers carved by these silversmiths are generally simple, unrefined, and backward.
But the things they make have something that the beautiful jewelry in the boutique jewelry store does not have: a feeling of care, heaviness, and comfort.
After Tang Miao arrived at a silversmith's shop, he stood there and watched the silversmith forge a silver ring for half an hour. It was quite interesting to watch a round lump of liquid silver being turned into a ring and engraved with patterns by the silversmith's hands.
After seeing it, Tang Miao bought the ring.
After buying it, she bought some others.
In fact, silver is very cheap. For example, the ring she just bought only cost 20 yuan. But she wanted to buy some for Yu Yaya to take back, so she wanted to buy gold.
But the silversmiths said that gold was too expensive, so they usually used copper, and the copper was melted from a certain version of the 50-cent coin.
Tang Miao didn’t buy it.
When it comes to using coins to melt metal, the silversmith also told Tang Miao that since silver is abundant here, there is no need to get it separately. Now that life is better, you can buy it directly. In the past, when life was not good and there was no place to produce silver metal, some of their silversmiths used 5-cent coins to melt silver.
Among the 5-cent coins, there are also coins with a fixed number of years that can be melted into silver.
"Silver jewelry used to be very scarce and was used as dowry. You could exchange it for a ring for 5 cents, or even a pair of bracelets if you had more. It was quite cost-effective," said the old silversmith.
Tang Miao heard what he said and smiled.
"Then I'll buy a pair of bracelets too," said Tang Miao.
After Tang Miao said this, the old silversmith smiled and said, "Why don't you ask your mother to buy it for you?"
Generally speaking, for local girls, when they get married, they will be given a set of silver jewelry. This set of silver jewelry is usually passed down from the mother to the daughter, or bought by the mother for the daughter. It is considered a tradition.
"She's gone." Tang Miao said with a smile.
After Tang Miao said this with a smile, the old silversmith's smile faded a little. Seeing Tang Miao smiling like this, he probably thought that his mother had passed away for many years and he had already regarded sadness as a normal state.
Thinking of this, the old silversmith said nothing more.
"You can buy it yourself now. Young people can earn money now. You can just buy your own dowry."
As the old silversmith said this, Tang Miao smiled along with him and bought a set of bracelets.
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The bracelet is the most common silver bracelet.
However, because it is not too thick and the pattern is simple, it does not look old-fashioned at all. Instead, it is different from the complicated patterns sold in silver jewelry stores, and it looks special and fashionable.
Tang Miao wore the bracelet and the ring and took a photo for Yu Yaya.
She was going to give her another bracelet and a ring.
As soon as she sent the message, Yu Yaya replied.
【Yaya: It looks good! 】
[Yaya: The ring, bracelet, and hands are all beautiful! ]
Yu Yaya praised the photo generously. Seeing her praise, Tang Miao smiled and typed a message to send it over.
【Miaomiao: This is for you.】
As soon as Tang Miao sent this message, Yu Yaya sent three exclamation marks in a row. After the exclamation marks, she was bombarded with confessions.
[Yaya: Ahhhh! I love you! You even bought me a souvenir! ]
[Yaya: This bracelet and ring is so beautiful! I will pass it on to my daughter in the future! ]
[Yaya: If I don’t have a daughter, I’ll pass it on to my daughter-in-law.]
Tang Miao chuckled.
After Tang Miao finished her confession, Tang Miao asked her what she was doing now. Tang Miao told her about her visit to the ancient ruins in Qingcheng and sent her some photos.
After seeing the photos, Tang Miao praised them again. After praising them, Yu Yaya sent a message.
【Yaya: Then you will come back tomorrow night? 】
As soon as Yu Yaya's message came, Tang Miao's fingers fell on the screen and his movements paused.
She applied for three days off. Tomorrow is the last day. According to the usual arrangement, since she is out, she will naturally play until the last night before returning.
This was Tang Miao's original plan.
But now, after Yu Yaya asked this question, Tang Miao did not respond immediately.
She may not go back tomorrow night.
She might go back tonight.
She even said that she didn't need to stay there tonight. She was going back to the hotel from the ancient city ruins and was ready to check out and return to Huaicheng.
The reason she had this idea was not because she had finished touring Qingcheng, but because she felt it was a bit boring.
This idea did not come to her suddenly, but occurred when she was touring the ancient city, or on her way to the ancient city, or even when she learned that Hu Xiaoguo had left Qingcheng.
Just this morning when she was chatting with Qi Yuan, she was alone again in this strange city.
She used to be alone.
So she made a plan yesterday. After the music festival was over and it whizzed away, she would just wander around Qingcheng and relax.
But when the plan was actually implemented, Tang Miao did not feel much happiness.
She even felt that it would be better to stay at home comfortably.
So what is she doing in Qingcheng?
At first, she wanted to experience the music festival and travel and rest at the same time. But now thinking about it, she might just want to come to the music festival. In other words, she made the decision to come to Qingcheng at that time, basically because she wanted to watch the music festival.
Now that the music festival was over, even if she had time, even if there were attractions in Qingcheng, she had no intention of visiting them.
Shortly after Yu Yaya asked her, Tang Miao typed a few words and sent them.
【Miaomiao: I’ll go back today.】
[Yaya: Today? Your vacation ends tomorrow and you won’t go back to work until the day after tomorrow. Why are you back so early? You finally get to go out, have more fun!]
【Miaomiao: It seems boring to play alone. 】
【Yaya: Didn’t you go to the music festival alone yesterday? 】
【Yaya: Ah. It’s different. You found He Xiao at the music festival.】
After saying this, Yu Yaya sent another sentence.
[Yaya: Did He Xiao and the others go to Pucheng today? You are the only one in Qingcheng, so you feel it is boring? ]
After asking again, without waiting for Tang Miao to reply, Yu Yaya sent an emoticon and asked jokingly.
[Yaya: Are you going there for the music festival or for He Xiao? ]
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