Dongfang Has an Immortal

659 Dongfang Has an Immortal

The next day, Zhang Yanye took Xu Fenglian on a tour of Haining City as promised. They went to the sea of flowers outside the city, where all kinds of spirit flowers and wildflowers blanketed the mountains and plains, swaying in the breeze.

Xu Fenglian stood among the flowers, her face alight with delighted surprise. Zhang Yanye stood beside her, and the two of them strolled through the sea of flowers, stopping from time to time to admire the scenery around them.

Such a scene was something Xu Fenglian could never have seen within Xuzhou City. There were too many people and too little land. Only the large courtyards belonging to the Xu Clan's direct line might have specially arranged grand gardens. Even so, they were nowhere near as spectacular as this sight stretching across the mountains and plains.

There were spirit medicines covering the entire mountain, at least. But they could only look at them from a distance.

"Look, there's a butterfly!" Xu Fenglian pointed at a butterfly fluttering among the flowers.

Zhang Yanye explained that bees and butterflies helped flowers pollinate. This was knowledge only the Zhang Family specially taught—and even then, Zhang Mingshu had merely mentioned it in passing.

The children had even experimented with it before. They placed identical flowers outdoors and kept others indoors, then observed the changes over several years, discovering that many things had become different.

The children were simply curious about such things.

"Butterflies are free by nature. Their beauty lies in their dance."

The two of them then came to a small river, where they saw flocks of ducks wandering about. Following the riverbank, they arrived at a small lake and boarded a pleasure boat. Zhang Yanye rowed it himself.

They wandered about until the sun