It was the tenth day of the First Month.
The start of the school term was not far off.
Chen Shu drove Professor Chen's retro-looking car, taking Qingqing, the young girl, and Peach out for a day of sightseeing.
There were still few tourists this time of year.
Bai City drew plenty of tourists every year, most of them during summer vacation. Most chose to travel around Mirror Sea.
The circuit around Mirror Sea ran for 140 kilometers, taking in a prefectural capital, an ancient city renowned at home and abroad, and several beautiful, quiet old towns backed by green mountains. Along the eastern and western shores lay more than a dozen attractions, large and small. Some were lively, some peaceful; some offered culture, others scenery; some were for drinking and partying. Most tourists simply picked a few popular spots, stayed by the sea for a few days, then left.
For anyone who wanted to explore more deeply, guesthouses around the ancient city were cheap. In the off-season, a standard room could cost just a few hundred yuan a month, so staying a month or two was perfectly feasible.
Late autumn and early winter were best. Bai City was warm as spring, tourists were scarce, and the scenery was at its finest.
You could buy a secondhand scooter for a few hundred yuan and sell it to the next tourist when you left. If you had a silver tongue and spruced it up a little, you might even make a few dozen yuan.
Chen Shu and Qingqing had grown up in Bai City, and they had visited nearly all of those places.
Head east out of Bai City along the national highway for twenty or thirty kilometers, and you would reach a winding mountain road. At the top, you would