After laughing and bantering along the way, Xia Anyang and her daughter, along with Fang You and his son, drove together to the stargazing camping area officially recomnded by Qiankun City.
This place was a wilderness nearly a hundred kiloters away from the center of Qiankun City, where, aside from the vast Gobi, no buildings could silhouette the horizon. The nearby Gobi was already bustling with many teams of astronomy enthusiasts and traces of their vehicles, adding a touch of liveliness to the desolate atmosphere.
As soon as Xia Nuo got out of the car, she was captivated by the scenery and pulled on Fang You, who was about to get out, with unmistakable excitent in her eyes:
"You You, look! You can already see the stars in that direction!"
Uh huh...
By this ti, the setting sun had gradually dimd, leaving the sky with a distinct line of twilight. One side was still bathed in the residual orange-red light, while the other had approached a light blue. Among the light blue, specks of starlight adorned the sky—these were stars observable with the naked eye, a sight absolutely impossible in the city before.
"The stars here are even clearer than in Lin Mu village... do you still rember my ancestral ho? The first ti you went there with to play."
"Of course, I rember."
Xia Nuo hadn't started yet and was already bubbling with excitent, clamoring to run around again, but Fang You wasn't in the mood to roughhouse with her.
"This is an uninhabited area; you can't just run around. We need to stay close to the adults."
"But look, Uncle Fang has already run over there!"
Xia Nuo pointed to Fang Guanghui, who was bouncing and running in the wilderness, "Don't we have to stay close to him?"
...
Fang You was at a loss for words and helplessly massaged his forehead.
This old man, he's becoming more childish as he ages!
Thus, Fang You and Xia Nuo reconfird one thing—
There was only Uncle Xia, an adult here!
Experience tales at empire
The official forecast ti for the teor shower was tonight at midnight, leaving them with plenty of ti to spare.
Before that, they set up the tents together and started preparing the barbecue dinner.
Despite the many unexpected situations today, Xia Anyang still managed to arrange everything neatly, even preparing the barbecue utensils and materials. All that was left to do was to set up the grill, light the charcoal, and they could start barbecuing right away.
"Dad, let do the grilling, let do it!"
"You need to stay further away from the charcoal fire, otherwise you'll get choked..."
"Let do it, Nuo Nuo. Your face is about to get smoked black, just help with the seasoning here."
"Alright... then let You You do it."
"You You, is it ready? It should be good to eat by now. Quickly serve your dad a skewer, it slls amazing!"
"Don't rush, we still have to take a picture for mom to see. Now it's ready, Nuo Nuo you eat first."
"Oooh...yum yum yum, it's so delicious."
Wielding a skewer of lamb, Xia Nuo swayed from side to side, taunting Fang Guanghui, "Uncle Fang, are you envious? You must be! You You's first skewer of lamb was given to , not you!"
Fang Guanghui, with his dramatic flair, imdiately flung himself to the ground with a thud, gnashing his teeth and pounding the earth with one hand while striking a pose of deep grief:
"Curse it, this ungrateful brat, betraying his own! I slaved away, raising you through thick and thin, and now, while you're still so young, you're already turning your back on . Do you even have a heart... waaah——"
"Alright, co and take it yourself."
Fang You, resigned, passed over a skewer of grilled mushrooms.
"Yay, I knew You You wouldn't forget his dad!"
"Uncle Fang is so funny, haha! Just now you were all teary, and now you're all smiles again, quite the quick change artist!"
"That's the very skill I used to win over Aunt Xuan, even You You can't handle , I totally play him!"
Fang Guanghui kept beckoning Xia Nuo with his fingers: "How about that, impressive, isn't it? Want to learn it?"
Xia Nuo imdiately raised her hand excitedly, "I want to learn! I want to learn! I want to learn how to play You You too!"
Xia Anyang, overhearing this, frowned slightly, "Nuo Nuo, you shouldn't learn this."
"No, no, haha, I must learn! Uncle Fang, let's go over there so they can't hear us!"
"Alright, alright, let's go!"
Lively by nature, Xia Nuo hit it off superbly with the kid-friendly Fang Guanghui, and after just a few words, they ran off to play on the borders of the Gobi.
In contrast, the more reserved and level-headed Fang You seed increasingly like a chip off the old block...
After all, due to a series of coincidental mix-ups, the thought of whether they had gotten their children mixed up had surfaced more than once in Xia Anyang's mind.
But as the greatest dad, naturally he couldn't casually doubt his bond with his daughter, so any such thoughts were quickly dispelled.
And besides, of late, he had begun to see things with a certain detachnt.
Well, what if there was a mix-up?
It doesn't matter anymore!
Taking advantage of the mont Uncle Xia and Nuo Nuo were apart, Fang You didn't follow them but took this opportunity to have a heart-to-heart with Uncle Xia:
"Uncle Xia, I'm sorry, my dad has caused you a lot of trouble these past few days."
Xia Anyang, having recently contributed both financially and physically and also taking care of Fang Guanghui, deserved an apology both morally and rationally, otherwise it might seem to Xia Anyang that the entire Fang family was as impolite as his father.
"Ah, there's no need to be so formal."
Xia Anyang smiled and shook his head, "Although your dad can sotis indeed be a bit... it's probably inappropriate to talk about an adult in front of a child like this—"
"It's okay, Uncle Xia, I understand."
Fang You sighed, "The main thing is that my mom and I don't really ask much of him at ho, so sotis he seems too free."
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It seems like your household runs contrary to the norm, almost as if you're raising a dad yourself.
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