1990s: Spring Water Family

Chapter 34 Filming a Documentary, Wangfu Pond

According to the "Jinan Prefecture Gazetteer, Volume 2: Mountains and Waters" from the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhuoying Spring was called a lake. It was formerly located inside the Dewang Palace and is now more than a hundred steps away from the west wall of the Shandong Provincial Governor's Office. It is commonly known as Wangfu Pond.

"This pond is over forty feet long. It flows north from the ditch, passes through the alley, exits under the Qifeng Bridge, and enters Daming Lake via the Baihua and Quehua Bridges."

"The area around Wangfu Pond is dotted with springs that flow into rivers. There are small bridges, winding alleys, deep houses and shallow courtyards, and green willows swaying everywhere. The beautiful scenery of springs in every house and weeping willows in every household can be seen everywhere, as described by Liu E, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, in his book 'Old Travels and Remnants'."

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The girl's beautiful eyes sparkled, and her gentle smile was captivating; every frown and smile was a picture-perfect scene.

The delightful scene not only pleased the children playing in the pool but also attracted the attention of passersby.

"Holy crap, guys, look! Who's that?"

"Isn't that our class monitor?"

"She looks like a completely different person after changing her clothes; I'm even a little tempted to buy one."

Qu Peng, Wang Fan, and Li Liang received a call from Gu Bin and rushed over from their respective homes. On their way, they passed by Wangfu Pond and happened to see the production crew filming.

The noise of the motorcycle stopped abruptly. Wang Fan stared in astonishment at the graceful young woman standing by the pool, as pure and ethereal as a lotus emerging from the water. He was speechless for a long time.

"Hey, wake up!"

Qu Peng couldn't bear to look and slapped his shoulder hard: "You're practically drooling."

"Get out of here and stop talking nonsense."

Wang Fanjun's face darkened, and he slapped his hand away impatiently: "Don't tarnish my image in the eyes of beautiful women."

"Cut~~"

Qu Peng teased him with a laugh: "You have an image to maintain? Your pathetic image has already been destroyed by the head of student affairs. Don't forget, he's the class monitor, and he hates troublemakers like you the most."

"Ugh, I should have known better than to do that."

Wang Fan smacked his lips a few times, a wave of regret washing over him: "I regret it so much. Why didn't I get along with the class monitor when we were in school? I could have even held hands with him while asking him for help with my mistakes."

"Alright, alright." Li Liang couldn't take it anymore and kicked him. "Get out of the way. Gu Bin is still waiting for us at home."

"Who said he was at home?"

Wang Fan, after being kicked, laughed instead of getting angry: "Are you blind? Didn't you see that big guy standing by the pool, teaching a bunch of little brats how to swim?"

"Where?"

Li Liang really didn't see it and was clearly stunned for a moment.

"This guy is too busy looking at the pretty girls."

Qu Peng, always eager for a good show, added fuel to the fire.

"Cough cough."

Li Liang's ears turned red from the combined tickling of the two men.

"Hey, Li Liang, let's get this straight first."

Seeing that his expression was off, Wang Fan preemptively said, "I was the first to set my sights on the class representative position, none of you can compete with me for it."

"Why?"

Li Liang was indeed displeased and retorted irritably.

"Yeah, why should we?"

Qu Peng switched sides and joined forces with Li Liang to provoke him: "A beautiful lady is sought after by gentlemen. Why can you pursue her but we can't? Is it because you reek of money? The class representative is not such a shallow person."

"Hey, you two really want to compete with me?"

Wang Fan's shrewd eyes darted around, and an idea came to him: "How about this? Gu Bin said he wanted to climb Mount Tai, right? Let's make a bet. Whoever can invite the class monitor to go with us wins. The loser automatically withdraws from the competition and can never try to trick his brother's girlfriend again."

(End of this chapter)