Why bother with dating when you already have a cat?

"What's there to comment on?" Kong Fugui shook his head repeatedly. "Sister Qian is definitely the prettiest one, of course, Qiqi is not bad either, they are all beauties."

As he spoke, Kong Fugui's gaze had already drifted elsewhere, searching around for any other pretty girls.

Of the four girls who came with him, three were already taken, and the other was Ai Qing's cousin. Kong Fugui could only watch them without being able to get any, so he might as well look around at the surrounding forest.

"Let's go, let's go." After watching Ai Qing help Xiao Yu tie her hair into a bun, Xiao Youqian waved to everyone, "Let's go soak in the hot springs."

This place is described as an open-air hot spring, but the indoor space is also quite large.

After exiting the changing room, the group of seven followed the indoor road signs and walked straight ahead.

But before they even reached the outdoor area, the girls were already drawn to some of the indoor water park facilities.

Everyone was having a blast playing on water slides, swing bridges, and all sorts of floating mats.

Most importantly, the water here is warm.

Once you fall in, it's not cold at all; on the contrary, it's warm and cozy.

"You sit down, I'll sit behind you." Ai Qing told Xiao Yu to sit obediently at the entrance of the slide, and then sat behind Xiao Yu herself, her two long legs immediately surrounding Xiao Yu.

With a push of their bottoms, the two of them slid down the slide in a flash, finally landing in the water with a splash.

The water level here isn't high, it only reaches about waist-high to the small fish, which is enough to provide a buffer.

After the two fell into the water, the little fish emerged from the water and looked at Ai Qing with great interest: "Let's play again!"

Because of her ID card, Ai Qing had never taken Xiao Yu to a normal amusement park before, so this was Xiao Yu's first time trying a slide.

Not to mention that this kind of water slide is even more fun.

"It's almost 2 p.m., and their open-air hot springs close at 6 p.m., so let's go and experience it first."

After lingering there for about ten minutes, Xiao Youqian glanced at her waterproof watch and quickly said to everyone, "If we still have time after we're done soaking, we can play in the water here some more."

Since that's what they said, everyone started walking from the pool to the shore.

After everyone had reached the shore, they realized that one person was missing.

"Where's Gui Gui?" Xiao Youqian frowned, then looked around and instantly spotted him.

Not far away, on a bench in the rest area, Kong Fugui was sitting and chatting with a girl.

“That’s definitely his style.” Ai Qing nodded with a chuckle.

"There's just no way to deal with him." Xiao Youqian covered her forehead with a helpless expression, then suddenly smiled slyly and strode forward.

Seeing her posture, Ai Qing and Wu Yong roughly guessed what would happen next, and immediately exchanged a glance with smiles in their eyes.

Meanwhile, Kong Fugui was still chatting enthusiastically with the girl, skillfully guiding the conversation and making her laugh from time to time.

The atmosphere seemed quite pleasant.

But the next second, Xiao Youqian had already walked up to the two of them, a smile on her face, and said to Kong Fugui, "Honey, Mom and Dad are waiting for us over there. Can't you behave yourself now that you're married?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the girl on the bench froze, looked at Xiao Youqian, then at Kong Fugui next to her, and immediately moved to the side.

She immediately stood up and said quietly, "My friend is still waiting for me over there, so I won't bother you any longer."

"Hey, no... wait a minute..." Kong Fugui's expression changed, and in the end he could only watch helplessly as the girl hurriedly left as if she were fleeing.

He then looked at Xiao Youqian speechlessly: "Sister Qian, you're using this trick again?! We were just having a good chat, and I was about to ask for her WeChat ID."

The five people behind him had also gathered around, and when they saw Kong Fugui's humiliation, they all burst into laughter.

“Young Master Kong has plenty of time to pick up girls.” Xiao Youqian rolled her eyes at him and then said, “We rarely get to go out and have fun, so you should just focus on appreciating the girls and stop trying to flirt with them.”

"I was just having a normal chat with someone." Kong Fugui touched his nose and stood up from the chair a little guilty. "Alright, alright, we'll stop chatting for a bit, okay? Let's go soak in the hot springs."

The group followed the signs and headed towards the outside.

There are relatively more indoor entertainment facilities here, but once you step out through a large door and into the outdoors, the view suddenly opens up.

Looking into the distance, you can see that the area is surrounded by mountains, and a little closer, you can see a group of buildings that are arranged like a garden.

There are pavilions and towers, as well as flowers, birds, insects and fish.

Hot springs are scattered throughout the area, surrounded by rocks, and most of them are not in a regular or orderly manner.

It doesn't look like it was made by human hands at all.

The outdoor hot spring was steaming with mist, and as Ai Qing held Xiao Yu's hand and walked forward, she felt as if she were walking in a fairyland, which was very interesting.

As they passed a hot spring, Xiaoyu stopped and looked at it with curiosity, pointing to the hot spring below the steps: "Brother, this hot spring is blue! It's so amazing."

"Want to give it a try?" Ai Qing pulled Xiao Yu over there, glancing at the sign next to her. "Sapphire... this hot spring has a pretty expensive name."

As for the long list of descriptions below the sign, Ai Qing was too lazy to read it carefully. Anyway, she didn't know if it was true or not, but it just looked impressive.

The little fish came to the side of the sapphire hot spring and cautiously poked out a tiny foot.

The water was very hot, but it was just right for her, so Xiaoyu quickly put her feet into the hot spring and immersed herself in it, comfortably squinting her eyes.

The people who were originally following behind the two also gathered over and stepped forward.

As it turned out, the girl adapted to the temperature very easily, while Ai Qing and the other two grown men were scalded and hissed.

After getting used to it for a while, I finally managed to get into the water.

"Are you comfortable?" Ai Qing sat down next to Xiao Yu, looking at her with only her head sticking out, and asked with a smile.

Xiao Yu squinted, her chin already submerged in the hot spring, and nodded gently before resting her head on Ai Qing's arm.

This was Xiaoyu's first time soaking in a hot spring.

Just now, at the indoor water slide, although the water in the pool was warm, it wasn't as hot as the hot spring.

After soaking in the hot spring, Xiaoyu felt her whole body steaming with heat, as if streams of heat were penetrating her body, dispelling the chill of winter.

My whole body felt limp, and the fatigue from skiing in the morning was swept away. I even felt a little drowsy.

"There are a total of 32 pools in the open-air hot spring here, including two natural hot springs that I told you about before. We'll have to try them out later."

Xiao Youqian said while soaking in the hot spring.

"The other 30 pools include hot springs like this one, which are said to relieve physical fatigue and help prevent arthritis, among other things, and have special effects."

"Some are indoor entertainment options, such as fountains, underwater springs, or underwater massages."

"We have four hours in total this afternoon, enough time for us to see everything. It would be better if we didn't split up."

As she said this, Xiao Youqian looked at Kong Fugui with a smile.

Kong Fugui pouted: "I already told you I don't chat with girls, why are you still staring at me?"

"I only glanced at you, what are you so guilty about?" Xiao Youqian chuckled, then continued, "Let's try out each pool and try to finish in two or three hours."

"For the remaining hour, we'll split up and find a pool that interests us to soak in, or go indoors to play."

At this point, Xiao Youqian looked at Kong Fugui again and said with a grin, "If you still want to flirt with girls later, I won't stop you. Do whatever you want."

After that, everyone continued to enjoy themselves.

Because the hot spring water is a deep blue, it's difficult to see what's happening underwater.

Before long, Ai Qing felt a small hand groping his body underwater, so he had no choice but to press it down and play with it carefully.

Turning her head to look at Xiaoyu beside her, she glared at her. Xiaoyu snorted twice and tried to pull her little hand back slightly. When she found that she couldn't pull it back, she gave up for the time being and obediently let Ai Qing knead her.

Meanwhile, Wu Yong and Xie Qiaohe, though not to the point of such a thing, had already secretly joined hands beneath the water's surface.

The two sat facing each other, their arms lightly touching, but not completely pressed together.

Their bodies floated on the water's surface, and every now and then, water would flow between their arms, only to be squeezed and closed by their gently pressed-together arms.

Wu Yong enjoyed this feeling so much that he was almost reluctant to get up.

But after soaking for a few minutes, Xiao Youqian took the lead in getting up from the hot spring pool and heading towards the next hot spring pool.

Although there are quite a few open-air hot spring pools, 32 pools, it sounds very abundant.

But in reality, most pools only look slightly different in color; the actual feeling when you soak in them is pretty much the same.

At first, Ai Qing and her group were quite excited, but after soaking in more than a dozen hot springs, they found it rather uninteresting.

However, as the group arrived at the ponds on the east side, Xiao Youqian's eyes lit up. She waved to everyone and pointed to two of the ponds, saying:

"Come here! Have you guys ever tried this before? It's really fun."

After a few people approached, they glanced into the pool and found that the water was clear. At first glance, it didn't seem particularly special, and it wasn't as interesting as the colorful pools they had seen before.

But upon closer inspection, something seemed different: beneath the surface of the hot spring pool, there appeared to be clumps of black things swimming around.

Wow! So many little fish!

Li Qiqi squatted down by the pool and looked carefully into the water, and found that there were many small fish swimming around in it.

"Huh?" The little fish on the shore was stunned for a moment. "The little fish is here."

"I wasn't talking about you, Xiaoyu." Li Qiqi burst into laughter when she heard what Xiaoyu said behind her, and quickly beckoned her to walk to the edge of the pond to look inside. "Look, look, aren't there lots of little fish?"

"So they really are fish?" The little fish curiously looked down into the water, then couldn't help but ask, "Aren't they hot? Soaking in the hot spring."

“These must live in relatively warm water,” Ai Qing said, glancing at the information board next to her. “Fish therapy hot spring, this fish seems to be called the pale red inkfish.”

The hot spring is surrounded by steps.

Ai Qing followed the little fish to the shore, where Xiao Youqian, who was standing nearby, had already impatiently sat down, dipping her toes into the water. She then addressed everyone:

"This fish eats the skin on your feet, helping to remove the dead skin and making your feet smoother and cleaner. If you're interested, you can try it, but it can be a little itchy, so it's best to go in slowly and not all at once."

"The little fish will eat your feet," Ai Qing muttered, stroking her chin as she stood by the pool.

Hearing this, the little fish next to him pouted and stomped on his foot: "Little fish would never eat foot skin."

“Yes, you really don’t eat foot skin.” Ai Qing smiled, looking at her cute appearance, and pulled her to sit down by the pool. “Come on, let the little fish feed the little fish your foot skin.”

"Hmph." Little Fish huffed and puffed at Ai Qing a few times, then couldn't resist her curiosity and tried to put one foot into the hot spring.

It was warm, but not as hot as the pools where I had soaked before; it was just warm.

But soon, as if they had smelled a delicious meal, the surrounding little fish swam quickly toward the little fish's toes, nibbling at them and making her feel itchy.

"Ugh! No, no!" Little Fish quickly pulled her feet back out of the water, touching her toes. "It's so itchy!"

As she said this, she looked at Xiao Youqian beside her and saw that Xiao Youqian had already soaked her calves in the water. She was very surprised and asked, "Sister Youqian, why don't you feel itchy?"

"Of course it itches," Xiao Youqian said matter-of-factly. "But if you bear with it for a while, it'll feel quite comfortable once you get used to it."