Shenhao with a learning panel

Since you are visiting Huzhou, as a foodie, you naturally want to try the local cuisine.

We arrived at Fisherman's Wharf, went upstairs and entered a restaurant called "Taihu Water Banquet", found a seat by the window, and started ordering dishes: steamed white fish, salted white shrimp, crispy whitebait, stir-fried snails with sauce, braised soft-shelled turtle, steamed lake eel with dried vegetables, etc.

The food from Jiangsu and Zhejiang is relatively light, but it is delicious, especially when we have a table of fresh lake and river food like this one today.

Plus there was a beautiful view of Taihu Lake outside the window, so overall the meal was quite enjoyable.

When we returned to the villa hotel, it was still early, less than 5:30 in the evening.

The hotel housekeeper sent them to the door of the villa in a shuttle bus, then politely said goodbye and left. After the three of them entered the house, Wu Yuan went to the bathroom first. Suddenly, Li Shi and He Yaru were the only ones left in the living room on the first floor, and it suddenly became silent.

The woman sat on the sofa pretending to be calm, feeling both expectant and nervous.

She had never felt this way before when facing a man. When she realized this, she couldn't help but look to the side. Seeing that he was looking at his mobile phone, she boldly admired his face.

Teacher Li is not the type of person whose appearance will impress you at first glance.

At first glance, his facial features were delicate and he looked a little handsome. But the more you looked at him, the more you would find that his face became more and more beautiful. When Wu Yuan came out of the bathroom, He Yaru's eyes were still fixed on his eyebrows, as if she had already fallen in love with him.

"Shitou, let's get started!"

The excited voice of her best friend startled the lady, but she was not panicked. She looked at her greedily for two seconds before slowly looking away - after all, she was her best friend and she already knew what both of them were thinking. Besides, her obsession with Teacher Li was even deeper than hers!
Li Shi was using his phone to check the route to cross Taihu Lake, mainly to determine the landing point after swimming to the other side. Upon hearing this, he exited the map app, put away his phone, and said, "Okay, I have some ideas for the theme of 'Best Friendship', let me tell you first."

While playing during the day, he was thinking about the photography theme for the evening.

Li Shi has always maintained a serious attitude towards creation. After all, any creation is an opportunity to improve one's own skills!

"My idea is 'Daily Life of Best Friends Living Together', which is to assume that you are a pair of best friends living together, and capture several daily scenes to create the work, with the emphasis on 'together', sleeping together at night, waking up together in the morning, washing together, eating breakfast together, going to work together, drinking and eating supper together at night, and chatting about relationships and gossip together late at night..."

He told the two girls his idea and added, "I noticed that there are enough things in the villa to use as filming props. We can also use mobile phones to light some scenes, which is enough... The only thing missing is supper, but the hotel housekeeper said that we can order takeout and leave it at the front desk for her to deliver it."

Wu Yuan was very enthusiastic and experienced, so she immediately said, "Let's do some!"

As he said that, he took out his mobile phone, opened the food delivery app, walked over to He Yaru, sat down, and pulled her to choose a midnight snack together.

Li Shi reminded: "Choose something lighter, such as desserts and red wine. It not only suits the tastes of girls, but also can be kept for a long time. After all, we just finished eating. This part should be shot at the end."

After saying that, he stood up and walked upstairs, "I'll take the camera out of the box and adjust it first."

Wu Yuan, who originally wanted to order barbecue, seemed to think of something when she heard this. She smiled and glanced at her bestie's pink lips. She said, "Okay, let's choose dessert and red wine. Yeah, and some ice cream!"

Li Shi went upstairs, opened the box and found the camera bag inside.

Inside was a Leica m11, which He Yaru put in when they set off. It was small and exquisite and did not take up much space.

This thing is very expensive, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, after Li Shi took it in his hand, turned it on and took a few test photos, he shook his head. He had the urge to take out his own set of photography equipment from the space.

"Forget it. It has so many functions and is so small and exquisite. It looks good too. I can't ask for too much. Well, with my skills, it's enough."

He was just thinking about it, but of course it was impossible for him to really take out the equipment he was used to from the space.

I went downstairs with the camera and discussed with the two girls again. Finally, based on the clothes they brought, I decided to shoot the photos in five themes: sleeping together, waking up together, traveling together, chatting together at night, and bathing together.

After finalizing the details, the two women went upstairs to take a shower and change into pajamas.

Li Shi continued to study the camera on the sofa on the first floor, while waiting for the butler to deliver the takeaway that had been placed at the hotel front desk.

In this day and age, life is indeed becoming more and more convenient. Even in a villa resort hotel like this one which is a little off the beaten track, you can order takeout.

Ten minutes later, Li Shi took the box from the hotel manager and said thank you.

After the people left, he put the takeaway into the house and turned around to lock the door.

In addition to the living room on the left side of the first floor is the dining room and small kitchen with a refrigerator. Li Shi opened the takeaway bag and wanted to put the cake in the cold layer to keep it fresh. He was surprised to find that they also bought several flavors of ice cream.

I couldn't help but smile.

Cake and ice cream, it seems that these two women who usually pay great attention to their diet at night want to take the opportunity to indulge themselves!

Without thinking too much, he opened the freezer and put the ice cream in.

The woman was a little slow in taking a shower, but Li Shi was not in a hurry. He returned to the living room and continued to sit on the sofa and fiddle with the camera. After another twelve or thirteen minutes, the cell phone on the coffee table rang.

He thought it was a message from the two people above, so he stood up with the camera in his left hand and reached for his phone with his right hand. But when he looked at it, he found that it was a WeChat message from the photographer Zhuang Jiang whom he met yesterday.

"Teacher Li, are you still in Huzhou? A friend of mine will hold a photography exhibition in a few days. I wonder if you are interested."

Li Shigang sat down again after raising his butt, put down the camera, and typed: "Still in Huzhou, but I'm not interested in the photography exhibition, and I'll leave early tomorrow morning. But thank you for telling me, next time you have a chance to go to Nanhu, you can look for me, I'll treat you to a meal."

He was just being polite, but the other party replied after a while: "Okay! I was just thinking about finding time to take pictures of Dongting Lake. I'll go visit you, Teacher Li, then!"

Soon there were two more:
"Then where are you staying tonight, Mr. Li? As a local landlord, I have to get you some local specialties from Huzhou. Our family is in the specialty business, so it's not troublesome at all and very convenient! (Smiley face)"

"Send me your location, I'll drive to find you right away."

Li Shi thought, this friend is pretty good.

However, he has to do photography at night and doesn't like to be disturbed or interrupted. He has already put photography learning on his continuing study plan and attaches great importance to tonight's event. For him, learning progress is much more important than meeting someone he just met.

I called up the input method and typed, "I appreciate your kindness, but I don't need it. I've already bought it, and I have something else to do tonight, so it's not convenient."

He did buy some. He bought a set of Hu brushes yesterday morning.

After a few seconds, Zhuang Jiang replied, "I understand, I understand (grin), then I won't bother you anymore, I'll come play with you next time."

Just at this moment, Wu Yuan came down from upstairs in her pajamas after taking a shower: "Shi Tou, we are all ready."

Her pajamas were a very simple floral dress with only two thin straps hooking around her snow-white shoulders, her skin as white as snow.

Li Shi walked over with his camera, admiring the vast snow scene up close, and asked, "Why does it take so long?"

"We tried on the other clothes we were going to use, so it'll be convenient for you to take pictures later."

Ms. Wu noticed his gaze and while explaining, she deliberately straightened her body. Her originally loose clothes immediately slipped down, and the beautiful scenery that was originally hidden was suddenly exposed more.

The beautiful scenery will naturally make people linger.

It would have taken the two of them four or five minutes to climb the stairs that originally would have taken a few seconds.

When we got upstairs, He Yaru was actually wearing the same floral halter dress in the small living room. Her figure was not as plump as Ms. Wu's, but she had a different kind of exquisite beauty.

As the main force tonight - the photographer who was doing the most work, he looked at the two women's figures openly and introduced them, "Let's shoot the first small theme first, which is 'Bestie Sleeping Together'. I know you usually sleep together, and I want a daily state, so you can follow..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Yuan immediately smiled and said, "I know, just pretend that Teacher Li doesn't exist and sleep alone like we usually do. I understand!"

As he spoke, he pulled his lady friend towards the bedroom on the left.

Li Shi followed with his camera.

But as soon as I entered the door, I was shocked by Ms. Wu's behavior.

"No, why are you taking off your clothes?" (End of this chapter)