Unlike his cousin, Xia Chen had been staring at Willow curiously but not in a sense of a child's curiosity. Rather he seemed to have been sizing her up which his father doesn't seem to have caught on. Perhaps, the two father and son aren't as close as his father said of him or are they both in on evaluating her?
This could become a stressful day...
"Ah! That's a huge bamboo forest!" Li Yan called out startling her mother.
Sure enough, as they went up the narrow road through the hillsides, there was a huge forest of bamboo that was so dense it couldn't be seen through.
"That's amazing..." Yang Wei stated in awe, "It's thicker than the ones in the parks."
Xia Chang laughed, "Once you get used to these parts, everything around here will become a park to you two."