Chapter 33: A Rare Outing
There have been so many things in the Jinhaiyuan community in a row, the dead and the missing, which makes Liu Changshou feel very depressed. Especially when the people from the Beiting Detective Agency came, he felt that life was even more difficult, after all, he didn't know when there would be an accident, and he couldn't breathe from the busy work all day, so after making some arrangements, he planned to take a day out to take his wife and children to the nearby tropical forest park for a visit.
His wife Yuan Hui'e felt even more uncomfortable, but she saw Hou Hongheng die in front of her eyes, even if she fell asleep, she was often awakened by nightmares, and the whole person was depressed, so she also agreed with this outing, maybe she could rush away the bad luck.
Liu Xiaoquan has nothing to do at home all day, so he naturally agrees, only his sister Liu Xu'er said that she wants to paint at home, and after she went to Monkey Island, she went to the animals in the forest park to resist, she always felt that those monkeys were very scary, and the same was true for other forest animals.
However, because everyone in the family went, it was impossible to leave Liu Wuer alone, so under her brother's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Liu Wuer still reluctantly agreed to go, Liu Xiaoquan was afraid that she would be bored, so he taught her the mobile phone and let her take pictures.
The tropical forest park here is only a relatively small artificial park, called the tropics, because most of the plants and animals introduced from the tropics are maintained and debugged by professional personnel, so that they can survive in the temperate zone, and naturally cannot be compared with natural scenic spots like Monkey Island. Liu Changshou came here just to relax and relax, if you really meet the group of deadly monkeys on Monkey Island, it will not be beautiful.
The park is indeed very small, and after entering through the gate, there is only a tree-lined path, and the family climbs up with the crowd, and the catkins just keep taking pictures on both sides.
It was a path to climb up, so narrow that the crowd couldn't see it. Suddenly, a commotion broke out in the otherwise quiet crowd, and then in front of Yuan Hui'e, several adult men avoided one after another, and when they got out of the way, Yuan Hui'e saw a round stone fall from above, just rolling down the path.
Because her vision was blocked, when she saw the stones, she was too close to dodge, Liu Xiaoquan shouted but was powerless to stop it. Yuan Hui'e panicked, didn't know how to dodge, seeing the stone ball smashed in front of her eyes, she unconsciously retreated back, forgetting the steps, and immediately stepped on the air under her feet, and the whole person fell down. At the same time, the small stone ball rolled down from where she was standing, bounced off the stairs and rose dozens of centimeters high, smashed into the trunk of the nearest tree on the side of the road, changed direction, and rolled towards the forest below.
Yuan Hui'e collapsed in the tree-lined path like a green onion, Liu Changshou reacted and hurriedly helped, using his knee against his wife's back, Yuan Hui'e's head fell into his hands, only half a meter away from the ground.
Liu Xiaoquan hurriedly ran over and helped his father pick up his mother, and he saw that there were still fragments of the stone ball left on the steps where his mother was standing, and it had been shattered at this time.
Yuan Hui'e let out a cold sweat, her hands trembled a little, and she relied on the support of her husband and son to sit on the edge of the big tree that had just blocked the stones. When everyone saw this, no one knew where the stone came from, and they didn't know if there would be another one, so they all walked quickly down the mountain. For a while, the order was no longer so orderly, people were pushing, pushing, and struggling, all in a hurry, and a few people almost stepped on other people's feet and fell.
After resting for a while, Yuan Hui'e eased up and moved her body, fortunately, there was no big problem, if Liu Changshou hadn't arrived in time, she would not have been hit by a stone, and the back of her head would have fallen to the ground, so she might never wake up again.
When the tourists above heard that something was going on, they also hurried to the exit, and an anxious mother, holding her eight or nine-year-old son in her hand, joined them, and the child did not know what was happening, crying and reluctant to go, and had not had enough fun.
The mother naturally ignored it and tried to carry the child forward, but she was too thin and the child was too old, so it was very difficult to hold it, and she ran into others from time to time.
A kind aunt wanted to help, but the garlic slipped under her feet, and hit the child's mother impartially.
The little boy was crying, and his mother was helpless and wanted to coax him with a slingshot, a toy that the child liked, but the boy was not interested at the moment, and swung his hands desperately to pull the slingshot to the maximum position. The slingshot could no longer withstand the pressure, and flew out of the little boy's hand.
Yuan Hui'e's feet had just twisted a little, and there didn't seem to be a big problem, and after sitting for a while, she stood up again. But when he tried to step hard, he felt labor pain, so he looked down to check, and his mother passed by with the little boy in her arms, and the slingshot in his hand hit the trunk of the tree behind Yuan Hui'e's original body, making a small hole.
The frightened family finally returned to their house, and their father Liu Changshou and mother Yuan Hui'e were apprehensive about this outing, so they didn't plan to go out again, especially thinking of their son's prophecy and Shen Mingyue's warnings, they still felt that it was much safer to stay in their own homes than to go outside.
But her daughter Liu Wu'er was still unsatisfied, she didn't have much concept of the danger that happened in the morning, but she felt that the time of this outing was too short, and she hadn't had enough fun, so she muttered to Yuan Hui'e and wanted to go out to play again, but Yuan Hui'e naturally didn't allow it.
Liu Xiaoquan saw that his sister was very lost, so he thought of an idea, he pulled Liu Xu'er over and said, "Mom and Dad are tired this morning, let them rest at home now, and when it is evening, how about my brother take you to a good place?"
"Oh, where is it?" was very aggrieved just now, and Liu Xu'er heard that her brother was going to take her out, and she immediately became very happy.
"When you get there, you'll naturally know, let's go together at night!"
Liu Xiaoquan knew that his parents would definitely not want to go out to play anymore, let alone go to the wild, so he thought of a large barbecue garden near the Jinhaiyuan community. The barbecue garden was built on the beach, which used to be just a small stall, because there were a lot of people there at night, and soon the business became very good. In the end, a considerable scale was formed, and the relevant departments simply took the lead in setting up a beach barbecue garden for safety reasons, which was in charge of special personnel, and then settled by merchants and became a special seaview market.
It was not a dangerous project, it was very close to home, and coupled with the delicious attraction, he expected that his father Liu Changshou would not refuse.
Sure enough, Liu Xiaoquan's proposal was responded, although Yuan Hui'e didn't want to go out at present, she couldn't stay at home without eating or drinking, and she used to go to the barbecue garden often, she really didn't have anything, and she didn't need to go far, so she finally acquiesced.
Beach barbecues are actually self-service, and the merchants only provide tools and dishes, as for how to turn them into delicious food, it is all up to the customers themselves, which attracts more tourists, who wait until the evening to join the barbecue army on the beach after having fun at the nearby beach.
Barbecue stalls are lined up along the narrow seashore, all close to the sea, so that people who eat barbecue can not only enjoy delicious food, but also feel the excitement of the sea, and also feel a lot of spiritual pleasure.
But today, the stalls seem to be closer to the sea than before, I don't know who took the lead in placing them, and the people who came behind were just supposed to be like this, all of them took this as the standard, and after they were lined up, the sea water after the high tide came to their feet from time to time. It's just that no one cares about this, after all, on the beach, you can feel the moisture of the sea and the blowing of the sea breeze, which is the fun here.
Extremely sharp barbecue forks are horizontal on each shelf, some horizontally and some vertically, in all directions, and at the beginning of the barbecue, these forks are still very messy scattered in every corner, and no one pays much attention to it.
The red-hot charcoal fire is lit one after another and placed under the barbecue grill, which is extremely hot. Pouring cooking oil, stinging and stinging, stinging and stinging, from time to time the oil exploded and splashed on the bodies, hands, and faces of the people sitting together, and people kept dodging, but still smiling.
Tonight, the moonlight disappeared without a trace, and it was unknown what blocked the moon. Originally, during the daytime, the weather was still good, even though there were more clouds, but from time to time you could see the sun, but at night, the wind and clouds surged, and after the sea breeze blew on my body, I felt a little cold. The beach was lit only by a few incandescent lamps, and except for the reddish fire, the rest of the place was a little dark and not very clear.
But this kind of weather did not affect people's enthusiasm in the slightest, and they still rushed to the beach barbecue garden from all directions, vehicles came and went, and even drove on the beach wantonly, without the direction of road signs, without the restraint of traffic lights, all rushing to the road, like an iron machine, fighting with the human body. The people who got out of the car, one by one, looked like they were starving, and they impatiently occupied the territory, erected shelves and sheds, and placed the red-hot charcoal at the bottom, and the scattered charcoal that fell on the road scorched the sand and soil, and was extinguished after the sea flowed through.
Liu Xiaoquan led the family of four to walk to the beach barbecue garden, and the barbecue atmosphere had just been ignited and lively.
Father Liu Changshou didn't like too noisy environment, he found a slightly more remote place to sit down, Liu Xiao'er helped his brother bring the grill and other tools, Liu Xiaoquan skillfully operated, and after a while, he was ready, took a lot of meat skewers and vegetables from the merchants, and prepared to do a big job.
When the sea breeze came, a small wave hit the beach slightly with the tide, and the sea water flowed to the feet of the catkins, and she was very happy, and took off her shoes, and let her little feet step on the sand, and caressed the cool sea water.
Liu Xiaoquan smiled and roasted the dishes, the family spent a whole day together, and they were happy no matter what. He picked up the chili powder and wanted to sprinkle more on the barbecue, but his elbow was suddenly pushed by a force behind him, and the whole person did not stand firmly, and his hand naturally went to the shelf, and a whole bottle of chili powder fell from his hand and spilled on the beach.
Liu Xiaoquan looked back, it was a young man with his back to him, standing up with a wine glass in his hand, excitedly drinking with his tablemates, and inadvertently shaking his arm, so he hit himself, but the man didn't notice it at all, and he didn't know if he was drunk or because he didn't have quality.
Yuan Hui'e saw this scene, she said forget it, don't make trouble, there is nothing to say to these drunks, just a bottle of chili powder. But Liu Xiaoquan was very angry, his leg almost touched the charcoal fire underneath, and he was almost burned, and his hand had touched the edge of the barbecue grill in order to support it, and it was instantly scalded red.
But seeing his happy sister and calm parents, Liu Xiaoquan didn't want to disturb the comfort of his family, so he simply moved the barbecue grill two meters to the sea, keeping a distance from those drunks.
After eating something, his father Liu Changshou felt that he had lost his appetite, and recently his company took over a government engineering project, but there were some problems in the actual operation, and now it is a critical juncture. On weekdays, he often feels under great pressure and is a little out of breath, but he doesn't want to worry too much about his wife and children at home, so he has been holding back.
It's just that mood and appetite have a lot to do with it, too much pressure, and a lot of things, Liu Changshou hasn't eaten much recently, and his body has gradually lost weight.
All this, his wife Yuan Hui'e saw it in her eyes, she didn't pick it out, and she was afraid that her husband would be embarrassed, so she could only feel pain in her heart, and persuaded Liu Changshou to eat more and not to spoil her body.
But she didn't know that Liu Changshou's decreased appetite was not all due to a bad mood, but that his body was really wrong. When he went to inspect the construction site a while ago, Yuan Changshou suddenly felt a piercing pain in his abdomen, and then fainted, he thought it was gastritis caused by irregular eating, but after the examination of the hospital, what he didn't expect was that his fainting was not because of the stomach, but because of serious problems with his liver. In addition to fatty liver and cysts, which have always existed, his liver has shown signs of cirrhosis, and liver cirrhosis is a very serious disease, which can easily lead to liver insufficiency and affect life safety, and may also develop into terminal diseases such as liver cancer after a few years.
This result is like a thunderbolt from the sky, which makes Liu Changshou even more depressed, he has been carefully following the doctor's advice, not to be too excited, and to avoid strong stimulation in his diet, so as to avoid accidents as much as possible.
Today is to accompany the whole family on a trip, he doesn't know how many opportunities like this will be in the future, so he cherishes it, even after something dangerous happened in the morning, he still agreed to his son and daughter to come to this beach at night, just to accompany them more.