Chapter 10 The Great Snake Fish I

Walking out of the department store, Aunt Qiu Yun and I, under the guidance of our father, walked south along the wide and straight sidewalk for a quarter of an hour, and arrived at the most famous Zhaohui Bridge in Huadu.

The Zhaohui Bridge seems to be an enlarged version of the stone arch bridge over the Qingshui River, but its span of 80 meters makes it even more majestic. The bridge deck is more than 10 meters, and there are sidewalks reserved on both sides, and its huge concrete pouring and one-time shaped arches can pass ocean liners if the river is deep enough. Although this bridge is still far from the bridge I imagined in my mind, it is still a great bridge.

"How does it feel to stand on this bridge?" Aunt Qiu Yun picked me up high, slightly closed a pair of beautiful contacts, and slowly circled around in the best position to enjoy the scenery, as if immersed in a good memory.

I took a careful look at the bridge and its surroundings and replied, "Standing on this bridge, you can see at a glance how civilized the city is, and of course, I appreciate the supernatural cultural landscape the most." Auntie, look at the weeping willows on both sides of the river, under the light breeze of the river, they are actually soft. ”

"Brother Daren, did you hear that?" Aunt Qiu Yun hugged me close to my father and couldn't help but say: "Our ocean current is becoming more and more like a 'poet', and the world he sees in his eyes is not only unimaginable, but also full of poetry!" ”

The father deliberately looked surprised, and said humorously: "Hailiu, seeing that you have drawn your aunt into the net, can you still tell me some feelings?" ”

I raised my hands above Aunt Qiu Yun's head and sighed: "Standing at this node where you can both overlook and look at each other, it makes people want to be like an eagle, spreading their wings and flying from here!" ”

"Oh, as long as people want to fly, the whole world is full of sunshine." The father looked at the time for a while, and then urged: "Qiu Yun, it's almost half past eleven, you put down the current, let's go to the front of the Spring Tide Square to pay homage to the statue of Mao Zhudu, and then rush to the Huadu Hotel to eat Chinese food, after a while, we won't be able to find anything to eat." ”

"Brother Daren," Aunt Qiu Yun took me by the hand and begged my father as she walked: "After we pay homage to the great leader, let's find another small restaurant to satisfy our stomachs, the food in Huadu Hotel is too expensive, and I have spent too much money on it today, so I can't pursue it in food." ”

"Qiu Yun," my father straightened his glasses and said thoughtfully, "Don't you hope that Hailiu can recover the memory of coming to the provincial capital, it is estimated that there is no good plan to do except to eat this 'too expensive' meal." Of course, when it comes to 'too expensive', it is also relative, in other small restaurants to spend two yuan for the three of us can have a meal, and to the Huadu Hotel it costs nine yuan, but a few years to enjoy a meal, a little more expensive should be worth it, what do you say? ”

"Auntie," I shook Aunt Qiu Yun's hand and asked in surprise, "How did Daddy know your hope again?" I didn't even listen to you. ”

"Brother Daren, little sister listens to your arrangement." After Aunt Qiu Yun finished shyly, she was like a happy bird, leading me to run more than ten meters in front of my father, and then told in a heartbeat: "Because Daddy prefers Auntie's sister, I will know." ”

"Is it the kind of 'you don't like it if you ask'? Why can't I think of a reason? I looked up at Aunt Qiu Yun, who was smiling but not answering, and felt even more confused. Aunt Qiu Yun raised her finger to the front and motioned for me to start looking at the tall statue of the leader from far and near.

At this time, I was still thinking about the previous conversation in my heart, so I looked at Aunt Qiu Yun, and saw the lingering spring on her face, as well as her light and confident steps, and the two tall and beautiful small peaks on her chest, which seemed to be pointing out the maze: "Hailiu, you are still young, don't think about it, this reason can only be perceived through the heart." ”

After coming out of Chunchao Square, my father bought an ice cream popsicle for Aunt Qiu Yun and me at a street shop. Aunt Qiu Yun also lied about this, she had to let her father taste a small bite first, her father really had no choice, and received this warm heart, but immediately covered her cheeks and said: "It's so fragrant, it's so cold, it makes people shiver." "Aunt Qiu Yun and I ate and laughed, followed my father to the bus stop, lined up on an extended city bus, and arrived at the Huadu Hotel at 12:10.

The Huadu Hotel is a huge oval four-storey building, and it is also one of the tallest buildings in the provincial capital during this period, it is located on the north side of the intersection of the two main roads of Huagui and Mingxi, and the standard north faces south. There is a garden-style parking lot in front of the hotel, which is estimated to be able to park 256 cars, and many trees and flowers planted artificially have a very beautiful view, but the fountain in the center of the field is too small, and three or four small water columns make people only feel bored. The first floor of the hotel is very spacious, with a hall of thousands of square meters for diners, and the second, third and fourth floors are high-end hotels for accommodation.

As soon as I walked into the door of the hotel, I couldn't help but exclaim: "Daddy and Auntie, look, the big glass tank that raised the big snake fish is still there!" Before I finished speaking, I pulled Aunt Qiu Yun and walked quickly to the center of the hall. Aunt Qiu Yun asked suspiciously, "My current, do you really remember this big fish tank?!" ”

"I remember," I pulled Aunt Qiu Yun up and turned around the big fish tank that was nearly three cubic meters high, and said excitedly as I turned: "At that time, it was not this kind of prawn raised, but a flattened silver-white big long snake fish, at that time, when Daddy held me and looked closely, I was very, very scared, the big snake fish would drill out of this tank and bite my hand." ”

"And what else do you remember?" Aunt Qiu Yun asked eagerly again.

I stood in the center of the hall and looked around again and again, and then I replied with an impression: "It seems that at that table or the table next to it, Daddy has been persuading a crying long-haired sister to eat, but this sister always buries her head and cries sadly, and I can't remember her appearance." ”

"Sad about what?" The father whispered to Aunt Qiu Yun, who was blurred with tears: "You should be happy, it's not in vain, it just so happens that the seat is still vacant, let's sit there and eat." Aunt Qiu Yun nodded, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and led me to the solid wood dining table leaning against the glass window that the "little hero" first felt to say.

Before anyone had even sat down, a young waitress came running to pour tea, and then invited the guests to look at the recipes on the table and order, while she took a stack of small pieces of paper that had been dismantled into thin strips and listened and memorized, and after ordering, she said, "Please sit down for a while." Then he took the list and ran to the kitchen at the back of the hall. After a while, another long, fat cook in a white hat came and asked, "Which of you is going to pick fresh food and look at the scales?" The father got up and said, "Wouldn't it be easier to let the waiter tell me when ordering?" And he followed.

In the hall of thousands of square meters, there are not many diners, it is estimated that more than 30 people sit at seven or eight tables, and there are sixty percent of the empty ones. Almost all of these diners live in hotels upstairs, and as soon as they come down from the upstairs, many of them go directly out of the restaurant, perhaps to find a cheap small restaurant to eat; Judging from their accents and speech, most of them came to Huadu from outside the province for business or tourism, but I wondered how most of them, who could afford to live in hotels, could not afford to pay for meals here.

I was still eavesdropping on what the people around me were saying, Aunt Qiu Yun got up and said that she was going to see what was going on with my father, and asked me not to leave, and I replied absentmindedly, "Okay, okay." He continued to gather information while drinking tea. These people say that their eyebrows are dancing, but they are all things that I am not interested in, for example, Huadu's dishes are delicious, but they are very spicy, Huadu's girls are quite beautiful, but they are wild and afraid of people, and Huadu's mosquitoes are small, and they are stinging and painful...... Just as I was feeling bored, my father and Aunt Qiu Yun came back, and before they could say a few words, the waitress just now also brought the meal to the table.