My old classmate's fishing farm also doubles as a family hotel. It was fully booked at that time, but they managed to make room for them.
"You and your family should have a good rest. We will wake you up tomorrow morning. Several guests have asked us to go to the Taoist temple with them tomorrow to worship, so we can all take care of you."
The bed was just an ordinary double bed, and there was no other place to sleep in the room. It was obvious that the three of them were going to sleep together. Chunyu Xi drank a little too much and leaned on the edge of the bed. His eyelashes were very long and cast a hazy shadow under his eyes. The warm light beside the bed shone on his face, making him look like a drunk beauty.
Guo Rong and Guo Qian sat aside and watched for a while. Guo Qian whispered, "Mom, are you tempted? Do you want me to sleep on the sofa outside to give you some room to develop?"
Chun Yuxi closed his eyes and said, "... I'm not asleep yet, can't you wait until I fall asleep before saying this?"
Guo Qian laughed: "If you fall asleep, wouldn't that be a crime?"
Guo Rong rubbed his hands and walked towards the beauty, "Hehehe, here I come~"
Chunyu Xi didn't say anything. When Guo Rong walked to the bed, he suddenly raised his foot and tripped the person onto the bed. He then pushed himself up and sat up from the bed, took off his coat in a cool manner, and walked into the bathroom.
"Queue up for a shower."
Guo Rong propped up his head and lay on the bed. "Well, it seems that your dad really drank too much and has a headache. Today's reserved program is gone. But it's understandable that he takes a bath every day, but why does he force us to take a bath every day like him?"
Chun Yuxi, who had just unbuttoned two buttons of his shirt, leaned half of his body out of the bathroom and said, "Because you are sleeping with me, you need to take a shower."
After he retreated to the bathroom and closed the door, Guo Rong pulled Guo Qian to her side and discussed with him: "Look, you'd better not think of pairing me with your dad, otherwise I will have to take a bath with him every day in the future. How can I bear this? Life is simply unbearable."
Guo Qian: "Mom, why are you like a cat and don't like taking a bath? Considering how handsome my dad is, can't you overcome this little problem?"
Chun Yuxi's voice came from the bathroom, "If you two don't want me to hear you, I suggest you don't speak so loudly."
Guo Rong and Guo Qian laughed together. The old classmate's wife passed by the door and heard the laughter inside. She went back and sighed to her husband, "Your classmate has a really good relationship with his wife. I just heard their family laughing and joking. They look so happy."
An old classmate also sighed, "Yes, I heard that he is a boss, and he is very busy. He even takes his wife and children to travel during holidays. We were deskmates when we were in school. He was as thin and small as me at that time, not tall, like a little girl, but he was very fierce and often fought with others."
"Fight?" His wife didn't quite believe it. "Your classmate looks very gentle, he doesn't look like someone who would fight."
"Don't disbelieve me, he was much more aggressive than me. He would pick a fight with anyone who dared to bully him or gossip about his family. He was defeated and his nose bled, but he didn't wipe it off. He went to the teacher's office with a bloody face. After that, the kids who fought with him were criticized. At that time, several rogue students in our class disliked him and asked them to exclude him. I was the only one who spoke to him quietly."
"Now that you've grown so big, I thought you were just making up stories about being bullied as a kid."
"Hahaha! Why would I lie to you? Of course it's true. I didn't know much when I was little. If it were me now, I would have kicked those little brats away one by one."
Chunyuxi was lying on her side on the left, Guoqian was in the middle, and Guorong was sleeping on the right. She and Guoqian were silent and usually fell asleep quickly, but Chunyuxi, who looked tired just now, didn't want to sleep after taking a bath and tossed and turned.
Guo Qian quietly poked his back and called him, "Dad, are you too nervous to sleep with my mom and can't sleep?"
Chun Yuxi turned around and whispered to him, "No, it's just that the bed is too small and I'm not used to sleeping on it."
Guo Rong, who seemed to be asleep, suddenly opened his eyes: "Since we are not asleep anyway, why don't we have a night chat? Just now at the dinner table, your classmates said that you were very thin when you were a child. Were you often bullied?"
Chun Yuxi hummed hesitantly, and then answered frankly: "Yes, I am always treated as a little girl and beaten black and blue."
"Is this true? Isn't she so pitiful?" Guo Rong sighed. She was the school bully back then, and no one dared to bully her.
"Dad was so pitiful when he was a child! Fortunately, it's over now!" Guo Qian, who is now the class bully, patted his arm filially.
Chun Yuxi suddenly got into the mood for acting and started to play the victim, describing himself as a poor little being that had been weathered by wind and rain. This made the mother and son feel sorry for him for a long time. The next day, when they were driving to the Taoist temple on the mountain, the lazy Guo Rong actually offered to drive himself and let Chun Yuxi rest in the back seat.
"Your wife feels sorry for you drinking yesterday, so she wants you to rest more." The old classmate joked with them and went to greet several other tourists who wanted to go to the Taoist temple together. Because not everyone had a car, he simply got two vans. He and his brother drove one each, and took their parents and seven or eight tourists up the mountain.
At the same time, the two men who had been tracking Chun Yuxi and his group restlessly finally found the place. Their small, shabby van was not far from the group.
"Why are there so many people together?"
"With so many of them together, we definitely can't do anything. We'll just follow behind and wait until they're alone."
The two of them made an agreement and followed all the way to the foot of the Taoist temple. When they saw a group of people getting out of the car and starting to take photos and exercise, they stopped nearby and did not move.
"Fortunately, there are not as many people here as in the capital." The tall and thin man felt sympathetic.
The short and fat man stared at Chunyu Xi, raised his hand to grab a bottle of mineral water and drank it, then said with a puff, "Let's wait down here, don't let him find us and alert him."
Chunyu Xi had rested along the way and was in good spirits, but he always felt as if someone was watching him. He looked around but found nothing unusual.
"Come on in, follow me!" his classmates shouted, asking them to go into the Taoist temple to worship together. They also specially invited his cousin who was a Taoist priest to come out and entertain everyone. The master was a standard modern Taoist priest, who spoke English and French. He could talk about Taoist allusions and theories, recite Taoist books, and talk about scientific development. He had an iPad in his pocket and was a talkative person.
“If you want to worship and burn incense remotely, that’s also possible. Our temple has just launched the online worship this year. You can download this app, and there will be live broadcasts of the rituals on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month. We also have this WeChat account, which is our temple’s WeChat account. You can follow it.” The Taoist uncle seemed to be very familiar with this system. He operated it naturally and smoothly. He took them around and even drew talismans for those in need.
Chunyu Xi's old classmate talked to his cousin and asked him to write two talismans for warding off disasters and misfortunes for free and gave them to Chunyu Xi.
"Take it. I can't say whether it's useful or not, but it's not good to go back empty-handed after coming here."
The talisman was not expensive, and Chunyu Xi didn't mind the money. He took the talisman with a smile, then turned around and gave some incense money to the online incense burner in the temple.
Regardless of whether the talisman is effective or not, the scenery of the Taoist temple on the mountain is still very good. There is a row of white hydrangeas planted on the mountain path in the backyard. It is said that they were planted by a student studying abroad who came here to become a Taoist priest decades ago. Many years have passed and the front hall has been renovated twice, but these hydrangeas still bloom every year.
"Come on, take pictures, and make them look nice!" Guo Rong stood in front of the hydrangea, made a sniffing gesture, and felt very good about herself.
Guo Qian gestured at the phone for a long time, and finally admitted defeat. He silently handed the phone to Chun Yuxi next to him, "Dad, it's up to you."
Chunyu Xi took the phone and started looking for a place. After taking two pictures, he was not very satisfied with them. He went over to guide Guo Rong in posing and helped him pose. The family spent a lot of time here.
A group of people came to the Taoist temple in the morning, and it was already afternoon when they returned. The two men who were following them got impatient and got out of the car and leaned on the roadside to smoke. They smoked two packs before they saw people coming out and followed them all the way to the fishing village.
Hearing that they could stay overnight at the fishing village, the two men thought about it and decided to get off the car and stay at the fishing village. Anyway, they were planning to kill Chunyu Xi after leaving, and then they could just run away to another place and nothing would happen. They were very familiar with this kind of thing.
However, the fishing village was already full. When the two men heard the boss lady's refusal, they were in a bad mood and showed a bit of fierceness. Chun Yuxi, an old classmate, saw his wife being embarrassed, so he walked over to that place and looked at the two men in front of him with squinted eyes, "Our room is indeed full, what's the matter?"
The two men saw that he was tall and strong, and saw Chunyu Xi and others coming downstairs for dinner. They didn't want to attract attention, so they had to go out angrily. They didn't dare to go far, for fear that Chunyu Xi would disappear halfway, so they had to stay in the car and watch him.
"Son, I feel that there is something wrong with those two people." The mother of my old classmate has been running a fishing village for decades and has seen all kinds of people. She felt something was wrong when she saw those two people looking around furtively. She went out to fish in the fish pond and came back to cook. On the way, she saw those two people resting in a car not far away. She felt something was wrong, so she called her son and told him her suspicions, "I'm afraid they are taking advantage of the crowds to commit petty theft and robbery. They might even steal children!"
This kind of thing happens everywhere. In their area, they occasionally hear about someone being robbed or a child being lost. This is especially true during the peak tourist season, when there are too many people and accidents are more likely to happen.
Chunyu Xi soon heard about this from his old classmates. They suspected that the two men were suspicious, but without any evidence, they reminded the people living in the fishing village not to run around at night, and to go out together during the day and to keep the finances safe.
"Don't be afraid, everyone. I have a cousin who works at the county police station. I will ask him to come to the fishing village for dinner tomorrow. Those roaming robbers are most afraid of seeing the police. If they have bad intentions, they will definitely be scared away." The old classmate did what he said, and the next day, several policemen came to the fishing village.
His cousin who is a policeman smiled and said: "I said I would come over for dinner, and a few colleagues came over anyway because they had nothing to do. Last time, everyone ate the fish cooked by my second aunt and they all said it was delicious. I was thinking about coming over to eat together someday!"
While they were having a lively meal here, the two men who had been in the car all night were a little frightened at this moment.
"Why are the police here? Did Chun Yuxi find us and call the police?" The tall and thin man thought of the two accomplices who were arrested, and felt uneasy. "Old Wang and his gang were arrested in the capital before. How could it be such a coincidence?"
"What are you afraid of?" the short fat man said sinisterly, "Let's see what happens first!"
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When the policeman cousin heard his cousin's suspicion, he waved his hand and said, "It's a small matter. Let's go and take a look when we leave. If someone is really guilty, we can find them out with a try."
After they finished their meal and left, they really went to find the two men. Without saying anything, they just asked them where they were from and what they were doing. The short and fat man was still calm and answered a few nonsense questions. When they left, he was relieved.
Who knew that not long after the policemen walked out, one of the older ones suddenly exclaimed and slapped his forehead, "Why do I say he looks so familiar? That man just now, the tall and thin man in the passenger seat, looks like the wanted criminal who raped a woman last time. Someone in our county has come to investigate him!"
The other people were a little confused and subconsciously looked at the broken van parked there.
The two men in the car were also stunned when they heard this. Then they reacted and the short and fat man quickly started the car and ran away.
"Oh no, it must be them. They're trying to run, stop them! Call the bureau to send support!"
The author has something to say: This is a setting where everyone, except the villain, has a high IQ.