Chicken is almost the cheapest meat available in modern society.

In my memory, when I was a child, my family was very poor, so poor that meat was rarely seen.

Every week, her mother would buy some discounted frozen chicken legs and chicken racks from the supermarket and cook them for Liu Muye.

When Liu Muye was young, he thought chicken legs were the most delicious food in the world.

Liu Muye no longer remembers how much the discounted chicken legs cost at that time, but he still remembers the price of frozen chicken racks. You can buy a set of frozen chicken racks with clean meat removed for one to two yuan.

The chicken carcass is different from the golden and crispy chicken carcasses sold at street food stalls now, with thick meat coated in starch and deep-fried.

Chicken skeletons are actually chickens that are slaughtered in slaughterhouses. The breast meat and internal organs are removed, leaving an empty breast cavity of the chicken. Only the part connected to the back of the chicken still has a little meat, and the front wishbones are empty. .

This kind of skeleton is usually bought by people to make soup base or as a teething snack for pets. Very few people buy it as a vegetable.

The chicken rack is cut into small pieces and stir-fried with chili pepper. It is still somewhat appetizing after taking it out of the pot.

But in fact, it’s just a bit of meaty flavor on the bones that goes with the meal.

The chicken legs are braised with a little bit of marinade. In order to prevent the fishy smell from not having enough marinade, a little more salt is added.

Five chicken drumsticks, mother eats one, father eats one, and the remaining three are his.

However, for children who are chronically deficient in nutrition, three chicken drumsticks are not enough, let alone three drumsticks to eat every day.

Therefore, Liu Muye eats very carefully every time.

He ate the bones very cleanly, leaving no trace of meat, and the brittle bones connecting the joints were also eaten together.

Later, when Liu Muye grew up, his mother was afraid that he would not have enough to eat, so she gave the only chicken leg that belonged to her mother to Liu Muye, and he ate the fried chicken as a meal.

Liu Muye always asked his mother innocently: "If I eat my mother's chicken legs, won't she be hungry?"

His mother smiled and touched his head, and said softly: "How could it be possible? When Xiaoye is full of chicken legs, mom can eat a whole plate of chicken racks. Mom likes to eat chicken racks the most."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true."

As expected, it wasn't because his mother was eating less and less and her complexion was getting worse and worse, Liu Muye really was about to believe her lies.

Finally one day my mother fell ill and went to the hospital.

The cause was found.

Late stage gastric cancer.

It can’t be cured even if you have money, let alone if your family has no money.

The naive Liu Muye thought that his mother had stomach cancer because he ate her portion of chicken drumsticks, and he fell into deep self-blame for this.

In front of his mother's hospital bed, Liu Muye secretly vowed never to eat chicken legs again.

Seeing his mother losing weight day by day, seeing her being so tortured by the disease that she could only rely on liquid food to survive, Liu Muye often hid in a deserted corner and cried, but there was nothing he could do.

Later, my mother couldn't eat anything, so she could only hang on to the medicine bottle to survive...

One morning, her mother seemed to suddenly improve. She asked Liu Muye to help her get out of bed and went downstairs. As before, the two of them went to the supermarket together.

I bought a lot of delicious dishes, as well as chicken legs. This time there is no special price on frozen chicken legs.

It's fresh chicken legs.

And...I didn’t buy a chicken rack.

After returning home, his mother cooked him a sumptuous meal and...a plate of chicken legs.

But Liu Muye didn't eat a bite. He hugged his mother and cried with red eyes: "I don't want to eat chicken legs anymore, I won't eat anything, I won't eat anything... I just want my mother to live well!"

"Don't cry, Zaizai." His mother wiped away his tears, tried her best to purse her lips, and said with that familiar gentle smile, "Mom will always live, and she will always make chicken drumsticks for Xiaoye to eat. Listen to her words and eat well. Grow up well."

With trembling hands, the mother used her last strength to pick up a chicken leg, put it in Liu Muye's bowl, and then...

That was the most unpalatable chicken drumstick Liu Muye had ever eaten in his life!

It is sour, bitter, astringent, salty, and full of putrid flavor.

The chicken legs were so unpalatable that he could never forget the taste of them for the rest of his life.

It tasted so bad that he still remembers the suffocating feeling when he cried while eating the chicken legs!

The chicken drumsticks were so unpalatable, but he kept missing them.

He really wants to eat it again...

Just eat it once!

As long as it tastes like that!

Now that I have eaten it, why...

Are you even more sad?

The water in the bathroom sink was almost overflowing, and Liu Muye didn't know whether it was the water from the faucet or his tears.

"Dong dong..."

Han Juyou knocked on the bathroom door again and again, but Liu Muye never responded, which frightened her.

She said one last time: "Liu Muye, are you okay? Just say something! If you don't speak, I'm going to break in!"

"..."

In the bathroom, there was no other sound except the sound of running water, and she really panicked.

Han Juyou immediately pushed open the bathroom door and rushed in - her bathroom door was in such disrepair that it was impossible to lock it.

Han Juyou, who opened the door, was stunned when he looked at Liu Muye, who was leaning on the sink, his face stained with tears.

Liu Muye...cryed?

"What’s wrong with you?"

Han Juyou asked him carefully in the thinnest and softest voice.

Liu Muye's thoughts were interrupted at this moment. He slowly turned his head and looked at Han Juyou who had rushed into the bathroom.

He wanted to stop crying, but he couldn't control it at all.

"Can you... come... closer?"

Liu Muye was a little out of breath from crying, and even speaking a complete sentence was a little difficult.

Han Juyou didn't know what Liu Muye wanted to do, but he still took a step closer to Liu Muye without reservation.

The small broken door of the bathroom slowly closed.

In the small bathroom, the distance between the two was so close that they could hear each other's heartbeats.

The emotionally out-of-control boy hugged the girl into his arms.

The girl was stunned for a moment, with a low whimper in her ears, and the boy's body was shaking. Obviously such a tall man was like an abandoned and helpless kitten at this moment.

Liu Muye, what have you been through?

The girl gently patted the boy's back, saying nothing, just patting his back quietly. She tried to comfort the broken boy with the most gentle gesture.

The boy hugged the girl, and at this moment, a certain empty gap in his heart seemed to be filled instantly.

The gentle embrace made him feel like he was back in his childhood.

On every summer night, he leaned on his mother's arms to enjoy the cool at the door of his house.

A cool breeze blew.

It was the fragrance of white camellia...

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