He learned to speak a little later than his peers and learned to walk a little later than his peers. When others were in kindergarten, he even called "dad" very unfamiliar.
Some people say that he is stupid and born with illness, and he will be like this in his life, or he may not live long at all.
Zhang Xiaowei's father would yell at those people angrily, cover Zhang Xiaowei's ears, and then bring back a bowl of lotus root powder to Zhang Xiaowei after the day's work, telling Zhang Xiaowei that he is not stupid, he is just a little slower than other children.
Just slow down, you will get better in the future.
Zhang Xiaowei didn't like eating this thing very much, but he didn't say that the lotus root powder was getting colder and colder, and he finally put it in his mouth with a spoon.
He actually likes the barbecue smell that his father brings every time he comes home.
Zhang Xiaowei's father runs a barbecue restaurant. Sometimes he would be taken to the store by his father and stayed next to the cashier to play by himself.
He smelled the barbecue, and his nose was filled with the aroma of various dipping sauces. He often stared at the diners' chewing action, fantasizing that his mouth was also stuffed with meat.
But the doctor said that he could not eat meat. If he eats meat, hepatic encephalitis would be more serious.
Zhang Xiaowei's childhood came through the desire and forbiddenness of meat, as well as endless treatment.
When he grew up, he became much more normal.
He can keep up with his peers. Although he is still slow sometimes, as long as he works hard, strangers will not expect him to be sick.
Dad is old too.
Zhang Xiaowei has no mother in his life. He doesn’t know where his mother is and whether he is dead. His father never mentions this to him, and he doesn’t care about it.
He just wants to know when he can eat meat.
His family clearly runs a barbecue restaurant, but he has never felt the feeling of crushing barbecue with his teeth. He told his father that he wanted to try it, but his father looked at him with a terrible look.
In order to help him cure his illness, he spent a lot of money. The father, who worked endlessly, said: "You are not allowed to eat meat."
"But..." Zhang Xiaowei thought, he only ate one piece, only one piece, and he no longer cared about it after he tasted it.
Dad said paranoidly: "Unless I die, do you know? You don't want to eat meat in your life."
Zhang Xiaowei was very desperate.
But his chance came soon.
One day, when my father was helping customers barbecue in the store, he met a couple who suddenly became quarrel while eating.
The man in a suit asked his girlfriend angrily if he had cheated and if he didn't go home last night, he was going to accompany that man's pretty boss.
At that time, Zhang Xiaowei helped collect money at the cashier - he was able to do these jobs when he became an adult, but his father couldn't rest as idle and always had to work as a waiter himself.
The voices of the men and women were very loud, the more they were quarrel, the more fierce they became, hysterical and terrifying, which affected other guests. Even Zhang Xiaowei felt a little unheard of listening.
His father naturally went to persuade him to fight, but after he was old, his father was not as strong as before, and even his tone became much gentler, mixed with the quarrel, and he was a little helpless.
Zhang Xiaowei looked at the angry man and yelled at his father: "It has nothing to do with you, don't meddle in other people's business!"
Zhang Xiaowei's father had a polite smile on his face, just like his request to his employees: "Sir, this is a public place. Your big fuss will also affect our store's business..."
The mentally ill man suddenly broke out, grabbed his father's head and pressed it on the hot baking tray.
The woman screams.
The diners were screaming.
The long-lost indifference enveloped Zhang Xiaowei, and his hands and feet seemed to be fixed on the spot.
The man howled, pressing the twitching man tightly like a beast, picked up the knife on the table and poked the man in the white apron: "You are told to meddle in other people's business! You are told to meddle in other people's business!"
The blood gradually dyed the apron red.
Zhang Xiaowei's father went from struggling to twitching, and then to bloody until the man let go, and he fell to the ground like a piece of rotten meat.
Someone called the police, some tried to subdue the murderer, but the man waved the knife and chased him out with red eyes after discovering his girlfriend had escaped.
Zhang Xiaowei just looked at him, and he felt that he couldn't move.
Tears kept flowing from his eyes. He screamed in sorrow a step slower, and his head twitched and fainted.
When he woke up again, his father was dead.
The assailant was locked up and was about to be tried.
Zhang Xiaowei inherited the barbecue restaurant, and no one would stop him from eating meat, but he did not eat it, so he found the murderer's girlfriend.
It's true that she cheated.
Why did she cheat?
If she didn't cheat, that man wouldn't get sick and his father wouldn't die.
So, she is guilty.
Zhang Xiaowei killed the woman, cut off all the meat on her body, mixed the sauce, and tasted the first barbecue meal in her life alone in the dark night in the barbecue restaurant that was closed.
His illness worsened.
He began to have hallucinations and was mentally insane. Sometimes he felt that he was his father, sometimes he felt that he was the murderer, and sometimes he felt that he was the woman who was eaten.
Who is he?
Zhang Xiaowei loves this barbecue restaurant, and his father has been working hard here all his life, so he still remembers that when he was Zhang Xiaowei, he made a decision.
He wants to continue opening this store.
He really started to open.
No one wants to apply for the job, so he will do everything himself.
Without dad’s connections and no source of goods, he would use it as the source of goods by himself.
He dismembered himself and brought himself to the dining table.
Zhang Xiaowei felt that human faces were terrible. When he saw human faces, he always remembered the faces of an elderly man being pressed on the baking tray. So a sheep face, a pig face, a cow face appeared in the store... but there was no human face.
I don’t know when it started, but reality and fantasy can no longer be distinguished, and even memory is blurred, and only obsessions occupy the brain.
This is Zhang's barbecue restaurant.
...
Under the influence of the talisman, the pig-faced chef intermittently spoke out the past buried deep in its soul.
When he could no longer ask anything, Xiao Tianshi trembled and used his hands to tear off the talisman paper used to ask questions from the chef's head.
The torn talisman paper was stained with a thick layer of oil and it had failed.
He looked up at Yu Xing, his face pale and weak: "I have asked all of you..."
"Can I stand up, can I stand up..."
"I didn't let you fall into a state of paralysis." Yu Xing touched his chin and asked casually, "This talisman is really effective, is it sold?"
"No sell--" Xiao Tianshi just replied, and saw Qu Yanqing's eyes move over coldly, and he was so scared that he kept saying, "Wait, it's not that I don't want to sell!"
"This is what my uncle gave me. Only he can do it. If you want to buy it, you can only find him... I can help you!"
Yu Xing looked at the boy's cowardly appearance and chuckled: "What's your uncle's name?"
"Luo Yan, my uncle is from the main lineage of the Luo family! I promise to introduce you to you, don't hit me..." The young man cried with grievance as he said.
As a member of the Luo family, he was rarely bullied by the deducer so much. His hands and legs were broken. Although the most precious healing talisman paper on his body could recover, it hurts!
After all, he was a teenager. His initial planning and confidence disappeared after suffering pain, leaving only pitifulness.
A thought emerged in Yu Xing's mind.
All the juniors of the Luo family have this kind of virtue. Will they really not lose their family in more than ten years?