Morbid Addiction

if you’re used to eating it.”

       “I’m used to eating everything,” Ning Junyan’s tone didn’t waver when he said this sentence.

       Chen Yuncheng glanced at him subconsciously, hesitated for a while but still didn’t mention the past.
It was just that he later found cucumbers in the side dish of taro chicken, and he was a little dazed, and asked Ning Junyan, “Are you still not eating cucumber?”

       Ning Junyan looked up at him for a while before saying, “Do you remember?”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled, “I still have a little impression,” he looked at Ning Junyan, “You can give me everything you don’t want to eat.”

       This sentence was what he said to Ning Junyan when he was a child.
He even remembered that when they were eating, Ning Junyan picked up the cucumbers in the bowl and threw them on the table because he didn’t eat cucumbers.
The foster father that sat next to him raised his hand and gave Ning Junyan a slap in the face, and said grimly, “Pick it up and eat it.”

       Chen Yuncheng held the chopsticks in one hand and the bowl in the other and didn’t dare to move.
He peeked at Ning Junyan and saw that half of Ning Junyan’s face was quickly swollen, but he didn’t mean to be disobedient, so he stretched out his chopsticks and picked up the cucumber on the table and ate it.

       “I like to eat cucumbers,” he said.

       The foster father’s shrivelled mouth chewed on the rice and hummed, but said nothing.

       Chen Yuncheng breathed a sigh of relief, then sneaked close to Ning Junyan’s ear and said to him, “You can give me whatever you don’t want to eat.”

       At that time, Ning Junyan just glanced at him calmly.

       Looking back now, Chen Yuncheng no longer felt the nervousness and anger he felt at the time, and he could even laugh.

       Ning Junyan looked at him and suddenly asked, “Do you want whatever I give you?”

       Chen Yuncheng wasn’t quite sure what his question meant, “What?”

       Ning Junyan said, “It’s nothing, let’s eat.”

       It was past eight o’clock in the evening after dinner.

       Chen Yuncheng wiped the glass on the counter with a wet wipe, and at the same time peeked at Ning Junyan.
He wanted to know if Ning Junyan had any intention of leaving.

       Ning Junyan obviously did not.

       Chen Yuncheng had to continue to find topics to chat with him, and asked him, “Why do you suddenly think of asking me for dinner today?”

       Ning Junyan’s eyes kept falling on him, looking at his fingers holding the wet wipes, and said, “There is an operation in the afternoon.”

       “Huh?” Chen Yuncheng didn’t understand what he meant.

       Ning Junyan’s answer seemed to have nothing to do with his question, “It’s more troublesome.”

       Chen Yuncheng asked, “Is it going well?”

       Ning Junyan nodded.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “That’s good.”

       “Doing the surgery ……,” Ning Junyan said, “Requires a lot of concentration.”

       Chen Yuncheng followed his words and said, “Yeah, that definitely requires full attention.”

       Ning Junyan lowered his head and looked at his hand.
He held the fingers of his right hand with his left hand.
The fingertips recalled the touch of fresh blood, and said in a slightly colder tone, “I want to vent after that.”

       Chen Yuncheng stopped cleaning the glass and leaned on the counter, “How d you want to vent?”

       Ning Junyan raised his head to look at him but did not answer the question.

       For some reason, the look in Ning Junyan’s eyes made Chen Yuncheng a little uncomfortable at that moment.
Just when he was about to say something, his thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a voice from outside the store.

       A little girl looked up at him and said, “I want to buy some bread.”

       Chen Yuncheng’s store had the kind of bread that was sealed in plastic packaging and had a shelf life of two or three days.

       He looked over the counter and found that the little girl outside was the girl he had seen stealing at the intersection before, and the cotton coat she was wearing had not been changed for many days.

       Chen Yuncheng reached out and took a piece of bread and asked her, “This one?”

       The girl nodded.

       Chen Yuncheng handed it to her, “Let me treat you this.”

       The girl was stunned for a moment, reached out to take it, and then said, “Then I’ll buy another one myself.”

       Chen Yuncheng laughed when he heard the words, “Okay.”

Notes:
So the foster mother and father are actually 干妈 and 干爸 in Chinese which could also mean adoptive mother and father, and some may translate it as godmother and godfather..
But I settled on foster mother and father since the kiddos are not willingly given by their own biological parents for these people to raise