human flesh
However, when they arrived, there were three tables ahead of them waiting, so they had to queue again. There weren't enough seats, but there were plenty of chairs. Everyone waiting moved their chairs to their preferred spots, playing on their phones, while others gathered in groups to chat and play cards.
The owner of the barbecue stall is very good at doing business. In addition to selling barbecue, alcohol and beverages, he also sells lanterns and children's toys.
A bunch of kids were flying lotus lanterns and playing with bubble machines by the creek. Ye Jingning also bought a few lanterns for Wenxuan and they went to the river to fly them, having a blast.
Although there were only three tables in front of them, they waited nearly an hour before being served. The waiter brought a few small cold dishes and a large plate of spicy crayfish. There was no barbecue, just two people in the shed, in their forties or fifties, grilling meat. They looked to be the owner and his wife.
The prepared ingredients are neatly arranged in baskets in the shed, allowing customers to see all the ingredients as soon as they walk over. This transparency makes people feel at ease when eating.
Ye Jingning was going to drive today and didn't plan to drink any alcohol. He only wanted to drink beverages and ordered a bottle of white wine for Liu Muzhe.
"Let's eat first. They don't have enough manpower and the dishes are served slowly." Ye Jingning handed disposable gloves to a few people and peeled the lobster meat for Wenxuan himself.
Ye Jingan squinted his eyes and looked at her. His sister could peel lobsters for others?
"Xuanxuan, open your mouth. I'll feed you. Don't get your hands greasy." Ye Jingning put the lobster meat into her mouth, keeping her hands away for fear that the oil would splash onto Wenxuan's skirt.
The more Ye Jingan watched, the more uncomfortable he felt. From childhood to adulthood, Ye Jingning had never peeled a single shrimp for his biological brother. Even the ones he peeled himself would be snatched away by his biological sister. Seeing that Liu Muze didn't eat the lobster, and knowing that he was too lazy to peel it, Ye Jingan fed the peeled lobster meat to his mouth and said sweetly: "Brother Liu, open your mouth, I'll feed you, don't get your hands greasy."
Liu Muzhe tilted his head back, puzzled by his behavior, and did not dare to eat the lobster meat he handed to him.
Ye Jingan stuffed it directly into his mouth.
Ye Jingning knew that it was Ye Jingan, this tough and annoying guy, who was deliberately trying to piss her off, so she ignored him and continued to peel shrimp for Wenxuan.
Qiu Zimu picked up some cold dishes and ate them, glancing at the four people. He felt that the atmosphere was a bit too weird.
"Guests at table 9, here are your dishes." The waiter brought over two large plates full of barbecue, including grilled chicken wings, shrimps, chicken gizzards, squid, corn, potatoes... After a while, two more plates of garlic oysters and vermicelli scallops were served.
Liu Muzhe always smelled a faint scent of human flesh, but when he smelled carefully, there was no scent.
"Why hasn't the barbecue been served yet?" Ye Jing'an was curious about what the barbecue tasted like and couldn't wait any longer.
"You go and ask." Ye Jingning said.
The boss said it would be served right away, but the barbecue was only served after everyone had almost finished eating.
A plate full of barbecue was served on the table. It looked similar to the barbecue we usually eat, the only difference was that it was covered with a layer of fried onions, fried garlic, and green onion segments.
Liu Muze smelled the scent of human flesh again. Seeing them pick up the skewers and start eating, he immediately stopped them and said, "Don't eat yet!"
He picked up the plate and sniffed it, but he didn't smell any human flesh. Instead, he was struck by the smell of onions and garlic.
"Brother Liu, what's wrong?" Ye Jing'an asked.
"I think there's something wrong with this meat." Liu Muze picked up a skewer and sniffed it again. It smelled of all sorts of spices, but he still could smell that faint scent.
Liu Muze was unsure, but didn't want to try it. He glanced at the others. He couldn't ask them to try it, as they had never tasted it before and couldn't tell how it tasted. Finally, he decided to try it himself. He chewed it twice, frowning deeply. This taste was something he would never forget.
Liu Muzhe spat out the meat and drank a large glass of white wine to rinse his mouth.
"What's going on?" Several people were confused.
He felt sick to his stomach and his face looked bad. He drank a large glass of white wine and said slowly, "This is human flesh."
"Ugh!" The four of them felt nauseous even though they hadn't eaten any barbecue. After all, they had eaten a lot of other barbecue skewers, all of which were grilled on the same grill, so they had some smell.
"How did you taste human flesh?" Ye Jing'an's face was twisted with disgust.
"I have eaten it." Liu Muzhe kept frowning.
"..." Ye Jingning's temper flared up, and he took the meat and asked the boss, "What kind of meat is this?"
"Wild boar meat, what's the problem?" The boss still had a smile on his face, and there was no flaw to be seen.
Ye Jingning sneered: "Then you eat one."
The boss didn't hesitate and took two bites of the meat skewers. He chewed slowly, trying to figure out if he had added too few spices. After finishing the meat, he said to Ye Jingning, "It's delicious, but it could use a little more cumin. Do you need me to process it for you?"
"No thanks." Ye Jingning walked back embarrassedly. The boss didn't look like a liar. Could he be so perverted that he could eat human flesh without batting an eyelid? She told the others about the boss's behavior just now, "Brother Liu, maybe you made a mistake."
Before Liu Muze could say anything, Ye Jing'an rejected it outright: "Absolutely impossible. If Brother Liu says it is, then it is!"
Ye Jingning: “…”
"It can't be wrong." Liu Muzhe suggested that they go back first, and he would follow the boss to see if he could find anything.
"No, it's too dangerous to go alone." Ye Jingning thought, if it was really human flesh, Brother Liu would definitely be caught and silenced if he went alone.
Ye Jingan: "I'll go with you!"
Qiu Zimu: "I'll go too."
Liu Muze didn't know the details yet, and it was nighttime. Worried he wouldn't be able to take care of so many people, he disagreed with them going. Finally, Ye Jing'an got in trouble and insisted on going with them. Liu Muze had no choice but to agree to take him along.
"Okay, I'll leave the car to you. It's not too late yet. The three of us will take a taxi back. You must be careful!" Ye Jingning took the other two home first.
"Don't worry, sister." Ye Jing'an and Liu Muze sat by the river waiting for the stall to close. Seeing that the people around them were still eating with relish, they went up to remind them, "This is human flesh, don't eat it."
"Stop joking. Some people suspected that their family was running human flesh, but it was confirmed long ago," said the guest.
Ye Jingan: “…”
These people are hopeless! Ye Jingan and Liu Muzhe were disgusted by their eating and chose to wait in the car. They drove away just as they were closing their stall.
"Brother Liu, have you ever eaten human flesh?" Ye Jing'an asked.
Liu Muzhe's eyes were blank and he hummed lightly.
"What's going on?" Ye Jing'an asked curiously.
Liu Muzhe was silent for a long time, but in the end he didn't want to say anything.
"Why do you like to hide everything? Have you forgotten what I told you last time?" Ye Jing'an hated it most when he kept things to himself and was sad alone.
"Okay, I'll tell you." Thinking of Ye Jing'an's last temper tantrum, Liu Muze showed a barely perceptible smile, but the smile disappeared in an instant. Liu Muze recalled that unbearable past, "At that time, I was still inexperienced and young and frivolous. I found that human traffickers had kidnapped a little boy, so I rushed to save him. Unexpectedly, they had helpers. In the end, I was defeated and I was captured."
"There are also times when you can't win." Ye Jing'an found his description interesting.
Liu Muze found it funny to think about how foolish he was when he was young. Luckily, he was lucky. He continued, "After they were taken into the house, I saw the body parts on the chopping board and realized that this shop bought human flesh for food. There were three children younger than me locked in the iron cage. They took one away every day and gave us a bowl of meat when they came back."
"At that time, we lacked everything except people. I knew it was human flesh, but I didn't eat a single bite and lay on the ground hungry. But on the third day I ate..." When he said this, Liu Muzhe began to feel nauseous again and drank two large gulps of water to suppress it.
"Brother Liu, if you feel disgusted, stop talking." Ye Jing'an frowned and patted him on the back gently.
"It's okay, I ate everything." Liu Muzhe sighed, "I ate because the third child has been taken away, and I'm the only one left. Tomorrow it will definitely be me. If I don't eat, I won't have the strength to resist, and I will definitely die. So I took that bowl..."
At this point, Liu Muze choked up and trembled slightly. He really couldn't recall how he ate the first piece or how he finished the whole bowl.
"Stop talking, I'm sorry, please stop talking." Ye Jing'an hurriedly hugged Liu Muze's shoulders, secretly cursing himself for being seriously ill. He wanted to help Brother Liu untie the knot in his heart and force him to speak out, but everything he said was beyond the acceptance and cognition of normal people!
Why did he encounter so many outrageous things when they lived in the same world? It seemed that he was really well protected by his father and had never suffered any hardship.
Asking him to talk about the past made him sad. Ye Jingan felt distressed, but he didn't know how to comfort him when he encountered such a mess. If he didn't talk about it, if something happened, Brother Liu would definitely be secretly sad when he thought about it, and he was in a dilemma!
Just the thought of eating a bowl of human flesh makes my stomach churn just hearing about it, let alone eating it!
How to appease this?
It's okay, it's all in the past. It's not bad to taste human flesh...
Is this something a human could say? How else could he be comforted?
Liu Muze's nausea subsided, and he took a deep breath before continuing, "Then it was my turn. They caught me and took me to the place where people were being slaughtered. I saw the little boy I wanted to save with only his head on the table, his eyes staring at me... I ate his flesh. I failed to save him, and I ate his flesh."
"Brother Liu! Stop talking, stop talking. It's okay. He won't blame you." Ye Jing'an opened Liu Muzhe's clenched fist to prevent him from pinching him.
"He comes to me in my dreams every day and asks me why I eat him..." Liu Muzhe leaned his head weakly against the glass and smiled bitterly.
"Brother Liu, you are blaming yourself. Don't blame yourself." His smile was like a knife stabbing into Ye Jingan's heart.
"Brother Liu, I want you to tell me what's on your mind because I want to help you share some of your burden. If it's so painful that you don't want to mention it, then don't think about it. Just be happy..." Ye Jing'an's voice became softer as he spoke.
What is this talking about? You ask people to say it, and you ask people not to say it. What is the purpose?
After thinking about it, he still had to speak out. What happened had to be faced. Ye Jingan continued to ask: "Then how did you escape later?"
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