Text/Chef Cai Badou

The summer sun is poisonous. After crushing the cooked and rotten street as usual, I couldn't help but turn into the fast food restaurant next to it.

Pushing open the heavy glass door, the cold air in the KFC was blowing in my face, and I couldn't help but feel dark and cool after an afternoon of sun.

Straight to the front desk, my eyes inadvertently swept over the customers in the fast food restaurant with a little panic, and I didn't dare to take a closer look.

I touched my pocket, there was not much money left, and I didn't look at the brand of ordering: "Four Bacon Burgers." ”

The new cashier, who had an unfamiliar face, looked up at me, and his slightly surprised eyes clearly said, "This little body actually ordered four bacon burgers in one go!" ”

I raised my eyes to meet her gaze, and she quickly withdrew her gaze, tapping neatly on the cash register keyboard, and at the same time shouted the name of the meal into the kitchen behind her, and her voice was quite crisp and beautiful.

I was stunned for a moment before I realized it was time to pay.

More than a dozen coins were pulled out of his body and fell on the cash register, and the cashier was stunned.

There is not enough money.

"Ten dollars are missing." She didn't lift her head, rummaging through the coins in her hand.

I rummaged through my pockets again, with an embarrassed look on my face.

The cashier girl looked up at me with a frowning brow, obviously she would soon understand, she took out ten yuan from her pocket and threw it into the box that popped up for a long time: "Find a place to sit down, it will be fine immediately." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then a kind of ecstasy surged from the bottom of my heart, and I wanted to jump over the cash register and go over to give my sister a grateful hug. I suppressed all my urges and nodded with a smile: "Thank you." Then he turned around and found a place to sit near the corner of the KFC - this is the most air-conditioned spot that I, a deliger, have found after many researches, but there is more to it than that.

I'm a very compelling person.

Of course, that was also when I had four bacon burgers in front of me alone, eating only one and leaving two. Everyone in the fast-food restaurant gave me a look of pity — one person, four burgers. What a sad story......

They must have thought that perhaps the other two extra burgers meant brother or sister or family or ...... It's peat......

In fact...... Neither.

The familiar scent wafted in and pulled me back from my thoughts, and the new cashier girl appeared in front of me with four bacon burgers. A cold expression, a pretty and not at all cute girl. She put down the burger, gave me a strange glance, and then flashed with the end plate.

I'm used to that kind of look. She's new here, and of course she doesn't understand.

Well, she doesn't understand.

Looking at Baconburg, smelling the familiar and lingering scent, the white mist seemed to be smoked by something, and I really wanted to cry.

I looked at my watch, and the time was almost up.

Ignoring the different eyes cast around. I picked up the burger and feasted on it, like a homeless man who had been hungry for three days**.

As I ate, I still shed tears. The children who passed by were crying because they couldn't eat Baconburg, and they must be thinking, "What am I complaining about when I'm so happy......

In the blur of tears, a man and a woman appeared in the front corner, they were sitting facing each other, the man looked like a young man of about sixteen or seventeen years old, with his back facing me. The girls were in front of me, wearing college uniforms and carrying school bags. The girl's familiar face had a familiar smile. But we don't exist in the same world, I can see her, but she can't see me.

She happily ate the bacon in her hand and laughed with the boy opposite. It's like an ordinary little couple on a date, and the picture is very sweet. But my heart is always at the freezing point.

An hour later, I got up and left the fast food restaurant. Leaving two untouched Baconburgs. with a bunch full of puzzled gazes.

Every Friday afternoon is the same, a man, four Bacon Burgers, quietly in front of the little couple, watching the familiar girl from afar with mixed emotions, spending the last afternoon before the weekend.

The next day I came to the fast-food restaurant again with ten dollars in my pocket, and found the cashier from yesterday, who looked listless early in the morning, standing in front of the cashier and yawning lazily and asking me what I was eating.

I handed over the ten dollars, saying that I owed her what I owed yesterday, but she refused.

"I ate the two burgers you left yesterday, which is kind of offset."

I was a little different, and in the end, I couldn't resist her, so I had to take back the money and turn away.

See you next Friday.

Watching the boy leave silently, the cashier girl pulled over an old employee who was answering a fast food call with a little confusion: "That man...... What's going on? ”

The old employee followed her gaze and saw the back that was gradually drifting away, and his face suddenly looked complicated and dignified.

Actually, it's a story that only the old employees here know......

A few years ago, there was a teenager who would bring a girl here every Friday after school, and every time he always liked to order four bacon burgers, and each person would share them with two. For a long, long time, I could see this young man and girl in the corner of the fast food restaurant every Friday afternoon, and their relationship never seemed to fade, envying others.

However, one time when the girl was crossing the street outside a fast food restaurant, in order to save the teenager in distress, she became a victim of a car accident and never woke up.

Half a year after the grief of the last boy who had escaped death, he was back again, and this time he was alone.

In the eyes of strangers, he began to have a strange habit, every Friday after school, he would come to that fast food restaurant, still order four bacon burgers, and in a fixed position near the corner with the air conditioner turned on, he could occasionally be seen eating a burger and crying at the corner for some reason.

And then every time he left, he left two untouched Bacon burgers on the table, as if they didn't belong to him.

In the eyes of those who discovered his habit, he was a strange person, and some even suspected that he was insane.

But how would they know the sad story of that hot summer afternoon behind the tears of the teenager.

How could they know what the young man saw in that corner between the blurred tears.

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