Chapter 2 — Raising a Phoenix as a Chicken

It turned around, its round, innocent eyes looked at me, its cheeks puffed up.

“Mom, I'm hungry.”

“Drink lots of water and you'll stop being hungry immediately.”

03 I sighed, turned around and went to pour him some water. As a result, as soon as I turned around, I saw it completely tearing down the pot of money tree next to it. There were no green leaves left, only dry branches standing there, looking like a malnourished chopstick. I was speechless for two seconds. Considering that his digestive system is different from other people's, from childhood to adulthood he has eaten plastic, chewed on table corners, swallowed my hair elastic and still jumps around to this day, so I'm not worried about him being poisoned. I just miss the pot of money. That was the day I received my salary, I gritted my teeth and spent 15 yuan to buy it for good luck. Half an hour later, there was a knock on the door. My heart jumped, thinking the landlady was coming to demand rent again, I quickly stuffed Khuong Nac Nac under the bed.

“Don't speak up, be good.”

Then take a deep breath and open the door. The person standing outside the door is Luc Tu Than. His hair was disheveled, a few wet curls sticking to his forehead. He obviously rushed here, only having time to change his clothes. The phoenix's eyes, which were originally cold and sharp, were now slightly red, the bottom of his eyes could not hide the fatigue and struggle. Luc Tu Than glanced around my cramped room, his eyes stopped on my face for a second, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.

“Are you... Van Thu's older sister?”

Khuong Van Thu is the biological daughter of my adoptive parents, the heroine of this novel, the person he loves to the core but can't get it.

“No.”

"I was kicked out of the house, it has nothing to do with her."

He didn't bother with the topic, getting straight to the point: "Where is that chicken, you say?" I was just about to call Khuong Nac Nac out, but out of the corner of my eye I saw a fire suddenly flare out under the bed.

“My bed!”

I screamed, crawled and rushed forward. Khuong Nac Nac was squatting under the bed, his small beak opened, a ember of fire still lingering on the edge, the bed had been burned into a black hole. I quickly pulled it out.

“Quick! Put out the fire quickly!”

Luc Tu Than was stunned for a second, then quickly took off his jacket and started the fire. I grabbed the glass of water on the table and splashed it in. The two struggled awkwardly for a while and finally extinguished the small fire. Looking at the burned bed with a hole in it, then looking at the fat chicken sitting huddled in the corner, innocently blinking its big round eyes, I almost burst into tears like a bellowing cow. 04 Khuong Nac Nac tilted his head, his small claw scratched the ground, and timidly spoke:

“Mom… My beak is itchy.”

I reached out and grabbed its wings, stuffing them into Luc Tu Than's arms: "For you, my chicken." Luc Tu Than instinctively grabbed it, his arm suddenly felt heavy. Lowering his head to look at the small ball-like ball of iridescent cotton in his chest, his facial expression changed continuously, gritting his teeth and squeezing out a sentence: "You raised my son... to be this fat? And yet he still hasn't transformed?"

"When is it a chicken? It's a phoenix! A phoenix!"

He hugged Khuong Nac Nac and looked left and right, the more he looked, the tighter his eyebrows became. Fingertips brushed away its dull feathers, heartbroken:

"The fur is so dull, what do you feed it? Don't you use special shower gel to take care of it? Don't you give it water to drink? Don't you regularly groom its fur?"

I remained silent Looking around his tattered room, which was only 10 square meters wide. The poster on the wall had peeled edges, a broken table leg had just been repaired, and the only valuable electronic item was a three-year-old rice cooker.

“General Luc, what do you think?”

[Comment]: *【Laugh out loud! The passerby character is so poor that he can't even afford to buy shower gel. When he goes to shower, he only uses a bar of sulfur soap to wander around the world. It was so miserable for Nac Nac to follow her mother. Sulfur soap was still mild, it used to be