cauliflower is a very common dish. I used to like cauliflower very much. I remember when I was a child, when my family's family was not bad, the frequency of parents going to the market would always increase every season when cauliflower was ripe. I have always been grateful to them for their deep love for me-the journey of fifteen or sixteen miles back and forth is just to buy a few pounds of cauliflower!

However, after that eventful autumn, when cauliflower is ripe, I no longer want to eat cauliflower. I know that my "special treatment" has disappeared.

that late autumn evening, when I hurried home from school, my hands and feet were numb with cold and my nose was red. I can't wait to push through the door and see my mother cooking. I threw my schoolbag on the chair and ran to my mother to warm my hands. My mother warmed my hands and said with a smile:

"Tingting, guess what's fried in the pot?"

I blurted out "Chinese cabbage" without thinking. I thought: what else can I fry besides cabbage? ! Surprisingly, my mother shook her head and said,

"No".

no? What is that? I wonder. "Whatever it is, as long as it's delicious. Your daughter likes to eat everything anyway. "

Mom smiled and stroked my head and said,

"It's your favorite cauliflower."

"What, cauliflower?" I put my arms around my mother's neck happily and couldn't believe my ears. In the past six months, I have never bought any food at home except Chinese cabbage and radish. At this time, the food has been fried, and my mother asked me to eat it while it was hot. While I was munching, I asked in a vague voice,

"Mom, where did this come from?"

"eat first".

The delicious cauliflower was so tempting for a child who just turned twelve that I stopped asking questions and just bowed my head and ate. In a short time, I ate all the cauliflower that had just covered the bottom of the pot. When I was reluctant to put down my chopsticks, I was surprised to find that my mother was hurriedly wiping away the tears in the corner of my eyes. I panicked. "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"No, nothing. Is the food delicious?"

"Delicious, but where did this dish come from ……?" I couldn't help asking again. Mother sighed, and her eyes were full of crystal tears.

"Your father picked this up from the roadside."

"huh?" I opened my mouth wide in surprise and felt sick in my stomach.

"I don't know who saw that there were many bugs on the cauliflower, and it was small, so it was thrown on the side of the road. It happened that your father passed by and knew that you loved it, and there was no money to buy it for you at home, so he picked it up. "

I sat there stupefied and didn't know what to say. It took me a long time to remember that the cauliflower I just ate was really very small. It has been five years since this incident, but the impression it left me is as clear as yesterday. In such a mature season of cauliflower, the shadow of cauliflower can be seen everywhere. Every time I see it, I will have an unspeakable sadness in my heart. And when I eat at school, I often can't help but order a cauliflower, although I know that it doesn't taste like it used to. I'm afraid I can't eat cauliflower as delicious as in previous years in this life!