Through The Strait Gates

Chapter 46: Joy begets sadness

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Dou Xun was silent for a while.

Xu Xilin leaned against him, feeling Dou Xun's body was warm, and his eyelids started to fight after a while. Dou Xun lowered his head and sniffed on his lips, only smelling the mint scent of toothpaste, but basically no alcohol smell: "How can you be so sleepy if you don't drink too much?"

"I stayed at school all night last night, and I went to see my grandfather today..." Xu Xilin said in a quieter voice, and in the end he could barely hear him.

Dou Xun could smell the wrong smell on his body. Maybe he saw the shower gel gift that was thrown aside, and he picked it up and used it. Dou Xun was not used to it.

After rubbing for a while, Dou Xun thought depressedly about the little peach heart that was stuck in his throat just now, and suddenly asked Xu Xilin, "...why is it a good thing not to have a mother-in-law?"

Xu Xilin struggled to hold up his three-layered eyelids: "What?"

Dou Xun said, "I saw that Yu still left a message for you, saying that you will definitely be popular in the future, because 'you have a house, a car, and no mother-in-law'."

Xu Xilin was stunned for a moment, then woke up, buried his face in Dou Xun's lower abdomen, and began to laugh wildly.

Dou Xun looked down at him for unknown reasons, and Xu Xilin reached out and slapped him on the lower back: "Did your mother-in-law treat you badly back then? You have no conscience."

After speaking, Xu Xilin rolled over, squinted at Dou Xun for a while under the light, and suddenly asked, "Who told you?"

Xu Xilin was too sensitive, Dou Xun was stunned for a moment, and then a deep sense of frustration filled his heart.

Dou Xun thought about it for a while, but he really didn't know how to go around and test, so he could only tell the truth: "There is a girl who stuffed a box of chocolates in your bag."

Xu Xilin blinked, hooked his schoolbag with his foot, and pulled out the iconic chocolate nail polish.

Dou Xun quietly waited to hear what he had to say.

But Xu Xilin looked at it while holding the chocolate box, and threw it aside, without explaining anything, he just made a frowning face with exaggerated acting skills, and said with a long sigh, "Your handsome Xu is so handsome and sought-after, what should I do? I'm really worried about you."

Dou Xun: "..."

"Be nice to me, or else you'll run away with others." Xu Xilin said earnestly and put his arms around Dou Xun's head, "Will you take the CET-6 exam for me in two days? already."

Dou Xun: "... Get out."

Smelly shameless thing.

After the weekend, Dou Xun went back to school. In the morning, he felt the weight of his backpack was wrong. When he opened it at the school, he found a box of twenty-four chocolates stuffed in his bag. Xu Xilin had no nail polish. I dug out a roll of insulating tape, cut a yellow peach heart, and covered half of the box. It was two to infinity.

The second brother, the lover, happened to see it, and asked with a toothache: "...A girl is chasing you?"

This girl's aesthetic is really brutal, what kind of thing, absolutely can't be.

Dou Xun stuffed the chocolate back into the bag and nodded calmly: "My wife."

The second brother immediately forced a complimenting smile: "It looks very simple at first glance, boy, you are very discerning!"

Dou Xun ate two after class, and just saw a new post notice downstairs in the dormitory.

The Baoyan summer camp has begun to sign up, and a rush of graduation is coming.

It was a hot day, everyone was a little dizzy, and worried about their future in the mess of job-seeking and education information. The chocolate was a little melted, and it was too sweet on the tip of the tongue.

Dou Xun froze for a while at the new notice. Before he could figure out whether he was going to continue his studies or find a job, they began to force him to go forward. When Dou Xun grew up so big, it was the first time he tasted "being pushed by time".

Dou Xun remembered when Xu Xilin was chatting, saying how much money he would make, what he would do next year, what he would do in the year after, and what he would do after graduation. He was disdainfully vetoed, but it turned out that he would only veto and criticize, so far he has no idea of his own.

In this summer of cicadas, Dou Xun realized his naivety like an epiphany - Xu Xilin had been trying to accommodate him and take care of him, including feelings and future.

Between men, while caring for, loving and protecting each other, there will inevitably be a little bit of comparison between them.

Usually, this little comparison has no sense of existence, only after Dou Xun's domineering self-confidence was hit by a small blow, he quietly emerged.

Xu Xilin's care did not make Dou Xun feel very sweet, but an unprecedented panic arose in his heart.

The miser finally found out that his vault door was unlocked.

Dou Xun thought, what if one day Xu Xilin was tired and bored

If there are other people who like Xu Xilin, they don't need him to accommodate or take care of him, and they never make him angry... Then why can I keep him

Dou Xun used to think that everyone in the world was an idiot, but he alone knew that he had never had such a sense of crisis for mortals.

It was not until his resume was thrown into the sea countless times just because of the words "undergraduate education is not enough" that Dou Xun, who had "understood" it for 20 years, knew that he himself was one of the thousands of ignorant mortals, and he was not very good. A likable mortal.

When he grows up, he is neither god nor child...

Six years ago, Dou Xun only understood the painstaking efforts of the teacher who prevented him from skipping grades, but it was already a little late.

Probably because he thought too much during this period of time, when he returned home that night, Dou Xun, who had never had any problems in his heart, had an unprecedented nightmare. He dreamed that Xu Xilin was married, and married a man who was wrapped up like a mummy and couldn't see his face clearly. Woman, the two stood together blankly, no matter how they looked, it was not festive, and Wu Tao was the master of ceremonies. Dou Xun rushed up in a hurry, and before he could speak, Wu Tao showed his wretched and suggestive face when he grilled skewers that day, and looked at him with a contemptuous smile.

The people around him with blurred faces were all looking at him and laughing, and Xu Xilin was laughing too. In the dream, Xu Xilin couldn't think about it for some reason. He doesn't smile like himself, but rather like Dou Junliang.

Dou Xun's heart seemed to be blocked by ice bricks. He couldn't breathe more and more. He was about to go crazy. After struggling for a while, he opened his eyes suddenly... He found that the culprit was Xu Xilin's arm that was crossing over. own chest.

Dou Xun exhaled a long breath and moved his arms away, but his heart was still screaming violently, the grief and anger in the dream lingered, Dou Xun turned down the air conditioner by two degrees, and then took advantage of the dim light in the room. He tilted his head and looked at the sleeping Xu Xilin—

Fortunately, he still has a young and handsome face, and he doesn't have Dou Junliang's oily face at all.

Dou Xun got into Xu Xilin's quilt like a neuropathy, and stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around him, making him uncomfortable. Xu Xi was too dead to wake up from sleep, he wriggled away unconsciously, rolled out of the quilt by himself, and slid under the wall to face the wall.

Dou Xun stared at his back and sat for a while, then threw the quilt on him, taking up another corner with heavy thoughts.

The width of the large single bed, two people sleep, there is actually a distance of two palms in the middle.

Sleeping can be described as very energy-saving and environmentally friendly.

But Xu Xilin didn't notice Dou Xun, who was extremely silent during this time. He was too busy to take care of him—

"Vitamin" was very successful in the early stage, and orders were rising every month. Xu Xilin opened a message board under the website.

Every day, a group of idle college students order fruit, and go to the bottom of the mountain. Given that the merchants, waiters and customers are all classmates, the entire "vitamin" website has a special harmonious atmosphere. It is not like a commercial website, but more like a group of older children playing "playing house" in a serious manner. The message board is completely an internal watering forum on campus. .

There are those who confessed, those who complained that the cafeteria was slippery, those who complained about the difficulty of homework and exams, and those who called on everyone to oppose the resumption of closed-book courses in political education!

A while ago, a classmate left a message on the message board, saying that it would be nice if the "vitamins" were not only delivered with fruits, which led to a lively discussion. The dead house at the school gate suggested that they take orders to help purchase daily necessities. There are also a few who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and hope that the "little brother fruit" of vitamins can help bring flowers into the girls' dormitory when delivering fruit, and express their confession by mail.

At first, Xu Xilin didn't pay attention to it. Later, the voices of the masses became louder and louder. Some students did nothing on their own. A plan of 5,000 words.

That kid may have some talent for MLM. After reading his planning book, people have an illusion, as if this little website relying on the school will soon be able to rush out of Asia and go to the world, punching the Hong Kong main board and kicking the Nasdaq. !

The founding of "vitamin" was under the support and protection of the school. Although the word "entrepreneurship" was smeared, its essence is "entrepreneurship" in the ivory tower. It is not so much a business as a special occasion. practice. In the final analysis, it is incomparable with the difficulty of breaking through in society. Xu Xilin understood this, but the success from the beginning to the present was so vigorous that he was inevitably a little dizzy.

Xu Xilin was inspired by the planning book and couldn't help but want to try the water. He planned to undertake the daily necessities procurement service - in the future, he would go to the Walmart supermarket closest to the school every week to purchase, and charge a little service fee according to the size of the order. Xu Xilin didn't want to make money through this business. His idea was very good. He planned to open up a bigger market for himself through this popular service, and expand the market through the complementarity of different businesses. If this model is good, he also plans to expand the market in large Fourth, put his vision on a bigger stage before graduation—Xu Xilin is staring at colleges and universities in the city, and wants to really run his own brand after graduation.

Both of them are very busy this summer.

The ambitious Xu Xilin went to update the website and prepare the new business platform, and went to take the driver's license test. Xu Jin had left a car back then. Grandma wanted to sell it, but Xu Xilin didn't want to, so she kept it in her basement and asked someone to maintain it regularly.

In the end, Dou Xun still participated in the Baoyan summer camp. At the same time, he did not give up on finding a job. He continued to submit resumes for internships and jobs, and participated in a lot of futile online written tests.

The summer camp ended soon. Dou Xun had never been fooled in his studies. He had a solid foundation and passed two rounds of exams smoothly. A teacher suggested that he had no problem. There is still no progress in finding a job, and the feedback to him are some positions that are not reliable at first sight.

However, the results of the school gave Dou Xun a little comfort, eased the self-doubt he had been repeating for the past few days, and briefly let out some light in the haze.

When Dou Xun was about to go home, Xu Xilin sent a text message at the right time: "I have passed the second course, and the sixth grade of streaking has passed. Come back quickly and bring you a good meal!"

Dou Xun returned a "not bad", but before he could send it, he received the next one from Xu Xilin: "I passed the 427 test!"

Dou Xun: "..."

After living such an inch, are you embarrassed to be happy with this virtue

He was amused and reluctant to stand on the side of the road for a while, put his mobile phone in his pocket and left.

At this time, two men came out of the street corner, one with sharp-nosed monkey cheeks, who looked like a monkey. There is also a man in his thirties, wearing a large flowered shirt with a scar on his eyebrows. The two of them are neither students nor migrant workers. They stared at Dou Xun and got into a taxi before sneaking together. walk out.

The monkey said, "Dahui, what is your sister thinking?"

"Don't mention it." The flower shirt waved his hand. His name was Zhang Dahui, Wu Fenfen's cousin. He was a fighting gangster when he was young. Later, he was swept away by pornography and non-professionals and turned into an unemployed homeless person. Thanks to Wu Fenfen for two years, he opened a small supermarket in the office building rented by Dou Junliang for young white-collar workers to buy snacks.

Zhang Dahui irritably took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth: "That woman's brain is not good since she was a child, and even if she grows up, she can't stand it even if she steps on shit and gets married to a rich man, then fuck Mr. Dou. I'm only in my 40s, and I eat, drink, prostitute and gamble all day long. How can I want to die? My unfortunate sister has started to stare at other people's property, and asked me to find a way to start with the child left by his ex-wife - you say she Did she watch too many Hong Kong movies at home all day long? I think she has postpartum paranoia."

The monkey next to him was startled and said, "Go, let's go?"

"Get your head down." Zhang Dahui patted him on the forehead, "I don't understand the law of murder, you're brainless."

The monkey thought for a while and asked, "Then what are we doing with him?"

Zhang Dahui spit out a smoke ring depressedly, feeling very useless too.

Although the cousin is an out-and-out brain-dead, their family's livelihood is tied to her crony. Without Wu Fenfen, how could he find a 9-to-5 leisurely and profitable job

"If things can't be done, people have to coax them." Zhang Dahui sighed like a dog. "Tell me, what can I do? If you push me a second time, it's my sister. Just... just two days and tell her back. , Said that brother did his best, but things didn't work... Just give her an attitude to make her happy."

After he finished speaking, he took the monkey-faced brother and drove a second-hand black car, and followed Dou Xun all the way home.

The security of Xu Xilin's community is tight. Zhang Dahui led the monkey and walked around the community a little. Finally, he sneaked into a decoration team and successfully infiltrated. He squatted outside Xu Xilin's house for a while, and took a few pictures. Photos, even if you complete the task and leave.

After more than a month of calm, Dou Xun received a notice that he had successfully obtained the postgraduate research quota and needed to be confirmed before mid-October. But Xu Xilin encountered a little trouble after a month of being proud of the spring breeze.

First, the promotional poster for "vitamins" in the school window was maliciously torn off.

Then another dormitory area inexplicably suspended the dormitory to collect things on behalf of the students, citing "sanitation inspection" and "food safety".

A few days later, the teacher of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department talked to Xu Xilin and said a lot of things such as "Young people should be practical in doing things", Xu Xilin heard it in a fog, and then for the first time, "vitamins" did not get the monthly payment. Entrepreneurial Innovation Award.

Xu Xilin was overwhelmed for a while. When the National Day was approaching, the school suddenly issued a new regulation-to facilitate the unified management of the campus, it was required that milk order, fresh fruit, express delivery, etc., be delivered by the education supermarket in the dormitory building.

At this time, no matter how stupid Xu Xilin was, he knew that he was in the eyes of others.

He used to think too simply. The reason why the fruit sales went smoothly was because the school supermarket did not expect the fruit stand to make money, and secondly, he happened to catch up with the school to support students' innovation and entrepreneurship, and the people in the supermarket couldn't say anything.

But it's too outrageous for him to want to get involved in other businesses.

The business of purchasing vitamins and daily necessities has been on fire for a month, and the turnover of education supermarkets has plummeted by 50%.

The people who can open a supermarket in the school are definitely not the passers-by outside the school. Most of them are related to the school. They have their own service areas and sites, and everyone has been in peace for so many years.

Who would have thought that he was stabbed horizontally by an ignorant stunned young man.

For the first time, Xu Xilin discovered that his all-time efforts had actually been to build a clay pot on the beach, watching him play gently when the tide was not high, giving him the illusion that he had built a landmark building on the seashore. And he was getting carried away, and a little bit of wind and waves came, and his so-called "career" became a pile of bubbles.

Xu Xilin had no choice but to urgently cancel the "one week delivery in supermarkets" business, and then used his status as the grade committee to ask students from all classes to help write a joint letter, stating the various inconveniences of the school's new regulations, and finding someone to deliver it to the principal's mailbox.

In the end, vitamins had to make a compromise - the website was shut down for a week for maintenance, and then different types of packages with different prices were launched according to the source of fruit, including the source of education supermarkets, pinching his nose to let the person who blacked him behind him Get a piece of the pie.