Through The Strait Gates

Chapter 6: undercurrent

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Wu Tao played with Xu Xilin and the others in the class during the day, and they had a good relationship. His home was far away, and Xu Xilin occasionally sent him some food to his dormitory to improve his life. Those people were very polite to Xu Xilin. They greeted Xu Xilin when they met. When they were not training, they would occasionally be pulled by Wu Tao to play ball, and they also went out to eat together.

But on the whole, Xu Xilin has no deep friendship or conflict with them.

He has indeed heard some rumors from the dormitory area, but after all, he has never seen it with his own eyes, and it is inconvenient to ask Wu Tao meddling.

Xu Xilin looked back at Dou Xun's desk. Most people have too many things, so as long as they don't have winter and summer vacations or exams, they only pick what they need to take home. Most of the books are still left in the classroom. Only Dou Xun's desk was empty, not even a scrap of paper was left, as if no one had ever used it.

Carrying more than ten kilograms of schoolbags every day... This is simply an idea.

Could it be that someone would still touch his pile of junk

Xu Xilin asked casually, "How to clean up? Beat him?"

Wu Tao smiled lightly, like a super person with extra secrets. He was used to being on the fringes of the class, but at this moment, those "fringes" seemed to have found their own reasonable reasons, and they were all beautified as "Outstanding".

"It's too cheap to beat him." Wu Tao, who is outstanding, said lightly.

Xu Xilin was suddenly a little annoyed by Wu Tao's face, and he didn't say a word for a while. He said in his heart, "You are so powerful. Back then, those loan sharks blocked Cai Jing outside, and I didn't see you making too much progress."

But after thinking about it, Xu Xilin didn't ask Wu Tao to come down from the stage in person, he just said: "Forget it, you don't know, today in the office on the third floor, Qilixiang can cut me alone - I think that kid is her old man now. My dear, don't make trouble."

Wu Tao was unwilling, squinting his eyes and deliberately rubbing Xu Xilin's fire: "Qilixiang? That old lady is a fart - I didn't say it, brother, if you can bear this, your temper is really good enough."

Xu Xilin's face darkened.

He heard it, Wu Tao purely wanted to provoke trouble, but he was not a good teacher, so he used him as an excuse. He really hates Dou Xun very much, but one yard is one yard, Xu Xilin didn't want to be a gunman for a bunch of well-fed boarding students looking for trouble. Besides, even if he really wanted to deal with Dou Xun, would he need someone else to help him vent his anger

"I can't take care of that by myself, so I have to cry and ask for help outside the court?" Xu Xilin glanced at Wu Tao with a half-smiling smile, "Brother Tao, I've been so kind to you, you don't have to take my share?"

He said it in a joking tone, but there was a nail that was neither soft nor hard. Although it left a step for both parties, it still made people see that he was a little angry.

Wu Tao's face changed, and several other boys around him also looked at each other and became quiet.

But Xu Xilin then stood up, hooked Wu Tao's neck as if nothing had happened, and brought the scene back to himself: "It's a good weekend, it's nothing, what do you keep talking about the spoilers - my mother came back from a business trip in the south this week and brought some fruit, Do you want mango or mangosteen?"

Wu Tao felt very uncomfortable, but Xu Xilin had already handed over the steps, and he weighed it slightly in his heart, feeling that this little discomfort was not worth making a point of conflict with Xu Xilin, so he lowered his eyebrows and shrugged. Going down the steps: "... mango, mangosteen trouble."

"Okay, then I'll move a box to your dormitory on Monday," Xu Xilin patted Wu Tao's short hair, "wash it up and wait for me on the bed."

Wu Tao scolded lowly: "Fuck, my hairstyle!"

The two of them figured it out.

Although he fought during the day and had a little friction with Wu Tao at night, Xu Xilin was still in a good mood when he went home on Friday because his mother came back from a business trip.

Xu Xilin actually took his mother's surname. There was a mother, a grandmother, an Auntie Du, and a Doudou dog in the family. Except for himself, he belonged to a male, and the whole family, even the dogs, were female.

His parents broke up very early, because of what, he didn't tell him carefully, he just told him "your dad doesn't want to be with us" in an understatement.

"Father" disappeared from Xu Xilin's life before he had a clear memory.

In the early years, "divorce" was something that was quite disturbing to the neighbors. Xu Xilin remembered that there were many expert-level long-tongued women in the community at that time, and they would caress his dog's head when he had nothing to do, and spit out a string of sarcastic words full of "sympathy" for their family— This was all about three or four years old. Children of that age had incomplete memories. Xu Xilin didn't even remember what his father looked like, but somehow remembered the faces of those people and what they said.

He really didn't understand the content of those words at the time, but the maliciousness of the words did not need to be understood with his brain, and he could smell it with his nose.

Once, Xu Xilin's mother heard the rumors, and her old man rushed forward with eight-centimeter high-heeled shoes, and fought against the group of aunts without swearing and repeating, and achieved a legendary scolding battle with less wins more.

Xu Xilin's mother's original name was "Xu Xiaohui", but he changed it to "Xu Jin" after the divorce. He used to be a lawyer.

She is of medium stature and has a strong personality. After winning the scolding battle, she simply left the child with the oil bottle to her mother, resigned from the law firm and went to sea, rolled up her sleeves and fought hard.

Ms. Xu Jin has seen it through long ago. Children without fathers will not be looked down upon, but children with poor fathers will.

After resigning, she gathered a group of professionals in various fields with the contacts she had accumulated over the years, and set up a company by herself to provide legal consultation and related scheme design for cross-border M&A business, floating around the world all day long.

As the company's performance improved, the conditions of the family continued to improve, and they moved out of the old community with three mice and four eyes. The environment of their house is very good now, the neighbors are very polite, and they know how to keep a distance. Xu Xilin has never been told by anyone.

For Xu Xilin, the grandmother who brought him up since childhood was the person who loved him the most, but children were born knowing Mu Qiang, and the resolute Xu Jin had a far-reaching influence on him.

When Xu Xilin came home, Xu Jin had just finished a phone call and beckoned him to come over.

Xu Xilin: "Why, beauty?"

"Tell you something..." Xu Jin saw his face clearly, and after a pause, he pinched his chin, "What's the matter, you got into a fight with someone?"

"Oh mom, your nails are too sharp!" Xu Xilin complained, "Don't worry, I've settled it, Qilixiang won't trouble you... sigh!"

Xu Jin pressed hard on the bruise on his chin: "I hear you call your teacher a nickname again, I'll..."

Xu Xilin smirked at her wagging his head and tail: "Smack me?"

Xu Jin looked at this tall and big bastard, and felt that beating him was a pain in his own hands, so he said, "I'll record it for your head teacher."

Xu Xilin: "..."

As expected of a lawyer.

Xu Jin said: "Your orange godmother has returned to China. Recently, she is in a divorce with her man. There is a lot of chicken in the house. You want to send the child to our house for a few days, can you?"

"Stay here, it's pathetic." Xu Xilin put down his schoolbag indifferently and agreed.

"Chengzi" is a nickname, the big name is "Zhu Xiaocheng", the goddaughter of Grandma Xu and the godmother of Xu Xilin.

The two families are friends from the grandfather's generation, and they used to have a very good relationship. When Zhu Xiaocheng was a child, her parents were inconvenient to take her due to work reasons, so they directly sent the child to Xu Jin's home to raise her for more than a year.

Later, the two families had their own experiences, separated from each other, and the transportation was not very convenient in the past few years, so they gradually lost contact, and only became popular again in the last three or four years.

Zhu Xiaocheng is a big beauty, as beautiful as a flower, over forty years old, and the rate of return is not reduced.

It's a pity that she is golden and beautiful, and she is in the dark. Apart from being coquettish and beautiful, she has no advantages, not even luck. She married a rich man, and a rich man is a big piece of scum.

Zhu Xiaocheng couldn't give up the identity of Mrs. Kuo, so she had to maintain the marriage half-dead, until she couldn't survive, she did a very strange thing-

I wish Comrade Xiaocheng, she left her family and business, took her scumbag husband's credit card, and went to the United States to worship Buddha.

...Speaking of this, no matter the time, place or characters, it is full of bizarre grooves. Except for Zhu Xiaocheng, ordinary people can't do it.

She is middle-aged, has no intention of career, and doesn't like to run a family. She gradually loses a common language with her peers around her. She can't help but feel lonely and depressed. She and Xu Jin share the same ailment.

Every time I wish Xiaocheng to return to China, even if he doesn't go back to his own home, he must first capture Xu Jin and pour out his loneliness.

Xu Jin was too lazy to share the same illness with her. She was actually annoyed by Zhu Xiaocheng since she was a child. Every time she entertained this person, Ms. Xu Jin, who usually had a bright tongue, would become a mouthless gourd. It takes an average of three seconds to change a sitting position, and it always seems like a urgency to urinate.

It's a pity that she is annoying and useless, her own mother and son both like Zhu Xiaocheng.

Zhu Xiaocheng was sweet and well-behaved when she was a child. Compared with Xu Jin, who had an extraordinarily long rebellious period, she was a real "intimate little padded jacket". Grandma Xu raised Zhu Xiaocheng for more than a year.

As for Xu Xilin, the reason why he likes Zhu Xiaocheng is simple: first, she is a great beauty, and second, every time she comes, she is not empty-handed, limited edition sneakers, watches, electronic products... She buys what she likes.

To be a mother, I wish Xiaocheng not so good, and to be a godmother, she can score 120 points - anyway, Xu Xilin took the gift and ran away, and it was his mother Xu Jin who stayed behind to listen to her crying and chanting.

"By the way, Mom," Xu Xilin asked casually, "How old are Chengzi's children? Men and women?"

Xu Jin stopped him for a while: "...Yes, I really don't know, she didn't mention it to me."

Dare to wish that every time Xiaocheng cried with her at length, she would never stray from the topic from the beginning to the end, refuse to leave her own loneliness a little bit, and never mention the child!

Xu Xilin shook his head, feeling that he was reincarnated as a child for Zhu Xiaocheng, and he had to be full of evil in his last life, and this life would be the case.

Just as he was thinking, his cell phone rang, it was a local landline.

Xu Xilin picked it up: "Hello?"

"I," Cai Jing's voice sounded low from the other side, "I called from the public phone, let me tell you something."

Xu Xilin was very happy when he heard Cai Jing's voice, and asked with a natural smile from the corner of his eyes, "Why do you have to tell me something today, what is it?"

Cai Jing: "Old Huang asked me to help him organize some things in his spare time, you know?"

"Lao Huang" is the language teacher of their class, a re-employed old man, very kind, and cherishes Cai Jing's talents. After knowing the situation of his family, he always finds a way to find something to make money for him, and often ask Cai Jing to help him. Organize manuscripts and save some books, the tasks are not heavy, and the money is very kind.

Xu Xilin: "Well, what's wrong?"

"I stayed in Lao Huang's office for a while, and before I left, I remembered that there was a math paper left in our class, so I went back and picked it up," Cai Jing said, "I heard Brother Tao and the tall guy from Class 6 in the corridor. …”

"Li Bozhi from the track and field team?" Xu Xilin paused as he walked upstairs. This Li Bozhi had a bad reputation. Last semester, he was punished for fighting outside the school because of a conflict with people in the repeating class. "What did you say?"

"It seems that he wanted to rectify Dou Xun, and even mentioned you." Cai Jing whispered, "I think you were very upset when he mentioned this today, let me tell you."