Through The Strait Gates

Chapter 9: Parents again

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After a family dinner, Zhu Xiaocheng started her routine talk from the moment she was seated.

Grandma Xu sighed and sighed with her opera accent, Aunt Du was in charge of crying, and Xu Xilin and Dou Xun, the "enemies" who pretended not to know each other, were paralyzed with their faces as if they were concubines.

Xu Jin was annoying Zhu Xiaocheng's car wheel talk to the point of madness. Together with the two bear children, she put on a three-legged low pressure, and the Doudougou locked in the basement made a wild wolf-like cry from time to time.

Dou Xun knew that Zhu Xiaocheng wanted to send him to someone else's house for a few days to make room for the two of them to play. To be honest, there is nothing to miss about the smoky appearance of their family. Anyway, over the years, he has gotten used to it.

He has no possessions and can only arrange with Dou Junliang and Zhu Xiaocheng who pay his living expenses. The unrealistic expectations of his parents when he was a child have become numb with repeated failures. Dou Xun originally thought of making do with a few months in No. 6 Middle School. As soon as you settle down, go to a university as soon as possible, and let the wonderful couple go to whomever they love.

Who knew that Zhu Xiaocheng would bring Xu Xi home!

When Dou Xun saw Xu Xilin's expressionless face, he knew that from the perspective of "seeing each other and disgusting", the two of them had reached a unified agreement.

And he didn't study at No. 6 Middle School for less than a semester. I'm afraid no one near the school would like to rent him short-term rentals. He had just had trouble with Wu Tao and his group, and living in the dormitory was also a lot of trouble. Dou Xun thought about it in the background voice of Zhu Xiaocheng's ramble, and finally made up his mind, thinking: "Come on, I'll go find a hotel near the school to stay."

Stay for as long as you want, someone to clean up, and three meals a day—perfect.

When Grandma Xu whispered to Dou Xun to let him rest assured, Dou Xun finally found the opportunity to speak: "I..."

But he only had time to jump out a word, and Grandma Xu suddenly reached out and touched the top of his head and the side of his face.

Her hands are a little thin, and with age, her skin is not plump, but with proper care, she still looks fair.

Wearing a moist bracelet on her fair wrist, the cuff exuded a scent of soap, and there was a faint scent of old-fashioned domestic skin care products, the kind used by women more than ten years ago - Dou Xunqing He twitched his nose—that's what his grandmother smelled like when she was alive.

"Is it Baichoin? Yu Meijing? Or some Yelaixiang's cream?" Dou Xun suddenly split his forks in the air just now, with his thoughts that were perfectly fine.

"Poor." Grandma Xu said, "How old are you when your mother said you were an old school student?"

Dou Xunzheng was walking around in all directions, suddenly listening to the question, his lips moved slightly, but he didn't respond, but his face turned red first.

In this way, he missed the opportunity to express his opinion, and confusedly asked the adults to set his destination for a period of time in the future.

After Dou Xun and the others left, Xu Xilin rushed into Xu Jin's study in a frantic manner.

Xu Xilin: "Comrade Xu Jin, let me tell you, I don't agree."

Xu Jin silently took out his wallet and took out a dozen bright red cash from it: "Take the flowers, don't bother me."

Xu Xilin controlled himself very principledly: "Stop doing this, can I buy it with money? Even if you adopt an orphanage, it's fine, but it's not okay to let the... surnamed Dou come!"

Xu Jin looked up at him: "What, do you know him?"

Xu Xilin: "...he was the one who fought with me that day."

After Xu Jin heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and replied calmly, "That's really a bad fate."

Xu Xilin: "Mom!"

"Student Xu Xilin, what's the use of you throwing a cannonball now? When I asked you, you didn't even think about it, and you agreed to it in one bite, leaving me helpless in front of your grandmother, extremely passive, and had to give in." Xu Jin sighed, "Oh, now you quit again, it's too late!"

Xu Xilin: "Then you didn't say that you would bring such a product into the door!"

"Don't mess around with me," Xu Jin said. "How many times have I told you that you have to be right with others and yourself. This is the basic principle of being a human being. It's fickle in three days and two, so what's the point?"

Xu Xilin: "I'm not a human, shameless, I'm a dog, okay, wang wang!"

Xu Jin was shocked for a moment by her precious son's shamelessness, but quickly regained his fighting power: "You tell me it's useless, this is my mother and your grandma's decision, can you settle your grandma?"

Xu Xilin: "..."

"If you can, you can go and settle your grandma. From tomorrow onwards, I'll call you Dad." Ms. Xu Jin spread her hands, shameless, "otherwise, you will stay cool and stay with your classmates in the future. Get along well and don’t fight anymore—it’s not too embarrassing to be one room tall!”

Xu Xilin and Xu Jin have always been cowards in the same line in front of their grandmother. They glanced at each other and dared not speak out.

In this way, Dou Xun packed up his simple luggage and moved into Xu Xilin's house.

That night, in order to express his veiled protest, Xu Xilin did not go home for dinner and went to the McDonald's where Cai Jing was on duty.

"It can be tolerated or not." Xu Xilin said.

Cai Jing knew that Xu Xilin was just complaining casually and declined to comment.

When Xu Xilin remembered that he and Dou Xun would look up and see each other in the future, he felt like a volcano that was about to move in his heart. He had a heartbeat and erupted once, but in front of Cai Jing, he couldn't say it - Xu Xilin was never outside of Yu Yan. Taking off his shoes in front of the girls to show his stinky feet, he was also not used to cursing rudely in front of Cai Jing.

It's not that he regards Cai Jing as a girl, but it is also difficult for him to regard Cai Jing and Wu Tao as a country.

Xu Xilin always protects Cai Jing subconsciously. The few people who usually play basketball together know that Cai Jing's four-eyed dribbling is not good, but letting him watch Xu Xilin can always get twice the result with half the effort - Xu Xilin and the school basketball team The group of hooligans mixed up a reasonable collision technique, but they were never willing to use it on Cai Jing.

Xu Xilin was unable to scold, and irritably squeezed the finished black tea cup: "No wonder..."

He wanted to say, "No wonder Dou Xun has a slap in the face. After a long time, no one wanted it since he was a child", but he remembered it before he finished speaking - this is inappropriate to say in front of Cai Jing, so he He quickly swallowed the second half of the sentence.

Cai Jing waited for a long time without waiting for the following, and asked suspiciously, "Why?"

Xu Xilin sighed and said, "...No wonder my eyelids kept twitching for the past two days."

After the panic was finished, Xu Xilin felt that his chest was even more panicked, and he regretted coming out to find Cai Jing - it would be better to go to the Internet cafe with Lao Cheng and the others to kill a game of CS.

When Xu Xilin came home that night, he saw Dou Xun sitting with Grandma Xu in the living room. On the coffee table was Grandma Xu's radio that was out of tune. The radio was disassembled in eight pieces. Dou Xun was holding a small cotton swab. Wipe the dusty parts inside with alcohol.

Dou Xun and Xu Xilin glanced at each other, neither of them were very pleasing to the eye, so they looked away coldly at the same time.

Grandma rambled: "I ran away all night without seeing a single person, and when I entered the house, I didn't even say hello. The older I got, the better I knew."

Xu Xilin didn't hear it and asked, "What is this for?"

Grandma complained, "The radio is not working anymore, and I told you that no one has repaired it for me for a long time."

Xu Xilin: "Didn't I buy you a new one?"

"I can't use that new weird one..."

Having a premonition that her long-winded speech would be endless, Xu Xilin hurried upstairs.

Grandma Xu turned to Dou Xun angrily: "Look at him impatiently."

Dou Xun didn't know how to reply, so he nodded stiffly, and after a while, he felt that he should probably smile too, but as time passed, there was no reason to not laugh at the time and make up for it later, so he had to focus on the work at hand. , meticulously refurbished the radio that had been in disrepair, replaced the battery, and pushed the radio to Grandma Xu: "Okay."

The old people were nostalgic, and Grandma Xu was overjoyed, and pulled Dou Xun to ask the long and the short.

Xu Xilin was originally worried that Dou Xun, a bastard who did not recognize his six relatives, would be rude in front of his grandmother. Taking the opportunity to get a drink in the refrigerator, she pricked up her ears and listened all the way, only to find that Dou Xun was actually well-behaved. means to bite.

"One thing comes down to one thing." Xu Xilin was relieved, feeling that his grandma was his grandma, sweeping the universe, pacifying the world, and invincible in the world.

Dou Xun was very quiet in Xu's house, and he would not leave the house if no one told him.

Every morning, Xu Xilin just woke up, and Dou Xun had already gone out to school. When they got to the class, the two turned a blind eye to each other. After school, Xu Xilin had a lot of activities, and Dou Xun would pack up and go home as soon as possible, shut the door, and would not come out.

Neither of them paid any attention to the other, and they were able to maintain a strangely peaceful relationship.

Three days later, the first monthly exam was over.

No matter the big or small test, the self-study class in the afternoon on the day of the test is always the loosest in discipline. Half of the class is in logarithm, and half is in Kandashan.

In the midst of chaos, Qilixiang didn't know what kind of menopause he had committed, so he rushed in to start training: "Look at the state of each of you! The homework that was sent out yesterday, today I have received thirty-six copies, and three people have not yet submitted it. Who told you that you can skip homework for the monthly exam? You dare to do this in my class, do you still need to talk about other subjects? What do you all want to do?"

Qilixiang sank into Dantian, and suddenly slapped the table: "If you haven't handed in your homework today, stand up for me!"

After a moment of silence, several people stood up slowly.

Qilixiang asked one by one in a panic: "What's the matter with you?"

The first person said, "Teacher, I wrote it. I had time this morning, but I forgot to bring it."

Qilixiang: "You forgot to bring your homework, what can you remember? Go home and take it!"

The second person is more cunning. Taking advantage of Qilixiang to train the first person, he secretly turned out the half-written physics paper without reading the questions. The illusion of forgetting to pay.

When Qilixiang came closer, this one handed it over first: "I'm sorry, teacher, I forgot to hand it in this morning."

Qilixiang grabbed it and swiped the handwriting on it, and he knew what was going on, and then roared: "Who are you fooling! Stand behind!"

At this time, Cai Jing gently poked Xu Xilin under the table and pointed back.

Xu Xilin looked back and was happy, only to see Dou Xun's pen standing straight in the corner of the classroom in an isolated place, with an indifferent expression on his face.

Qilixiang walked over on eight-centimeter high heels: "What's the matter with you?"

Dou Xun was disdainful of making low-level excuses, and looked back at her calmly: "I didn't write it."

Qilixiang did not expect that someone would dare to contradict her like this, so she gasped: "You... what did you say?"

"I didn't write it." Dou Xun repeated word by word.

Qilixiang asked in disbelief, "Why didn't you write it?"

Dou Xun: "Because most of the questions have been seen in other workbooks."

In high school science, there is no way to avoid "question sea tactics". A question is more than a meeting, and there are still people who can't do it every day. Qilixiang had never heard of anyone resisting homework with such a rebellious reason, and was almost stammering: "Repetition is... Repetition is a way of learning! It is for you to consolidate, and it is for you to check and fill in the gaps..."

Dou Xun spit out an even more outrageous sentence and interrupted her slowly.

"Teacher," he said, "repetition is not a learning method, it is a dog training method."

The more than 30 wolf dogs in the class were silent for a while, and then they heard the thunder-like growl of the "breeder": "Call your parents, immediately, immediately! If your father doesn't come, call your mother!"

Dou Xun said lightly: "My mother became a nun in the United States."

Qilixiang: "You stand outside for me!"

Dou Xun glanced at Qilixiang, packed up his things, picked up his schoolbag, and went out directly through the back door. Before leaving, he took the back door of the classroom with him in a civilized manner.

Qi Li Xiang shivered in place for a minute, and chased out angrily.

Lao Cheng turned around and said to Xu Xilin, "What a man!"

Xu Xilin ignored him. He huddled under the table and called Xu Jin.

Xu Jin: "If you play with your mobile phone during class, you can bring your IC card to school in the future."

"Lafayette, this servant will report something to you." Xu Xilin swept the class like a thief, "Master Dou Xun Dou contradicted the teacher because he didn't hand in his homework, and was dragged out of the Meridian Gate just now. To land, let's see if you need to collect a corpse?"

Xu Jin was silent for two seconds, and sighed a long time: "Got it."