Chapter 12: Chaos
From then on, Dou Xun waited for Xu Xilin to go to school together every day.
The people in Group 1 were shocked twice.
The first shock was that since the monthly exam, the position of "number one scholar" in their class, which was taken turns to be the private territory of a certain animal. No matter whether the exam was big or small, the animal would always be so far ahead that you couldn't even see its hooves, let alone its neck and back.
From then on, Dou Xun had another nickname, "Dou Xian'er"... Of course, as time went by, this respectful title was gradually distorted into "Dou Xian'er", but that's a story for later.
The second surprise was learning that Dou Daxian lived in Xu Xilin's house.
Everyone expressed high praise for Xu Xilin's invincible face-scanning skills - he could even pluck down a high-ranking flower like Dou Xian'er!
Especially since he couldn't explain clearly how he folded it.
Even Wu Tao, when he heard this, expressed his admiration for Xu Xilin in a sour tone.
At first, this was a very honorable thing for Xu Xilin, but soon he found that this honor was a bit heavy.
First of all, I can’t sleep in anymore.
One day, Ms. Xu Jin, who happened to go out late for some reason, discovered that Dou Xun would take a small notebook and dictate English international news every morning. After writing an article, he would obediently go to help Aunt Du water the flowers. After he finished dictating a long article and watered all the flowers, Xu Xilin would come down from upstairs crawling.
Xu Jin was immediately furious, and dragged Commander Xu away and gave him a lecture: "You are such a lazy guy, I am too lazy to stretch myself, but is it appropriate for you to make others wait for more than half an hour? Even a socialite and a backup would not be late for such a long time!"
Xu Xilin had no words to grievance. He had actually told Dou Xun a long time ago that if he got up early in the morning, he didn't need to wait for him and could just leave first. However, Dou Xun was unusually clingy in this regard and insisted on waiting. Could he blame his mother for this?
The next day, Ms. Xu Jin established a family rule: the latest entry time for breakfast in the restaurant is 6:45, and those who get up late will not have any food.
Also at school, Xu Xilin inexplicably became Dou Daxian's agent.
Responsible for receiving applications from all parties all day long.
"Can you lend me Dou Xun's physics notebook?"
This was Cai Jing, so Xu Xilin had no choice but to go and borrow it without complaint.
"Can Dou Xian'er help me copy a short paragraph for this issue of the blackboard newspaper?"
This was Yu Yiran. Xu Xilin was afraid of being disturbed, so he had no choice but to go as ordered.
"Little Linzi, little Linzi," Lao Cheng came over in a mysterious voice, "Please lend me Dou Xian'er's palm. I want to see the difference between the palms of immortals and those of us mortals."
Xu Xilin: "Get lost!"
"Captain Xu, ask Dou Xian'er for this week's diary for me."
"Why did Dou Xian'er give a different answer to the last question in the fourth problem of today's math book? Xiao Linzi, go ask her."
"We need a flag bearer for the sports parade. We need a tall man, preferably one who has no events at the front. Who else does our class have? Old Xu, go tell Dou Xun!"
There are countless examples like this...Oh, and a little girl from the next class asked him to pass a love letter to Dou Xun.
Dou Xun didn't even open the love letter, but just crumpled it up and threw it into the trash can in the corner. He told Xu Xilin his opinion bluntly: "Some people are born with insufficient IQ, and they always use it randomly. No wonder they can't get a single point in the exam."
...Although this seemed to be talking about the girl who wrote love letters, Xu Xilin always felt that he was being framed.
After spending some time together, the mysterious layer on Dou Xun gradually peeled off, and Xu Xilin discovered that this Dou Daxian was really good at chatting.
Their daily routine after returning home was: after dinner, Xu Xilin went into Dou Xun's room holding his biology class quiz paper - he did particularly badly on the test this time, with a full score of 100 and a class average of 83, but he only got 79. He was criticized by the biology teacher, who also went to Qilixiang to complain about him.
Xu Xilin took out the folder where Dou Xun organized the test papers with ease, turned to the one he was looking for, and began to correct his wrong questions by comparing them.
Dou Xun poked his head out and took a look, then said, "Did you do this paper during your preparation?"
Although Xu Xilin was very upset, he had already gotten used to his language style and magnanimously did not argue with him.
He didn't say anything, but Dou Xun kept pressing on: "I've seen this question in your wrong answer book..."
Without even looking up, Xu Xilin said, "What's wrong with that?"
"...twice." Dou Xun slowly completed the second half of the sentence, "Including this time, it has been three times. Your error book is really suitable for practicing calligraphy."
Xu Xilin: “…”
He searched Dou Xun's pocket for a chewing gum box, poured out two gums, and chewed the gum as if it were Dou Xun, thinking, "Now shut up and I won't beat you up."
However, the opposite happened.
Dou Xun said slowly and sarcastically, "You can get this kind of question wrong three times in a row. If you were a canine, you probably wouldn't even be able to join the circus with this level of intelligence."
Xu Xilin thought: "Your mother."
He threw the pen away, turned around and left, slamming two doors, making a pair of loud noises.
Dou Xun was hit in the face by the air flow caused by the wind from the door, and only then did he realize that Xu Xilin might be angry.
He sat there for a while, a little at a loss, then stood up quietly and circled around Xu Xilin's closed door twice. Doudou ran up to the second floor happily and sniffed around his feet. Dou Xun then took out a piece of beef jerky from his pocket and fed it to it.
Seeing Doudou shaking its tail like an electric fan, Dou Xun got some inspiration. He went back to the house and took out a whole bag of unopened meat floss, which he simply and roughly pinned on the door handle of Xu Xilin's bedroom.
Twenty minutes later, when Xu Xilin opened the door, a large bag of meat floss weighing more than three pounds fell heavily on his exposed toes.
Xu Xilin held back a cry and clung to the door frame in agony, thinking to himself, "I will never reconcile with this grandson Dou Xun!"
Dou Xun's grandson heard the voice and walked out quietly, holding Xu Xilin's test paper in his hand, and said hesitantly: "I have corrected them all for you."
Xu Xilin gritted his teeth and looked up, and saw Dou Xun handing the test paper under his nose. There was neat and detailed small handwriting on it. Dou Xun was not as good as his handwriting. People are like cats and dogs, but his handwriting was very pleasing to the eye. In the gaps, he copied the original text of the textbook and marked the pages.
Xu Xilin always felt that there was a trembling tail standing up behind Dou Xun, so he suddenly felt relieved and decided to forgive him.
After the two people made up, they were able to stay together peacefully for about twenty minutes, and then someone started slamming the door again.
In this regard, the whole family has collectively evolved from being shocked to being accustomed to it.
Early spring is short, and May Day is approaching in the blink of an eye.
That day was the day for the school's collective physical examination. Lao Cheng's chest was 80 centimeters, which was bigger than half of the girls in the class. After showing off everywhere, he was chased by the skinny girls and ran around in the physical examination hall.
After drawing blood, Xu Xilin looked around and saw that except for a few doctors who used stamps, most of the others simply signed. He simply checked the items that needed stamps, then found a corner, made up the other numbers, and traced a few signatures based on the signatures of other students, and quickly completed a physical examination form while others were still queuing.
Dou Xun: "What are you doing?"
Before Xu Xilin could answer, he heard a whistle in the distance. He saw that Wu Tao was faster and had already handed in the form.
"What's there to check? Save time and go out and have fun." Xu Xilin waved at Wu Tao and said quickly to Dou Xun, "I learned this from my mom. When their company has physical examinations, she always takes the opportunity to sneak off to the beauty salon to get her hair done - do you want to go?"
"Beauty salon?" Dou Xun shook his head seriously, "I won't go."
Xu Xilin almost fell over: "Who's going to the beauty salon? We're going to the Internet cafe to play CS."
Dou Xun raised an eyebrow hesitantly. In his opinion, going to an Internet cafe to play games was not much more advanced than going to a beauty salon. It sounded equally ridiculous.
Xu Xilin: "You haven't been to an Internet cafe before, have you?"
Dou Xun said incomprehensibly: "Don't you have your own computer?"
"How can it be the same?" Seeing that Lao Cheng had also escaped from the pursuit of the girls and handed in the medical examination form, Xu Xilin jumped up and said, "I'm leaving. Are you coming or not?"
Dou Xun thought for a second, lowered his head and quickly filled out his physical examination form, then followed him.
He walked and reflected, feeling that he was being completely led astray by these people. But it was a rare and novel thing for Dou Xun to be "bad" for once, because for him, no one was willing to guide him before he wanted to be "bad", and he even taught himself to smoke.
But on this day, he didn't succeed in being bad after all. Just as the two of them were about to hand in their forms, there was suddenly a commotion in the crowd.
Xu Xilin: "What's going on?"
A boy ran over and said, "It seems like a classmate fainted!"
Xu Xilin: "What? Which class?"
"Class One!"
"Ah?" Xu Xilin immediately ignored CS, stuffed the physical examination form into Dou Xun's hand and followed.
Some students had already called the doctor and teacher. Xu Xilin pushed through the crowd and asked, "Who is it?"
Someone in front of him turned around and said, "Cai Jing, maybe you have low blood sugar because you didn't eat breakfast for the physical examination. Someone come and help me."
Xu Xilin hurriedly squeezed in from the crowd and helped Cai Jing up together with a teacher from the infirmary. Lao Cheng and the others, who had just been about to run away, also came back.
Dou Xun had two forged medical examination forms in his hands and had nothing to do, so he followed silently.
"What's wrong with students nowadays?" the infirmary teacher asked, "Are boys also blindly following suit to lose weight?"
Lao Cheng and Xu Xilin looked at each other - because the senior year students have to study in the mornings and evenings, their spare time will basically be compressed to only have time for eating and sleeping. Even on Saturdays, they have to make up for half a day of self-study. Cai Jing wants to earn the living expenses for the senior year in advance. Now, he only has Thursday nights without classes. Every night after get off work, he has to study until late at night. The financial pressure and study pressure are enough to crush him.
Yu Yiran asked the girl for a piece of chocolate and gave it to Cai Jing with warm water. The teacher from the infirmary was taking care of him and asked him to lie down for a while.
Since they couldn't play the online game, Lao Cheng came up with a bad idea: "How about we organize a donation?"
Xu Xilin: "Old Cai is anxious about you."
Lao Cheng: "What should we do then?"
Xu Xilin thought for a moment and said, "However...however, I will take over his shift one night every week."
"Be a waiter?" Lao Cheng was stunned for a moment, then quickly came to his senses and said, "I'll work for a day too."
"We have to train on weekdays," Wu Tao said, "but it should be possible on weekends."
"My mom is on duty Friday night," Yu Yiran said, "I can go on Friday."
After she finished speaking, her eyes fell on Dou Xun for a moment. She wanted to say something, but swallowed it back - although Dou Xun occasionally hung out with them because of Xu Xilin, he was still not sociable. Apart from Xu Xilin, he basically didn't care about other people, especially Wu Tao.
"Dou Xun shouldn't go," Xu Xilin said, "He will take the college entrance examination this semester."
The people who heard the news for the first time exclaimed "Wow" and paid homage to the Immortal Dou with eyes burning incense.
Dou Xun suddenly felt a little awkward. He had been eager to leave after the college entrance examination and wanted to shorten the last semester to an inch. But now he didn't want to take the exam for some reason. He felt awkward with himself for a while and said, "If I don't do well in the exam, I will come back to continue my senior year. It's okay."
"Pooh, pooh, pooh," Xu Xilin said, "How can there still be people cursing themselves for failing the exam? Hurry up and say 'pooh' to get rid of the bad luck."
Dou Xun: “…”
He somehow understood Xu Xilin's feelings when he slammed the door and left in front of him.