Xu Xilin bought a bag of fish fillets from the school's education supermarket and hung them on the horizontal bar. He supported himself with both hands and sat on it. He asked, "What are you doing in Qilixiang's office?"

Dou Xun hesitated for a moment, but still told him his ridiculous decision.

Xu Xilin: "Why don't you take the exam?"

Dou Xun's previous intense emotions of grief and anger had somewhat passed, and he wanted to stuff Xu Xilin's mouth with fish fillets, because he was really impatient to hear him repeat what Qilixiang said. However, Qilixiang would not randomly scratch him, but Xu Xilin might, and Dou Xun was a little too exhausted to fight, so he did not take action.

He also climbed onto a horizontal bar next to him, chewed the fish fillet with too much MSG for a while without any appetite, and replied indifferently: "I don't want to take the exam."

Xu Xilin supported himself with his hands on both sides, feeling that the formal shirt was really uncomfortable on his body, and it was a bit restrictive. He thought to himself: "Why did you sign up if you don't want to take the exam?"

But Xu Xilin knew that Dou Xun must have been scolded by his teachers and parents. He had heard a lot of warnings and teachings. Dou Xun was very stubborn. If he didn't want to take the exam, he would dare to hand in a blank paper even if he was tied to the exam room. So Xu Xilin thought about it and said half comfortingly and half sincerely: "That's normal. I don't really want to take the exam either."

Dou Xun: “…”

After Xu Xilin finished speaking, he felt that he had not said enough, and complained: "Actually, I don't want to go to the third year of high school. The evening self-study in the third year of high school lasts until after 8 o'clock every day, and I have to eat in the cafeteria at night. I heard that broom seedlings are often mixed into the stir-fried dishes in our school cafeteria. I am worried."

Dou Xun felt that his sorrow was too superficial, so he turned his head away and didn't want to pay any attention to him.

Unexpectedly, Xu Xilin said, "But it would be nice if you could play with us for another year."

He said a few nonsense sentences, and here he finally scratched Dou Xun's inexplicable itch. The anger that had just stood up on him slowly subsided, and he uttered "hmm" almost quietly, and his mood gradually turned from gloomy to cheerful.

The setting sun gradually went out, and a slight cool breeze blew through the ground that had been exposed to the sun all day. The young man's long legs dangled from the horizontal bar, swinging back and forth. Dou Xun looked at the light that was lit in the corner of the teaching building and said to Xu Xilin, "Teacher Zhang asked me what I want to do in the future. Actually, I don't know what I want to do."

It took Xu Xilin a while to react before he remembered that "Teacher Zhang" was talking about "Seven-Li Fragrance". He thought about what Dou Xun said and found that he could do nothing to help because he didn't know what he wanted to do in the future - Xu Xilin was very confused. In the past seventeen years of his life, his little ups and downs were mostly around trivial matters like "where can we go to play today" or "the teacher is keeping the class going again". He had no time to think about something as distant as the "future".

Xu Xilin has reached such a delicate age: on the one hand, he has begun to feel embarrassed to accept pocket money from his white-haired grandmother, and has started to imitate adults in treating people. Sometimes, when he looks at Xu Jin, who is more than a head shorter than him, he will have a sense of self-inflation, thinking that "I have grown up and can protect my mother."

On the other hand, he has not yet learned the way of thinking of adults, and has no great plans in his mind, because subconsciously he is fearless, knowing that the omnipotent Ms. Xu Jin can protect him.

So he gave Dou Xun a bad idea.

Xu Xilin: "If you don't know, then you don't know. Anyway, you plan to take the college entrance examination next year, so it's not too late to think about it next year."

Dou Xun was speechless and doubted that Xu Xilin's heart was as wide as the Pacific Ocean.

At this moment, Xu Xilin suddenly flipped down from the horizontal bar like a monkey and said to Dou Xun, "I saw your mother and the others coming out, hurry up and leave."

The two of them, carrying their schoolbags and holding fish fillets, ran along a row of ginkgo trees at the east wall of the campus. Right under the noses of the adults who were anxiously looking for them, they disappeared like a dragon diving into the sea.

"Let's not go home," Xu Xilin dragged Dou Xun into a taxi after leaving the school gate. "Anyway, there's no school tomorrow. There's an event in the evening. I've already said hello to Aunt Du. Let's go."

Dou Xun was actually unwilling to participate in their "activities". In his opinion, Xu Xilin and his group might just hang out together for the sake of hanging out together. Whether it was a KTV, an Internet cafe or an arcade, they were all filled with an anti-intellectual atmosphere, and Dou Xun really couldn't see the fun in it.

Just as he was about to say no, Xu Xilin turned around and said to him, "Many people from our class have gone there. Even Old Cai has asked for leave today. We are the only ones left. Hurry up!"

Dou Xun swallowed back what he had just said. Every time Xu Xilin hung out with those people without him, Dou Xun would feel abandoned, and the feeling had been getting worse recently. After weighing the pros and cons, he still got into the taxi and said sarcastically, "The coming-of-age ceremony is also an excuse to go out and have fun. You guys are really..."

Before he could finish his words, Xu Xilin did what Dou Xun wanted to do but didn't dare to do just now - he grabbed a handful of fish fillets and stuffed them into Dou Xun's mouth.

"Master, the moon is half crescent!"

Under the crescent moon, they ran into several groups of people in strange formal attire, as if they were the city's largest insurance sales den coming here for their annual meeting.

Xu Xilin had a VIP card of Yuebanwan Hotel given to him by Brother Song. A bunch of naughty kids used his card to reserve a luxury package. As soon as they pushed the door open, the howling of ghosts and wolves inside exploded in their ears.

Dou Xun was almost knocked over by the "I called you dad, you hit my mom" sound coming at him. He regretted it so much that his intestines turned purple and he almost turned around and left. But the old man inside shouted, "The talent from our class is here!"

Xu Xilin pushed Dou Xun hard from behind and pushed him directly into the private room. The loud sound of the speakers made his chest feel stuffy. Xu Xilin had to shout at the top of his lungs to make his presence felt: "Who the hell ordered this drink? Are you crazy?"

There were a row of wine bottles on the small coffee table. Some people had already started drinking before they arrived. They were not drunk, but everyone was very excited. Those who were not familiar with Dou Xun and did not dare to talk to him were having a lot of fun and rushed over to grab Dou Xun.

"Dou Xian'er, sing one!"

"Sing one!"

"Click, click, click. Click one for him."

I don’t know who was so wicked that he ordered the song “Where is the Way?”. As soon as the prelude came out, everyone burst into laughter.

In the past, Dou Xun, who was not very sociable, could always find a quiet corner and go out on his own. He had never been besieged like this before. He was simply unable to bear the ravages and turned around to run to the small mezzanine above the box.

Lao Cheng: "Brothers, Liuzi is trying to run away!"

Several boys teamed up to hold Dou Xun down and drag him back: "There are girls over there, Dou Xian'er, why are you running over there?"

The girls took the plastic slaps and cheering machines from the KTV and threw them randomly on the small mezzanine: "We don't want——"

"Alright, alright, stop bothering him. He'll get really anxious soon." Xu Xilin stopped them and took the microphone. "Come on, I'll sing for him. Be quiet, everyone."

The naughty kids were very polite and kept quiet for a moment. Xu Xilin cleared his throat and spoke into the microphone in the tone of the campus broadcast: "Dear students, please pay attention. Students who don't plan to stay up all night please don't drink alcoholic beverages tonight. Otherwise, if your parents smell it when you get home, you'll be dead..."

A group of people started to boo him.

Xu Xilin turned around and waved to the girl on the mezzanine: "I'll take that as applause."

He was a microphone tyrant, and as long as no one came to grab the microphone, he could howl until dawn. But on this day, Xu Xilin only sang one song before dropping the microphone and sitting back in the crowd - he had to take care of Dou Xun.

This is how it is when everyone plays together. You have to decide whether to join or not. Otherwise, unless someone takes care of you, you will naturally be ignored. Over time, people who are excluded will of course find it boring. Dou Xun would never take the initiative to join. He simply can't. He is so stupid. He also wants to save face and has to wait for others to urge him, so he has to be invisible all the time. But Xu Xilin planned to bring him here to relax, so of course he couldn't just leave him alone, so he worked hard to be a "bridge" between Dou Xun and the others.

When he gathered everyone to play games, he would first assign a role to Dou Xun, tease him every once in a while, and rush to save the situation before others' jokes went too far and Dou Xun became unbearable. He was very busy.

The game was relatively peaceful at the beginning. Everyone sat in a circle playing cards, and the loser sang songs. But after a few rounds, they were still not satisfied, so they started to make the loser drink "drinks". The loser could be fined a glass of wine or a glass of Sprite with pepper, chili powder and soy sauce.

After ten o'clock, all the well-behaved children who were strictly controlled at home retreated, leaving behind a group of unruly and particularly naughty children.

Wu Tao, who was drunk, finally threw the playing cards in his hand and said something malicious: "Now that the babies are gone, I will treat the rest as adults - how about we enter the adult arena?"

Dou Xun originally planned to go out for a cigarette to relieve his fatigue, and then take Xu Xilin home to sleep, but when he heard these words, he didn't know if it was his illusion, but Wu Tao's eyes swept over him, and he seemed particularly sarcastic, as if whoever wanted to leave had to admit that he was the "baby".

Dou Xun's middle school syndrome suddenly broke out and he sat back steadily.

Wu Tao counted the number of people, pulled out a few playing cards, and put two kings in: "Let's play a big game. Let me make it clear first, if you want to play, play well, don't be impatient. Whoever is impatient will be a grandson."

High school students have limited knowledge, and the so-called "large scale" is actually the "King's Game" that Wu Tao learned from watching pornographic films in the Internet cafe - everyone draws cards, and the one who draws the Joker reports two numbers at random, and the one who draws the King designates these two people to do something.

At the beginning, the game was very peaceful. Neither the big nor the small king could get into the mood. Most of the things they said were things like "who carries whom on their back and walks around the room" and "who exchanges socks with whom".

After two rounds, the little hooligan Wu Tao started yelling again: "You guys are too boring, aren't you? Give me a king, give me a king..."

He fumbled around in the pile of cards while muttering to himself, pulled out a card with gritted teeth, turned it over and jumped up with a cry, seeing a king lying on the table.

Wu Tao took the beer bottle and took a sip, then said maliciously, "Let's see who ends up in my hands this time."