Xu Xilin has made up his mind more than once to take on the responsibility of being the head of the family - the first time was when he went home to announce the death of his grandmother, the second time was when Zheng Shuo came to ask for custody, and including this time when Aunt Du left and his grandmother wanted to sell the house, it has happened three times in total.

The first time, he recovered briefly and held up in front of outsiders, but then he collapsed.

In the second episode, it was Zheng Shuo who gave him a shot of confidence, and with the upcoming college entrance examination, he settled down under the care of Dou Xun and spent his last days in the ivory tower in peace. But once the college entrance examination was over, he lost his original direction, and was troubled by Ju Jia, who had never taken it seriously, and almost retreated again.

Xu Xilin felt that if he didn't take any action, it would be a bit like "the mediocre people often have high aspirations".

After observation, Xu Xilin found that one of the main reasons why Dou Xun did not worry was that he was very proactive. He would do whatever he wanted to do immediately. He would sit down and write a plan first, and then execute it immediately after writing it, taking things step by step - if it failed, he would tear up the plan. There would definitely be setbacks afterwards, but it was definitely better than torturing himself over and over again.

Xu Xilin felt that he had done the most extraordinary things, and his mind had become more open. He simply stopped thinking about many messy things.

He first figured it out. Without professionals like Aunt Du, it was impossible to keep the house as neat and tidy as before. The quality of life had to be compromised. So he made a table similar to the class duty table and asked Dou Xun to help him divide all the chores at home into seven groups. There was only one task per day. Grandma on the first floor would help. Dou Xun was also very sensible in this regard. Anyway, whoever was free would do it. It only took about ten minutes on average. In this way, it was equivalent to cleaning the whole house once a week. The house might not be too clean, but it was passable.

For difficult jobs such as cleaning the kitchen and toilet and wiping windows, Xu Xilin made the decision on his own, acting without prior consultation and hiring a part-time worker who paid him ten dollars an hour and came once a week.

When it came to spending money, Xu Xilin used to always feel hesitant to make decisions because he didn't make any money.

So he quickly found something to do - Xu Xilin had a lot of friends since childhood, and he contacted a junior high school classmate through various channels. That classmate was not a good student back then, and after graduating from junior high school, he did not go to high school, but went directly to a technical school. He had long lost contact with his classmates who were fighting for the college entrance examination, but Xu Xilin was the only one who would chat with him during the holidays. When the college entrance examination results came out a while ago, that classmate specially called to say hello.

This classmate has a relative who has a naughty kid whose grades in the high school entrance exam were not very good. His family thought that since he was destined to go to a regular high school, he might as well start early. If he couldn't be the "tail of the phoenix", he could at least be the "head of the chicken" in the future. So they gathered a few children with similar situations to him, found a teacher, and gave them a preview of what they would learn in high school in advance, and also made sure they didn't go out and cause trouble during the summer vacation.

The teacher was an old man who was found from somewhere. It was said that he was a special-grade teacher. It was hard to tell how good his level was, but his character was not very good anyway. After a few days of teaching, they became familiar with each other. He kept touching the little girls. The children were also bold enough to get together and put a sack on the old hooligan and beat him up.

The old hooligan met the young hooligan. He was in the wrong but dared not speak out. He had to say that he was old and in poor health, returned the tuition and left in shame.

But the parents didn't know about this and still wanted to find another teacher. However, the old teachers charged high fees, and most of the families were not very wealthy. It was unnecessary to spend so much money to teach their children, and the younger teachers or students who did private tutoring could not control these little hooligans.

Xu Xilin's classmate said: "I think you are quite suitable in terms of comprehensive conditions."

Xu Xilin always felt that this sentence did not sound like a compliment to him.

However, he agreed after thinking about it for five minutes, because Xu Xilin had never been busy for a few dollars since he was a child. Xu Jin would occasionally tell him about the outside world, but he would often brag about his own strengths and rarely talk about his own difficulties. She felt that children were narrow-minded and were easily afraid of the difficulties that should have been prepared for adults. How could a young person be afraid? He should know how to be moderately frugal, but he should not know about poverty - otherwise it would be the parents' fault.

She just didn't expect to leave so hastily.

So even though he had the intention, Xu Xilin had no idea of ​​a particularly good way to make money. After all, he figured it out, it was nothing more than trading small commodities and being a tutor.

At that time, the market price for hiring a college student tutor was 15 to 30 yuan per hour, which was slightly higher than the hourly worker. There were seven children in total, and they could make up a group of gourd dolls. It was the same whether they were herding a sheep or a flock of sheep. Each student was paid 10 yuan per hour, and the total hourly wage was 70 yuan, which was not enough for a meal. But Xu Xilin knew that according to his qualifications, this was really a "high salary".

Besides, this job sounded quite interesting. Xu Xilin had had enough of the days when Dou Xun forced him to study with an alarm clock. He just took this opportunity to sing the songs of the emancipated serfs and torture others.

Dou Xun actually wanted to come along, but the boxing classes at the gym would take up five afternoons a week during the holidays, which coincided with the time when Xu Xilin was teaching his naughty kids.

He has been clinging to Xu Xilin very much recently. He used to be embarrassed, but a close contact is enough to make him tear his face apart, wishing that they could stick together like glue. Dou Xun has tasted the sweetness and has been completely led astray by Xu Xilin. He was obviously anxious when he was teased by him with a pornographic film not long ago, but the night before, Xu Xilin couldn't find a paper cutter and went to the opposite door to ask for one. As soon as he pushed the door open, he found someone watching "Love Education" with a serious face.

The class was held at the home of Xu Xilin's classmate. There was a small supermarket in their home, and next to it was a warehouse-like area where a few tables and chairs and a small blackboard were placed.

The first day Xu Xilin went there, he was shocked by the classroom discipline - there were seven children, four boys and three girls. Some of them had their legs on the table and were shaking, some were smoking nearby, and there was one girl who didn't know what she was thinking, maybe she wanted to act mature, so she drew her eyebrows and eyes, and wore the "fashion" of her grandmother's age, acting very mature.

Xu Xilin felt like he had grown up ten years the moment he walked into this small, shabby warehouse, and he spontaneously changed from a "slightly older naughty kid" to a "reliable adult". He looked around and received a few provocative looks, so he pointed at the guy who was shaking his legs and said, "If you shake too much, you will get impotence."

The boy who was doing fat-burning exercises suddenly lost all his energy.

Xu Xilin turned to the one who was smoking and said, "If you smoke in front of girls without avoiding it, you may have to go through 81 difficulties in your mate search in this life. Do you believe it?"

The smoker put out his cigarette. Xu Xilin pushed open the window, put his hands in his pockets, sat down on the "lectern", and spoke like he was scolding a younger brother: "I am here to be your teacher for one month, five days a week, three hours a day. In order to avoid torturing each other in the upcoming sixty hours, you can raise any opinions or questions you have about me now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a girl who looked very well behaved raised her hand. Xu Xilin thought she was a little white flower that was untainted by the mud, so he nodded at her.

Then the little white flower with two ponytails asked tenderly, "Teacher, will you molest us?"

"..."Xu Xilin was silent for a while with a wooden expression, and almost blurted out "Look at the face. When facing people like you, my moral integrity is relatively high." Later, he felt that there was no point in embarrassing a little middle school girl in public, so he swallowed the words back.

Xu Xilin: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, I have a partner."

A bunch of naughty kids started to make a noise: "Teacher, can you bring it to us?"

"No," Xu Xilin said, "His appearance fee is quite high - is there any other problem?"

The little white flower raised her hand again, and this time, without waiting for Xu Xilin to nod, she asked on her own initiative: "Teacher, can we molest you?"

Xu Xilin finally understood why this group of people couldn't find a decent tutor. It was really hard to earn these seventy yuan.

"Sure," Xu Xilin said, "Go home and tell your mom that teachers will charge extra for extra services. Each indecent assault costs 5,000 US dollars. Cash transactions are not accepted. Credit cards are not accepted. There is a 10% discount for wholesale."

The students heard that this teacher was from the key class of No. 6 Middle School and had just been admitted to a key university this year. They thought he was a nerd who was easy to control. But after a few words, they found out that they were all from the same country... and that he was even vaguely more experienced than them. So they all sat down steadily in the simple classroom and listened to Xu Xilin's nonsense.

Xu Xilin had prepared the lesson carefully according to the materials that Dou Xun had helped him review before, but when he met his student he realized what kind of person he was. He immediately adjusted the teaching objectives according to the student's aptitude - mainly talking nonsense, supplemented by a few sentences about high school study experiences, and occasionally talking about high school knowledge that he had memorized after just taking the college entrance examination. Three hours passed quickly.

The students hated staying in class late, and Xu Xilin, the "teacher", wanted the get out of class to end early even more than the students. Both sides reached an agreement in a friendly manner and ended their mutual torture in the evening.

After three days of classes, Xu Xilin couldn't stand it anymore. It was hard to imagine what it felt like to keep talking at a high volume for several hours in a row - especially those naughty kids were like nails on their butts. They were more focused than each other when chatting, but they would be distracted after a while when talking about serious matters, as if they were "isolated from knowledge".

It felt fresh on the first day, but his throat started to hurt on the second day. On the third day, Xu Xilin wished he were a mute.

He used to dislike drinking beverages more than water, but now he is satisfied with looking at those colorful small plastic bottles, and no one says anything to him. He changed himself to a pot of tea and brought it with him every day, and basically ate watermelon frost as candy beans, but it only treated the symptoms and not the root cause. He only felt comfortable for a few minutes, but felt uncomfortable again as soon as he spoke.

Every enthusiasm for teaching and answering questions ended with the reality that "students are stupid". At the beginning, Xu Xilin was full of ambition and thought that it would be great to run a training institution like New Oriental in the future. New Oriental taught English and he could teach mathematics. However, after two days of working, Teacher Xu gave up this idea.

Xu Xilin realized how difficult it was for Qilixiang and made up his mind never to give his teacher a nickname again. After a week, only the girl with twin ponytails who had teased him at the beginning listened to him a little. One day, she actually did some exercises at home and brought them back to ask questions. Xu Xilin was inexplicably moved when he looked at her exercise book in which she didn't get any questions right. He would have run away after class, but that day he stayed for the first time and explained every question to her.

He was talking, and the girl stood beside him and listened. Xu Xilin asked, "Do you understand?"

She didn't say anything either. Xu Xilin looked up at her and found that the girl was not studying the exercises, but was staring at him.

The little girl asked: "Teacher, are the girls in the key points pretty?"

"..." Xu Xilin's enthusiasm for teaching was extinguished by her words. He cleaned up his tea leaves indifferently and said, "Some are good-looking and some are ugly."

The girl asked in surprise: "Don't they say that women with big breasts are brainless?"

"First, breasts and brains are not made of the same material, so there is no exclusive relationship. Second, studying a key point does not count as 'having brains'. It can only mean that you did some serious things in school in junior high school. Third, what does good looks have to do with breasts?" Xu Xilin spoke more and more like Dou Xun. He pushed her homework book forward, packed up his things and stood up. "Okay, I'll leave if you have no problem."

"Teacher, I think you have a lot of personality," the little girl said nonchalantly, "Can I be your girlfriend? Let me sleep with you."

Xu Xilin: “…”

He looked back at the little girl with twin ponytails. Her face was very tender and round. He suddenly felt sad: "No, the teacher sells art but not her body."

After saying that, he threw this rotten peach blossom aside and ran away.

Unexpectedly, I ran into Dou Xun as soon as I went out.

Xu Xilin: “…”

Dou Xun rode out his bicycle. Later, he asked someone to add a weird rear seat to the fancy bicycle. It looked a bit uncoordinated, but at least it could carry people. Dou Xun was a person with a very good sense of time. Usually, Xu Xilin went home at a fixed time. If he was delayed for a while, even five minutes late, he would ask. On this day, Xu Xilin was half an hour late, so he simply went to find him... and then he heard this.

Xu Xilin felt inexplicably guilty. He walked over and hung the water cup on Dou Xun's handlebars, then reached out and smoothed the hair on his head.

Dou Xun might have wanted to hide at first, but then he just stiffened his neck and didn't move. He looked back over Xu Xilin's shoulder and looked at the girl who came out in a very unfriendly manner.

Dou Xun was a bit of a loner, Xu Xilin had discovered that. If he was asked to buy some food and share it with his roommates, that was fine, but if Xu Xilin occasionally brought him some snacks from the supermarket and told him to share them with his classmates, Dou Xun would not listen to him, and would keep them for himself, and would not leave "a single grain of food for the enemy."

Dou Xun is not stingy with people, but he makes a clear distinction between "things specially given to me" and "things bought to treat others". Even if they are two identical beef jerky, he can use the product number and production date to tell which one can be given to others and which one is his and no one else is allowed to touch it.

Xu Xilin was afraid that he would say something, so he quickly coaxed him, "Let's go, let's go home. It's already late, and grandma will be worried soon."

Dou Xun felt uncomfortable and didn't say anything. He didn't feel anything when Xu Xilin first took on this job, but when he was preparing for class, he took out the big book of subject logic that Dou Xun had drawn for him. Xu Xilin knew his bad temper and didn't dare to tell others to use it. He just said that this idea was very smooth and he could refer to it to see what logical order he could follow to teach these poor students.

Even so, Dou Xun still felt uncomfortable, as if confidential documents had been leaked, because the reason was too unreasonable, he knew it, so he didn't say it clearly, but he felt uncomfortable for several days. Just when he was feeling better, he encountered this again.

Dou Xun was riding his bicycle with someone, pedaling like a rocket all the way home. He didn't stop at all, but just lifted the handlebars and rushed into the yard. He hit the stone steps and then he braked suddenly. Xu Xilin hit him heavily on the back.

Xu Xilin had no choice but to chase after him, considering that his grandmother was still on the first floor, and lowered his voice and said, "I didn't do anything."

When he looked up, he found the grey parrot staring at him curiously, so Xu Xilin quickly shut up. This bird has been learning to speak, and it would be bad if it heard it and learned to speak.

Dou Xun knew that he had not done anything - if he had done something, he could vent his anger openly, so that his territory would not be offended and he would not have nowhere to vent his anger. So he ran upstairs angrily.

Xu Xilin: "Hey you..."

His throat was always in pain, and whenever he spoke a little louder, his voice would crack and he would start coughing.

The grey parrot tilted its head and stared at him for a while, then followed suit: "Ahem!"

Xu Xilin imitated Dou Xun and stretched out his hand to make a gun gesture, pointed at the bird, and said in a hoarse voice: "I'll shoot you."

Grey Parrot: "Beep, beep, beep!"

Dou Xun was sulking all night, and before going to bed, he finally calmed down. Xu Xilin read some books and was about to turn off the lamp to go to bed when he suddenly found that his door was pushed open a little. Dou Xun came in with a pillow and quilt in his arms: "I want to sleep with you."

I thought Dou Xun's outfit was quite peculiar. Perhaps knowing that it was cold in his room, Dou Xun had specially changed into a pair of thicker pajamas. He only wore a vest on his upper body and a pair of thick furry pants on his lower body. The pajamas had pockets. He held the pillow and quilt in one hand and put the other hand in his pocket to look cool.

Xu Xilin's bed was spacious enough for one person, but it was a bit crowded for two people. However, considering that Dou Xun had finally calmed down, he pushed the pillow in with the intention of comforting Dou Xun: "Come on."

Dou Xun walked in with his hands in his pockets, half paralyzed, and put down his bedding. Xu Xilin saw that he was indeed a top student. He was holding a thick notebook before going to bed, which was covered with small notes for marking. There was also a pen clipped on the cover. He would write and draw for a long time before going to bed at night. Xu Xilin went to see Zhou Gong early, and he didn't know when he went to bed.

For the next few days, Dou Xun would move before going to bed. Fortunately, he slept well, and it was warm enough in the air-conditioned room even if he squeezed together, so he didn't feel uncomfortable.

One day, when Dou Xun was doing his usual research before bed, Xu Xilin yawned, glanced at his notebook, vaguely saw a diagram of the human body structure, and asked, "Are you all so busy or are you the only ones busy in your major? Do you still need to review your notes during the holidays?"

Dou Xun paused for a moment as his pen tip was flying up and down on the paper, and he uttered an unnatural "hmm". At the same time, he adjusted his posture to make sure Xu Xilin couldn't see what notes he was studying.

Xu Xilin lay on his side on the pillow and looked at him and laughed: "Did you fail the exam and prepare to take the make-up exam?"

Dou Xun rolled his eyes, indicating that he had said something unreasonable and stupid.

Xu Xilin: "It's okay. If you really die, tell me and it will make me happy."

His throat was not well, and his voice was not high and hoarse. Dou Xun's ears moved sensitively and he touched his pocket involuntarily. He ignored Xu Xilin and quickly browsed the notes he made every night with Xu Xilin. He felt that his theoretical knowledge was almost complete.

For a moment, Dou Xun seemed to have made up his mind. He suddenly closed his notebook, threw it on the bedside table, and turned to meet Xu Xilin's gaze.

Xu Xilin had a question mark on his forehead when he was stared at by him.

Dou Xun suddenly lifted his quilt and came in, raised one hand solemnly as if stamping a seal, and pressed it on Xu Xilin's chest.