Regarding Dou Xun's sudden abnormal behavior, Xu Xilin inexplicably recalled a bunch of strange rumors: A classmate who had a cat said that their cat woke up every morning with an evil look on its face, and stepped on her chest to see if she was dead or not.

There was a horror story teller on the school basketball team who once told him that there was a man who raised a python. For a while, the snake would crawl over and lie down next to its owner every day when the owner lay down to sleep. The owner thought it was pretty good at first, but later he found out that the snake came over and lay down every day to measure the owner's size and judge whether it could eat him in one bite.

Xu Xilin had a bad feeling in his heart: "What?"

Dou Xun lowered his head and sniffed his neck. It is said that this kind of "ear-to-ear contact" can promote the exchange of hormones between people. Xu Xilin was shocked, thinking that Dou Xun had invented a new way to make trouble. He immediately propped up the bed with his elbows and planned to turn over to deal with it.

Dou Xun: “…”

This rhythm is wrong!

He paused for a moment, frowned, and quickly went through his complicated notes in his mind, checking for omissions and then he remembered - turn off the lights. It is said that light can easily make people wakeful and nervous.

Dou Xun turned around and turned off the light.

It was suddenly dark all around. Dou Xun's back was tense and his palms were slightly sweaty. He was as meticulous as if he was doing a big test. He didn't skip a step. He secretly pinched his fingers to make sure his hands were not shaking, and then he gently placed them on the collar of Xu Xilin's pajamas.

Even if Xu Xilin was sleepy at first, he realized what Dou Xun wanted to do. His mind was in a mess, and he reached out to hold Dou Xun down: "Bean filling."

Dou Xun touched the tools for committing the crime that had been in his trouser pocket for several days, made sure that he had read the instruction manual completely, repeated "be resolute" three times in his mind, and leaned over to kiss Xu Xilin on the side of his face.

Xu Xilin dodged slightly and frowned.

He had thought about these things a lot when he was fourteen or fifteen years old. He was in the third year of junior high school at that time. A few boys in the class were secretly circulating pirated pornographic discs, which cost three or five yuan each. Half of the class had copied them.

But things got much better after that period of time, as there were too many things to distract him.

A while ago, he did have some thoughts about Dou Xun, and instinctively wanted to get close to him and hug him. Intimacy was one reason, but there was more reason why he wanted to see Dou Xun get angry and have fun.

But after the initial excitement brought by the instability of the relationship wore off, Dou Xun gradually became harder to tease, and Xu Xilin became less impulsive.

Right now, the ambiguous intimacy between the two of them is a very comfortable way of getting along. It is safe, stable, and also brings a lot of enjoyment. Xu Xilin knows in his heart what the next step is, but he wants to maintain the status quo, and he is vaguely resistant to taking any further steps.

Dou Xun was too impatient.

Xu Xilin couldn't explain where his resistance came from. He couldn't even tell whether this resistance was because he didn't want to go any further, or because he felt the pace was too fast and something was wrong.

After all, he has limited experience.

Dou Xun's patience was even more limited. He didn't wrestle with Xu Xilin. Since this approach didn't work, he immediately changed direction.

Dou Xun pressed Xu Xilin's other hand sideways, and without explanation, he used his other hand to get into Xu Xilin's clothes. The darkness magnified people's senses infinitely. When he touched a certain part under Xu Xilin's ribs, Xu Xilin suddenly struggled silently, and his abdominal muscles were tensed. Dou Xun placed his warm palm there and said to Xu Xilin's ear: "I like you."

Dou Xun never says nice things all the time. When he first said this, his tongue was a little tied and his tone was like reciting a text, which was indescribably stiff and awkward.

Before Xu Xilin could react, Dou Xun became dissatisfied. If he didn't say it well, he would say it again on his own. Like the parrot downstairs, Dou Xun repeated the line four or five times. It became much smoother after saying it twice, but when he said it for the third time, the "line" was no longer a "line".

The dull emotions in Dou Xun's heart slowly reached the boiling point and suddenly became intense without any warning.

He no longer had to repeat those dogmatic notes in his mind. Everything seemed to have become his instinct. Dou Xun felt a sense of emptiness and hunger in his heart, and he really wanted to take a few bites of Xu Xilin.

While he was trying to restrain himself, he couldn't help but stick to Xu Xilin. No matter how close he pressed, he felt unsatisfied, as if something was always missing.

After repeating the same words several times, Dou Xun's mouth betrayed his brain and changed the script on his own initiative, blurting out in Xu Xilin's ear: "I love you, I will love you all my life."

Dogs only live to be in their teens.

The life span of a grey parrot is fifty to sixty years.

Your parents can't be with you forever.

"I will love you forever."

It was as if two lightning bolts pierced Xu Xilin's eardrums in this sentence, the earth-shattering one was "a lifetime", and the tiny aftershock was "love", both swept through him with overwhelming force, leaving his remaining sanity helpless. The young man's body was no longer under any control, and Xu Xilin's hand on Dou Xun suddenly loosened.

Dou Xun had been drooling over it for a long time, and without hesitation, he immediately pulled open his shirt again and again. When practicing the theory he had prepared for a long time, he first followed his instinct and bit the side of Xu Xilin's neck. Feeling the violent vibration of the carotid artery, he immediately became excited and his eyes turned red.

The result...of course, theory is always correct and organized, while reality is always chaotic.

Xu Xilin was unprepared, and Dou Xun was a young man who was brave enough to try but often failed.

So the next day, Dou Xun, who had failed the lab class, hung around Xu Xilin the whole day without fighting back or swearing back. When Xu Xilin greeted him in the morning, he said "get out" sparingly and ignored him all day.

When Xu Xilin went to give a lecture in the afternoon, he stood for three hours. He was too lazy to talk, so he bought a set of exercises for the first year of high school and let the students work freely and cheat at will. He himself had a gloomy face and stared at the wall, as if he was practicing standing at attention in advance for military training.

Dou Xun had taken advantage of her enough, so he went back to his room and behaved himself for two days. Then, he perfectly demonstrated his spirit of getting stronger with each setback, and sneaked in again on the third day while his grandmother was asleep. Xu Xilin was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he just stayed by her side obediently, not even daring to touch the dim bedside lamp when he was reading.

Later, Xu Xilin couldn't stand it anymore and said to him the same words he had said in the past few days: "Be careful with your eyes."

Dou Xun said "hmm" calmly on the surface, covering his face with a book, and the corners of his mouth kept curling up.

He thought he was forgiven, and soon became more and more aggressive, and started to touch her... Then Xu Xilin, who could no longer tolerate it, turned him over and spanked him.

Dou Xun ran away angrily. His fragile psychological quality resulted in him failing to succeed during the whole summer vacation, and he was almost obsessed with it.

But overall, although there were constant frictions of varying sizes between Xu Xilin and Dou Xun, and they were either verbally or physically fighting all day long, they were still relatively harmonious - this was mainly reflected in the fact that although they often quarreled, they never had a cold war, and they would automatically reconcile after three or five minutes of quarreling, and even Grandma Xu was used to it.

The "summer camp" had a beginning and an end, and Xu Xilin received a total of 4,500 yuan. The extra 300 yuan came from a red envelope given to him by a parent to thank him for curing his child's shaking legs.

Xu Xilin withdrew 500 yuan and transferred it to the card of the "Homecoming Project". He also took out 2000 yuan, 1000 yuan for the new hourly worker in their family, asking her to cook three meals for grandma every day. There was another 1000 yuan in the change purse in the entrance hall as pocket money for his honor to grandma. Living expenses and other things were all "family money". It was not his own extra expenses, and he did not have to worry about it.

With the remaining money, Xu Xilin bought a new set of protective gear for Dou Xun, and kept some for himself, planning to use it for other things.

When it was time to report to school, Xu Xilin had no expectations for college life. He sat in the living room with a piece of paper, feeling uneasy no matter how he thought about it. He wanted to imagine all the possible situations that might happen at home.

It is said that "While parents are still alive, one should not travel far away." When Xu Jin was alive, Xu Xilin always went wherever he wanted. When he was in junior high school, he participated in a summer camp and was going abroad for more than a month, which made Aunt Du so worried that she cried. While the luggage was unpacked and unpacked, he heartlessly "crunched" potato chips beside them, and laughed at Aunt Du in his heart for being a housewife who had never seen the world.

Now, the situation has changed, and it is his turn to leave his own luggage aside and start worrying about it endlessly.

I have never heard of “a tired heart” or “a worried heart”. When you think about it, besides “sadness” that can make people “heartbroken”, the only thing left that can make people “heartbroken” is “a worried heart”.

Xu Xilin stared at the blank paper in a daze, and Dou Xun stared at him in a daze.

Dou Xun spent this summer vacation like a dream. Although he was unsatisfied, he was also reluctant to leave. The thought of going back to study was as painful as if he were being tortured. He once again felt deeply dissatisfied with Xu Xilin for not being able to go to the same school with him. This dissatisfaction now had concrete content and became more and more of a real resentment.

Dou Xun was feeling depressed and he didn't hear what Xu Xilin said to him for several times.

Xu Xilin crumpled up the scribble on the paper and hit Dou Xun on the forehead: "I'm asking you a question, are you reliable?"

The grey parrot chirped and imitated on the shelf: "Is it reliable?"

Dou Xun was scolded by both men and birds and was speechless.

"I can't come back for military training," Xu Xilin frowned and said, "Oh, if I had known this would happen, I should have applied to a school with more girls. I heard that their military training is generally more relaxed - maybe you have to help me make a few more trips. I'm really worried about the old lady being alone at home."

"Okay." Dou Xun didn't say nice but useless words like "Don't worry". After he agreed, he laid out the rules and promises in a very realistic way, "I will definitely be there on weekends, and I will try to be there every day on weekdays. If that doesn't work, I will try to come back every other day."

Xu Xilin nodded silently. With Dou Xun around, he felt a little more relaxed. He couldn't help but raise his hand and touch the grey parrot's head.

The grey parrot got used to staying in their home and started to recognize it as a family member. It was gradually able to accept the fact that there was a stinky man here and learned to live in peace with him despite disdain. The bird has been actively learning to speak recently, some of which it heard from others and some of which was taught by Grandma Xu, and it speaks with a mix of different accents.

The old man is lonely, and the parrot happens to be a chatterbox, so sometimes the two of them can chat about irrelevant things for an entire afternoon.

The grey parrot rubbed Xu Xilin's hand modestly, then spread its wings and flew back to its own perch, raising its head high, announcing with bird language and gesture that it had just been doing a favor.

Xu Xilin pinched his brows and said, "I'm so annoyed - then you can just stay for a month, and when I can leave school, we can take turns going home to visit, okay?"

When Dou Xun heard this, he thought it was a bad idea. Wouldn’t those two people have to stay away from each other all the time?

He immediately refused: "No."

Then Dou Xun, who had just learned to speak in a roundabout way, said in a dignified manner, "I have moved all my classes to around noon. I can catch up except for one class on Thursday morning. On Thursday morning, the worst that can happen is that I will sleep less. It's okay."

After listening to this, Xu Xilin rarely failed to understand Dou Xun's pettiness. He was moved and underestimated his enemy for a moment. He was really fooled by Dou Xun's words - he thought that Dou Xun was really running around just for Grandma Xu.

Xu Xilin thought, in fact, Douxian'er lived in their house for less than one semester. After that, the Xu family encountered a series of troubles. Rather than saying that Dou Xun was taken care of by the Xu family, it would be better to say that he had been helping silently. Dou Xun had really done his best for them and there was nothing to complain about. Just for this reason, his bad habits and cowardly temper were just minor issues.

Xu Xilin even thought that even if something happened in their relationship in the future, they would still be good brothers connected as if by blood.

"I'll slowly figure out how to deal with these things. I won't take up too much of your time." Xu Xilin said, "If it really doesn't work, you can consider renting a house near the school and bring grandma over. You can go less often and go home during the holidays."

As he spoke, he fell on his back on the sofa and thought about a lot of things. Finally, he said, "It will be fine when I graduate. After graduation, I will have an income, more free time, and she can spend money more freely... I used to tell my mother that I would study until I was 59, work for a year and then retire. Now... I really want to graduate tomorrow."

Dou Xun dreamed of being with him day and night. He remembered something and said casually, "Me too. Our class counselor always advised me to start preparing for the GRE as soon as possible. I don't want to go abroad."

Few graduates from basic disciplines at good schools can work directly after graduating - usually they can't find any particularly ideal jobs. Unless they are dissatisfied with their major and want to change careers or their family conditions do not allow it, most people know from the day they enter school that they will pursue higher education in the future. People always strive for higher places, and master's and doctoral degrees must be better than the undergraduate school, or at least comparable. Ordinary key schools will strive to be famous schools, and famous schools will yearn for wider international choices.

With Dou Xun's grades and foreign language proficiency, it is natural for him to study abroad for a master's or doctoral degree.

He said it unintentionally, but Xu Xilin listened attentively. He was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why don't you go abroad?"

Dou Xun looked at Xu Xilin with an expression that said, "You know the answer but you still ask." "You're not going with me."

Military training can make me lose my hair in less than a month, and it is impossible to stay abroad for several years.

Xu Xilin: “…”

Xu Xilin wanted to tell Dou Xun, "The others are just adjustments, the future is no joke," but when he saw Dou Xun's matter-of-fact expression, he knew it was useless to say anything.

Dou Xun was too smart and had never suffered any setbacks during his studies. Over time, he developed a kind of arrogance - "I can make it no matter how I try. I can do whatever I want. I don't need to be as scheming as you mortals."

Xu Xilin said tentatively: "You'll be back in a few years. I think you can still apply for a scholarship. It would be a waste if you don't go to take advantage of the foreign devils."

Dou Xun didn't even consider "a few days", let alone "a few years". He rejected it outright: "I won't."

The grey parrot started to make noises: "No, no, no!"

Besides, he was getting anxious again. Xu Xilin didn't mention the matter verbally anymore, but a feeling of worry arose in his heart.

If Dou Xun were reincarnated in ancient times, he might have the qualifications to be an arrogant and tyrant emperor who does whatever he wants.

Many things are too much or too little. Xu Xilin thought: "Should I cool down a bit?"