Wu Tao was trying to use a big banner to cover up his own faults, but when he had just pulled it halfway, he found that the tiger was squatting on the side watching silently. He was so embarrassed on the spot that he was speechless for a moment.

The atmosphere in the toilet was a little tense. The attackers looked at each other in bewilderment. Wu Tao waved his hand and asked them to wait. He stepped forward and put his arm around Xu Xilin's shoulders. He said in a low voice, "Let's talk outside."

Xu Xilin folded his hands in front of his chest and said, "No need, let's talk about it here."

Li Bozhi interrupted from behind: "Brother, this is for you, it's not appropriate for you to do this, right?"

"My nose is not pierced, why do I need you to vent my anger?" Xu Xilin raised his eyelids and glanced at him, "Did I talk to you?"

Li Bozhi didn't expect him to be so disrespectful. His face changed on the spot and he almost turned his gun to rush to the door, but was stopped by the person next to him.

If they were to fight it out on the spot, they would have more people and Xu Xilin would be alone - Dou Xun and he would definitely not be on the same page. It would be obvious who would have a better chance of winning.

But no one planned to fight, because while fighting might be fun at the moment, how would it end afterwards?

Xu Xilin is not some poor little guy who is disliked by everyone. If he goes back and says a few words, most of the boys in Class 1 will follow him. Li Bozhi may not care, but Wu Tao will still have to stay in Class 1 in the future.

Xu Xilin said to Wu Tao: "It's up to you."

Wu Tao hesitated for a moment, his face turning pale and red. He finally figured it out. He turned around and waved to Li Bozhi and the others, "Let's go."

Li Bozhi stiffened his neck: "You..."

Wu Tao raised his voice: "Let's talk about it later! Let's go!"

Li Bozhi took a few deep breaths, glared at Dou Xun fiercely, and walked away shoving and shoving with his friends.

Dou Xun was the only one left in the toilet, looking at Xu Xilin who had just broken in with an uncertain expression. Xu Xilin bent down to pick up the basketball, glanced at him, and thought: "Five Elements needs a beating, he deserves it."

Then he walked away with the ball without saying a word.

Because of this incident, they couldn't play basketball. Xu Xilin touched his pocket and found the 500 yuan his mother had just given him. With pocket money in hand, Xu Xilin went to the school's education supermarket and bought a bag of iced Pocari Sweat and brought it to the basketball court. He distributed it to the students who were leaving the court and left one bottle for Cai Jing. Cai Jing didn't go out with them on Monday because he had a class in the evening and had to finish his homework first.

Dou Xun had returned to class a long time ago. His arms were bruised from being beaten with a wooden stick and it hurt whenever he moved.

After the bell rang, he saw Xu Xilin and his gang coming in from outside in a big way. They bumped into the upset Qilixiang head-on and were scolded by the head teacher without naming him: "It's almost the third year of high school, and some people don't know how to be more self-conscious and down-to-earth. They just want to play! Is playing basketball useful? Can you be as good as Jordan..."

A group of sweaty people slipped back to their seats in silence, and pretended to take out their books and start studying.

The heating in the classroom had not been turned off yet. Xu Xilin took off his coat and hung it on the back of the chair. He was only wearing a short-sleeved polo shirt underneath. From Dou Xun's perspective, he could see two raised marks on his back caused by his shoulder blades.

Dou Xun thought that there must be a woman in Xu Xilin's family who cared about him very much, maybe his mother, or maybe his grandmother. His usual clothes seemed casual, but when he put them on, he stood out from the crowd, looking fashionable and elegant... as long as he didn't roll around in sweat and mud on the court, or twist around in his seat like a monkey.

Dou Xun saw himself spinning his pen, scratching his hair, blackening all the circled letters in his English book, and carving a carrot on his eraser with a paper cutter...

In short, Xu's soul was still playing, but his body had been imprisoned between the desk and the wooden chair. He didn't dare to make too much noise under Qilixiang's eyes, nor did he dare to disturb Cai Jing who was writing furiously. He could only play with himself. After struggling for more than ten minutes, he finally calmed down and used the little remaining self-study time to do his math homework.

Dou Xun looked down at his watch and discovered that he had actually observed the entire "foreplay" of Xu Xilin doing his math homework. He could almost write an observation report.

"Am I bored?" Dou Xun thought to himself. He lowered his head and quickly glanced at the new test paper distributed by Qilixiang. He found that all the questions were ones he had seen before. So he folded the test paper and threw it aside with a lack of interest. He glanced at Xu Xilin again and caught a glimpse of the green peach heart that Xu Tuanzuo's thumb had been unable to pick out for a long time.

"The hobby is a bit strange." Dou Xun thought.

Dou Xun put half of his attention on the homework at hand, and the other half on what happened in the bathroom just now - he didn't know why Xu Xilin suddenly kicked the door in to stop Wu Tao and the others, but judging from the result alone, Dou Xun felt that he might owe Xu Xilin a favor.

He is very good at dealing with other people's malice, but not so good at dealing with "human favors".

Dou Xun thought about it for the entire self-study class and decided to go over and say a few words to Xu Xilin after class. He didn't have to be too friendly, just say "I remember what happened today, I'll return the favor to you next time."

But after class, when Dou Xun was still hesitating to organize his words, he saw Xu Xilin, who stayed behind on duty, put on his coat and stopped Wu Tao at the door.

"That was a harsh comment," Xu Xilin patted Wu Tao on the back, "You didn't take it to heart, did you?"

More than an hour was enough time for Wu Tao to recover from his rage and think about how to end the situation. Since Xu Xilin had offered the olive branch first, Wu Tao naturally accepted it: "No."

"It's almost my senior year," Xu Xilin said, "It's better to have less trouble than more. Do you understand?"

Wu Tao nodded silently: "Next Monday, it will be our class's turn to guard the flag. Would you be one of them?"

Xu Xilin said: "Well, OK."

The two of them put aside what happened in the physical education class and reconciled.

When Dou Xun saw that they were colluding with each other after just a few words, his face suddenly turned cold. He threw out the conversation he had prepared for a whole class and turned away gloomily.

Xu Xilin finished his shift with some fun and play. He wanted to hang out in McDonald's where Cai Jing was on duty, but he got a call from his queen mother, saying that Zhu Xiaocheng would be coming over with the children in the evening, and asked him to go home quickly to prepare to receive the guests. He had no choice but to say goodbye to all his friends and go home early.

Because guests were coming to dinner, Aunt Du started working in the kitchen early, and Doudou Dog was locked in the basement in advance.

Xu Xilin ran to the basement on purpose and jumped and made several faces at Doudou who was tied up, making Doudou so angry that he howled and wished he could grind his teeth and suck blood.

"Mom, Chengzi is doing well in chanting sutras in America, why do you suddenly want to go home and get a divorce?"

Xu Jin was helping Aunt Du peel potatoes in the kitchen, but he was clumsy and the potatoes rolled all over the floor, so he was kicked out. He hung out with her idle son and answered bluntly, "Oh, the nouveau riche in their family fell in love with a vixen. The old house was on fire, and it was burning fiercely. He insisted on giving the mistress a status and forcing her to give way to the virtuous. Your godmother has been studying sutras for many years, and she has become so empty of everything that she said she had seen through the world a long time ago and has no attachment to that man. This time she returned to China to join the battle and make that man leave with his money."

Xu Xilin: "She is so open-minded."

"Very happy." Xu Jin said, "Look, this dog is really hot-tempered. It's quite funny. You can tease it again."

The mother and son sat in the basement stairwell, one in front of the other, playing with the dog. Amid Doudou's howling of shame and anger, Xu Xilin asked, "Who will their child live with in the future?"

Xu Jin said, "Usually they follow their mother, but Zhu Xiaocheng is a person of that character... it's hard to say - but I heard his father isn't that good either."

Based on Zhu Xiaocheng's crying complaints on the phone, Xu Jin briefly understood the situation.

It turned out that Zhu Xiaocheng didn't go home, and it was inconvenient for the nouveau riche in their family to take the child out to fool around, so they left the child to his parents in his hometown. Later, the grandparents died one after another, and the nouveau riche didn't think of taking the child back. He still kept the child in the boarding high school in his hometown, gave a gift to the teacher once a year, and gave the child some money every month, which was considered to have fulfilled his obligations as a father.

It was not until this time when the couple was getting divorced that they both remembered their forgotten child.

The nouveau riche wanted to use the child as a weapon, accusing Zhu Xiaocheng of not fulfilling her responsibilities as a wife and mother for many years. Zhu Xiaocheng also wanted to use the child as a bargaining chip to scrape more fat from the nouveau riche.

The two of them had their own ulterior motives, but they hit it off and brought back their only son who had been forgotten in his hometown.

From this point of view, the couple can be said to be a match made in heaven.

Xu Jin slapped Xu Xilin on the back with an expressionless face: "Oh, it's so annoying. It's not enough to have one naughty kid like you at home, and now there's another one."

Xu Jin didn't like children very much, so she could only tolerate her own child, but Zhu Xiaocheng even gave her an extra one.

Xu Xilin: "Then why did you agree?"

"I didn't express my opinion at all!" Xu Jin complained in a low voice, "It's all your grandma's fault. She agreed to everything Zhu Chengzi cried for. I don't know who her real mother is."

As soon as I mentioned grandma, she arrived. I heard small footsteps behind me. Grandma Xu spoke softly with a southern accent: "Hey, what are you two doing? You have nothing to do so you bully the puppy together. Xiaohui, do you still act like a mother?..."

"Xiaohui" and "Xiaolin" flew away and scattered in a hurry.

Xu Xilin was lazily playing English listening music as BGM in the room, unable to understand Ms. Xu Jin's anger at being afraid of trouble.

He spends all day with middle-aged and elderly women. Every time he opens his eyes, one ear is filled with the sound of his grandmother babbling and warming up her voice. When he walks from the bedroom to the living room, the other ear is filled with Aunt Du's nagging. This makes Xu Xilin particularly look forward to having a friend of the same age at home. It would be best if it is a boy, but a girl is fine too - as long as she is pretty and can accompany him to jump rope.

As Xu Xilin was expecting, Zhu Xiaocheng finally arrived.

Hearing the doorbell ring, Xu Xilin threw his English listening book on the bed and rushed out of the house to greet him: "Orange smash!"

A middle-aged beauty poked her head out from the entrance and waved at him cordially: "Handsome boy, come over here and see your godmother."

Xu Xilin ran down the stairs in two steps at a time, and his eyes accidentally fell on the tall boy behind Zhu Xiaocheng.

Then the smile on his face suddenly seemed to be swept by liquid nitrogen at minus 195.8 degrees Celsius, freezing it hard and making his heart soar.

Xu Xilin and Dou Xun stared at each other at the entrance for a moment, their flying emotions colliding with each other, and ending up with two copies of "Fuck", rushing into their two chests, resounding to the ground.