"If it weren't for you, I might already be the boss of a listed company." After reviewing the company's latest quarterly financial statements and operating reports, Xu Xilin signed them and stuffed them into a folder. He turned around and suddenly spoke out his thoughts, which attracted the attention of Dou Xun who was working seriously on the computer.

He leaned back, and the front legs of the chair lifted up. He used his toes to balance left and right and stretched.

Dou Xun's eyes quickly scanned the waistline under his wool vest through his anti-radiation glasses: "After the listing, it will be called 'ST Xiangli'? It doesn't sound good."

Before Xu Xilin could refute, Dou Xun closed his computer and tapped the table with his index finger: "It's an hour. Go change your clothes and go."

This was the rule set by Dou Xun. Because Xu Xilin was unwilling to spend time on exercise, he required him to go out for a walk an hour after dinner every day, except in extreme weather.

Xu Xilin's chair fell down with a "clack". He slumped down on the desk like a dead dog and said as usual: "Ah, I'm dead."

Out of the 365 days in a year, Dou Xun encounters similar boycotts 360 days on average. He has long been accustomed to it and takes action without batting an eyelid.

As Xu Xilin was dragged away from the desk along with his chair, he covered his chest and recited his lines: "Go back and tell my wife to remarry... In the future, when you go to someone else's house, don't be willful and don't drag your man around like a suitcase!"

After he yelled "drag" for a long time, Dou Xun pulled him out of the chair and threw him aside, throwing his easy-to-move sweatpants on him: "Hurry up!"

Xu Xilin leaned to the side, holding up his pants as if he had no bones.

Dou Xun took off his shirt and changed into a long-sleeved sports T-shirt. Xu Xilin admired the handsome man's naked back with relish: "There's a game today, I want to watch it..."

The handsome man put on his clothes and said coldly, "Watch a ball."

Finally, Xu's "suitcase" was stripped and packed, and was taken away by Dou Xun with a sad face.

The grey parrot stood by the window and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, take care."

Dou Xun patted its head as he passed by: "Good boy."

The grey parrot shivered, but didn't dare to resist. After a while, it leaned over the window and looked down, and saw that in the community garden, there were people walking Labradors, golden retrievers, Chihuahuas, and Xu Xilin.

There are so many varieties and it is really a community with a good living atmosphere.

This is their fourth year together.

The village opened another branch, but it failed to go public, let alone be among the "Fortune Global 500", let alone "Fortune China 500".

Dr. Dou was promoted to a higher title, moved from one project to another, and won the "Most Popular Young Teacher Award", but it was all useless. The bonus was not enough for a meal, and it was still a long way from the Nobel Prize.

Cai Jing keeps writing in his spare time and has published two books. Customers in the flower shop call him "writer", but the royalties from being a "writer" are still not enough to support himself. To this day, his main job is still a cashier in a flower shop, and he plans to take an accounting exam.

Lao Cheng braided his hair into small braids, and dressed himself up as an older non-mainstream person. He dated two backpacker girls, both of whom were even more unreliable than him. They came and went like passers-by, and it was not even a fleeting romance. Lao Cheng was depressed for a while, and wanted to leave the shop to Cai Jing to take care of it, and go out to "wander around the world". Upon hearing the news, the gossipy aunts and uncles were all shocked, and came to his house one after another to persuade him earnestly, asking for nothing else, just that he should be down-to-earth, and not think about going out all day at his age, and sell flowers, newspapers, and kebabs... From then on, "Grandpa" Flower Shop finally won the support of the family in a roundabout way.

To be honest, the so-called "deviant" days were not much different. We would go to get off work and come home every day, take a walk together in the evening, and spend some time together. On weekends, we would go to the movies together, and sometimes we would go to an old flower shop to eat kebabs - although the kebab shop had gone bankrupt, the boss's good craftsmanship was still there.

The biggest change in the past four years is that the grey parrot's memory storage is regularly cleaned up. It has long forgotten the "old story" of Guan Douxun calling her "rival in love" and "stepmother". It wisely realized the truth about who has the final say in the family, clung tightly to the eldest brother's leg, and has since embarked on the road of flattery and treachery.

When Dou Xun came back from walking Xu Xilin, the grey parrot greeted him at the door again with a long look, imitating the lines in the Japanese translation of some cartoon: "Master, you are back."

Dou Xun grabbed a handful of nuts for it, and the grey parrot buried its head in the food and ignored Xu Xilin. When Xu Xilin wanted to touch it, it flew away with the pistachios in its mouth... It had completely forgotten who had depended on it in the past and who had taken it around the world.

"You little ungrateful bastard," Xu Xilin said angrily, "Come tomorrow and see how proud you are."

The grey parrot understood the word "youyou" and was so scared that its feathers stood up three feet high.

Youyou's full name is Song Youyou. She is Song Lianyuan's little daughter. She is well educated by her mother and is considered to be a relatively well-behaved child of the same age. Her only shortcoming is that she loves small animals.

Big birds like grey parrots are somewhat aggressive to children, and they are afraid that they will bite children. So every time Youyou comes to play, one of them will stay to watch the parrot, hold the bird's neck and force it to let the child touch it, and listen to the child pour out his heart.

Song Youyou is a gentle child. She doesn't have the bad habits of plucking bird feathers or poking birds' butts. She is just a chatterbox.

Judging from the fact that she chattered to a bird for more than three hours non-stop, and even made Uncle Dou Xun, who was very capable of sitting still, fall asleep with his head propped up, this child might become a big shot in the future.

The next day was the weekend, and Song Lianyuan's family went back to their hometown. The couple happened to have something to do, so they entrusted the child to them.

Song Youyou spoke more fluently than other children, but her cerebellum was not well developed. She almost fell over the threshold and said with wide eyes, "Oh, Shuai Shuai, you scared me to death!"

"Shuai Shuai" was the name she unilaterally gave to the grey parrot, and the bird refused to acknowledge it even until its death.

The grey parrot shrunk its neck, standing on the shelf like a quail, with chains tied to its feet, looking timid as if it was "scared to death".

Song Lianyuan put the child down and left. Song Youyou asked in a clear voice: "Uncle Dou, can I play with Shuai Shuai for a while?"

Dou Xun laughed dryly with a toothache: "Sure."

Dou Xun felt that he could no longer look directly at students who slept in class. When he heard Song Youyou's familiar long speech opening remarks, "Oh, so handsome...", he began to glare at Xu Xilin frantically.

Xu Xilin had laughed enough and came over to interrupt Song Youyou's magic voice: "Uncle Dou has to go to work soon. They have something to do in class. How about I take you out to play?"

Song Youyou touched the bird's wings reluctantly without saying a word.

Xu Xilin used his trump card: "I'll take you to see the puppy."

Dou Xun quickly warned: "Just take a look at it, don't buy it back, or Gao Lan will get angry with you later."

The hostess likes cleanliness and most of them don’t want to raise a naughty child and take care of a pet at the same time.

Xu Xilin: “I know.”

Xu Xilin took the little troublemaker away. Dou Xun and the grey parrot breathed a sigh of relief at the same time and stretched their stiff backs. Dou Xun changed his clothes and went to school as if he had been pardoned. The grey parrot sang on the shelf to send off His Majesty: "The sky in the liberated area is a clear sky..."

There was a subject seminar at the school that day, and many colleagues from other schools came. Dou Xun was busy all day, and it was not until the evening that he received a call from Xu Xilin to pick him up.

When he was walking out with a few of his companions, he saw from afar Xu Xilin holding a little girl in one hand and carrying a dog bag in the other, with a little puppy's head popping out from time to time.

Dou Xun: “…”

He knew this would be the result, and it was useless to give instructions!

Xu Xilin knew that he had gone back on his word, so he smiled flatteringly. Dou Xun didn't say anything in front of outsiders and children, but just stretched out a finger and pointed at him. As a result, the little puppy in the bag poked its head out with its tail up, tremblingly sniffed his finger, and licked it.

Dou Xun: “…”

Xu Xilin: "If sister-in-law doesn't want to take it back, we can keep it. Look at the look in her eyes. I'd be committing a crime if I didn't buy it."

Dou Xun felt that he had forgotten the lesson he learned from his previous fight with a dog.

At this moment, I suddenly heard someone behind me calling, "Xiao Xu."

Dou Xun looked back and saw a man with a sign around his neck saying he was attending the conference. He had some impression of him because he was very handsome and stood out among the group of middle-aged and elderly people. He had been taking notes with his head down and hadn't said a word.

Xu Xilin was stunned. Even though he was carrying a small burden, he couldn't help but stand up straighter: "Mr. Wei?"

It was the big money sponsor back then.

When the big moneybag announced his resignation, he also sent emails to his partners. At that time, Xu Xilin imagined a series of conspiracies and struggles, and felt that it was a story of usurpation of the throne. Unexpectedly, when he met him again after a few years, he found that this man did not look like a "king who lost his country". His temperament was much calmer, and his complexion seemed to be much better... He looked more like an emperor who abdicated peacefully.

Xu Xilin: "How come you..."

"I'm tired of doing business, let's change the way of life." Mr. Wei nodded to Dou Xun and chatted with Xu Xilin in a casual manner.

Finally, Mr. Wei reached out and stroked the puppy's head, his eyes swept between Dou Xun and Xu Xilin, as if he had pulled out the invisible thread that connected the two of them and examined it, and then said goodbye with a half-smile: "Good, there is a future ahead."

Xu Xilin: “…”

Still doesn't feel like a good thing.

Someone was driving and waiting for Mr. Wei at the school gate. Xu Xilin took a look from a distance and felt that the driver looked a bit like the new head of the big money sponsor's family. He nodded at them from a distance, and the two men left.

A group of students who were temporarily recruited to be in charge of the conference and venue services came out last and greeted Dou Xun one after another, calling him "Teacher Dou" and "Teacher Dou". Dou Xun stood there calmly, letting the little puppy stick its nose into his sleeve while nodding reservedly to the students.

Song Youyou bit her fingers and mimicked: "Teacher Dou."

Xu Xilin: "Almost became Dou Salesman."

"Peel what?" Song Youyou didn't understand, and spontaneously associated it with something within her vocabulary, "Peeling an apple..."

Xu Xilin was overjoyed: "Almost the same, if your uncle Dou had gone out to work as a salesman, his mouth would have been shredded into lentils by now."

Dou Xun: "...Go to hell."

Xu Xilin was able to dig up old scores and settle small scores during his lifetime. Dou Xun finally believed that this man had remembered him after so many years.

Xu Xilin's car was parked a little far away. Dou Xun shook off the dog hair from his sleeves, took Song Youyou over, and walked out following the afterglow. Suddenly, he had the illusion that "this kind of life has been going on for many years."

And after that... probably many more years will pass.

Extra End =w=