Xu Xilin remained in a stalemate for a long time without saying a word, and Dou Junliang did not rush him, so he had time to wait beside him.

Xu Xilin was silent for a while, and said to Dou Junliang: "Uncle, people can only have the final say in their own affairs, and they can't take other people's responsibility to do things for others. The future is a personal choice. If your biological parents have too much control, it will be unavoidable in the future.

He will be criticized, let alone me. Whether he is worth it or not, I don’t even care. You should talk to Dou Xun."

Dou Junliang was a little surprised. He didn't expect Xu Xilin to be harder to deal with than he thought. He squinted his eyes and looked at Xu Xilin, feeling that this kid might be a figure in the future...if he hadn't insisted on going astray.

Dou Junliang did not force him, and nodded: "It makes sense, but the reason why I came to you instead of him is not because I can't afford to offend Dou Xun, but because I can't explain to him. That kid thinks he is the best in the world, and he doesn't feel like it.

It's all right, it's all in vain for me to tell him. Now that you two have defeated me, the villain, and defended your relationship, it sounds very touching, but it won't take long, ten years, when you are in your thirties.

No matter how slow Dou Xun reacts, he can still think about it, and then he will understand what he gave up and what he gained. Do you think you two can still be this good in ten years?"

Xu Xilin was speechless.

Dou Junliang defeated him by half a move without showing any surprise. He stood up and patted Xu Xilin's shoulder affectionately: "Uncle is a businessman. Let me give you some businessman advice. In this world, everything is changing very fast. You didn't do it before."

If you dare to think about it, it may happen overnight. In the future, there may be an uncertain day when even banks and countries will go bankrupt. You can become destitute overnight, or you can rise to the sky in one step - property changes so quickly, not to mention that there is no contract between people.

Where are Zhang Cheng’s feelings?”

After saying that, Dou Junliang paid the bill generously, and ordered a box of soft and easy-to-digest snacks, packed them and handed them to Xu Xilin: "The old lady has bad teeth, this is easy to bite, take it back and relieve her boredom."

If Xu Xilin could resist Dou Junliang's verbal trap at the beginning, then his last words completely touched Xu Xilin's mind.

"Long-lasting" is something he dares not to express in his mouth. Can a person live in isolation and be secretive for a lifetime?

Xu Xilin didn't know if Dou Xun would regret it in the future if he made a decision without thinking. Dou Xun was not the kind of character who could suffer injustice silently. How long could he endure it? Can he accept his role of being invisible to everyone?

He is indeed smart and has the capital to start all over again, but he is used to things going smoothly, does he have the tenacity?

Even if he does, in the future, when the young man's appearance is gone, the passion of youth is gone forever, and when they all gradually become boring middle-aged men who "talk brightly outside but say nothing at home", will Dou Xun

Do you think it’s not worth it for you to give up everything he should have for such a relationship?

A relationship cannot have too many hardships, otherwise even if it is barely successful, it will inevitably give rise to resentment in the future.

Xu Xilin said "I can't overstep my bounds" when his upper lip touched his lower lip, but he couldn't be so free and easy in his heart. When the love is strong, everything is external. Xu Xilin is willing to work early and stay late, and is willing to compromise, as long as he can give Dou

I'm looking for something better, but I can't bear the words "delaying him".

Dilemma, really a dilemma.

When Xu Xilin came home, Dou Xun was on the phone. He heard Dou Xun say: "Well, thank you... I can do it anytime... Well, four days a week this year is no problem."

Xu Xilin only heard the last note, and his heart slowly sank.

Dou Xun put down the phone and came over in a good mood, as if he had been thinking about something for a while: "What delicious food did you buy?"

Xu Xilin said nothing and gave him a look and went upstairs. Dou Xun saw that his expression was wrong and followed him without knowing why: "What's wrong?"

Xu Xilin went upstairs, closed the door, pressed his hand on the door panel, lowered his head and took a deep breath, and said in his calmest tone: "Did you refuse the school's postgraduate guarantee?"

Dou Xun was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately reacted: "Dou Junliang is looking for you?"

Xu Xilin was very helpless. Dou Xun was always slow to react when he should be sharp, but he was very perceptive when he shouldn't be.

Dou Xun was like a dragon whose scales had been rubbed. He became angry and turned around to leave. Xu Xilin blocked the door and asked, "What are you doing?"

Dou Xun: "Don't worry, I'll go find Dou Junliang."

Xu Xilin: "Then what, smash the windows of his house?"

Dou Xun was furious: "Why should he look for you? Can he find you? Is it his turn to pretend to be me in front of me?"

Xu Xilin: "Okay!"

Dou Xun's chest kept rising and falling, and he reached for Xu Xilin's hand: "Get out of the way!"

Xu Xilin pressed his chest and pushed him back a few steps: "When will you stop being like a powder keg?"

Dou Xun looked extremely ugly.

Xu Xilin put one hand behind his back and pinched the joints of the other fingers with his thumb. He was under too much pressure, like a bucket that was about to overflow. A leaf floating up would cause the emotions inside to spill out.

.

His knuckles cracked, Xu Xilin swallowed the breath that could choke him to death, leaned against the door, opened his hands to Dou Xun, and whispered: "Can we talk things over? I love you.

you."

Dou Xun calmed down from his manic state, stood stiffly for a while, and reluctantly stepped forward and patted Xu Xilin's palm: "What else did Dou Junliang tell you?"

Xu Xilin: "It was said that a professor liked you and rushed to give you a scholarship, but you rejected it."

"Nonsense," Dou Xun grabbed a handful of his hair, "You believe whatever fart Dou Junliang puts out - I don't understand. Do you all think that I will be the president of the country in the future?"

Xu Xilin smiled bitterly.

They all indeed have higher expectations for Dou Xun, hoping that he will not be a Shang Zhongyong who "is young, but older may not be better". He has never lived an ordinary life since he was a child, and now he is forced to return to the life of an ordinary person.

, it would be too cruel.

"Dou Junliang asked me to consider your future," Xu Xilin tried hard to communicate with him, "I have considered it, but I can't make the decision for you. I want to ask you what you think."

Dou Xun replied nonchalantly: "I plan to change careers."

Xu Xilin: "..."

Dou Junliang is right, I can't explain it to this guy.

Xu Xilin's suppressed anger started to rise: "You have finished writing your graduation thesis, and now you are telling me that you want to change careers? You really don't like this major. What have you been doing? Is it so easy to change majors?

"

Then he saw Dou Xun's expression and realized that Dou Xun seriously believed that changing his major was as easy as eating and drinking.

Dou Xun put his hand in his pocket: "I know an elective course teacher who studied physics for his undergraduate degree, Shakespeare's literature for his master's degree, international trade for his PhD, and now he teaches business English..."

Xu Xilin interrupted him helplessly: "What a coincidence. I also know a teacher. He got three PhD degrees. Now he is still nothing. He didn't even get a decent professional title. The school settled the household registration for him and left him alone.

, he is so poor that he takes private jobs outside every day, and sometimes he has to pay for travel expenses. He is not even willing to bring a graduate student to help him... Doujiang, many things are not what you think! "

Dou Xun turned his head and glanced out the window and said nothing.

Xu Xilin knew at a glance that he was suffering from the egotistical disease of "either listen to me or get out" again, so he had no choice but to take a step back: "Okay, if you really want to change your major, just study seriously.

Excuse me with your ridiculous medical excuse."

Dou Xun used body language to complete his stubborn refusal - I don't.

"I understand that you want to get rid of Dou Junliang, but you don't want to use me. I...I also..." Xu Xilin was a little sad when he said this, and he was very tired. "I think there are no scholarships in China and the time is long. I also agree. You can go abroad.

Apply for a scholarship, four to five years, six or seven years at most... What else can happen, will it be you Qin Xianglian or I, Chen Shimei? There are many roads, why do you have to go down an unreliable dead end? "

Xu Xilin made a half-sour joke, hoping to lighten the atmosphere slightly, but Dou Xun looked at him deeply with an indescribable look. Gradually, Xu Xilin couldn't laugh anymore. He understood Dou Xun.

The implication of Xun's words - Dou Xun really thought that. He watched Xu Xilin eagerly, holding his finger even in his dreams, for fear that if he made a mistake, the person would no longer be his.

Xu Xilin slowly leaned on the desk. After a while, he curled up the corners of his mouth with a half-smile.

"Oh..." He lowered his head slightly, "So that's what you think."

Dou Xun suddenly panicked and nervously reached for his shoulder, but Xu Xilin avoided him. Dou Xun blurted out: "You said you wouldn't be angry with me!"

Xu Xilin's heart palpitated, and he suddenly felt so distressed that he couldn't restrain himself, so he grabbed Dou Xun's hand and ended the quarrel unilaterally.

"I'll give it a try," he thought, "I'll accompany him and, like Dou Junliang said, prepare a decent face and let him do whatever he wants. If in the future he has grievances that he can't stand or a threshold that he can't pass,

, I carried it all for him."

The so-called "disagreement" actually comes down to it, isn't it because he is not strong enough?

Xu Xilin's desire for success was louder than ever.

Chicken Soup for the Soul says, "When your heart longs for success like a drowning person longs for air, you will succeed." But when it comes to Xu Xilin, it doesn't seem to be accurate.

Ever since Education Supermarket joined the company as a vitamin supplier, there have been many incidents.

First, some users were suspicious - fruits grown on a tree have different tastes. No one mentioned it before, but now as long as the taste is a little unsatisfactory, skeptics will appear on the message board, thinking that vitamins

They use goods from education supermarkets and pass them off as good ones.

The Education Supermarket is also looking for trouble every day. The man surnamed Wang regards Xu Xilin as his own little nemesis. From time to time, he passes him over, either asking him to make posters or asking him to find someone to help distribute leaflets...

...This is still good. The bitch named Wang always said that the sales channels of Education Supermarket were subject to "unfair competition" and repeatedly asked Xu Xilin to raise the prices of other fruit stores.

The sales of vitamins that are neither human nor human dropped by 40% in one month. Later, there were even fewer people scolding him on message boards.

Xu Xilin ran exhausted mentally and physically for more than a month, racking his brains, but still couldn't stop his decline.

However, no matter what hinders the students, the final exam is still approaching with the arrival of winter.

When exam week was approaching, Xu Xilin opened the new textbook in frustration and was shocked to find that he had been busy with nothing this semester and had not studied seriously for a few days!

He had no choice but to squeeze out time and move into an all-night self-study classroom with Internet-addicted teenagers suffering from late-stage procrastination, and began studying "twenty hours a day, two weeks a semester."

He stayed in the all-night self-study classroom every day. When he couldn't bear the sleepiness, he would lie down and take a nap. At 6:30 the next day, he would go back to the dormitory where he had not lived for a few days to wash up, go out to have breakfast, and then take root in the self-study classroom again.

Here, after staying up day and night for more than half a month, and after the crazy exam week, Xu Xilin felt that his whole body was hollowed out. He was so tired that he was walking giddy. He was about to take a taxi home when he suddenly picked up a car.

Unknown phone number.

On the phone, an old man with bad ears yelled into the receiver: "Hey... are you that Su Wenwan's grandson?"

Xu Xilin was a little confused and wondered: "Who is Su Wenwan?"

The next moment, he suddenly realized that he had seen this name on his grandmother's ID card before.

Xu Xilin: "Yes, yes, I am, hello."

"Oh, children, come here quickly. Your grandma was teaching them to walk in the activity center today and accidentally fell..."

There was a "buzz" in Xu Xilin's mind, his floating footsteps suddenly fell to the ground, he put down the phone and ran away.

He hurried to the hospital and saw a large group of old men and women surrounding Grandma Xu. When they saw him coming, they all talked to him in all directions, which made him dizzy. Fortunately, the nurse drove them out one by one.

, and then I understood from the doctor that the old man’s bones were brittle, and he had a bad fall and fractured his bones.

"There are bone spurs growing here," the doctor pointed out to him with the film. "You can do surgery, but it may grow again in the future. The patient is too old. It's best to treat it conservatively. Don't let the old man go too far in the future."

Go back and buy her a cane or something like that..."

Grandma Xu heard it from the side and protested in a low voice: "I don't want that. It's hard to put it down once you pick it up."

The doctor laughed: "Then don't let me go. It's normal for you to be on crutches at your age. Why, are you planning to run a marathon in the future?"

Grandma Xu remained silent.

Xu Xilin comforted her a few words, went through various procedures for her, and hired a nurse. It took a long time to get everything done. When he was done, he sat down on the chair beside him, numb from exhaustion.

Grandma Xu was lying alone on the hospital bed. She was wearing a hospital gown, her hair was messy, her jewelry had been taken off, her face was pale and wrinkled, and she waved to him: "Come here."

Xu Xilin moved a chair close to her bedside: "I just called Xiaoxun. He will be here in a moment. We will take turns to accompany you, as well as the nurse. Just lie down... You too, just make gestures."

Well, if you don’t go on stage, why are you teaching so hard?”

"I'm old." Grandma Xu said following his words, then she raised her hand and gestured to her temple, "The loess is buried here."

She had never refused to admit that she was old before. This was the first time she said such words in front of him. Xu Xilin said: "What did you say!"

"You can't stay long." Grandma said, "My father lived to be sixty years old, and my mother lived to be seventy-one years old. I have surpassed them both."

Xu Xilin forced a smile: "People in the past had short lifespans. You have to live to be one hundred and eleven to be worthy of the 21st century...Who hasn't fallen yet? Dou Xun also throws in the boxing gym all day long.

You're as lively as a watermelon rind, aren't you? You just caught up with your energy, why are you talking dejectedly?"

"Hey," grandma waved her hand, "don't be discouraged, your life span is fixed, I know that. Grandma has something to say to you."

Xu Xilin had no choice but to listen attentively.

Grandma was silent for a long time, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared.

Xu Xilin suddenly had an ominous premonition, and the corners of his mouth tightened involuntarily.

Grandma seemed to think about it for a long time before she slowly said: "You and Xiaoxun, please don't be together anymore."

Xu Xilin's heart froze in an instant. Dou Junliang's words were not as weighty as grandma's gentle words.

She knew! When did she know?

Grandma Xu couldn't hide the worry on her old face. She patted Xu Xilin's hand and said, "I shouldn't be verbose. When I was young, I couldn't bear to listen to the elderly talking. I endured it for a long time, but when I fell, I

I just thought, it’s over now, I can’t see Xiaolin graduating from college... So just lying here, I still feel that I have something to say out loud as soon as possible - it’s too difficult for you two, and I won’t worry if I leave in the future, or...

…forget it."

Xu Xilin was speechless.

Dou Xun, who came in a hurry, stopped at the door of the ward and was knocked out of his mind by the conversation floating out from inside.

Then Dou Xun walked out without thinking and wandered in the hospital lobby for more than half an hour before calling Xu Xilin: "I'm at the hospital, which ward are you coming from?"

Xu Xilin was so exhausted that he didn't notice Dou Xun's abnormal behavior, so he told him and went home to get a change of clothes.

He drifted back home in a daze. The moment he stood up after changing his shoes in the entrance, his vision suddenly went dark. He grabbed something and with a "bang" sound, he pulled down the independent clothes hanger.

There was no one at home, so the gray parrot was so frightened that its fur flew up and flew to the small chandelier in the entrance to look down at him.

Xu Xilin felt that the entire ceiling was spinning. He climbed up twice and failed to get up, so he had to lie down on the cold floor.

He suddenly understood why Grandma Xu wanted to sell the house back then - it was not entirely a matter of money, their house was too big. When there was a lively family, this house seemed warm and wealthy, but now it is empty and unpopular.

, as an old lady, she would probably be frightened for a long time every day in such a big house when she heard a strange movement upstairs and downstairs.

No wonder she used to always be at home, but now she always runs out.

It took four or five minutes for Xu Xilin to gather enough strength to get up. He slowly lifted the clothes hanger up when his cell phone rang again.

Now he gets nervous when the phone rings. When he picks up the phone and finds it is a counselor, Xu Xilin is relieved.

But the counselor's tone was not very relaxed. She came up and said, "How do you think you did in the signals and systems exam?"

Xu Xilin was stunned for a moment - the exam week lasted for more than ten days, and this course was the first to be tested, so the results may have already come out.

The counselor sighed: "Well, come to school tomorrow and I'll take you to have a meal with Teacher Zhou. You can't fail the class, you know?"

Xu Xilin's grades can be average. Anyway, his comprehensive quality score is already full, so there is no problem in getting a scholarship. But he cannot fail a class. The school has regulations. If he fails a class, all evaluation qualifications and scholarship qualifications for that year will be cancelled.
Chapter completed!