Chapter 37 Chapter VII

The first time I saw Si Wang was in the late autumn of 2007, when Yin Yu was studying in Class 3 (2) of Wuyi Middle School. She was walking alone on the cinder track, and when she passed the sandpit, she saw the boy, seriously piling up the sand, looking like he was building a castle, and talking to himself like a mental patient.Yin Yu lingered beside the boy until he looked back at her with a terribly gloomy voice: "What are you doing?" "This is my territory." The fifteen-year-old girl's voice was pleasant, but her words were intentionally rude. "Why? Isn't it shared by everyone?"

Before she finished speaking, she slapped him with a slap.The twelve-year-old boy was underdeveloped and thin like a monkey. He fell defenselessly into the sandpit and ate his mouth full of sand.Given that she was tall and powerful, he was no match at all, so he could only run away in desperation. Yin Yu always wears blue sweatpants, a white jacket and black running shoes.No one had ever seen her in a dress, not even a brighter color.She has a slender figure of nearly 1.7 meters, her hair is cut almost like a boy's, her eyes are big and energetic, but she doesn't have the slightest femininity.She never hangs out with girls, but she doesn't have any male friends either, and everyone thinks she's a monster.No boy would like her, but she often beats up boys in lower grades.Some people say she is a lesbian, but in fact she is not interested in girls.Her academic performance is quite good, and she ranks first in the school in the final exam every year, and she has almost perfect marks every time in history.Her brush calligraphy is very good, it looks like it has decades of skill, comparable to calligraphy masters, and even the principal asked her to hang the calligraphy at home.She often recited English poems in front of the teacher, and once recited Yeats' "When You Are Old". It is said that the pronunciation is extremely authentic, and she has never been abroad.

She found that the boy in the preparatory class was following her. One day after school, Yin Yu deliberately got into an alley, and from time to time glanced back from the corner of her eye to observe the boys who followed her.Suddenly, two hooligans jumped out, but their target was the thin boy, cornering him and demanding that he hand over the money on his body, the boy immediately yelled: "Help!" Several adults passing by pretended not to see, but ran away faster. Yin Yu immediately turned around and punched the little rascal in the eyes. The two boys were also stern, and they had no strength to fight back. They each received a few punches and kicks, and left the boy to run away.

"You are amazing!" "Small." She clapped her hands in a rough voice, as if she was just exercising her muscles, "Hey, you kid, why are you following me? Believe it or not, I'll beat you!" "Because, you are a strange person!" The boy didn't look afraid of being beaten, he puffed up his chest and spoke like a man, "Yin Yu, I peeked at your test paper from the history teacher, and your test paper is full of traditional characters .” "I've liked writing traditional characters since I was a child. As long as the teacher doesn't deduct points, it's none of your business?"

"Your handwriting is very beautiful, and it doesn't seem like a girl can write." After pestering for a long time, he finally said the key point, "Can I be friends with you?" Yin Yu was surprised at first, and then looked at him seriously, like a teacher's tone: "Student, are you kidding?" "Because I'm just like you." "what?" "I'm as lonely as you alone. " The boy showed the calm eyes of an adult. "Boy, I don't understand what you mean, but I can be friends with you." "My name is Si Wang, the commander's Si, Wang Wang."

"Okay, I'll call you brother." In the second year, "Beijing, welcome..." was heard everywhere on the street She has reached the second half of the third semester of junior high school, and she will take the senior high school entrance examination in two months, but she doesn't seem to be reviewing at all. She still runs like a boy every day, with a copy of Dostoevsky or Orr in her schoolbag. Khan Pamuk's.The teacher did not make more demands on her, and decided that she could be admitted to a key middle school.If she hadn't behaved too weirdly and hadn't even joined the Communist Youth League, she would have been exempted from the test and recommended.

Thirteen-year-old Si Wang, although he has grown to 1.6 meters tall, is still as thin as a soybean sprout, and he is easily bullied by social hooligans.Yin Yu became his umbrella, whether at school or on the way home from school.She has practiced martial arts without a teacher since she was a child, and ordinary people are no match for her.The master of the Jingwu Athletic Association said that she had learned the true Huo family boxing - as if she had really practiced with Huo Yuanjia. She often discusses world famous works with Si Wang—Chinese classical poetry, the four great classics plus "Liao Zhai", as well as Kafka, Borges, Haruki Murakami... She boasted that Mo Yan would be in four Received the Nobel Prize in Literature within the year.

Once on the way from school, Yin Yu stopped and read a long string of Russian when he passed the statue of Pushkin in the garden in the middle of the street, but Si Wang didn't understand a single word.She said mysteriously: "This poem is called "If Life Deceives You"." "Yin Yu, where did you learn your Russian?" "This is a secret!" "Well, I have a secret too, shall we share it?" "No." Suddenly, the wind blew up the short hair on her forehead, and in her manly eyes, there was a certain coldness hidden. Passing by an old building, Si Wang saw the words "Changde Apartment" at the door, and said softly, "Hey, do you know? This is the house where Eileen Chang lived. It is here that she and Hu Lancheng met and got married. "

"Cut!" Yin Yu sneered at him again, with his schoolbag hanging behind his back, he looked contemptuously at a certain balcony upstairs, "That guy Hu Lancheng? Pooh!" She actually spit on the ground, Si Wang took half a step back: "Why are you doing this?" After a moment of silence, she touched the sign at the door and said, "Actually, I have been to this building many times, and it was called Eddington Apartment at that time." After speaking, she took Si Wang's hand, rushed straight into the dark corridor, stepped up the stairs familiarly, and came to a door.

Her hands were so cold, like a corpse. "This is the room where Eileen Chang lived for several years - the door is full of books in Chinese and foreign languages, as well as picture albums brought from Europe. There is a cheap sofa and a rattan reclining chair , her famous photo was taken sitting on it. Her house is fairly clean, and occasionally there will be servants coming to the door. Since she published a book and became famous, she got a good salary. Do you want me to continue?" At this time, an old man's voice sounded from the door: "Who is outside? Don't make noise, children!"

"Go!" I ran down the stairs in one breath and returned to the street, it was already dark. "I think, I've figured it out!" Si Wang panted heavily while staring into her eyes, "You're really special!" Yin Yu bought two cups of milk tea on the side of the road, sipped the straw and said: "It's not about respecting the former and cherishing the body. The false madness will inevitably become true. I once whipped a famous horse because of drunkenness. Singing wind and rain, sea and dust. Elegy songs and bitter tears are no use at all. Righteous people all say that Emperor Qin—a literati of that era, I like Yu Dafu more, he is a man with a true temperament. It’s not as romantic and beautiful as future generations imagine.” "You saw him too?" Yin Yu laughed like a man: "I have drank, fought, and picked up girls with him—do you believe it?" This summer, Yin Yu's high school entrance examination results were released, and she was indeed the first in the school. She was admitted to a key high school - Nanming Senior High School. When parting, Si Wang said, "We will meet again."