The first time I met Si Wang was in the late autumn of 2007, when Yin Yu was studying in the third (2) class of Wuyi Middle School.

She was walking alone on the cinder track, and when she passed by the bunker, she saw the boy, seriously piling up sand, looking like he was building a castle, and talking to himself like a psychopath. Yin Yu lingered beside the boy until he looked back at her, and his voice was terrifyingly dull: "What are you going to do?" ”

"This is my territory."

The fifteen-year-old girl has a nice voice, but she deliberately speaks rudely.

"Why? Isn't it shared by everyone? ”

Before she could finish speaking, she slapped her. The twelve-year-old boy, who had not yet developed and was as thin as a monkey, collapsed defenselessly in a sand pit and ate a mouth full of sand. Given her size, he was no match at all, so he had to run away.

Yin Yu always wears blue sweatpants, a white jacket and school uniform, and black running shoes. No one had ever seen her in a dress, and there was no color in the slightest bright color. She has a slender body of nearly one meter seven, her hair is cut almost like that of a boy, and her eyes are large and bright, but there is no trace of femininity. She never plays with girls, but she doesn't have any male friends, and everyone thinks she's a monster. No boy likes her, but she often beats up junior boys. Some people say that she is Lala, but in fact, she is not interested in girls. Her academic performance is quite good, and she is the first in the school in the final exam every year, and she has almost a perfect score in history. Her calligraphy is very good, at first glance, it looks like she has decades of skill, which can be compared to a calligraphy master, and even the principal asked her to hang the words at home. She often recited English poems in front of her teachers, and once memorized Yeats's "When You Are Old", which is said to be word-for-word and extremely authentic, and she has never been abroad.

She noticed that the boy in the preparatory class was following her.

One day after school, Yin Yu deliberately went into an alley, and from time to time swept back from the corner of her eye to observe the boys who were following her. Suddenly, two little hooligans jumped out, but the target was the thin boy, and they cornered him and demanded that he hand over the money on him, and the boy immediately shouted: "Help! ”

A few adults passing by pretended not to see it, but instead sped up and ran away.

Yin Yu immediately turned around and punched the little hooligan in the eye, the two boys were also very nervous, and they didn't have the strength to fight back, each of them took a few punches and kicks, leaving the boy to hug his head and run away.

"You're amazing!"

"Small." She clapped her hands in a rough voice, as if she was just moving her muscles, "Hey, you kid, why are you following me?" Believe it or not, I'm going to beat you! ”

"Because, you're a strange person!" The boy didn't seem to be afraid of being beaten, and puffed out his chest to speak like a man, "Yin Yu, I peeked at your exam paper from the history teacher, and your exam paper is full of traditional characters. ”

"I've liked to write traditional Chinese since I was a child, as long as the teacher doesn't deduct points, it's your business?"

"Your handwriting is beautiful, and it doesn't look like a girl can write." After lingering for a long time, he finally said the point, "Can I be friends with you?" ”

Yin Yu was surprised at first, and then looked at him seriously, just like a teacher's tone: "Classmate, you're not joking, are you?" ”

"Because, I'm just like you."

"What?"

"I'm as lonely as you are."

The boy gave him the calm gaze that only an adult can have.

"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, the Wangwang of the lookout."

"Okay, I'll call you brother."

The following year, the streets sounded "Beijing, welcome......

She has reached the second half of the third semester of junior high school, and she will take the high school entrance examination in two months, but she does not look like a revision at all, and still runs like a boy every day, throwing Bendostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" or Orhan Pamuk's "My Name is Red" in her school bag. The teacher did not ask her more, believing that she could be admitted to a key middle school. If it weren't for her excessively strange behavior, if she hadn't even joined the Communist Youth League, she would have been sent without examination and bail.

Thirteen-year-old Si Wang, although his height has jumped to 1.6 meters, he is still thin like a soybean sprout, which is easy to attract bullying from social hooligans. Yin Yu became his umbrella, whether at school or on the way to and from school. She has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and ordinary people are not opponents. The master of the Jingwu Sports Club said that she had won the true inheritance of Huo Jiaquan - as if she had really practiced with Huo Yuanjia.

She often discussed with Si Wang the world's famous novels - "Les Miserables", "Red and Black", "The Gadfly", "Anna Karenina", classical Chinese poetry, the four famous novels plus "Liao Zhai", as well as Kafka, Borges, Haruki Murakami...... She boasted that Mo Yan would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in four years.

Once, on the way out of school, passing by the statue of Pushkin in the garden in the middle of the street, Yin Yu stopped and read a long list of Russian, but Si Wang didn't understand a word. She said mysteriously: "This poem is called 'If Life Deceives You.'" ”

"Yin Yu, where did you learn Russian?"

"It's a secret!"

"Well, I have secrets too, shall we share them?"

"Nope."

Suddenly, the wind ruffled the short hair on her forehead, and in her manly eyes, there was a certain coldness.

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 Zhang Ailing lived, and it was here that she and Hu Lancheng met and got married. ”

"Cut!" Yin Yu gave him another sneer, his schoolbag hung behind his back, and looked contemptuously at a certain balcony upstairs, "Hu Lancheng, that guy?" Phew! ”

She actually spat on the ground, and Si Wang took half a step back: "How could you be like 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 has lived for several years – the door is filled with all kinds of books, Chinese, foreign languages, and picture albums brought from Europe. There was a cheap sofa and a rattan chaise longue on which she was famously photographed. Her house is fairly clean, and occasionally a maid comes to her door, since she became famous and received a good remuneration for her work. Do you want me to go on? ”

At this time, an old man's voice sounded in the door: "Who is outside?" Don't make a noise, children! “

"Let's go!"

I ran down the stairs in one breath and returned to the street, and it was already dark.

"I think, I've got it!" Si Wang gasped as he stared into her eyes, "You're really special!" ”

Yin Yu bought two cups of milk tea on the side of the road, took a big sip of a straw and said: "It's not that you cherish your body in front of you, it's inevitable that your preoccupation will come true. The southeast day is evil, and the rooster cries and the wind and rain and the sea raise dust. Sad songs and crying in the end, the righteous people have said that Emperor Qin - the literati of that era, I prefer Yu Dafu, he is a man with a true temperament. It's just that the relationship between him and Wang Yingxia is by no means as romantic and beautiful as later generations imagined. ”

"You've seen him too?"

Yin Yu laughed like a man: "I've drunk with him, fought, and soaked in girls—do you believe it?" ”

This summer, Yin Yu's high school entrance examination results were released, and he was indeed the first in the school.

She was admitted to a key high school, Nanming Senior High School.

At parting, Si Wang said, "We will meet again." ”