My name is Wu Yu, 53 years old this year, Tsinghua graduate tutor, and my lover is Ding Yu.

From the time I remember, I lived with Ding Yu and Ding Yu's sister Ding Jin in a courtyard.

Our parents were friends and had promised each other that they would marry each other, so when they saw that I was a boy, both parents were very happy.

Four-year-old Ding Jin was burning ants under the old locust tree when he heard a loud cry in the house, threw down the matches and ran to the house.

Aunt Zhang, a neighbor, laughed at the door and joked that Ding Jin had a husband, Ding Jin waved her fist at her, and said fiercely I don't want a husband, I'll throw him out now.

In Ding Jin's concept, if you have a husband, you have to learn to cook, because every day your mother cooks, your father sits on the sofa reading the newspaper, and from time to time she hears her mother calling her husband.

She doesn't want to cook, she wants to be free!

Ding Jin found that the people in the room were looking around a bed, and she slowly walked over to see the baby on the small bed, with a purple face, sparse hair, and closed eyes.

He's so small, and he's ugly, Ding Jin thought to himself.

She stretched out her hand to touch his face, and saw that she still had the mud on her hand that she had just played with ants, so she wiped it on her clothes seriously, and gently touched his face, it was so soft.

The adults around her were even happier when they saw her careful care.

"Jin'er, do you like my brother?"

Ding Jin looked at the baby on the bed and nodded his head.

"Will you marry him later?" Ding's father said jokingly.

"Not good!" Ding Jin shouted loudly, "I don't want him!" ”

The parents of both sides looked at each other.

"Don't take children's words seriously, feelings can be cultivated slowly."

I don't have much memory for the next three years, but there are sporadic clips of Ding Jin always bullying me, putting mud on my clothes, and saying in my ear, "If you dare to marry me, I will throw you into the well." ”

Ding Yu was born three years later.

When Ding Yu was born, I was still young, and I only remember my mother saying that from today onwards, I have a younger brother, and I must protect him.

I looked at Ding Yu's little one, white and tender, and felt that I finally didn't have to be with Ding Jin every day, and happily said okay, I will definitely protect him.

It's a pity that Tong Yan is unscrupulous, and in the end I didn't protect Ding Yu well.

I lie on the kang every day to watch Ding Yu, thinking when he can grow up, so that we can catch dragonflies together.

"Mother Ding, can you make Brother Yu grow up a little faster?"

The woman looked at me lovingly, "Why are you in such a hurry for him to grow up?" ”

"I think I want him to catch dragonflies with me. Yesterday Ding Jin showed me how many dragonflies she caught. "As soon as I was in a hurry, my speech began to be slurred.

The woman touched my head, smiled and said, "Xiao Yu, although Ding Jin is a sister, you are a little man, remember to protect her and Ding Yu in the future." ”

Although I didn't know what Ding's mother meant, I still swore that I would definitely protect them.

Ding Yu has a bad physique since he was a child, he looks smaller than children of the same age, and his skin is white, and he is often said that the boys of the Ding family are like girls, and the girls are like boys.

At that time, I was 7 years old and could tell the difference between right and wrong, and when I heard something like this, I would pick up something next to me and throw it over.

Ding Jin came home from school, sometimes when he saw me discouraged, he knew that I hadn't beaten anyone else, and when he was angry, he pulled me with his left hand and Ding Jin with his right hand, and went to the Decepticon's house to settle accounts angrily.

The Decepticons are the ones who often take the lead in laughing at Ding Yu, he is a year older than me, tall and fat, and I can't beat him.

Ding Jin relied on his height advantage to beat the Decepticons, and said fiercely in his mouth, if you dare to say Ding Yu, I will make you a person without a handle, and let you become a eunuch!

When he was beaten to the point where the Decepticon howled and cried to find his mother, Ding Jin handsomely shook his hair and looked at me and said, "See, this is beating, learn to do it." ”

I nodded ignorantly. After watching Ding Jin beat people many times, I learned the essence of it, fast, accurate, ruthless, and kill with one move.

After Ding Jin beat all the invincible opponents in the Hutongs, I was never talked to by anyone when I went out with Ding Yu to play.

Since then, I have understood the importance of fists.

I asked my father to make me a simple sandbag, and I punched and kicked in the yard every day, and Ding Yu sometimes sat on the stone bench and watched me play the sandbag while teasing the crickets.

"Brother, I want to go and sow vegetable seeds."

"Brother, I want to go to the pond to see frogs."

"Brother, I want to pick red leaves."

"Brother, can you build me a snowman?"

…

I have accompanied Ding Yu through four seasons after season.

Ding Jin grows more and more beautiful, and is commonly known as the Hutong branch flower; Ding Yu is very smart, and I often hear Ding Yu's name on the school radio.

Of course, Ding Yu will often hear me. It's just that his is praise, and mine is to report criticism.

Since I was a child, under the influence of Ding Jin, I firmly believe that my fists can solve everything, and if I don't accept it, I will do it until I defeat the other party.

So whenever I heard rumors about Ding Yu looking like a girl on campus, I would drag this person to the grove behind the school to do a job.

Under my protection, Ding Yu spent his primary school life carefree.

One day Ding Jin told me that she was an adult, and she wanted to go out and didn't want to stay in the alley anymore.

At the age of 15, I patted my chest proudly and said, don't worry, I will take care of Ding's father, Ding's mother and Ding Yu.

Ding Jin stared at me for a while, and suddenly smiled and said that she didn't come back again.

On a night when the summer cicadas were chirping, Ding Jin left and left a letter to the effect that there was no need to worry about her and not to look for her, she would come back.

Ding Yu went to junior high school, and I went to secondary school.

Ding Yu was in high school, and I was in the society, selling whatever was best-selling.

The only thing that hasn't changed is that Ding Yu and I have been with each other all the time.

Sometimes I will pick up Ding Yu from school early after work, and if it is winter, I will buy him his favorite roasted sweet potato; In the summer, the watermelons will be put in the well water in advance.

One day I waited for Ding Yu to get out of school as usual, and when I saw a girl giving him a love letter, my heart suddenly felt a little pantothenic, and the person I had been protecting seemed to be about to lose my own.

Walking on the road, I asked Ding Yu if he had anyone he liked.

Ding Yu was a little shy and said uncomfortably.

I don't know why my heart seems to have sunk, but I still rubbed his hair casually like when I was a child, and said that when you are admitted to college, you can fall in love.

"What about you, brother? Do you have someone you like? ”

Ding Yu's bright eyes were like a night pearl in the night, and I was stunned.

I shook my head.

What is Like?

Over the years, my life has only been Ding Yu and Ding Jin, and since I was a child, I only thought about how to protect them, and gradually it became a habit.

In 1983, Ding Yu took the college entrance examination, he was 20 years old that year, I was 23 years old, and Ding Jin was 27 years old.

It was the happiest year in our little courtyard.

Ding Yu was admitted to the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University, and Ding Jin became a well-known female star, and her songs were played on the streets.

Two days before Ding Yu's report, Ding Jin came back. That night we sat on the veranda in the courtyard and drank, nostalgic for the past and dreaming of the future.

Ding Jin asked me what I plan to do in the future?

I shrugged my shoulders and didn't think about it, I should continue to sell videotapes and BB players.

Ding Jin took out a bunch of keys and told me that she had bought two apartments in Dashilar, one of which was mine.

I asked what about Ding Yu?

Ding Jin smiled and said that her things were all Ding Yu's.

I gave her the key back and told her that I still like to live with Ding Yu in the courtyard.

Ding Jin smiled and didn't say anything more.