Yu Mei is Yu Ming's younger sister, Dongfang Siyi and their brother and sister used to live in the same residential community, and they are also good neighbors upstairs and downstairs.

When they reached school age, they signed up for the same elementary school, and after a few days together, they quickly became good friends. Dongfang Siyi and their brother and sister have always been classmates, and they went to primary school together and finished middle school together.

Yu Ming is one year older than Dongfang Siyi, and Dongfang Siyi is two years older than Yu Mei. Later, I learned that in order to take care of my sister, Yu Ming persuaded his parents that he must sign up for school with his sister, but he postponed signing up for school for two years. Later facts also proved that Yu Ming is a veritable sister control role, and Yu Mei has not been wronged at all from elementary school to high school under his care.

In Dongfang Siyi's memory, this little brother, who is only one year older than him, always considers himself a big brother everywhere. When he was in elementary school, Dongfang Siyi felt that Yu Ming was more assertive and capable than himself.

If one day, Dongfang Siyi is criticized by the teacher, Yu Ming can always take the initiative to comfort him. If he was bullied by his classmates, Yu Ming could always take the initiative to help him get back face. Therefore, Dongfang Siyi has been willing to be Yu Ming's best little brother since he was in elementary school, and he has always been by his side with his sister Yu Mei.

The three of them have always been in the same grade and in the same class A, because Yu Ming, who is young and old, is very good at taking care of things, and Yu Ming has always been the class leader designated by the homeroom teacher. The three of them always go to school together and always come home together after school. If one day they find that one person is not together, they will immediately feel very strange, and they will definitely look around, and they must always find each other, and they will feel at ease when they see each other.

Yu Mei didn't like to talk when she was a child, and she could always be seen in school, sitting in the corner of the classroom, reading quietly, and thinking quietly with her chin in her hands. She seems to have endless books to read and endless questions to think about.

On the way home, she always followed them quietly, and Yu Ming and Dongfang Siyi rarely heard her talk. Yu Mei won't go out to play when she gets home, she still likes to read quietly at home alone. Dongfang Siyi and Yu Ming always threw their schoolbags in a random corner of the house, then hurriedly ran out of the house and asked their companions to find a vacant place to play football.

Time is like a handful of sand in the palm of your hand, you want to hold it, but you can't, and when you shake your head helplessly and sigh, it quietly flows away between your fingers. Dongfang Siyi remembered that one day, when the three of them came back from school and walked into the alley at the door of their home, they suddenly felt that the stone gate at the entrance of the alley seemed to be getting shorter. The stone gate is a centuries-old ruin of the old city, and it is the only remaining remnant of the old city.

They had walked through this alley together for five or six years, and they didn't pay much attention to it when they walked through it every day, but they thought that this stone gate was particularly tall. Now the three of them circled around the stone gate a few times, looking at each other, you look at me, I look at you, and then I really found that the partner standing opposite him had grown taller, and the alley that they had been ignoring and coming and going countless times suddenly became narrow in his eyes.

Now that I think about it, the feeling of that day should be like a few birds that have just crawled out of the nest, after flapping their wings and flying out, they suddenly found that the world is so big, and then looked back at the nest where they grew up, only to know that the world is not only that small space. That moment of awakening also means that they are about to finish their primary school.

During the summer vacation of that year, Yu Mei seemed to have changed a lot, although she still likes to read quietly, but sometimes she also goes out with them. Dongfang Siyi and Yu Ming took a class of classmates, and when they were playing football on the playground, she held the books she couldn't finish reading by herself, and read her books with great interest while watching them play football in the shade of the trees on the side of the playground.

Dongfang Siyi didn't know why at that time, since Yu Mei watched them play on the edge of the playground, he was a little absent-minded, and Yu Ming kicked him because of this: "What do you think the little sister is doing?" In a daze again? What do you think? Remember! This is the last game of our summer vacation, and we can only win and not lose! ”

That game was led by Yu Ming and the squad leader of another class, that is, the squad leader Hutong of class B, although the two sides often carry out activities, but this time it is different. Although there are no prizes in the game, there is a very interesting agreement between the two sides before the game, that is, after entering middle school, the two football teams will prepare for one, and whichever team wins the game will be responsible for organizing the new team, and all members of the team that lost the game must obey the new coach. Dongfang Siyi is the captain of his football team, Yu Ming is the coach, and the captain and coach of the opposing team are all alleys.

It seems that this is a game between two teams, but it has actually become a game between Yu Ming and Hutong. Yu Ming said that although everyone is a good friend, friends should also be fair and principled, and after entering middle school, everyone is still a good friend and must be more united.

After being kicked by Yu Ming, Dongfang Siyi's gaze left Yu Mei, and finally concentrated his spirit. At the last moment of deciding the outcome of the game, Dongfang Siyi made a great contribution with a header. However, after the successful header goal, Dongfang Siyi fell to the ground, due to the inertia of the header when the goal was rushed, he inevitably hit the pillar of the goal, Dongfang Siyi only felt his head "buzz", and the sky turned in front of him. Everyone hurriedly gathered around, and Yu Ming hurriedly took out a homemade first-aid kit to help him bandage the bleeding wound, but fortunately, it was okay to scratch a piece of skin on his head.

This scene was all seen by Yu Mei, after the game that day, on the way back, Yu Mei still asked him worriedly: "Does it hurt?" Dongfang Siyi saw that in addition to worry, there seemed to be something special in Yu Mei's eyes, although he couldn't say anything special by himself, that strange feeling was just a flash, but it remained in Dongfang Siyi's memory since then.

When I was in the second grade of junior high school, the two families were demolished because of the same community, and Dongfang Siyi and Yu Ming's families were relocated to different places, and the two families were far apart, and it took half an hour to walk. Dongfang Siyi and Yu Ming's brother and sister have less time to travel together. Although when they are in school, they will still be together, and they will still be as before, when they can't see each other, they will be worried until the other person appears in front of their eyes.

After entering high school, the task of studying is heavy, and only when the football game is organized on the weekend, Dongfang Siyi will stay with Yu Ming and talk. Although he is still in the same class, whether in the classroom or outside the classroom, Dongfang Siyi began to keep his distance from Yu Mei intentionally or unintentionally, and the subtle psychology between boys and girls hinted at him, distance is a kind of respect, and distance is also a kind of protection.

Once, because it was his turn to be a duty student, Dongfang Siyi left late, and he found that Yu Mei was still reading in the classroom, so he asked her a little strangely: "Hey, why haven't you left yet?" Don't you want to go home yet?"

Yu Mei raised her head, looked at Dongfang Siyi and said, "I'm waiting for my brother, do you know where he went?" Dongfang Siyi then remembered that Yu Ming and Hutong went to No. 2 Middle School together after school, saying that they wanted to contact them to carry out a friendly football match, but he probably forgot to tell Yu Mei.

Dongfang Siyi thought for a while, looked at the dark night outside the classroom window and said, "Don't wait, Brother Yu Ming is going to No. 2 Middle School." Maybe I forgot to tell you, or maybe I thought you were home. It's so late, I'll take you home. ”

The late autumn night is very quiet, walking on the road, from time to time you can see the leaves of the plane trees blown to the ground by the night wind, and on the sidewalks on both sides of the street, a layer of withered and half-withered leaves has fallen, and the feet on it make a "rustling" sound.

Before the 90s of the last century, most of the counties at that time were still relatively backward, and the nightlife was far less colorful than it is now. In addition to a few more streets than in the countryside, there are a few more dim street lights on the streets, and there are not many pedestrians.

Occasionally, you can meet the vendors who set up stalls under the street lamps, and they also shout a few times intermittently weakly, and you can hear from the sound that they do not hold any hope, and they do not see the desire for wealth in their eyes, some are just a little effort and expectation for life, and more are waiting for the luck of the rabbit. There was only a kind of emptiness and blankness in their eyes, unlike the street vendors now, whose eyes were as keen as hunters, and would sweep every passerby from time to time, shouting their business at the right time.

Yu Mei walked quietly in front as always, and Dongfang Siyi always kept a distance of three or five steps from her. Dongfang Siyi felt that this distance could not only feel Yu Mei's breath, but also eliminate the unwarranted suspicion of others, which was the safest distance, and it was also in line with Yu Ming's warning to himself.

Thinking of Yu Ming looking at himself with a distrustful look more than once, he warned him more than once: "Stay away from my sister!" Dongfang Siyi just wanted to laugh, Yu Ming is an out-and-out sister, he can't tolerate any classmate showing a trace of enthusiasm for his sister beyond his classmates, and he also doesn't allow Dongfang Siyi and Yu Mei to have too close words and deeds, how can people grasp the proportion he said?

Yu Mei is not only the recognized class flower among their classmates, but also their recognized scholar. In the hearts of most boys, Yu Mei is a goddess-like existence, and Yu Ming's fists don't play a big role.

In fact, Dongfang Siyi felt that Yu Ming was most worried about him, and Yu Ming sometimes resorted to his own admonition: "Xiaomei is going to a key university, she can't be like you and me, maybe we have to stay in this small county for the rest of our lives, even if we have the opportunity to study in college, we must come back." Xiaomei is different, she should have a better future. ”

Every time Yu Ming finished saying these admonitions, he didn't forget to hit Dongfang Siyi's self-confidence again: "This world is not a world we can imagine, how high we can fly and how far we can fly, we all know in our hearts, if we fly far, we will break our wings, and if we fly high, we will fall down." It's better to stay on the ground honestly, so that you can be sure. ”

(Next Notice: Chapter 42: The Concern of the Years)