Part Two, Pages 109 through 172 Summary

After Min discovers that Yan plays the erhu at the nearby brick factory, the two go there as often as possible, talking about their lives and sharing intimate feelings. Yan says that her mother had taught her that all men were evil. Min disagrees but Yan cites her older brother bragging that he lured a girl into his room and seduced her while the other brothers watched. When Yan reported the story to her parents, she wasn't believed and her brothers beat her for telling - an act her mother apparently condoned. Min then confides that she was once touched by a boy at her school during a moment of darkness in an auditorium. When Yan asks why she didn't scream and run away, Min says that her body enjoyed the feel of the touch. Yan then...