Chapter 11 foreword

Life is like the sea, the farther you go, the more boundless you feel. ——Mao Dun: "Aphorisms of Life" A, Ba Jin looked at the thick "Past Events and Thoughts" in front of him, feeling a little eager to try.So he couldn't help touching a pen, and wanted to write something on the manuscript paper in front of him, but he hesitated to write, because what he wanted to do at the moment was too important. B, Ba Jin is indeed a bit old.However, he was in a much better mood than two years ago. He no longer fell into depression and reflection all day long. He stared blankly at the framed photo of Xiao Shan in front of the writing desk, and Ba Jin began to walk out of the shadows hanging over his head step by step. Nearly ten years of gloom and mist.

C. One day in October, Ba Jin, who had never dared to go to the street easily for many years, let alone go to crowded places, had the courage to go to Huaihai Road to read big-character posters near Xiangyang Park that night.This is because he heard that there are many big-character posters there, and there is some information related to the arrest of Jiang Qing and other "Gang of Four". D, the meeting between Ba Jin and Yu Lihua shocked his soul unexpectedly.Although he had stepped out of the shadow of the "Cultural Revolution" and started to have his own freedom of writing and work, he really felt that spring had come, and it was the day when he had the freedom to meet foreign guests.