Chapter 42 In order to remember these few words

A few days ago, several editors from the Beijing Evening News came to see me.Twenty years have passed, time has passed, and people have changed. After a burst of excited and messy conversations, they got back to business and asked me to continue writing short articles for their newspaper. I laughed and said, "Twenty years later, it won't be easy for me to bend down to 'glearn ears' again." An "old" editor smiled and said: "I remember one day twenty years ago, when I came to pick up the manuscript, you told me that Premier Zhou encouraged you to write "Gleaners of the Ears". It was once In the Great Hall of the People, the Premier said to you: 'Comrade Bing Xin, you are writing again, okay, keep writing.'”

I froze for a moment and said, "Why can't I remember anything?" Another "old" editor laughed and said: "Yes, that's right. That period was about after our newspaper published your short article "Into the Great Hall of the People" and before the Guangzhou Conference. He told me as soon as he came back that we still had I told one of our leading comrades, and she remembered." I thought for a while and said, "Say these few words again." A young editor hurriedly tore a piece of paper from a small notebook and handed it to me. I borrowed a pen from him and wrote down these few sentences.

After they left, I fell into deep thought.In the careful recollection, my heart wave after wave after wave!It constantly hits the rock of my memory, splashing out bright waves! In those years, we often had the opportunity to meet the Premier in the Great Hall of the People.In his busy schedule, when he looks back at you, he will always greet you warmly and heartily, and he will always say a few words of concern and encouragement to you.These words are like the drizzle in spring, whether it is the towering ten thousand trees or the needles of new green jade, they have been nourished... The phone rang, and it was the young editor who came to urge the manuscript.

I picked up the pen and wrote this short essay, just to write down these few words!February 11, 1980