责编王童来电话问我,“你怎么想起写这样一篇小说呢?”是呀,我已经十多年不写小说了,忽然拿出一篇“讨论死亡和灵魂”的玩意儿,让文友奇怪。我自己也得想一想为什么。俗话说,“七十三,八十四,阎王不请自己去。”大概因为我84岁的脑袋里已经在思考生命之可爱了。1953年,贺龙、老舍率领的“中国人民赴朝慰问团”来到志愿军部队,在一次联欢会上,老舍讲了个笑话:“从前有个财主,怕死,不准家里人说‘死’字儿,非说不可的时候,就用‘喜’ Editor Wang Tong called and asked me, ”How do you think of writing such a novel?“ ”Yeah, I have not written a novel for more than a decade, and I suddenly come up with a piece of“ discussing death and soul ”stuff Children, so strange friends. I have to think about why. As the saying goes, “Seventy-three, eighty-four, Hades do not ask yourself to go.” “Probably because my 84-year-old head is already thinking about the cuteness of life. In 1953, He Long and Lao She led the ”Chinese people to visit condolences “ came to the volunteer forces, at a party, Lao She said a joke: ”There was a rich man, afraid of death, not allowed to say that the family ’Dead’ word, non-critical time, use ’hi’