上个世纪中叶,中办交通处处长周西林曾是毛泽东主席的专职司机。上世纪70年代初,我随原在延安时期的中办机要通讯员王正赴京出差,在和周西林闲聊时才知道他是山西孝义大孝堡乡人。老乡见老乡格外亲热,他当下就领我到家认了一下门儿。以后,随着交往的增多,我逐步对周老的革命历程有了更多了解。当年,周西林曾在太原 In the middle of the last century, Zhou Xilin, director of the Communications Office of the Central Office, was a full-time driver of Chairman Mao Zedong. In the early 1970s, I went to Beijing for a business trip with Wang Qian, a serious correspondent from the Central Government Office in Yan’an, and when I was chatting with Zhou Xilin, I realized that he was a native of Shanxi Xiaoyi County. Hometown fellow exceptionally affectionate, he now led me to recognize the door home. Later, with the increase of contacts, I gradually learned more about Zhou Lao’s revolutionary course. That year, Zhou Xilin had been in Taiyuan