第一次见到老人,是在我所在的市人大常委会办公室。那是四年前一个炎热的午后,他头戴草帽,脚穿解放鞋,大汗淋漓,迫切仔细地在一堆旧报纸中翻找刊有他文章的报纸。其时我刚到人大工作不久,在人大报刊上经常能见到他的名字,猜想肯定是某单位一位勤于笔耕的通讯员,没想到竟是一位八十高龄的耄耋老人。 The first time I met the elderly, I was in the city where the NPC Standing Committee Office. It was a hot afternoon four years ago, when he wore straw hats, liberated shoes and sweating, searching carefully for newspaper articles in a pile of old newspapers. At that time, when I first came to work in the People’s Congress, I often saw his name in the newspapers of the People’s Congress. The conjecture was that a certain correspondent who was diligent in writing should not have thought that he was an 80-year-old elder.