第一次见到周濯街大约是十五年前,《中国故事》的笔会上。我跟他睡一间房,写作也是在房里。相处了十来天吧,他给我的印象是朴实厚道,又不乏活跃开朗,幽默起来笑得我肚子痛。他是个黑脸大汉,我戏称他“大队会计”。他不在乎,就像老虎不在乎被划为猫科。周濯街杀过猪,锯过木头,扛过锄头把,还当过大兵。他没有文凭,连初中也没有读,民间文学却成了他的奶水,那个时候他就收集了八百多万字的民间故事资料,装了几麻布袋子。他定下的目标是专事神话小说的写作,“为神仙立传”。因为他认为中国的神仙离人的距离最近,所谓“英雄回首即神仙”、“生前为圣贤,死后封神仙”说的就是这个道理。他坚信,为神仙立传,其实是为民族英雄、民族先贤、民族精英立传;坚信中国的老百姓会喜欢此类被神格化了的英雄、圣贤们的传记;也坚信自 The first time I met Zhou Pen Street was about 15 years ago that the pen of the “Chinese story” was held. I sleep with him a room, writing is also in the room. Get along for ten days, he gave me the impression that simple and honest, but also no lack of lively and cheerful, funny, laugh, my stomach pain. He is a black-faced man, I dub him “Brigade Accounting.” He does not care, just as Tiger does not care to be classified as a cat. Zhou Jie Street killed pigs, sawed wood, carrying a hoe to handle, but also been a soldier. He did not have a diploma, even junior high school did not read, folk literature has become his milk, at that time he collected more than eight million words of folk story information, with a few linen bags. He set the goal is to concentrate on the writing of mythological novels, “for the immortal Biography ”. Because he believes that China’s immortal distance from the people recently, the so-called “hero back to the immortal ”, “life is a saint, immortal ” after death is the truth. He firmly believes that the immortal biography, in fact, for the national hero, national forerunner, national elite standings; convinced that Chinese people will like these beloved heroes, saints who biography; also firmly believe that since