In May 1992, before the launch of Meiwen, he went to Shijiazhuang to make an appointment, and I was working as an editor at The Great Wall and editing novels.

He said that the editor-in-chief of Pingwa praised your article for being good and distinctive, and asked you to write it. I understand that this is a compliment to me, a kind word, and I rarely write articles.

Before that, I came to Xi'an to make an appointment with the novel edited by Pingwa, and we had a good chat and played a game of Go.

I was worried that he wouldn't give me the novel and wanted to deliberately lose to him, but his chess skills were too low-key and he failed. I made an appointment with his novella "Buddha Pass", and after finishing chess that day, it was very late, about one o'clock in the evening, he took out a thick envelope, which had been sealed, and was about to send it to Jin Yucheng of "Shanghai Literature", saying let me take a look at it first, I took out the manuscript, put the torn envelope on his desk, forgot to thank him, put on his shoes and went out.

Early the next morning, I went to make a photocopy, then to the post office, and sent the original manuscript back to The Great Wall, and I stayed in Xi'an to see the copy.

At that time, the photocopying fee was quite expensive, costing more than 200 yuan. Because of this level of friendship, I worked hard to give Brother An Li an an article about Hebei writers, and I remember going to Chairman Tie Ning's house.

It was almost noon when I went, and Chairman Tie Ning was cooking, stewing something, because he greeted us, it seemed to be stewed.

In less than a year, I was transferred to Meiwen as an editor. At that time, the office conditions of "Meiwen" were not very comfortable, there was no place to live, and the family of Brother An Li had not been transferred to Xi'an, so he asked me to live in the same dormitory with him.

The two of us were busy during the day, eating a bowl of noodles at the street after work, or finding a barbecue stall and a snack, and then going back to the house to rest.

Brother An Li usually talks little, and the editor-in-chief of Pingwa said that he is a thunderbolt to stop slander, but we talk a lot at night, and we are also speculative.

I am from Hebei, and my first understanding of Xi'an and even Shaanxi came mostly from night talks with him. He talked a lot about some customs and customs in his hometown Yaoxian (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City), and he was so engrossed that I was fascinated by what he said, and I felt that it was interesting, meaningful, and meaningful.

On this day, I went to Brother An Li's office, discussed the editing of the magazine, and saw the "The Wind Blows from the Plateau" that I had just finished, so I took it home and read it that night with tens of thousands of words.

The next day, I told him that I had suggested that you write this twenty years ago, and that you should finally write it, and send it to us "Meiwen", and let me be your responsible editor again.

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How to write "Writer Geography". Writers write about their hometowns, or about the external scenery and things that have their characteristics.

It is good that such an article must have real feelings, and it will take some careful effort, riding a horse to watch the flowers, or making a compilation of materials, and it will not be very energetic.

Brother An Li's articles are thick and solid, but also arrogant, and very vigorous, like an isolated old tree on the arid plateau, to the rules, not cut or cut, but to lie in the dragon, with the wind and the mountains, and to keep the natural extravagance.

It doesn't look like much at first glance, but the more you look at it, the more durable it becomes, and it sticks to the bottom of your heart.