1986年5月,我去无锡出席庞瑞垠的长篇小说《危城》讨论会。《危城》是“故都三部曲”的第一部(另两部为《寒星》、《落日》),是反映上世纪四十年代后期南京大学生反内战、反饥饿的作品。会议邀请了同为以学生运动作背景、描写一群青年知识分子生活道路的《青春之歌》作者杨沫到会,这就使我有机会在14日那天采访了她,听她谈写作《青春之歌》续集《芳菲之歌》以及准备写第三部《樱花之歌》(1989年出版时改书名为 May 1986, I went to Wuxi to attend Pong Rui Yin’s novel “The City of the Dead” Symposium. “The City of the Dead” is the first of the “Gudu Trilogy” (the other two are “Cold Star” and “Sunset”), reflecting the Nanjing University students’ anti-civil war and anti-hunger works in the late 1940s. The meeting invited Yang Mo, the author of the song of youth, who described the road to life for a group of young intellectuals with the background of the student movement as the background. This gave me an opportunity to interview her on the 14th and listen to her writing “Youth Song ”sequel“ Fang Fei song ”and ready to write the third song“ Sakura ”(published in 1989 changed its name to