初春,一个礼拜一的早晨,一个老头儿、一个老太太,行色匆匆的身影,出现在德州大学校园内约翰逊图书馆门前的步道上,没穿运动鞋也没牵狗,不像晨练。也没拖着行包,更不是去赶火车啊。干嘛走这么快? 走近了看,老头儿已是七老八十的样子,瘦瘦的,戴大近视镜,透着有学问,也挺精神,就是表情严肃,好像重任在肩。到了门口,离早上9点还有几分钟,人家图书馆还没开门呢。老头儿便不那么持重了,变得焦燥不安,左摇右晃,还吹着口哨儿,手也很不老实,不停地按电梯的开关——这会儿没电。终于捱到了9点,电梯门开了,老头儿半秒不停,带着碎步紧赶的老太太,一阵风似地钻进去了。电梯直上8楼的阅览室。倘有好事的陌生看客在后面向馆员打问,这老先生谁啊?——这会儿八成不敢说“老头儿”了,怕不小心招惹了 Early spring, Monday morning, an old man, an old lady, hurriedly appeared on the trail in front of the Johnson Library on the campus of the University of Texas, and did not wear sneakers or dogs, unlike morning exercises. Did not drag the luggage, not to catch the train ah. Why are you walking so fast? Closer look, the old man is a sedentary look, thin, wearing large myopia, reveals knowledge, but also quite spirit, that is, serious expression, as if the task at shoulder. At the door, a few minutes before 9am, people’s library has not opened yet. The old man is not so heavy, become anxious, left and right shake, but also whistling child, the hand is very honest, kept pressing the elevator switch - no electricity at this moment. Finally arrived at 9 o’clock, the elevator door opened, the old man stopped for half a second, with a crushing pace of the old lady, a gust of wind like to drill into it. Elevator straight up reading room on the 8th floor. If strangers with good deeds ask the librarians behind, this old gentleman? - Bacheng did not dare to say “old man” at this moment, and he was afraid of inadvertently provoking