谢海与我是同年、同乡,这两样或许有助于我们成为好朋友,强化我们对于时间、故土的共同记忆。换句话说,我们有着共同的成长背景,从小孩子到青年时代,我们走过同一条街衢,逛过同一个公园。极有可能是,我们曾有过擦肩而过的时候,他朝我做鬼脸,扬拳头,我快步跑开,觉得这小朋友无聊得很。我们真正的擦肩而过是在1994年,我家搬到他家附近,相隔不过五分钟的路程,周遭的地标是报社、二院、楚秀公园、清晏园……那时我已开始写作,在淮安,算得上一颗“冉冉升起”的 Xie Hai and I are the same year, fellow countrymen, both of which may help us to be good friends and strengthen our common memory of time and homeland. In other words, we have a common background of growth. From childhood to youth, we walked through the same thoroughfare and visited the same park. Most likely, when we had had a pass, he grimaced at me, raised his fist, and I walked away in a hurry and thought it boring. We really pass in 1994, my family moved to his home nearby, but only five minutes away, around the landmark newspaper, the second hospital, Chu Xiu Park, Qing Yan Park ... ... then I have started writing In Huai’an, can be regarded as a “rising”