从小到大,父亲不止一次跟我讲起,在20世纪自然灾害十分严重的五六十年代,他有一个同父异母的哥哥逃难去了东北,后来音信全无。人老最容易怀旧,随着年龄越来越大,父亲越发频繁地跟我们絮叨起这件事情,告诉我们他和自己的那位哥哥在“非常”时期建立起来的宝贵亲情。父亲的用意很明显,他是想在有生之年与这位哥哥再见上一面。 From small to large, my father talked more than once to me. In the 1950s and 1960s, when a natural disaster was very serious in the 20th century, he had an half-brother who had fled to the northeast and then got no news. Old people are the easiest to be nostalgic. As they get older, my father talked more and more about this matter and told us about the precious affection that he and his brother had built during the “extraordinary” period. His father’s intention is obvious, he is trying to see his brother again in his lifetime.