1961年的秋天,我11岁,父亲带我进了一次大山。那是个饥荒的年代,萝卜、南瓜、土豆这些平常的蔬菜都成了许多家庭的主食,即便这些蔬菜,也很快吃光了,人们开始挖野菜、剥树皮来吃。正是在这种背景下,父亲决定带我进大山里去寻点吃的。这个大山叫野鬼岭,离我们家有三十多里,听说上面有一片野杮子林和野板栗林,父 The autumn of 1961, I was 11 years old, my father took me into a mountain. It was a famine era. The usual vegetables, such as radishes, pumpkins and potatoes, became the staple food of many families. Even these vegetables quickly eaten, and people started to dig wild vegetables and bark to eat. It is in this context, my father decided to take me into the mountains to find something to eat. This mountain is called wild ghost ridge, more than thirty miles away from our home, I heard there is a wild Ye Zilin and wild chestnut forest, father