Zhao's Prose Autumn Wind

Plantagenet, like a bare old tree, has lost all its branches and leaves in the bleak autumn wind and stood alone in the corner.

What about the owner of the broom? People told me that three days ago, she was carried away from the windowless stairwell at the entrance of the alley. ?

The autumn wind is tight, and a few leaves of plane trees float into the alley, rustling and spinning on the ground, as if whispering hazy gibberish that no one can understand ... Her image clearly appears in front of my eyes: gray hair, wrinkled face, swollen eyes, overflowing with soft and dim light. She will always be with her broom, which is an extension of her arm. I don't know how many sunny or gloomy mornings and evenings, she waved a broom, swept and swept from one end to the other, and touched every corner of the alley thousands of times with her hands.

No one knows her name. "Grandma Sweeping the Floor"-that's what everyone calls her. More than twenty years ago, when we just moved into this alley, we heard people call her that. At that time, there was a big iron gate at the entrance of the alley and a cabin by the door. She lives in a hut, sweeps the alley during the day and works as a doorman in the alley at night. During the big steelmaking, the iron gate at the entrance was removed, the cabin disappeared, and she moved to the dark stairwell.

At that time, she was not old and her hair was black. However, apart from calling out the candles carefully every night, I never heard her talk again. I only saw her sweeping the hall with her head down. Sometimes when you look up and see a person, you will smile and say hello. Some housewives in the alley look down on her and often point at her behind her back: "What, prostitutes before liberation, huh!" So the children also avoided her, thinking that she was a little scary and mysterious. "Old woman sweeping the floor"-that's what the children call her behind her back.

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Zhao is now a professional writer of Shanghai Writers Association and a member of Chinese Writers Association. He used to be the vice chairman of Shanghai Youth Federation and a member of China People's Political Consultative Conference. Now he is the vice chairman of Shanghai Writers Association. He has published more than 30 collections of poetry, prose and reportage, such as Coral, Grass of Life and Heart Painting. His works won dozens of awards, and Soul of Poetry won the National Excellent Prose Collection Award in the New Period.

The lyrical narrative features of Zhao's anti-prose "Autumn Wind" laid the foundation of traditional prose, giving people a profound feeling that our attention determines our future.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhao