by A LONG

The JIAOTONG road is a street running northeast to southwest in Gaomi County of Shantung Province. It is less than 300 meters long and more than four meters wide. It has many bends and is connected with many narrower lanes. It is very special among the horizontal and vertical roads in Gaomi County. It is called Shenxian Alley, and the name is probably related to the prosperous shops on both sides of the alley from Zhenfu Street to nearly 100 meters inward, engaged in fortune-telling, name-finding, marriage prediction, wealth guidance, exploration of yin and yang, Geomancy, etc. . At the other end of the alley is a snack bar and an active vegetable market in the morning, midnight and evening. There are also several stalls that slaughter chickens and ducks throughout the day. The fireworks are full but rather messy. In the early 1980s, when Hong Kong martial arts films were popular, there was a video room at three or five steps from Shenxian Alley. The sound of fists, sticks, axes, axes, hooks and forks continued to reach the train station at the northern end of the city, attracting a large number of people in the old campus of Gaomi County No. 1 Middle School in front of the station. student. For many students of that era, in addition to vague videos, martial arts masters with fangs and dancing claws, Shenxian Alley also used a line to connect the epoch-making wide-screen film “Shaolin Temple” that was being screened at Gaomi Old Cinema. Go ahead. Fortunately, the three old willow trees at the entrance of the alley were still there on the day of the photo taken, as if they had existed in an ancient slanted posture since the birth of Shenxian Alley, overlooking the city and sheltering the common people. This imprint will take the form of green branches sprouting every spring. Resurrected in the memories of generations of Gaomi people.

A LONG, whose real name is Li Yansheng, was born in 1965, member of Shandong Provincial Writers Association, vice chairman of Gaomi City Writers Association, published
prose monograph “Hometown Trilogy” (including “Discover Gaomi”, “Yidi Liangren”, and “Wulonghe” ), won the 4th Kite City Cultural Award, and the 2nd Qilu Prose Award.