I started to put it into action.

When I have free time, I no longer stay in the village, but go to the nearby villages to find some acquaintances and see what I can do outside.

It didn't take long to come across it. A playmate when I was a kid. He told me that he was doing a small job on Peach Blossom Island some time ago, earning more than 2 yuan a day, and he was still in charge of food and housing.

"The people there are rich!"

He vividly introduced to me that the local fishermen are all rich, and every family is building a house, and they are all working at any time.

He told me he was going to go again in two days, and that I could go with him if I wanted to.

I copied the address on the envelope he had written home earlier. I wrote down the "Yumiyang Brigade of Peach Blossom Commune" in my mind. I have a good memory and can barely remember it. Until now, I rarely store phone numbers on my mobile phone, and I can memorize all the important ones, and I don't need to remember the unimportant ones.

When I got home, I discussed it with my eldest brother first.

My eldest brother was 7 years older than me, and he was not married, so he had bad luck that year, and he didn't choose a note to support the transport ship, and he was also a farmer in the team.

He didn't let me go, for fear that I would go out and suffer.

A few days later, my eldest brother asked me, "Do you have his address?" ”

"Yes." I say.

"Then let's go tomorrow."

I think Big Brother must want to make some money.

I barely slept that night, was excited, thought a lot...

The next day, before dawn, we went out, walked 10 miles, took the earliest shuttle bus to Dinghai Chengguan at the location of the commune, and then transferred to Shenjiamen. I walked quite a bit to the ferry terminal.

The eldest brother has done the business of transport ships and has traveled to many places.

"I have run through three passes and six docks, and I have eaten Fenghua taro", which can be regarded as having seen the world.

I'll just follow him.

I quickly bought a ticket and waited for more than an hour to board the ship to Peach Blossom.

My hometown is on the main island of Zhoushan, and Taohua is the outer island, which belongs to Putuo County.

On the boat, I have been thinking about what kind of place Peach Blossom Island is.

Since I was a child, I have heard adults chanting: "Poor peach blossoms, rich six horizontal, begging shrimp in the middle." "But I haven't been to any of these places.

More than an hour later, the ship docked, and some people got on the pier, and we still had to sit.

About half an hour later, the ship's employee said, "Yumiyang has arrived." ”

The waves at the pier are very large, and it takes a lot of time to dock. With the help of the crew, they got to the pier.

When you look up, there is not a single flat land here, and the houses are all built on the hills. Most of them are newly built houses, mainly bungalows, and there are many under construction.

The pier is a small road that winds up, there are houses on both sides, and the one by the sea is very dense, and the more you go to the top, the more scattered it is.

On the way, I met many men in their 30s who were crawling up with bricks.

Seeing that someone was putting down his burden and resting his feet, the eldest brother stepped forward to ask for permission and tried to climb 10 steps and put it down again.

I asked about the salary, but I can't remember the specifics. Then he asked him where he was from, and he said, "Elephant mountain man." At that time, I didn't know where Elephant Mountain was.

Unexpectedly, after a year, I went to be an elephant mountain man for three years.

I searched all the way to find my playmate, and it turned out that he worked in the house of the local commune secretary, and he added a floor to the flat roof on the first floor.

The three of us sat on the concrete floor in front of the house and talked for a while, and it was time for dinner. The secretary's wife warmly invited us to eat together, and it seemed that the secretary was not often at home.

The elder brother said, "I'm sorry I didn't work for you." ”

The woman took over and said quickly, "It's not easy to go out, come on, you're welcome." ”

There were a total of 4 workers who ate with us. During the dinner, they talked about finding a job, and they all said that odd jobs were not easy to find, and the only thing was to pick bricks.

After a good meal, the eldest brother and I walked to the courtyard wall. side

The house is on a hillside halfway up the mountain, with a view of the sea, and the south wind in the evening is a little strong, and the waves hit the rocks and roll up a few meters high, and there is a loud "whoosh" sound.

"Let's go home tomorrow, you can't bear it."

I didn't see my eldest brother's eyes, but two streams of hot liquid gushed out of my eyes, crossed the corners of my nose and mouth, and landed on the concrete floor, and I didn't hear a sound.

Many years later, when talking about this forgotten incident, the eldest brother would always say, "We even begged for food!"