18 ~ The ship docked in Taiwan Province Province, China, and renewed the genealogy with the dockers-

meditate and recall the past. Life on the ship is full of many ups and downs, from the harsh Australian to the funny Indian, and then moved by Taiwan Province Province of China. I have always thought that as long as you find life on board with your heart, there will always be a few things that you will remember for life. I thought that the purpose of running a boat was to travel around the world for free. Now it seems that I have achieved my goal. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, we have returned to Taiwan Province Province in China.

if the harbor is busy, ships will anchor and wait for berths, and then queue up to dock. It's better to catch a good one than to catch a good one. In the evening of that day, our ship berthed directly in Taiwan Province Province. Although I have never been to this place before in China, it is relatively new to me. The docks in Taiwan Province Province give people a particularly cordial feeling, because no matter on the loading and unloading equipment or on the walls of the port, slogans are printed in Chinese. Even the harbor seems to be inhabited, because I clearly see rows of small houses in the harbor, and there are kitchen chimneys on the top of the small houses. At that time, it was time to cook dinner, and the smoke curled up, which was particularly smoky. I had dinner in a hurry on the boat, stood on the deck, took a deep breath, and immediately felt relaxed and happy, with a kind of intimacy to return to my hometown in the countryside! I don't know if you have any experience of living in the countryside, because I am a rural person. When I was a child, after school at night, every household was cooking with a fire, and the whole village was filled with the smell of fireworks, which was particularly comfortable. In the port of Taiwan Province Province, I once again found the feeling of childhood.

the night after the ship docked, we started unloading. And I still need to stand on duty at the gangway, and the second mate is wandering around the gangway as usual. Here, I'd like to give you a lesson on popular science. After the ship docked in Hong Kong, our gangway entrance is the most lively place, because it is the first window for the ship to communicate with the outside world, and people will be on duty 24 hours a day, so many people will stop at the gangway entrance if they are bored. The second officer came up to me and I asked him with a smile, "What's the matter? Second brother, what do you see again? Why don't we sell the boat this time? " The second mate cooperated with me and said, "I just came to tell you that the buyer has been contacted in the room just now, and the bid is 3 million, and we will share it equally!" Because we both knew that we were joking with each other, we burst out laughing. I asked the second mate very seriously, "Let's go to the ground together tomorrow. My mobile phone screen is broken, and I want to go to the ground to fix it." The second mate also answered me very seriously, "Forget it, he has been here many times, and he is not allowed to go to the ground every time. If the mobile phone is broken, you can tell the third mate that there should be a supplier on board tomorrow, just to send us ingredients. See if you can ask the supplier to bring you a mobile phone." I suddenly lost my mood and thought, "forget it, I don't necessarily like the mobile phone they brought, so stick to it!" Buy again on the next voyage! "

I was on duty at the gangway, which was really boring, so I picked up my mobile phone and called my family to report my safety. After the call was connected, my mother told me, "Your grandfather has been complaining that you didn't call him all this time." In fact, I always called my grandfather as soon as I stopped by Hong Kong, but he was old, so I was afraid to tell him the real situation that there was no signal in our industry, for fear that he would be worried. So I hung up with my mother in a hurry and called my grandfather. My grandfather is still as cute as before. Every time I answer the phone, I always say "hello" loudly, and I will subconsciously raise my voice on the other end of the phone. Because of this, the boatswain thought I was quarreling several times and always taught me to say, "It's not easy to dock in Hong Kong once, don't make trouble with my family, have something to say"! It makes me laugh and cry. When I told my grandfather that he was in Taiwan Province Province now, my grandfather's words made me feel uncomfortable. Grandpa said, "Actually, I have another great grandfather, that is, my brother, who came to Taiwan Province Province that year, and then I didn't get in touch with him. Grandpa also gave me his nickname and gave me a serious description of his appearance, so that I could pay attention to it. If I met him, he must go home and have a look." At that time, I thought, Great Grandpa, But in order not to hurt grandpa's mood, I resolutely agreed.

The next day, as usual, I went to the gangway to check the workers coming and going to work on our ship. Maybe I am extroverted, or I may sail in the deep sea for a long time without communication. When I am on duty at the stairway, there will always be a lot of words. I greet everyone who comes to work on our ship with great enthusiasm. When I see someone, I will always say "Uncle, you have worked hard, pay attention to safety when you work. If you need to drink water, I will help you get boiled water"! One of them, an uncle, estimated to be in his fifties, was about the same age as my father. He also took a lunch box with him on the boat. I saw that when he registered his name at the entrance of the ladder, he found that he had the same surname as me, both surnamed Chen, and immediately felt that he had met his relatives. I casually said, "Uncle, we are both surnamed Chen, a family. When you eat, I will help you take the lunch box to the boat to heat it in the microwave oven." He As we haven't started unloading yet, the two of us started to have a family conversation at the gangway entrance.

Later, he asked me, "Do you know our Chen family tree? What is your generation? "I was immediately interested, because when I was in my hometown, my grandfather belonged to the oldest old man in our Chen family. My family tree has been preserved by my grandfather, and he often tells me these things. I blurted out," I am a word generation, and our family tree is not chaotic, which has lasted for more than one hundred years. "I didn't expect this strange uncle and I to be the same generation, so I quickly smiled and said," Let's. In this way, in a strange port, two people who only met once felt like relatives talking. After a short chat, we both ended the conversation and went back to work. At noon, when I was about to get off work, I specially ran to find this uncle, helped him heat up the food in the lunch box, and gave him a bottle of coke left in my room. While eating at noon, we started talking again in the first mate's office. Then he told me his story.

Uncle said, "His father has passed away, and he always wanted to contact his relatives in his hometown before his death, but it was inconvenient in many places, and his wish was not realized until the last moment of his life." I hurriedly asked, "Did he tell you where his hometown is? Are there any relatives in the family? " My uncle replied, "My hometown should be in Huaiyang, Henan Province. My father came out as a soldier after getting married. There is also a married wife at home. The wife who has just been married for three months is unclear about whether she is pregnant, and there are two brothers and one sister." I suddenly lost in thought. Isn't this similar to my great grandfather's situation? What is certain is that he is definitely not my great grandfather, because my great grandfather is not married and his hometown is not in Huaiyang. But no matter what, it's fate. Later, my uncle asked me about the genealogy of my family. He said, "The genealogy here is only known by the old man. Now that the old man has passed away, his son doesn't know any seniority." Fortunately, when I was a child, my grandfather forced me to recite it. I was particularly excited to tell him the word "Ge". Later, I wrote down the ranking of generations in my childhood mind and gave it to him. This uncle really has family feelings, and I can feel how excited he was at that time. Keep saying thank you.

Many people may be curious, "Why don't you ask grandpa's specific seniority ranking? What if you make a mistake in dictation?"? In fact, I want to call my grandpa many times, but I'm afraid he'll think I've found my grandpa! After all, he is so old. Besides, for this uncle in Taiwan Province Province, what he cares about is not the genealogy, but the feelings of missing his hometown and relatives. After that, I always met this uncle when I was on duty at the gangway every day, and my uncle came up with a lunch box every day. What moved me was that the lunch box was no longer his lunch, but a special rice ball made by his wife. He brought it up for me to taste, and I was really comfortable inside.

On the last day after I docked in Hong Kong, I invited him to sit in my room on the boat. When he saw the decoration of my room, he smiled and said that I would live! I'm going to give him two homing pigeons. After all, I ate too much. I'm embarrassed to ask the chef for millet to feed them every day. Unexpectedly, he told me that he could sell it, so he took it away, deliberately skipped work and ran out of the port to help me sell it. He sold it for 5 dollars and sent it back to me. I refused decisively, but he finally slipped it to me secretly. (To be continued)