Mirage in Yangshuo.

My hometown Penglai is an ancient city with mountains and seas. The city is small, but the scenery is unique. Penglai Pavilion, especially on the cliff of Ya Dan in the north of the city, is magnificent. Leaning on the cupboard and looking at the vast and empty scenery can really wash your heart clean. This is not surprising. The strangest thing is the illusion that occasionally appears at sea, called Haishi. I saw it once when I was a child. I remember it was spring, foggy and I was in Penglai.

After crossing the pavilion, I picked up a pearl that was rounded by the tide and heard someone shout, "It's time to go to sea." I saw the original island hidden at the junction of the sea and the sky, and a mountain that I had never seen before stood on the sea, black and gray, like an ink painting. The mountains are covered with Gu Song Cooper; A fishing village loomed in the sparse place of pine and cypress. The mountains are changing all the time. A pagoda appeared at the top of the mountain for a while, and a city appeared in the ravine for a while. There are many moving black spots in the upper reaches of the city, like people and vehicles coming and going. After a while, the mountain city slowly disappeared and became more and more pale. In a blink of an eye, the sky was blue, everything disappeared, and the original island reappeared at sea.

This kind of wonders, the ancient literati saw, often can't help chanting loudly. Look at the poems carved by many predecessors on Penglai Pavilion, most of which are mirage, thinking that they are fairy mountains on the sea circulated in ancient myths. One of the most famous poems is Su Dongpo's poem about Haicheng, which begins with the following words: "There is a sea of clouds in the east, and there is no hidden pearl palace in the north que ..." This shows how charming this Haicheng is. Unfortunately, this illusion is easily overlooked. I grew up in my hometown as a teenager, and I only saw it once. It has been more than twenty years since I left my hometown. This summer, I once again set foot on the hot land and boarded Penglai Pavilion. I really hope that the ethereal wonders can reappear at sea. I came at a bad time. It is usually spring, and the east wind blows after the rain, so there is a sea market. Midsummer, isn't it daydreaming? However, if the sea market doesn't come out, can't we go to the places where the sea market often appears? Maybe we can find it.

So I got on the boat and sailed deep into the sea. What an ocean of mirrors. The sea is blue and fascinating. I really want to become a fish and get into the waves. Fish is really pleasant. Look at the back of a big fish on the sea, like a hill. Isn't that fish more than ten feet long? I was lost in thought when I suddenly saw a thorn. Another fish flew out of the water, spread its wings, flew far towards Shui Pi, and fell again.

Surprised and delighted, I asked, "Can fish still fly?"

The helmsman said, "Where is the swallow fish? Do you think it looks like a swallow? " ? In foggy days, I sometimes fly to the boat. "The man is tall and strong, a see will know that he is a veteran of sailing, experienced all kinds of wind and waves. He asked me, "Did you go to the seaside to watch fishing? "

I said, "No, it's to find Haicheng."

The helmsman looked at me and said, "Can you still find Haicheng?"

I smiled and said, "I can find it-look, isn't that the front?" Just point to the distance, and through the faint clouds, an island is faintly visible.

The helmsman smiled calmly and said, "It's really a sea city. You should go up and have a look. "

As soon as the ship approached the island, I went ashore and entered Haicheng.

It is really a "sea fairy mountain". The islands in this area are surrounded by smoke cages and fog, one holding the other, which is simply a chain, lying across Bohai Bay. Bohai Bay has always been called the gateway to Beijing. With this long chain hanging on the door, the door is locked tightly and firmly. Don't think that the island is always desolate. The mountains here are low and lush, with oak, locust, poplar and pine trees, and countless fruit trees such as holly, grapes, peaches, apricots, pears and apples. In the fishing village, the place where the leaves penetrate is often exposed, just like what I saw in Haicheng when I was a child. In the past, the scenery of Haicheng could only be seen from a distance. Now you can walk into fishermen's homes and have a heart-to-heart talk with them. The island extends in all directions and there are shady roads everywhere. Walking slowly along the road, you can see bright skirts flashing in the sea of green crops. That's a fisherman's girl. She likes to wear red and hang green. She is weeding. There is a young woman who doesn't start work, with a wild flower in her sideburns, standing in the shade of a locust tree and leaning against a hoe. What is she doing? Oh! It turned out that I was listening to the news of the national wheat harvest broadcast on the commune loudspeaker.

Talking about wild flowers is also a major feature of the island. There is Izumi in spring; In summer, when the sun sets, the yellow flowers all over the mountains exude a refreshing fragrance. In the yellow flowers, sometimes a flame-like wild lily stands upright. With the cool breeze and the chirping of crickets, you should smell the strong medicinal fragrance of wild chrysanthemum. In winter, the grass turns yellow and the flowers are all out, but the flowers are scattered in the sky, so the mountains are covered with a dazzling layer of snowflakes.

Light snow in early winter is the season for fishermen to catch scallops. Fishing boats all raise their white sails and pull up their nets, like white butterflies flying in droves. Scallops, abalone, sea cucumbers and the like are extremely precious seafood. When you get to the fishery production team, people will let you eat. Besides mackerel roe and swallow fish balls, don't make a fuss if you eat fresh Bai Bei or abalone that just went out to sea. You think it's a feast, but it's normal.

Fishing these seafood is very laborious. Where there are steep cliffs and deep waters, there are plenty of scallops and abalone. I went to visit an abalone handler once. The fishermen in this line are all middle-aged, good at swimming and experienced, each with a spatula and a gourd tied with a small net. At low tide, the water is shallow, so fishermen put on water goggles and swim around in the water first to see the bottom of the sea through them. As soon as I found abalone, I threw down the gourd and got into the water. Abalone is also a strange thing, with only half a shell attached to the reef. If you can't shovel it with a shovel and break its shell, you'll never get it down again. Fishermen get abalone, they float to the surface, throw the abalone into the net, hold the gourd for a few breaths, and then drill down. They are all laughing and laughing like little boys. They throw abalone with pearl shells, live sea cucumbers about a foot long, scallops like cattail fans, and throw a strange thing called "stinging pot", which is round and covered with long black thorns, similar to hedgehogs and can climb.

The most prosperous fishing season is naturally spring and March. There is a beautiful place on the island called Huagou, which is full of peach trees. Every year, when peach blossoms are in full bloom, it is like tens of millions of morning glow falling on the island. Peach blossom season is also a season of prosperity for all things. A seagull, like a snowball, will sit in its nest on the rock and concentrate on incubating eggs. The naughty boy climbed up the rock and reached for the seagull's egg. The female gull just rolled her eyes and was too lazy to move. Yellow croaker swarmed and floated from the bottom of the sea to the surface. The big shark chased the yellow croaker. Call. When they heard the fish barking, the fishermen knew that it was a large group of fish. The largest net can catch more than 200,000 fish, which fell into the cabin and jumped more than a foot. As the saying goes: "After Grain Rain, a hundred fish went ashore." Big prawns also rushed to the offshore like dark clouds, dense layers. You pushed me, hit me and jumped on the sea. This is called peach blossom shrimp, and its belly is full of money, and it is the fattest. Fishermen use a kind of "jar net", which is tied with jars as buoys to pull shrimps, which fall on the boats one by one and are transported to the beach one by one, and the shrimps on the beach pile up into piles of mountains. Fishermen are not called Shrimp Mountain, but Jinshan Yinshan. This is the busiest fishing season and the busiest marine market.

Now let's go into people's homes in Shanghai and have a look. Lao Song is a strong and capable young man with dark eyebrows and sleepy eyes, but as smart as the locals say, he is like a seahorse. He spent half his life rolling in the wind and waves, struggling with ship owners and making revolution. Now he is the general branch secretary of a production brigade. He led me to string several doors, each of which is a stone-walled tile house, which is very neat. The decoration in the room is exquisite: the kang is covered with a soft and thick blanket; There is a table and wardrobe painted gold on the ground; There is a mirror hanging on the wall; There is a clock, a bowl and a big vase on the table. At first I thought it was someone's wedding room, but it's not surprising that every family is like this.

I can't help admiring and saying, "Your life is really like a fairy. You are rich. "

Lao Song smiled and didn't answer. He pointed to the distant hillside and asked, "What do you think that is?"

This is a grave, strewn at random with wormwood.

Old Song Dao: "It's not a real grave, it's a fake grave. Buried in the grave was a pile of clothes and a brick with the name of the deceased engraved on it. Where is the victim? They have already been buried in the sea of Wang Yang. Fishermen often say: It's better to be a donkey in Nanshan than go fishing in the sea-you think this fisherman will float on the sea all year round, saying that the weather will change and the wind and waves will kill hundreds of people. The most terrible thing is the tornado, which rotates and can take everyone to the sky. When the wind is strong, women and children all go to the top of the mountain to burn incense and kowtow. Everyone looked at their relatives' boats, crying and screaming. It's miserable-not to mention the master's knife that kills people without blood. "

Speaking of this, Lao Song lowered his sleepy eyes, obviously recalling the past, and continued: "Everyone knows that scorpions are poisonous, but they don't know that shipowners are more poisonous than scorpions. The family was poor, and at the age of twelve, he gave odd jobs to the boat. Peach blossoms bloom in March, and feet are red with cold. In the rain, the master scooped the tide out of the cabin. If you scoop slowly, the master will knock the lead fish on your head. When I was older, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out. Guerrillas led by Penglai Production Party need to buy steel from Dalian, probably for weapons. At that time, shipowners often went to Dalian to install sticks for business, and I cooked for others on board. A man named Bao in Dalian first stole steel from a Japanese factory and hid it in a shop. The ship owner just wants to do this business for money, and let me ship the steel back to the ship. You want Japanese spies to walk the streets. Once you are caught, do you still want to live? Because I am young, I have a little sister who lives in my sister's house in Dalian. My brother and sister turned into that shop. My sister tied the steel to my leg and I carried it with my hand wrapped in snack paper. When I walked back all the way, I always felt that there was a dog behind me, and I was very scared. Hurry back to Penglai and give it to the guerrillas. The guerrillas will send out two shipments of wheat. I don't want my master to detain all the wheat and not give me a grain. My family is suffering from acorn powder, waiting for food to be cooked. Father was so angry that he went to the shipowner, but the shipowner raised his voice and scolded:' Wheat is my money, you can't blackmail me. Your son still owes us food and no work. If he doesn't get even with you, it will be cheaper for you. "This tone, I couldn't get out for many years, until Japan surrendered, and the * * * production party came. I became a militia platoon leader, beat the ship owner, reduced rent and interest rates, and I began to work vigorously. My mother was timid and advised me to say,' Son, will you cut the meat off someone's leg? If something goes wrong, I'm afraid I can't even save my life. "In the end, I almost lost my life."

I interrupted him and asked, "I'm afraid that's about the war of liberation?"

Lao Song said: "Yes! As soon as the war of liberation started, I moved out, and I often transported grain, wood and sulfur to the PLA at sea. I'm the team leader. Ships always sail at night. It was dawn one day, and I took care of the boat all night, and I was a little tired. I only took a nap when I entered the cabin. A comrade whispered in my ear,' Get up and have a look. Why are there so many fishing boats today? I rubbed my eyes and ran out of the hut. As soon as I saw it, there were all small fishing boats around. Suddenly, all the small fishing boats set up tents together. How did Qixin's fishing boat do this? I don't think so. Tell the ship to dock quickly. It was getting late, and ships from all directions came up early and fired several shots. A pockmarked face stepped onto our boat step by step, holding two guns in both hands and blocking my chest. It turns out that this is a Kuomintang captain. He tied me up first, hung me in the back cabin, beat me and interrogated me at the same time. After hanging for a long time, I couldn't get any confession, so I had to untie me again, light the back of my head with a box gun and throw it into the cabin. There are other comrades in the cabin. After a while, I only heard a hoarse voice muttering,' Remember, don't admit it's the PLA. This is obviously to set us up. Who will fix you up? The cabin was covered with sails and some thick iron bars, which made it dark and airtight. I heard the voice of the man standing guard hoarse, and leaned back and said,' Can you show us some cracks and let us have some air? "As soon as the man heard my words, he climbed onto the deck, revealing a big hole. I didn't expect to be friends. I looked out and it was dark; Distinguish the stars and know that the ship is sailing for Tianjin. I can't feel the thought of death. Now that you are under arrest, you can't escape. You might as well die. When I die, I am in charge. Comrades put the blame on me and refused to admit anything. Maybe they can save their lives. It's easy to say death, but it's really not easy. I think of the party, my comrades-in-arms, the old people at home, and my lonely wife and children. Tears was more than I could bear, and Ba tabata dripped down. I thought for a while, then repeatedly said a few words to my comrades-in-arms, and then whispered with tears in my eyes,' Comrade-in-arms, I'm going out to relieve myself.' A comrade said,' You can put it in the engine room.' I said,' No, I'm covered in fire and want to go out to cool off. He poked his head out of the hatch, looked around, got up gently, plunged into the sea and heard the enemy on board say,' The big fish is jumping. '

"At that time, it was already cool in autumn, and the sea was freezing. I'm hurt again. The sea is very painful. Struggling to swim in the middle of the night, exhausted, people fainted and drifted down with the high tide. I don't know how long it took. I suddenly woke up, opened my eyes and found myself lying on a big ship, surrounded by a group of people in yellow uniforms with machine guns. I thought it was the enemy's net again! If you ask me, just say fishing capsized. Rice soup was cooked on the boat, and a soldier held my back neck and personally fed me rice soup. I just saw him wearing the Bayi hat badge, and his heart was sour, just like seeing my closest parents, and he couldn't help crying for a while.

"So I was saved. The comrades on board really put the blame on me, were beaten and refused to confess, so the enemy had to let them go. It took a long time to find out that the owner of the ship had a grudge, somehow found out our activity route, told the enemy about it and stopped us halfway. Look, how hateful! "

Finally, Lao Songcai smiled and answered my initial words: "Didn't you say that our life is like a fairy?" Do you think this is a fairy? If there is no revolution, the place where the real God lives will become a hell on earth. "

I asked, "What about the revolution?"

Lao Song said: "When there is a revolution, even a hell on earth can become a sea fairy mountain like our island."

I can't help nodding and laughing: "Yes, yes. There is only one thing I don't understand: we have changed the life of the master now, but we can't change the life of the sea. When the sea changes its face, isn't it still making waves and harming people's lives? "

Lao Song smiled again, smiling confidently. He said, "You'd better go to the fishing boat tomorrow. Now fishing boats are organized, with guiding boats and broadcasting fishing customs anytime and anywhere. Big ships have radios, and ordinary ships also have walkie-talkies. Before the wind comes, the ship can avoid the fishing port in time if there is news first. What can the sea show off? -but sometimes unexpected, also can have an accident. There was a close call and almost an accident. There was no wind in that weather forecast. Fishermen get up early to watch the sun. It's red, and the clouds have disappeared. The weather was not like the wind, so several fishing boats went out to sea. Don't want a sudden gust of wind in the afternoon. The waves were higher than the mountains, and anxious fishermen tied the mast to the boat to suppress the wind and waves. What's the use? The waves hit the ship one after another, and the ship's side was broken and about to turn over. At the critical moment, a warship appeared in front of the cold roof. You know, it's not too far from South Korea, and it's unfortunate to meet enemy ships. The fishermen panicked. The warship was pushed up step by step, and some people took off their clothes and jumped into the sea to swim to the fishing boat. When the fisherman saw it, he shouted happily: It's coming to save us! In a short time, the fishermen rescued the warship and the fishing boat was dragged back. The fishermen all said,' If Chairman Mao hadn't sent a big warship, this time it would be over.' "

It turned out that the People's Navy guarding the gateway of Kyoto specially came to the rescue.

Seeing this, some people may be impatient: what is this sea market? The sea market is illusory, just as an unknown poet in Qing Dynasty said: "It is unattainable to find immortal traces from the sea." How can you walk into Haicheng? This is not a joke! My friend, forgive me. What I remember now is not the endless Haicheng, but a real Haicheng. If you go to my hometown Penglai to see a mirage, the season is unfortunate, so don't be disappointed if you can't see it. I suggest you go to see this real mirage, which is more novel and interesting than the illusory mirage.

This real Haicheng is nothing but Changshan Islands.