Fate is really a strange thing, you can't see it, you can't touch it, but it's really happening around you. When you go through the years and look back, you will sigh even more at its magic.

Chen Xing, 20 years old, an ordinary young man in M, a small border town in the northeastern province of China, looks ordinary, 172 tall, wears glasses, and has a thin body. When I was in college, my overall academic performance was average, and I was always in the middle of the class ranking. Because of the geographical location of the city of his birth, and following the general political climate and international situation, Chen Xingxue has learned Russian as a foreign language since he was in junior high school, and he never thought that this would be a turning point in his life.

Thanks to his good grades in Russian, Chen Xing found a job right after graduating from junior college and went to the Indian Ocean to become a Russian translator for a tuna purse seine fishing vessel.

In fact, he also passively accepted the job, because Taiwan's Shuntian Fishery Company leased 7 Russian purse seine boats, and at the same time hired the captain, first officer, second officer, chief engineer, deckmaster, sailor and other related personnel on board. Taiwan's Shuntian Fishery Company has set up an Indian Ocean tuna purse seine fishing fleet, and has arranged a leading team of Taiwanese captains, first mates, second officers, and cooks on each ship, and hired about 10 Fujian sailors.

In this way, each ship of this fishing fleet has two sets of sailors from China and Russia, with a total of about 30 people, and they are under the unified management of the Taiwanese fishing chief stationed in each boat. However, since most of the management teams in both countries were not good at English, there were communication problems and there was an urgent need for translation.

Fishing at sea is a hard and dangerous job, and according to statistics, it is second only to military personnel and firefighters. Russian is a small language, and it is difficult to find suitable translators in Taiwan and coastal cities in China, not to mention that seven are needed at once.

In this way, through the labor intermediary company, I contacted the foreign economic and trade company of Chen Xing's city, found the Russian graduates of this year, and finally through the assessment and screening, it was determined that seven boys whose family conditions were not good and who were not afraid of hardships and dangers signed labor export contracts at the end of September.

After more than three months of going through various relevant procedures and documents, seven young people, including Chen Xing, finally embarked on the journey to the Indian Ocean after New Year's Day in 1995.

Small city - provincial capital ice city - flying sheep city - flying Hong Kong - flying Singapore - flying to Seychelles, in the middle of the ice city and Yangcheng respectively stayed for one night.

When these seven ignorant young people who had just stepped into society experienced a three-day journey, the moment they stepped out of the plane and stepped out of the cabin door, they were greeted by the humid and hot air of the afternoon in Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, and the 60-degree climate difference between the ice city in the northern hemisphere and the equator.

The sun is hot in the sky, the surrounding is filled with hot heat, the blue sky and white clouds in the distance are bright and dazzling, the clouds are very low, gently brushing over the top of the mountain in the distance, and there is a feeling of clouds and mist.

The airport in Seychelles is not big, just a row of bungalows and no terminals. After leaving the customs, Tommy, a Taiwanese who worked at the Seychelles of Shun Tian Fishery Company, was dark, thin, and not tall, and a middle-aged man of about 35 or 6 years old greeted Chen Xing and his party of seven people at the exit and sent them to Victoria Harbor.

Breathing in the moist air of the harbor with the smell of fish, Chen Xing stood on the seashore and observed his surroundings. Victoria is the capital and port of Seychelles, on the northeast coast of Mahé, with a population of 25,000, it is the smallest capital in Africa, with excellent harbors, an important port of call and relay station for shipping in the Indian Ocean, and an important fishing port.

Almost all tuna fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean use Victoria Harbour as a relay station. But what attracts Chen Xing the most is the white of the beach, the blue of the sea, and the green of the island, this white, blue, and green are so pure, dotted with the occasional flock of white seagulls flying by, happily calling and skimming the slightly tumbling blue sea, so that you can watch and listen, and your soul will be deeply immersed in it, unable to extricate itself. For the past 20 years, the impact on the seven young people who have been living in a small town in northern China is huge.

Tommy boarded a small workboat with seven excited and energetic young men, piloted by a large, sturdy Russian sailor with a young man of 1.9 meters. After the boys greeted each other in Russian, the sailors carried everyone towards a row of seven large fishing boats adjacent to the deep water in the distance, where Chen Xing was about to work.

Looking at the worried and confused eyes of the young men, Tommy introduced in Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent: "The fishing boat you work on is a 2,000-ton ocean-going purse seine fishing vessel made in Spain, which is currently the most advanced semi-automatic purse seine fishing vessel in the world, and you will like this big guy." Well, from today onwards, each brat is responsible for the translation of one ship. The first ship is the Aristotle, Chen Xing, you go up."

The workboat approached the Aristotle, and a Fujian sailor had already taken Chen Xing's luggage and pulled Chen Xing up. Standing on the side of the boat and saying goodbye to 6 friends, looking at the white waves splashed by the distant work boat, the rippling sea at the moment, the green and peaceful island dock in the distance, breathing the slightly moist air, Chen Xing suddenly felt like a dream, compared with his only 20 years of life, a new and completely different life began!?