Woody Island is the economic, military and political center of the three islands of Xisha Islands, Nansha Islands and Zhongsha Islands, and is the residence of the Sansha Municipal People's Government and many higher-level dispatched agencies, municipal-level units and the Management Committee of the Yongxing Working Committee.

The environment of the island is outstanding, the greenery is clear and bright, the roads are clear, clean and open, the houses are clustered and scattered, there is no noise and noise of land towns, there is no pollution from factory smoke, and the air is exceptionally fresh and refreshing.

Deputy captain Du Chao picked up a handful of fine sand and rubbed it in his rough hands, and said, "The environment here is really good, like heaven on earth." ”

Zhu Changrong is a cadre in the urban area who supports poverty alleviation in the countryside, and his village party secretary is used to gild, unlike Ao Muyang and the others, they are from the city.

He was well-informed and sighed: "I have traveled from south to north and abroad, and I have seen many islands, which may be unique compared to here. ”

Du Chao was not convinced, and said: "Secretary Zhu, no, I heard that place in the Maldives is very beautiful." ”

Zhu Changrong nodded: "Yes, it's beautiful, but there are only hotels and a little entertainment facilities on the island, what do you think about here?"

A few people glanced at the island, and there were many buildings on the small island, including government buildings, schools, banks, post offices, hospitals, shops, guest houses, libraries, weather stations, military camps, etc., and it seemed that the production facilities and living facilities were complete.

"There's an airport over there. The taciturn Su Dapeng pointed to the end of the island and said.

Zhu Changrong said regretfully: "It's a pity that this place is not open to tourism, otherwise I really want to bring my mother-in-law and baby over to take a look, it's so beautiful." ”

Not far from the pier, a square cement-based stele appeared in front of them, with a large line written on it: Monument to the Navy's Reconquest of the Paracel Islands.

The majestic stone monument is bright red and vigorous, even if there are paulownia trees on both sides, it is still very eye-catching.

On the northeast side of the stele is the local government office building, and there is a bright five-star red flag on the tower, waving in the wind.

After they wandered around for a while, Du Chao suddenly pointed to the sea in the distance and said, "Have you paid attention to that ship? It has been circling around Woody Island, it is a pleasure boat, what is it doing? It's not a spy ship, right?"

There are warships, fishing boats, and transport ships on the island, but there are no cruise ships, just like Ao Muyang knows, this place is not open to the public.

Zhu Changrong is a promising party member, and he is very positive about this kind of thing, and a soldier happened to come with a basket, and he specially beckoned to point to the boat and explain the situation.

The dark-skinned soldier grinned, showing two hundred white teeth: "It's okay, tourist boat, some travel agencies told tourists that they could see Woody Island, of course they couldn't come up, so they drove the boat around the island twice, and tourists watched the island from the deck." ”

"Isn't it illegal?"

"Isn't this a pit man?"

Zhu Changrong and Ao Muyang spoke almost in unison, the previous question was raised by Zhu Changrong, and the following question came from Ao Muyang, two people with different political consciousness have different concerns.

The soldiers answered their questions one by one: "It's not illegal, it's really tricking people, the policy is just that ordinary people are not allowed to land on the island, and it doesn't say that they are not allowed to approach, which is a marginal game." ”

After speaking, he opened the white gauze on the basket, and inside were some fruits, pineapples, bananas, watermelons, green oranges, apples, star fruit, and so on.

He let several people choose freely, each person can take two kinds of fruits, which is prepared by the island for the activity team, Ao Muyang and the others did not enter the house, and the soldiers sent them over.

Ao Muyang and the others thanked him, and he chose pineapple and a star fruit.

When he was in elementary school, he learned a text called "Painting Star Fruit", when Mr. Ao Zhisheng taught them, he had a small toy of star fruit wood carving, when learning that class, although the fishermen did not really see the real star fruit, but they did know what star fruit looked like.

Seeing fresh star fruit at this time, Ao Muyang suddenly remembered the past.

However, star fruit is not very tasty......

Walking around the island for a while, Du was a little too hot to stand, the sun began to rise, the sun became hotter and hotter, and the ultraviolet rays here are very strong, shining on people's skin is not only hot, but also painful!

Zhu Changrong took out a bottle of sunscreen spray from his bag and gave it to him: "Oh, Lao Du, just spray it." ”

Du Chao wiped his sweat and said: "No, the fisherman hasn't experienced the wind and sun? I just want to take a shower now, alas, it's so hot." ”

There is a commissary in front, Ao Muyang used to buy a few bottles of iced drinks, the price was slightly more expensive than when he was in Hongyang, he bought a bottle of Wahaha mineral water, the price was three yuan.

Su Dapeng asked for a bottle of iced tea, he unscrewed the lid and looked at it first, and then grinned: "Ha, Team Ao, you just buy one less bottle, I won the lottery." ”

Du Chao took it and looked at it: "Another bottle, luck is okay, Lao Su!"

The shopkeeper said lazily, "You can't exchange it on the island." ”

"Why?" Su Dapeng was dissatisfied.

The owner of the shop said: "Because of the lack of supplies on the island, we have to send supplies by boat every time, and the snacks and drinks on the island, and the winners have to go to the mainland to redeem them." ”

Su Dapeng didn't talk much, but he was stubborn, he said: "The logical relationship between this doesn't make sense, your boss can also exchange it, and it's not like it's been a long time to replenish it." ”

The boss smiled and said: "Hey, let me tell you, if I exchange it for you, it means that there is a bottle of drink that has no profit value and is sent to the island, that is, the transport ship sends a bottle of drink for free to people to drink, what about the transportation cost?"

Su Dapeng still wanted to theorize, but Zhu Changrong stopped him and asked the boss: "That's it, boss, did you make this rule yourself or did the government pass it?"

"The island is a philistine. The boss said, "If you don't believe it, ask it, the government and Ah Bing's buddies will not exchange such a drink." ”

In that case, there is no need to say it.

Su Dapeng threw away the bottle cap, and it was not worth bringing such a bottle cap back to exchange it.

Then after they walked away, Ao Muyang turned around by chance and saw the boss jumping out of the counter and happily picking up the bottle cap......

Lao Ao was stimulated by this scene.

At noon, there is a canteen to entertain them, and the meals in the canteen are varied, but the food style is biased towards the Qiongdi area, and the taste is very light, in Du Chao's words, it is 'fading out of the taste of spitting stars'.

Ao Muyang didn't want to grieve his stomach, he was unhappy after eating convenience food on the boat for a few days, and said directly to Zhu Changrong and others: "Let's go, let's go outside to eat barbecue and drink beer." ”

When they were strolling, they passed by the residential area, where there were many restaurants, barbecue, hot pot complete.

Wang Youwei couldn't get used to eating the food here, so the four of them excluded him again, and he gritted his teeth in anger.