In March, the sea is foggy and sometimes sunny and sunny.

This island on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean is part of China's sovereignty, but because it is separated by the Qiongzhou Strait to the north, it takes nearly two hours to ferry to Guangxi by sea, and to the south is even more expansive, except for the blue, the South China Sea, which has nothing on the surface of the map, and is connected to the distant Indian and Pacific Oceans; so from the map, Hainan Island looks more like a footnote on the pages of Chinese mainland. No matter which province of China they come from, for convenience, people who have lived here for a long time have begun to refer to the other side of the strait as "mainland" or "hinterland", just for the sake of geographical distinction, but they can gradually taste the huge difference between the inner core of the mainland and the islanders. The local islanders call themselves "islanders" and the mainlanders "mainland boys".

The cloth summarizes the inner core phenomenon of island people, especially those who are always silent, never complain about the sky, and do not fight or grab, as the evidence that the island people have relied on the sky to go to sea and eat by the sea since ancient times, and have been tempered by things such as typhoons and shipwrecks for a long time.

Of course, this kind of admirable tenacity refers mainly to the women who work in the fields and do everything, or those who live purely by the sea. Little Joe is always carefree and optimistic, which can be regarded as inheriting this disposition of the island residents.

…… Everything is going on in a slow and orderly manner. The day of Suixu's start of school has arrived.

Xiao Qiao practiced for Suixu and made an appointment to go to the Adonis Western Restaurant in Shangbang Parkway City to have lunch together.

"When I first ate steak with relish 10 years ago, I never thought I would be a vegetarian now. ”

Xiao Qiao inserted a plate of vegetable salad and continued: At that time, Mr. Bu had just returned from the United States, right? I met him when I first started working and invited me to eat my first steak. The steak grilled with the finest lychee sticks implies the fragrance of lychees, and it is written on the menu, so I don't remember whether I ate it or not, but the first time I ate steak, I still remember the feeling of holding a knife and fork.

A piece of beef tenderloin was cut on the cloth for Suixu, "I took a ukulele and left after work, and later learned that I rode to the beach every day to learn to play." For ten years, I have never diminished enthusiasm for everything. ”

Xiao Qiao smiled and narrowed his eyes, "This is called following the heart." Suixu's curious eyes flashed again, and he asked:

"Vegetarian?"

"I'm trying to be a strict vegetarian and want to eat only fruits. Little Joe nodded.

"She's going back in time and become a gorilla who spends her days swinging in the trees and living on tropical jungle berries. ”

"Hahaha, that's my secret wish. Xiao Qiao made an exaggerated movement of beating her chest with her hands, and every time she laughed, her eyes narrowed into a beautiful slit, "But it's really difficult, if you go to the field for a long time, you will not be able to sleep at night because of the mackerel." And every time I go home, the table is full of salted fish with vegetables, and I can't tell my mother that I don't eat salted fish anymore. The cross-section of the fried mackerel and the matching green vegetables came to Xiao Qiao's mind, "The fried mackerel is delicious!"

"It's hard to get rid of what you've been eating since you were a child, and you can't tell a mother to stop eating the food she is proud of for you. "Cloth the interface.

"Salted fish. Grandma posted a lot. For people by the sea, they can't get tired of eating salted fish. ”

"Then you live by the sea?"

"The real seaside, Lingao Yingzhou, not far from Haikou. ”

"Does anyone go out to sea to fish? I really want to be able to go out to sea to fish!" Sui Xu stared at Xiao Qiao with shining eyes, full of anticipation.

"It is a town that makes a living from fishing, and everyone goes back to Qingming to worship their ancestors during the Qingming Festival, and no one goes to sea, so if you want to go on May Day, you can. ”

"Then it's settled. Ah, I've been looking for a long time and hope someone can take me out to sea to fish!"

In the dreamy light in Suixu's eyes, the three of them ended their lunch, which was a small goodbye.

A few blocks away, perennial slippers gather around for Daddy's tea, and on the four seasons of the island, they seem to be forever in the shade of the sun, using chalk to deduce lottery numbers called "big roosters" on the road. If you ignore the army of passenger motorcycles that are always copying the streets and always digging down the trails, and do not delve deeper, it will give people the feeling that the whole life of the men on the island is to be gathered together, focusing only on drinking tea and talking about the lottery.

Like the black and white keys on the piano, together with the islanders scattered around the island to engage in agriculture, forestry and fishery, government workers lazily go to work, and young white-collar workers go in and out of Haikou and Sanya's office buildings and shopping malls, composing a score for tropical island activities.

Little Joe was born in such a place.