Historically, the first people to arrive at Woody Island were the Chinese ancestors who lived along the coast of the South China Sea. According to the Chronicles of the Zhongsha Islands in Southwest China, as early as the "Neolithic Age", the ancestors living in the southern coast of China relied on ships to seek survival resources from the South China Sea. From the Han Dynasty onwards, each dynasty has documents documenting Woody Island.

In 1932, the government of French Indochina occupied the entire Paracel Islands, including Woody Island. During World War II, Nanhai Zhudao was once captured by Japan. After Japan's surrender, according to the Cairo Declaration, the islands in the South China Sea, including the Xisha Islands, Dongsha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and Nansha Islands, were returned to China. During the Republic of China, the Nationalist Government sent the warship Yongxing to receive the Xisha Islands and named the island after the ship to commemorate it.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, France, Vietnam and other countries tried to illegally occupy it. Until 1974, due to the national strength factor at that time, Xisha only had a symbolic deployment of militia, and there was almost no standing army. On January 19, 1974, the PLA Navy and the then South Vietnamese Navy fought the Battle of the Paracel Islands in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, regaining control of the entire Paracel Islands and their surrounding waters.

On June 21, 2012, the prefecture-level Sansha City was established, and the government was located on Yongxing Island in Xisha.

Due to the special geographical location and political sensitivity of Woody Island, the airport has always been military, and it was not opened to civil aviation until 2016.

As the scattered crowd walked out of the arrival hall, they saw their names from afar. Seeing us walking by, the sign-bearer put the sign away and began to introduce himself.

"Two good, my name is Wang Chuan, just call me Chuanzi, on behalf of the archaeological team to pick up the two to Yinyu, time is pressing, hard two, let's rush to the port now, it's too late to catch up with the supply ship, this supply ship is from Hainan, only once a month, there were originally four cruise ships passing by every month, but because of archaeological reasons, it has been temporarily canceled, and if you can't catch up with the supply ship, you can only think of other ways."

Wang Chuan is a relatively optimistic and cheerful character, explaining the scenery of Woody Island along the way. I slept all the way and was not fully awake, and because I was pretending to be something, I was not interested in chatting, so I could only respond without a word out of politeness, but it was the rise of Shen Muhan chatting with him.

Woody Island covers a little over three square kilometers in total and is only 1.5 kilometers from the airport to the pier. From afar, I saw the captain of the supply ship standing at the pier to greet him personally, and when he saw Wang Chuan coming, he took the initiative to step forward and greet him very familiarly, and it seemed that the two of them were old acquaintances. After greetings, we were introduced, the captain beckoned us to board the ship, arranged a temporary resting place, and went to take care of ourselves.

After the captain left, I found a comfortable position to play with my phone half-lying down. Wang Chuan took out a small notebook from his pocket and looked at it to himself, and the delicate rose on the cover attracted Shen Muhan's attention, and he continued to chat with Wang Chuan.

"Brother Chuanzi, it looks like you and the captain are very familiar with each other, did you know each other before?"

When Wang Chuan heard Shen Muhan's words, he put away the notebook he had just taken out and put it away carefully: "When I served in the army before, I was a soldier in the Yinyu guard squad, and all the supplies every day were sent through this supply ship, and once the weather at sea deteriorated, Yinyu was likely to be flooded, and the supply ship often acted as a rescue ship, so I became familiar with it when I came and went." ”

Shen Muhan nodded, and continued to ask with a look of sudden realization: "Why did you join the archaeological team again after you retired?" ”

Wang Chuan smiled: "I am a college soldier, majoring in archaeology in college, and I went back to school after retiring from the army to continue to study the rest of the courses." When I graduated, I just in time for Professor Li to lead a team here, and I need people who are familiar with Yinyu, and Professor Li is a professor of professional courses at my university, so I came. Having been here for so long, would like to come back and see it again. ”

As he spoke, Wang Chuan raised his head and looked out the window. Following Wang Chuan's gaze and looking out the window, there was a vague outline of an island in the distance, and I thought to myself that it should be Yinyu.

"When this archaeology is over, there may be no chance to come back in the future." Wang Chuan said and took out a notebook from his pocket: "This notebook was given to me by my fiancée before I came to Yinyu this time, and I was supposed to get engaged, because the matter of coming to Yinyu can only be postponed." She learned to paint, and this album was painted by herself, saying that this rose represents her. After speaking, Wang Chuan scratched his head embarrassedly.

After that, Shen Muhan and Wang Chuan talked a lot, I took advantage of this kung fu to continue to rest, and the jet lag when I came back from abroad was not down, plus I was running around for two consecutive days, and my body was somewhat unbearable. At this point, I really admire Shen Muhan's girl, no matter how she tosses, she has always been alive and well.

Shen Muhan and Wang Chuan chatted for a while, and the captain walked in.

"Three, the destination has arrived, move to the deck and get ready to disembark."

When I walked up to the deck, Yinyu was already close in front of me, and the people on the island could see it clearly.

Although Yinyu Island is called an island, it is actually a tiny sandbar, located on Yinyu Reef in the northeast of Yongle Atoll of Xisha Islands, with an altitude of more than 2 meters and an area of 0.01 square kilometers. There is a deep pit on the Yinyu reef where Yinyu is located, the water is blue-black, the depth is bottomless, the water temperature is low, and the fishermen call it Longkeng. Hainan fishermen came to Yinyu to set up a miniature fishing village a long time ago, and with the establishment of Sansha City, two fishermen's residential buildings were built on the island two years ago.

Although they have modern houses, they still have to rely on monthly supply ships to deliver supplies far from the mainland, such as Woody Island and Yinyu, which are far away from the mainland, and the monthly supply ships arrive on holidays. Obviously, the fishermen on the island had been looking forward to it for a long time, and as soon as the supply ship docked, they gathered at Hula to help the people on board carry supplies.

The permanent population of the whole island is already small, and the archaeological team has been here for a month and is very familiar with the fishermen on the island. After greeting the fishermen, Wang Chuan led us towards the site of the archaeological team. In fact, we don't need him to lead us to know where the archaeological team is stationed, the place is not big, you can see the head at a glance, and in order to prevent the high tide, the archaeological team has added a section of support, and you can have a few marching tents from afar, but I didn't see anyone. After thinking about it, it was right, they had stopped for a month and made no progress, and they didn't need to be busy outside the tent except for sorting out the data and analyzing the research.

Before he could reach the edge of the tent, an elderly man walked out of the tent with a few people, and stretched out his hand from a distance: "But I hope you are here, and you have worked hard all the way." On the way here, Wang Chuan once introduced that the current person in charge of the archaeological team is Professor Li, and when he was abroad, he read several of his papers on archaeology, and he had some impressions, his name is Li Yuliang, which can be regarded as the part of the pyramid in this line in China. A senior was so excited to see me and Shen Muhan, either because of the professor's face, or because Shen Muhan and I had participated in the search for Atlantis ruins organized by a high-tech archaeological company.

After the pleasantries, Professor Li asked Wang Chuan to take us back to our respective tents. There was already a female member of the archaeological team before, and now she happens to live with Shen Muhan. The tent I was staying in was originally stacked with equipment and supplies, but now half of the space has been cleared, and it seems that the archaeological team still takes good care of me, and I don't want to squeeze a tent with other archaeological team members. Although the space is a little cramped, it is already very good, after all, the conditions of archaeology sometimes work for more than ten hours, and sleep at night, not so much exquisite. What's more, just after taking a look, Shen Muhan's tent is opposite me, and it is convenient to take care of her if there is anything.