Chapter 3 third chapter

When did you ask me to come?Too early, twenty or thirty years ago.Twenty or thirty years ago, this place was still a barren place, but after so many years, it still hasn't changed much.At that time, it took two days and two nights to travel by car, which is not as convenient as it is now.With the train, it takes three or four hours to arrive. Compared with the past, it is really a blink of an eye.In fact, life is also a journey, and in the blink of an eye, we have reached this age threshold.At that time, I was as old as you, and now my temples are white.Is there any way, who is spared by the years.

There was still a little phlegm in the professor's voice, obviously he had a bit of a cold.The quilt on the bed was indeed very thin, it was dark outside the window, and the sound of the wind was constricting inside.Talking about the past, the professor has a touch of sadness.The lights are already on.The dim light fell on the professor's face as he recounted to me a young researcher's trip to Box Rock twenty or thirty years ago.Speaking of excitement, the wine thorns on his cheeks danced slightly. The first time I came to Box Rock was 20 or 30 years ago. It was 1964. It seems that the department had just been established. At that time, the department wanted to build a decent biological specimen library.The department asked me to go, but I had nothing to say.What can I say, I am a junior.Only I can do such a thing, and that is a suitable assignment.Of course, I didn't mean to bring you out this time, it needs to be explained.I came to Box Rock alone. At that time, it was indeed a barren place, and there were only about twenty households on the whole island.Now there are more than that, at least there are thousands of households now.At that time, there was only a bus from Luocheng to Luocheng. After sitting for two days and two nights, my butt hurt from sitting.It's not a pretty job.It was already night when I arrived in Epuli, around seven or eight o'clock, and it was getting dark.There are no more ferries.At that time, the ferry boat was a rickety fisherman, and he was still trembling while sitting on it.When you go out, your heart is in your hand.Without a ferry, I had to stay at a fisherman's house.At that time, Epuli was just a big tidal flat, but it would have turned into a bustling town twenty or thirty years later.At that time, Goose Puli was really inconspicuous.

Early the next morning, I stood by the water's edge and waited for the ferry to roll over. You ask me if I know Box Rock?No idea, almost nothing.After the department assigned me a task, I checked the map, and there was only a small sesame seed in the southwest corner of Luocheng County.An insignificant point, Zhao Xuzhi, then dean of the department, told me that it was Box Rock. After I landed on the shore, I realized that it was very big and beautiful.Box Rock Slope is a beauty in an ointment.Box Rock Slope was named by myself, and people on the island call it Xinhuang.Why they are called Xinhuang, I have no idea.