Five generations of Ye family: facing the sea and facing the lighthouse.

Dense wrinkles, almost gray hair, this is to sit down and observe carefully before you notice.

When I first saw Nakano, I just thought the old man was really dark. However, it is plain black, honest black and kind black. At first glance, it is the kind of old man who has a lot of words in his heart and wants to express them, but more often, he prefers to be silent.

Relatively speaking, his son Ye Jinghu is much more lively, cheerful and humorous, with his own personality and strong language organization ability. When you don't talk, your lips are closed, your eyes are sharp, and at the same time you reveal a signal of perseverance.

The interview was conducted in a garden club-Ye Jing Tiger House in Zhenhaizhuang City. It is not easy to meet the old man, mainly because he lives in Daishan after retirement, and this time he is here to participate in the nomination award of Ningbo moral model.

How hard is life on Robinson Island?

This is a story about persistence. There are more than 2,000 square kilometers of sea area in eastern Zhejiang, with 12 lighthouses. They witnessed the realistic version of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" of the five generations of Ye family. Ye Laizhong's grandfather Ye Lairong, his father Ye Laiyue, Ye Zhongyang himself, his son Ye Jinghu, and his grandson Ye Chaoqun, a family of five generations have successively climbed the island mountain and watched the waves for a hundred years, just to light up the sea and lead life.

On the day of the interview, Ye Zhongyang went to the hospital for a physical examination. The results show that emphysema is still serious, and everything else is fine. Lumbar surgery done in 2003 is still effective.

Emphysema is related to living in the humid environment on the island for a long time and using smoking to relieve loneliness and pain in the early years. The poor lumbar spine is mainly caused by long-term hard work on the island, except for the influence of moisture. Ye Jinghu's waist is not good either. He had an operation in February last year, and the lumbar spine was nailed with 12 steel nails.

How hard is Robinson Island life?

Lighthouses are usually built on steep islands, far from the mainland, surrounded by reefs. Wake up in the morning to sweep the leaves and dust on the island road, just like cleaning your own yard. Every day, there are some routine items that must be done: scrub the lens, and the most basic thing is to wipe the glass inside. If there is dust in the lens, the light emitted by the lighthouse will not be far away, and the role of guiding the course will be discounted; Wind up the rotating lamp every hour to keep the tower lamp at a normal rotating frequency. In addition, there are generator maintenance, battery voltage measurement, lamp maintenance, regular inspection, painting tower, etc. Early lighthouse workers, plasterers, carpenters, painters, maintenance workers and even cooks had to do it themselves.

After a busy day, the night rises, the sea breeze is rustling, and the lonely tower keeper hangs with the lighthouse, which is the most empty time. In order to enrich everyone's nightlife, Ye Zhongyuan called several people to study and repair the internal combustion engine, took all the parts apart, laid them on the ground and assembled them one by one.

In the early years, there was no communication equipment and entertainment facilities on the island, only a radio, but it was also strictly kept and could only be used to listen to CCTV news broadcast and weather forecast. There is no fresh water on the island, and food depends entirely on rainwater accumulated in rainy days. Drinking clean fresh water is a luxury. All supplies, including food and vegetables, are transported by semi-monthly supply ships. Every time the supply ship comes, the living materials have to be moved to the island by themselves. Needless to say, the diesel oil needed for power generation has to be picked up by lighthouse workers themselves. 1 ton diesel, 400-500m steep mountain road, three or four people have to pick one day to unload it. ...

At that time, there was no refrigerator. In the first few days of the supply ship, the food was ok. Some vegetables can't be preserved if you don't eat them, and they will rot immediately, but the later days will be sad. In the event of a typhoon, the supply ship can't get through, and it is common to run out of food and vegetables. Once, there was only one melon left on the island. They cut it into three parts and eat only a little every day. It took five people seven days to eat. Then they drank soy sauce soup for another seven days.

On the island, the most difficult thing is endless loneliness and loneliness. Sometimes when I see a ship passing by in the distance, I will try my best to shout and wave for no reason. If I can hear each other's whistle, I will be happier than grabbing a big red envelope now. On the island, I am most afraid of getting sick. I can tolerate minor illnesses and disasters, and I will be in trouble if I get a serious illness or a minor illness is delayed into a serious illness. In the middle of the leaf, I was injured all over, so I fell down. He stayed on the island for 4 1 year. Only in 1967 did he suddenly have a high fever and thought he would survive. As a result, he burned for three days and everyone fainted. That time, they sent out the only emergency signal: they lit three bonfires on the island!

This year is the first137th year of Ye Jiashou Tower.

As we spoke, Ye Chaoqun, who was stationed at Qiliyu Lighthouse, also came back. It takes him three hours to get home from work, but he has improved a lot since his grandfather's time. In the early years, everything went smoothly from home to grandpa's fish brain island and Baijieshan island, which took about three days. From getting the news to actually setting foot on the island, it took one day to wait for the boat.

I don't know how much better the living conditions on the island are, not only refrigerators, but also air conditioners, computers and internet. In fact, the situation has improved a lot since the advent of telephone and television. There is no need to wind the lamp manually, there is already an electric rotating machine. However, loneliness and loneliness are still the same, especially when I see where my classmates and friends in the WeChat circle of friends go to eat a big meal and drive, so Ye Chaoqun simply blocked the circle of friends and gave himself a WeChat name: leave alone.

This year is the fifth year that Ye Chaoqun landed in Qiliyu, and it is also the134th year that his family became a lighthouse worker. Before 134, that is, 1883, Baijieshan Lighthouse was completed. When fisherman Ye Lairong left the fishing boat and climbed Baijie Mountain, he never thought that his descendants would pay the price of their lives to protect the lighthouse. When Ye Chaoqun was growing up, his family never told him about his sad family affairs. After he joined the work, he pieced the two things together from the gossip of his colleagues-

Ye Chaoqun's great grandfather, Ye Chaoyue, had an accident when he transferred the supply ship on a typhoon day. At that time, the supply ship was tied to the southeast side of Yinao Island. Unexpectedly, at dawn, the typhoon suddenly came, and the ship was in danger of capsizing at any time. Ye Ayue helped the boatman and wanted to move the boat to the lee of the northwest corner of the island. Just moving a little there, a huge wave came and overturned the boat, and Ayue Ye was swept into the sea. The boatman clung to the reef, but Ye Ayue tried to cling to it but didn't, and was directly suffocated to the bottom by another huge wave. Ye Ayue, who is famous for its good water quality in Shengsi, never surfaced again this time. That was 1944, when Ye Zhongyang was 5 years old. He and his mother stood in the twilight of Chenxi Yu halfway up the mountain and witnessed his father's struggle and sinking ... Listening to his mother's crying, Ye Zhongyang seemed to grow up instantly. He said that since that day, he remembered everything that happened on the island.

"The situation is gloomy, isolated, Eden isolated, surrounded by darkness, the sea breeze whistling, and the empty tide is coming. Sometimes ships are destroyed, and the voices of boat people calling for help are often heard ... "The sinister scene depicted in China Coastal Lighthouse Tour is real and cruel. Ye Chaoqun's grandmother wore a waist harp, and her little aunt Ye Hong was swallowed up by the sea. 197 1 On the eve of the Spring Festival, I learned that her husband Ye Zhongyang would be stationed on the island alone in order to let his colleagues go to the island for the New Year. He was going to visit him with his two daughters. When he got the news that his wife and daughter were going to the island, Nakano jumped up happily, washed the sheets to dry and cut his hair in front of the mirror. He climbed the tall lighthouse countless times every day and looked in the direction of the ship. Finally, on the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, he saw a small boat ashore, but only a wet eldest daughter landed. Captain Lao Wu said: On the way to the island, there was a sudden storm, and the boat that the mother and daughter were riding capsized and five people were killed. When it was salvaged, heptachord was still holding your little girl.

Happy Tea Party of Lonely Lamp Man

The waves swept away three lives in the Ye family. Sea, are you blind? Why not make waves without distinguishing good from evil? At that time, the leader had decided to arrange land work for Ye Zhongyang, but after smoking for three months, Ye Zhongyang only made one request: change a lighthouse for him and go back to the Baijieshan lighthouse where his grandfather was on duty. He wants to open the eyes of the sea, let the light of the lighthouse shoot farther and wider, and let the tragedy in the waves not repeat itself. He also wants to understand some problems. Since then, he has become more silent. Not only did he guard the lighthouse more diligently, but he also worked harder to help the ships in distress around him. When his son grew up, he asked him to come to the lighthouse. When his grandson grew up, he asked him to go to the lighthouse again.

At first, Ye Jing Tiger didn't know what he wanted from his father. Needless to say, he is already driving a tractor, which costs several hundred yuan a month, while the monthly salary of a lighthouse worker is only 24 yuan. And on the island, no one can contact, and finding a girlfriend is a problem. But he finally agreed with his father's idea by action: the lighthouse must be guarded by someone, and it is unreasonable for those of us who are familiar with lighthouse work not to go.

Ye Jinghu is lucky. His fears have not come true. Soon, he was arranged to have a blind date with Kim, the daughter of a big family on Shengsi Island. Ye Jinghu took a fancy to each other at the first sight. However, in the subsequent contacts and correspondence, Jin was slowly moved by Ye Jinghu's sincerity, kindness and little humor. On that birthday, Kim received a gift from his sweetheart for the first time in his life. It's a triumphant brooch with 32 crystals. Ye Jinghu chose this on the street of Zhenhai, and spent nearly a month's salary 18 yuan to buy it. However, he earned it. Kim is not only beautiful, but also a good wife and mother. She knew each other and loved each other for 35 years. Although she didn't spend much time with her, she fully understood the hardships of this family and the difficulty of her husband's work. Last February 1 day, Ye Jinghu's lumbar spine was completely paralyzed due to years of work and humidity on the island, and he had an operation for 8 hours. Looking at Ye Jinghu, who was as white as a sheet and had all kinds of tubes on his body after operation, Jin was in tears with heartache.

At work, especially in bad weather, what my father said most was: people are all lit up. Therefore, Ye Jinghu's WeChat name is: Lamp Man. And the name of WeChat that Jin gave himself is: Love you for a lifetime!