The steam whistle blew, the motor chugged, and the ferry, puffing black smoke, slowly pulled away...
Lin Lan watched the spray kicked up by the side of the boat. In the original owner's memories, Shilian Team was built in Half Mountain Village. To the team's northeast stretched tens of miles of rolling, low hills, to the west was the Min River, and to the south lay a plain.
Shilian Team was a scenic place, its only drawback being the inconvenient transportation. To get to the town or the city, one had to walk for more than half an hour on a mountain path. After descending the mountain, it was another hour-long walk along the river levee to reach the pier and take the ferry across.
Wu Shufen often said that during the great famine, the families in the mountains never went hungry. Even her own family, who had once looked down on her, came to curry favor. A sack of sweet potatoes, a sack of potatoes, or some corn could be traded for a wife from the plains.
