【Humans of Taipei】來自三鶯部落的貨車人生

She said, “He is my very first love, I even flew to Kinmen to visit him. I like him because he doesn’t drink, unlike my alcoholic brother. And when we went back to Taiwan, I was moved by his considerate decision. He was willing to rent a house next to my mother’s house, so that I could easily go take care of her. She had a stoke and had been suffered from it for 20 years by then. My mother died in 2011 and after that we moved to Sanying city tribe. “

He said, “We start our day from Sanying. We’d drive to Linkou and load charcoal onto the truck, and then drive to Taipei. The first delivery is made around 11AM, to the restaurants serving lunch. The second is 4PM, to those Japanese yakiniku stores and bars. Between these 2 deliveries is our family lunch time in the truck.

“We firstly met online, the Yahoo messenger. I was a sailor in Kinmen. There is a ‘mini-three link’ trading policy. It is actually 2 boats trading in the middle point of the sea. The government allows us to carry as many goods as we want, as long as we don’t smuggle anything back to Kinmen. Mostly we took electronics parts to sell. China taxed these things heavily, so the Chinese police would arrest us for doing this. Once arrested, our government wouldn’t do anything to help us. Sailors have to find connections and bribe the Chinese officials. It might take a few million dollars to settle each case.

“The risk is high, so I went back and drive the truck. We don’t earn much, just make ends meet. But we have the whole family together, every day, every meal. And that is the biggest happiness in our life.”

太太：「他是我的初戀，我那時候還飛去金門找他。我喜歡他不喝酒，不會像我哥那樣酗酒；而且剛回台灣時，為了照顧我中風二十年的媽媽，他願意把房子租在我家旁邊、讓我就近照顧，我覺得很感動。民國100年我媽媽往生，我們才搬去三鶯部落。」

先生：「我們每天從三鶯部落先開車去林口載木炭，然後送來台北。第一批大約十一點，送去中午開門的餐廳；第二批是傍晚四點，送晚上開門的燒肉店和居酒屋。中間空檔，全家就在車上吃飯。

「我們是在yahoo即時通認識的，那時候我在金門跑船。所謂小三通，其實就是兩邊的船開到中間交易，我們要載多少東西出海政府不管，反正不要走私東西回來就好。我們大都載電子零件去賣，這種東西對岸課的稅很重，所以中國公安會抓我們。如果被抓到了，我們這邊的政府不管，船員要想辦法自己靠關係去疏通中國官員，每次三、五百萬跑不掉。

「因為風險高，後來就回來開貨車。雖然賺不多，收支剛好打平，但是我們全家人每天都在一起、三餐都一起吃，這就是我們的幸福。」~在忠孝東路4段。