Chapter 118: Family Tour of the Capital (Part I)
Dr. Zheng's lecture was aimed at four middle-aged and elderly passengers, and three young people, Qi Jingtao, Su Min and Qi Lin, who had never been on a plane before, were also listening carefully and digesting the precautions she said. Zheng Yu's rich experience, women's unique carefulness and infectious energy make the atmosphere in the car very good, and it is full of laughter. Qi Jingtao was most worried that his grandmother and grandmother might get motion sickness, and the car had already arrived safely at Wujiaba Airport in Chuncheng.
Arrive at the airport at less than 9:00 a.m. With enough time, Wang Dongmin, who led the team, was leisurely, instructed several young people to bring a few luggage, greeted the two old men, and calmly entered the airport to rest. Change your boarding pass, check in your baggage, go through security, and come to the departure hall to wait for boarding.
Grandma and Grandma watched the luxurious airport waiting hall with curiosity on their faces, and even more curious about the view of the airport apron and airstrip from the glass window. Wujiaba Airport has a long history and is currently a dual-use airport. In addition to the huge airliners parked on the apron, there are also many smaller military aircraft and a large number of older military aircraft in another area.
A few elderly people curiously came to the floor-to-ceiling glass and watched the parked planes in the airport and the planes that kept taking off and landing through the glass. Seeing the plane up close for the first time, the Qi family's eyes were attracted.
Wang Dongmin and Dr. Zheng, who led the team, saw the behavior of guests who appeared on the plane for the first time, and they did not laugh at it in the slightest, but followed them and explained to them the difference between those planes and the situation at the airport. After all, in this year, there are still very few people who can travel by plane, and the vast majority of people don't have the opportunity to come here to see the planes up close. These are still new things, and they can understand the mood and curiosity of the Qi family.
With the announcement broadcast in the waiting hall, the Qijia tour group boarded the Boeing 747 passenger plane. Wang Dongmin, who is in charge of the Beijing route, is familiar with the airport staff, and when he changed his boarding pass, he actually arranged the Qi family tour group on the nine seats adjacent to each other on the same side. also cleverly arranged three window seats to the two old men and Qi Zhengming and his wife.
After the beautiful flight attendant of China Southern Airlines introduced the precautions about escape and taking the plane, the passenger plane had already left the boarding position, taxied in the airport, entered the take-off runway and began to accelerate.
"Xiaotao, is the plane just running and flying?" Grandma looked curiously at the scenery outside the window that was rapidly retreating, and nervously asked her grandson who was sitting next to her.
Qi Jingtao held his grandmother's hand and said with a smile: "The plane can only be pulled up and fly into the sky when it runs at a certain speed." Here, grandma, don't be afraid, relax your body, and you will be fine in a while, just like Dr. Zheng said. ”
Qi Jingtao could already feel the strong thrust behind him, and couldn't help but remind his grandmother that the plane began to pull up, leaving the ground and heading straight into the sky.
Qi Lin naturally accompanied her parents, Su Min and Dr. Zheng accompanied her grandmother, and explained to her grandmother about the take-off of the plane while experiencing it herself. Watch how the landscape on the ground becomes smaller through the porthole, and accompany my grandmother to feel the whole process of the plane climbing to a smooth flight.
When the blue sky hung high and the white clouds hung low, several old people sitting at the window breathed a sigh of relief, still looking at the scenery outside the window with great interest.
"It turns out that the clouds are not that high, and the plane has just taken off and passed through it not long after. …… Oh, the sky is blue, and there is nothing...... Xiao Tao, how are those mountains piled up in the mountains,......"
Grandma was like a child, she felt new when she saw everything, and kept asking questions along the way, which made Qi Jingtao, who was also taking a plane for the first time, red-faced and unable to answer. Fortunately, he still has Wang Dongmin by his side, who can deal with his grandmother's 100,000 whys for him. Presumably, Su Min's situation is similar, but he doesn't know if Qi Lin's smart head sitting behind him can cope with his parents' curiosity.
Qi Jingtao pricked up his ears curiously, wanting to hear Qi Lin's voice. Qi Zhengming and his wife are quite reserved, they can hear the soft explanation of Qi Jingtao or Wang Dongmin in the front row, and they don't bother their daughter too much.
At noon on August 27th, a group of nine people from the Qijia tour group arrived safely in the capital, and naturally there was a vehicle contacted by the Central Yunnan Pearl Travel Agency to pick up the airport and send them to the accommodation for rest and dinner.
For the itinerary of the Qi family tour group this time, Qi Jingtao followed the advice of his old classmates. In the words of Liu Yongyi, who has rich experience in leading groups and has dealt with all kinds of tour groups: taking the elderly to the capital, especially the elderly who have never traveled far from the countryside to the capital, the itinerary is actually the simplest, and the simpler the better. They didn't come to the capital to play at all, not to see any scenic spots, not to observe the prosperity of the big city, they came to make a pilgrimage, to fulfill the desire buried in their hearts.
Liu Yongyi suggested that Qi Jingtao arrange accommodation less than a kilometer away from Tiananmen Square, let a few old people eat, drink, and rest well, concentrate their limited time, and take Tiananmen Square as the center to tour around here, which is the place where the old people want to go the most.
In this regard, Qi Jingtao and Su Min both accepted it calmly, and handed over the itinerary to the travel agency to deal with it very easily, but asked the specific itinerary to be flexibly grasped according to the actual situation.
The funds he provided were very sufficient, and all unplanned expenses were paid for by himself, and the travel agency only had to use its own resources to arrange them. Liu Yongyi is also very good at handling their internal affairs arrangements, and all the requirements of the guests naturally become reasonable requirements, so that Wang Dongmin, who leads the team, takes Qi Jingtao's opinions first and ensures that the guests are satisfied.
As soon as he settled in the hotel, Qi Zhengming couldn't wait to ask when he would go to Tiananmen Square. Qi Jingtao saw that his mother, grandmother, and grandmother all had the same expectant expressions, as if he didn't have much fatigue from the journey. Inform the team leader Wang Dongmin and Dr. Zheng, and everyone accompanied several elderly people to leave the hotel and walk to observe the scenery of the capital and visit Tiananmen Square, a few hundred meters away.
When the familiar and unfamiliar landscapes that have appeared countless times in newspapers, picture albums, movies, and television really appear in front of them, the eyes of grandmothers, grandmothers, and parents show excitement, enthusiasm, reverence, longing, and remembrance.
Qi Jingtao had never seen such fiery eyes from the eyes of the four old men before, and he felt that it was right to bring the four old men to the capital this time. Explained that Su Min and Qi Lin took good care of their grandmother and grandmother, took out the Olympus camera they brought with them, and left enough photos for their families, leaving the most innocent expressions of the four old people, and their rare sincerity and beautiful moments.