September 2013, Shanghai Pudong Airport.

A young man in a white T-shirt paced left and right in the terminal lobby, his eyes moving to his classmates not far away. Seeing the classmates talking and laughing, the young man was secretly annoyed that he was not promising, and he could be nervous when he took a plane, obviously complaining about himself, his heart still couldn't stop beating rapidly, and the corner of his eye fell on the clock in the center of the hall again, just after ten o'clock, the take-off time was half past twelve, and there were more than two hours, and the young man began to be at a loss again.

He thought about chatting with his classmates to distract himself, but he lost interest in thinking that he would have to live in a strange country for the next year, so he glanced at the clock again, and another two minutes passed. The young man's whole body collapsed at once.

"Time flies so slowly."

The young man's name is Xu Wei, a native of Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, who studied flight technology at NH University for three years, and in the last year, the school will send them abroad, receive real flight training abroad, get a foreign license, and then return to China to change to a domestic license, Xu Yu is waiting at the airport for a flight to Atlanta, USA.

At present, there are three main modes of civil aviation pilot training in China, namely "31", "22" and "41".

"31" is the cultivation model, that is, high school students after the initial examination before the college entrance examination, after the physical examination and selection of the station and the aviation college to sign an admission agreement, as long as the college entrance examination reaches a certain score line, and the college entrance examination will be the first choice of the aviation college as the first choice can be admitted.

Generally speaking, this score line is not too high, about the local second main line. Xu Wei is a student who belongs to this model. Taking NH University as an example, NH University ranks third or fourth in Jiangsu, belongs to 211 universities, and the admission line is more than 30 points higher than the first line, but Xu Wei passed the physical examination before the college entrance examination, and as long as he is admitted to the second line of Jiangsu, he can enter NH University, which sounds extremely tempting.

Students in the development mode will receive three years of theoretical study in China after entering aviation colleges, and the final year will receive flight training abroad.

"22" is also known as the big change, that is, ordinary university students leave the original university after a physical examination and an airline interview to transfer to an aviation college to study for one year, and then send abroad to receive flight training.

"41" is the big reform, that is, the social personnel who have graduated apply for the aviation college, pass the physical examination and interview, enter the aviation college to study for one year, and go abroad for flight training.

Among the three modes, the students who have undergone major changes and major reforms are generally slightly older, and the students who have developed are younger. This time, Xu Wei and his entourage had a total of 20 people, belonging to two airlines. Ten people will go to Atlanta, USA, where they will live for a whole year.

Xu Wei dragged his steps out of the airport toilet for the fourth time, he had a big problem, and he wanted to go to the toilet as soon as he was nervous. This happened to many people, but Xu Wei seemed to be a little too frequent, and he went four times in less than an hour.

He walked slowly, killing as much time as he could, and instead of sitting in his head, it was better to wander around the destination, constantly moving to hide the anxiety in his heart a little.

Xu Wei's eyes fell on a tour group composed of more than a dozen people not far away, and everyone in the tour group talked happily, and it could be seen that they were looking forward to the scenery abroad.

Xu Wei thought in his mind, how good it would be if he was one of them, go out for a while, and soon return to China, everything would be too perfect. However, perfect things often do not exist, and I was stunned to watch the second hand of the clock turn in circles, and my heart was quite uncomfortable.

"Maybe, I shouldn't have chosen to be a pilot."

Xu Wei recalled that his mother held his hand before leaving, crying and admonishing himself to take good care of himself, not to walk around alone, to be polite to foreign instructors, and not to play a small temper, Xu Wei didn't think so at the time, isn't it just going abroad, what's the big deal, I didn't expect to go abroad on the eve of going abroad, I was already timid at the airport, Xu Wei couldn't help but think of a very popular sentence on the barrage Internet "set up a flag", that's right, he set a big flag for himself before leaving.

"Xu Wei, let's go, go to the security check accurately." In the distance, Meng Yang poked his head out of the crowd, found Xu Yu's location, and shouted at the top of his voice.

Xu Wei's face flushed, why is this kid so loud, but he still walked towards Meng Yang with steps, not fast, for fear that others would know that he was shouting in a loud voice just now.

When the two were not far away, Meng Yang directly greeted them, pushed Xu Wei a few times from behind, and signaled Xu Wei to hurry up. Xu Wei was still unhurried, put his arm on Meng Yang's shoulder, and said angrily: "What's the hurry, you just want to go to the United States?" ”

Meng Yang smiled, his facial features were crowded, and he looked quite obscene: "I heard that foreign women are very open, and there must be a blessing for them when they go there." ”

Xu Wei was not interested in continuing to argue with his words, and said with a straight face: "Seriously, I'm not kidding you, do you really think it's a pleasure to go abroad?" Meng Yang heard the meaning of Xu Wei's words, his smile disappeared, and he turned his head to meet Xu Wei's gaze. Meng Yang is not very old, and he doesn't look at people's faces like people who have been in society for a long time, but he clearly saw two words in Xu Wei's eyes - regret.

"Brother, you don't want to go abroad, do you?"

Xu Wei Nunu mouthed, let go of the arm holding Meng Yang, and saw the remaining eighteen people not far away, most of the eighteen people looked relaxed and almost did not feel anxious about leaving their hometown.

"What about them?" Meng Yang followed Xu Wei's gaze and fell on his companion not far away. Xu Wei didn't answer Meng Yang's question directly, but the implication was that they regretted it like me.

Meng Yang said: "I don't know about 31, but I'm very excited about 22, I shouldn't have that kind of idea." Meng Yang said, and couldn't help but ask Xu Wei: "When is this, you regret it, and you will drop the chain at a critical time." ”

Xu Wei shook his head and sighed heavily: "It's been three years, what else can I do, I can't go back." Meng Yang listened to Xu Wei's sigh of "looking up to the sky and sighing", and a few black lines appeared on his forehead. During the three years of college, students from other majors almost looked at them with envy and jealousy, they had their own canteens, their own meal tickets, they didn't need to spend money to eat, and the extra meal tickets could be exchanged for snacks. At the end of each month, the flight students are carrying boxes and boxes of snacks to the dormitory, and the students of other majors passing by are all bright-eyed, and at this time they will be very stinky and say: "Come, take what you want, there are many buddies." ”

Meng Yang has always felt that the pilot is quite face-saving, and there are no regrets in his dictionary at all.

The corners of Xu Wei's mouth twitched a few times, and Meng Yang's current expression was like looking at an idiot, but unfortunately, that idiot seemed to be himself.

Xu Yu didn't bother to say more, and sped up to get rid of Meng Yang. Who knew that Meng Yang caught up and chattered: "What's wrong with the pilot?" With money, flight attendants, and face, what do you want? "Xu Wei didn't look back, he really thought about it in his heart." Money? Lao Tzu's family is rich, his girlfriend's family is also rich, I don't like the flight attendant anyway, it has nothing to do with me, face? What is face? Can you eat it? ”