On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, in the cold air, the smell of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, every household begins to prepare New Year's items, relatives who do not often move around in the past begin to visit frequently, and the business of shopping malls and hotels is much more prosperous than usual.

After more than half a year of construction, the original dirty and messy high-slope shantytown has become a commercial CBD and high-rise residential area that has begun to take shape.

Deputy Director Yuan came and went, took some measures but to no avail, the daughter was determined to stay in Jiangbei City, even if her organizational relationship was forcibly transferred to the first hospital of the province by her mother, she did not compromise, and even found a job in a small clinic near her home, which made Deputy Director Yuan angry, but fortunately, there was always a harvest, at least Yuan Lin obediently followed her aunt back to the provincial capital.

A heavy snow enveloped Jiangbei City, Liu Ziguang returned home after a busy day's work, and when he opened the door, he saw Fang Fei standing at the door with a smile and an apron, helping him pat the snowflakes on his body and said: "Why did you go home so late, I don't know if today is Xiao Nian, my father has been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Sure enough, Vice President Fang was sitting on the sand chatting with his father, and Liu Ziguang hurriedly apologized: "I'm really sorry, something is delayed." ”

He was telling the truth, the Changle ship finally came to the high seas through layers of approval, but the main engine failed, and it stopped for two weeks, more than 20 sailors on board, 50 exploration team members, and 20 security guards with the team, a total of nearly 100 people eating, drinking, Lazar and entertainment, but it was a very troublesome thing, many things needed to be coordinated and solved by him, and the maritime telephone bill alone had been hundreds of dollars in the past few days.

Women are cooking in the kitchen, men are watching TV and chatting in the living room, international news is playing on the 52-inch LCD TV, the mountains of Afghanistan and terrorists are covered, and the voiceover introduces the latest situation of the British female doctor who has been kidnapped by the Taliban. No one noticed that Liu Ziguang's mobile phone vibrated silently on the coffee table.

"It's time to eat." Fang Fei put the last plate on the dining table, took off his apron and shouted to the men, everyone gathered at the table, Vice President Fang specially took out the Wuliangye that had been treasured for many years, and said: "Today, our two families are gathered together, and next year we will be a family, this bottle of wine will be used to wish the two children happiness." ”

Liu Ziguang took the wine bottle and opened it, poured wine for everyone, and suddenly the doorbell rang, a melodious and pleasant sound, and the old mother said strangely: "Who will come for dinner?" ”

"I'll open the door." Fang Fei volunteered to run over, opened the door and saw that there was a graceful young woman standing outside the door, holding a suitcase in one hand and holding a child in the other, the little boy's face was red and fluttering, and there were snowflakes on his clothes, obviously he had just come in from outside.

"You are?" Both asked at the same time.

It's Li Kun who came, she has been busy with IPO things for a while now, Xiaocheng is also fostered in Grandma's house, the work has just come to an end, she rushed back from the dust, because the heavy snow airport is closed, Li always comes by train, in fact, the work here in Jiangbei has already been on the track, even if Mr. Li is not there, it can operate normally, what makes her hurry back is just the woman's natural intuition.

The one who opened the door was a young girl, with crooked eyebrows and eyes, full of youth, the dining table at home was full of people, and Liu Ziguang was holding a wine bottle and looking at this side helplessly.

Li Kun is such a smart person, he returned to normal after a second of distraction, and said with a smile: "Isn't this about the New Year, stop by and take a look." As he spoke, he opened the suitcase and took out a gift box and handed it to Fang Fei, and shouted into the house: "Uncle and aunt, I won't go in." ”

"Mr. Li, come in and eat together." The mother got up and greeted, secretly complaining in her heart that her son was not doing things properly, knowing that the widow of Mr. Li was unemployed, and she was still so close, now it's okay, what does Fang Fei think.

"No, the car is still waiting below." Li Kun said politely, turned around and left, Xiao Cheng just wanted to say something, but was covered by his mother.

Fang Fei was a little confused, looked back at Liu Ziguang, Liu Ziguang didn't say a word, his parents also smiled awkwardly, Vice Dean Fang pushed his glasses and didn't say anything.

"If you don't go out to have a look, you may be looking for something." Fang Fei urged at Liu Ziguang.

Liu Ziguang hesitated for a moment and hurried downstairs, but there was still Li Kun's figure, and he shouted twice from left and right, but was drowned out by the sound of firecrackers.

Li Kun stood in the shadow with the child in his arms, tears coming out of his eyes, but he still dragged the suitcase away without hesitation.

Suddenly, a dazzling pillar of light shot into Liu Ziguang's body, and the roar of the propeller and a familiar voice came from the air: "Why don't you kid answer the phone?" ”

Liu Ziguang covered the pillar of light and looked into the air, only to see a helicopter hovering at a height of more than ten meters, Zhao Hui wearing a helmet and sitting at the door of the cabin with an electric horn to shout to him.

"Urgent task, give you three minutes, talk to home and we'll go." Zhao Hui couldn't help but say something, and threw down a rope ladder.

If it weren't for the urgent task of 100,000, Zhao Hui would not have mobilized a helicopter to pick him up, Liu Ziguang made a gesture of waiting and flew home, at this time, many ordinary people had gathered in the small residential square, and they looked at this civilian helicopter curiously.

Liu Ziguang ran home, only took his mobile phone and satellite phone, and said to his family: "I have something urgent to go out for a few days." Walking to the door, he looked at Fang Fei, who looked innocent, pinched her little face and said, "Wait for me to come back." ”

In the surprised eyes of countless neighbors, Liu Ziguang climbed up the soft ladder to the civilian-painted Zhijiu, and Zhao Hui handed him a helmet, and it was much more convenient to speak through the in-flight communication channel after wearing it.

The helicopter flew in the direction of the airport, and Zhao Hui scolded: "What's the matter with you kid, you didn't answer a few phone calls, so I have to make the people mobilize the people to pick you up in person." ”

Liu Ziguang looked at his phone, and there were a lot of missed calls on it, including Zhao Hui's, Li Kun's, and Wei Ziqian's text message, which reminded him that Mr. Li had come back from the capital.

sighed in his heart, Assistant Wei was the most intimate, and asked Zhao Hui again: "What's the matter with such a hurry?" ”

"Of course, it's a matter of urgency, there is a big deal to do, yesterday a US military's newest drone Predator Type C fell in the mountains of Afghanistan, it is said that it has been obtained by an armed group, and our task is to buy this thing."

"Is it connected? What if they don't sell? Liu Ziguang asked loudly.

"If you don't sell it, convince them to sell it." Zhao Hui laughed.

While speaking, the helicopter had landed at a military airfield on the outskirts of Jiangbei City, and although the field was still covered with snow, the shells at the airport had been cleaned up, and Liu Ziguang pointed to a silver-white bomber and said, "No, let's just take this." ”

"The climate is bad, the civil airport has been closed, don't take this to take anything, come on, boy, let you experience what is called real flight."

Liu Ziguang put on a flight helmet, put on a thick leather fur-collar flight suit, and climbed into the cabin with Zhao Hui.

After the main and co-pilots were in place, the two turbojet 8 engines on the bomb six began to roar, and the plane quickly rose into the air, and the action was many times sharper than the sticky and whistling civil airliner, Liu Ziguang only felt dizzy, and then saw the lights of thousands of homes under his feet.

"It's cool, it's like you're flying." Zhao Hui asked proudly.

"Yes, it's just cold." Liu Ziguang said.

The H-6 flew at an altitude of 10,000 meters in the subtone of Mach O.75, the meteorological conditions were very poor, the clouds were very thick, and the pilot flew completely by instruments and experience; fortunately, he was the commander of a certain bomber regiment of the Air Force, and he was quite experienced, especially the line of flying to the airfield of the Northwest Military Region countless times

After a night of flight, the bombers finally landed at a combat airfield near Urumqi, and they were greeted by a rugged black Russian imported military off-road vehicle, Zhao Hui smiled and said: "Okay, the old T is also here." ”

The two took off their flight jackets and threw them into the cabin of the bombardment six, put on the desert camouflage military coat handed over by the airport ground crew, put on cotton military hats and walked to the off-road vehicle, the winter in the northwest is much colder than in the Central Plains, and the feet wearing single leather shoes are numb from the cold, and they feel that the blood is smoother after walking a few steps.

An army major got out of the car, came over and saluted: "Hello, I am the ...... in charge of cooperating with your operation."

Before he finished speaking, he was stunned, because the army major was standing in front of him and turned out to be his old friend, Liu Ziguang, a reserve officer in Jiangbei City.

Liu Ziguang also recognized that the person in front of him was Guan Ye, but he didn't expect that the people from the Special Brigade of the Southeast Military Region were actually on a mission in the northwest, but neither of them said a word, each other's identities were very special, and they were both on special missions, and the best way was to pretend not to know each other.

"My name is Sekino! Responsible for your security. Sekino said.

"I'm Zhao Hui, and he's Liu Ziguang." Zhao Hui gave a brief introduction, the three of them got into the off-road vehicle, Guan Ye drove out of the airport, parked in the field, pointed to the cardboard box on the back seat and said, "Change your clothes." ”

There were three down jackets in the box, and the three of them looked like ordinary flat-headed people after changing their coats, and then Guan Ye drove straight to Urumqi Diwopu International Airport, and boarded the plane directly through the VIP channel, only to know that the Tu-154 passenger plane had been delayed for half an hour in order to wait for their three guests.

Tu-154 finally took off, and the destination was Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.