The dilapidated machinery factory was brilliant in the early years, and about ten years ago, the machinery it manufactured was exported to earn foreign exchange, but at the end of the year, a notice was issued and it was closed down and laid off. After a few years of trouble, they all accepted their fate, those who should have another way to make a living, and those who should receive the subsistence allowance received the subsistence allowance, and the life will go on after all.

The factory closed down, but the popularity did not disperse, but became more and more prosperous. Those with family funds bought houses outside early and moved out, and the welfare houses in the factory were rented out to villagers in the surrounding villages. There is a children's primary school in the factory, and the villagers rent a house in the factory in order to let their children go to school in the "urban people's primary school".

That's how popular it is.

Walking into the gate of the 80s-style factory, Li Zhanchong scattered a few middle-aged people sitting in front of the guard's room converted into a commissary, smoking and chatting, laughing, but unfortunately it was not until he walked away that the father's workers remembered who he was. The main road in disrepair was in tatters, and he walked inside one foot high and one foot shallow, looking at the marks of the times on both sides, Li Zhan's mood was unprecedentedly good.

Tiled houses in the 60s, flat-headed houses in the 70s, small buildings in the 80s, commercial houses in the 90s, and tall Soviet-style factories in the distance. Every time I go home, I feel like I have traveled through time, and even every grass and tree still tells the story of the years.

"Ah Zhan? Yo, the son who flew the plane is back! "A couple of aunts came over, riding bicycles, and it looked like they were going to buy groceries.

Li Zhan greeted obediently, "Hello Aunt Mei, it's me, I'm back." ”

"Tut-tut, it's so high, it's really good, it's good." The aunts praised, "I said that your mother killed chickens and ducks early in the morning, and it turned out that you were coming back." ”

"Are you back to the troops?"

Li Zhan replied, "I came back from leave, and now I am transferred back to Xixian, at the airport in the west of the city." ”

"Yo! That's a great thing! It's so close to home, you can come back whenever you want! ”

After chatting a few words, Li Zhan continued to walk home under the envious gaze of the aunts. The home is in the deepest part of the living area, and there are vegetable fields and fruit trees in front and back, which is absolutely a rare pastoral scenery in the city.

Li Jianguo walked around the balcony early in the morning, frequently looking at the top of the slope not far away. After going down the long slope, I will get home, and if my son wants to come back, he will definitely have to pass through the top of the slope.

"What are you doing going around and around! Do you fry the dish or do I fry it? Ye Huihua tore the packaging of the medicinal herbs and walked over, opened the lid of the pot and poured it in, there was a chicken stewed in the big pot, and a duck was boiled in the other pot.

Li Jianguo pointed to the triangular stove made of stone against the balcony wall, and said, "Aren't I looking at the fire?" Then you look at the fire, I'll go stir-fry. ”

After adding a few pieces of wood, Ye Huihua chattered, "Look at it, let you see, I'll go stir-fry." ”

Li Jianguo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mom, I'll fry it, isn't the bed in Ah Zhan's room still not cleaned up, you go and clean it up." The eldest sister Li Ling and her husband Qiu Guohao came, and Qiu Guohao was holding his three-year-old son.

Seeing his grandson, the second elder was elated for a while, and continued to work in a hurry. Li Jianguo looked at the time, it was past ten o'clock, frowned and said, "Why hasn't Li Xiang come back yet, Huihua, call him quickly!" What a name! ”

The youngest son, Li Xiang, has not come back from the class reunion last night. is a twenty-two-year-old undergraduate intern, and Li Jianguo is no longer as strict as before.

"I'll beat me, I'll beat Ah Xiang." Qiu Guohao hurriedly said, put down his son and took out his mobile phone to make a call.

A soldier appeared at the top of the slope.

Li Jianguo was stunned for a moment, and shouted excitedly into the room, "Huihua! Ah Zhan is back! ”

There was a rush of footsteps in the house, and Ye Huihua ran out holding the quilt before putting it down, "Where?" Where's it going? ”

People still see the tears that come out first.

"It's over the top of the slope, it's time to arrive, go and go, hurry up and clean up the room." Li Jianguo waved his hand impatiently, turned around and endured the sourness on his nose.

Qiu Guohao hung up the phone and said, "Ah Xiang said that he will come back later, so don't wait for him to eat." ”

"What is he doing!" Li Jianguo said angrily, thinking that his eldest son would come home immediately, he temporarily put his younger son aside and looked forward to it.

Li Zhan arrived home, and the last time he went home was when his eldest sister got married, and he was still receiving his second year of education at Huaqing University. With the aura of a student of Huaqing University, it really made the eldest sister gain face at that time, and the eldest sister's in-laws were also flattered, and the impact was far-reaching. Now that he has returned to the local area as a cadre in the army, the eldest sister-in-law's family is even more cautious about the eldest sister.

It makes sense for a person to ascend to heaven since ancient times.

Inevitably, there was a sigh of emotion, and after my parents were excited, they were busy with lunch. Brother-in-law Qiu Guohao brought flower crabs, green shrimps, lobsters, Dongfeng snails and other big seafood that inland people have never seen before. At noon, a table of dishes is slowly arranged.

Li Xiang hurriedly returned home before the meal, and brought back a bottle of Wuliangye, saying, "Brother, I bought it with a scholarship, more than 1,000." Celebrate your becoming an officer! ”

"You're having a lot of fun now, you're doing an internship, what do you think?" Li Zhan asked Li Xiang to fill him up.

Li Jianguo said, "What do you think, take the civil service exam, and you still want to be a boss if you are not a cadre?" ”

"It's much easier to be a boss than a cadre." Li Xiang glanced at Lao Tzu, obviously they had communicated many times on this topic, but they could not reach an agreement.

Li Zhan knows very well that his Lao Tzu has a national cadre complex, to be precise, in the eyes of their generation, no matter how big the business is, it is empty, and no matter how good the foreign company is, it is not his own family, only to eat the emperor's grain, be a cadre, a government cadre, and a cadre of the army. In his eyes, the status of a boss who earns millions a year is not as good as that of an ordinary civil servant.

If it weren't for this kind of family wing, Li Zhan would not have chosen to join the army, and the appearance of the J-10 was just a motivation when he was recruited. At the end of the day, it was his parents who put a lot of pressure on him. In fact, he prefers to engage in theoretical research if the communist ideology is carried forward.

Li Zhan realized that this was an important matter, and said to Li Jianguo, "Dad, listen to what Ah Xiang said, you force him to do a job he doesn't like after all, it's not a long-term solution." ”

"Do you hear me?" Li Xiang rolled his eyes and said, "I've thought about it, go to graduate school, and find a job that can take care of it, and study it out as a graduate student." I have surveyed that the threshold of many enterprises is now high, and the requirements for academic qualifications will definitely become higher and higher in the future. Now the pressure to go to graduate school is not so great, and when I find that my academic qualifications are not enough, I guess I will not be able to study well. ”

Li Zhan was surprised, "This is very good, I am relieved that you can think so." ”

"Okay, if your brother agrees, I'll agree, read, how much does it cost?" Li Jianguo made a decision, since Li Zhan joined the army, the family's right to speak began to shift from his hands to Li Zhan's hands, and even some of them were transferred to Ye Huihua's hands. After decades of being the head of the family, he still has to get used to it for a while.

Li Ling hugged the child and said with a smile, "Dad, you don't have to worry about Ah Xiang's tuition." ”

"Yes, yes, Dad, my seafood business is okay, Ah Xiang is studying for a doctorate, and the money is no problem." Qiu Guohao hurriedly said.

Li Jianguo waved his hand, "You keep your money, some are old and some are young, and there will be more expenses in the future." ”

Li Ling's seafood business has just started, and they can barely make ends meet with a tuition fee, and there is no more. Li Jianguo is very clear about this.

"Eat, eat, eat, and then talk after eating." Li Zhan said, sandwiched the chicken leg to his mother, and beckoned everyone to eat.

After eating a meal for more than two hours, I was happy, and I drank a pound of Wuliangye. Li Xiang had a limited amount of alcohol and went to sleep directly, Li Jianguo took a teacup and went out for a walk, actually bragging about his son everywhere. Li Ling and the three drove back on a motorcycle.

Li Zhan had nothing to do, helped his mother clean up and wash the dishes, and then called his mother to sit down in the living room, took out his bank card and passbook, and said, "Mom, my current salary is more than 7,000, plus a talent subsidy of more than 8,000." When I came back, I took a look, and the housing prices in the county have risen a lot compared to previous years, and I wondered if I should buy a house in the county. ”

Ye Huihua was happy and relieved, her son was relieved, and immediately after she was relieved, she immediately had new concerns, saying, "The house has to be bought, and now many girls marry to see if you have a house." You're twenty-seven years old, and it's time to find a partner. ”

"Mom, it's only twenty-six after the New Year." Li Zhan corrected with a wry smile.

"There are several children on your level in the village, and they can't be delayed any longer." Ye Huihua said.

Li Zhan regretted mentioning the matter of buying a house, he said, "I just got out of the army, and now I am a new comrade, and I haven't done my job yet, so why am I in a hurry to get married." I'm really not in a hurry, let me concentrate on it for a few years, and then I'll talk about it when I have some foundation. The problem of this house must be solved as soon as possible. Our family lives in a suite converted from a welfare dormitory for private use, and the situation of the factory is really not guaranteed. I have public funds for housing, and I can take out a loan to buy a set, and only after solving this worry can I rest assured that I can work in the army. ”

"You have an idea, I have no opinion." Ye Huihua said that there was some opposition in her heart. At this time, many people in the small county town do not have a deep concept of housing prices, and how to spend so much money to buy a house. In a few more years, housing prices will soar, and then the whole people will panic.

Li Zhan said, "Okay, I'll go around in the afternoon." ”

Buying a house is definitely a big deal, Ye Huihua couldn't sit still, and hurriedly went out to find Li Jianguo. Li Zhan smiled and let her go, thinking about how much money he had. What many pilots of the same period don't know is that Li Zhan has been rated as a third-class pilot when he was at the training base, which is also rare. If you have rated the grade, you will have a grade subsidy, about 1,000 yuan.

Speaking of which, there is no difference between the basic salary of his lieutenant and deputy company of the lieutenant and the lieutenant and deputy company of the ordinary army and navy, and the basic salary of the cadres of the whole army is basically the same. The basic salary is more than 3,000, the grade subsidy is about 1,000, the tie-rod fee is about 300 yuan per hour, plus other miscellaneous things, such as subsidies for the old and young border areas, more than 7,000 a month, which is very high in the army. He also has an Air Force talent subsidy that many people do not have, with more than 1,000 yuan a month and a monthly income of more than 8,000.

Of course, it is obviously not comparable with civil aviation pilots, who often have an annual salary of hundreds of thousands or millions. Moreover, it is only 2009, and the decision to raise wages will not come out in a month or two.

What is the trolley fee, which is often referred to as the flight subsidy. During the period from the start of the fighter to the landing of the aircraft, the subsidy is calculated on an hourly basis. Therefore, there is a position in the tower called the timekeeper, which is specifically responsible for calculating this time. The vital interests of pilots are at stake, and they must not be careless.

What forced Li Zhan to play with his life during his time at the training base during his time at school, and to put in more effort than others to achieve his current results?

It's poverty.

It's a tie-rod fee.

Before he enlisted in the army, his family was really poor, and Li Xiang's tuition for the first year of college was borrowed. He enlisted in the army, although he carried the epaulettes of the cadets and the salary was not high, but it was a relief for the family at that time. Later, I started to teach for the first time, and with the trolley fee, although it was only half of the instructor, it was a lot of income. So when he was at the training base, he tried every means to fly, as long as he was in the fighter, he almost had a tie-rod fee. In this way, his flight hours were almost several times higher than that of other cadets.

It can be said that the real pressure that forced Li Zhan to work hard as soon as possible to fly solo and prepare for war as soon as possible was that the family's economy was poor, and God could get a pull rod fee of 300 yuan per hour. Generally, each person flies about 200 hours a year, and he goes for 500 hours, because he can get 150,000 yuan a year!

Of course, the reason why he now receives a salary of nearly 8,000 is because of the tie-rod fee. The tie-rod fee is paid on a monthly basis, and it is paid separately, one month later than the salary. For example, the salary paid on January 1 is in January, not in December of the previous year, as ordinary people understand. It is not possible to pay the tie-rod fee in advance, usually until the end of the month or the first few days of the next month, the flight time of the previous month is calculated, so that the rod fee can be paid according to the quantity.

All in all, he has a big heart, and flying 500 hours a year is almost impossible but not impossible. In this way, you can get an extra 80,000 or 90,000 yuan a year. A mortgage of hundreds of thousands is really not much pressure.

In other words, in addition to yearning for J-10, the high salary of pilots was definitely the main factor for Li Zhan to participate in the recruitment of pilots back then.

Again, the main practical reason why he is bent on flying the third-generation aircraft is that the third-generation aircraft has a high rod fee! The pull rod fee of the SU-27 is three times that of the J-7! Thinking that Zhang Xueyang, a rich bastard, could fly a third-generation aircraft, while a poor bastard could only fly a J-7, Li Zhan's heart was unbalanced.

In addition to the tens of thousands of dollars sent to the family earlier, the 100,000 yuan in the passbook was saved in this way. After joining the army for more than five years, I have earned more than 100,000 yuan, which seems to be a lot, but in fact, it is really cold for a pilot.

A down payment of 100,000 should be enough, he thought.