Chapter Forty-Eight: The Beginning of Love

When Liu saw this battle, he lowered his head deeply and didn't dare to go over, but a group of female students coaxed her and pushed her over, until they came to the side of the jeep, Chen Bei picked up the bouquet and handed it over: "Give it to you." ”

Liu was too shy to pick it up, and the female classmates next to her couldn't help her take it, a group of girls chattered around the jeep, and the male classmates were envious and jealous, eager to join the Air Force immediately, and also get such a set of stylish outfits and jeeps, and become the pride of the sky.

Chen Bei put on his sunglasses and stretched out his hand coolly: "Miss, can I send you home?" ”

The classmates immediately coaxed.

Liu said: "I don't go home at noon and eat in the school cafeteria. ”

Chen Beidao: "I invite you to eat Western food." ”

Without waiting for Liu to agree, the girls shouted: "Okay, okay, let's go together." ”

Chen Bei was extremely bold: "OK, go." ”

The jeep took the four girls to the most luxurious Shanghai Western restaurant on the central street of the provincial capital, with glass turnstiles, neon lights, and a waiter wearing white gloves at the door, the four girls had never been to such a high-end place, and they did not dare to go in trembling, Chen Bei parked the jeep and took them swaggering in, the waiter respectfully helped them open the door, Chen Bei rewarded him with a big bill, and the generous style made the little girls fall in love.

It is said that the neighbor of the big Shanghai Western restaurant is a foreigner, and the waiters are also proficient in English, because the people who often come and go here are upper-class people or American Marine Corps officers stationed in the suburbs of the provincial capital or something, in short, the grade here is extremely high, and the cost is also unbearable for ordinary people.

Seeing the arrival of the distinguished guests, the foreman personally received him, Chen Bei's fluent authentic American English shocked everyone on the spot, he was very domineering to help the girls order dishes and desserts, and asked for a bottle of red wine and a dozen cold Coca-Cola.

The girls had never eaten formal Western food, watching the knives and forks in a hurry, and the waiters sneering secretly on the side, Chen Bei saw it, threw the knives and forks aside and said, "Bring a few pairs of chopsticks." ”

The waiter said, "I'm sorry, we have a Western restaurant here, and we don't have chopsticks." ”

Chen Bei swiped out a dollar bill: "No, just buy it." ”

The waiter took the money and went upside down.

Chen Bei smiled: "I don't use knives and forks to eat in the United States, in terms of food culture, Westerners lag behind me in Greater China, chopsticks are the most advanced tableware, don't believe it, can you use knives and forks to pick up beans?" ”

The young pilot is humorous, witty, and not bound by all kinds of etiquette rules, these little family Jasper was impressed by his charm, and they couldn't wait to marry on the spot.

Chen Bei suddenly took out a camera and said, "I'll take pictures of you." ”

In these years, there are only cameras in the photo studio, and they are the kind of large, magnesium powder that shines, such a small and delicate camera is really rare, the girls posed, Chen Bei snapped the shutter, especially took a few more photos of Liu.

After eating the big meal, Chen Bei sent them back to school, Liu suddenly remembered that he didn't ask his name, so he said, "Pilot, I don't know what your name is?" ”

Chen Beidao: "You just call me the Divine Condor, this is my name in the sky, by the way, what is your name?" ”

The girls gave him their names.

When Liu returned home in the evening, his parents were talking about the recent news in the provincial capital, and a nurse in a public hospital fell in love with a garrison pilot.

"These pilots, they all eat American bread, they are amorous by nature, and the good girls shouldn't be provoked, and now there are people who are killed, and the police can't control it, and the parents are not sad to death." Liu Cunren is an old pedantic figure, and he is most unaccustomed to this kind of thing, sighing and heartbroken.

Liu panicked, and the relationship between the secret road and the divine eagle must not be known to the family.

In the blink of an eye, the summer vacation came, and the Condor never appeared again, so Liu also dragged a few good girls to wait at the school gate for several days, but the jeep never appeared.

Liu couldn't help it, and quietly came to the suburban airport, but she only knew a code name, and how to find someone, the soldiers at the gate seemed to have long been accustomed to seeing this kind of woman who came to find the back account, and looked at her strangely.

Father's words echoed in my ears, these pilots are all playboys and amorous, maybe he is just a whim, teasing us female students, and now, the girl who is just in love can only admonish herself like this.

The long summer vacation is over, the school is open, and Liu has also entered the last semester, if nothing else, she will be admitted to Jiangdong University next spring and become the second female college student in the Liu family.

Time passed day by day, from autumn to winter, Liu's white dress and blue skirt also became Yin Dan Shilin blue cloth cotton skirt, one day in early December, she carried her schoolbag and walked home slowly, the leaves of the plane tree fell all over the ground, a bleak, the newsboy ran on the street, shouting the news of the fierce battle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in Shandong.

Suddenly there was a familiar sound of brakes, and a jeep stopped beside him, and unlike in summer, the windshield of the jeep was raised, and the canopy was covered, and the same thing was that the driver was still a handsome and dashing pilot, the Condor.

Chen Bei wore an A2 leather jacket, leather boots, and a big-brimmed hat, majestic, chewing gum in his mouth, and accosted him with a slight ruffian: "Hey, Miss, I'll give you a ride." ”

Liu was overjoyed, but he pursed his lips, walked forward with his schoolbag, and said, "I don't know you." ”

"Hey, I'm the Condor, why did I forget, I invited you to dinner." Chen Bei stepped on the accelerator lightly and followed behind.

After grinding for a long time, Liu got into the car, still puffing up, and suddenly she saw a photo of herself on the windshield of the jeep, the edges were charred black, and it seemed to have been burned.

"What's going on?" Liu picked up the photo and realized something.

Chen Bei drove the car and said in a calm tone: "At the end of June, my unit was transferred to the north to participate in the war, the battle was fierce, and I had to fly several sorties every day to support ground operations, the People's Liberation Army, oh, it was the former Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, they did not have an air force, nor did they have anti-aircraft guns, but they would use machine guns to concentrate fire on the air to intercept, when I flew, I always put your photo on the windshield of the fighter jet, and once, the machine gun hit my landline. ”

Liu was extremely nervous: "Are you okay?" ”

Chen Bei smiled proudly: "Of course it's okay, I flew back, but the cockpit of the plane caught fire, if I didn't protect it desperately, your photos would have been burned." ”

Liu Dao: "It's me who blames you, I thought it was ......"

"Why?"

"Nothing ......"

"At seven o'clock on Saturday night, I invite you to watch a movie, Dahua Cinema, the American film "Hibiscus Out of the Water"." Chen Bei no longer dwelled on this topic, took out a movie ticket and handed it over.

Liu didn't dare to answer: "I have to read English books at home at night." ”

"Books don't get lost at home, movies don't go if you don't watch them, American original soundtracks, reading them is equivalent to three English lessons." Chen Bei said bewildermently.

Liu bit his lip and made up his mind: "Okay, see you at the door of the movie theater." ”

"I'll pick you up."

"No, I'll figure it out myself." Liu Ke didn't dare to let his family know that he was in a relationship with an Air Force pilot.

"Here's for you." Chen Bei handed over a bag of things.

Liu opened it and saw that it was full of chewing gum and chocolate packaged in English.

"I can't ask for it, it's too expensive." She said.

"What's here, it's just some snacks, you don't want me to throw them away." Chen Bei was about to throw it, but Liu hurriedly grabbed it: "Okay, I want it." ”

There are more than 100 meters away from the mouth of the alley, Liu got off the jeep, said goodbye to Chen Bei, hurried home, and saw that the third brother Liu Xiaoyong was talking to his father, he was wearing a straight military uniform, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, but he was also majestic, but compared to the Condor, he always felt almost meaningful.

"Small, when you see your brother, you won't say hello." Liu Cunren scolded.

"Third brother is good." Liu hurriedly greeted, bowed his head and said, "If there is nothing else, I will go back to the house to read." ”

"Little sister, I brought you candy." Liu Xiaoyong loves this sister the most, and treats her as a child, and brings her a bag of rice candy.

"Thank you, third brother." Liu entered the house with rice candy.

Liu Xiaoyong said: "Dad, how is my little sister's studies." ”

Liu Cunren said: "Look at it next year, if you can be admitted to university, you can go to college, and if you can't pass the exam, you will find someone to marry, your eldest sister is forty years old, and now she is not married, it is not clear, and she is worried about the individual, you are too, there is no movement when you are almost thirty years old, and the old Liu family is going to be the last." ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "Dad, don't worry, I'll consider it in two years." ”

Liu Cunren said: "Forget it, you are busy with military affairs, and now it is an eventful autumn, how is the war in Jiangbei?" ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "The Jiangbei Column of the People's Liberation Army, that is an old opponent, although the national army is well-armed and has the air force to help in the war, but it has been defeated repeatedly and is at a disadvantage, I don't know when, it is time to send our traffic police corps to battle." ”

Liu Cunren lamented: "The country is unfortunate, since I can remember, this war has not been broken, the Eight-Nation Alliance, the warlords are fighting, the Japanese, and now the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are fighting, when will China not fight and not die." ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "Looking at this situation, the party-state has not been angry for a few years. ”

Liu Cunren was taken aback: "This is just to say it at home, and you don't dare to talk nonsense outside." ”

The father and son discussed national affairs in the hall, Liu lay in the boudoir and thought about it, and the Condor actually put his photo in the fighter jet, which shows that he has me in his heart, no, since he has me, he won't write a letter for a few months? Thinking about it again, maybe the barracks were not allowed to write letters, or maybe the letters were detained by the school gatehouse, and after thinking about it for a while, I fell asleep unconsciously.

On Sunday, after an early dinner, Liu took an English book and said, "Dad, I told my classmate to go to her house to review my homework." ”

Liu Cunren did not suspect fraud, and said: "Come back early, it's cold outside." ”

Liu wore a very cute velvet hat, wrapped a long white scarf, jumped out of the door, with movie tickets in the English book, and came to the door of the Dahua Cinema.

The movie at half past seven is about to start, but the Condor has not yet appeared, Liu is a little anxious, and he doesn't want to go in to watch it alone, so he waits at the door, and when the movie is over and the next one begins, he still hasn't seen a figure.

It's ten o'clock, there are not many people outside the movie theater, the cold wind is blowing, the dead leaves are flying, Liu is shivering under the eaves, pouting and scolding the Condor in his heart, and let me go again, thinking about it, there will be no urgent task, forget it, don't wait, go home.

The street lamps were white, the streets were empty, unbridled laughter could be heard in the distance, and several tall American soldiers were carrying wine bottles, staggering.