Chapter Twenty-Nine: After graduation, we are still together
A person took the subway for more than two hours, walked in the spacious Terminal 2 of Pudong Airport, and walked from A to Z without seeing the self-service machine of China Eastern Airlines to check in the card. He walked back and forth a few times, and vaguely remembered the last time he went to Xingyang, it was 15 months ago, and it was also in this place, and this time he never found it.
Looking at the rush of people in the airport, he originally thought that he would be embarrassed to meet the group of teachers and classmates who had not seen him for nearly twenty days, he did not complete his graduation goal, and worked in a unit that he didn't like too much, which was a decent job but no room for promotion, and then he understood that since the reality was already like this, it was better to enjoy the present.
Just like now, he has graduated for more than ten days, and officially joined a tertiary hospital five days later, and he regards this trip with his master's teachers and classmates as the last free time of his student days.
In the vast sea of people, he finally saw a sign hidden on the right side of the terminal: China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines are in Terminal 1, he rarely came to Pudong before, and habitually walked to Terminal 2 like in Hongqiao, leaving him time: there is still an hour and a half before takeoff, he is a little anxious, this trip he started from the failure of the Cobo in mid-May, and has been looking forward to it for nearly two months now, he does not like the travel of one or two people.
With his character, he must have walked all the way through the sidewalk connecting the two terminals, and he saw the towering exit 24 in front of him that said: The shuttle bus to Terminal 1 was waiting at gates 20 and 25, and he did not choose to go there at the first time, walked to the elevator leading to the first floor, and watched the vast number of people pulling suitcases up.
He was a little impatient, but he still chose to walk out of the 23rd gate and ran quickly to the 25th gate over there, and a swinging car happened to stop not far away.
A man stepped down from above, and he looked through the window, and there was only a man in his 50s sitting in the back except for the driver.
"Hello, are you going to Terminal 1?" Zhu Jia asked.
"Yes." The man nodded, his attitude much more humble than the driver he had asked before.
He walked in with a sense of relief, sat in the front row, looked at the oval-shaped passage, the shuttle bus went around in a big circle, about three minutes, he had seen the entrance of Terminal 1, there are very few people, and it is generally common to travel by car to China in remote Pudong. Force. As a last resort. He looked again at the hotel in the middle of the two terminals and walked in with a backpack full of everything for the trip.
Sparse crowd, Gate 5 just came in a long way, standing in front of the sign of No. 35, he looked at the time and 1 hour and 15 minutes, here at the exit of the bathroom.
"How long have you been here?" She walked over to her, holding a light blue trolley case in her hand, and asked with a smile.
"I just came over." Zhu Jia hadn't seen her for a long time, just like he had seen other classmates, and smiled back enthusiastically.
"You help me look at the box, I'll go for it." Zhang Yue said.
"I'll just bring it to you." After he finished speaking, he saw that she had already walked in, and he was still thinking about whether to wait for her here, but what to say on the way together when the time came, he hadn't spoken to his classmates for a long time, and the lack of confidence brought by failure was like a shadow, enveloping him every day, he often thought alone, if he could work hard at that time, would he still be able to study on such a good campus now, as long as he survived three years of busy time, a great future was waiting for him.
Sometimes I think that after working, I will study for a doctorate, accumulate years of work, and maybe my position will also require a doctorate degree in the future, whether it will be more fulfilling for you to take a group of doctoral subordinates, all this is just your own self-comfort.
After walking for a long time, he finally saw the location of Terminal 5 on the right, and he sat down in the less crowded place as always, and he was the first to arrive as usual, and he had to face them again and again.
I still remember the first time I flew to travel, it was three years ago, and then he came to this prestigious school, he can't remember how many times he flown it, but maybe he won't have such a good opportunity in the future.
He saw in the WeChat group:
"We've arrived, where are you?" Little junior sister
'Check-in ready' listen. Words. Bro
'Gone through security'
'Registration time is 15.55, everyone hurry up'
His expression was a little excited, "Zhang Yue and I have already arrived at the boarding gate", and took a closer look, the time of the first few messages, 14:54, was exactly ten minutes away from his own news.
He sat in his position, brushed the news over and over again, and there was no fun, so he simply learned to learn 100 words, still 100 special eight words every day, he remembered that he was also learning IELTS vocabulary at this time last year, and he was busy all year long, and an exam made all his previous efforts in vain, and of course he felt uncomfortable.
More than a month ago, when he was at home in Changzhou, at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, he was awakened by a lost dream, lying on the bed on the second floor felt abandoned by the world, he swiped a video, a ball rolled down from a straight slope and a slope from the same height, but the path in the middle was dug into two semicircles, and the ball was put down at the same time, and the ball on a zigzag path behind always reached the ground before the ball on the straight slope, and he was excited by this for a long time.
Zhang Yue is also the first classmate to sit in the waiting seat with her, and she is also the only one who can go out to study and travel with her former teachers and younger siblings after graduating from her.