Chapter Twenty-Nine: One or Awake
This trip back to China.
Nie Guangyi had a plan.
Take a look at the fake and shoddy and leave, and then eat and drink in Shanghai all day.
As a wanderer, as a foodie, this is the most basic respect for hometown food.
The word hometown has different meanings in the eyes of different people.
In the eyes of many people, hometown is where [home] is located - my heart is my home.
Nie Guangyi, who left his hometown with many regrets, did not feel that he still had a [home] in Shanghai.
More than ten years have passed, and my hometown is here in Nie Guangyi, and it is more [family fragrance].
It is a delicious delicacy that has been accompanied from childhood to adulthood, and others may not feel that there is anything, but he can never forget it.
Because Grandpa Qiu and Grandma Qiu left one after another, Nie Guangyi had to adjust his plan, give up the taste of his hometown, and stay in Changqiao Village until the end of the funeral.
In the process, he returned the return flight that his assistant had bought for him a long time ago, and just in time for the direct flight from Wenzhou Longwan Airport to Rome's Fiumicino Airport every Thursday.
Everything went smoothly and overall, there was no big trouble with the ticket.
Three days later, there was a summit forum in Rome for the world of architecture, and he was going to give a lecture and receive two more prizes by the way.
It can also be regarded as the daily life of a genius architect.
If there was no forced return to this wave of failures, Nie Guangyi's trip in China would have come to an end.
The second the plane returned to Pudong Airport, Nie Guangyi suddenly had a very strange thought, whether he was too decisive about [Jiaxiang], so that his hometown had resentment.
went around and forcibly took him back to Shanghai.
Eat what you come from!
The affairs of the firm have been delayed for so long anyway, and some of them have been trying to solve them remotely in the past few days.
Just for the sake of the forum in three days, there is still a day or two to postpone it.
Nie Guangyi quickly convinced himself.
In order to dispel the resentment of the Shanghai delicacies, he did not choose to continue waiting at the airport for the airline to transfer a new plane.
It's definitely not because it's the first time I see the oxygen mask on the plane fall off, so I don't dare to go back on another flight with the same number.
Joke! How can it be so easy to have a shadow in a broad sense?
"Broadly speaking, if you don't want to go home and have a look, then let's go back to the Aurora Studio, and then slowly discuss how to arrange it next, okay?"
"What am I doing back there? Your brother and I will get up early tomorrow and eat all the food we want, either tomorrow night or early the day after tomorrow, and fly directly from Shanghai to Rome. ”
"Go back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?" Xuan Shi was surprised: "Aren't you only taking a direct flight?" ”
"yes, what's the problem?" Nie Guangyi asked.
"Can you buy a direct ticket from Shanghai to Rome the day after tomorrow?"
"What are you kidding, you can buy direct flights in small cities like Wenzhou, how can we not buy them in Shanghai?"
"Broadly speaking, did the assistant of the office buy your previous air tickets for you?"
"Any questions?"
"Nope." Xuan Shi explained: "You may not know how difficult it is to buy flights abroad now. Shanghai has not had a direct flight to Rome recently, BJ may have, and even if there is, the tickets should have been sold out early. ”
"Sold out?"
"Yes, the number of international flights now is definitely not comparable to before. You have to wait at least two weeks in advance to buy a non-stop flight. ”
"I'll sell you a big headlight, didn't I say I bought the flight back today?"
"I bought it for you."
"The airline you drive? Sell you don't sell me? Are you more handsome than your brother, or are you richer than your brother? ”
"No, broadly speaking, I mean I can't buy it either."
"Where's the ticket?"
"That's the alternate I asked Arnoto to get for you with great difficulty, and it was luck that I was able to make it in the end."
"Do you call the engine failure and returning home lucky?"
I have known Nie Guangyi for so many years.
Xuan Shi knew that Nie Guangyi was actually a little afraid of flying.
Nie Guangyi's fear of flying is not innate, and if he flies more, he will always encounter such and such situations.
Once, Xuan Shi and Nie Guangyi went to Paris together.
Less than ten seconds before landing, the plane found that at the end of the runway where it was about to land, there was a plane coming in the opposite direction from the ground.
If it is not handled in time, it will land normally, and it will collide with the plane on the ground.
The situation was somewhat dangerous.
Fortunately, the captain was extremely experienced, and at the last second, pulled the nose up and went around.
Nie Guangyi was sitting in the first row at the time, so he felt it the most obviously.
Looking at it from Nie Guangyi's angle, the plane was almost the one that hit the ground.
Xuan Shi sat in the aisle, and he didn't feel too much.
Listening to the captain's announcement, I realized that at the end of the run, there was an "illegal invasion" of the plane.
Nie Guangyi's whole face turned pale directly.
This is the direct reason why Nie Guangyi began to be afraid of flying in the real sense.
Since then, Nie Guangyi has been tense when he takes a plane, even if he encounters a small air flow in the air.
Then he loved face again, and every time he pretended to suddenly remember something to ask the flight attendant, and reached out to ring the call bell.
Every time the plane was about to land, Nie Guangyi was even more nervous and didn't dare to breathe.
In order to reduce the situation of facing the landing of an aircraft.
I never took a flight that wasn't direct again.
Nie Guangyi's flight was a direct flight from Longwan Airport to Fiumicino with more than ten hours of aviation fuel.
If you choose to return to the home temporarily, you must hover in the air and consume the aviation fuel within a safe range before the landing procedure can be initiated.
For this reason, even though Xuan Shi and Zong Ji had spent twice the normal return time of the plane on the road, they still came to the arrival hall of the airport one step earlier than Nie Guangyi.
Seeing the plane landing, Xuan Shi did not call Nie Guangyi as soon as possible, but asked Cheng Nuo to find someone to ask about the follow-up arrangements for this flight.
If the flight was canceled, he called Nie Guangyi and said that he was waiting for him in the hall.
If the flight is not canceled, then let Nie Guangyi treat him as if he has not come, which will save him more psychological pressure.
Xuan Shi knows Nie Guangyi best, and at such a time, if he is not here, Nie Guangyi can still hold a string.
If you know that he is coming, it will aggravate the seriousness of the return incident, and most likely it will also make Nie Guangyi, who was already afraid of flying, psychologically collapsed.
It stands to reason that most people should choose to cancel their trip in the special case of the oxygen mask falling off.
Xuan Shi felt that it was more likely that he would go back directly.
The truth was very different from what he thought.
Most people wouldn't choose to go abroad at a time like this if it wasn't very necessary.
On the other hand, if you have to go, you can't get a refund if you want to go.
After the refund, I don't know when I will be able to buy another ticket, let alone a direct flight.
The news finally confirmed by Cheng Nuo also confirms this.
Flights are not cancelled and the airline will deploy a brand new large aircraft to continue flying.
There were only 10 people who chose to get their tickets refunded.
Nine of the ten people who refunded their tickets were originally connecting tickets, flying from Shanghai to Wenzhou and then to Rome.
These nine people are equivalent to being able to go home first to suppress the shock.
Nie Guangyi is also from Shanghai, but the situation is completely different.
This is also why, when Xuan Shi saw the news, he would choose to come over without hesitation.
Even if it was a trip for nothing, he was willing to do it for the sake of his brother.
As it turned out, he had come to the right place.
If he didn't come, Nie Guangyi wouldn't know who he could hang on or where to find a sense of belonging.
……
"We are used to strong winds and waves in a broad sense, what is this return voyage? What should I do if I can't buy a ticket for a while? ”
Xuan Shi said lightly.
It was exactly the same tone as Nie Guangyi's intention when they met.
The way over, it was Zongji driving.
went back, and the person driving became Xuanshi.
This time, Nie Guangyi did not grab with Xuan Shi.
He is indeed powerless, and he doesn't want to stay in a hotel alone.
He couldn't help but wonder what was in that letter.
Maybe you can't help but run back to the lost and found.
A genius architect must not be so unproductive.
No one believed it, and when he saw the text message at the airport, he fell behind Xuan Shi, and when he thought of that figure, he couldn't help but want to cry for a while.
Can it be a little more unproductive?
In order to divert attention, Nie Guangyi called the assistants of the two studios in Italy as soon as he got in the car.
Let one help him buy a ticket for tomorrow and the other for him the day after tomorrow.
The final conclusion that corroborates each other is indeed that you can't buy a single one.
Don't say the day after tomorrow, there will not be a ticket for the next ten days.
"How did I get that ticket from before?" It was only at this time that Nie Guangyi began to realize that air tickets were really difficult to buy.
"At the beginning, didn't we come back with a batch of medical supplies that were most urgently needed in Wenzhou? At that time, the people in that group knew that you were going to buy a plane ticket, and specially asked an international student who was not in a hurry to go out to refund the ticket, so that you could be on standby. ”
"Huh? Didn't you donate all those medical supplies? ”
"But you're the right person to contact you."
"It was all that long ago."
"No matter how long it has passed, the friendship that should be remembered will always be remembered." Xuan Shi solemnly seemed to be making a promise.
Nie Guangyi didn't know what to say, so he muttered a little: "I wouldn't refund the ticket if I knew it." ”
"Don't mind! What's the matter? The plane still has so long to take off, and you refund the ticket, there must still be someone to buy it. It's not going to be wasted. ”
Xuan Shi is secretly changing the concept.
He knows very well that what Nie Guangyi cares about is not whether the ticket is wasted, but whether the friendship is ignored.
Nie Guangyi fell silent.
"Broadly speaking, it doesn't matter, the reason why you can only be on standby can be refunded before you said yesterday that you are leaving today. Flights from Wenzhou to Rome are available every Thursday, if it is next Thursday, we will start waiting now, and it is normal to be able to buy, and there is definitely no need to wait for another ten days and half a month. ”
"What's the difference between seven days and ten days? Isn't it the same as not catching up with the forum? Nie Guangyi reluctantly adjusted his mood.
"Didn't you go to that forum because of two awards? Wouldn't it be over if you asked your two assistants to help you get one of them? Anyway, you would have won the prize a long time ago. ”
"Am I here to get the prize? I'm going to give a speech! ”
"Then is it too late for you to tell them about the substitution?"
"It's not just the speeches, I have two full cases that are going to be submitted next Monday."
"Do you have to submit it yourself?"
"There are too many details in the exterior of the building, garden planning, interior design, as well as modeling and a full set of construction plans, and both firms are responsible for several parts, so I don't feel at ease if I don't see the whole case put together with my own eyes."
"Then can you explain the situation to the client and postpone it a little longer?"
"I don't even know when I'll be able to go back, how will I explain the situation to others?"
"Otherwise, I'll ask Arnold to find a group of people to help figure out a way to make sure you can make it next Thursday?"
"Use the same reason twice, aren't you afraid that people will think that your girlfriend's character is problematic when you look back?"
"Broadly speaking, you surprised me too much today."
"I mean you're a big head." Nie Guangyi once again opened the mantra.
"I'm serious, you even care about whether Arnold will be talked about, you used to keep your mouth shut and you didn't have anything good to say."
"I used to be her rival in love, but now I can't mourn more than die?"
"No, Brother Guangyi, you have to remember that the Lun family still loves you."
"There's something wrong with you, right?"
Nie Guangyi shook the goosebumps all over his body.
It looks a lot better than when I first got off the plane.
His face became normal.
At least not as pale as when we first met.
"Broadly speaking, do you want to go and lie down and sleep in the back?"
"Are you one or are you?"
"Huh?" Xuan Shi didn't react at all.
"You're driving here, what am I going to do in the back?"
"You've been on the plane for so long today, aren't you tired of sitting like this now?"
"When my brother sees you, how can he be tired?"
Xuan Shi came back to his senses and directly chose to shut up.
Nie Guangyi can still speak well when he is not normal.
Once it is normal, every sentence has a hidden mystery, and it is not at all that a person of Xuan Shi's rank can parry.