Chapter 1: The ruffian, the ruffian
"Click, click!"
Liang Jinyi twisted the key twice and locked the door.
In the old hallway, the dim voice-activated lights were on, and she struggled downstairs with a large heavy suitcase in her hands.
Out of the unit door, Liang Jinyi slammed the suitcase on the ground, and gasped for breath with both hands on it.
It was not yet six o'clock in the morning of September, and the sun had just risen faintly from the east.
Liang Jinyi put his hand on his forehead and habitually looked in one direction.
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound from far and near, and it sounded louder as it skimmed over her head.
She looked up, and two warplanes flew just above her head, and she could see the emblem painted under the wings, bright red and yellow, from the low altitude.
She stared at the two planes for a moment, until she couldn't even hear the roar, and then she withdrew her gaze.
I don't know who flew those two planes? Is it possible that one of them is the man?
Ever since she lived in this old community adjacent to a certain regiment of the Air Force a year ago, every time she saw a fighter plane passing over her head, Liang Jinyi would think like this.
It's not that I'm expecting anything, it's just just thinking about it casually.
After breathing steadily, Liang Jinyi pulled up the suitcase lever and was about to leave, when the mobile phone in the bag rang at an inopportune time.
She took out her mobile phone and looked at it, and saw that it was her old mother, Professor Xu's phone, she couldn't help but hold her forehead with one hand and sigh, and sat on the suitcase to pick up the phone slowly.
"Hey, Mom, why did you call me so early?"
"Hmph, it's not so early, how many times during the day have your phone calls been answered? What's more, I haven't answered your phone calls since the day or night! β
Professor Xu's voice was full of accusations and complaints against her, and Liang Jinyi rubbed her slightly swollen temples and began to explain patiently.
"Mom, it's not that I deliberately didn't answer your call, you also know the nature of my work, I can't bring my mobile phone when I'm working, and I've been working overtime for a month in a row in order to catch up with the node recently."
Hearing his daughter say that he was working overtime, Professor Xu felt distressed, but he couldn't help but open up on the phone: "Who told you not to listen to me at the beginning, you have to learn this major in life and death, not to mention the tiredness and tiredness, and you can't make much money, and you are going to be thirty years old, and you don't even have a boyfriend, if you listened to me at the beginning, and now you are a university teacher, the work is easy and decent, I'm afraid that the children are running all over the place, and you still need me to worry about you here?" β
Again!
"Mom!" Liang Jinyi sighed again and interrupted Professor Xu's words, "Can you stop mentioning these old sesame rotten grains?" It's a job I like, I'm willing to be tired, and I'm only twenty-nine years old, not yet thirty, okay? β
Her family Professor Xu is domineering and strong, Liang Jinyi has been controlled by her since she was a child to learn this and that, and she only went against her wishes twice when she grew so big, once when she insisted on studying science in the second year of high school, and once when she filled in the college entrance examination, she chose aviation university and learned aircraft design.
Just these two times, Professor Xu would take it out and talk about it almost every once in a while, and she was numb to it.
"Don't mess with me here, how much is the difference between twenty-nine and thirty?" Professor Xu asked her in a bad tone.
"It's been a year, a year, and my planes are in the sky!"
Liang Jinyi only dared to mumble quietly on the other end of the phone, and did not dare to make Professor Xu angry again, she had just retired and caught up with menopause, and her temper was unprecedentedly irritable, she was afraid that she would make Professor Xu angry again, and she had no time to go back to take care of her.
"What did you just say?" Professor Xu obviously heard something, and asked her again.
"Nothing!" Liang Jinyi hurriedly opened the topic and asked Professor Xu again, "Mom, are you calling for something, just hang up if it's okay, I'm still in a hurry, I don't have time to say more." β
"Hey, every time you kid says two words to you, you hang up on me in a hurry! I called to ask you, tomorrow is the weekend, can you come back, your Aunt Du introduced you to a university professor two days ago, come back to meet! β
Liang Jinyi heard it, Professor Xu was not in an inquiring tone this time, but an order.
But this time it's really not a coincidence.
"Mom, it's really not like I'm going to go back to see you this time, I'm on a business trip today, I have to leave soon, I'm already downstairs, if it weren't for your phone call, I would have gotten into a taxi." Leung continued to patiently explain to Professor Hui.
But her patience and kind attitude couldn't suppress Professor Xu's anger at all, and her voice on the other end of the phone rose a few degrees and roared at Liang Jinyi.
"What? Traveling for business again? I have to call and ask you Yan Suo, if you continue like this, do you want to find a partner? β
As soon as Liang Jinyi heard Professor Xu's words, he immediately stood up in fright.
"Hey, Mom, Mom, don't look for Yan, you looked for him last time, he introduced me to all the single young men in the office, but he didn't mention his own son, I lost my face in the office, you can spare me."
"As for the professor you just said that Aunt Du introduced, I'll see, I promise not to tell you this time, I'll see you when I come back from a business trip in Liang'an, is it done?"
Professor Xu saw that Liang Jinyi had a good attitude this time, and his tone softened, and then asked her, "Then when will you come back from a business trip?" β
Liang Jinyi glanced at the big suitcase in front of him, and said in a low voice: "If it's fast, it's a month, and if it's slow, it's not easy to say that it's eight years old." β
When Professor Xu heard Liang Jinyi's answer, he immediately yelled at her angrily: "Liang Qiqi! You're trying to me off, aren't you? Your business trip is calculated on an annual basis, who is waiting for you, good guy? β
Liang Jinyi pulled the phone away from her ear, and waited for Professor Xu's roar to stop before she took the phone back and continued to explain patiently.
"Mom, don't be angry first, I'm not perfunctory to you, it's all the truth, the model I followed is about to be finalized in Liang'an, and this business trip time is not what I said, you will be magnanimous, and then be considerate of me?"
"When my model is finished, I promise to solve my personal problems first, and then you will let me meet one hundred and eighty people a day, and I will never say a word, okay?"
"Please, Professor Xu, just let me go this time, if you don't leave, I won't be able to catch my flight."
After listening to her daughter's earnest words, Professor Xu sighed and asked, "Are you on a business trip to Liang'an?" β
Liang Jinyi nodded like pounded garlic: "Yes." β
"Okay, I got it!"
Toot toot, there was a sudden hang-up tone on the phone.
Liang Jinyi took down his phone in disbelief and looked at it, Professor Xu did hang up the phone.
This time, it's so easy to let her go?
Liang Jinyi couldn't help but shake his head and took the phone back into his bag.
Since her family Professor Xu retired from school, he has more leisure time, and he has become more and more urging her to get married.
When the project is over, I always have to come back from a business trip, hey, I really don't know what excuse to use to deal with Professor Xu, is it really a day to meet a strange man who is one hundred and eighty years old?
Thinking of this, Liang Jinyi couldn't help but sigh.
At this time, on the playground of the troops next door across the wall, neat and loud slogans sounded again.
She turned her head to look over there, then raised her wrist to look at her watch, six o'clock, this morning exercise is really more punctual than the alarm clock every day.
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Approaching 11 o'clock at noon, Liang Jinyi's flight finally landed in Liang'an.
Out of the airport, she took a taxi and went straight to the test flight base.
In the taxi, Liang Jinyi took out her mobile phone, saw that there was an unread WeChat message, clicked on it and saw that the person who sent the message was a student of Yan Suo, who was also her little sister, Luo Zheng.
Luo Zheng: [Senior sister, senior sister, let me tell you, it's really a pity that you went to Liang'an first, the pilots who came to pick up the plane transfer today are too handsome! ] /Star Eyesγ
Luo Zheng: [Especially one of them, really, super invincible and handsome, and looking young, he is actually a lieutenant colonel. γ
Luo Zheng's message was sent two hours ago, when Liang Jinyi was still sleeping on the plane.
After reading the message, she was a little disdainful, and her fingers quickly typed a few words on her mobile phone to reply to Luo Zheng.
LJY: [What's the pity, flying in the sky all day long, tanned, can you be more handsome than Senior Brother Yan? ] γ
The planes have already been transferred away, and the next main work is on the test flight side, Luo Zheng has not yet left, and he may be panicking at this time, so the reply to Liang Jinyi's message is also very fast.
Luo Zheng: [Senior sister, have you arrived in Liang'an? γ
LJY: [Well, on the way to base.] γ
Luo Zheng: [Yes, it's not a pity, our plane is almost here now, anyway, you can meet those pilots soon.] γ
Luo Zheng: [It's really handsome, handsome, handsome, handsome, not the same as Senior Brother Yan, you don't like Senior Brother Yan, maybe that lieutenant colonel will have an appetite for you.] /Wicked laughterγ
Liang Jinyi saw Luo Zheng's last piece of information, and shook his head helplessly.
A ruffian and handsome pilot, after so many years, she only remembered one, oh no, he was just a flight cadet at that time, and she never saw that person after he really became a pilot.
Will it still be so ruffian now?
Liang Jinyi thought, it shouldn't be, years of army life, he should have been polished and squared a long time ago.
She thought about it for a while, and when she came to her senses, the gate of the base could already be seen in front of the taxi.
Liang Jinyi didn't reply to Luo Zheng's message, put his mobile phone in his bag, and prepared to get out of the car.
Two minutes later, Liang Jinyi showed her ID to the sentry at the gate of the base, and after a while, a young and handsome little officer came to lead her in, and when she went upstairs, he also thoughtfully helped her carry her suitcase.
"Little sister, are you the modification designer of the War Eagle? Coming over with a test flight? β
Hearing someone call her little sister, Liang Jinyi couldn't help frowning, so her voice was a little cold.
"You can call me Lianggong, where is Yan Lang, take me to see him first?"
The young junior officer scratched his head and was a little embarrassed: "Oh, Liang Gong, Yan Gong and our captain are in the conference room, I'll take you over." β
Liang Jinyi followed the young officer to the door of the conference room, the door was not closed, it was half open, and the sound of two men arguing could be faintly heard coming from inside.
She could clearly distinguish that one of the voices was from her senior brother Yan Lang, and the other voice was unfamiliar, but it felt inexplicably familiar, and Liang Jinyi couldn't remember who it was for a while.
She spent a few years in Liang'an when she was studying for a master's degree and doctorate, and she thought that maybe the other party was also a person she had met.
The petty officer was about to knock on the door, but was stopped by Liang Jinyi with a gesture.
The two of them stood in the doorway, listening to the argument getting louder and louder.
"We have checked it many times, and the problems found have been dealt with, and I dare to vouch with my head that there is no problem with the plane."
This voice is obviously Yan Lang, Liang Jinyi didn't expect that he, Senior Brother Yan, would have such a fierce speech and say such things.
She was about to raise her wrist and knock on the door, when she heard another voice.
"Although the test pilots in my squadron are not very old, they are all old pilots, and such a simple judgment will definitely not be wrong! One said that he couldn't fly, and two said he couldn't fly, so there was really a problem with the aircraft engine, and it still needs to be checked again! β
Having a problem with the engine? Won't the test flight progress be delayed? This is a big problem to ignore!
Liang Jinyi hurriedly raised his wrist and knocked on the door twice, and pushed the door in without waiting for a response from inside.
What caught my eye was the back of a tall and straight figure in a green flight suit, standing straight with his back to her.
Yan Lang stood opposite this person, as soon as Liang Jinyi pushed the door in, he saw it, he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled softly at her.
"Jinyi, are you here?"
With Yan Lang's "Jinyi", the tall back also turned around instantly.
Liang Jinyi met the eagle-sharp gaze of the man, and was immediately stunned.