It started raining outside at some point. Curtain-like raindrops fell from the sky and landed on the bluestone steps in front of the door, causing splashes of water.
Li Donglai walked to the door, looked at the yard shrouded in rain, took a deep breath of fresh air, and fell into deep thought.
I really didn’t expect that my little sister actually wanted to be a pilot.
After World War II, whoever controls the air can gain the initiative on the battlefield. This concept has gradually been accepted by countries around the world.
Although the domestic conditions are relatively poor, most of the aircraft were seized from the battlefield, and some were assisted by Big Brother. The aircraft models are old and the number is small. However, they also recognized the importance of the air force and began to train their own pilots.
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The recruitment of air force pilots is also called the recruitment of aviation students. Brigade Liu once participated in the recruitment of aviation students.
When Li Donglai was bragging and spanking with him, he heard some news from him.
For example, only workers and children of poor and lower-middle peasants can participate in the election. There are more than a dozen test items, and they have to be tested one by one according to a booklet, and an electrocardiogram is also measured.
Students who pass the test must take a retest. Only if they pass the retest will they be sent to the Air Force Aviation Preparatory School.
In the first two years of the Air Force Aviation Preparatory School, students mainly study cultural and theoretical knowledge, just like studying and attending classes at school. There are also two hours of physical education classes every day for physical training.
Of course, the physical education classes of the Air Force Aviation Preparatory Study are different from the physical education classes of ordinary universities. They are more difficult and focus more on training the students' abilities. There is a spiral ladder that requires nearly two hundred turns, 360 degrees left and right, 360 degrees up and down. For ordinary people,
I can't stand it at all. After a few laps, I often feel dizzy and have nosebleeds.
At that time, there was no medicine to relieve the pain, so Team Liu, as an instructor, found ginger for the students and asked them to take it during training to relieve their physical discomfort.
Many students who couldn't bear it were eliminated.
After two years, students who can persevere and pass the test will be assigned to various bases, starting with the most basic skydiving training.
Then they will go through the next round of brutal elimination.
It can be said that only one out of 100 students who participate in recruiting aviation students with the ideal of flying in the sky and protecting the country will eventually be able to board the plane.
Li Xiaomei is just a girl...
As an older brother, Li Donglai certainly hopes that Li Xiaomei can go to college normally and have a stable job like ordinary girls, instead of wearing a pilot suit and flying dangerously in the sky.
But.
If everyone thinks this way, wants to live a safe life, and wants to find a stable job, then who will protect the country?
Li Donglai, Li Donglai, your ideological consciousness has been a bit low recently. You can't relax your requirements on yourself just because you have achieved a little merit.
Li Donglai smiled bitterly, looking at the increasingly heavy rain outside the house, his eyes gradually became firmer.
Since the younger sister’s dream is to be a pilot, then as the older brother, he should fully support her!
"Oh, brother Donglai, what are you doing standing here stupidly? Hurry up and collect your clothes."
Ding Qiunan put the two children to sleep. When he heard it was raining outside, he thought that Li Donglai would remember to put away the clothes when he was outside, so he did not come out immediately.
"...Ha, I forgot."
Li Donglai smiled apologetically, took out an umbrella from behind the house, rushed into the heavy rain, and collected all the clothes hanging on the clothesline.
Looking at the clothes that were already dripping with water, Ding Qiunan shook his head helplessly and put all the clothes into the basin. "They are all soaked. I have to wash them again."
Li Donghai chuckled and said: "I have thought about it and support my little sister to become a pilot. When I get to work tomorrow, I will consult with Team Liu about what conditions are needed to recruit pilots."
"Ah? Do you really support it?"
Ding Qiunan was still regretting her clothes. When she heard this, she threw her clothes in the basin, stood up and stared at Li Donglai in disbelief.
In this compound, no one knows Li Donglai better than she does. Although this rough man seems to be indifferent to everything, he is actually delicate on the inside!
He will do his best to help his family, friends, and neighbors.
Especially for Li Xiaomei, the sister he almost single-handedly raised.
Li Donglai nodded and looked deeply into the distance.
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It rarely rains in the winter in Beijing, but every time it rains it lasts for a long time. After lunch, the rain has not stopped yet, so Li Donglai decided to go to work with an umbrella.
Holding an umbrella in one hand and pushing the bicycle with the other, she walked outside the compound.
As soon as he walked out of the middle door, he heard a crisp voice behind him.
"Master, please stay."
Li Donglai turned around and saw Qin Huairu running out of Jia's house wearing a ragged dress.
The tattered clothes couldn't cover her body. In just a blink of an eye, Qin Huairu's hair and the cotton-padded jacket on her upper body were all wet. Coupled with Qin Huairu's signature expression, she looked pitiful.
Qin Huairu seemed to be aware of this. When she walked up to Li Donglai, she pretended to sneeze and looked at Li Donglai with pitiful eyes.
How about it, I'm so pitiful! As long as you're not hard-hearted, you should say a few words of concern, and then I can crawl along the pole and crawl into your bed.
This method has been tried and tested by Qin Huairu. Of course, not long after Jia Dongxu passed away, Qin Huairu took a fancy to Sha Zhu, hoping to suck blood from Sha Zhu.
But Silly Zhu has a treacherous heart but not courage. Although he has a good impression of Qin Huairu, Qin Huairu is the neighbor's daughter-in-law after all, and he does not dare to get close to Qin Huairu at all.
Qin Huairu once took advantage of a rainy day and deliberately waited by the roadside. When she saw Si Zhu getting off work, she rushed up to him.
When Silly Zhu saw Qin Huairu being soaked like a drowned rat, he was so distressed that he didn't care about the little daughter-in-law next door, so he pulled Qin Huairu under the umbrella.
The space under the umbrella was not big to begin with, and it was raining heavily outside, so the distance between the two quickly became closer.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Along the way, Shazhu smelled the fragrance emanating from Qin Huairu's body. When he returned to the courtyard, Shazhu was already confused.
From then on, he began his career of bringing lunch boxes to Qin Huairu.
Qin Huairu wanted to use this tried and tested method to deal with Li Donglai, but it was a pity that Li Donglai had never seen any kind of woman.
Can you be fooled by Qin Huairu, a thousand-year-old fox?
Besides, Qin Huairu still owes him a stainless steel pot!
Li Donglai stood and looked at Qin Huairu, letting the rain fall on Qin Huairu's hair.
"Comrade Qin Huairu, if you have anything to do, please tell me as soon as possible. I have to rush to work."
Ah...there seems to be something wrong with this script. Shouldn't Li Donglai invite me under the umbrella?
Looking at Li Donglai's cold expression, Qin Huairu felt the cold rain penetrate into her bones, and she couldn't help but shudder.
It’s really cold this time!
Ice cold.
When Li Donglai saw Qin Huairu's expression changing, he said coldly: "If you're okay, I'll leave first."
"No, no, it's something. It's something." Seeing that Li Donglai was not fooled at all, Qin Huairu quickly stopped in front of Li Donglai and said with a smile: "Here's the thing, you may also have heard that my father-in-law, Jia Zhang, is getting married.
Okay. This is a big happy event for our courtyard. I have decided to invite all the residents of our courtyard to attend the wedding banquet. You and Comrade Qiunan will also go there."
Li Donglai nodded: "If I have time, I will definitely go."
Qin Huairu then said: "Well, you also know the situation of my family. I don't have much money at home. When the time comes, remember to give me a gift. It doesn't need to be too much. Just six yuan is enough. Six or six dollars is good. It's all for good luck."
With the gift...Tsk, tsk, asking for gift money in front of others, it still costs four yuan!
You must know that in this era, gifts usually cost a few cents.
Qin Huairu really dared to speak like a lion.
When ordinary people encounter this kind of situation, they might hold their noses and endure it in order to hurt the feelings between neighbors.
But Li Donglai is no ordinary person.
He smiled at Qin Huairu and said: "Comrade Qin Huairu, I forgot to tell you. Just two days ago, the sub-district office issued a document requiring residents in the area to promote a diligent and frugal style, especially in wedding banquets. Large banquets are strictly prohibited.
If you want to have a big event, you should save money on the gifts. Well, in other words, if you want to invite the big guys to the wedding banquet, you can, but the big guys can’t pay for the gifts, otherwise it will be against the rules.”
"What!" Qin Huairu was furious when she heard this. She couldn't accept gift money, so what kind of wedding banquet would she hold? She just hoped that the wedding banquet could make some money to support her life.
Qin Huairu thought for a moment, glared at Li Donglai and said, "Master, you didn't make this up, right?"
"Oh, if you don't believe it, you can go to the street office and ask. Of course, the official documents will probably come out soon."
After Li Dong finished speaking, he left with an umbrella in hand.
The promotion of diligence and frugality is indeed a document issued by the superiors, but the strict prohibition of courtesy is a suggestion made by Li Donglai.
In later generations, he had just graduated from college and started working. Most of his monthly salary was taken as part-time money. At the end of each month, he had to rely on instant noodles to survive.
In rural areas, many people try their best to hold banquets in order to earn money from others as gifts.
The child's first birthday, second birthday, third birthday...
The old man’s fortieth birthday, his fiftieth birthday....
Children go to elementary school, junior high school, high school, college...
The sow at home has given birth...
My family bought a car...
In short, the reasons are varied.
In the name of family affection, it is actually just taking advantage of the good face of Chinese people to make money.
Many people who had just become rich fell back into poverty.
It's a bad habit.
Li Donglai heard that his superiors wanted to promote diligence and frugality, so he proposed the idea of strictly prohibiting courtesy. Director Wang of the sub-district office was convinced and immediately reported it to his superiors.
After investigation, the superiors also felt that the trend of suizi was rising. In the past, suizi paid 20 cents or 40 cents, but now it has risen to 60 cents in some places.
If this continues, I don't know how much money will be wasted.
So they agreed with Li Donglai's idea, and issued a special order strictly prohibiting courtesy, and asked each subdistrict to organize the residents in the gay area.
Director Wang of the sub-district office has been counting the poverty alleviation results of the neighborhood for the past two days and has no time to convey orders from above.
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Qin Huairu returned home after being soaked in the rain like a drowned rat.
Jia Zhang, who had been waiting for a long time, stood up from her chair, walked to Qin Huairu and stretched out her hand.
"Where's the money?"
"What money?" Qin Huairu said angrily.
Mrs. Jia Zhang's triangular eyes squinted: "Of course it's family money. You don't think that the family money you receive is all yours, right? If I, Jia Zhang, hadn't gotten married, how would you have any reason to accept family money? Hurry up and give the money to me
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Mrs. Jia Zhang has already visited Lao Wangtou’s house.
Although Lao Wangtou's family is not rich, they have all the furniture at home.
Moreover, Lao Wangtou also said that when he gets married, he will give the precious items he has kept for decades to Jia Zhang.
In two days, Jia and Zhang will leave the Jia family and have nothing to do with the Jia family from now on.
Naturally, I want to take the opportunity to get more money from the Jia family.
Qin Huairu remembered what happened just now, and her lips trembled with anger: "I told you, Li Donglai didn't give me any money."
"Huairu, Li Donglai is a big man and a big leader. No matter what he does, he still has to pay ten yuan. Don't lie to me!" Mrs. Jia Zhang thought Qin Huairu was deceiving her, so she reached out and reached for Qin Huairu's trouser pocket.
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Qin Huairu stamped her feet violently: "Li Donglai not only refused to give money, but also asked the residents not to give any money. Even if we held a wedding banquet, no one would follow the gift."
"What! What's going on? You have to explain it to me clearly!" Ms. Jia Zhang panicked when she heard this. She had calculated that there were more than 20 households in the courtyard, and each family paid six yuan.
For the expenses of going to the banquet, she could earn eighty or ninety yuan!
Qin Huairu told Li Donglai about the street office advocating diligence and frugality and strictly prohibiting following etiquette.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After hearing this, Mrs. Jia Zhang’s lips trembled with anger: “Damn Li Donglai, what is the street office advocating? He must be behind it!”
Qin Huairu also thought this was the case, but there was nothing she could do about it. After all, Li Donglai was now a senior official and had a good relationship with Director Wang of the subdistrict office.
Even if she wanted to cause trouble, no one would be on her side.
Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang could only endure this, but some people quit.
That guy is a jerk.
In the Jia family, apart from Qin Huairu, the one who most wanted Jia and Zhang to get married quickly was Bangge.
Once Mrs. Jia and Zhang get married, Banggeng can have a room to herself.
In addition, Bangge has already thought about how to spend the residents’ money.
Naturally, I bought a new suit of clothes, invited Huang Yanling to Dong Lai Shun for a massage, and then went to the cinema with Huang Yanling to watch a movie.
Maybe when Huang Yanling is happy, she can let him touch her little hand.
After the last falling out with Huang Yanling, Banggeng did not resent Huang Yanling, but instead attributed the reason to the Jia family's lack of money.
If Qin Huairu could buy Huang Yanling a bicycle, wouldn't Huang Yanling not make trouble with her brothers?
Well, Bangge believes that even if Huang Yanling's brothers are not biological brothers, they have no male-female relationship with Huang Yanling.
If there is nothing else, how could such a beautiful girl be a green-skinned girl?
The neighbors must have misunderstood Huang Yanling.
As a green-skinned girl, she has no formal job, and the fairy dance is not easy to do. She often eats one meal and goes hungry three times, just like the spirited young men of later generations.
So Huang Yanling naturally accepted all of Banggeng's flattery.
Every month, Banggeng would give most of his salary to Huang Yanling, leaving only enough money for food.
