Chapter 30(1/2)
Still sleeping
Returning home this time.
Nie Guangyi had a plan.
Just take one look at the fake stuff and leave, then spend the whole day eating and drinking in Shanghai.
As a wanderer and a foodie, this is the most basic respect for the food in my hometown.
The word hometown has different meanings in the eyes of different people.
In the eyes of many people, hometown is where [home] is - this place of peace of mind 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 Nie Guangyi's hometown is here, and it is more of a "home fragrance".
It is a delicious food that he has been with since childhood. Others may not think it is something, but he will 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 funeral.
During this process, he canceled the return flight that his assistant had bought for him a long time ago, and he just happened to catch the direct flight from Wenzhou Longwan Airport to Rome Fiumicino Airport every Thursday.
Everything went smoothly. Generally speaking, I didn't encounter much trouble regarding the air tickets.
Three days later, there was a peak forum in the architecture industry in Rome, and he was going to give a speech and receive two more awards.
It can be regarded as the daily life of a genius architect.
Without this wave of malfunctions and the forced return, Nie Guangyi’s domestic itinerary would have come to an end.
The moment the plane returned and landed at Pudong Airport, Nie Guangyi suddenly had a very strange thought. Was it because he was too determined to [Jiaxiang] that he had resentment in his hometown?
They went round and round and forcibly took him back to Shanghai.
Eat it when it comes!
The matters in the office have been delayed for so long anyway, and some of them have been solved remotely in the past few days.
Just for the forum in three days, there are still one or two days left to postpone it.
Nie Guangyi quickly convinced himself.
In order to satisfy the resentment of Shanghai gourmets, he did not choose to continue waiting at the airport for the airline to transfer a new plane.
It’s definitely not because I saw the oxygen mask falling off on the plane for the first time and I didn’t dare to take the same flight number back again.
Just kidding! How can it be that the dignified young man Guangyi is so prone to shadows?
"Guangyi, if you don't want to go home and take a look, let's go back to the Aurora Studio first and then slowly discuss how to arrange the next step, okay?"
"Why should I go back there? Your brother, I will get up early tomorrow and eat everything I want. Either tomorrow night or early the day after tomorrow, I will fly directly from Shanghai to Rome."
"Go back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?" Xuanshi said in surprise: "Don't you only take direct flights?"
"Yes, what's the problem?" Nie Guangyi asked.
“Can you buy a direct ticket from Shanghai to Rome tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?”
"Are you kidding me? Small cities like Wenzhou can buy direct flights. How can we in big Shanghai not be able to buy it?"
"Guangyi, did the assistant at the office buy your previous air tickets for you?"
"What's the problem?"
"No." Xuan Shi explained: "You may not know how difficult it is to buy flights abroad now. There should be no direct flights from Shanghai to Rome in the recent period. BJ may have it, but even if it does, tickets should be available early
Sold out.”
"Sold out?"
"Yes, the number of international flights now is definitely incomparable to before. It is possible to buy direct flights at least two weeks in advance."
"I'm selling you a big deal. Didn't I just buy it as soon as I said I would buy it on my flight back today?"
"I bought that for you."
"Does your family own an airline? Are you selling it to you or not to me? Are you more handsome than your brother, or are you richer than your brother?"
"No, Guangyi, I mean I can't buy it either."
"Where did the ticket come from?"
"That's the candidate I asked Anotto help you get with great difficulty. It's just luck that you made it in the end."
"You call returning from an engine failure luck?"
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. If he flies a lot, he will always encounter situations like this.
Once, Xuan Shi and Nie Guangyi went to Paris together.
Less than ten seconds before the plane landed, it discovered that there was a plane at the end of the runway preparing to land, coming from the ground in the opposite direction.
If it is not handled in time and the aircraft lands normally, it will collide with the aircraft on the ground.
The situation at that time was somewhat critical.
Fortunately, the captain was very experienced and at the last second, he pulled up the nose of the plane and made a go-around.
Nie Guangyi was sitting in the front row at the time, so he felt the most clearly.
Looking at it from Nie Guangyi's perspective, the plane was almost the one that hit the ground.
Xuan Shi was sitting in the aisle and didn't feel anything big.
After listening to the captain's announcement, I learned that there was an "illegal invasion" plane at the end of the runway.
Nie Guangyi's entire face turned pale.
This was the direct reason why Nie Guangyi became truly afraid of flying.
From then on, when Nie Guangyi flew on a plane, even if he encountered a small air turbulence, his whole body would become tense.
Then I was obsessed with saving face, and every time I pretended that I suddenly remembered something and wanted to ask the stewardess, and reached out to press the call bell.
Whenever the plane was about to land, Nie Guangyi was even more nervous and did not dare to breathe.
In order to reduce the risk of plane landing.
I have never taken a non-direct flight again.
Nie Guangyi's flight took more than ten hours of aviation fuel and flew directly from Longwan Airport to Fiumicino.
If you temporarily choose to return home, you must hover in the air and consume aviation fuel within a safe range before starting the landing procedure.
For this reason, even though Xuan Shi and Zong Ji spent twice the normal return time of the plane on the road, they still arrived at the arrivals hall of the airport one step ahead of Nie Guangyi.
Seeing the plane landing, Xuan Shi did not call Nie Guangyi immediately, but asked Cheng Nuo to find someone to ask about the follow-up arrangements for the flight.
If the flight is cancelled, he calls Nie Guangyi and says he is waiting for him in the arrival hall.
If the flight has not been cancelled, let Nie Guangyi pretend that he has never been here, so as not to cause him greater psychological pressure.
Xuan Shi knew Nie Guangyi best. At such a time, if he were not here, Nie Guangyi could still hold on.
If it were known that he was coming, it would aggravate the severity of the return incident and probably cause Nie Guangyi, who was already afraid of flying, to have a psychological breakdown.
It stands to reason that most people should choose to cancel their trip if they encounter the special situation of the oxygen mask falling off.
Xuan Shi felt that it would be more likely that he would go back directly.
The reality was very different from what he thought.
If it is not absolutely necessary, most people would not choose to go abroad at this time.
On the other hand, if you must go, there is no way to refund the ticket just because you want it.
After refunding, I don’t know when I can buy tickets again, let alone a direct flight.
The last confirmed news from Cheng Nuo also confirmed this point.
The flight has not been cancelled, and the airline will deploy a brand new large aircraft to continue flying.
Only ten people chose to refund their tickets.
Among the ten people who had their tickets refunded, nine were originally on connecting tickets, flying from Shanghai to Wenzhou and then to Rome.
These nine people can go home first and calm down.
Nie Guangyi is also from Shanghai, but the situation is completely different.
This is why, when Xuan Shi saw the news, he chose to come here without hesitation.
Even if the trip was in vain, he was willing to do it for his brothers.
Facts have proved that he came to the right place.
If he didn't come, Nie Guangyi wouldn't know who he could hang on to or where he could find a sense of belonging.
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To be continued...