The next morning, Fang Hao fell asleep until after ten o'clock. When he woke up, he heard Chen Jiayu's deep voice sitting at the desk in the corner of the room and talking on the phone.
"Well... I know. It's not as painful as I imagined. I think my mentality is also very strange. I originally thought that the sky was going to fall when this happened, but now that it has really happened, I find that it seems to be just that. That’s it. At worst, I won’t fly civil aviation anymore. I will also go abroad and become a private flight instructor. I think Brother Bin is quite comfortable now."
From the corner of his eye, he saw Fang Hao wake up and got him a glass of water and placed it next to his bedside table.
"...Well, yes, he was the one making the approach that day." Chen Jiayu held the microphone in one hand and mouthed the word "Lu Yan" to him. Fang Hao nodded.
"He is lying on the bed with me," Chen Jiayu said with a doting smile, "I just woke up and stopped talking to him."
Fang Hao finally spoke, his voice hoarse and not as pleasant as before: "Say hello to Sister Yan'er for me."
Chen Jiayu nodded and said, "Fang Hao wants to say hello to you. We will go to Shanghai to see you when we get back."
After that, they chatted for a few more words, probably about Liang Yinan's wedding. Finally, Chen Jiayu said, "Okay, I will definitely bring it." Liang Yinan was his and Lu Yan's college classmate, and he also had a personal relationship with Lu Yan. Even in the first few years after graduation, Chen Jiayu was convinced that Lu Yan talked more to Liang Yinan.
After hanging up the phone, Fang Hao asked him: "I suddenly remembered something... It seems that we didn't prepare any gifts."
Chen Jiayu said: "It's okay. I bought it before I came from Los Angeles. We will give it away together when the time comes." He took it out and showed it to Fang Hao. One was like a scroll, and the other was a brand-name cast iron pot, which was considered a luxury kitchen utensil.
Chen Jiayu explained: "This is a Boeing poster from the 1970s that I found in an antique market. Liang Yinan's fiancé is a Boeing engineer."
Fang Hao was quite surprised. He sighed again: "You are still thoughtful. I packed my things all morning and went to the airport to catch my flight. I didn't expect..."
Chen Jiayu picked up what he said: "As long as you arrive, I will do the rest. You are quite tired after flying all day."
Fang Hao smiled and said, "I fell asleep as soon as I got on the plane. I'm quite tired after spending the whole night with you." After saying that, he got under the quilt again and buried his face in the pillow.
Chen Jiayu liked his submissive look, so he sat down next to him, stroked his hair, and asked him: "Yesterday... it was a bit too much. Didn't it hurt you?"
Even though Fang Hao usually prides himself on his physical strength, he now has to admit that yesterday's performance consumed too much energy. He still feels like there is a foreign body sensation in his back.
He just said: "Give me another hour," and then he took Chen Jiayu's hand and put it on his lower back and gave him a task: "Knead it for me. I took a long ride yesterday, and when I came back, I fucked it on the floor again." , I really can’t stand this." Fang Hao whispered.
Chen Jiayu hummed, and while massaging his shoulders, waist and back, he said to him: "I got a call yesterday and there is a little good news about the investigation. There is a girl on the flight crew who can confirm that I was not in the cockpit when the flaps were turned on, and I went out to the bathroom at that time. Although it is just a piece of evidence, it is better than nothing. During this time, my dad has been telling me about the things I did from the first day I became a pilot. They should check the information, data and assessment, just like the last investigation on No. 416. I have a clear conscience."
When Fang Hao heard this, he suddenly woke up and sat up from the bed: "So... you think the result should be good?"
"It's too early to tell now, but I have a good feeling." Chen Jiayu said, "There is another detail I didn't tell Yan'er just now. The flight attendant girl who saw me coming out of the cockpit was actually very young, she seemed to be only 21. I was 2 years old and had just been working for a few months. When we flew together before, the flight was delayed in Guangzhou. A passenger made things difficult for her and made her cry. When we got off the plane, I asked her what was wrong. Then...she remembered Until now. In fact, Duan Jingchu and his father are powerful and wealthy in the company. Even if Kong Xinyi reported sexual harassment, he would retaliate to the point of resignation. She still told the truth, just to help me. I am actually very touched, and I don’t know how to repay."
Fang Hao's sleepiness was driven away by the good news, and he also said: "That's... great." He thought for a while and then said: "What you said that day was not entirely correct. In fact, it was not me who saved the life. You. It was you who saved yourself. Your discipline, your rigor, your principles, these are what saved you."
Chen Jiayu stopped his hand and looked up into his eyes. "hope so."
"The result must be good. If not, then you can sue them, or you can go abroad, or... there is always another way. I will accompany you." Fang Hao said to him.
Chen Jiayu was even more shocked - the shock of No. 1713 had passed, and so had the initial fear and fear, but the aftershocks came one after another, filled with the kindness and beauty of human nature. He didn't expect this. Whether it is Chen Zheng who fully supports him, Yang Feifei who stands up for him despite pressure, Lu Yan and other friends who care about him, or Fang Hao who loves him. Yes, Fang Hao loves him.
Thinking of this, he said, "Say it again."
"I'll accompany you." Fang Hao repeated.
"No, you said it last night."
"Oh," Fang Hao smiled, turned over and hugged his waist and back: "I love you."
"Say it again."
"I love you...how many times do you want to hear it? Otherwise, don't go out until you have heard enough." He teased Chen Jiayu.
But Chen Jiayu was very serious. He said: "To be honest, I can't get enough of it no matter how many times I listen to it."
At noon that day, they went out for a simple French meal. In the afternoon, Chen Jiayu and Fang Hao changed their clothes and drove north. Before leaving, Fang Hao took out something from his backpack - "I still remembered that I brought something with me." It was his SLR camera.
At that time, Chen Jiayu was sitting on the desk buttoning his shirt. Due to his posture, his suit pants were tightly stretched on his thighs.
"Look at me." Fang Hao said. Just in time for him to raise his eyes, before he had time to adjust his expression, it was this moment where he felt a little unguarded. The shutter clicked.
"Not bad." Fang Hao commented, "It's very natural."
After that, Chen Jiayu dressed in front of the window, wearing a shirt and jacket, and finally a tie. Fang Hao kept taking pictures of him with his camera.
In fact, he mainly shoots landscapes, not portraits. He always feels that photographing people falls into the cliché. He had never photographed Chen Jiayu so many times before. But today, he changed his mind. Everything about him he wanted to record.
After arriving at the wedding venue, Chen Jiayu got out of the car and saw Liang Yinan first. He didn't change into formal clothes, but just wore a company jacket and casual pants to chat with his friends who came over.
Chen Jiayu introduced Fang Hao to Liang Yinan, and then the other protagonist of the wedding also walked in. His name is Ethan. He looks a little older than Liang Yinan. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He is quite tall and looks mature and cheerful. Chen Jiayu met the legendary Ethan for the first time outside Liang Yinan's circle of friends, and quickly shook hands with him and started talking.
Ethan said to Fang Hao, there are quite a few pilots present today. From Liang Yinan's days at Alaska Airlines to United Airlines, you may have commanded all of them who have flown over Beijing.
Before Fang Hao said anything, Chen Jiayu said quite proudly that Fang Hao had the most severe control over Beijing's approach.
Liang Yinan is relatively introverted, but Ethan is very outgoing and pulled Chen Jiayu and Fang Hao to chat for a long time.
They also learned about the reason why Ethan and Liang Yinan met - at that time, there was a failure of the RTLU component of a Boeing 777, and he was sent by the company to investigate. One of the tasks was to interview all the crew members who had handled the aircraft at the time of the failure. There were three crew members in total. More than a dozen pilots. "Yinan is the only captain who can memorize the day's fault record and his troubleshooting operations from start to finish just by saying the words 'RTLU', even in minutes. My dad is a rocket scientist. , my mother is a university physics professor, and I have been dealing with numbers since I was a child. As you can imagine, I fell in love with Yinan at first sight," he said with a smile.
"So, let me guess, when you left, you not only took down notes, but also his mobile phone number?" Chen Jiayu joked.
Ethan shook his head: "No, I still chickened out when I left that day. Later, I called him again and said that I accidentally spilled coffee on the computer and all the interview records that day were lost..."
A group of people burst into laughter instantly. But Liang Yinan intervened: "I knew he was lying at that time."
Afterwards, Ethan and a few old classmates grabbed Fang Hao to chat, still talking about their experience as an air traffic controller in Beijing. He was probably the only controller in the domestic and foreign flight circles that he went to that day. There were many people, both Chinese and American. People are very curious about his work.
When Chen Jiayu went to get a glass of champagne, Liang Yinan walked over and said to him, "Shall we say a few words?"
"Okay. We haven't talked for a long time. We were at the Capital Airport before." Chen Jiayu said, "That must have been two years ago."
Liang Yinan nodded. They walked to the shade of the winery, and it was Chen Jiayu who said first: "Congratulations to you and Ethan. I'm really happy for you. He seems... a very good person."
"I knew you might get along very well. He usually goes to the nearby airport to fly small planes." Liang Yinan said, "Congratulations to you and Fang Hao too. I feel like you have found the right one."
Chen Jiayu smiled and said, "Thank you."
Liang Yinan took a sip of wine, then went straight to the topic and said: "Actually... there is something I have always wanted to talk to you about. After I first arrived in the United States, you sent me an email and MSN to ask me how I was doing."
Chen Jiayu nodded in response.
"I actually received it, but I never responded. I still feel guilty to this day. I know you only cared about me at the time." Liang Yinan said.
"I guessed that you received it, and I roughly understood it... you didn't want to reply. I didn't know the reason at the time," Chen Jiayu confessed, "I guess it was because you had a grudge against me, or because of our young and immature relationship. Tired of it.”
Liang Yinan asked him instead: "Have you guessed the root cause?"
Chen Jiayu pondered for a moment and then answered: "Yeah, I guessed it. I guess you think I'm not bendy enough." After saying that, he even smiled.
"It's not that you weren't flexible enough, but I thought you weren't sincere enough at that time - you seemed to have an instinct at that time to isolate yourself from your inner emotions, but you didn't realize that you wanted to I want one thing. I didn’t understand it exactly at that time. I just felt that being with you was quite tiring, and you were not willing to go abroad with me or anything like that.” Liang Yinan sighed, “Later, I I realized that not everyone is like me, who can come out as gay if they want, or whose parents can come to my wedding, who can go abroad if they want, and who can leave if they want. I was also very naive at that time. I'm more harsh on you and less understanding. I'm sorry for this." He spoke very quickly. In the blink of an eye, Chen Jiayu seemed to have returned to that hot afternoon twelve years ago. Liang Yinan told himself quickly that he was going abroad. When.
Chen Jiayu, on the other hand, had long been indifferent. When he said it, he only understood it and did not feel embarrassed. He said: "Don't be sorry. We took different paths, but... we both found what we love. I took a longer detour than you, and it took me longer than you, but I still found it."
Liang Yinan nodded, looked at him and said, "You have indeed found him. He is very good, Jiayu, you two are a perfect match. I am also happy for you."
Because Ethan grew up in Northern California, the wedding was held here, but there were pilots flying in from all over the United States, as far away as Alaska. But Chen Jiayu and Fang Hao are the only two guests who have traveled across the ocean. In addition, they are also a pilot and a controller, so there is always someone to chat with them. The embarrassing situation that Fang Hao was worried about not knowing anyone has never come true. Fang Hao finally realized the benefits of going abroad. California was already very open, and it was Liang Yinan's wedding, so there were only a few straight men present. When chatting with other people, Chen Jiayu stayed very close to him, sometimes pulling his wrist, sometimes patting his back, and Fang Hao also hugged his shoulders from time to time.
When there was no one around, he took the time to grab Chen Jiayu, bit his ear, and said, "Do you think I should thank Liang Yinan for breaking your heart?"
Chen Jiayu laughed first and said: "When he was in school, he was the school idol. There were many more girls chasing him than mine. You don't know. After all, I might have broken him off, Ethan It’s me you should thank.”
Fang Hao recalled it carefully, and then said: "I never met Liang Yinan in person at that time, but I met you. I remember that time... you were quite handsome."
"Liang Yinan is more in line with everyone's fantasies about school leaders." Chen Jiayu just said. Then he asked Fang Hao: "What about you? Have you ever had a boyfriend in college?"
Fang Hao shook his head and said, "It's not like we talked about it, but it didn't work out. Why haven't I met you before?" He said the following words right next to Chen Jiayu's ear, "You are more in line with my fantasy."
Chen Jiayu couldn't hold back and kissed the side of his face in front of a group of chatting guests. "Why are you getting better at talking?" he said at last.
Fang Hao smiled and said: "Distance brings beauty. How many days have you not seen me?"
Chen Jiayu hesitated for a moment, but finally said: "You can praise me more in the future." Although he was joking, his eyes were fixed on Fang Hao, and Fang Hao knew that he was not just joking.
"Yeah." He agreed.
The wedding was actually very simple, just invited close friends and colleagues, and parents of both parties were indeed present. As a pilot and an engineer, Liang Yinan and the others did not arrange a gorgeous wedding scene. It was surrounded by greenery, with the castle and winery in the background, and everything from the tablecloth to the host table to the cake could be called frigid style. However, even without environmental rendering, Chen Jiayu still felt that the scene in front of him was like a dream. Ten years ago, Liang Yinan broke up with him. He stood on the playground, surrounded by dust. On one side was the love of youth that had just passed away, and on the other was the life track that had been laid out long before he was born. Ten years is very long, but ten years is also very short. In the blink of an eye, they have all become excellent pilots, they have written their own stories, and they have all found their other halves who are close to their hearts. Now he is taking the people he loves to participate. Liang Yinan's wedding. Liang Yinan’s story begins with a faulty RTLU component, and his and Fang Hao’s story begins with a flat tire at KLM. Perhaps the most frustrated and proudest moments in life are always closely linked. Those nights of stress and tossing and turning alone belong to the past after all.
Now, he and Fang Hao, in suits and ties, were sitting at the guest table witnessing a ceremony that marked a century-old marriage. When the newlyweds were kissing each other, Fang Hao stretched out his hand and held Chen Jiayu's. As the two people exchanged vows of love on the field, he also heard Fang Hao say in his ear: "Thank you for inviting me. I love you too."
For the rest of the ceremony, they held hands tightly.
After that day, Fang Hao kept thinking about how he should introduce Chen Jiayu and their encounter to others. Maybe he can say that he is almost the only young pilot of Air China who has flown Airbus and Boeing. He has only been flying for ten years and shouted Mayday twice at an altitude of 10,000 meters. He has saved more than 300 lives. big hero. Perhaps, he didn’t need to say these things, he only needed to say – we met at the very high frequency at an altitude of 10,000 meters above Beijing. And he is my lover——
BGM: I Choose You (Sara Bareilles).