After the initial investigation report came out and cleared him of responsibility, the company actually called him immediately to tell him that he could resume flying. But for the first time, Chen Jiayu is still on vacation. His reason was to deal with Cao Hui's funeral and moving. No one from the top to the bottom of the company dared to rush him, so the holiday was taken until after his birthday at the end of April.
During this period, he officially moved back to Blue River Harbor. Except for returning to Lijing to play chess and cards with Chen Zheng two or three days a week, he basically stayed here in Daxing. He took out his things from the basement and spent a lot of time decorating the house. His house was much larger than Fang Hao's house in Jianhuiyuan, so Chen Jiayu asked Fang Hao to come to him most of the time, and asked Fang Hao's opinion when repurchasing furniture.
During that whole week, Fang Hao was often bombarded with dozens of WeChat messages from Chen Jiayu right after work. In the approach control room, when it was time for a break or a shift change, Fang Hao's phone could be heard switching back to normal notification mode, and then one message after another. The information comes in, all of which are screenshots of furniture websites.
"Does this look good? Doesn't it match the style of the living room?"
"How about I narrow it down to three, and then you can help me choose one from them."
"You have so many Boeing models at home, do you want to put two of them at my house?"
Sometimes Fang Hao eats with Chu Yirou and other female tower controllers and asks for their opinions. Even Chu Yirou teased him and said, Brother Jia is still unemployed at home recently?
Fang Hao smiled and said that he has been too busy recently, so much so that I wanted to send him to work. But if you think about it carefully, Chen Jiayu's free time is just cleaning the house and cooking for him. Sometimes he can even go for a run with him in the morning, which is not bad. The way to live a busy life, and the experience of having leisure time. After the emergency landing in Hong Kong, Fang Hao, who knew how Chen Jiayu got here in the past three years, felt that he knew better than anyone else that he deserved this kind of rest to relax his body and mind.
On his birthday at the end of the month, he took the lead in organizing another dinner at Juxiangyuan. It was the same group of friends he invited when bidding farewell to Lu Yan, including Yue Dachao and a few others who were familiar with him. This time, Lu Yan came to Beijing from Shanghai to visit her parents and also attended his birthday party. Even, everyone was sitting in the same position as last time, with Fang Hao still sitting on his left. Chen Jiayu simply wore a white T-shirt that fit well, with a silver necklace hanging in the middle.
This time everyone knew that Chen Jiayu was not at work. Headed by Zhou Qichen and Lu Yan, they were able to impress him from the moment they sat down. But Fang Hao kept bringing him food and said, "Eat more, you will feel uncomfortable if you don't have something in your stomach."
"Sister Yan'er drank me down on my birthday last time. This time it's your turn." Zhou Qichen said with a smile, then raised his cup and pointed it in the direction of Chen Jiayu: "First of all, I respect you. I successfully made an emergency landing and the investigation is also done." The past has passed, good people are rewarded, and we will have a good journey from now on. I also wish you success in your love and career." After saying that, he glanced at Fang Hao.
Lu Yan also echoed: "Yes, it's been really difficult for you in the past six months. Let's go first and wish you a happy birthday." After saying that, he did it. When Chen Jiayu saw that Lu Yan had already drank, he raised his neck to drink it.
After he finished drinking, he cleared his throat and said, "Thank you. In fact, it's hard to say, but it's not hard to say it's not." He glanced to the left, and Fang Hao also had a smile on his face, and then he Said: "Bless your career, but no need to wish you love."
After he finished speaking, he stretched out his long arms and put them on the back of Fang Hao's seat. Everyone at the table understood what he meant and started to boo.
Chen Jiayu didn't seem to hear him. He just said to Lu Yan alone: "It has not been easy for you in the past six months. I also wish you a smooth career and life in the future." He knew that Lu Yan changed careers and became a project manager in a company of a friend of Zhao Xinlei. , Lu Yan is popular and knows how to manage relationships. For the position of project manager, which coordinates the work of multiple functional teams at the same time and manages the project progress under high pressure, she is also very comfortable in it.
When the meal was almost done, Fang Hao took the opportunity to leave the table, stood up and went out from the door of the private room. Chen Jiayu kept looking at him. He seemed to have guessed what Fang Hao was going to do, but he didn't reveal it.
Sure enough, Fang Hao came back five minutes after going out. When he came back, he had a cake box in his hand.
Chen Jiayu didn't expect it. In fact, at their house last night, he watched Fang Hao making secret phone calls. At that time, he guessed about 70% or 80%, but he still pretended to be surprised. The last time he celebrated his birthday so legitimately on a regular day, including eating birthday cake, was when he had two birthdays. He thought that he didn't need it. He was already a big boy, so it was okay to spend his birthday alone. But Fang Hao spent all this time and worked hard. Now when the birthday cake is placed on the table, Chen Jiayu not only likes it, but also has face.
As soon as the cake box was opened, everyone made a fuss again - the cake was white, in the shape of a very elegant naked cake, with no extra decoration on purpose. There was no cream or frosting on the outside, but the baked color of a sponge. Sure enough, the side shape of an airplane was painted on the top layer. The cake maker worked hard to paint the phoenix on the tail fin. Maybe only the color was right. There is a serial number written on the underside of the plane, "CA 1332." Next to it, of course, are the big words Happy Birthday.
Chen Jiayu looked at it and smiled: "It's so beautiful. Thank you. It's so distracting. I don't even want to eat it."
Fang Hao nodded with a smile and said, "You still have to eat it. I know you don't like greasy food. This one has less cream."
Then he suddenly remembered something and asked Fang Hao: "Did the cake shop deliver it to the restaurant?" He came with Fang Hao all the way, and it was impossible for him to hide a cake from himself the whole time.
Fang Hao told the truth at this moment: "No, I asked Shengjie to pick up the one that was delivered. He happened to be practicing driving." Fang Shengjie happened to be in Beijing. He had just signed up for the driving school and was currently practicing.
Chen Jiayu quickly said: "Then ask Shengjie to come in and eat together. If I had known he was in Beijing, I would have invited him."
"He...it's hard to let him drink." Fang Hao's first reaction was to forget it. After all, it was Chen Jiayu's birthday, not his own.
"He hasn't left yet, has he?" Chen Jiayu stood up first after finishing speaking, "I'll go outside and ask him to come in."
When Fang Hao saw how insistent he was, he said, "It's okay, just sit down and I'll call you."
When Fang Shengjie came in, of course he wished him a happy birthday and greeted all the brothers and sisters present. After praising his sweetness, Chen Jiayu went to get a knife from the packaging box and prepared to cut the cake. At this time, Zhou Qichen's sharp eyes noticed that : "Hey, what's the origin of CA1332?"
Everyone here noticed it when he said it. The two important flights in Chen Jiayu's career were flight number 416 and flight number 1713. Obviously, flight number 1332 was neither.
Only then did Chen Jiayu pay attention. He thought about it for a second, and then he remembered it. He glanced at Fang Hao, and the two of them smiled knowingly. However, he threw all his halo to Fang Hao and signaled him to say.
"Actually, it was in September last year, the day Lang Feng had a tire puncture during takeoff on the 17th left, we choked a few words in the approach channel. At that time, he was flying from Guangzhou Baiyun to Beijing, flight number 1332. After that, we never knew each other without fighting. We're just getting familiar with it," Fang Hao said.
Lu Yan and Chu Yirou both said: "This is... so meaningful." Fang Hao smiled and nodded. There is something he cannot say in front of so many people. In fact, he has also thought about it. Of course, the number 416 or 1713 is important. Outsiders can remember this symbol for a lifetime, but 1332 is an opportunity for them to get to know each other. They will remember it for a lifetime.
Chen Jiayu remembered it and said to Zhou Qichen: "Oh, by the way, speaking of which, I should toast Lang Feng. Where are the others? Without his gesture, we might still be far apart." He also learned about it recently. , Zhou Qichen and Lang Feng originally broke up, but a week later they got together inexplicably, and after they got together, Zhou Qichen's circle of friends was all about him, and it was difficult not to see them. So for this party, he and Fang Hao actually invited Zhou and Lang, but only Zhou Qichen came.
Zhou Qichen joked: "You should thank the ground crew for not filling the tires with full pressure." After saying that, he looked at his phone and responded: "He is flying in the sky. I asked him to come over in a while. I drank for him first." ." After saying that, he clinked the glasses with Chen Jiayu and took two sips.
Lu Yan didn't buy it and said to Chen Jiayu, "You two will get to know each other eventually, maybe sooner or later."
Chen Jiayu looked at Fang Hao and joked: "Sister Yaner said that sooner or later we will choke."
Lu Yan ignored his remark: "I mean, people who are destined are destined to be destined."
Because of her words, Chen Jiayu took Fang Hao and finished the wine in his hand.
At the end of that day, Fang Hao remembered that he was in a state where he drank too much during the Chinese New Year, so he blocked Chen Jiayu's drinking in the last hour. He is not a birthday boy, and he was not drunk at first, so he still drinks a lot. Even so, Chen Jiayu knew that he had drunk too much when he stood up. After the party, Fang Hao first saw off Fang Shengjie at the door, then called a driver on his mobile phone and returned to the restaurant to pick up Chen Jiayu. At that time, most people had left. Zhou Qichen was sitting in the room waiting for Lang Feng to come and pick him up. Lu Yan hadn't left either. Before Fang Hao entered the private room door, he heard Chen Jiayu say in a low voice: "Well, we are very good friends, so I said no need to wish, I am very happy, really." After a while, he said to Lu Yan: " You and Brother Lei should be fine," and then he joked to Zhou Qichen: "You and Brother Feng should also be fine."
Fang Hao paused for a moment before pushing the door open and entering. "Shengjie..." He started, but his voice was a little tight. However, he continued talking, pretending not to hear Chen Jiayu's true feelings just now. "I'll see Shengjie off, let's go back too."
Fang Hao himself is relatively quiet when he drinks too much, which is not much different from usual. He is not fair to begin with, and he does not look shameful when he drinks. As a result, every time he says that he drinks too much, his friends are startled - - Outsiders are basically unaware. But Chen Jiayu looks different when he is drunk. He will say a lot of good and soft words. At the moment, Hao Hao helped Chen Jiayu get into the car and prepared to return to his new home in Blue River Harbor. Chen Jiayu pulled him and talked along the way: "I've been having such a good time lately that I don't even want to go to work. What do you think I should do?" Chen Jiayu's arm was still hanging on his shoulder, but she wouldn't put it down. All slimy.
Fang Hao laughed and said, "Then I'll support you. Maybe I can't afford it. I'll sell your car first, and then sell your house in Linekang."
Chen Jiayu was silent for a moment. Then, without paying any attention to the young man driving in front of him, he directly asked Fang Hao in a long tone: "I have always had a question... Tell me, if I were not a pilot, would you still fall in love with me?"
At first, Fang Hao wanted to seriously assume this scenario and then answer seriously, but he realized almost immediately - Chen Jiayu was not sober, and people who are not sober would not use their brains to think about problems, so this was not a question based on rational investigation and logic, but It was a deep-rooted uneasiness in my heart that asked the question. So, without even thinking about it, he replied affirmatively: "Of course I do. I love it even when you sell bean juice downstairs."
Chen Jiayu leaned on his shoulder and laughed. He laughed so hard that his whole body trembled, including Fang Hao's heart.
"Brother Jia," Fang Hao called him, "I'm quite happy too, really."
After arriving home, Fang Hao sat Chen Jiayu on his newly bought sofa, and then took out the second gift.
"Why are there still gifts?" Chen Jiayu said with a smile, "Are you going to make up for all the birthdays in the past five years this year?" When he said this, Fang Hao vaguely realized that Chen Jiayu probably hadn't given himself a serious birthday in many years. It's my birthday.
"Well, have a good time this year. After celebrating today, you can continue to celebrate tomorrow. If you want, your birthday can be a week away." Fang Hao said, unpacking the items in his hands. This gift is a photo frame. Inside the photo frame are photos of Chen Jiayu that he took when he went to the United States. They are all black and white.
Chen Jiayu held it in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, and finally said: "You took the photo very well. This is it. It's so embarrassing to hang it at home..."
Fang Hao said: "Your home needs more traces of you."
There is a set of photos in the photo frame, three in total, all taken during a trip to California, all by Fang Hao. The first picture he took of Chen Jiayu in a hotel in San Francisco, wearing a suit and tie, facing the window, with only one side face. The second picture shows Chen Jiayu doing a winding inspection on Liang Yinan and Ethan's Cessna-172M at Reid-Silver Airport. He is holding the fairing with one hand, and the strong wind lifts his orange work vest and his forehead. front hair. The third picture is a photo of his face next to Highway 1. He captured a natural smile. Chen Jiayu's eyes were staring straight at the camera, with the endless sea behind him.