After sitting in Gu Xinmin's hospital room for a while, Chen Yang and Yang Liuyi said goodbye and went to the hospital room of Liu Yuhong, the co-pilot from that day's flight. Liu Yuhong was out of danger, but his injuries were much more serious than Gu Xinmin's, and he was still quite weak, so Chen Yang and Yang Liuyi didn't stay long and quickly left the room.
Liu Yuhong also expressed his gratitude to Chen Yang.
Gu Xinmin's suggestion had briefly tempted Chen Yang, but he quickly dismissed the idea. Through this incident, Chen Yang had established a very good relationship with Luda Airlines, and if he wanted to work for an airline after graduating from university, it wouldn't be impossible. Chen Yang himself was very passionate about flying, but a hobby was one thing; he couldn't accept making it his lifelong career. After his rebirth, there were too many things waiting for Chen Yang to do.
Chen Yang and Yang Liuyi left the co-pilot's room and walked one after the other towards the elevator. As the elevator doors opened and Chen Yang was about to step inside, a figure rushed out. Chen Yang reacted quickly, instinctively stepping aside, and the person bumped into Yang Liuyi, who was caught off guard behind him.
"Ah!"
Yang Liuyi and the person exclaimed simultaneously. With a thud, a bag the person was carrying fell to the ground, spilling food everywhere, including a small bowl of soup, the broth splashing and staining Yang Liuyi's pants.
"Sister Liuyi, are you burned?" Chen Yang quickly pulled out a tissue and handed it to Yang Liuyi, his face darkening as he looked at the clumsy girl.
The person who had rushed out of the elevator was a young woman, wearing an air force summer uniform with a single-stripe cadet rank insignia on her shoulder.
The air force cadet had short, neat hair and slightly dark skin, but her features were delicate, especially her two lightly arched eyebrows, which gave her a playful look. She had a faint dimple on each cheek, suggesting a charming smile.
However, before Chen Yang could react, the female air force cadet retorted:
"What's wrong with you all? Can't you watch where you're going?"
"You…" Chen Yang was both annoyed and amused. "Are you being unreasonable? You bumped into us, okay?"
The female air force cadet was clearly a feisty character. She glared at Chen Yang and retorted sharply:
"This is an elevator entrance! Don't you know the rule of letting people get off first? No one inside has come out yet, and you're pushing your way in! And…" "Don't you have any public spirit?"
"Miss, with the force you just threw, even if we had stood still, you would have knocked us several meters away! Goodness, and you're even turning the tables on us!" Chen Yang's anger flared, especially seeing Yang Liuyi being bumped into and not even offering an apology, instead coming to interrogate him angrily. Chen Yang was even more displeased, his words laced with sarcasm, "With your kind of manners, you call yourself a member of the People's Air Force! You're a disgrace to the Air Force!"
The female Air Force cadet raised an eyebrow, about to speak. Chen Yang then questioned her in an even harsher tone:
"The internal service regulations clearly stipulate that soldiers should wear civilian clothes when not on official business! Don't tell me that you're on official business, walking around the provincial hospital in your uniform without a hat! Young comrade, how did you learn the regulations? Huh? Have you no sense of discipline?"
"You…" The female cadet was speechless under Chen Yang's barrage of questions. After a long pause, she said resentfully, "It's none of your business! Who do you think you are? Even the military police in the garrison didn't bother me, who do you think you are? You're just a busybody!"
Chen Yang felt both angry and amused. Even with the best reason, you can't reason with such an unreasonable and fiery young woman! Chen Yang couldn't help but refute the female cadet's twisted logic:
"You mean just because no one noticed, it's necessarily true? Does that mean a murderer isn't guilty unless caught by the police? Does that mean…?"
"That's enough, Chen Yang!" Seeing the two escalating their argument, Yang Liuyi stepped in to mediate. "Maybe she's in a hurry, don't argue with her! I'm not hurt, and I can just wash my dirty pants at home! Let's go!"
With that, Yang Liuyi pulled Chen Yang's hand and pushed him into the elevator. Chen Yang didn't want to argue with a girl in public either. He had only spoken out because he was upset that Yang Liuyi had been bumped into. So, after Yang Liuyi's persuasion, he didn't argue further and followed her into the elevator.
The elevator doors slowly closed. Through the crack, Chen Yang could still see the air force cadet pouting and glaring at him angrily, her eyes seemingly filled with tears. Chen Yang was both amused and exasperated. He shrugged and said to Yang Liuyi,
"Sister Liuyi, I've never seen such an unreasonable person. Look at her, it's like I'm the one who bullied her."
"Forget it! She's a girl, don't take it to heart!" Yang Liuyi felt a sweet warmth in her heart seeing Chen Yang arguing with a girl for her sake, so she wasn't affected by the earlier little C-song at all. Instead, she smiled and comforted Chen Yang.
Gu Ruoxi was quite annoyed. Because her mother had to go to work, the task of delivering meals to her father every day fell to her, who was on holiday at home. Her mother had prepared breakfast for her father that morning and even woke her up once. Having stayed up too late watching TV the night before, Gu Ruoxi wanted to sleep five more minutes. When she woke up again, she found it was already nine o'clock…
So Gu Ruoxi hurriedly pulled her military uniform from the bedside, threw it on haphazardly, grabbed the breakfast her mother had prepared, and rushed to the Provincial People's Hospital. Unexpectedly, as soon as she stepped out of the elevator on the tenth floor, she bumped into two people. Not only did her mother's carefully prepared breakfast spill all over the floor, but she was also scolded by that annoying man.
As Gu Ruoxi cleaned up the mess, she cursed Chen Yang inwardly. She slammed the bag into the trash can and muttered angrily to herself,
"Hmph! Don't let me run into you again, or I'll show you the power of my great-aunt's military boxing!"
Gu Ruoxi ran to the hospital entrance and bought a few steamed buns and a bag of soy milk. Carrying this simple breakfast, she returned to the tenth floor of the inpatient ward, walked straight down the corridor, and went to room 1008, where Chen Yang and his group had just entered.
Gently pushing open the hospital room door, Gu Ruoxi tiptoed to Gu Xinmin's side, who was engrossed in reading. Just as she was about to yell, Gu Xinmin suddenly put down his book and chuckled:
"You brat! Trying to scare your old man again, huh?"
A playful smile appeared on Gu Ruoxi's face as she said:
"Old Gu, you're getting more and more alert! Not bad, not bad! Thumbs up!"
With that, Gu Ruoxi placed the "breakfast" she was holding on the bedside table. Gu Xinmin glanced at the plastic bag containing breakfast and asked leisurely,
"Hey! Girl, your mom called yesterday saying she made soup and some sweet and sour pork, my favorite. How come it all turned into steamed buns in your hands?"
"Dad…don't even mention it! Mom worked so hard preparing breakfast for you this morning, and I carried it all the way here, only to have two clumsy kids bump into me on the tenth floor and spill it all…" Gu Ruoxi was still seething with anger at the mention of it. Gu Xinmin glanced at the wall clock, knowing his daughter well enough to understand, and asked with a knowing smile:
"I think you bumped into someone! You must have overslept again, and then, realizing you didn't have enough time, you started rushing around, didn't you?"
Having been exposed by Gu Xinmin, Gu Ruoxi felt embarrassed. She tugged at Gu Xinmin's hand and shook it a few times, pouting, "Dad..."
Gu Xinmin chuckled and pulled his hand away, picking up a steamed bun and starting to eat, saying:
"It's okay! It's okay! The bun is good! I like it!"
Gu Ruoxi immediately beamed, jumping up to grab... She took a cup, cut a corner off the soy milk bag, poured the soy milk into the cup, and then eagerly presented it to Gu Xinmin, smiling as she said:
"Dad, you seem to be in a good mood today! Tell me honestly, has some pretty nurse been giving you the eye? I'm warning you, Comrade Gu! Don't you dare betray Mom!"
Gu Xinmin almost choked on his daughter's words. He snatched the cup from Gu Ruoxi's hand, took two sips of soy milk to calm himself down, and said:
"You brat! You're getting more and more disrespectful. How dare you talk to your father like that?"
Gu Ruoxi stood aside with a grin, not afraid at all. From childhood, Gu Xinmin's family education had always been like this; he and his wife treated their daughter like friends, which fostered Gu Ruoxi's outspoken nature, especially in front of Gu Xinmin, where she often spoke without restraint.
"But you were right, Dad's in a good mood today! Guess who I saw?" Gu Xinmin asked mysteriously.
"Who?" Gu Ruoxi's interest was immediately piqued.
"Chen Yang!"
"Huh?" Gu Ruoxi's eyes widened. "An idol? Dad! Why didn't you tell me sooner! If I had known he was coming, I would have rushed over even if I hadn't slept! Dad, how could you do this!"
After saying that, Gu Ruoxi stomped her foot regretfully, glaring indignantly at Gu Xinmin.
Gu Ruoxi was a sophomore at the Air Force University of Science and Technology. She had always dreamed of the skies and aspired to be a female pilot. Unfortunately, she was rejected from the pilot recruitment program before the college entrance examination due to failing a physical requirement, so she had to settle for applying to the Air Force's technical academy. After the hijacking incident involving Luda Airlines, Gu Ruoxi heard many stories about Chen Yang's legendary performance that night, especially how he saved Gu Xinmin's life. Gu Ruoxi immediately idolized him. Her former idol was Liu Yue'e, the first female pilot in the history of the Air Force. In Gu Ruoxi's words, now she had "two idols."
Gu Xinmin helplessly shrugged and said,
"I didn't know he would suddenly come to visit me! He didn't even notify me beforehand."
"Sigh..." Gu Ruoxi regretted missing out on seeing her idol because she overslept.
Chen Yang and Yang Liuyi took the elevator directly to the underground parking lot. As they got into the car, Chen Yang habitually took out his phone and placed it on the steering wheel. Suddenly, he noticed a missed call on his phone, from a local landline number in Rongcheng.
Because he was visiting a patient at the hospital, Chen Yang had put his phone on silent mode. After thinking for a moment, Chen Yang fastened his seatbelt and dialed the number back.
"Hello, this is Chen Yang. Who just called me?"
"Mr. Fang, hello. I'm a staff member from the Rongcheng City Zhonglou District Demolition Office..."