Monday, torrential rain.
Li Ye arranged some work at the factory in the morning, then picked up Wen Leyu in the afternoon and headed to the airport.
Li Ye was going to Shanghai for an auto exhibition, while Wen Leyu was going to take a look at Pudong's development.
Ever since they had children, their sweet life as a couple had grown increasingly scarce. If Wen Leyu had not used a provocation tactic to get the children to sleep alone in the small room next door, even the normal marital reconciliation between husband and wife would not have gone smoothly.
So, since they had the chance this time, they decided to "take a trip" while they were on business and recapture the feeling of being in love.
But on the way to the airport, Li Ye saw that all the cars along the route were crawling through the heavy rain, and he began to worry that their flight might be canceled.
He remembered that domestic airports had only begun building Class II Instrument Landing Systems at major hub airports in the early nineties. It was now 1991, and he did not know whether the capital's airport had an advanced blind-landing system.
If it did not, then in weather like this, they were surely in for trouble.
After they arrived at the airport, the flight was not canceled. But after they finally boarded, the plane still did not take off for a long time.
In an era without smartphones, this kind of wait without knowing the outcome was agonizing. Everyone's attention remained fixed on it, constantly wondering when they could take off, or whether they would be driven off the plane again.
After waiting idly for ages, Li Ye finally grew restless. Helplessly, he asked a flight attendant for two magazines,