Chapter 122: A situation
Everyone had specifically requested a drive along the mountain roads outside the scenic area. With several lovely girls in the car wheedling him, Instructor Li Gang could not hold out. They officially drove out of town at three in the afternoon and would not return until eight or nine that evening, giving them a chance to practice driving at night.
Something like this would have been impossible in later years. The atmosphere at driving schools had grown unpleasant and impatient for a time, with most of the time spent preparing for test maneuvers. Sometimes students got no more than two or three days on the road, practicing just enough to satisfy the examiner. Getting a license had become increasingly like ordering fast food. A special trip along mountain roads and through a scenic area, with the instructor even arranging nighttime practice, would have been almost impossible.
There was a restaurant serving wild vegetables along the way. Also in the car were two men, one twenty-seven and the other around thirty. They told everyone that when they went out for a meal like this, each person could chip in ten or twenty yuan; there was no reason to make the instructor pay. The two men naturally covered the cigarettes they handed out to the instructor themselves. After all, the others in the car were students who had just graduated from high school. Even the slightly older one was only a penniless first-year university student.
Still, the girls in the car were a real feast for the two men's eyes, so much so that they were never late for driving lessons. Listening to the girls' chatter and seeing their vibrant, youthful summer outfits put them in an excellent mood.
On their way back from the scenic area, as