My Little Poplar - Chap 43

Early in the morning of the second day, Yu Fengcheng and Bai Xinyu arrived at the military airport with their luggage on their backs, Bai Xinyu was on his first military flight, looking at the big green painted plane in front of him, he was very excited and said, “Oh, my, it’s so cool.–”

Yu Fengcheng smiled mysteriously and said, “It’s even cooler to sit in.”

Bai Xinyu didn’t read his expression, asks innocently, “Really?”

Yu Fengcheng smiles, doesn’t say anything and the two of them get on the plane.

Once on the plane Bai Xinyu is a bit dumbfounded, it’s a transport plane, it doesn’t normally carry people but it can’t have a decent seat, there are two rows of benches against the cabin wall, there are seat belts on the cabin wall, it looks extremely unsafe.

Apart from the two of them, there are several officers on board, already seated, each looking relaxed.

Yu Fengcheng doesn’t look surprised, sits down and buckles up automatically.

Bai Xinyu sits next to him and asks in a low voice: “Is this how military planes work?”

“Not all but most.”

“You’ve done it?”

“Well, when I was a kid.”

Bai Xinyu always travels first class, never had such a simple aeroplane seat but thinking it’s better than a train, so I don’t pick and choose, “It’s nice, it’s new.”

The plane takes off, Bai Xinyu quickly realises what Yu Fengcheng means by “cooler to sit in”, what does this guy in the plane think this is a fighter jet? It’s all up and down and there’s no cute little air traffic lady on the radio to tell everyone to watch out for bumps in the turbulence, the bumps are totally artificial! Bai Xinyu was so tormented by the rollercoaster ride, his stomach started to turn and he felt like throwing up and his face turned paler and paler.

The officer sitting opposite him smiled and said, “First time on the ride.”

Bai Xinyu nodded and said, “Is this driving… It’s too hard.”

“Hey, the driver’s family is visiting relatives, they’re in a hurry to get back to lunch with their wives and kids, you understand.”

Bai Xinyu rolls his eyes, leans back against the cabin wall, chanting Amitabha in his mind.

Yu Fengcheng leans over to his ear, smiled playfully, “Does it feel good to sit there?”

Bai Xinyu glared at him.

After throwing up twice, the plane finally landed in Urumqi, at least an hour later than they would have if they had been flying at the speed of a civilian plane. The two of them changed to a civilian plane in Urumqi and flew straight to Beijing.

There were few people travelling on the second day of the Lunar New Year, they were the only two people in first class. Bai Xinyu slumped in his seat, he couldn’t get up for a while.

Yu Fengcheng took a glass of warm water from the stewardess and hands it to him, “Look at you, you can get dizzy on a military plane, or a transport plane.”

Bai Xinyu said with a dull look on his face, “It’s the first time in my life that I’ve ever known myself to get airsick.”

Yu Fengcheng shoved the medicine into his mouth and said, “Take it now.”

Bai Xinyu swallowed it with water and said, “How long until we arrive.”

“Just took off, early.”