On the night the Shanghai socialite accompanied the military officer, he broke his vow.

Chapter 32: Mission Completed Ahead of Schedule
Xiao Li's forehead slammed into the phone booth.

"hiss--"

Who am I? Where am I? When did the commander get a fiancée?

"Comrade, are you alright?"

After hearing the voice from the other end of the phone, Song Jinyue asked a question.

"No, it's okay!"

Ignoring the pain in his forehead, Xiao Li quickly said, "Sister-in-law, the regimental commander has gone on a mission and is not in the army. If you need anything, you can tell me, and I will pass it on as soon as the regimental commander returns!"

Upon learning Song Jinyue's identity, Xiao Li immediately changed how he addressed her.

Good heavens! Our commander, that ironwood tree, has finally blossomed?!
"I know, did he say when he'd be back?"

"The regimental commander changed the flight path midway and did not return to the unit. I did not receive a call from the regimental commander, but I heard that this mission would take about ten days."

When Fu Sinian is on a mission, he cuts off all contact with the outside world. Because he changed course midway, he didn't have time to tell Xiao Li about Song Jinyue's identity.

Ten days.

A week has passed since Fu Sinian left. It takes three or four days to travel from Beijing to Qiongzhou Island by train and ship. By the time she arrives on Qiongzhou Island, Fu Sinian should be back soon.

At that time, a letter of introduction from one's work unit was required to purchase a plane ticket, and there were restrictions on identity. It was mainly for cadres, diplomats, and overseas Chinese. If Song Jinyue wanted to go to Qiongzhou Island, the only means of transportation she could take were trains and ships.

Even if Fu Sinian returns to pick her up after completing his mission, he will still have to take a train and a ship, which will take three or four days on the way back, and another three or four days on the way back after picking her up.

Since she's going to have to make the trip anyway, she might as well go by herself instead of bothering two people. Besides, she doesn't have anything else to do in Beijing.

With this in mind, Song Jinyue decided to set off for Qiongzhou Island today.

“Okay, after Fu Sinian returns to his unit, tell him he doesn’t need to come back to pick me up. I’ll set off for Qiongzhou Island today.”

"No problem, sister-in-law, don't worry. I will definitely pass on your words to the regimental commander as soon as possible. Take good care of yourself on the road, and call me anytime if anything happens."

After hanging up the phone, Song Jinyue first went to the Public Security Bureau and told the police officers the address of Fu Sinian's unit. Then she went to the train station and boarded the train from Beijing to Guangzhou.

Qiongzhou Island is a long way away, requiring two transfers to reach it.

As soon as Song Jinyue arrived at the train station, she ran into an acquaintance, the train police officer Xiao Zhang.

Xiao Zhang was temporarily assigned to this train, and he was very excited to see Song Jinyue. "Comrade Song, I didn't expect to see you again! Are you going to Guangzhou?"

Song Jinyue smiled and said, "Yes, what a coincidence. I didn't expect to run into Comrade Xiao Zhang after changing trains. I'm going to Qiongzhou Island to find my fiancé."

"Qiongzhou Island? That's quite a distance. It takes three or four days just to get there. Where is Comrade Song going? If it's far from the port, it might take another day or two to get there."

After the incident of raiding the human traffickers' hideout, Xiao Zhang had come to regard Song Jinyue as a role model and friend. When he heard that she was going to the distant Qiongzhou Island, he couldn't help but ask her a few more questions.

“My fiancé is a pilot, and I’m going to the air force base on Qiongzhou Island to see him.”

Upon hearing that Song Jinyue's fiancé was a pilot, Xiao Zhang was filled with respect.

“Comrade Xiao Song, the train journey from Beijing to Guangzhou takes more than forty hours. If you need, I can ask the train conductor if there are any vacant sleeper berths.” Song Jinyue looked at Xiao Zhang with gratitude. “Then I’ll trouble you, Comrade Xiao Zhang. If there are any vacant sleeper berths, I’m willing to pay the difference!”

"Please wait."

After finishing his story, Xiao Zhang went to find the train conductor and reported how Song Jinyue had acted bravely on the train a few days earlier, single-handedly dismantling a human traffickers' hideout and successfully rescuing nine abducted women.

She also revealed that her fiancé is a pilot and that she was going to visit a military unit on Qiongzhou Island.

The train conductor had heard about the human traffickers on the train a few days ago. He was deeply impressed by the woman who risked her own safety to infiltrate the traffickers' hideout and capture them.

Now that Xiao Zhang has told me that her fiancé is a pilot, her attitude is even more respectful.

Pilots in this era were extremely rare, highly skilled professionals. The training difficulty and technical threshold were far greater than those of other professions. It took 5 to 8 years just to go from entering flight school to becoming a qualified pilot.

Whether it's physical condition, technical skills, or official certification, failure in any one of these areas will result in elimination.

It is said that training a qualified pilot requires resources equivalent to the weight of one's own body in gold, hence the classic admonition: "A plane can crash, but a pilot cannot."

"Director Zhou has something come up, and his sleeper berth is now available. Please take that lady there."

The train conductor handed the matter over to Xiao Zhang, who nodded after hearing it and returned to Song Jinyue's position to tell her about it.

"Comrade Zhang, thank you so much! Please help me express my gratitude to the train conductor as well."

Upon hearing that he could be transferred to a sleeper berth, Song Jinyue once again expressed his gratitude to Xiao Zhang and then paid the remaining twenty yuan.

The journey from Beijing to Guangzhou, a distance of over 2,000 kilometers, was much easier after upgrading from a hard seat to a soft sleeper.

After the train started moving, Song Jinyue mostly rested with her eyes closed. When she got hungry, she would use the bag next to her as a cover to take out food from her storage space.

I don't know why, but every time I take something out of my space, it tastes better than when I first bought it.

Even though lying down for a long time on the train made her back ache, Song Jinyue still had a good appetite.

The train stops frequently between the two cities, so if you get tired of lying down, you can get off and stretch your legs. The more than forty hours passed by without feeling like an ordeal.

After arriving in Guangzhou, Song Jinyue first took a shower and changed her clothes in her space. Then she used the one-click cooking function to cook a delicious meal to reward herself. The water used to cook the rice was spiritual spring water. After eating, the fatigue on her body quickly disappeared.

After having a good meal, Song Jinyue boarded the train from Guangzhou to Zhanjiang. The two places are only 400 kilometers apart, but because it is a slow train, it will take more than eight hours to reach the next station.

The train windows were sliding windows, and Song Jinyue's seat was by the window. The scenery along the way flashed by before her eyes. Putting aside the backache, sore waist, and numb buttocks from sitting on the train, it wasn't for the slow-paced comfort.

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Fu Sinian, who was sent on a mission, has returned. The mission was originally estimated to take ten days, but Fu Sinian completed it in just one week.

After completing the mission, he didn't even close his eyes before boarding the train to the military base, eager to submit the mission report as soon as possible and then go to Beijing to pick up Song Jinyue.

When he arrived at the train station, guard Xiao Li was already waiting for him.

Upon seeing Fu Sinian, Xiao Li hurriedly ran over. "Commander, your wife called a couple of days ago saying she's coming to Qiongzhou Island. Judging by the dates, she'll be here tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)