Chapter 135 Do you think it's a girl?

[Brother Li Ye, I am living a miserable life now. The publication date of the monthly magazine is approaching. If you don't send me the manuscript, I will quit my job and look for you for a living.]

Li Ye was reading Dong Yuejin's telegram in his dormitory and almost laughed out loud.

Shortly after the school started, Dong Yuejin suddenly sent Li Ye an urgent letter.

The letter said that he was appointed by Blue Ocean Publishing House in a critical situation and was promoted from senior editor to editor-in-chief, specifically responsible for the manuscript compilation and distribution of the publishing house's monthly magazine "New Wind".

In the early 1980s, with the arrival of spring, many publishing houses tried to publish periodicals, but only a few survived in the end.

Li Ye had never heard of the monthly magazine "Xinfeng". It was estimated that it withered away due to congenital deficiencies and acquired infertility during the process of letting a hundred flowers bloom.

The meaning of Dong Yuejin's letter is similar. The "New Wind" monthly magazine has already been in a half-dead state, otherwise Dong Yuejin would not have been "appointed in a time of crisis".

This kind of job is not easy. If Dong Yuejin does a good job, his status and salary will naturally increase. If he does a bad job, he will definitely be disgraced and bear the responsibility.

After Dong Yuejin took office, he immediately approached Li Ye to ask him to send him the first part of his new book, hoping to publish it in series under the title of "Seven-Inch Blade's New Works" to give "New Wind" a new lease of life.

Then we will see if we can make "New Wind" form its own writing style around the theme of "We were once extremely powerful".

When I first met Li Ye, we had a long conversation about the "Battle of Talas", the long history of China, and the heritage of China's millennium as the world's leader.

Dong Yuejin never forgot it after hearing it. When he returned to the island city, he talked with many familiar senior authors.

Several of the authors are very interested in this kind of historical subject matter and have already submitted some of their manuscripts to Dong Yuejin. Now all they need is the Seven-Inch Blade's masterpiece.

"If I can do it, I might even be able to become a founding master of a sect!"

Li Ye sorted out the first part of the manuscript of "The North Wind Flying" and planned to go to the post office to send it to Dong Yuejin tomorrow to solve his urgent problem.

Just at this moment, someone suddenly called him in the corridor.

"Li Ye, someone is looking for you downstairs."

"Hey, thank you!"

Li Ye leaned his head out of the window and saw that it was Jin Peng.

Li Ye hurried downstairs because he had told Jin Peng that if there was any emergency, he could come to Peking University to find him. He thought something urgent had happened.

However, after seeing Jin Peng, I found that he had a happy look on his face and didn't look like he was in any hurry.

"What's wrong, Brother Peng? Is there something wrong?"

"Something's going on," Jin Peng pulled Li Ye away, saying as he walked, "Hao Jian bought a car. Now we finally have a car, and we need to let you, the major shareholder, take a look at it."

"You bought a car? So quickly?"

Li Ye's eyes also lit up and he became interested.

If you want to buy a car these days, you have to report the plan to your company and wait in line for approval, especially for sedans, which are even more scarce.

"I told you, that car is really nice, it has a heater and a radio, and can run at 100 mph. The Yuejin Garment Factory didn't want to sell it to us at first, but Hao Jian directly offered the price of a new car."

"Well, Hao Jian's ability to handle affairs is still OK. It's only been a few days and already... uh."

Li Ye followed Jin Peng excitedly out of the school gate and immediately saw Hao Jian, Wang Jianqiang and others, as well as the "nice car".

It has a sky blue body, four round headlights, a tall chassis, and a three-meter-long cabin.

"This is a truck! Hao Jian, did you buy a truck?"

"This is a passenger and cargo vehicle, a genuine Beijing 130, it can carry both people and cargo, and it runs very fast."

Seeing Li Ye's disappointed look, Hao Jian quickly opened the car door and introduced the car to Li Ye. He spoke eloquently and seemed as dedicated as the black-stockinged office lady in the 4S shop of later generations.

"Okay then! I'll try."

Hao Jian meant well, so Li Ye couldn't find fault with him anymore. He opened the door, got in the driver's seat, started the car and test drove it.

This car is well maintained, at least better than the old Jiefang that Li Ye drove a few days ago. However, it took Li Ye a while to get used to it when shifting gears.

Because the Beijing 130 has a "hand-operated gear" system, the gear lever is under the steering wheel, just like the luxury Mercedes-Benz of later generations.

The only difference is that the Mercedes-Benz's hand-shift is automatic, while the 130's hand-shift is 1-2-3-4-reverse.

Apart from these, there is nothing wrong with this car. The steering wheel is also very light, and the acceleration is really "very fast" compared to the old Jiefang. Although it can't reach the 100 miles per hour as Jin Peng said, 90 miles per hour is really no problem.

Li Ye drove two laps and consumed a liter of gasoline, and the disappointment in his heart dissipated.

Although this car is not very satisfactory, it does solve the problem of having or not having one. When there is an emergency and I need a car, it is much more convenient.

In fact, in a few decades, families in China will not necessarily need private cars.

You may not even drive 5,000 kilometers a year, and with the fuel costs, depreciation, and insurance, it's really a bit of a waste when you take all the factors into account.

But often when "something happens", people will have a strong desire for private cars, leading to impulse buying of large toys worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

It's fun to drive it out for fun occasionally, but when you carefully calculate the cost afterwards, it makes your teeth hurt.

Li Ye stopped the car and said to Hao Jian, "The car is nice, and you did a good job, but you still need to get a sedan as soon as possible so that you can look good when you go out to do business."

"I understand, I understand. I've asked someone to find a solution, but sedans are really hard to deal with."

Hao Jian quickly agreed. He was out on business all day now, so he naturally knew the "trusted support" capabilities of a car.

"Then go ahead and get busy! Drive the car to Zaojun Temple on Sunday. I need the car."

Li Ye turned around to leave, but was unexpectedly stopped by Jin Peng.

"Xiao Ye, don't go! You have to teach us how to drive."

"Why do you need me to teach you how to drive? Don't you have a driver?"

Li Ye noticed only now that there were only Hao Jian, Jin Peng, and Zhou Lijuan around the 130, but no driver.

Li Ye thought of a possibility and asked in surprise: "Who drove the car here?"

Jin Peng said with some pride: "I drove it here, it's not difficult to drive, you just need to teach me how to shift gears, it makes noises no matter how I shift gears, it's a bit scary."

Li Ye was really convinced. Driving without a license in the capital city was really something you could do.

Li Ye said, "Don't say anything. Let's go to Yuejin Garment Factory tomorrow to borrow a driver. Brother Peng, if you want to drive, go and get a driver's license. No one can drive before you get a license."

Hao Jian smiled and said, "They are willing to lend, but how can we let them lend? We have negotiated with three factories and compared prices.

It’s fine if everyone pretends not to know, but if you use someone else’s driver to run business for other factories… that’s not good!”

Jin Peng also said: "I have asked Ma Qianshan to go back to Qingshui County to apply for a license. I guarantee that he will get a driver's license in five or six days at most.

Xiao Ye, please teach me now! When I get the certificate, I will have learned it, which is just right. "

Li Ye spread his hands and said, "Then you can learn to drive after you get your license. I am in the internship period and I am not qualified to take apprentices according to traffic regulations."

Hao Jian laughed and said, "What traffic rules! I've been looking for days, and there's not even anyone checking cars in this remote area, so you can just drive around on the main road."

Seeing that Li Ye was still hesitating, Jin Peng lightly kicked Wang Jianqiang on the calf.

Wang Jianqiang looked at Li Ye embarrassedly and said, "Brother, I want to learn too. My copy will arrive in five or six days at most."

Well! These two guys are planning to buy the license through the back door, and they have no intention of following the rules.

Li Ye looked at Jin Peng, then at Hao Jian, and said with a straight face: "You all want to learn?"

"Yeah, I want to learn!"

“I want to learn it all!”

“Both.”

“I want to learn, too.”

Not to mention Jin Peng and Hao Jian, even the female accountant Zhou Lijuan said with a smile that she wanted to learn how to drive.

Are you guys trying to collectively force the emperor to abdicate?

Look how I take you.

Li Ye saw through it all. You can't keep salted fish under a cat's nose.

Even if you don't teach them, they will learn secretly. In an era when drivers have a very high status, the temptation of "learning to drive" is extremely great.

Anyway, there are many people driving without a license these days, and they have no sense of law-abiding at all.

If that were the case, the danger would be even greater.

"I can teach you if you really want," Li Ye said, "but before you get your driver's license, no one is allowed to drive a car by themselves."

"All right then!"

A few people looked at each other and agreed reluctantly. It seemed that they were planning to drive without a license in the first place.

Li Ye said to Hao Jian: "You, go hire a taxi tomorrow to do your business. There is one outside the train station. Don't think about using this taxi."

Hao Jian grinned and said, "That car costs more than one yuan per kilometer, and it makes more than one hundred yuan a day."

"Is a hundred bucks considered money? Which is faster, the speed at which you make money or the speed at which you spend money? I'll kill you."

Zhou Lijuan was speechless. She had been working in the company for more than ten years, but she had never seen a leader who treated more than a hundred yuan as if it were not pay.

At least not verbally.

“Get in the car!”

Li Ye got into the car unhappily, and drove north with a few people for a while, and found a dead-end road with few people.

Then he started with Jin Peng. After all, Jin Peng had a good understanding of motor vehicles.

He learned how to drive a motorcycle as soon as he got the hang of it. He drove a car for dozens of kilometers even though he had just figured out the names of the three pedals. He must have some talent as a driver.

"Start, stop, start. Stop, why are you driving? I told you to stop."

Jin Peng, who was full of confidence, had only driven less than fifty meters when he was scolded by "Coach Li" and felt uncomfortable.

He said unhappily, "Xiao Ye, I haven't even taken two steps yet, why are you asking me to stop the car? Besides, I'm not familiar with shifting gears and it's making a clicking noise."

Li Ye said: "What I am teaching you now is the core technology of driving skills. If you take the test yourself and learn how to start and stop the car, it means you have mastered half of it."

Jin Peng looked at Li Ye in astonishment, not sure whether Li Ye was finding fault with him or telling the truth.

Li Ye is telling the truth.

Of course, saying that learning how to start and stop is only half the battle may not be suitable for the examination standards of this year.

But if put in a few decades later, Li Ye's words would be considered "modest".

In later driving license assessments, the "starting" technique accounted for eighty percent or even more than ninety percent of the difficulty of the assessment.

Because starting tests the candidate's coordination between the clutch and the accelerator.

Eighty percent of candidates who failed the exam failed due to the poor coordination between the clutch and the accelerator.

As for things like forgetting to turn on the turn signal, forgetting to walk around the vehicle to check, or not smiling at the examiner, those are not technical issues. As long as you have a clear mind, you will not make such mistakes.

And the special situations in those short videos are even less likely events.

[Please don’t let any big cars hit me on the road! Please don’t run through more than two red lights! ]

These fears all come from the candidates' lack of proficiency in the "starting" technique. If you have 100% no problem starting, and are proficient in the coordination of the accelerator and clutch, then all special situations can be dealt with by normal parking and starting again.

If you fail to start properly, you will get zero points.

"Alright, alright! Xiao Ye, whatever you say is up to you."

Jin Peng reluctantly accepted Coach Li's instruction and, following Li Ye's instructions, completed more than five starts and stops within a distance of 100 meters.

Then turn around and continue to repeat the same thing.

But half an hour later, Jin Peng had a magical feeling that he seemed to have the style of a veteran driver.

When a new driver gets in the car and starts the engine, it usually takes several seconds for the car to move because he needs to find the contact point of the clutch.

But Jin Peng now just wants to "move in seconds", and it feels like there's just a small thing going on between the accelerator and the clutch, half grinding and half rubbing, if you move it too fast it will jerk, and if you move it too slow it will smoke.

Only by being neither too hasty nor too slow can you gradually get better.

What Li Ye teaches is really useful. In his previous life, he failed the exam twice. As a result, he found a coach he knew well, who taught him two months' work in two days, and then he passed the exam easily.

You mentioned these experiences, don’t other coaches know about them?

Of course you know that, but which coach wouldn't feel bad if he pressed the clutch hundreds of times in half an hour?

And if he really teaches the students so quickly, how can the coach still smoke his Zhonghua cigarettes?

Can he afford it?

"Now start practicing shifting gears. Upshift twice and downshift twice within 100 meters. Start."

"Xiao Ye, if we drive like this, it will break down quickly, right?"

"It broke down quickly? Then you can't fix it? Do you think this is a girl who can drive a car for a lifetime?"

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(End of this chapter)