Chapter 135

【Brother Li Ye, your brother is living like a year, the day of the monthly magazine publication is almost here... If you don't send the manuscript over, I'll have to resign and find you to mix for a meal.】

Li Ye read Dong Yuejin's telegram in the dormitory and almost laughed out loud.

Just shortly after the start of school, Dong Yuejin suddenly sent Li Ye an urgent letter.

The letter said that he was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the Blue Sea Publishing House, promoted from a senior editor to editor-in-chief, specifically responsible for the manuscript organization and distribution of the publishing house's monthly magazine "New Wind."

In the early eighties, with the arrival of the spring breeze, many publishing houses tried to publish periodicals, but not many survived in the end.

Li Ye hadn't heard of this monthly magazine "New Wind," so he guessed that in the process of letting a hundred flowers bloom, it withered due to congenital deficiency and acquired infertility.

Looking at the meaning in Dong Yuejin's letter, it was about the same; the "New Wind" monthly magazine had already reached a state of half-dead, otherwise Dong Yuejin wouldn't be "entrusted with a heavy responsibility."

This kind of work is not easy to do; if done well, Dong Yuejin will naturally rise in status and salary, and if not done well, he will definitely be disgraced and carry the responsibility.

After Dong Yuejin took office, he contacted Li Ye for a manuscript for the first time, asking him to send the first part of his new book, wanting to serialize and publish it under the name of "Seven-Inch Blade's New Work," first to prolong the life of "New Wind,"

And then see if it can form the literary style of "New Wind" around the theme of "We were once incomparably powerful."

When they first met Li Ye, the two talked freely around the "Battle of Talas," talking about Shenzhou's long historical heritage, and the cultural heritage that has been at the forefront of the world for thousands of years.

Dong Yuejin couldn't forget it after hearing it. After he returned to Island City, he exchanged ideas with many familiar senior authors.

Among them, several authors were very interested in this historical theme and had already submitted some manuscripts to Dong Yuejin; now they were just waiting for Seven-Inch Blade's masterpiece.

"If it works, I might even be able to achieve the achievement of a founding master!"

Li Ye organized the first part of the manuscript of "Flying Wind" and planned to go to the post office tomorrow to mail it to Dong Yuejin to solve his urgent need.

Just at this time, someone suddenly called him in the hallway.

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

"Eh, thank you!"

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

Li Ye hurriedly went downstairs, because he had told Jin Peng that if there was an emergency, he could come to Peking University to find him; he thought something urgent had happened.

However, after seeing Jin Peng, he found that he had a happy face and didn't look like anything urgent had happened.

"What's wrong, Brother Peng? Something up?"

"Something up," Jin Peng pulled Li Ye and walked, saying as he walked, "Hao Jian bought a car, now we finally have a car, I have to let you, the major shareholder, see it."

"Bought a car? So fast?"

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

In this era, if you want to buy a car, you have to have a unit report the plan and wait in line for approval, especially small cars, which are even scarcer.

"Let me tell you, that car is really not bad; it has heating and a radio, and can run up to a hundred miles. The Yuejin Clothing Factory originally didn't want to sell it to us, but Hao Jian directly smashed out the price of a new car..."

"Hmm, Hao Jian's ability to handle things is still okay; it's only been a few days, and he already... uh..."

Li Ye followed Jin Peng excitedly out of the school gate and saw Hao Jian, Wang Jianqiang, and the others at a glance, as well as that "not bad car."

Sky-blue body, four round headlights, high chassis, and... a three-meter-long carriage.

"This is a truck! Hao Jian, you bought a truck?"

"This is a passenger-cargo dual-purpose vehicle, an authentic Beijing 130, which can pull people and goods, and runs very fast..."

Hao Jian saw Li Ye's disappointed look and hurriedly opened the door to introduce it to Li Ye, talking eloquently, feeling as professional as the black-silk OL lady in a 4S shop in later generations.

"Alright then! Let me try it."

Hao Jian was kind, so Li Ye couldn't pick faults anymore; he opened the door, sat in the driver's seat, and started the car.

This car was well-maintained, at least better than the old Liberation truck Li Ye drove a few days ago, but Li Ye had to adapt to the gear shifting.

Because the Beijing 130 is a "column shifter," the gear lever is under the steering wheel, just like the luxury Mercedes-Benz of later generations.

It's just that the Mercedes-Benz column shifter is automatic, while the 130 column shifter is 1—2—3—4—reverse.

Apart from these, this car had no faults, the steering wheel was very light, and the acceleration was "really fast" compared to the old Liberation truck; although it couldn't run to a hundred miles as Jin Peng said, ninety miles was really no problem.

Li Ye drove the car for two laps, consuming one liter of gasoline, and the disappointment in his heart dissipated.

Although this car was not very satisfactory, it at least solved the problem of having and not having; when there was really something urgent that needed a car, it was much more convenient.

Actually, decades later, families in Shenzhou didn't necessarily need private cars.

They might not even drive five thousand kilometers a year; fuel costs, depreciation, and insurance, when calculated comprehensively, are really a bit wasteful.

But often when there is "something," people will have a strong thirst for private cars, leading to a final impulse to buy a big toy worth over a hundred thousand.

It's quite cool to drive out occasionally to play, but after calculating the cost carefully, it makes one's teeth ache.

Li Ye stopped the car and said to Hao Jian, "The car is not bad, and you did a good job with this matter, but you still have to get a sedan as soon as possible so you have some face when you go out to handle business."

"I understand, I understand; I'm already asking people to find a way, but sedans are indeed hard to get..."

Hao Jian hurriedly agreed; he was running business outside all day now, so he naturally knew the "credibility enhancement" ability of a sedan.

"Then you guys go ahead and get busy! On Sunday, drive the car to Zaojunmiao; I need to use it."

Li Ye turned to leave, but unexpectedly was pulled 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?"

Only now did Li Ye notice that there were only Hao Jian, Jin Peng, and Zhou Lijuan around this 130; there was no driver.

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

Jin Peng said with a little pride, "I drove it over; it's not hard to drive. You just have to teach me how to shift gears; no matter how I shift, it makes a noise, which is a bit scary..."

Li Ye was truly convinced; driving without a license in the big capital, you are really something.

Li Ye said, "Don't say anything else; go borrow a driver from Yuejin Clothing Factory tomorrow. Brother Peng, if you want to drive, honestly go take the driver's license test; nobody can drive before getting the license."

Hao Jian laughed sheepishly, "They are willing to borrow, but how can I let him borrow? We have talked to three factories now, comparing prices with each other.

It's fine if everyone pretends not to know, but if we use their driver to run business for other factories... that's not very good!"

Jin Peng also said, "I already let Ma Qianshan go back to Qingshui County to handle the license; at most five or six days, I guarantee I'll get the driver's license.

Xiao Ye, just teach me now! By the time my license arrives, I'll have learned it, just right."

Li Ye spread his hands and said, "Then learn to drive after you get the license; I'm in the internship period, and according to traffic rules, I'm not qualified to bring an apprentice."

Hao Jian smiled, "What traffic rules! I've been watching for several days; there's nobody checking cars in this wilderness, and you can run anywhere on the big road..."

Jin Peng saw Li Ye still pondering and kicked Wang Jianqiang's calf lightly.

Wang Jianqiang looked at Li Ye embarrassedly and said hehe, "Brother, I want to learn too; my license can also arrive in five or six days at most..."

Good! Both of these guys are planning to buy a license through the back door and didn't intend to follow the rules at all.

Li Ye looked at Jin Peng and then at Hao Jian, straightening his face and saying, "You all want to learn?"

"Hmm, all want to learn!"

"All want to learn!"

"All want to."

"I want to learn too."

Not to mention Jin Peng and Hao Jian, even the female accountant Zhou Lijuan smiled and expressed that she wanted to learn to drive.

Are you guys collectively forcing the palace?

Let's see how I deal with you.

Li Ye saw through it; a cat can't keep salted fish under its nose.

Even if he doesn't teach, they will learn secretly. In an era where the status of drivers is very high, the temptation of "learning to drive" is not generally great.

Anyway, there are many people driving without a license in this era; they don't have that law-abiding consciousness at all.

If it really goes like that, the danger will be even greater.

"If you really want me to teach, it's fine," Li Ye said, "But before you get your driver's license, nobody is allowed to move the car themselves."

"Alright then!"

Several people looked at each other and agreed reluctantly; it seems they originally intended to drive without a license.

Li Ye said to Hao Jian, "You, go rent a taxi to run business tomorrow; there are some outside the train station, don't have any ideas about this car."

Hao Jian immediately grinned and said, "That car is over one yuan per kilometer, and it costs over a hundred yuan a day..."

"Is over a hundred yuan money? Which is faster, the speed at which you are making money now or the speed at which you are spending money now? Stingy to death."

Zhou Lijuan was speechless; she had been in the enterprise for more than ten years and had never seen a leader who didn't take over a hundred yuan as money.

At least not on the surface.

"Get in the car!"

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

Then he started with Jin Peng; after all, Jin Peng's comprehension ability for motor vehicles was okay.

He learned the motorcycle as soon as he got his hands on it, and after just understanding what the three pedals were called, he drove the car for dozens of kilometers, so he should have some talent as a racer.

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

The confident Jin Peng was sprayed uncomfortably by "Coach Li" after driving less than fifty meters.

He said very dissatisfied, "Xiao Ye, I haven't driven two steps yet, why did you tell me to stop? Besides, I'm not familiar with shifting gears now, it clicks and clicks... it's a bit scary..."

Li Ye said, "What I'm teaching you now is the core technology of driving technology. If you go to take the test yourself, learning to start and stop is equivalent to mastering half of it."

Jin Peng looked at Li Ye in astonishment, not sure if Li Ye was looking for his faults or telling the truth.

Li Ye was telling the truth.

Of course, saying that learning to start and stop is equivalent to learning half might not be suitable for the examination standards of this era,

But if it were placed decades later, Li Ye's words would be considered "humble."

In the driver's license assessment of later generations, the technology of "starting" accounts for 80% or even more than 90% of the assessment difficulty.

Because starting is a test of the candidate's cooperation between the clutch and the accelerator.

80% of the candidates who failed the test lost on the cooperation between the clutch and the accelerator.

As for forgetting to turn on the turn signal, forgetting to check the vehicle around the car, or not smiling at the examiner, those are not technical problems; as long as your head is clear, you will never make that kind of mistake.

And those special situations in short videos are even lower probability events.

【Don't let big trucks block me on the road! Don't hit two red lights!】

These fears all come from the candidate's lack of proficiency in "starting" technology. If your starting is 100% fine and your accelerator and clutch cooperation is skilled, then all special situations can be handled by normal parking and restarting.

Starting is unqualified, direct zero points.

"Alright, alright, Xiao Ye, whatever you say counts."

Jin Peng accepted Coach Li's teaching helplessly and, according to Li Ye's instructions, completed more than five starts and stops within a distance of one hundred meters,

Then turned around and continued to repeat bitterly.

But half an hour later, Jin Peng magically felt that he seemed to have the style of an old driver.

A new driver gets in the car, starts the fire, and generally takes several seconds to get the car moving because he has to find the contact point of the clutch.

But Jin Peng is now "moving in seconds," and he feels that there is only that little bit of trouble between the accelerator and the clutch; half grinding and half rubbing, anxious causes frustration, slow causes smoke.

Not fast or slow, only then can you enter the state.

Li Ye's teaching is really dry goods; he failed the test twice in his previous life, but he found a familiar coach who taught him two months of work in two days, and then he passed easily.

You say these experiences, other coaches don't know them?

They must know, but within half an hour, stepping on the clutch hundreds of times, which coach doesn't feel heartache.

And if you really teach the students so quickly, then how can the coach smoke Zhonghua cigarettes?

Can he afford to smoke?

"Start practicing gear shifting now, upgrade gears twice within one hundred meters, downgrade gears twice, start."

"Xiao Ye, the car will break quickly if we drive like this, right?"

"Break quickly? Then can't you fix it? Do you think this is a girl, driving a car for a lifetime?"

"..."

(End of chapter)