Chapter 113: Chapter 113: Those Years
Translator: 549690339
Yu Mingyi had one foot in the car already.
“Uncle!”
Yu Mingyi paused, and the secretary who came with him looked puzzled at the girl who was running towards them. Just as he was about to ask who she was, Yu Mingyi raised his head to stop him and stood still.
Dong Yi came over, panting heavily. Seeing that he hadn’t left yet, her expressionless little face lit up with joy.
The sun was bright, and she had been chasing him all the way, her camouflage clothes soaked in sweat.
“Uncle, I am, I am that-” her breath was unsteady from running, and her face was flushed.
At first glance, Yu Mingyi thought she looked familiar but wasn’t sure.
But when he heard her call him uncle, those dusty memories came back to him.
Yu Mingyi was a pilot. When he was still in flight school, he had spent a long time flying under the supervision of an instructor. At the age of 18, he accompanied the instructor on his first major mission in life: rescuing people in a mountainous area struck by mudslides caused by torrential rain.
At that time, Yu Mingyi was still a rookie, flying a helicopter modified from a Dolphin. Many other national defense students like him had joined the mission. Although he later undertook many more significant tasks, he would always remember the excitement of his first time.
He would never know how cruel a disaster could be until he saw it for himself. The destroyed village was submerged, and he saw a young girl wearing ethnic minority clothes, just a few years old, sitting on the roof with a lost expression on her face.
The mountainous area they went to was inhabited by ethnic minorities, and it happened to be during a festival. The children were all wearing traditional, brightly colored clothes, but this girl’s clothing was dirty from the mud, and she sat in despair on the roof, watching her disappearing home with desolation in her eyes.
All her family was gone. Only a few years old, she had already witnessed life and death.
Only half of the village’s people survived. The rescue conditions at that time were terrible, and the wind was strong, making it very dangerous for helicopters to fly. Yu Mingyi persuaded the instructor to fly there with him, where Mingyi lowered a rope and carried the girl up to the helicopter. It was the warmth in his arms that gave the girl hope to live.
It could be said that this child’s life was saved by Yu Mingyi and his instructor.
“Are you Dong Yi?”
This name, Yu Mingyi had always remembered. The surname Dong is rare, and when he held the child on the helicopter, she remained expressionless for a long time. Her first words were, “They are all dead.”
The child made a deep impression on Yu Mingyi.
Her desperate eyes and the devastated homeland she was in stayed in Yu Mingyi’s heart. It was the first time that this child made him understand what it meant to have a mission.
Hearing him call her name, Dong Yi’s tears circled her eyes. The reason she thought Chen Xiaoqian’s boyfriend looked familiar was that Yu Minglang looked so much like the uncle in her memories!
“Uncle, I am Dong Yi, I am the Dong Yi you saved!” she cried as she spoke.
If it weren’t for this uncle, she would have died with her parents in that terrifying disaster.
In her dreams, she often returned to that injured homeland. Dad and Mom threw her onto the roof, and then they were submerged…
And this uncle, who descended from the sky, became her only salvation.
Sometimes Dong Yi thought that if she had died with her parents in that disaster, perhaps she would not have had such a hard life afterwards. The image that this uncle left in her mind was still divine.
After so many years, seeing her benefactor again stirred Dong Yi’s emotions.
“You’ve grown up.” Yu Mingyi also revealed a faint smile, contrary to his usual indifference. Seeing the little girl he had saved got admitted to such a prestigious school, he felt happy in his heart.
“Uncle, I originally wanted to apply for flight school…but I am short-sighted, I, I ”
Already not good at words, when she saw her benefactor, the emotional Dong Yi didn’t know what else to say.
Actually, she also wanted to be like those older brothers who had saved her, but her physical condition did not allow her to apply for flight school.
“It’s okay. Even if you don’t become a pilot, you can still be a useful person to society. Work hard, study well, and cherish the opportunity to learn. This is my phone number. If you have any difficulties in the future, call me. The uncles who participated in the rescue back then would be delighted to see you so accomplished.”
Yu Mingyi wrote down his phone number and contact information on a piece of paper and handed it to Dong Yi solemnly.
Actually, he wanted to take Dong Yi to a restaurant and sit down, contact those comrades from back then, and see if they could get together. The little girl they had saved had grown up. Only those who have experienced it would understand this kind of joy.
If farmers’ greatest joy is a bountiful harvest.
For Mingyi, what could be more fulfilling than seeing the child he saved years ago grow into an outstanding talent?
Unfortunately, those who participated in the rescue in the same year are now scattered all over the place, holding important positions, making it impossible for them to get together.
For Dong Yi, this was an exciting moment when she found her benefactor-uncle. For Mingyi, seeing the little girl he had saved getting admitted to university was also an exciting moment.
This was a very pure feeling, an exceptionally pure and beautiful emotion, with no distractions, unrelated to gender.
However, such a beautiful scene, as seen by the secretary in the car, became a different picture.
Taking advantage of Yu Mingyi’s conversation with Dong Yi, he sneakily took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to his sister, who was Yu Mingyi’s wife.
“Sis, your husband has been talking with a young female university student for quite some time. He was just throwing a tantrum at the university’s orientation. I think he purposely came here for this girl.”
Although the situation was not like this, after his transmission, the meaning changed.
After sending the text message, he deleted the information, and Yu Mingyi got in the car.
He waved to Dong Yi, motioning her to go back. He turned his head and saw the secretary putting his phone away in the front seat.
“If I see you using your phone again, I’ll confiscate it.”
“Brother-in-law, isn’t it okay to use it occasionally? I didn’t leak any secrets.”
“Not even once. This is discipline.” Yu Mingyi said coldly.
Resentment flashed in the secretary’s eyes. Although his brother-in-law held a high position, he never gave him any shortcuts. Even though he could have arranged a better position for him, he didn’t say a word. By his own ability, he finally got promoted to a lighter position, thinking that being by his brother-in-law’s side would give him better care.
As a result, not only did he not receive any care, but he was also strictly controlled!
He deserved to be scolded by his sister when he got home. The secretary twisted his head and thought darkly..
