Quick Travel System: Age Strategy

In a blink of an eye, two months have passed since I came to Beijing, and I have already found a driving school.

At that time, driving schools were still called vehicle management offices. Previously, training was managed by units, and those who wanted to sign up were all from enterprises and institutions.

In 1979, Beijing had its first automobile technical school that enrolled students from the public. This was like a start. Gradually, more and more such technical schools emerged, sparking a "driving learning craze" and more people wanted to learn how to drive.

The family chose the one closest to their home, which was reasonably priced.

When I was registering and paying the fee in the hall, many people noticed it as soon as they heard that the whole family was coming to study.

Beijing is currently developing at a fast pace compared to other cities in the country, but it is quite rare for elderly people in the family to learn to drive.

The vast majority of people who come here to study are young people, and they all come here to pay the money to learn this and master an additional skill.

Few people of the older generation are willing to spend money to learn. For them, even if they learn, it is difficult to find a job with the certificate. In addition, the registration fee for driving lessons is too expensive, and the subsequent driving practice requires gifts from time to time to let the instructor take you to practice in the car. So when you think about it, there is really no need.

Therefore, a family spending so much money to study this attracts so much attention, and they feel like they are stars.

The vehicle management office gave them a traffic law study manual and asked them to go back and read it for three months before taking the test. After they pass the test, they will be issued a learner certificate. Only with this certificate can they study with a trainee driver.

In order to study the manual effortlessly, the whole family has already developed the habit of studying before going to bed at night.

Knowing that Gong Shaoping and Gong Ma's foundation was too weak, in order to help them prepare for future exams and careers, Cheng Cheng would tutor them every night after dinner and learn at the same time.

We always have fish oil, walnuts, eggs, pine nuts, etc. at home, just to keep the whole family healthy.

Studying is hard. It took me two months to speed up my learning process and finally lay a solid foundation for our basic cultural knowledge and car-related knowledge.

All this work was not in vain, as I can now understand the manual instead of finding it obscure and difficult to understand like it did at the beginning.

With only one month left, the family began to read the manual from time to time to deepen their memory.

Three months later, when we went to the vehicle management office again, the family had the exam in mind and were not so worried anymore.

I passed the theoretical exam very smoothly, and after receiving my student certificates, my family happily had a meal together.

Although it is just a small step forward, it means a lot to the Gong mother and son who started from scratch.

Cheng Cheng was also happy for them. After teaching them, she realized that they were held back because they did not have the conditions to learn before.

Afterwards, the vehicle management office went through the process and assigned a coach, and the three of them followed their coaches to practice getting on the car.

The story of the three people had already spread throughout the neighborhood. The coach knew that the fact that his family could send their elderly parents to study together showed that they were not short of money.

Even the boss said that this family who learned the skill is a living signboard of their vehicle management office, and there will probably be more students signing up here in the future.

Just these are enough to not offend them, let alone use them to hint at giving them some bribes in private.

If they really continue to offend this person, and he returns the money and runs away, they will offend the boss, and how can they continue to work here? !

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Less than two months later, the family got their driving license.

It is worth mentioning that Gong’s mother is the first person in their family to master the driving skills.

According to what Gong's mother said, it would be strange if she, who is unemployed, learns slower than the two people who have jobs.

Every day she runs back and forth between home and the vehicle management office, the post office, and the vegetable market. When she feels she is making fast progress, she also wants to wait for the other two people. Shaomei received a letter a while ago saying that she was pregnant, and she has been worried since then.

She had paid the fees to the vehicle management office, and she would feel uneasy if she didn't practice for a while, fearing that she would forget everything when she came back. She wanted to get her driver's license passed now while she still knew a little bit.

My daughter is my first child. My in-laws all have jobs, so there’s no one to look after her at home, and I’m worried that she won’t be taken care of.

The clothing store run by my daughter has always been popular, and now that she is pregnant with her first child, the store has not been closed, so she is very busy.

The more she thought about Gong Ma, the more uneasy she felt. Seeing that she had learned enough, she quickly made an appointment with her coach to take the exam.

After successfully passing the test, the family bought a car and found an open space for Gong's mother to try it out. They practiced for a few days before driving back with their packed things.

It takes a long time to get from Jingshi to Qiaojiadong by green train, but it only takes two days to get there by car.

Mother Gong put authentic Beijing specialties and a lot of prepared gifts in the trunk and drove back.

Chengcheng was afraid that she would get sunburned while driving, so she specially prepared a pair of sunglasses for her. When Gong's mother put on the sunglasses and wrapped a white scarf around her neck, she turned into a fashionable old lady.

Even Gong Shaoping didn't dare to compare his mother with when she first arrived. She looked completely different.

Mother Gong was very receptive. After spending a few months in Beijing, she saw a lot of things she had never seen before.

There are many old ladies in this area who are more particular than her.

She lives with her son and daughter-in-law at home, and they give her some pocket money every month. After deducting daily expenses, she can save enough for her coffin.

This time when she went back, Mother Gong directly used her own private money without asking her son and daughter-in-law for it.

Gong Shaoping was worried about his mother going back alone. This was the first time he drove such a long distance. How could it be compared with normal driving? !

If something happens on the road, they are far away and not around, and Shaomei is pregnant and has a lot of things to deal with, so they can't help her in time. How dangerous it is.

For safety reasons, Gong Shaoping asked the colleague who came to pick them up last time to go with him.

If he hadn't been sent to accompany a team of experts on an inspection recently and people who went there were not allowed to move around, he would have gone back with them without bothering anyone and owing them a favor.

These two people prepared more things than if they were traveling alone. In addition to what they prepared for their families, they also prepared personal belongings, luggage, food for the road, and tools needed to repair the car.

The colleague also came early, had dinner at his house, and then left in Gong Ma's car.

Just send Gong Ma off on this trip when you go, and come back first when you come back.

Gong Shaoping knew that his mother would probably not stay for a short time, and it was not a good idea to let her colleagues wait there and accompany her without coming back. He had already paid for the round-trip fare and food expenses privately, and he had to treat her to a meal when she came back to express his gratitude.

During the few months he worked at the Cultural Relics Research Institute, he also grew a lot and became very proficient in the ways of the world.

So he was given a sinecure, but it is not stable and there is a risk of it being abolished at any time.

Because of this, he had to build good relationships with people here during his tenure so that he would have a network of contacts even after leaving here.