Chapter 61: Sri Lanka
In the afternoon of the same day, Shen Mengxi received an order from the headquarters, asking her to go to Sri Lanka first, stay there for a few days and then arrange for her to return to China. As expected, in the evening, the editor in charge called and told her that her vacation was suspended and that she should go to Sri Lanka to investigate on the ground and do a report about several terrorist attacks some time ago.
Shen Mengxi notified Qi Shang as agreed, but unfortunately Qi Shang was entangled in affairs and couldn't go to the airport to see him off, but just had dinner with Shen Mengxi. Shen Mengxi felt that Qi Shang's attitude had changed a little too quickly, and he was a little disappointed that he could afford to let go. However, Shen Mengxi didn't take these things to heart, he had clearly rejected him, his attitude was already very polite and polite, and it would be Shen Mengxi's hypocrisy to care too much.
Shen Mengxi's plane landed smoothly at Bandaranaike Airport in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. She knew that an embassy staff member came back to pick her up, and as soon as she got out of the customs, Shen Mengxi began to look around looking for her name tag. She walked slowly all the way, and finally saw a sign with her Chinese name printed on it at the door of the airport's arrivals hall.
"Hello! Is it Miss Shen Mengxi? Holding the sign was a young man in his early twenties, and she asked with a smile when she saw Shen Mengxi walking towards her.
"It's me! Hello! Shen Mengxi stretched out his right hand and shook the other party's hand politely.
"Hello! Hello! I am a clerk of the embassy, my name is Du Xian, this is my work card! Du Xian introduced himself with a smile, and took out his documents from his trouser pocket to show Shen Mengxi.
"Hello! Mr. Du! Thank you for picking me up! Sorry to bother you! Shen Mengxi said politely.
"No trouble, no trouble! Just call me Xiao Du! Du Xian waved his hand embarrassedly, and then he pulled Shen Mengxi's suitcase and said, "Let's go, the car will be parked outside!" Let's go back to the embassy first, and someone will arrange other things for you! ”
"Okay!" Shen Mengxi followed Du Xian and walked out.
A silver-gray Volkswagen was parked not far from the door, Du Xian led Shen Mengxi over, and opened the central lock with the key, "You get in the car first, I'll put the suitcase in the trunk!" ”
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome!"
Du Xian put Shen Mengxi's suitcase into the trunk, then turned to the cab and sat down, started the car, fastened the seat belt, and the car drove out of the terminal of the airport.
"When I passed through the customs just now, the inspection was very strict, is the situation here still so tense?" Shen Mengxi asked casually, wanting to get a general idea of what the situation in Colombo is now.
"It's okay! Hehe! Actually, I only came less than a month before you. I've been in the embassy almost every day since I came, and I really don't know much about the situation here! ”
"Oh! That's it! You don't look very old, why did you come here to work at such a young age? ”
"I'm not an official member of the embassy, at best I'm a driver and a handyman! In the past, local people were hired to do this kind of work, but then I decided to use my own people for safety reasons! ”
"That's fine, at least don't worry about extremists infiltrating our embassy and causing sabotage!"
"That's how it was thought out above!" Du Xian said with a smile.
Shen Mengxi had not yet adjusted the jet lag when he first arrived in Sri Lanka, and he fell asleep while sitting in the car. Du Xian turned up the temperature of the air conditioner very intimately, turned off the stereo again, glanced at Shen Mengxi and started the car attentively.
Shen Mengxi woke up when the car stopped, and she found that the car had driven into a small courtyard.
"We're here, get out of the car!"