Chapter 2: A bad start
"Yikes"
Angel screamed, startling the couple. She pulled out two packets of spicy fish from the food she had brought back.
"I didn't expect that I used to eat it a lot in high school. ”
"Yo, so you're good for that. Kaiming pointed at her angrily.
The two were shocked and confused An Yi, who was making the bed, and she saw her husband quickly pry open the lid of red wine, and gather on the sand with Angel with a spicy fish in her hand, eating and drinking while watching a football game.
Oh my God, red wine with spicy fish, this taste is too different. I really don't understand what is so good about the oily and spicy dried fish, and it makes them like monkeys.
An Yi's coldness didn't affect Kai Ming and Angel, they would cheer for the ball game at one time, and drink and eat fish at the other.
"You know what? I used to drink beer with my buddies in the dorm room, and that's what I ate. Kai Ming said, stuffing a small dried fish soaked in chili oil into his mouth, and gnawing on it vigorously, the small fish should be from the Nile, and the taste is somewhat different from that in China.
An Yi smiled and raised his glass to touch him, "It's not bad to drink red wine, it has a different flavor." ”
"At that time, I was still an unemployed young man who ran into walls everywhere, just after graduating from university, I went to Shanghai with three good classmates, rented a toilet-sized house in Pudong District, four big men looked for jobs during the day, and crowded into a small space at night to drink and laugh, talk about life ideals or something, although the conditions were difficult, but everyone was intoxicated with the vision of a better future. Keming said this, and a smile unconsciously appeared on his face.
Angel listened and cast a curious look at him, "Brother Kaiming, can you tell me what you had in mind at that time?"
"Hah, there's nothing you can't say. Kaiming wiped a handful of black oily hair, and then said, "Boys, they all want to make a career, marry a beautiful wife, and live a nourishing life from now on." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Angel laugh.
When the sister-in-law was a little more restrained, he continued: "Later, except for one buddy among the four who got a job in the insurance company, I and the other two ate ginkgo seeds, and spent all the money on our bodies and had to pack up and go home. Oops, it was quite frustrating at that time, like failing an exam. ”
An Qi changed her smile and her expression became serious, "I really didn't expect that a financial elite like you would also have a bitter experience." ”
"Well, it's nothing. He shook his head, "Except for those who were born with golden keys in their mouths, who hasn't drunk a sip or two of bitter water." ”
"Makes sense, come! This cup congratulates you on your successful career and the marriage of a beautiful wife. ”
Angel said, filling the wine glass, the two glasses touched in the air, and then drank it all.
Career success? Although he is now an excellent trader, he is still one step away from his goal, and he believes that only by becoming the general manager of the branch can he be considered to have a successful career. And this result may be announced at the board meeting tomorrow, but now he is abroad and cannot hear it with his own ears.
Anqi saw that he was stunned, and pushed him violently and asked, "Do you think my sister is not beautiful?"
"No, don't get me wrong, she's very beautiful, a first-class beauty. Kai Ming denied it to Angel, and looked at his wife again, she was lying on the bed reading a book, and she didn't pay attention to the two people on the sofa at all.
He took a sip of wine to suppress the shock, if his wife heard it, would he let him sleep on the sofa in the future?
Angel saw his cowardice and felt funny, "Then why are you dissatisfied?"
Kai Ming hurriedly explained: "I'm afraid that I won't be able to give her a good life, and I'm afraid that she will suffer with me." ”
Trader is a profession with a high elimination rate, since the day he entered the financial company, the face around him has changed several times, now the first, it is difficult to guarantee that tomorrow will not become scum, only when the general manager can have a stable development.
This sounds heartwarming, and I suddenly envy my sister. Angel stared at him with a look of fascination.
As Cumming drank, the necklace slipped out of his pocket. Angel picked it up from the couch and looked closely at the words on the pendant.
"Where did you get that?"
Kaiming's face was already red, and he replied lazily with his back against the sofa: "Someone else sent it, it's a weird guy." ”
Angel shook the necklace in her hand, "The thing is very falling, could it be pure gold?"
Kai Ming smiled at her, "How is it possible! It must be a stall, a souvenir for ten yuan." ”
He found her studying the words on the necklace and translated it: "The earth is angry, the river is tumbling, let the old world collapse, and I will be reborn in darkness." ”
"What the hell?"
"It's like a spell. Angel guessed.
Kaiming snatched the necklace, handed her a glass of wine and said, "Please, don't be a literary scholar anymore, come, drink." ”
By the second half, the two were drunk and lying on the sofa.
An Yi looked at the book, her eyelids closed unconsciously, but as soon as she fell asleep, she felt someone caressing her behind, she turned over and found her husband staring at her.
He smelled of alcohol, his eyes were on fire, and his hands kept touching her.
"Kaiming, don't!" An Yi looked at the sofa while holding her husband, but her husband leaned close to her ear and said, "Don't worry, your sister is drunk, and there is thunder outside, so she won't be heard." ”
An Yi looked at the sofa uneasily, her sister was indeed sleeping deeply, so she let her husband go.
He pressed her under him, and in the process, she forced herself to keep silent, which made him more reckless.
Afterwards, Kaiming collapsed on the bed, and An Yi gradually eased up, pushing her husband who was full of alcohol, and he was forced to go back to sleep in another bed.
The next day, the heavy rain still did not abate, and near noon, Kaiming received an email from the assistant from China, and the board of directors already had a candidate for general manager, but it was not him, but a colleague whose performance was not as good as his.
Damn! Why did you come all the way to such a hellish place when you should be in charge of the company. He regretted it terribly.
An Yi found that her husband had a gloomy face all day and didn't even go to eat, was she dissatisfied with her performance last night?
She and her sister had dinner at the hotel restaurant, and they planned to bring her husband something to eat, but the sister volunteered to rush there, but all she bought were those snacks from yesterday.
"Brother Kaiming, what's wrong with you?" Anqi saw that her brother-in-law was only concerned about drinking, and she didn't pay attention to a table of snacks.
Without saying a word, he handed her a glass of wine, clinked glasses, and drank it dry in one gulp.
On the morning of the third day, the rain finally stopped, and Kaiming woke up in a daze, with a pain in his head, all to blame for drinking too much last night.
When he lifted the quilt, he found his wife sleeping in the quilt, but when he turned his head, his wife was sitting on the sofa again, her eyes staring at him.
Oh my God, hasn't the smell of alcohol gone away?
He looked carefully again, and the woman on the bed turned out to be a sister-in-law.
Angel lazily propped herself up, "Why are you lifting someone's quilt early in the morning?" After noticing the man next to her, she was startled, and when she turned her head to see her sister's ice face, she was startled again.
The two of them got out of bed in a panic, their brains constantly recalling the situation of last night, how could they sleep in the same bed when they were watching a football game on the couch?
Kaiming approached the couch and reached out and tugged at his wife's sleeve, only to be thrown away.
He gave his sister-in-law a look at her sister-in-law, who was stunned.
"Sister......" Angel wanted to explain, but her brain was like being poured with glue, and she was stunned, and she didn't know how to say it when she encountered such an embarrassing thing for the first time.
As if he couldn't count on her, Kai Ming squatted down and said to his wife from an upward perspective: "An Yi, I didn't do anything to be sorry for you last night, I swear to God." ”
He was drunk at the time, and he couldn't tell whether he did it or not.
The man's words couldn't move her, Angel woke up, and the woman's words were convincing in this case, "Sister, I can also guarantee that I have nothing to do with Brother Kaiming." Lo and behold, even though we slept in the same bed, we were all clothed. ”
"Yes, we're all dressed. ”
Kaiming tried his best to explain, but his wife never said a word, and the more he tried, the stronger his wife's resistance became, and soon tears glistened to the corners of her eyes.
He knew that his wife would not listen to anything, so he sat down on the floor in exasperation, his eyes sweeping over the messy table, where the empty bottle from last night still stood.
Damn, these situations would not have occurred without this trip, and now that the promotion has been lost, and the marriage is in crisis.
In a fit of rage, he grabbed the empty wine glass and smashed it on the ground.
The two women were startled, and before they could react, they saw him leave the room without looking back.
Cairo's sky was overcast, dark clouds covered the sky, the streets were deserted, broken branches and fallen leaves were everywhere, and the advertisements were lying on the road without anyone caring, and the whole city was like a disaster scene.
Kaiming walked along the Nile, which was still high and full of dead fish floating in the murky water. After walking three kilometers, he sat on a stone pier on the shore to rest, his feet hanging down the embankment, and letting the waves wet his slippers. The wind drilled into his arms from the neckline, and there was a trembling coolness, and he blamed himself for walking in a hurry, and he didn't even bring his coat with him.
Obviously, you can't stay in a company where there is no room for promotion, and you will be welcomed if you submit your resignation decisively as soon as you return to China.
He fumbled in his pocket, leaving his passport and wallet at the hotel, and found only the necklace all over his body. He held it in his hand and stroked the dented text, recalling what the weirdo had said.
In just two days, he was as the weirdo said, deeply disappointed in the world.
Read the above words, will this hopeless world be changed? Fart, how can you believe the nonsense of strangers. However, there is no disadvantage in giving it a try.
"The earth is shaking, the rivers are churning, let the old world collapse, and I will be reborn in darkness. He remembered that Angel had translated it like this. I waited stupidly for a while, the wind was still blowing, the river was still raging, and nothing happened.
Damn, I was fooled.
He was about to throw the necklace into the river, when he noticed that the dark clouds in the sky began to gather and form a large spiral, and the clouds continued to squeeze and crack, and a lightning bolt penetrated through the center, which was connected with a pointed old stone pillar, and the arc flickered, and then a large wave rose on the surface of the river.
Every time lightning strikes a stone pillar, the river surface fluctuates, but it quickly stops.
Kemin was in a daze, when suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder from behind.