On the weekend, Zeng Zijian took Qian Dan to walk around the city of Abu Dhabi.

They went for an authentic local meal, where roast lamb was Chandan's favorite, humus sauce made with chickpeas became his new favorite, and a variety of Arab appetizers and salads were also good.

They visited the Palace Hotel, which is under construction, and is said to have one more star than the seven-star hotels in Dubai, which is not only luxurious, but also high-tech.

The two went for a walk on the shore of the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf is in the middle of the city, can the sea in the city be so blue and clear? They strolled along the seaside path, the sky was dense with fish-scale clouds, the sunset sprinkled the glow through the cracks in the clouds, the sea was full of speeding jet skis and the laughter of the surfers, and the sand dunes on the opposite shore were faintly visible in the twilight.

As the night grew darker, they drove back to the dormitory.

The car was driving on a secluded road, and Qian Dan suddenly said, "The truck we overtook just now was chasing us." ”

Zeng Zijian looked in the rearview mirror, and sure enough, the two people in the cab of the truck still stuck their heads out of the window and shouted "wah, wow, wow, wow".

Qian Dan was a little nervous: "What's the situation?" ”

Zeng Zijian didn't care, "Damn! "With a bang, one foot on the accelerator.

The truck chased even more frantically, and the people in the cab screamed harder, waving their hands vigorously as they screamed.

There are not many cars on the road, and you are chasing me with two cars, Qian Dan is getting more and more nervous: "What's the situation?" Looting or robbing? Do you want to call for help? ”

Zeng Zijian leaned the car to the side of the road, braked with one foot, took out two short thin iron rods from the storage box, held one for himself, stuffed one for Qian Dan, pushed the car door and got out.

The truck approached quickly, and the people in the cab excitedly poked their heads out and waved at them, shouting: "Chinese? Friend！ Old friend！ (Chinese?) Friend! Friends! ）”

“Where are you from？ (Where are you from?) ）”

"Pakistan."

The truck slowed down slightly, and then sped away. It turned out to be a passionate friend from "Pakistan Railway".

Qian Dan said: "Damn! You rushed out of the car just now, you were very fierce! ”

"Of course! Momentum can't be lost. ”

Qian Dan looked at the iron rod stuffed in his hand: "So short? There's a fart. ”

Zeng Zijian shook his hand, and the iron rod in his hand suddenly became longer: "Turen, this is the throwing stick I picked up in Iraq." Lao Tzu is sweating all over, there is a store in front of the ice cream is good, please eat an ice cream to suppress the shock. The North Africa and Middle East Regional Department is in charge of a large number of inexplicable countries, and if you want to support the business of the entire region in the future in the Regional Department, you should also have to travel to various countries frequently. ”

There was a false alarm, two people sitting on the side of the road, eating ice cream. Zeng Zijian recounted anecdotes about his years of walking in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and Qian Dan listened with interest.

Zeng Zijian asked Qian Dan: "Dandan, let me ask you a question, what do you say our company relies on to win customers?" ”

Qian Dan didn't expect him to suddenly ask a serious question, so he answered the company's standard answer: "By what?" Rely on good quality, good service, low price! ”

Zeng Zijian smiled: "Do you really believe this?" Can we say that every bid must be lower than the competitor's price? The service is not much better, is it? You are engaged in technical services, don't be unconvinced, you are capable of others. Do you believe that the quality of our products must be better than others? ”

"And what do you think it depends on?"

"I'm telling you, what we really win a contract is the customer relationship! The key is to be able to establish a relationship with the customer's senior management, and the right words are the key, otherwise they are all fake. When I first arrived, I was guarding the water dispenser for a month in order to establish a connection with the customer's senior management. ”

"Guarding the water dispenser?"

"Yes! At the beginning, there were few people here who knew what 'Weizhong' was for, and they didn't know that there were communication equipment companies in China! We finally managed to get into the client's office building, but the level of contact was not enough, and there were not many opportunities for communication. I found that this customer has a characteristic, he likes to gather in the pantry during breaks, and their boss occasionally does not call the 'Office boy', but goes to the pantry station by himself. I took a cup every day, stood next to the water dispenser and filled it with water, guarded it for a month, and got acquainted with the customers up and down, left, left and right, and then found a chance to meet the boss and chatted twice. ”

He ate the last bite of ice cream and rubbed his hands: "I have always felt that your personality is fine and coarse, and you are very meticulous in doing things, but you are not a person who is a legalist, you dare to take responsibility and are not afraid of death, which is suitable for the company's current overseas disrupted and deadly war." You'll have fun coming overseas! You can also make more money and buy more houses in Shenzhen! ”

Qian Dan said: "How many more houses to buy?" I feel a lot of pressure when I buy a house, why buy a few more sets? ”

"You are stupid, you put this house on the mortgage and then take out a loan, and then buy it after taking out the loan, you will not regret it in the future."

Qian Dan admires Zeng Zijian and thinks that he has always been a person who is "far away" and "reluctant" and considers and obtains.

Qian Dan returned to the dormitory and didn't want to sleep, so he watched a few episodes of "Friends", and improving his English listening and speaking was his top priority; After a while, I received an email from Qin Xin.

Qin Xin said: "After you left, I sat at the gate of Shekou Port for a while, cried a little, and when I got home, I wanted to cry in bed, but I couldn't help it, and got up to watch 'Friends'." ”

She also said, "You didn't take away your toothbrush and towel, which made me feel so much better." ”

Qin Xin is a girl who has been in love with Qian Dan for five years, and she is more than four years younger than him, but she is also early enough to consider marriage.

They bought a house in Shenzhen last year, and Qian Dan wanted to finalize the wedding date. Qin Xin hesitated, saying that he was afraid that "marriage is the grave of love"; In the story of the prince and princess, there is no future after the princess gets into the prince's carriage and goes home.

Qian Dan was a little surprised, Qin Xin had been calm on the day of parting, but she didn't expect her to sit alone on the street of Shekou Port and cry. He realized that Qin Xin just endured not to cry in front of him.

He had always felt that Qin Xin's fear of marriage was a false proposition, and in the middle of the night in this foreign land, he suddenly wondered, had he really experienced Qin Xin's mood?

There are always some partners in the circle of friends who say that they love each other deeply, but in fact they only love themselves, and always hope that the other party will accept their love in their own way. Qian Dan wondered if he had also ignored Qin Xin's true joys, sorrows, and sorrows?

At half past four in the morning, the sound of "babbling ahhh

He remembered the march on the cable radio at school as a teenager, and it was like this that echoed at sunrise day after day.

He simply got up and walked up to the small rooftop alone, missing Qin Xin, recalling and chewing on the bits and pieces of the day they became a couple:

In the last hour of the twentieth century, when the sun slowly set, Qian Dan and Qin Xin played "dancing carpet" in his room.

He said that he was about to say goodbye to Changsha, and he wanted to give Qin Xin a bunch of "mouthpieces" that he treasured, and specially invited her to choose. Qin Xin arrived, but he was more interested in his latest version of the "Dancing Carpet" and danced on it non-stop.

She is wearing a pair of slim-fitting jeans, a gray turtleneck sweater, and a high ponytail, and she looks like Chen Huishan in the TVB drama "Forensic Record".

Qian Dan sat on the side, looking at her obsessively, obsessed with her figure, rhythm, and dangling high ponytail, wanting to confess something, but didn't know where to start?

Finally, the music stopped, the girl stopped, turned to look at him, and smiled: "Why don't you say anything?" Why do you still have a red face when you sit still? ”

Qian Dan stood up and shouted tremblingly: "Qin Xin."

Outside the window, downstairs came and went, as if echoing: "Qin Xin, Qian Dan, Qin Xin, Qian Dan ,,,"

The two of them walked to the window and looked over, only to see three motorcycles parked downstairs, rumbling and not extinguishing. Zeng Zijian rode one, and in the back seat was his girlfriend Shishi, and the two of them tilted their heads and arrogantly called their names in a voice that could be heard throughout the building. In addition, there are two boys who usually play with them, each riding one, laughing on the side.

Qian Dan wondered: "How do they know that you are here with me?" ”

"Shishi called me, and she said that the world was about to end, and she had to see the last face of this century, and I asked her to come here to find me."

They went downstairs.

Qin Xin saw Zeng Zijian and shouted happily: "Zijian, how long has it been since we met?" You've gained weight, and your face has become rounder. ”

Zeng Zijian has always been a thin man, with a fair face, and he looks sven, and he does have more flesh on his face during this time.

Shishi is not tall, but her body is well proportioned, and she is always so happy.

Shishi covered Zeng Zijian's face with one hand, squeezed it hard, and said happily: "He's not fat, he's swollen." He now thinks too much about problems all day long, and his head is swollen. ”

Qin Xin smiled from ear to ear: "What are you thinking about all day long?" ”

Zeng Zijian looked up to the sky and sighed: "What do I think about all day long? That's not just how to make more money to get a wife. You think she's quite frugal? I'm afraid I won't be able to support her with this salary in the future. ”

Shishi let go of him and kicked him. He flashed, but was still kicked in the back of the calf.

Shishi called: "If you can't support it, don't marry, I'm a post-80s generation, and I'll only turn 20 years old after the New Year, it's no problem for me to find a rich one again?" ”

She turned around and shouted at Qian Dan and Qin Xin: "Qin Xin, you are 79 years old, right?" Let me tell you two lonely men and widows are quite compatible, when will you be together? ”

Zeng Zijian smiled and said, "How do you know that the two of them are not together now?" Maybe we interrupted the firewood just now. ”

Qin Xin blushed: "Hey, we haven't eaten dinner yet, we're starving, where are we going to eat the last dinner of the twentieth century?" ”

Several motorcycles rushed across the Xiangjiang River, and several people went to the so-called "Fallen Street" next to Hunan University.

They found a roadside stall and sat down, filling their stomachs with beer, snails, and stinky tofu. After eating, I went to the peach lake to blow the wind, and then rushed up to Yuelu Mountain.

They parked their motorcycles at the platform in front of the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, and several boys gathered in a bunch to talk, while Shishi pulled Qin Xin to hide on the edge of the grove and whispered.

I don't know who is playing mahjong in the Taoist temple behind me? The wind sent a sparse shuffling sound.

Qian Dan's eyes glanced at the two girls from time to time, they were tired of being together, and it was the kind of joy and laughter when they secretly chatted gossip between girlfriends.

Zeng Zijian suddenly shouted: "What are you two talking about there so funny?" I feel bored, I'm going to freeze to death, let's change places, right? ”

Qian Dan was secretly worried that Qin Xin and Shishi had been sticking together, and when he heard that he was leaving, he was even more anxious, and blurted out: "Why don't you go first, I have eaten too much and have not digested it yet." Qin Xin, will you go down the mountain with me? We went down the hill and took a taxi in Dongfanghong Square to go back. ”

Qin Xin looked at him, his eyes shining in the dark night, and he didn't agree or object.

Zeng Zijian laughed strangely, Shishi hurriedly rushed over and grabbed his back collar, and said: "Don't be annoying, if you want us to go first, we will go first, let's go back to play cards, and let the two of them talk about life alone." ”

The sound of the motor's motor faded away, and in the blink of an eye, there were only two people left.

They crouched on the stone railing, leaning on the railing and looking into the distance, they could not see the north of the Xiangjiang River in the dark night, but only saw the lights of Changsha City.

Qin Xin hummed softly, "My heart will go on", which was the song in the movie he asked her to see for the first time.

Qian Dan looked at her side, listening to the sound of mahjong in the Taoist temple behind her.

Qin Xin opened his mouth and asked: "Shishi said that 'Weizhong' is a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, a telephone or a mobile phone factory?" ”

Qian Dan explained: "It doesn't make telephones or mobile phones, it does business with telecom operators. If you want to make a phone call, you need a lot of equipment behind it, and 'Weizhong' is the one behind these devices, and it sells equipment to telecom companies. ”

"And what exactly are you going to do?"

"What I do is called telecom software products, and the 201 card I play in school, the mobile phone Shenzhou travel card, and the short message, as well as the 114 customer service of Telecom, are all telecom software products."

Qin Xin seemed to understand: "Oh, you sold calling cards?" Then I can find you wholesale 201 cards and Shenzhou travel cards in the future? ”

Qian Dan said bitterly: "I didn't go to Shenzhen to resell phone cards. 'Weizhong' is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, which only does the equipment and software system behind it, and does not care how the operator's business is carried out or how the card is sold. Oops, there are so many specific things that I don't know, and I don't know until I go. ”

Her voice was lower: "You don't know the specific things, and you still go to Shenzhen alone?" Is Changsha bad? ”

He jokingly said: "It's not your fault that I went to Shenzhen alone, you like Sanmao and Qi Yu so much, and you always recommend it to me, I love the house and Wu, listen to the 'olive tree' and listen to the poisoning, I want to go out to wander." ”

"Blame me? It's your own restless nature that has been called out! ”

"That's the same, I'm still unwilling to never go out of Hunan Province in my life, and I want to go out while I'm young. I thought about opening a café when I retired when I was old. ”

"That's a good idea!" Qin Xin paused: "When the time comes, I will open a flower shop next to your café, well, I will send a name to your café, called 'Birds and Fish', do you know this song?" I love it. In the future, you will be a bird, and I will be a fish. ”

Somehow, the two men fell silent.

Qian Dan looked at her side, listening to the sound of mahjong in the Taoist temple behind her.

Finally, Qin Xin turned around and looked at Qian Dan: "It's a little cold, isn't it?" Let's go. ”

Qian Dan took out his "Motorola L2000" and looked at it, and suddenly grabbed her hand: "It's almost twelve o'clock, what if tonight is really the end of the world?" ”

Before the words fell, he pulled her into his arms and kissed her firmly.

Qin Xin's lips and tongue hesitated for a second, his eyes quietly confirmed that there was no one around, and he welcomed Qian Dan nervously and relaxedly.

For a moment, open your eyes and gaze into the darkness.

She asked, "Will you ever come back?" ”

He replied, "Of course I will come back, and I will be back after an overnight train ride." ”

"I'll wait for you."

"Don't wait for me, go wherever you want, and I'll come to you naturally."

"Where else can I go?"

Qian Dan hesitated for a few seconds: "Actually, I don't know the future, I'm quite entangled, I'm afraid that one day I will walk outside and come back, but you are no longer here, I can't find you; I'm afraid that you have been waiting here and not leaving, but I will not come back. ”

Qin Xin was stunned and seemed to be a little unhappy.

Later, Qin Xin did not stay in Changsha to wait for Qian Dan, nor did she go "anywhere", she left her hometown to find him in Shenzhen.