When it was almost dusk, Lao Xie connected two phone calls, and the other end of the phone was menacing, and Lao Xie became emotional.

When Lao Xie answered the second call, Qian Dan's mobile phone rang, and he walked out of the conference room with the phone.

Lao Wang looked for Qian Dan, and he asked: "How is the situation in North Africa and the Middle East?" Do you get it? ”

Qian Dan replied: "I have been discussing with Lao Xie for a day today, and there are two common problems, one is the lack of people and backbones, and the other is the chaotic commitment of front-end contracts and the confusion of demand management. Mr. Wang, are you still in Kenya? ”

Lao Wang crackled and said, "I will return to China tomorrow." You've said over and over again that you've found these two questions useful? Everyone in the world knows that our main contradiction is here! The key is how to deal with it? If there is a shortage of people, hurry up to recruit locals, and if there is a lack of backbones, hurry up and train! Demands management chaos? This is also the reason for the high-level complaints of the customer in Kenya, I asked the brother in Kenya to write a special report for me, you can write it, you can write a special report on the situation of the 'ES project' in the United Arab Emirates, explain the problem clearly, send it to me after writing, and I will promote the company to strengthen end-to-end project management. In the future, sales and service must be integrated, technical services must go forward, participate in pre-sales bidding, and sales staff go backward and participate in project delivery. ”

Lao Wang finally said: "You hurry up and grasp the overall situation in North Africa and the Middle East!" Lao Xie is too 'face'! ”

Qian Dan returned to the conference room, Lao Xie had finished talking on the phone and slumped in his chair: "A phone is Sudan, an important person, the project of 'ST Telecom' is about to arrive, and a software service person is not in place, and the leader of the subsidiary is annoyed." A phone is Syria, to the version, 'SY Telecom' with our products to replace Ericsson's prepaid system, the customer asked our system to inherit 100% of the old Ericsson system features, when signing the contract, the product sales brother did not understand the details of the old system functional characteristics on the reply 'fully satisfied', now found that the version can not be satisfied, the leadership of the subsidiary is anxious, to promote the company, we must give priority to meet the needs of 'SY Telecom', to provide customized versions to the site. ”

"ST Telecom" is a telecom operator in Sudan and "SY Telecom" is a telecom operator in Syria, both of which are important customers that Weizhong must serve well in the region.

The last sentence that Lao Wang said on the phone made Qian Dan a little unnatural when he saw Lao Xie.

He sensitively realized that Lao Wang was dissatisfied with the situation of fires everywhere overseas, and was dissatisfied with Lao Xie's failure to keep the peace of the "North Africa and Middle East" side, and moved the idea of replacing Lao Xie with him.

He used to be a "netizen" who communicated with Lao Xie through email and telephone, and after only one day of meeting, he quickly felt that he and Lao Xie were very close to each other, and quickly had a feeling of sympathy.

What's more, he applied to come overseas, half because of his feelings and yearning, and half because he wanted to make more money and repay the mortgage early, and he had no desire for promotion. He was content with his own arrangement as Lao Xie's deputy.

Qian Dan said to Lao Xie: "I'll keep an eye on these two things!" One is to call for artillery fire at home, asking people for versions; Second, I will go on a business trip to Sudan and Syria as soon as possible. ”

Lao Xie said: "Now the leaders of the regional department and subsidiaries are all doing wireless, fixed-line, transmission these hardware projects, do not understand the characteristics of software projects, everyone always thinks that it is still the same as traditional hardware equipment, there are unified technical standards and specifications, customer needs and technical problems are confused, as long as customers have complaints, they think that we are not effective in promoting agency services and research and development, and think that we have no wolf nature to do not do it at home." ”

Qian Dan said: "Mr. Wang called me just now, and he saw the same situation in Kenya. ”

Lao Xie was surprised: "Mr. Wang called you just now?" What are the instructions from the leader? ”

"Didn't I accompany him on a business trip to the UAE? He asked me to write a special report on the 'ES project' demand management chaos and the situation of sales to delivery digging, and he drove the company to improve, starting with strengthening end-to-end project management. ”

Qian Dan thought for a while and suggested: "In addition to the special report of the United Arab Emirates, I will mobilize various project teams to sort out various cases of sales staff indiscriminately promising customer needs when signing contracts and leading to bad results." In addition to handing over Lao Wang's homework, we also sent a large email in the form of a special report within the regional department, copied to the president of the regional department, vice president, general manager and deputy general manager of each subsidiary, and promoted everyone to pay attention to the demand management of software projects. ”

Lao Xie hesitated: "Do we want to make such a big fuss in the regional department?" It's okay to promote a project team and a project team point-to-point, right? ”

Qian Dan remembered what Lao Wang said, "Lao Xie is too 'noodle'", and was anxious: "Are you afraid that the trouble will be big, and the people who sell the products will be unhappy?" Over the years, I have deeply realized that if you don't take the initiative to kick other people's butts, you will end up being kicked by others. ”

"It's not that I'm afraid, the brothers of product sales are also under great pressure to win contracts at the front end, and if the sales order numbers can't go up, and the mountain project can't be won, they will die."

"I know it's not easy for them, are we easy? If we continue to play like this, we will be the backstabbers in the end, and we will die here! You are kind-hearted, I will cry, make trouble, and hang yourself. ”

Lao Xie grinned and said, "Okay, you're a ruthless person, you can get it." ”

At nine o'clock in the evening, the two returned to the dormitory, one sat on a sofa, watched TV, and continued to discuss business without stopping.

Suddenly, I heard the key on the door, and the door opened with a "pong", and I didn't see the figure of the outsider and heard his voice first: "Stupid, tell me to go to Sharm el-Sheikh and you don't go, snorkeling is really fun!" There are so many beautiful women on the beach! ”

Qian Dan knew that it must be another roommate of Sharm el-Sheikh, who had gone to the Red Sea on vacation, Lu Wentao, and he stood up and prepared to welcome his new friend.

I saw a person coming in from outside the door, about the same size as Qian Dan, with a small flat head, a sturdy body, and his skin tanned by the sun of the Red Sea.

Lao Xie said: "Turen, come and get acquainted, this is Qian Dan, a new man from our department, this is Lu Wentao, the self-proclaimed Maadi No. 1 temperament man." ”

Lu Wentao threw a backpack to the ground: "What self-style? Maadi is recognized as the first temperament man! Old Qian, you are finally here, Lao Xie, this idiot talks about you every day, and he is looking forward to you coming over to help him. ”

Lao Xie is always happy: "Turen, there is another handsome guy in our house, I think Lao Qian is close to you in terms of appearance." ”

Qian Dan didn't know whether to be modest or immodest and said: "I am fat now, and my appearance has begun to grow negatively, and some people used to say that I am like Brad Pitt in the 'Burning Years'." ”

Lu Wentao glanced at Qian Dan and said arrogantly: "Don't be afraid, I win with temperament!" ”

"Tomorrow" is here, the Egyptian people are still on holiday, and Lao Xie wants to take Qian Dan for a day trip to Cairo.

Qian Dan woke up early in the morning and heard Lu Wentao talking on the phone in the living room, his voice was very loud, and he kept shouting "stupid, stupid". He opened the bedroom door and walked out, just as Lu Wentao hung up the phone.

Qian Dan asked, "Which fool bothered you early in the morning?" ”

"My wife."

Qian Dan is not a particular person, but he is still a little unaccustomed to Lu Wentao using the word "stupid" on his lips so often.

He asked curiously, "Are you bold, dare to talk to your wife like this?" ”

Lu Wentao said proudly: "There is no such thing as being bold or strong, my wife and I cherish each other, and we don't need to be polite verbally." Unlike Lao Xie's rake ears, you see him talking on the phone, her wife is cleaning her up again, and she is coaxing. ”

Qian Dan saw Lao Xie sitting at the dining table, the computer was connected to the network cable, and a big headset was wearing a big headset on his head, talking on the phone with a smile on his face and a soft voice.

Lu Wentao said: "Today, Lao Xie took you out for a day, I won't go, I played in the Red Sea for a few days, and when I came back, I found a bunch of homework to be rushed." ”

Lao Xie hung up the phone, looking helpless: "Alas! My mom saw my wife's closet and muttered, 'There are so many clothes,' but my wife was not happy and said that my mom thought she was spending money on clothes. ”

"Have you coaxed it?"

"Who knows! My mother just said casually, where does she think she has too many clothes? What a hassle for women! ”

Qian Dan did not expect the pyramid to be so close to Luocheng, they hailed a taxi that looked like a police car like a "black cat sheriff", and just after crossing the Nile, the tall outline of the pyramid loomed at the end of the farmland and date palm trees.

The car turned right off the main road and walked a short distance along a small ravine, where the legendary pyramids and the Sphinx at their feet appeared in his real life.

In the past, people could climb to the top of the pyramid, and Qian Dan saw such a scene in the movie "The Tragedy of the Nile". Standing on top of the pyramid in the wind, does it feel romantic or prideful? Today's tourists don't know about it. They could only stand at the foot of the tower and look up, or walk along the corridor less than a man tall into the tower and hang themselves in the empty tomb.

More than 4,600 spring and autumn periods have passed, and the Pyramids of Khufu, Al Hyfra, and Menkaura have always stood persistently on the desert heights of Giza. Who really understands their past and present lives?

The Pyramids of Giza are said to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World, but the Seven Wonders are just seven buildings that were "seen with your own eyes and forever destroyed" by the Phoenician traveler named Antipach in the third century BC. His range of activities is extremely limited, and the pyramid may not care about such a false name.

Some people say that the construction of the pyramids reflects the cruel oppression of slaves by the pharaohs, but current research has found that this statement is not necessarily true history, and is likely to be a fabrication by later generations to write the history of the class struggle.

As for the speculation that the pyramids came from aliens, it is more like the arrogance of modern people, and I always think that the ancient Egyptians must not have such wisdom and craftsmanship.

Under the scorching sun, Qian Dan was completely conquered by the yellow-brown stone piles, and was conquered by their majestic bodies, cold temperament, and indescribable mysterious power from head to toe.

Having approached the three pyramids, Qian Dan and Lao Xie walked down the high ground to their feet to see the Sphinx.

The stone statue, which has stood beside the pyramid for more than 4,000 years, is badly weathered, and a piece of the nose is missing.

Some say it was mutilated not by the wind and sand year after year, but by shells from Napoleon's army, while others say that the nose was knocked out by Sufis who came on pilgrimage.

"The son said on the river, the deceased is like Sifu", even if it is a stone nose, the passage of time can paint it with different makeup, making it difficult to distinguish what is just a legend and what is its real past?

In the afternoon, they returned to the east bank of the Nile, had a KFC meal at Tahrir Square, and walked into the Egyptian Museum.

The museum is a two-story reddish-brown stone building located in Tahrir Square, near the Hilton Hotel. Opened in 1902, it houses hundreds of thousands of ancient Egyptian artifacts, including mummies and Tutankhamun's gold mask, most of which are more than 3,000 years old.

Qian Dan and Lao Xie, the two "natives" were not cultured enough, and they didn't bother to ask a tour guide or rent a docent, but they just spent all the exhibition rooms in a good way.

In the evening, they went to the "Pharaoh". There are quite a few such boats on the Nile, which set sail twice a day in the evening, each for about two hours. A buffet based on local food, a song and dance performance with ethnic characteristics, and a big river filled the night are enough to make people feel that it is worth the ticket price.

Lao Xie said that it was necessary to try his luck to enjoy the belly dance on the "Pharaoh", some people met dancers with all kinds of styles, but some people met the old lady.

Qian Dan was lucky, the first time she met the dancer was a beautiful and plump girl, and a light, low-cut green dance dress highlighted her sexiness.

As soon as she danced with the music, Qian Dan completely forgot about the food on the table, and her eyes were firmly grasped. This is not a feminine dance, but a dance full of confidence and joy, unleashing vitality and sensuality.

The so-called belly dance, of course, focuses on the belly, I saw her shaking her abdominal and hip muscles slowly or quickly with the beat of the music, when it was slow, it was a little charming, when it was fast, it was full of passion, and at the climax, her waist muscles trembled rapidly, and her face was full of pride that she could freely control her body. The stage space on the ship is cramped, but it can't restrain her style at all.

After the belly dancer dance, the Sufi dancer took the stage, this is the fixed order of the program on the "Pharaoh", right?

Qian Dan has long admired the belly dance, I saw it in movies and television when I was a child, but I have never heard of Sophie dance, and I never imagined that the strong man in front of me who is powerful but wears a bright round dress will bring a convincing dance and push the atmosphere to a climax again.

"Sophie Dance" was the name he found on the Internet after returning to the dormitory, and Lao Xie introduced it as "Turkish Turnaround Dance" at that time. Because it originated in Turkey, the excitement lies in the word "spin".

The dancer takes his feet as the axis, and does 360 degrees of non-stop rotation in place, and the bright long skirt on his body unfolds with the rotation, like a peacock opening the screen. The tambourine is getting faster and faster, and he is spinning faster and faster.

Qian Dan sat in the audience and felt dazzled, how could he not be dizzy? I was able to spin while fiddling with some small props, and while spinning, I slowly took off the long skirt outside, folded it into a swaddling shape, and gave it to a female tourist in the audience as a good wish.

Seeing that the climax of the song and dance performance was over, Qian Dan and Lao Xie left their seats and walked onto the deck. On the deck was a different world, very quiet.

The twilight is deep, the buildings such as the Cairo Tower, the Four Seasons Hotel, and the Hyatt Regency Hotel on the shore are brightly lit, and the neon billboards on the high-rise buildings are changing, lighting up a secular Cairo.

Some people say that Cairo is a man during the day and a woman in Cairo at night, and Qian Dan thinks so. During the day, the scorching Cairo sun shone on the gray old buildings, and many of the streets looked dirty and messy, and the whole city did look like a rough man; At night, the night of Cairo embellishes everything, and the neon waves of the Nile are bright and bright, bringing a cool breeze to the city and a gentle temperament.

The wind was very strong on the river, and Qian Dan, who was blown and shivered a few times, looked at the river and thought that he fell in love at first sight and fell in love with this "woman"!

After a fulfilling day trip to Cairo, he returned to the dormitory, and Qian Dan took a shower, still thinking about the pyramids, the Sphinx, the museum, the "Pharaoh" and the Nile.

He was eager to share it with his girl, so he turned on the computer and sent an email to Qin Xin, telling her what he had seen, heard, and thought.

At the end of the letter, he copied a poem he had written after his first marriage proposal a few years earlier, but he was flatly rejected.

At that time, Qin Xin didn't know where to see what "experts" said that a love could only last three years, so the name of the poem was "I don't just give you a love":

They said

A love affair has only three years to live

foolish

If this is true

There's nothing terrible about that

Because

It's not a piece of love that I'm giving you

look at

This paragraph

You are a distant star in the sky

I am the cloud waiting from afar

That paragraph

I am a tall and strong oak

You are the kapok that stands with the wind and rain

Another paragraph

You are the harbor of my lingering affection

I am your generous and gentle pillow

One more paragraph

I'm your child's father

You're my kid

Fold and fold long and long

Paragraph after paragraph

How can it be ten hundred and three years?

Wait until that paragraph

I kiss your bare gums

You stroke my potted forehead

Ha

Our love is still not over