At noon, Qian Dan received an email from Qin Xin, which said: "May Day coincides with your father's 60th birthday, I am going to go back to Hunan to see, uncle and aunt like to be quiet, and you are not there, I called yesterday and they said that they were going to buy a chicken for two people to eat, and I went to buy a cake and buy a bouquet of flowers." ”

Parents are Qian Dan's heart, his father actually wants him to stay by his side, but he has always supported all his decisions to fly farther and farther, which makes Qian Dan feel guilty in his heart. He and Qin Xin are not married yet, and she is worried about making a special trip to visit them, which makes Qian Dan feel relieved.

Lin Han's fat face suddenly came over: "Boss, what are your plans for the holiday?" ”

The next day is the beginning of a small holiday, which is the official holiday of Egyptians to commemorate the liberation of the Sinai Peninsula in late April, with five days off on Friday and Saturday.

Qian Dan closed the computer and replied: "I don't have a plan, I watch movies in the dormitory, sleep lazy, work overtime, and drink the old fire soup you cooked." ”

Lin Han said: "I'm not in the dormitory these days, you don't have any soup to drink, will you go to Sharm el-Sheikh with us?" ”

Qian Dan was a little strange, and suddenly became interested again: "Didn't you say you didn't have a plan yesterday?" Turned into going to Sharm el-Sheikh? Who else is with? ”

Lin Han lowered his voice: "Just you, me, Yan Lili, and Xiaoyu, four people." ”

"Who is Xiaoyu?"

"Finance girl, you've seen it, once I took her to the roof, and I happened to meet you and Wang Haitao discussing what things are in the computer room of our training center, remember? A long-haired, skinny girl, a Shanghainese. She had just returned from a two-month trip to the United Arab Emirates. ”

Qian Dan remembered the girl, and he looked at Lin Han: "The four of us went to Sharm el-Sheikh together?" This combination is a bit weird, isn't it? ”

Lin Han said: "It's not strange if you go. Originally, I really didn't plan to go out, but when I had lunch just now, I discussed with Xiaoyu how to spend the holiday, and she said that she wanted to go to Sharm El Sheikh. If it was a little strange for me to go with her, I went to find Yan Lili, Yan Lili felt that it seemed a little strange for the three of us to go, boss, haven't you always wanted to go to the Red Sea? Let's go together. Tomorrow will depart, the last treasured seat, no one else will be invited. ”

Qian Dan suddenly realized: "It's you who want us to make light bulbs for a long time!" ”

Lin Han looked like a gentleman and frank: "No, no, how can there be a pickled girl?" Our department walls are too thick, and I continue to break down the department walls to help new employees in brother departments get familiar with the environment as soon as possible and work with peace of mind. The four of us happened to be in a car, and we happened to play cards at night. That's it, I'll leave early tomorrow morning, and I'll borrow the car. ”

Seeing that Qian Dan happily joined the gang, he lowered his voice again: "This girl is good, right?" I asked clearly, I don't have a boyfriend yet. ”

Sharm el-Sheikh is at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in eastern Egypt, 500 kilometers from Cairo. It was a military stronghold during the Middle East wars and is now the most famous diving mecca on the Red Sea.

The Red Sea is a must-visit to Egypt, with popular destinations being either Hurgoda on the western shore of the Red Sea on the African continent or Sharm el-Sheikh on the northern tip of the Red Sea on the Sinai Peninsula.

When they met the next morning, the four of them were all shorts, T-shirts, sandals, and sunglasses.

Lin Han very solemnly introduced Xiaoyu to Qian Dan and Yan Lili, and everyone set off.

As soon as the car passed the tunnel under the Suez Canal, Lin Han shouted: "Welcome back to Asia", and Qian Dan remembered that this canal was the dividing line between Africa and Asia, and they accidentally crossed the gap between the two continents and returned to the land of Asia.

The car continues along the eastern shore of the Red Sea on the Sinai Peninsula, with the desolate Gobi on one side and the blue sea on the other. The desert and the sea seem to be forgotten in the rivers and lakes, but here they have become a suitable scenery.

The most excited was the driver, Lin Han, who kept the speed at about 140 kilometers while telling the story of Sinai, from the biblical book of Moses and Exodus to the wars between Egypt and Israel on the Sinai Peninsula.

When Qian Dan listened, he always felt that he had memorized the book only last night. The two girls sat in the back seat, Yan Lilian was quiet, and Xiaoyu was full of curiosity and interest in everything Lin Han said.

Lin Han finally finished telling the story, the passengers were a little tired, he was still excited, turned up the volume of the radio, and the MP3 inserted on the cigarette lighter was Faye Wong's song.

Qian Dan felt fresh and asked him: "Why did you change your style, you listened to Faye Wong along the way, I didn't listen to your songs before?" ”

Lin Han hurriedly said, "Who said that?" I've always been a Filipino fan. ”

Hearing them talk about Faye Wong, Xiaoyu, who was already tired, became excited again in the back seat: "Brother Dan, do you like Sister Fei?" I like her very much, Lin Han said that he has also been obsessed with Sister Fei since he was a student. ”

Qian Dan understood, and he deliberately exaggerated: "Really? I didn't know Lin Han well, but I found out that his taste is very similar to yours! ”

Lin Han sang loudly along the radio, trying to suppress the nonsense in Qian Dan's attempt:

Every ant

Both have eyes and noses

It's not beautiful

There is not a single centimeter of deviation

What does it matter

At four o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh.

There were not many people on the streets of the small town, but when they walked into one hotel after another, they were politely told again and again that they were "full".

They swept from the street to the end of the street, asking from hotel to hotel, and finally found that the "Holiday Inn" near the sea still had a two-bedroom and one-living room suite, which could accommodate just four people.

Waking up early the next day, they rushed to the beach after breakfast, and the plan was to occupy a good place first, lie on the beach chair and bask in the sun, and make up for a "return to sleep".

But as soon as they saw the Red Sea in the morning, they did not want to stay on the shore for a minute. The water on the shore is only half a person high, the bottom of the sea is gentle, the water is clear, standing and watching the colorful fish swimming around the feet, the light blue jellyfish coming with the waves, several people are already excited.

Lin Han disappeared for a while, and when he returned, he had a few snorkeling masks in his hands. Everyone wore it, crouched on the water to chase the fish, pondered the coral, and couldn't help but shout one by one, and the constant novel experience brought them constant joy.

The sea is separated by a large coral area between the "deep" and "shallow" areas. A long wooden trestle bridge stretches out into the sea from the shore across the coral area, which is the only way to get close to the "deep blue".

Although Qian Dan was not in good water, he was full of curiosity when he watched people enter the water from the end of the broken bridge and tirelessly swim in the direction parallel to the coast.

He was finally not satisfied with frolicking in the shallows, and wanted to go to the deep blue place to find out. He walked to the end of the broken bridge, got used to the breathing behind the snorkeling mask, and carefully walked down the iron ladder on the bridge.

As soon as I entered the water, the first second I felt a horror straight into my heart, and the dividing line between "light green" and "dark blue" under the surface of the water turned out to be a straight and steep submarine cliff. "Shallow" is the coral area that can be reached on the cliff, but "deep" is the bottom of the cliff that falls dozens of meters deep at once, and everyone is swimming along the cliff.

How can you not be frightened when you see the vicissitudes of the deep sea for the first time? In particular, there is a large iron anchor that sank to the bottom of the sea in an unknown era, dragging a long chain and jumping into the eyes.

But the horror was only in an instant, and soon, the "fear" dissipated and only the "shock" remained, completely amazed and amazed by such a strange and beautiful sea world that he had never experienced before.

As far as he could see, there were countless fish, all of their colours, of all shapes, of different sizes; They can be found in groups, in pairs, or alone in the crevices of the coral.

Qian Dan felt like he had been transformed into a fish by heaven and fell into a huge aquarium, no, the aquarium was just a mundane thing in the city, but it was real nature. When he couldn't help but stretch out his hand to the fish, he really touched a bright yellow and unsuspecting little fathead fish. Again and again, he screamed excitedly from behind the mask.

In the afternoon, Lin Han and the two girls were more lying on beach chairs, but Qian Dan couldn't help but return to the sea after resting on the shore for less than half an hour every time, going back and forth in the water near the wooden trestle bridge, indulging in it.

The sea water gradually cooled down, Qian Dan returned to the trestle bridge from the water, was leaning on the railing by the bridge to rest, thinking about whether to return to the shore, when he saw a blonde girl in her twentieth year old out of the sea, she climbed the wooden bridge, threw the life jacket on her body to the ground, naked upper body, only a pair of narrow bikini pants and a pair of big flippers and jumped into the water, like a mermaid.

Qian Dan couldn't help but go back to the sea again. He saw a parallel wooden bridge one or two hundred meters away, and decided to swim to the bridge before the sun set, along the edge of the cliff under the sea.

He hurried back to the bosom of the Red Sea, and swam alone to the trestle in the distance.

As he swam, he felt that his breathing was not smooth enough, and he seemed to stop when he took a breath that only went into his throat. I fiddled with the plastic snorkel, but the salty sea water poured into the mask, and it wasn't right.

He simply took off his mask and continued to swim forward, only to find that he had misjudged the distance between the two wooden trestles, which were separated by more than one or two hundred meters. He couldn't swim anymore.

At this time, Qian Dan did not panic, he saw that the coral reef under the water next to him was less than one person high from the sea, and swam over, intending to stand on the reef to rest and rest. When my feet touched the coral, I didn't feel a stinging sensation, but I couldn't stand steadily, so I finally used my legs to twist the reef and stabilize my body.

He rested on the reef for less than a minute before continuing on, but soon found himself in a dilemma. Looking around, all you can see is the deep bottom of the sea, and there is no place to stay, and the cliffs under the surface of the water are gone.

It was impossible to swim forward to his destination, and he realized that he had chosen the wrong direction, so he finally abandoned the bridge on the opposite side and turned around and swam back. However, he was already far away from the bridge from which he had started, so far that he could not see the people on the bridge clearly.

Qian Dan realized that the distance he traveled was getting shorter and shorter after each leg kick and arm stroke, and the direction of his movement became more and more like a flutter up and down. He still wasn't too alarmed, but knowing that he had to do something, he began to let go of his voice and shout, "Help! Help！ ”

He wondered if anyone could hear his cries for help? I only know that the movements of my hands and feet have lost coordination. When he looked out of the water again and saw that there was still no figure in sight, he finally felt his heart sinking with his body, and what he saw in front of him seemed to be not a real existence, but a fantasy picture.

I used to watch movies and always felt that the characters in the story could still drag on and on when they were in danger, and there were all kinds of feelings that the plot was too bloody, but at that moment that day, his thoughts were really pulling out of the present, Qin Xin's appearance was in his mind, he remembered the first kiss on Yuelu Mountain, remembered the trip to Yunnan, remembered the farewell of Shekou Port, and remembered the newlywed Xiao Biesheng in Hong Kong.

The sea was still empty in front of him, and he clearly felt that his head did not push up the water again after this struggle, and at the moment when he unconsciously wanted to open his mouth under the water, a pair of hands lifted his head out of the sea from behind.

As if falling from the sky, five or six pairs of concerned eyes suddenly appeared around him, including Yan Lili, whom he knew, and strange lifeguards and other tourists.

Qian Dan closed his eyes, used his last strength to relax his body, maintain his balance, and dragged him back to the trestle where he had set off.

As soon as he stepped onto the solid bridge deck, he only felt unsteady on his feet, and he collapsed to the ground, his throat filled with the bitter taste of seawater, and he wanted to vomit but could not vomit.

The two lifeguards didn't let him breathe on the trestle, and set him up from the bridge to a chair on the shore, someone brought a medical kit, and Yan Lili unscrewed the bottle of red potion and poured it all over his legs.

He looked down in wonder and saw that although he didn't feel any pain in the sea, his legs and feet were scarred by coral.

Xiaoyu appeared in front of him, said something to Yan Lili, handed over a bottle of pure water, he squeezed out the sentence "It's okay" weakly, rinsed his mouth, and drank a few more sips of water, his throat was refreshed, but he still didn't have the strength to move.

Lin Han appeared in front of him, looked at him with an inquiring gaze, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Qian Dan really didn't have the strength to speak. Yan Lili and Xiaoyu were shocked, and hurriedly told Lin Han about the situation, and Qian Dan knew that Lin Han had also returned to the sea just now. Yan Lili and Xiaoyu saw that the sunset was getting red, so they went to the wooden trestle and looked for them while enjoying the sunset. As a result, Yan Lili found Qian Dan who was struggling, she was good at water, and jumped directly into the sea, Xiaoyu was so anxious that she yelled at everyone on the bridge.

Lin Han first suddenly realized: "No wonder I seemed to hear someone calling 'Help' in the water, and I thought it was those children playing around." Then he praised: "Not bad, boss, you are already very international, you don't call 'help' at critical moments, I heard the pronunciation of 'Help' quite standard, I really didn't expect it to be a Chinese calling." ”

Qian Dan was finally able to move himself back to his room and slumped on the bed for a while.

He woke up hungry and looked at his phone, it was already twelve o'clock at night, but he was alone in the room, unusually quiet.

He got out of bed, felt almost full of blood, and went to the living room, where the door was open and the lights were on, and there was no one in the room.

He found an apple to nibble on, walked to the large floor-to-ceiling glass door of the living room, and saw the three of them sitting outside by the outdoor pool.

Qian Dan walked out, several people greeted him, and Lin Han couldn't wait to say, "Sister Yan said she was leaving." ”

"Where to go? How long have you not been in Egypt? Going to be transferred? ”

Yan Lili said: "I am already going through the resignation procedures, and I will leave in May. ”

"Really? So suddenly? Qian Dan was unexpected, after Lao Xie went to Northwest Africa, he didn't meet her much.

"It's not sudden, I've been struggling for a long time, I've already got a Canadian immigration visa, and if I don't go, I won't have enough time to sit in immigration prison."

She continued, "You know what? I myself don't like Canada at all, it's too cold. I had a clear purpose for immigrating to Canada, that is, in order to give my children a better environment in the future, I was ready to immigrate to give birth there. I didn't expect that when I got my visa, I was divorced, and I had no plans to have children at all, what do you say I should do in the past? What's the point? But if you don't go to the visa, it will be invalid, and the previous toss will be done in vain. Come to think of it, I'll still go, even though the original intention is gone. ”

Lin Han shouted: "Don't be sad, Canada is very good, you go find a foreigner to marry, and have a few more babies." ”

Qian Dan didn't know what to say for a while, he suddenly remembered the moment when Lao Xie took him to see Lao Han for the first time a year ago, Lao Han said to them, "Work hard, and strive for the two of you to be able to lie on the edge of the Red Sea easily in a year, because everything is under your control".

A year later, he believed what Lao Xie said to him at that time, and believed that as long as he "worked hard" in Weizhong Company, he would "never have peace". But he can finally lie down on the shore of the Red Sea, but unfortunately Lao Xie is already far away.

He looked at Yan Lili and said, "Don't you wait for Lao Xie?" ”

Yan Lili smiled and said calmly: "Timing problem, Lao Xie and I are Timing problems, he likes me, and I like him, but the 'like' of the two of us is like sitting on a seesaw, always one high, one low, never on the same line." Moreover, he now has a wife and a son, and I was robbed of my husband, so don't do to others what you don't want to do to you. It's great that we'll be able to meet again in Cairo, and the months before Xie left for Northwest Africa were the happiest of my two years. ”

Lin Han and Xiaoyu looked at each other when they heard this.

Yan Lili lay on the chair, looked at the brightest star in the sky, and slowly put away her smile. A tear slowly ran down her cheek.

At noon the next day, Qian Dan made two phone calls in a row.

He called Qin Xin to report his distress experience. Finally, he said, "Yesterday I was reminded of your love for you when I was all in my mind yesterday. ”

Qin Xin asked vigilantly, "What?" You're not convinced until now, huh? ”

Qian Dan hurriedly confessed: "It's not that I'm convinced, it's that I'm convinced, and I'm convinced." ”

Qin Xin said: "I don't care what you are sure of, anyway, I can't imagine that there is no you in this world." ”

Qian Dan made a call to Lao Xie.

Lao Xie first said: "I heard that you almost drowned in the Red Sea? I don't have time to comfort you yet. ”

Qian Dan said: "Yan Lili reported to you so soon? I've been on the verge of life and death, but I'm still so faceless compared to you, and I almost drowned in the resort hotel wearing a snorkeling mask. ”

He felt that Lao Xie was not in a high mood on the other end of the phone, so he just responded to him perfunctorily, so he asked, "What's wrong with you?" Yan Lili is leaving, are you unhappy? ”

Lao Xie sighed: "I'm not happy, I'm very unhappy with TMD!" We lost the order again, and the second phase of the expansion contract of our network was taken away by competitors, and we didn't get a dime share! ”