Qian Dan spent alone in the office until half past ten in the evening.

On the way back to the dormitory, I met a few girls who often went to their dormitory to drink Lin Ji's old fire soup, and several people smiled when they saw him hide their faces, and when they were wondering, they saw a Lin Han ten meters away.

Lin Han smiled awkwardly at him: "I just finished playing the 'killing' game in the dormitory, and I sent them back." ”

Qian Dan felt that Lin Han's appearance was suspicious, and he waited for him to come back in the dormitory, and quipped: "Are you still a virgin?" ”

Lin Han scratched his head: "Of course it is." ”

"Then don't you always call a bunch of people to drink soup and 'kill', isn't your target Xiaoyu? Find more opportunities for private chats! ”

Lin Han said dejectedly: "I confessed to her just now while I was having fun." ”

"Oh, I should have come back early to witness history, how did I confess? Got it done? ”

"I was killed by the 'killer', and in my last words I said to her affectionately, 'Marry me!' ”

"You're so fierce? Asking for a cave house directly in public? ”

Lin Han was stunned: "She didn't say anything as if she didn't hear it, and then said that she was sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep, everyone laughed at me and left, do you think I still have a show?" ”

Qian Dan looked at his expression, and finally had a moment when he couldn't help but want to laugh in the past few days: "How do I know? How do you know she's not struggling with it twice? However, are you serious? Maybe she thought you were joking, and she didn't hear it at all. ”

"Yes! Maybe she didn't notice it at all? ”

"You have to be careful, if you want to confess, confess seriously! It seems that you are not the only one who is fighting the idea of light rain, right? I've seen several times someone bring her breakfast in the morning and someone waiting for her downstairs after work. ”

"Yes! She is so simple, she smiles at everyone she meets, and she treats everyone very well. She didn't know how to say no to someone. ”

Lin Han chattered: "I'll tell you, don't tell others, her parents divorced when she was very young, and her mother raised her alone." She said that her mother was very kind, and she always felt that she was not good enough to be abandoned by her father. I think she's a bit of a family of origin problem, a bit of a people-pleasing personality. ”

Qian Dan was surprised: "You even have your original family and pleasing personality?" You are so literate! She trusts you so much, she says everything to you, and you say that people are pleasing behind your back? ”

"I'm not speaking ill of her, I'm worried that she will suffer."

"You were sleeping and healing that night in Sharm el-Sheikh, and the three of us talked a lot while chatting by the pool, and she talked about the family. Egyptian wolves have more meat and less meat! I sensed that there were more and more ill-intentioned people around her, who invited her to dinner, taught her tennis, asked her to swim, and the wolves were dancing around, and she didn't have time to pay attention to me after returning from Sharm el-Sheikh. The local people of the company have either never seen a beautiful woman smile gently at themselves in their lives, and suddenly they laugh when they meet, and they are so amorous that they are so amorous; Either it's the phoenix male leader, who feels super good about himself, thinking that the beauties are discharging themselves. I reminded her a few times not to laugh at people, but she didn't believe it. ”

"Damn! You cow, pick up girls to gain insight into human nature and despise the crowd! Why didn't she believe it? ”

She said that when she was studying, she greeted her classmates like this, and got along like this, so no one would misunderstand. But in my heart she is a boat in the ocean, a sheep in the wolves, I am about to go on a business trip to Sudan, I am unhappy, I can't hold back, I want to announce the relationship! ”

"She's not in love with you, and you're announcing a hammer? Why don't you ask her out alone? You have to marry me in front of so many people, right? ”

"I don't know how to speak! Boss, how did you confess in the first place? ”

Of course, Qian Dan remembered his first kiss with Qin Xin in front of the Taoist temple on Yuelu Mountain: "This, I directly succeeded in the kiss." ”

"Forced kiss? Domineering! ”

Seeing Lin Han's suddenly cheerful appearance, Qian Dan hurriedly said: "Each has its own situation, if you mess around, I will not be responsible." ”

Lin Han said: "Of course you don't have to be responsible. Outwitting doesn't make a strong attack, this is an idea, I'll think about it again. Boss, I only told you about me chasing Xiaoyu, don't tell anyone else! ”

Qian Danle was happy: "You have confessed in public, don't you know that the people in 'Weizhong' are very gossipy?" Do you need me to tell someone about this? ”

"Alas, I went on a business trip to Sudan and I don't know if I can come back on time?"

During that time, there were many projects in Sudan and the business pressure was high, Cao Song and they couldn't bear it, not only Lin Han had to rush over to support, but Qian Dan was also preparing to go on a business trip to Sudan.

Qian Dan looked at Lin Han with a somewhat angry look, and said seriously: "It's not that you don't have 'MSN' and 'QQ'. Go to Sudan to hurry up and get things done at work, find a way to communicate with the subsidiary, and put you back early! ”

He paused and asked curiously, "By the way, who is one of the girls I haven't seen just now, who is tall and long-haired?" ”

Lin Han said: "Boss, you have a girlfriend, your eyes are still so poisonous, you can notice the beauty at a glance." It's not from our company, it's from China News Agency, the little beauty who just graduated, Xiaoyu, they met when they were swimming in the Maadi Club. The dormitory of the China News Agency is at the intersection of 'Friday's', and their people often come here to play. ”

On May 1, Egypt had another day off.

Lin Han went on a business trip to Sudan, Qian Dan watched the first season of "Prison Break" alone in the dormitory, he just copied the first ten episodes of this drama from others, and the more he watched it, the more fascinated he became, and before he knew it, it was approaching dusk.

He closed the computer, hesitated for a moment, and called Zeng Zijian: "Zijian, it's been a long time since we've eaten together, go to 'GAYA' to eat bibimbap?" ”

Zeng Zijian seemed to be enthusiastic: "If you don't say it earlier, I have already made an appointment in the evening." Shishi was not there, there were many domestic tourist groups during the May Day Golden Week, and she followed her to Alexandria. In a few days, when she returns, we will have a good get-together. ”

"I'm going on a business trip to Sudan in a few days, so I'll have to wait until I'm back."

"To Sudan again? That's when you come back. ”

Qian Dan hung up the phone, stunned.

He was pondering where he was going to forage for food when he heard someone knocking on the door, and from the cat's eye, he saw that it was the girl from the China News Agency that he had seen a few days earlier. She stood alone outside the door, her long hair draped over her shoulders, her white shirt tucked into her jeans, and a DSLR camera in her hand.

Qian Dan opened the door and looked at the girl suspiciously, and the girl glanced into the house suspiciously: "Lin Han lives here, right?" ”

"yes, he went on a business trip to Sudan."

"Huh? Is Lin Han going to Sudan? He wants me to come over for dinner and soup today? ”

"When did you say that?"

"Called me the day before yesterday."

The girl's name is Su Lin, a native of Chengdu, who graduated from university in 2005 and was sent to Cairo by China News Agency just two months earlier.

Lin Han originally planned to go to Sudan in two days, but due to the urgent needs of the project, he temporarily changed his ticket and left early. He informed several colleagues of "Weizhong" to cancel their dinner, and vaguely omitted to notify Su Lin.

Qian Dan indignantly scolded Lin Han for "releasing pigeons" and then blurted out the words: "I don't know where to go to eat alone, or I'll invite you to have dinner together!" ”

Su Lin hesitated for a moment, and gladly accepted his invitation: "Okay, let's go to 9th Street?" After eating, I came home close. ”

Qian Dan stayed alone for a day, and a beautiful woman fell from the sky to have dinner, and he suddenly remembered that he had seen a very reliable Western restaurant near Tahrir Square, so he proposed: "Those shops on 9th Street are eating and eating, let's go farther away and go to the vicinity of Tahrir Square to forage for food." ”

"Okay! I've just arrived in Cairo, and I haven't been in the city much. ”

Qian Dan pointed to the camera in her hand: "You still have a camera with you when you come to dinner?" ”

Su Lin smiled proudly: "This is my tool for eating, just like your laptop." I came here while taking pictures of the street scene, and I like the feeling of Maadi! ”

Tahrir Square, also known as "El-Tahrir" Square, is located in the center of Cairo and is as important to Egypt as Tiananmen Square is to China.

They took a "black cat sheriff" and followed the riverfront of the Nile to the head of the Liberation Bridge with two lion statues on the side of the square, if you turn left and cross the bridge, you will go to Zamalik Island, if you turn right and cross the Liberation Square, you will see the old buildings in the old city of Cairo.

Tucked away in the alleys of the Old City, the walls are plastered with old photographs and postcards, each of which silently recounts the past of Cairo in the soft yellow light.

Su Lin was only 23 years old, and Qian Dan didn't expect the two of them to talk very speculatively.

Their conversation began with "Prison Break", then her favorite English captain poet James Blunt and his favorite Irish folk genius Damien Rice, then talked about Chengdu's Funan River, rabbit head and string of incense, Changsha's Yuelu Mountain, chopped pepper fish head and stinky tofu, talked about each other's college life, and returned to the here and now, talking about the experience of Cairo.

Su Lin only drank a glass of red wine, and Qian Dan didn't persuade the girl's wine after drinking a glass, so she refilled a glass for herself, and refilled another glass, unconsciously getting slightly drunk and more interested.

Su Lin suddenly remembered something, and looked at her watch: "Oh, it's half past nine, I'm going back." ”

Qian Dan was still unsatisfied: "Is it late at half past nine?" ”

"I go to bed at half past ten every day."

"Sleep so early?"

"yes, I'm going to wake up at 6:15 in the morning."

"Wake up so early?"

"Well, get up and exercise, do radio gymnastics in the room."

"Do radio gymnastics?" Qian Dan thought to himself that it seems that girls nowadays are doing yoga, or learning belly dancing and pole dancing is fashionable, right? This girl is actually doing radio gymnastics, and she is still stuck in her simple student days.

They checked out and left the restaurant.

The two men walked back, crossed Tahrir Square, stood on the Liberation Bridge, looked at the Nile in the night, and then turned back, ready to take a taxi back to Maadi.

There were some old-fashioned carriages on the riverside road that attracted tourists, Qian Dan was a little drunk, and he had an idea, walked to a carriage not far away, and asked the coachman: "Can I go to Maadi?" ”

The coachman shook his head: "No, I can only take you to see the scenery near the square." ”

Qian Dan didn't give up, and asked in a different way: "How much money can I go to Maadi?" ”

The coachmen were not supposed to be greedy, and they paid twenty Egyptian pounds to get into the carriage. The carriage "tapped, tapped, tapped" along the Nile towards Maadi.

The evening breeze blew Su Lin's hair, she didn't use her hands to pull it away, smiled, looked at the buildings, lights, people and rivers on the side of the road with curiosity, and raised the camera in her hand from time to time.

The slightly drunk Qian Dan half-tilted his head, squinting his eyes and looking at the other side, the people he had known for a year had experienced things passing in front of his eyes like street lamps on the street.

The carriage went all the way to the door of "Friday's", Qian Dan jumped out of the car, went around to the other side, and stretched out his hand to Su Lin, who held his hand hard and jumped down.

Su Lin's hands were soft and warm, Qian Dan remembered Qin Xin's hands, Qin Xin's hands were always slightly cold, she always said that she liked Qian Dan's hot big hands the most, which was her best stove every winter.

At that time, Qian Dan's phone rang, and it was Lu Wentao calling.

Sana'a, Yemen.

A year ago, another brother born in 1975, Lu Wentao, who lived together in the dormitory on 200 Street, has been transferred to Yemen for almost a year.

Yemen is rich in seafood resources, and seafood is cheap, especially crabs, which are not eaten by locals, and are even cheaper and better. There are not many people in Yemen, and only three tables are enough for each meal in the canteen. Lu Wentao huddled around the dining table and focused on nibbling on a crab the size of his fist, listening to everyone chatting.

Suddenly, he turned his head and interrupted the conversation between the two brothers at the table next to him: "Your SMS system is going to be upgraded tomorrow night, right?" ”

One brother replied: "Yes, last week, I submitted the upgrade application and plan to the customer for approval, to the technical experts at home, and to the subsidiary. ”

Lu Wentao pointed to another brother: "You are supported by R&D, right?" Have you signed a letter of commitment to comply with field service specifications? ”

The brother said cheerfully: "I studied as soon as I arrived at the subsidiary, but I haven't signed a letter of commitment yet." ”

"That's not good, although you are on a business trip for R&D, I still have to take responsibility for management when it comes out."

He put down the crab leg in his hand, pulled a tissue to wipe his hands, stood up and looked around, and finally found the paper and pen: "You sign now, I have studied and understood the subsidiary's on-site service code of conduct and network maintenance management regulations, and promised to strictly abide by the requirements, if there is any violation of the on-site service code of conduct and network maintenance management regulations, regardless of whether it causes accidents and customer complaints, will voluntarily accept punishment." ”

Lu Wentao returned to the dormitory, took a shower, made a cup of tea, and took out the paper "letter of commitment" from his pocket, still feeling uneasy. He took out his mobile phone and dialed Qian Dan's phone: "Stupid, your SMS system will be upgraded tomorrow night, do you know?" ”

"Knowing that there is a R&D expert on site to support it, there is not much risk."

"Is there no risk with R&D support? Have you personally reviewed the upgrade? You know how I came to Yemen a year ago, you have to help me keep an eye on it, don't have an accident! What are you doing? Why is it so noisy? ”

Qian Dan looked at Su Lin next to him, inexplicably empty: "I was at the intersection of 'Friday's', I just finished eating outside, and on the way back to Maadi, I invited a colleague from the company to come to support me for dinner in the evening." ”