According to Weihua's annual financial report, the company's global contracted sales reached US$11 billion in 2006, achieving the "801 plan" of "US$10 billion in contracted sales in 2008" formulated in 2004 two years ahead of schedule.

The Spring Festival of 2007 came very late, and the Year of the Pig was almost over in February.

After the Spring Festival, taking advantage of Lao Mo's stable mood and the calm business of each representative office, Qian Dan returned to China to take a vacation, and he and Qin Xin wanted to get a certificate and get married.

On the day Qian Dan arrived in Shenzhen, the two of them went to an authentic Italian restaurant in Shekou for a candlelit dinner and walked around the "Sea World" hand in hand.

Qin Xin said regretfully: "It's a pity that Shishi and Zeng Zijian can't come back, Shishi will be a mother in March, so soon!" I wonder if it will be hard for her to give birth to a baby in Cairo? ”

Qian Dan said: "I was busy during this time, and I didn't see them much, so I went to their dormitory to have a hot pot during the Chinese New Year." Shishi's parents have gone to Cairo, so there should be no problem in taking care of them, but when I went to dinner that day, I always felt that Shishi was not in a good mood and had something on her mind. ”

"Shishi has always been happy, she should be about to give birth, nervous, right?"

"Maybe, the day before yesterday, Zeng Zijian came to my dormitory to deliver papyrus paintings, saying that Shishi went around to select them with her stomach up, and asked us to find a place to frame them and hang them in the new house, and next time she will come back to check. He was also in a hurry and left without saying a few words. ”

"I hope she's going well."

At night, Qian Dan had a dream, dreaming that he and Qin Xin were watching the sunset on the Nile sailboat, the wind was very strong, the boat was speeding towards the sunset, and when he was pleasant, there was a steamer whistle urging constantly, but he couldn't see which direction the steamer was coming from?

He woke up, it turned out to be his mobile phone on the bedside table ringing, and glanced at the time, two midnight Beijing time.

The call came from Lin Han, and he said urgently: "Boss, the gateway of Egyptian ES has an accident, and now all users cannot use mobile phones to access the Internet." ”

According to the company's requirements, Qian Dan's mobile phone is turned on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and all major accidents of software products in the Middle East and North Africa must be reported to him within half an hour.

He was afraid of arguing with Qin Xin, so he put on a piece of clothing and walked to the living room: "How long has the business been interrupted?" How have customers responded? ”

"The time of the outage is still uncertain, and the 3G service has not been launched for a long time, and there are not many users who use mobile phones to access the Internet, so the impact on end users is not too great. But now it's late and busy, Lao Mo is very angry and keeps scolding us for being garbage. ”

"You're here with Haitao, right? Who are the experts of the agency who are dealing with it? ”

"Haitao and I rushed to the computer room, and the R&D experts logged in remotely, pulled a conference call, and I sent you the conference call access number."

Qian Dan immediately reported the accident to his leader, Lao Wang, and then dialed into the conference call sent to him by Lin Han.

He himself was not an expert in this product, he just listened quietly and suffered for twenty minutes, and it turned out that there was no problem with Weihua's equipment, it was the Ericsson equipment that was connected with them that failed, and the Ericsson engineers took care of it and the business resumed.

After a false alarm, Qian Dan breathed a sigh of relief, only to feel that his feet were frozen cold, and he climbed into bed again.

The next day, he and Qin Xin took the train back to their hometown in Hunan to hold a wedding.

As soon as the train started, his mobile phone rang again, and it was still Lin Han: "Boss, Lao Mo has started tossing again, he sent two faxes in a row early this morning, formally complaining to the regional department, complaining about yesterday's accident." ”

Qian Dan was surprised: "What are you doing?" Isn't it Ericsson's problem? ”

Lin Han said helplessly: "It's Ericsson's problem, but our equipment is really dirty, and the indicative nature of the system alarm is very poor, and there has been no alarm since the business was interrupted." There are not many users who use mobile phones to access the Internet in Egypt now, and by the time their customer service center received several complaints, the business had been interrupted for more than an hour. ”

"What do you want to do? What's the appeal? ”

"He complained that there was no alarm for a long time after our business was interrupted, and put forward two demands, one is to meet his demand for customized reports, and the other is to ask us to replace several Weihua firewalls and routers with Cisco's."

"Does his two demands have anything to do with the accident?!"

Qian Dan knew that Lao Mo was playing on the topic, and he had long proposed that Weihua would customize a few reports for him to use statistics and analysis business, but Weihua had been working hard to establish rules in the past two years to distinguish between needs and problems, and the satisfaction of needs needed to be charged separately, and the two parties did not reach an agreement.

In addition, Lao Mo has always been dissatisfied with Weihua's own routers and firewalls used by Weihua's software products in Egypt ES Telecom, and has asked several times to replace Weihua's "cheap goods" with Cisco products.

His two demands had nothing to do with the accident, but the leaders of the regional department and the project team did not want to cause trouble, and asked them to coax Lao Mo. Qian Dan and Lin Han couldn't agree to discuss the replacement of routers and firewalls, and it seemed inevitable to make a few reports for free.

Lin Han went to visit Lao Mo early in the morning.

Lao Mo has a technical complex, and in addition to his laptop, there is also a desktop on his desk, which is connected to the maintenance network of ES Telecom in Egypt, and he can monitor the operation of the equipment at any time. When Lin Han entered the door, Lao Mo was looking intently at the screen of his desktop.

Lin Han said courteously: "Mr. Mohammed, pay attention to rest your eyes. ”

Lao Mo didn't take his eyes off the screen, and said coldly: "If you make the alarm system better, everyone will be able to relax, your things are just a pile of garbage." ”

"Our products are still very good", Lin Han said: "But you are right, the maintainability of the system is a little worse, I have sent the retrospective report of the accident to the company's leaders, Qian Dan is on vacation in Shenzhen, he also went to the company to find the leader of R&D, the company attaches great importance to it, and will definitely improve the monitoring and alarm capabilities of our system." ”

"When will it be improved? A week later? A month later? A year later? ”

"Mr. Mohammed, you are an expert, you know that it is easier to monitor and alarm the hardware, but it is more difficult to monitor and alarm the business itself, especially this time Weihua's system is completely normal, and the fault point is on the other end. Why didn't Ericsson call the police? They've had an accident, you should kick them in the ass! ”

Lao Mo still didn't look at him squarely: "You don't care about Ericsson, of course I'll kick their ass." ”

Lin Han wanted Lao Mo to focus on communicating with himself, and his hand pointed to the office wall: "Mr. Mohammed, your office is so big, don't squeeze everything on the desk, change to a large display screen, liquid crystal, ultra-thin, you can hang it on the wall." ”

Lao Mo's gaze finally left the screen, and he looked at Lin Han: "Change the big screen?" Good advice! Then Weihua will provide one for me, your system's alarm is too poor, so I can only make up for it first. ”

Lin Han hesitated for a moment: "No problem, I'll deal with it." However, don't change our firewalls and routers, our equipment is running well, don't be superstitious about Cisco. We can discuss the report requirements based on the premise, and I will promote R&D to develop, but in the future, we still need to clarify the demand management mechanism of both parties, and the demand can't always be open. ”

Lao Mo finally made a statement of understanding: "I can temporarily stop replacing your cheap firewalls and routers, I have given you so much understanding and help, and you still have to charge for customizing a few reports as new needs?" What do you guys think? Stupidity! ”

Lin Han thought to himself, I really don't think you have given me "so much understanding and help", so he echoed him, sat down, and discussed with him the need for the report, as well as the closed-loop plan for accidents and complaints.

At noon, Lao Mo went to the computer room, and only Wang Haitao was alone.

He walked over and patted Wang Haitao on the shoulder, and said proudly: "I know how to deal with your company too well, and I can always find a way to make you obediently meet my requirements." ”

Wang Haitao was puzzled: "What requirements?" We're always here to meet your requirements! ”

"The need for customized reports, you have to talk about money before you do it, and now you can find a chance to solve it as soon as you complain, stupid!" Lao Mo thought for a while and asked, "Are you?" ”

Wang Haitao replied: "Yes." ”

Old Mo looked around: "Where did the rest of you go?" ”

Wang Haitao explained: "Lin Han took everyone to McDonald's and will be back soon, I am not hungry today and I don't want to have lunch." ”

Lao Mo suddenly asked: "Are you interested in leaving Weihua and joining ES Telecom?" ”

Wang Haitao was stunned: "Join ES Telecom?" Didn't you take Baja to the past? ”

"He's just an engineer, I need an expert, you're the best in the room. You can be their leader and assist me in dealing with Weihua and Ericsson. ”

Wang Haitao said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "I just need to deal with these hardware, software, and business, why should I deal with Weihua and Ericsson?" ”

"For the money! How much salary does Weihua pay you? If you ask Baha, his salary in Egypt is more than 30 percent higher than in Weihua. ”

Wang Haitao didn't refuse, he muttered: "Then how much salary can you give me?" ”

Qian Dan and Qin Xin had a wedding wine in their hometown in Hunan, he had been away from home for many years, and most of the guests were his parents' colleagues and friends. Qian Dan is not very familiar with everyone, and he doesn't have much feeling about the wedding itself, but his father rarely drinks too much.

As soon as he returned home after the banquet was over, his mobile phone rang again.

This time it was Sultan's Chen Yongsheng: "Lao Dan, the new version of ST Telecom will be cut over and launched the night after tomorrow, we must succeed at one time, you have to coordinate with experts at home to check it!" ”

Qian Dan wondered: "What? Didn't Cao Song return to Sudan after taking a vacation? He just checks it, and there are two brothers from R&D on site to support, and Xiaojun, there are enough people, right? Asking for help should also be Cao Song calling me for help? Why did you suddenly lose faith in him? ”

Chen Yongsheng said: "Cao Song is sick and has a fever, and he is working hard. In life, the brothers will find a way to take care of him, but the project can't be stopped, and I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on for the past two days. I talked to the two brothers in R&D, they only understand their own modules, Xiaowei was good, but he did a good job and left the company years ago, Xiaojun is still a little tender in comparison. The customer CTO personally stared at this cutover, we must strictly prevent Y company from counterattacking, you must support it at a critical time, and you must be foolproof. ”

"What's wrong with Cao Song? It's not malaria, is it? ”

"Probably not, we haven't had malaria in North Sudan yet. You must always coordinate the involvement of real experts in R&D, review the plan, and be prepared for remote support. ”

After Qian Dan answered Chen Yongsheng's call, he smiled apologetically at Qin Xin: "The Sultan is in a hurry, I have to make a few more calls." ”

He first called Cao Song to greet and understand the situation, and then called the supervisors and experts at the headquarters to discuss the arrangements for remote support.

After waiting for Qin Xin to fall asleep at night, he couldn't help but turn on the computer, received the Sudanese cutover plan sent by email, and examined it carefully.

Two days later, the new version of Sudan ST Telecom was fully prepared for the cutover, and the process went smoothly, and the customer CTO loudly announced the successful cutover in the computer room, led everyone to applaud and cheer, and left the computer room with several of his subordinates.

Chen Yongsheng accompanied the customer CTO to leave, and returned to the computer room in a moment.

It was already past four o'clock in the morning, and the finishing work of the cutover was almost done. Cao Song left the computer and went downstairs with Chen Yongsheng to breathe. His fever had subsided, and he was still weak, so they leaned against the wall downstairs and chatted about their next steps.

Xiaojun, who participated in the cut-off together, also went downstairs with a R&D brother. The two of them were squatting in front of a pile of bricks and smoking cigarettes, not noticing Cao Song and Chen Yongsheng leaning against the wall.

Chen Yongsheng pointed at Xiaojun and said to Cao Song: "Like a migrant worker at a construction site?" ”

He sighed and continued, "It's not easy. Sometimes I feel that we are working in this place day and night, subjectively for different reasons, but objectively it is really as the company said, enriching people's communication and life, and it can be regarded as contributing to the world. Why did you come to Sudan? ”

Cao Song looked at the two brothers who were smoking cigarettes in front of the bricks: "I was deceived by the leader, and communicated with me that I would come to Sudan to support for half a month, but when I came, I was detained by Brother Dan, and I didn't go back to Beijing until this Spring Festival." What about you? How did it come about? What are your plans for the future? ”

Chen Yongsheng said: "I took the initiative to apply to come overseas, and I took the initiative to apply to come to Sudan. I really like this kind of day, I have a sense of accomplishment and can make more money. Doesn't that mean that the company's business volume in Europe is about to rise? I plan to apply to go to Europe for a few years in the future and train with British, Germans, and Frenchmen. By the way, did you go back on a blind date this time? ”

"Of course."

"Did you get it?"

"I think it's almost, there's a girl who should be talking about it already."

"What does the girl do?"

"Working at Procter & Gamble."

Qian Dan left his hometown, first returned to Shenzhen, and then went to Cairo.

The train started slowly, he looked at his parents waving on the platform, and remembered a sentence that I don't know who said, "When I was young, I always wanted to go to a distant place, and when I went to a distant place, I found that the farthest place was my hometown." ”

His mother's knee was wrong, and every time he saw her limp when her leg hurt, Qian Dan always looked for his young mother in the depths of his memory. At that time, my mother was tall, and now my mother is thin; At that time, my mother was fashionable and had curly hair, but now my mother is simple and gray-haired; At that time, my mother was in a hurry, occasionally scolding Qian Dan's grinding, and now my mother is faltering.

Qin Xin, who was beside him, understood his silence and stretched out his hand to hold his hand tightly.

His mobile phone rang again, this time it was Wang Haitao, Wang Haitao shouted: "Boss, Lin Han and Lao Mo had a car accident together!" ”