african diary

There is an association of overseas returnees at University T, which organizes gatherings once or twice a month. The visitors are not limited to turtle alumni, and sometimes everyone will bring friends from abroad and China. Anyway, it’s quite complicated, so there’s nothing special about such gatherings. The special purpose is to get in touch with each other and exchange news with each other. Of course, it would be better to gain some work.

Tang Jiajie is the vice president, and he would call Xiao Hang at every gathering. Xiao Hang would go there when he had time. Returnees come back from overseas. There are not a few people who do foreign trade like him. The order for the export of electronic components was introduced by someone I met at the party.

Today's meeting is arranged in the clubhouse opened by the president. There is a tea room and a restaurant, which is very convenient.

As soon as he entered the tea room, Tang Jiajie was waving to himself, when Xiao Hang saw two people sitting opposite him, one of them was - Ted.Alas, it's really not that friends don't get together, but people I want to hide from always meet inexplicably like this.

The last time I went back to Kenya, Xiao Hang once again experienced the love pain three years ago, but he seemed to have recovered. He was surprised to see Ted this time, but he didn’t want to hide anymore. If Ted develops in Guangzhou, The two of them will meet anyway, and hiding all the time is not an option.

"Xiao Hang, sit down quickly. You left in a hurry that day. Let me introduce you to a new friend." Tang Jiajie opened a chair for Xiao Hang and beckoned him to sit down.

"This is Qin Jun, who graduated from M University. I met him at the party before. Do you remember?"

"Remember." Xiao Hang nodded to the person sitting opposite Tang Jiajie.

"This is Qin Jun's partner, Ted Ouattara, who is well-known in the British IT industry."

Xiao Hang glanced at Ted who was calmly sitting next to Qin Jun, how to deal with this situation?Do you pretend to meet for the first time and say "Hello, my name is Xiao Hang", or simply admit that the two have known each other for a long time?

"We know each other," Ted said bluntly, which solved Xiao Hang's embarrassment, but what he said next made Xiao Hang ponder for a while, "We met several times in Africa."

How many times have you met?Such an understatement might as well just pretend that the two don't know each other, but since he said so——

"Well, long time no see, Ted."

"That's quite a coincidence, yes, I even forgot that Ted's hometown is in Africa." Tang Jiajie said with a smile, completely unaware of the strange undercurrent between Ted and Xiao Hang.

"Ted and Qin Jun have a cooperation project. He is planning to invest in a software park in China and is investigating the location." Tang Jiajie explained to Xiao Hang. It seems that he and Ted should have known each other for a while.

"Oh." Xiao Hang has no contact with the IT industry, nor is he very interested.

"I suggest Tide to invest in the Yangtze River Delta. The development of the software industry in Suzhou is very good. We should set up a business incubator or something to attract domestic start-up IT companies to settle in. Now the government is also quite strong in subsidizing small business service platforms such as incubators. Big ones, Tide has an international background, and there are many tax incentives for foreign investment projects, and the prospects are definitely promising." Tang Jiajie is from Suzhou, so it is obvious that he is going to his hometown to solicit business.

"Jiajie, you are not authentic. Ted is a client I brought in with great difficulty. When it comes to software, the foundation here in the Pearl River Delta is not bad, so there is no need to look far away." Qin Jun pointed out Tang Jiajie's words with a smile. Selfishness.

"The Pearl River Delta is still dominated by processing trade. The Yangtze River Delta will become the center of China's IT industry in the future. In the Southwest, Chengdu is also a must. If you want to have a big development in China, these two places are indispensable. Let it go." Tang Jiajie was telling the truth.

The two then had a heated debate. Ted only interjected a few innocuous words at the right time, while Xiao Hang was directly treated as a transparent person.

He really can't get in on such a topic, and Ted is directly opposite his line of sight. Although he has calmed down a lot now, it still feels a bit like a cat scratching his heart to keep staring at his former lover. Appropriate, just thinking about whether to go somewhere and then come back, fortunately, Tang Jiajie stopped the topic at the right time and said, "It's getting late, let's chat while eating."

The restaurant in this clubhouse is very famous, why is it famous?This is a themed restaurant, with a theme every day, you have to eat whatever he cooks, there is no right to order.But people nowadays like this kind of maverick, the more you pull him, the more he thinks you are more awesome, and high-end restaurants are all hyped up like this.

The theme of the restaurant today is Sichuan cuisine.

Seeing Qin Jun pick up a lot of spicy dishes for Ted, Xiao Hang felt a little anxious, and said, "He can't eat spicy food."

Unexpectedly, Ted frowned and put the boiled pork slices that were so red with an unknown amount of chili into his mouth, and said lightly: "No, I like spicy food very much."

I was so embarrassed that I said "oh", yes, it's been three years, and I still think I know Ted very well.

Ted ate all kinds of spicy dishes so calmly, without even sweating. It really didn't look like he was forcing himself to eat, but he was really used to eating spicy food.

What kind of life has he lived these three years?And what prompted him to learn and get used to spicy food?Xiao Hang didn't dare to think about it. He didn't know how to eat this meal. In the past three years, he subconsciously avoided spicy food. Maybe it was because Ted didn't like spicy food. Maybe it was some other reason. Can't tell.

What is the meaning of two people inadvertently doing opposite things?

Because he hadn't eaten spicy food for a long time, and he was busy with work and had irregular meals, Xiao Hang's stomach was not feeling well recently. He felt that his stomach was burning hot after eating spicy food.

"I'm going to the bathroom."

His stomach churned so badly that Xiao Hang lay down by the sink and vomited everything he had just eaten like a person who ate spicy food for the first time.

After washing his face with cold water, Xiao Hang raised his head and looked at the mirror. The face of the person in the mirror was sallow, and there were still drops of water dripping from his beard.

Xiao Hang fumbled carelessly to wipe off the water on his face, stepped back two steps, leaned against the wall, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

When Ted walked into the bathroom, he saw Xiao Hang smoking a cigarette, and without thinking, he snatched the cigarette and put it on the trash can, "Why do you smoke if you don't feel well?"

Xiao Hang didn't speak, and walked out sideways, he didn't want Ted to see his embarrassed appearance.

The person behind grabbed Xiao Hang's wrist, "What's wrong with you?"

What a familiar touch, Ted's temperature spread from the connected wrists to the whole body.The discomfort in his stomach and the torment in his heart made Xiao Hang's body tremble uncontrollably, which was comparable to that of a person suffering from malaria.

"I'm fine." Xiao Hang broke away from Ted's hand with some strength.

"It's okay, you're shaking like this."

I was shaking like this because my body remembered the memory from three years ago.How can I say such words.

"It's really all right." Xiao Hang said and was about to go out. Maybe it was because of his severe stomach pain, or maybe it was because Ted's touch made him overly nervous, and his steps staggered a bit.

Before leaning on the wall to stand firm, a familiar warm embrace had already surrounded him.

The unbearable pain in the stomach suddenly magnified to the extreme, as if it had spread to the heart and brain, Xiao Hang felt that he must have either a heart attack or a cerebral hemorrhage, so he fainted in Ted's arms.

Looking at his lover leaning in his arms, Ted frowned, and the pity in his eyes was undisguised.Xiao Hang, look at what you have done to yourself, I never thought of giving up on you, everything I did in the past three years was to be with you, but——I can’t easily compromise with you , if you break up as easily as three years ago, I don't know if I can bear another three years.

When Xiao Hang woke up, he was lying on the hospital bed for infusion.Sitting by the bed, Tang Jiajie saw him wake up and opened the porridge he bought——

"I heard that you vomited up all the food you ate at noon, so hurry up and drink some porridge."

He didn't ask where Ted had gone, and he didn't want Tang Jiajie to notice that love-hate entanglement.

"The doctor said that you have a bit of stomach bleeding, but fortunately there is no perforation, so pay more attention in the future."

"Oh, it's nothing but stomach bleeding." It turned out that there was no myocardial infarction or cerebral hemorrhage, so how did he get the pain that rushed to his head and even fainted.

"What kind of tone are you talking about?" Tang Jiajie chuckled, "You don't think your feelings are serious enough, then if you keep working hard, you can have your stomach removed soon."

Xiao Hang didn't make a sound, and drank his porridge with his head down. He had really lost all his face in the past 28 years, and even made such a soap opera plot where he fainted in someone's arms. How could he have the face to see Tai Germany.