Chapter 549 (1/2)
Ahmed drove out of downtown Cairo. He booked a room at the resort hotel in helgada and planned to take advantage of this rare holiday to enjoy the sea breeze of the Red Sea.
There is a funny news program on the radio. Probably there was no other news to talk about this morning. The two hosts kept teasing the fire in France yesterday, saying that Napoleon blew off the nose of the Sphinx with a cannon, and now Pharaoh's anger finally burned to the cathedral on Xiti island.
The host's words were very funny. Although Ahmed was unwilling to admit that he was a Schadenfreude, he was also amused to laugh.
”Napoleon... Pharaoh's nose... Ha ha!” the more he thought, the more funny he became. He couldn't help patting the steering wheel, and then the laughter stopped suddenly, because he saw the gray wall on the horizon from the window.
”Asshole! Bitch! Bastard!”
Ahmed scolded the ancestors of the Cairo Meteorological Bureau for 18 generations. He would not choose to take a vacation at this time if he knew there would be a dust storm.
Helgada couldn't go, so he had to go home and sleep, he thought. However, the speed of the sandstorm was much faster than he expected. The light outside the car quickly darkened and the sand rustled on the window glass.
When Ahmed turned around, he almost collided with another car. At this time, the visibility was less than five meters. He reluctantly pulled over and prayed that the wind and sand would pass quickly.
Radio hosts obviously got the news of the sandstorm, but before they could make fun of it, the signal was interrupted. After two loud noises, there was only white noise left in the radio.
The car suddenly shook. Ahmed thought it was an earthquake. He immediately opened the door, covered his mouth and nose with his clothes, and wanted to run to the open lawn next to him. He saw a flash of light in the dark in the distance. Although the wind and sand blocked his sight, he could still tell that it was Giza's direction.
The sand in the wind hit my face and hurt a little. He fished in the wind with his hand. He grabbed some sand in the void and twisted it in the palm of his hand. It seemed hot.
Fortunately, the sandstorm came and went quickly, and the earthquake did not happen. When the wind and sand go away, the clouds are opened like a curtain on the stage, and the sun is vented to illuminate the world.
When Ahmed returned to the car, the voices of two hosts came from the radio:
”This is Pharaoh's anger. It must be that too many tourists disturb their cleanliness. What else can open tourism bring besides increasing garbage?”
”Money, of course!”
”Pharaoh is not short of money.”
”But the government is short of money.”
”Oh, yes, the government is short of money, but where is the money?”
”Er... Of course, money is spent, such as... To control the desert. Yes, it is to control the desert. You know we live in the desert and we are short of water!”
”Oh, yes, we are short of water! The sea is hundreds of kilometers away from us. Only a poor Nile flows through our city. It's fucking short of water!”
”Well, stop talking. Pharaoh's coffin can't be covered!”
”It's better for them to climb out early, so that our tourism department can make a lot of money again! Oh, wait, it seems that the coffin board of the Pharaoh has long disappeared.”
”Pharaoh still wants to control the desert after he lives. Guess what they will do?”
”I guess... Uh... Pharaoh will let the Egyptians use Alipay!”
……
Ahmed didn't want to listen to the nonsense of the two sand sculpture hosts anymore and turned off the radio.
”Lack of water?” he picked up a bottle of mineral water, looked at the pyramid pattern printed on the bottle a little funny, then opened it for a drink, puffed out of the window and rinsed the sand in his mouth.
Just as he was about to restart his trip to helgada, Ahmed's cell phone rang. He glanced at the phone, frowned and answered:
”Hello, director.”
”Where are you, Ahmed?”
”I'm on my way to helgada.”
”Haven't you gone far?”
”No, it was blocked in the suburbs of Cairo by the damn dust storm. Hey, hey, I don't sound right. Don't tell me that the vacation is cancelled. My hotel is a special room and can't be returned.”
”The vacation is cancelled, brother.”