Song Heping was awoken early the next morning by the ringing of a telephone.
He got up and saw that it was the cook calling.
"What's going on today? It's nine o'clock, and you still haven't gotten up?"
Normally, the cook woke up later than Song Heping, but today he was up earlier, and thus he began to tease Song Heping.
"Didn't I tell you last night? I bought fifty thousand US dollars worth of arms from Yusuf. I was watching over them at the warehouse until dawn before I came back."
Song Heping grabbed the mineral water beside the nightstand, twisted off the cap, and took a sip to relieve his dry mouth from just waking up.
"I'm almost at the Green Zone, you hurry up and wash up, and later we'll go to the US Army Command."
"The Command?"
Song Heping suddenly became fully awake.
"What are we doing there?"
"Signing a contract!" the cook said. "I've taken a business deal for our company."
"A military contract?"
Going to the US Army Command to sign a contract.