red moscow

Chapter 2701

Although Victoria repeatedly told Sokov not to worry and just wait for the police's news, several of the missing people were Sokov's friends, so it was impossible not to worry.

After arriving at the market, Sokov put his cell phone on the table and turned the ringtone volume to maximum so that he could hear any incoming calls as soon as possible to avoid missing important calls.

The pony across the street was probably too bored and came to the store to chat with Sokov, but Lena, who had been instructed in advance, sent him away on the grounds that Sokov had important things to do. After sending him away three or four times in a row, Lena became a little impatient and ran to the back room to say to Sokov: "Misha, the young man across the street is here again. I have sent him away several times, but he still doesn't realize it. He is so annoying."

Sokov couldn't help but smile bitterly. After what happened yesterday, he realized that the other party might be an ungrateful person. It would be safest to keep a distance from him.

Seeing Sokov's eyes constantly glancing at the phone on the table, Lena asked with concern: "By the way, did the police call?"

"No, not a single call so far."

"Do you think the people trapped underground are Baharov and his men?"

"It's hard to say." Although the police heard the noise coming from underground, it was still unknown whether the people trapped underground were Khabarov and his team. Therefore, in response to Lena's question, Sokov could only say in an uncertain tone: "At present, we only know that there are people trapped underground, but who they are, so far, no one knows. After all, no one has X-ray vision and can see the situation underground clearly."

"I hope it's them." Lena sighed and said, "I think Baharov is a pretty good person. He has helped you a lot in the past few years. If something really happens, you will lose a true friend."

Sokov agreed with Lena's statement. Since he met Khabarov, he had helped him a lot and solved some problems that he could not solve with his own identity. That was why he was extremely worried when Khabarov disappeared.

While the two were chatting, the phone on the table rang.

Hearing the phone ring, Lena seemed very excited: "Misha, is it the police calling?"

After seeing the caller ID, Sokov shook his head slowly and said, "It's a call from the cargo owner."

He answered the phone and said politely, "Hello, Sister Gao! Why did you think of calling me today?"

"Xiao Lin, are you in the store?"

"Yes!" Sokov knew very well that this lady who supplied him with goods would not easily call him unless it was something important, so he asked tentatively: "What can I do for you?"

"Xiao Lin, this is what I am doing. I am planning to return to China tomorrow." Sister Gao said, "There are still some goods left in the store. Can I leave them with you first? I will come back to pick them up in August." Perhaps she was worried that Sokov would not agree, so she added, "If these goods can be sold, they will be sold. If they cannot be sold, they will be left with you."

Fur sales are usually faced with two problems during the off-season: first, there are few customers in the store; second, there is a serious shortage of goods. The manufacturers stop production before New Year's Day every year and have to wait until June of the following year to resume production. For as long as half a year, almost all fur stores will have insufficient supply and serious shortages of clothing sizes. Now Sister Gao wants to hand over all the goods in her store to me, which is equivalent to helping me replenish the supply. There is no reason to refuse such timely assistance.

"No problem." Sokov said with a smile, "I'm in the store, please deliver the goods."

Although Lena didn't understand what Sokov said on the phone, she knew something good was going to happen when she saw the other party smiling, so she quickly asked, "Misha, any good news?"

"Yes." Sokov nodded and said to Lena, "A manufacturer is going back to her country and plans to put her remaining goods in my store and pick them up when she comes in August."

"Great, this is really great." Hearing this news, Lena couldn't help but be overjoyed: "With this batch of goods, our store won't be so empty. Look, there are only more than a hundred pieces of clothing in a store of nearly a hundred square meters. It looks sparse. Some customers walked in and saw that there were too few clothes and turned around and left. By the way, how many clothes does she have?"

"Oh, I'm not sure about that. There should be quite a few."

Half an hour later, Sister Gao showed up at the store door with a porter pulling a trailer. After greeting Sokov, she asked him to move several woven bags from the trailer into the store one by one. Looking at the bulging woven bags, Sokov knew that Sister Gao had brought a lot of goods.

After the movers moved all the goods into the store, Sokov paid the freight and sent them away. Then he looked at Sister Gao and asked, "Sister, how much goods are there here?"

"There are 85 pieces in total," said Sister Gao. "They are all high-end items made of imported leather."

Sokov called Lena over, took out the clothes from the bag, hung them on the rack one by one, and prepared to count them before handing them over.

After all the clothes were hung up, Sokov couldn't help but be secretly surprised. He thought that the other party could only give him 20 or 30 pieces of goods, which would be great. Unexpectedly, there were more than 80 pieces, and most of them were high-end goods in sapphire blue, champagne, yellow, camel and coffee colors. He couldn't help but sigh and said, "Sister, I didn't expect that you still have so many good goods left in your store."

"All the goods in my store were sold out a few days ago." Sister Gao said, "I bought them back from the Russians' store." Seeing Sokov's puzzled look, she continued, "I will be back home for two months. I don't feel at ease leaving them with them. I'd better give them to me, then I'll feel at ease."

Seeing that the furs, which had just been taken out of the woven bags, were a little deformed due to being squeezed, Anna quickly pulled out the garment steamer from the inner room and prepared to iron the furs again.

Sokov and Sister Gao each took out their account books and went to the inner room to do the handover work.

  When he saw the prices of the clothes, Sokov couldn't help but be secretly surprised. The cheapest one was three thousand US dollars, and the most expensive one was close to five thousand US dollars. He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, can they be sold at such a high price?

Sister Gao saw Sokov's worry and comforted him, "Xiao Lin, they are expensive for a reason. These are high-end products. The Russians sell them for 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars each in the store. If you really can't sell them, it doesn't matter. Just put them there as samples." After sending Sister Gao away, Lena came over to ask about the price. After hearing the cost price, she couldn't help but gasp, "Oh my God, how can we sell them at such a high price?"

Sokov thought about it, then said to Lena, "Don't you know two shop owners? Ask them if they are ready to put some good goods in their shops to make them look good."

"I'll call Zhenya now and ask him." Lena took out her cell phone and said, "I'll ask him if he wants the goods."

While Lena was on the phone, the pony next door came over again and asked Sokov with a licking face: "Brother, where did you get this stuff from? It looks like a lot."

"Yeah." Sokov said perfunctorily, "A cargo owner sent it over."

"Brother, can you introduce me to your cargo owner?" Xiao Ma said this, turned his head and glanced at the empty shop opposite, and continued: "I am helping my uncle now, but it won't be long before I start working on my own. It's better to get to know some cargo owners in advance to be prepared."

The furs of Sister Gao are mainly mid-to-high-end, and they have also registered a trademark. Sokov got to know her through many connections and started buying goods from her. Although her goods are more expensive than those offered by other owners, they can often be sold at a good price because of their novel and special styles. Sokov is trying every means to maintain such a high-quality owner, for fear that his business will steal it away. It is really a fantasy for a little kid like Xiao Ma who knows nothing to want to make friends with the other party as soon as they meet.

But for Lao Wu's sake, Sokov couldn't say harsh words to Xiao Ma. Otherwise, if he instigated Lao Wu, he might turn against Lao Wu. He said nonchalantly, "This is a domestic manufacturer with its own sales window in Moscow. Now she is going back to China, and I will help her deal with the remaining goods. After she leaves this time, she may never come back, so it will be useless even if I introduce you to her."

After hearing what Sokov said, Xiao Ma didn't know what to say and left the store in embarrassment.

After finishing the call, Lena said to Sokov, "Misha, I just asked Zhenya, he said he is going to Sochi for vacation next month and the store is going to be closed for a month, so he doesn't need to take consignment goods from us for the time being."

"Then ask another store to see if they want the goods."

While Lena was still on the phone, Lao Wu came to his store and casually asked Xiao Ma: "Are you doing any business today?"

"No." Xiao Ma shook his head and said, "Not a single customer."

"Oh." Lao Wu said as usual while making coffee: "Now is the off-season, it is normal that there is no business. You have to be able to endure the loneliness to have a chance to make money."

"Uncle," Xiao Ma pointed to Sokov's store and said to Lao Wu, "The store across the street just received a batch of clothes, dozens of pieces. I just asked that big brother to introduce me to the owner, but he refused."

Hearing his nephew say this, Lao Wu stared at him and said unhappily, "Weigh yourself when you have nothing to do. It's not only to know whether you are fat or thin. You also need to know your weight and how important you are in other people's eyes. You have only been in Moscow for a few days and you are not familiar with Xiaolin yet, but you rashly ran to find someone to introduce you to the owner of the goods. In the eyes of others, your behavior is immature and will only make people hate you. Do you understand?"

Criticized by his uncle, Xiao Ma lowered his head and replied in a barely audible voice, "I know."

Lao Wu stood at the door of his store and looked into Sokov's store. As expected, he saw many more colorful minks on the shelves, so he walked over. However, when he reached the door of the store, he instinctively stopped and shouted inside: "Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin, are you in there?"

Sokov, who was sorting out the account books in the house, heard someone calling him outside. He quickly answered and ran out of the inner room. He called out to Lao Wu who was standing at the door of the store, "It's Lao Wu. Come in quickly."

"No, no." Lao Wu has been in Moscow for so many years that he naturally knows many taboos in the fur industry. For example, if a store has new goods, you cannot just go in and check it out, otherwise it will be suspected of piracy. He waved his hand and said, "I'll just stand at the door."

When a new product arrives in your store, it is an unwritten rule for fur traders in Moscow not to allow colleagues to enter your store at will, so that others will not see your new style and then go back to contact China to copy the new style. There have been many similar lessons in the past, so even friends who are familiar with each other will consciously abide by this rule.

Seeing that Lao Wu didn't come in, Sokov walked out of the store and said with a smile: "Lao Wu, you have a lot of free time now. You don't come here until almost noon every day. I really envy you."

"Alas, there is nothing I can do." Lao Wu shook his head and said, "It is already the off-season. It doesn't matter whether you come early or late. We can't open the store. Although I know that I will lose money in the off-season, I dare not close the store and go back home. If I really do this, I am afraid that I will not be able to find the current store when I come here at the end of August. I can only sublease it from others at a high price, and then I will have to spend more money in vain."

The two were standing at the door talking. Lena, who was ironing clothes with a hanging iron, suddenly shouted to Sokov: "Misha, phone. I heard your phone ringing."

As soon as he heard the phone ringing, Sokov immediately stopped talking with Lao Wu, rushed into the inner room, and grabbed the phone on the table.

The caller ID showed that it was Victoria calling. Sokov answered the phone with slightly trembling hands and asked nervously, "Hello, Vika, is there any latest news?"

"I just received a call from the lieutenant. He said that his bureau has found several members of the geological survey team and they are looking for the location of the trapped people inside the Hovlin Hospital." Victoria said on the phone: "If all goes well, the geological survey team will start digging at six o'clock."

Sokov took the phone away from his ear, looked at the time, and said in surprise: "What, we have to wait until six o'clock? That means we have to wait another four hours. I'm worried that the people trapped underground can't hold out for that long."

"We can't help it." Victoria said helplessly, "The geological survey team was invited from another city. It took them more than four hours just to get here. But I think they understand that human life is at stake. Once they find the exact location, they will carry out rescue as quickly as possible."

Sokov doubted Victoria's statement. In a place where large excavators could not be used, it was a huge project to rescue the people trapped underground. Even if dozens of people started the rescue at the same time, it would take a long time to get in touch with the people underground. He was afraid that by the time the ground was dug up, the people trapped inside would have died due to lack of water and food.

(End of this chapter)