Far away in Moscow

Chapter 14 Let's Play Enough!

The Indian had been moaning on the bed after going to the toilet that day, walking like a duck with his legs curled up, but he couldn't figure out what caused it.Yan Zhiwen was overjoyed. There were five bottles of Fengyoujing in his box, and he didn't keep any of them. He poured them into Indian bottles every now and then.

The upright Indians have no clue, they just wonder why the anus happens from time to time, and the bursts of hotness are accompanied by a little bit of coolness, as if they have been smeared with mustard.

At first he suspected that something was wrong with his diet, but then he accidentally discovered that the pungent smell in the toilet came from his precious bottle, and then he realized that someone was playing tricks, so he ran away in a rage. Confronted Yan Zhiwen, but Yan Zhiwen cheerfully denied it. The Indians could not provide evidence, so they had to suffer from being dumb.

Since then, the roommates have completely turned against each other. Later, they had several conflicts over other trivial matters. The Indians knew that living with this guy would not have a restful life, so they packed up and moved to other rooms within a few days.The dormitory administrator didn't know much about the situation, but he knew that the Chinese was not easy to deal with, so he didn't interfere.

Yan Zhiwen was very happy, and took the opportunity to find the administrator to take care of it. From then on, he rented out this room and lived in a single room happily.Now his temper and character have been restrained, and he is no longer as frivolous as before, but he is still very proud every time he tells the story of Fengyou Jingzhi fighting Indians.

Lu Tao, who lives in the room next to Yan Zhiwen, is from Hubei. He joined the army after graduating from high school and became an armed police soldier.The roommate who once helped Yan Zhiwen deal with the Indians with him has moved out of the school dormitory after graduation, and occasionally comes back to see them.

Lu Tao is not tall, with a tall and straight body, two small eyes with piercing eyes, he is usually reticent, always looks serious, but has a very easy-going personality.Yan Zhiwen often made fun of his height, but he never minded it. At most, he said lightly: "What's so good about being as big as you, waste of food and fabric."

As one of the few old Chinese students in the school, Yan Zhiwen and Lu Tao are warm-hearted and often help newcomers to deal with various difficulties and disputes.Hu Yi and Li Baoqing liked these two big brothers very much. They felt that they had straightforward personalities and never cared about trivial matters, so they would buy vegetables and come to their house for dinner from time to time, and then huddled together on the sofa to watch videos after eating.

At that time, it was popular in domestic urban families to watch VCD, but for the poor students who first arrived in a foreign country, it was too extravagant to buy TVs and other electrical appliances. Great enjoyment.

There are only four videotapes in Yan Zhiwen's room: "Nine Grades of Sesame Officials", "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai" and the first and second episodes of "A Chinese Journey to the West". Hu Yi and Li Baoqing watch these two every time they go, and they have already memorized the lines exactly .

On Friday night, the two bought a chicken and came to Yan Zhiwen's dormitory. After eating, they continued to watch Jet Li in "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai" play cool.

"I don't listen! I don't listen to anything!" Li Baoqing sat on the carpet bored, leaning against the sofa and speaking Zhong Liti's lines: "I want to go out to play! I want to go out to play now!"

Hu Yi imitated Jet Li's tone: "Go and play! Go and play enough!"

The two smirked for a while, then Hu Yi suddenly turned his head and said to Yan Zhiwen: "Brother Yan, we have been in Moscow for so long, and we haven't gone out to play yet, take us out for a stroll tomorrow!"

Li Baoqing hurriedly nodded and echoed: "Yes, Brother Yan, these days we go out to buy groceries in addition to attending classes, it's boring to death."

Yan Zhiwen probably felt a little depressed recently, he raised his neck and thought for a while: "Okay, but I have something to do tomorrow, and I will take you to the city center with Lu Tao on Sunday."

On Saturday afternoon, Hu Yi went out alone, ready to exchange some rubles and get a haircut by the way.

In Moscow, you can see large and small foreign currency exchange offices everywhere in the streets and alleys. It is very convenient and common to exchange money.After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there was an almost crazy inflation in Russia. The price of consumer goods skyrocketed. A piece of bread cost thousands of rubles. Buying large items even required sacks and cars to transport banknotes.

This situation continued until the release of the new ruble in 1998. Unexpectedly, it was a coincidence, and then caught up with the financial crisis sweeping the world. Many internal and external factors caused the exchange rate of the ruble, which had just returned to normal, to plummet all the way. The inability to maintain stability directly leads to a serious lack of confidence in the ruble.

Although the ruble is the only legal currency in Russia today, many commodities are actually denominated in US dollars, and the market price will change from time to time with the exchange rate.Taking universities as an example, tuition fees are priced in U.S. dollars, but the school cannot directly collect U.S. dollars, and can only accept equivalent rubles based on the exchange rate listed by the Central Bank of the day.During times of high exchange rate fluctuations, the same dollar amount of tuition paid every other day can result in a price difference of hundreds of rubles.

Because of this, people there tend to tend to hold dollars.This is especially true for foreigners, who usually only keep a small amount of rubles with them for emergency, and exchange them when they need a large sum of money to avoid unnecessary exchange losses.

Hu Yi exchanged fifty dollars for about [-] rubles, then went to the residential area between the school and the dormitory, and bought some cheese and ham.When he first arrived in Moscow, he lived carefully and budgeted carefully. Everything he saw was expensive, and he always had to convert it into RMB for comparison when he bought things. Later, he gradually got used to denominating prices in rubles, and he no longer felt distressed when spending money.

This is the subtle impact of prices and currency denominations on consumption mentality.When Hu Yi was in high school, his pocket money was only more than 100 yuan a month. In addition to eating, he secretly squeezed out some cigarettes and played games. .Now there are only one or two thousand rubles in the wallet casually, even knowing that the exchange rate is there, but my heart is gradually less sensitive to the numbers on the banknotes.

Even so, when Hu Yi walked into the trendy-looking barber shop in the community, he still felt a pain in the flesh.He usually only costs five or ten yuan for a haircut in China, but this shop costs three hundred rubles, which is close to 100 yuan.

Forget it, it's cheaper than the watermelon I bought last time, which should be fair.Hu Yi comforted himself, calmed down and sat on the barber chair.

The fashionable Russian lady came over and stood behind him with a smile: "Hello, how do you want to cut it?"

Hu Yi stretched out his hand and gestured on his head a few times: "Short, I want a short one." The last haircut was before he left home for BJ, and now his bangs almost covered his eyes, and the hair at the back of his head covered his neck. It's really a bit out of shape.

The eldest sister put one hand on his shoulder lightly, and patted his hair with the other hand, pondering for a moment: "Your hair is fine, but the hairstyle is too bad, it doesn't match your appearance and temperament." Matching. Do you want to change your look?"

Hu Yi didn't quite understand her words, only knew that she was still asking questions related to hair, so he nodded casually and said, "Short, as long as it's short."

"No problem." The elder sister was quick to do most of the work with the clippers, and then picked up the scissors and began to carefully carve his sideburns and bangs.

Hu Yi stared at the mirror for a long time, feeling her unspeakable weirdness, couldn't help laughing and said: "This, this is? What are you doing?"

(End of this chapter)