Far away in Moscow

Chapter 21 Street Encounter

Chapter 21 Street Encounter
Lu Tao laughed: "Selling goods in the market is not a good job. It is very hard to go out early and return late every day, and the risk factor is relatively high. What's more, if you stay outside for a day in this kind of weather, in the words of you northerners, you will be as cold as your grandson." Yes, the snot can freeze when it droops, and it will freeze if you pee a little bit awkwardly."

Everyone burst into laughter, Li Baoqing put his hands in his sleeves, sniffed: "Hey, what are you afraid of when it's cold, is making money better than anything else?"

Lu Tao said: "There are many ways to make money, but you don't have to come to the market to suffer. My former roommate is Xu Qiang. He is now working in foreign trade logistics. He sits in the office every day, calls and sends emails. You can get more than $1000 a month.”

"One thousand dollars a month?! My mother, that year was... that is... 10 yuan!" Li Baoqing seemed to be floating in front of his eyes as stacks of colorful bills, and he couldn't help grinning and giggling twice. , Came back to his senses in an instant, scratched his head embarrassedly: "That brother Qiang must speak Russian very well, at my level, alas, I'm afraid no one will want to come to the market to do odd jobs."

Lu Tao replied: "In fact, you don't need very good Russian to sell goods in the market. You only need to master basic daily conversations, and be able to speak clearly and understand related vocabulary such as product names, styles, colors, quantities, time, and prices."

Hu Yi asked: "Brother Tao, you can earn four hundred dollars a month by selling goods in the market. How much do the bosses have to earn? This business is too easy to do, right?"

"The boss earns more, but more and more people have come to do business in the past few years, and the market competition has become more and more fierce. Although the profit is still high, the business is not as good as it was in previous years. One On the one hand, it is because the Russian Customs pays more and more attention to gray customs clearance issues, and goods with incomplete procedures are often seized. On the other hand, businessmen are here to make money, and they pay attention to making money with harmony. But the market is very chaotic, and many People don’t follow the rules, and things like killing people and stealing goods often happen. For example, some time ago, a southern boss died in his container in broad daylight, and his money was stolen.”

The preparatory students were surprised and silent, Hu Yi frowned and asked, "Who did it? Has the murderer been caught?"

"No, I have no clue." Lu Tao sighed: "I don't know if he offended others and got revenge, or Lu Fu was murdered for money."

Li Baoqing murmured, "Isn't this too dangerous? There are so many Chinese people in the market, we should... we should unite to take care of each other and jointly ensure safety."

"After all, it is not our own territory. Many things are not that simple. Besides, unity is not easy. Although there are many people from China, but China is too big, and customs and cultures are different from place to place. Naturally, cliques will form." Lu Tao shook his head while talking, obviously feeling a lot about it: "When encountering big problems, we can barely deal with them together. After a few days of peaceful life, we start to fight over trivial things, intrigue and dismantle each other. In the end, both sides are often hurt. No one can please anyone."

"It's not just the Chinese, it's the same everywhere." Yan Zhiwen said casually, "It's true that people from small countries are more likely to form groups outside."

The prep students sighed half-understanding, and followed them to a Chinese food store.Hu Yi and Li Baoqing walked around the dazzling array of shelves a few times, picked out some bean curd sticks, vermicelli, shiitake mushrooms, fungus, dried chilies, some seasonings and a bottle of Laoganma.The others also bought a lot of non-staple food and dry goods, all smiling, inexplicably gaining some unreasonable confidence in their cooking skills, which they have just started.

It was completely bright, and although it was gloomy and unable to see the sun, it was no longer as bitingly cold as in the early morning.Lu Tao and Yan Zhiwen took them around the market for a while, and raised their wrists to look at their watches: "It's still early, where shall we go next? Do you have anything else you want to buy?"

Hu Yi thought for a while: "I have finished smoking the cigarettes I brought from China, are there any Chinese cigarettes here?"

Lu Tao shook his head: "Cigarettes are not easy to buy, even if they are sold, they are very expensive."

"Okay." Hu Yi nodded disappointedly: "The Maozi cigarettes in the store downstairs have a faint stench, and it's hard to smoke."

Yan Zhiwen said: "I know a big tobacco market, where all kinds of cigarettes are sold. Let's go, I'll take you there."

The tobacco market is still some distance away from the ant market. Fortunately, most of these people are smokers. When they heard that they were going to buy cigarettes, they cheered up.

As a clean sports student, Li Baoqing seldom smoked when he was in middle school.During these days, I smoked more slowly under Hu Yi's smoky fire. Although I am not too addicted to cigarettes, I like to buy some cigarettes I have never seen before, and sometimes I will store the beautiful cigarette cases .

Russians like tobacco and alcohol, but most people have limited spending power, and the market is flooded with a lot of shoddy and cheap products.Li Baoqing walked down from the kiosks of each shop, bought a box of cigarettes with good packaging, walked through several shops in a row, and suddenly greeted Hu Yi and said: "Hey, hey, come and see, the cigarettes are only two rubles a box. It doesn't get any cheaper than this!"

Hu Yi walked over and took a look: "Damn it, it's only twenty rubles a piece, which is less than seven yuan in RMB?"

Li Baoqing nodded excitedly: "Yes, do you want to buy it?"

"Buy it! It's so cheap, even if it's hard to draw, I don't feel sorry for it." Hu Yi bought four pieces for [-] rubles like a rich man, feeling that he had picked up a huge bargain.

Although the tobacco market is large, the items in each store are similar, and there is nothing to visit.Everyone bought some rare cigarettes that they hadn't seen before, and ate around the fast food restaurant on the street, feeling a little tired.

Several people discussed it. Yan Zhiwen planned to buy a monitor, and Hu Yi and the other two wanted to go to the computer market with him.Lu Tao and Li Baoqing decided to go back to the dormitory, and Peng Song naturally followed Li Baoqing.

I got up at 05:30 in the morning and went out. After playing outside for a long time, I was not so energetic on the way back.Lu Tao walked quickly, and led the two of them across the secluded path to the subway station.Peng Song struggled to follow with two short legs, walking more and more slowly, Li Baoqing had to walk a few steps and then stopped to wait for him for a while.

"Brother Tao, wait...wait for me." Peng Song shouted out of breath, and saw Lu Tao turned his head and waved with a smile: "Go faster." After speaking, he turned left at the intersection in front of him and left.

Peng Song trotted a few steps quickly, and came to the intersection with Li Baoqing, but saw Lu Tao suddenly turned back, with his right hand clinging to his side, he swayed forward at them twice, and whispered: "Go this way, hurry up!" .”

Li Baoqing and Peng Song were stunned, they had never been around here, and they didn't know where the subway station was, but they sensed that Lu Tao's expression was not right, so they hurriedly followed behind him: "What's wrong, Brother Tao?"

Before Lu Tao answered, a sharp whistle came from behind.Li Baoqing and Peng Song turned to look at the same time, Lu Tao shouted in a low voice: "Don't look back!"

The two turned their heads in a hurry, but Li Baoqing had already seen the situation behind him at a glance: six Russians gathered around the entrance of the underground passage not far away, with a few beer bottles lying around at their feet, and some of them were viciously Look to yourself.

Peng Song didn't see it very clearly, and asked nervously as he walked, "What's the matter? What's the matter?"

"Skinheads." Lu Tao tilted his head expressionlessly, seeing the six people following one after another from the side of his eyes, and hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, go."

"Skinheads?" Li Baoqing and Peng Song repeated in a low voice, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.The two dared not look back, and hurried forward following Lu Tao.

(End of this chapter)

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