Far away in Moscow

Chapter 58 Li Baoqing's Lie
"It's nothing." Li Baoqing put his hands on his lower abdomen, raised his head and said, "I just think you're a little...that."

"Something?"

"It's a little tricky. It's just helping people with two computers. As for asking, is it [-]?"

"What? Is fifteen thousand a lot?"

"Not much?! I think you are dark enough."

"The price is clearly marked, each person is only [-] yuan, what's wrong?" Hu Yi touched his chin: "A few hundred rubles are just a drizzle for their businessmen, so they won't take this money seriously inside."

"It's their business that they don't care." Li Baoqing persuaded him sincerely, "Everyone is Chinese, I think..."

"Okay, okay." Hu Yi interrupted him impatiently: "I don't have to earn his money, but I came up with a new idea."

"What idea?"

With a "ding", the elevator reached the first floor.The two walked out of the apartment one after the other, Hu Yi set up a pergola and looked at the white clouds in the sky, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "Baoqing, do you know what is special about me?"

"You? You..." Li Baoqing glanced at him sideways, "You're a pretty boy, and you're not bad looking."

"Nonsense. I'm talking about expertise, do you understand expertise? A skill."

"What's your specialty..." Li Baoqing bit his lip thoughtfully: "You can drink quite well, and you have a good capacity for alcohol."

Hu Yi glared at him angrily: "I'm talking about special skills that can make money!"

"Drinking can also make money!" Li Baoqing clapped his hands together: "I heard Brother Yan said before that there are many young rich women in Moscow who like to go to bars to find handsome guys to accompany them, but they are willing to spend money!"

"Really?" Hu Yi asked suspiciously: "A man can also make money by drinking with him?"

"Of course you can! As long as you are willing to pay, you will definitely earn a lot!" Li Baoqing looked at him pretendingly: "I think your conditions are very good, but you are a little thinner. How are you? Do you want to think about it?"

Hu Yi was slightly taken aback, and suddenly came back to his senses. He pushed Li Baoqing staggeringly, and said angrily, "Ah bah! I think you are more suitable! Grandma, you almost made me digress!"

Li Baoqing smirked twice: "Okay, seriously, what are your specialties?"

"I know computers!" Hu Yi straightened his back: "I'm not bragging. I've been very familiar with computer software and hardware since high school. If I didn't come to Russia back then, I might be the owner of an installation shop now."

"Could it be that you plan to... open a store now?"

"That's not realistic, but I can install it for a fee, and repairs are fine."

Li Baoqing frowned and thought about it for a while: "It sounds like it's a little feasible. But... who is it for? Advertise? We don't even have a phone in the house, how can others contact us? Come to the dormitory to look for it?"

"Advertising is too expensive, and we don't have the spare money right now, so there's no need." Hu Yi shook his head: "I've thought about it, first target the Chinese students in the school, they are close, and they can come to make an appointment."

Li Baoqing smiled awkwardly: "However, we are all classmates, do you have the nerve to ask for money?"

"What are you embarrassed about? Wuga is also my classmate, don't we also charge money for work? This is... um... selling services in exchange for rewards, which is legitimate and reasonable." Hu Yi was a little excited: "We can work together. How about making money together?"

"But... but... I don't know much about computers." Li Baoqing mumbled, "Besides, there are only so many Chinese in the school. How many of them are willing to pay us for a computer?"

"Try it. It's not too difficult, just follow me and pretend a few times." Hu Yi's eyes were full of encouragement: "I noticed before that most of our Chinese students in Building 6 don't have computers. They are all potential customers. In addition, the new students will arrive in two months, and there will definitely be many people who will need to help install the machine."

"Okay, just give it a try." Li Baoqing reluctantly agreed, "How to charge? One thousand rubles must be too expensive for students, and seven hundred and fifty is a bit high."

"Well, you are right to worry. We can look for similar advertisements and refer to the quotations of our peers." The two discussed all the way, and when they returned to the dormitory, they found the Chinese newspapers that Zhou Dali brought back when renting a house a few days ago, and started a conversation. See ads page by page.Unexpectedly, after searching for a long time, I didn't see an advertisement about installing a computer.

"No one has advertised, which means that... um... this market has not been discovered yet." Hu Yi neatly stacked the newspapers and periodicals at hand, and asked, "Do you have any?"

"No. But," Li Baoqing held a copy of the latest "Lu Xun" magazine and was absorbed in it: "Hey, Lao Hu, there is a Chinese restaurant advertising for a chef. Do you think we can try it?"

"Chinese restaurant? Keep chopping vegetables? Haven't cut enough? Are you addicted?"

"It's not a chopping board, it's a cooking chef."

"Fried dishes? Just the two of us?" Hu Yi chuckled: "Let's pull it down! How many dishes can we cook?"

"What's so difficult? It's not that I haven't been fried before." Li Baoqing smiled honestly: "Go and try your luck. I learned a few things from them in the Huanghai back kitchen. Maybe I can do it. The cook earns a lot of money, and they can't do it." Stability is definitely better than installing a computer with one or the other.”

Hu Yi thought for a while: "Generally, restaurants must have experience in recruiting master chefs, right? Can you pretend to be a fool?"

"Experience is not a problem. Isn't it also experience to cook and stir-fry by yourself? Besides, we have worked in the back kitchen, at least we have more experience than ordinary people, right?" Li Baoqing said disapprovingly: "This is Moscow! What a good cook? It's almost enough."

"That's true." Hu Yi reached out and touched his chin: "How much is it a month?"

"Salary is negotiable, but it must be more than before cutting vegetables." Li Baoqing couldn't bear the excitement on his face: "Think about it, Lao Wei can earn more than 1000 US dollars a month, even if we are worse than him, [-] a month Okay? Take a step back and say, five hundred is fine too!"

"It's a lot of money. But I haven't even touched the master's frying pan. It must be useless. It's more reliable to help people install computers honestly." Hu Yi hesitated and smiled: "Don't hold anything Hope. Can you cook on the stove after working on the chopping board for three months? If it’s so simple, everyone can become a chef, how can you earn such a high salary? Besides, even if you don’t require much experience, you are too young after all.”

"Hmm... what you said makes sense." Li Baoqing frowned and sat on the bed in a daze for a while, then threw the poorly bound magazine in his hand, got up and walked out the door, saying as he walked, "Whatever, try Try again, I'll make a phone call first to ask about the situation."

Hu Yi sighed softly, opened the notebook and tore off a piece of paper, thought for a while, picked up a pen and wrote the two characters "advertisement" neatly in Chinese.

After thinking for a while, he felt that such a title was a bit too straightforward, so he crumpled up the paper and threw it aside, tore off another sheet and wrote: "Installation Consultant".

A bit rigid.Hu Yi shook his head, ready to change the title to "Great Good News".Closing his eyes and imagining for a while, he felt that the whole paper seemed silly, so he simply abandoned the title and wrote directly on the paper:

"Student, do you need a computer to help you study or enrich your extracurricular life? Do you encounter difficulties in purchasing because you don't know computer knowledge or are not good at Russian? Don't worry, now there is a solution for all this: just For 500 rubles, you can be accompanied by experienced professionals to purchase an ideal computer, install the Chinese operating system for free, debug the hardware, and provide free fault diagnosis and maintenance services for a long time. If you need it, please come to No. 6 Room 505, Hu."

At the end of writing, Hu Yi paused for a while and decided to omit the word "Yi" in his name.He picked up this simple advertisement and looked at it several times, preparing to post it on the information board downstairs.Just about to get up, Li Baoqing returned to the house happily: "It's done, the head chef invited me to have an interview tomorrow afternoon."

"What? Are you really going?" Hu Yi was surprised: "Did the other party not ask about your situation?"

"A few simple questions, age, experience, etc." Li Baoqing smiled mysteriously: "I didn't tell the truth."

"Oh? What did you say?"

"I said that I am 24 years old this year. I have relevant experience in China before. After coming to Moscow, I cooked in the back kitchen of a hotel." Li Baoqing was proud: "Hey, this is not completely a lie. I did cook in Huanghai a few times. You've eaten, haven't you?"

"Hey, you're pretty good, you've learned to tell nonsense." Hu Yi said with a smile: "But your face is indeed old enough, even if you pretend to be 30 years old, people will believe it."

"Nonsense! How old am I?!" Li Baoqing was a little uncomfortable: "Hey, I don't have any malicious intentions in this nonsense, it's just to prevent the other party from underestimating me. Besides, the cook is cooking, as long as the guests can eat to their satisfaction. Hey. You can honestly say, my fried dishes are not unpalatable, right?"

"My fried dishes are not bad, but we use the electric stove in the dormitory to fry them, and we just turn over and over again just a few dishes, can it be the same as old Wei and others with a big spoon on the stove?"

"Hey, let's draw an analogy. When it comes to cooking at home, it's nothing more than the combination of ingredients and seasonings, and the mastery of the heat. The principles are all the same, and it's almost as good as fumbling."

"You are really confident. I don't think people are so easy to fool." Hu Yi looked at him cheerfully: "Come on, let's see how my advertisement is written?"

Li Baoqing took the paper and glanced at it, frowned and said: "What are you writing? I thought you were quite educated, why are you talking in vernacular? It's not elegant at all."

"You know what a fart, this is the breath of life." Hu Yi snatched his small advertisement, turned and went out.Li Baoqing smiled triumphantly behind him: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if you can't earn money. As long as I can get this job, you can follow the popular ones and drink spicy ones in the future!"

The China Dragon Hotel, where Li Baoqing applied for a job, is located near the residential area in the outskirts of Moscow, not too far from Youda.This place has a large area and many dining seats, but the façade signboard and interior decoration are relatively simple compared with the Yellow Sea Hotel. It looks like a food stall or a work unit canteen.

Just after 03:30 in the afternoon, several employees in the restaurant were resting lazily, as if they had just woken up.Li Baoqing sat at a dining table with a restrained expression on his face. The head chef opposite was a fat, white, middle-aged man with a kind face and a slightly Jiangsu-Zhejiang accent. After seeing Li Baoqing, he simply greeted him and stared at him first. His face asked, "Are you really... 24 years old?"

Li Baoqing's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect the other party to see that he had lied about his age at a glance, so he had to bite the bullet and say "Yeah": "Really, false age...24."

"You're only 24?" The chef said with a tut-tsk smile, "I can't tell, you look quite mature, I didn't expect you to be so young."

Li Baoqing reacted in a daze for a long time, and then realized that the other party did not see his real age, he was relieved immediately, cursed a few words in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Yes, yes, I have... looked old since I was a child .”

(End of this chapter)