Chapter 172: Lao Pu
When I arrived in East Berlin, I was really blind, and I didn't even have a map. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, the two customs officers were still "collecting money and doing things", and they showed the way, and the three of them did not go to see any important buildings and attractions in East Berlin, but went to the market here.
Not far, less than 500 meters from the Brandenburg Gate.
Pedestrians on the road should have obviously seen Asians, and they were not curious about whether there was an onlooker or anything - there was a Chinese embassy here.
When I arrived at the place, I found that the market was very large, not a small shop, a bit like a department store in China, but there was one thing that was similar to other Eastern European countries now: state-run.
There are a small number of people queuing up at the place to buy food, but it looks like the supplies are quite abundant, so there is no need to rush to buy anything.
And there are not many customers for the "inedible" things, and the three of them turned around for a while and did not find anything good worth buying: they did not buy things to live, and they did not buy ordinary handicrafts, but they had to go to the Soviet Union.
Guan Xingquan bought a pack of cigarettes, and by the way, he asked the salesman where he could buy souvenirs such as commemorative coins.
The salesman was a little ignorant when he bought cigarettes, but for the sake of Guan Xingquan's good attitude, he said that he could go to the bank to have a look.
There is a bank not far away, and the three of them went in to ask, and sure enough, there is, but the price is a little more expensive than the face value.
No problem: just leave 20 East German marks, and all the others have been replaced with the "10 marks commemorative coin for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Warsaw Pact", issued in 1975 and brand new.
There will still be this commemorative coin in the bank, and I don't know how to do it.
This business is probably the worst loss Zhang Nan has ever made: these commemorative coins will be worth twenty or thirty yuan a piece in the future, but there is really nothing to buy here, and there is not even a thrift market for the time being.
After swaying around, I was going to go back the way I came.
On the east side of the Brandenburg Gate, the three of them also took a few photos, and it was still early anyway.
Zhang Nan was taking a single photo of his brother-in-law, and a couple in their 30s walked by, probably also wanting to take a photo in front of Brandenburg.
The man was next to Zhang Nan, because the best position was occupied by him, and the man probably told his lover to wait a little.
Although he couldn't understand it, Zhang Nan still heard that it should be Russian.
After taking the photo, Zhang Nan turned his head to look, and his eyes widened in an instant!
"Wow-, big brother, why are you here!"
I shouted in my heart, and my brain spun fast.
"Brother Guan, come here!"
Guan Xingquan appeared, and he actually looked at the Eastern European man in his 30s who was not tall, with blond hair and a receding hairline.
"Brother Guan, that man speaks Russian, you talk to him, let him take a group photo for us, and we will also take a photo for them later." ”
"Oh. ”
Guan Xingquan crackled, and the other party seemed to have a little bit of caution in his eyes at first, but he quickly agreed.
also chatted for a few words, the other party was really Soviet, and helped Zhang Nan and the three of them to take a group photo, and Zhang Nan also took a photo for the couple.
But this is not over, Zhang Nan pulled a passing tourist, insisted on taking a group photo with the couple, and he also took a group photo with the man, as well as with the couple.
The man felt a little inexplicable about this: Chinese people are so familiar?
However, when they learned that the three of them would travel to Moscow tomorrow, Guan Xingquan also took out his visa to the Soviet Union to show the other party, and the couple still agreed.
I probably think that these three Chinese people are not only self-cooked, but also very fond of the Soviet Union.
The couple smiled brightly when they took the photo, and Zhang Nan smiled even more!
Guan Xingquan knew that Zhang Nan must not be fooling around, so he kept crackling and shooting, and all three of them took photos with the couple.
When saying goodbye, Zhang Nan also forced a note with his address and phone number in Huaxia, saying that if he had the opportunity to come to Huaxia, he would be warmly welcomed!
The other party said goodbye to Zhang Nan with a little inexplicability and doubts about the three enthusiastic and excessive Chinese people. Zhang Nan saw that he also stuffed the note into his wallet, and seemed very polite.
When the couple left, Zhang Nan and the three also planned to return to West Berlin.
The two customs officers were still there, but Zhang Nan didn't change the 20 marks, saying that it was a souvenir.
The other party is definitely smiling in his heart!
As soon as I returned to West Berlin, I immediately found a taxi, "Brother Guan, let's go to the photo studio immediately and wash out the photos immediately!"
"Anan, you were very strange just now. But that Soviets are not simple!
Xiang Weirong said lightly.
As soon as he explained where the driver was going, Guan Xingquan said: "I feel that guy and I should be the same kind of people before, Anan, how do you see it?"
"Instinct! But Brother Guan, that person is much more powerful than you!"
"Are you kidding? I can see that the man has practiced, but I promise to fight five at a time!"
Zhang Nan pouted, "It's not that I'm fighting with you, what are you anxious about." ”
"Xingquan, don't fight with Anan. That man was very deep, very powerful! not very incomprehensible. ”
Zhang Nan didn't bother to break it off, and said, "That guy is a KGB, he can't be wrong." Don't ask me how I know, this person will be absolutely powerful, very powerful in the future! You have to keep a good picture, in another ten years, this person will surprise us. ”
"Haha, you are bold enough, even the KGB dares to take a group photo! But don't do that next time, you Brother Guan has the blood of Soviet agents in your hands, and it's not good to get too close. ”
Zhang Nan nodded again and again when he heard this: This Brother Guan is really not simple!
The three of them were chatting in the taxi, but they couldn't understand the driver who killed them: Yan County dialect!
But who was that guy just now?
Lao Pu!
In 1985, he was sent to the KGB in Dresden, GDR. In 1987, he was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel and appointed senior assistant to the commissioner, at the age of 35, only two years after he arrived in Germany.
Zhang Nan knew that Lao Pu did not know in his memoirs about the specific business during his work in Dresden, but it was clear that the experience of being stationed in East Germany had accumulated a lot of contacts for his future political career.
As for why he came to Berlin, maybe for tourism or something, anyway, the KGB staff stationed abroad should have a good income, and it is normal to travel with his wife - it seems that his lover is also staying in Germany with him.
There is no detour in the taxi, less than a kilometer to the home photo studio, you can quickly develop the photo, and you can pick it up in two hours.
The three of them didn't go far, walked around the neighborhood, and had dinner in a restaurant. By the time we finished eating, the photos had already been washed.
Looking at the young Lao Pu in the photo, Zhang Nan wanted to laugh: after more than 20 years, he can definitely rely on this photo to become an Internet celebrity. (To be continued.) )