Chapter 13: Chance Encounters and Awkward Conversations

So Ma Xiaoyang patiently found the right crowd, found the right place, and found the person he was looking for, Ivan Vitariye Viktor, who was missing half a finger and half an ear, the home of the 'mechanical pioneer'.

Ma Xiaoyang pretended to be inadvertent.

"Hello, I'm a tourist from China, my partner and I didn't pay attention to our team, so we got separated and now seem to be a little lost. ”

"You should go down the street over there. ”

"Thank you.

Wow, this telescope of yours is a nice thing, can you lend me a look?"

The spirit of shamelessness should be carried forward when necessary, especially when the motives are not pure. Ma Xiaoyang didn't wait for Ivan to agree, and passed the telescope from Ivan's hand. Ivan let go of his hand with a bewildered expression.

Ma Xiaoyang pretended to understand and was fascinated and began to comment.

"Eight times magnification, look at its coating, reflecting a beautiful amber light, you won't be a general, will you?"

Have you ever seen such a shabby general!

Ma Xiaoyang looked at Ivan looking at himself like an idiot, and pretended to smile embarrassedly.

"I'm sorry, I like this kind of thing very much, I really want to collect one, can you sell me this thing?"

Ivan's eyes lit up, and he didn't show it, although he was a little depressed, he was not a stupid person. Looking at this 'foreigner' dressed, he didn't look like an ordinary person, his leather shoes were shiny, his leather jacket was new, and the people who followed him were always following him at the side and behind him, as if they were protecting him.

This guy must be the child of the official's family over there, Ivan made a conclusion to Ma Xiaoyang in his heart.

Ma Xiaoyang also pretended to like the appearance of this telescope very much, and impatiently took out the money from his pocket.

"I'm willing to give it two hundred roubles, so please transfer it to me. ”

Ivan was taken aback by the price, and it was a jump of the high. He originally wanted to think if he could mention it a little more, after all, this foreigner was too generous, but when he saw another person who seemed to be a bodyguard behind this foreigner looking at him with a serious face, he knew that he should accept it. This thing is in such a military town in the Far East, not to mention a lot but a lot, don't stir up the yellow and let the duck fly away.

In fact, Mengzi couldn't understand what Ma Xiaoyang was talking to this old Maozi at all, he didn't even know that Ma Xiaoyang could speak Russian, and the one who followed behind him was not serious, but confused.

Ma Xiaoyang 'impatiently' stuffed the money in his hand to Ivan, and then asked Mengzi to take out a new leather jacket from his bag, and 'solemnly' wrapped the telescope without a mirror box in it, and carefully put it in the bag.

Mengzi didn't know what kind of medicine Ma Xiaoyang would sell in the gourd, but they had been cooperating in the south for a long time, and this would not dismantle Ma Xiaoyang's platform.

Ma Xiaoyang put down the binoculars, enthusiastically took Ivan's hand, and said happily: "Thank you, comrade!" It felt like he had picked up a big treasure.

"It's lunchtime, can I have a drink? It's not far from there, and I would like to thank you for transferring it to me." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a building on the other side of the street.

Ivan looked in the direction of Ma Xiaoyang's finger, and his heart couldn't help but tremble fiercely. The place Ma Xiaoyang pointed to is not accessible to everyone, and although it is said to be open to tourists, the price has not decreased. When he was at the peak of his career, he might not be able to go there and eat.

"I heard that there is vodka from Moscow, and once you come to the Soviet Union, you must try it. ”

The lethality of this sentence to Ivan is comparable to that of a nuclear bomb, and his honest body involuntarily followed Ma Xiaoyang's footsteps.

Caviar and vodka are comfortable to serve Ivan, coupled with Ma Xiaoyang's deliberate friendship, the two of them can be said to have a good conversation. If it was Ivan in the past, he might have been a little vigilant, but now he still has something, what he didn't say, drink.

In such a high-end place, Ma Xiaoyang would not have drunk Ivan on the spot, and he would have to talk about things later.

"Ivan, my friend, my family is a military family. But I don't want to be like them, I like to be a businessman. I am now in the business of light industrial products in the south of my country.

I have heard people from the Soviet Union say that there is a big shortage of light industrial products here, and this time I came with a tour group to see how the market is here. ”

"Then you should go to Moscow, the city of Blagoveshchensk is relatively a small place there. ”

"Yes, it's a small city, but it's relatively easy to do business here. You're a warrior, and if you look at your fingers, I know that the scar from the flying gun in your hand is like that.

So you say, in the face of an unknown enemy, do you first fight a tentative war with their small forces, or do you directly start an all-out war with their main forces?"

"Well, you're right. ”

"Does that mean the way I do business, or did I guess you were a warrior?"

"It's all right!"

Interesting answer, friend. Can you ask what you're doing now, I don't think you look like you're on active duty. ”

"Quitting since injury...... Troops...... Since then, I've been at home, and I'm sure you can see that I'm not doing very well. Originally, I was going to use that telescope for some 'groceries' today, but we didn't need it much until I met you, my friend. ”

"It's unbelievable that this is like this, this is what we call fate there. ”

Lao Tzu never believed in fate, because in this life, Lao Tzu only 'arranged' fate, and the first one to be arranged was you, Ivan. Ma Xiaoyang thought to himself.

"Your plan is good, but it's not viable. My friend, you should know us in detail about the USSR before you come, private business is not allowed here. ”

If Ma Xiaoyang was allowed to do so, he wouldn't look for him, all Ma Xiaoyang needed was Ivan's connections and his ability to act as a KGB, nothing more.

As for business talent, he could now say that all of you here are rubbish, and you should wash yourself up and get ready to tremble under the obscenity of the Great Prophet.

If it weren't for the family's arrangement, Ma Xiaoyang might not have gone out so early, and he could also choose to go to college, talk about a love as pure as a snowflake with his sister of the school flower, and have a good time swinging in the wind.

But when he came back, he didn't even have time to go to school. You must know that the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union only existed in the 90s, so how could he have the time to wait in the United States.