Jia Lei caught a cold after arriving in Yakutia City, he took a pill and took out a large bag of ginger brown sugar from his luggage and put it on the table.

"Well, my aunt was prescient, and when she heard that I was coming to Siberia, she had to bring me this, and I laughed at her that she didn't need it in May. Jia Lei said as he soaked himself a thick glass of ginger syrup.

"Give me a drink, too, and I'll warm up. The Siberian cold snap is too strong!" Wu Niu said, and Jia Lei put two large spoonfuls into his water glass.

My aunt told me the same thing at the time, and she said that the weather forecast said every day that it must be very cold here in the Siberian cold snap. Jia Lei said, but unfortunately he was only thinking about diamonds at the time and didn't listen to them at all.

"Uncle Niu Niu, what are you drinking? It's so delicious!" a small head poked in through the crack in the door and asked, this is Uncle Wu Niu's little granddaughter Eva, who is only three years old.

"Of course it's delicious, do you want to drink brown sugar water?" Wu Niu raised his glass and asked, although his uncle was younger than his mother, he couldn't stand the fact that people got married early, and Wu Niu's cousins were several years older than Wu Niu.

"I want to~~!" the little girl said loudly with her fingers and eyes shining.

"Then come here!" Wu Niu said to find his hand, and the little girl immediately jumped on Wu Niu's thigh.

"Here, take a sip! Wu Niu scooped a spoonful of brown sugar water for her, blew it and handed it over.

"Smack!" the little girl first licked and tasted the taste, then her eyes lit up and she drank all the brown sugar water in one breath.

"It's delicious, I want it more!" Eva said, looking up at Wu Niu.

"Okay, then I'll give you a few more sips. Wu Niu said.

"Eva, don't you think this thing is spicy? Jia Lei squatted on the ground and asked the little girl.

"It's not spicy! It's delicious, it's sweet like candy! I ate two pieces of candy at Christmas this year, and the candy wrappers are so beautiful that I can show you." The little girl said that the colorful candy wrappers were the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.

"No need! brother has sugar, I'll give you a few pieces!" Jia Lei blushed and stood up and said, he didn't expect that this place was so poor that even a piece of candy was rare.

"Give you candy, and apples!" Jia Lei picked the biggest and reddest apple he brought from home and gave it to Xiao Eva.

"I want sugar cubes too!", "I want to drink sugar water!" The door was slammed open, and seven or eight children under the age of ten squeezed in from outside the door, all of whom were the grandchildren of Uncle Wu Niu.

"Don't rob it! be careful to spill it!" Wu Niu hurriedly said as he grabbed the teacup as the children dragged him by the arm and almost knocked him down.

"Sister, can you see if this is the apple on TV?" Eva held the apple to her sister Eve.

"It's an apple! it's really an apple!" said Eve, carefully touching the apple, and as soon as the words came out, all the children in the room had seen it.

"Show me!" a six-year-old boy reached for an apple.

"No, brother, you're going to eat it. Eva screamed and quickly shoved the apple into Eve's hand.

"Immi, don't grab it, this apple is for grandparents to eat, and the rest belongs to Eva. Eve hid the apples behind her and said that fresh fruit was sky-high in their small city!

Ordinary citizens can't eat a single fruit in a year!

"Why is it so poor here? It costs so many people to share an apple? Isn't this the main producing area of Siberian diamonds? I heard that 80 percent of the diamonds in the Soviet Union came from this country!" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"For hundreds of years, the prisoners here were exiled, and no one cared about their lives or deaths, and they did the hardest and cheapest jobs of miners, and they only got enough to eat. It doesn't matter how expensive the diamonds are, it doesn't matter to them! This is a permafrost, fresh vegetables and fruits are rarely seen, and even if there are, only rich and powerful people can eat them, and after the depreciation of the ruble, even the citizens of Shuangcheng can't afford to eat fruits, let alone here!" Wu Niu said with a sigh.

"Go get a cup and I'll give you sugar water!" Jia Lei said to the children in the house.

"Great!" the group of children cheered and hurried out to get their cups.

"Don't you want it?" asked Eve.

"I don't want to, I'm fourteen years old and an adult. I can't be greedy anymore!" Eve said, but unfortunately if she hadn't glanced at Jia Lei's cup and swallowed and foamed, Jia Lei would have believed this sentence.

"There are two apples here, you can take them and cut them for everyone!" Jia Lei took out two more apples and handed them over.

"No, it's too precious!" Eve said with a quick shake of her head.

"Take it! This thing is from our tree, and we don't need money. Jia Lei said, Eve took the apple.

"You can eat this yourself, I'll give a few more to the elders. Jia Lei said.

"Do you still have apples?" Wu Niu asked in surprise.

"There are six more, and this thing is too heavy for me to carry less than ten. Jia Lei said that he had sold apples in the Soviet Union, and he knew that if he bought this thing in the Soviet Union, he would lose money, so he brought a few from China.

"You can take two more out and visit my grandparents with me!" Wu Niu said, and then he took out a few large bags from his luggage.

"Isn't it too simple to take two apples? I brought ginseng as a gift to the elders. Jia Lei said and went to turn over the salute.

"Don't take the ginseng, this person doesn't recognize this! You might as well give them two more apples." Wu Niu said.

"In that case, why don't you bring apples to the old man yourself?" Jia Lei said as he took out four apples and a cigarette and put them in a nylon bag.

"Maozi Customs has a weight limit! The food here is expensive, and I can only help them bring the most important things except for my own luggage. Apples are too heavy to be worth the weight!" Wu Niu said.

He didn't bring a lot of dollars over like Jia Lei, and he bought whatever he wanted to eat, so that he could bring these messy things through the customs, Jia Lei handed over the brown sugar to Eve and followed Wu Niu to visit the elders.

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"I haven't seen such a good apple for many years, it's grown in the orchard in the mountain behind the kiln village, right?" Wu Niu's grandmother asked with a look of reminiscence as she held the apple.

"Yes! Jia Lei hurriedly replied.

"Who did you learn your Russian from?" asked Wu Niu's grandmother.

"I learned it by rote following a dictionary and a tape recorder, and I really didn't understand something, so I asked for my translation. Jia Lei said.

"Oh, you even have a translator, you seem to be a rich man?" asked Wu Niuyang's grandfather.

"Average!" Mr. Jia said.

"These gifts are so valuable! Wu Niuyang's grandfather looked at the cigarettes and apples brought by Jia Lei and said.

"Take it! These things are worthless in Huaxia. Wu Niu's grandmother said.

"Grandma, this is what you asked me to bring, it's all here, you can take a look!" Wu Niu hurriedly said.

"We're too far from your house, or we'll have your mom come back to see us once a year to bring me something! Grandma Wu Niu said while calling the baggage.

"Did you bring sugar too?" Jia Lei asked in surprise, Wu Niu brought a bag of white sugar weighing ten catties.

"Yes! Sugar was not available in the Soviet Union, especially in a remote place like the city of Yakutia. Wu Niu said that the sugar was enough for his grandmother and a few uncles to eat for three years.

"This medicine is not expensive, is it?" Wu Niu's grandmother asked Wu Niu.

"No, a box is only two cents!" Wu Niu said, Jia Lei stretched out his head to see that it was all painkillers and paracetamol.

"Why don't you bring some good medicine?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.

"The medicine is very strict, and I still bring these in my clothes. Wu Niu said.

"I heard that the Soviet medical system was all free, why do you have to buy medicine from Huaxia?" Jia Lei asked.

"Every day when I go to work under the mine, I always get sick and get injured, and although the hospital treats the sick, the anesthetics are too expensive, and the doctors don't give them to the patients. Wu Niu's grandmother said that Jia Lei felt cold and felt that it was best not to go to the hospital recently.

In addition to these few things, the rest were some tobacco, tea and cloth, cotton, and Jia Lei found that most of the things brought by Wu Niu were necessities of life.

"We should give you a gift in return for accepting so many things from you, and I don't have any good things for you to take. Wu Niu's grandfather took a look at the house, took a stone from the shelf and handed it to Jia Lei.

"What is this?" asked Jia Lei curiously holding the stone.

"Amber! I dug from the mine when I was younger, and there's a little bug in it. Wu Niuyang's grandfather said.

"It's too much of a bully for you to take a broken stone to someone, and the second daughter-in-law's guest is not wearing any thick clothes, so you prepare a set of the best furs for him and send it over. Wu Niu's grandmother said.

"Fur, no, this thing is too valuable!" Jia Lei quickly shook his head and said.

"It's expensive on your side, but it's not as valuable as an apple in our country. Wu Niu's grandmother said.

"I can't take your things for nothing, why don't I give money! How many dollars is this thing worth?" Jia Lei asked.

"Dollars? Dollars are a rarity in our country. "Grandma Wu Niu is finally not calm.

People like Wu Niu's grandmother, who have escaped from the war and traveled to several countries, rarely have things that can excite her, and Jia Lei suddenly feels that the US dollar may be very popular here.

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"Wolfskin mattresses, bearskin coats, deerskin boots, fox skin scarves, bearskin hats...... If I was wearing this outfit and was seen by someone from an animal protection organization, I would have to be scolded to death. Jia Lei was so frightened when he saw the gifts sent to him by Wu Niu's grandmother that he gasped and said, these things are all real leather.

"Don't think about so many strange things, you have to wear fur here, you haven't walked on the street since you came out of the train station, have you? Wu Niu said with a smile.

"Can't you even wear rubber-soled shoes? Why is the winter here so cruel?" Jia Lei said with goosebumps in fright.

"What's so cruel here, the most cruel thing here is that steel is as brittle as ice! You can take a piece of iron and break it like a pancake in winter!" Wu Niu said with a smile.

"Have you ever been here in winter?" Jia Lei asked curiously.

"I haven't been here! Every time my mom brings me back to visit my family, it's in June or July! My mom says it's too cold in winter for fear of freezing me to death, so she's never been here in winter! I've been to Yakutia four times in my life. Wu Niu said that after all, they were too poor to even afford a ticket.