Chapter 48: Return to Russia
"I also think that these goods are more than 70 kilograms!" Hong Chen said angrily as he looked at the three bags.
"My goods are a little more than 70 kilograms!" said Xia Fatzi embarrassedly touching his head.
"Mo Bei, a few of you go and help me see, how much more is he a little more?" Jia Lei rolled his eyes and said.
"Okay!" Mo Bei and the others glanced at each other, and immediately walked up excitedly, each carrying a large bag and carrying it.
"25 kg!", "25 kg!", "25 kg!"
Several bodyguards reported the number separately and said that Jia Lei was happy when he heard this.
"Xia Fatzi, how come your three bags are 5 kilograms more than the baggage check-in limit?
"Didn't I see that this girl had nothing in her hand, and she could carry an extra 30 kilograms of goods without anything in her hand! Her luggage was 10 kilograms in the sky, and I only had 5 kilograms more. Xia Fatzi said cheekily.
"Come on, I don't know about you yet! Do you plan to wear the extra five pounds on yourself later? Just like the guy over there who wears three leather jackets?" Jia Lei asked.
Anyway, in June, isn't it hot for that big brother to wear three leather jackets?
"That's exactly what I thought...... Hehe, I'm glad I met you this time, so I don't have to suffer this crime. Xia Fatzi said happily.
"Didn't you think that maybe I would bring the goods too?" asked Jia Lei.
"You're so rich, how can you still look at this little thing? The wages of your bodyguards are going to be tens of thousands of yuan, right? If you can't afford to pay them by taking the train, don't lie to people!" said Xia Fatzi in disbelief.
"I didn't lie to you, I really brought a batch of goods over this time!" Jia Lei said.
It's just that he doesn't have so many goods, and there is still a balance in the baggage allowance.
A group of people got on the train with a smile, but as soon as they got on the train, Jia Lei frowned.
"Why are the lights here so dim? The bedding is torn and dirty, how can people live, is the situation in Moscow so bad now? Don't you even do the face project on the international special train?" Jia Lei asked with a frown.
"That's right, they all say that Lao Maozi's train is good, but here it's not as good as our country's hard sleeper?" Hong Xia said with disgust as she looked at the quilt in the carriage.
Everyone in the house is disgusted with the bedding on the sleeper, but everyone can't help it, the luggage is limited when you get on the bus, and everyone didn't expect this situation, and it is impossible to bring a set of luggage from home.
"Oh, don't worry, this is what the last guest used. The old Maozi conductor will come to change to a new one soon, and will send us a set of clean sheets when the time comes. Xia Fatzi happily explained to Jia Lei.
"Really, if that's fine, otherwise this quilt is so dirty, how are we going to sleep all the way?" Hong Xia nodded and said.
"Of course it's true! You don't know, I've been living on these two Sino-Russian international trains for at least five months in the past six months, and I'm almost calling this place my home now. I can feel the up and down of this train very clearly, and even the flight attendants of country E on the train know me. Xia Fatzi patted his big belly and said proudly.
"Oh my God, Xia Fatty, you can't be you, you've been running back and forth on this line since you broke up with us last time, right?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.
"That's right! I spent the rest of my time in this car except when I went back to the capital to load the goods. Xia Fatzi said proudly.
"Are you dying, are you dying to make money? After living on the train for half a year, can you sleep?" asked Jia Lei.
"Didn't you say that? If I hadn't taken advantage of the previous months when my luggage was unlimited, how could I have made such a big business now? Xia Fatzi said.
"Then your perseverance is strong enough! If I had been in the car for five months in a row, I would have gone crazy. Mo Bei complained.
With the sound ——of the train whistle, the lights on the train turned from dim to bright.
"Excuse me! Let's change the bedding!" The attendants on the two cars knocked on the door of the box with the cart and said, Jia Lei and they immediately opened the door to let the other party in, and the attendant came in and gave each person a set of clean pillowcases, pillows, bed sheets, and sheets.
At this time, the radio on the car began to play exciting Russian-style music, clean and tidy bedding and beautiful music, and the car now has the appearance of an international special train.
"When I heard this song, I felt that I was really going abroad!" Hong Chen said with a sigh.
"It's still early for you to leave the country, we are still on the land of China!" Jia Lei reminded him.
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"It seems that we are about to reach the border, right? This should be the last time we come down to buy something, right?" Hong Chen asked speechlessly with a big box of bubble gum in his hand.
"Yes, it seems that you finally get it!" Jia Lei said with a smile, and then he blew a big bubble very much.
Take this big box of "big bubble gum" as an example, it used to cost only 20 yuan in other places, but it has risen to 25 yuan at Harbin Station! Now it has risen to 27 yuan in Manchuria. I found that the closer we were to the border, the higher the price of commodities became. A bottle of beer is only 1.5 yuan in Beijing, 2 yuan at Shenyang Station, and 2.5 yuan at Harbin. It's even higher than that!" Hong Chen said speechlessly.
"Very good, you are very observant! Just look at you, and you will definitely make a lot of money in the future. Jia Lei patted him on the shoulder and said.
"Jia Lei, do we really want to buy so many big bubble gums and bring them over?" asked Hong Xia, holding more than a dozen boxes of big bubble gum and fruit candy in her arms.
"Of course, let me tell you, big bubble gum is a hot product in country E, and now it is a very face-saving thing to be able to eat big bubble gum in country E. The most important thing is that it is small in size and light in weight! Jia Lei said.
"Come on, don't fool the little girl, you just watch the girl go back for the first time, for fear that she won't know the money and be cheated. Just get some bargains for the little girl to practice, right?" Xia Fatzi ruthlessly exposed Jia Lei's true thoughts.
"So what? Sister Hong Xia went to country E for the first time, and she didn't even know the money in country E, so I first asked her to use these little things to practice her hands, and then figure out the local prices first. Is there anything wrong with that?" asked Jia Lei.
"No!" Hong Xia immediately nodded and said.
She has also sold goods before, so she naturally knows what problems need to be paid attention to when selling goods.
While everyone was talking, the train stopped at the Manzhouli Customs, and the staff of the customs and health quarantine office got on the train to check passports, exit permits, and register cameras and other valuables brought out of the country.
"Jia Lei, I just heard that only two bottles of wine are allowed to be brought on the bus here, so what should I do?" Dasha suddenly stood up anxiously and asked.
"Whew, did you bring wine, I thought your two bags were full of food?" Jia Lei asked with wide eyes.
"My bag is full of food, and the other bag is full of flat bottles, small bottles, and two pot heads. Dasha said.
"How dangerous is it for you to bring so many flammable and explosive materials to the car? Why don't you tell us in advance?" Luo Nan immediately frowned, looking at the bag under Dasha's bed.
"That's it, Dasha, you don't usually like to drink high-grade liquor, why did you bring so many two-pot heads this time?" Hong Chen also asked.
"Two years ago, when I went shopping with Jia Lei in the free trade zone here, didn't Jia Lei just use a few bottles of small two-pot heads for a camera?
"Whew! I really don't know what I should say to you? Even if you do change to a color TV refrigerator, they are so big! How are you going to move things back to China?" Jia Lei asked speechlessly.
"I haven't thought about this yet......" Dasha said.
Fortunately, now that there is a new policy, the customs inspectors did not say anything about the wine brought by Dasha, but were very strict with the health and quarantine certificate.
All the people on the train who did not have a health quarantine certificate had to get off the train and go to the quarantine station at the station for blood testing, and Jia Lei and the others had to go down together.
Hong Chen and the three of them did not have a health examination certificate, so the inspectors first measured Hong Chen's blood pressure, then took blood to check his blood type, and finally issued him an "International Travel Health Certificate".
Then these people can get out of the customs, Jia Lei felt that this inspection was a bit inexplicable at first, but when Jia Lei saw that each person had to pay 130 yuan for the inspection fee, he immediately understood.
"Sure enough, when did I go to the hospital for a health check-up. They are all part of the income-generating projects of the local health system. Jia Lei said speechlessly.
Now there is no such high-tech equipment as 30 years later, and in addition to the blood type test, it is impossible to detect the disease in such a short period of time.
It was the last thing they experienced at home, and soon the train whined across the border and came to a foreign land.
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After passing through the country, the customs officers of the country got on the bus as usual to check the passports and register the US dollars brought into the country by the passengers.
The customs officer will check the number of US dollars carried by each person and the number on the customs declaration form before signing the declaration form.
This time, Dasha's pocket money was strongly concerned by the customs inspectors of country E, and both the Chinese and the Russians expressed incomprehensible expressions about this thick pocket money.
"What are you doing with so many dollars in country E?" asked Dasha very seriously at the checkpoint.
After all, almost 100 percent of the people who go to Moscow from China carry a lot of goods, and few of them carry so many dollars in cash. Dasha is now actually going in the opposite direction with most of the Chinese people, which will of course attract the attention of the customs officers.
"Do you mean this? This is my mother's pocket money for me, and she was afraid that I would be hungry and asked me to buy food. I've heard that food in country E is very expensive, and a loaf of bread costs one or two dollars. Dasha patted his stomach and said.
"Food was very expensive, it was last year, and this year we have come down under the new government. That's enough money for you to eat bread in our country for the rest of your life......" said the inspector speechlessly.
When I went back at the end of last year, two eggs cost one dollar, and a pound of white bread cost two dollars!" Jia Lei asked in disbelief.
"Don't worry, the price of our domestic food has really dropped! Under the leadership of the new leader, we finally have no shortage of food, and you will know when you go to the restaurant to eat later. The people at the checkpoint said happily.
Jia Lei and the inspectors chatted briefly for a few words, and they passed the inspection smoothly, all because Jia Lei gave everyone a regular passport, which is valid for five years.
The train passed through Manchuria and arrived at Zabaikalsk station, Jia Lei took Dasha and them to get off the train to watch the train change wheels, and the others also hurried to do business at the station or go to the toilet.
"Hello Huaxia, do you have RMB with you?" Jia Lei and the others had just come out of the toilet when they were stopped by a Russian who spoke stiff Chinese.
"Why are you asking this?" Mo Bei and Chen Dong glanced at each other, and immediately stood in front of Jia Lei and asked vigilantly.
"I want to ...... I will exchange the rubles in my hand with you for people, people, and coins. This foreigner stumbled in Chinese.
"Why do you want to exchange RMB?" asked Jia Lei puzzled.
"Ruble, always, devaluation! I can't change it...... So you can only exchange it for some Chinese money......" the Russian strong man explained.
"What you say makes sense, at least the depreciation of the renminbi should be slower! How do you want to change it?" Jia Lei asked.
"Are you really willing to trade with me?" The foreigner was so excited that he didn't even stumble when he spoke.
"Anyway, we're going to have to eat in the dining car later, and we're going to have to use rubles. I'll exchange 1,000 yuan with you!What is your exchange rate here?" Jia Lei thought for a while and said.
"1:30, if you give us a piece of RMB, I will give you 30 rubles, and 1,000 yuan is 30,000 rubles. At this time, another foreigner who spoke Chinese fluently came out from the side, and the original foreigner was immediately a little unhappy when he saw him.
Even the broken toilets of this kind of station have rivers and lakes, and this foreigner who speaks Chinese very well is a gangster here.
Because he speaks Chinese well, he was brought by a gang to control the exchange of foreign currency in this area.
"Let's promise him first, if you want to change it, we'll change it for another one! Don't be embarrassed!" Hong Chen said immediately as if he had an electrocardiogram with the other party.
"I think you're the same kind of person as me, so I'll let him go. The foreigner gangster looked at Hong Chen and said that they all had a unique temperament of a gangster.
"People in the world say that music has no borders!
Anyway, Jia Lei and they didn't lack RMB in their hands, so they exchanged rubles with both of them, and according to these two foreigners, the current exchange rate between the Moscow ruble and the US dollar is 1 US dollar for 190 rubles.
"The ruble is a little higher than it was when I left Moscow! Jia Lei concluded after returning to the car.
"This can be seen from the station, although these Russians are still in a hurry to buy things from us, the environment and order at their station have at least stabilized. It seems that Yeltsin has indeed done a good job!" said Mobei.
"I don't think their economy is stable! I think this brief tranquillity is more like a false boom, and shock therapy is certainly not reliable. Jia Lei shook his head and said.
The unreliability of shock therapy will only become apparent later, but at least by June '92, prices and order in Russia have begun to stabilize again. This can be seen from Jia Lei's lunch today......
Jia Lei and his group went to the Russian food truck for dinner, two fried eggs cost 65 roubles, a soup cost 59 roubles, and two slices of bread cost 10 roubles.
A set meal costs only 134 rubles, which is only 4.5 yuan.
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