Chapter 191: Polish Merchant
"Dude, what price does Miko charge today?" Hong Tao, who parked the car a kilometer away, is now wearing a suede hat with the brim pressed to his eyebrows, and a pair of dark brown sunglasses covering his eyes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info these two are temporary props, just for camouflage, Hong Tao doesn't want others to see his true face, especially the pair of eyes that are not easy to forget when they see it, and they are smart and wise and kind to a pair!
"How much do you want?" the dealer glanced at Hong Tao a few times, and replied in a disregardful manner.
"There are more than 2,000 ......" Hong Tao tried his best to keep his voice low, in addition to his eyes, his male heavy metal voice also had to be disguised.
"Nine and a half, do you want to change it now?" Hearing the number reported by Hong Tao, the dealer was a little energetic. It's not more than 2,000, but the legs of flies are also meat, and big deals can't be touched a few times a year.
"I'll think about it again......" Hong Tao shook his head and walked down the street again.
"Hey, how about nine o'clock!" The dealer saw that Hong Tao was not a mallet, and added three more points.
"......" Hong Tao didn't look back at all, he didn't plan to change it at all, just asked about the price.
After walking most of the street, I asked three or four dealers who had reversed the foreign exchange, and the black market exchange price of the US dollar and the renminbi was basically set at 9.8. However, this is the exchange rate of 2,000 US dollars, and if the quantity is more, this price will have to rise, and it will not be able to exceed 10, which means that your 100,000 US dollars can be exchanged for more than 1 million yuan.
At this time, Hong Tao stopped wandering, came to a shop and walked straight in. This shop is not doing business behind closed doors, it has a few big words on its door, consignment, translation, negotiation! What does it mean? It is not a shop, but a small derivative shop that provides services specifically for shops and merchants.
"Hello, is there a translator you can hire?" After entering the door, Hong Tao changed into English, and learned the tone of the old German professor in his father's school, and deliberately pronounced the t as d.
The old German man, who taught computers, was facing the door of his father's office, Bautzen from eastern Germany, with standard German English pronunciation. The old man liked to chat with young people, and every time he went to Hongtao, he would chat with him for a while, saying everything except computer problems. With Hong Tao's broken mouth, he is not only poor with Chinese, but also foreigners. The old man's German English is his best joke, but I didn't expect to use it today.
"Yes, yes...... Do you want Russian or English?" There were two middle-aged people in the room, a man and a woman, hearing Hong Tao's words, the woman blinked her eyes and didn't know what to do, the man reacted quite quickly, but he was a little surprised by Hong Tao's dress, and looked at Hong Tao carefully while talking, probably trying to find out whether this was a foreigner or a Chinese.
"English...... English!I ...... Poland...... Korpović, down jacket, tuba!" Hong Tao's heart also collapsed, pretending that Chinese himself can still cover the clouds and mountains and fog, but this is the first time to pretend to be a foreigner, especially in front of these well-informed masters, I don't know if it can work. Anyway, the head is also a knife, the head is still a knife, and if you get out, you will show the stuffing, with your own body, they may not be able to catch up when you run.
"English is it, right? an hour, a hundred...... An hour!" the man almost understood, and immediately took out a quotation, pointed to the English and Russian entries on it, and began to quote Hong Tao.
Seeing that the man didn't doubt his identity too much, Hong Tao felt that it should be the Polish surname of the German professor's mother-in-law's mother-in-law, and the majority of the international masters here are Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Turkey, and there are few Polish masters, and they probably haven't seen them a few times. Who said that if you look like a Chinese, you can't be a Pole, some people in Eastern Europe look not much different from the Chinese, you can't tell them if you don't look carefully, and you won't give them the opportunity to distinguish, and your hat and glasses must not be taken off.
"I ...... There is no money, only this ......" In order to pretend to be more like, Hong Tao took out a 100 yuan bill, indicating that he didn't understand that the price on the paper was RMB.
"Thirty minutes...... Translated here, thirty minutes ...... "When the man saw the green dollar bill, his eyes were gone. 100 yuan an hour, this is the official price of Yabao Road to ask for an interpreter, only the first time to come to China will think that it is 100 dollars an hour.
If you don't make this money, you can't make it in vain, and the Chinese businessmen on Yabao Road are probably the Chinese who are the most afraid of foreigners and like to pit foreigners. If they were to be the leaders of the international trade department, they would not be able to make foreigners out of the, and they would never sign so many broken contracts that were deceived and deceived, and they would not make excuses that they were crossing the river by feeling the stones. Only people who don't spend their own money will shirk responsibility with such shameless reasons, and the businessmen here have no stones to touch, but they still cross the river.
Does Hong Tao really want to find a translator? Why do you need a translator? The answer is yes, he really wants to hire a translator for 100 dollars. It's just that it's not hired to be used, but to be used as a gunman, and the translator is asked to find another kind of foreign exchange dealer for himself, that is, the merchants who set up shop in Yabao Road.
The merchants in Yabao Road can be said to be foreign exchange dealers, and for these people who have been engaged in foreign trade business all year round, the US dollar is an indispensable international hard currency. However, for the sake of safety, they never trade casually with outsiders, especially Chinese, for fear of implicating the safety of their business. Changing foreign currency is just a small business that they piggyback on, and it is not cost-effective because of a small loss.
If you want to exchange foreign currency with them, Hong Tao has no hope of going by himself, and he has to be blasted out when he enters the house. However, Hong Tao knows that there is a very special profession here that should be able to gain the trust of these merchants, and that is translation.
It's not a long street, but it's probably the most concentrated place in the country for Russian-speaking talents, and there is no shortage of English-speaking talents. These translators are not sent by the state, but are 100% of them here for private work, and they come from a variety of sources, including school teachers, international students in Beijing, and foreign staff in Beijing.
They spend their free time here to act as interpreters for international masters and to act as a link between these foreigners and local merchants. Therefore, every translator has a merchant he is familiar with, not only charging a translation fee, but also getting a commission from the merchant, provided that the merchant in his hand is brought to the familiar store, and try to cooperate to reach the transaction. Hong Tao came for this convenience, and he couldn't trade directly with the merchants, but it would be through translation.
"Hi, hello, my name is Ayer and I'm happy to help you. After waiting for a cigarette, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes came on a 28 big bicycle, and after muttering a few words to the man in the house, he came to Hong Tao, bared his teeth and showed a mouthful of big white teeth.
Seeing this young man's appearance and hearing his English pronunciation, Hong Tao's heart blossomed happily. God is so long-eyed, send such a thing to yourself, if there is a Chinese translator, this scene will not be very easy to act. My English has a strong Chinese school flavor, which is the evaluation of the old German man, and it is easy to expose the stuffing. But now this young man, at first glance, is an Indian student, his English accent is not as good as his own, no one can say anyone, a pair of rubbish.
"Hello, my name is Kolpović and I'm from Poland. My companion's family is in a hurry to return in advance, I am coming to China for the first time, I want to buy a batch of down jackets, can you please be my translator? This is the fee I negotiated with this gentleman, if we can, we will start immediately, I am very short of time. ”
"No problem, Mr. Korpović, may I ask you how many down jackets you are going to buy? Seeing the green banknote in Hong Tao's hand, the Indian young man didn't mention the question of how much an hour was, it seemed that he was also close to the ink black, and planned to pit Hong Tao.