Chapter 283: An Ant Market
Moscow is much warmer than many cities in northeastern China, after all, it is infected by the warm and humid air currents of the Atlantic Ocean. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ๏ฝ๏ฝ๏ฝU๏ฝEใ infoIt's an early morning morning in Moscow in April, and star fruit can't wait to visit Red Square for the new day.
Pugachev was still unsatisfied, and the two girls left early. No one at the breakfast table mentioned this, and Da Ming also knew that this fact was difficult to speak.
Breakfast was simple, and Pugachev had business to do after a hasty meal, and as a businessman, he needed to see what his subordinates were doing. "If you are going to visit Moscow, my Andrei can lead you."
Andrei played more of a butler role, and he was trusted by Pugachev from life to work. He bowed slightly to indicate that he was up to the task, and the siblings had no objections. In fact, the task of the tour guide was accompanied by Chu Hua's return, and he brought the embassy staff.
Tao Zhiyong, a diplomat in his thirties, was sent to Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He speaks Russian very well and has lived in Moscow for a long time, so he knows a lot about the local customs. It's just that he was very puzzled, this time it was actually to escort and protect the two children on the tour, until Chu Hua said that this was not an ordinary child.
He decided to take a look, so he followed Chu Hua to the building of the Pugachev Trading Company. Here he knows very well, "You mean that these two children are friends and partners of this Pugachev." Chu Hua nodded again and again and said that they were actually the presidents of the domestic Dexin Super Times Company, and their worth had already exceeded ten figures.
When Chu Hua said this, Tao Zhiyong was even a little apprehensive, just listening to these descriptions, he once thought that these two must be some kind of red aristocrats, after all, the knowledgeable Chinese people know that Dexin Company has a delicate relationship with the political circles.
The star fruit has changed into a new dress, this one is more ordinary, it is really ordinary people's casual clothes. Here in Moscow, some of Sonya's childhood clothes were reserved for reuse, and Daming changed into a leather jacket. Pugachev stressed that it is better not to show too much wealth in Moscow, unless there are soldiers with loaded guns to protect them.
Andrei also pointed out the incidents of recent months about the malicious harm to foreigners and ordinary people, everything is the sin of skinheads. "This group of young people has simply forgotten who defended Moscow fifty years ago, who defended the great Motherland, and now they actually worship the enemies of the Motherland." Andrei could only curse vigorously at the current situation, but there was nothing he could do but warn the children and pin a pistol to his waist.
Downstairs, Tao Zhiyong was already waiting, and the star fruit jumped downstairs to take a look at this person.
"Are you star fruit? Hu Weiguo's granddaughter of Hu Lao? โ
Star fruit looked at Chu Hua beside him a little inexplicably. "Oh, let me introduce you, this is our tour guide Tao Zhiyong."
"That's right, that's a lot of work." Out of courtesy, she bowed slightly.
Andre was in charge of the guards, and Tao Zhiyong was slightly surprised by the armed guards, and of course he himself was not armed with a gun. The first stop is a walk around Red Square, a great place for star fruit to sit in.
Red Square is small but steeped in history, and in 1941 Moscow's defenders were paraded by Stalin in the snow, and then went to the battlefield outside the city. Since then, military parades on Red Square have been very frequent, and it is the best place to remember World War II.
It is also very touching to be in this square, not far from the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, where I passed by yesterday and now I really see the real face. At the moment, there are not many people in the entire Red Square, unlike the overcrowded Tiananmen Square in China.
The servicemen, one of the three monsters of Russia, these guards stood guard normally with huge hats, and there were not many cars on the road. Traffic jams don't seem to exist here, as all the roads are wide. Star fruit was surprised to see some of the almost broken Lada, which ran away with a terrifying sound. At the same time, some luxury cars are also gorgeously driven away, and the poor and rich here have cars.
There are traces of history in Red Square, so the siblings took a lot of photos, and at the same time, their actions were questioned by some passers-by. A guy with curly hair walked over with a Polaroid and the so-called picture in time is now. It was Xingtou star fruit that readily agreed, the brother and sister held hands and smiled, and the curly hair pressed the shutter.
Soon the photo came out, and the guy also fired him for a hundred rubles. Tao Zhiyong wanted to theorize about this terrible price, and he knew that these people would always be like this. Carambola shook her head, the so-called one hundred rubles doesn't matter.
"You rich people are different, a hundred rubles is a lot, and the average person in Moscow earns a maximum of two thousand rubles a month." Tao Zhiyong sighed slightly, and he pointed out that many people in Moscow are like this, they have essential jobs but too little income, many people are open source, and some are not doing good things.
Chinese students in this city generally have a lot of money in their pockets, because Russia prohibits international students from working, so their parents in China can transfer money vigorously. In this era, the family that can send children to study abroad is at least relatively wealthy, and international students have become fat sheep in the eyes of some bad people, and sometimes even police.
Maybe it was some people who took pictures, and soon four or five little guys came running over. "Alas, don't hold me!" Daming was inexplicable for a while, and Tao Zhiyong smiled bitterly and said that these children were beggars.
Russia's touted free education is always problematic when it comes to implementation, and good welfare is based on stable revenues, and now the government is in debt. The best way to get rid of them is to give money, "they don't ask for a lot of money, they ask for money just to eat." These children are basically street children, and most of them have come from other cities. โ
How sad it is that Russia has become like this, star fruit is blocked in her heart, she is an orphan in this life, and in a sense she is the same as them. She reluctantly watched them leave quickly, the rubles in the children's hands were enough for them to eat for a month, but unfortunately soon the economic crisis was coming, and the rubles in their hands were suddenly worthless.
Pugachev heeded the warning and was already working on exchanging his rubles into foreign currency, as long as it could hold its value.
"Now it's two Russias." Andrei said lightly, "The rich are getting richer and richer, and the poor are willing to do anything to eat." The rich are not in the mood to care about the poor, they seem to be the nobles and serf owners of the imperial era. And the poor are still serfs, and without the Soviet Union, no one wants to care about their lives. โ
Russia is decaying, and the beauty of Moscow seems to be a fig leaf for fast beauty. Some World War II veterans sat silently in their chairs on the edge of Red Square, as if they were pondering something, while most of them walked in a hurry.
"Let's go to the market, there are a lot of Chinese in the Chergevov market." Tao Zhiyong introduced, star fruit think about it, just like that.
Before this, star fruit never cared about the Chinese market here, and this is indeed a very large market, and there are many Chinese businessmen at the moment. This is the market in the Izmaililova estate area, which the Chinese call "an ant market", the largest container market in Europe, and the wonderful thing is that it is basically Chinese goods.
If it is said that in the "era of the Great Fall", Chinese profiteers transported inferior goods to this side for sale and caused the anger of the Russians, in fact, there is nothing to do, most of the cheap things are not of good quality, not the Chinese are treacherous, it is really the Russians who cannot afford to buy more advanced things. So what came up here was a surprise to the star fruit, and it was a huge farmer's market.
"I thought I could sell some special things here, but I didn't expect them to be some goods for the national economy and people's livelihood." Daming is deeply touched that some of the shops here are Chinese bosses, and some are Lao Maozi selling things.
According to Tao Zhiyong, the market is divided into many areas, and this area is mainly selling clothes and daily necessities, which is also the most popular place for Moscow citizens.
Walking forward, the brother and sister saw some familiar faces, they must be Chinese. Some shops also have Chinese written in them, so that international students can understand that several international students are bargaining with the store in one store.
Even if the bargaining habits of foreigners in the country are still unabated, maybe this boss is Maozi, or maybe they won't bargain.
The brother and sister stepped forward curiously to act as an onlooker who did not know the truth, and the small dispute was basically impossible to negotiate the price.
"This shirt is not the price in China, do I have to pay three times the price when I go abroad?"
"Young man, you don't understand, the market is at this price, look at your clothes, you are from the Pushkin Russian Language Institute, you can't come here to learn Russian without breaking the bank. Besides, your family sent you here, so who would believe that you have no money? โ
They had already chatted with a small group, and his female companion was impatient to ask him to dare to take over the stubble.
"Boss, do you think this dress is really three times the price in China?" When the audience of star fruit suddenly asked.
The boss has a keen eye, and the star fruit's ferret hat reveals his identity. The boss said that it is not easy to do business in Russia, and the little girl in front of her must be from a wealthy background, especially the person behind her. "Other international students will never complain about our high price, since they want to buy new clothes, they can actually bring them from China, no matter who buys us, it is at this price." The boss patted his chest and assured that he would never harm the Chinese people.
In this market, the normal management fee must be paid, and there is also a special filial piety, that is, the so-called ** white road must be filial piety and keep safe. "You're still bargaining with me, you really don't know how difficult it is to do business in Russia. Some people think that Russia is very profitable, but they only see the people who make money, but they don't know the bones on the ground. A few of you must be new international students. โ
A few young people nodded, and afterwards in a cafรฉ, the brother and sister invited them to do something.
The bargaining young man still bought the shirt, all because of the haste that caused the thin soft belt to be not much, causing the temperature to rise, and he actually found too few suitable clothes. "My name is Lu Mingfei, this is my girlfriend Xiao Yan, and my two buddies."
"My name is Deng Bozhi."
"My name is Huang Jun. We are all from the Pushkin Institute of Russian Language. โ
The brother and sister introduced themselves the same, of course, the introduction was very simple, just to explain that they lived in Hangzhou. As for why he came here to play, it wasn't until Tao Zhiyong introduced himself as a diplomat at the embassy. "Students, you must study hard, and you must serve the motherland after completing your studies."
The four of them had nothing to say for a while, and soon coffee and snacks were sent one after another, Daming didn't look at the menu much, anyway, when he met the Chinese here, he would follow the expensive point. The four of them were all at once, and this meal was really expensive. "Alas, you Hangzhou people really can't guess what Deng Gong said, less rich leads to more wealth, or you have money."
Carambola covered her mouth and smiled: "After all, our family is in business, but we are in the energy business and have a business in Russia." You also know that our country's coal boss is very rich, and I am about the same as my brother. With that, she grabbed Da Ming.
"Brother? But you two don't look alike. Xiao Yan asked curiously.
"Of course, I'm an orphan, so we're brother and sister."
Star fruit didn't say much about identity, and saying more would only cause Xiao Yan, an international student, to burst into tears. This is the case for lunch, which is also a surprise to international students. The so-called courtesy exchanges, so inexplicably eating such a meal, the international students are not embarrassed, Deng Bozhi said that there is a sorority party in the evening. "We're going to have a barbecue dinner on the banks of the Moscow River in the evening, maybe you can go there, and if you speak Russian well, most of our classmates are Russian."
"Of course, ัะปััะฐััั, my brother and I learned Russian at a very young age, and now we speak more with Russians, and naturally we progress very quickly."
As a result, the afternoon itinerary has changed, and it is better to get around the city with international students. It was also pleasant to follow them to their school, although the star fruit would love to go to Moscow University. Lu Mingfei would put the clothes he bought back in the dormitory, and then prepare for the party by the river. The siblings decided to take a look at it.