I was born in Northeast China, and after graduating from elementary school, my teacher introduced me to a sentence from my alma mater in middle school that I could learn Russian without taking the exam, and as a result, I formed an indissoluble bond with Russia. After graduating from university, it was just in time for the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China's border trade with Russia was in full swing. I studied economic management and my foreign language was Russian, so I was naturally assigned to a border trading company in my hometown.

The border trade company I worked for was just established in the city, mainly for Russian trade, at that time there was a lack of light industrial products in Russia, I worked for more than a year, the company has successively done some barter trade such as exchanging down jackets for steel, exchanging shoes for cars, and exchanging canned food for fertilizer. In the second year of work, our company established a trading company in cooperation with Russian customers in Novosibirsk, and I was sent to work. At that time, there were no flights and only international trains.

19/20 Beijing-Moscow international train, a journey of more than 7,000 kilometers a week, the Russian train crew, the crew are all Russians, and the car is all four-person boxes. Only the box next door to our carriage has three Chinese, the other boxes are Russian, and there is a student Xiao Liu who got on the bus with me in the same box, and two international masters Lao Li and Lao Chen, who are in their forties in Beijing, Lao Li is tall and fat, because Lao Chen calls him fat, we keep calling him fat brother, and Lao Chen is a little black and thin and looks shrewd and capable. The box was stuffed with everything except for the sleeping place, Xiao Liu and I brought a lot of food, solid soy sauce fungus and daylily were messy, and the fat brother and Lao Chen's shop were all stocked, leaving only a little place to sleep. Although it was just autumn in September, the car had already burned the heater, and the car was as hot as summer, the fat brother and Lao Chen had already taken off the vest shorts, and the car moved together, Xiao Liu and I said goodbye to our relatives and friends who saw us off, and immediately took off a happy one. After greeting each other, the fat brother took out Yanjing beer and a lot of snacks, "Brother, come to eat and drink, there are still a few days." "Okay, let's bring it too, let's eat together." Xiao Liu and I didn't shirk it, out of the boldness of the northerners, it didn't take long for a dozen cans of beer to go down, and the fat brother and Lao Chen also opened the chatterbox, these two brothers are a unit, and they have been doing international dumping for more than two years, running to Moscow once a month, and the goods they bring are sold at various stations along the way, and they will return to Moscow, "What kind of goods did my brother bring this time?" Xiao Liu couldn't help but ask curiously, "Leather gloves, don't carry you on your back, the small goods are profitable and easy to shoot, and they will be cold immediately, and when you get to Russia, you will watch Lao Maozi grab it." The fat brother replied proudly, "Then we will also help sell it when the time comes." I was a little eager to try it, and I really wanted to experience what it was like to be an international leader, "Okay, thank you brother first, brother, for inviting you to drink." Lao Chen said and handed me another can of beer.

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, and with a Russian "flight attendant", Lao Chen squeezed his eyes at the fat brother: "Fat man, you are looking for you." The fat man opened the door and pulled the chubby flight attendant into the box with a hippie smile, "Honey misses me?" The "dead fat man" flight attendant said a word in Chinese, and knocked off the fat man's hand on his shoulder, and we laughed.

"You two just got on the bus to Novosibirsk, and you want me to see your passport." Xiao Liu and I took out the passport and handed it to her, she carefully looked at it and returned it to us, the fat man took out a handful of money and handed it to her, "Lena, tea and sausages Dawaiyi" Dawaiyi Russian D**AY here is the meaning of getting some, Lena took the money and went out, Lao Chen said that in the past two years, they have been familiar with the attendants on the car, and the fat man has a good relationship on every trip, and the fat brother patted his stomach and said with a smile, "Madamu (the meaning of a woman) likes this body" After a while, Lena brought a pot of black tea one after another, several cups, and a large plate of sliced sausages and a plate of sliced cucumbers and tomatoes. The fat brother hugged Lena's waist, Lena didn't knock off the fat brother's hand this time, just frowned and looked at the crowded box, Xiao Liu and I hurriedly squeezed in to make room for Lena, "Come, toast to friendship" "Toast to Madam" Drink all the way and be happy all the way, I don't feel lonely on the car, and the train arrived in Manchuria at four o'clock the next morning. Manchuria - a border town, there are many wooden houses on the streets, and the railway station is a Soviet-style two-story building,

Although it was only early autumn in September, the temperature in Manchuria was significantly lower, and the border guards at the station were wearing military coats. After the release, the train quickly left the country and entered the border town of Russia in Houbaikal, Lena asked us to fill out the arrival card in advance, and also explained that we were waiting in the box, and after a while, the border officer came up on the car and took away our passports and visas. "After a while, the customs inspection" Lao Chen said to us a little nervously, and the fat brother was very calm, "I want Lena to arrange it." While talking, a blonde beauty customs officer came up in the car, and after a symbolic look at our box, he went to the next box, and then asked the fat brother to find out that he gave Lena two hundred dollars in advance to Lena to get it. There were a lot of things in the box next door, and I was fined $500. It didn't take long for the border officer to take his passport back, "Now the train has changed tracks, everyone get off the train and bring their valuables." Lena informed us, "The railroad tracks in Russia are wider than in our country, and now they have to be hoisted up and changed to change the tracks before they can continue, and it will take four or five hours to change the tracks, and I will take you to Zabaikal for a walk." "Why aren't the rails as wide?" I was curious and asked, "This is to prevent the train from coming directly during the war." Lao Chen is well-informed, "I see." "In the morning, the temperature outside was very low, we put on cotton clothes and got off the train, and the Zabaikal railway station has only a small three-story building in earth-gray color, and the station is open on all sides, which is completely different from China's completely closed railway stations. "Once again, I couldn't help but be curious," there are few Russians, and the attendants check the tickets when they get on the bus. The fat guy replied to me. Following the fat brother Lao Chen out of the train station, Hou Baikal said that it is a city that is not as good as a small county town in China, there are no high-rise buildings in the tattered mud-gray bungalows everywhere, the roads are also potholes, and there are not a few pedestrians on the road. The fat brother took us to find a restaurant that had just opened, and ordered a beetroot soup fried meatloaf and a large plate of cut black bread for each of us, the black bread was sour, because I was not very used to it, so I only ate a little bit and was full, the fat brother Xiao Liu They ate with relish, I secretly thought that I also have to slowly adapt to the Russian diet. After eating, the fat brother took us to the market to go around, the market is very large, there are Chinese selling some stalls, Lao Chen said that these people are from Manchuria three days to swim to sell goods, go back and pour some telescopes, Soviet stamps, crafts and so on, I found a Chinese for 1,000 yuan of rubles, almost for nearly 700,000 rubles, Xiao Liu joked with me: "Brother Peng will soon become a millionaire as soon as he enters Russia." I laughed too: "I never thought I had so much money." "Seeing that the time was almost up, we went back to the station. After waiting at the station for half an hour, you can get on the train, and when you enter the box, the fat brother immediately opens a large barrel of Russian beer that he just bought at the station, "Come and drink, celebrate the entry of Shun lì!" ”。