Chapter 13: A Little Show

Drinking the fragrant jasmine tea that Xiaohong brewed for us, listening to Xiao Liu and Meizi tell their interesting stories in school, I suddenly remembered the four years of my college, but it was a pity that I didn't learn Russian at that time, "Meizi Xiaoliu, is the tuition fee for your study expensive?" "Meizi's school is a famous school, and the tuition is definitely not cheap, our school costs more than 2,000 US dollars a year." Xiao Liu said, "The tuition fee of any school in Moscow is not cheap, at least three or four thousand US dollars, and our school costs five thousand US dollars a year. Xiaohong told me, "In the future, I will also find a school to study abroad and study Russian." I naturally said to myself, "Okay, Brother Peng, let's go to graduate school, find a small city, and the tuition and living expenses are very low." "Well, I'll work for a while and save some money."

When we arrived at a small station, stopped for ten minutes, Meizi locked the box door, each of us got off the train with two leather jackets, and some Russians gathered at the station who were waiting to buy goods. "Tristar (three hundred)" Russia is based on thousands, and three hundred here means three hundred thousand-three hundred rubles, because the face value of the Russian ruble was too large at that time and the price was high, and banknotes below 1,000 were basically not used. A Russian woman took a good look at the black leather jacket I was holding, dipped her fingers in saliva, wiped it vigorously on the leather jacket a few times, and then looked at her fingers and found that the fingers had not turned black, "Lower Teda Waii (280 deals)" "Nirvana (no), Trista Waii (300 deals)." "I seem to be a very experienced man," Radna (okay), Dawaiyi (deal)" successfully sold two leather jackets, I have a sense of accomplishment, Meizi Xiaohong Xiaoliu also sold the leather jackets in his hands one after another, "Brother Peng, Mara Jieci (good)." Xiaohong gave me a thumbs up, "Potatoes, pies, sausages and beer, they're delicious, buy some." An old Russian lady came up to us with a basket in her hand, "Babuska (grandmother) brought me three bags of potatoes, three bags of pies, and all the beer you have in your hand." Meizi said to the old lady, "Give you money, don't look for it, hurry up, the car is going to go." The old lady looked at the money that Meizi handed over, gave us all the contents of the basket, and said to us, "God bless you." ”

"These old ladies are very pitiful, their pensions are low enough to buy bread, and they can't get it on time, maybe they will have a drunkard husband or son at home, and they can only live on this by selling some self-cooked potato bun pies and fried sausages at the train station, and I just gave her an extra thirty or forty thousand roubles." Standing in the hallway, Meizi looked through the window at the old Russian ladies selling food on the platform and said, "Poor enough, Meizi, you are such a good person." I said to Meizi, "Brother Peng, my mother told me to be a good person and have a safe life." ”

"Brother Peng, you take these potato sausage pies and beer, and eat them with Fat Brother, Xiaohong and I can't eat much." Meizi left a small part of the food bought at the station, and handed the rest to me and Xiao Liu, "Thank you, grandma, these are the money we made by helping grandma sell goods." Xiao Liu laughed and said, "Yes, yes, it is your earnings, and the little boy will work for me in the future, and I will be full." ”

Carrying the food we earned back to our own box, "We didn't get out of the car just now, but I saw a few of you selling goods in the car." Lao Chen said, "No wonder I didn't see you getting out of the car to sell goods, this is a plum bought, let's eat it while it's hot, Xiao Liu, you go and call Brother Gao Xie and them over to eat together." "Russian potatoes are very powdery, and after they are cooked, they are mixed with oil and sprinkled with some salt and some coriander, and they taste very fragrant.

"Fatty, come out for a moment." Lena shouted at the door of the box, the fat man went out, Lena gestured to the fat man in the corridor and said, I roughly understood that there was a woman in our carriage who was sick and had severe abdominal pain, and asked the fat man to go over and give a massage treatment, "The fat brother will also massage with Chinese medicine." I asked Lao Chen, "Massage the fat man will be a little, Chinese medicine can't talk about it at all, the first time we sat on this international train, just happened to meet Lena headache, the fat man just helped her massage and Gu and the temples to stop the headache, just rely on this kid to catch up with Lena, it is estimated that he and others bragged that he would know Chinese medicine, and now there are really patients, I see how this cowhide king ends." Lao Chen knew the personality of the fat man, and debunked the fat man in front of us, and the fat man was red in front of Lena and didn't know what to do, "Take me to see, I will have some Chinese medicine." I said to Lena in Russian, which I was not very proficient in, "Xiao Liu, you go and call Meizi to be the translator." ”

followed Lena into the box of the sick Russian, and saw a woman in her forties lying on her side on the lower bunk, her body curled with her hands on her abdomen, her face full of painful expressions, and her mouth was oops, "This is Chinese doctor Peng." Lena introduced me to the Russians in the box, "Meizi, can you ask her which part of her pain is?" Meizi exchanged two sentences with the Russian woman, "Brother Peng, she said that the pain in her navel was unbearable." "My wife probably had a bad stomach at noon." A middle-aged Russian man next to him said, "Meizi, you ask them if they just got off the bus with very few clothes." "Yes, yes, the car was hot, so she got out of the car wearing a short-sleeved shirt." "What did she eat for lunch?" I asked, "She ate Baikal smoked fish and drank some beer at noon." "Oh, then she has a bad stomach and some colds, acute gastroenteritis, don't be nervous, it's not a big problem." "What about the doctors? We didn't have any medicine with us, and we didn't seem to be able to find it in the car. "I'll give her some acupuncture, Meizi, do you ask them if they agree?" Meizi translated what I meant, "Agree to agree, acupuncture we know, it's magical." The middle-aged Russian man agreed repeatedly, "Xiao Liu, you go to Brother Xie to ask for some puree wine, and I'll go get acupuncture needles and tampon balls." ”

"I want everyone to wait in the hallway, Meizi, you can be a helper for me." After sterilizing with 60 degrees of puree wine, I injected a needle on the patient's Zhongguan acupoint, the symmetrical Zusanli acupoint on both sides, the Daheng acupoint, the Sanyin Jiao acupoint, and the Hegu acupoint on one side, and performed the needle every five minutes. "": Brother Peng, she said that the acupuncture points on her stomach and hands are so swollen, and the acupuncture points on her legs are like electricity." "That's good, the Russian has a very strong needle feeling, you have to put up with her for a while." "She said yes." Twenty minutes later, I finished the treatment, the patient's face was no longer painful, and he held my hand with both hands: "Thank you so much, doctor, my stomach doesn't hurt at all." "Meizi wants her to drink some hot water now, and hot black tea is fine."

"Doctor, can I call you Peng?" The patient asked me, "Absolutely." "My name is Zina, this is my husband Sergei, we are in Novosibirsk, where are you going?" Zina, with a relaxed expression on her face, introduced us to her husband, "I'm also going to Novosibirsk. "Wow! Is it true? Great, Peng, welcome to our home. "I'm going to visit you." I didn't expect that acupuncture, which I had studied in China for more than a year, would come in handy on the international train, and today I showed my hand.