When the subway was about to arrive at Lenin Square Station, the radio reported that they had arrived at Lenin Square Station, and the three stray dogs pricked up their ears and listened, looking very strict and nervous. As soon as the back door opened, the lead dog, who watched at the door of the carriage at every station, bore the brunt of the carriage, and the other two dogs followed closely behind him. When I stepped out of the carriage, the three stray dogs were gone, and it seemed that the middle-aged woman was not wrong, they had gone to the central market to find food.

Walking out of the subway station, I saluted the statue of Lenin. At this time, seven or eight cars stopped at the edge of the square, starting with a white Volga car with ribbons on the body, and after the door opened, a pair of young brides and grooms in their twenties wearing black suits and white wedding dresses got out of the car, and the beautiful bride held a bouquet of flowers and held the hand of the tall and handsome groom and walked towards the statue of Lenin, followed by the groomsmen, bridesmaids and a group of relatives and friends of the bride and groom in beautiful costumes, and the bride and groom were followed by a person with a video recorder. I used to read in books about the state of the Soviet Union that Russian weddings were usually held on weekend afternoons, but now the town hall holds a ceremony to register the marriage, inviting relatives and friends to attend. After the ceremony, the newlyweds, accompanied by relatives and friends, went to the Monument to the Heroes of World War II and Lenin Square to lay flowers, and finally went to the hotel to celebrate. I didn't expect that today is Saturday, and I happened to encounter this scene of laying flowers at the wedding on Lenin Square. In the past, when I was in China, I read reports that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the de-Sovietization movement of Russians in many places was strict, and almost all the major festivals in the Soviet Union were canceled, and even the names of the cities of Leningrad and Stalingrad, which were the turning points of World War II, were restored to St. Petersburg and Volgograd during the Tsarist period, and the statue of Lenin was demolished in some places. The fact that the newlyweds are still alive today with the Soviet-era tradition of laying flowers for the statue of Lenin shows that Lenin is of great importance to the Novosibirsk people. Born in New China and grew up under the red flag, I have always had a deep reverence for Lenin, and I was a little excited to see this scene today.

I was eager to get a closer look at this somewhat sacred and beautiful moment, so I walked over to the wedding procession. The young bride and groom walked up to the statue of Lenin and looked up at the statue for a while, as if they were going back to the era of the Young Pioneers and the Komsomol in the Soviet era. Then he bent down hand in hand and placed the offering flowers under the statue. At this time, the best man next to him opened a bottle of champagne and poured wine for the bride and groom in the wine glass prepared in advance, the bride and groom drank the glass of wine in the blessings of relatives and friends, and the best man poured wine for relatives and friends one by one, and everyone blessed the bride and groom again. Then I suddenly noticed that the groom, who was about 20 years old, looked a little like an Asian.

At this time, a middle-aged man in a gray suit and glasses in the group of relatives and friends, who looked a little like an Asian, was very polite and polite, and was nearly fifty years old, noticed me who stopped to watch, he asked the best man for a glass of wine, walked over to me with a smile, walked in front of me and stretched out his hand to me, I hesitated for a moment and then stretched out my hand to shake him, the middle-aged man said to me enthusiastically, "Hello young man!" I am the father of the groom, and I invite you to join us in blessing the bride and groom. I felt suddenly a little overwhelmed, and the middle-aged man handed me the wine glass when he saw this, and then asked me: "Are you Chinese?" I nodded and said, "Yes, I'm Chinese, and I just arrived in Novosibirsk." After hearing this, the middle-aged man looked at me seriously and asked me, "Is your name Peng?" I was stunned and blurted out, "Ah! How do you know my name? I looked at him more closely, and saw that his face looked a little like the one I had seen, but I couldn't remember who it was. I'm sure I haven't met this man, could it be that he's with Varroga too? The KGB or the mafia? I was able to call my name all at once.

Seeing my suspicious face, the middle-aged man reached out again and grabbed my hand and shook it hard, "Do you remember the old man Anton you saw here?" "It dawned on me that this middle-aged man should be the son of the old man Anton who worked in the government, and the old man wanted to introduce him to me. Seeing the clear expression on my face, the middle-aged man was very happy and put his arm around my shoulder, "My name is Yuri, and the old man Anton is my father, after meeting you here that day, my father was very happy, and he talked to me about you when he got home, I also guessed just now, but I didn't expect it to be really you, it seems that we are very fateful." I now invite you to the wedding banquet in the evening. I also nodded very happily and said, "Yes, yes, what a coincidence, what about Old Man Anton?" Why didn't you see him" Yuri replied: "My father was supposed to come with us, how could the grandfather not attend the wedding of the eldest grandson?" His eldest grandson is his favorite and may be a little too excited, my father didn't sleep well at night, he fell while getting dressed in the morning, and sprained his waist, and now he is resting at home, my mother is taking care of him, if he is better, he can go to the hotel at night to attend the wedding banquet, if not, he can only watch the video afterwards. I asked Yuri, "What time does the wedding banquet start?" Yuri replied: "At six o'clock in the evening, we will go to the monument to the heroes of World War II after laying flowers for the statue of Lenin, and if you have nothing to do right now, you can go with us." I looked at my watch and said, "I know acupuncture, there is still time, I can go and give Anton an acupuncture treatment, maybe it will have a good effect, I hope the old man can see his beloved grandson's wedding with his own eyes." Yuri said excitedly: "Peng, I'm so lucky to meet you today, how do you say you need me to cooperate with you?" I said, "You need to send me back to the dormitory now, I'll take the tools for acupuncture, and then go to give acupuncture to the old man Anton, you have alcohol and medical cotton balls at home." Yuri replied: "Okay, I will arrange for someone to drive you to the dormitory now, I have no shortage of alcohol and medical cotton balls at home, and my mother was a nurse before she retired." I said, "Then I will now go and bless the bride and groom." ”

Yuri put his arm around my shoulders and brought me to the bride and groom and said to them, "This is Peng, a friend of Grandpa Anton, who happened to meet him here. I raised my glass to the bride and groom and said, "I met the old man Anton here not long ago, and I met you here today for your wedding, which is really God's arrangement, and I wish you happiness and happiness!" After the bride and groom clinked glasses with me and drank the wine in the glass, the groom reached out and shook it firmly with me, and said to me in Chinese, which is not fluent: "Thank you!" My name is Andrey, this is my wife Marina, it is a great pleasure to meet you and welcome you to our wedding. Yuri said, "I have invited Peng, who is an acupuncturist, and now Peng is going to treat your grandfather." When the groom Andrei heard this, he said happily: "Great, grandpa can personally attend my wedding." ”

Yuri arranged for someone to drive me back to the youth apartment to get acupuncture tools, and it just so happened that Danya had already returned to the dormitory after work on Saturday, and I asked her to go to the wedding with me, and she happily agreed. We quickly changed into more formal clothes, and I found a cloisonné craft plate that I had brought with me and prepared it as a gift for Andre and Marina.

When I arrived at Anton's house, the old man was very happy to see me, and Yuri had already called him, so I didn't need to explain much, and I started to give the old man acupuncture. After acupuncture, Anton felt that his waist was obviously much lighter, and it was not as painful as in the morning, so he could go to the wedding banquet. So he and his wife changed their clothes, and his wife found him a crutch to be on the safe side. I quickly found out the phone number of Vietnamese Renzhong, called him, and told him that I had something to do today and could not go to his house as a guest, so I would go to his house another day. It was about the same time, and we went out together.

Perhaps because of the poor economy and the extremely high prices, Andre and Marina's wedding banquet was very simple, and the food on the table was many times simpler than the food at our Chinese wedding banquet, but there was a lot of wine. The guests were also in high spirits, and the atmosphere of the whole wedding banquet was very lively, everyone was drinking and singing and dancing, and the wine banquet lasted until midnight, and the people seemed to forget about the economic crisis and all the troubles.