Chapter XXVII
On Saturday morning, Sasha took my passport and residence registration back from the Foreign Affairs Office of the police station, my visa is a one-year multiple-entry business visa, and the Foreign Affairs Office gave me a six-month residence registration, and the Russian immigration system stipulates that foreigners holding a one-year multiple-entry visa can only apply for a residence registration for a maximum of half a year, and they need to leave the country once after living in Russia for half a year before they can apply for residence registration again. Russia's foreigner residence registration system is very strict, even if I have a Novosibirsk residence registration, but to other cities, if it is not more than three days, if you encounter a police inspection, you only need to show your passport Novosibirsk residence registration and tickets, but more than three days you must go to the foreign affairs office to register, unless you live in a star hotel, the hotel will handle a residence registration card. The management system implemented by the Russian government for foreigners has given the Russian police the right to check passports anytime and anywhere, and has also invisibly given the Russian police a lot of opportunities. Few Chinese who have been to Russia have not had their passports checked, and almost everyone who has stood in the market has been extorted by the Russian police.
In the morning, Xiao Liu called and said that he would come to see me in the evening, and I wanted him to come over early to make dumplings together. Sasha wanted to go back to his company, so I invited Sasha to come to the dormitory in the evening to eat dumplings, and Sasha happily agreed, and said that he would bring wine.
In the afternoon, according to Chaoge's request, with the help of the dictionary, he translated a list of light industrial products given by Valoga, which listed sportswear, sneakers, children's clothing, duck tongue blankets, jeans and various plastic products, in short, they are relatively sought-after commodities in the market. After writing the purchase list neatly in Chinese, Brother Yao Chao checked it, and there was no mistake, so he arranged for the clerk Katya to send a fax to China. At that time, the Internet was not yet popular, mobile phones were even more luxuries, there were no computers in our offices, Russian computers were ridiculously expensive, an Apple 286 was almost sold for more than 3,000 US dollars, even if you bought a computer, you have to install a Chinese system, and my brother Chao and I are laymen. Therefore, Chinese materials can only be written by hand, Russian materials are better, Katya or Lena can use a manual Russian typewriter to type. The main contact with the country is by landline telephone and fax, but fortunately, the time difference between Novosibirsk and the country is only one hour, and the work can basically be synchronized with the country. Novosibirsk time is an hour behind Beijing time, for example, at 2 p.m. in Novosibirsk at this time, then domestic time is 3 p.m.
After Katya sent the fax, I called my colleague Xiao Wang in the domestic company and asked her to implement the specific factory according to the products listed in this purchase list, and at the same time contact some printing factories that produce New Year's cards and calendars, and it is best to find a printing factory that has processed orders for European and American countries, so that the factory can provide some greeting card samples exported to Europe and the United States for reference. I told Xiao Wang that these things must be contacted before Brother Chao returns to China. Xiao Wang said no problem, and then asked me if I knew a Russian beauty? She smiled and said that our company is waiting for me and Brother Chao to win glory for the country, and I said that Brother Chao and I will not disappoint Jiangdong's fathers. Xiao Wang said come on. Xiao Wang finally said that she made a request on behalf of the whole company, when Brother Chao returned to China, he must send a piece of Russian chocolate to each person, otherwise, everyone will have no motivation to work. I said that I would agree to everyone's request on behalf of Brother Chao. Brother Chao asked me what I promised on his behalf? I said that I promised to give each person a piece of chocolate when he returned to the company, and Brother Chao took the microphone in my hand and said to Xiao Wang, as long as everyone cooperates well, two pieces of chocolate per person. I heard Xiao Wang's excited shouting voice coming from the microphone next to me, Brother Chao said that we would each give two pieces of chocolate, and then I heard the voice of Qi Brush in the office over there from the microphone, "Long live Brother Chao!" "At this point, I felt as if I was back in my office in China.
After doing these things, I said to Brother Chao: "I'll go to the market to buy some vegetables and meat, Sasha Xiao Liu will come over in the evening, let's make dumplings together, Brother Chao, you should go back to the dormitory early." I asked Lena and Katya if they could invite them to the dorm if they had time in the evening, so that everyone could have fun together on the weekend. Brother Chao said, "Okay, you can arrange it." "I told Lena and Katya that I invited them to the dormitory to make dumplings in the evening, and Lena said that she was going to pick up the children from kindergarten after work, and she didn't go. Katya asked me if I could bring her boyfriend along, and I said she was very welcome.
According to the general direction that Zhuoya told me, I asked an old lady on the way, and I found the farmer's market without much difficulty. The farmers' market here is about the same as the domestic farmers' market, built in a tin greenhouse, with a vegetable section, a meat section, and a fruit section. Compared to the domestic farmers' markets, there are very few varieties of goods here. The only vegetables are cabbage, potatoes, carrots and onions, and a small amount of cucumbers and tomatoes, all of which are imported and packed in very fine cardboard boxes, and the price is staggeringly high, almost twenty or thirty dollars a kilogram, and the fruit is even more frighteningly expensive. I bought two cabbages, two kilograms of carrots, one kilogram of cucumbers, three kilograms of tomatoes, and finally a plate of eggs, and Russian eggs are sold regardless of kilograms.
Carrying these things out of the farmer's market, ready to take a taxi back to the youth apartment. I was looking around with my eyes looking for a taxi, when suddenly a police car pulled up in front of me from the road on the side of the market, and a policeman in his thirties got out of the car, saluted me and said, "Hello, please show your passport." I took out my passport and handed it to him, he opened it, looked at the photo, looked at me, then took out the visa from the mezzanine of the passport skin, checked the residence registration on it, put the visa back in the passport and waved to me, "Get in the car." "TMD: Why am I so unlucky that I encounter the police every time I buy food? I cursed secretly in my heart, and got into the police car helplessly. There was a slightly younger policeman sitting in the driver's seat in the police car, and after the middle-aged policeman glanced at me, he stretched out five fingers and shook them in front of my eyes, I didn't understand it immediately, he saw that I didn't react, and said directly: "Pay 50,000 rubles." "Why pay 50,000 rubles? I just finished my residency registration, and everything is legal. I asked the middle-aged policeman with some confidence, "Okay, let's go to the police station." "The middle-aged policeman made a driving gesture to the young policeman, and I went if I wanted to, and I knew a Jima in the police station.
The police car drove past the youth apartment, and I felt that something was wrong. Sasha drove me and Chao Ge back to the youth apartment by the police station, Sasha also specifically told me that it was the police station, I remember very well that the police station was in the other direction of the youth apartment, and now the police car is driving in the opposite direction. "Where are you taking me?" I nervously asked, "I'll find out in a moment." The middle-aged policeman replied to me without looking back in the front row, "I have a friend who is also a policeman, named Jima." At this time, I had to move out of Jima, "Which Jima?" There are a lot of people called Ji Ma, and I still call Ji Ma. The young policeman said, "He's Kabidan (David) and works at the police station in front." "I'm also Kabidan, and I also work at the police station in front, are you talking about me?" The young policeman taunted me, "What are you talking about Jima's surname?" The middle-aged policeman asked, "He didn't sue me about this." I had to reply, "Oh! I should have asked what Ji Ma's surname was that day, "This Chinese is very cunning and very good at telling stories, I almost believed it." The middle-aged policeman and the young policeman said, and the two of them laughed together.
Seeing that the police car was getting farther and farther away from the youth apartment, I panicked, took out 50,000 rubles and handed it over, but the middle-aged policeman did not answer, shook his head and said to me; "Now it's 100,000." "Wasn't it 50,000 just now, why is it 100,000 now?" I asked, "This is the fare." The young policeman replied to me, I had to take out another 50,000 yuan, handed over two 50,000 yuan, the middle-aged policeman took the money and returned the passport to me, and the young policeman asked me: "Will you send you back to the market?" "Please send me back to the youth apartment I just passed by." "OK, send you home, we didn't take your money for nothing." The young policeman spoke, turned around and drove back.
When I got to the door of the youth apartment, I said, "I didn't lie to you, the aunt of the policeman I mentioned is here as a dormitory officer, you can go and ask her." The two policemen looked at each other for a moment, and the young policeman said, "I know who Jima he is talking about, it should be Semyon, he told me that his aunt works here." The middle-aged policeman glanced at me and took out 50,000 rubles to return to me, "The 50,000 rubles will be returned to you, and the remaining 50,000 rubles should be your taxi, remember, don't tell your friend Jima about today's events." "It's also too dramatic, two times I went to buy food, two times I met the police, and twice I took a police car in a taxi, which I think can only happen in Russia.
When I entered the youth apartment, I specifically asked Zhuoya, Ji Ma's real surname is Xie Miao. Zoya asked me why I asked her this? I said that Ji Ma said that day, I am afraid that I will forget it, so I specially asked you today, and Zhuo Ya believed it. I thought to myself that I had to remember the surname Semyon, and if I encountered the police in this area again in the future and asked for money, I could at least deal with it.