Chapter 68: The Business Picked Up on the Roadside

I ate too much for dinner, especially me, and put all my lovesickness for Chinese food these days, plus I barely ate anything for breakfast and lunch, and every food I ordered for dinner was so delicious that I couldn't eat until I had a round belly and couldn't eat it, and finally I had to loosen my belt and buttonhole. After sending off Lao Wang and Dayong, we felt that our stomachs were uncomfortable, so we decided to take a walk to digest the food in our stomachs.

In Manchuria at night, the outside temperature is already very low, and there are hardly any people on the streets, only the noise coming from the street restaurants. When I was in Novosibirsk, I hardly went out at night for safety, and I stayed in the youth apartment to learn Russian with Danya. Walking on the streets of Manchuria now, Brother Chao and I feel very relaxed, completely free of the tension we had when we were in Russia, and it seems that no matter where we go, the best place is our own country.

We were taking a leisurely walk when we suddenly saw a Russian man in his forties and a middle-aged Chinese man in front of a hotel arguing with each other, and the Russian shouted, "Why can't Sergei come out?" The Chinese pushed the Russians with both hands and said, "Let's go, let's go, they all ran away, I don't know where they went, they still owe me room money." We walked over, and Chaoge asked the Chinese, "What's going on?" The Chinese replied: "I am the owner of this hotel, this old Maozi came to look for people, the people he looked for disappeared four or five days ago, and they still owe me rent and have not been paid, and several people have come to look for them in the past two days, and the police station came to investigate the day before yesterday, as if they had cheated people's money and ran away." Brother Chao said to the Russian man: "Hello! Please don't get excited, you tell me what's going on. Seeing that someone could speak Russian, the Russian man hurriedly shook Brother Chao's hand and said, "Hello! My name is Varoga, what's your name? After Chao Ge confessed his Russian name, the Russian man Varoga continued: "I am looking for this company and this person. After speaking, he took out a business card from his pocket, Brother Chao took it and looked at it, the top looked up and said Oriental Trading Co., Ltd., in the middle was a person's name next to the Russian word Sergey, the position is the general manager, and the address below is this hotel. Chao Ge asked Varoga, "Do you have anything to do with him?" Varoga replied: "This company ordered some goods from me, and now I have shipped the goods to Zabaikal, but I can't contact them, no one answers the phone, I came from Zabaikal to find here, and this Chinese will not tell me where they went." Chao Ge asked Varoga, "Have you had dinner?" Valroga shook his head and said, "Where am I in the mood to eat?" Brother Chao said, "Let's take you to the front for dinner first, you slowly tell me what's going on, I'll see if I can help you?" Varroga asked, "What do you do?" Brother Chao replied, "I work as a translator for a large company. When Varoga heard that Fang Buddha saw hope, he hurriedly said, "Vanya, maybe you can help me." ”

We found a restaurant near the hotel and ordered a meal for Varoga. After the meal, Valroga told us what was going on. Valoka lives in a small city called Redstone near Chita and is the director of a factory that is about to go out of business. A month ago, he and his wife came to Manchuria with a tour group for shopping. When eating in the restaurant, because he could not communicate with the hotel waiter because he did not know Chinese, it happened that Sergei, the general manager of this company, was also eating in the restaurant, Sergei knew some Russian, and helped them order, so Varroga and the Chinese Sergei met. When he learned that Varoga was the director of a factory, Sergei invited Varoga and his wife to his company as guests, and the company was in the hotel just now, and Sergei's office was also very magnificently decorated. Sergei asked Varoga if there was steel, chemical raw materials, wood or something? He can buy it or exchange it for Chinese goods. Varroga thought that there was still a batch of old motors in the factory, so he asked Sergey if he wanted it? Sergei said that he could only order after seeing the goods. After Valroga returned home, a week later, Sergei went to Redstone, and after seeing the old motors at the factory in Valroga, Sergei signed a purchase contract with Varroga and took some photos of the old motors. Sergei said that he could cooperate with Valroga for a long time in the future, and also said that he would take Valroga to Harbin and Beijing. As soon as Sergei left, Varoga seized the time to apply for a multiple-entry visa for a year. As soon as the visa was in hand, Varoga immediately contacted Sergei about the delivery, and agreed that Varoga would bring the goods to Zabaikal, and after arriving in Zabaikal, Varoga would inform Sergey, and Sergey would pick up the goods after Sergei passed. After contacting Sergei, it happened to be the birthday of his father in the countryside of Varoga, and Varoga went to live in the countryside for three days, and when the rented truck pulled the old motor to Zabaikal, almost a week had passed.

After arriving in Zabaikal last night, Varoga called Sergey's company, but no one answered, and Varoga didn't take it to heart, thinking that it was too late, and everyone in the company was off work. By the time it was daytime today, after a day of phone calls, and still no one answered, Varroga was a little panicked. The driver was arranged to wait at the hotel, and Varroga did not care about eating dinner, and crossed the border to Manchuria alone to find Sergei, and when he arrived at the hotel, he found that the door of Sergei's office was locked, and he smashed the door, only to be driven out by the Chinese just now.

Speaking of this, Varroga said with some indignation: "Why did that person drive me out just now, isn't this hotel Sergei's?" Brother Chao said: "The Chinese just now is the owner of the hotel, and the Sergei you said rented his house as an office." Varoca was astonished and said, "Ah! Have I met a scammer? Brother Chao told Valoka what the hotel owner said just now, and Varroga covered his chest and said: "It's unimaginable, I regard Sergei as a very good person, I believe everything he says, he said that the hotel is his, I believe it, and if he wants me to bring the goods, I will bring the goods." I didn't expect this qiē to be a scam. Brother Chao said: "Maybe something happened to them, and he didn't cheat your goods, and you didn't lose anything." Varroga said with a sad face: "It costs money to rent a car, it costs money to stay in a hotel, and if I can't find someone to pick up the goods, I have to pull the old motor back, and it costs money." Originally, the factory was about to close down, and there was no money to pay wages to the workers for a long time, thinking that if the old motors were sold, they could still pay some wages to the workers, but they didn't expect that this would be the case. After a pause, Varoga looked at Brother Chao and said, "Vanya, you are a big company, can you buy my old motor?" Brother Chao said: "I have to ask the general manager of the company about this, but we will try to help you." Valoka grabbed Chao's hand and said, "Vanya, you must help me, I don't know anyone in Manchuria." Brother Chao said: "You live in Manchuria today, I will help you book a room, tomorrow I will go with you to Baikal to see the old motor, if the price is right, I think our company will buy your old motor." Only then did Valroga relent.

After arranging Varoga to the CITS Hotel, Brother Chao called the boss of our company and told him about the situation. The boss of the company said that he wanted Brother Chao to go to Houbaikal tomorrow to see what was going on, and tomorrow he would contact the material recovery company to see if they were interested? After putting down the phone, Chao Ge said that the old motor should be able to remove a lot of non-ferrous metals. It's a good business if the price is right.

I called home and told my mother that I would send a sum of money back tomorrow and ask them to buy 50 ginseng sticks and send them to Manchuria with the company's goods.

After having breakfast at the hotel with Varoga in the morning, Chao Ge decided to wait for the company's boss to contact the material recovery company before going to Zabaikal. In the morning, when we were drinking tea with Valoka in the hotel room, the company's boss called and said that the material recycling company was very interested and asked Valroga to give the old motor parameters and price first. Varroga took out a contract signed with Sergei from his bag and handed it to Chaoge, and after Chaoge read the contract, Varroga said: "If your company can receive this batch of old motors, I can reduce the price a little." "Brother Chao asked me to go downstairs and fax the contract back to the company.

After a while, the boss called and asked Brother Chao to go to Baikal to find out, and the company sent people and the business manager of the material recovery company to leave immediately with cash and contracts, and they could go to Manchuria early tomorrow morning. Chao Ge asked Valoka if we bought his old motor, should he buy some goods when he went back? If you don't need to purchase goods, just give him US dollars, Varoga thought about it and said, if he can, he wants to buy some onions back, and the onions can be wholesaled immediately when they go back, so Brother Chao asked the company's business manager to bring RMB over.

Chaoge and Varoga went to Zabaikal, and I went to the post office to remit back home the money I had exchanged yesterday at the Northern Market. I saw a customs declaration agency company on the side of the road, so I went in and consulted about the relevant documents and processes required for the export of vegetables and fruits. A girl received me and explained to me the process, the export of vegetables and fruits by car needs to go through the quarantine certificate at the port, and the other documents and processes are the same as all export declaration processes, nothing more than the delivery list and trade contract. I asked her if it was very troublesome to go through the inspection and quarantine here? She built yì me, if you handle it yourself, it will be very troublesome and take some time, the easiest way is to find their customs declaration company agent, you can save a lot of time. She also told me that their company has a good cooperative relationship with customs and inspection and quarantine, and can ensure that customs clearance can be carried out as soon as possible. I remembered what the owner of the packing station said, you can do it all as long as you spend money. After asking about the agency fee, I asked for her business card. I asked her again where she could buy vegetables and fruits in Manchuria? She told me that it was better to go to Hailar, where the fruits and vegetables were much cheaper.

Seeing that it was still early, I went to the northern market for a stroll. The goods in the northern market are similar to the goods I found in the wholesale warehouse next to the Novosibirsk dock, they are all relatively low-end clothing, shoes and hats, some department stores, and you can also see some Russian Nizi coats, electric shavers, nesting dolls, and postage stamps sold in the market. I remembered that Xie San said that after the border masters sold Chinese goods in Chita, they would buy some Russian goods and sell them back. I saw that there were many Russian gentlemen in the market who were carrying big bags and pulling small carts to choose Chinese goods, and I also saw some Chinese tourists from other places buying Russian goods with great interest. The market is not big, and after a while, it will be over.

Taking advantage of the time, I went to the pharmacy to buy fifty boxes of slimming tea, and went to the department store to buy a bottle of Moutai and some tea, and bought all kinds of small gifts for Tanya. Although it cannot be compared with the department stores in the big cities, compared with the department stores in Novosibirsk, the department stores in Manchuria can be said to have a wide variety of products.

After returning to the hotel, I asked the business center in the lobby how to apply for a tourist visa for a day trip to Trans-Baikal? It's still the beautiful girl from yesterday who told me that as long as the ID card and photo wait for three days, if it is expedited, it can be done the next day. In the afternoon, I called the company, Xiao Wang said that the empty car distribution has been contacted, tomorrow morning you can load the greeting card calendar and zodiac toys, a qiē shun lì words can arrive in Manchuria in about three or four days, I want Xiao Wang to help me contact the truck driver and my parents, by the way to help me bring a bag of things.

In the evening, Brother Chao came back with Varoga, and Brother Chao said that most of the engines of a Kamath truck were seventy or eighty percent new, and they should still be usable when they were taken back. I told Brother Chao about what I learned in the customs declaration agency and business center today, and Brother Chao said to Valoka that this batch of old motors can only be finalized after the company comes to see it, but there should be no big problem, but the company has to apply for a post-Baikal one-day tourist visa to go over to see, and wait for the cost of the visa for these two days to come out of our company, and Varroga said that he fully agreed. Brother Chao told me that he didn't want to come with him today, and planned to wait for us to come over to see the goods in Zabaikal, but Brother Chao was afraid of extraneous complications so he brought Valoka back to Manchuria. I secretly admire Brother Chao's thoughtfulness in my heart.

Early the next morning, the company's manager Chen arrived with a business manager of the material recycling company, and Manager Chen brought a lockbox full of 100 yuan bills. As soon as I saw Brother Chao, Manager Chen complained: "This is really a chore, this way is too nervous, yesterday the company's car sent us to Harbin, and then found a relationship to spend a high price to buy a soft sleeper ticket, carrying this box of banknotes in the car all night did not sleep well, now give the money to you, I have to take a good rest." After seizing the time to apply for a day trip tourist visa for the two of them, Brother Chao took them and Varoga to go shopping. I locked this box of banknotes in the safe and still didn't feel at ease, so I stayed in the room and didn't dare to go out, thinking that I had to look at this box of money every inch for the past few days, and I secretly complained in my heart, and I could only watch TV in the hotel to pass the time.

After looking at the old motors in Zabaikal, the business manager of the material recycling company was satisfied. Chao Ge and Varoga immediately signed the contract, and then Valroga Tong Guò bribed the officials of the Russian Customs to clear the customs smoothly and pulled the old motor out of the Zabaikal port, and the customs declaration agency company at our Guò port quickly completed the customs clearance. When I handed over the money to Valroca, I was relieved. Manager Chen found a transportation company and shipped the old motor back.

After sending off Manager Chen and them, we rented a taxi with Varoga and took the KAMAZ truck to Hailar to buy onions. After purchasing a Kamasi truck onion back to Manzhouli, it just so happened that the greeting card calendar zodiac toys also arrived at the Manzhouli freight station, and the driver of the fifty ginseng trees I wanted to buy at home also helped me bring them. I sent these goods to Novosibirsk in the name of Danya, along with the ginseng slimming tea through the guò packing station, but the ginseng and slimming tea could not be shipped out normally, so they had to be taken to Zabaikal by hand and bag at a high price, and then transported by rail to Novosibirsk with greeting card calendar toys.

After arriving at the Zabaikal Customs, because it was a Russian cargo, Valroga put a hundred dollars in the customs clearance materials when he submitted the customs clearance materials, so a carload of onions entered the Zabaikal customs without any inspection. Brother Chao and I also crossed the border to Zabaikal in a minibus, and after meeting with Varoga, we rented a Russian private car and followed Valoga's van to the small town of Redstone.