Chapter 61: Follow Tanya back to the countryside
Early on Sunday morning, before dawn, Tanya woke me up. I asked in a daze, "What?" Are you still going to a flea market? Tanya replied, "Peng, I'm not going to the flea market, I haven't been home for almost a month, I want to go home, do you want to come with me?" I asked, "Will you be back tonight?" "Our school organizes a sports competition for students tomorrow, so I don't have to participate in it, and I can just come back tomorrow night," said Danya. I looked at the time and said, "Then I'll say something to Vanya, but it's too early, and he doesn't know how long he and Natasha have been tossing and turning at night?" It's not convenient to knock on Natasha's door now. You should have told me yesterday that I said hello to Vanya yesterday and can go now. Tanya grinned and said, "Maybe they're still tossing and turning." I hugged Tanya and said with a wicked smile, "Why don't you go home, let's toss for a day." Dania grinned.
I got up early in the morning to catch a late market, and when I said hello to Brother Chao, I took the ginseng that Brother Chao brought me yesterday and the tea I brought with me, and bought a bottle of Armenian brandy and a bottle of Georgian wine in the mall. It was already past ten o'clock in the hurry to the bus terminal, and the last bus to Danya's town in the morning had no seats, and only the afternoon bus had seats. Tanya said that there were also private taxis for the return trip, but it would take enough four people to leave, so we walked to the small square in front of the station. Passing by the newsstand, Tanya said that she was going to buy a magazine and read it on the way, I pointed to a statue of Pushkin in the small square in front of me, and told Sù Dania that I should go and see the statue, and asked her to go there and find me after buying the magazine. The Pushkin statue is a bronze statue of the poet in a coat and bow tie who pauses to stare ahead in contemplation, as if contemplating the meaning of life, and on the pedestal of the statue is engraved the poet's most famous poem, "If Life Deceives You". The streets of Novosibirsk are full of sculptures and works of art, with bronze statues standing in the streets, parks, memorials and squares, almost everywhere, all of whom are famous figures in Russian history.
I was intently admiring the beautiful statue of Pushkin. Suddenly, someone behind me said to me, "Hello! Youngster. I turned around and found two patrolling policemen standing in front of me, one of whom saluted me and asked me to show my passport, I handed it to him, he looked at it, closed it, waved his hand at me and said, "Dear Chinese citizens, please come with us to the police station, we suspect that there is a problem with your residence registration, and we want to verify it." "I thought to myself, TMD is going to extort money again. I turned around and shouted to Tanya, who was picking up magazines at the newsstand forty or fifty meters away, "Tanya! "Tanya turned to look at me, I waved to her, and when she saw the police officer next to me, she quickly paid and walked over with the magazine. Tanya asked me, "What's wrong with my honey?" I replied: "They suspect that there is a problem with my residence registration and will take me to the police station for inspection." Tanya turned to the police and said, "Hello dear comrade policeman! Is there anything wrong with my fiancé? Did he commit any crimes? The policeman looked at Tanya with some consternation, and the policeman who checked her passport replied: "Hello ma'am! We only suspect that there is a problem with the Chinese citizen's residence registration and want to take him to verify it, but we do not say that he committed a crime. Tanya said, "Okay, let's go with you to the police station to verify." The policeman who checked the passport looked at the other policeman, and the other policeman gave him a look, and the policeman who checked the passport handed me back the passport, and then said to Tanya: "Forget it, no need to go, since he is your fiancé, then we believe that his residence registration is fine." ”
When the police walked away, I gave Tanya a thumbs up and said, "Tanya Mara Yuki (good)!" If you don't have it today, they will take away at least 180,000 rubles. Tanya sighed and said: "Before the disintegration, our police would not be like this, and now the salary of the police is about the same as our salary as a teacher, which is a pitiful amount, so he is like this, they are not only like this to you foreigners, but they are also blackmailing those from Central Asia in the CIS countries." "I thought to myself, what Danya said is one of the reasons, the Russian nation itself is a nation that likes to plunder and possess in its bones. Seeing that I didn't speak, Tanya asked me, "Will you Chinese police be like this?" I put my arm around Danya's waist and said as I walked forward, "Where will the Chinese police be like this, they are very good to foreigners, and you will know if I take you to China in the future." Tanya leaned into my arms and said, "Peng, will you really take me to China?" I squeezed my eyes at her and grimaced, "Tanya, you are so beautiful, I will definitely sell you for a good price if I bring you back and sell you." Tanya punched me, "You bad guy, you don't have anything serious, I'm curious to know if you're going to take me to China?" Instead of answering, I asked her, "Tanya, do you want to go to China with me?" Tanya replied, "I would love to go to China." I said, "If you take me home today, I'll take you home too." Danya happily kissed me on the cheek.
Found a taxi to Tanya's town, there were several dilapidated Lada cars waiting in line for passengers, and several drivers stood together chatting. There were already three people in the first car, and seeing that we were two people, the driver of the first car was a little disappointed and continued to shout: "Lu Ningna (the name of Danya's town) is still one person missing." "The driver in second place was a middle-aged man in his fifties, and he asked us to sit in the car and wait until there were enough four of us to leave. In the car, I asked Danya how much it costs to take a minibus? How much does it cost to ride this kind of carpooled private car per person? Tanya said that the ticket for a medium bus is 20,000 rubles per person, and for such a private car is 30,000 rubles per person. I want Danya to ask the driver, 100,000 rubla can the two of us go? Tanya got out of the car and asked the driver, who readily agreed.
Out of the city of Novosibirsk, the car drove all the way to the east, Novosibirsk is located in the plain area, and the view from the car window is flat. On both sides of the highway were large barren fields, much of which was overgrown with dead grass, and it felt like the land had not been cultivated for a long time. I asked Tanya if these lands hadn't been cultivated for a long time? Before Tanya could answer, the driver preemptively said yes. The driver said that he used to work on the state farm as a tractor driver, and that the state farms in the Soviet Union were all large-scale mechanized farming, but later the Soviet government increased its efforts to develop oil fields and adopted a policy of reducing agricultural production, and a lot of land was idle. Then after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the government had no money, many state farms were basically in a state of closure, and many agricultural machinery were in disrepair, and now there is even more wasted land. When I heard him say this, I remembered what Yuri had said to me, and his views on the collapse of the Soviet Union and the backwardness of agriculture. With such a vast and fertile land, it is difficult for the common people to maintain food and clothing, even the police rely on extorting foreigners to earn extra money to subsidize their lives, and a country with a highly developed aerospace and military industry is in a mess economically, and it seems that the Russians are only suitable for war and not for the economy.
While I was still pondering, the car had arrived in the small town of Luninga. At the address Tanya had said, the taxi took to Tanya's parents' bakery. As soon as we got out of the taxi, a middle-aged woman in her fifties who looked like Tanya was plump but not fat, and I thought it was Tanya's mother. The middle-aged woman happily hugged and kissed Tanya, and the middle-aged woman said to Tanya, "Tanya Chika (Tanya's nickname) Why did you notify us in advance when you came back?" This should be Peng, right? Tanya nodded, and before Danya could open her mouth to introduce me, the middle-aged woman hugged me and said to me, "Hello Peng! I'm Aunt Lyuba, Tanya's mother, and Tanya has already told me about you on the phone. I said, "Hello Aunt Liuba! Nice to meet you. At this time, a tall middle-aged man in his fifties came out of the bakery, first hugged and kissed Tanya, and then stretched out his big hand and shook me hard, the middle-aged man introduced himself and said, "Peng, hello! I'm Danya's dad Vasily. It seemed that I did not need to introduce myself, and I said to Vasily: "Hello! Uncle Vasily. "Danya's parents' bakery was small, and in addition to selling bread, they also sold canned flour, salt, and other household items. We stopped only a moment, Lyuba closed the door, and Vasily took us home in his Lada, which didn't look too shabby.
Tanya's house is located by a small river, with a large courtyard, a row of five or six room bungalows, and a small wooden house in front of the house, and Tanya told me that it was a bannia (Russian bath), and there was a lazy yellow dog lying at the gate of the courtyard, and when he saw Tanya, the yellow dog got up and circled around Denya. There are a few acres of land behind the house, which Dania says is the family's vegetable field, and there is a cowshed behind the house, in which two cows, one large and one small, are raised. I whispered to Tanya, "Your family is a landlord. Dania laughed.
Tanya was leading me around the front and back of the house, when a chubby seventy-year-old lady came out of the house, and Tanya ran up and put her arms around the old lady, and then said to me, "This is my grandmother." I stepped forward, and the old lady took my hand and said, "This is Peng, I'm Grandma Aniah." I took out ginseng from my bag and handed it to the old lady with both hands: "Hello Grandma Ania! This is a gift for you. The old lady took the ginseng and looked at it and said, "I know this is ginseng, a very expensive gift, thank you Pengqika (Xiaopeng)" After speaking, the old lady asked us to go into the house and drink tea.
Entering the room, I took out the tea and wine from my bag, and Tanya said, "This is the jasmine tea that Peng brought from China, and it is very fragrant." Liuba said, "I'll go boil water, and we'll taste Peng's jasmine tea now." We chatted over the jasmine tea that Tanya's mother had so much to offer. Grandma Ania told me that Tanya had an older sister who was married to Kemerovo (next to the capital of the Kemerovo region of the Novosibirsk region, not very far from Novosibirsk) and that a younger brother was doing military service. Tanya has already told me about all this, and I think the old people should like to talk about it, whether it is the old people in Russia or the old people in China, so I listened very carefully.
Seeing that it was already noon, Danya and Lyuba went to the kitchen to prepare lunch. I was chatting with Vasily in the living room, and Vasily said that he used to work as a manager on a local state farm, but then the government did not allocate funds to the state farm, and the farm could not continue to operate and closed down, so he opened the bakery. I said that our company might develop agricultural projects in Novosibirsk in the future and introduce greenhouse planting technology, and Vasily was very interested, and he said that he could help us get in touch.
After lunch, Vasily and Lyuba went to the bakery, and Grandma Ania went for a lunch break. I called Roman and asked him to pick me up the next morning. After the call, Tanya asked me if I wanted to wash the panya. I nodded again and again, so we lit a fire and burned wood, although Danya's Fanya is relatively simple, but it is also unique, the decoration pattern is similar to that of Irkusco, I washed Fannia, but there is no rain, let alone a swimming pool, you need to use your own basin to flush water. and Danya slapped each other's bodies with mulberry branches, looking at the charming beauty ketone body in the misty water vapor, this hot and erotic feeling is indescribably beautiful.
Lyuba prepared a very sumptuous dinner, and after Vasily and I drank a bottle of brandy, Vasily felt that he was not having enough fun, and found another bottle of vodka to drink with me, but Lyuba sternly stopped him. Tanya whispered to me that if her father was to let go of drinking, his father would not be able to control it, and he could drink for a few days on end, and he would get drunk every day. After dinner, Tanya took me to the clubhouse in town, where there was a weekend dance, and Dania and I hugged each other and waltzed to the beautiful music of the accordion.