The sun was shining on a Sunday morning, and when I opened the window, I felt the temperature outside have risen a lot. Thinking of going shopping with Tanya today, I got up early and took a shower, and as soon as I dried my hair, Tanya came and knocked on the door and called me for breakfast. In Denya's room, I ate bread with Denya's fried poached eggs. After drinking a cup of coffee, I went back to my room and put on a silver-gray suit specially brought from China, a white striped shirt with a dark red silk tie, a black cashmere coat on the outside, and a ginseng when I went out. "Honey, you're so handsome!" When Tanya saw me come out of the room in this dress, she praised me with joy. In order to coordinate with my clothes, Danya, who wore a light makeup on her face, deliberately wore a dark beige woolen coat over the purple dress, and wore a pair of high leather boots on her feet. "Wow! Tanya you're so beautiful! I couldn't help but compliment. I gave the ginseng to Tanya and asked her to put it in her bag, and Tanya asked me what it was. I told her that it was ginseng, a gift for a friend in the evening, and told her that I would give her one as well, and she happily hugged me and kissed me.

Danya took my arm and went downstairs, "Aunt Zoya is early! We said hello to Zhuoya in the duty room, "Morning! Peng, Danya, you are so compatible, handsome young man, beautiful girl, I am really happy for you! "Zoya praises us from the bottom of her heart.

The weather outside was very nice, with clear skies and a few white clouds floating in the sky. I was secretly glad that I didn't have to wear a bloated down jacket and most importantly, I didn't have to wear that ugly woolen hat, and if I was dressed like bread, I was really embarrassed to go out.

To get to the city center, you can take the subway or the bus, we decided to take the bus so that we could see the city along the way, and when we arrived at the station, there was a trolleybus to the city center, so we got on the trolleybus. On Sunday, and because it was still early, the trolleybus was empty, and Tanya took out two tickets from her purse and punched them in the punch. There is no conductor on the bus in Russian cities, buy a ticket at the ticket booth in advance, and after getting on the bus, the passengers themselves punch holes in the punching machine, the punching machine can make three or four holes, and the arrangement of the holes punched out on each punching machine is different, and there will be ticket inspectors on the bus along the way to check the tickets, and if there are found fare evaders, fines will be imposed. The car was heated and warm, so we sat down in a double position in the middle of the car, and along the way Danya acted as a tour guide, pointing out the window and explaining to me.

I read about Novosibirsk in the book on the history, geography and culture of the CIS countries that my brother asked me to study: the city of Novosibirsk, located on the banks of the Ob River, is the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg, and at the same time the geographical center of Russia. The city of Novosibirsk has a short history, it was originally a penal colony for prisoners from the Tsarist era. With the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway at the end of the 19th century, a new town began to emerge. The rapid development was during the "World War II" period, when the Soviet Union's strategy shifted, and Siberia was used as a strategic rear, and a large number of Soviet factories were relocated here. After World War II, the Soviet government mobilized the youth of the whole country to develop Novosibirsk. At the beginning of this century, Novosibirsk developed rapidly with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and became the fulcrum of the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The trolleybus road along the road is not very wide, lacking the grandeur of a big city, and most of the vehicles on the road are Lada and Volga cars left over from the Soviet era, and you will also see some second-hand cars imported from Japan. The infrastructure of the city is very average, many old houses from the Soviet era, few high-rise buildings, but there are many small gardens on the streets, and there are many benches for resting, and some old ladies who get up early sit on the benches and enjoy the sun and leisurely feed the pigeons. There are many pigeons in the cities of Novosibirsk, and they can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys and small squares, and the pigeons are not afraid of people and get along with people very harmoniously.

We got off the bus at Lenin Square in the center of the city, where a tall statue of Lenin stood in the center of the square, waving his arms as if to guide the direction of the revolution, which reminded me of the movie "Lenin in 1918" that I watched as a child. Tanya told me that in Russia there are Lenin Squares and statues of Lenin in many cities, even villages and towns, but Lenin has a more special meaning for Novosibirsk. Lenin was once sentenced by the tsarist government to exile in Novosibirsk and spent three years in exile on the banks of the Yenisei River. Lenin lived in a small house of more than ten square meters, and wrote a number of works under very difficult circumstances. His revolutionary activities in Siberia had a tremendous and far-reaching impact on the revolutionary movement in Russia. I remember learning this text when I was in elementary school, and although the Soviet era is gone, I still have a deep sense of reverence in my heart when I stand in front of the statue of Lenin today.

Denia told me that on September 2, a mass rally and a military parade were held on Lenin Square to commemorate the victory in the Great Patriotic War, and a singing and dancing and fireworks show were held at night. I said, "It's a shame, I was wrong." "This commemoration ceremony takes place every year on September 2 and will be there next year," said Tanya. ”

About 200 meters from Lenin Square, there is a large opera house-style building. According to Danya, it is the largest and most famous theater in Russia, the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. The theater has more than 2,000 seats in its large performance hall, and the theater dome has a diameter of sixty meters, but without the use of a single pillar, Novosibirsk proudly calls it the "Novosibirsk Gladiatorial Arena". Troupes from all over Russia take pride in performing here, and famous plays such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty are regularly staged. After listening to Danya, I said, "Tanya, let's come and see the show later." "That's great, but tickets for the show here are very tight, sometimes you have to wait in a long line to get tickets, and the tickets are expensive. I said, "It's okay, as long as you can buy a ticket." ”

An old man walking in the square came up to us and asked me in Chinese, which was not very fluent: "Hello! Young man, you are Chinese, right? I was stunned, seeing that the old man looked a little like Chinese, I replied in Chinese: "Hello! I am Chinese, who are you? The old man took my hand and shook it hard, "My name is Anton Liu, my father is Chinese, and my mother is Russian. I feel very close to the Chinese when I meet them. After saying that, the old man greeted Tanya in Russian. I immediately became interested in the old man's life experience, looked around, and saw that there was a café not far from the square, so I invited the old man to have a cup of tea with him, and the old man readily agreed.

In the café, I briefly introduced myself. Old man Anton told us that his maternal grandfather was a nobleman during the Tsarist period, and that after the victory of the Soviet Revolution, his maternal grandfather and his family went into exile in Harbin, China, and his mother married his father, a Harbin native surnamed Liu. He was born in China, and during the Sino-Japanese War, his parents fled to the Soviet Union, came to Novosibirsk and stayed here. We wish Anton good health and a chance to visit China. The old man gave me the address and telephone number of his home, and asked us to visit his house at some time, and then he introduced me to his son, who works in the government and might be able to help us.

Don't pass the old man Anton, see that the time is about the same, we went to the pedestrian street, the stone pavement of the pedestrian street, and the European-style buildings of different shapes on both sides of the street. A flock of pigeons stopped on the street to feed, but unfortunately they didn't bring bread, and I was about to say my regret to Tanya, when Tanya pulled out a plastic bag from her backpack with some broken bread inside. Tanya took a loaf of bread from the plastic bag and handed it to me. I took it and threw it at the pigeons, and the pigeons scrambled for it, and one of the pigeons was very bold and flew straight over to grab the bread in my hand. Tanya said that she often goes for a walk in the city center on Sundays and brings some crumbs of bread with her to feed the pigeons.

The largest bookstore in Novosibirsk is located in the center of the pedestrian street, and when we went in, we bought a copy of all the greeting cards and almanacs, I bought a map of Russia, and Tanya bought a book about China. Russian greeting cards and calendars are very coarsely printed, and the quality of the paper is poor. When I told Tanya about the idea of printing a batch of greeting cards and calendars in China, she applauded, saying, "Whether it is a Chinese merchant or a Russian businessman, the goods are clothes, shoes and hats, and the competition will become more and more fierce, but no one has yet thought of the business of printing greeting cards in China." I said, "How could no one have thought of it, I have thought of it." She laughed and punched me and said, "You slippery, but you have to be smart." I smiled and said, "Then I'm smart and slippery." Tanya took my hand and said, "Peng, you're not slippery, I'm joking, you're really smart." ”

It was already noon, and Tanya took me to a restaurant not far from the pedestrian street, where Tanya said that the Siberian dumplings here are very authentic, and there are many people eating in the restaurant, all the tables are full, but it is very quiet. Compared with the crowded restaurants in China, the dining environment of Russian restaurants is really first-class, and even if the diners chat with each other, they whisper to each other, for fear of affecting the people around them. After waiting for a long time to wait for an empty table, Tanya ordered two Siberian dumplings and a vegetable salad, and soon the waiter brought two steaming dumplings with soup on a tray, along with the dumplings there was a small bowl of white creamy things, Tanya told me that it was fine rice dan (sour cream), I followed Denya's example and crooked a spoonful of fine rice dan and stirred it in the soup, the dumplings were a ball of meat, it tasted hard and hard, it didn't feel very delicious, but the soup with fine rice dan was very appetizing.

After lunch, Tanya decided to take me to visit the Novosibirsk GI - St. Alexander Nevsky Church, which she said was one of the earliest stone buildings in Novosibirsk and an outstanding example of Russian architecture at the end of the 19th century. The dark red brick church is built in the Byzantine style, and the façade is decorated with many elaborate patterns. The church stands out against the modern architecture that surrounds it. In the church, Tanya lit the candle very religiously and then silently prayed in front of the icon. After leaving the church, Denya told me that she prayed that God would bless me and her family and me and that my work in Novosibirsk would go smoothly.