Chapter 33 The Vietnamese who practiced the stall

After talking to the fat brother on the phone, I went downstairs and had lunch in the cafeteria. When I went back to the office, I saw our financial Lena at the elevator entrance, and I saw that she was carrying a big plastic bag in her hand, and the plastic bag seemed to be filled with plastic fake flowers. I asked curiously, "What is this?" Lena replied, "Very beautiful plastic flowers, I'll show you back in the office." I asked, "You just bought it?" Lena replied, "Yes, I bought it at the entrance of the mall." After Lena finished speaking, she suddenly patted her head and said to me, "I wanted to talk to you when I saw you just now, but as soon as you asked me, I just wanted to forget the flowers in my hand, do you know who I bought the flowers from?" I thought to myself where I knew, so I jokingly said, "It's us Chinese." Lena looked at me with some surprise and asked, "Peng, did you go to the mall just now?" I replied, "No." Lena said, "Then how do you know that I bought it from you Chinese?" Do you count? I was a little surprised and said, "Ah! Is it really bought in the hands of the Chinese? I was just kidding. Lena replied: "Yes, yes, I went to the mall after eating, and I saw that there were people queuing in the small square at the entrance of the mall, and when I saw that there were two Chinese selling plastic flowers, a man and a woman, I quickly lined up to buy some, these beautiful flowers I was ready to keep to decorate the room for the New Year." I asked curiously, "Isn't there anything for sale in the mall?" Lena replied: "There is no sale, I occasionally see one sold in the market, but it is very expensive, and it is not expensive to buy from you Chinese today." "I decided to go to the entrance of the mall to find out, and when I went back to the office, I talked to Brother Chao, who asked me to take a look.

When I came to the shopping mall where Lena was talking, I saw a line of more than 20 people lined up in the small square at the entrance of the mall, and four large cardboard boxes were placed side by side in front of the team, and plastic flowers were covered with plastic flowers, and two short Chinese in their thirties, a man and a woman, were selling goods. I walked to the front of the line to say hello to them, and the Russians in the queue mistakenly thought I was going to plug up, and they accused me and asked me to line up, and I quickly explained that I don't buy plastic flowers. The man and woman who sold plastic flowers looked up at me with some surprise, and I greeted them in Chinese, "Hello! The woman looked at me and shook her head, and the man greeted me in a very stiff Chinese: "Hello! I didn't feel like Chinese, so I asked in Chinese, "Aren't you Chinese?" The man looked at me and replied in very stiff Chinese: "Vietnamese." After a long time of being Vietnamese, I quickly said in Russian: "I'm sorry, I thought you were Chinese." After handing over a bouquet of plastic flowers to the customer, the man asked me in very stiff Chinese: "Chinese?" I said, "Yes, do you know Chinese?" The man replied to me while selling goods: "Yes, my home is very close to China, I have been to China." After that, he changed to Russian, which he was not very fluent in, and asked me: "Do you go to school or work here?" I replied, "I'm working here." The man stretched out his hand and shook my hand, telling me that his name was Zhong, and the woman next to him was called Mi is his wife, and the woman smiled at me, and I told them that my name was Peng, and we knew each other like this, and I said that when they sold out of goods, I would invite them to coffee, and Zhong happily agreed.

Their business was good, and the plastic flowers were quickly snapped up by the Russians. Tadashi and Mi happily packed up their things and prepared to go to the café next to me for tea. Suddenly, a police car drove up, and I thought I was in trouble. The police car stopped beside us, and a policeman got out of the car, and I saw that it was Ji Ma, and Ji Ma was stunned when he saw me, and then he glanced at me, and I immediately swallowed back the greeting that I was going to fight. Jima saluted the three of us and said, "Hello! Please show your passports. We took out our passport and handed it to him, and after reading it, Jima said to us: "I just called and reported that there are people here who are illegally setting up stalls to sell goods, and now you are going to go to the police station with me." "After that, he asked us to get in the car.

In the police car, Ji Ma asked me, "Peng, why are you here?" I replied, "I was passing by, and when I saw them, I said hello to them." Jima asked me again, "Are they your friends?" I looked at Chung and Mi, they looked at me nervously, and I replied to Jima: "Yes, they are my friends. Tima asked, "Going to school in Novosibirsk?" Zhong replied, "Yes." I didn't have time to ask Zhong just now, it turned out that Zhong and Mi were students, and Ji Ma asked Zhong again: "Do you know that stalls are not allowed to sell goods at the entrance of the mall?" Zhong bowed his head and said nothing, and Jima looked at me and said; "Peng, you told your Vietnamese friend that you want to sell goods to the market, but you need to apply for a business license. I asked Jima, "What now?" The young policeman who was about to drive stopped his car on the side of the road and said to me: "Peng, since they are your friends, I will not take them to the police station today, but ask them to take 100,000 rubles, and I will buy a cigarette for a few people on duty." Zhong hurriedly took out 100,000 rubles from his body and handed it to Ji Ma, thinking about it, he took out 100,000 rubles from his body and handed it to Ji Ma, saying that he left it for Ji Ma to drink, Ji Ma said thank you and accepted it, Ji Ma told Zhong that if Zhong wanted to go to the market to set up a stall to sell goods, he could help with it.

After getting out of the police car, Tadashi said that he was lucky to meet me today, otherwise he would have been in trouble going to the police station. Mi said that their house was not far away, so he invited me to their house as a guest and invited me to dinner in the evening. I said that I would go to their house for another day tonight, and now I will find a place to have coffee with them. We found a nearby café, asked for three cups of Turkish coffee, chatted while drinking coffee, and advised me that they live on the border between Vietnam and China, and that crossing a not very wide river is China, and that he used to farm rice at home, and has been to the Chinese village across the river many times, and the Chinese in the village have exchanged Vietnamese specialties for Chinese light industrial products. The year before last, his cousin in Ho Chi Minh City came to Novosibirsk as a student and made money here, and last year he helped them get the status of an international student and asked them to come and help, and not long after they came, his cousin went to Moscow. They studied Russian for a year, and this year his cousin asked them to go to Moscow, they did not want to go, ready to do some business in Novosibirsk. These plastic flowers were just sent to them by his cousin from Moscow, and they were sold at a stall on the first day today, but they didn't expect business to be so good. I told them that I work for a very large Chinese company, and our company has a branch in Novosibirsk, and Zhong was very interested and asked me if I had any Chinese goods? I told him that the plastic flowers he sold today will be shipped over in a while, and there will be some other New Year's goods at that time, and Zhong asked me, can you buy them from me at that time? I said of course I could, and asked him to tell me what he needed. Tadashi said that he still had fellow villagers doing business here, and he asked them what they could sell, and I said I could ship them according to their needs. Chung held my hand and said happily, he was so lucky today, if only I could go to his house and have a drink with him, the Vietnamese food made of rice is very delicious, I said that I would definitely go to his house another day, and he asked me if Saturday was okay? When the time comes, he tells me what I want? I said yes and said I'd bring my girlfriend with me then, and he said that would be great, and then wrote me the address and phone number, and I also told him the office number. Tadashi hurriedly settled the bill for the coffee, and we walked out of the coffee shop together.

Back in the office, Brother Chao asked me where I had been for so long? I told me what had just happened, and then I said what I thought: we could send a small cabinet of greeting cards and plastic to sell before the New Year, and add some more items to the cabinet that were loyal to them. After hearing this, Brother Chao patted me on the shoulder vigorously and praised me with a word of Mara Jieci.