I arrived at the Manzhouli railway station very early in the morning, and there were not many people taking the international train here, so I went through the border inspection and customs inspection. When I got to our carriage, I was surprised to find that the sign on the outside of the carriage said Pyongyang-Moscow, and when I looked at the sign next to the carriage, it also said Pyongyang-Moscow. If it weren't for the fact that there was only one train parked at the station, I almost thought I was on the wrong train, so I asked Brother Chao: "Brother Chao, why is this train not Beijing-Moscow but Pyongyang-Moscow?" Brother Chao said: "The carriage we sit in should be the carriage hanging at Shenyang Station." ”

As soon as I entered the carriage, the smell of spicy cabbage came to my nose, and I saw that all the people standing in the aisle were North Koreans. I know that they are North Koreans, not because of the sign that says Pyongyang-Moscow, but because they are all yellow-skinned, malnourished, as if they were uniformly distributed, and each of them is wearing a very low-grade suit, the most obvious sign being that each has a badge of their leader pinned to his chest. Seeing the badges on their chests, I felt like I was suddenly back in the scene when I was a child.

This time, we bought a box ticket for four people, and the box was not full of big bags of luggage like the last time I met the fat guys. There were already two people in the box, on one side was a young Chinese Xian man of the same age as me, and his lower bunk was a middle-aged Korean man with a medium body and a slight fat figure in a tracksuit, this middle-aged North Korean man was very different from the North Koreans in the aisle in terms of mental outlook, he wore gold-rimmed glasses, his face was ruddy and his hair was oily, and the texture of his clothes was also very good, if it were not for the leader's badge pinned to his chest, I almost thought he was a Chinese sent abroad.

After putting away the luggage and changing clothes, the train started. Because the international column was about to leave for Zabaikal, it was not allowed to move around at will, so I didn't immediately go to the fat brothers. The young Chinese Xian surnamed Cui was from Yanbian and was going to Moscow, and the middle-aged North Korean man who spoke Russian fluently told us that his surname was Kim and that he was going to Irkusko. Xiao Cui told us that this carriage and the two carriages next door came from Pyongyang and boarded the Beijing-Moscow international train at Shenyang Station. I don't think we would have been able to buy tickets for international trains in Manchuria if it weren't for these three carriages. After saying that we were on a business trip, Brother Chao asked Xiao Cui, "What are you doing in Moscow?" Little Cui told us: "I am in Moscow to change trains to Murmansko. I heard Murmansky exclaim, "Wow! Murmansko, one of the coldest cities in northern Russia. Xiao Cui smiled and said: "Yes, Murmansco is now more than minus 20 degrees, and it can reach minus 50 or 60 degrees in January." I couldn't help but shudder when I heard it, and Brother Chao asked curiously, "Xiao Cui, why are you going to such a cold place?" Xiao Cui replied: "In the past, the key was matched." When we heard this, some of the second monks were confused, and Xiao Cui didn't understand us very well, so he pointed to his bed under the North Korean surnamed Jin, and we saw a package that was not very large canvas placed under it. Xiao Cui said: "There are two small key machines in the bag, and I also have a lot of key embryos in my upper bunk bag. "That's when we got it. I said to Xiao Cui: "Xiao Cui, why do you have a key in Russia?" And I chose to be in that cold city. Xiao Cui looked out the window of the car and said, "It's already in Zabaikal, I'll tell you about it after the passport check is done in a while." ”

As soon as Xiao Cui finished speaking, the cabin attendant came over and handed us the arrival card. After filling out the arrival card, the Russian border officer came up and took away our passports, visas and arrival cards. While waiting for passports and customs checks, Xiao Cui told us that he first came to Russia with his relatives to dump bags, and at first brought goods from China or went to Moscow to load goods like all Chinese masters, and sold goods at a stall in Yaraslavl, a few hundred kilometers away from Moscow. Because of its proximity to Moscow and the center of Russia's Golden Ring City, gradually the number of Chinese in Yaraslavl began to increase, and the profits of the business were relatively not as high as before. The local police are also getting darker and darker about the Chinese, and he and his relatives do not have much money to go to Moscow to do wholesale business, and heard that there are no Chinese in Murmansko, and the prices there are very high, so he and his relatives went to Murmansk and spent money to rent a stall in the market to sell clothes. Murmansky is a military port city, which was not open to the outside world during the Soviet era, and the wages there are much higher than in other regions, so business is very good. There are no foreigners, the police there hardly check passports, and the police in the market can send a bottle of vodka, but it is relatively difficult to get to Moscow to load goods, and police extortion is often encountered on the road. In this way, after almost half a year, once Xiao Cui's relatives lost the key to the door and went to the market to distribute the key, only to find that there was only one place in the whole of Murmansco with a key, which was not only amazingly expensive, but also had to wait for two days to get it. So Xiao Cui's relatives moved the idea of matching keys, and first returned to China to get a key matching machine and a batch of key embryos, and put the machine next to his clothing stall to match the keys, but what he didn't expect was that the matching of keys was more profitable than selling clothes. Xiao Cui's visa expired, and taking advantage of the opportunity to return to China to apply for a visa, Xiao Cui went to buy two key-matching machines, and went to learn how to operate and repair the machine. This time, I am going to return to Murmansko, and I will specially assign the key, and I will make one by myself and ask a Russian to do it. After listening to Xiao Cui, I thought to myself that these Chinese masters are still very good at seizing market opportunities, with key with technical content, and there is no competition, and there is no need for a large venue, and there is no need to work hard to run Moscow to load the goods, with the key is really a good business with a small profit. I asked Xiao Cui: "In winter, it is the coldest minus 50 or 60 degrees, how do you go out to do business?" Xiao Cui said: "In winter, we only go out of the stall for three or four hours a day, the day is very short in winter, and it will be dark after three o'clock in the afternoon, and when it is the coldest time, we simply do not go out of the stall, and the cat drinks at home, even if it is wearing a down coat and down pants, it will freeze after going out for a while." After I go back this time, I plan to rent a pavilion with a key, and the heater in the pavilion will not be cold. ”

While speaking, the carriage attendant sent me the passport that had been stamped after the inspection, and the next step was the customs inspection, and I saw that Xiao Cui was a little nervous. Soon there was a fat Madam (middle-aged woman) wearing a Russian customs uniform in the carriage, and the first few boxes were full of North Koreans, so there should be nothing to check, and soon arrived at our box. When I was at the hotel last night, I divided the fifty boxes of slimming tea, and Brother Chao and I each had a backpack and a handbag, and there were some slimming teas in the bag and the handbag, so if you check any bag, the number of slimming teas is not very large. Ma Damu checked Chao Ge's luggage first, and after seeing the weight loss tea, Ma Damu asked, "What is this?" Brother Chao replied, "This is tea." After picking up the slimming tea and carefully looking at the pattern on the package, Madamu gestured at his figure and said, "I also need this tea." Brother Chao smiled and said, "I brought it to my Russian girlfriend mother, and if you need it, I'll give you two boxes." Ma Damu unceremoniously took three boxes and put them into his clothes, and then Ma Damu pointed at me and asked Brother Chao: "Are you together?" Brother Chao nodded and replied yes, Madamu looked at the small bag I was laying out, and didn't ask me to open it.

The luggage of the North Korean surnamed Kim was very simple, only some personal supplies, and the motor was hastily glanced. Finally, Ma Damu began to check Xiao Cui's luggage, and when he opened the package and saw two key machines and key embryos, Ma Damu accepted Xiao Cui's passport and asked Xiao Cui to get out of the car and go to customs to pay 400 US dollars in customs duties. When Ma Damu was about to give Xiao Cui an order, Xiao Cui quietly stuffed her with a hundred dollars, Ma Damu quietly accepted the money, but still opened a bill for Xiao Cui, Xiao Cui took it and saw that the amount was not four hundred dollars but one hundred dollars. After Madamu got out of the car, Xiao Cui happily took the list and went down to pay the customs duties and retrieved his passport.

Because the other carriages had not yet been checked, the carriage attendant did not let us off the train and asked us to continue waiting in the box. While waiting for the notice, Chao Ge and the North Korean surnamed Kim chatted in Russian. It turned out that the North Korean surnamed Kim was the leader of the North Korean expatriate construction labor team, a Russian translator, who had studied in the Soviet Union during the Soviet Union and had been in Russia for several years, and the other North Koreans in the box were brought to Irkusco from North Korea to do construction labor. Brother Chao asked him: "What conditions do you need to go abroad to work in North Korea?" He replied: "You must be a party member who is married and has to be good, and finally pass the guò assessment before you can go abroad to work." Xiao Choi said on the side: "If you can go abroad to work in North Korea, you will not be starved to death, these North Koreans who go abroad have been taken away by the state, and they can only get a small amount, but in Russia they can eat enough and drink alcohol, which is already a paradise for North Koreans." The Russian interpreters of these team leaders have a very nourishing life, and sometimes they take people to do private work. "I thought to myself, just look at the difference between North Koreans with the surname Kim and other North Koreans.