If you need to pay a fee, you must go to the bank to pay the money, there is no fee window in the government department, and after the bank pays the money, you will take the payment receipt to the government to do the work, and you must go to the designated bank to pay the money. There is only one result of this, which is an extreme waste of time, to go to the government to submit the application materials to queue, and then to the bank to pay the money to queue, the bank is often far away from the government department, and after the bank pays the money and gets the payment receipt, then go to the government department and queue up again. What can often be done in half a day in China sometimes takes two days in Russia. As a result, the efficiency of Russian government departments is one of the slowest in the world.

Not only government departments, but almost everywhere Russians are working at a terrible slow pace. Tanya and I waited in line at the bank for more than 20 minutes, and we didn't see the first person in line. Looking at the dozen or so people in front of us and the Russian beauties working unhurriedly in the window, I thought to myself, at this rate, I don't know if I can get to the bank when I get off work. But none of the Russians in the queue showed anxious looks, and a few of them were still reading quietly with a book, and it seemed that the Russians were used to this kind of work efficiency.

Suddenly feeling very thirsty, I whispered to Denya: "Denya, I'm a little thirsty, I'll go buy a bottle of mineral water, do you want it?" Tanya shook her head and said, "I don't want it, you go buy water, I'll read a book for a while." ”

After leaving the bank, I bought a small bottle of aerated Baikal mineral water at a small kiosk on the street not far away. There are two types of mineral water in Russia, aerated and unaerated in Russia, and Russians are very fond of drinking aerated mineral water. When I arrived in Russia, I wasn't very used to this kind of mineral water with a hint of soda in it at first, but I gradually liked it. I drank a small bottle of aerated Baikal mineral water in one gulp, and after two burps in a row, I immediately felt refreshed, and after finding a trash can to throw away the empty bottles, I walked back satisfied.

At this time, a young man with dark skin and a somewhat Indian appearance came up to me, and the young man looked around me a few times and asked me in a low voice, "Do you want to change the dollar?" "I thought to myself, is this what Tamaz said about the scalpers who are speculating in the city center? Recently I wanted to exchange some dollars, so I asked, "I want to buy dollars, do you have them?" The young man nodded and said, "Yes, how much do you want?" I happened to have more than 500,000 rubles with me, so I said to the young man: "I want a hundred dollars, what is the exchange rate?" The young man replied: "One hundred dollars and five hundred thousand rubles." "As soon as I heard it, this exchange rate is much more suitable than buying dollars in the bank, which can save almost 50,000 rubles, and there is no need to queue and register for passports. But I was worried about getting fake dollars, so I said to the young man, "If you ask me for a hundred dollars, I'll give you 500,000 roubles." The young man looked left and right and took out a hundred dollars from his body and handed it to me, and after I looked at it carefully, I confirmed that it was a genuine bill, and then took out five hundred thousand rubles from my pocket and handed it to him. I was just about to put the dollars away, and he said, "Wait, don't put the dollars away, you checked my dollars, and I'm going to check if your rubles are real?" After saying that, he took the five hundred thousand rubles I gave and looked back and forth exaggeratedly, and then rolled the five hundred thousand rubles into a roll, held them and rubbed them between his hands. I thought it was strange to see him move, I had only heard of counterfeit US dollars, I had never heard of counterfeit rubles, and I had never seen such a banknote.

Suddenly, a young man with the same dark skin ran up and said, "Hurry up, the police are coming." The young man who exchanged the dollars grabbed the dollars in my hand and stuffed the roll of money back in his hand to me. I turned around and ran, I looked around, I didn't find any police, and suddenly I felt that something was wrong, I hurriedly opened the roll of money in my hand, the five pieces of 100,000 rubles had been transferred, and the roll of money in my hand was only one hundred thousand rubles outside, and there were a few blank pieces of paper rolled inside.

I saw that the two of them hadn't run far yet, so I hurriedly chased after them. Before I could take a few steps, I suddenly came out of nowhere with several fat middle-aged women with scarves on their heads, and they surrounded me. Several women shouted, "Young people tell fortunes." I shouted angrily, "Go away, go away, I'm going to call the police." "Several women ignored me, and one woman tried to snatch the 100,000 rubles from my hand. I secretly complained in my heart, I didn't expect to meet a gang of scammers today.

By the time I was desperately trying to squeeze out of the crowd, the two young liars had already run away without a trace. I wanted to call the police, but there was no shadow of a police officer around, and I cursed in my heart, TMD can't see a shadow when you want to find the police, and you will appear in front of you at any time when you don't want to see the police.

When I returned to the bank, Tanya saw my angry look and hurriedly asked me with concern, "Peng, what happened?" I told you what had just happened, and Tanya said, "You've met the Gypsies, who are smuggling and swindling people at the bank market in the city center. "It turns out that these people are gypsies, I have only seen gypsies in the movie "Yessenia" before, and the gypsies in the movie can sing and dance enthusiastically, but I didn't expect the gypsies I met in reality to be a group of thieves and liars. I said, "Tanya, go call the police." Tanya shook her head and said, "It's useless to call the police, these gypsies have given the police benefits." I was reluctant to say, "What then?" Tanya stroked my hand and said softly, "Peng, you are calm and calm, I see that you are confused by them, how can you forget about Vidali and them?" As soon as Danya reminded me, I patted myself on the head, "I'm really by them, I'm going to call Vidali now." ”

I found a coin-operated phone on the side of the road, called Vidali and the person who answered the phone told me that Vidaly was not there, and I asked him to call Sergey for me. After Sergey answered the phone, I told what had just happened. Sergei asked me to wait at the door of the bank, and he immediately sent a subordinate named Yura to come to me.

I was waiting for Yura in front of the bank, and the group of gypsy women was still wandering not far away, looking for the target of the deception. The gypsy woman was followed by several children, who reached out to ask for money when they saw a passerby.

After more than ten minutes, a Muscovites car drove up. The car pulled up next to me, and out of the car got a big Russian man in a fur coat and a peaked cap, I think it was Yura. The big man asked me, "Are you Peng?" I nodded, and the big man shook hands with me, "Hello! I'm Yura, Sergey said that your money was cheated by gypsies, what's the matter? I pointed to the group of gypsy women not far away, and angrily recounted what had just happened. Jura said, "Peng, you wait here, I'll go and get the money back for you." With that, Jura walked over to the group of gypsy women.

After a few words with the group of gypsy women, Yura turned and pointed at me, then at a café across the bank, where a gypsy woman hurried away. Jura came back to me and said, "Peng, let's go to the café across the street for a coffee, and in a while, they'll send you the money back." "After entering the bank and saying hello to Tanya, Yura and I went to the café opposite.

In the café, Yura said, "Peng, if you want to exchange dollars, I'll take you to the central market in a while, and introduce you to a friend who can exchange dollars, and you can find him to exchange dollars in the future, don't change dollars here, these gypsies are thieves and liars." I nodded and said, "The first time I changed dollars, I didn't know that these people were Gypsies, could it be that these Gypsies make a living by cheating?" Jura said: "These gypsies have no regular jobs, they wander around, they live by telling fortunes and begging and cheating, and these gypsies are scoundrels, and you have to stay away from them." ”

Yura and I hadn't finished our coffee when a middle-aged gypsy man came in. The middle-aged gypsy man walked up to us, greeted Yura respectfully, put his hand on his chest and said sorry to me, then put four hundred thousand rubles on the table, and Yura waved him to settle the coffee bill. The middle-aged gypsy man walked to the bar, settled the bill for us, and turned to leave.