After lunch and saying hello to Brother Chao, Danya and I went back to the dormitory to get some money.

After I got out of the subway, Danya asked me, "Peng, do you want to stop by the central market to see the store with keys?" I nodded and said yes.

The shop with keys is located in a small alley next to the central market, and the sign at the entrance reads "Repair watches, distribute keys". The small shop was only seven or eight square meters in size, and there was a counter with some old watches and some watch accessories in the counter, and a few wall clocks hanging on the wall behind the counter. There is a very bulky key machine qì in the corner of the wall, and a row of key embryos are hung on the wall next to it, and there are some strange shapes of key embryos that I have never seen before. There was a small table at one end of the counter, and behind the small table sat a middle-aged Russian man in his fifties, who was concentrating on repairing his watch with an eyepiece. Seeing us enter the door, the middle-aged man raised his head and took off his eyepieces: "Hello young man!" How can you help? Danya replied casually: "Hello! Let's take a look. The middle-aged man said a little unhappily: "Girl, I'm not a store here, what's there to see?" If it's nothing, please don't disturb my work. I quickly took out the key to the dormitory and said, "Sorry, we want to have a key." The middle-aged man took the key and muttered in his mouth, "With the key, he directly said that he had the key, why did he say that he would take a look at it?" These young people. Danya looked at me and squeezed her eyes and stuck out her tongue.

The middle-aged man looked at the key and said, "20,000 rubles, come and get it tomorrow afternoon." "20,000 rubles is almost 30 yuan in RMB, this price is ten times that of China, and I have to wait a day to get it, so I don't know how much it will cost if I expedite it? So I asked, "Can you pick it up today?" I'm waiting to use it. The middle-aged man pointed to the watch on the table dissatisfied, "Don't you see the work on my hands?" I tried to ask, "What if I could add money?" The middle-aged man glanced at the wall clock on the wall and said, "Add 10,000 rubles, come and pick it up at five o'clock in the evening." I took out 30,000 roubles and handed it to him, then pointed to the row of keys hanging in the corner of the wall and asked, "What are those keys that look like long iron rods?" The middle-aged man looked at me in surprise, "Young man, are you Chinese or Vietnamese?" I replied with some confusion: "I'm Chinese, what's wrong?" The middle-aged man said, "Don't you have such a key anywhere?" I nodded and said, "We don't have such a key there, it's the first time I've seen it." The middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't understand, what kind of locks do you Chinese use?" This is the key to our building. "I thought to myself, this kind of strange key is probably not available in China, if all the door keys of all the buildings here are like this, then it is not very business to get a key machine? But Xiao Cui also said that their business in Murmansk is very good, could it be that there are very few such keys in Murmansk? I wonder if there are many such keys on the Novosibirsk side? I'm going to have to get to the bottom of this. So I asked the middle-aged man, "Do all the houses here have doorkeys like this?" The middle-aged man said impatiently, "Young man, you are too curious. I smiled and said, "I've never seen a key like this, so it's weird." Danya also said on the side: "Uncle, tell me, my family is rural, and I have never seen this kind of key, and I also want to know it." Listening to Danya's words, the middle-aged man said: "There are not many people use this kind of key now, and they are all used on the doors of those decades-old houses." It's inconvenient to go out with such a long key, who likes to use it? Many people with this kind of lock have changed their locks, but there are still some elderly people who are reluctant to change the locks. When he said this, a stone fell to my heart.

In order to learn more information, I decided to get close to this middle-aged man, maybe there is still a possibility of cooperating with him in the future. Thinking of this, I glanced at the old watch on the counter and noticed that one of the old Soviet pocket watches was very distinctive. The cover is carved with exquisite patterns, and the cover and bracelet are polished to a soft luster due to the owner's long-term play with the pocket watch, which looks antique on a flannel bag. So I pointed to the pocket watch on the counter and asked him, "Do you sell this pocket watch?" The middle-aged man saw that I was interested in the pocket watch on the counter, and immediately came enthusiastically" Yes, yes, it was my customer who deposited it in my store to sell, young man, do you want to buy it? I nodded and said, "Yes, I think this pocket watch is very distinctive, I want to buy it for my father, he loves it." The middle-aged man gave me a thumbs up and said, "Young man, you have good eyesight, this is the best pocket watch in my shop, I really want to collect it myself, but this year, bread is more important than pocket watches." After saying that, the middle-aged man carefully took the old-fashioned pocket watch out of the counter, and instead of opening the lid immediately, he put it in his ear and listened to it, and then handed it to me, "Listen, how beautiful." I put my pocket watch to my ear and listened to it, only to hear the sound of the tick-tick hand turning evenly, and Tanya put her ear to listen together. The middle-aged man motioned for me to open the cover, and I pressed the button on the top of the cover as he prompted, and the cover popped open. The inside of the pocket watch was as good as new, the second hand was moving evenly, and I checked the watch and saw that the hour and minute hands were moving accurately. Molnija was written in English at the top of the dial, and I asked Denya, "What does this word mean?" Danya replied to me: "This is the Latin writing of lightning in Russian." This is a lightning pocket watch, the best pocket watch of the Soviet era, my grandfather had a pocket watch of this brand, and I used to play with it in my hand when I was a child. ”

The middle-aged man nodded at Danya in agreement, and then said to us: "The Lightning pocket watch is produced in Chelyabinsk, a watch factory established after World War II to produce watches, pocket watches and table clocks for the Soviet Ministry of Defense, as well as special clocks for tanks, warplanes, submarines and even spaceships. Most of the processes of lightning pocket watches are handmade, and in the past, it was a status symbol to have a lightning pocket watch. "Wow! Such a cow pocket watch, it seems that the owner of the pocket watch is not an ordinary person, this pocket watch is so well maintained, it should be the owner's beloved thing. The middle-aged man continued: "The customer who consigned it in my store is a retired university professor, you see how well this pocket watch is maintained by him, if it is not a pitiful pension, where is he willing to sell it?" Since putting it on consignment in my shop, I've been winding my pocket watch every day. "I originally asked about the pocket watch because I was close to a middle-aged man, but now I was suddenly fascinated by this pocket watch, and there must be many, many touching stories behind this pocket watch. I decided to sell this pocket watch as a collection of Soviet history, so I asked the middle-aged man, "How much does this pocket watch cost?" The middle-aged man replied: "Two hundred and fifty thousand rubles." "250,000 rubles is worth more than 300 yuan, I did not hesitate to take out 250,000 rubles from my body and hand it to the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man took the pocket watch from my hand, listened to it in his ear again with some reluctance, and then took out the flannel bag from the counter, put the pocket watch in the bag and handed it to me.

After taking the pocket watch, I asked the middle-aged man: "Do I still want to find this kind of old-fashioned pocket watch, a shop like yours that repairs watches and has keys in Novosibirsk?" The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "Not much, only three or four, if you like this old-fashioned pocket watch, I'll give you a few addresses, you can go and see" After speaking, he wrote a few addresses and handed them to me. I was secretly glad that this pocket watch was not bought for nothing, and that I got the information I wanted at once, so that I didn't have to run around looking for these shops with keys.

After leaving the key-matching shop, I said to Denya, "Matching keys is really a good business, and do you know how much it costs and how long it takes to get a key in China?" Danya shook my arm with her hand around my arm and said, "How will I know, sue me." I took Denya's hand, squeezed her eyes at her, and said, "I won't say, you guess it, I guessed it right, I invited you to eat ice cream." Danya tilted her head and thought for a while and said, "Ten thousand rubles, half a day." I shook my head and said, "No, guess." "Danya shook my arm and coquettishly said, "Don't guess, Peng, you sue me." I smiled and said, "Two thousand rubles, five minutes." Danya's mouth opened wide in surprise, and her face was filled with an expression of disbelief, "Ah! It's so cheap and so fast," I said, "Our key machine is very advanced, and it can be equipped at that time without manual labor, and everything is very cheap in our China." Danya asked me, "How much would it cost if we were to get the key?" I said, "10,000 rubles, you can take it at that time, you see, right?" Danya nodded and said, "It's so good, it's so cheap and fast, there will definitely be a lot of people with a key, who doesn't want to have an extra spare key?" Is a machine with a key expensive? I thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be very expensive." "Then put one in my parents' bakery, we don't have a shop with keys, and you have to go to the city with keys, and if you can get a key in their bakery, then people from the surrounding towns will come to us with a key, and then they can sell more bread." When Danya said this, I complimented, "Danya, you are very business-minded." Listening to my compliment, Tanya happily kissed me on the cheek.