Before I knew it, New Year's Day was approaching, and although I had only been in Novosibirsk for three months, I felt like I had been here for a long time. During this time, Fat Brother and Lao Chen's business in a large ant market in Moscow was doing very well, and Lena simply quit her job as an international train attendant to help Fat Brother wholeheartedly. I received a call from Meizi, she was still the same, and Xiaohong was still practicing as a dumpster while going to school, and she told me that Ah Cheng Lao Gao had bought a container to sell in an ant market. She sometimes goes to a big ant market, Ah Cheng and the fat brother, and they get some goods to sell. Sveta still helps me bring some small things that I need every time I go to China. Every time we met, Sveta would ask me, when to go to Moscow? Every time I gave her ginseng, she sold it and kept it in dollars, waiting for me to go to Moscow, and she used the money to take me to St. Petersburg and her hometown Penza. I would love to go to Moscow, but I don't know when it will take me?

The wholesale business before New Year's Day is very good, although the Russian economy is very poor, but Russians attach great importance to New Year's Day, the most important festival of the year, just as we Chinese attach importance to the Spring Festival. Russians will spend all the money they have saved during the year on New Year's Day, and there is a saying among Russians that how the New Year goes, what will happen to the year. Therefore, the Russians are buying big until New Year's Day. The blankets sent by Xiao Tao and the second batch of plastic flowers we sent by ourselves were sold out quickly. The New Year's cards, calendars, and zodiac toys in Sasha's warehouse sold out in early December.

There is still half a month to go before New Year's Day, and the atmosphere of the New Year can already be felt on the streets. Many shopping malls have Christmas trees and Happy New Year patterns and words painted on their windows, and streamers and balloons are hung in the shopping malls, creating a festive atmosphere everywhere. When people meet each other, they will say a happy new year to you. There are also noticeably more drunks on the streets. In mid-December, it rained heavily for three days in a row. TV news reported that in the blizzard, dozens of people disappeared in the city at once. Later, after the blizzard ended, sanitation workers found more than a dozen drunks frozen to death under the snow on the road. There are still some missing people who have not been found, and Tanya said that they will be found when the snow melts in the spring next year.

Business in the mall was very good, and Tanya gradually got used to doing business. On weekends when Tanya can't do it herself, I'll go over and help. After giving the manager of the mall a million roubles, we rented a small space in front of the mall, and I put a key-matching machine there, and Tanya called her cousin from Luin's to distribute the keys there, and also brought some plastic flowers for the New Year's card calendar. Tanya's cousin's name is Misha, he is very smart, he has attended a secondary school specializing in mechanics, he likes to study, he learns quickly with keys, and even if there is a little problem with the key machine, he can solve it by himself. There is a lot of foot traffic in the mall, and Misha's business is very good. Misha is very satisfied with his well-paid job, he has a good personality, he always smiles when he meets people, but there is one thing that is not good, Misha, like all Russian men, likes to drink. After getting the first salary, Misha was happy and ran out to get drunk, Danya was very angry and warned Misha that if he got drunk again, he would have to go back to Lu Ningna, Misha then restrained himself, but he would still drink secretly, but he never got drunk again.

Katya and Xiao Zhang's relationship heated up quickly, and in early December, Katya moved to Jinlong Chinese Restaurant to live with Xiao Zhang. After we gave Zoya some gifts, Zoya agreed to give Misha Katya's room. Originally, Katya wanted to resign to sell goods to Tanya as a salesperson, but when Katya moved to live in Jinlong Chinese Restaurant, it happened that the cashier of Jinlong Chinese Restaurant was about to give birth to a child and quit her job, so Dayang asked Katya to quit her job in kindergarten and become a cashier at Jinlong Chinese Restaurant. When we went to Jinlong Chinese Restaurant again, we saw Katya sitting behind the bar in a cheongsam, and Tanya and Natasha laughed and called Katya the hostess.

Natasha sees that Tanya is doing well in business and wants to do business too. Chao Ge asked Valroga to help rent a storefront in the city center, and Natasha called her sister from the countryside to sell goods, and she still sold blankets and plastic flowers. Later, Xiao Tao sent us some children's clothes of good quality, which also sold well at Danya's counter and Natasha's store. Brother Chao also asked Natasha to set up a stall with keys in front of his store, and Natasha called a relative from the countryside to distribute the keys. Because it was a shop rented by Valoca, since it opened, there has been no door-to-door inspection by the tax office, let alone a security company to collect protection money. For this reason, Brother Chao also deliberately spent thousands of dollars in China to customize a cloisonné vase to give to Valoka, who likes oriental culture, and Valoka likes this gift very much, and deliberately puts this vase in the center of the bookshelf in his office. The mayor of the underground, Petrovich, went to the Varoga office to see the vase and liked it very much. Varoga ordered a larger vase for Petrovich as a New Year's gift. Petrovich was delighted to receive this gift and specially invited us to his office for coffee.

We have been in Novosibirsk for so long, and we have been working with Varroga for some time, but we have only seen Petrovich Mercedes Benzes with the number three sevens, but we have never met Petrovich himself.

That day, accompanied by Varroca, we went to meet the mysterious mafia godfather with some nervousness. Petrovich's office is on the top floor of the hotel, and there is a special elevator to reach his office, which is guarded by special security guards, and the elevator entrance on the top floor is guarded by two big men. Because we were accompanied by Varoga, the security guards did not search our bodies. The beautiful and charming secretary was already waiting at the door of the office and brought us into the office, Petrovich's office was more than 150 square meters, which was three times larger than Varoga's, and the decoration was very luxurious, with a full set of handmade Italian furniture, high-end carpets, and several oil paintings on the walls, which should be the original works of famous Russian painters, and in the bookcase there was a cloisonné vase that we gave him. I don't think the office of the governor of the Novosibirsk region may be as luxurious as it is here.

Petrovich was in his fifties, tall, well-dressed, with a Cuban cigar in his mouth, and a dignified face that made people feel unenraged, perhaps because he had been a KGB leader and mafia godfather for many years.

When he saw us, Petrovich shook hands with us and asked us to sit down, he told the secretary to make us coffee, Petrovich smiled and said, "We all know that the best tea is produced in China, so I won't invite you to tea, but please drink the Blue Mountain coffee that Varoga gave me." "Once again, we drank the true aristocratic coffee that only one in a million people in this world can drink. Petrovich took another wooden box from the desk and opened it in front of us, and saw that there was a cigar inside, and Varoga told us that it was an authentic Cuban Havana cigar, which was Mr. Petrovic's favorite. Petrovich motioned for us to smoke cigars, but unfortunately Brother Chao and I were not smokers, so we couldn't enjoy this luxury, which only the rich could enjoy.

Petrovich said that Varoga told him about our cooperation, and he felt very satisfied, and hoped that we could work together more broadly and on some big projects. On behalf of our company, Chao Ge also thanked Petrovich for his support and invited him to China in the future. During the ten minutes I met Petrovic, I felt very nervous, and he had a very powerful and oppressive aura. After a cup of coffee, we hurriedly said goodbye. After Brother Chao came out, he felt very depressed and nervous in front of Petrovic. I think that's how the godfather of the mafia should be.