Chapter Eighty-Three: Fishing Nets That Can't Be Sold

Along the way, a few of us had a good drink, and we didn't feel that the road was lonely and boring. At this time, I no longer have the freshness and curiosity of taking the international train when I first came, as if I have taken the international train many times, and the scenery along the way no longer has a strong attraction to me.

Although I have only lived in Russia for more than a month, I feel as if I have been staying for a long time, and I am no longer surprised by the fact that I am not surprised by Russia, and perhaps under the subtle influence of Danya, Russian customs and habits have slowly penetrated into my cells.

After the international train arrived at Chita, a group of Russians waiting to buy goods gathered on the station, and there were not many Chinese who came down from the international train to sell goods. Because there is no need to sell goods at the stations along the way, Fat Brother and Lao Chen have less nervous feelings, and they seem to be very leisurely. After getting off the train, the four of us walked around the platform, leisurely watching the Chinese men on the international train holding various items for sale. Lao Chen said: "Compared with the previous scene of crowds of people rushing for goods at the station, it can only be regarded as deserted now, and it is estimated that it will not even be deserted in the future." Brother Chao nodded and said: "Yes, when I first came to Russia by international train, it was a lively place at the station, but now that Chinese wholesale markets are slowly appearing in various parts of Russia, Russians will buy less and less goods at the station, and Russians who come also want to find some bargains."

"Hello handsome lads! Buy me some potato bread and beer bar. "An old lady came up to us with a basket in her hand, with two bags of potatoes and two bread and two or three bottles of beer in the basket, and I remembered the scene when Meizi bought the old lady's food on the platform when I took the train for the first time, and I remembered the collapse of the Soviet Union that Roman's father Tamaz told me about, these poor retirees lost everything overnight, and in order to subsidize their lives, they had no choice but to do these small street businesses that could only earn a few bread dollars a day. So I took out 100,000 rubles from my body and handed it to the old lady: "Babska (grandmother): I want all of this." The old lady happily prepared to find me money, and I waved my hand and said, "Don't look for it, you can keep it." The old lady looked at me with some disbelief, and Brother Chao said on the side: "Babuska, he wants you not to look for money, you don't need to look for money, you can go home and rest." The old lady drew a cross on me and said, "God bless you, good young man." Looking at the back of the old lady leaving, we were silent for a few minutes, and Lao Chen said: "These poor old Russians, they could have spent their old age in peace, but now they have to run for life, and they are sad to watch." I said, "I also bought these old people because they were pitiful, and after a while I will give this food to the North Korean workers in our carriage. The fat brother gave me a thumbs up, "Dapeng, a good man has a safe life!" ”

We were chatting when we suddenly heard a Russian not far away shouting, "What is this?" How can such a thing be sold casually. We hurriedly looked over, only to see an old Russian man in his sixties gesturing excitedly to a young man who seemed to be holding a fishing net in his hand and looked like he was from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the young man looked at the old Russian man and shook his head vigorously. We walked over, and Brother Chao asked the old Russian man in Russian: "Hello! Please don't get excited, can you tell sΓΉ what happened? The old Russian man pointed to the fishing net and said, "Look, how can this kind of thing be sold casually?" "We looked closely at the fishing net in the young man's hand and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. The fat brother took the fishing net in his hand and pulled it vigorously and said, "It's quite sturdy, there's no problem" Lao Chen asked the young man selling the fishing net on the side: "What's the matter?" The young man shrugged his shoulders and replied helplessly: "I don't know what's going on, I sold it with a fishing net, and when he came to see it, he yelled at me, I couldn't understand what he said, what was the eldest brother talking about?" Brother Chao said: "He's talking about how you can sell your fishing nets casually." The young man was surprised and said, "My fishing net is of good quality, why can't I sell it?" Brother Chao saw that the young man didn't know why, so he asked the old Russian man: "I think this fishing net is of very good quality, why do you say that you can't sell it casually?" The old man was still a little excited and said, "Is your country fishing with this kind of fishing net?" Brother Chao asked, "Then what kind of fishing net do you say you should use to catch fish?" When the old man saw that we really didn't understand, he said, "We can't use such fishing nets, the mesh is too small, and they will catch all the fry in the net, and if we use the kind of fishing nets he sells, how will there be fish in the river in the future?" "Only then did we understand that the fishing nets used in Russia were big-eyed, and they would not catch them all, only catch the big fish, and let the small fish go, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting the ecology and nature will be endless. Brother Chao translated the old man's words to the young man, and when the young man heard it, he said with a sad face: "I really didn't expect this to be the case, if this kind of fishing net can't be sold, then the fishing net I brought over will be thrown away, it's really unlucky, it's equivalent to working in vain." The fat brother asked the young man, "Do you bring a lot of fishing nets?" The young man shook his head and replied, "Not much, fifty." Lao Chen said: "Young man, fortunately, the loss is not big, eat a trench and grow wise, no matter where you do business, you must understand the local customs and habits, otherwise you will lose even more in the future, I think this concept of the Russians is right." "The Russians are doing better than us at this point, they think more long-term, and they will not use up all their resources at once in order to make more money," Chao said. When we bought timber, we went to the forest farm and saw that they only cut down trees that were fully mature, and we had to learn from other people's values. The fat brother asked the young man: "Then there is not much money, so why don't you understand it clearly and bring the goods?" The young man replied to the fat brother: "I have a relative who went to Novosibirsk some time ago to open a Chinese restaurant and asked me to go over and help, and he heard that the Russians said that fishing nets are easy to sell, so he asked me to bring some and sell them on the road to earn money, I really didn't expect this." When Brother Chao heard this, he immediately said, "Your relatives open a Chinese restaurant in Novosibirsk, why haven't we heard of it?" The young man asked us, "Are you also going to Novosibirsk?" Brother Chao nodded and said yes, the young man was very happy to hear it, stretched out his hand and shook us and said: "Great, I'm still afraid that I won't meet Chinese in Novosibirsk, my relative's restaurant has just opened a few days ago, so you don't know, my relative said that he has not met Chinese during this time, and we can meet and gather often in the future." I'm from Zhejiang, my surname is Zhang, call me Xiao Zhang, what do you call me? "We introduced ourselves one by one.

At this time, Lena called us to get on the bus, and Xiao Zhang got into the same carriage with us. After getting in the car, Xiao Zhang asked us to go to his box to sit, Brother Chao looked at the time and said: "It's too late, it's not very safe to cross this section of the road in Chita, there are often robbers on the bus, we go back to our own box, you lock them up, and we'll come over tomorrow to chat." "After saying hello to Sveta, Brother Chao and I went back to our box.

Seeing us coming back, Xiao Cui said, "Where have you been?" I didn't see you coming back for half a day, and I thought you got off. I replied, "We were chatting with friends." "I handed over the food I had just bought at the station to Kim and told him to give it to the workers, and Kim thanked him and happily took the food to the next door. After a while, Kim came back with a plastic bag, and Kim handed the plastic bag to me, "This is a North Korean specialty that we gave you." I opened it and saw that it was North Korean cold noodles, Xiao Cui said: "Their cold noodles are very authentic, you first soak them in cold boiled water, and I will mix them with seasonings for you, it is really delicious, and I still have Korean vegetables here." "Listening to Xiao Cuiyi, I suddenly remembered the cold noodles and mixed vegetables in the "Maxima" Korean cold noodle shop downstairs of my house that I often went to when I was at home, and my saliva couldn't help but flow out. We opened a large bottle of mineral water, Xiao Cui skillfully helped us mix cold noodles, eat in our mouths, cold noodles and mixed vegetables are absolutely delicious and authentic, I didn't expect to be able to eat our favorite food on the international list.

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