Wittenham was so big that after visiting the innermost Universe Pavilion, a few of us were a little tired of walking, so we found a café on the street and sat down for coffee.

We were chatting over coffee, and I said, "If you don't come to Moscow, you really don't know the strength of the former Soviet Union, and it seems that the Soviet Union used to say that it wants to dominate the world, and it really has the strength." "Lao Chen, the oldest among us, has experienced a period of friendly relations between China and the Soviet Union, and has also experienced the most tense period of relations between China and the Soviet Union, he grew up watching Soviet movies, so he has a deep affection for the Soviet Union. After visiting Wittenham, especially the Cosmodrome, Lao Chen felt a lot of emotion, "The Soviet Union was too good in the fifties and sixties, and at that time the United States was not as good as the Soviet Union, the first artificial satellite was the Soviet Union, the first manned spacecraft was the Soviet Union, the first person in space was the Soviet Gagarin, the first space station was also the Soviet Union, and the first female cosmonaut operating in extravehicular space was still from the Soviet Union." The fat brother answered, "When I was a child, I watched Soviet movies, and I thought that the Soviet Union was really awesome, but no matter how awesome it was, it was useless, and in the end it was disturbed and disintegrated by the United States, and even this Wittenheim-Soviet National Economic Achievement Exhibition Hall has now become an exhibition hall for Western goods, if Stalin and his old man were still alive, I don't know how he would feel?" Hearing the fat brother say this, Brother Chao asked: "Two brothers, I heard that there is also a Chinese commodity hall in Vuitton Hall, we just turned around a lot, why didn't we see it?" The fat brother replied: "There are dozens of pavilions in Vuittonhanli, we may go anywhere, there is a Chinese commodity pavilion, but the location is a little off, not far from the Lenin Pavilion, wait for the coffee, take you to see." ”

Not far from the right hand of the Lenin Pavilion, the Chinese Commodity Pavilion is a very inconspicuous two-story building. As we walked around Vuittonhamly, we paid no attention to the imposing and magnificent buildings that sat on the middle line, and we did not even notice the featureless two-storey building in the corner.

As soon as you enter the Chinese Commodity Pavilion, you will immediately feel the strong Chinese atmosphere. The pavilion is small and is divided into small shops. There are almost all kinds of Chinese characteristic small commodities gathered together, there are silk clothing, cheongsam, all kinds of traditional Chinese handicrafts, all kinds of small commodities, I am dazzled. Although it is called a Chinese goods hall, it sells Chinese goods, but I don't see a few Chinese, only a few counters are standing Chinese, and most of the rest of the counters are Russian beautiful salesmen. Just after New Year's Day, there were not many customers in the hall at this time, and some sales clerks got together to chat. I was a little curious, so I asked Fat Brother: "Fat Brother, why are there so few Chinese here?" The fat brother replied: "You need a part-time job card to stand at the counter here, and the part-time job card is not easy to handle, so after the Chinese who do not have a part-time job card rent a counter here, they ask a Russian girl to sell goods, and many counter owners are international students, they have to take classes, and it is impossible to guard here all day." "I see. There is such a Chinese goods pavilion in Vuitton Hanli, which can be regarded as a kind of display of Chinese culture.

Passing a small shop selling porcelain, Sveta stopped. Pointing to a ceramic vase on the shelf, he said: "Peng, you look at the beautiful vase, I have read a book about Chinese history before, the book talks about Chinese ceramics, it is said that the pronunciation of English Chinese is also the pronunciation of ceramics, so I would like to buy a Chinese porcelain vase, we also sell Chinese porcelain in the store here, but it is too rough to look at." Every time I go to China, I want to buy a ceramic vase, but I don't have time, I didn't expect such a beautiful vase here, but I don't know if it's expensive? Behind the porcelain counter sat a chubby middle-aged Chinese man, who saw that Sveta was interested in the vase, so he stood up and took the vase from the shelf to the counter. The vase is exquisite, crystal clear, and the snow-white porcelain embryo is painted with cyan patterns. The middle-aged man asked me in Chinese with a thick southern accent: "Hello! Are you Chinese? I nodded and replied, "Hello! I am Chinese. The middle-aged man picked up the vase, revealing the bottom of the bottle and asked me and Sveta to see, only to see the words "Jingdezhen" written on the bottom of the bottle, no wonder this vase is so exquisite, it turned out to be Jingdezhen porcelain. The middle-aged man gave a thumbs up, "Your Russian girlfriend really has a vision, this is the best porcelain in my stall, the blue and white porcelain of Jingdezhen is from the hands of famous craftsmen." I've only shipped a few of them. At this time, Brother Hou Chao accompanied Vera to look at silk pajamas at another stall, Fat Brother Lao Chen saw that we were looking at blue and white porcelain, so he came over, Fat Brother picked up the vase, carefully looked at it inside and out, and then tapped it on the vase with his fingers, and the vase made a crisp sound, "It's really good, the blue and white porcelain in Jingdezhen is quite perfect, but the green material is a little worse, it should be a domestic green material." After the fat brother said this, not only I was dumbfounded, but even the middle-aged man opened his mouth wide in surprise, "I really didn't expect to meet an expert here, it seems that the eldest brother is a collector." The fat brother said proudly: "I can't talk about collectors, but my old man likes to collect porcelain, there are some porcelain at home, and I have seen a lot of porcelain pieces since I was a child. The middle-aged man gave a thumbs up, "Big brother, you are an absolute expert, and the quality of green material is not something that ordinary people can see." ”

Sveta looked at us a little inexplicably and couldn't help but ask me, "Peng, what are you talking about?" Isn't this vase expensive? "I just looked at the fat brother as an expert, and I forgot to ask the price, looking at this posture, this vase is really not very cheap. Before I could ask, the fat brother was already asking the middle-aged man: "Boss, how much is this vase?" The middle-aged man hugged his fist at the fat brother, "Big brother, it's rare to meet a big connoisseur like you today, you make a price, as long as I don't lose money, you can take this vase." The fat guy smiled, "Boss, do you think it's a hundred dollars?" The middle-aged man almost cried, and said with a bitter face: "Big brother, you can really joke, I can't hide it, I sell this vase for six hundred dollars, and you know how to do it, so you can give it three hundred dollars." "Fat brother look at me" Dapeng, Sveta really likes this vase? I looked at Sveta and nodded, "Sveta likes it, but three hundred dollars is too expensive." At this time, Lao Chen said on the side: "Boss, your vase sells for 600 US dollars, and it can't be sold in the Year of the Monkey, and 300 US dollars is also high, and the Spring Festival is coming soon, so you also want to go home for the New Year, right?" Almost sell it to my little brother, he also gives it to his girlfriend. The middle-aged man groaned, "I am from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, and I burn porcelain at home, so I won't tell you, we will sell this vase for 1,800 yuan in China, and it will cost a lot of money to send it over." I mainly sell some cheap porcelain here, and this vase is also placed here for a bit of high-grade goods, and I sent five of them, and I sold one for 500 dollars a year ago, and I also know that it is difficult to sell at a high price, but there are always people who like high-end goods. We are all Chinese, it is rare for this big brother to be so knowledgeable, since the words are all said here, I don't earn a penny, you give one hundred and eighty dollars, everyone is also doing business in Moscow, make friends. I looked at the fat brother, the fat brother nodded, I took out two hundred dollars from my pocket and handed it to the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man found twenty dollars for me.

Sveta asked me, "Peng, does this vase cost one hundred and eighty dollars?" I nodded, and Sveta opened her mouth wide "Wow! It's so expensive, don't buy it, Peng, you just gave me a necklace, I thought this vase would only cost two or three hundred thousand rubles. I smiled and said, "Sveta, one hundred and eighty dollars is not expensive, this vase usually sells for six hundred dollars, it is a fat man who understands porcelain, and the boss sold it to us at cost price, this kind of porcelain is the best and most famous porcelain in China, you have helped me so much, it is nothing to give you a gift." Sveta put her arms around me and kissed me on the cheek, "Thank you, honey!" I really like this vase, it's so beautiful, and I'm going to give you a gift too. ”