Chapter 42: The Airport Turmoil
The feeling of cooking real cabbage and pork stuffed dumplings is different from the dumplings wrapped in cabbage, I mixed a cabbage heart with vinegar, Tanya mixed a cucumber and tomato salad, Sasha brought a bottle of Laolongkou aged liquor, a Northeast specialty given to him by Brother Chao, and I suddenly felt at home for the New Year when I looked at the table full of rich food. Tanya and Natasha are eating Chinese cabbage for the first time, and they both say it is delicious. Natasha said that there was no Peking cabbage here before, and it was only recently, and she had never seen it and only heard of it, and Tanya said that she had never even heard of it. When I said the price of Peking cabbage in the mall, Tanya and Natasha were shocked to open their mouths, Tanya said that the price of Beijing cabbage is more than ten times the price of ordinary cabbage, and when I said the price of Beijing cabbage in China, the surprised expressions on the faces of the two of them can be described as super exaggerated. I said that if we ship Chinese vegetables and fruits and sell them, you can eat Peking cabbage and fresh fruits every day, Natasha and Danya applauded. Sasha was on the sidelines and immediately became very interested when he heard me say this.
Chao Ge told Sasha about the initial idea of sending vegetables and fruits from China that we had in the mall today, and Sasha said that the idea was very good, but it might be a little difficult to implement. Chao Ge asked Sasha to learn about Russia's policies on imported vegetables and fruits, customs tariffs and local storage conditions in Novosibirsk, and Sasha said that he asked his friends at customs.
On the way to the airport, I gave him $500 and asked him to pass it on to my parents. I was going to use the money to start my own international business, and I first asked my parents to use the money to wholesale 100 ginseng plants from my friend, and when the international train passed through Shenyang, they would give it to Sveta in two batches to help me bring it. Brother Chao handed me 10 million rubles and told me that I should pay attention to my safety after he left, and if there is anything to do with Sasha, he will talk to me on the phone every day. Sasha laughed at Brother Chao like an old woman going out, and we listened to it and laughed for a while.
Novosibirsk's airport is small, somewhat dilapidated, and feels less like an airfield than a coach terminal, far less spectacular than the Novosibirsk railway station. There are a few dilapidated Lada cars parked in the square in front of the airport, and I really can't believe that this is an airport if it weren't for the fact that the airport building has a few Russian words written on the Novosibirsk airport. In the middle of the night, there were very few passengers and airport staff at the airport, and it felt a little deserted. The director of the chemical plant had not yet arrived, and Valroga's assistant, Ivan, who was in his thirties, had already arrived first, and next to him stood two big men in Adidas tracksuits, one of whom had a scorpion tattoo on his neck, and I think these two big men should be Ivan's subordinates. Ivan introduced us to his men, Vidaly with a scorpion tattoo on his neck, and Sergei the other, all of whom were retired from Amon (special forces). The two of us shook hands warmly, and my hand hurt from their grip.
After saying hello, Tanya asked me to accompany her to the bathroom. I was waiting for Danya at the door of the bathroom when suddenly a policeman came up to me, saluted me and said, "Please show me your passport." "I put my hand into the pocket of the cashmere coat and the suit, but I only felt the wallet and the 10 million rubles but not the passport, I put my hand into the pocket of the cashmere coat, but I still didn't touch the passport, and I searched through the pockets of my whole body and didn't find the passport, and then I remembered that when I went out to change clothes, the passport forgot to be in the pocket of the down jacket. I had to tell the police officer that I forgot to bring my passport, and the police officer gave me a blank look and waved his hand to ask me to go to the police office at the airport with him.
There were also two policemen in the police room, and the policeman who brought me over asked me to take out all the things in my pocket, so I had to take out my wallet and the 10 million rubles that Brother Chao gave me on the way. The police searched my whole body again, and one of them opened my wallet and looked at it, and when he saw that there were only more than 200,000 rubles in it, he threw it back at me. The police officer who brought me asked me, "Chinese?" I replied: "Yes" The policeman asked: "What are you doing in Novosibirsk?" I replied, "On a business trip." The policeman asked, "What are you doing at the airport?" I replied, "Give it away." The police asked, "Send the Chinese back to China?" I replied, "Yes." The policeman shook his head at me and said, "You can go." "I picked up the money and put it back in my pocket, and was about to put away another 10 million rubles, but the police stopped my hand." I looked at him and asked, "Why?" The policeman crossed his index and middle fingers of both hands and made a tic-tac-toe (which in Russia means prison) and replied impatiently: "You don't have a passport, we can put you in prison." I replied, "I have a passport, but I forgot to bring it today, I can ask a friend to send it over." The policeman who looked at my wallet just now yelled at me: "Ba Shaowang (get out)" and the policeman who brought me over pushed and shoved me out of the police room.
As soon as I was pushed out of the police room, the door to the police room slammed behind me. At this time, I saw Danya walking over with Vidaly and Sergei, and when Danya saw my angry face, she pulled me with great concern and asked: "Peng, I came out of the bathroom just now, and I saw that you were taken away by the police, and I hurriedly went back to find them, what's the matter?" I replied: "The police checked my passport, and I forgot to bring it with me when I went out in a hurry, so he brought me here, and they took 10 million roubles from me and kicked me out." Vidali patted me on the shoulder and said, "Peng, it's okay, let's go in now and get the money back." ”
Vidali pulled the door of the police office open, only to see three policemen who were scrambling to hide the money. A policeman shouted, "Who are you?" Who asked you to come in? Get out! Vidaly replied arrogantly, "You'd better not know who we are, now please give him back my friend's money, and we'll go out at once." "The policeman who brought me into the police room just now said to us: "Ba Shaowang (get out)" Vidali smiled contemptuously and said, "I didn't hear clearly, you can say it again." The policeman rushed over with a baton and shoved Vidali and scolded: "Yijina ash (you chicken X)" As soon as the policeman said this, he received a heavy punch in the face, and his body fell backwards to the ground. The other two policemen were stunned by this sudden move, and they froze there for a moment, and in just a few seconds, one of them came to his senses and reached out to draw his gun from his waist, and before the gun could be drawn, Sergei had already rushed over and knocked him to the ground with a snatch, and grabbed his gun in his own hand, while Vidaly also subdued the third policeman. The policeman, who was knocked down by Vidaly's punch, tried to get up, but Sergei pointed at him with a gun and told him to lie down obediently and not move, so he obediently lay down again. The policeman who pulled out the gun just now refused to give up, and his mouth was unrelenting: "Are you looking for death?" Didn't know this is the police station? ”
Vidali grabbed the phone on the table and dialed a number, and when the phone went through, Vidaly briefly explained the situation to the other end of the line, and then put the phone down. Vidali said to the three policemen, "In five minutes there will be a phone call to tell you who we are." After five or six minutes, the phone rang on the table, and Vidali asked who was the head of the place. The policeman who had just drawn the gun said that he was, and Vidali motioned for him to answer the phone, and the policeman grabbed the phone and listened to it for a while before his face began to sweat. After putting down the phone, the policeman took out the money and motioned for the two policemen to take out the money as well, and he gathered the money together and handed it to me. Vidaly asked me to count the money, and I clicked, and a hundred rubles a total of one hundred was not missing. I nodded at Vidaly, who motioned for Sergei to return the gun to the policeman and said to us: "Go, otherwise it will be too late to send Ivan to them." ”
When I got out of the police room, I said thank you to Vidali repeatedly, and Vidali said with a faint smile: "Peng, you're welcome, remember to bring your passport next time you go out, and don't bring so much money with you." I nodded, and Vidali said, "Peng, don't be afraid of anything here, with us, no one dares to touch a single hair." ”