000016 Gifts

After filling in the items on the form contract, Justin began to review the contract again, and Xiao Yifei also found that he could actually understand some of the items, and it seemed that this period of German learning was not wasted.

The contract is signed, and the three watches are handed to Leonard. Next, according to the custom of the Chinese, it is time to have a meal to celebrate. Everyone had a Western meal at the hotel's restaurant.

During the casual conversation after the meal, Xiao Yifei asked, "Leonard, the last time I saw someone in Germany selling that kind of round thing with paintings painted on it. What is that? ”

Leonard repeated with a confused face: "Round? Painting all over the place? Shaw, you're too vague, can you tell me how big and round that thing is? ”

"It's the size of an egg, and it's about the same shape as an egg."

"Oh, then you're talking about Easter eggs. How do you have this thing? Ordinary Easter eggs are not expensive, but Russian Easter eggs, especially Fabergé's royal Easter eggs, are expensive, tens of millions of eggs. Do you really have it? ”

Xiao Yifei wrote down a few key words, "Fabergé", "Easter eggs", and said: "I don't have it, I just saw it sold on the street." ”

"Oh, the ones on the street must be cheap, you can buy them for a few euros, but they are usually painted for your children."

Xiao Yifei glanced at the bill sent up, Western food is not expensive, but the red wine they drink is actually twice as expensive as Western food.

After sending Leonard away, Xiao Yifei is also preparing to go home for the New Year. At this time in previous years, everyone bought tickets home and return early, eagerly calculating the time of the holiday.

Using the Fabergé and easter eggs left by Leonard as keywords, Xiao Yifei quickly searched for the information he wanted.

Fabergé specially made 54 Easter eggs for Russia, 8 missing, after careful comparison, Xiao Yifei found that the 5 egg-shaped objects in the space are actually very likely to be Fabergé royal eggs. Among them, there are easter eggs from 1909 and 1903 with clear photos, 1889 eggs with half photos, and 1888 easter eggs with sketches, all of which can be found in space. Although there is no image left in the other 1886 Easter egg, it is inferred from the sapphire in the name, which coincides with the easter egg with sapphire material in the space.

Soon, he found the source of the eggs.

After the success of the Soviet Revolution, all Fabergé Royal Easter eggs were confiscated, registered, and stored in boxes. In 1927, in order to raise military expenses, Stalin ordered the start of the sale of confiscated royal property, among which these royal eggs were among them. It is said that only 14 of them left Russia at that time, but this is clearly not the case. Because at present, the Russian Kremlin has only kept 10 easter eggs, and the rest are in the hands of foreign art museums or wealthy people, and even the British royal family has 3 eggs.

It is said that when these eggs were first sold, Fabergé's second son, who was arrested by the Soviet Union, was approached to evaluate the eggs. However, in Paris, it could not be sold at this price, so an American businessman who was pro-Soviet had to bring a few back to the United States to sell, which was still unsalable.

At the time, the eggs were only priced at a few hundred dollars. But in the deep financial crisis, the current baby fell into a situation where no one cared about it. At that time, someone ridiculed: "Undoubtedly, these Fabergé eggs are very beautiful, but can they be eaten?" ”。

A similar Easter egg was found in the catalogue of Sotheby's auctions in the 60s, with a description similar to that of a royal egg. At that time, the auction price was only $2,450.

Up to now, the auction price of Fabergé Easter eggs is close to 10 million US dollars, although Xiao Yifei can be regarded as "cultivated by huge wealth for a long time", but he is still scared by this small egg. This inconspicuous box actually contained tens of millions of dollars, which made Xiao Yifei dare not underestimate anything in the space.

On this day, Xiao Ya came to Xiao Yifei after work, and after dinner, she gave him a box.

"Just what?"

"New Year's gifts?"

"I saw that you had so much trouble learning languages some time ago, I asked some people, and they said that this software is very good, and learning foreign languages is very good."

Xiao Yifei opened the box, there were still several small boxes inside, and picked up a cardboard box, with several big English "Rosettastone" on the cover.

Hey, Xiao Yifei knows this word, this is the Rosetta Stone. What he had learned about when he first learned about the Egyptian script, the stone tablet found by Napoleon's army. It was it that made a great contribution to the decipherment of the holy script. Could it be the English translation of Rosetta Stone? What are you going to do if you don't write in English?

"I've heard them say that the most important thing in learning a language is the environment, and they say that this software can simulate a language environment to the maximum. I heard that NASA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are using this software. ”

Xiao Yifei picked up the second box, which was still Rosetta Software, but there was more German on the cover.

"Li Qinglin said that you are learning German, it is very hard to memorize words every day, they said that this is very useful, I will buy you the German version, I think your English is good, you can communicate with people very well in improving it, and the range of English is very wide, I also bought an English version by the way."

Xiao Yifei took the box in his hand, he had never heard of this software after learning foreign languages for so long, but Xiao Ya could find it, you can imagine how many people she found behind her back and how many people she consulted. And look at this package, it is obviously genuine software, and everyone knows what the pricing of foreign genuine software is, even the general operating system is thousands of yuan, Rosetta in these two languages, the price is also a salary of one or two months, she has been a regular for less than a year, this money is not a small number for her.

When it was time to get out of the car, Xiao Yifei didn't know what to say, and said "thank you" softly, sorry for her affection at all.

When he returned to the nest, Xiao Yifei immediately installed the software, first experienced it in English, and after a few days of experience, he found that the software was really good.

So with the help of the software, Xiao Yifei continued to study. Now his focus is on improving his English and learning German, and Hans's diary is only used as a supplement.

Everyone has been working in the magic capital for a long time, and they have a deep understanding of the tragedy of the Spring Festival. This year, Xiao Yifei did not let Xiao Ya buy a train ticket. Xiao Ya lives in Liuyang City, Xiangnan Province, and since Liuyang City does not have a railway station, she can only take the train to Changsha and then take a bus back to Liuyang City to study at university. Xiao Yifei directly bought her a ticket this year, anyway, the plane will take 1 hour to Changsha, and the ticket price is only 800 yuan.

Xiao Yifei himself must have driven Weiyano home. He has already contacted his high school classmates who work at the DMV in his hometown, and he will be able to get an official license plate on the day he returns home.

As for Li Qinglin, his home is in Jiangning, and Xiao Yifei will pass through here on this route, so he will be taken back by Xiao Yifei.

Everything is ready, and the company finally issues a year-end bonus. Xiao Yifei looked at the details, and sure enough, the 100,000 yuan that the German project said was only a little more than 50,000 yuan, plus another 40,000 year-end bonuses, and Xiao Yifei still had 80,000 yuan after paying taxes, which is a big fat year this year. This year-end bonus made Li Qinglin's eyes very red.

The thing that made the leader depressed was that just after the year-end bonus was issued, Xiao Yifei sent an email to the leader to say that he had resigned.

Needless to say, this kind of disgusting thing can be done by Xiao Yifei at his current age. The management and the labor are naturally opposites, no matter how the management or the labor side treats the other party, the other party will definitely not be satisfied anyway, they will always ask for more. Moreover, the strong domestic management has always ignored the labor side, and from time to time it will say, "Three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged people are not easy to find?" Such words threaten employees, and the poor labor has no backing, so they can only swallow their anger, and many people choose to be like Xiao Yifei, and disgust the management when they leave.

That night, Xiao Yifei invited a few good colleagues to have a casual meal.

During the banquet, a colleague was still curiously asking: "Xiao Xiao, now can you tell who your next family is?" ”

A few colleagues next to him were also coaxing: "That's it, that's it, who is next?" How much did it get you? ”

Although Xiao Yifei had already told them that he wanted to go back to his hometown, these colleagues never believed it.

"Brothers, why don't you believe it? I'm really tired, I don't want to be a yardfarmer anymore, I want to go home. ”

"Really?"

"Really."

Several colleagues saw him say so seriously, and temporarily believed that Xiao Yifei was going home instead of changing jobs.

"Alas, you are still happy to be able to jump out of this fire pit, we have to continue to stay in this pit."

"yes, the coder really didn't do it. Working overtime, working overtime, working hard day by day, you see I'm only 30 years old, and I have so much gray hair. ”

"This yard farmer just eats youth, and when he gets older, he reacts slowly, and he is kicked out of the door by the company."

"Yes, computer knowledge is updated too quickly, and after a few years, we won't be able to learn, and we won't be able to work overtime, and we will be unemployed. I really want to learn from you, go home and change jobs. ”

"Others look at us working overtime every day, and they think how much money they make, alas, after working for so many years, we can't even make up a down payment."

Probably because he drank too much, everyone complained a lot, Xiao Yifei completely got out of the sea of suffering, and also accompanied these colleagues who were still working hard in the magic capital to drink and complain until everyone returned drunk.

Finally the Spring Festival holiday, the Spring Festival is the most **, everyone hurried home. Early in the morning, Xiao Yifei and they also set off in a large group, first sent Xiao Ya to the airport by the way, watched Xiao Ya pass the security check, and moved to the waiting hall step by step, if she didn't have to drive back, Xiao Yifei wanted to simply accompany her to Xiangnan.

On the highway from the magic capital to Jiangning, Li Qinglin fought for the right to drive, and the 280-kilometer journey allowed him to fly to Jiangning in more than 2 hours.

The next itinerary is Xiao Yifei's journey alone. Pulled the black nose out of the space, the black nose was already familiar with this Weiyanuo, and he had taken it a few times, and honestly squatted in the passenger seat.