Chapter Seventy-Six: A Visit to the Market
Five minutes later, Serov walked out of the room while brushing his teeth with a debt collection face, and threw the toothbrush directly into the trash can after rinsing his mouth, this is not Serov's waste, the toothbrush is a disposable product produced by Kazan, the toothbrush bucket is only a little stronger than the plastic bag, the toothbrush head and the toothbrush handle can overlap 360 degrees, and the soft hand can not hold it, mainly distributed to the prisoner, this design is to prevent the prisoner from using the toothbrush as a murder weapon.
"Wet market? What is the reason for understanding the private economy? Meet ordinary Soviets? Does this guy think that every Soviet Union is under our watch, a slave to communism? Serov, who was sitting in the car, closed his eyes and thought about the problem, so that the blood in his eyes would subside a little. He thinks that the KGB has great powers, but he does not have such unrealistic ideas, what is there to monitor when workers go to work and farmers farm, how can intellectuals who have reached the level of KGB control have to have frequent access to research results, and it is not enough to monitor the entire Soviet Union The KGB is expanding fivefold, and who will pay for this?
"Nixon should have been told by someone from the U.S. Embassy, otherwise he wouldn't have known that the farmers' market was a place for the private economy when he first came to the Soviet Union!" "Nixon probably thought that our visit was planned, so he wanted to see what life ordinary Soviets were like!" ”
U.S. Embassy? Serov didn't want to think of this group of incompetent people at all, the headquarters of the Seventh Division of the Second General Directorate was less than two hundred meters away from the US Embassy, at least Serov knew four years ago, the group of rice buckets in the US Embassy had not yet been discovered, where to find such a stupid opponent? The State Administration of Technology has researched a new type of monitoring equipment, and the only side effect is that people who are often within the monitoring range are prone to increase the chance of cancer! It has been buried in the US embassy for more than three months.
It didn't take long for Serov to rush to the farmers' market, and he didn't need to look at it to know where Nixon was, and more than a hundred people were watching around, didn't it say that the onlookers were unique to the Chinese? Is this inconsistent with what Serov saw? Walking over and squeezing into the crowd, several Soviet guards saw their boss coming, and immediately came over to report the situation, "Mr. Nixon came to visit the farmer's market, and we came to call the boss, it was a woman who picked it up!" ”
You don't have to emphasize that it was a woman who picked it up, right? Serov simply wanted to ask this person, where is your position? So many people can only pretend not to hear and ask about the current situation.
"Yes, the head of the Soviet secret police, the Caspian Tiger, is here!" Serov stared at the interpreter next to Nixon, and said in English in a non-serious voice, "I know English, and I have learned lip-syncing!" Please, can you find a professional person to be a translator, it's easy to be embarrassed if the level is not enough! As he spoke, Serov walked up to Nixon and said in the tone of a tour guide, "Distinguished guest, although no more visits are planned, I think you have an idea of the life of ordinary people in the Soviet Union!" I'm willing to walk around with you the rest of the time! ”
There was a commotion over Serov's appearance, whose photographs have always appeared in newspapers in recent months, and who were more recognizable than Nixon. The men and women around exchanged heads, "Comrades, the motherland teaches us to treat guests warmly, so even if we are in the midst of onlookers, everyone should be a spectator quietly!" Serov turned his head and smiled at the crowd around him, his voice and words were not light or heavy, which made people very comfortable.
Nixon was very surprised that Serov did not drive away the Soviets around him, but he immediately said with a smile, "I have already learned about the life of ordinary people in the Soviet Union, I visited the vegetable and fruit stalls here, and found that the variety of vegetables is very limited, and the variety of fruits is not much, and it seems that the Soviet people are not rich!" ”
Isenmodny translated Nixon's words, but not to Serov, but to the surrounding populace, which immediately caused a commotion, and although the people did not say anything, the condescending tone was very uncomfortable.
Nixon pointed to the question he saw, and Serov thought for some and replied, "Most of the territory of the Soviet Union is located in the cold zone, and ordinary cash crops cannot survive there, except for the endless taiga!" And most of our sister countries are also at the same latitude, so it is not easy to eat a wide variety of tropical fruits! So what you see is true, after all, we don't have our own United Fruit Company, we can directly use a small country as a puppet, directly destroy the local economy and only provide a single fruit supply for our own country, first of all, congratulations to United Fruit Company for entering the oil industry, but a company controls sixty percent of the fruit imported from the United States, is it not enough for the anti-monopoly law? ”
Isenmodny also translated Serov's reply, so that the Soviet people, who had just been reminded of their qualities, could not agree in words, and could only express their approval through collective applause.
"Mr. Serov seems to know us well in the United States, but our problem is the lack of fruit in this market, and nothing else!" Nixon was surprised by Serov's knowledge of some of the situation in the United States, but immediately thought that Serov's profession should not be the same thing, and it did not matter much to the intelligence organization how big a company was, and it could not prevent them from investigating the real data.
"There are some kinds of fruits that cannot survive in the environment of the Soviet Union, but the production of vegetables and fruits can be increased, and we will correct this problem, as for me who actually does not know you in the United States, the last thing I want to know is your complicated laws, under your complicated laws, ordinary people are legally illiterate! And IMHO, a lot of the laws in the United States are simply inexplicable! Serov and Nixon walked and chatted warmly, followed by a group of Soviet people.
"I want to talk to an ordinary Soviet person!" Nixon said before leaving the farmer's market.
"Yes, Nixon could talk to whoever he wanted, after all, you are all equal!" Serov reached out and made a gesture of please, what happened to Nixon? Lao Tzu can still talk and laugh with him.
Nixon chose a man in blue overalls, walked to the side and said through an interpreter, "Hello, I'm Nixon!" ”
Serov looked at the Soviet man from behind and pretended to be busy with work and wanted to leave, shook his head slightly, stepped forward and asked for his name, patted the worker on the shoulder and said proudly, "Comrade Svilikhtin, this is Mr. Vice President of the United States, just chat casually, don't be nervous, just think it's your neighbor looking for you to drink!" ”
Serov's gesture greatly eased Svilikhtin's nervousness, and then Nixon asked a few simple questions, such as how old he was and what kind of work he was. "I have a good life, there is no problem with housing, and I don't lack any ......"
Serov, who lowered his head, was speechless, in the end there was still a bit of a problem, this benevolent brother's first idea was not to be embarrassed in the face of imperialism, to maintain the dignity of the Soviet motherland, that is, in the public, in the dead of night, it was difficult to guarantee that the vice president of the United States would not be killed on the spot. Having said that, the problem of socialist countries having more face than the sky turned out to be a common problem......