"Old woman, do you remember, I went to the Soviet Union with the unit at that time, and after I came back, I always told you that if Liangliang could find a beautiful daughter-in-law like the Soviet Union in the future, I would die in my life. The old man said happily.

"We have this sycamore tree, and we are not afraid that we will not be able to recruit the golden phoenix." The old lady looked at me happily and said.

"Girl, listen to my father, when I went to the Soviet Union..."The old man began to tell him the history of Huang Hui again, and I could memorize it, but the old man still spoke very seriously every time.

On the contrary, it was Wang Lili, the first time I heard that my old man had been to the Soviet Union, it was very interesting.

"At that time, Liangliang was so high." The old man gestured as he spoke, "That's what it looks like to be seven or eight years old, I went to the Soviet Union with my unit, I don't know if I don't go, and I only find out when I go that the Soviet Union is so poor." ”

"Was the Soviet Union poor?" Wang Lili didn't seem to know enough about the history of the former Soviet Union, so she asked.

"How to say it, the former Soviet Union is a big country with extremely developed heavy industry, but light industry and people's livelihood industries are extremely scarce..."The old man said helplessly.

"That year, our metal structure factory sent a group of workers to the Soviet Union to learn from each other's jishu and experience. Before we went, the interpreter told us to bring as many daily necessities as possible, and that we could exchange a lot of rubles for that place. Everyone's preparation, basically two big boxes for one person, stockings you know? "The old man has a very bad habit, and every time he talks about a key point, he will ask the other party.

"Yes!" Wang Lili answered the old man's question very obediently.

"No one else said, but I alone brought a hundred pairs of stockings." The old man said proudly.

"How big is that box?" Wang Lili asked in surprise.

"Silly girl, let's take the stockings out of the bag, wrap them around one pair at a time, and roll them into a big ball like wool.

At that time, I was stupid, and I wouldn't ask the translator, so I listened to the people around me, and then I stupidly bought a lot of daily necessities that took up space. Now I have figured it out, if I want to make money, I have to earn money from children and women. The old man said with an expression of wanting to buy regret medicine.

"When I first went, everyone was very honest, they worked hard every day, they went back to the dormitory after work, and they earned a dead salary of 150 rubles a month, an average of 5 rubles a day, and if they worked overtime, they could earn more. Later, something happened that made us start to be authentic profiteers. ”

After taking a sip of tea, the old man continued with a smile: "They Soviets eat big cracks and drink soda. Seafood or something, it's squid plate with salty salt, or mashed potatoes, and it's called a time.

We Chinese know how to eat ah, squid board is expensive, squid claw is cheap, one pound of squid board can be exchanged for twenty pounds of squid claw, but we have seasoning. After feeding the purchased squid claws with seasoning, put them in the pot and fry them. The house was full of fragrance, and after the group of ** people smelled it, they all ran over and exchanged the squid board for our fried haode squid claws to eat.

In the later stage, when we don't have enough ingredients, a pot of squid claws, that is, more than two catties, can be exchanged for ten catties of squid board for the other party. After that, the people who went to our metal structure began to trade with the locals. ”

"So what's going on?" Wang Lili asked puzzled.

"Listen to me, the tertiary industry of the Soviets was extremely underdeveloped at that time." Seeing Wang Lili's confused appearance, the old man hurriedly explained: "According to me, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery are the primary industries; Then water, electricity, gas, minerals, construction, and manufacturing are the secondary industries, and the rest is the tertiary industry. ”

Seeing that Wang Lili still didn't understand, the old man gave an easy-to-understand example and said: "You ate big bubble gum when you were a child." "I've eaten it."

"When we went to the Soviet Union, we exchanged a piece of bubble gum for a ruble. Not to mention, we chewed the bubble gum that stinked enough and spit it on the ground, and the children of the Soviet Union immediately rushed to pick it up from the ground, put it in their mouths, and began to blow bubbles while eating, and their tertiary industry was scarce to such an extent. ”

When Wang Lili heard this, her jaw was about to fall to the ground, and she looked incredulous.

"When we sold the things we brought, I realized how important it was for the translator to let us bring daily necessities.

Let's not talk about it, let's just talk about the skates we wear here, a pair of skates for a pair of skates for the Soviets. ”

"How do you change that?" Wang Lili seems to be very entangled in this problem.

The Chinese are all monkeys, looking for a place with a lot of people, pulling their throats and starting to shout: "Hey..." When the people of the Soviet Union gathered to see the excitement, they began to sell the daily necessities they brought with them.

You brought stockings like me, a pair of which can be sold for up to fifty roubles, which is more than ten days' wages. disposable lighters: ten rubles; soap: twenty rubles; a leather jacket: 2,000 rubles; What Pari shampoo, hairpins, watches, anyway, they all took and sold.

Later, there was nothing left to sell, and when I saw that there was still a pile of rheumatism cream left, I ran to the door of the factory that produced the car and began to sell it. ”

"Dad, do you speak Russian?" Wang Lili asked admiringly.

"No~ Yes! It's all about trading with your hands. I'll learn from you! The old man began to talk and gesture.

"You see, for example, rheumatic ointment, I was going to sell it for five roubles, so I stood at the door of the other factory, and compared it with the Soviet workers who were leaving work with rheumatism.

"Hey," the other party knew that the Chinese were selling things again, so they gathered around, the problem rheumatism cream is not easy to describe, I first made a painful expression. The old man tilted his shoulders as he spoke, making an expression of being winded, and learning to "hiss~~~~~ in his mouth," and then made a gesture of holding the rheumatism ointment and sticking it on his back, and his facial expression immediately changed to "Ho~~~~!" "It looks good.

The other worker began to ask for the price. I stretched out a hand and spread five fingers to gesticulate: Roar! (That means five rubles) The other side did not bargain, and paid for it, feeling that the Soviets were like fools.

When I went back the second time, before I could shout, the Soviets surrounded me and scrambled to buy rheumatism cream. Among them, the fast one handed me five roubles. I didn't have much left at that time, so I pushed the other party's hand back to hand over the money. Then gesture at the other party: Roar! Roar! (As he spoke, the old man stretched out his palm, and then turned it over, which means ten rubles.) But I didn't expect that even then, the Soviets would buy it, how interesting you say! The old man grinned and said happily, making Wang Lili hahadaxiao.

to be continued