In the company conference room, Sergei informed us that the stranded cargo of our company in Hamburg had been released, and with it we were going to be recruiting some new employees to cope with the increasing distribution of cargo in our company. Each of my three assistant managers recruited two assistants. Everyone was very excited to hear it.

One of the things that makes us even happier is that we are paid our official salaries today.

I went to the finance office to pick up my new salary. Oh my God, in addition to my basic salary, I also have overtime allowances and bonuses – I have been paid more this month than I have earned in the past year.

Back at the office and seeing everyone smiling and talking about their income, it seems that my colleagues, like me, did not expect such a good thing.

I thought proudly, although this job is tiring, but the salary is also high. It's hard to find such a job in Moscow, so I'll try to do it well.

I was so rich all of a sudden. I'm going to have to show it off to Andrei!

But how to show off, show him. At most, in exchange for a sentence of "You are awesome, dear", it will be over. I'm a little unwilling.

By the way, I'll buy him a gift! What to buy? I'm thinking. At this time, I remembered one thing, I have known Andre for so long, I don't seem to have spent a penny on him.

Andrei's economic conditions are indeed good among our classmates. He came to study at our institute on a state exchange slot. Not only is his tuition fee free, but he also has a living allowance of nearly $2,000 a month from the government. These subsidies are not used at our college at all. Even if I spend it with Andrey, his normal expenses are up to a thousand dollars a month. So, we never thought about living expenses or anything.

Besides, in addition to eating, Andrei also had a little expense for that car, and gasoline in Moscow was not expensive, so it was hardly a burden. Both of us don't seem to have much of a passion for luxury. Andrei dressed like an ordinary university student, he hardly bought clothes, and his few suits were enough for any event in Moscow.

I'm pretty much the same as that. Occasionally, I would go to the market and buy what I liked to wear. I've never cared about the concept of a famous brand or anything like that, I just like to wear my own style of clothes. Since the Chinese are all making goods here, I often receive all kinds of clothes and hats samples from friends who send goods, and I don't spend any money.

Maybe it's chocolate, my biggest luxury. Ever since I met Andrey, I've eaten almost all Russian chocolate. Nowadays, I seem to be a little tired of chocolate. Andrei also reminded me to buy it the other day. But looking at the chocolates on the shelves, I didn't have any appetite at all.

Andre always asked me what I needed, and I usually stopped him from buying me this and that, but I never asked him what he needed. I can't help but feel a little guilty when I think about it.

I asked the three colleagues if I was going to buy a gift for my boyfriend. What do you say is a good thing to buy?

They say you buy your boyfriend whatever he likes.

What does Andrei like? He likes cars, he has this, and besides, I can't afford it and won't buy it. He loves sports. I don't really know what size and brand of his tracksuits and sneakers are. I'm afraid I won't buy those skis and tennis balls. What else does he like?

My colleagues listened to me and laughed and said:

- "Linna, are you talking about your boyfriend?" Why don't you know anything? ”

Some people say that foreigners like to use perfume, why don't you send this? I don't like it when he uses this. I replied.

- What don't you like about him?

- I don't like him to have a beard.

- "Send the razor!" They said in unison.

Right! The electric shaver is sweet and practical, haha, I'm a genius. Andrei must have liked it too.

In the evening, I showed Andrei my carefully selected and expensive razor.

Andrei smiled with surprise on his face and said:

- "Linna. How did you come up with the idea to buy me this! "I repeated the advantages of this electric shaver that the salesman told me about Andrei, and asked him;

- "Do you like it?" ”

- "Like! Andre took out a razor and experienced it on his face. Said to me happily; - "Pretty comfortable." My dear! I can use it in the evening. ”

- "Why don't you use it at night, you can use it in the morning?" I said.

Andrei cupped my face, kissed me and said:

- "Baby, you're so cute! ”

I didn't feel like I was proud of my genius gift for a few days. I noticed that André seemed to be still using his manual razor. Could it be that he didn't use this razor I bought? I thought so.

One day I met Figor coming out of the bathroom with an electric razor in his hand. I stopped him. I showed him the razor I had bought for Andrei and wanted to know what was wrong. Figor said, looking at the razor I bought

- "Linna, this quality should be the best, and the price is not cheap, right?" ”

I say;

- "Yes, but I wonder why Andrei doesn't like to use it?" I found out that he still uses his manual razor a lot, is this what he is not used to? ”

Figol said with a smile:

- "Linna, you don't understand this, I use electric because my hair is softer. My brother and dad used manual ones, their beards were hard and thick, and it had nothing to do with the quality of the electric razor, no matter how good the electric razor was, it couldn't shave. I think Andre is the same, he thinks the manual scraping is cleaner. ”

- "It's still like this! "I'm really disappointed.

- "Then I bought this for nothing," I said.

Figor probably saw my regret and said:

- "It's not useless. Linna, you see I like to use electric ones, and it's quite convenient for Andre to use them in normal times or when he's in a hurry! ”

It's the only gift I've ever bought for Andrey.

I thought it would be invincible, but it wasn't as perfect as I thought!