At 10 a.m. the next day, a meeting was held in one of the apartment buildings of the Trade Representative. This apartment building is the building that Roman and his family are going to renovate, and it is where the temporary office of the engineering department is currently located.

In addition to Tony and Valery, the meeting was attended by Mr. Li and his two subordinates of the Chinese engineering team. Roman and I were also invited to attend.

The content of the meeting is not complicated. I feel like they've discussed the start of construction more than once.

Mr. Li reported on the preparation of his engineering team. He also elaborated on the process of preparing the paperwork. It can be seen that Mr. Li is really trying his best to meet the requirements put forward by the Russian side.

In the end, he even pleaded to Tony that if he wanted to finish on time, the date of construction really couldn't be delayed.

During the meeting, I found that Valery's Chinese was not qualified as a translator, and it is no wonder that they had been miscommunicating before.

The meeting went smoothly, it only took more than an hour, and everyone basically reached an agreement on all the issues. Finally, it was decided that the Monday three days later would be the official start date.

The meeting is over.

Valery packed his large file bag with all sorts of materials. Mr. Li and his deputies were also sorting out the drawings and various documents on the meeting table. It is clear that everyone is particularly pleased with the outcome of today's meeting. I couldn't hide the joy on my face, and Mr. Li said to me happily:

- "Thank you so much for your translation, I didn't expect today's meeting to be so successful. Alas! Finally, we can start work. ”

At this time, a young assistant of Mr. Li also came over and said with a smile:

- "I see, 398 is like a different person today, and it's the first time I've seen this guy laugh!" He's never been so talkative, and it seems that he's really giving face to the big Russian boss. ”

- "Who is 398?" I asked, puzzled

- "Oh! Hehe...... That's right, the 398 they say is that Tony, because the license plate number he drives is "398", and the Chinese call him that privately. Mr. Li glanced back at Tony, who was standing in front of the window in the distance and smoking with Roman, and whispered to me

- "Why did you give him a code name?" Sounds like they're talking about spies, hehe...... "I think it's funny what they call Tony."

Mr. Li's other slightly older deputy manager also leaned over and whispered:

- "Don't you know, that 398 really looks like a spy!" Don't you think he looks a bit like Putin?

This guy is very yin, and his eyes are very poisonous! If he finds out that something is a little bit out of place, it's really going to get in trouble, and you don't even know how difficult he is! The thought of dealing with him again gives us a headache. ”

- "Is he really that scary?" What have you all done? Is he so dissatisfied? I asked curiously.

- "Hey! If something big happens, we won't complain about people's dissatisfaction. In fact, there are many times when it is a small thing.

Isn't it a language barrier with him! There may be some places where there is poor communication, some misunderstandings, can't you just explain clearly?

But we always feel that this 398 is deliberately finding fault! Several times he made Valery angry and jumped to his feet and cursed......

Sometimes, we couldn't explain anything to him, so we often complained in Chinese.

Don't say it. You don't think he doesn't know Chinese, but he can hear us say his name.

A few times he may have thought that we were scolding him, and the old man's face sank, which was really scary than Putin!

We were also afraid of causing some misunderstanding, so we gave him this code name. Hey...... This time he didn't know we were talking about him. Mr. Li told me with a smile.

- "Wow...... "398" is a pretty good codename, you can figure it out.

By the way, you can't all complain about "398", I found out today that Valery's Chinese is really not very good, and it would be a real delay for him to translate at this level," I said with a smile.

- "You don't know that. Valery only translates a few times occasionally, no way! That is, Valery spoke, and "398" didn't dare to find fault so much.

We have asked four translators here before, the first two are Chinese, we think people are quite professional, but "398" said that their translation was problematic, he could not understand, and insisted that Valery change the translation.

Later, it is said that the two Russians invited by Valery were interpreters for the embassy here, but 398 said that they did not understand architecture and that the translation of the terminology was inaccurate.

We don't know Russian, but I think we can figure out those translations of Chinese, even if they are not as good as your Chinese.

Who knows? Anyway, 398 just didn't stop looking for translations.

He is also very good at making a big fuss, who can stand this? The translator is angry, so it's a big deal not to wait! None of them did. Valery still has no translator.

We all know that foreigners are hypocritical, and their requirements for the quality of their projects are too high, so many domestic engineering teams are unwilling to work for foreigners.

I've been working with Valery for several years, and I have some experience working with Russians. That's why I dare to take your job!

However, I didn't expect that this project would meet such a master as 398, and I have never seen such a difficult thing to serve!

Ay! If it weren't for Valery's face, we would have stopped doing it a long time ago! It's not easy for us to earn this money! Mr. Li said helplessly.