Mr. Xu and I came to the "White Horse" hotel in the center of Ulan-Ude, which Peter recommended to us.

Mr. Xu was very curious when he saw the Buryat girl who was the receptionist at the front desk, and I told him that there were indeed many Buryats here who looked like Chinese. Mr. Xu said that this made him feel very cordial, as if he had suddenly returned to China.

Anatoly received us warmly, explained in detail the exploration and mining of his jade mines, and showed us several construction sites where mining was taking place.

Mr. Xu is very satisfied with the quality and reserves of jade here.

He told me that the quality of the jade ore here is even comparable to our Hetian jade. Anatoly is even more interested in exploring the Chinese market. He said that his current main customers are Koreans, but there are also Taiwanese and Southeast Asian customers, but there are no really strong Chinese customers.

The cooperation negotiations between the two sides are going very smoothly.

One day, I was in the reception room of Anatoly translating the draft of our cooperation agreement to Mr. Xu. There was a knock on the door, and I saw Nachin and a tall Russian lad standing in the doorway. Nachin was a little surprised to see me, and before they could speak, he heard Anatoly say to them:

- "You're coming! Wait for me in the conference room. ”

It turned out that Nachin was working in a jade mine in Anatoli, I said to myself.

Nachin winked back at me as she walked. I smiled and quietly waved my hand at him.

Two weeks later, Mr. Xu and I returned to Irkutsk.

Mr. Xu, who was full of harvest, hurriedly returned to China the next day with a lot of materials and samples.

In the afternoon, when there was a light snow falling outside the window, and the room was so dark that it needed to be lit, I threw the English dictionary in my hand on the table, rubbed my somewhat blurry eyes and walked to the window.

Outside the window, I stared at the fog, but my mind didn't know where it flew.

It's been more than three months since Andrei and I last called.

Although the contact between me and Andre is irregular, but this time it is indeed the longest time we have broken contact, and he has not heard from him even in the New Year, if I didn't have the precedent of losing contact with myself last year, then I really can't forgive Andre for what he is doing now.

Even Sergey said that it was very challenging to merge several banks in three months, so it is not surprising that Andrey's plan was hampered, and he was probably afraid to explain to me why he did not contact me, right?

In my impression, the competitive Andrei was the most reluctant to let me see his defeated, weak side. I felt that it would hit him harder than the defeat itself, so we were secretly maintaining a tacit understanding, and I pretended to turn a blind eye to Andre when things didn't go well.

Remembering that Sergei said that Mr. Liu is a blessing to me, then whose blessing will my Andre and his career be entrusted to and whose benefit?

I sighed at the thought of this, feeling that I might never be able to become the noble person in Andrei's life. Suddenly, I remembered what Mary had said about herself...... I smiled bitterly, and fantasized about what kind of noble person I was, it would be good if I wasn't Andrei's trouble, is this our fate?

There was a knock on the door, and I thought Little Stone was coming, but when I opened the door, I saw Dalia and Little Vika standing in front of me.

Dalia deliberately dressed up today, wearing a well-fitting dress and a very bright outfit, which made her look a lot more beautiful all of a sudden, I don't know if it was because of her makeup, or because of her mood, Dalia looked radiant.

Little Vika also wore a new pink down jacket, with a white head flower tied in a light yellow braid, a large bouquet of flowers in his hand, and a smile in his light blue eyes.

- "Are we bothering you?" Dalia asked

- "Where's the word?" It's too late to welcome! "I happily invited them in.

Dalia sat across from me, holding her coffee cup, and said slowly:

- "I wanted to come over two days ago, and your colleague said you were on a business trip, and yesterday Vika told me that she saw you coming back. ”

Laughing and pulling Ravica's pigtails with her hand, the little girl smiled brightly at me.

- "Yes, I was on a business trip for a few days and just came back the day before yesterday. I looked at Dalia and said.

- "Did you go to Moscow?" Dalia asked

- "No, I'm going to Ulan-Ude. I said

- "Oh! I thought ......," Dalia smiled and continued:

- "Today, Vika and I want to thank you! ”

- "Thank me for what?" We are neighbors, and it is normal for us to exchange courtesies! I said.

- "Yes, we are neighbors, but you are our nobleman, and it is you who let us see Sergei again. ”

- "That's it?" I smiled

- "Actually, it's all a coincidence, I really didn't know that Sergei and you were classmates, if we hadn't met Vika in the supermarket that day, maybe everyone would have missed it." So, Vika is the lucky star for all of us, right? Vika? I looked at the little girl.

The girl looked at me and smiled sweetly.

- "Lina, you and Sergei, who are you?" Dalia looked at me and asked hesitantly

- "Sergey was my leader when I worked in Moscow. I replied.

- "Ah, the first time I saw you, I thought you were ......" Dalia stopped talking.

- "Huh...... It's okay, Sergey and I are often misunderstood, and we seem to be used to this. I laughed

Dalia smiled, took a sip of his coffee and said:

- "We have always speculated about what Sergei's girlfriend will be like. ”

- "Oh, yes, you're his classmates, so we know more than we know as his subordinates, right?" Have you seen any girls he's ever dated? I said as I looked at Dalia with gossip on my face.

- "Huh...... What kind of girl would Sergey Rainin like? This seems to be one of the things that all of us want to know. ”

- "All your classmates? ”

Dalia looked at me and smiled.

- "Is that an exaggeration?" "I'm skeptical.

- "You have to know how famous Sergei Rainin was in our school at that time, you wouldn't ask that. Dalia said with an eyebrow raised.