Chapter 342: Her name is Vladivostok
"Shhhh Don't wake up your mother. ”
Hearing the surprise voice of the dark-skinned girl, Zhang Lei, who walked in, made a quiet gesture, and suddenly the dark-skinned girl nodded quickly, but her eyes smiled very well.
"Brother, are you hungry?"
"I'll give it to you!"
Then, the black girl who had already stood up asked in a low voice, Zhang Lei waved his hand and whispered with a smile:
"I was on duty yesterday, I just woke up, and I'm not hungry."
"Sit down! Sit back and wait until you're done with your homework. ”
In order to reduce the cost of communication between the two sides, Tanzania has officially announced the construction of Chinese schools, and Dar es Salaam, as the largest city in Tanzania, has a consortium office in this area, so three Chinese schools have been built, one for full-time primary and secondary schools, one for weekend classes, and one for evening schools.
The black girl was studying at the same school that held classes on weekends, not far from her shop.
"Uh-huh!"
After Zhang Lei finished speaking, the girl sat down, and Zhang Lei sat opposite her, the two of them did not speak, there was only the thunderous snoring sound in the air, and the rustling of the girl's pencil in the notebook.
Finally, after more than ten minutes, Zhang Lei couldn't help it, and stopped talking a few times, and finally said in a low voice with a smile:
"If I'm not mistaken, June 1st is your birthday, right?"
"I said it when I took you to the school to sign up before."
Hearing Zhang Lei's sudden opening, the dark-skinned girl raised her head and was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Yes."
Zhang Lei smiled, then bowed his head slightly and said to himself:
"I asked a colleague to buy you a small gift from Egypt."
"I don't know if you'll like it."
"I can't tell you now, but then you'll know what it is, and it's very helpful for your studies."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhang Lei's words fell, the girl whispered quickly:
"No, I don't want it, brother, I can't want it."
"My mother and I have been taken care of too much by you, and if it weren't for you, we wouldn't have been able to settle here, let alone open this restaurant here, and I wouldn't have been able to go to school."
"I don't want it, it's definitely expensive, I don't want it."
Hearing the girl say this, Zhang Lei, who was sitting there, didn't seem surprised, coughed lightly and said:
"It's just a small gift, not valuable."
"Okay, let's not talk about it, you can write it quickly!"
Zhang Lei's voice seemed unquestionable in the girl's ears, she nodded and continued to look down at her homework, but the speed was much slower than just now, and she even made a few mistakes, and had to wipe it slowly with an eraser.
"Brother, my mother asked me to ask you, will you marry me?"
Suddenly, the girl sitting opposite her lowered her head and said in a very subtle voice, and after she finished speaking, she quickly added:
"Actually, I don't want to ask, I think it's good to be like this now."
"When you come to me during work breaks and eat the food I cook for you, I'm already very, very satisfied."
"I don't know"
Her voice grew quieter and quieter until it was completely gone.
At that moment, Zhang Lei felt that his heart was beating hard, and he remembered the scenes and scenes of his acquaintance with Mangilly a few months ago, and he said without thinking:
"Yes!"
But in the next second, his expression hesitated again, and he said in a low voice:
"But you were born in '69, right?"
"It's too small, it's not up to the rules."
"Not to mention, we are not from the same country, I secretly inquired, at present, among our expatriates, there has not been a transnational marriage, and I don't know what the attitude of the leaders is, whether this situation is allowed or not, what regulations and requirements will be."
Speaking of this, he hurriedly added, just like the girl just now:
"As long as you want, I'll ask, I'll ask for leadership!"
"Don't worry! Mangilly! ”
Hearing this, the girl Mangilly's head was almost clubbed into the homework book, and her voice was not a little louder than that of a mosquito and she whispered:
"In our country, I am old enough to marry"
After finishing speaking, she stood up suddenly, even if her skin was dark and smooth, she could see that her cheeks were flushed, and she quickly turned around and said:
"I'll give it to you!"
"I hear your stomach growling, I'll do my homework later."
Then she walked quickly to the back kitchen, leaving only Zhang Lei to sit there, his eyes gradually softened, after a while, the water boiled, the girl carried a long board, holding a piece of noodles, using a piece of iron the size of two palms, quickly sharpened up, the white noodles flew into the pot, and flew up and down in the boiling water.
A few minutes later, a large bowl of knife-cut noodles poured with beef broth was brought over by the girl.
"Eat it! I'm going to do my homework. ”
Mangilly said in a low voice, and then her head was clubbed into the homework book again, Zhang Lei's eyes were extraordinarily delicate, and he nodded and said:
"Hmm."
Then he began to suck heavily.
Just as Zhang Lei was eating, guests walked in from time to time, and Manjili's mother also woke up and began to help clean up the table and make "black curry", a local staple food in Tanzania, made with tapioca flour or cornmeal, much like domestic dough, which is also the main dish of this restaurant.
The yellow-skinned ones generally eat knife-cut noodles with beef broth toppings or tomatoes and egg toppings, while the dark-skinned ones generally eat black curry, which is a sticky dough with beef broth dipping sauce or tomato and greens egg dipping sauce, as well as their favorite gooey okra dipping sauce.
Of course, knife-cut noodles made with wheat flour are more expensive, and black curry made with corn flour is cheaper.
When Zhang Lei finished eating, the girl and her mother were still busy, and the two had no time to talk.
"It's easy for the leader to say it."
"The key is my father, how to explain it?"
"If I marry a black wife, he won't break my legs, will he?"
"Whatever! It's better to marry than not to marry, if you don't come to Africa, just the family of my family, it's good to be able to marry someone who knows how to run home in the rain, and it's not impossible to get married for a second time with a few children. ”
"And he doesn't have to build a house and pay for three major items, what can he say?"
Walking on the road, Zhang Lei finished smoking a cigarette, and finally made up his mind, and went back to talk to the leader directly
Meanwhile.
The Soviet Union was called Vladivostok domestically, and Vladivostok in the Soviet Union.
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In the port district of this also coastal city, there is a small two-story building that looks quite historic, and at the door of the small building hangs a sign with the words "Red Star Consortium Trade Office".
Today, it has attracted a "heavy" guest.
"Welcome, Mr. Gusyev!"
"Try it, the coffee from the mountains of Tanzania is said to be the best in the world, but I can't get used to it, I don't have enough appreciation, but I think you can tell it."
In the living room, I saw a young man with a big back and said with a smile.
Opposite him was a man in a crisp outfit with a beer belly, and at this moment he heard the young man with the big back say this, and he picked up the coffee in front of him with a smile.
"It's not smelly."
"It's really no worse than Cuban coffee!"
Hearing this, the young man with a big back combed showed a smile on his face, and said directly to the staff next to him:
"When Mr. Gusyev leaves, wrap some of this coffee for Mr. Guseyev."
"We can't taste it anyway."
The staff member nodded and said:
"Yes!"
After he turned to leave, the young man with the big back said with a smile:
"Mr. Gusyev."
"Now that we have partnered with our partners, we need your help to coordinate and solve the problems that we submitted a few days ago about the transportation of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the port of Vladivostok."
Hearing the young man with his big back say this, Mr. Gusyev took the coffee cup and said with a look of enjoyment:
"No problem, of course no problem."
"Since your Red Star Consortium has reached an agreement with the above, then of course we have to cooperate."
"And it's full cooperation!"
"But"
Speaking of this, although Gusyev still had a smiling expression on his face, the look of enjoying the coffee just now no longer existed, his eyes looked much sharper, and he shook his head slightly and sighed and said:
"However, the Siberian region has low temperatures throughout the year, and the annual snowfall lasts for a long time, and when the ice and snow melt, there will be a wide range of mud, and the maintenance of the railway is very difficult."
"So it's very normal for there to be some delays once in a while, you have to understand."
"As for the port side"
Under the gaze of the young man with the big back hair, Gusyev rambled on a lot of questions, and at this moment, the staff member who had just left to arrange coffee returned.
Seeing him return, Gusyev stopped talking, and the staff member bowed slightly and said:
"The coffee for Mr. Gusyev is ready."
"Just 'parked' downstairs."
"We didn't have enough wrapping paper, though, so we used some 'green' paper with printed patterns."
Hearing the voice of the staff, Gusyev's eyes flashed in his eyes, and the young man with the big back sitting opposite seemed to be very unhappy, and said bluntly:
"Not enough wrapping paper? So why not buy it? Why not prepare in advance? ”
"How can you wrap coffee in old printed paper? Mr. Gusyev has a very high ability to taste coffee, don't you understand that such paper will affect the taste of coffee? ”
"Go get it, I'll see!"
The staff member who had been reprimanded by the young man with the big back lowered his head and trotted away, and after about two minutes, he came back with a paper bag the size of a brick, and under the gaze of the young man with the big back and Gusev, he opened the paper bag, and as the first layer of paper opened, the green knife sandwich was revealed, and then the outer packaging containing the coffee.
"It's okay! It doesn't matter if you don't have it at all! ”
"Since there is not enough wrapping paper, then let's not embarrass this little comrade."
"I think this kind of packaging is already very good, and the packaging doesn't matter, as long as the coffee is good."
"And with this green printing paper, I can smell a special scent of ink, which reminds me of more than 20 years ago, when we were on the farm and used to smoke sun-dried tobacco leaves rolled in newspaper."
"Oh, that smell is nostalgic!"
Then, Gusev, who was sitting there, bowed down from the front to look at the paper bag on the table, turned into a straight waist, and at the same time held a pipe and said with a smile.
Hearing this, the young man with the big back said with admiration on his face:
"Mr. Gusev's bearing is really admirable."
"Since Mr. Gusyev has no opinion and forgives you for this behavior, then you should quickly move the coffee to Mr. Gusev's car!"
"It should fit in, right?"
As soon as the young man with the big back finished speaking, the staff member hurriedly said:
"Just put it down, this bag is redundant."
As soon as these words came out, the smile on Gusyev's face became even brighter, and the young man with a big back turned his head to look at Gusyev and said with a smile:
"Makes you laugh, they're too young and not skilled enough to do their job."
"By the way, we just talked about railways and ports"
Accompanied by the voice of the young man with a big back, Gusyev laughed with a pipe in his mouth:
"Don't worry! Everything will be as you wish. ”
With Gusyev's words, the young man with the big back stood up directly, then stretched out his hand and said with a smile:
"In that case, then I would like to thank Mr. Gusyev for taking care of us."
"I'll visit you in a while and ask you to taste the tobacco."
In this regard, Gusyev, who had already completed the foreshadowing just now, was naturally full of smiles, stood up and shook hands with the young man with a big back, and said:
"Looking forward to that day."
"We're done talking, so I'll take my leave."
After saying that, he gave the secretary who accompanied him a look, and the secretary picked up the brick-sized coffee pod on the table, and then the group went downstairs, and after a few more pleasantries, Gusyev left in a car.
Looking at the speeding car, the eyes of the young man with the big back flashed, and the next second he said coldly to the staff next to him without twisting his head:
"Vladivostok? I hate the name. ”
"Just like the factory director said, this city should be called Vladivostok!"
Regarding the statement of the young man with the big back, the staff member no longer made a promise just now, and said with a solemn expression on his face:
"This man has a big appetite, he's greedy, and he's in a position of power."
"It's a good breakthrough indeed"
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