After graduating from high school, I didn't go to college, I mixed in the society for a few years, doing odd jobs and gnawing old age, and then I wandered the streets with a group of friends of the same age.
My parents felt that I couldn't mix like this anymore, and if I mixed in society like this for a long time, I was very likely to become a social person, and my whole life would be wasted.
So, my parents found an acquaintance, this person is a distant relative of my family, I should call him cousin, but he is very close to my family, he often came to my house when he was a child, my parents also helped him a lot, and now he is a big boss.
He has been doing business in Russia for many years, and he didn't say what kind of business he did, and everyone didn't know, anyway, relatives and friends who knew him knew that he was rich.
My cousin, entrusted by my parents, brought me to Russia to work under him, and when I first arrived, I didn't understand anything, and my cousin put me in touch with all kinds of work.
After about a year or so, my cousin thought that I was doing well, and I still had some language talent, and I spoke Russian very slippery, although I was not very good at reading and writing Russian, but there was no problem with the conversation, so my cousin assigned me a job.
What kind of work is to let me go to a purchase point alone to buy grain, because my cousin has a business, which is the grain ** between China and Russia, buying Russian wheat and rapeseed or something, and then importing them to China.
In those years, the amount of grain ** between China and Russia was still relatively small, as a pioneer of Sino-Russian grain ** earlier, Uncle Cousin still made a lot of money, as you know, to do ** is to buy and sell, and what you earn is the price difference.
My cousin sent someone to take me to the purchase point, left me a sum of money, and left.
There are many warehouses at the purchase point, and the grain purchased in the surrounding area is temporarily stacked in the warehouse, and when the purchase is over, it is pulled away, loaded on the train at the railway station, transported to China, and sold to domestic customers.
There were a few Russians guarding the warehouse, and I explained to them that I wanted to find a place to live in the warehouse, but the bearded Russian refused my request, he was the leader of the warehouse security team, and he refused me, and the others did not say anything.
The bearded man told me that there was a nearby village only a few hundred meters away, and he told me to go and rent a house in the village myself.
As soon as I saw the bearded man's fierce appearance, I didn't dare to talk nonsense with him, so I obediently went to a nearby village to rent a house.
After looking at a few houses, I met a Russian aunt, this aunt is not very fat, but because of her long-term agricultural work, she was sunburned.
When the Russian aunt saw that I was alone, she asked me if I lived alone in a yard or with them, and I thought about it, in this unfamiliar place, it would be better to live in a yard with them, not to mention that I still had a lot of cash on me, and it was relatively safe for a group of people to live together, although I didn't know what kind of people my aunt's family was.
In this way, I stayed at my aunt's house in Russia, and at this time, I didn't know who my aunt's family was, because during the whole process of renting a house, my aunt was talking to me alone, and I didn't see anyone else in her house.
After I settled down, my aunt asked me very concerned if I wanted to eat with her family, and before I could answer, my aunt took the initiative to say that if I had to eat, I would have to add money separately.
I thought about it and said, my working hours are not fixed, so I don't eat with them, I can eat casually in a small restaurant outside, and if I am not busy, I will cook and eat by myself.
Later, I found out that my aunt cared so much about me because she wanted to earn a little more money, and I rented that house to give her more than 10,000 rubles a month, which was a sky-high price for them, because the local houses, like the two houses I rented, had a rent of 4,000 rubles a month, and there was no guarantee that they would be able to rent it out.
After settling down at my aunt's house, I went to the warehouse every day to collect grain, there were two kinds of wheat and rapeseed, just waiting for the local farmers to send them to the door, I determined the quality grade on the spot, and weighed, and then counted the money on the spot, and the Russian farmers took the money, drove a broken tractor or car, and left happily.
Later I learned that after they got the money, most of them would go to the tavern to buy alcohol and get drunk. Like the Russian workers I know, every time they pay their salaries, they go to the tavern and get drunk, and when they go to work the next day, there must be a lot of people who can't come to work, because they drank so much last night that they have difficulty getting out of bed, and some of them have already been sent to the sobering center.
The work of purchasing grain is not very busy, if someone comes to the warehouse to sell grain, the warehouse person can call me **, I can drive from the rented Russian aunt's house in a few minutes to the warehouse to accept the grain, weigh the grain, and after paying, I will return to the aunt's house.
After eating Russian food in the village restaurant for a few days, I couldn't stand it, it was all meat, almost no vegetables, and bread, the so-called beetroot soup, and a lot of cream was put in it, and after a long time, I was so tired of this high-calorie food that I was sick to my stomach.
A few days later, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I drove to the supermarket in a nearby town, bought some cooking utensils and tableware, and went to the Chinese Super League to buy a lot of Chinese spices, which are really expensive, several times the domestic price.
What's even more outrageous is that Chinese vegetables, such as coriander, cost forty or fifty yuan a catty, simple bean sprouts also cost more than ten yuan a catty, a piece of tofu I don't know how heavy, it also costs more than a dozen yuan, then there is no way, who let us be Chinese stomach, to eat these things, gritted teeth and to buy it, it is really painful to pay, these money can buy a lot of vegetables in China, and you can only buy a small handful here.
Cooking is not a problem for me, because in the years when I did odd jobs on the street in my hometown, I worked in several restaurants, although I was not a chef, but in the back kitchen of the restaurant, I also did everything, especially when I saw the chef's chic appearance of stir-frying, I secretly learned from them, and after a long time, I would also fry a few dishes, and when the chef was too busy, unimportant dishes would also let me try the water.
Soon, I started my cooking career at my aunt's house in Russia, which had a large rural kitchen, and I used a piece of space to set up my Chinese kitchen, washing, chopping, stir-frying, everything went according to plan.
My aunt's family is in rural Russia, although I have seen some Chinese in recent years, it is certain that they have never eaten Chinese food, thinking that there can be no Chinese restaurants in this remote Russian countryside, and Chinese restaurants in cities are simply too expensive for them Russian farmers, and only the middle class in Russian cities can afford to eat.
My first Chinese meal in this small Russian village was completed under the watchful eyes of the Russian aunt and her daughter, they were like primary school students, every step of my operation was very novel, I had never seen the dishes I bought, very novel, I had never seen the kitchen knives used by our Chinese, it was very novel, I had not added to the big iron pot used by our Chinese, it was very novel, of course, it was even more novel for us to stir-fry the dishes over high heat.
So, while I was stir-frying, my aunt and her daughter kept making all kinds of exclamations from their mouths, saying that my stir-fry was like magic, and my aunt also called her neighbor over, like a gorilla visiting the zoo, and a few Russians were watching how I was stir-frying.
Before my first stir-fry, I told my landlord that I would invite her to eat Chinese food with her family, and she was naturally very happy.
After the stir-fry was finished that day, I invited my aunt's neighbor to eat with us, and the Russian countrymen, who had never seen the world, naturally gladly accepted the invitation and ate their first Chinese meal with me.
Of course, after careful experimentation, a table of Russians began to go into a stormy pattern, eating up all the dishes I had made, even the soup was smeared with bread.
Obviously, everyone didn't have enough to eat, and I couldn't do anything about it, because I didn't expect so many people to come, and all the ingredients had already been made into a dish, and I had eaten all of them.
The charm of Chinese food is really great, from then on, as soon as I cook, the landlord will come to eat with me uninvited, sometimes when her family is around, she will also eat with me, of course I am happy to share Chinese food with them, chat with them, listen to them talk about the local history and customs.
In the process, the Russian aunt also told me about her family, and I admired this strong Russian aunt a little.
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