Seeing that there were less than two days left before Christmas for Europeans and Americans, Weiran also received 280,000 euros in cash from the sale of demantoid garnets from Kajik.
This money seems like a lot of money, but it is all that those who picked up the remaining demantoid garnets got in exchange. Now, Suisui has less than 30 demantoid garnets left in her hand, and after all, those stones have not been cut.
In exchange for so much money, it has exceeded Wei Ran's expectations.
As for the diamonds that were delivered to Kajik earlier, don’t think about it in the short term. If you want to cut and polish those stones, it will probably have to wait until summer. It will also take a long time to sell them, even if those stones are sold.
I guess most of it will be spent on the young mothers in Tula Town.
After calculating the money on hand, I paid the final payment to Lao Li, the contractor next door, and bought a set of equipment for the coffee shop. Now, all that is left in the safe is less than 200,000 euros in cash and some earphones.
There are less than 30 gems in Sui's hand that are not going to be touched in the short term.
"Why do we spend less and less money?"
Wei Ran muttered nonsense to himself, took two stacks of food boxes and threw them into his pocket as a first aid, and kicked another stack into his pocket, preparing to pay this month's salary to Sister Katenka later.
Although he was making a lot of money by spending money, Suisui had also made a lot of money in the past few months. However, Wei Ran never asked, and he usually bought gas, groceries, daily necessities, and even other things.
He never spent money on things like air tickets or anything like that.
Looking for an opportunity to give money to one of the Katenka sisters, Suisui also made various preparations to go to Chita to watch the excitement.
A group of six people, plus two little foxes wearing large flower cotton-padded jackets and a bare-butt dog, went out in a mighty manner, boarded the armored commercial vehicle driven by the Katenka sisters and rushed towards the airport.
At noon that day, their flight landed smoothly at Chita Airport. For these six people, one dog and two big-eared foxes, it was their first time to come to this country, which is less than 500 kilometers away from the Chinese border.
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Even since the new regulations came into effect a few years ago, the time zone here has been consistent with the time of China's imperial capital - just like hundreds of years ago, before the Treaty of Nerchinsk came into effect, this place belonged to China.
It's a pity that today, more than three hundred years later, all that can be seen here are the onion-roofed churches with Russian style and the concrete buildings with Soviet style. Of course, there are also rented business buildings
In the van, the girls told various rumors and horror stories about the "Chita Zombies".
The fact that we have to admit is that although the powerful man who currently sits in the top spot in Russia looks down upon Lenin, a considerable number of ordinary people are not too cold towards Lenin, so much so that many cities have toppled the Soviet Union.
A statue of Lenin erected in this era.
But even so, most of the busier sections of Russian cities are still named after Lenin. In addition, the statue of Lenin in Chita is still erected in the square named after him, and it is considered a tourist in Chita.
A must-go check-in point.
Wei Ran and others also made a special trip to Lenin Square to take a few photos while walking around. Then they followed the address given on the metal book and finally stopped at the side of a street that looked quite prosperous.
Without even getting out of the car, everyone saw the name of the store written in Russian and traditional Chinese characters on the large wooden sign hanging at the door of a roadside shop that looked like a grocery store - Dongfanghong Grocery Store: specializing in various Chinese small commodities.
, and also provides services such as Chinese tour guides and drivers.
"This is different from the Chinese characters I've seen," Anfiya, who was in charge of driving, said blankly, "The Chinese characters we are learning don't seem to have so many body structures."
"What a good description." Suisui opened the car door and got out first, dumbfounded. "But these are also Chinese characters."
"Is there a difference between uppercase and lowercase letters?" Anfisa, who had opened the door and stood next to Suisui, thought she had found the correct answer.
"Absolutely." Wei Ran responded, and at the same time, he tied the dog Beria to the back of the seat and let him guard the two little foxes in the cage. The third one got out and was filled with various perfumes.
A smelly carriage.
Anfia shrugged, and then opened the driver's door. When Lola and her sister Korava got out of the car, a man and five women were a strange combination of tourists who seemed not to be tourists, while discussing about traditional Chinese.
The difference between Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters, while pushing open the glass door and walking into this small shop with two floor-to-ceiling windows.
Amidst the crisp and melodious sound of wind chimes, the first thing Wei Ran felt was the unique smell of Chinese flue-cured tobacco that penetrated his nose.
Then, he noticed that on the sofa chair next to the counter, there was a middle-aged Asian aunt with a full head of curls and a cigarette in her mouth. She looked very much like a certain housekeeper. She was watching a long epic on TV.
Chinese TV series.
"You can take whatever you want to buy. The shopping basket is on the shelf in the corner."
The permed old aunt looked back at Wei Ran and the others, paused for a moment, then switched to Chinese with a strong stubble flavor and added, "If you bring a Chinese passport, I will give you a 20% discount."
"Okay, let's take a stroll." Wei Ran responded in his native dialect and winked at Suisui.
Hearing this, the old aunt said nothing and continued to cast her gaze on the TV screen. She also muttered, "Why is Xie Guangkun so useless?"
He and Suisui looked at each other. They each took a slightly faded shopping basket and walked aimlessly between the shelves while secretly searching for any clues about "Su Wu".
In contrast, the other girls, especially the Katenka sisters, were letting themselves go. The two twins, who had just received their salaries, had not even finished browsing a single shelf, and the shopping baskets in their hands were already full.
There were all kinds of Chinese snacks that they had never tasted before, and the shopping basket that Lola was carrying was stuffed with a lot of things that they thought were delicious.
If you ignore the ruble sign on the price tag, and if you ignore the few people who are also carrying baskets to buy things in this store, there is really not much difference between this place and some small private supermarkets in small counties in China.
Electric fans, rice cookers, everything from needles and threads to spicy strips, soy sauce, fruit, canned tea, etc.
It's just that if the price is converted into RMB, it will inevitably be a lot more expensive. But even so, it is far cheaper than the same Huaxia product that can be bought in Kazan.
Just as Wei Ran threw a bottle of canned yellow peach into the shopping basket, the sweet sound of wind chimes came from behind again. He subconsciously looked back, but he saw a man who looked to be in his mid-twenties and relatively strong.
An Asian young man walked in with a tour guide flag in one hand and a blond girl who looked like she had just graduated from high school in the other.
"The First Cause of All Realms"
"Mom, what are you having for dinner?"
The young man put the tour guide flag on the table, and while asking questions, he took out a bottle of warm almond milk from the rice cooker without a lid, opened it and handed it to the girl next to him, and then opened another bottle himself.
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"Your second uncle has made dumplings and they will be delivered to you later."
As the aunt spoke, she smiled and pulled the cute-looking little furry girl to sit on the sofa. She took a plastic bag from the hanger next to her and pulled out a fluffy pink knitted scarf and a pair of pink knitted scarves.
He handed the knitted gloves to the girl and said with a smile in Russian, "Little Sasha, try it quickly, I just knitted it this morning."
"Boots are numb!"
The little girl responded in off-tune Chinese, and did not forget to give the old aunt a warm hug. Then she put on gloves and a scarf, and showed off to the young man with a cheerful smile, "Hugh! Look! Mine!"
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"Su" the young man grinned and corrected him in Russian bilingual, "It's Su, not Xiu!"
"I know, Hugh!" The girl put her hands on her hips, looking at her scarf in the large mirror by the wall, and responded confidently.
"It's Sasha again," Suisui whispered into Wei Ran's ear, and then the two of them smiled one after another.
There is no way, this name is too popular among the Slavic people. Just the two of them know "Sasha", whether they are two-legged or four-legged, there must be as many as eighty if not a hundred.
"Let Lola expose her necklace," Wei Ran whispered against Suisui's ear.
Hearing this, Suisui made an OK gesture, exchanged the almost full shopping basket with sanitary ware, and walked around the shelf to find Lola, who was looking at a can of stinky tofu.
Smoothly putting the can of stinky tofu into Lola's shopping basket, Suisui whispered into her ear and stuffed a few bills into her hand. The latter immediately nodded and reached out to pull it out from her neck.
The shiny bullet shell necklace was pulled out and exposed.
While they were wandering among the shelves to kill time, the young man who had just come in also took over the cashier's job, while the little girl chatted with the old aunt about today's work.
After browsing every shelf in this small supermarket, everyone lined up to check out, carrying at least two full shopping baskets.
"Chinese?" the young man in charge of the checkout asked in Chinese.
"Yes." Wei Ran nodded and asked politely, "What do you call brother?"
"Su Lie" As the young man spoke, a trace of embarrassment inevitably appeared on his face.
"What?" Wei Ran suddenly became happy, and Suisui next to him subconsciously said, "It's a tank..."
"My grandfather gave me the name." Su Lie became more and more embarrassed. "You can call me Vasily. Do you have your passport? Just take a look and get a 20% discount."
"Your grandpa is quite educated." Wei Ran deliberately diverted the conversation and took out his passport to show the other party a look at the outer cover.
"Isn't that right?" Su Lie grinned innocently and asked while skillfully scanning the items in the shopping basket, "pay together with the beauties behind you?"
Wei Ran looked behind him, took out a few banknotes and handed them to the other party, saying, "I won't take advantage of you anymore. Let's do it one by one."
"Be particular!" The young man gave a thumbs up and stopped insisting. He took the money and began to make change skillfully.
Deliberately killing time, when only Lola was left, Su Lie glanced at Lola subconsciously but was stunned, and then asked, "Where did you get your pendant?"
"This?" Lola looked down at the pendant deliberately placed on the collar, and shook it with the leather rope on it, "My grandfather left it to me, what's wrong?"
Su Lie was stunned, turned his head and shouted loudly, "Mom! Come here quickly! Come here and take a look!"