The city of Moscow has a radial layout, basically with Red Square as the center and expanding to the west. Moscow's transportation is very developed, with nine railways coming from all directions, so Moscow has as many as nine railway stations.
In other cities, if you go to the wrong train station, it will cost you an extra hour or two at most. In Moscow, if you go to the wrong train station, it will take days. The city area is very large and the distance between train stations is very long.
Trains from the Far East mainly stop at Yaroslavl Railway Station. The very Russian-style station building makes the main building of the railway station one of Moscow's landmark buildings.
Vasily is a platform worker at Yaroslavl Railway Station. In the past week, he has obviously noticed that the number of trains coming from the Far East has increased, from one train per day at the beginning to three trains per day not long ago. From three days ago, this number has increased.
It became six columns a day.
All are heavy-duty locomotives, all are freight trains, and the number of carriages in each train is more than 70.
In the preparation room, Vasily took a sip of hot tea, stood up again, walked to the locker, opened his own locker, and checked the contents inside.
Toothpaste, towels, canned food, among which canned fruit is the children's favorite. Thinking of the scene where the children happily share the canned fruit when they get home, Vasily couldn't help but smile knowingly.
The situation is getting worse and worse. I heard that people have starved to death in some places. Two months ago, Vasily was just as worried about living supplies, especially food.
Since the first Chinese train stopped, he was pleasantly surprised to find that with his job, he could obtain food and daily necessities from China more easily than others.
Station staff can give priority to purchase at a 20% discount, and can complete the transaction on the platform after the goods are unloaded.
You know, if these supplies are put on the market, they will be snapped up.
During the severe cold weather two months ago, when many people struggled to survive the winter with only a little food, Vasily's family could even use flour to make snacks that many children liked to eat.
When it was time to get off work in the afternoon, the bell rang and the radio called again: "The backup staff is ready to pick up the train! Today's fifth train from the Far East is about to arrive at the station!"
"Vasily, you have to work overtime again today." Anna, the employee, hung up a big bag on her body and then hung up the tool bag and said.
Anna is a fat aunt. In a few years, she will retire and enjoy life. Unexpectedly, the country will be gone.
Vasily smiled and said, "If all the trains coming are from China, I would rather work overtime every day."
"How much are you planning to buy this time?" Aunt Anna asked.
Vasily hung up the big bag, thought for a moment, and said, "The rubles are becoming less and less valuable. I want to spend all the rubles in my hand."
"Yeah, it's becoming less and less valuable. I'm going to spend it all, and then take the Chinese goods to the small market to exchange for some useful things." Aunt Anna's eyes were dull when she said this.
, showing some excitement.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the most unacceptable people were Aunt Anna's generation. They experienced the most glorious period of the Soviet Union in the 1970s and were the generation that fully enjoyed the state's welfare.
The two people quickly went out and walked to the platform. The workers were already in place, watching the whining heavy-duty locomotive dragging the long carriage into the station and slowly stopping.
The escorts were employees of Yongan Group, all young and strong young men.
A young man climbed up to the roof of the carriage and stood, holding a loudspeaker in his hand, and shouted to the railway workers who were about to move, "Comrades, as before, railway employees have the right of first refusal and enjoy a 20% discount."
Vasily and Aunt Anna couldn't help but clenched their fists and cheered with everyone.
The young man waved his hand to signal everyone to calm down and continued, "However, this is the last time we accept rubles. From now on we will only accept US dollars or Chinese coins. So, please seize the opportunity and buy as much as you can."
As soon as this sentence came out, the situation exploded.
Vasily couldn't help but ask, "You just don't accept our rubles?"
The young man shook his head and said, "No, from now on we will not accept rubles for anyone buying Chinese goods."
"This is not fair. Where can we get so many dollars?" Aunt Anna said angrily.
The young man smiled and said, "Aunt Anna, if you use Huaxia coins, you can enjoy an additional 10% discount on the original price, so why not use Huaxia coins?"
"On top of the 20% discount, enjoy an additional 10% discount?" Aunt Anna's eyes lit up.
The young man said with certainty, "Yes! You already enjoy a 20% discount, and with the 10% discount, you can save a lot of money."
The railway workers smiled happily.
Aunt Anna whispered, "Vasily, I'm going to the bank tomorrow to change the Chinese currency. Do you want me to change it for you?"
"After we go to the market tomorrow and sell the Chinese goods, I will go to the bank with you to exchange for Chinese coins," Vasily said.
However, the Yongan Group workers accompanying the train ignored them and opened the compartment doors one after another. Suddenly, a lot of goods fell out. In order to increase the transportation capacity, each compartment was filled as much as possible.
A pile of vacuum-packed bacon rolled out.
Vasily quickly picked up a bag and looked carefully. It turned out to be pork, and each bag was one kilogram.
Dried pork, also known as Chinese bacon!
Vasily took a quick look around. This coming train was different from the previous one, with a richer variety. He even saw two carriages filled with liquor!
It’s good to have a full stomach, but how dare you expect to eat pork!
As usual, the employees of Yongan Group moved tables and stools to create a temporary cashier.
Without any hesitation, Vasily came to the cashier immediately and said, "I want pork and liquor. I paid for them all."
He said and took out all the money.
The young man in charge of collecting money skillfully counted the amount, then quickly wrote out a note and handed it to Vasily, "Okay, go get it."
With the note, Vasily received his own pork and liquor.
He planned to keep some for himself, um, and a bottle of liquor for himself to drink, and take the rest to the small market to sell or exchange for other things. Pork and liquor can be said to be hard currencies nowadays. Or you can give them to him.
The wife and children change into some nice clothes.
Thinking this way, when I looked up, I was surprised to see the employees of Yongan Group greeting the workers to move packages of clothes down from the carriage. The packaging of one package of clothes was torn, revealing brand new spring clothes.
Spring is coming.
Vasily felt very regretful. He should have saved some money to buy clothes. Chinese clothes were the most popular.
Aunt Anna came over with the note and whispered, "Shall we go to the small market to sell goods tonight?"
"I plan to sell to small vendors outside." Vasily said, "Although I will make less money, it can save a lot of time. After exchanging Huaxia coins early tomorrow morning, I will purchase the goods directly from Yongan Group and take them outside the station to transfer them to
Small traders.”
Aunt Anna was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "This is good, this is good, the time saved can make more money."
The duo quickly reached a consensus.
The platform was a bustle. It wasn’t until all the railway workers bought what they wanted that the actual unloading of the trucks began. Yongan Group gave the railway workers many discounts and everyone worked very hard. In less than an hour, more than 70 loads of goods were unloaded.
Empty.
After Vasily and Aunt Anna transferred the goods in their hands to the vendors outside, they returned to the waiting room to rest. Less than an hour later, another train from the Far East arrived, all with Chinese goods.
At around ten o'clock in the evening, when the station informed that no more trains would arrive, Vasily was surprised to find that nine Huaxia trains had arrived today...