Chapter 1 - Northbound train
“Ugh…”
A long, ear-piercing train screeching woke Guo Shouyun from his sleep. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead from the nightmare. He sat up, gently lifted the curtain on the car window in front of his head, and looked out cautiously. .
At this time, the train has just passed through the quiet flowing Heilongjiang River, and looking towards the east bank of the iron bridge, you can vaguely see Chinese border guard soldiers with guns and live ammunition, patrolling the river bank.
“Brother Yun, where have we been?” A handsome young man on the opposite side was clearly awakened by the sound of Guo Shouyun getting up. He leaned up, wiped his sleepy eyes, and asked in confusion.
“Just after crossing the river, I entered Lao Maozi’s territory.” Guo Shouyun picked up his cup and took a sip of the overnight herbal tea before replying absentmindedly.
The young man on the opposite side was called Guo Shoucheng, and he was Guo Shouyun’s younger brother–brother, hey, he was his younger brother, but he was the original Guo Shouyun’s younger brother.
What is “you have me, I have you”? Guo Shouyun now understands this sentence. To put it bluntly, it means that your body has my soul, but my soul has your memory.
If this was said in the past, he Guo Shouyun would definitely have said with disdain: “The unpleasant sour gas spewed by a boring man.” But now, he doesn’t think so, because he himself is a living example.
Frankly speaking, although he has been parasitizing in this body for a month, Guo Shouyun still feels that everything is like a dream. How could it somehow end up in the body of the young man in 1991? The unbelievable thing is that this young man is also called *** Guo Shouyun, and he is also from Harbin. Of course, the most incredible thing is that he, the parasite-like Guo Shouyun, actually accepted everything from others…including that bit of pity. illiterate memory.
From the memories he received, Guo Shouyun learned that his predecessor had a younger brother and a younger sister, and the three brothers and sisters formed an inconspicuous small family in northern China. Because their parents died early, their family was poor, and none of the three brothers and sisters ever went to school. It can be said that they are three big illiterates outright. But fortunately, although his predecessor had no culture, he was very smart. This kid started running at the age of 20, that is, four years ago, with the first batch of Chinese businessmen who entered the Soviet Union, and started a year ago. Do it yourself. Everyone knows the situation in the Soviet Union these days. People there are rich. Even a small worker can earn more than 100 rubles a month. According to the international currency transaction price, one ruble can be exchanged for 2.8 US dollars. RMB, that is, one ruble is equal to nearly 30 yuan.
But the only value of this money is to buy goods. As far as the banknote itself is concerned, it is no different from a piece of waste paper – no, it may not be as good as waste paper, at least it can be wiped off.
In the Soviet Union during this period, it happened that there was a very strange phenomenon – there was a shortage of goods, and the store shelves were empty. ticket”. In a word, in a word, the common people have money but can’t buy things, and large sums of rubles have no value except in the bank.
Guo Shouyun’s predecessor had no cultural background, and of course it was impossible to know all kinds of problems in economic relations. The only thing he knew was that it was easy and profitable to do business with Lao Maozi. He only needs to speak a few simple Russian words, such as “Hala Shao” (good), “Okin Hara Shao” (very good), “Dallas Vijay” (hello), “Dawalis” (comrade) ), etc., and then you can count your fingers. Those old men are very generous, so generous to the point of being stupid. They will spend forty or fifty rubles contentedly to buy a low-quality down jacket that is not worth twenty or thirty domestic dollars; they are willing to spend thousands of rubles at a time to buy Take the whole pork you just put on the shelf; they’ll be battling each other for a box of canned fish.
As a businessman who entered the Soviet Union after the country’s border trade was opened in 1987, Guo Shouyun’s predecessor did make a lot of money in the past three or four years. What, but in this year, he felt that he was a figure at the level of the rich.
But for Guo Shouyun, who had traveled back decades later, it was nothing but bullshit. As a highly intelligent fraudster who has received a higher education and specializes in economics, the Soviet Union, which is about to disintegrate, is a treasure land full of business opportunities. Some pork, inferior canned food, down jackets, etc., then he is really a big club.
In life, what you want is to be vigorous. If you only want to earn a little money and live in peace, it is not him, Guo Shouyun. He has ambitions and grand ambitions. If his ambitions are revealed at this time, it is estimated that he can scare the train off the rails.
This time, when he came out of Harbin, Guo Shouyun brought almost all his belongings, 300,000 rubles in cash, and goods worth nearly 300,000 – cigarettes. Originally, according to the plan, he wanted to convert cash into US dollars at home, but this idea is still a luxury in the current domestic environment, and the customs cannot allow anyone to carry tens of thousands of foreign currency cash out of the country. But having said that, the Russian ruble is not included in this restriction. Guo Shouyun pondered that the Pedestrian side should also be aware of the potential crisis in the Soviet Union, and an unprecedented devaluation storm of the ruble is coming.
At this time, it was February in early spring. According to Guo Shouyun’s memory, the Soviet Union would collapse in a few months, and Russia, which followed, would carry out a comprehensive shareholding reform of state-owned enterprises in a very short period of time—— That’s when the disaster really hits. At present, the Soviet Union’s financial market has just opened up, and a large number of foreign banks have just poured in. They have not yet established a firm foothold, and the huge conspiracy aimed at destroying a country is still in the brewing stage. Therefore, Guo Shouyun is not worried about himself. Your savings will be wiped out overnight.
“Brother, what are you thinking?” Guo Shoucheng said while jumping off the bed, wearing his leather jacket.
“Oh, it’s nothing,” Guo Shouyun came back to his senses, glanced at his “brother”, smiled and said, “You can call Dongting up, it is estimated that in ten minutes, we will be in the station, hurry up. Pack things up.”
“You don’t need to scream, I’ve already woken up,” a clear voice called from Guo Shouyun’s upper bunk, and then, a teenage, slim girl jumped into the open space of the carriage with a thud, before waiting. Standing still, he pulled open the curtains and shouted, “Brother, we’re here now? Is this what Bugsger is?!”
“What Bugsg, this is Blagoveshchensk, the capital of Lao Maozi Amur Region.” Guo Shouyun scolded with a smile.
“What is this Sknask, how can someone remember such a long name,” Guo Dongting shook the long braided hair behind her head, and her small head leaned in front of the car window to look around, and then she said with a small mouth, ” It doesn’t look very good, it’s stingy, it’s not as good as Harbin.”
“Hehe, that’s right, it’s not as good as Harbin,” Guo Shouyun motioned for his sister to sit on the opposite sleeper, and then smiled, “But here, we can make money that we couldn’t make in Harbin.
“Money, money, money, the big brother is full of money now,” Guo Dongting is only 18 years old this year, because she was under the care of her two older brothers since she was a child, so she is not very sensible, “I see, you It’s about to get into the eyes of money and can’t get out.”
“Xiao Ting, don’t talk nonsense!” As the second child in the family, Guo Shoucheng was only twenty years old, but he was much more mature. He knew that if it wasn’t for the busy work of the elder brother in the past two years, the three brothers and sisters would have been living on the streets long ago and disappeared. It is precisely because of this that he has always admired Guo Shouyun from the bottom of his heart. In his opinion, his eldest brother is a god, a **** belonging to their three siblings.