Spring Breeze 1991

Almaty is two hours later than the capital, that is to say, after arriving in Almaty after more than five hours of flight, it was after noon local time. Come out and go for a walk.

Yao Yuan was about to go out to meet He Xueli and others, so he said with a smile, "Call Director Jiang and the old comrades. I happen to have a friend who is doing business here. Let him be my guide."

"Do you have friends here?" Chen Hai was very surprised.

Yao Yuan said nonchalantly, "There are many people in our hometown who are engaged in foreign trade, but they are actually bad guys."

"So that's how it is. That's great. I'm worried about not being familiar with the place. It's great to have a guide. I'll tell Director Jiang and the others." Chen Hai said excitedly, without any sense of fatigue from a long journey.

Yao Yuan took out a small bag from his backpack, and put tens of thousands of cash in it, the small bag bulged up, and he couldn't put anything else in it if he put another pack of cigarettes in it.

He couldn't help shaking his head and smiling wryly. He had been the shopkeeper for too long, including when he was working in Xinfeng County. He was always with Lin Xiaohu or Xiao Yun by his side. He didn't need to worry about these chores. Now he suddenly has to do it himself, which is strange. A sense of unreliability, always feeling that there is something missing.

After a while, Chen Hai came back, and the three old comrades of Lao Jiang followed enthusiastically. Lao Jiang even had a seagull camera hanging around his neck. They all imitated foreigners and wore peaked caps, but Chinese tunic , carrying a satchel, which looks nondescript.

It's easy to have a bag.

Yao Yuan immediately took out the money and said with a smile, "Director Jiang, you guys came at the right time, so share the money. My bag is too small to hold too many things."

As he said that, he took out all the money. They were all 1 yuan a bundle of Huaxia coins. money."

He picked up his 1 yuan and put it into a small bag, and then put cigarettes, lighters and a satellite phone in it.

The main thing is to put the satellite phone. If he carries all the money, the satellite phone will be in his hand, which is very inconvenient and too public.

He didn't have to worry about safety, because when he checked in, he saw Lin Xiaohu and Xiao Yun drinking in the lounge in the lobby. They must have moved in, and the Chen Chao security team from the concierge must be around.

As long as Yao Yuan goes out, the guard unit will quietly follow up and protect him secretly, and there will be more of those hairy guards in the overseas branch.

Yao Yuan packed up and raised his head to greet everyone to go out, only to find that they were all looking at him in astonishment, and asked strangely, "Director Jiang, what are you doing looking at me like that?"

Pointing to the money on the table, Chen Hai stammered, "Old Yao, you, you, you, where did you get your money? Where did you get so much money?"

Yao Yuan suddenly came back to his senses.

Tens of thousands of dollars are just pocket money in his eyes. In the past, Lin Xiaohu and the others carried some cash with them. When they went out for a long time, there would usually be a person carrying a backpack, which was filled with cash, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions. Because the payment method in this era is the original cash transaction, and he often spends a lot of money, just for the food and accommodation expenses of the entourage.

Over time, he gradually lost his proper concept of tens of thousands of dollars, but this is not the case at work. He can quickly put himself in the specific situation to measure, such as when he knew that Li Jingming had paid a fine of nearly [-] yuan for superbirth. At that time, he was very shocked, because he knew that this was a huge fine that most ordinary people could not afford, and it was a fine that could wipe out a household of ten thousand yuan.

Yao Yuan came to his senses and knew that Chen Hai had misunderstood.

Where did you get so much money as a grassroots official-level cadre? Except for public funds, where did you get so much money? It is absolutely impossible for your unit to approve you so much money. This is 5 yuan. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment!

Chen Hai was so shocked that he stuttered. Just when he thought Yao Yuan was a corrupt person, Yao Yuan quickly explained, "Everyone, everybody, where are you going? If it was the public money, I would not give it to you Ah, isn't it."

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Yao Yuan began to lie again, "To be honest, my family is in business, and I made some money by taking advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up. I have a deposit of 80 yuan, so I am very free in the economy. .Really, if you don’t believe me, you can call our county and ask.”

Then he took out the satellite phone and said, "This is a satellite phone, and you can call back to China directly. Of course, the premise is that the other party also has a satellite phone or a communication terminal under the same network that can receive satellite signals."

Except for Chen Hai, the three veteran cadres couldn't understand what he said.

Chen Hai subconsciously said, "Satellite phone? I heard it's very expensive."

"Well, it's 10 yuan, and it costs one or two dollars for one minute of calls." Yao Yuan said.

The 10 yuan includes network access and other fees, and the value of the terminal is not so much. The call fee depends on which operator is used.

Chen Hai and the others were dumbfounded. It cost 10 yuan to buy a phone. It is true that the family has money. Think about it carefully. If he is a corrupt element, of course he will not be so high-profile. —Looking for shit?

"Everyone, take the money with you and go. You still have to ask the team leader for leave. There's not much time." Yao Yuan smiled and handed the money to them one by one, "Don't think about the money, use it first, let's do it when we return to China .”

When he said this, everyone stopped being hypocritical, and some thought that they should pay him back as much as they spent, not necessarily spending everything, and it was much easier to think about it this way.

A group of people went to the head of the business inspection team and deputy general manager of the petrochemical company Liu Zhiyuan to ask for leave, and they had to report to the deputy head of the foreign ministry for approval.In fact, Liu Zhiyuan didn't count on the discipline, it had to be approved by the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Kazakhstan is neither the United States nor Europe. It used to be a brother country in the same camp, so everyone thought it would be okay to ask for a half-day leave to go around. Comrade Jiang was more confident. He was a college student who had returned from the Soviet Union and volunteered to ask for leave.

But it never occurred to me that not only the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs disagreed, but even Liu Zhiyuan also disagreed.Comrade Lao Jiang's face was very ugly on the spot, this is not giving him face!

It happened that Zhan Sheng came over at this time. After learning about the situation, he said, "Head Liu, deputy head, Director Jiang is very familiar with the former Soviet Union countries, and this Yao Yuan also understands Russian, so it's no big problem to let them go out for a walk. .”

Lao Jiang and the others suddenly had a different impression of Zhan Shengcai, and Yao Yuan smiled without saying a word.

Liu Zhiyuan hesitated, looked at the deputy head, and said, "Wang Chu, why don't you let everyone go out?"

The deputy head, Wang Chu, thought for a while and said, "Okay, then don't go far away, come back on time to cancel your leave, and you must abide by the foreign affairs discipline outside."

"Don't worry Wang Chu, I'll take them out." Zhan Sheng laughed.

Lao Jiang and the others realized in an instant that this kid also wanted to go out for a walk, thinking that he was so kind!