Chapter 40: We Are All Losers (1)

In the early morning, the sun shines on the quiet Neva River...

From time to time, airplanes would lightly streak across the azure sky in white arcs. They were Russian Air Force aircraft, carrying pilots in training...

At this moment, the early spring wind blew coldly and harshly on Alexander Moros's ivory-white face. He stood by the river with a frown on his face, smoking a cigarette in meditation.

The Neva River is the mother river of St. Petersburg... It runs north and south across the city, providing this northern Russian city with an abundant water supply. Its shimmering surface is vast, and from a distance, it lacks the gentleness of southern Chinese rivers, but rather possesses a certain masculine ruggedness...

The low trees on both sides of the river were just beginning to sprout green buds. The harshness of winter seemed to have lingered on the brown bark, but the verdant green grass already showed the bright spring scenery of Saint Pump Castle...

He is an ordinary-looking fellow:

White skin, golden curly hair.

He has deep eye sockets, but his eyes are not as big as those of ordinary Russians. His eyes are long and narrow.

The nose is very high, the nose bridge is thin and straight, and the nose tip is very pointed, as if it was trimmed by a knife.

He had a short neck, a prominent Adam's apple in the middle, and a wisp of fine beard growing around his lips.

The guy was not tall, about 1.7 meters. Among the tall and strong Russians, he was definitely short...

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that this guy is a mixed-race person.

Moros is indeed a Chinese-Russian hybrid.

His father is a Chinese businessman...

In the late 1980s, his father started doing foreign trade on the Sino-Russian border, bringing Chinese down jackets and other goods that were in high demand in Russia across the border and exchanging them with Russians.

The Russians at that time were still very stupid——

A down jacket can be exchanged for a high-end sheepskin coat with pure texture and fine workmanship;

A novel drinking cup can be exchanged for 10 sets of nesting dolls;

A bag of rice can be exchanged for several hand-woven pure wool scarves...

Don't underestimate this kind of exchange of goods. It was through these tricks that Moros's father made a small fortune.

The shrewd Moros's father was originally an uneasy worker in a medium-sized enterprise in Huacheng.

In those days, having a stable salary was considered a good thing. But he was not satisfied with the repetitive nine-to-five routine.

So, he followed a few friends to the Sino-Russian border to look for business opportunities...

At that time, trade between the two countries was not yet developed, and there were only some simple commodity exchanges between the common people:

I have a down jacket that's about 80% new. I'd like to trade it for your leather jacket...

You have wolf oil, and I have Chinese herbal medicine. As long as both sides think it's worthwhile, we can exchange them...

Don't underestimate this simple commodity exchange! Moros's father made a fortune by simply exchanging Chinese goods across the border with the Russians.

After that, he became rich and opened a shop on the border. He found a group of guys to help him trade with the Russians...

Later, Moros's father met a beautiful young Russian girl and was attracted to her from then on.

This beautiful girl, Katyusha, is from St. Petersburg, Russia. After graduating from high school, she followed her father to her grandfather's home to do border business.

Katyusha is as tall as Moros's father.

With her perky butt and big breasts, wherever she stands, she is a beautiful sight...

The beauty of Russian girls is similar but different——

Big eyes and deep eye sockets.

A pointed nose, a delicate mouth, golden hair draped over her shoulders, a graceful figure, as beautiful as she could be, as eye-catching as she could be...

Seeing this beautiful girl, Moros's father couldn't move his eyes. He had seen many beautiful girls, but they all pale in comparison to Katyusha!

He launched a crazy pursuit of her——

Sell ​​her many wholesale goods at the best prices.

Tell Katyusha the latest business information as soon as possible...

Katyusha also had a crush on this Chinese man. She liked his shrewdness and diligence, his agility and honesty. So, she often sold goods from her father's shop to Moros at the best prices... Their relationship, which began as a harmonious business relationship, developed into a close love affair...

Katyusha's father and grandfather were both businessmen, and thanks to their business acumen, her family was well off. The businessman from St. Petersburg was quite open-minded: since his daughter liked the Chinese father, Moros, he approved of her choice... The two young people were soon married in Russia.

Katyusha's father also brought Moros's father into his business partnership, which allowed him to meet many Russian businessmen. This allowed Moros's father to take advantage of the right time, place and people, and to develop the border goods exchange business to its full potential, making a lot of money.

According to relevant Russian regulations, foreigners who live or work in Russia for a long time can apply for a green card as long as they are married or related to a Russian and own a house of a certain size.

After marrying Katyusha, they bought a cheap apartment near the border, so Moros's father applied for a green card. It was approved quickly!

...This matter did not receive the blessing of Moros's grandparents...

Moros's grandparents were both veteran workers in Huacheng. In order to allow Moros's father to work in the factory, his grandfather retired due to illness, ensuring his son could take his place and get a job.

Unexpectedly, this son was not up to the task and quit his job at the factory because he felt the salary was too low and the management was too strict...

Moreover, the son married a foreign woman without consulting his parents...they were very angry.

They felt that they had made such a great sacrifice for their son, but he did not appreciate it, which really made them sad. These things that could not be brought to the surface made them feel very embarrassed in front of relatives and friends...

This incident caused a rift in their father-son relationship.

So, ever since Moros's father ran away from home and went to the Sino-Russian border to do business and married a wife there, he never returned home...

His wife is Russian, Moros's father. After getting a Russian green card, he simply didn't return to his hometown... After the couple got married, they continued to do border business. Later, as more people did it, the border business became more and more difficult... And with Moros, they chose to return to the historic city of St. Pumpburg and settle down.

Russia offers excellent housing benefits. They were allocated a large apartment of over 100 square meters in St. Petersburg. After Moros was born, his mother quit her job to focus on raising the child. Moros's father then opened a store in the city, specializing in selling in-demand goods from China...