A house

I went through the harsh week, and celebrated the first salary with my roommate, inviting him to hotpot. On the weekend, I went to a school classmate, who was living not far from my apartment. By the way, she was a fascinating girl, and I missed her, I missed her. At the end of the visit(which was the last time we met), she introduced, that her neighbor speaks Russian too, and maybe we would like to know each other. We knocked on the door but were not answered. So I left him my name card.

In the evening, he called me, his name is Shaolin, he and his wife, Tina, just graduated from a university in Russia, looking for a job in Shanghai. I told them, that maybe it would be perspective working as a tour guide because one of my classmates worked as a guide for only 3 months, and she bought a flat in Shanghai, while I was struggling in life.

2 months later, Shaolin called me and told me that he worked as a guide, but now he got a job in a ship-construction institute, which was able to resolve his Hukou problem in Shanghai, but provided him only about 5000 Yuan per month. There he worked for a month or two and called me again: “Shifeng, I resigned from the institute because the low income was not enough for my family expenditures. What do you say?” I advised him to work as an interpreter of Russian-Chinese.

Half a year later, one day, Shaolin called me again: “Shifeng, if you have time, I invite you to pay a visit to us in Songjiang, we bought a house there.” Wow, he bought a HOUSE in shanghai.

One day, I visited his house, a 2-storied house, worth a million dollars at least. “Hey dude, if it is not a secret, how did you make that money?”, I was more than curious. He answered, “Thank you, my friend, I worked as an interpreter, as you told me, and fortunately, I caught a big fish from Kazakhstan, who placed big orders, and this house is just my commission.”

Where would be my house???

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