和商人们做了很多交流后，他们告诉我，要去找一个年纪更大、在俄罗斯生活的日子更久，并且损失不了什么的人。

After extensive conversations with merchants I was told to look for someone older, someone who had lived in Russia longer and who had less to lose.

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他们做了好多年的朋友，警卫问他说，“查理，我看见你每天晚上从这里出去，有二十年了，我知道你一直在偷东西，现在你也退休了，告诉我吧，你到底偷了什么，我快被这件事搞疯了。”

There was a man who had worked at a factory for twenty years. Every night when he left the plant, he would push a wheelbarrow full of straw to the guard at the gate.

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