Environmental police. Curtains open or fine

Chapter 1
Vladivostok. 20027. New Year's Eve
Igor and Anastasia's apartment. Evening
- Oh my God! Igor, do you hear, he sneezed again!
- Well, wait! Why are you panicking again? Maybe it's just the flu or a cold!
- Close the curtains! I won't wait for anything! Look, there is a neighbor from the house opposite looking through binoculars! It's good that it's not in our direction!
- Nastya, you know what a fine is issued to those who close the curtains at night!
- Do not you understand? Better fine than environmental control! If they take our boy away, we won't see him again.
- Nastya, stop panicking! Well, the child sneezed once, so what? Maybe something got in his nose!
"It's easy for you to talk!" Your sister wasn't taken away in the middle of the night by the environmental police!
“Well, the police, too!”
- You don't believe me?
"Why didn't you tell me about this before?"
“Would you tell if something like this happened in your family?”
- Well, okay, calm down! So you didn't answer me, why did the police come immediately?
- Because when representatives of environmental control arrived, along with doctors, dad did not let them into the apartment.
"Sorry, I didn't know anything. And besides, nothing happened to your sister. Alive, healthy! Just arrived yesterday!
“You say nothing happened?” A…
- Well, calm down, why are you crying?
They sterilized her! Do you understand this? She was then 14 years old. They took her to the Thousand-Cell Hospital, and... Can you imagine, the girl is 14 years old, and her...
- So that's why she and Andrei don't have children!
- Can you imagine, they were taken away only on suspicion of an allergy? Oh, pick up the phone, they're calling!
- Well, that's it, I knew it!
— Igor, what did they tell you?
- Fine 5000! Someone has already called! They warned that every minute with the curtains closed, from the moment of the call, would be punishable by a fine of 100 rubles. If after 15 minutes we do not open the curtains, the fine per minute will be doubled to two hundred rubles.
- Well, open the curtains already, it seems that he has stopped sneezing.
- And turn off the light?
“What, you want to get a call for another five thousand fine?” Now it's only nine o'clock in the evening, let's hold on for another hour somehow!
“We won’t hold out, look how much traffic has accumulated near our house!”
- Another traffic jam! Igor, I can't take it anymore!
- Well, calm down! I'm going to call the help desk and ask how long...
- Igor, have you already forgotten about the fine?
- Well, you have to do something, you yourself ... Nastya, come here, to the window! Look, there is an old car, where is our telephone? Now I'll call! What kind of police to call, simple or ecological?
Igor, stop!
- So what? Why can't I snitch on anyone when others do it easily!?
Someone called and told us that we closed the curtains! And anyway, why does he drive an old car? After all, because of people like him, the environmental background is deteriorating!
“Shut up now and hang up.
- No, I do not understand you! Then you grab your head, and when I try to do something ...
— Igor, we have talked about this a million times! The problem is not old or new cars, the problem is that we are obliged, everyone, you know, everyone, to have cars! Maybe the person has no money for a new car?! You know that if someone finds out that a person cannot get a new car, he will simply be sent out of town in twenty-four hours!
- Well, that's right, let him live outside the city, work in the fresh air!
- And you try to put yourself in his place! Try to drop everything and...
- Nastya, but we have a new car, we just bought it. And in general, our governor, when he spoke on TV yesterday ...
- Igor, have you forgotten who gave us money for the car, and what did I have to do for this?
Well, we all make sacrifices...
- How dare you! It's me, not you...
- Nastya, well, forgive me, don’t cry, the neighbors will hear, they will call the police ...
"That's all you care about!" Don't you feel that this is no longer possible ...
There is a police force for every occasion! There are racial, medical, environmental, criminal, even children's police, and this is just the beginning of the list!
- Nastya, stop it! Our governor...
- Well, what are you talking about the governor! And what about the governor? Our country has a president, and he is probably a good person and takes care of those who live in Moscow and near Moscow, but in our country ...
- Nastya, stop it!
- No, let me finish! You know very well that the president is far away, and Mr. Li Fang, here he is, two steps away from here. There is his house. And over there is his son's house. This is his daughter's house. And in the Semyonovskaya area, he has a chic mansion, to which he moved all his relatives from China. And although he is not the president and does not hold any official position in the city at all ...
- Nastya, listen! Can't you hear how the whole house, all fifteen floors are listening to you! Notice how quiet everyone is!
- Well, let them hear! We are the only city in Russia where people are forced to buy cars produced by Mr. Li Fang's corporation. Everyone is silent, as if nothing is happening! Igor, look, there was a tree growing here that mom and dad planted when I was born,and here is the tree when Olya, my sister, was born. Where are these trees? Where? You see what they have built in this place! Where are you going?
- Nastya, don't worry! But, in my opinion, Misha got worse. His eyes were swollen and around his throat ...
- I'm sorry, Igor, I'm something ... I shouldn't have behaved like that, you're not to blame for anything.
Our poor boy! What to do?
- Maybe a doctor?
- No, let's try to fight again! If that doesn't help, then...
- But as?
- You go undress him as if we are going to bathe him, and I will prepare medicine in a pot for porridge. I hope they haven’t come up with such binoculars yet to look at what’s cooking in a saucepan!
“But today is not his bathing day!”
- Igor, don't talk nonsense! Say thank you that the bathroom has such a small window and there is a door. Go undress him, and don't try to make a concerned face. Show carelessness!
You're just getting the baby ready for the bath. Hey, you're just getting the baby ready for the bath!
We did not want such a future, but no one asked us. Greenpeace, greens, ecology, all this touched us very little. Yes, we agreed that it was impossible to cut down Christmas trees, you shouldn’t throw garbage at your feet, you shouldn’t make fires in the forest and leave without putting them out, and that was the end of the entire educational program in the field of ecology. We had our own problems, far from the struggle for the environment. We did not want such a future, but it has come. Once upon a time there was a taiga on the site of our city. Then a ship arrived, and it was decided to establish the port city of Vladivostok here. Russian sailors rightly decided that whoever builds a city here will rule the east.

The Chinese now ruled the East. It seemed incredible that some ten years ago the Chinese were mere trifles rolling under the feet of a person with fair skin. There were especially many Chinese in the markets. Cheap and low-grade goods flooded the whole of Russia, and Vladivostok especially got it. Now…
Many years ago there was a joke, very short and not funny at all. The joke sounded like this: "Jewish janitor." So, the combination “Chinese janitor”, “Chinese builder”, “Chinese merchant” does not sound funny now.
  Now only white-skinned people built, traded and cleaned in our city, while the Chinese had only one job left - to command. The Chinese have become masters, our masters. And in many ways we helped them in this - white people, with our pettiness, envy, betrayal and greed. However, the story of our big troubles and small joys is ahead. The only thing I can add to the above is that the Chinese are kinder to us than we once were to them. They are kinder to us than we are to each other. They simply enrich themselves at our expense, and we ourselves destroy each other. I hate explanations, but I have to explain everything.
Igor and Mishutka are sleeping. I'm writing a family report. Tomorrow I will have to drop it into a special mailbox on my way to work at six in the morning. I really want to sleep, but if I don’t write a report now, then punishment will follow tomorrow. But since I sat down at the computer and pretended to be busy writing a report, no one would see that I was engaged in useless activity. I write for myself. Of course, having added to the point, I will immediately destroy what was written. But the mere thought that I wrote something unauthorized will warm me up the whole next day. Tomorrow evening, Igor will write a report, and the day after tomorrow ... Okay, let's leave the anticipation for later! Until the day after tomorrow we still have to live!
A few days later
- Igor, who was with us today?
- Yes, I won't answer your question. I have the right not to answer questions I don't want to answer!
“Igor, of course, you don’t have to answer, but I can see the injection mark on Mishutka’s neck. This is my child just like yours. And I forbid him to give injections!
- Don't scream like that! Mrs. O-sy came. As you know, she has the right to check the health of the child for three months. It was a test shot. You know that only perfectly healthy children are accepted for one-day adoptions.
“I am against adoption, you know that.
“I know, and that’s why I didn’t want to tell you about Mrs. O-sy and the test injection. Well, what will be lost, whether from you or from our boy, if one day a week he is in the house of Mrs. O-sa?
- Well, why don't they adopt their own, Chinese children?
“Well, who would agree to give a Chinese child up for adoption?!
- Well, yes, they are gentlemen, and we ...
- Well, Nastya, calm down, sit down, eat. Are you tired at work? There are good sides to this whole adoption story. Firstly, the child that Mrs. O-sy adopts will no longer be taken away for sterilization, even if he has the most extreme form of allergy. He will be treated, and treated with medicines that are not available to us now. You know we can't get the medicines they prepare according to their ancient Chinese recipes for any amount of money and...
- That's it, stop spilling like a nightingale, everything is clear with this question. And what other benefits did Mrs. O-sy promise you in exchange for our child?
- Nastya, why are you exaggerating so much, we don’twe give birth to Mishutka, it's just ...
- In short, Igor, I asked a question and I'm waiting for an answer!
Well, if you insist! First, education. After all, you understand that the unemployed husband and third day wife of Mr. Lin has no chance to send his son to a prestigious educational institution, and there is no chance to a non-prestigious one either. Secondly, she promised to make sure that we move to an area where the houses have tinted windows. You see, it's almost the same as having curtains on the windows!
And most importantly, she said that if we allow her to take our boy not once a week, but twice, she will work so that we are allowed to have a second child.
“Wow, how far have you come! So you've made an appointment for two days already? Well, what if we sign the treaty and we don't have any more children?
- They will, Nastya, they will!
- Why are you so sure? You know that although I am a day wife, I am obliged to fulfill marital obligations. And the consequences of these marital obligations have already been destroyed three times.
- Well, Nastya, you could not tell me about it. It's your job.
This is my life and my health!
- Well, still reproach me for the fact that I am sitting without a job. You know that I entered and studied at the most prestigious educational institution in Vladivostok, the Trade Academy. And he graduated, by the way, with honors! Who could have known that the time would come when all the jobs that are related to business, the economy, money, all these places will be occupied by the Chinese, and we, and I ...
- Well, you still cry! The same lady O-sy offered you the position of a butler, or whatever it is they say in Chinese. And at the same time he would look after our boy, if it comes to that.
— How are you? Ready for everything! Even in the butlers me ... Yes, you know that I, with my education ... Already you don’t feel sorry for Misha ...
- Well, that's it, the mill went to grind. The fountain of eloquence overflows! Now you will prove all evening how exceptional you are, and I want to send you, such an exceptional one, to work, and to whom? To the Chinese! To the butlers! The fact that I work as a day wife all seven days a week for a Chinese is nothing, it's normal! Well, if you, such a talented person, open the door to guests two days a week, or whatever the butlers of Mrs. O-sa do there, this is a nightmare, arbitrariness, violence against a person!
Igor went into another room and lay down next to Misha, while Anastasia sat and thought, and her thoughts were not at all rosy.
“God bless him! Let Igor stay at home if he likes it. It will be healthier! Still, it is dangerous to open the door to the street all the time. Of course, this is just a moment. Each passenger, before getting out of the car, always puts forward a corrugated tunnel that connects the car and the entrance to the house, but still, not all tunnels are of sufficient quality. And after all, if Igor agrees to work as a butler, he will have to meet not only gentlemen who have money for ecological tunnels, but also various messengers, merchants and other small people who do not have money for such tunnels and who, having left cars running to the entrance to the house are not protected by anything. My poor Igor will be forced to stand and wait for them, too, absolutely without any protection. No, it's better to stay at home. Mr. Lin pays me enough. If there is not enough money, I will agree to stay at Mr. Lin's house once or twice a week as a night wife. Lord, what a blessing that today I am writing a report and I can relax. It's good that after a year of all sorts of going around the authorities, we were allowed to have a computer. This is certainly the merit of Mr. Lin. Very much one of the eco-police found fault, all the dossier on my father poked me in the nose! And another compatriot is called!
But, thank God, we now have a computer. And then try, write a report of twenty-five sheets by hand! And less than twenty-five is impossible! Five sheets of a report about me, five sheets of a report about Igor, another five sheets of a report about Misha, and the remaining ten sheets about what was done well by our whole family to protect the eco-balance. It's good that there are only three of us in the family. The more family members, the more pages of the report. And at least five pages for each family member. More is possible, less is not.
So what am I talking about? And, about how happy I am that I have the opportunity to write something else besides reports. As long as I have the opportunity, I will live. I have had five girlfriends in my entire life. Two remained from school, three lived nearby in the house! Four of them committed suicide, the fifth was on the brink! It's good that I managed to persuade Mr. Lin to arrange her seventh night wife with Mr. Lin's friend! And how many of my friends just went crazy!
Well, I see, I see how the binoculars shine! The ubiquitous neighbor from the house across the street is worried that I’ve been sitting too long at the computer today.”
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