Helper 2

 All coincidences of names and situations are just my invention.  However... Oh, okay, let's assume that this is all fiction!

 "Twenty T-shirts in packages, four bags - two gray, two black, a bag of towels, two black tablecloths, brown suede sneakers.
 All this in one bag.
 In the second bag: three pairs of boots - two for children, one for adults, a ski jacket, a sweatshirt.  Yes, in addition to my personal bag weighing three kilograms.  Total: 31 kilograms.  I have to carry 31 kilograms across the border tomorrow!  I hope my back can handle it?!"

 I repeated this list all evening, afraid to forget, because tomorrow I had to transport all this goods across the border.  Because this time, I went to Suifenhe City as a helper.  A helper is a man or woman who, due to financial difficulties or something else, agrees to do hard work, carry a lot of weight, that is, heavy bags across the border.  But I digress.  So, the first drop with bags will take place at the bus station in the city of Suifenhe; the bags will need to be loaded onto the bus.  The second throw is to pull the bags out of the bus at the Chinese border, drag them across the border, and load them back onto the bus.  Remember?  I'm carrying 31 kilograms.  The leader of the group monitors every tourist who is dragging bags, and swears very much when they do not carry the bags, but try to drag them through the snow.
 And, the culmination of today's action, crossing the Russian border!  The manager bites her lips, she is afraid that customs will suddenly stop one of the helpers, and he will forget and will not be able to list everything that is in the bags.

 Hello!  I am with you, writer Iren Mut.  Here is a sketch for the new story "Pomogaika 2".  Will you read?

 So, we are no longer in China, but not yet in Russia.  There is a group of helpers in front of us, and there are also tourists and helpers behind us.  Noise, screams, showdown.  The man whose group is passing behind us screams, rages, and uses obscenities.  Next to him is either his family, or a group of helpers, I still don’t understand, it’s only clear that no one is going to object to the noisy man.  The man screams so loudly and unpleasantly that tourists from other groups begin to turn around.  His scream turns into a squeal, probably the way a boar screams when it catches up with its prey.  Those next to him just lower their heads and remain silent.  Strange relationship!