"This trip abroad really paid off for you! Not only did Little Eagle Group reimburse all your expenses, they even gave you tens of thousands extra."
The tour leader joked with a smile, though his tone was full of envy as well.
Ten thousand US dollars was no small sum in 2003. He was a tour leader fluent in Russian, yet how much did he even make in a month?
Han Xiaodan pursed her lips and said nothing. Though she did not understand why her mother had said the bonus was only ten thousand US dollars.
She was not stupid, though, and did not expose the matter in public.
Her mother's eyes crinkled into slits with delight as she modestly said, "The child just got lucky. That's all."
That was more or less the end of the matter. After all, nobody who could afford to travel abroad was truly poor.
People envied them, and perhaps discussed it privately, but at least openly, nobody kept pressing the issue.
That was where Han Xiaodan's mother had been clever—she had deliberately made the bonus sound much smaller.
If she had told the truth and revealed the sum of one million, everyone's reaction would probably have been very different...
Han Xiaodan's tour group stayed in Moscow for three days before heading to Saint Petersburg, where they would stay another three days, and finally travel to Crimea.
They would then return from Crimea to Moscow, stay one night, and fly back to China.
Including travel time, the entire itinerary lasted half a month.
During their three days in Moscow, they naturally stayed at Little Eagle Hotel the whole time, practically right beneath Wang Ye's feet.
But aside from secretly arranging for Han Xiaodan to win a grand prize and "giving" her one million US