Pronovich kept coughing. He didn’t ask him to finish. A sympathetic voice in the first few rows said in a low voice.
"Don’t worry, China people are really friendly. They don’t steal or rob things and give money. It seems that they don’t threaten us. Happy life will come, but you Pronovich, I’m afraid you won’t live that day if you don’t leave. You’d better go back to your home, or some people will hear about it in China. Although they are friendly, they are still the army … even if you Bolsheviks don’t allow others to slander you like this?"
Pronovich swallowed his unfinished words and slouched out of the crowd.
Malelov’s most important thing now is to solve his Sergei debt problem. No matter whether the teacher’s speech is correct or wrong, he has walked without his street for a while and finally decided to try to meet the lieutenant officer China who followed him yesterday. I hope that the official in China will see that he has a chance to help him, although he knows that this may not be too big.
Because the officer said he wouldn’t help him, and he is also a family member of a Red Army soldier.
At noon, Manlelov came to the town hall, where the * * team was heavily guarded, and a big hunting dog with white hair and red spots stuck out its tongue on the steps to see Manlelov, the vicious dog, get up to meet the stranger, stretch his four brawny legs and yawn constantly; I crouched like a black chain, and the dogs beside the steps followed it lazily.
"See it niang ghost so many dogs! ….. "Mancolumn rove looked back step by step in fear.
There was an unpleasant smell of dog and vinegar in the dry and bright front hall. Behind a desk, a Russian wore a cropped sheepskin officer hat and sat in the back formally. Malelov knew that this man was Sergei’s dog leg, a former Russian Cossack Cavalry. When the Bolsheviks controlled it, they shrank their tails and became a man. Now they have made a fair appearance and managed the town hall.
Cossack asked gravely, "Do you want to see the respected mayor, Sir Sergei? “
"No, it’s not that I want to see a lieutenant. I met him once yesterday. I had tea at my house. Yes, I did."
"Do you have tea at home? Tea is something like that. It comes from the far east of China … Malelov, the hateful old guy, you want to see Master China … Go home … Master Sergei has sent someone to your house to receive the fishing boat … and borrow money before it arrives. "
"Fishing boats are my lifeblood. How can we live without them?" Mann column rove said in utter amazement.
"No matter how you live, it is a matter of course to pay back debts."
"I borrowed a ruble, and of course it’s also a ruble. I’m here to talk to Master China."
"Go to the Bolsheviks if you want to reason. Didn’t your son fight for the Bolsheviks?" Cossack sneered and said, "You poor people can turn over the sky. Don’t think about it. The Bolsheviks have finished tens of thousands of troops and were scattered by hundreds of people in the Central Team. Europe defeated millions of British, French and American allied enemy troops …"
"The enemy army? Is this true? "
"Of course it’s true."
Selfish and cunning Malelov thought for a moment and suddenly said, "I want to see Master China. I have something very important to tell him. If he knew it was me, he would definitely see me. We had a good talk yesterday …"
"It’s our lady Sergey’s house that the * * official talks happily … don’t think about the poor man. Go back and think about what you live on without the fishing boat."
"I really have something important to do with the Bolsheviks. This is an important matter. Master China told me to look for him as soon as there is news about this …" Manlielov’s head appeared a male teacher with glasses. "You can’t afford to bear the heavy delay …" Manlielov said.
"Bolsheviks? This is a big deal. I’ll report it right away. "
Cossack walked into another room without knocking at the door, and then a young woman came out. Manrielov made great efforts to recognize this beautiful young woman as Sergei’s youngest daughter Eliza, but she recognized him as soon as she pressed her cherry lips tighter. She straightened up unnaturally and shook her bare, shiny white elbow slightly, and asked Manrielov something. Manrielov respectfully answered the male teacher’s speech outside and said something, and then Eliza went back.
After a while, Cossack came over with a man from China, and Malelov saw that it was the one who followed him yesterday.
Wang Weigang smiled moderately and said in a broad bass, "Ah! Manrielov! What brings you here? Please come this way. It smells like dogs here. I don’t know how these rich people want to keep so many dogs … "He flashed to the side and made a gesture to ask the guests to quickly enter the living room.
Mancolumn rove learned the kind of courtesy when great people communicate very early. Sergei walked into the living room and narrowed his eyes and glasses and came towards him.
"Man column rove you this old guy is going on? Isn’t your son a Bolshevik party? I don’t believe you betrayed your son, "Sergei said. Obviously, Cossack also put words in his ear to slander him. He took away the esteem of China people.
"My son is not a Bolshevik, he was forced to go to war!" Man column rove resolution said
"Then you should write a letter and ask him to cut off the Bolsheviks and come back to town."
"I will if that communication is still open!"
After several corridors and a small garden, I came to a living room where Zhang Yiping smiled and showed a few white teeth.
"Manlie rove, you old guy, are you going to betray Bolshevik party member? Are you going to be a traitor? " Zhang Yiping said politely that this made Manlielov tremble. Is Zhang Yiping a Bolshevik undercover?
But this is impossible. How can China be a Bolshevik? And after a pause, Manlielov sat on a small coffee table and rolled his eyes around until a China soldier brought tea and gave Manlielov a cup of Manlielov.
Sergei also came in, smoking a big pipe with a curved mouth in his mouth. Zhang Yiping lived next to the sofa chair and put an old man’s bony long hands in front of him. It was very elegant. Obviously, it was only one day after he hooked up with the China people. Malelov thought that if he hadn’t betrayed the male teacher, he wouldn’t have a chance to compete with Sergei, a vampire, because he had a beautiful daughter and he had a son who fought for the Bolsheviks. This was a world of difference.
"Tell me about the Bolsheviks in the town? Did the old man hear any good news? " Zhang Yiping took a sip of tea and said.
Man column rove upturned face looked at a China master flushed face said with a sigh, "how can you hear! The people in the town are restless. The Bolsheviks took the opportunity to spread rumors against your army … "
"The Bolsheviks have failed. This is a destiny. Although they are unwilling to fail, the fact is that their army has been destroyed …" Sergei’s throat shivered and swallowed a cigarette. "I foresaw this at the beginning of the war. One hundred and fifty thousand people in Europe defeated millions of British, French and American Coalition forces, which made European and American countries dare not despise them. After returning to China, it was said that neither the materials nor the personnel were comparable to those in Europe. The Soviet and Russian troops were just a group of experienced officers who were eliminated by themselves. These ….. are doomed to the demise of Soviet politicians … "
Zhang Yiping interrupted Sergey’s verbosity. "Old Manlev, your information is very important. You know, we can’t get any real news … I hope you can continue to tell us the Bolshevik news except that teacher."
Manrielov’s chair twisted uneasily and said, "What’s the good of me, my Lord? At least you have to eliminate my debt with Sergei and allow me to repay his debt in rubles instead of my boat. Without it, our family can’t live …"
"No business is business … the ruble is worthless, and the court’s judgment cannot be changed!" Sergey’s stubborn eyes, puffing smoke, came out of his gold-rimmed glasses.