No matter how lively the drama is, it will slowly fade away after watching it for three days, and the people of Sijiu City were excited for more than half a month, and then slowly returned to a peaceful life, replaced by the last few batches of grain transported by boat this year, as well as the winter cotton clothes that they worried about after the weather gradually became colder.

Day after day, year after year, life is always uneventful, the war thousands of miles away and the remnants of the Celestial Empire who can't survive, although pitiful, there is only pitiful left.

As soon as the Bailu solar term passes, the people of Sijiu City have to focus on spending the winter, and every household has to find a way to prepare some money, because it is cold every day, and the coal money, winter vegetable money, and New Year's money after the winter must be prepared in advance.

It is said that the New Year is not good, in fact, it is only for people who do not know how to operate, the real budget-conscious people are not the summer cotton clothes, the winter to make a single jacket, eat not poor to wear not poor, not to calculate the poverty, the ancestors left a wise saying, that is absolutely not to make people suffer.

Hu Lao Erhu Ye, who lives in ten alleys near Beixinqiao, is obviously a representative of shrewdness and calculation, three years ago, he was still a Jingshi broken household, and his wife and children quarreled with him every day Hutong skewers, and in just three years, he became steep and rich.

Hu Lao Er first gritted his teeth and ruthlessly entered the Russian cathedral as a parishioner who poked the backbone of everyone, and then it took less than half a year to find an errand for a Russian embassy handyman through the church.

To say that this foreign legation also has to hire a large number of locals, after all, vegetables, grain, and all kinds of daily groceries have to be purchased locally in Sijiu City, and with the help of locals, at least it will not suffer a big loss.

Hu Lao Er is a procurement handyman in the Russian Legation, and his daily work is to buy things for the Russian masters in the four or nine cities.

Although the Russian old Maozi has a rough personality, he is not a fool, and sometimes he will send people to investigate whether these Chinese procurement has hacked their money, like Hu Laoer's previous president, who was greedy for the Russians' silver, was beaten and thrown on the street.

Hu Lao Er learned the lessons of his previous office, chose to work honestly, and never stretched out his hand when he shouldn't take it, but the three secret inspections of the embassy did not find that he had a problem, which won the trust of the Russians and has been working for more than three years.

Today, Hu Lao Er left the Russian Embassy in advance after finishing a business, went to the Nancheng Coal Yard to book a batch of good winter coal, and went around to the overpass to take a bath and watch a trick for a while.

It wasn't until the evening that he staggered towards home with half a catty of pig's head meat, but when he walked through the East Fourth Archway when it was just getting dark, two black shadows suddenly rushed out of the small alley next to him, covered Hu Laoer's mouth and dragged him in.

In the dark alley, he turned around and entered a dilapidated house, and when Hu Laoer's eyes were stung by the oil light, he sighed and said with palpitations, "You scared me to death, I thought I had encountered a robbery......

"Why haven't you sent a telegram for three days? Now we suspect that you have been bought by the Russians, and this is the last chance to explain to you......" said the faceless man in the shadow of the oil lamp in a low voice.

"Don't ...... Don't!" Hu Lao Er was sweating like a pulp, "It's really been three days that there has been no movement in the telegraph room, if I lie to you, I'm your grandson......"

None of the big men in the shadows paid attention to Hu Laoer's jokes, and the atmosphere became more and more gloomy, until finally Hu Laoer said with a crying voice: "Don't be like this, the Russians really didn't use the telegraph, you all know the situation of my ancestors' eight generations, do I dare to lie to you?"

"Besides, aren't there no news from Sister-in-law Liu in the back kitchen and Brother Zhang who is on duty at night? At twelve hours a day, we really kept an eye on the telegraph room, and there was no mistake at all......

It may be that Hu Laoer's nervous appearance does not look like a fake, and the atmosphere in the room has obviously eased a lot, and the leading man asked in a low voice, "Do you think the Russians are starting to suspect you?

Hu Lao Er tilted his head and thought for a long time, "No, it shouldn't be suspicious of us, in the past three days, I have also secretly observed Ulan Geli and those who are officials, it is indeed not as nervous as in the past, although the expression is still very angry, but it is much more relaxed than before, and even called a table of Erxian Ju yesterday......"

"Thirty taels of noodles, that delicious food is ...... to look at."

"To the point, don't talk useless!" the man scolded.

"Yes, yes, that's the point...... I think it's been quiet these days, it's not that the Russians have any conspiracy, as if this group of people is waiting for some news...... That's right, I'm waiting for news, the telegraph room is basically on duty all day, and the supply of coffee has increased significantly in the past few days......"

The person whispered a few words, and then threw down a roll of silver coins wrapped in red paper, "Take it and give the three of you a cent, this is overtime pay, you must keep an eye on it, and you can't make the slightest mistake...... Especially you, don't make a mistake by drinking less lately!"

"Huh...... Don't worry, I'm the best at doing this job! A few masters have the opportunity to say a word to me in front of the prime minister, if the prime minister can reward me with a word, I will kowtow to you!"

"Don't play poor, hurry home!" Several people drove Hu Lao Er out of the yard, and then Xiao Hexin's figure flashed in the corner.

"It doesn't seem to be a renegade, the life of this Hu Lao Erjiu clan is in our hands, he doesn't have that much courage...... He's right, the Russians are just waiting for news, and if you guess correctly, it's the instructions of the Russian Tsar!"

"That's right! For such a long time, Ulangori and they have done everything they can, and the Moscow side always has to discuss and analyze the information before issuing a new order, maybe now is the waiting period......

"Let the brothers work harder, these days the overtime pay will be tripled on duty, and the most important information must not be missed!"

The specific location of the Russian embassy is at the westernmost end of Dongjiaomin Lane, next to the Tai Hospital and Qin Tianjian, and the US Embassy is across the street to the south.

The location here is very good, only four or five hundred meters to the west is Qipan Street, Zhengyang Gate and Daqing Gate, and further north is Tiananmen Square in the Forbidden Imperial City.

No one could have imagined that in the Qintianjian Prison, which is separated from the Russian embassy by the wall, in the small kitchen where the Qintianjian officials prepare tea and meals in the miscellaneous room of the East Cross Courtyard, a storage room has long been transformed by the CIA into a secret room for monitoring Russians.

The wires hidden in the walls were secretly hung with the telegraph wires of the Russian mansion, and all the telegrams sent and received by the Russians could be copied here at the same time.

A copper pipe was buried in the ground, leading from the secret chamber of the Qin Heavenly Prison to the Russian legation's chamber, hidden under a clay jar filled with flour.

At noon, Sister-in-law Liu and Hu Lao Er in the small kitchen were chatting, and the food they made for the legation today was sweet and sour pork ribs, steamed pork, Sixi meatballs, and salt-and-pepper chicken...... Anyway, the table is full of meat, and this group of old hairy people are all carnivores.

Sister-in-law Liu was tired and sweaty, and she was wiping it with a towel, when suddenly Hu Laoer's eyes lit up, and she kicked her with her heel, and whispered, "There is movement in the telegraph room......!

Sure enough, in the crack of the window, a Russian figure suddenly appeared in a hurry, and there was a noisy noise in Russian. Sister-in-law Liu had a lot of strength to pry open the noodle jar with one hand, and then kicked the bluestone slab on the ground with her heel.

Knock knock knock...... The dull sound was transmitted along the copper pipe under the stone slab to the secret room of Qin Tianjian, and the intelligence officer who was monitoring it suddenly became excited.