General Tang Zhangwei and his guards all took weapons and began to fight wolves.

The wolves were terrifying, and they kept coming, and even the best soldiers and officers could not kill them easily.

What's even more terrifying is that there are more and more of these wolves, and those polar bears are also rushing over, and they are instinctively attracted to blood.

Tang Zhangwei said: "Brothers, we are going to fight this group of beasts to the end. ”

"You see, I entrusted her with the most delicate matter, and asked her to invite this lady and her daughter, and do you understand who I am talking about? This needs to be done in the most tactful way, in the most ingenious way, but she has done things badly, this foreign stupid girl, this arrogant and arrogant scumbag, this insignificant provincial woman, just because she is the widow of some major, came to the capital to try to ask for a pension for her, ran to the government office every day, and frayed the hem, she was fifty-five years old, and she had to dye her hair, and apply rouge and powder (which everyone knows)...... is such a slut, not only did she not think that she should come, but she didn't even let people apologize, since she couldn't come, in this case, she should also know the most ordinary politeness, and call someone to say it! I really don't understand, Peter? Why didn't Petrovic come? But where is Sonia? Where did she go? Ah, she's finally here! Sonia, where are you? It's strange that you didn't even make it to your father's funeral on time. Rodiang? Romanech, please let her sit next to you. Oh, Sonechka, you sit here...... Whatever you want to eat, take it yourself. Let's have some asppic, this dish is the best. That's where the pancakes come in. Did you take it for the kids? Polechka, do you have everything there? Ahem-cough-cough! Well, okay. Be a good boy, Lenya, and you, Kolya, don't dangle on your feet; Sit like a child of a noble family. What do you say, Sonechka? ”

Sonia immediately conveyed to her Peter? Petrovic's apology, trying to speak louder, so that everyone could hear, and using the most polite and respectful words, even deliberately using Peter? Petrovic's tone, but she made it up and polished it herself. She also added that Peter? Petrovich specifically asked her to relay

The Pole, and then came a very ugly-looking, wordless clerk, who wore an oily tuxedo, and had a pimple-covered face, and a foul smell on his body; Then came a little old man, deaf and almost completely blind, who had worked in the General Post Office somewhere, and who had been in Amalia for some reason. Ivanovna raised him here. There was also a retired lieutenant who was already drunk, in fact, a quartermaster, who often laughed loudly, which was really unseemly, and, "you see", did not even wear a vest! And another, as soon as he came in, sat down at the table, and didn't even say hello to Katerina? Ivanovna nodded in greeting. Finally another one came, and because he had no clothes, he came running in his pajamas, which is too unusual, Amalia? Ivanovna and the Pole had a great deal of effort, and finally pushed him out. But the Pole also brought two Poles, who were never in Amalia at all? Ivanovna lived here, and before this time no one in this house had seen them. All this makes Katerina? Ivanovna was upset and made her angry. "Who the hell is all this for?" In order to make room for the guests, the children were not even allowed to sit at the table, which already occupied the entire room; Having settled the children in the back corner, using a box as a table, and letting the two youngest children sit on the benches, Polechka, who was already a big girl, should take care of them, feed them, and those who did not come took all the blame, and suddenly treated her very unkindly, and the latter immediately found out, and felt very aggrieved about it.

Such a beginning does not bode well for a good ending. Finally, everyone sat down.

Raskolnikov came in almost as soon as they had just returned from the cemetery. See him coming, Katerina? Ivanovna was overjoyed, firstly, because he was the only "cultured person" among all the guests, and "as everyone knows, in two years he will be a professor at a university here", and secondly, because he respectfully begged her for forgiveness, saying that although he wanted to go to the funeral, he could not go. She hurried over to greet him and asked him to sit on her left seat (Amalia on the right?). Ivanovna), in spite of her constant busyness, constantly and methodically serving the dishes, delivering every dish to every guest, though the incessant coughing made her feel very painful and breathless, interrupted from time to time, and, in the last two days the cough seemed to have become a chronic illness, she spoke to Raskolnikov incessantly, anxious to whisper to him the pent-up feelings in her heart, and to recount the natural indignation she felt because the banquet was unsatisfactory; And this indignation often turns into the happiest and irrepressible ridicule, mocking the guests present, but mainly the landlady.

"The cuckoo is to blame for everything. You need to understand who I'm talking about: I'm talking about her, I'm talking about her! "Say, Katerina? Ivanovna nodded to the landlady and gestured to him. Look at her: her eyes widened, and she felt that we were talking about her, but she didn't understand, so her eyes widened. Phew, owl! Ha-ha-ha! …… Ahem-cough-cough! What is she trying to say by wearing this hair cap! Ahem-cough-cough! Have you noticed, she has always wanted everyone to think that she is protecting me, that she is here to look down on me. I took her for a decent person, and asked her to invite a few decent guests, acquaintances of her deceased husband, but behold, what kind of people she invited: some clowns! A few sloppy ghosts! Look at this dirty-faced guy: what a two-legged rice bucket! And these two Poles...... Ha she suddenly shouted to one of them, "Have you ever tasted a pancake?" A little more! Have some beer, beer! Don't want to drink vodka? Look: he stood up, nodded his head, and look, look: he must be hungry, these poor devils! It's okay, let them eat. At least they don't make a lot of noise, but ...... Really, though, I'm worried about the landlord's silver spoon! …… Amalia? Ivanovna! Suddenly, she said almost aloud to her, "I'll say it ahead of you, in case your spoon is stolen."

(End of chapter)