At the other end of the cellar there was a room with a poorly lit room, a wooded one, with granite floors, the walls claddled with gray stone, topped by low round arches, with narrow windows on both sides reaching the ground, facing the Moika River, two low arches dividing the room in two, the narrower one and the wider one-1-The narrower one had a door leading to the staircase, and the first landing of the staircase had a door facing the courtyard, and continued up to the study on the first floor. The ebony staircase leading to the study room is not wide and takes on the shape of a snail.

At this time, this semi-basement that looks like a yin forest has just been renovated, and it looks very much like a room for daily living, and no one can see that this was once an abandoned semi-basement, and the workers have laid carpets and curtains, and to get to this room, they must first pass through the narrow compartment, here, in two small niches, there are two large Chinese red glazed porcelain vases, lined with dark gray walls, as if they were two dazzling rubies, and they are unusually beautiful.

As the workers brought in old furniture from the storeroom, Duke Yuposuv began to decorate the room, with carved chairs in blackened leather, several ebony cabinets with multiple drawers, bulky oak high-backed easy chairs, a few small tables scattered on flowered tablecloths, large goblets made of ivory, and various works of art. Among the pieces of furniture is a labyrinth of mirrors and bronze columns, and a crucifix in crystal and silver, a seventeenth-century Italian product.

Beside the wall was a large red granite fireplace, on which were placed several large gilded goblets, glazed porcelain plates, and a set of carved group portraits of ebony, and on the floor was a large Persian rug, and in the corner of the room was a cabinet with a crucifix, where a large polar bear skin was spread.

In the center of the room was a table, also made of ebony, and looking at the table, Duke Yuposov's expression changed slightly, and his eyes were full of a resolute sense of mission, he knew that the demon monk would soon drink his last tea here.

"Aksheye, I have guests in the evening, prepare tea for six people at eleven o'clock in the evening, buy more biscuits and sweet pies, and when you have your tea ready, you can go to the duty room, wait there, don't come here again, understand?"

Seeing that everything was ready, Duke Yuposuv instructed the butler. In addition to all this preparation, he also has to go to Prince Mikhail's palace to eat, the prince's wife is now in China, so friends always like to go to the prince's place, dinner is still lively, but Duke Yuposuv is not in any mood, he is uncertain, from time to time looking at the pocket watch, the time is getting closer and closer.

In the morning, he had made an appointment with Rasputin at eleven o'clock tonight, and their friends had already mustered up the courage to kill this demon monk who was about to destroy the whole of Russia today.

After a hurried dinner, Duke Yuposuv did not talk to the prince and others, and went straight home, and when he returned home, he immediately asked the servants to begin to prepare for the reception, and soon a samovar and all kinds of pastries and sweets were prepared on the table, which were all things that Rasputin liked, and on a cabinet there was a plate full of all kinds of famous wine and wine glasses, which was also Rasputin's favorite.

After the servants had left, Yuposuv was alone in the house and surveyed the room and its formations, the stained glass lamps shining from the ceiling, the thick crimson curtains had been lowered, the granite fireplace was on fire, and although the room was almost underground and eerie in itself, it was very comfortable, as it is today, because of the bright lights and the proper arrangement, and the silence on the ground floor created a mysterious, secluded atmosphere, no matter what happened here, can escape people's eyes and be buried in this room forever. …,

The bell rang, listening to the bell, Yuposuv knew, it was Dmitry? Pavlovich? Grand Duke Romanov, right-wing member of the State Duma Prishkiewicz, as well as his close friend Captain Sukhogin and the doctor arrived.

When Yusupov went out to meet them, he noticed that everyone looked extremely nervous.

"Yusupov, how's it going? You ready? ”

Perhaps because of the nervousness, everyone's voices seemed high. Yusupov nodded, his nerves were also extremely tense, this was his home, it was he who proposed to set a trap here, and he was using his wife, Irina, as bait.

When everyone entered the dining room, the furnishings of the room only surprised everyone, especially the Prince, because when he came to this room yesterday, it was still an empty basement, and people stood silently for a long time after entering the dining room, looking at the room where the demon monk was about to be buried.

"Alright, it's not too early, let's start!"

As he spoke, Yusupov took out a box of poison from the labyrinth cabinet and picked up a plate of pies from the table, six of them, three chocolate and three almond. Dr. Lazowell put on his gloves, picked up a stick of potassium cyanide, kneaded it into powder, and peeled off the chocolate pie with a layer of skin, each containing enough poison to poison ten horses.

While the doctor was preparing, everyone in the room was nervously holding their breath, and they watched the doctor's movements nervously, and no one made a sound. The other is to put the poison into the prepared wine glass, which is gilded with patterns, and those patterns can hold a lot of poison, because the poison may be ineffective if it volatilizes for a long time, so the dose of poison is very large.

"Duke, the poison in this glass alone is enough to poison several elephants!"

For the sake of realism, after the doctor finished the preparation, they even deliberately drank tea in the room, and after drinking the cup, they put the cup casually, as if they had just drunk tea.

"When the time comes, I will tell him that when there are guests at home, they drink tea in the dining room, and then everyone goes upstairs, and as for me, sometimes I stay down alone, reading a book or doing other things!"

As he spoke, his eyes glanced at the polar bear skin, which was not far from the fireplace, and the bear skin looked a little messy, as if someone was rolling on it, and everyone immediately smiled, obviously understanding what he meant, but Captain Suhogin walked over to the bearskin and sniffed it first, and then said.

"Maybe I should borrow Irina's perfume and spray it a little on it!"

"That's a good idea, but Irina has already gone to Crimea, so let's find any perfume!"

Looking at his friends and looking at the time again, Yusupov arranged again.

"When I'm gone, you go upstairs to my study, turn on the gramophone, and put on some cheerful records, which may keep the man in a cheerful state of mind, and thus dispel his mysteries......"

Despite all the arrangements, Yusupov feared that Rasputin would become suspicious when he saw the basement.

When everything was ready, Yusupov and Dr. Lazowelt came out of the house, and the doctor changed into the driver's costume and went to start the "Mustang car" parked in front of the side gate of the courtyard, which is very popular in Russia, because this kind of car is not like American and European cars, which need to wear a leather jacket and a fur hat in winter, and the heating from the engine can make the cabin extremely warm.

After Yusupov got into the car, the car started, and when the car left the palace, a series of thoughts came one after another in Yusupov's mind, all kinds of assumptions, dangers, and finally replaced by hope for the future, on the way to pick up Rasputin, these few minutes of thinking, on the contrary, calmed him down. …,

The car stopped in front of the building at 64 Gorokhovaya Street, and Ronsupov walked into the courtyard and was immediately stopped by the janitor.

"Master, who are you looking for?"

"Grigory? Yefimovich! ”

The janitor, on the other hand, looked at him with some distrust, and at last let him in, went upstairs, and came to Rasputin's door, where he rang the doorbell.

"Who is it?"

It was the voice of the elder, and his heart trembled at the sound of it.

"Grigory? Yefimovich, I'm here to pick you up! ”

Rymbosov replied.

The door opened, and it was Rasputin!

Upon entering the house, Ryonsubov felt as if someone was about to stare at him, and he instinctively rolled up his collar and pressed his hat down.

"Why are you so secretive?"

The actions of the man in front of him made Rasputin feel a little funny, and he was not the only one who sold his wife for power, what was there to hide.

"Didn't we say we'd let anyone know about today?"

When Rysubov said this, he was annoyed in his heart, and in order to lay this trap, he even used his "wife" as bait, although it was only a reason.

"Right...... I didn't tell anyone else, and I sent all the spies away! Let's go! I'm going to get dressed! ”

The sound of footsteps echoed through the stairwell as the two of them descended the stairs, but it was pitch black all around them.

"It's better now!"

Rasputin glanced at Yusupov, who was a little nervous next to him, and said that when any man sacrifices his wife and daughter to other men for the first time, there is always something unnatural in his heart, and appropriate comfort should always be appropriate.

The thought that he would soon be able to conquer that proud beauty made Rasputin's heart feel proud, and the beauty of power suddenly filled his heart. After the two of them went downstairs, they quickly got into the car, and in the car, Yusupov looked at the street from the back window, searching for spies who were spying on the place, but there was no one on the street in the black hole.

The car was driving on the road, and Rasputin still looked like a monk in the car, but when the car drove to the courtyard of Longsupov on the Muika River, the moment the car stopped, looking at the building with the lights on, his heart was beating rapidly, although he felt a little abnormal, but in Rasputin's opinion, maybe he had been looking forward to that woman for too long!