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While Yang Qiu was thinking about how to regain the pulse of the Far East, which had become more and more detached from history, St. Petersburg still came to this day by inertia.

The day began as usual. In the embassy of the Republic of St. Petersburg in Russia, the chef placed black bread mixed with sawdust and a small jar of butter that had reached the bottom on the table, and the pre-war milk and eggs had completely disappeared from the table, and even the ambassadors of a country could no longer receive normal rations. To make the breakfast look more hearty, the chef thinks about opening the last bucket of luncheon meat. This ten-pound luncheon meat was specially sent by the Second Expeditionary Force of the Russian Army, but he still didn't dare to waste it, and cut the meat into thin slices and put it on everyone's plate.

Chen Shijie and his partner frowned at this breakfast when they arrived at the restaurant. Of course, they said not for themselves, but for Mrs. Peide, who had just recovered: "Sixth brother, are there no eggs? Today is Women's Day, and Mrs. has a foot injury just enough to help her boil an egg. The chef named Sixth Brother is a local old overseas Chinese hired by the embassy, but it is difficult for Qiao Woman to cook without rice, so in the face of this problem, Sixth Brother can only shrug his shoulders: "I finished eating the day before yesterday, and now it is difficult to buy even this kind of black bread in the outside market, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid we will all go hungry." ”

"Isn't there still a reserve of rice in the cellar? It is also better to cook a bowl of porridge for the lady than to eat this sawdust. ”

"No, the food in the cellar can't be moved for the time being!" The counselor was about to ask the sixth brother to go to the cellar to get the reserve grain to make porridge, when Wang Zhengting's voice sounded on the stairs. Seeing that Mrs. Peide also came down with him, Chen Shijie hurriedly walked over and helped: "My lord, why can't you move the grain reserves?" Madame's foot injury just happened to be able to eat these things. ”

More than 20 embassy staff members filled the small table, and since the Russian food shortage, the embassy has abolished the distinction between large canteens and small restaurants, and everyone eats together in this way to avoid waste. Wang Zhengting beckoned everyone to sit down before saying: "This year's heavy snow is very different from previous years, and there will definitely be flooding after the snow, so the reserve grain needs to be kept for emergency relief, how can it be eaten so early." ”

Mrs. Peide also smiled and picked up the hard black bread with a knife, picked up the soybeans and butter on the tip of the knife, and smeared it on the bread and said: "Zixin is right, this year's war and natural disasters will definitely be very serious, and the food needs to be saved until the most critical moment before it can be used. Besides, I think the bread is also very tasty. "Under everyone's gaze. The wife of a diplomat who married far away from China broke open the bread and dipped the boiling water in front of her and stuffed it into her mouth. Watching her chew the bread that was hard and mixed with sawdust with difficulty, Wang Zhengting smiled slightly and picked up the rusk and bit it. Although everyone can't bear it, but now there is a serious food shortage in Russia, and even if you have money, you can buy food. The reserve grain must be left until the most critical moment, so the sixth brother and everyone can only sigh helplessly.

Chen Shijie felt uncomfortable, thought about it and said: "If I go to Urals, Li Liejun should still have a lot of marinated meat and salted bones on his hands, and bring some back for his wife to replenish his body." Mrs. Peide shook her head and smiled, "Shijie, thank you. But my injuries are healed, so please rest assured. There is also a snow disaster in China, and the melting of snow will cause flooding, so this year's summer grain harvest will definitely be seriously poor! And along the line of the Trans-Siberian Railway, a number of rebels appeared. Train transport is very vulnerable to attack, so the food reserves in the Urals need to be reserved for the workers and soldiers, and I am very happy compared to the soldiers at the front. ”

Seeing her say this, Chen Shijie could only nod his head first, and secretly thought that he would just send someone to go quietly for a while. After everyone had eaten, Wang Zhengting inquired about the situation of the expeditionary force and the Urals as usual, and asked everyone to pay attention to the outside before helping Mrs. Peide back upstairs to rest. Seeing that the two of them left, Chen Shijie immediately greeted everyone, first sent two people to find a way to hitchhike to Urals to bring some meat back, and then pulled the sixth brother of the cook and asked, "Sixth brother." Do you know where you can still buy food? ”

The sixth brother has lived in St. Petersburg for 30 years and is one of the oldest overseas Chinese in the embassy. But this situation is also the first time I have encountered it, and after thinking about it for a long time, I said: "The market must be gone." Now the only people who can have good food are those noble lords, and I know a few subordinates who are just them. ”

"I see, wait for me." After Chen Shijie understood what he meant, he immediately went back to the house and took out a stack of dollars, which were originally given to him by the Security Bureau for his activities, but now he doesn't care so much. asked people to find large pockets and was just about to go out, but the sixth brother grabbed him: "Bring a gun, yesterday Zhang Yuan and I went to buy black bread and saw someone robbing with a gun." ”

Chen Shijie smiled and patted his waist, signaling that he was ready, and only after the two of them put on their hoods and pushed two bicycles out to find food. After seeing the backs of the two from upstairs, Wang Zhengting sighed: "Hey, I don't know how long it will take to do this." It's nerve-wracking to hear that there is a big march today. ”

Mrs. Pedder sighed as well. Ever since Rasputin's murder late last year, St. Petersburg has kept her on edge. The citywide march in January, the clashes over the dismissal of thousands of workers in February, and the constant bad news from the front lines have brought the city and the country to the brink of exploding. She got up and walked to her side, her eyes were also full of unease: "Zixin." Do you think we can still win the final victory if it were Russia? Although she was married to China, Mrs. Pede still missed Belgium under the iron heel of the German army. Whenever I think of the fall of the motherland and the enslavement of the people, tears drip uncontrollably. Lu Zhengxiang hugged his wife distressedly and comforted: "Don't worry, isn't there an expeditionary force specially sent by the vice president!" Since he dares to invest so much, I believe that he must have some certainty of the final victory. ”

"Hmm." Lady Padd nodded, but the worry in her eyes still couldn't be dissolved.

Sixth Brother and Chen Shijie quickly rushed to the backyard of Grand Duke Petrovich's luxurious villa. This cousin of Nicholas II was clearly not among the hungry crowd. When Chen Shijie waved the dollar, the two men quickly brought out several boxes of food, including two cans of good caviar and a large cod. After stuffing these into the cloth bag, the sixth brother was not happy, and said hatefully: "Look! The common people are starving, and the soldiers eat bran and drink every day to fight with hunger, but they use military vehicles to pull food to their homes! The grain supported by the British was swallowed by these noble lords, so it would be hellish if they didn't make trouble. ”

Chen Shijie smiled slightly and didn't speak, as an agent of the Security Bureau in Russia, he knew the current situation in Russia better than anyone else. When the two of them pushed their bicycles back and walked halfway to the road, they suddenly encountered a small group of soldiers with weapons in their hands! This made the sixth brother nervous, and there have been many cases of soldiers robbing things in St. Petersburg recently. Fortunately, the group of soldiers seemed to be on some urgent mission, and without even looking at the two of them, they hurried towards the square.

Looking at the direction they left, Chen Shijie frowned, and suddenly had an urge to take a look. But thinking that these foods are very important to everyone, I can only suppress my curiosity and continue to go back. But when they walked out of this rich residential area, the scene in front of them suddenly stunned the two.

"Oh my God! That's probably tens of thousands. The sixth brother opened his mouth wide and even unconsciously let go of his hand holding the bicycle, only to see that the street that was empty just now had been completely crowded. Countless workers in blue coarse cloth clothes rushed in front of them like a flood, and what was even more surprising was that many of them were rushing towards the palace together. Almost subconsciously, Chen Shijie suddenly hugged the cloth bag full of food, and pulled the sixth brother to rush to the roof of the building next to him. When the two of them arrived at the roof, they just felt like their scalps were about to explode!

Workers, countless workers! Women are also innumerable women! And the Bolshevik party members with identification armbands, and even a lot of anti-war soldiers with weapons in their hands! In the air! A sea of people! It's as if there's a magic flute that can't be heard. The whole of St. Petersburg was assembled under the sound of the flute, and in every direction it was densely packed with human heads. Even though the streets are already packed, the flow of people still flows out of the alleys and into the flood peak, sweeping towards the square in front of the palace! Although there have been many large marches in St. Petersburg since the war, neither of them has ever seen such a large scale, and. "Can the sixth brother hear the meaning? The slogan they have this time seems to be a little different. ”

"Wait, I'll listen." The sixth brother pricked up his ears, but after a moment he didn't need to deliberately listen, because there were only two voices left in the world.

"End the war! End the dictatorship! ”

When the two were surrounded by a surging sea of demonstrators. When Chen Shijie began to chew on the words "end the dictatorship," which had rarely appeared in previous protest marches, gunshots rang out in the square in the distance.

It's messy! It's a complete mess!

The sound of gunfire made Wang Zhengting, who was also holding a telescope to pay attention, suddenly pinch his heart, and Mrs. Peide secretly prayed that the conflict would not be exacerbated. so that Russia could continue fighting until the defeat of Germany and the liberation of Belgium, but both men's wishes were completely buried when a cloud of black smoke rose. Soon after the clashes between the agitated demonstrators and the military police, the St. Petersburg police station building was set on fire, and then a large number of cavalrymen loyal to the tsar began to appear and trample the demonstrators with iron hooves.

"Zixin." After the police station was set on fire, Mrs. Peide's last extravagant hope also came to naught, and her hands trembled and grabbed the corners of Wang Zhengting's clothes: "You say this is not like six years ago." ”

Six years ago? Wang Zhengting was stunned for a moment, but soon remembered a scene that happened in China six years ago. Successive defeats, countless casualties, turmoil, hunger and cold, economic collapse and rampant magnate! Tsarist Russia, after nearly three years of war, was completely and completely crushed by 300,000 strike troops!

The flame of revolution was finally ignited by the angry proletariat on International Women's Day. The whole world was burned by the hot wind of Russia.

"No, I'm going to see the Queen! To meet Grand Duke Alessandro. Come on, prepare the car. Wang Zhengting understood what had to be done at this time. Even if it is not for the country, not for the tens of thousands of soldiers who are still fighting in Ukraine and the Urals, and not for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers who are still fighting in Ukraine, he must at least think about his wife, so he is determined to prevent the situation from continuing to deteriorate so as not to endanger the battlefield on the Eastern Front. But he had just walked downstairs. Outside, more than a dozen men carrying dozens of large bags and small bags and wearing cotton robes like ordinary traders rushed in.

"The Hunter Squad has been ordered to protect the ambassador and his wife." …… (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )