Lin Yuan didn't really want to see the Tsar, so he said: "It's okay, if you don't see it, you won't see it, then in this case, can we leave for England directly?" ”

"You can go directly to England if you want to, or stay here for a few days, depending on what you want," Ilya said. ”

At this moment, an entourage suddenly came in and said: "Report to Lin Shuai, there is a person, who claims to be the special envoy of His Majesty the Tsar, and has sent you an invitation letter. ”

Lin Yuan hesitated to look at Ilya and said to him, "Didn't you say that His Majesty the Tsar didn't see us?" Why did you send someone to deliver the invitation again? ”

Ilya was also embarrassed and said, "When I came out of the palace, His Majesty told me like this, why did it take so little to change my mind in such a short time?" ”

Lin Yuan said to his entourage, "Let the messenger come in." The retinue went out, and soon led a tall Russian in, and saw that this Russian was dressed in an extremely gorgeous manner, and at first glance he was a chamberlain in the court, and Ilya also knew this man, and when he saw him, he stepped forward and said, "Why has Your Majesty changed his mind again?" ”

The chamberlain shrugged helplessly, and then handed an invitation letter to Ilya, Ilya frowned when he opened the invitation, Lin Yuan looked at Ilya's strange appearance, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" Is there anything wrong with the invitation? ”

Ilya handed the invitation to Lin Yuan, only to see that it read: "I sincerely invite Lin Yuan, Shen Wanqing, and Wang Genbao of the Chinese Mission to attend the welcome dinner held in the Georgiev Hall. Feodorovna. ”

Lin Yuan was also confused after reading this invitation, and thought, "What's going on?" Why do you only need to invite three people? And it's these three people, there's no problem in inviting me, I'm the highest official in the negotiations, and the two people invited below are a little unreasonable, first of all, Wanqing, her identity is a reporter with the group, the Russians don't invite other officials, but invite a reporter, what's going on? As for Wang Genbao, it doesn't make sense, his identity is a chef with the group, so he can't invite him! ”

Lin Yuan was pondering, and Ilya came over and said, "You guys should rest first, and I'll come to you at night." After Ilya finished speaking, she sighed and went out.

Shen Wanqing walked up and asked, "What's wrong with Ilya?" Frowning and sighing again? ”

Lin Yuan handed the invitation letter to Shen Wanqing and said, "It's because of this invitation." ”

Shen Wanqing took the invitation in her hand and looked at it twice, and said, "What are you doing?" Why do you want to invite the three of us? I have also been to other countries with people, how can there be such an invitation, this is really not in line with diplomatic etiquette! It is in this day and age, if in our time, such an invitation would be an international joke! ”

Lin Yuan said: "This is the reason why Ilya sighed, Ilya is a real diplomat, although he is cheated by me every time, but that can't be blamed on him, who made his opponent me, but he knows diplomatic etiquette very well, and it is inevitable that he will sigh when he sees such an unreasonable invitation." ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Why is this Russian tsar like a child, he just said that he couldn't see us, and after a while, he changed his mind!" What a national leader! ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "You don't know what to do, these emperors in Europe are the same as our ancient feudal emperors, even more mediocre and absurd than our emperors, there is an Emperor Jin Hui in our history who said, 'The common people have no food to eat, why don't they eat meat porridge', and in the history of Europe, there is a Queen Mary who said, 'The common people don't have bread to eat, and they don't eat cake for Lu'." ”

"As for the Tsar we are facing, Nicholas II, it couldn't be better, there was a stampede at his coronation, and thousands of people were killed and wounded, but he and the Empress held a noble ball on the night of the tragedy; In the latter part of the reign of Nicholas II, he and the empress believed in a magic stick called Rasputin, which was no different from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and this god stick called Rasputin almost buried the Russian Empire. ”

Shen Wanqing said with a smile: "It seems that the history of the West is much more interesting, but we have to think about it carefully, what are the three of us invited to do?" ”

The two of them couldn't think of a reason after thinking about it, so Lin Yuan said: "Let's prepare first, I'll call Wang Genbao over." After Lin Yuan finished speaking, he went to find Wang Genbao.

When Wang Genbao heard Lin Yuan say that he should go to the Kremlin to see the Tsar, his face changed in fright, and he shook his head and said: "I can't help it, Lin Shuai, when you came to me, you said that I was good, I only had to cook along the way, and I didn't have to worry about anything else, but now you actually let me go to see the Russian Tsar, I can't help it, I can't do it!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "It's okay, the Russian tsar is not terrible, what are you afraid of?" ”

Wang Genbao said: "I'm not afraid of anything else, to be honest, I haven't even seen the Fengtian Prefect's Mansion, the biggest official I've ever seen is the catcher, I saw the catcher fast legs and stomachs are turning, now you let me go into the palace to see the tsar, what kind of business!" In case I don't pay attention and provoke some jokes, isn't it a shame for us Chinese? It's still embarrassing in front of foreigners, how can this work! ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Don't worry, you just have to go with me, you can follow me after you go in, you don't have to worry about anything, you don't have to deal with someone talking to you, and there are a lot of Russian delicacies at the dinner, you can study it after you go." ”

Wang Genbao agreed to come down, the three of them changed into dresses, and the waiter came again in the evening, and took the three people into a splendid carriage, and it was already dark when he left the post house, Wang Genbao came abroad for the first time, and looked out of the window curiously, and suddenly "Mom", sat back on the seat, and closed the curtains tightly.

Shen Wanqing asked, "What's wrong with you?" Is there a ghost outside the window? ”

Wang Genbao trembled all over his body and said, "I don't know what the road is on the street outside, and all of a sudden it emits a bright light, which scares me to death." ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "That's a street lamp." ”

Wang Genbao cautiously opened the curtains and looked outside, the carriage soon came to the outside of the Kremlin, only to see that there were ceremonial flowers blooming from time to time over the palace wall, Wang Genbao pointed to the fireworks in the sky and asked: "Foreigners also know how to set off cannons?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled, and at this moment, Ilya walked out of the door, bowed lightly to Lin Yuan, and said, "I am deeply sorry for today's incident. ”

Lin Yuan thought that he was still thinking about releasing pigeons, so he smiled and said, "There is nothing to do, there is no matter, the matter is over." ”

Unexpectedly, Ilya bowed again and said, "It's not that thing, it's something that will happen in a while." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What happened in a while?" What will happen in a moment? ”

Ilya said: "You have defeated us on the battlefield, so our Emperor and His Majesty will take advantage of this dinner ......" Speaking of this, Ilya said in a tone as if the words he was about to say were difficult to speak, and after a long time he said: "He will use this dinner to humiliate you well." ”