Episode 15 Revisiting the Old Place

"Boom!" The tailgate of the truck fell, and the female Soviet officer next to her pushed her, and Fourteen knew that she had finally arrived at the place.

A female Soviet officer jumped down, and the other was in the car, helping the handcuffed and blindfolded Fourteen Gege to get down.

The surroundings are quiet and the air is very shady, with deep pines and earthy aromas. Fourteen Gege couldn't see it, but he could guess that it was in the mountains, and it was already at a certain height. She was blindfolded with black cloth and handcuffed her hands in the truck bed covered with canvas all the way, and she didn't even take off her blindfold when she stopped to rest a few times in between.

Fourteen Gege didn't know how long the car had been driving, but he remembered that it was ** o'clock in the evening when he left the airport, and he slept crookedly for a while in the middle of the night, and then stopped for a meal in the middle, and was blindfolded during the meal, and then got in the car and drove for several hours. On the last leg of the road, she listened to the car several times in succession, as if the convoy had been interrogated several times, so she estimated that she was almost there.

Fourteen Gege jumped out of the car and stood where he was, only to hear the sound of water, like the sound of the lake lapping on the pebbles on the shore.

Extrapolating from time and distance...... She took a deep breath and said in her heart: Kanas Lake.

But the Soviets, as if intending to keep the "secret" to the end, still did not take off her blindfold. Fourteen Gege had almost guessed in his heart, and the Soviets still felt that they had made a mysterious thing and that it was worth continuing to do it.

A few Soviets next to him discussed something, as if they couldn't make up their minds. After a while, it seemed that a relatively large Soviet man said something, and they pushed the fourteen grids into the car again, drove forward a little further, and got out of the car again. After getting off the bus this time, he didn't stop, and Fourteen felt like they were being escorted into a building.

Suddenly, the black cloth on his face was torn off, and there was a blinding light in front of him. His eyes were blindfolded for nearly a day, and Fourteen Gege couldn't open his eyes for a while. At this time, the handcuffs behind him were also opened. After a day of handcuffing, which was briefly opened when it was convenient to get out of the car, both of her arms were now almost stiff.

Fourteen Gege closed his aching eyes and slowly moved his aching arm, and after a while, his eyes felt better. She tried to lift her arm and wipe away the tears that had come from her eyes, and everything in front of her became clearer.

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A familiar environment comes into view. Granite floors, granite walls, log ceilings, and large tables with thick logs. Broken pieces of porcelain, dust, bird droppings, and a charred black mark from a campfire were all over the floor. The skeleton of a large bare chandelier fell to the ground, skewed, rusty. A Soviet soldier was by the fireplace, pouting his ass and lighting a fire. There was also a thick layer of dust on the mantelpiece, and there were cobwebs in it.

Isn't this your own villa?

Yes, Fourteen found the memory at once. This is the luxury villa that I came to Kanas Lake a few years ago to spend my vacation and was laughed at by myself. It was only that the house was filled with extravagant furniture from France and Italy, with a bearskin carpet on the floor, precious Altai furs such as foxes, sables, otters, and beavers hanging on the walls, ornate crystal chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, porcelain and antiques in cabinets, and an authentic pastel painting by Degas.

Now everything is gone, only a bare house remains. After the collapse of the Qing military regime, before the Ming army entered, it was obvious that the place had been ransacked. It is not known whether it was looted by the nearby Tuvans, by the Qing soldiers who were originally stationed here, or by the later Erdun Mutu bandits.

Now, just a few years later, things are wrong. Even the whole of China has experienced a lot of vicissitudes.

Fourteen Gege sighed with emotion, thinking in his heart that if he was destined to be killed, then it was better to die in this house of his own. In recent years, no one has taken care of this house, and now it is full of devastation, and it has become a dwelling place for birds and beasts. She wished she could spend the last days of her life guarding the house and taking good care of it.

As dusk approached, the sun had long since disappeared in this deep lake and canyon, and the villa hall was getting colder and colder. At this time, the Soviet soldier finally lit the firewood. After a few years of cold, the fireplace was blazing again.

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A small table and a camp bed were moved in from outside. The Soviet female military doctor came in again, gestured to let Fourteen Gege sit on the marching bed, and examined her again.

Fourteen Gege also sat down cooperatively, asking her to listen to her heartbeat, take her blood pressure, and take her temperature...... There is no translation all the way here. Every time I get off the bus to eat and rest, my ears are in Russian. Here there is still no translation. Fourteen Gege estimated that this was deliberately done by the Soviets, so that both sides could not communicate along the way, and minimized the possibility of their own tricks. It's not that I'm afraid of running away, maybe I'm afraid of what information I'll come up with.

Fourteen Gege estimated that it might just be a coincidence that he brought himself into this villa. The Soviets probably didn't know who the owner of the villa was, and the way was mysterious, blindfolded, and without an interpreter, probably because they wanted her not to know where she was being held.

She slowly thought about what it meant that the Soviets had sent themselves here. Is it here for a while, or is it here for a long time? She estimates that the latter is more likely. Because in the eyes of the Soviets, Kanas Lake is a suitable place for long-term holding, and it must also be a suitable place for long-term detention. It's in the middle of a mountain, and it's not easy to get out and go in once. If you plan to transfer yourself to Moscow, then you will send it directly, so why bother.

…… The Soviets probably wanted to send themselves to Guangwu to be imprisoned, interrogated, and even ...... in the name of the "Ili Kingdom" Execute. He was a traitor to the former Qing Dynasty, and Guangwu was the emperor of the former Qing Dynasty, and now after becoming the "King of Ili", he also reissued a wanted warrant to arrest him. Well, shut yourself up here in the "Ili kingdom" and be politically invulnerable. Although the Ming Kingdom and the Soviet Union were belligerents, they always felt that it was a little worse when they arrested a princess and brought them to trial.

Thinking so, Fourteen Gege gradually felt that he had some life. The Ming army was preparing to raid Kanas Lake and kidnap Guangwu. If they knew they were here and that the raid would be successful, they would have saved themselves. But if you don't know you're here...... That's hard to say. The castle of Guangwu is on the opposite bank, and the commandos will definitely target the castle. If the Soviets could lock themselves up in the castle, the chances of being saved were much greater.

…… The point is that Guangwu didn't necessarily know that he had been caught at Kanas Lake. The Soviets sent themselves to this villa alone, probably with the intention of avoiding Guangwu.

Fourteen Gege stared at the female military doctor who was taking his blood pressure, and began to think about how to let them lock themselves up in Guangwu's castle.