When Jenkins was tortured to death by an immortal, Victoria, hundreds of kilometers away in Petrograd, was also brought into an interrogation room.

"Name!" The female interrogator with a straight face asked sharply.

Victoria frowned, such an encounter would have been unimaginable for her before the revolution broke out. No policeman, unless she was the Tsar's secret police or gendarme, had the audacity to invite her to the bureau for tea, and in a friendly manner. Of course, it is more likely that as long as she gives her name, the other party will not dare to stretch out a finger to her.

And now, the situation is completely different, the other party has no intention of being polite to her at all, in fact, when she was arrested, she behaved very politely, if she hadn't repeatedly told herself to be patient, I am afraid that it would have exploded on the spot.

Victoria replied reluctantly, "Victoria. Popova! ”

The female interrogator with a straight face made a note in the small notebook and continued to ask mechanically, "Gender!" ”

Victoria was speechless by this question, and she couldn't bear it any longer, and asked sarcastically, "What do you think?" ”

The female interrogator suddenly slapped the table and scolded: "Now I'm asking you, be honest!" Don't play with me the temper of a bourgeois lady! ”

Victoria tried to suppress the anger in her heart, took a deep breath, and said hatefully: "Female! ”

"Career!"

"Merchant."

"Merchant?" The female interrogator looked up and glared at her, and said, "At a glance, you can see that Lu Dao is a profiteer!" ”

"Please don't slander me!" Victoria quit at once, he'd heard Erikson say it. The Bolsheviks seemed to be the best at buttoning their hats and getting on the line. If you acquiesce to all this. Then it is tantamount to admitting that you are guilty, and the best way is to fight back immediately and not let the other party succeed.

"My business activities have always been law-abiding, and my credibility has fully stood the test......"

It has to be said that Victoria made a mistake, and her rhetoric might have been useful when the Tsar was in power, at least like that. But now. It was the Bolsheviks who were in power, and such rhetoric seemed to them more like a quibble, because in their minds the bourgeoisie could be equated with profiteers. Such an argument would instead lead them to think that Victoria was resisting their authority and resisting censorship.

"You still dare to quibble, it seems that you are ready to fight to the end, right?" The angry female interrogator's face was distorted, and her mouth was so wide that she almost wanted to swallow Victoria in one gulp.

The female interrogator's reaction was not at all what Victoria expected, she didn't understand what the other party was doing and suddenly became angry, could she tell the truth, okay. Is it wrong to defend yourself, even if you don't tell the truth? If I do everything you want. What else is there to interrogate, and if I am directly convicted, won't I be guilty?

"Katyusha, calm down!"

Fortunately, there was more than one person in the interrogation room, and the recorder next to him spoke: "Control your emotions and get to the point!" ”

The female interrogator sat down slowly, she glared at Victoria viciously, and asked sharply: "Say, how much grain did you steal and sell, when did you start it, who handled it, and what are the channels for selling the stolen goods, explain it clearly one by one!" ”

Victoria was stunned for a moment, at first she wondered why she was suddenly caught in the bureau, when the Bolsheviks confiscated bourgeois property a while ago, their family was not very cooperative, did not resist?

At first, she thought that her transfer of property had been discovered by the Bolsheviks, and she was worried that the other party would ask a completely irrelevant question.

"Grain? Stealing and selling grain? She asked incredulously.

The female interrogator was suddenly shocked and said happily: "You admit it!" ”

"Admit what?" Victoria became more and more confused, "I don't even know what you're talking about!" ”

The female interrogator suddenly became furious: "You are going to fight against the end, right?" We have ample evidence that you were involved in stealing and selling grain from the Petrograd Strategic Reserve warehouse! ”

Grain in strategic reserve warehouses? Only then did Victoria understand what the other party was talking about, and it was because of the food for a long time? Is it a goof?

At that moment, Victoria was really a little nervous, because she was not mentally prepared at all, but immediately her good profiteer quality calmed her down, and she asked very "confusedly": "I really don't know what you are talking about?" What strategic reserve warehouses of grain? ”

This attitude completely angered the female interrogator, she jumped up like thunder, pointed at Victoria and scolded: "You still dare to quibble, despicable and shameless bourgeois profiteer, ghoul with a thousand knives, you and his @#¥%......"

The words of the village women scolding the street poured towards Victoria, which greatly enriched her vocabulary for future scolding, and she was amazed that there were so many impressive and vividly imagined adjectives in Russian.

"Katyusha, calm down," the clerk next to him really couldn't stand it, and he wanted to cultivate Katyusha, so he let her, a rookie activist, be an interrogator, but obviously this female activist who was born as a street worker is not specialized in this area, unless scolding the street can break down the suspect's psychological defense line and make them submit, "Now it's up to me to interrogate, you record!" ”

Although Katyusha still looks unrelenting, the clerk is also her leader, and she must respect the authority of the leader, so she can only reluctantly change positions.

"From what we know, most of the grain sold by you and your father's trading company comes from the strategic reserve warehouse, and we have credible witnesses who can prove that you were directly involved in the illegal operation of stealing grain from the strategic reserve warehouse, do you have anything to explain about this?"

If you make a professional shot, it's completely different, to be honest, Victoria is not afraid of village women scolding the street at all, so what's the point? Of course, she had already thought of the answer to the professional contestant's question: "I can only say that this is all despicable and shameless slander, and every grain sold by our company is imported from Sweden." It has been inspected by the customs and taxation authorities. I don't understand why you're trying to force me on some trumped-up charges! ”

"You're not honest!" Katyusha next to her couldn't help but interject again. "I'll tell you ......"

"Comrade Katyusha!" The clerk had to remind her again.

Katyusha replied in a low voice: "I just can't get used to her bourgeois arrogance......"

The clerk shook his head slightly, and said in his heart: "A mallet is a mallet, why did the superior pat his head and send such a living treasure to interrogate, what a fucking pig teammate." ”

"We have witnesses!" The clerk emphasized.

Victoria shrugged, "Then you can bring the witnesses over and confront me!" ”

The clerk was speechless, and the so-called witness was actually what he said casually, actually. They didn't have any evidence or witnesses, and the reason why they arrested Victoria was just a request from their superiors.

In fact, there are not a few bourgeoisie who have been invited in this way recently, and most of them can't stand the scare, and they will soften more or less with a few words of intimidation, and he thinks that Victoria is the same, so he immediately put on a straight face and said coldly: "We are now giving you a chance to reform yourself, and you honestly explain the problem." It's completely different from us finding witnesses to confront you. Stealing and selling state-owned grain is a counter-revolutionary felony, and if the charges are true, you can be shot on the spot! ”

Victoria narrowed her eyes slightly and sneered: "I see that you have no evidence of anything, trying to intimidate me, right?" Tell you, if you want to accuse me of a crime, first bring out the evidence and witnesses, and I will accuse you of slander! ”

Tut...... The clerk immediately knew that the road was difficult, and the most troublesome thing was that a person like Victoria was not afraid of intimidation, and for such a person, there was only another strategy.

"You don't admit guilt, you are fighting against the people's power, and the crime is one more degree," he stood up, opened the door, and ordered the guards, "Pull this counter-revolutionary out of the ......."

The guards at the door immediately rushed in, and without saying a word, put handcuffs and shackles on Victoria, as if they were going to send her to the court in the next second.

To put it bluntly, this trick is still intimidation, there is an old saying that if you don't see a coffin, you won't shed tears, and when dealing with the brave, you have to create a real atmosphere of terror and crush her psychological defense. With this trick, the clerk has already dealt with quite a few stubborn bourgeois counter-revolutionaries.

In his mind, how strong a weak woman in Victoria could be, as long as she used this trick, she would collapse immediately. However, the clerk was disappointed, and Victoria showed no signs of fear, and she calmly let the guards toss and turn, until she walked out the door, she only sneered.

"What should I do?" Katyusha asked in a whisper.

The clerk let out another snort, "Lock it up first, and then slowly figure it out!" ”

"That bourgeois lady refuses to explain the problem?"

Soon, this answer was fed back to Trotsky, and he was not surprised at all by this news, first of all, people have a relationship with Li Xiaofeng, so they are naturally not afraid of tossing around casually. Secondly, he really doesn't have any evidence to make accusations, he doesn't have anything, so he expects people to explain the problem? Are people really idiots?

"Comrade Lunacharsky asks you how to carry out the next step."

How? Trotsky snorted in his heart, and now he was really dissatisfied with Lunacharsky, and with Lunacharsky's political wisdom, how could he not see what he wanted to do. Since you know everything, but you want to ask how to do your job, you are pretending to be confused!

You're sloppy with me!

The anger in Trotsky's heart suddenly ignited, for for the past few months he had been enduring Lunacharsky's blind tossing, and that he had been doing his proper work and that he had gone to the wrong educational work, and that he was wasting his talents! With your Lunacharsky's ability, if you are a little serious, I'm afraid you can also mix up a Politburo member! At that time, we were three to three with Lenin, and what that meant, do you know the way!

As soon as he thought of Lunacharsky's brain-dead, Trotsky became angry, I put up with your nonsense, and now it's just a little thing for you to do, and you are still playing sloppy with me, what do you kid want to do? You're ready to draw a line with me!

Needless to say, Trotsky's anger snorted heavily: "Tell Comrade Lunacharsky that Victoria is a serious suspect. The Cheka's duty was to purge the counter-revolution. What to do. What not to do, no need to ask others! ”

When Lunacharsky received this instruction, he was really in pain, and the reason why he went to work in education was indeed because he really had a great interest in it, and on the other hand, because he had no interest in the struggle within the party, he had little political ambition, and he did not like intrigue. That's why he subconsciously chose to stay away from the power struggle within the party.

However, Trotsky was going to drag him in, and it made him very uncomfortable. Moreover, the arrest of Victoria itself is also problematic, needless to say without evidence, what is even more annoying is that he only arrested people on the front foot, and the intercession on the back foot ran to the door.

Angelina found Lunacharsky as soon as Victoria was arrested. Angelina's relationship with someone, Lunacharsky is still very clear. To put it mildly, this is the fiancée of an immortal. And someone's relationship with him is okay.

Moreover, someone is now very hot in the party, and it is Lenin's favorite fried chicken, and Lunacharsky has heard of the little between someone and Trotsky. Even, he was very suspicious, the reason for the attack on Victoria was that Trotsky was preparing to knock the tiger on the mountain.

With so much cause and effect in it, Lunacharsky is in a dilemma, as far as the facts are concerned, he really shouldn't arrest people, but this is Trotsky's order, Trotsky is his old friend and old leader anyway, and he must respect the old leader. But this inevitably offends Li Xiaofeng again, and Li Xiaofeng is still in charge.

For a while, Lunacharsky was in a dilemma, and his headache was about to explode, and in desperation, he could only give an ambiguous order: "Continue to review the Victorian issue, but we must pay attention to ways and methods in the review, and we must not use violent means to extort confessions by torture, and find out the truth of the matter as soon as possible!" ”

The staff of Petrograd Cheka immediately went crazy, and even a fool could see the contradiction of this order, and anyone who had a heart could taste the helplessness of Lunacharsky. This is not trivial, a bourgeois female profiteer can make their leaders sit on wax, is this a small source?

Therefore, although Victoria was imprisoned in the class room, the treatment was not too bad, at least she did not suffer much. Of course, for an eldest lady like her, being locked up in the class room is a great grievance and a great suffering. So when Angelina, who came to visit the prison before, revealed that the source of her entry into the class room might be from a certain immortal, she was furious.

"I know that Lu Dao has suffered an unjustified disaster, you go to that bastard immediately and ask him to give me an explanation immediately! If he doesn't find a way to get me out of the way, I'm not done with him! ”

Although Angelina doesn't know much about the cause and effect in it, she doesn't understand what Lunacharsky would imply to her, if she wants to save Victoria, she must find Andrei. And now Victoria is even more inexplicably angry at the mention of someone. This gave her a feeling of being covered in the dark.

"Vita, are you hiding something from me? Why are you arrested and going to Andre? Angelina asked suspiciously, "It's completely illogical!" ”

Victoria hated it in her heart, and with her wisdom, she could quickly figure out the reason, but it was inconvenient to tell Angelina, the little white sheep, about these dirty things.

It's better for the silly little white sheep to live in the fairy tale world, not to mention that if she exposes the matter, then a bastard will definitely not be able to spare her, she knows the destructive power of someone very well. In the past, when the Bolsheviks had not yet come to power, someone was arrogant. All the more so now when the Bolsheviks are in power, and someone is in power.

"Don't be cranky," said Victoria, "these are all misunderstandings, Andrei knows very well that I have not stolen grain, and with him, a Bolshevik, to testify to me, I will soon be cleared of my innocence." ”

Angelina tilted her head to look at Victoria, and although she thought it was far-fetched, it seemed to be the only plausible explanation. With a kind nature, she didn't doubt that she had him, so she immediately did it stupidly.

"Victoria was arrested by Petrograd Cheka, and I was asked to clear her name?" A certain immortal who was busy with the assassin case was simply puzzled when he heard the news.

Reselling grain, with him, an immortal, everything is seamless, don't say it's Lunacharsky, even Dzerzhinsky is here, don't try to find out anything. Then, Victoria was suddenly arrested for this, and the talk inside was big. In particular, it was Lunacharsky who arrested the person, and after the arrest, he also hinted to Angelina that he could only release the person if he made a move. No matter how you look at it, there are conspiracies in this!

Lunacharsky's attitude is too suspicious, if Lao Lu didn't want to frame him and was ready to use clumsy means to pour dirty water on him, then Lao Lu was probably forced to arrest people.

Soon, Li Xiaofeng ruled out the former possibility, and only the latter possibility would make Lunacharsky so entangled, and it was deduced from this that it was Trotsky who made a move towards Victoria and was ready to make trouble.

"Trotsky," Li Xiaofeng rubbed his chin hatefully, how did this thing become a-stirring stick, are you on a par with your brother?

However, even if he knew that Trotsky was the mastermind behind the scenes, Li Xiaofeng had nothing to do, and with Trotsky's methods, since he had made a move against Victoria, he would take into account all possible things, and it could not be ruled out that this thing was digging a pit and waiting for him to jump in.

Li Xiaofeng knew that it was inconvenient for him to save people, but Victoria couldn't help it, and after thinking for a while, he instructed Mark Wei: "Send a telegram to Comrade Yakov, inform him of the details of the matter, and let him find a way to save people......" (To be continued......