The speed of the electric boat is really worrying, even if it is a converted fishing boat, its speed is about six knots, which is about ten kilometers per hour.

If you change to a speedboat that burns oil, the 40-kilometer waterway will not take you an hour to reach it.

But this electric fishing boat walked for more than four hours before Cheng Yu finally saw the shadow of the lakeshore in the vast mist.

"Is it finally here?" Cheng Yu stood up and stretched.

Along the way, except for Lao Dapeng, who slept in the cabin for a while, Cheng Yu and Vladimir didn't sleep for a minute.

Vladimir is responsible for orienting himself in the dark and controlling the fishing boats, apparently unable to sleep.

Although Cheng Yu basically believed that Vladimir would not harm them, if he wanted to let him sleep for two or three hours with peace of mind, then he would definitely not dare, and there was still a limit to the trust between him and Vladimir.

However, Vladimir's mental head is obviously much better than Cheng Yu's, which makes Cheng Yu feel that this guy is sleeping during the day, and it is originally a habit of living day and night.

Vladimir did not deny this, saying that he mainly did business at night. While most visitors to Listvyanka choose to stay there and wait for a boat ride to the island on the lake the next morning, there are always those who choose to return to the city or simply go to one of the inns not too far away.

There is no doubt that the price of a taxi in the middle of the night is more than double that of the day, so even if the number of trips is less, the income is not necessarily much lower than during the day. The most important thing is to be idle.

For more than four hours along the way, Cheng Yu and Vladimir were not idle, and basically chatted intermittently.

Vladimir guessed that Cheng Yu was a police officer, or a member of the security services, and that Lao Dapeng was the criminal that Cheng Yu was hunting.

Cheng Yu didn't know how Vladimir saw it, but in addition to Cheng Yu's identity, there was also an eight-point guess close to the truth.

Regarding these, Cheng Yu didn't explain much, but kept bringing the topic to Vladimir.

After a long time, Vladimir's wariness of Cheng Yu has become lower and lower, probably because he and Cheng Yu basically have no chance to meet again in their lives, and these things he is engaged in can't usually be mentioned to others, so he also revealed a lot to him.

Vladimir never lied, he served in the Russian army in his early years, and then directly threw him, a Muscovite, to remote East Siberia and became a border sentinel.

After more than seven years of life on the border, he got used to life here, plus he was alone, his parents died when he was thirteen years old, and he was not a city population in Moscow, and his parents were only farmers in the countryside around Moscow. After he retired, he chose Irkutsk, where no one wanted to stay, in the work arrangement after retirement.

Mr. Vladimir said that he could have chosen to go back to Moscow, where there was a job waiting for him, but it was really a very ordinary job, working as a worker in a factory near Moscow.

And if he stayed in Irkutsk, he could become a policeman who ate the emperor's food, so in the face of the multiple-choice question of remote areas and the center of the country, he chose a more secure policeman.

Anyway, it is an iron rice bowl, and because of the remote location, there are no cases here, and the usual contact is more about the brawls between the fighting ethnic groups and the Han who are drunk and make trouble.

Carrying a baton and a gun, plus he was a retired soldier, and his physical fitness was among the best among ordinary people, so during his time as a policeman, no one in the entire town of Listvyanka dared to argue with him in front of him.

Soon, the old sergeant retired and he was promoted to the new sergeant.

Although there are only two police officers under his command, he is still a petty official, and he has to come forward to settle everything that the mayor can't handle.

Cheng Yu laughed at the time and said that he didn't expect this guy to be a tyrant in Listvyanka Town in the past.

It doesn't seem like the town has much oil, but as Vladimir says, he ends up befriending an underground casino.

The reason is simple, the underground casino was not a big deal, and the guy in the lead is also a retired soldier, although it is not the same unit as Vladimir, but it is also a miserable class, directly on the northern ice field, which makes him sympathetic to that guy.

After narrowly avoiding prison time with a large fine, the guy became a little timid, and while Vladimir was drinking and chatting with him, he suggested that he split the casino into two.

One stayed in the town, while the other was handed over to his brother-in-law to run it, which was the place where Vladimir had previously said he wanted to go, and that guy's brother-in-law happened to be an old house for the past two days.

Originally, the scale was not large, and with such a split, the family in the town was even more petty, and even the risk of being arrested was almost gone.

And the one run by his brother-in-law, although the profit level is slightly higher than the bottom line stipulated by Russia for the gambling industry, but because of the escort of Vladimir, it has nothing to do for many years.

Vladimir naturally got the pier where they originally ran an underground casino, which completely laid the groundwork for his expulsion from the police force.

At first, he also felt that the small wharf was a pity, after all, the owner of the casino had also spent a lot of effort to build here, if no one took care of it, it would not take three or five years to become a forest again, and the wharf would be completely abandoned.

So Vladimir thought about throwing some money and trying to get a small hotel here in the spirit of waste use, which is also because he has a lot of contact with tourists, many of whom have mentioned that there are no lakeview hotels near the lake in Listvyanka.

But the small house was built with two rooms, which is the current size, and his subordinate in the police station, who is now Sergeant Smirnov, is also the old Smir in Vladimir's mouth - that is a serious college student, and he is still a financial major, and he calculated the accounts for Vladimir.

It's not in a hurry to build a house, and it doesn't cost a few dollars, the main thing is that the labor force can be made up from the town a little bit, find two people to get some today, and find two people to get some more tomorrow, the time may drag on for a long time, but fortunately, there is no cost.

But the road is troublesome.

Either build your own road to get there, and you can't risk your car getting stuck in the mud of the lake every time you bring a guest, right?

Otherwise, they would have to negotiate with the mayor and the director of the docks to make a place for Vladimir on the docks so that he could take the guests to the hotel from the water.

Neither of these points will work.

The former one, the cost is too high, not to mention that Vladimir has no money, even if he has money, he can't do this, just with that small hotel, in what year and month can the money for road construction be recovered?

As for the latter, neither the mayor nor the dock can get through, because the dock is not up to them.

If it's a non-profit thing, let's say someone has something to do and needs to go by water, or whose own boat is tied to the dock, and usually drives out just for fishing or fun, but it's nothing.

But if Vladimir puts a ship at the dock, it is the nature of a profit-making organization, which must be reported.

Not to mention whether the mayor of the town and the director of the dock will help him report, even if he does, after being approved at all levels, the cost is estimated to be not low.

After thinking about it, fortunately, the two rooms didn't cost much, so the side business of this hotel was stopped.

After that, it was also that Smirnov who introduced Vladimir to a deal, which is now this, using that small dock to help people run away.

Of course, this must be done with Vladimir's relations on the border, and at that time, Vladimir still had many comrades-in-arms still serving on the border, and he tried to get in touch, but they hit it off, and the deal was done.

Walking by the river, there is no one who does not get his shoes wet.

This business has been working for seven or eight years, not to mention, the income is good, but after a long time, it was discovered.

No one knows how many people Vladimir has helped run away over the years, so the people above who know about this matter are really a bit jealous and dare not pursue this matter ruthlessly.

If we really want to pursue it, if we go up again and say that we need to clean up the old affairs of these years, and then we have to move out those cases that have been full of dust, not to mention that we don't have so much energy to deal with it, just because this matter is implicated, it is not something that the director of Irkutsk can afford.

As a result, the matter was suppressed, but Vladimir was also asked to resign himself.

After his resignation, the business almost came to a halt, and the town of Listvyanka was transferred with a new sheriff, and Vladimir would not look for death to do this kind of business under the nose of others.

This is more than two years.

The sheriff suddenly fell ill, and Smirnov was promoted to sergeant in a daze, he was originally a matchmaker in this matter, but Vladimir felt that it was enough for him to take the blame alone, so he was not implicated.

Now that he has become a sheriff, he naturally discussed with Vladimir and planned to return to his old business.

But it will take some time to get back to the old business, first of all, to renovate the abandoned docks, and secondly, to reconnect with the forces that have been cut off by the previous refusal.

So, although Vladimir helped Cheng Yu and Lao Dapeng "run away" today, that pier has actually not been reactivated since he left the police force.

Today is the first time.

Vladimir also said: "I only received 100,000 rubles from you today, because I can see that you are not bad people, at least you are not." Second, this is not a serious business, I don't have to share the money with old Smir, and you will take care of it on the other side of the border, so I will do a good deed every day. ”

Cheng Yu also asked him how to charge in general, and Vladimir said that it was usually 200,000 rubles per person, and five people could be given a 7% discount.