The cold wind howled outside, but inside the house was as warm as spring.

The wood in the fireplace crackled with fire, and all the utensils in the room were crude, and the thick wood was sawn into thick planks and simply made into furniture.

Goncharova and several of his subordinates from Magadan Oblast, as well as Sun Xiaomi, Yuan Zheng, sat around a long wooden table and drank bitterly.

This is in the mountains a few dozen kilometers away from the city of Magadan, and it is now night, and it is more than minus 40 degrees outside.

It is more than 40 kilometers from the city of Magadan to here, and the construction of improvised roads and power lines were all invested by Sun Xiaomi.

Now the ski resort has not been built, but you can hunt here, and in the past few days Sun Xiaomi and his friends brought from the capital have used semi-automatic rifles to shoot four wild boars, two wolves and seven Siberian roe deer, which is what the Chinese call roe deer.

Tonight, everyone ate roast wild boar and roe deer meat.

Sun Xiaomi, Yuan Zheng, and their friends from these northern powers hit it off at first sight.

Many people who rose to prominence in the northern powers after '91 were also people with family backgrounds like Sun Xiaomi's and Yuan Zheng before '91, rather than ordinary people from the northern powers.

So they have a lot in common together.

Goncharova raised her glass and said to Sun Xiaomi: "Thank you for investing in Magadan, I hope that the ski resort will start next year, and more Chinese friends will travel here!" ”

After listening to the translation, Sun Xiaomi, Yuan Zheng and other friends from the capital all smiled and raised their glasses, and the state tax minister, police chief, and others that Goncharova brought here also raised their glasses.

After all, the northern powers are different from China, and Goncharova is the queen here when she is the governor of Magadan Oblast.

After killing the wine in the cup, Goncharova pointed to his subordinates and said to Sun Xiaomi: "If they have any problems in the process of doing things, you tell me immediately, I will investigate them immediately and deal with them!" ”

Hearing what Goncharova said, the officials of Magadan Oblast kept a smile on their faces, but they were all a little embarrassed.

Goncharova is now carrying out drastic reforms in Magadan Oblast, and inefficient, especially corrupt officials, are immediately dealt with by her.

Over the past 100 years, the situation in the northern powers has changed, but it feels like some things have not changed at all.

Goncharova decided that real change began in Magadan Oblast.

Sun Xiaomi, these people have been trained for so many years, but today they are still very unbearable in front of their friends in the big northern countries.

At the end of the feast, each of them was drunk.

When the head of the tax department, Krelev, returned to his cabin, he fumbled for a long time to open it, but he immediately froze.

Goncharova sat on a wooden pier with the muzzle of a black hole pointed at him!

Krelev involuntarily raised his hands and said: "Miss Goncharova, what are you going to do here?" ”

"Mr. Krelev, you have only been here from Moscow for a few months, and you have forgotten everything you have done?" Goncharova said coldly.

"I, I'm loyal to you!" Klelevv said.

This is the tradition of the great northern powers, loyalty represents everything, and there is nothing wrong with loyal people making big mistakes.

"But in the past few months, you've stuffed hundreds of thousands of dollars into your pocket!" Goncharova snapped.

Krelev trembled, because he knew that the woman opposite was definitely not scaring him, and Goncharova could shoot at any moment!

"Not that much, only a hundred thousand dollars! The rest of the money was used by me to entertain the big people from Moscow, and I am doing this for you! Klelev argued.

Goncharova slowly put away her pistol.

Krelev finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that this demonic woman was finally going to let herself go.

But then Goncharova said something that made Krelev creepy: "What are those big Moscow men doing here? Except for the ostensible reason is that you are spying on me in the dark? ”

The next morning, when everyone got up, they found that Krelev was gone, and they searched several wooden houses and found nothing.

There were also no fewer vehicles in the camp, which indicates that Krelev did not leave.

The temperature is now minus forty degrees, and a person outside without a vehicle will soon die.

"Let's drive back to Magadan, Krelev, the drunkard, didn't get drunk last night and want to walk back to Magadan, right?" Goncharova said.

The group drove back to Magadan, and when the convoy was halfway there, there was a man lying on the side of the road just a few kilometers from Magadan.

Everyone got out of the car, and Goncharova's female secretary exclaimed: "Look at the clothes, it should be Krelev!" ”

Someone turned the body over, it was none other than Krelev, who had already frozen!

"Poor fellow, but his luck is good, if it snowed last night he will have to wait until half a year later to find him." Goncharova said.

Sun Xiaomi and the others from the capital stood there far away and did not come to observe.

Yuan Zheng took out a cigarette and lit it and said, "Any strange thing can happen here!" ”

Returning to Magadan, Goncharova found Kravchuk waiting for her anxiously.

"It's more than 7,000 kilometers from Moscow, and the airport is closed due to heavy snowfall, how did you get here?" Goncharova asked.

Apparently Kravchuk was not in the mood to answer Goncharova's question, and he eagerly asked: "Goncharova, what should I do?" ”

Goncharova obviously understood what Kravchuk meant, and she replied lightly: "Immediately here, don't you have a lot of money abroad?" That's enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life. ”

"But what about my mine? Those mines are worth billions of dollars! Kravchuk asked indifferently.

"Since you can't bear those mines, go back there, and let the workers do a blast to bury you inside, so that you can be with those mines forever!" Goncharova replied.

Goncharova's suggestion was obviously not what Kravchuk wanted, and he hesitated to say: "So I'm going to leave right away?" ”

Goncharova nodded slowly.

"Go back to Moscow and then go?" Clough said Chuck asked.

"For the sake of our acquaintance since childhood, I suggest that you go to Vladivostok immediately, you go to Konstantin, and he will arrange for you to go abroad from Nakhodka." Goncharova replied.

Kravchuk stood there for a long time without speaking, knowing that he might never come back if he was right away.

Finally having made up his mind, Kravchuk strode out.

He walked to the door and opened the door, then suddenly turned around and said: "Goncharova, I know everything above, including the matter between you and that Chinese Vertong, maybe I will see you in the United States in a few years!" And what's the point of all these things you're doing here? You can't change anything! Even if the Arctic Ocean is completely melted, the great powers of the north will not change! ”

Looking at Kravchuk's back, Goncharova's face also became ugly.

(End of chapter)