red moscow

Chapter 2681

Chapter 2681

As soon as he got home, Sokov received a call from Anna: "Misha, I have something to do today, so I won't go over. I was afraid that you would worry about me, so I called to tell you."

"Yeah, I see." Sokov said absentmindedly, "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."

After hanging up the phone, Sokov sat at his desk and thought carefully about what had happened in the past few days.

First, I saw a novel with my name in the book left by Liuba's father; then I saw a record about myself in the diary of my landlord's grandfather. Today was even more outrageous, I actually met my old subordinate Lida. Although my appearance had completely changed, she still guessed my true identity from the tone of my voice.

All signs indicate that what happened during the Great Patriotic War was not a long dream, but a real thing. According to the clues I have, it seems that I may return to the late 1940s again, so I must prepare early.

Lida, who unexpectedly appeared, knew a lot of information that she didn't know. Unfortunately, Victoria told herself that Lida had Alzheimer's disease and was unconscious most of the time. When she went to chat with her in the past, it was hard to judge which of her words were true and which were just her imagination.

Nothing happened all night.

The next morning, Sokov drove to Anna's place to pick her up for work.

When he came downstairs, he called Anna: "I'm downstairs, you and Lena come down quickly, I'll take you to work."

After waiting for about half an hour, Anna and Lena came out of the apartment building and walked straight to Sokov's car.

Lena opened the back door and asked Sokov with a smile as she got in: "Misha, did you sleep well last night?"

"Lena, you are so annoying. What nonsense are you talking about?" Anna, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pretended to be angry and said, "Misha couldn't sleep because I didn't go there last night?"

Sokov originally thought Lena was joking, so he smiled, started the car and prepared to go for inspection.

Unexpectedly, Lena asked, "Misha, do you think someone went to the store to cause trouble again last night?"

Hearing Lena's words, Sokov's face sank. Although the two people who tried to set the fire yesterday have been locked up in the police station, it is not ruled out that Wang Juntao and his ilk will continue to send people to cause trouble. Others don't know Wang Juntao, but he has heard of his past bad deeds. In the early 1990s, Wang Juntao was among the robbers who robbed the International Lines repeatedly, and he did a lot of bad things that are hard to describe.

Later, the Chinese police and the Russian police joined forces to crack down on this group of international robbers, but a few of them escaped. In particular, Wang Juntao, who was suffering from a heart disease at the time and was being treated in a hospital in St. Petersburg, escaped arrest by accident and saved his life. After the storm passed, he and other accomplices who escaped formed a gang and specialized in oppressing fellow citizens.

How could such a person, who had not been able to get any good from him, give up easily? He would definitely find ways to deal with him. Sokov was thinking in his heart, if he did something tricky again, how should he deal with him.

Arriving at the market, Anna did not go to work immediately, but followed Sokov to his shop to see if there was anything wrong.

Everything was normal at the store entrance, with patrolling security guards occasionally passing by. When they saw Sokov and the others, they would take the initiative to say hello.

Lena stopped a security guard, asked a few questions, and then came back to report to Sokov: "Misha, I asked the security guard, everything was normal last night, nothing happened."

"That's good, that's good." Although Sokov could ask the security guards to drive those people away if they came to cause trouble again, it would still affect his mood. He opened the door of the store, confirmed that everything was normal, and said to Anna: "Anna, I'm fine here, you can go to work."

"Misha, if anything happens, remember to call me." Anna made a phone gesture to Sokov, "I'll come right over."

Sokov didn't think Anna could help him if something happened. But since the other party said so, he nodded and said perfunctorily: "Okay, I'll call you if there's anything."

There really was no trouble in the store. But starting around 10 o'clock, a few men with bald or crew-cut hair who looked ferocious would walk by the store door from time to time. If they saw a customer about to enter the store, they would stop and make a loud noise outside the store door, causing the customers who were about to enter the store to walk away shaking their heads.

Seeing this, Lena was very angry: "Misha, look at these people, they are just here to cause trouble. I'll call the security guards to chase them away."

But Sokov stopped her: "Lena, it's useless. Even if we call the security guards, we can't do anything to them. After all, they didn't come in, they were just walking around outside the door."

"Are we just going to watch them mess things up?" Lena said angrily, "If they continue like this, no customers will come in today."

Similar scenes have been played out in movies and TV dramas. Gangs want to destroy a restaurant, so they arrange people to occupy seats. Each person has a table, orders a plate of peanuts, and eats them all day long. The boss knows that these people are there to deliberately cause trouble, but he can't get any handle on them.

Sokov sat in the store, looking at the hooligans passing by the door from time to time, thinking about how to drive them away. But after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a solution. He smiled bitterly in his heart. He was a general who once commanded thousands of troops and made the Germans terrified, but now he was helpless in the face of a few hooligans.

At this moment, the phone rang. He took out his phone and looked at the caller ID. He was surprised to find that it was Victoria, the female police officer from yesterday. He wondered if it was related to Lida, so he quickly answered the phone: "Hello, Officer Victoria, this is Misha, what can I do for you?"

"Hello, Misha!" Victoria said politely on the phone, "When I left home early in the morning, my great-grandmother told me to make sure you come to our house. Can you come to my house after dinner?"

"Yes, no problem," Sokov replied, "I'll be there after dinner."

Before hanging up the phone, Victoria asked politely, "Misha, is there anything I can help you with?"

As she said this, the thugs outside the door passed by again. One of them even stopped intentionally and spat towards the door of the store.

"Victoria, I'm in some trouble." Sokov quickly told Victoria about the problem he was facing, and finally said, "Do you have any good ideas to solve this problem?"

"So that's what happened. I'm nearby, let me go over there." Ten minutes later, Victoria showed up outside the store with a few police officers. She asked the others to stay outside and walked into the store alone.

Seeing Victoria coming in, Sokov hurriedly went to greet her and said politely, "Victoria, you're here!" Then he told Lena, "Pour the officer a cup of tea!"

Lena recognized the female police officer as the one who led the team to investigate the scene yesterday. She didn't understand how Sokov and the female police officer could become so close like old friends just one day later.

Victoria and Sokov had just exchanged a few words when the gangsters reappeared outside the store. However, they saw the police standing there and did not dare to stay. They quickened their pace and tried to leave. But Victoria rushed to the store door and said to her subordinates, "Stop them and check their IDs."

The police standing at the door chatting, upon hearing Victoria's order, immediately stepped forward, stopped the gangsters, and checked their IDs. Although these gangsters were arrogant and domineering on weekdays, when they saw the police in front of them, they stood still like mice seeing a cat and dared not move.

The investigation did reveal a problem. Four of the five thugs had no documents, and the only one with documents had a visa that had expired more than half a year ago.

Victoria was only trying to help Sokov solve a small problem for the sake of her great-grandmother, but she didn't expect to catch five illegal immigrants. She quickly ordered her subordinates, "You guys take them back to the bureau first, verify their identities, and then send them to the Immigration Bureau."

After hearing this, the policemen showed joy on their faces, and they quickly agreed loudly, then took the gangsters away.

Victoria chatted with Sokov for a few more words, told him to visit her home in the evening, and then turned and left.

"Misha," Lena asked curiously after Victoria left, "You seem to have a good relationship with this female police officer."

"She is my neighbor, she lives downstairs from me." Sokov said briefly, "I met her at the door yesterday when I got off work. She said if I encounter any problems, I can call her and she will find a way to help me solve it. Look, as soon as she came, she took care of all those hooligans."

"Oh, so that's how it is." After Lena figured out why Victoria helped, she asked curiously, "You said that after those thugs were taken away, they would be released immediately?"

"It's hard to say." Sokov knew very well that although the identities of the arrested gangsters were illegal, if Wang Juntao wanted to help them, he would definitely use his money to get them out of the police station: "But if they want to get out, the people who sent them to cause trouble will have to spend a lot of money to bail them out."

"Will anyone come to cause trouble tomorrow?"

"I don't think there will be any more." Sokov thought of how Wang Juntao had already locked up more than a dozen of his men in the police station in order to deal with him. To get these people out, it would cost at least 200,000 rubles per person, and he didn't know if he was willing to spend that money: "If we want to get all the people who were arrested these days out, it will cost a lot of money."

"If no one messes up, then we're really thankful." Lena said, "It's already the off-season, so there aren't many customers coming into the store. If they mess up like this, then we won't be able to do business anymore."

When fellow travelers on the street saw the gangsters constantly wandering around the street, they were worried about Sokov, but they didn't dare to come to him. They didn't think they had the ability to fight against the gang members under Wang Juntao. Seeing that the gangsters were taken away by the police, they also came to Sokov's store one after another to inquire about the situation and explain why they didn't come here just now.

"Xiao Lin, what happened to those policemen just now?" Someone asked curiously, "How did they arrest those thugs?"

"My store was doused with gasoline yesterday, and it was this female police officer who led the team." Sokov did not tell everyone about the relationship between himself and Victoria, but made up a seemingly reasonable plot: "When she came to ask about the situation here today, she happened to see the gangsters walking by the door, so she asked her men to check their IDs. Who knew that these people were illegal immigrants without documents, so they were all taken back to the police station for screening."

"After these people are arrested by the police, I think Wang Juntao will behave himself for a while and won't send anyone to harass you anymore."

"I hope so."

Unexpectedly, before getting off work, the instigator, Lao Tan, appeared in Sokov's shop.

He said with a sad face: "Brother, please, for the sake of the fact that we are all Chinese, please help me."

Sokov was extremely disgusted with Lao Tan at this moment. If he hadn't stepped forward and insisted on asking the arrogant Mr. Cai for an explanation, there wouldn't have been so many troubles. After his rude request the day before yesterday was rejected by him, he actually found seven or eight thugs to smash his store. Fortunately, Lena and Ada called the security guards in time and caught them, thus avoiding damage to the store. That night, the gang that the thugs belonged to sent people to pour gasoline and try to set fire. Fortunately, the security guards were highly vigilant and stopped them in time. Today, five more thugs were sent to walk around outside his store, affecting his business. After so many things happened, how could Lao Tan still have the nerve to appear in front of him.

Seeing that Sokov ignored him, Lao Tan continued, "Most of the people who came to see you in the past two days have been arrested by the police. It will cost at least five or six million rubles to rescue them. The gang's boss Wang has sent someone to tell me to pay the money. I have been losing money in the past few months and cannot afford the money. So..."

Sokov was so angry at what Lao Tan said that he laughed: "So you want me to pay for it?"

"That's right." Old Tan nodded vigorously. "That's what I mean. No matter what, you have to take the main responsibility for so many things that happened. I was just implicated by you."

Sokov suppressed his anger and refrained from slapping the man out of his store. He turned to Lena and said, "Lena, go find the security guard and ask him to drive this man away."

A lot of things happened in the past two days, so Lena was naturally more vigilant than usual. When she heard Sokov asking her to call the security guard, she immediately understood what was going on.

It didn't take long before two security guards, led by Lena, arrived at the store.

A tall security guard walked up to Lao Tan and held out his hand to him: "Where are you from and what are you doing here? Show me your ID!"

Although the person standing in front of him was just a security guard, after understanding what the other party said, Lao Tan obediently took out his passport and handed it to the other party.

The tall security guard looked at the passport, then shook his head and said, "Come with us to the company office and explain this matter clearly."

When Lao Tan was taken away, he stared at Sokov with his flaming eyes. If eyes could kill, Sokov would have been burned to charcoal.


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