The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Entering the door, he was welcomed by his three-year-old twins Alexei and Lilena. His wife Yelena was busy in the kitchen. Hearing the children welcoming father home, she shouted inside. Voice: "Clean up the table and dinner will start soon."

As a KGB colonel, he had a house with a floor area of ​​83 square meters, with his own kitchen and bathroom. In the Soviet family, the living area was very spacious, and he was also very warmly furnished by his wife.

As long as the general colonel does not have a particularly large family population, or allocates a three-bedroom house, the annual rent is purely symbolic.

The KGB is powerful, and this apartment is large. Like the older brother who lives in a community not far away, his family is also a three-bedroom, both a colonel, but the building area of ​​the Sasana house is only 72 square meters, and the area of ​​each room is smaller.

Beginning in the Khrushchev era, the people of the Soviet Union have really achieved the state's allocation of housing, and the people are still relatively satisfied, but the area is a bit smaller.

The average area of ​​one bedroom is 30 square meters and it is compact, the average area of ​​two bedrooms is 45 square meters, the average area of ​​three bedrooms is 63 square meters, and the average area of ​​four bedrooms is 100 square meters.

General-level people can be divided into hundreds of square meters, and there are even villas, colonels, and that's it: if the family has more than five people, they can be allocated to four-bedroom suites.

Andrei’s parents lived on the old street where his brother was. It was built by Khrushchev in the late period of two rooms and one hall, measuring 40 square meters. If you don’t want the house to move in with his family, you can divide it into one. A rare large suite of more than 100 square meters.

It's just that no one is so stupid to change the second, and the brothers Andre and their parents are not stupid: the area may be smaller, and it is more comfortable to live in two separate sets.

Dinner is red sausage, red cabbage soup, butter, lettuce and bread, and some deep-fried fish made by yourself. The red sausage and butter are all short-selling goods that Andre bought in the small black market nearby. There is no stock at all in the mall.

The two children are a bit noisy, and my father is not afraid of mother's suppression when he is at home. This will cause trouble again because the deep-fried fish in the bowl is bigger.

Yelena used to be a teacher at the kindergarten of the KGB headquarters in Leningrad. She half introduced half-free love, but she never went to work after giving birth. She stayed at home and took care of the children as a housewife. Now the child is in kindergarten. still the same.

The department is disbanded, but the children still have no problem going to school, they are in the kindergarten in the headquarters.

When the child's father was at home, she watched the children make trouble, and today it is the father's turn to educate the children.

"Alexey, don't fight for fried fish with your sister, the young man wants to eat red sausage, eat more meat to gain strength!"

As he gave his son a large slice, his right arm made a strong gesture.

Dad was funny, and the children naturally stopped making trouble. Yelena, who was sitting opposite, said something: She wanted to go back to the kindergarten to go to work.

She was able to go back to work because she was still an employee there and was not removed at all, but her husband was forced to retire.

He knows that his husband, Andrei, was a KGB, or the kind with a very high level of secrecy. He just doesn’t know his specific job, but he guessed it should be a kind of instructor: half of the people living in this building They are the instructors of the KGB, but they are not in the same courtyard as the dormitory of the civilian staff at the Leningrad headquarters.

Who would have thought that the actual headquarters of the kgb Special Operations Service's improved officer establishment training team was not in Moscow at all, but in Leningrad!

One day at the end of last month, her husband came back and said that his department was disbanded and he was also forced to retire. This was a great psychological shock to Yelena in these precarious years.

What to do in the future

In the past month, apart from sending his children to kindergarten, the husband never said that he had made any plans for the future, and he didn't even think about changing departments to go to work.

Even if a KGB colonel is retired, it is easy to find a job, such as going to the police department, something that can be easily solved.

kgb, the National Security Council of the Soviet Union, even if the country is now precarious, it is still awe-inspiring or simply has a frightening name!

Hearing what his wife said, Andre said: "No, it's too tiring to go to work and take the kids. There is still some savings at home. I want to wait and see the situation outside before making a decision."

When she heard her husband say this, Yelena asked a little worried: "Then this house is issued by your department, will there be a problem?"

In the Soviet Union, people basically live in public housing, and their family is no exception.

Andrei helped his daughter wipe a little bit of red cabbage soup on his chin, and said: "No, housing is the bottom line, one of the bottom lines for the dissolution of the department.

I also heard from a few old folks that the Russian Federation will soon introduce several housing-related laws, which stipulate that the existing public housing will be transferred to individuals as private property at a rate of 18 square meters per capita free of charge, and residents will pay for the excess. .

Our home is a bit over the mark, but now the ruble has depreciated like that, with some hard currency in our hands, it is probably no problem to make up the ten or so squares.

By the way, go down to my brother's house and walk more. Sasha goes abroad to fly a plane. It is not easy for Galina to take the children at home alone. "

Galina, the wife of his brother Sasha.

Andre knew about the fact that his brother Sasha was going to be a military contractor, and he had discussed it with him. He didn't oppose it, and even supported it a little.

When the world has changed, people have to live a different life.

My brother's family didn't have the hard dollar currency that he had left over the past few years because of his work. This person has to eat, so he has to rely on his ability to eat.

Besides, there are parents and their respective Yue families to take care of, and there is not much room for development in the country, so are they going to do illegal things

They love this country, they don't want to be a gang leader, and they can't afford to lose that person!

Andre doesn’t even want to be a policeman, because he doesn’t want to be a dirty policeman who can’t support his family without accepting bribes: he is the top KGB, and all NATO intelligence agencies are afraid, hated, feared, and eager for it. Then the fast red devil!

Yes, the Red Devil, the name given by the biggest opponent, the CIA, was accepted by Andre and his comrades with peace of mind, and even used as a habitual code name for these people, at least better than the brain-disabled guy came up with. What kind of training team should be smooth and mighty.

By the way, the brain damage is called Khrushchev.

The red devil goes to be a policeman, catching thieves and gangsters

Andre never thought that his future life would be like that!

These days he keeps thinking of the Obelisk of Washington-Dun, the steel forest of Manhattan in New York, the Tower of Paris and the waltz in the air of Vienna...

He is the Red Devil, and he is a Red Devil in his bones. Like the other Red Devils living in this building, he doesn't want to be a nine-to-five government worker.

None of these brothers have gone to work in the new department. They are all raising children at home just like themselves. These days, they probably have the same ideas as themselves.

The gap, the hidden confusion in the heart, and the repressive tyranny!

Yelena smiled and watched her husband coax the child to eat. Suddenly, her husband handed her the soup spoon and turned to look at the door.

The soundproofing effect of the house was average, and he heard footsteps.

Yelena didn't know that her husband had already remembered the footsteps of everyone in this building, and the footsteps coming from outside the door at this time were strange to his ears!

There was a knock on the door, no rush, and after a few taps, I heard a woman in her 30s who asked politely outside: "Hello, is Colonel Andrey Kryuchkov at home?

We are friends of Alexander Kryuchkov, and he sometimes asks us to contact you. "

Andre heard two slight door openings, of course not from his own home, but Valentin at the opposite door and Yuri, the first set in the south.

With a smile on his face, he said to his wife: "I'll go take a look."

Get up and open the door.

One male and one female, females are in their thirties, males are in their forties, relatively strong, and very ordinary in appearance, just like what I guessed from the figure just now, even the weight is about the same.

The man also carried a very large gift basket. After a glance, Andre could see that there was a huge 400-piece Swiss-made Michel Koz assorted chocolate gift box, which was priced at 650 in Switzerland. Dollar luxury chocolate is not available in Leningrad.

There is also a box of 25 Cohiba cigars made in Cuba. The price in Havana is equivalent to one thousand U.S. dollars. At present, there are occasional ones in the Soviet black world, and each one costs about 100 U.S. dollars!

There are cigarettes and alcohol: a Swedish 700ml Absolute Vodka, which sells for $40 in the black market; a rare China-produced 53-degree Flying Moutai, which is not available in the black market. It is a high-end Chinese favorite. Liquor.

There are also two very beautiful scarves boxes, which seem to be high-end products made in China. Although the price is not particularly expensive, they are currently in real shortage.

There is also a circle of fresh tropical fruits in the basket. Needless to say, this is almost impossible to see on the market. Even he himself hasn't eaten one for more than a year.

The gift box baskets are arranged horizontally, and the fruit pile also shows just the right end of the two Chanel perfume boxes. This courtesy visit gift takes care of everyone in my family.

This was just a glance. Yu Guang also saw Yuri standing at the door holding a knife and cutting a green apple. As for Valentin, he was behind the visitor.

I can't see what he is doing, but by looking at his expression, I know that everything is under control.

When the other party saw the door opened, Andre, who was dressed in home clothes and slippers, blocked the door. The woman smiled and said, "Hello, Mr. Andre.

I’m Vallena, and this is my colleague Ivan, a friend of your brother. "

"My brother has no American friends, at least a month ago. But since there is something to ask me, maybe you have something to do."

The woman who claimed to be Vallena and the middle-aged strong man were not embarrassed, but the woman said again: "Don't ask us to go in and sit."

The Ivan also gestured to the gift box basket in his hand: It didn't mean that it was expensive, and Andre saw from his face that it meant "something is too heavy".

This is the eighth floor, the elevator is broken, of course it is heavy to carry this basket up!

It feels heavy if Andre comes to pick it up by himself: it was carried up, not to mention, the clothes on the chest of this so-called Ivan have a gift box basket left with wrinkles.

"Yuri, alone in the family"

When the apple peeler Yuri heard the question, he said casually: "Well, Natalia took the child to Moscow."

Now Andre said to the two visitors: "Sorry, we are eating at home, and the children are a bit noisy. Let's go to my neighbor's house for a meeting."

Turning to say hello to his wife, he closed the door and invited the two to sit at Yuri's house.

Yuri had no objection to this, and it was justified. As for Valentin, he didn't move. He was looking at the big gift box basket that Andre told the visitor to put in the corridor without mentioning it for the time being.

With the same style of door, Yuri’s house is one size smaller than Andre’s, because Yuri is only a major and a family of three, so he can only enjoy the treatment of two bedrooms and one living room.

However, the KGB’s housing standard is high, with a size of nearly 70 square meters, and the spacious living room will not feel crowded by four people sitting down.

After sitting down, Andre looked at the other party and said in standard, unspoken American English: "Mr. Ivan, I can smell a bit of ia from you, let’s talk, what’s wrong with my brother? The words must be brought to me."

Ivan, oh, this one is called Ivan in Leningrad anyway~www.readwn.com~ Don't care what he was called twenty years ago.

He is a former IA agent. This visit to Colonel Andre did not intend to hide his previous professional habits. This action was to specifically let the other party notice his former intelligence background.

They are all of the same type, and the other party can see that they are not deliberately concealing it. This is to dispel the other's guard, otherwise...

Ivan never thought that he would visit the home of a legendary Red Devil before he was killed. What's more terrible is that after he entered this building, he found that the whole building seemed to be full of kgb!

That still hides a hair!

If you want to hide again, don't want to go out alive!

Climbing the stairs under pressure and holding a large gift box basket, it is even more excessive when you reach the 8th floor: knocking on the door and being stared at the back by others, these red devils seem to live in a pile, this is not scientific at all!

He can't wait to put a sign on his chest and back, and write it in big font: I am just a resignation ia, now I am here to send a message, no weapons on his body!

The house of the Red Devils is unscientific. I don’t know. Anyway, there is no rule that agents of the same department cannot live in a building.

Afraid of being served in a pot

They are the Red Devil, this is Leningrad!

There is nothing to hide. Ivan spoke very quickly and clearly about his intentions: they were people from the Leningrad office of the "Sunshine Star" company, but in fact, as long as they were working for the subordinate security company "Joint Force" service.

This trip was for a message, because the Alexander Kryuchkov wanted to talk to his brother.

"...We brought a satellite phone this time, but this is just for you to say a few words with your brother to confirm our identity. What Mr. Alexander really wants to tell you needs to go to the office on the other side of our office, where there is a guarantee Confidential phone with absolutely safe call."