Red Moscow

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

"Yeah, I understand." Sokov said absently, "I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."

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

First, she saw a novel signed with her name in the book left by Lyuba's father; secondly, she saw a record about herself in the diary of her landlord's grandfather. Today was even more outrageous. He actually saw his old subordinate Lida. Although her appearance had completely changed, the other party still guessed her true identity from the tone of her voice.

There are various signs that everything that happened when he traveled back to the Great Patriotic War was not a long dream, but something that really happened. According to the clues I have, it seems to indicate that I may return to the late 1940s again, so I must prepare early.

Lida, who appeared unexpectedly, knew a lot of information that she didn't know. Unfortunately, Victoria told herself that Leda had Alzheimer's disease and was unconscious most of the time. When I chatted with her in the past, it was really difficult to judge which of what she said was true and which was just her imagination.

Nothing happened all night.

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

When he came downstairs, he dialed Ana's phone: "I'm downstairs, you and Lina come down quickly, I'll take you to work."

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

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

"Lena, you are really annoying, what are you talking about?" Anna, who was sitting in the passenger seat, pretended to be angry: "If I didn't go there last night, Misha wouldn't be able to sleep?"

Sokov thought Lena was joking, smiled, started the vehicle and prepared to go for inspection.

Unexpectedly, Liena asked next: "Misha, did you say that no one would cause trouble in the store last night?"

Hearing Lena's words, Sokov's face could not help but darken. Although the two people who tried to set the fire yesterday have been imprisoned in the police station, it is not ruled out that Wang Juntao and his like will continue to send people to cause trouble. Others don't know Wang Juntao, but I have heard of some of the bad things he has done in the past. In the early 1990s, Wang Juntao was among the robbers who repeatedly robbed the world, and he had done many bad things that are too numerous to mention.

Later, the Chinese police and the Russian police joined forces to defeat this group of international robbers, but a few of them slipped through the net. Especially Wang Juntao, who was suffering from a heart disease and was being treated in a hospital in St. Petersburg at the time. By some strange combination of circumstances, he evaded capture and saved his life. After the limelight passed, he formed a gang with other accomplices who had slipped through the crackdown, specifically to do things to oppress his compatriots.

How can such a person give up easily if he fails to please himself? He will definitely find ways to deal with himself. Sokov was thinking about how he should deal with him if he made any small moves again.

When they arrived at the market, Anna did not go to work immediately. Instead, she followed Sokov to his shop to see if there was anything wrong.

Everything is normal at the entrance of the store, and occasionally patrolling security guards pass by. When they see Sokov and others, they will take the initiative to say hello.

Lena stopped a security guard, asked a few questions, and 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 them away if those people came to cause trouble again, it would affect his mood after all. He opened the store door, confirmed that everything was normal, and said to Anna: "Ana, I have nothing here, you go to work."

"Misha, if anything happens, remember to call me." Anna made a phone call gesture towards Sokov, "I will rush over immediately."

Sokov didn't think Anna coming over would do him any favors when something happened. But since the other party said that, he still nodded and said perfunctorily: "Okay, if anything happens, I will call you."

The incident of causing trouble in the store did not happen. But starting around ten o'clock, there were several menacing-looking bald or crew-cut men walking past the store door from time to time. If they see a customer wanting to enter the store, they stop and make a loud noise outside the store, causing the customers who were about to enter the store to shake their heads and walk away.

Liena looked very angry when she saw this situation: "Misha, look, these people are just here to cause trouble. I'll call the security guards and drive them away."

But Sokov stopped her: "Lena, it's useless. Even if we call the security guards, there's nothing we can do with them. After all, they didn't enter the door, they just walked around outside."

"Are we just going to watch them make trouble?" Lena said angrily: "If this continues, no customers will come in today."

There have been similar scenes in movies and TV shows. The gang wanted to bring down a restaurant, so they arranged for people to occupy seats. Each person had a table, ordered a plate of peanuts, and ate for the whole day. The boss knew clearly that these people were here to cause trouble. Yes, but I still can’t take advantage of others.

Sokov sat in the store, looking at the gangsters 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 gangsters.

At this moment, the phone rang. He took out the phone and looked at the caller ID. He unexpectedly found that it was Victoria, the female police officer from yesterday. He guessed whether it was related to Lida, and quickly answered the phone: "Hello, Victoria, this is Misha, what can I do for you?"

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

"Well, no problem." Sokov replied: "I'll go there after dinner."

Before hanging up the phone, Victoria asked casually out of politeness: "Misha, do you need any help?"

When she said this, the gangsters outside the door passed by again, and one of them even stopped and spat at the door of the store.

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

"So it's this matter. I'm nearby, let me go over there."

More than ten minutes later, Victoria appeared outside the store with several policemen. She asked the others to stay outside the door and walked into the store alone.

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

Lena recognized the female police officer as the one who led the team to investigate the scene yesterday. Although she didn't understand why Sokov and the female police officer were so close just after one day, they were like friends for many years.

Victoria and Sokov had just said a few words when the gangsters appeared outside the store again, but they didn't dare to stay when they saw the police standing here, and they quickened their pace to try to leave. But Victoria rushed to the door of the store and said to her subordinates: "Stop them and check their documents."

The police standing at the door and chatting heard Victoria's order and immediately stepped forward to stop the gangsters and check their documents. Although these gangsters are arrogant and domineering on weekdays, they stand obediently and dare not move when they see the police in front of them, just like mice seeing a cat.

This check really found the problem. Four of the five gangsters had no documents, and the only one with a document had a visa that expired for more than half a year.

Victoria was just for the sake of her great-grandmother and was ready to help Sokov solve a small problem. Unexpectedly, she caught five illegal immigrants. She quickly ordered her subordinates, "You guys take them back to the bureau first, and after verifying their identities, send them to the immigration bureau."

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

Victoria chatted with Sokov for a few more words, and told him to come to her house as a guest in the evening, and then turned around 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 my house." Sokov said briefly, "I met her at the door when I got off work yesterday. She said that 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 cleaned up all the gangsters."

"Oh, that's how it is." After Lena figured out the reason why Victoria helped, she asked curiously, "Do you think those gangsters will be released immediately after being taken away?"

"It's hard to say." Sokov knew very well that although the identities of the gangsters who were arrested were not legal, 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 make trouble will have to bleed a lot and spend a lot of money to bail them out."

"Will anyone come to make trouble tomorrow?"

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

"If no one makes trouble, then thank God." Lena said: "It's the off-season now, and there are not many customers entering the store. If they mess up again, then don't even think about doing business."

When colleagues on the street saw the gangsters constantly wandering on this street, although they were worried about Sokov in their hearts, 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. At this moment, 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 at the same time explained why they didn't come just now.

"Xiao Lin, what happened to the group of police just now?" Someone asked curiously: "Why did they arrest those gangsters?"

"My store was doused with gasoline yesterday, and it was this female police officer who led the team." Sokov did not tell everyone about his relationship with Victoria, but instead made up a plot that seemed very reasonable: "When she came over today to ask me about the situation here, she happened to see the group of gangsters passing by outside the door, so she asked her men to check their documents. Unexpectedly, these people were all illegal immigrants without documents, so they all Take him back to the police station for screening."

"After these people are arrested by the police, I guess Wang Juntao will be honest for a while and stop sending people to harass you."

"I hope so."

Unexpectedly, before leaving get 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 to explain, he would have caused so much trouble. After he rejected the rude request he made the day before yesterday, he actually found seven or eight gangsters who wanted to smash up his store. Fortunately, Lina and Ada called the security guards in time and caught them, thus avoiding damage to the store. That night, the gang to which those gangsters belonged sent people to pour gasoline and try to set fire to the house. Fortunately, the security guards were vigilant and stopped them in time. Today, five more gangsters were sent to walk around outside his store, affecting his business. After so many things happened, how could Lao Tan still have the face to appear in front of him.

Seeing that Sokov ignored him, Lao Tan continued: "The people who have come to see you in the past two days have basically been arrested and taken to the police station. To rescue them, it will take at least five to six million rubles. The gang boss Wang Someone has been sent to ask me to pay this money. I have been losing money in recent months, so I can’t afford it at all.”

Sokov laughed angrily at Lao Tan's words: "So, you want me to pay this money?"

"Yes, that's right." Old Tan nodded vigorously: "That's what I mean. Anyway, you have to bear the main responsibility for so many things that happened. I was just implicated by you."

Sokov suppressed the anger in his heart and did not slap the other person out of his store. He turned to Lena and said, "Lena, go find the security guard and ask him to drive this person away."

A lot of things happened in the past two days, so Liena was naturally more vigilant than usual. At this moment, when Sokov told him to call security, he immediately understood what was going on.

With little effort, two security guards came to the store under the leadership of Liena.

A tall security guard walked up to Lao Tan and stretched out his hand: "Where are you and what are you doing here? Take out your ID!"

Although the person standing in front of him was only 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 to the company office with us and explain this matter clearly."

When Lao Tan was taken away, he stared at Sokov with fire-breathing eyes. If eyes could kill, Sokov must have been burned to charcoal.