"Excuse me, which of you is the captain?"

Lin asked in a London accent of English, and reached out to shake hands with the first person to come forward, but no one did, and he retracted his hand in embarrassment. The sloppy crew members in front of them, all with dull eyes, seemed to be unable to understand English.

He also noticed that the crew did not look at him kindly, perhaps because of his strange request not to dock, and some of them must have been eager to get ashore.

At this time, Chu Aiyun had already boarded the boat, he walked to the crane and was immediately stopped by a crew member with a big waist and a round waist.

At this time, out of the front hatch came a slightly older old man, wearing a hat with a Soviet Navy cockade and a pipe, the third person on the deck wearing a shirt and trousers besides Lin Xiuxuan and Chu Aiyun.

"I'm Captain Zakharov."

He said in heavily accented English. Then he stretched out his calloused hand and shook hands with Lin Xiuxuan, but ignored Chu Aiyun.

"It's great to see you, I heard from Mr. Adams, that you are a fine captain who always completes the contracted course on time, even in times of war." Lin hurriedly complimented.

"The Brits told me that a rather absurd request had been made, and that they and this man had modified the agreement without our consent at all; And such an act is likely to undermine the peace treaty between Japan and the Japanese government. Obviously, you're that person. Well, let's go to the captain's room and talk. ”

"Yes, this person is me, and I was trying to talk to you about these things."

"Damn the sun," the old man put his hand on the pergola and looked at the sky, "I don't like summer in Shanghai, it's only 8 o'clock in the morning, and standing on the deck is like being in Africa." ”

Lin followed the captain closely and walked past a group of puffing crew members, who he could hear whispering in Russian.

"Look, it's this smuggler who wants to get us in trouble. If the Japanese find out that we are misbehaving, they will arrest the boat and we will not be able to go home. ”

"I could have gone ashore in the afternoon, but he messed it up."

"That's right, the Chinese are all wretched, it is not okay to fight with the Japanese, there is a set of difficulties in making money, and Stalin gave them a thousand planes did not work. If it were us Russians, we would definitely beat the Japanese back......"

"Stop bragging, Vasily Konstantin Petrovich, aren't you Russians beaten by the Germans all the same? Lost most of Belarus. ”

"Shut up Sergei Semenov, you dog bastard of a rich Ukrainian peasant, I know that you are disobeying the rules and eavesdropping on foreign broadcasts, these are all rumors spread by the imperialists. The Red Army was invincible. We'll be attacking the border soon. ”

"You pig brainwashed by the Communists, the fall of Minsk is what the BBC broadcasts say, Britain has become an ally of you Russians, and they will not fake the victory of the Germans. Soviet rule was crumbling. ”

"You walking defeatist traitor, see if I don't tear your mouth apart."

Lin Xiuxuan has worked hard to study the main languages in Europe, and he can understand these private conversations, and it is obvious that the differences between these crew members on the ship have not been completely bridged, which may be related to the high proportion of Ukrainian crew members. This is also a problem for himself, and perhaps Captain Zakharov would prefer to hurry to the shore and let those who are willing to leave go quickly.

The captain stopped, sternly glanced at the tongue-chewing crew, these strong conversations disappeared, it seems that the captain's prestige is still there for the time being, but how long can it be suppressed?

Lin noticed a large number of wine bottles piled up in the hallway, and many of the Soviet patriotic posters on the corridor wall had been torn off.

They walked into the small, tidy captain's cabin and sat down at a small table. The captain turned on the greasy, dirty electric fan on the wall.

"I don't speak Chinese and I'm not fluent in English, but the good thing is that what we're going to talk about doesn't seem complicated." The captain closed the door and got straight to the point.

"What's the condition, just say it."

"Your demands are not in accordance with the rules, and in any country, smuggling is not in accordance with the rules. You know, my ship is not obligated to cooperate with you. In particular, the Soviet government issued a new circular to every ship on the route, and the more difficult times were, the more difficult it was, every ship had to discipline itself. ”

Lin didn't have anything to say for the time being, he waited for the following.

"But, I'm a reasonable person...... "The captain looked at the Chinese opposite, "I'll give you five minutes, and you can give your reasons." ”

As he spoke, he turned around, took the two cups, and then turned to Lin, who shook his head. He poured himself half a glass of wine.

"Mr. Captain, I can pay you a little more extra for you, and your crew, or ...... privately"

Lin said in a low voice, he naturally felt that the captain let him enter the captain's room alone, which was a very clear hint that if money could solve the problem, why bother adding to the trouble.

"No, it won't work with me to pay a bribe. If a member of the crew denounces me, I will be removed from my post, and this kind of thing will be detrimental to my honor. The captain shouted, as if he was afraid that the people outside would not hear about the bribery.

Lin was a little stunned for a moment, he had imagined various possibilities in advance, but Zakharov's reaction was still unexpected, and he didn't know what the captain wanted for a while. Perhaps, just want the lion to open his mouth and blackmail?

"No, no, Captain Zakharov, we're not talking about a small amount. Trust me, such a small risk is definitely worth the risk. Whether it's gold, or dollars, you open a price. ”

The captain drank the liquor and stared at Lin with stern eyes, as if Lin's offer had offended him.

Due to some technical problems, the second drone released by 419 arrived a little late, and did not form a seamless handover with the one that left, forming a gap of about 50 minutes of intelligence update. When it flew over the two ships, the observers on No. 419 noticed that there was something new outside Takahashi, and after the morning fog on the sea had gradually dissipated, a steamboat with a Japanese flag suddenly appeared, and it was going around in the reeds, as if it could not find its way out.

For the time being, the boat was still far from the Cossacks and Meteors, but this morning the tide was high, and the water level was quite high, and the nearby reeds might not be able to hide the towering chimneys of the Red Cossacks, and the black smoke that kept rising from them, which had neither turned off nor anchored after the ship lowered its rope ladder. Apparently not ready to unload.

As time passed, eventually, the operator could see the Japanese soldiers on the bridge, suddenly put his hands on the pergola and look over there, and then began to point.

419 immediately informed Lu Qingshan, who was on standby on the Meteor, that there was a small motorboat weighing one or two tons of the enemy, which was approaching from 1.5 kilometers away, and there was a machine gun in front of the open-air bridge on the motorboat, and eight Japanese soldiers could be seen.

The sudden matter was too urgent, Lu Qingshan didn't have time to inform Lin Xiuxuan, who was on the Soviet ship, he could only explain a few words to Chu Aiyun, who was standing on the deck with headphones hidden behind his ears, through the radio, and then he could quickly deploy the combat mission, the special team had already practiced the confrontation of similar situations before, but at that time he was preparing to deal with the puppet army anti-smuggling ship outside Wusongkou, but he didn't expect to hit the Japanese patrol boat, of course, with 3 to 4 *, strafing the unprepared enemy below, the result will not be any different.

At the same time, in the captain's room, Lin Xiuxuan's conversation with the captain became less and less speculative.

"Alexander Ivanovich Captain Zakharov, what exactly do you want? As long as you can make it convenient, I will definitely give you a satisfactory price. You must be mistaken, I'm not one of those ordinary smugglers. We have some strong backends. ”

Lin was still digging into the horns, hoping that the captain would make a price, so that everything would be solved. This captain really made his head big, he had never seen such a calm guy.

"Mr. Lin, you have disappointed me so much," said the captain suddenly and sternly, "I agree that those vampires of Shell have come to this harbor to meet you in the hope that you will give me a noble reason, and not simply to buy me for the sake of war money. In those days, I braved the fire of the fascists to send artillery to the Spanish comrades, and I regarded it as a noble cause...... I didn't expect that at a time when China was facing extinction, I would meet a filthy guy like you and insult me here with money. ”

Lin suddenly opened his mind, and he thought to himself: It turns out that he has lost his eyes, this bearded captain eats this set, why didn't he say it earlier? If you want a noble reason, I'll make one up for you now.

"I must tell you frankly, Captain Zakharov, that we urgently need this batch of fuel, in fact, to oppose the Japanese."

The twist is a bit hard, which will inevitably make his next words sound like lying, and a good story must have foreshadowing, which is the common sense of a person like Lin who is good at making up nonsense. But now he doesn't have time to make the story slick and reasonable, and Zakharov is clearly not an easy fool.