Siberia in December is filled with flowing birch forests and solid white soil.
The pale dry trunk is covered with irregular brown scars, like the eyes of a glaring wolf.
In the middle of the almost pristine wilderness, there may be a bunch of hills, and crows cawing on the stone stalls.
On the slope next to the track, the white soil was blown bald by the wind, revealing the ugly black soil.
The desolate scenery outside the car window is heart-wrenching.
Li Aiguo leaned against the window and tapped his fingers lightly on the table.
A Russian broadcast rang in my ears. The train had passed Novosibirsk Station, and the next stop was Ormsk Passenger Station.
There are only two days left before the destination of Moscow. If we can't figure out the private room where the courier is, we won't be able to start the operation.
This is the first time that Li Aiguo has encountered such a difficult situation.
At this moment, the door of the private room was pushed open, and the strong wind that followed blew away the towel hanging on the window.
Li Aiguo picked up the towel, looked at Yu Jinan who hurried in, and asked, "What happened?"
"Xianglan, Chen Xianglan seems to be sick!" Yu Jinan, who had always been calm, felt anxious on his forehead. His veins were as thick as his little finger.
"Sick? Let's go and have a look."
As a train driver, no one knows the troublesome aspects of getting sick on the train better than Li Aiguo.
Duanchang Xing also jumped down from the middle berth and followed them.
A few people came to the private room next door and saw Chen Xianglan curled up on the bunk, her slender eyelashes trembling slightly. She was holding the bedding tightly, her nails almost sinking into it, it was a desire to grab What, but struggling helplessly.
Anyone who looked at it could feel that she was in pain at this time.
The passengers next to him were helpless, and Fatty Chen rubbed his hands in worry.
Seeing Li Aiguo and Duan Chang Xing come in, he hurriedly said: "Comrade train driver, you have been driving all year round and are well-informed. Come and see what disease this girl has?"
Leave Li Aiguo. He went over and sat by the bed, stretched out his hand to touch Chen Xianglan's forehead, checked her pulse, and asked her a few questions.
Although Chen Xianglan was in unbearable pain, she still forced herself to explain her symptoms.
“Nausea and vomiting, abdominal discomfort, I just went to the bathroom.”
Li Aiguo breathed a sigh of relief and said, “It should be acute gastroenteritis. This disease is very dangerous and cannot be treated well. It will be life-threatening.
But it is very common among passengers. Antibacterial drugs are usually prepared on trains."
Li Aiguo realized something was wrong and turned to look at Yu Jinan: "Where is the flight attendant? ? Didn't you notify the flight attendant? "
If a passenger is sick on the train, the first thing to do is to notify the flight attendant for assistance.
Yu Jinan looked a little angry: "I informed you, but the flight attendant said that they can't talk too much to us Chinese passengers."
Li Aiguo's face turned pale all of a sudden.
Without the cooperation of the flight attendants, there would be no way to obtain antibacterial drugs.
“Now that passengers are sick, they dare to stand by and watch. What kind of thing is this? Let’s go find the flight attendant.”
The passengers and Yu Jinan all felt that the Lao Maozi crew had gone too far, and they all followed Li Aiguo.
Li Aiguo noticed that Fatty Chen, who always had a smile on his face when meeting everyone, seemed particularly positive.
Fatty Chen is about forty years old this year. He is chubby and only carries a backpack. This time he went to Lao Maozi's house. It is said that he was traveling.
Of course Li Aiguo didn't believe what Fatty Chen said.
Are you kidding me? Why don’t you go to the moon when backpacking is popular these days?
It’s just that Fatty Chen looked careless, but his reputation was very tight. Li Aiguo tried it several times and gave up without figuring out his true identity.
At this time, Lao Maozi's flight attendant was guarding the connection between the carriages. When he saw a few people approaching, his expression changed slightly.
“What do you want to do?”
Li Aiguo stopped the excited Yu Jinan, stepped forward, and said calmly: “Comrade flight attendant, now one of our passengers is seriously ill and needs medicine urgently. , I believe that the train must be equipped with medicine, so please help me.”
The female flight attendant already knew what happened, and said with some embarrassment: “Dear comrade, it’s not that we are unwilling to provide medicine. Yes, we have regulations.”
"Can regulations allow you to watch a passenger put his life in danger?"
Li Aiguo said with a straight face: "As a train conductor, I believe you have also received relevant education, and you should know that no matter where you are, The safety of passengers must be given top priority at all times.”
The female flight attendant originally planned to use the previous method to deal with the situation, but she did not expect that Li Aiguo knew the rules and regulations of flight attendants so well.
"Wait a moment, I need to report to the conductor." The female flight attendant turned and ran to the conductor's cabin at the back.
Li Aiguo and others made a lot of noise.
Chinese passengers in several nearby compartments rushed over after hearing the news.
Li Aiguo noticed that Lao Mao and the others were also standing in the distance, and gave them a look, indicating that they should not be anxious for the time being.
A moment later.
The female flight attendant came over with a lesbian in uniform.
This woman is 1.9 meters tall, probably in her thirties, wearing a dark green cloak and long leather boots.
The whole person can be described with the word "钒".
"Hello, I am the train conductor, my name is Zoya. Do you have any appeals?" Zoya spoke calmly, her face was tense, and her cold eyes slid across the faces of the passengers.
"Hello, I am Li Aiguo, the train driver at the Qianmen Locomotive Depot!"
Li Aiguo walked up and shook hands with the conductor: "Zoya is the name of a hero."
Hearing that Li Aiguo was the train driver, Zhuo Ya's attitude softened a little.
"The flight attendant has already reported the specific situation to me. If it were in the past, I could indeed help you get some medicine as an exception."
Zhuo Ya paused and seemed to be organizing her words. .
“But, it’s impossible now.”
As soon as these words came out, the passengers were angry.
Especially Yu Jinan, when he thought of Chen Xianglan suffering from illness, he became angry and yelled at that time.
Those Chinese passengers angrily criticized Lao Maozi's flight attendants for not caring about human lives.
The scene was in chaos for a while.
“These people are so bullying!” Yan Zi also lost his temper and wanted to rush over, but was stopped by the old cat.
"This matter may have something to do with carriage No. 3. Don't be anxious yet and listen to Driver Li's arrangements."
Hearing this, Yanzi stopped and clenched his fists tightly.
Zhuo Ya and several flight attendants were unexpectedly calm in the face of the aggressive passengers.
Li Aiguo then noticed that several policemen behind them had taken out pistols and quickly stopped Yu Jinan.
“Yu Jinan, if you want to help Zhuo Ya, you have to listen to me!”
Yu Jinan, who was in a rage, didn’t know why, but the anger in his heart disappeared, and he nodded solemnly and said : "Driver Li, I listen to you."
Li Aiguo stopped Fatty Chen and the passengers again and asked them to quiet down.
Duan Chang Xing also helped maintain order.
“Don’t worry, guys!”
Duanchang Xing once heard from someone in the locomotive depot that the railway management here was in disarray.
Sometimes car hijackings occur, and the police are very ruthless, and may even shoot people illegally and throw people directly from the train.
After the passengers calm down.
Li Aiguo adjusted his collar and looked at Zhuo Ya with a smile: "Dear comrade conductor, can we have a chat in private?"
Conductor Zhuo Ya nodded, and then Li Aiguo said She invited to the side.
Li Aiguo got straight to the point: "Comrade conductor, I can understand your difficulty, but if you refuse to help, I can only bring this matter to your People's Railway through personal channels. Ministry of Railways.”
“Do you know the comrades from the Ministry of Railways?” Zhuo Ya lost her cool.
For the first time, panic appeared on the snow-white face.
Power is only accountable to its source.
What happened to the passengers had nothing to do with her, but the Ministry of Railways controlled her future.
“You have forgotten that I am a train driver. Last year, I was the one who received Professor Kirov from your side when he came to guide us.”
“Do you know Professor Kirov? "
"His wife especially likes embroidery." Li Aiguo hesitated to speak.
It was only then that Zhuo Ya was sure that the train driver in front of her was not deceiving people.
She sighed and said: "Comrade train driver, I am not iron-hearted, but the carriage where the medicine is stored is in the first carriage, but it was blocked."
Li Aiguo just said I find it strange, although the flight attendant Lao Maozi has always been afraid of dealing with Chinese passengers.
But under the siege of so many people, and when the lives of passengers are in danger, the old Maozi flight attendant should give in.
Li Aiguo finally understood at this time.
It turns out that the problem still lies with those Chekas.
Li Aiguo thanked Zhuo Ya and prepared to leave.
His arm was held by Zoya.
"Comrade train driver, those people who blocked the train carriage are very powerful, you'd better not offend them."
Is this considered friendship between peers? Li Aiguo smiled and said: "Comrade conductor, thank you for your kindness. I will not be so impulsive."
Li Aiguo returned to the carriage and told the situation again.
Yu Jinan, Fatty Chen, and seven or eight other Chinese passengers all expressed their intention to go to Car No. 1 to get medicine.
Other passengers said that we are now in a foreign country and should abide by other people's rules.
Yu Jinan turned to look at Li Aiguo: "Driver Li, are you going with us?"
"No, I have to take care of Comrade Chen Xianglan." Li Aiguo waved his hand.
As soon as these words came out, Yu Jinan's expression suddenly changed.
He did not expect that Li Aiguo, who had been particularly active just now, would shrink back now.
Fat Chen didn’t expect that Li Aiguo would stretch his crotch at the critical moment.
"Yes, he is a train driver and has something to do with Lao Maozi Railway. There is no way he can come forward for us. Come on, let's go to the first carriage now and get the medicine!"
Chen The fat man spat at Li Aiguo and ran toward a carriage with several passengers.
"Driver Li, Brother Chen is just like this"
Yu Jinan felt that Fatty Chen's behavior towards Li Aiguo was a bit excessive.
I wanted to make a few excuses and glanced at Fatty Chen, who also hurriedly followed.
Captain Zoya did not expect the Chinese passengers to be so bloody, knowing that the front was under martial law and still going to get medicine.
In order to prevent an accident, she led the flight attendants and police officers and ran towards a carriage.
The noise was mixed with the friction of wheels hitting the rails. People crowded together, and the carriage became a mess for a while.
Li Aiguo made a gesture to the old cat.
After receiving the signal, Lao Mao pulled Lao Bai aside, whispered a few words, and Lao Bai quickly followed the crowd. Li Aiguo patted Duan Chang Xing's arm again.
"Commander Duan, something big may happen. I need you to help keep an eye on these young men."
"Don't worry, patriot."
< br>Although Duan Chang Xing didn't understand what Li Aiguo was going to do, he was relieved to see that Li Aiguo didn't give up.
With Duan Chang Xing and Lao Bai mediating in the middle, those Chekas will probably not shoot. Li Aiguo breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the private room.
He checked on Chen Xianglan's condition. The girl now added some water and her condition was somewhat improved.
He told the lesbians in the compartment to take care of Chen Xianglan, and then walked towards the bathroom of the carriage.
At this time, all the flight attendants and police officers in the carriage left.
With Lao Hei standing outside to cooperate, Li Aiguo quietly entered the bathroom and
opened the bathroom window.
The cold wind outside rushed in, like a knife, and Li Aiguo couldn't help but shiver.
“Climbing on the roof of a car in winter is really not a good job.”
Muttered in a low voice.
Li Aiguo was leaned out of the window, leaned back and grabbed the top of the car, then jumped out of the window and landed lightly on the roof of the car.
It was dark outside at this time, and the blurry scenery on both sides was retreating rapidly.
Li Aiguo felt as if he was in a deep well falling endlessly. Only the bright car lights in front of him could bring some comfort.
He took a deep breath and ran along the front of the car.
Li Aiguo crossed the tender and came to the locomotive.
The sound of the steam engine piston covered up all sounds. Black smoke and sparks came out of the chimney not far away. There was a tremor under his feet. Li Aiguo felt like he was standing in the crater of a volcano that was about to erupt. Same.
The train is always so majestic, even in this dark and cold night.
Li Aiguo sighed, slowly squatted down, took out woolen gloves from his pocket and put them on his hands.
The front of the international train is equipped with ventilation equipment, which requires maintenance, so a maintenance ladder is thoughtfully installed in each carriage.
Li Aiguo calmed down, took a deep breath, and climbed down the maintenance ladder. He took out the flashlight from his arms and bit it in his mouth.
The bright flashlight shines on the connection between the locomotive and the rear carriage, dispelling the darkness. There is a black pipe there.
Li Aiguo raised a smile and pulled out a wrench from his waist.
*****
At this time, the atmosphere at the junction of the three carriages was extremely tense.
Seven or eight Chekas and more than a dozen policemen drew their pistols.
The black muzzles were aimed at Fatty Chen, Yu Jinan and the passengers.
The major shouted loudly in Russian: "Go back to your respective compartments immediately, otherwise we will shoot you!"
There was no fear in Fatty Chen's eyes, and there was anger in his heart. Keeping his feet firmly planted in place.
“I don’t know who you are, but there are passengers in the carriage who are seriously ill and need medicine urgently. We are just here to get medicine.”
“Yes, please. Yes, we will never cause trouble. We will go back as long as we get the medicine."
Yu Jinan also bravely stepped forward and expressed his demands in the face of the black muzzle.
The major waved his hand, called the commander over, and asked what happened.
Captain Zhuoya told the whole story, and then suggested: "Comrade Major, I know you have a special mission, but they only need a box of medicine. Let me go and help them get the medicine." How about bringing it over? This can avoid a conflict."
"You?" the major said with a straight face: "Comrade commander, you have been ordered to fully cooperate with our work. Are you cooperative? ”
"You should know what the consequences will be if I report what you just said!"
Thinking of the various legends of Cheka, Zoya was startled and wanted to explain.
The major's face was full of gloom, and his tone became cold: "Go tell those people, even if they all die here, I will not let them pass!"
In fact, there was no need for Zhuo Ya to inform him, most of the passengers could understand Russian, and they suddenly became angry.
Several young passengers raised their fists.
"Raise the gun!" The major's expression did not change at all. He raised his hand and ordered coldly: "Get ready to shoot!"
At this time, Duan Chang Xing finally squeezed in from behind. , stopped between the two groups.
“Don’t be impulsive, anything can be solved through negotiation.”
After Fatty Chen and the others calmed down, Duan Chang Xing turned to look at the major again: “Comrade, if If I guess correctly, you are the leader of the special department. You should be performing tasks and have great authority.
But this is an international train. If there is bloodshed, I am afraid you will not be in good condition. Report to your superiors.”
Duan Chang Xing spoke fluent Russian, and his words spoke to the major's heart.
But he still said with a straight face: "I can give you a chance now. You leave immediately, otherwise we will shoot directly!"
Fat Chen, Yu Jinan and the passengers all Unwilling to leave, the Chekas still raised their guns, and the situation fell into a stalemate again.
Lao Bai had his hands on his lower back, ready to shoot at any moment.
He knew that with his own ability, facing so many well-trained Chekas, once he fired, he would be directly sent away.
However, he could not just watch his compatriots die in front of him.
"Driver Li, what on earth are you going to do? Act quickly, or it will be too late."
My thoughts just fell.
呲呲岲. There was a violent friction sound outside the window, sparks burst out from the friction between the wheels and the rails, and everyone in the train leaned forward in unison.
The train brakes!
The major realized that something was wrong, immediately raised his gun and shouted: "Now you get back to your bunks immediately, or we will shoot."
"Don't retreat, big guy" Fatty Chen shot out in panic He grabbed the guardrail at the junction of the carriages and raised his fist with one hand.
"Bang!"
The major fired.
The bullet rushed towards Fatty Chen’s head.
Fatty Chen felt the breath of death, and even his thoughts were stagnant for a moment. His whole body was like a picture taken by a camera.
The faces of Yu Jinan and the passengers also changed drastically, and it was too late to help.
At this moment, a figure flew over from the side and hit Fatty Chen hard.
Fat Chen was knocked to the ground and his forehead hit the carriage. He woke up in severe pain.
"I've been shot! I'm going to die! Dad, mother, your son died!"
"Pa!"
Lao Bai slapped Fatty Chen on the forehead: "What nonsense are you talking about? Where were you shot?"
"But I lost so much blood" Chen The fat man pointed to his face, and then he realized that his face was scratched by a bullet.
Remembering the scene just now, the passengers all took a deep breath.
But Fatty Chen seemed a little unhappy and muttered in a low voice: "I thought I had sacrificed myself. It's so boring."
Lao Bai: "."
< br>By the time Lao Bai pulled Fatty Chen up from the ground, the train had completely stopped. Captain Zhuo Ya didn't know what happened.
The major felt that the problem was getting more serious and raised his gun again.
"I order you now to return to your respective carriages immediately, otherwise, we will shoot."
Seeing the brutality of the major, the faces of the passengers turned livid Getting up, Duan Chang Xing shouted: "Something may happen now. Let's go back first. We can always find a way to help Comrade Chen Xianglan get the medicine."
The passengers all agreed with Duan Chang Xing's words and turned around to retreat.
Everyone else had left, but Fatty Chen wanted to rush over. Lao Baiyan quickly grabbed his collar and called Yu Jinan to drag him back together.
"This man is really a madman. But he is lucky. There happened to be a train breakdown, otherwise, he would have been thrown out of the carriage by now."
The major hasn't seen him yet. When someone like Fatty Chen passed by, he muttered something in a low voice and called Conductor Zhuoya.
"Conductor, why did the train stop suddenly!"
"There may be a breakdown. I have sent someone to contact the train driver at the front of the car." Conductor Zoya replied .
"I hope you can figure out what happened as soon as possible. We must arrive in Moscow at two o'clock in the afternoon the day after tomorrow."
For some reason, the major always felt that something was wrong.
Instruct all the policemen and Chekas to cheer up and guard the No. 3 carriage closely.
After the arrangements were made, the major lit up a cigar and took a comfortable puff.
"You guys hiding in the dark, as long as I don't let you pass through Car No. 3, let's see what you can do!"
A sinister smile appeared at the corner of the major's mouth.
The captain of Zoya, who had just left, came over to report: "According to the comrades on the driver's team, the train had an inexplicable malfunction, which led to an unexpected stop. Now they are working hard to investigate the cause of the malfunction."
The major didn't take the malfunction to heart.
There are two teams of drivers and maintenance personnel on the train. As long as the train is not blown up, they can always repair it.
But after waiting for half an hour, the train still stopped in place and remained motionless.
The major realized something was wrong at this time and called Conductor Zoya to the No. 3 car again.
"Why hasn't it been repaired yet? Are your people all idiots?"
"Comrade Major, our masters are still troubleshooting the fault."
"The Chinese side What about the driver team?”
"They were also shouted."
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The major raised his wrist, looked at his watch, and said coldly: "I'll give you another half hour, if you If we can’t repair the train, we’ll wait for military action.”
Outside the carriage.
Seven or eight comrades from the driver team and six maintenance workers carried flashlights and braved the heavy snow to go from car to car to troubleshoot the fault.
After learning the news from Commander Zoya, Lao Maozi’s bearded commander quit his job at that time.
“These losers only know how to shout on the train, if you can, tell them to get off and investigate the fault yourself!”
Zhang Dache took out a towel and wiped his face. Oil stains, said to the flight attendant who came to report: "Dear comrade flight attendant, we have tried our best. According to our estimation, there may be an internal failure of the steam engine, which is not something we can solve.
So I suggest You immediately send people to the station ahead to report the situation and ask the station to send out a rescue train."
In Car No. 3, the major who had just inspected the area frowned when he heard the news.
"Comrade conductor, how far is the next stop from here?"
Zhuo Ya was silent for a moment, then said with difficulty: "The next stop is Tyumen. It takes eight hours by train."
The usually calm Major now had a trace of panic on his face.
“Now we are in trouble.”
(End of this chapter)