Chapter 33: The Mysterious Oxman Left, the Enemy Arrived

  Victor became very cautious after arriving at the prison, not daring to speak or move recklessly, and was as careful as an old prisoner familiar with Chinese prison rules. He Ruqiu reported the news of Pastor's rescue to the division headquarters in a timely manner, and also reported Victor's situation together. The division headquarters initially did not pay attention to the message, but later the situation suddenly changed, and before dawn, the division headquarters suddenly secretly notified He Ruqiu to immediately arrest Victor, but only ordered the squadron to arrest him, without specifying the reason or disposal method.

  Victor was then handcuffed, and He Ruòqi handed him over to Ye Haodong, who was responsible for taking care of this special prisoner. At first, Victor refused to accept the reality, loudly claiming that he was a Russian citizen with diplomatic immunity, and they had no right to do so. Until Chen Hong appeared in front of him and coldly said: "We have no right to arrest you, but you also have no right to sell weapons to our country, especially to the opposing forces of our government!" Chen Hong's words were like a splash of cold water on Victor's head, and his arrogance suddenly weakened. He meekly followed Ye Haodong back to the miscellaneous affairs group's cell.

  Everyone was chatting lively in the house, and on this gloomy day, everyone was worried about Ye Haodong going out. The topic of conversation at the moment was all about Ye Haodong. Ye Haodong walked in with Viktor, who had handcuffs on him. Everyone stared blankly.

  Lu Tianming was taken aback for a moment, then came to his senses and joked: "Hao Dong, you're quite something! You went out for a stroll all day and brought back a foreign devil. What's wrong with this old foreigner? Did he steal or rob? How did you manage to bring him back?"

  Yehao Dong smiled: "How's that, brother? This big change in human magic is awesome, right? Don't stare at the freshness and chatter nonsense, this brother is not simple, you guys talk a bit too much, this kid can understand Chinese and even speak two sentences."

  Victor protested his innocence and asked Ye Haodong to introduce him to these polite gentlemen.

  Ye Haodong dug his ears and asked him with a tilted head, "Who in this house looks like a gentleman? I'll introduce him to you, and I guarantee that after you get to know him, you won't think he's a gentleman anymore."

  Victor was clever and heard the hidden meaning in Yehao Dong's words. He quickly shook his head, indicating that he didn't need it anymore.

  Ye Haodong had actually received He Ruoxiu's instructions earlier, to make this 'foreign friend' feel at home, and let him understand that Chinese prisons are the same as Russian ones.

  When Viktor was being bullied, Ye Haodong didn't participate in the whole process. This kid is despicable, but not to the point where Ye Haodong would take an interest in such cruel behavior. Even at critical moments, Ye Haodong had stopped others from bullying Viktor several times. As a result, Viktor felt especially grateful towards Ye Haodong during his stay here.

  Five days later, the road finally opened with great difficulty, and the Guan'an Bureau of the Development Zone hastily dispatched a representative. The arrogant representative came alone to interrogate Viktor. They talked about something in the interrogation room, but after coming out, Viktor was declared free. Later, when Ye Haodong bid farewell to this guy, he learned through a quiet conversation that this guy was also a Russian version of Zhang Tianpeng, a cross-border smuggler, and his smuggling goods were more impressive than Zhang Tianpeng's. Aircraft, artillery, rockets, machine guns, pistols, various rifles, as long as you need them, tanks are no problem, even warships can be obtained. Ye Haodong didn't know whether this was true or not, but the Russian man's vast connections were certain. Viktor quietly told Ye Haodong that he could leave safely from here on condition that he would try to sell an SU-33 fighter jet, Russia's most advanced aircraft at present, to the government of Huaxia, and in return, Huaxia would unconditionally release him and pay him a sum of money.

  After Viktor left, Ye Haodong had found Chen Hong to verify what he said, but Chen Hong only replied coldly: State secret. Years later, Ye Haodong became a colleague with this guy and finally had the opportunity to verify what he said today, absolutely not nonsense!

  After the Viktor incident, Ye Haodong returned to his dull prison life. He spent his free time calculating his sentence. By New Year's Day in 1999, he had already served three years of hard labor and had been granted a total reduction of five and a half years. This meant that even if he didn't receive any further reductions, he would only need to serve another year and a half before being released. Now it was February, Ye Haodong counted the days on his fingers, but no matter how he calculated, he always got confused about what year or month it was. Since the New Year's holiday, no one had come to visit him, making Ye Haodong feel lonely and desolate for the first time in his three years of imprisonment. He had called Jiang Wei's home countless times, but the answer was always that he didn't know what Xiao Lan was doing specifically, only that she would call back every month to say everything was fine, but nothing else was known, and even Jiang Wei was worried about it. The situation with Jiang Lan made him very irritable, and in recent days, his temper had unknowingly increased a lot.

  After the first month, on a day in March, Ye Hao*ran received a visitation notice. He originally thought it was Jiang Lan, but when he arrived at the special meeting room, he saw Aiyiguli, that little girl who had not been seen for a long time. Being able to see her brightened Ye Haodong's mood considerably. Aiyiguli brought him many local specialties like dried grapes and chatted with him for two hours before reluctantly leaving. The prison officials were all aware of Aiyiguli's feelings towards Ye Haodong, so they didn't pay much attention to the fact that the two had chatted a bit longer in the meeting room. Their actions have not yet aroused anyone's suspicion.

  Before the start of a new year's work, a piece of news that was not good for Ye Haodong arrived. Comrade He Ruoqiu, the team leader of the cotton mill team, was promoted to deputy political commissar of the branch due to his outstanding performance and great contributions. The old branch director Wang Qingshan, who was 58 years old, had reached the age of retirement and was succeeded by the original branch political commissar Bao Guoping. The position of team leader of the cotton mill team was taken over by Xu Shao, the former deputy team leader of the Beijin Middle School team in the Fourth Monitoring Area. The position of deputy team leader was also taken over by Huang Yangmu, the former team leader of the Second Small Team. The original deputy team leader Luo Sibao was transferred to the Fourth Monitoring Area Beijin Middle School team as team leader. After Ye Haodong received the news, he cursed loudly: "Damn politics! Damn interest exchange! Everyone is satisfied with the result, but I am not!"

  Although He Ruoxi had handed over the successor to take care of Ye Haodong before leaving, the saying "one day the emperor, one day the minister" is not just a saying. A week after He Ruoxi left, two new people came to the miscellaneous group, one of whom was Ye Haodong's acquaintance, Huang Taomu, who had been driven out of the miscellaneous group by Ye Haodong. The other person came from the original North Kun Middle School where the new team leader was, named Feng Tao.

  On the afternoon of the day these two people arrived, Director Liao Minghui came to the General Affairs Group and announced on the spot that Feng Tao would become the new leader of the General Affairs Group, the new big general affairs officer. Next was a series of heavy punches in the face of Ye Haodong, his special "office" was abolished, the phone line was also cut off, and all previous privileges were cancelled. Lin Xiangwu and Li Delu could only guarantee that Ye Haodong would continue to stay in the General Affairs Group, despite saying all the good things they could. This Xu Shao had a big backer behind him, even He Dashan's nephew, the red man of Ken District Prison, He Ruoqiu, didn't have his face given, let alone these two people.

  Feng Tao is a middle-aged man in his forties. A prisoner who has been sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole, stripped of his political rights for the rest of his life. He is tall and stout, with a strong facial structure and large ears, giving off an air of grandeur reminiscent of ancient generals. From Fengcheng, in this place where prisoners come from all over the country, he and Ye Haodong are considered old acquaintances. However, this old acquaintance had no intention of getting along with Ye Haodong from the very beginning, and if Ye Haodong wasn't born without tear ducts, who knows, he might have been reduced to tears by this guy. This bastard's first task as a janitor was to take Ye Haodong under his wing. Getting used to the local water and soil, something that had been far removed from Ye Haodong for a long time, today marked their reunion.

  At night, in the miscellaneous affairs group cell.

  Feng Tao carefully sized up Ye Haodong before asking: "You're the original General Affairs Ye Haodong?"

  "Yeah, that's right."

  Feng Tao smiled: "Little kid, you're quite arrogant. I'm sure you also know what's going on upstairs. From now on, you'll be under my care. Do you know my rules?"

  Ye Haodong humbly shook his head: "I don't know, please enlighten me, brother."

  Feng Tao nodded: "It's okay if you don't know, today I'll let you know. Before I tell you my rules, I asked around about you personally. Zeng Xingwei, codename Er Xinzi, you must have heard of him."

  Ye Haodong's heart began to sink, it seemed that this was not something that could be solved with money. This kind of person who would rather die than yield had limited attraction to wealth. If he and Er Xinzi were sworn brothers, determined to help Er Xinzi take revenge, things would get very troublesome. His expression unchanged, he nodded: "I'll take care of it, you'd better get straight to the point."

  Feng Tao's attitude suddenly took a drastic turn, the relaxed smile disappeared, replaced by a ferocious and sinister expression. He growled: "Alright! You can remember this account for now, you'll find out what kind of relationship I have with Er Xinzi later. Let me tell you, I had to pull strings and pay a high price to get permission from Commander Xu to come here. My purpose in coming is none other than you, kid. Today's our first meeting, nothing else. The rules of the prison can't be ignored, so recite a regulation for us first."

  What's this new trick? Ye Haodong had never heard of it, and he certainly wouldn't take the sentence to mean that someone was really going to let him be bound by the rules. He cast his gaze at Lu Tianming, the living dictionary in the cell.

  Lu Tianming first rushed to Feng Tao and saluted, asking: "New prisoner Ye Haodong doesn't know the rules of the prison, can I point it out to him?"

  Feng Tao pouted and nodded slightly.