Three or Two Things about Rebirth

Qiu Luming was not afraid of going out alone. She was just used to the care and attention of her family over the years. She didn't feel it when she lived in the school dormitory village, but now she was standing alone on the streets of a strange country, the sense of loneliness and freedom that had not appeared for many years reappeared.

After just a few minutes, she adjusted her mood, followed her previous plan, found a hotel to stay in, and then began her leisurely tour.

First go to the Red Square and the Kremlin in the city center.

The literal translation of Red Square is Red Square. Red in Russian means beautiful, so Red Square means beautiful square. It is not as big as imagined, only one-fifth the size of Beijing's Grand Square, but the quaint ground makes Qiu Luming feel at home. It is the same stone strips as the "bread stones" on Harbin Central Street.

Between Lenin's Mausoleum and the Kremlin on the west side of the square, there are twelve tombstones, including many tombs of former Soviet politicians. On the north side of the square is the Russian State History Museum, and on the east side is a large shopping mall.

The Kremlin is the national symbol of Russia and the palace of successive tsars. "On the ground of Moscow, the only thing you can see is the towering Kremlin; above the Kremlin, the only thing you can see is the distant sky."

The Kremlin is a huge complex of buildings with more than 2,000 meters of palace walls ranging in height from five to nineteen meters. Entering the palace gate, you will see the Central Church Square paved with red stone. The square is surrounded by the Church of the Twelve Apostles, the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin, the Church of the Annunciation and St. Michael's Cathedral.

The most important building complex is the Grand Kremlin Palace, and the famous Ivan the Great Bell Tower which is over 80 meters high.

The Moscow Metro is recognized as the most beautiful subway in the world. Each station has its own unique style. Some are inlaid with colorful marble to create reliefs and murals, while others are made of ceramics or colorful glass, like magnificent art halls.

There was also a grand theater and a circus, which amazed Qiu Luming.

The most fascinating thing about traveling is that you can enjoy the beauty of a place and the freshness it brings, and before you have time to discover its shortcomings, you leave it.

Qiu Luming went to St. Petersburg again. She wanted to visit the Hermitage Museum, where the Chinese cultural relics were no less than those in the British Museum, with more than 20,000 pieces. There were more than 200 oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty, sculptures and murals from the Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang, countless Tibetan Buddhist statues, and so on. Some of them could be seen at a glance as being picked off the walls.

Visiting such a place, Qiu Luming had no appreciation in her heart, only a sense of humiliation. She bit her lower lip while visiting the exhibits open to the Chinese. After leaving the Hermitage Museum, she went to the Geological Museum to visit the Manchurian dinosaur fossil, the first complete dinosaur fossil in China that was transported away from Jiayang by Russia seventy years ago.

The mood when I left St. Petersburg was not good.

Firstly, she was in a bad mood after visiting the museum, and secondly, she was almost robbed of her backpack.

At a street corner near the hotel, Qiu Luming ran into a red-nosed man in his fifties. He had drunk a lot of alcohol and was staggering towards Qiu Luming, but she dodged him nimbly.

However, the man reached out and grabbed her large cross-body backpack. Somehow, the sturdy belt suddenly broke, and Qiu Luming's body felt lighter, and the backpack fell into the hands of Red Nose.

At this time, Russia had experienced disintegration and its economy was in serious recession. The exchange rate went from one dollar to one ruble to thirty thousand rubles. There was inflation, capital flight, severe polarization, and social unrest. The lives of the people at this time were basically at the level of the 1960s.

This is also the reason why He Manshu is most reluctant for Qiu Luming to study abroad.

But Qiu Luming felt that it was not bad. At least the country had not been invaded and there was no war. The schools were still stable and protected. Even if people were hungry, they lined up in the cold wind to buy bread with great courtesy. No one was making noise and no one was looting.

After six months, Qiu Luming tried to keep her expenses consistent with other students. Her teachers and classmates were very friendly to her. Moscow was also very safe. She did not go to remote places, but only stayed on the main streets and public places. But she did not expect that when she was about to return to school, she was robbed by a drunkard in St. Petersburg.

The passport and ID were in the bag. Qiu Luming immediately rushed over and grabbed the bag strap, saying in Russian, "I'll give you the money, but you have to give me back the ID!"

The man was drunk and glared. He pushed Qiu Luming to the ground with a light push, then turned and ran towards another street. Qiu Luming got up and chased him, shouting: Help! Catch the thief!

There were not many people on the street, and no one was brave enough to do anything for justice.

Qiu Luming ran as fast as she could. Seeing that the man was about to disappear around the corner of the street, she became extremely anxious.

Just then, a young man suddenly stretched out his long legs and tripped Red Nose as he ran past.

Red Nose fell down unexpectedly, and the dagger in his hand slipped far away.

The young man grabbed Red Nose's arm and tried to subdue him, but Red Nose was very tall, like a bull. Although he stumbled and was hit twice in the face and swayed a few times, he still did not fall to the ground.

The red-nosed man rubbed his face, pointed at the young man, and warned him with a loud tongue not to meddle in other people's business, otherwise he would not be spared.

At this moment, Qiu Luming arrived. She took a step forward and without hesitation, hugged Red Nose's legs from behind. She arched her shoulders forward and dragged her hands backward. Red Nose fell to the ground with a thud, with her right hand still pointing at people.

Qiu Luming was already out of breath from running, and the previous attack had almost exhausted all his strength. But seeing that the young man was holding his stomach, he simply sat on Red Nose's lower back and hit him hard. Red Nose was about to get up, but this hit made his stomach fall to the ground, and he let out a painful scream. Qiu Luming then quickly put his two big hands behind his back, lifted them up and placed them on his knees. Red Nose's joints were very stiff, and this action made him wail loudly like a pig being slaughtered.

"Please help me call the police!" Qiu Luming looked at the young man pleadingly. As soon as she finished speaking, she was stunned and looked at the man for five seconds.

"Zorro!" she murmured.

Then I regretted it. What time is it? I was catching the bad guys, why am I still obsessed with them?

But this young man looks so much like Alain Delon. He is exactly the same as the photo of Alain Delon when he was young that I saw at Sun Ning's place last year.

The young man is really young, he looks only about 17 or 18 years old. Russian men are like this, they are not good looking after they are over 30, but when they are young, they are so tender that you can squeeze water out of them.

The young man was still holding his stomach, obviously beaten unconscious. He was probably shocked by Qiu Luming's series of actions. He stared at her actions in amazement from beginning to end. When Qiu Luming spoke, he raised his eyes to meet her gaze and was stunned for four or five seconds. Almost at the same time when Qiu Luming mentioned Zorro, he murmured, "It's you!?"