When citizens were abroad, they generally contacted their embassy whenever something happened.
When they encountered difficulties, their first response was also to seek help from their homeland's embassy in the country where they were staying.
Now, several hundred Chinese people in Moscow had been arrested in one go. This was no minor matter. Naturally, the embassy had to step in to coordinate and safeguard its citizens' basic rights.
It was Ambassador Chen, an old acquaintance of Wang Ye's. Over the past two days, he had received quite a few calls for help from Chinese residents, saying that their relatives or friends had been arrested by the Russian police for no apparent reason.
They hoped the embassy could step forward and pressure the Russian side into releasing all the detained Chinese citizens.
When faced with something like this, the ambassador naturally could not act rashly. He first needed to understand the full story.
It would have been better if he had not looked into it. Once he learned the details, Ambassador Chen was furious.
How humiliating!
This was utterly disgraceful, disgracing themselves abroad!
They had gone overseas to join the underworld instead of doing honest work, colluded with Russian police to extort their fellow countrymen...
They had even attacked the Deputy Speaker of the Duma. They were simply outrageously bold!
Because of this, he even had to call Wang Ye and apologize!
When Wang Ye received Ambassador Chen's call, he was at work in his Duma office.
"Speaker Mikhail, I'm deeply ashamed that Chinese people would actually attempt to attack you..." Ambassador Chen expressed his apologies to Wang Ye in fluent Russian.
Wang Ye laughed heartily and said indifferently:
"It's nothing. China has such a huge population; there are bound to be people of every kind. It isn't strange at