Red Moscow

According to Sokov's thinking, he would receive an order to return to the front line in a day or two at most. However, after two or three days, there was still no notification.

There was no phone in Sokov's new house, so he had to go to a nearby hospital, find a phone, and try to get information from Yakov. Unexpectedly, after the person who answered the phone heard that the person he was looking for was Yakov, after recording his name and military rank, he said politely: "Comrade Major, Captain Yakov is on a mission outside, waiting for him As soon as I come back, I will tell him about your looking for him."

Hearing what the other party said, Sokov knew that it was almost impossible to find Yakov in a short time. But he still thanked the other party before putting down the phone.

Sokov sat alone on a bench in the hospital corridor, staring at the doctors, nurses and patients going back and forth in a daze, thinking secretly: "I can't return to the front line without an order from my superiors. What should I do? "

"Comrade Major," perhaps seeing Sokov sitting on the bench in a daze for too long, a female doctor in a white coat came over and asked politely, "May I help you?" ?"

Sokov raised his head, saw clearly a young female doctor in a white coat standing in front of him, and said in a panic, "No need, Comrade Doctor, I'm just sitting here thinking about something and lost my mind." He stood up and added apologetically, "If I'm here to interfere with your work, I'm leaving."

"No, Comrade Major." The female doctor waved at him, grinned, showing eight neat teeth, and said to him: "You didn't interfere with our work at all, I just saw you sitting He sighed here and there, thinking there was something wrong, so he came over to ask."

Seeing that Sokov was at a loss, she may have specially emphasized: "Comrade Major, as long as you want, you can continue to sit here, and no one will drive you away."

The female doctor's words gradually stabilized Sokov's mood. He looked at the young and beautiful female doctor and asked politely, "Comrade doctor, what should I call you?"

"My name is Tonya." The female doctor smiled sweetly at Sokov and asked back, "Comrade Major, I don't know how I should address you?"

"Donia, this name sounds really nice. If I remember correctly, Paul Korchagin's first love girlfriend is called Tonya." After praising the female doctor's nice name, Sokov said again He gave his own name: "My name is Mikhail, and my surname is Sokov. You can call me Mikhail or Sokov."

"Misha," Tonya unexpectedly called Sokov by his nickname, "I didn't expect you to have read Ostrovsky's How the Steel Was Tempered?"

"Yes, I've seen it." Sokov nodded, and said braggingly: "There are also Gorky's "In the World", "Mother", "My University", Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Tu Gref's books..." Sokov, who used to love Soviet Russian literature, finally found a place to use it at this moment. He named the titles of forty or fifty books in one breath, which surprised Tonya.

Maybe Tonya didn't have to work for the time being, so she stood here and chatted casually with Sokov about Soviet Russian literature. After chatting for an unknown amount of time, she inadvertently raised her head, saw the clock on the wall, and exclaimed involuntarily, "My God, we've been chatting for nearly an hour."

Sokov also looked up at the clock on the wall and found that it was past twelve o'clock. He smiled at Tonya, and then asked: "Donia, it's already noon, if you don't mind, I would like to invite you to go out for a drink. I happen to know that there is a good restaurant nearby Cafe."

Regarding Sokov's invitation, Tonya thought for a moment, and then decisively agreed: "Okay, Misha, I happen to have a two-hour break at noon. Let's go now." After finishing speaking, she stepped forward One step, he generously took Sokov's arm, pulled him and walked outside.