Red Moscow

Although Sokov said that Petrov would be able to give him an answer within an hour. But the three of them stood here waiting for more than two hours. Not only did they not see Petrov, they did not even see the deputy director Eisenstein. Fortunately, even if the director is absent, other staff members will carry out their work in an orderly manner according to the work schedule.

Even though Vladimir is a small city, all the buildings found in Moscow can be found here. For example, the Kremlin, various churches, etc. can be said to be a miniature version of Moscow. It makes sense for Petrov and others to use this place as a filming location.

"Misha, I think your idea may be too naive." Seeing Petrov and Eisenstein not showing up, Asiya said impatiently: "You think everyone can write the script?" Is it? I think the two directors deliberately said that they wanted to contact the Moscow film studio in order not to dampen your enthusiasm. If they really supported you in writing the script, they would have appeared long ago and would not have arrived. Show up now."

After Asiya finished speaking, Yakov also echoed: "Misha, I think Asiya said it makes sense. The two directors haven't shown up yet. I'm afraid they are worried about dampening your enthusiasm, so they deliberately hid. I don’t want to see you. I think you should accompany Asya back to Moscow first. If they really want you to write the script, I will call you to inform you."

The words of the two shook Sokov's heart: Could it be that none of the three scripts he mentioned were suitable for filming in this era? It was precisely because of this idea that although he knew where Petrov and Eisenstein were, he could not make up his mind to find them, for fear that he would be even more embarrassed if they refused him face to face.

At this moment, the driver Wo Wen hurried over and said to Sokov excitedly: "Comrade General, I just acted as a sidekick on the street next door, playing the role of a soldier who is about to leave for the front line, and I My wife said goodbye on the street..."

"Wo Wen, are you telling the truth?" Asiya heard what Wo Wen said, and couldn't help but said with some annoyance: "It's a pity that we have been staying here, watching the photographers filming the army scenes. If I followed you, The street next door might be able to get a supporting role."

Yakov also became interested after hearing this, and quickly asked Wowen: "Comrade driver, is it too late for us to go over now? I also want to play a supporting role, even if I pass by in the movie."

"Maybe it won't work, General Yakov." Wo Wen said with regret: "After the camera crew finished shooting a scene, they have gone to other places. If they want to play a supporting role again, I'm afraid it won't be that easy. After all, they There are a lot of extras hired from the city, so I’m afraid it won’t be our turn.”

Asya felt even more disappointed when she learned that she had no chance to participate in a walk-on role. She turned to Sokov and said, "Misha, I don't want to stay here anymore. Let's go back to Moscow now!"

Seeing that Asya was unhappy and that Petrov and Eisenstein had not shown up, Sokov gave up the idea of ​​staying in Vladimir. He asked Wowen: "Comrade driver , we are going back to Moscow now, how long does it take for you to drive the car over?"

"Five minutes, Comrade General." Wo Wen pointed to a street next to him: "My car is parked on that street and you can drive over at any time."

"Then bring the car over." Sokov said weakly: "We are going back to Moscow now."

A few minutes later, both Sokov and Asiya got into the car driven by Wo Wen.

Just when Sokov was about to tell Woven to drive, Asiya glanced at Yakov who was still standing outside the car and asked in a low voice: "Misha, why don't we ask Yasha to go back to Moscow together?"

Sokov quickly rolled down the window and asked Yakov, who was standing next to the car: "Yasha, won't you go back to Moscow with us?"

"No, no," Yakov waved his hand and said, "I told you yesterday that my current task is to follow this crew and play one or two unimportant roles at the right time. So in a rather long period I will not return to Moscow within that time. Wowen," he specifically told Wowen, "before you receive the new order, you will always follow Misha to ensure that he can use the car at any time, do you understand?"

"Understood." Wowen always remembered that he was Yakov's driver. Now he was serving Sokov and his wife on secondment. Sooner or later, he would return to Yakov, so he replied respectfully: " I will serve General Sokov well."

After the car started, it quickly left the city and drove along the highway in the direction of Moscow.

Sokov looked sideways at the passing forest outside the window, and began to think in his mind. He originally wanted to delay writing the script for a while, so that his superiors could have time to arrange a suitable job for him. But now that this plan has come to nothing, after returning to Moscow, I am afraid that I will have to find time to go to the General Ordnance Department as soon as possible to meet with Ustinov and understand his true thoughts. He wants to get a temporary job in the General Ordnance Department. Or is it a long-term job?

Seeing that Sokov had been silent since getting in the car, Asiya couldn't help but ask: "Misha, what are you thinking about? Are you still thinking about the script?"

"Yes, I am still thinking about the script." Sokov said with a wry smile: "I think there are quite a few scripts, but why do the two directors look down on them? In other words, they both agree in their hearts. Filming the subject matter I mentioned, but the director of the film studio did not agree.”

"You're not a professional film talent, so don't worry about it." After Asiya said this, she suddenly sat up straight and said to Wo Wen who was driving: "Wo Wen, drive another twenty or thirty kilometers, there will be A small town. When we came here yesterday, I saw a winery. When the car gets there, we will stop for a while. I want to see what kind of wine is sold there."

"Okay, Comrade Asiya." Wo Wen nodded and said, "I also saw the winery when I came here. I wanted to take a look when I went back, but I didn't expect you to mention it first."

After the vehicle drove forward for more than 40 minutes, it entered a seemingly small town. Wowen parked the car in front of a brick-concrete bungalow. Sokov took a look and saw a sign above the closed door that said "Sales Department", and couldn't help but ask: "Is this the winery you are talking about?"

"Of course not," Asiya pushed open the door on her side and bent down to get out of the car. When Sokov asked, she quickly replied: "The winery is in the back. This is the winery's sales department. A place that sells alcohol.”

After hearing this, Sokov asked with some surprise: "But when we passed by here yesterday, I didn't smell the smell of wine in the air. How did you know there was a winery here?"

"Comrade General, what is sold here is beer and kvass, which are stored in iron cans. It is normal that you can't smell it." Wowen opened the door and got out of the car, bent down and asked Sokov: "You Why don’t you go in and have a look?”

"Okay." Since both of them were going in to buy drinks, it seemed inappropriate for Sokov to sit in the car, so he opened the door and got out of the car, and followed Asiya and Wowen inside.

There is only a single room in the sales department, which is surrounded by glass counters filled with empty wine bottles. There was a large horizontal yellow jar in the middle of the room, and a sturdy middle-aged salesperson stood next to it. When the three of them came in, he asked directly: "What do you want?"

"What kind of wine do you have for sale here?"

"Only kvass." The middle-aged salesman replied: "If you want to buy beer, you should come before September."

Knowing that only kvass was sold here, Sokov couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He had never been very interested in this kind of bread-based beverage. When he was about to ask Asiya and Wowen to leave, he heard Asiya speak. Said: "Please give me two bottles of kvass!"

"Okay!" the middle-aged salesman agreed, turned around and took out an empty wine bottle from the glass counter next to him, then opened the valve under the jar and poured a bottle of kvass into it. After filling it, she picked up a cork to plug the mouth of the bottle, and told Asiya: "Kvass has a short shelf life. You must drink it as soon as possible after you return, otherwise it will spoil."

"Yeah, I know." Asiya nodded and said, "We'll drink it when we get back."

Watching Asiya buy two bottles, Wo Wen followed suit and bought two bottles, and then the three of them staggered out of the sales department carrying four bottles of kvass.

When they were about to get on the bus, an old lady wearing a headscarf walked by and asked the three of them: "Comrades, did you just buy some drinks?"

"That's right, old lady, we did just buy wine." Wo Wen raised the bottle of wine in his hand and gestured to her, then asked: "Do you have any advice?"

"Do you need any snacks?" The old lady asked with a smile: "I have a lot of snacks here that are suitable for drinking."

As soon as the old lady said that she had dishes to go with the wine, Wo Wen suddenly became interested: "Old lady, what dishes do you have here to go with the wine?"

The old lady took the three people aside, lifted up a piece of cloth, and revealed what was underneath. It turned out to be a platform made of two benches and a wooden board. On it were several salted fish in trays, and about twenty dozen Different varieties of canned vegetables.

The old lady introduced the three people: "I have dried salted fish, canned cucumbers, canned mushrooms and canned tomatoes. What do you want?"

"Oh, you have quite a lot of stuff. Where did you get it from?" Asiya asked.

"My grandson caught the salted fish from the river and then dried it in the sun." The old lady explained to Asiya: "I grew the cucumbers and tomatoes myself, and I picked the mushrooms in the forest. You Don’t worry, it doesn’t taste bad at all.”

Looking at the canned vegetables in front of him, Sokov couldn't help but think of an incident that happened not long after he came to this time and space, when he was ordered to move the local villagers to a safe place. During the transfer process, I met an old lady who wanted Sokov to transfer all the more than 200 canned vegetables she had made. But Sokov looked at the area occupied by those cans and politely refused. . After all, the captured German armored vehicles had limited space, and a dozen people could still squeeze in. If all these cans were put on the vehicle, people would not be able to fit in.

While Sokov was thinking wildly, Asiya and Wowen had already bought everything on the stand under the old lady's trick.

"Misha," Asia, who took out her wallet, said to Sokov: "You can carry all these things into the car."

Sokov agreed, and Wowen stood on both sides of the platform. They each grabbed one end of the board, lifted the board and the things on it, and walked slowly towards the car.

Asiya ran ahead and opened the trunk first, but when she saw the packed boxes inside, she remembered that the place was already full of crystals and could no longer put the cans she just bought, so she opened the back again and rushed towards the trunk. "Misha, put all these things on the back seat," Kov said.

After putting the salted fish and canned food into the back seat, Sokov realized that he might not be able to sit down, so he said to Asiya: "There is no room here, I will take the passenger seat." After that, he He closed the rear door, opened the passenger door, and bent down to get in.

Shortly after the car started, Sokov unexpectedly saw Woven holding the steering wheel with one hand, picking up a bottle of kvass with the other, biting off the stopper, spitting out the window, and then drank. Seeing this, Sokov quickly said to Wowen: "Comrade driver, what's wrong with you? Don't you know that you can't drive after drinking, and you can't drink when driving? If you are drunk, we may have a car accident. .”

Unexpectedly, Wo Wen stared at Sokov with strange eyes: "Comrade General, I didn't drink. I drank kvass. Kvass is not wine, but a drink."

After hearing what Wowen said, Sokov immediately realized that he had made a common sense mistake. In Russia before 2014, beer, kvass, and even fruit wine were not considered alcoholic. Even if you drank while driving, it did not seem to be considered drunk driving.

At this moment, Sokov suddenly heard the sound of a police car siren coming from behind. He quickly turned his head and looked behind him, only to see a gray traffic police car coming up from behind. Wo Wen frowned and said, "What are they doing here?" After saying that, he drove the car to the side of the road and stopped.

Asiya didn't notice the police car chasing after her, and asked curiously: "Wowen, why did you stop?"

"There was a traffic police car catching up from behind. They sounded their sirens and signaled me to stop." Wo Wen explained to Asiya: "I'll stop the car first and see what they want."

The police car stopped behind the car, and a traffic policeman wearing the rank of lieutenant stepped out from the passenger seat. Wo Wen rolled down the window and asked the traffic police: "Comrade Lieutenant, why did you ask me to stop? What can I do for you?"

The traffic police lieutenant saw Sokov sitting in the passenger seat, quickly came to his side, bent down and saluted the car, and then asked politely: "Is this General Sokov?"

"Yes, I am Sokov." Seeing the traffic policeman being so polite, Sokov knew in his heart that the traffic policeman was definitely not here to catch drunk drivers, so he asked politely: "Comrade Lieutenant, do you have anything to do with me?"

"That's it, Comrade General." said the traffic police lieutenant: "We received a call from Vladimir, saying that if we meet you here, please be sure to return to Vladimir as soon as possible, saying that Sergey Comrade Eisenstein comes to you with urgent matters."