Red Moscow

"Where do you want to go?" Sokov asked.

"How about going to Sochi on the shores of the Black Sea?" Anna asked back: "It's a holiday resort. We'd better go there at the end of May, otherwise after June, the beach will be so crowded that it's impossible to find a place to bask in the sun."

"Okay." Sokov agreed to Anna's proposal, but considering that he was not familiar with Sochi, he reminded the other party: "It is up to you to arrange the travel route, so that you can visit more attractions in the shortest time. ”

"no problem."

The two were drinking tea and chatting. Sokov glanced at the clock on the wall from time to time, muttering to himself: When will Anna leave? I still want to calm down and think carefully about whether what I am experiencing is real history or a long dream.

Perhaps because she looked at the wall clock too many times, Anna also noticed something unusual about Sokov. She asked tentatively: "Misha, are you sleepy?"

How could Sokov tell Anna that I was watching the time and guessing when you would leave. He could only follow Anna's wishes and say: "Yeah, I'm a little tired after working in the underground fortifications for so long today. I want to go to bed early." As he said that, he pretended to yawn.

Unexpectedly, Anna said unexpectedly: "Misha, can I stay with you today?"

"Ah, live here with me?" Sokov was secretly surprised.

"Yes," Anna said with some embarrassment: "Where I live, there are a lot of people drinking tonight. If I go home, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well all night. You are the only one living here, there should be no one else." disturb."

If it were the previous Sokov, he might have refused Anna's request. But today's situation was special. He wanted to know more about himself. After thinking for a moment, he agreed to the other party's request: "Okay, then stay."

"Great, this is really great." Anna raised her head and kissed Sokov on the cheek, then blushed and said, "I'm going to take a shower first."

Half an hour later, the two were lying side by side on the bed, and Sokov began to ask Anna what had happened during the day.

"Anna, after I lost contact with everyone in the underground fortification, did you really go in to look for me?"

"Yes." Anna turned sideways, looked at Sokov's face and said: "Everyone found that you were missing. Alexander and Khabarov immediately led everyone into the underground fortifications to search. After entering the fortifications, everyone kept calling you name, but I never heard your answer. When we came out of the underground fortifications and were discussing whether we should invite a professional team to go in and look for you, you appeared out of nowhere. "

Sokov thought for a while and asked again: "When you came in to find me, I was staying at a fork in the road, but I missed you."

"Who said there are forks in the underground fortifications?" Anna continued: "Although the road below is winding, there is only one way. A group of us walked to the end of the road and walked back again, but we never found you. Misha, where were you hiding? How could we not find you?"

"I remember that after entering the underground fortifications, I followed Alexander and Khabarov for a while. Because it was too dark inside, I quickly lost contact with them." Sokov explained: "I don't know how much I wandered around inside. It took a long time until I saw a bright light in front of me, and I quickly ran towards the location of the light and then walked out of the underground fortification. "

Sokov wanted to ask more about what happened after he disappeared, but he heard Anna say: "Misha, stop talking about these disappointing things, and rest quickly." The next moment, he felt Anna's lips gently Touching his lips gave him a wonderful and mysterious feeling.

…

The next morning, when Sokov was awakened by the alarm clock on his cell phone and opened his eyes, he found that there was no one on his pillow. Just when he thought everything last night was just a dream, he heard Anna's voice coming from the living room: "Misha, are you awake? It's time to have breakfast."

Sokov quickly got out of bed, put on his slippers and came to the living room.

Seeing that there were fried eggs, sandwiches and sliced ​​sausages on the table, Anna took off the apron around her waist and said with a smile: "Eat quickly and try out my cooking skills."

After breakfast, Sokov drove Anna to work. When passing the hospital on Lenin Street, he couldn't help but look at the building opposite the hospital. He remembered that he had traveled to the period after the Great Patriotic War, because After rescuing Yakov from the prison camp, his superiors rewarded him with a house in this building.

The window in that room was closed and the glass was covered with dust. It must have been unoccupied for a long time. He originally wanted to find an opportunity to check out that room and learn from the residents who had lived in this house, but since no one lived there, there was no point in going there.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly felt the car body shake, and then made a loud noise.

Sokov woke up from his reverie, screaming in his heart: rear-end collision!

He turned to look at Anna, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and asked with concern: "Ana, are you okay?"

Anna shook her head, and then said to Sokov: "Misha, it seems like there was a rear-end collision. Please go down and have a look."

Sokov opened the door and got out of the car, just as the driver of the car in front also got out.

After the two looked at each other, they both walked to the middle of the two cars to check the damage to the vehicles.

What's strange is that the cover of the headlight on the left side of Sokov's car was smashed, but there were no signs of scratches on the car in front.

The driver looked at Sokov, shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and said: "What the hell, I just felt like the two cars had collided, but there were no traces at all. Could it be that I had it?" illusion?"

"No," Sokov didn't think it was an illusion. Otherwise, the lampshade of the headlight on his left couldn't have been smashed. The location of the impact must not be obvious, so he didn't notice it. He said to the driver: "It may have hit an inconspicuous location. Please check again."

While the driver of the car in front was checking, Anna also got out of the car, walked around Sokov from the back of the car, and asked nervously: "Misha, where did you hit?"

"I said beautiful girl," the driver of the car in front said with a smile when he saw such a beautiful girl like Anna: "I guess your boyfriend and I may have encountered some supernatural event. We both felt that the two cars had collided, but after My inspection found no scratches on the back of my car.”

After the driver of the car in front laughed twice, he stretched out his hand to Sokov: "Friend, drive carefully in the future. I wish you good luck!"

"Good luck!"

After Sokov waited for the driver of the car in front to drive away, he suddenly thought of a possibility. He asked Anna to get in the car first, and then ran to the back of his car to check. After looking at it for a moment, he nodded slowly and said to himself: "That's it."

After Sokov got in the car, Anna, who was sitting in the passenger seat, asked curiously: "Misha, what were you looking at at the back of the car just now?"

"Look where I just hit someone else's car."

"Where?" Anna said with some surprise: "But the driver checked for a long time and couldn't find the place where it was hit. What's going on?"

"The lampshade of my left headlight was smashed, which means I must have rear-ended the other party's car." Sokov explained to Anna: "When he just got out of the car to check, he didn't find any scratches on the rear of the car. It’s because I didn’t hit it in a conspicuous place.”

"Where did it hit?" Anna urged: "Stop being so pretentious, tell me quickly."

"I hit the exhaust pipe of his car, which shattered the cover of my left front light before the exhaust pipe was retracted."

"Oh, that's it." Anna nodded after hearing this, with a look of realization: "No wonder you went to check behind you just now. It turned out that you were looking at the position of the exhaust pipe to determine whether it hit the exhaust pipe of the other car. superior."

"Anna, you are so smart." Sokov gave Anna a thumbs up: "You actually guessed the truth right away."

Sokov drove to the market and parked his car in the parking lot.

When Anna unbuckled her seat belt and got out of the car, she turned to Sokov and said, "Misha, after get off work tonight, can I still go to your house?"

Faced with Anna's request, Sokov was not someone who wouldn't recognize someone when he put on his pants, so he naturally nodded and agreed: "Okay, come to my store to find me when you get off work, and let's go to the supermarket to buy something together. "

After hearing that Sokov agreed to her request, Anna ran to work happily.

Sokov came to the door of his shop and first turned off the alarm at the door. When he was using the key to open the door, Bahadur from the shop next door came over and asked curiously: "Misha, why didn't your shop open yesterday? "

"Isn't yesterday Victory Day?" Sokov explained to the other party with a smile: "I went to Victory Square to play."

"So that's it." Bahadur said: "By the way, yesterday Akshara came to see you specifically. I was quite disappointed when you didn't open the door. Didn't you tell her beforehand if you didn't open the door yesterday? Let her travel in vain."

"I told a few of them when I got off work the day before yesterday. Akshara may have forgotten it."

"I really didn't expect that Akshara, who is also a little confused, would even forget such a thing." Bahadur said with a smile: "When she comes to work later, I will give her a few criticisms for you."

"Bahadur, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to see her today." Sokov said with a wry smile: "She went back to Odessa, and I'm afraid she won't come back until after the meeting in August."

"Ah, she wants to go back and stay for such a long time?"

While Sokov and Bahadur were chatting, employees Lena and Ada walked over arm in arm. After seeing Sokov, they greeted him, put down their things, and helped her organize the goods.

"Misha," after placing the goods, Lena looked around and asked with a mysterious expression: "Anna was at your place last night, right?"

Sokov was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then remembered that Anna and Lena were roommates, and they shared a two-bedroom house with two other girls. For this kind of thing, as long as Lena goes back and asks Anna, the truth will be revealed, so he did not hide it, but nodded and answered truthfully: "Yes, you do live at my place."

During lunch, Ada said to Sokov: "Misha, I want to ask you for a few days off."

"Take leave, what do you do with leave?"

"Spring has begun, and I plan to go to the villa in the suburbs to grow vegetables."

Ada's words reminded Sokov of how every May, Ada would ask for leave and go back to her suburban villa to grow vegetables. After planting vegetables, I rest for two days and then come back to work, which will take about ten days. But the so-called villa is not the kind of villa that everyone understands, it is just a cabin in the forest.

"Okay." Sokov thought for a while. It was already the off-season anyway, and no matter how many employees he had, he would not sell goods, so he agreed to Ada's request: "Then you go back for a few more days this time and come back to work in June. It’s not too late.”

Seeing that Sokov agreed to Ada's request, Lena couldn't sit still: "Misha, Ada asked you for advice, and you agreed. Then I ask you for advice, and you won't disagree, right?"

"Lena, if you ask for leave again, there will be no one in the store."

"How is that possible?" Lena said in surprise: "Even if Ada and I take leave, won't Akshara still be there? She can work for a while, and when we come back to work, it won't be too late to take another leave."

"She returned to Odessa yesterday." Sokov sighed and said, "When she called me, the train was almost arriving in Kiev."

"This Akshara is so outrageous." Lena said dissatisfied after hearing this: "I want to go home for vacation, and I don't even say hello in advance. I just leave as soon as I say it, which ruins my vacation plan." "When she comes back, I will give her a good scolding."

"Lena," Sokov thought of Lena's vacations in previous years. She always went to Sochi on the coast of the Black Sea to bask in the sun. Every time she came back, the skin on her back was tanned into fish scales, and she looked at it. It makes people feel terrified. Thinking of Anna's appointment to go to Sochi, he asked tentatively: "How about you work for a few more days and then follow us to Sochi?"

"You?!" Lena looked at Sokov and asked, "Who are you with? Anna?"

Sokov didn't say anything, just smiled, acquiescing.

Seeing Sokov's expression, Lena naturally understood that her guess was correct. After thinking for a while, she agreed: "Okay, Misha, I've decided happily. I'll go with you in a few days. Sochi.”

Ada heard the conversation between Sokov and Lena, and came over, curiously asking: "Are you going to Sochi soon?"

"Well, yes." Sokov said to Ada: "The months of May, June, July and August are all off-season, and it doesn't matter whether they are open or not. You might as well take advantage of this opportunity and go out for a trip. If you want to go , Count you in."

Hearing what Sokov said, Ada couldn't help but feel a little moved. But after thinking for a long time, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, I still have a lot of things to do at home, so I probably won't be able to go. It's better for you guys to go and have fun."

"Misha," a man ran in from outside at this time and said to Sokov: "Fortunately you are here. Come with me to my store. I want to ask you for a favor."

Sokov looked at the middle-aged man in front of him. It took him a long time to recognize that it was Akshara's uncle Anatoly, and he quickly asked: "Anatoly, what happened?"

"The laptop Akshara gave me yesterday can't be turned on. Go and help me find out what's going on."

Knowing that there was a problem with the computer, Sokov quickly stood up and said: "Let's go, maybe there is a bad connection again, it can be repaired and it will be back to normal."