According to Sokov's idea, he would receive the order to return to the front line in a day or two at most. However, after two or three days, he still did not receive any 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 find out the situation from Yakov. Unexpectedly, after the person who answered the phone heard that the person he was looking for was Yakov, he
After recording his name and rank, he said politely: "Comrade Major, Captain Yakov has gone on a mission outside. When he comes back, I will tell him what you asked for him."
Hearing what the other party said, Sokov knew that it would be almost impossible to find Yakov in a short period of 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 walking back and forth in a daze, thinking secretly in his mind: "Without orders from my superiors, I simply cannot return to the front line. What should I do?"
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"Comrade Major," perhaps because he saw Sokov sitting on the bench in a daze for too long, a female doctor in a white coat came over and asked politely: "How can I help you?
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Sokov raised his head and 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 things." As he said,
He stood up and added apologetically, "If I'm interfering with your work here, I'll leave right now."
"No, Comrade Major." The female doctor waved to him, grinned, showing eight neat teeth, and said to him: "You have not hindered our work at all, I just saw that you have been sitting there
There was a lot of sighing here, thinking that something happened, so I came over to ask."
She may have seen that Sokov was a little at a loss, so she 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, I don't know how to call you?"
"My name is Tonya." The female doctor smiled sweetly at Sokov and asked: "Comrade Major, I don't know how I should call you?"
"Tonya, this name is really nice. If I remember correctly, Paul Korchagin's first girlfriend was named Tonya." After praising the female doctor for her nice name, Sokov said again
He gave his name: "My name is Mikhail, and my surname is Sokov. You can call me Mikhail or Sokov."
"Misha," she didn't expect Tonya to directly call Sokov by his nickname: "I didn't expect you to have read Ostrovsky's "How the Steel Was Tempered"?"
"Yes, I have seen it." Sokov nodded and said with some show: "There are also Gorky's "In the World", "Mother" and "My University", Tolstoy's "War and Peace", "Butcher"
Gref's books..." Sokov, who used to love Soviet Russian literature, finally found a place to use it now. He named forty or fifty books in one breath, which surprised Tonya.
Maybe it was because Tonya didn't have to work for the time being that she stood here and chatted casually with Sokov about Soviet literature. I don't know how long they chatted, but she inadvertently looked up and saw the clock on the wall, and couldn't help but
He exclaimed: "Oh my God, we have been chatting for almost an hour."
Sokov also looked up at the clock on the wall and found that it was already 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 outside for a drink. I happen to know a good coffee shop nearby."
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 leave now." After that, she stepped forward.
Taking one step forward, he generously took Sokov's arm and pulled him towards the outside.