Sokov walked out of the General Staff Headquarters, stood on the unfamiliar street, looked around, and then walked in the direction he came from. When he came, a special car took him here; if he wanted to go home, he could only
Figure out your own solution.
When Sokov was in later generations, he never worried about getting lost. Even if he arrived in a strange place, if he wanted to take a taxi, he only had to stand on the roadside and take a taxi, and the driver would take him to the designated location.
He came to a nearby street and saw vehicles passing by from time to time, including military vehicles and cars. He followed the example of later generations, with his arms at a 45-degree angle to his body, his fingers spread out, and his palms facing down.
Take a taxi on the roadside.
In later Russian taxis, because there are few regular taxis, all vehicles, including police cars and ambulances, can become temporary taxis. When the driver sees someone taking a taxi on the roadside, he stops and asks if he is on his way.
, negotiate a price and just pick it up, which is similar to China's hitchhiking. If the price is not agreed upon, just send the car away and wait for the next one. There is no refusal to pick up, and there is no such thing as a black car.
But Sokov miscalculated. He forgot that this was the Soviet Union in the 1940s, not Moscow in the 21st century. Privately owned vehicles were rare. Vehicles driving on the streets had their own tasks. How could they park at will?
Get down and pick up an officer standing by the roadside.
Seeing a lot of cars going back and forth, but none of them stopped, Sokov couldn't help but murmur in his heart: What's going on? Why didn't any cars stop?
Just when he was puzzled, a crisp voice suddenly sounded from behind him: "Comrade commander, what are you doing here?"
Sokov turned around and saw that it was a young girl wearing a long black woolen coat and a white woolen hat. She was looking at herself up and down with curious eyes. When she saw the person who asked him something, it was a young girl.
A young and beautiful girl, Sokov quickly replied with a smile on his face: "I'm taking a taxi!"
"Take a taxi?!" The girl tilted her head and looked behind Sokov, then said: "But, Comrade Commander, there are no taxis on this road at all. How can you take a taxi?"
Sokov pointed at the cars plying the street and said, "Those cars can also be used as taxis."
Hearing what Sokov said, the girl couldn't help but laugh, suppressing her smile and said: "Comrade Commander, what did you just say? Can these cars on the street also be used as taxis?"
After the girl reminded him, Sokov immediately thought that he was in Moscow in 1942, not Moscow in 2017. Apart from the pitiful taxis, there were no vehicles that could serve as taxis. He pointed at the girl
He smiled awkwardly and then asked: "Girl, I want to go back to Lenin Street. Do you know how to get there?"
The girl did not directly answer Sokov's question, but spit out a name from her mouth: "Annie."
Sokov couldn't help but be stunned and asked: "What did you say?"
"My name is Annie." The girl said openly, "I wonder what I should call you?"
"My name is Mikhail, and my surname is Sokov." Sokov replied with a smile: "You can call me Mikhail or Sokov, or you can call me by my nickname like a friend: Misha
!”
"Then I'll call you Misha." Anne said to Sokov: "Since the war broke out, there has been no taxi at all in the city. If you want to go back to Lenin Street, my advice to you is
Take the bus or subway back."
"Annie," Sokov called the other party's name and asked politely: "Do you know where there is a bus stop or a subway station nearby?"
"The subway station is about two streets away from here," Anne said with a sweet smile on her face: "As for the bus station, you can see it by turning right at the intersection in front, and the tram there will pass by Lenin
Main Street." She paused for a moment, then continued, "If you don't object, just follow me, I happen to be going in that direction."
Since someone was willing to act as a guide for him, Sokov naturally wanted it, so he followed Annie to the bus stop. There were many people waiting for the bus here, and the long queue had been sent far away, and the two of them stood in the queue
the very back.
"Misha, where are your troops stationed?" As soon as Anne said these words, she saw the expression on Sokov's face become serious. She immediately realized that her question had caused Sokov to misunderstand, and hurriedly
He added: "If it involves confidentiality, there is no need to tell me."
When Sokov heard Anne asking him where the troops were, the first thought that came to his mind was: Could this woman be a German spy, and she was chatting with me just to spy on the military? But after listening to Anne's words later, he felt that the other party might be a German spy.
He just wanted to chat with himself, so he answered vaguely: "The troops are in the suburbs, and I came to the city for a vacation."
A tram stopped in the middle of the road, and only a few people left the team and walked towards the tram. Anne pulled Sokov with her hand and said to him: "Misha, the tram is here, let's get on it.
Bar."
After the two got on the bus, a middle-aged woman with a bloated figure said to them: "Please buy a ticket!"
Sokov touched his pocket. Fortunately, Yakov left a lot of money for himself some time ago. Otherwise, it would be really embarrassing if he couldn't even pay for the ticket today. He took out two
A five-kopeck coin was handed to the conductor. The conductor took the coin and put it into the canvas bag he was carrying. Then he tore two tickets from the rolled up ticket and stuffed them into Sokov.
Sokov and Annie came to the back of the car and happened to see two empty seats, so they sat down unceremoniously. Sokov asked Annie: "Annie, where do you work?"
"I work in a hospital." Anne replied, "The hospital is on Lenin Street."
Hearing that Anne worked in the hospital on Lenin Street, Sokov thought to himself: It can't be such a coincidence, she and Tonya are colleagues? Thinking of this, he tentatively asked: "Annie, is there a doctor named Dongya in your hospital?"
Nia’s surgeon?”
"Yes, yes, there is a surgeon named Tonya." Anne nodded vigorously, and then asked curiously: "Do you know Tonya?"
Sokov thought that someone in the hospital had seen him and Tonya going out. Even if he denied it, Anne would know the truth. It would be better to tell the truth: "We have interacted with each other before and even had dinner together."
"Will you get married?" As soon as Sokov finished speaking, Anne asked unexpectedly.
"Marriage?!" Sokov was startled by Anne's words. He replied in a panic: "Donia and I have only dealt with each other once and had dinner once. It's too early to talk about marriage now.
Is it done?"
"Misha, have you forgotten that this is during the war?" The expression on Anne's face suddenly became solemn, "I just accompanied a girlfriend to the marriage registration office to go through the formalities. You know she and the lieutenant officer
How long have we known each other?" Before Sokov could answer, she asked herself and said, "From the time we met and registered the marriage, it was only five short hours."
"Five hours?" Sokov was also shocked by such a lightning-fast marriage. He did not expect that flash marriages would appear in the Soviet Union in the 1940s.
"The officer was about to go to war. When he was drinking coffee in a coffee shop, he met my girlfriend, who was a waiter there. The two chatted for a while and felt that they had a good conversation, so they decided to register at the marriage registration office. My
My girlfriend felt that for such a grand event, someone close to her should be by her side, so she called me." Anne looked out the window and said to herself: "After completing the registration procedures, the officer handed over his allowance card.
I gave it to my girlfriend and said that I can receive his monthly allowance; even if he dies, my girlfriend can also receive a pension..." At this point, while Sokov was not paying attention, she raised her hand to wipe it.
Gone were the tears on my cheeks.
The car stopped, a group of people got out of the car, and another group of people got on. A man in his thirties, wearing a peaked cap and work clothes of a machinery factory, and two children, a boy and a girl, crowded into Soko
Near his husband. Seeing that the boy was only three or four years old, Sokov felt embarrassed to continue sitting still, so he stood up and gave up his seat to the man.
After the man in overalls thanked Sokov, he did not let his son sit down, but asked his seven or eight-year-old daughter to sit down. The little boy saw his sister sitting down, but he and his father continued to stand.
As soon as his mouth curled up, he started to cry. The man straightened his face and began to lecture him: "You are a man, and my sister is a little girl. It is natural for a man to take care of a little girl. Why are you crying?"
The little boy who was scolded by his father stopped crying, raised his hands to wipe away the tears on his face, raised his head and said to his father: "I remember, I am a man and my sister is a little girl. A man should take care of the little girl."
After the boy said these words, he immediately aroused good-natured laughter from the surrounding passengers.
Anne quickly stood up from her seat and asked the worker father to sit down with his son in his arms. She squeezed in next to Sokov and whispered: "It's so interesting. This is the first time I've seen this.
To educate children.”
After the tram stopped at five or six more stops, Anne said to Sokov: "We will get off at the next stop and walk one street to Lenin Street."
After the two got off the bus at the station, Sokov looked at the surrounding environment. He had never been here before. If it weren't for Annie as a guide, he would definitely get lost. After the two walked along the street for a while, Annie looked at There was a long queue on the roadside. He sighed and said, "Damn it, there are so many people lining up. I don't know if I can still buy something after get off work."
Sokov looked in the direction of the queue and saw that it was a food store. From a distance, he could smell the aroma of bread coming from it. However, if he wanted to buy bread, he would have to wait in line for at least an hour or two.
.
He was feeling disappointed when he suddenly saw a shop appearing in front of him. Looking through the closed glass door, he saw a dazzling array of goods inside, but no one was queuing up. He quickly pointed to the shop and asked Anne: "Annie, look, where is it?"
There is another store, why is there no queue?"
Anne turned her head and glanced at Sokov, with a resentful expression on her face: "Misha, are you kidding me?"
"Why did I tease you?" Sokov asked in confusion.
Anne pointed towards the store with her hand and said: "That is an officer's shopping store. Except for officers, even ordinary soldiers are not qualified to buy things, let alone ordinary people like me."
Hearing that it was a store where only officers could shop, Sokov couldn't help but feel dumbfounded. Even though he had lived on Lenin Street for several days, he didn't even know there was such a place, so every time he bought something
, you have to wait in line for a long time. No matter the queue or the people selling things, no one told me that there is a special shopping store for military officers.
"Let's go there to buy something." Sokov held Anne's hand and quickly walked through the deserted streets to the officer's shopping store, pushed open the two closed glass doors and walked in.
.
There were no customers in the store except for the salesperson. When they heard someone coming in from outside, several salespersons standing behind the counter chatting all turned their eyes around. When they saw clearly that they were a young major and a young man who came in.
After seeing the girl, they stopped talking and walked back to the counter they were responsible for.
Sokov took Annie's hand and came to a counter selling smoked ham. He smiled and asked the salesperson standing behind the counter: "Comrade salesperson, are there any restrictions on shopping here?"
The salesperson quickly glanced at Sokov's collar badge and replied: "Comrade Commander, according to your level, the upper limit of each product is four kilograms, and the upper limit of canned goods is five."
"I understand, thank you!" After expressing his gratitude to the salesperson, Sokov pointed to the smoked ham on the counter and said, "Give me four kilograms of this first!"
Then, Sokov bought four more kilograms of flour, four kilograms of barley, two kilograms of sugar, five cans of pickled tomatoes, five cans of pickled cucumbers, and five cans of pickled mushrooms. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't take it, he would definitely buy more.
In order to make Annie happy, he even bought two pieces of chocolate that were almost invisible in the world and stuffed them into Annie's hands.
When paying the bill, Sokov thought that with so many things, the price must not be cheap. Unexpectedly, when he finished the calculation, it was less than two rubles. After hearing the price, he looked at the accountant in the store and asked: "Comrade accountant,
Is this price calculated correctly?”
The accountant thought that Sokov thought the items were too expensive, so he quickly calculated it again. After confirming that it was correct, he kindly reminded Sokov: "Comrade Commander, it is during the war now, and the prices of many commodities have increased.
Please rest assured that I have already calculated it and there is nothing wrong with the price."
The accountant had no idea that Sokov didn't think it was too expensive, but that it was too cheap. If it were decades later, if such a small amount of money fell on the ground, he would be too lazy to bend down to pick it up, but at this time, it was a huge sum of money.
It was quite an expense. He paid the bill readily and said to the salesperson at the counter: "Comrade salesperson, please divide these things into two parts when packing. Okay?"