red moscow

Chapter 2669

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

"How about going to Sochi on 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 we won't even be able to find a place to sunbathe."

"Okay then." Sokov agreed to Anna's proposal, but considering that he was not familiar with Sochi, he reminded her: "You will arrange the itinerary, so that we can visit more attractions in the shortest time."

"no problem."

As they drank tea and chatted, Sokov glanced at the wall clock from time to time, muttering to himself: When will Anna leave? He also wanted to calm down and think carefully about whether what he experienced was real history or a long dream.

Perhaps because she looked at the clock too many times, Anna also noticed that Sokov was abnormal. She asked tentatively: "Misha, are you sleepy?"

How could Sokov tell Anna that he was looking at the time to guess when she would leave? He could only follow Anna's lead and say, "Yes, I have been working in the underground fortifications for so long today. I am indeed a little tired. I want to go to bed early." As he spoke, he even pretended to yawn.

Unexpectedly, Anna said, "Misha, can I stay at your place today?"

"Ah, living with me?" Sokov was secretly surprised.

"Yes," Anna said a little embarrassedly, "There are many people drinking at my place tonight. If I go home, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep well all night. You live alone here, so no one should disturb you."

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

"Great, that's great." Anna looked up and kissed Sokov on the cheek, then blushed and said, "I'm going to take a shower first."

Half an hour later, the two lay side by side in 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 and looked at Sokov's face and said, "Everyone found that you were missing, so Alexander and Khabarov immediately led everyone into the underground fortifications to look for you. After entering the fortifications, everyone kept calling your name, but we never heard your answer. When we came out of the underground fortifications and were discussing whether we should hire a professional team to go in and look for you, you suddenly appeared out of nowhere."

Sokov thought for a moment and asked again, "When you came in to look for me, I was at a fork in the road and we got separated."

"Who said there was a fork in the road in the underground fortification?" Anna continued, "Although the road below is winding, there is only one road. A group of us walked to the end of the road and walked back again, but we still couldn't find any trace of you. Misha, where were you hiding at the time? How come we couldn't find you?"

"I remember that after entering the underground fortifications, I followed Alexander and Khabarov for a while, but it was too dark inside and I soon lost contact with them," Sokov explained. "I don't know how long I wandered around in there until I saw a light ahead. I quickly ran towards the light and finally walked out of the underground fortifications."

Sokov wanted to ask more about what happened after his disappearance, but he heard Anna say, "Misha, stop talking about these disappointing things and get some rest." The next moment, he felt Anna's lips touching his lips, giving him a wonderful and mysterious feeling.

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

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

Seeing that the table was already filled with fried eggs, sandwiches, and sliced ​​sausages, Anna took off the apron around her waist and said with a smile, "Eat quickly and try 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 after he traveled back to the Great Patriotic War, his superiors rewarded him with a house in this building because he rescued Yakov from the prisoner-of-war camp.

The window of that room was closed and the glass was covered with dust, which meant that no one had lived there for a long time. He had originally wanted to find an opportunity to go to that room and ask the resident who had lived there before, but since no one was living there, there was no point in him going there again.

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly felt the car body shake, followed by a loud noise.

  Sokov woke up from his thoughts and thought to himself: Oh no! It’s rear-ended!

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

Anna shook her head and said to Sokov, "Misha, it looks like there was a rear-end collision. Go down and take a look."

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

After looking at each other, the two men walked to the middle of the two cars to check the damage.

What is strange is that the left headlight cover of Sokov's car was broken, but there was no sign of scratches on the car in front.

The driver looked at Sokov, shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and said, "This is really weird. I just felt that the two cars collided, but how come there is no trace at all? Is it an illusion?"

"No," Sokov didn't think it was an illusion, otherwise the headlight cover of the car on his left wouldn't have been broken. It must have been hit in an inconspicuous place, so it wasn't noticed. He said to the driver, "It might have been hit in an inconspicuous place, please check again."

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

"I'm talking to you, pretty girl," the driver of the car in front said with a smile when he saw Anna, who was so pretty. "I guess your boyfriend and I may have encountered some supernatural events. We both felt that the two cars collided, but after my inspection, I didn't find any scratches on the back of my car."

The driver of the car in front of him joked twice and held out his hand to Sokov: "My friend, drive carefully next time. Good luck!"

"Good luck!"

After the driver of the car in front drove away, Sokov 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 for a while, he nodded slowly and said to himself, "So 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?"

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

"Where?" Anna said in surprise, "But the driver checked for a long time and didn't find any scratches. What happened?" "The cover of my left front light was broken, which means I must have rear-ended the other car." Sokov explained to Anna, "When he got out of the car to check just now, he didn't find any scratches on the rear of the car because I didn't hit a conspicuous place."

"Then where did it hit?" Anna urged, "Don't keep us in suspense. Tell us quickly."

"I hit the exhaust pipe of his car, which broke the cover of my left front headlight before it was pushed back."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Anna nodded after hearing this, looking as if she suddenly realized something. "No wonder you wanted to check the back just now. It turns out you wanted to check the position of the exhaust pipe to determine whether it hit the exhaust pipe of the other car."

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

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

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

Facing Anna's request, Sokov was not the type to turn his back on her once she pulled up her pants, so he naturally nodded and agreed: "Okay, when you get off work, come to my store to find me, and we'll go to the supermarket to buy some things together."

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

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

"Wasn't it Victory Day yesterday?" Sokov explained with a smile, "I went to Victory Square to play."

"I see." Bahadur said, "By the way, Akshara came to see you yesterday and was disappointed when she saw that you didn't open the door. Didn't you tell her in advance that you didn't open the door yesterday? She made a wasted trip."

"I told them about it when I got off work the day before yesterday. Akshara might have forgotten it."

"I didn't expect that Akshara is such a confused person that she would even forget such a thing." Bahadur said with a smile, "When she comes to work later, I will criticize her for you."

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

"Ah, she's going to stay back for that long?"

While Sokov and Bahadur were chatting, two employees, Lena and Ada, came over arm in arm. When they saw Sokov, they greeted him, put down their things, and helped her sort the goods.

"Misha," after she had arranged the goods, Lena looked around to see if there was anyone around, and asked mysteriously, "Anna was at your place last night, wasn't she?"

Sokov was stunned at first, then he remembered that Anna and Lena were roommates, and shared a two-bedroom house with two other girls. This kind of thing, as long as Lena went back to ask Anna, the truth would be revealed, so he did not hide it, but nodded and answered truthfully: "Yes, he is indeed living at my place."

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

"Leave, what for?"

"It's spring now, and I plan to grow vegetables in my villa in the suburbs."

Ada's words reminded Sokov that every May, Ada would ask for leave from him and go back to her suburban villa to grow vegetables. After growing vegetables, she would rest for two days and then come back to work, which would take about ten days. However, the so-called villa was not the kind of villa that everyone understood, but just a small wooden house in the woods.

"Okay." Sokov thought about it. It was the off-season anyway, and no matter how many employees there were, they wouldn't be able to sell the goods. So he agreed to Ada's request: "Then you can stay a few more days this time. It won't be too late to come back to work in June."

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

"Lena, if you take another leave, there will be no one left in the store."

"How could that be?" Lena said in surprise, "Even if Ada and I ask for leave, isn't Aksara still here? She can work for a while, and when we come back to work, it won't be too late to take a leave."

"She returned to Odessa yesterday," Sokov sighed. "When she called me, the train was almost reaching Kiev."

"This Akshara is really outrageous." Lena said dissatisfiedly after hearing this: "She wanted to go home for vacation without even saying hello in advance. She just left without saying goodbye. My vacation plan was disrupted. When she comes back, I will definitely scold her."

"Lena," Sokov thought of Lena's previous vacations, when she would go to Sochi on the Black Sea to bask in the sun. Every time she came back, the skin on her back was tanned into fish scales, which was scary to look at. Remembering Anna's invitation to go to Sochi, he asked tentatively, "Why don't you work a few more days and then go with us to Sochi?"

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

Sokov didn't say anything, but just smiled, which was considered as his agreement.

Seeing Sokov's expression, Lena knew that her guess was correct. After a little thought, she agreed: "Okay, Misha, it's happily decided. I will go to Sochi with you in a few days."

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

"Yes, that's right." Sokov said to Ada, "May, June, July and August are all off-seasons. It doesn't matter whether the store is open or not. You might as well take this opportunity to go on a trip. If you want to go, you're included."

Hearing Sokov say this, Ada couldn't help but feel a little tempted. 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 can't go. You guys should go and have fun."

"Misha," a man ran in from outside and said to Sokov, "Luckily you are here. Come with me to my shop. I want to ask you for a favor."

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

"The laptop that Akshara gave me yesterday won't turn on. Can you help me check what's going on?"

Knowing that there was something wrong with the computer, Sokov quickly stood up and said, "Let's go. Maybe it's a bad connection. It can be restored to normal after repair."