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, I still didn't receive any notification.
There was no phone in Sokov's new house, so he had to go to a nearby hospital to find a phone and try to understand the situation from Yakov. Unexpectedly, after the person who answered the phone heard that the person he was looking for was Yakov, after recording his name and military rank, he said politely: "Comrade Major, Captain Yakov has gone outside to perform a mission. Waiting for him." As soon as I come back, I will tell him what you asked him for."
Hearing what the other party said, Sokov knew that it would be almost impossible to find Yakov in a short 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 going 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?" "
"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? ?"
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 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 I sighed a lot here, thinking something was wrong, so I came over to ask."
She may have seen that Sokov was a little at a loss, so she emphasized: "Comrade Major, you can continue to sit here as long as you want, 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 what I should call you?"
"Tonya, this name is so nice. If I remember correctly, Paul Korchagin's first girlfriend was named Tonya." After praising the female doctor for her nice name, Sokov said 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 Tonya didn't have to work for the time being, so she stood here and chatted casually with Sokov about Soviet Russian literature. She didn't know how long she had been chatting. She accidentally looked up and saw the clock on the wall, and couldn't help but 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 past twelve o'clock. He smiled at Dongnia, 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 that there is a good restaurant nearby. Cafe."
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 took Sokov's arm generously, pulled him and walked outside.
