Red Moscow

Chapter 2462

As soon as Sokov entered the guest house, the waitress greeted him and said: "Comrade General, a few people just came to see you, but you are not here."

"Where are they?" When Sokov heard this, he knew that it was Agni and Grandit who came to help him write a book, but something unexpected happened today, which delayed their time and made them run away in vain. One trip. He asked cautiously: "Have you left already?"

"No, Comrade General." Fortunately, the waitress's answer made Sokov sigh with relief: "They are all waiting at the door of your room."

After Sokov thanked the waitress, he ran upstairs in three steps at a time, so as not to keep Agni and the others waiting too long.

Going up to the second floor, I saw four people standing in the corridor, talking in low voices. Sokov recognized them at a glance as the stenographers and scribes who helped him write his books, and he quickly raised his voice and actively greeted them: "How are you, comrades!"

The four people who were talking heard Sokov's voice and immediately came over to greet him warmly: "Hello, Comrade General!"

Sokov came to the four of them and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, comrades, for keeping you waiting for so long. I originally just went to the municipal building to watch a movie and planned to come back before noon, but something happened. It’s been delayed until now.”

"Comrade General, look at what you said." Agni said with a smile: "Our task is to assist you in your work. You are delayed by something. It is completely appropriate for us to wait for you here for a while. Tell me, is this the case? Lier, comrades?" His next words were directed at the other three.

As soon as Agni finished speaking, the other three people said in unison: "Yes, yes, we are here to assist Comrade General in his work, so we should wait for you for a while."

Hearing Sokov's question, Karina tilted her head and asked: "Why, don't you welcome me? You know, you can agree to let me come over as a guest and read your novel by the way."

Seeing the thick manuscript, Sokov nodded with satisfaction and said repeatedly: "Not bad, your work efficiency is very high. According to the current situation, this book will be completely finished in three days at most. Today It’s getting late, you should go back first and come back tomorrow morning.”

About ten minutes later, another waitress came in pushing a dining cart with a teapot, teacups and some pastries on it. After entering the door, she asked politely: "Comrade General, where are these things placed?" She asked because she saw the table where everyone was sitting around was filled with papers and pens.

 When dinner time came, Sokov called again and asked the waiter to deliver the food to the room, and had dinner with everyone.

Shortly after the four people left, there was a knock on the door.

After entering the door, Sokov picked up the phone on the table and made a call to the front desk: "Hello, Comrade Waiter! I am General Sokov on the second floor. Please send four cups of tea to my room. And some pastries over here.”

Sokov thought that Eisenstein or Werner had come to read the manuscript, so he got up and walked to the door and opened it.

Although others said they didn't care, Sokov did not dare to keep them waiting any longer. He quickly opened the door and invited them in: "Please come in, comrades."

After the waitress put down the tea and pastries and left, Sokov politely said to everyone: "Everyone has been waiting for me for so long. You must be hungry and thirsty. Let's drink some tea and eat something first, and then we can start today's business." It’s not too late to work.”

"Yes, yes, that's what I said." Sokov came back to his senses and remembered that he had indeed made such a promise to the other party. He quickly turned his body to one side and moved out of the way: "Karina, please come in quickly. Bar!"

 The waitress who answered the phone replied cheerfully: "Okay, Comrade General, I will have someone bring it to you immediately."

Sokov pointed to the writing table by the window and said, "Just put it on that table."

Since the two groups of people switched jobs, the progress today was very fast, and 20,000 words of content were completed in four hours.

Unexpectedly, after opening the door, he saw Karina standing at the door. Sokov couldn't help being stunned: "Karina, why are you?"

Seeing Sokov's enthusiasm, the stenographers and scribes naturally were not polite to him. They immediately got up and went to the table by the window, picked up the pastries and started eating. After finishing the pastries, they took some tea and drank some. Then he said to Sokov: "Comrade General, can we start working?"

Karina entered the room, and after Sokov closed the door, she took out the two hands hidden behind her back and said to Sokov: "Misha, look at what this is?"

Seeing that everyone had entered the state, Sokov nodded slightly and began to recite today's content.

When Sokov learned this number, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised. Twenty thousand words in four hours was equivalent to five thousand words in one hour, which was almost comparable to using a computer to roughly write a tentacle monster. It seems that Eisenstein freed himself from the heavy writing work by finding himself a stenographer and scribe.

 When we finished work at eight o'clock, we had completed the task of 30,000 words.

When the four of them were going out, Agni asked Sokov on behalf of everyone: "Comrade General, what time will you come tomorrow morning?"

Sokov thought for a while and felt that he should sleep in tomorrow, so he said to Agni: "Nine o'clock, you can just come over at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."

Sokov saw clearly that Karina was holding a bottle of champagne in her left hand and a bottle of red wine in her right hand. He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Karina, what are you bringing this for?"

"Of course I drank." Karina smiled and asked, "You won't tell me that you don't know how to drink?"

"Yes, yes, I know how to drink." Sokov admitted a little embarrassedly: "I just don't have a good drinking tolerance. I get drunk after just a few drinks."

 “That’s great.”

"Ah?" Sokov was stunned and asked: "What did you say?"    "Oh, I didn't say anything." Karina changed the subject in time: "Didn't you say that you want to show me the novel you wrote? Really? I wonder where the manuscript is?"

"Here." Sokov brought Karina to the table and pushed the compiled manuscript in front of her: "It's not finished yet, you can only make do with it."

Carina put the two bottles of wine aside, picked up the manuscript and started browsing.

To be honest, she didn't think that a soldier like Sokov could write any popular novels. She said that she came here specifically to read his novels, which was just an excuse to meet. But after watching it for a few minutes, she was deeply attracted by the plot.

Watching Karina flipping through the manuscript page after page, Sokov felt that she must be attracted by the plot, so he smiled and asked: "Karina, what do you think of my writing?"

"Great, simply great." After Karina said this casually, she seemed to notice something was wrong, and quickly added: "Misha, I am not perfunctory with you, but I am telling the truth. To be honest, before I came here, I thought you couldn’t write any good novels. But after reading these contents, I realized how wrong I was. I couldn’t believe that someone like you is busy all day long. The general who commanded the war actually had such good writing skills. I can tell that once this novel is published, it will definitely be very popular."

Hearing Karina's praise, Sokov could only smile bitterly. He knew very well that with his own writing skills, he would never be able to write such a wonderful novel. However, in front of Karina, he still said modestly: "It was not written well, it was written blindly."

"Misha, how long did it take you to write such a thick manuscript?" Karina said: "I think it took at least half a year to write it?"

“Wrong, Karina, you guessed it wrong.” Sokov waited for Karina to finish and said with a smile: “Actually, it only took two or three days to write.”

“What, you only wrote so much in two or three days?” Karina was shocked: “How did you do that?”

There is a reason for Karina's worry. Typewriters in this era are faster than humans, but even the most capable typist cannot type so many words in just two or three days, so she is eager to get it done. Find out how Sokov did it.

"The reason is very simple." Sokov explained with a smile: "Comrade Sergei Eisenstein, the deputy director of the crew, sent me two stenographers and two scribes. With their assistance, I wrote The speed of the book has naturally increased several times, otherwise it would not have been possible to write such content in just a few days."

After figuring out the reason why Sokov wrote so many manuscripts in such a short period of time, Karina nodded slightly, and then said to Sokov: "Misha, I am reading a book, you sit next to me. Isn’t it a bit too boring? How about we have a drink and I can read a book while drinking."

Seeing that the other party insisted on drinking, Sokov had a hard time persuading him. After all, Russians, both men and women, loved drinking. He brought two glasses and put them on the table, indicating that Karina could pour the wine. However, he was thinking that if Karina got drunk later, he would ask a waitress to come over and put her in the guest room next to her. Wait until daybreak before sending her away.

Sokov was worried that he would get drunk, so he only drank champagne at first. This wine is not intoxicating, and he can still stay sober even if he drinks a bottle alone.

Unexpectedly, after drinking the champagne, Karina opened the bottle of red wine again.

Sokov quickly waved his hand and said: "Karina, stop drinking red wine. I'm almost done with it. If I drink any more, I'll get drunk."

"Originally I didn't plan to drink this bottle of red wine, but your book is so wonderful." Karina said excitedly: "Just because of this, I have to drink more." After that, she gave Soko He poured half a glass of red wine into the glass in front of his husband, and then poured half a glass into his own glass.

After doing all this, Karina raised her glass and said to Sokov: "Misha, I wish you can win the Stalin Prize for Literature for this book!"

The hospitality was hard to resist, so Sokov could only pick up the glass and clink it with the other person, then bring the glass to his mouth and take a sip gently. But after seeing this, Karina was reluctant: "Misha, why do you only drink so much? No, you must drink it all. I don't believe you are not even as good as a woman!" After saying that, she poured some water into her cup. He drank the red wine in one gulp, then turned the rim of the glass down to indicate that he had finished the wine.

Sokov had no choice but to pick up the wine glass on the table again, close his eyes tightly, hold his breath, and drink up the red wine in the glass in one gulp.

Seeing Sokov finish the drink, Karina smiled: "That's right. Let's continue." Then, she poured half a glass of red wine for Sokov.

Just like that, you had a glass of wine and I had a glass of wine, and the bottle of red wine quickly ran out.

 Seeing that the red wine was almost finished, Sokov was secretly glad that he could finally stop drinking.

Unexpectedly, Karina stood up, walked to the place where the phone was placed, picked up the phone and dialed a number, and then said into the phone: "This is General Sokov's room on the second floor. Could you please bring up two more bottles of red wine?" .Yes, that’s General Sokov’s room, preferably Georgian wine, which the general likes to drink.”

When Sokov heard this, his heart suddenly rose to his throat, and he quickly said to Karina: "Karina, okay, stop asking for wine, I can't drink anymore. If I continue to drink, I will definitely You will get drunk." He knew very well that many people in Russia lost their lives due to alcoholism every year. He was not good at drinking. If he continued to drink, he might suffer from alcohol poisoning or even endanger his life.

"It's okay, Misha, just two bottles of red wine." Unexpectedly, Karina came over and said to him with a smile: "This kind of wine has no alcohol content and is not intoxicating."

Hearing what the other party said, Sokov almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood. Who says red wine isn’t intoxicating? This kind of wine has great stamina, so it may not cause any problems when you drink it, but after drinking it, you will become intoxicated very easily. It would be too embarrassing if I was so drunk that I vomited all over the floor on the spot.

"Misha, don't worry." Karina continued to comfort Sokov and said, "Two bottles of red wine are really not intoxicating."

Facing Karina’s enthusiasm, Sokov argued feebly: “Karina, I don’t drink well. If I drink any more, I will really get drunk...”

"Misha, are you unwilling to drink with me?" Unexpectedly, after Karina heard what Sokov said, she immediately straightened her face and said displeasedly: "I saw that your book was well written, so I asked you in advance Congratulations. You know, if you leave Vladimir, you may not come back. When your book really wins the award, I just want to celebrate you, but I’m afraid I won’t find such an opportunity. If you If you look down on me, you can just say it and I will turn around and leave immediately, and I will never pester you."

After hearing what Karina said, Sokov felt that it would be too unkind if he refused again, so he could only say tactfully: "Okay, Karina, let's continue drinking. But I Let me declare in advance, if I get drunk and vomit all over the floor, you have to help me clean up the room!"

"I thought it was something, but it turned out to be this." Karina became happy again, and she assured Sokov: "Don't worry, if you are really drunk, I will help you clean the room. .”

 (End of this chapter)