Red Moscow

Chapter 2472

 Sleepless night.

At dawn, Karina exclaimed: "Oh my God, it's dawn so soon!"

Sokov didn’t know how to respond, so he could only giggle.

Carina got up and went into the bathroom, and finished washing up in less than five minutes. She walked out of the bathroom, picked up the cloth bag with the lunch box on the table, and asked Sokov: "Misha, what do you want to eat first tonight? I will make it for you after get off work!"

Hearing Karina's question, Sokov's mouth twitched violently for a few times, and then said with some embarrassment: "Karina, no, no need to trouble you. Anyway, my book has been written now, I can Eat out and try what food is available here in Vladimir.”

Unexpectedly, Karina was full of surprise after hearing this: "If you want to eat out, that would be great. I am a native of Vladimir and I am very familiar with the signature dishes of various restaurants in the city. , can be your guide and take you to have a taste."

Sokov said this just because he wanted to get rid of Karina temporarily. He was worried that if he continued to get along like this, he might die young. However, Karina obviously misunderstood what he meant and offered to be his guide, which meant that she would be inseparable from him in the next few days.

"Okay, after you get off work, take me to taste Vladimir's delicacies." Sokov thought that Kopalova might have been waiting for him all night. If he didn't explain to her as soon as possible, there might be something unexpected. consequences, so he hurriedly sent Karina away: "It's getting late, you go to work first."

"I get off work at 5:30 in the afternoon." Karina walked to the door and turned to Sokov: "You will pick me up from get off work then!"

"Okay, okay." Sokov just wanted Karina to leave quickly, so he nodded repeatedly and said, "I will pick you up on time."

Just when Sokov saw Karina opening the door and thought she would leave immediately, she stopped and turned around and told Sokov: "Misha, you haven't slept all night, you must be exhausted. , seize the time to get some sleep, lest you don't get promoted in the afternoon."

Seeing Sokov nodding in agreement, Karina walked out of the room and closed the door behind her.

Sokov was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking about Werner returning to Moscow at noon today. Should he leave with him? Then leave a note to Karina, saying that he had urgent matters and needed to return immediately. Moscow, when you have the opportunity in the future, let her be your guide again to taste Vladimir’s delicious food?

He closed his eyes and tried to seize the opportunity to sleep for a while. He got up at ten o'clock and went to find Werner to discuss returning to Moscow together. At this moment, he heard a knock at the door. He thought Karina had forgotten something and came back to get it, so he walked over wrapped in a sheet, opened the door and asked, "Did you forget something?"

As soon as he said the words, he was stunned because the person standing at the door was not Karina, but Kopalova, who had been waiting for him all night.

Seeing Kopalova appear in front of him, Sokov couldn't help but panic: "Kopalova, why are you here?"

Kopalova snorted heavily, then pushed Sokov aside and walked into the room.

Sokov looked into the corridor and saw no one. He couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and then closed the door.

"Don't worry, she has already left." Kopalova said coldly: "I just saw her leaving the guest house at the window, so I came to find you."

 After learning that Karina had left, avoiding the embarrassing scene of the two meeting again, Sokov felt much more at ease. Before he could speak, Kopalova continued: "She must have stayed at your place last night. Otherwise, I wouldn't have waited all night and not waited for your arrival."

"Kopalova, please listen to my explanation. She just stayed with me to read the manuscript." After Sokov finished telling this far-fetched reason, he wanted to slap himself in the face. The man and the woman stayed alone in the same room for a whole day. Su, you said you were just talking about the script...ah, no, you were just looking at the manuscript. No one would believe it.

Sokov began to mutter in his heart that if he continued to stay here, Kopalova and Karina would meet sooner or later. Everything was fine last night. Who knows if Mars will hit the Earth in the future. If someone with ulterior motives knew about this matter, would they make a fuss about it?

Thinking of this, he made a decisive decision to go find Werner later and must follow him to leave Vladimir, otherwise the consequences would be very serious. "Kopalova, shall we go have breakfast?"

 “Don’t eat!” Kopalova said angrily: “I’m not in the mood, I don’t want to eat!”

"I plan to go back to Moscow today." Seeing that his proposal was rejected by Kopalova, Sokov gritted his teeth and told the decision he had just made: "Go with screenwriter Werner to meet the editor-in-chief of the publishing house. Talk to the person about my book.”

“Ah, you want to leave?” Kopalova asked in surprise: “When did you make the decision?”

"Last night." Sokov told lies without changing his face. It was obviously a decision he had just made a minute ago, but he shamelessly said that it was a decision he made last night: "I have thought about it, just let Will Screenwriter Na submitted my book to the publishing house. If the editor-in-chief asked me some questions, he probably wouldn’t know how to answer them, so I’d better be there when I meet with the editor-in-chief.”

When she learned that Sokov was leaving, Kopalova hugged Sokov and said reluctantly: "Misha, the last time we were in Stalingrad, we were separated for three years. We are separated again this time. I don’t know how many more years it will take to see each other again.”

"Soon, soon." Sokov prevaricated: "I'll leave you my home address in Moscow. You can come to me at any time when you have time."

Kopalova raised her head, looked at Sokov and said: "This time I came to see you, Karina appeared. I wonder who will appear next time I see you?"

"Don't worry, there won't be anyone else." Sokov was worried that something might happen if he let the other person hug him again, so he quickly changed the subject: "Let's go have breakfast first. If anything happens, we can chat while eating."

Kopalova hesitated for a while, but finally agreed to Sokov's proposal and followed him downstairs to have breakfast.

When breakfast was almost finished, Kopalova suddenly asked: "Does Karina know about your departure from Moscow?"

"I don't know." Sokov shook his head and replied simply: "You are the first one to know."

 Seeing the sweet smile on the other person's face, Sokov felt much more at ease. "By the way, do you have a pen and paper with you?"

“Of course.” Kopalova nodded and replied: “As a reporter, you will definitely carry a pen and paper with you.”

 “Lend it to me for a moment, I want to write a note.”

Kopalova took out a pen and paper from her bag, handed it to Sokov, and asked casually: "Who are you leaving a note for?" "Karina." Sokov wrote on the paper with a pencil. While writing, she replied: "She originally invited me to have dinner at a restaurant in the evening. Now that I have to go back to Moscow, I have no choice but to live up to her kindness. After all, after we have just met, I should say hello to her even if I am leaving." "

Hearing what Sokov said, Karina said in a sour tone: "You are so kind to her. Even if you leave Vladimir, you will not forget to explain it to her."

 After Sokov finished writing, he handed the notebook and pen back to Kopalova.

Seeing this, Kopalova asked with some surprise: "Didn't you say that you wanted to write a note to Karina explaining your return to Moscow? Why didn't you tear off the note?"

"I thought about it. Anyway, you know her. Why don't you help me give this note to her." Seeing Kopalova's reluctant look, he continued: "She is in the municipal building. At work, the camera crew still has scenes to shoot in the building. If you go to interview, you will definitely meet her, so please give her this note by the way."

Regarding Sokov's proposal, Kopalova thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Okay, I will hand it to her personally." After that, she tore off the paper full of words from the book. , put it in his pocket.

The two of them finished breakfast and walked out of the restaurant when they saw Werner hurried in. As soon as he saw Victor, he said urgently: "Comrade General, I just asked Agni and he said that the new manuscript has not been completed yet. It seems that I can only take the one in your hand." A manuscript will be sent back to Moscow."

"Comrade screenwriter, don't worry." Sokov said to Werner: "I thought about it and decided to return to Moscow with you. When the two of us go to meet the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, if he asks about some things in the novel I can answer questions to him on the spot.”

"That's great." Victor couldn't help but be overjoyed after hearing this: "You will carry the manuscript yourself, so you don't have to worry about it being lost."

While the two were talking, no one noticed that Kopalova took out the note from her pocket, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it into the trash can next to her.

"Misha." After doing this, Kopalova saw that Sokov and Werner seemed to have a lot to talk about, so she said to Sokov: "I'm going back to the room first. I wish you a safe journey. .Don’t forget to call me when you return to Moscow.”

Werner looked at Kopalova's leaving back and asked with a half-smile: "Comrade General, I wonder who this girl is?"

“Her name is Kopalova. She is a photojournalist for Izvestia. She was ordered to come here to interview the crew.”

"Oh, she is a photojournalist for "Izvestia"?" Werner's face showed a surprised expression: "I really didn't expect that she actually works for such an important newspaper."

Hearing what Werner said, Sokov was a little surprised and asked: "Comrade screenwriter, from the tone of your words, it seems that "Izvestia" is a great newspaper?"

"certainly."

Werner's words aroused Sokov's curiosity, "Comrade screenwriter, can you tell me about the situation of this newspaper?"

"Of course." Werner didn't mind asking Sokov about the information about "Izvestia", but before that, he had to solve his stomach problem first: "Comrade General, I haven't had breakfast yet. If you don't If you mind, come eat some more with me, and I will introduce you to the history of Izvestia in detail."

 A few minutes later, the two sat down in a corner.

While eating, Werner asked Victor about the common knowledge about "Izvestia": "This newspaper was founded in St. Petersburg in March 1917. It was called "Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies" at the time. It was a product of the Mensheviks and social A newspaper controlled by the revolutionaries. It was led by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and later moved to Moscow for publication. The newspaper has a complete domestic communication network and is printed simultaneously in 42 cities in the country. It has about three million subscriptions. "

"OMG."

When Sokov heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "There are such a large number of subscriptions."

“Many people who originally subscribed to the newspaper died in the war, and some people left their hometowns and no longer subscribed to the newspaper, resulting in a significant decline in the circulation of the newspaper.”

“Now that the war is over, I believe that the number of subscriptions to this newspaper will gradually increase before long.”

At this time, Werner suddenly put down the tableware in his hand, looked around, and saw that there were no people at the nearby tables, he lowered his voice and said: "Comrade General, I want to ask you, have you heard of Bukharin?" ?”

 Bukharin? ! Hearing the name Werner mentioned, Sokov remembered that the name came from the movie "Lenin in 1918". The female spy who assassinated Lenin was ordered by Bukharin. There is a widely circulated line in the film: "Vasily , hurry up and save Lenin! Bukharin is a traitor!"

Thinking of this, he nodded slowly, and then replied: "Yes, I have heard of him." After a pause, he added, "It was in the movie "Lenin in 1918", when Comrade Stalin learned that Lenin might He was assassinated and planned to rush to the rescue. Unexpectedly, when he came out in the car, he happened to meet Bukharin. He asked Bukharin where Lenin had gone, but the other party gave him a wrong road, which led to Comrade Lenin's death. The female assassin injured her.”

“Movies will definitely undergo artistic processing.” Werner said hesitantly: “Sometimes the footage shown may not be what actually happened.”

Regarding his statement, Sokov wisely chose not to ask further questions, so as not to cause embarrassment to both parties later. He quickly changed the topic and asked: "Comrade screenwriter, do I know whether this person has any connection with "Izvestia"?"

"Of course there is a connection." Werner nodded and said: "Bukharin was a famous state activist, theorist, and academician of the Academy of Sciences. In 1929, he was criticized for making mistakes and was dismissed from his position as a member. In 1934 In January, he expressed his repentance at the meeting, allowing everyone to unite closely around Stalin. After the meeting, he was re-elected as an alternate member. And participated in the first meeting held solemnly in the Column Hall of the Moscow Trade Union on August 17, 1934. A writers' congress.

Andrei Zhdanov delivered a speech to the conference on behalf of Stalin. He clearly stated that Soviet literature is ‘the most ideal, the most progressive and the most revolutionary…’.

Maxim Gorky made a report with a bright tone: 'We are entering an era in which capitalism has fallen into total despair because of its ideological and social bankruptcy, and all **** attempts to return to the feudal Middle Ages through the fascist road have failed. fail. We are the judges of a doomed world, and we stand firmly for proletarian humanism... We live in a country where Stalin's iron will is working tirelessly and miraculously...'

 Bukharin, who was closely related to Gorky, also delivered a speech at this meeting. And at Gorky's request, he served as editor-in-chief of "Izvestia". "

 (End of this chapter)