Chapter 2673 Buying a House

Under Anna's guidance, Sokov parked the car next to an old stone building.

When getting off the car, Sokov looked up at the building in front of him, thinking that he had seen this kind of stone building built with stone strips during the war. The strength was far greater than that of ordinary brick-concrete structures. Even if it was hit by a few shells, the damage was limited.

Anna took Sokov's hand and came to the door of one of the unit doors, took out her mobile phone and dialed: "Lyuba, we are here. What is the password for your front door?"

According to the password provided by Liuba, the big iron door was opened, and Anna took Sokov's hand and walked in.

After Sokov entered the door, he saw that it was a hall of more than 50 square meters, and there were four elevators on the left and right sides. And near the door, there was a duty room of several square meters, in which a fat aunt sat.

Seeing the two people enter the room, the aunt immediately stuck her head out and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Lyuba." Anna replied, "I am Liuba's friend, and I came here specifically to look for her."

"Oh, looking for Liuba." The fat aunt said, "Her home is on the fifth floor."

At this time, the four elevator doors opened at the same time, and Anna took Sokov into one of the elevators and pressed the button for the fifth floor.

When the elevator arrived at the fifth floor, Anna looked around first, and after confirming the direction, she took Sokov to a leather-wrapped security door and rang the doorbell next to it.

The door opened, and a girl of Anna's age appeared at the door. After seeing Anna, she immediately opened her arms and gave Anna a warm hug.

After the hug, she saw Sokov standing next to her, and asked Anna curiously: "Anna, who is he?"

"He is my friend Misha." Anna introduced the two: "Misha, this is the Lyuba I told you about."

"Hello, Lyuba!"

"Hello, Misha!"

After saying hello, Lyuba took the two into her home.

After Sokov entered the house, he carefully observed the house.

The living room is about 30 to 40 square meters, with sofas, coffee tables and dining tables. The layout on the left side of the door is the toilet, bathroom and kitchen. There is also a short corridor, which seems to have several rooms.

Liuba led Sokov and Anna into the corridor and came to the door of a room. She pointed inside and said, "This is my father's study. Take a look to see if there are any books you need. I will throw the remaining books into the garbage pile. Take your time to look. I'm in the living room. If you need anything, just come and call me."

Sokov walked into the study and saw a bookshelf that reached the ceiling on the right. It was filled with densely packed books. There were at least thousands of books. Next to the bookshelf was an antique desk with many books and a lamp with a lampshade placed on it. In other corners of the house, there were also bundles of books.

Sokov, who loved books like his life, was ecstatic when he saw so many books in the room. But he was only happy for a moment, and his expression dimmed again, because there were too many books here. Even if he could move them openly, how many could he move? And if he moved them back to his own residence, he couldn't put so many books.

Sokov did not speak, but went back to the corridor and checked the other two rooms. Both of them were bedrooms, with complete sets of furniture and four-poster beds with curtains.

Anna saw Sokov looking around in the room and couldn't help asking curiously: "Misha, what are you looking at?"

"Anna, do you think this place is closer to the market, or where I live?"

"Of course it's here." Anna said without hesitation: "There is a subway station across the street, and I have to walk a lot less to go to get off work every day."

Since the location here is better than the house he rented, Sokov naturally had a bold idea in his mind.

He put his arm around Anna's shoulders, pulled her body towards him, and whispered in her ear: "Anna, go ask your friend how much she plans to sell this house for?"

Hearing Sokov's words, Anna widened her eyes in surprise: "Do you want to buy it?"

"Ask the price first, I want to see if it's suitable. If it's suitable, I will definitely buy it directly."

"Okay, I'll ask Liuba."

Anna walked into the living room, stopped Liuba, and whispered to her how much she planned to sell the house for.

A few minutes later, Anna came over with Liuba's hand and said to Sokov: "Misha, Liuba said she plans to sell this house for 6 million rubles. If you really want to buy it, she can be cheaper."

Sokov secretly calculated in his heart that according to the latest exchange rate, 6 million rubles is equal to 92,000 US dollars. If he could buy it for 90,000 US dollars, it would be the best.

He did not bargain immediately, but asked tentatively: "Lyuba, I really want to buy this house, I wonder how much you want to sell it for at the lowest price?"

Lyuba looked at Anna, then turned her eyes to Sokov: "Misha, since you are Anna's friend, I won't ask for a random price, 5.8 million rubles, how about it?"

Sokov calculated silently in his mind that this price was already lower than 90,000 US dollars. If he bargained for others again, it would be unkind. After all, he spent money to buy not only this house, but also a room full of books, which are not cheap.

After thinking it through, Sokov nodded and said: "Okay, 5.8 million rubles. Liuba, when can we go through the transfer procedures?"

"It's so late today, the housing authority has already gone off work." Liuba said, "How about we go to handle the formalities tomorrow morning?"

"Okay." Sokov nodded and said, "I'll go to the bank to withdraw the money."

Although the house will not be transferred until tomorrow, Liuba asked Sokov and Anna to move in tonight, and she will come directly to take them to the housing authority to handle the transfer formalities tomorrow.

After seeing off Liuba, Anna threw herself into Sokov's arms and said excitedly: "Misha, you are so great that you can buy Liuba's house."

Sokov smiled faintly and said: "To be precise, the house will not truly belong to me until the house price is paid off tomorrow and the transfer procedures are completed."

"It's almost the same." Anna said: "You have two bedrooms here. Can you let me move in and live here?"

Sokov thought that he would live in such a big house alone, so he readily agreed to the other party's request: "You can move in anytime as long as you want."

...

After the night exercise, Anna fell asleep soundly, but Sokov, who had just moved into the new house, was in an excited state. He got up from the bed, without even putting on clothes, and wandered to the study. Sitting at the desk, he turned on the desk lamp and began to look through the books and magazines on the table.

He soon discovered that in addition to books and magazines, there were actually several reading notes. He curiously opened one of them and carefully browsed the contents on it.

If it was before entering the underground fortifications, he would definitely not understand a lot of the words in the notebook. But after so many years in the war years, he could read and write the words written in handwriting in the notebook freely.

The contents of the notebook were all the thoughts recorded by Liuba's father about reading. Although Sokov did not necessarily agree with it, he just read it for entertainment.

After turning a few pages, Sokov was suddenly attracted by a paragraph in it.

It said: "Today I went to the second-hand bookstore to buy a vintage "The Dawns Here Are Quiet". When I went home to read it, I found that the printing factory had made serious mistakes in printing. The author of this book should be Boris Vasilyev, but the author's name on it is M.M. Sokov..."

Sokov thought he was dazzled, and he rubbed his eyes hard and continued to read. His surname "Sokov" in the dream was written in black and white on the notebook, and his breathing suddenly became rapid.

He continued to read, and saw that the notes said: "When I called the second-hand bookstore to ask why there was such an erroneous book, the other party replied that it was the printer's fault and had nothing to do with them, and they firmly disagreed with my return of the book."

Sokof put down the notebook, stood up and looked at the bookshelf next to him. He wanted to find out whether the book with his name printed on it was on this bookshelf.

He clearly remembered that before he went to Vienna, he had given the manuscript of "An Ordinary Soldier" to Asiya and asked her to pass it on to the publisher on his behalf. If Asiya really did what he asked, then in addition to "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", there should be another book "An Ordinary Soldier" published by him in that era.

Thinking of this, he walked to the door, turned on the light in the study, moved the ladder, and began to search carefully on the bookshelf. He hoped to prove that he had indeed traveled to the Patriotic War period through the books mentioned in the notebook, and even became a general because of his outstanding military exploits.

After an unknown amount of time, Sokov felt his eyes were blurry, but he still hadn't found the book "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" mentioned in the notebook, and he couldn't help but feel disappointed.

He got down the ladder, came to the pile of bundled books in the corner, squatted down, and carefully checked whether there was the book he was looking for.

After flipping through several bundles of books, he didn't find his own book, but heard Anna's voice: "Misha, what are you doing here?"

Sokov looked up and saw Anna in her nightgown standing at the door looking at him. He quickly got up and said, "I can't sleep, come in and find some books to read."

Anna came over and put a nightgown in her hand on Sokov, and said with concern: "Misha, the heating in the room has stopped. It's a bit cold at night. If you don't wear clothes, you will catch a cold."

Sokov held Anna's hand and said gratefully: "Anna, thank you for the clothes you sent me. You go to rest first, I will read for a while before going to bed."

After Anna left, Sokov gave up the idea of ​​looking for a book, and continued to flip through Liuba's father's notebook to see if he could find more clues about himself.

The first notebook was quickly flipped through, but no other clues about himself were found.

Putting this one down, he picked up another one.

This time he picked up not a reading note, but a personal diary.

As Sokov was flipping through the book, he suddenly found something that was relevant to him: "...In class, a student had an argument with me. He insisted that in the Battle of Kursk, the 27th Army commanded by a general named Sokov successfully defeated the German Totenkopf Division and the Imperial Division, saving our army from danger on the southern front of Kursk. My God, I don't know where this student saw this absurd content and even brought it to class to argue with me."

Sokov's heartbeat quickened. He didn't expect that someone would know about his achievements in the Battle of Kursk. He took a deep breath and continued to read. It was written on it: "The student also said that General Sokov was a hero in the Battle of Stalingrad. The 41st Guards Division under his command held Mamayev Kurgan, and the German army used all means to hold on to this small hill.

I took out the history book at that time and told the other party solemnly that the troops holding Mamayev Kurgan were part of the 62nd Army commanded by Chuikov. They did not hold the hill, but were taken away by the Germans. But Chuikov knew the importance of the hill, so he kept organizing troops to counterattack and tried to take the hill back from the Germans. According to historical records, until the Germans surrendered, part of the Mamayev Kurgan position was under the occupation of the German army."

Seeing this, Sokov couldn't help but have a question in his mind. Where did the students of Liuba's father see the records related to him? You know, according to my search over the past two days, I couldn't find any information about myself. Could it be that the other party has a special search system?

Unfortunately, Liuba's father's diary was very simple. He didn't say what the student who had a dispute with him was called or where he lived. Even if I wanted to find out about the situation from him, I didn't know where to start.

After flipping through this diary, Sokov checked other reading notes and diaries, but couldn't find any information about himself.

He sighed softly, turned off the desk lamp, walked into the bedroom in the dark, and lay down on the bed directly.

Although the movement was very light, it still woke up Anna who was sleeping next to him: "Misha, you don't want to read anymore?"

"No." Sokov said: "Go to sleep quickly, you still have to go to work at dawn."

"I have sent a text message to my boss to ask for leave." Anna moved to Sokov's position and said: "I want to go with you to handle the transfer procedures."

Sokov closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep quickly, but the content about himself in the diary made him very emotional. He planned to continue searching the study room when he was free one day to see if he could find any useful information from it.

"Misha, when will the lease of your original house expire?"

Sokov opened his eyes and replied, "The house I rented is rented monthly, and I just paid the rent before Victory Day. If I want to move out, I can do so at any time, as long as I tell the landlord, but he will definitely not return the deposit and the rent I just paid."

"If you want to move in, can you lend your house to my friend for a while?"

Sokov, who was a little sleepy at first, woke up immediately after hearing what Anna said. He didn't want someone of unknown origin to live in the house he rented, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble: "Anna, who are you going to let live in my house?"

"My good friends."

"No." Sokov refused very straightforwardly: "Anna, if it's you or Lena who wants to live in my house, I can agree, but I don't know anyone else at all, so it's definitely not okay to let them live in my rented house."