Chapter 2674: Traces of Existence

Anna was angry after being rejected. She turned over, turned her back to Sokov, and ignored him.

After dawn, Sokov opened his eyes and found that his pillow was empty. Anna had left at some point.

He just left, it was nothing special, and Sokov didn't care.

The reason why he rejected Anna's request was that he did not want strangers to live in the house he rented, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. The year he first came to Moscow, he did such a stupid thing. He temporarily went to St. Petersburg to inspect the market and needed to leave for half a month. A friend came to him and said that his house was due to expire, and he hoped to stay with him for a while and move out when he came back. He didn't think too much at the time and agreed to the other party's request.

Unexpectedly, on the third night in St. Petersburg, he received a call from his landlord.

The landlord said angrily on the phone: "Misha, I rented the house to you when you said you were the only one living there. Unexpectedly, the police just called me and said that more than ten people lived in your house. It was very noisy and the neighbors couldn’t stand it, so they called the police.”

"What, there are more than a dozen people living in my house?" Sokov was stunned when he heard what the landlord said: "Isn't it possible? Could it be a mistake?"

"How could there be a mistake?" the landlord said angrily: "I am in the house I rented to you right now. I just counted that there are 14 people living in the house. Wherever you are, come back immediately and bring this Tell me clearly."

Sokov, who was confused, could only smile and said to the landlord: "I'm still in St. Petersburg. Can I go back in two days?"

"No, I will wait until tomorrow at most." The landlord said forcefully: "If I don't see you tomorrow, I will throw all your luggage out."

"Okay, okay." Sokov said helplessly: "I'm going to buy a train ticket now, and I can return to Moscow at noon tomorrow at the latest."

After ending the call with the landlord, Sokov immediately called the friend who borrowed the house, but the other party didn't answer his call at all. At this moment, Sokov knew in his heart that he had been tricked by the other party, but he could only hold his nose and admit it. Who knew that he was a good person? If something like this happened, he could only admit that he was unlucky.

I bought a train ticket overnight and returned to Moscow the next morning.

Sokov didn't bother to rest, so he rushed directly to the landlord's house to find out from him what happened.

After the landlord saw Sokov, he first scolded him and then took him to the rental house.

After entering the room, Sokov was stunned. He thought he had arrived at some kind of warehouse. The suitcases stacked in the living room were piled from the floor to the ceiling. After a brief count, there were at least twenty.

The sofa bed in the bedroom was also moved to the living room, with a quilt thrown on it. Someone must be sleeping in the living room. The sheets and quilts originally placed in the cabinet were spread on the floor of the bedroom. It seemed that the people who lived here used the floor.

Sokov, who suffered the loss of being mute, could only keep admitting his mistake to the landlord. But the unwilling landlord kicked Sokov out after extorting $1,000 in compensation.

With this lesson learned, Sokov will refuse without hesitation any time he encounters someone who asks him to borrow a house. It is reasonable to reject Anna's request.

Liuba arrived at around ten o'clock in the morning. After entering the door, she first looked around and saw no sign of Anna, so she asked curiously: "Where is Anna?"

"Go to work."

"How are you, are you satisfied with this house?"

"Not bad, very much to my liking."

"Since you are satisfied, let's go to the Housing Authority to complete the procedures." Liuba patted the bag she was carrying: "I have brought all the documents."

"After completing the formalities, how do I pay you?"

"Just transfer the money directly." Liuba said empathetically: "Many people buy houses and use cash. But if I want you to pay cash, you need to go to the bank to withdraw money. After I receive the money, I will also It’s too troublesome to go to the bank to deposit money, so it’s better to transfer the money directly.”

After discussing some details, the two came to the Housing Authority to handle the transfer procedures for the house.

After checking the documents of the two people, the staff member who handled the formalities suddenly looked at Liuba and asked, "Why don't you have an examination certificate issued by the mental hospital?"

When the staff asked this question, not only Sokov was stunned, Lyuba was also confused and asked: "I want to sell my house, why do I need to issue a mental hospital examination certificate from Laoshizi?"

The staff patiently explained: "It has happened before that after the house was transferred, the original landlord regretted it and came to us to make trouble, saying that he did not want to sell the house, and that a relative in the family was mentally disturbed and carried the property behind his back. He sold the house. After several similar incidents, we introduced relevant regulations. Anyone who wants to sell a house must provide a mental hospital inspection certificate when going through the transfer procedures. "

“Are those people who regret selling their houses really mentally ill?”

"There may be some people who are mentally ill." The staff member shook his head and said, "But most people use the money from selling their houses to drink. When the money runs out, they want to take the house back and sell it again so that they can have money. Qian continued to drink.”

After listening to the staff's explanation, Sokov was stunned. He didn't expect that buying a house in Russia would face such risks. He couldn't help but look at Liuba, thinking that she would not drink too much, and would not sell the house to him and then take it back after a while on the grounds that she was mentally ill when selling the house?

Liuba looked at Sokov with her side face, looking a little embarrassed. She knew very well that although she was not that kind of person, with this precedent, Sokov would definitely have concerns when buying a house.

Liuba turned to the staff and said, "Even if I go to the mental hospital now, you will definitely be off work when I get the report back. How about this? I will write you a letter of guarantee to guarantee that after the transfer of this house is completed, it will not be taken back for any reason."

For Liuba's request, the staff showed an embarrassed expression on his face: "This, I need to ask my superiors." After that, he picked up the mobile phone on the table, dialed a number, and spoke in a low voice.

After a while, the staff member put down the phone and said to Liuba: "Madam, our person in charge will be here soon, please wait a moment."

While waiting for the person in charge to arrive, Liuba took the initiative to say to Sokov: "Misha, don't worry, I really want to sell this house. After the transfer is completed, you don't have to worry that I will take the house back for any reason. I am not that kind of person."

Ten minutes later, a man walked in from outside, followed by a woman in a dark blue uniform.

Seeing the two people appear, the staff sitting behind the desk quickly stood up to greet them and said a few words to them.

Soon, the staff came over with the man and said to Sokov and Liuba: "This is the leader of our Housing Authority. He will handle your transfer procedures."

The leader stepped forward and shook hands with Sokov, and asked politely: "Sir, are you buying a house?"

"Yes."

"According to our regulations, for the protection of the buyer, the seller cannot handle the transfer procedures without the examination certificate of the mental hospital." The leader pointed to the woman behind him: "She is from the notary office. As long as she notarizes your transaction, the transfer procedures can be handled even without the certificate of the mental hospital."

With the notary office's presence, Sokov and Liuba began to formally handle the transfer procedures. After the transfer, the notary office issued a notarial certificate to ensure that the transaction was true and valid.

After paying the transaction fee and notarization fee, the staff of the Housing Authority handed Sokov a pick-up slip, which stated that he should come here to collect the property certificate ten days later.

After Sokov and Liuba walked out of the door of the Housing Authority, he suddenly remembered something and asked: "Liuba, I saw that your father left some reading notes, but they don't seem to be complete. I wonder if there are any other places?"

"Because I am going to sell the house, I sorted out two boxes of information two days ago and moved them back to my home." Liuba said: "If you want, you can go to my house with me to get them."

Sokov guessed that there might be something he was interested in among the information Liuba took away, and nodded and said: "Yes, Liuba, I really want to see those materials."

In this way, Sokov drove Liuba to Liuba's residence in the east of the city.

After entering the room, Liuba pointed to two large cardboard boxes piled in a corner of the living room and said to Sokov: "Misha, those two boxes are the information I brought back. If you want, just move them away."

After thanking him, Sokov went forward to move the two heavy cardboard boxes down in two times and stuffed them into the trunk of the car.

After returning to his new home, Sokov couldn't wait to open the cardboard box and began to look for useful information.

The first cardboard box was basically filled with various notebooks for lesson preparation. Sokov spent two or three hours flipping through them roughly and found that there was no useful information for him. So he opened the second cardboard box and began to search.

The hard copy on the top of the cardboard box was a diary.

Seeing that it was a diary, Sokov's breathing became rapid. He patiently flipped through the pages one by one, trying to find useful information from it.

This diary started recording from New Year's Day 2005. Sokov quickly finished reading the contents of the first four months and did not gain anything.

He sighed softly and continued to look down.

When he saw the diary entry for May 9, he was stunned by the contents: "... Today I went to visit the War Memorial in Victory Square alone. When I walked to the exhibition hall of the deeds of generals, I unexpectedly saw a completely unfamiliar face in a photo. There were four people in the photo. Zhukov, Rokossovsky and Konev were called the marshals of the troika. I definitely knew them. But I had never seen the young general standing next to Marshal Rokossovsky.

I carefully checked the annotations below, which said: From left to right, they are Marshal Konev, Marshal Zhukov, Marshal Rokossovsky and General Sokov.

After reading it, I felt that I was fooled. There is no surname "Sokov" in Russian surnames. Moreover, I knew all the famous generals who emerged in the Great Patriotic War, and I had never heard of General Sokov.

I immediately went to find the staff of the memorial hall and reminded them that there was an error in the photo and that a person who did not exist in history appeared on it. But when they followed me to the photo, the four people in the photo had strangely turned into three people, and the inexplicable General Sokov had disappeared without a trace.

After the staff saw the photo clearly, they criticized me and said that I was too old-sighted to see clearly how many people were in the photo. Oh my God, I can assure him that those I just saw in the photo were indeed four people. But for some reason, when the staff arrived, there were only three people left in the photo.

Back home, I remembered the debate my student had with me in class. He also mentioned the fictitious General Sokov and said that this man played a great role in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk. effect. At the time, I thought he was talking nonsense, but at this moment, I had to calm down and think, maybe he was right. Something must have happened beyond our understanding that caused the history we were originally familiar with to deviate. "

Sokov closed his notebook and tried to think whether he had taken a photo with the Troika? Even if they took photos together back then, when he traveled back to modern times, he was just a general. Why did Liuba's father see himself as a general in the photo?

He continued to take things out of the cartons. The tops were filled with notebooks and diaries for preparing lessons, and the bottoms were filled with various books, including professional books and novels and essays.

When there were still a few books left at the bottom of the box, Sokov's hand stopped because he saw the familiar cover. Although it was yellowed, he recognized it at a glance. This was the book he had written. "The Dawns Here Are Quiet".

After taking two deep breaths and waiting for his emotions to stabilize, Sokov grabbed the book, slowly took it out of the box, and brought it close to his eyes to look at it carefully. Yes, the author's name on the cover of the book does say "M.M. Sokov".

After seeing the words on the cover clearly, Sokov's hand holding the book began to tremble. Yes, this was the book he wrote in that era. This showed that he was not having a long dream, but had indeed traveled through time. During the Great Patriotic War, he participated in that tragic war.

"Misha, Misha!" A woman's voice sounded in the room: "Wake up quickly!"

Sokov was suddenly frightened, because he was the only one in the study, how could a female voice suddenly appear?

He turned around and looked around, and suddenly saw the familiar figure of Asiya appearing in a full-length mirror placed by the wall. She was calling her name anxiously.

"Asia!" Sokov called the other party's name, stood up and rushed towards the full-length mirror, shouting: "Is it you?"

But when Sokov came to the full-length mirror, the figure in the mirror disappeared without a trace, as if he had never existed. Sokov couldn't figure out whether he really saw Asiya or himself. Hallucinations?