The taciturn major driver drove a sedan through the streets of Moscow.

I sat in the back row with General Vlasov, nodded with satisfaction and said, "I said Comrade Lieutenant Colonel, what a great gain we have made today." According to Comrade Stalin's estimate, if we want this General Lin to stay, we will have to make four or five trips. I didn't expect you to make General Lin make up his mind to stay with just a few words of understatement, you are really not simple! ”

I smiled and didn't speak.

The general suddenly remembered something and asked, "Did you know General Lin before?" ”

Without thinking, I replied, "I've heard of his name, but I've never seen him in person." "I'm not true at all, when I was born, he was already a dead man, and I've only seen him in documentaries and books.

The general suspiciously lifted the frame of his glasses and asked: "I remember that in the Battle of Pingxingguan, there was only one short message published in my country's newspapers, how do you know that the casualty ratio between the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army reached 1:1?" And how do you know the offensive tactics implemented by General Lu Daolin when he was the regiment commander? ”

Seeing that he was already suspicious of me, I hastened to explain: "You have just arrived in Moscow and may not understand the situation. Although it has not been officially reported by us, the intelligence agencies have collected similar information, and the commander of the general front army has access to this level of intelligence. I used to be an assistant to General Zhukov, so I had the opportunity to see this information. ”

The general laughed: "Well, you have a point. He was a man with a flexible mind, who had been in the officialdom for a long time, and he knew that there were some questions that could not be asked casually, so he immediately switched the sensitive topic to other areas, and asked: "I will report to Comrade Stalin later, where do you get off?" ”

I don't know how Rodkrochkov arranged it, so I quickly asked the major who was driving: "Comrade Major, where is the accommodation that Comrade Crochkov arranged for me?" ”

Without looking back, he said, "It's a military hotel, and I'll be there soon." After you get out of the car, I will send Comrade Major General to the Kremlin. ”

When the car stopped, I looked out the window, and the place I knew was the hotel where I stayed on the night I arrived in Moscow from Leningrad. I said goodbye to Vlasov, then pushed the door open and got out of the car.

As soon as I walked into the familiar hotel hall, a female officer wearing the rank of second lieutenant greeted me with a smile on her face: "Hello, comrade commander! ”

"Hello! Comrade Lyuda, we meet again. "I recognized the female officer in front of me at a glance, it was Liu Da, who had arranged a place for me to live, so I took the initiative to greet her.

She was stunned for a moment when she heard me call out her name, but she immediately came back to her senses and said with some surprise: "It turned out to be you, Comrade Commander, please forgive me for not recognizing you." I can't imagine that the commander who arranged the room by the comrades of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is you, and you are welcome to our hotel. ”

I nodded, then asked, "Is my room all arranged?" ”

"It's all ready, please wait a moment, I'll arrange for someone to send you over right away." As she spoke, she turned her head and shouted into the hallway, "Akshara, where are you?" Hurry up and get to the lobby. ”

As she shouted, a female soldier hurriedly ran over and asked, "Liuda, are you calling me?" Lyuda pointed to me and said, "Aksala, you send this comrade commander to her room." ”

Another acquaintance, I smiled at Aksara, who was stunned when she saw me, and said teasingly, "What's wrong? My dear, you haven't seen you for a month, and you don't know me? ”

"Lida Cheka, is that you? You're alive? As she spoke, she lunged at me. I took her in my arms and said with a smile: "Of course I live, as soon as I return to Moscow, I will come to see you, an old friend." ”

"Let's go, Leda, I'll take you to the room." After Aksara let go of me, she took my hand and walked upstairs, still chattering, "The room is the same single room you stayed in last time." Today, my superiors said that a commander was coming to us, so Liuda asked me to clean up the room where you used to live. ”

The last time I stayed here, the guests seemed to be of a higher rank than me, so that from the moment I left the room, I had to raise my hand to salute every officer I met. On the way to the room, we also met several officers from time to time, but they were all of lower rank than me. Seeing them offer to salute me gave me a small satisfaction in my vanity.

Aksara didn't notice this detail at first, but when he saw that there were more people saluting me, he said with some envy: "It's good to be an officer, there are so many people saluting, and I have to salute others constantly." When she saw a major officer coming in front of her, who was also saluting me, she asked in some surprise: "Lida Cheka, what is the matter, why is it that Comrade Major salutes you, the lieutenant?" ”

"I'm no longer a lieutenant." I'm really a little speechless about Aksara's **Daha character, and I've been chatting for so long, but I didn't realize that the rank on my collar badge is different from the original.

"Not a lieutenant anymore? Demoted? She was surprised to hear me say this, but when she saw my badge, she excitedly said, "Wow! It turns out that you are already a lieutenant colonel. Lida Cheka, you're amazing. ”

As he spoke, he reached the door, and Aksara took the key out of his pocket, unlocked it, and pushed it inside, and the door opened. "Please come in, Leda." She turned on the light in the house, then turned to me and said, "Look, it's still the same as the last time you lived here." ”

"Yes, it's still the same, it hasn't changed at all." As I spoke, I put the submachine gun on the table. Then he asked Aksala, "Honey, can you help me find something to eat?" I haven't eaten for a day, and I'm dying of hunger. ”

"Oh, it's so late, you haven't eaten yet, I'll go to the restaurant right away and help you get some food." Wait a minute, it won't be long, five minutes at most. ”

After Aksala was gone, I closed the door gently, and I knew that the old Maozi's habit was that it was five minutes, and that it was relatively fast to be able to come back in fifteen minutes. So I hung my camouflage suit and short fur coat on a hanger and went straight to the bathroom to shower.

When I came out of the shower, I saw that it had been almost twenty minutes, and Aksala, who claimed to be back in five minutes, could not even see a shadow. My back suddenly felt sore, and I didn't know if it was because of the masonry injury I had been injured a few days ago, but I felt very uncomfortable anyway, so I lay flat on the bed to rest.

Just as I was sleeping in a daze, I heard Aksala's voice in the haze: "Leda, something is here, get up and eat it." I opened my eyes and struggled to sit up, and when I saw Aksara setting up the dishes at the table, I got up and walked behind her, wrapped my arms around her thin waist, put my head on her shoulders, and lazily asked, "What's so delicious?" ”

"It's the time of the war, and there is a shortage of materials, even in the restaurant of our hotel. You see, I've been rummaging in the kitchen for a long time, and I've found five or six boiled potatoes, a piece of buckwheat porridge, and a bowl of beetroot soup, and you can make do with it, and tomorrow there may be something good in the restaurant during the day. ”

At this moment, I was so hungry that I was about to collapse, so I was not polite, sat down at the table, took the spoon and began to drink the soup. Although the soup was a little cold, it tasted good, and I drank it clean in a few sips, and then began to eliminate the buckwheat porridge on the table.

Seeing me eating, Aksalla was not idle, picked up a potato and peeled it, dipped it in the salt on the plate, brought it to his mouth and took a bite lightly, and then asked me with some slurred words: "Leda, how did you eat when you were on the front, did you have such a hearty meal?" ”

I looked at the humble food in front of me, which was not synonymous with abundance anyway, but I didn't want to discourage her interest, so I replied vaguely, "It's okay, my food in the headquarters is similar to here." ”

"That's good," she said, taking another bite of the potato, "and you're going to lose weight if you don't have hot soup every day." "I listened to her theory, I really couldn't laugh or cry, if you don't drink soup, you will become thinner, and some people who don't like soup still look like a tiger.

"You must have fought a lot of battles when you went to the front line, tell me your story." She finished nibbling on a potato, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and pestered me to tell her a story.

I smiled and was about to speak when my lower abdomen suddenly hurt like a knife, I threw away the spoon in my hand, covered my abdomen with both hands and groaned. Seeing my pained expression, Aksara was immediately frightened, she grabbed my shoulders and asked anxiously, "Lida, dear, what's wrong with you?"

"I don't know what to do," I replied to her in a weak voice, "I don't know how to do it, my stomach suddenly hurts terribly, maybe the old wound has cracked open." ”

"Wait a minute, I'll go to the doctor." With that, she opened the door and rushed out.

I lay flat on the bed, slowed my breathing, and gently rubbed the sore area with my palms. After a while, the pain began to slowly subside, and my hanging heart finally relaxed, it didn't seem like an old injury had recurred, maybe it was just something that had been broken. Just then, Aksalla returned with the doctor, followed by Second Lieutenant Lyuda.

The doctor, who was also a woman, put the medicine box she was carrying on the table, took out her stethoscope and came to listen to me. After some examination, she took off her mask and said, "Don't worry, it's not a recurrence of the injury." ”

"Why does it hurt so much, you see, even the cold sweat comes out." Lyuda couldn't help but interject and ask.

The doctor smiled and asked me, "Comrade commander, can I ask when was the last time you had your period?" ”

Yes! I was stunned at the time, and I had the impression that I hadn't been here since I borrowed Leda's body. So I said, "I don't remember exactly, I guess I haven't been here since August." ”

"It's no wonder, maybe it's because of an abdominal injury that causes endocrine disorders, that's why I haven't come for so long. Have you had a history of menstrual cramps before? ”

Dysmenorrhea, this word thundered me again, it turned out that the lower abdominal pain just now was dysmenorrhea. I couldn't help but answer the doctor's question, so I had to say vaguely, "Probably not." ”

"Oh, maybe it was after an injury. ......" AND THEN THE DOCTOR BLABLA AND SAID A LOT OF THINGS, AND AS SHE SPOKE, I DIDN'T NOTICE WHEN AKSALA WAS LEAVING, UNTIL SHE APPEARED IN FRONT OF ME WITH SUGAR WATER. "Lida Cheka, drink some honey water, it won't hurt if you drink it."

I took the honey water in her hand, drank a few sips, and immediately felt much better, I didn't expect that honey water also has the same effect as brown sugar water.