Chapter 48

The sky was overcast, thick clouds were low, and snowflakes were falling.

Standing alone in front of Lenin's tomb in red square, I gazed at the dome of the pale yellow government building towering over the battlements of the Kremlin. I feel very strange. Why can't I see anyone else in the daytime, even the guard in front of the tomb, and I'm the first one standing alone in the square?

It was so quiet that I could only hear my own breathing. I began to panic, there is nothing to rely on, my feet can not help but move forward. I walked along the Vasili slope next to St. Vasili's Church until I reached the Moscow river. After crossing Dashiqiao, he walked westward along the river.

The street is quiet. I can't see any vehicles or pedestrians. I can't hear any sound except my footsteps and breathing. My heart is more and more afraid. What's the matter? Did I cross to Moscow in 2012, an empty city without people?

I don't know when the snow stopped, passing through several familiar streets, then several European style buildings, came to a huge puddle.

Next to the puddle stood a medium-sized, slim woman soldier with her back to me. Looking at the back of this blonde soldier in her summer uniform and boat hat, I suddenly felt an inexplicable warmth and moved to her involuntarily.

"Hello She didn't look back. She said "hello" instead of "hello". Like an old friend who has known me for many years, she continued, "here you are at last!"

"Who are you?" I was puzzled and asked, "why do you say 'you're here at last'

"Do you know?" Instead of answering my question, she said to herself, "my husband oshanin was baptized here when he was a child."

Oshanin?! This name sounds familiar. It seems that I've heard of it somewhere. Isn't baptism usually in the river or church? How can you come to such a big puddle?

"Who are you?" I asked again.

"Don't you know who I am?" She asked me.

"I don't know," I replied honestly, "but I feel very familiar with your back, and there is also a kind of intimacy."

"Really? Then you can have a good look at who I am? " She turned around as she spoke.

What came into my eyes was a pretty face with a melancholy appearance. It looked very familiar. Unfortunately, I couldn't remember where I had seen this face for a while.

"Do you think I look familiar?" With a smile on her face, she expected to see that I was still at a loss, so she kindly reminded me, "how do you think about it, every morning when you look in the mirror, do you see this face in the mirror?"

"Ah Although I heard what she said, I still didn't get back to myself: how can I see your face when I look in the mirror every day.

Looking at me or staring at her foolishly, she puffed a smile, looked at me with a smile and said, "I'm Rita mushdakova oshanina."

Her words sounded like a bomb beside me. I couldn't help stepping back two steps, staring at her in horror, and asked in disbelief, "you're Rita mushdakova oshanina! Who am I then? " Then I rushed to the edge of the puddle and looked down. Two beautiful faces as like as two peas on the surface of the water, the difference is that the real Lida still wears a summer uniform and I am wearing a thick military coat.

"Who are you?" Rita asked me softly beside me.

Yeah, who am I? This question, I have been asking myself for several months, was originally a man, but inexplicably across to another time and space, but also become a woman.

"Who are you?" Rita asked me again.

"I come from the future. Once I went swimming by the Moscow river. I had an accident and fainted. When I woke up, I found that I had become you somehow." I honestly answered her, her address has unconsciously changed from "you" to "you".

"Oh She asked thoughtfully, "you should not be Russian, because I hear you talking to yourself in a voice I don't understand many times."

"Yes, I'm not Russian." I showed her my identity very readily: "I'm a businessman. I'm a Chinese businessman doing business in Moscow. My name is Tang."

"I see." She nodded, then asked me: "also, I often listen to you hum a beautiful song, the lyrics appear in Moscow and Leningrad, I want to know what it means, can you tell me?"

"Yes, which song is it? Can you sing it to me?"

She hummed two of them softly: "let the red burn Moscow, and the memory smear Leningrad." If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was a Chinese singing this song.

After listening to the lyrics I translated for her in Russian, she asked softly, "do you think Moscow, which is burning with war, can block the crazy attack of the German devils?"

"No problem, it can be blocked." Without thinking, I replied to her, "except for the German prisoners, other Germans have no chance to enter Moscow."“ I'm relieved to hear that. " I felt that she was obviously relieved after listening to me“ That's right I was very interested in the puddle in front of me, so I asked her curiously, "what's the matter with this puddle? Why did your husband oshanin be baptized here when he was a child?"“ Don't you know? " She asked me in surprise, "this is the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. In 1931, the government demolished it to build a Soviet palace here."“ Oh, so it is. " After listening to her, I realized that this is the site of the Church of Christ the Savior. No wonder the buildings I saw on the road are so familiar. In 1931, Stalin ordered the cathedral to be blown up, preparing to build a Soviet palace here, and planned to place a ten meter high bronze statue of Stalin on it. Unexpectedly, when excavating the foundation, there was a collapse accident, which killed several construction workers, and the project was forced to be interrupted. It took several years to lay the foundation well. Unexpectedly, it was flooded again overnight and turned into a big puddle. The place was abandoned. In the 1950s, Khrushchev had transformed it into Lenin's indoor warm water swimming pool. Unexpectedly, people drowned soon after it was opened, but it had to be closed. It was not until Yeltsin came to power in the early 1990s that he spent a lot of money to rebuild the cathedral, which was completed in September 1995, just before the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow“ What are you thinking? " Rita interrupted me with a sudden question“ Ah! I didn't think about it I answered in a hurry, and then asked her, "by the way, do you know where your husband is?" She shook her head and said, "I don't know. I only know that he is missing. I don't know whether he has been sacrificed, captured or exiled to other places“ Don't be upset, Rita I comforted her and said, "if I have a chance to go back to Leningrad in the future, I will help you find out his whereabouts. Don't worry. This is my promise to you. "“ Thank you, my friend She looked at me gratefully and said, "actually, I have another important thing to ask you. I wonder if you will help me with this? "“ Come on, Rita. As long as it is within my ability, I will promise you. " I thought to myself, doesn't she want me to give her back? But what she said next gave me a big relief“ My mother and son, Alek, live in the small city of pochnok near the 171 railway. When you have a chance to go back to Leningrad, will you go and see them for me? "“ No problem, Rita I readily agreed to her request: "when I return to Leningrad, I will take care of your mother and son instead of you."“ Thank you, my friend With a happy expression on her face, she smiles at me and says, "it's time for me to go. Good luck to you!" With that, she disappeared out of thin air in front of me, as if she had never appeared“ Rita~~ Rita I yelled around the open space“ Comrade commander! Comrade commander I felt someone gently shaking me and whispering in my ear. I opened my eyes and saw that it was the driver who sent me to the headquarters of the group army. Seeing that I opened my eyes, he pointed to the front and said, "Comrade commander! The 16th regiment headquarters is here. It's in the woods by the side of the road ahead. " I nodded to him gratefully, opened the door beside me, jumped out of the car quickly, and walked quickly to the headquarters in the roadside woods.