Chapter 1041

Under the arrangement of livinov, Eleanor, Roosevelt's wife, set the meeting time for the next afternoon.

I came to the white house again, accompanied by levinov. As soon as I got out of the car, a middle-aged man in a suit stood by the door. After greeting livinov, he said to me in Russian with a smile, "Hello, general oshanina. I'm Harold, Secretary of state. I'm here to meet you for my wife."

I took Harold's hand and said, "thank you, Mr. Harold. Please take me to see my wife."

Levinov and I walked behind Harold into the building and along a paved corridor. But when Harold stopped at a door and raised his hand to knock on it, livinov suddenly whispered to me, "o'shanina, you'll see Mrs. Roosevelt alone later. I'll wait for you outside."

When I heard that levinov was going to leave, I got flustered. I grabbed his sleeve and said to him almost in a pleading tone: "ambassador levinov, please don't leave. I will be nervous when I see Mrs. Roosevelt alone."

"Why are you nervous?" "It is said that every time you meet Comrade Stalin, you can keep calm. This time you only meet the first lady of the United States. I think you can also behave normally," he muttered

Before I could respond, the door of the closed room had been opened, and a bald old man in a beige windbreaker appeared at the door. He glanced at Harold standing outside the door, then turned his eyes to us, with a friendly smile on his face. He reached out his hands and walked over to levinov. When he shook hands with him, he said, "Hello, Ambassador levinov."

After shaking hands with livinov, he turned to look at me again and said with a smile, "Hello, girl oshanina. I'm Mrs. Roosevelt's friend James, and she asked me to come out to meet you on her behalf. Come on in, madam. I've been waiting for you for a long time

"Mr. James, if I have other business, I won't be with you." After politely speaking to James, livinov whispered to me, "o'shanina, I'll pick you up in two hours."

When I was alone, I said to myself in my heart, "it's nothing. It's just meeting Mrs. Roosevelt. What's the point of being nervous. Since I didn't feel nervous when I met Stalin or Roosevelt, I certainly didn't feel nervous when I met Eleanor. "

But when I followed James into the room, Harold gently closed the door behind me. At the moment, I also saw the situation in the room. It was a very ordinary room, with windows on both sides and a closed door on the other wall. A rectangular table covered with white cloth, neatly placed around more than a dozen back chairs, on the table are two crystal fruit plates filled with fruit.

A well-dressed old lady with short curly blonde hair was standing at the table. When she saw us coming in, she immediately welcomed us. At the same time, she asked with a smile, "is that o'shanina?"

Although she is in English, but I understand, at the same time behind the old gentleman James also translated this sentence for me in time. In every way, Eleanor is in a good mood. So I rushed to meet her, and at the same time, I stretched out my hands to just hold her, and said respectfully, "Hello, dear first lady, it's my pleasure to meet you."

"Come on, come here, boy." After shaking hands with me, Mrs. Roosevelt still grasped my hand, put my hand in her hand and led me to the table.

My body was stiff, and it took me a moment to get back to normal, but I still felt a little overwhelmed and mechanically followed Eleanor to the table.

Then she let go of my hand and said softly, "please sit down, Rita." When she called me Rita in a very casual tone, she explained to me, "as far as I know, in the Soviet Union, only close people call each other's nicknames. I don't mind if I call you that."

When I heard her say that, I immediately put my head on a rattle and said, "no, no, I don't mind, Madam President. It's very kind of you to call me that. "

"In that case, don't call me the president's wife, just call me Eleanor." Eleanor said to me with a smile, "and don't use" you "when addressing me. It's very alienated. Do you understand?"

"I see, Madam President." As soon as I finished this sentence, I realized that I was wrong and promptly corrected it before James translated it. "I see, Eleanor."

My brain was racing, thinking about how to carry on the topic, when Eleanor said, "you know what, Rita? Because I don't want to go anywhere, I always take my own private guard, so the security department once suggested that I should at least carry a weapon to defend myself. "

In my known history, Mrs. Roosevelt has never met any assassins, so I was not worried about her going out to visit hospitals, schools and factories without personal guards. Instead, I asked with a smile, "Dear Eleanor, do you have weapons on you?"

"At the beginning, I did not hesitate to refuse the kindness of the relevant departments." Eleanor said to me with a smile, "but the people in the security department didn't feel at ease. After consulting my husband, President Roosevelt, they took me to the driving range of the FBI to learn how to shoot. Guess what, my shooting performance? "

From Eleanor's smiling face, I can't find the answer. I can only rely on my own imagination to think that she may have shooting talent. Maybe she will calm everyone when she enters the shooting range for the first time. Therefore, I did not hesitate to say my guess: "I think that the first time you entered the shooting range, you may have stunned all the people present."

"That's right, Rita. You're right." Eleanor's face smile more Sheng, "I played a total of 10 shots, the result of the shot out of the bullet did not know where to fly, a bullet did not hit the target, so that all the people present were shocked." At this point, she couldn't help laughing.

I laughed with embarrassment, but fortunately Eleanor misunderstood me and thought that I had guessed the fact that all her bullets missed the target, so I didn't notice my abnormality.

After laughing for a while, James, who has been acting as an interpreter for us, interjected: "after madam has been to the shooting range several times, the director of the Federal Bureau of investigation, Edgar Hoover, complained to President Roosevelt:" Mr President, if anyone in the United States has to be prohibited from carrying weapons, that person is your wife. She fired hundreds of bullets on the range of the FBI, but she never hit the target once. "

Because James said this in Russian, before he translated it to Eleanor, I asked, "Eleanor, do you have a weapon with you now?"

"Of course, in order to make you feel at ease, I now carry weapons with me whenever I go out." Eleanor continued to say to me, "I learned how to deal with weapons with Miller, a guard of my husband's, so from now on, as long as I go out, I will carry a pistol with me. Although it's an unloaded pistol, it can make people feel more at ease."

Mrs. Roosevelt is a talkative person. As long as I don't interrupt her, she can go on and on. When I notice a little sign that I want to speak, she will take the initiative to stop and ask if I have anything to say.

After we chatted for a while, she picked up a box of camel cigarettes on the table, handed them to me, and politely asked, "Rita, do you smoke?"

I quickly waved her hand, refused her kindness, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, Eleanor. I never smoke."

I thought Eleanor would take a cigarette out of the box, but she left it on the table. At this time, I heard James murmur against Eleanor: "madam, don't you hate the smell of smoke most? Because of this, Mr. President, when he is in front of you, he also tries to restrain himself from smoking. "

After listening to James' complaint with care, Eleanor said to him with a smile: "Dear Mr. James, although I don't smoke at all and have a special aversion to women who smoke, I later found that it was wrong for me to do so. I can't impose my likes and dislikes on others. So I tried to overcome my aversion and strongly advocated the habit of handing cigarettes to my wives after dinner at the presidential palace. "

Although I could understand most of their conversation, I still pretended to understand nothing and looked at them with a smile on my face. At the same time, I felt a little more good for Eleanor.

When the conversation ended, I said with a smile, "Eleanor, I heard you have a good relationship with our female sniper Ludmila."

"Yes, Rita, you are quite right." Elinor readily admitted the friendship between her and Lyudmila, especially explaining to me: "when I first met Lyudmila, I asked her," how many enemies have you killed? " But she said to me, "I don't kill people. I kill people."

I was stunned for a moment and then asked, "how many people have you destroyed?"

When she told me without expression that she had killed 309 people, the whole audience was shocked.

At that time, I thought I heard it wrong, and I confirmed it again. Yes, 309 people. "

"By the way, o'shanina, I suddenly remembered something." After translating Eleanor's words, James suddenly asked, "I remember a year or two ago, you were called" butcher woman "in the newspaper. I can't remember the details, but it seems that you killed dozens of German soldiers who laid down their arms and surrendered at one time. Can you tell us something about it? "

"Mr. James, you have a good memory. After the start of the great counter offensive under Moscow, I did command my men to shoot down a group of German prisoners who had laid down their arms and surrendered. This incident has been widely publicized in Western newspapers. " Now that James asked me about the killing of German prisoners, I readily told him how I found zhuola's damaged body in the village. I was filled with righteous indignation for a moment, so I did not hesitate to give the order to shoot. I told the whole process of the shooting.

When I say a word, James translates it. Eleanor did not speak, but listened silently to the whole story. Although she did not speak, I found that after listening for a while, her face became serious, and her hands on the table were shaking slightly.

When I finally told the whole story, James said solemnly, "well, if I existed in your position at that time, o'shanina, I think I could not help giving the same order." But Eleanor was silent for a long time. At last, she said slowly, "Rita, you are right. Even if God sees these heinous crimes committed by German Communists, he will not forgive them." After listening to her words, I said casually, "it's God's business to forgive these executioners or not; And all we can do is send them to God! " My voice just fell, suddenly next to a few clear and audible applause. I followed the voice and saw the closed door I just saw. I don't know when it was opened silently. A tall, young and handsome bodyguard, pushing a wheelchair, slowly walked into the room. On the wheelchair was president rosford, whom I once met. With a "ah" sound, Eleanor went over and took over the job of pushing the wheelchair from the bodyguard's hand. But I couldn't hold the earth to sit still in my seat. I quickly stood up, bowed slightly to Roosevelt not far away, and politely said, "Hello, Mr. President."“ Good, good. O'shanina, what you just said is wonderful. " Roosevelt nodded to me with a smile. After praising me, he repeated what I had just said: "it's God's business to forgive these executioners or not; And all we can do is send them to God! " After saying these words to me, he turned to his wife, who was pushing his wheelchair, and said, "honey, next time you make a speech, you can add these words from general o'shanina, so that our people can understand that whether it's the German, the Italian or the Japanese, we have a life and death enemy relationship with them, There is no mercy for these executioners who destroy the peace of mankind. " When Eleanor heard Roosevelt say this, she did not speak, but nodded her head with a smile and agreed“ Please have a seat, general oshanina Seeing that I was still standing in a daze, Roosevelt immediately called me and said, "how can we let the guests stand in front of us and talk. Sit down, please