red moscow

Chapter 2705

When Anna woke up the next morning, her ankle was completely swollen. The skin at the injured area was purple, and the slightest touch made her gasp in pain.

Seeing this, Sokov quickly said to her, "Anna, you are in this condition. I'm afraid you won't be able to get out of bed for a few days. I'll take you to the orthopedic hospital now. Call your boss and ask him for a few days off."

As a salesperson in the market, Anna is paid daily wages, and she only earns one day's income after working one day. If someone else were to go to work, they might insist on going to work, but Anna has Sokov as her backer, so she doesn't have to worry about not having a source of income, let alone not going to work for a few days, or even lying at home every day.

When Anna called her boss to ask for leave, Sokov also walked out of the bedroom with his cell phone and called Lena: "Hey, Lena, I will be there later today. You can open the store when you get to the market."

Lena knew Sokov's character very well. She knew that when he said he would come later, it meant that he had something important to do. So she asked tentatively, "Misha, is it about Baharov's matter?"

"Uh, no." Hearing Lena's question, Sokov realized that he was so busy worrying about Anna that he had forgotten about Baharov's safety. He replied awkwardly, "It's not about Khabarov. Anna sprained her ankle last night. Now her ankle is swollen and the skin on her hand is purple. I want to send her to the orthopedic hospital to check if her bones are injured."

"Oh, so that's how it is." After figuring out what was going on, Lena nodded and said, "Misha, don't worry about taking Anna to see the doctor. Leave the store matters to me."

After explaining the work, Sokov returned to the bedroom and asked Anna, who was sitting on the bed, "Have you asked for leave from your boss?"

"Well, I've already asked for leave." Anna said, "My boss said I can go back to work after my foot is healed."

"Anna, this is all my fault," Sokov said apologetically, "If I had put a non-slip mat at the bathroom door, maybe you wouldn't have sprained your ankle last night."

"It's okay," Anna said generously, "Buy a non-slip mat next time to avoid similar situations."

After the two finished breakfast, Sokov carried Anna downstairs, put her in the passenger seat, and drove her to a nearby orthopedic hospital.

Arriving at the hospital, after an X-ray examination, it was found that there were no broken bones, and Sokov could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. He took the medicine purchase certificate handed to him by the doctor, thanked him, and left the clinic with Anna in his arms.

After getting back into the car, Sokov turned around and asked Anna, "Do you know which pharmacy has a more complete range of medicines?"

In Russia, medical treatment and hospitalization are free. However, their hospitals and pharmacies are separate. If you want to buy medicine, you must go to the pharmacy to buy it yourself. For some medicines, pharmacies will not sell them at all unless there is a purchase certificate issued by a doctor, such as alcohol for disinfection.

Anna looked it up on her phone and gave Sokov an address: "Two blocks away from the hospital, there is a large pharmacy with the most complete range of medicines."

Sokov leaned over to take a look at the address, immediately set the navigation, and drove in that direction.

Soon, the car arrived outside the pharmacy.

Maybe because it was early, there were not many people buying medicine and there were few cars parked at the door.

After Sokov parked the car, he was about to get out of the car and go to the pharmacy to buy medicine, but Anna said, "Misha, I want to go in with you."

Hearing Anna say that she wanted to go into the pharmacy together, Sokov hurriedly got out of the car, pushed a free wheelchair to the door of the pharmacy, carried Anna into the wheelchair, and pushed her inside.

Entering the pharmacy, Sokov came to a window, handed the doctor's certificate to the pharmacist, and said politely: "Hello, I want to buy these medicines."

The pharmacist took the doctor's certificate and looked at it, then glanced at Anna who was sitting in the wheelchair, and asked casually, "Are these medicines for this girl?"

"Yes, that's the medicine she used."

The pharmacist nodded and turned to prepare the medicine according to the list on the doctor's certificate.

When Sokov turned around to talk to Anna, he saw her pushing the wheel of the wheelchair to the other side. He quickly followed her and asked, "Anna, where are you going?"

"I see there seem to be new cosmetics on the counter over there." Anna pointed to a counter not far away, "Push me over there and take a look."

Sokov was not surprised at all when he heard Anna say that. Most cosmetics such as day cream, night cream, and primer are sold in drugstores because they contain irritants, so it is not surprising to buy cosmetics in drugstores.

When I arrived at the counter, a young female pharmacist in a white coat came over and asked politely, "Miss, what would you like to order?"

"Are there any new day creams?"

"Yes." The female pharmacist nodded. "We have four new day creams. Do you have a favorite brand?"

"Bring them all out for me to see."

When the female pharmacist was getting cosmetics for Anna, the pharmacist who was dispensing the medicine called Sokov from a distance: "Sir, the medicine you wanted to buy has been prepared for you."

Sokov ran over and asked politely, "How much is it in total?"

"1350 rubles."

After the pharmacist collected the money and handed the medicine to Sokov, he also explained to him how to use various medicines one by one.

After buying the medicine and sending Anna home, Sokov rushed to the market.

As soon as he walked to the door of the store, Sokov saw a shop on the other side of the street, surrounded by many people, who seemed to be watching the fun. "Misha, you're here!" Lena saw Sokov and hurriedly came to greet him, and took the initiative to say: "I just sold two high-quality goods, and the price was not bad."

"Great, great." Sokov knew that the high-quality goods that Lena was talking about were the batch of good goods that Sister Gao sent, so he gave her a thumbs up and said, "You are really great to be able to sell such expensive clothes."

"I've put the payment on the table in the inner room." After Lena said this, she casually asked, "By the way, how is Anna's leg injury?"

"It's nothing, just a sprain, no bones hurt." Sokov replied, "I've applied medicine to her, she'll be fine after a few days of rest."

Sokov counted the money on the table and put it in the drawer. After finishing the account according to the note that Lena had left on the table, he stood up and walked out of the inner room, asking casually, "Why are there so many people at the door of the store over there? Are the models for the wedding dress commercial here?"

"The model for the wedding dress advertisement hasn't arrived yet." Lena shook her head and said, "Something happened at the tailor's house."

The tailor Lena mentioned was a young man named Kong, who married a Tajik woman. He was originally engaged in the repair of furs and various clothes. Later, his wife saw that selling furs could make money, so she encouraged him to change his career. So at the end of last year, he found a batch of goods and officially started the fur sales business.

But an amateur is an amateur. I haven't heard that he has made any money since the opening, but I often hear that his fur is lost. A piece of fur is generally around one thousand US dollars. According to the 10% gross profit of fur, losing one piece is equivalent to selling ten pieces for nothing.

Sokov thought the tailor had lost some clothes again, so he walked to the water dispenser and got a glass of water. After taking a sip, he asked casually, "How many clothes did he lose today?"

Lena thought for a moment and replied, "At least thirty pieces of clothing were lost."

"What?!" Sokov sprayed out the water from his mouth. He didn't even bother to wipe the water off his clothes, and asked Lena impatiently, "Lena, how many did you say? Thirty pieces of clothing, did I hear you right?"

"No, you heard it right." Lena said, "30 pieces were lost."

Sokov confirmed that thirty pieces of clothing were missing from the tailor's house, and immediately thought of Lao Xu, whom Victoria mentioned last night. He wondered if the tailor's house would be as unlucky as Lao Xu's, where someone dug a tunnel and stole all the furs in the store? He calmed down and continued to ask, "Lena, tell me quickly, what happened?"

"Two men came to the market this morning, and somehow ended up at the tailor's house," said Lena. "The tailor wasn't there at the time, and only his wife was alone in the shop. After they came in, they said they wanted to buy 30 to 50 pieces of fur. When she heard that the other party wanted to buy a large number of furs, the tailor's wife was very happy. Because the store didn't have enough fur, she went to the surrounding shops and found some furs and brought them back to the store for the two men to choose from.

The two men spent about an hour selecting from the pile of clothes and picked out thirty pieces. After paying, they found a porter to pack the clothes and take them away. After the two men took the goods away, the tailor's wife returned the unselected goods to the shops.

Since the clothes that the two men took away were mostly taken from other people by the tailor's wife, they went to pay. But when they paid, they found that all the money collected by the tailor's wife was fake. When they went to look for the two men, they found that they had disappeared. Now the shop owners who lost their goods gathered at the door of the tailor's shop and asked them for an explanation.

"Fake money?" Sokov said doubtfully, "Are all the money you received fake?"

"Well, it's all fake."

"I don't think it's possible." Sokov had dealt with the tailor's wife before when he went to repair clothes. He felt that she was a calculating person, the kind who could turn into a monkey if she got some hair on her. How could she not be able to tell the difference between real money and fake money? There must be something fishy going on: "How can someone who deals with money every day not be able to tell the difference between real money and fake money?"

As they were talking, the security captain walked into the store with several security guards.

"Misha," the security captain said to Sokov, "I was looking for you."

  Sokov was stunned and thought to himself, what's going on? What does the security captain want me to do?

Just as he was wondering, he saw the security captain took out a stack of euros from his pocket and handed it to him.

Looking at the Euros in the hands of the security captain, Sokov couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, thinking that the Euros in his hand were all fake, and he could clearly see the word "sample bill" printed on the face of the bill: "Captain, what do you mean by this?"

After the security captain handed the fake Euro to Sokov, he said, "This morning, a store on the street received a sum of fake money. Here, this is the money. I'm showing it to you to prevent similar scams from happening again."

Sokov knew very well that these crudely printed sample tickets were all put in Christmas gifts by merchants. Anyone who was not blind could tell the authenticity at a glance. Moreover, after handling them, he could feel the roughness of the paper, and even counting them was very difficult. How could the tailor's wife, who was so smart, be deceived?

After Sokov handed the fake money back to the security captain, the other party continued, "That woman is also stupid. The whole batch of goods was sold for 30,000 euros, but she only took 10,000 euros. And all the money was fake. If anyone has such a wife, they are really unlucky."

When the security captain took the security guards out to the next store to remind the store owner not to be deceived, Sokov also walked out of the store and walked towards the tailor's shop. He wanted to find out what was going on.

Coming to the outskirts of the crowd, Sokov used his height advantage to clearly see the thin tailor standing in the middle of the crowd, explaining to everyone with a frustrated look on his face: "...I had a high fever when I got up today, so I asked my wife to come to the store alone, but I didn't expect this to happen. Now that it has happened, please don't worry, I will give you an explanation, and I will compensate you for the goods you lost."

But in the business world, people are more likely to kick someone when he is down than to help him when he is down. No one among the crowd spoke up for the tailor. Instead, someone rushed into the tailor's shop, snatched two pieces of clothing, and said, "You stole two pieces of clothing from me, so I'm using them to pay off your debt."

Seeing someone taking the lead, the merchants who had lost their goods could no longer remain calm and rushed into the store, starting to snatch the goods in the store, fearing that if they were slow, the goods would be snatched away by others. The tailor saw so many people rushing into his store, and he was powerless to stop them. He could only sit by the door and watch with a blank expression as those people came out of the store with his goods and quickly dispersed to various stores.

Sokov asked a colleague who was watching the fun nearby: "By the way, where is the tailor's wife?"

"Since she found out the money she received was counterfeit, the woman has disappeared." The man said disdainfully, "Maybe she went to see her lover again."

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. A casual remark made Sokov come up with a bold idea. The tailor's wife is not only scheming, but also likes to flirt with other men. On weekdays, different men often come to the store to find her and flirt with her in front of the tailor. Maybe before the incident today, the tailor was not in the market because he didn't want to see his wife being ambiguous with others. Unexpectedly, such a big thing happened. If his guess is correct, everything that happened that day was written and performed by his wife and outsiders to cover up the truth.

When Sokov returned to his shop, Lena came up to him and asked about the situation. Sokov told her his guess.

After listening to this, Lena pondered for a long time, and finally nodded slowly and said, "Misha, I think what you said makes sense. The tailor's wife usually likes to associate with questionable people. They both have black hair, but their daughter is blonde. This is too outrageous. Every day, when the tailor's wife sees that the tailor is not here, she thinks it is a good opportunity, so she calls her lover and asks them to pretend to be buyers, come here to cheat a batch of goods, and then resell them to make a lot of money."

(End of this chapter)