On the shelves of the cabinet are four trophies of various sizes and several medals.

I saw a couple of framed photos of a young man in a hockey suit smiling at the camera, and two of them were of him holding trophies and medals.

The young man's facial features are very rough, but he gives people a particularly positive and enterprising spirit. It seems that the young man in the photo is the owner of these trophies and medals.

Sergei stared at a photo of the young man and a girl, who had ordinary facial features but a quiet temperament, and looked very gentle and cute.

Next to it is a family photo of the two of them and a baby, with happy smiles, conveying the joy of becoming a first-time parent.

I was looking at the photo and I felt that the little girl and her mother looked very similar to the woman in the photo.

Suddenly, there was an urn behind me and the voice of a man with an urn:

- "Vika, where's the wine I asked you to buy?" ”

I turned around and saw a tall, middle-aged man standing in an open door, wearing a homely gray half-sleeved shirt, barefoot, a scruffy face, and eyes that seemed to wake up from sleep. This is a very typical image of a Russian drunkard.

At this time, the girl's mother was coming out of the kitchen with three cups of tea on a tray, she put the tea tray on the coffee table in front of the sofa, turned back to the man and shouted:

- "You asked your child to buy you alcohol today, didn't you?" ”

- "Huh? The man looked up, as if he didn't understand the woman's words. Looking at the people in the room with drunken eyes, he asked:

- "They...... Who are they? ”

- "Valoja? Are you Valoja? Sergei looked at him and asked suddenly.

Sergey's words took everyone by surprise.

Sergey excitedly took the girl's mother by the hand and asked:

- "You're Daria, aren't you?" I'm Seryosha! ”

- "Which Seryosha?" Dalia asked, puzzled.

- "I'm Sergey Rainin. Sergei Rainin at Moscow 57 Secondary School. ”

- "Oh my God! Seryosha. It's you! Dalia shouted.

- "Rainin? Are you Seryosha? Valodya shouted excitedly and staggered over.

Sergey and Valodya hugged each other tightly.

- "Ah, it's really you! Sergey, with a face full of surprise, said.

Valodya pulled Sergei and sat down on the couch.

Dalia burst into tears of joy.

Genia and I watched in amazement at what had happened.

Sergei looked at us both and explained with a smile:

- "Valoja and Dalia and I were high school classmates. We haven't seen each other in almost twenty years. ”

- "Not really! I didn't recognize you. Seryosha! Dalia said.

- "Sergey is our squad leader. Valodya said to us.

- "No wonder you all remember him! I laughed.

- "Who can not remember Seryosha? He is a man of the year in our school and a role model for all students to follow. Valoja said with a fluttering eyebrow.

- "Even our headmaster said that Sergey was the best student he had ever met. Dalia chimed in.

- "Alright, alright, how can they say it so exaggeratedly. You don't know that Valodya is the best hockey center in our school. I can't beat him anyway. Sergei said to me and Genia with a smile.

- "You've played hockey too?" Zhenia asked with a sudden curiosity in her eyes.

- "Seryosha is still our captain!" Valodya replied.

I was also shocked by this answer, and to be honest, I could not have made the connection between the well-mannered Sergei in front of me and the savage sport of ice hockey.

It seems that Sergey really has another side that we don't understand.

- "Sergey, what else do you not know about? I blurted out.

- "Huh...... It was all fun when I was a child, and when it comes to ice hockey, I'm the best at Valodya! He's an absolute workhorse in our team. ”

At this time, Valodya got up and took one of the trophies in the cupboard, he sat down beside Sergei excitedly, looked at the trophies and asked:

- "Seryosha, do you remember it? ”

Sergey took the trophy and said affectionately:

- "Of course I remember, it was our team that won the Moscow Secondary School League and you were the top scorer. ”

- "Wow! So powerful! Genia exclaimed.

Hearing Genia's words, Valodya's expression suddenly became very sad. He put the trophy aside and said:

- "It's all in the past, it's all in the past!" ”

- "Valodya, I should have thought that you and Dalia are so nice! Well, how did you guys end up in Irkutsk? Sergey asked.

- "That's a long story. Seryosha, you were escorted to study in Germany, and you don't know much about the situation of our classmates, right? Dalia asked.

- "Yes, I left a year before I graduated, and speaking of which, I didn't have a graduation photo with my classmates, and I always felt that it was a pity!

It's been a long time, and it's the first time I've seen my classmates from middle school today, and everyone is almost unrecognizable. Sergei's tone was a little sad.

I looked at the photo on the cupboard again, trying to find a resemblance between the Valodya in front of me and the boy in the photo.

Since, they and Sergey are classmates, then I misjudged their age.

Dalia and Valodya should be about the same age as Sergei, both in their thirty-four or five-year-olds, not in their forties, as I think.

- "Yes, it's been almost twenty years, and we were all children. Dalia sighed.

I looked at Sergei and thought, it turns out that his experience is really a little different.

- "Valoja, you know what? Every time I watch an ice hockey game, I think of you, you're the best player I've ever met. Every time I see you playing, I think our team will win! I thought you were going to become a professional footballer and even make it to the national team. Sergey said

- "After graduating from high school, I did play a special game for two years, but I didn't make it to the national team, and then I had to give up hockey because I injured my leg. Valodya said.

Sergei touched Valodya's leg and asked with concern:

- "Is it this leg?" Why did you hurt so badly? ”

Dalia sighed and said:

- "It's that leg, but at first, Valodya had a leg injury, but that only affected him to play hockey, and he didn't have a disability." This is the year before last, caused by a work injury in the mine, it has been two years, and walking still has an impact. ”

- "Why don't you treat it well, the longer it drags on, the more difficult it will be to cure." Sergey said.

- "The level of medical care in Irkutsk is like that, and the doctors do their best, they say that if you want to get good treatment, you have to go to Moscow or abroad. We were given a small pension from the mine, and the company where Dalia worked closed down last year. We can't even make life difficult, what else can we say......" Valoda smiled bitterly in despair.

- "How did you get to Irkutsk?" Dalia: I remember you said that your family has always lived in Moscow. Sergei asked with a change of subject.

- "Dalia never dreamed of going back to Moscow!" Valodya laughed.

- "I'm talking all that way!" Who told you to drink every day, see for yourself, what kind of drink you have made this family? Dalia said.

- "What else can I do without drinking?" You said? What can I do? Valodya suddenly shouted in anger.

Valoja's shouts startled us, and little Vika hid in her mother's arms.

- "Seryosha, you saw it! I can't live this day! Dalia hugged Vika's face and turned white.

- "Daria, Valodya is not angry with you, he is angry with himself. But don't despair, Valodya, I think we can try again. Sergei comforted Daria, and then he patted Valodya on the shoulder and looked at him and said.

Valodya looked up at Sergei.

- "Dalia, don't you want to go back to Moscow again?" Sergei said to Dalia with a smile.

- "Seryosha, Dalia came to Irkutsk to blame me completely, it was my ......," Valodya said with guilt in his eyes.

- "I don't blame you for this, I came here myself, I don't blame anyone for this, besides, don't we still have Vika?" So that we can be together as a family, actually, it's good. ”

Dalia interrupted Valodya as she stroked Vika's smiling face with her hand.

Sergei looked at Dalia with admiration in his eyes.