Early the next morning, Sokov was awakened by a rapid knock on the door. When he was about to sit up, he found Asiya's hand on his neck, preventing him from moving. Sokov hurriedly
He gently took her hand away, then turned over and got out of bed, grabbing the pajamas placed on the chair next to him and putting them on.
Sokov came to the door, opened the door, and saw a lieutenant officer wearing a blue hat standing at the door, and asked politely: "Comrade Lieutenant, what can I do for you?"
The officer raised his hand and saluted Sokov and said politely: "Comrade General, Marshal Rokossovsky sent me to inform you that the plane to pick you up and your wife will arrive in forty minutes, please."
You should prepare in advance and wait in the hall downstairs for the person who comes to pick you up."
"Okay, Comrade Lieutenant." Sokov responded politely: "We will wait in the lobby downstairs for someone to pick us up in half an hour."
After the officer turned around and left, Sokov closed the door, returned to the bed, gently patted Asiya's face with his hand, and shouted softly: "Asiya, Asiya!"
Hearing Sokov's voice, Asya opened her eyes and asked sleepily: "Misha, what time is it?"
Sokov looked up at the clock on the wall and replied: "It's almost seven o'clock."
"Ah, so early?!" Asiya said lazily: "I'm a little tired and want to sleep a little longer."
"Little lazy pig, you can't sleep anymore." Sokov put his hand under Asiya's shoulder, helped her sit up, and then said: "Marshal Rokossovsky just sent someone to inform me.
He said the plane to pick us up will arrive in forty minutes, so let’s prepare in advance.”
"What, the plane to pick us up will arrive in forty minutes?" Hearing what Sokov said, Asiya suddenly woke up: "Then hurry up and wash up, otherwise it will be too late."
Forty minutes later, Sokov and Asya, who had finished washing, appeared in the lobby on the first floor wearing crisp military uniforms.
There were many soldiers in the hall. When they saw Sokov's appearance, they all stood up from their seats and raised their hands to salute him.
After raising his hand in return, Sokov found a sofa near the door and sat down, quietly waiting for the person to pick him up to appear.
After sitting down, Asiya looked around and asked uneasily: "Misha, didn't Comrade Marshal say that the plane to pick us up will arrive in forty minutes? Now that time has passed, why haven't we seen the person picking us up yet?"
, have you missed it?"
Hearing what Asiya said, Sokov smiled slightly and replied: "Asiya, be patient. The plane said it would arrive in forty minutes, but the actual arrival time will be much later. It still takes a while to get here from the airport.
A lot of time, that is to say, the person picking us up can arrive within half an hour, which is considered very fast."
"That's good, that's good." Knowing that the person who picks her up may still have to wait for a while, Asiya suddenly felt more at ease: "As long as you don't miss the plane."
Sokov couldn't help but laugh: "Asia, do you think the plane that came to pick us up is the same as the train we took? They all have operating timetables, so they will leave when the time comes? Since they are here to pick us up, as long as we
The plane cannot take off until the two of them get on the plane."
"So that's it." Although Asiya understood that the connecting flight that came to pick her up would not take off casually, she still felt a little uneasy: "But it's not always good to let others wait for us."
At this time, an officer walked up to Sokov, bowed and said: "Comrade General, do you still know me?"
Sokov looked at the officer in front of him carefully and felt that he looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him before. He couldn't help but asked doubtfully: "Comrade Lieutenant, where have I seen you?"
Seeing that Sokov could not remember himself, the officer quickly reminded him: "Yesterday when you first went to your room, a waiter and I went to your room."
Hearing what the officer said, Sokov immediately remembered that when Asiya was doing some kind of pencil-throwing experiment yesterday, he scared himself, and his screams attracted an officer and a waiter. He quickly stood up and stretched out his hand to cover himself.
He took the officer's hand and said in a friendly tone: "It turns out it's you, Comrade Lieutenant, we meet again."
The officer glanced at Asiya who was sitting next to him, and then lowered his voice and asked Sokov: "Comrade General, is your wife okay afterwards?"
"It's okay." Sokov felt a little embarrassed when he remembered what happened yesterday, and quickly said, "Thank you for your concern, she is fine."
Asiya was held in Sokov's arms at the time and did not see the officer and waiter at the door at all, so she had no idea what Sokov and the officer were talking about at this moment.
"Comrade General," the officer asked politely, "Is there anything I can do for you?"
"I'm waiting for someone here," Sokov raised his hand and looked at his watch: "He should be arriving soon. There's nothing going on here, go ahead and do your work."
But the officer stopped where he was and said to Sokov: "Comrade General, if you are waiting for the plane, I am afraid you will have to wait a while longer."
When Sokov saw that the officer guessed that he was going to take a plane, he was stunned for a moment, but then he thought of the blue hat officer who came to inform him. Maybe the two of them knew each other, so it was not enough to know that he was about to leave here by plane.
Surprised. He nodded and asked, "Why do you have to wait a little longer?"
"I heard that the plane that picked you up went to another place on the way." The officer said, "A conservative estimate is that it will be delayed by at least two hours."
"Ah, it's such a long delay?" Sokov asked in surprise: "Is this news reliable?"
"Completely reliable, Comrade General." The officer nodded and said in a positive tone: "This is what the headquarters called to inform me."
Thinking of waiting in the lobby for at least two hours, Sokov turned to Asiya and asked: "Asiya, we may have to wait for a while, do you want to go have breakfast first?"
"Where can I have breakfast?" Asia asked.
"Comrade General, please come with me and I will take you to the restaurant." The officer smiled and said to Sokov: "Since you are residents here, you can enjoy free breakfast."
The two Sokovs followed the officer to a nearby restaurant. When they entered, they were immediately greeted by a waiter. The officer said to them: "Prepare two breakfasts for the general and his wife."
The breakfast served by the waiter was very rich. In addition to the essential black bread, bulgur pancakes and oatmeal, there were also eggs, milk, cheese, sausages, etc.
Seeing the food in front of him, Sokov smiled and said to Asiya: "Asiya, I haven't had such a rich breakfast in a long time."
"Me too." Asiya said: "You also know the nature of my work. Even if I fall asleep in the middle of the night, if a wounded patient comes, I must get up immediately for surgery. As soon as I enter the operating room, there are no seven or eight hours.
I can't get out, so let alone breakfast, I haven't even eaten lunch or dinner seriously. Fortunately, now that the war is over, we can eat three meals a day according to the normal schedule."
Hearing what Asiya said, Sokov couldn't help but think deeply. He once thought that he would take Asiya with him to the Far East this time and let her continue to work as a military doctor in the field hospital. But now that he heard what she said, maybe
She was tired of her previous life and wanted to take a good rest for a while. Although if she insisted on letting Asiya follow her to the Far East, she would not say anything, but there would be a knot in her heart.
"Misha." Asiya saw the black bread in Sokov's hand and almost turned it into doughy balls. She couldn't help but asked curiously: "What are you thinking about?"
Asiya's voice woke Sokov out of his thoughts. He looked at Asiya and tried to put a smile on his face: "No, I didn't think about anything. I was just eating breakfast."
"Look at the bread in your hand." Asia pointed at the bread in Sokov's hand: "You're almost turning it into dough."
Sokov lowered his head and saw that the originally square piece of black bread had been twisted into a dough. He quickly took off part of it and stuffed it into his mouth, prevaricating: "Asia, you may not know,
When I was on the front line, I would always knead the bread into small pieces so that I could put it directly into my mouth, in order to shorten the time for eating and have more energy to direct the battle."
Asia didn't believe Sokov's far-fetched explanation at all. However, she did not expose Sokov on the spot, but said in a gentle tone: "Misha, knead the bread into dough and eat it, it is not good for your stomach.
"It doesn't matter if you eat it twice now and then. If you eat it too often, you may get stomach problems."
"Don't worry, Asia, I won't eat like this again in the future."
After the two finished breakfast, they returned to the sofa near the door and quietly waited for the person to pick them up.
After waiting for another hour, Sokov saw two jeeps parked at the door, and said thank God, they are finally here. He turned to Asiya and said: "Asiya, there are two jeeps coming outside, it should be
The person who picked us up has arrived."
As soon as he finished speaking, three people walked in from outside. The leader was a major, next to him was a captain, and behind them was a major general. After seeing the major general's face clearly, Sokov
Both of them couldn't help but turned pale with shock. Sokov even stood up, took two steps forward, and asked in surprise: "Yasha, is that you?"
"Yes, Misha, it's me." Yakov crossed the two officers in front, opened his arms and gave Sokov a warm hug.
Sokov slapped the opponent's back with his hand and asked curiously: "Yasha, where did you come from?"
"I received a notice last night that you were going to Moscow." Yakov explained to Sokov: "Let me hand over my duties to others and then return to Moscow with you."
Sokov immediately connected the plane's delay with Yakov's appearance, and asked tentatively: "Yasha, the plane is two hours late. Are we going to pick you up in East Prussia?"
"No, Misha." Unexpectedly, Yakov said unexpectedly: "The plane departed at night, and first went to East Prussia to pick up another commander and me. Unexpectedly, halfway through, the pilot received a notice to
The commander was sent to Marshal Konev, which resulted in us being delayed."
Yakov did not say who the person on the same plane as him was, but replaced him with a commander. Sokov was also a smart man, and knew that the other person's identity was confidential, so he did not deliberately ask about it, but
Asked politely: "Then when will we set off?"
"did you have breakfast?"
"have eaten."
"But I haven't eaten yet." Yakov said with a grimace: "But if I go to the restaurant for breakfast now, I'm afraid it will delay my departure. Wait for me to find something to eat and eat while walking on the road."
Five minutes later, Sokov and others got into the jeep and set off.
There were two jeeps in total. In the front jeep, there were two people, a major and a captain. In the back car, Yakov sat in the passenger seat, and Sokov and Asiya sat in the back seat.
On the way, Yakov turned around and asked Sokov: "Misha, why do you suddenly think of going to Moscow for recuperation? You know, the best recuperation resorts are all in Sochi on the Black Sea. Take a vacation there
, not only can we enjoy the sunshine at the seaside every day, but we can even row a boat into the sea and go fishing. In the forest outside Moscow, all we can do is hunt or farm."
Sokov smiled and said: "Can't you still pick mushrooms?"
"Don't you know what season it is now?" Yakov said with a look of contempt on his face when he heard what Sokov said: "For Russia, May is the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
At this time, people usually go to their villas in the countryside to live for a while, plant some vegetables, and wait until September to harvest. By the way, if you want to pick mushrooms, you need to wait until after August.
At that time, as long as it rained, mushrooms could be seen everywhere in the forest."
Sokov secretly thought that if Stalin really let him stay in a sanatorium in the suburbs until August, it would mean that he was not qualified to go to the Far East at all. When he thought that he could not personally teach those damn Kwantung Army, Sokov
My husband felt like there was something stuck in his throat, and he was terribly aggrieved.
At this moment, there was a faint sound similar to firecrackers nearby. Sokov couldn't help but frown, wondering who was setting off firecrackers on the roadside? But the next moment, he realized that something was wrong. Someone was shooting cold shots.
Seeing that the jeep in front suddenly lost control, it started to move in an S shape on the road. Soon, the jeep crashed into a tree on the side of the road. The captain sitting in the co-pilot seat was directly thrown away by the huge inertia.
He got out and fell heavily to the ground.
"Stop, stop quickly!" Sokov shouted to the driver: "Hurry up and park the car on the side of the road."
As soon as the jeep stopped, Sokov opened the door and got out of the car, and walked quickly towards the jeep that hit the tree. He wanted to find out what was the reason that caused the car in front to suddenly lose control and cause a car accident.
of.
Although Asiya didn't know what happened, when she saw someone was injured, as a military doctor, she felt that it was her duty to do so. She quickly got out of the car and followed Sokov towards the scene of the accident.
Yakov was stunned for a while while sitting in the car, and then he realized that Sokov and Sokov had already got out of the car. He quickly opened the door and got out of the car, and quickly chased after Sokov, while asking loudly
: "Misha, what happened? Why did the car in front suddenly lose control?"
This chapter has been completed!