In an era that lacks entertainment life, reading is undoubtedly the best pastime to pass the time.
When Sokov had just finished reading halfway through the book, the door was pushed open from the outside. He thought it was Anna who came and was about to ask her to pour him some water, but when he looked up, he saw that the person who came in was Ya
Bezikov and Bezikov, who had been missing all day.
"Major Bezikov," although the other party's military rank was much lower than his own, the three of them were staying in the sanatorium during this period and had to rely on the other party's subordinates to protect their own safety, so he stood up and said politely:
"You came!"
"Hello, Comrade General!" Bezikov raised his hand and saluted Sokov, and then said: "I am here today because I have something important to report to you."
"An important thing?" Sokov heard what Bezikov said and said jokingly: "What an important thing? Do you want to change us to a sanatorium with better conditions?"
"No, Comrade General, you misunderstood. I am not going to change your sanatorium for you." Bezikov replied with a wry smile: "It is the superiors who are preparing to arrange a new partner for you."
"New partner?" Sokov asked in surprise: "Who is it?"
"I'm sorry, Comrade General." Bezikov said: "Before your new partner arrives, I have no right to reveal any information about him to you. I am just ordered to inform you."
After hearing what the other party said, Sokov did not continue to ask who was coming, but just asked casually: "When will he arrive?"
"Tomorrow morning." Bezikov replied accurately: "He will arrive here at ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Then where is he going to live?" Sokov took a rough look at the layout of the nursing home today. In addition to the small building where he lives and the small building where the restaurant is located, there is a smaller building in the back.
There are only about a dozen rooms, and they should be arranged for senior personnel to stay: "Are we living in the same building, or the last one?"
When Bezikov heard Sokov's words, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and then said: "Comrade General, of course he lives in the same building as you. To be honest, he is disabled and it is not convenient for him to live alone.
If we live together with you, we will also take care of each other."
After listening, Sokov nodded and said: "Okay, Comrade Major, then we will wait for this mysterious resident to officially move into our nursing home tomorrow."
After seeing off Bezikov, Sokov raised his hand and looked at the time. It was almost six o'clock. He was very hungry, so he said to Yakov: "Yasha, it's getting late. Let's go eat."
Let’s have dinner.”
As soon as she walked out of the room, she met Asiya. When she saw Sokov and Yakov walking out of the room, she smiled and said: "I was just going to ask you two to eat, but who knew
You came out first."
Asiya held Sokov's hand and walked towards the restaurant, and said, "I just saw the Major Bezikov who sent us here. What is he doing here?"
"It's just to notify us that new tenants will be admitted to the nursing home tomorrow."
"The new tenant?" Asiya asked curiously: "Who is it?"
"I don't know," Sokov shook his head and said, "Major Bezikov didn't say anything. But it doesn't matter. When the new tenant comes tomorrow, we will know who he is."
"Misha, can you guess who it is?" Yakov asked next to him.
Sokov shook his head again and said: "I'm not a god, how do I know who it is."
Seeing that he could not get the answer he wanted from Sokov, Yakov said to himself: "Major Bezikov said that the new tenant has a disability. Could it be that he was injured on the battlefield? The injury is good.
After he died, he found that he could not return to the battlefield due to physical disability, so he arranged to go to this sanatorium to recuperate? "
"Physically disabled?" Asiya heard what Yakov said, and her professional instinct was stimulated again: "How was he injured? Was he injured by a bullet or an artillery shell?"
Facing the questions raised by Asiya, Yakov smiled bitterly: "Asiya, I don't even know who the person here is, how can I possibly know how he was injured?"
Sokov remembered what Bezikov said, and specifically said to Asiya: "The new tenant will live in the same building as us. Major Bezikov asked us to take more care of him."
"That's no problem." Asiya answered readily, "I am a military doctor. Taking care of a disabled person should not be a big problem."
Early the next morning, an ambulance drove in from outside and followed Bezikov's black car until it stopped in front of the small building.
As soon as the car stopped, Bezikov got out of the car and quickly came to the door of the ambulance. After opening the door, he assisted the medical staff to lift a plainclothes man lying on a stretcher out of the car and carefully lifted him out of the car.
carried into the building.
Sokov stood at the window and saw the ambulance driving in from outside and stopping downstairs. He was eager to know who it was, so he said to Asiya: "Asiya, our new neighbor is here.
Go out and greet him."
The two came out of the room and were about to go downstairs when they heard Yakov shouting from behind: "Misha, Asiya, wait for me, I will follow you down to see the new neighbors."
In this way, the three of them arrived at the lobby on the first floor.
Sokov's sharp eyes saw that the three waiters, including Gurchenko, were there, and the man who was taken out of the ambulance was sitting on a sofa, with Bezikov standing next to him.
Next to him, he lowered his head and said something to him.
When Yakov saw the man, he raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, frowned and said, "This man looks familiar, as if he has seen him somewhere."
When Sokov heard what Yakov said, he immediately realized that this person's identity was not simple, otherwise Yakov would not have said that he had seen him before, so he quickened his pace and walked towards the sofa.
"Comrade General, you are here!" When Bezikov saw Sokov's arrival, he quickly said with a smile: "I am really going to find you."
"Comrade Major." Sokov nodded to Bezikov, and then asked politely: "Can you introduce our new neighbor to us?"
"Let me introduce you," Bezikov approached the man and said respectfully: "This is General Sokov, the former commander of the 48th Group Army, and the lady next to him is his wife Asya.
She is a medic in the army. And the one behind is General Yakov. Before he came here, he was the deputy chief of staff of the Third Belarusian Front."
After Bezikov introduced the identities of Sokov and the others to the men, he stood up straight and said to them: "Comrade generals, I would like to solemnly introduce to you that this is Lieutenant General Lukin, the former commander of the 16th Group Army."
"What, Lieutenant General Lukin?" Before Sokov could speak, Yakov, who was standing at the end, said in surprise: "Wasn't he captured by the Germans?"
"You are right, General Yakov." When Bezikov answered Yakov's question, he couldn't help but secretly despise the other party, thinking that you had also been a prisoner of the Germans, and in the end it was Sokov.
The general personally led people to rescue you, but he knew his identity very well, so he did not say anything rude, but said respectfully: "Lieutenant General Lu Jin was taken from the concentration camp by the US military in Mosbourg, France on April 25.
rescued from it."
When he found out that the disabled man sitting in front of him was actually the famous Lieutenant General Lukin, Sokov quickly stepped forward, stretched out his hands to the other person, and said respectfully: "Hello, Lieutenant General Lukin, nice to see you here.
you."
Lujin held Sokov's hand and said with a smile: "General Sokov, I'm glad to meet you. I have heard many old friends mention you, so when my superior asked me to choose a recuperation place, I told him
They hope to arrange me and you together. I just had the mentality of giving it a try at the time, but I didn’t expect that my superiors actually agreed. "
Sokov never dreamed that Lu Jin would actually come after him, which surprised him. He asked tentatively: "Comrade Lu Jin, I wonder which friend you heard mention me from."
Lu Jin chuckled and said: "I knew Ponejelin before the war broke out. He and I had been in the same army and fought many battles together. Later he was appointed as the commander of the 12th Group Army.
member, and I was appointed commander of the 16th Army.
After the war broke out, I heard that his troops were annihilated by the enemy and his whereabouts were unknown. I thought he had died. I was sad for a long time. But I didn't expect that after being rescued this time, I actually got information about
I even went to his headquarters and chatted with him for a long time."
When Lu Jin told his story, his face was very calm. Yakov and Asiya next to him had shocked faces. In their memories, as long as they were senior generals who had been captured by the German army, they would
He was first sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and imprisoned, and then slowly interrogated and screened. But like Lu Jin, he was not banned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs after being rescued, and he was even able to see his old friends. This is incredible. Ya
Kokov even wondered in his mind, could it be that someone in the Supreme Command put in a good word for him, allowing him to escape regular scrutiny and screening?
With such an expression, Sokov clearly remembered the records about Lukin: Lukin was treated differently from other prisoners of war because of his performance in the early days of the Patriotic War. When he returned to Moscow, he was treated like a hero.
Welcome, and even soon after, was appointed deputy commander of the Odessa Military District, where he remained until his retirement due to health reasons in 1946.
Just listen to Lu Jin continue to say: "My old friend Ponedelin told me that if you hadn't repeatedly vouched for him, Kirillov and others behind the scenes, I'm afraid they would still be in the prison of the Ministry of Internal Affairs right now, where would they be?"
I have the opportunity to seek revenge against the Germans myself."
"General Sokov," Bezikov waited for Lukin to finish, then looked at Sokov and said respectfully: "From today on, Comrade Lukin will live in this small building and become your neighbor.
If it's convenient for you, please take care of him."
"No problem." Sokov knew very well that Lu Jin had no legs now and could only use a wheelchair. There must be special caregivers around him. The so-called asking him to take care of him did not mean asking him to take care of him.
Instead, he would talk to him when he had time, or push him for a walk in a wheelchair. Therefore, he said readily: "Lieutenant General Lu Jin has always been my idol, and I will take good care of him."
Then, Bezikov pointed to the two people in white coats next to him, a man and a woman, and said: "These two are the nursing staff assigned to Comrade Lukin by their superiors and are responsible for his daily life. If you have time, come here
You can chat with him, or push him out for a walk."
Sokov secretly said that Bezikov was smart. By introducing these two caregivers, he was telling himself in disguise that the so-called taking care of Lukin was not about eating, drinking, sleeping, sleeping, but chatting with him.
, then nodded again and said: "No problem, it's just a little effort."
Sokov originally wanted to say that there was no separate bathroom and toilet in the house, which was a very inconvenient thing for Lukin, but looking at the male and female caregivers standing on both sides of the sofa, Sokov stopped talking.
After swallowing it into the stomach, not to mention that the bathroom and toilet are on the same floor, even if it is one or two kilometers away, the caregiver will not find it troublesome.
The three of them chatted with Lu Jin for a while. Seeing that the other party looked a little tired, Sokov asked two guards to take Lu Jin back to his room.
After Lukin left, Sokov asked Bezikov: "Comrade Major, I wonder how long Lieutenant General Lukin will stay here?"
"It's hard to say." Bezikov sighed and said: "Comrade Lukin's legs were injured in the war. Because he did not receive timely treatment, they were amputated in the concentration camp. What was it like in the German concentration camps?
I won’t tell you about the medical condition, but I think you can guess it. The injury on Comrade Lu Jin’s leg was caused by repeated delays, which led to repeated infections and even life-threatening. His superiors allowed him to recuperate here in peace and work every day.
Inject him with special anti-inflammatory drugs to ensure that the wound on his leg no longer suppurates and he can gradually recover to health."
When Yakov heard this, he couldn't help but interjected and asked: "Major Bezikov, I wonder if Comrade Lukin will continue to stay in the army after his injury recovers, or will he be transferred to work somewhere else?
"
When Bezikov heard Yakov's question, he smiled bitterly and said: "General Yakov, I am just a small major. What kind of work will a former general like Comrade Lukin arrange for him in the future?"
, how could I possibly know?”
Yakov asked a few more indirect questions, but Bezikov cleverly avoided them, leaving Yakov feeling helpless.
Bezikov was worried about how many problems Yakov would have to deal with if he continued to stay, so he quickly found an excuse and left in a hurry.
After Bezikov left, Asiya asked Sokov curiously: "Misha, do you know the deeds of Lieutenant General Lukin?"
"Of course, Asia, of course I know." Sokov nodded and said: "In the early days of the war, if the troops under his command had not successfully blocked the German army's advance, the defense of Moscow would have been even more difficult.
hard."
Sokov's words aroused great curiosity in Asiya: "Misha, can you tell me the story of Lieutenant General Lukin?" She may be worried that Sokov would shirk, and specifically emphasized, "Anyway, we are here.
You have nothing to do every day, so just tell me stories for fun."
