"Misha," after Yakov finished the call, he saw Sokov still staring at him in a daze, so he came over and called him: "What are you thinking about?"
Yakov's voice woke Sokov out of his thoughts. For a moment, he didn't know how to answer the other party's question. Fortunately, he quickly returned to normal and pretended to be nonchalant and asked: "Yasha,
Are you done with your phone call?"
"Yes, the call is over." Yakov gestured to Sokov, "Let's go outside for a walk."
The three of them quickly walked out of the small building and headed towards the small building where the restaurant is located. Sokov walked in the middle, Asiya on his right side, holding his arm with both hands; and Yaco
The husband walked on Sokov's left side with his hands behind his back.
"Yasha," Sokov said, "If your brother wants to come here to visit you, can your superiors agree?"
"No problem." Yakov answered readily, "If the superiors are worried about leaking secrets, Vasily can live here after he comes. Anyway, in such a big nursing home, why are you worried about finding a place for him to live?
"
"He said he wanted to fish, but it's a pity that there is no fish pond in the sanatorium." Sokov said with a smile: "Otherwise he would have found something to do for fun every day."
"If you want to fish, there is a pond outside the sanatorium."
When Sokov heard what Yakov said, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Yasha, how do you know there is a pond outside the sanatorium?"
"When I was wandering in the yard yesterday, I saw a pile of red bricks piled on the wall behind. They should be left over from the renovation of the sanatorium, so I stepped on the pile of bricks and looked outside the wall." Yakov said: "
There is a large pond at the back, and there are many wild ducks in it. In the front is the mother wild duck, followed by a group of her children, swimming back and forth on the water."
"Yasha, is everything you said true?" Asiya asked unexpectedly.
"Of course it's true," Yakov nodded and said, "I saw it with my own eyes."
Asiya was full of curiosity about cute little animals like wild ducks. She asked: "Yasha, where is the corner with bricks piled up? Take us there to have a look." After saying this, Asiya continued.
He specifically said to Sokov, "Misha, come with me to see it."
Sokov nodded and asked Yakov: "Yasha, where is the place where the bricks are piled? It's not time to eat yet, so you can take us there first to have a look."
Seeing that both Sokov and his wife wanted to see the scene outside the wall, Yakov nodded and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to have a look."
Under the leadership of Yakov, the three people quickly arrived at the location where the bricks were stacked. Sokov took a look and saw that the location where the bricks were stacked happened to account for two-thirds of the wall. It was quite nice to stand on it and look at the scenery outside.
Convenient. He walked over quickly and checked where it was safer and faster to go up. After Asiya came over, he helped her get up to the pile of bricks.
Standing on the pile of bricks and looking outside, there is indeed a large pond thirty or forty meters away, surrounded by low trees or bushes. I wonder if the pond is connected by a river or has underground water.
, the water looked crystal clear. When a burst of wild duck calls came, a group of ducklings followed a mother duck and emerged from the bushes, swimming happily on the water.
"Misha, look quickly, there are wild ducks. There are really wild ducks." When Asiya saw the wild ducks swimming on the surface of the pond, she exclaimed excitedly: "It's so cute."
Sokov laughed and then said: "It's a pity that we can't leave the sanatorium, otherwise we can stand by the pond and watch the wild ducks swimming."
"Yeah," after hearing what Sokov said, Asiya's face showed a frustrated expression: "We still don't know when we can leave this nursing home."
"Yasha," Sokov remembered something and asked Yakov curiously: "Will any hunters come here to hunt?"
"There may be, but not too many." Yakov said to Sokov: "Didn't you see the warning sign on the roadside before our car drove into the forest?"
"Warning signs?" Sokov first thought of warning signs about traffic safety, but he quickly rejected his guess. In today's era, how many people can own private cars? If it is in the city
There are some traffic safety warning signs here, which makes sense. But this is the outskirts of Moscow. Except for two small towns within a few dozen miles, there are no people at all. Putting a few traffic safety warning signs here can make a difference.
What role does it play? With this question, he asked tentatively: "What warning sign?"
"Animal warning signs!" Seeing that Sokov knew nothing about the matter, Yakov said with some surprise: "There are foxes, rabbits and deers painted on the warning signs, which indicates that in this forest area, there may be
These three animals will appear. Even if hunters want to hunt, they will hunt foxes, rabbits and deer. No one comes here specifically to hunt wild ducks. At most, during the season when wild ducks lay eggs, they come here to pick up a few wild duck eggs."
When hearing Sokov's question, Asiya looked at Yakov nervously, fearing that the other party would tell him that the hunter wanted to hunt the wild ducks in the pond. She learned that the hunter would at best go to the bushes beside the pond during the season when the wild ducks lay eggs.
Picking up a few duck eggs from the bushes, I felt relieved.
Sokov saw fish jumping out of the water from time to time as the wild ducks swam. He smiled and said to Yakov: "Yasha, if your brother Vasily wants to come here, you can take him here."
Fishing in the pond, I’m sure he’ll be able to come back with a full load.”
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Yakov waved his hand and said: "Forget it, it's best not to let him go fishing, otherwise he will cause a big disaster again."
Sokov knew that Vasily was injured while fishing, but Asya knew nothing about it. She asked somewhat unexpectedly: "Yasha, what kind of trouble can Vasily cause if he comes here to fish?"
, are you a little nervous?"
"Asia, you may not know that Vasily was seriously injured while fishing two years ago and almost lost his life." Yakov shook his head and said, "So as soon as I heard him talk about fishing, I
My scalp is numb, and I am very afraid that something will happen to him again."
"What dangers can there be in fishing?" Asiya asked puzzledly: "Did they happen to be bombed by the Germans while they were fishing and were unfortunately injured?" She also said smartly, "Now that the war is over, no matter what
Wherever you go fishing, you no longer have to worry about being bombed by German planes."
"No, Asya, you are wrong." But after hearing this, Yakov said with a wry smile: "Vasily was injured not because of the German plane bombing, but because they blew themselves up. Even
It also caused the commander of the Air Force Group to be dismissed from his post."
"Yasha, what is going on?" Asiya asked curiously: "Can you tell us?"
Yakov nodded and told the story that Sokov knew. Asiya was shocked after hearing this: "Oh my God, one person died and six people were injured. The price of this fish fry is high."
It's too big. Yasha, you're right, we can't let Vasily come here to fish easily, maybe he will throw grenades into the pond to blow up the fish."
The three of them were standing on the pile of bricks chatting when they suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "Hey, two comrade generals, what are you doing standing on the pile of bricks?"
Sokov looked back and saw that it was Major Bezikov. He smiled and explained to him: "We found a pond outside the wall, so we came here to have a look."
"It's time for lunch, General Sokov." Bezikov said: "Be careful when you come down. Don't fall."
After the three people came down from the pile of bricks, Bezikov continued: "This pile of bricks is too dangerous. Don't go up there casually. Otherwise, if something happens, I can't bear the responsibility."
From the tone of Bezikov's words, Sokov heard that the other party was extremely dissatisfied with the three of them standing on the pile of bricks without permission to look at the scenery outside, so he laughed and said: "Remember, Comrade Major, that's all.
Once, never again."
"There are a lot of wild ducks in the pond." Bezikov said: "Gurchenko and the others will go to the bushes outside to pick up some wild duck eggs during the season when the wild ducks lay eggs."
"I wonder when the season for wild ducks to lay eggs is?" Asiya asked: "If I have the chance, I would also like to pick up some wild duck eggs."
"Wild ducks lay eggs in two seasons a year." Bezikov explained to Asya: "The first season is from March to May, and the second season is from October to November. Each clutch has ten eggs.
Each egg is hatched by a female duck in 27.8 days. It's a pity that you came late. If you had come half a month earlier, you could have eaten fresh wild duck eggs."
"Misha," Asia said to Sokov with some disappointment after hearing this: "It seems that we can only wait until October to go to the pond to collect wild duck eggs."
Sokov didn't think he would have the opportunity to collect wild duck eggs here in October. He was thinking that after defeating the Kwantung Army, he should be able to find wild duck eggs in the forests of the Greater Khingan Mountains, but he didn't know how to use them.
How does soaking salted duck eggs taste?
A soldier passed by not far away and was stopped by Bezikov. Sokov saw Bezikov pulling the soldier aside, muttering something in a low voice, and pointing his finger at the pile of bricks from time to time.
Location. Sokov suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. Could it be that in order to prevent himself and others from jumping out of the wall, Bezikov planned to have all the bricks cleaned up?
Before the three of them entered the restaurant, Bezikov caught up from behind and said to Yakov with a smile: "General Yakov, today's lunch has specially prepared Georgian red wine for you. I think you must have a long time."
I haven’t had any good wine from my hometown.”
When it comes to red wine, the first thing that comes to mind is French wine, but in fact, countries that produce high-quality red wine include Ukraine and Georgia. The whole world is drinking French red wine, but the French are drinking Georgian red wine. Sokov remembers it clearly
Later, when he visited a Russian friend's house, he saw that the red wine on the dining table was from Georgia.
He once visited Georgia and saw with his own eyes the statue of Nino, the mother of Georgia, standing on the top of the mountain. The sculpture held a wine glass in its left hand and a long sword in its right hand, vividly interpreting the famous saying: "When friends come, welcome them
He has good wine; when his enemies come, he will be greeted with swords.”
When Yakov heard that there was Georgian red wine at today’s lunch, his face turned red with excitement. He held Bezikov’s hand and said gratefully: “Comrade Major, thank you so much for giving it to me.”
I got such a precious wine."
"Comrade General," Bezikov said respectfully: "Due to the war, Georgia's wine production stopped for two years, so what we find now are wines produced in the past few years. I don't know how they taste. I hope you won't
mind."
"I don't mind, I don't mind." Yakov said calmly: "Although the wine has been stored for more than five years, which will affect the taste, I am still very grateful that you can help me get the wine stored a few years ago.
Endless.”
Yakov leaned closer to Sokov and asked in a low voice: "Misha, isn't the wine better the longer it is stored? Why does Yasha say that the taste of wine will deteriorate if it is more than five years old?"
In fact, Sokov knew little about wine, but since Asiya asked, he could only pretend to be knowledgeable and said: "The older the vintage of wine, the better, because every bottle of wine has
Its storage period. If it exceeds the best drinking period and enters the aging period, the taste of the wine will not be so good, so usually wine is suitable for drinking within five years."
"But I heard that some wines have been stored for more than a hundred years." Asiya was afraid that Sokov would not believe what she said, so she gave an example: "For example, it is located in the suburbs of Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula.
The Massandra winery still contains wine produced in 1775.”
Sokov didn't expect Asiya to know about Massandra Winery, but then he thought about it. As a Russian, it was normal for him to know about this winery. After all, this was a winery that specially provided royal wine to the Czar. He was vague.
He said eloquently: "Asia, in addition to having to be stored in oak barrels, wine that has been preserved for more than a hundred years should also have other preservation methods that we don't know about. Otherwise, after more than a hundred years, these wines have to be stored in oak barrels.
The Tsar’s royal wine has long been out of drink.”
"Misha, Asiya." While Sokov and Asiya were still studying wine, Yakov, who was walking in front with Bezikov, unexpectedly found that the two of them did not follow him, so he stopped.
He asked them: "Why are you still standing at the door? Why don't you come over quickly? Let's go and taste the wine that Major Bezikov found for us."
"Okay, okay, here we are." Sokov held Asiya's hand and walked quickly towards the restaurant. He also wanted to taste the taste of Georgian red wine of this era and the red wine of later generations.
the difference.
This chapter has been completed!