The other end of the phone quieted down, no one spoke, only heavy breathing was heard. After a long time, Stalin's voice came out of the receiver again: "You, are you Yakov?! I heard it right?!"
"Yes, father." Yakov said with a choking voice: "I am Yakov, I'm back!" Then, he excitedly spoke a long list of languages ​​that Sokov could not understand at all.
"Misha, let's go out first." Rokosovsky put one hand on Sokov's shoulder and walked outside with him: "Let them have a good chat."
After coming out of the inner room, Rokosovsky closed the door and saw a group of army leaders sitting at the table waiting for him to continue to assign tasks. He reached out to pick up the weapons on the table and handed them over to Sokov, saying to him: "Misha, we will continue to hold military meetings. You go out and go for a while. When the meeting is over, I will send someone to find you."
Sokov took the weapon from Rokosovsky, raised his hand to salute all the leaders, turned around and walked out with great strides. When his feet stepped out of the command gate, he heard Rokosovsky say to his subordinates, "Comrade Commander, I just received a call from Comrade Stalin, and he instructed us..."
"Where should I go now?" Sokov stood in the building and began to think about this question. He didn't know when the military meeting would end. If he left, the people sent by Rokosovsky might not find him; he would continue to stay here, but he didn't know how long it would take to wait.
Just when he was in a dilemma, he suddenly heard someone asking himself: "Major Sokov, have you reported your work to the commander?"
Sokov looked up and found that he was the lieutenant on duty at the door, and replied with a smile: "Commander and others are in a meeting. I will wait until the meeting is over before I can continue to report on the work."
After hearing this, the lieutenant thought about it and took the initiative to say to Sokov: "Comrade Major, according to my experience, this kind of meeting will take at least a few hours. You might as well go out for a walk and find a place to eat. When the meeting is over, I will send someone to find you."
The lieutenant's words made Sokov think of the driver who sent him and Yakov. He is still waiting in the parking lot of the square. If he didn't show up for several hours, he should be anxious. Thinking of this, he smiled and said to the lieutenant: "My driver is still waiting for me in the parking lot. I'll go to his place first. If the meeting is over, please send someone there to find me."
"There is a café in the square where you can have something to drink." The lieutenant kindly reminded Sokov: "As soon as the meeting is over, I will send someone to find you."
As Sokov walked towards the square, he was thinking as he walked: I don’t know what happened to Yakov, how will Rokosovsky deal with it? Should he send someone to send him back to Moscow, or stay in Suxinic?
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a familiar female voice calling him: "Misha!" Then he felt someone holding his arm. He turned his head and saw that the person holding his arm was Asia.
When he was about to ask Asia why she appeared here, Asia had already asked first: "Misha, when did you come back? How did you come to Sushinic?"
"I came back this morning. Because I had an urgent matter to report to the commander, I rushed to Suxinic immediately." Sokov answered the question and asked curiously: "Asia, when did you come to Suxinic?"
"Didn't you seize a batch of medicines from the enemy's transit station a few days ago? After the division commander learned about this, he said that the division field hospital was not enough and asked us to send some of them. The deputy battalion commander sent me to carry out the task of delivering medicines." Asia said this, pouted and said with some dissatisfaction: "You don't even know if I'm in the nameless highland. It seems that you don't care about me at all."
When Sokov thought of returning to the nameless highland, he rushed to send Yakov to meet Rokosovsky, and he didn't care about anything else. Seeing Asia getting angry, he quickly persuaded: "Asia, I have an important thing to come to Suxinic this time, and I have to report to the commander. For the sake of confidentiality, I only met with the deputy battalion commander and rushed here to come."
After hearing Sokov's explanation, Asia did not speak, and raised her hand and slapped his hips twice. Her sudden action made Sokov confused: "Asia, what are you doing to hit me?"
Asia snorted, pointed to the ground, and said, "Look, what are you stepping on?"
Sokov looked down and saw that his feet were stepping on a rectangular sewer manhole cover, and he replied casually: "Manhole cover."
"I heard from the old man that the sewer manhole cover is a passage to another world." Asia said softly: "If you step on it accidentally, you must slap it on your butt twice, otherwise you will be pulled into another world by the demon."
The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Asia's words made Sokov fall into deep thought: "If the sewer manhole cover is really a passage to another world, then can I lift the manhole cover and jump down, can I return to my era?"
Asia walked a few steps forward and found that Sokov had not followed. When she turned around, she found that he was still standing in place, staring at the manhole cover on the ground intently. She stepped forward and grabbed his arm and asked curiously: "Misha, what are you still looking at?"
"Nothing, nothing." Asia's voice woke Sokov from his contemplation. He waved his head quickly and said in a panic: "You should be hungry, let's find a place to eat."
"Okay, OK." Hearing Sokov say this, Asia quickly took his hand again: "I'm just hungry. I know there is a coffee shop in the square, and the things inside are good, so let's go there to eat."
Before the two of them could reach the square, a corporal trotted and caught up from behind. When he saw Sokov, who was walking side by side with Asia, he hurriedly stopped his steps from the run and asked breathlessly: "Comrade Major, are you Major Sokov?"
"Yes, I'm Sokov." Sokov looked at the strange corporal and asked, "Is there anything you have to do with me?"
The corporal stood upright and saluted Sokov and said to him: "Comrade Major, Colonel Malining, please return to the headquarters immediately and say that Comrade Commander wants to see you."
"Okay, I'll go back right away."
After hearing Sokov's reply, the corporal raised his hand and saluted him again, turned around and ran away.
After the corporal left, Sokov held Asia's hand and said apologetically: "Asia, I'm sorry. I originally wanted to accompany you to eat, but now I'm going to see the commander..."
Before Sokov finished speaking, Asia said understandingly: "It's okay, the commander wants to see you. This is a big deal. Don't let him wait for a long time. Go quickly." As she said that, she gently pushed Sokov's arm with her hand.
Sokov took two steps, suddenly remembered the driver's affairs, stopped again, turned to Asia and said, "The truck in the camp is parked in the parking lot in the square. When you see the driver, you tell me that I may have to wait a long time, so let him wait for a while."
"I understand." Asia nodded and urged: "You go to the headquarters quickly, don't let Comrade Commander wait for a long time."
Chapter completed!