Red Moscow

Standing at the front was the director of the hospital. After hearing Sokov's question, he quickly pulled off the mask on his face and said respectfully: "Comrade General, after careful rescue by experts, your wife has escaped from the hospital." Life is in danger." After saying that, he turned to one side and gestured towards the back.

The medical staff following the dean quickly turned aside to make way for the people behind him.

Sokov saw the flat cart where Asiya was lying on being pushed out by two nurses. There was a nurse next to him holding a sling bottle with his hand. He quickly stepped forward to check on Asiya, but saw that her eyes were closed, her face was pale, and she shouted several times, but there was no movement.

"Comrade Dean," Malenkov, standing behind Sokov, asked, "Why aren't you awake yet?"

"Comrade Malenkov." Facing the questioning Malenkov, the dean expressed enough respect: "We have tried our best. This female comrade was too seriously injured, although we pulled her back from the edge of death. , but it will take some time to wake up.”

When the nurse pushed the cart toward the ward, Zhukov and Rokossovsky did not follow him. Instead, they greeted Sokov and left.

Malenkov and the dean followed the flat car to the ward, watched the nurses transfer Asiya from the car to the bed, and then said: "Comrade dean, General Sokov still has a lot of things to do, I'm afraid he can't spend the whole day Stay with his wife in the hospital, can you arrange some special care for her? "

"No problem." The dean replied readily: "I will arrange for four nurses to take care of the general's wife 24 hours a day."

"Comrade Dean, your arrangement is very reasonable." Malenkov nodded and said, "That's it."

"Comrade Dean," Sokov asked the dean tentatively: "I wonder how the fees for the four special guards are calculated?"

As soon as Sokov finished speaking, he saw Malenkov and the dean staring at him with shocked eyes, and he couldn't help but asked with a guilty conscience: "Did I say something wrong?"

"Comrade General," the dean said first, "don't you know that our medical care is free, and all expenses during hospitalization are free?"

The director's words reminded Sokov of the fact that Russia does have free medical care. It basically costs nothing to see a doctor or be hospitalized. However, their hospitals and pharmacies belong to two different systems. There is no cost to see a doctor, but it does cost to buy medicine. Spend money. Just like medical treatment and hospitalization in China, some expenses can be reimbursed through medical insurance, while others can only be paid out of pocket. If a comparison must be made, the part that can be reimbursed domestically is free for them; while the self-paid part is where they need to spend money.

Sokov scratched the back of his head and said with some embarrassment: "I thought the hospital arranged special care for the patients and required additional charges."

Malenkov raised his hand to look at the time, and then said to Sokov: "Misha, it's getting late. I'm going back to rest. If you need my help with anything, remember to call me." After that, A small piece of paper with a phone number written on it was thrust into Sokov's hand.

Zhukov, Rokossovsky and Malenkov all left one after another. In the end, only Yakov and the traffic police lieutenant Sabina were left with Sokov. Sokov thought that it was his wife who was hospitalized in a car accident, and it was obviously inappropriate for them to stay with him in the hospital, so he politely said to the two of them: "It's getting late, you should go back and rest early. Today's Thank you very much.”

"Misha, what are you talking about?" Yakov said with some displeasure: "You and Asiya are both my friends. Now that something happened to Asiya, as a friend, how can I not accompany you?" Where are you?"

And Sabina said respectfully: "Comrade General, it is my honor to serve you. I'm going back first. If you need anything, just call me."

After sending Sabina away, Sokov and Yakov sat on the bench in the corridor outside the ward and smoked.

Although medical staff passed by from time to time, it was two generals who saw them smoking, and no one came to bother them and stopped them from smoking here.

"Misha," Yakov asked cautiously, "Asiya is out of danger. Would you like to take the time to contact Asiya's parents and tell them about this?"

"Let's wait until daybreak." Sokov said: "If you call me in the middle of the night, I guess the person who answers the phone will not be willing to send a message." When saying this, Sokov couldn't help but miss the convenient communication in later generations, no matter how far apart they are. You can reach us with just a phone call.

"Well, let's wait until daybreak." After Yakov finished speaking, he paused for a moment, and then expressed his opinion: "Misha, I always feel that this car accident is not what Lieutenant Sabina said. Simple."

In fact, Sokov also suspected that this car accident was not an accident, but more like a deliberate one. It's just that I was worried about Asiya's safety just now and had no time to think about it. Now I calm down and think about it again. No matter how I look at it, I feel that this car accident is full of doubts.

Thinking of this, Sokov looked left and right. Seeing that he and Yakov were alone in the corridor, he lowered his voice and said, "Yasha, I want to ask you to do me a favor."

Yakov and Sokov have known each other for many years, so he could naturally guess what Sokov was thinking, and he quickly said: "Misha, don't worry, I will drive to the scene to check if it gets dark later to see if I can find anything. Clues."

But Sokov shook his head and said, "Yasha, I'm not asking you to help me find clues, but I want to go to the scene with you."

"You're going to the scene with me?" Yakov asked in surprise, "Who will take care of Asiya?"

"It's okay. There are two special nurses in the room taking care of Asiya. Even if I'm not there, it won't have any impact." Sokov was eager to know the truth of the matter, so he said to Yakov, "Yasha, you must help me, otherwise I will feel uneasy."

"Okay then." Yakov nodded, "Let's go when it's dawn. It just so happens that I know where the car accident happened, so I can go there directly later."

After waiting until dawn, Sokov went into the ward to check on Asiya. Seeing that Xia was still in a coma, he greeted the two nurses who were taking care of her: "Comrade nurse, I still have some things to deal with, so I'll trouble you to take care of her here."

"Comrade General, please go and do your work." An older nurse said, "We will take good care of your wife."

After thanking the two, Sokov walked out of the ward and patted Yakov who was dozing on the bench: "Yasha, let's go."

Yakov rubbed his eyes, stood up and looked at the ward, and asked in a low voice: "How is Xia's condition?"

Sokof shook his head and said solemnly: "She hasn't woken up yet."

The two left the inpatient building and got into the car parked in the parking lot.

On the way to the scene of the accident, Sokov asked a question that concerned him again: "How did Comrade Malenkov know that Asia had a car accident and rushed to the hospital in time?"

"At first, I also thought that it was Marshal Zhukov who informed him, but later I listened carefully to their conversation and found out that Marshal Zhukov didn't know that Comrade Malenkov was coming." Yakov said cautiously: "I think he may have arranged spies near you, so that he can know about your situation at the first time."

"Is there another possibility?" Sokov felt that he was more vigilant. Every time he went out, he would pay attention to the movements around him. He didn't find anyone following him at all. He tended to another possibility: "In fact, my whereabouts were reported to Comrade Malenkov by the guard force responsible for my compound through some special channels?"

Yakov thought about it, then nodded and said: "Well, your analysis makes sense, this possibility exists."

After driving for more than ten minutes, the car arrived at the scene of yesterday's car accident.

Since it is the New Year period, most organizations are on vacation, so the two cars that crashed yesterday are still at the scene of the accident and have not been towed away by a tow truck.

In order to find out what happened, Sokov asked Yakov to park the car 50 to 60 meters away from the accident site, then get out of the car and walk over, and carefully check the traces left on the ground to see if there are any clues that can be used.

After the two of them observed, Sokov found that the truck that caused the accident rushed directly from the right lane to the oncoming jeep, and there was no trace of brakes on the ground. The damage to the two cars, the driver's side of the jeep's driving seat has been completely smashed into parts, and there are also a lot of blood and suspected human tissues. Although Sokov did not see the driver's body after entering the hospital, from the current situation, it is estimated that the driver is dead.

The truck that caused the accident did not have much damage except that the left front of the car was dented. And judging from the lack of brake marks on the ground, Sokov can conclude that this accident was not caused by the driver's drunkenness and the vehicle losing control, but there is a tendency of murder.

"Yasha, what do you think of the scene?" Sokov had his own judgment in his mind, but he did not say it out loud. Instead, he asked Yakov.

Yakov first looked at the traces left by the truck on the ground, then looked at the two cars that collided with each other, and said slowly: "Misha, if you want to know my thoughts, I can tell you truthfully that this is a man-made car accident, and it is not an accident caused by the driver losing control of the vehicle because of drunkenness as Lieutenant Sabina told us."

Sokov knew that if he wanted to find out the truth of the matter, it was far from enough to just check the traces left at the scene. It would be better to ask the driver to see if he could get useful information from him. Thinking of this, Sokov said to Yakov: "Yasha, get in the car, let's go to the traffic police duty point to find Lieutenant Sabina and let him take us to see the driver who caused the accident. I have a lot to ask the driver."

After the two got in the car, Yakov turned the car around and headed towards the location of the traffic police station.

A few minutes later, the car stopped at the door of the traffic police station.

A traffic policeman standing on duty on the roadside saw a car parked at the entrance of the traffic police station. When he came over and was about to ask a few questions, he saw Yakov rolling down the window.

The traffic policeman was startled and stood at attention and saluted: "Hello, Comrade General, how can I help you?"

"Is Lieutenant Sabina here?"

"Yes, yes." The traffic policeman nodded and said: "He is the officer on duty during the New Year and has been here all the time."

"Ask him to come out and see me. I have something important to see him."

Who knew that after hearing this, the traffic policeman showed an embarrassed expression on his face: "Comrade General, please forgive me, there is a problem in the traffic police station, and Comrade Lieutenant is handling it?"

"Comrade General," Sokov bent down and said to the traffic police outside: "Please call him out, I have something to ask."

When the traffic police saw Yakov's rank of major general, his expression was particularly nervous. At this moment, seeing a general talking to him, he became even more flustered and stammered: "Comrade General, I, I just said, I said, something happened at the traffic police station, the lieutenant, Comrade Lieutenant is handling it."

"Comrade traffic police, go and call him out." Sokov said impatiently: "Just tell him that General Sokov is looking for him, and he will come out."

"Okay, Comrade General, please wait a moment, I will call the lieutenant over now."

Not long after, Sabina ran out of the station with the traffic police. Seeing Sokov and Yakov who just got out of the car, he quickly raised his hand to salute and asked in surprise: "Comrade Generals, why did you think of coming here?"

"Comrade Lieutenant, what happened in the station?" Yakov asked curiously: "We want to see you, but the traffic police comrade is unwilling to call you."

"Comrade General, he did not lie. Something did happen. I was just dealing with it."

"What happened?" Yakov asked.

"A driver who was detained in the detention room opened the window without authorization last night and was blown by the northwest wind all night. He was frozen to death."

When Sokov heard Sabina say this, he had an ominous premonition in his heart and asked quickly: "Who died? If I am not mistaken, it should be the driver who caused the accident, right?"

"You guessed right, Comrade General." Sabina nodded and said: "It was him."

It seemed outrageous to learn that the driver he was looking for was frozen to death in the detention room last night. However, it also further proved Sokov's guess that the car accident that Asiya encountered was not an accident, but a premeditated murder. Otherwise, how could the driver die inexplicably in the detention room when he was about to find the driver to understand the situation.

Yakov knew that the driver was dead, so the clues found were broken here, so he turned his head to ask Sokov's opinion: "Misha, what should we do?"

The object to be investigated was dead. Sokov knew that even if he continued to stay here, he would not get any useful information, so he waved his hand and said: "Yasha, let's go back."

In Sabina's surprised eyes, the two got back into the car and drove towards the city.

Watching the car driven by Yakov going farther and farther, the traffic police tentatively asked Sabina: "Comrade Lieutenant, do you need to report this matter to your superiors?"

"Whether to report this matter is my business." Sabina glared at the traffic police and said dissatisfiedly: "You don't need to teach me. You should go back and continue your duty."