Red Moscow

After Sokov took Bakanidze away from the accident scene, he went to many places. Now when he returned to the accident scene, almost three hours had passed.

Sokov saw many people busy at the accident scene from a distance. He suddenly had an ominous premonition and hurriedly accelerated the car.

Bakanidze naturally saw the movement in the distance and said worriedly: "Misha, what happened? Why are there so many people at the accident scene?"

"I don't know, but I think something is wrong." Sokov said this, but he was muttering in his heart, maybe it was because he appeared at the accident scene too many times, so the traffic police department specially organized people to clean up the wreckage of the vehicle to prevent him from finding out anything.

Soon, Sokov drove the car to the side of the group of people. He was surprised to find that the wreckage of the two accident cars that were originally parked here had disappeared. Although he didn't want Bakanidze to find out the truth in his heart, so as not to cause a series of unnecessary troubles. But at this moment, he found that the vehicle disappeared, and he was still a little disappointed.

"Comrade traffic police," Sokov rolled down the window and asked the busy traffic police outside, "What are you busy with?"

The traffic police heard someone asking him and was about to drive away these people who were not polite enough to disturb his work. But when he looked up and saw clearly that the person asking him the question was actually a general, he was immediately shocked. He hurriedly stood at attention, raised his hand to salute, and said nervously: "Hello, Comrade General, do you have any instructions?"

Sokov repeated what he had just said: "Comrade traffic police, I asked you what you are doing here?"

"As you can see, we are cleaning up the accident scene."

"I remember there were two wreckages of accident cars here, where are they now?"

"Towed away, Comrade General!"

"Where were they towed?"

"Not sure, Comrade General."

"Who is your superior, Lieutenant Sabina?"

The traffic police didn't expect Sokov to be able to say Sabina's name. After a brief surprise, he shook his head and said: "No, Comrade General, Lieutenant Sabina is the head of another group, and my superior is Lieutenant Maliukov. You want Do you want to see him?"

"Yes, comrade traffic police." Sokov nodded: "Please ask him to come over."

While the traffic police left, Sokov turned around and asked the two people sitting in the back seat: "We seem to be a step late. The traffic police have cleaned up the scene. I wonder if it will have an adverse impact on your investigation?"

"I'm sorry, Bakanidze, I think I can't help you." The man named Yuri stared out the window for a while, shook his head and said: "The scene has been completely destroyed. Even if you invite Sherlock Holmes, I'm afraid you won't find any useful clues."

"Comrade General," Sokov wanted to say a few words, but he heard someone calling him outside the window. He turned his head and found that the traffic police came with a second lieutenant, who should be the second lieutenant Malenkov just mentioned. The lieutenant stood outside the car, raised his hand to salute Sokov, and asked politely: "Excuse me, is there anything I can do for you?"

"Comrade Lieutenant, I want to ask, where are the wreckage of the two accident cars that were originally parked here now?"

"They were towed away." After the lieutenant said this, he continued without waiting for Sokov to ask again: "Comrade General, I don't know where the wreckage of the car was towed to. I just received an order from my superiors saying that a traffic accident occurred here yesterday, and the wreckage of the car was placed here, which had an adverse impact on traffic. , so they sent me to clean up the scene with people. The tow truck that took away the wreckage of the accident car was sent by the Traffic Corps. I really don’t know where they will take the wreckage of the car. "

Seeing that he could not get any useful information from the lieutenant, Sokov thanked him and sent him away, then turned to ask Bakanidze: "What should we do next?"

The wreckage of the accident car was taken away, and serious damage was found at the accident scene. I am afraid that as Yuri said, even if Sherlock Holmes was invited, he might not be able to find useful clues from the cleaned scene. Seeing that Sokov asked for his opinion, Bakanidze could only sigh softly and said, "Misha, let's go back to the family quarters of the instrument factory."

Sokov was more than happy to do so, and quickly turned the car around and drove towards the family quarters of the instrument factory. At the same time, he apologized to the two people who helped him and said, "I'm so sorry. I called you here specially to find out the cause of the accident, but I didn't expect that the traffic police would suddenly clean up the scene and destroy all the evidence."

After sending Yuri and the other two home, Sokov asked Bakanidze, "Where are we going next, the hospital?"

"No need." But Bakanidze Ze shook his head and said, "Asia is taken care of by her mother. You can stay here or go home. It's up to you."

Sokof thought that if he stayed here, if someone wanted to find him, he wouldn't be able to find him: "I'd better go home, otherwise someone would not be able to find me. I will come to pick you up tomorrow and go to visit Asia together."

"I will find a car to go to the hospital by myself, so you don't have to come." Bakanidze said to Sokov: "Asia has been in a car accident, and I don't want you to encounter the same situation."

"Okay, see you at the hospital tomorrow."

Sokof said goodbye to Bakanidze and returned home.

Not long after he sat down, the phone rang.

The call was from Yakov. He asked with concern: "Misha, did you just come back from the hospital?"

"No, I came back from the family area of ​​the instrument factory."

"Asia's parents, did you notice anything?" Yakov asked warily.

"Her father felt that this car accident was a bit strange, so he decided to find two friends who had been criminal police officers to investigate the scene."

"My God, if we let people who have been criminal police officers go to the scene of the car accident to investigate, they can find more clues than us." Yakov continued to ask: "Then how did you deal with it?"

"When we arrived, the wreckage of the accident car had been pulled away, and even the scene of the accident had been cleaned up. The two people who came to help, seeing that they could not find clues, could only ask me to send them back in disappointment. ”

"That's good, that's good." Yakov said with relief: "I think the people who are going to deal with you are very powerful. If your father-in-law is involved, they may be killed, so there are things that should be concealed. , still have to hide it.”

"Yasha, have you found any clues?"

Yakov was silent for a while, and then said: "There are some clues. I think it may be people from Leningrad who have conflicts with Zhukov and Malenkov."

"I can understand the conflict between them and Malenkov." After Sokov waited for Yakov to finish speaking, he immediately expressed his opinion: "But Zhukov was the hero who once saved Leningrad. In 1940 In October, if Zhukov hadn't been sent to Leningrad by your father to replace Marshal Voroshilov and serve as the commander of the Leningrad Front, readjust the strategy of fighting the German army and tenaciously block the enemy, I'm afraid the city would have been destroyed earlier. It fell into the hands of the Germans."

Unexpectedly, Yakov sneered after hearing this: "Misha, you are so naive. Yes, it was Zhukov who saved Leningrad, but in the eyes of the Leningrad leaders, he was just a hasty person. Passers-by, and now that the war is over, everything Zhukov did back then may have been completely forgotten by them. Besides, they are now fighting for it..."

What are they fighting for? Before Yakov could finish speaking, his voice stopped abruptly. When Sokov saw that the other party only said half of what he said and stopped, he couldn't help but feel anxious: "Yasha, why did you only say half of what you said? What are they fighting for?"

"Misha, it's better for you not to know some things, so as not to know when you will get angry." Yakov did not continue this topic, but changed to another topic: "Asia is still in a coma now, you You need to stay with her more. After she wakes up, she will feel very uncomfortable if she knows that her child is gone.

"Don't worry, Yasha, I will take good care of Asiya." After Sokov said this, he suddenly remembered something: "Yasha, you said that the strength of those people is huge, then will they?" Will our phone calls be monitored? In that case, we won’t have any secrets in their eyes, and everything we do now will become ridiculous.”

Yakov couldn't help but be shocked after hearing this. If what Sokov said was true and those people were conducting surveillance in the dark, then what he and Sokov did during this period would be noticed by them. In his eyes, the things he is trying to hide will become ridiculous.

He calmed down and said to Sokov: "Misha, I think no matter how powerful the opponent is, it may not be that easy to monitor us. After all, this is Moscow, not Leningrad. They My hands can’t be stretched that long.”

"I hope so." Sokov yawned and said, "Yasha, is there anything else? If not, I'll hang up. I've been running all day today and I'm terribly tired. I need to take the time to get some sleep as soon as possible. to regain strength.”

"Then you should rest early. If I have clues, I will inform you as soon as possible."

Just when Sokov was about to hang up the phone, Yakov remembered something again and said quickly: "Misha, wait a minute."

"What's going on?" Sokov asked weakly.

"Your play is released, when do you plan to watch it?"

"Drama, what drama?"

"It is a drama adapted from the novel "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"." Yakov said: "It is said that after the drama was released, it was very popular and it can be said that it is hard to get a ticket. If you want to watch it, I can go there first Buy a ticket and let’s go see it together another day.”

"No, I don't know when Asiya will wake up yet." But Sokov politely rejected the other party's kindness: "Before she wakes up, how can I have the intention to watch a drama, even if it is based on my story?" It’s not even adapted from the novel.”

After Sokov hung up the phone, he walked to the cabinet on the wall, opened the cabinet, and took out his manuscript from inside. The book "Ordinary Soldier" was about 10,000 words away from being completed, but after Asya's incident happened, Sokov suddenly lost the mood to write a book. But looking at this book, there were only 10,000 words left to finish it. If he didn't write it, Sokov felt unwilling to do so. For a time, he was in a dilemma.

The phone on the table rang again. Sokov thought Yakov had forgotten something, so he called again.

He picked up the phone and put it to his ear, and asked angrily: "Yasha, is there anything else you haven't finished talking about?"

Unexpectedly, there was silence in the receiver. After a while, a woman's voice asked cautiously: "Is it Misha?"

"Yes, I am Misha." Sokov felt that the voice was familiar, but it was definitely not Agelina or Karina, so he asked tentatively: "Who are you?"

"Who am I?" The voice in the receiver suddenly became louder: "I am Kopalova, can't you even recognize my voice?"

"It's you, Kopalova. Happy New Year!"

"I also wish you a happy New Year!" Kopalova asked in a cheerful tone: "Misha, what are you busy with during the New Year?"

"Busy. What's the matter with you?"

"I'm fine, can't I call you?" Kopalova retorted: "Is it because Asya is by your side, so scared that you don't even have the courage to connect to my phone?"

Sokov sighed softly and said, "Asya is not at home."

"Not at home, is it at her parents' home?"

"No, she is in the hospital." Sokov took the initiative and said without waiting for Kopalova to continue asking: "She was unfortunately involved in a car accident on her way back home from Khimki yesterday. Although she was rescued, she was out of danger. , but she still hasn’t woken up, and the baby in her belly is gone.”

After hearing this, Kopalova couldn't help being surprised, and then said apologetically: "Misha, I'm sorry, I didn't know that such a thing happened in your family. I'm really sorry. I really didn't mean it. Please forgive me for being reckless."

"It doesn't matter." Sokov knew very well that if there was nothing important, Kopalova would not take the initiative to call home to look for him, so he asked tentatively: "What do you want to see me for?"

"Misha, it's like this." Kopalova said: "I went out to buy things today. When I passed a theater, I saw a poster on the wall. On it, the talk show "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" was being screened. . I thought that you wrote this novel, so I wanted to invite you to watch the play. But I didn’t expect that something like this happened in your family. I’m afraid you won’t be in the mood to watch the play for a long time.”

"Yes, Kopalova, you are right. Before Asya woke up, I had no intention of watching any drama." Sokov said politely: "But I still want to thank you for meeting this person." You can think of me. When Asiya's condition stabilizes, I'll invite you to watch the drama."

Kopalova originally heard that Sokov had been in a bad mood recently and had already given up on inviting her to watch the play. But then I heard the other party say that as long as Asiya wakes up, she will take the initiative to invite her to watch a movie, and she couldn't help but feel happy: "Misha, I have remembered what you said. I hope you won't make any mistakes again."

Why did he say "again"? Sokov thought in confusion: "Did I make any promises to her before, but failed to fulfill them in the end?"