Early the next morning, Sokov was awakened by a hasty knock on the door. When he was about to sit up, he found that Assia's hand was on his neck, making him unable to move. Sokov hurriedly took her hand away gently, then turned over and got off the bed, pulling off the pajamas on the chair next to him and covering him.

   Sokov came to the door, opened the door, saw a lieutenant officer wearing a blue hat standing at the door, and asked politely: "Comrade lieutenant, what can I do for you?"

The officer raised his hand to salute Sokov, and said politely: "Comrade General, Marshal Rokossovsky sent me to inform you. The plane to pick you up and your wife will arrive in forty minutes. Please Prepare in advance and wait in the hall downstairs for the person who will come to pick you up."

   "Okay, Comrade Lieutenant." Sokov politely responded: "We will wait in the lobby downstairs for someone to pick us up in half an hour."

  After the officer turned and left, Sokov closed the door, returned to the bed, patted Assia's face lightly with his hand, and at the same time shouted softly: "Assia, Assia!"

  Hearing Sokov's voice, Assia opened her eyes and asked sleepily, "Misha, what time is it?"

   Sokov looked up at the wall clock on the wall, and replied, "It's almost seven o'clock."

   "Ah, so early?!" Assia said lazily, "I'm a little tired and want to sleep for a while."

"Little lazy pig, I can't sleep anymore." Sokov reached under Assia's shoulders, helped her to sit up, and then said: "Marshal Rokossovsky just sent someone to inform me, Said the plane to pick us up would arrive in forty minutes, let's get ready in advance."

   "What, the plane that picks us up will be here in forty minutes?" After hearing Sokov's words, Assia suddenly woke up: "Then hurry up and wash up, or it will be too late."

  Forty minutes later, Sokov and Asiya, who had washed up, appeared in the lobby on the first floor in neat military uniforms.

  There were quite a few soldiers in the hall. Seeing Sokov's appearance, they all stood up from their seats and raised their hands to salute him.

   After Sokov raised his hand to return the salute, he found a sofa near the door and sat down, quietly waiting for the person who picked him up to appear.

After sitting down, Asiya looked around and asked anxiously: "Misha, Comrade Marshal said that the plane that picked us up will arrive in 40 minutes. Now it's past time, why haven't we seen the person who picked us up?" , may have missed it."

Hearing what Assia said, Sokov smiled slightly and replied, "Assia, don't be impatient. The plane said it would arrive in 40 minutes, but the actual arrival time will be much later. From the airport to here, it takes It takes a lot of time, that is to say, the person who picks us up can arrive within half an hour, which is considered very fast."

   "That's good, that's good." Knowing that the person who picks her up may have to wait for a while, Assia's heart suddenly feels more at ease: "As long as you don't miss the plane."

Sokov couldn't help laughing: "Assia, do you think the plane that came to pick us up is the same as the train we took? They all have timetables, so they leave when the time comes? Since they are here to pick us up, as long as we The plane cannot take off without the two of them getting on the plane."

   "So that's how it is." Although Assia understood that she would not take off casually when they came to pick up the connecting plane for the two of them, she still felt a little uneasy: "But it's not good to let others wait for us."

   At this time, an officer walked up to Sokov, bowed and said, "Comrade General, do you still know me?"

  Sokov carefully looked at the officer in front of him, and felt that his face was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he saw him, so he couldn't help but asked in doubt, "Comrade lieutenant, where did I see you?"

   Seeing that Sokov couldn't remember himself, the officer quickly reminded him: "When you just went to your room yesterday, a waiter and I went to your room."

   Hearing what the officer said, Sokov immediately remembered that when Asiya was doing some pencil throwing experiments yesterday, she scared herself, and the screams attracted an officer and a waiter. He quickly stood up, covered the officer's hand with his hand, and said in a friendly tone: "So it's you, Comrade Lieutenant, we meet again."

  The officer glanced at Asiya, who was sitting next to her, and then asked Sokov in a low voice, "Comrade General, is your wife alright?"

   "It's all right." Sokov felt a little embarrassed when he remembered what happened yesterday, and quickly said, "Thank you for your concern, she's fine."

  Asiya was held in Sokov's arms at the time, and she didn't see the officer and waiter at the door at all, so she didn't know what Sokov and the officer were talking about at the moment.

   "Comrade General." The officer asked politely, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

   "I'm waiting for someone here," Sokov raised his hand and looked at his watch: "He should be here soon. There's nothing else going on here, go get busy."

   But the officer stopped where he was, and said to Sokov: "Comrade General, if you are waiting for the plane, you may have to wait for a while."

Seeing that the officer guessed that he was going to take a plane, Sokov was taken aback for a moment, but then he thought of the officer in the blue hat who came to inform him. Maybe the two of them knew each other, so it was not enough to know that he was about to leave here by plane. No wonder. He nodded and asked, "Why do you have to wait for a while?"

   "I heard that the plane that picked you up went to another place halfway." The officer said, "It's conservatively estimated that it will be delayed by at least two hours."

   "Ah, so late?" Sokov asked in surprise, "Is this news reliable?"

   "Totally reliable, Comrade General." The officer nodded and said in a positive tone: "This is the call from the headquarters."

   Thinking that he would have to wait in the lobby for at least two hours, Sokov turned his head and asked Assia: "Assia, we may have to wait for a while, do you want to have breakfast first?"

   "Where can I have breakfast?" Assia asked.

   "Comrade General, please follow me, and I will take you to the restaurant." The officer smiled and said to Sokov, "Because you are residents here, you can enjoy free breakfast."

  The two of Sokov followed the officer to a nearby restaurant. When they entered the door, a waiter immediately greeted him. The officer said to him, "Prepare two breakfasts for the general and his wife."

  The breakfast served by the waiter is very rich. In addition to the essential black bread, Bollinger cake and oatmeal, there are also eggs, milk, cheese, sausage and so on.

   Seeing the food in front of him, Sokov smiled and said to Assia: "Assia, I haven't eaten such a rich breakfast for a long time."

"Me too." Assia said: "You also know the nature of my work. Even if I fall asleep in the middle of the night, if a wounded person arrives, I have to get up immediately for surgery. As long as I enter the operating room, there will be no seven or eight hours. I can’t get out, so let’s not talk about breakfast, I haven’t even eaten lunch and dinner seriously. Fortunately, now that the war is over, we can eat three meals a day according to the normal schedule.”

   Hearing what Asiya said, Sokov couldn't help thinking. He thought for a while that he would take Assia with him this time to the Far East and let her continue working as a military doctor in the field hospital. But hearing what she said now, maybe she is tired of the previous life and wants to take a good rest for a while. Although if she insisted on letting Asiya follow her to the Far East, even if she didn't say anything, she still had a lump in her heart.

   "Misha." Seeing the black bread that Sokov was holding in his hand, Assia was almost crushed into lumps by him, so she couldn't help asking curiously: "What are you thinking?"

  Assia's voice awakened Sokov from his contemplation. He looked at Assia and tried to squeeze a smile on his face: "No, I didn't think about anything, I was just eating breakfast."

   "Look at the bread in your hand." Assia pointed at the bread in Sokov's hand: "It's almost being made into gnocchi by you."

Sokov looked down and saw that the originally square piece of black bread had been twisted into a dough by himself. He quickly grabbed a part and stuffed it into his mouth, saying prevaricationly: "Assia, you may not know, When I was on the front line, I always squeezed the bread into small pieces so that I could stuff it directly into my mouth, in order to shorten the time for eating so that I could have more energy to direct the battle.”

  Acia didn't believe Sokov's far-fetched explanation at all. However, she did not expose Sokov on the spot, but said in a gentle tone: "Misha, kneading bread into dough and eating it is not good for the stomach. It doesn't matter if you eat it twice once in a while. If you eat it more often, you will probably get sick." Stomach trouble."

   "Don't worry, Asiya, I won't eat like this again in the future."

   After the two had breakfast, they returned to the sofa near the door, quietly waiting for the person who picked them up to arrive.

   After waiting for another hour, Sokov saw two jeeps parked at the door, and said thank God, they finally came. He turned his head and said to Assia, "Assia, there are two jeeps coming outside, it should be the person who picked us up."

   As soon as he finished speaking, three people walked in from the outside. The leader was a major, beside him was a captain, and behind them was a major general. After seeing the Major General's face clearly, both Sokov and Assia couldn't help but turn pale with shock. Sokov even stood up, took two steps forward, and asked in surprise, "Yasha, is that you?"

   "That's right, Misha, it's me." Yakov jumped over the two officers in front, opened his arms and gave Sokov a warm hug.

  Sokov patted the opponent's back with his hand, and asked curiously, "Yasha, where did you come from?"

   "I received a notice last night that you are going to Moscow." Yakov explained to Sokov: "Let me return to Moscow with you after handing over my duties to others."

  Sokov immediately connected the delay of the plane with Yakov's appearance, and asked tentatively: "Yasha, the plane is two hours late, are you going to pick you up in East Prussia?"

"No, Misha." Unexpectedly, Yakov said unexpectedly: "The plane set off at night. It first went to East Prussia to pick up me and another commander. Unexpectedly, halfway, the pilot received a notice to Sending this commander to Marshal Konev caused us to be delayed."

Yakov didn't say who was on the same plane as him, he just replaced it with a commander. Sokov is also a smart person, knowing that the identity of the other party is kept secret, he didn't ask this matter deliberately, but Ask politely, "Then when shall we leave?"

"did you have breakfast?"

"have eaten."

   "But I haven't eaten yet." Yakov said with a bitter face: "But if I go to the restaurant to have breakfast at this moment, I'm afraid it will delay the departure time. I will find something to eat and eat while walking on the road."

  Five minutes later, Sokov and others boarded the jeep and set off.

  There are two jeeps in total, and the major and captain are sitting in the jeep in front. In the car behind, Yakov sat in the co-pilot position, and Sokov and Assia sat in the back row.

On the way, Yakov half turned around and asked Sokov: "Misha, why did you suddenly think of going to Moscow for recuperation? You know, the best health resorts are all in Sochi on the shore of the Black Sea. Vacation there , not only can enjoy the sunshine by the sea every day, but can even go fishing in the sea by boat. In the forests outside Moscow, all we can do is hunt or farm.”

  Sokov said with a smile: "Isn't it still possible to pick mushrooms?"

"Don't you look at what season it is?" Yakov heard Sokov say this, with a contemptuous expression on his face: "For Russia, May is the end of winter and the beginning of spring. People usually have to live in their villas in the suburbs at this time, plant some vegetables by the way, and wait until September to harvest. By the way, if you want to pick mushrooms, you need to wait until after August. At that time, as long as it rained, mushrooms could be seen everywhere in the forest.”

  Sokov thought to himself, if Stalin really allowed himself to stay in a sanatorium in the suburbs until August, it meant that he was not eligible to go to the Far East at all. Thinking of not being able to teach those damned Kwantung Army a lesson in person, Sokov felt a pain in his throat, feeling terribly aggrieved.

   At this moment, there was a faint sound similar to firecrackers nearby, and Sokov couldn't help frowning, wondering who set off firecrackers by the roadside? But the next moment, he realized that something was wrong. Someone was playing cold shots. He saw the jeep in front of him suddenly lost control and took an S shape on the road. Soon, the jeep crashed into a tree on the side of the road, and the captain sitting in the co-pilot position was thrown out by the huge inertia and fell heavily to the ground.

   "Stop, stop quickly!" Sokov called the driver loudly: "Put the car on the side of the road quickly."

As soon as the jeep stopped, Sokov opened the door and got out of the car, and walked quickly towards the jeep that hit the tree. He wanted to find out what caused the car in front to suddenly lose control, resulting in a car accident of.

  Although Asiya didn't know what happened, she saw that someone was injured. As a military doctor, she felt that it was her duty to do so, so she quickly got out of the car and followed Sokov towards the scene of the car accident.

   And Yakov sat in the car for a long time in a daze, only to find that Sokov and the two had already got out of the car. He hurriedly opened the door and got out of the car, quickly chasing Sokov, and at the same time asked loudly: "Misha, what happened, why did the car in front suddenly lose control?"