"To the Far East?" Hearing what Sokov said, a trace of confusion flashed in Lukin's eyes. But he quickly shook his head and said, "General Sokov, what do you think a disabled person like me can do in the Far East?"

"Comrade Lukin, although you are disabled now, no one can deny that you are an excellent commander." Sokov said to Lukin sincerely: "If Yakov and I are transferred to the Far East, We will definitely let the two of us command an army group. If we can get the help of an experienced commander like you, I think that in the next battle, we can not only fight the enemy better, but also learn a lot of useful things. military common sense."

  Sokov's words moved Lu Jin somewhat, but he said with great concern: "I won't affect your image, will I?"

"Comrade Lukin, although you have lost your legs, you can command from a wheelchair." Sukov said, "A commander who can command operations, even if he is disabled, will not be bullied by others." Laughing. By the way, I remember an excellent pilot who lost his legs in an air battle, but after he installed artificial legs, he performed combat missions like a normal pilot, and even shot down many German fighter planes."

   "Is this true?" Lu Jin had an unbelievable expression on his face: "A pilot without legs can return to the blue sky to perform flying missions, and even shoot down enemy planes?"

"Of course it's true." Although Sokov couldn't remember the pilot's name, the pilot's deeds were real and recorded in the annals of history, so he said with affirmative tone: "I'm still following these news. Saw it in Pravda."

Hearing Sokov mention "Pravda", Lukin stopped talking. Since he was rescued and returned, he has read "Pravda" every day. He still agrees with the above content, presumably the pilot's The experience is also real and reliable.

  Sokov pushed Lukin's wheelchair to the corner and saw a group of soldiers busy here.

   Lukin suddenly pointed to the group of soldiers in front, and said loudly: "Sokov, look, is that Major Bezikov?"

  Looking in the direction of Lukin's finger, Sokov saw Bezikov as expected. Bezikov was not wearing a military uniform, but a white jumper with both cuffs rolled up, revealing half of his thick arms. He was hoeing the ground with a **** at the moment.

  Sokov hurriedly pushed Lukin's wheelchair over and at the same time shouted at Bezikov: "Comrade Major, what are you doing?"

  Bezikov, who was digging the ground, heard Sokov's shout, stopped his work, and turned his head to look in the direction of the sound. After seeing clearly that it was Sokov and Lukin, he walked over with a **** and said with a smile: "Comrade generals, why are you here? I'm taking soldiers here to plant potatoes. In September, we have fresh potatoes to eat."

   "Oh, you are growing potatoes." Although Sokov often eats potatoes, he has never seen how potatoes are grown. Since the soldiers were planting potatoes at the moment, he naturally wanted to go forward and learn more: "Major Bezikov, I have never seen potatoes growing before, can you introduce them to me?"

"Of course." After Bezikov handed over the **** in his hand to a soldier, he began to introduce to Sokov how to plant potatoes: "First of all, it is to choose the right potato seeds. The selection of potatoes is particular. Potatoes with no pests and diseases, smooth appearance, many bud eyes and shallow bud eyes are selected as seeds.

  Seed selection is the first step, followed by germination. Put the selected potato seeds about ten days in advance in an environment of 15-20 degrees to germinate, and wait for the sprouts to grow to about 0.5 cm before planting.

  The third step is to cut into pieces. Cut the potatoes into cubes, about 30 grams each, and make sure each piece has at least one 0.5cm sprout. Cutting needs to be carried out when planting.

  Then is land preparation, choose a suitable location to loosen the soil. The selected soil clods are deeply plowed according to the ridge, and then the large soil clods are leveled and smashed with a rake.

  The last thing is to put the cut potatoes into the intact potatoes according to the distance between the plants of 20 cm, cover with soil, and then fertilize and water. In this way, the planting of potatoes is completed, and the rest is to wait for the harvest directly in September. "

After hearing what Bezikov said, Sokov turned to Lukin and said with a smile: "Comrade Lukin, I really didn't expect that growing potatoes would be so troublesome. Originally, I wanted to find an open space to grow potatoes. I heard that Major Bezikov Having said that, I immediately retreated."

   "Sokov," Lu Jin said with a smile after hearing this, "You are good at commanding operations, not farming. Don't put the cart before the horse."

   "Misha, Misha!" At this moment, Assia's voice came from a distance: "Where are you?"

  From the location of the farm to the small building where Sokov and Lukin lived, it was actually only fifty or sixty meters away, but the dense trees blocked the view, and it was understandable that Assia could not see this place. Sokov hurriedly yelled at Assia's position: "Assia, Comrade Lukin and I are here, near the wall."

  Asiya heard Sokov's shout, looked around, determined where he and Lukin were, and then ran quickly along the path.

  She came to the vegetable field and saw Bezikov who was instructing the soldiers to grow vegetables, so she greeted him: "Comrade major, you are growing vegetables."

"Yes, Comrade Asya." Bezikov said with a smile: "This is the task assigned to us by Comrade Gurchenko. You know, due to the war, the sanatorium with more than forty staff , now there are only six or seven people left. With such a small number of people, they will definitely not be able to complete the vegetable planting work. So Comrade Gurchenke came to me and said that the soldiers in your security forces are all free anyway, so why not help us Planting vegetables. In this way, I brought the soldiers here to start planting vegetables.”

  Sokov knew that Assia came to look for him, and it was definitely not to see the vegetables, so he asked her, "Assia, what do you want from me?"

"It's like this. Yasha was on the phone in Gurchenko's office. Halfway through the call, I happened to pass by the door, and he stopped me." Asiya explained to Sokov: "He said His family wants to talk to you, let me come and call you."

Knowing that someone from Yakov's family wanted to talk to him, although Sokov knew that this person was definitely not Stalin, Yakov asked Asiya to ask him to answer the phone, and the other party was also very important to Yakov people. He hastily handed the wheelchair to the male nurse, apologized to Lu Jin, and followed Asia towards the small building.

  When he came to Gurchenko's office, Sokov saw Yakov holding the microphone, chatting happily with the person on the other end of the phone. Seeing Yakov coming in, he quickly waved to him, and then said into the microphone: "Misha is here, I'll let him talk to you."

  Sokov took the microphone in Yakov's hand, and asked with some confidence: "Yasha, who is it?"

   "Vassily," Yakov said excitedly, "is my brother Vasily."

   "Hello, Vasily." Sokov said into the microphone: "I'm Sokov, nice to meet you."

"Misha, you are too polite." Unexpectedly, a friendly voice came out of the microphone: "Actually, we have known each other for more than ten years, but the relationship between you and my brother has always ignored me, so you don't know me well. That's normal too."

   "Vassily, where are you now?" Sokov didn't know where Yakov was talking to, so he asked tentatively, "Are you staying in Berlin, or have you returned to Moscow?"

"Of course it is in Moscow." Vasily said with a smile: "Now that the Germans have surrendered, my aviation division will not have any combat missions for the time being, so I will take this opportunity to return to Moscow to visit relatives, to see my father and sister. I even wondered if I would be lucky enough to meet my dearest brother, and when I was looking for someone to inquire about his whereabouts, he called first."

  In the materials of later generations, when Sokov saw the introduction of Vasily, he mentioned that he was brave in combat, well commanded, and outstanding in battle. Even after the war, he was appointed commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. But in 1952, because of a flight accident in the army, Stalin dismissed all his posts.

After Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, he was arrested and imprisoned twice. He was accused of "failing to grasp military training, beating people and drinking alcohol, abusing power, and corruption" during his tenure. Motherland, attempted coup". Vasily, who was physically and mentally devastated, finally died on March 19, 1962 in his residence in Kazan, the place of exile, because of grief and illness.

   But at this moment, Sukov heard Vasily's tone of voice, and he didn't seem to be drinking heavily, and the whole person was in a state of sobriety. After chatting for a while, Vasily said to Sokov: "Misha, my brother invited me to visit your sanatorium, and I'm considering whether to go or not."

   "Since it was your brother who sent the invitation, you must come over." Sokov said with a smile: "We haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and I don't know if I can recognize you when we meet."

   "Is there a river near your nursing home?" Vasily asked, "If there is, I will go there. I haven't fished for a long time."

  Hearing Vasily talking about fishing, Sokov remembered an incident about Vasily being injured by frying fish.

  It was 1943, and Vasily was serving in the 32nd Guards Aviation Regiment. Once he and eight other officers went to have a picnic by the lake in Ostashkovo. On the way, an officer said that he wanted to eat fish, so Vasily asked the engineers in the regiment, what kind of explosive device could be used to blow up the fish in the lake?

Unexpectedly, the engineer, who was a little drunk, said carelessly: "What kind of grenade is used, directly the rockets hung on the plane. Throw it into the water and explode it, and the fish that float up can fill the trunk of the car." After finishing speaking, the engineer moved a box of rockets from the trunk of the car, picked up one and threw it into the water. Although the thrown rocket splashed Lao Gao's water, it did not explode.

   Seeing this, the engineer picked up another bazooka and threw it into the water, but it still didn't explode. Amid the ridicule of the crowd, the engineer said to everyone: "It must be a fuze problem. After I adjust the fuse and throw it into the lake, all the fish will be blown out."

  The third rocket was adjusted by the engineer and thrown into the water again, but unfortunately, it still did not explode. Seeing this, Vasily stepped forward to persuade the engineer not to try again, but the engineer refused to listen and picked up the fourth rocket. Seeing that the other party did not listen to his persuasion, Vasily shook his head and walked away, ready to fetch a bottle of good wine to drink with the other party.

   Unexpectedly, just a few steps away, the rocket bomb that was adjusting the fuze suddenly exploded. The engineer was blown to pieces on the spot, and six officers, including Vasily, were also injured to varying degrees, lying on the ground wailing.

  When the news of Vasily's injury reached the ears of Gromov, commander of the Air Force Group Army, he said that someone had an accident while frying fish, one person was killed, and six officers, including Vasily, were injured. Hearing the bad news, Gromov almost fainted. He knew very well that if something happened to Vasily, his official career would come to an end. So he hurried to the field hospital by plane, and after seeing that Vasily was still alive, he ordered the hospital to cure Vasily at all costs, otherwise all the medical staff would be sent to military courts.

   After Vasily's injury stabilized, he sent a plane to send Vasily to Moscow for treatment. Although Gromov did everything he could, he was dismissed by his superiors for some reason shortly after.

Sokov worried that if Vasily went to the river near the sanatorium, he might fry fish again. If something went wrong this time, everyone might get into unnecessary trouble, so he said tactfully: "Vassily, you may I don’t know, your brother and I have been confined in the sanatorium since we came to this nursing home, and we couldn’t even go out the gate, so how could we know if there is a river nearby where we can fish?”

   "Oh, if there is no place to fish, then it's boring." Vasily said: "I don't think I will go there. It's better to wait until you have a chance to go back to the city, and it won't be too late for us to find a chance to meet again."

   After chatting with Vasily for a few more words, Sokov handed the microphone back to Yakov, while he and Assia sat aside. Seeing Sokov staring at Yakov, Asiya thought he was waiting for Yakov to finish his call, so she didn't speak, but sat quietly by the side and waited.

   Sokov's eyes were fixed on Yakov, but he was thinking about Vasily's fate. Ye Shili said that his death was not a normal death, it seemed that he was assassinated by someone, and the person who gave the order was undoubtedly Khrushchev who had the most power at that time. The reason why Vasily could not be tolerated in the eyes of the other party was entirely because his son surrendered to the Germans in the later period of the Stalingrad Defense War, and was captured and executed by Stalin. If Khrushchev wanted to avenge the killing of his son, he could only attack Stalin's only son Vasily.

  Now, due to his own appearance, Yakov is lucky to live to the day of victory. If in the future, when Khrushchev wanted to take revenge, Yakov, who escaped from death without knowing it, would also be implicated? If such a thing really happened, how should I rescue Yakov? Thinking of these questions, Sokov felt an unusual headache.