red moscow

Chapter 2619

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

From a distance, Sokov saw many people busy at the scene of the car accident. He suddenly had a bad premonition and quickly sped up the car.

Bakanidze naturally saw the movement in the distance and couldn't help but said worriedly: "Misha, what happened? Why are there so many people at the scene of the car accident?"

"I don't know, but I feel something is wrong." Sokov said this, but he was muttering in his heart, wondering if it was because he appeared at the scene of car accidents too many times, so the traffic police department specially organized people to clean up the wreckage of the vehicles 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, so as not to cause a series of unnecessary troubles, he still felt a little disappointed when he found that the cars were gone.

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

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

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

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

"I remember there were two wreckages of cars here. Where are they now?"

"Dragged away, Comrade General!"

"Where did you drag it to?"

"Not sure, Comrade General."

"Who is your superior, Lieutenant Sabina?"

The traffic policeman 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. Do you want to see him?"

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

While the traffic police were leaving, Sokov turned around and asked the two people sitting in the back seat: "It seems that we are a step too late. The traffic police have already cleared the scene. I wonder if this will have an adverse impact on your investigation?"

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

"Comrade General," Sokov wanted to say something, but he heard someone calling him from outside the window. He turned around and saw that the traffic policeman was coming with a second lieutenant, who should be the second lieutenant Malenkov mentioned just now. The second 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 would like to ask where the wreckage of the two accident vehicles that were originally parked here is now?"

"It was towed away." After the lieutenant finished speaking, 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 there was a traffic accident here yesterday and the wreckage of the car was placed here, which had an adverse impact on traffic, so I was sent to bring people to clean up the scene. The tow truck that towed away the wreckage of the accident car was sent by the Traffic Corps. I really don't know where they will tow 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 he turned to Bakanidze and asked, "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 any useful clues from the cleaned-up scene. Seeing that Sokov asked for his opinion, Bakanidze could only sigh softly and said, "Misha, let's go back to the family area of ​​the instrument factory."

Sokov was more than happy to do so. He immediately turned the car around and drove towards the family quarters of the instrument factory. He apologized to the two people who helped him and said, "I'm so sorry. I came all the way here to find out the cause of the accident, but I didn't expect the traffic police to 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, to the hospital?"

"No need." But Bakanidze 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."

Sokov thought that if he stayed here, if someone wanted to look for him, they wouldn't be able to find him. "I'd better go home, in case someone wants to look for me and can't find me. I'll come and pick you up tomorrow, and we'll go visit Asia together."

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

"Okay then, see you at the hospital tomorrow."

Sokov said goodbye to Bakanitze and returned home.

Not long after I sat down, the phone rang.

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

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

"Asia's parents, have you noticed anything?" Yakov asked vigilantly.

"Her father thought the accident was a bit suspicious and decided to ask two friends who used to be criminal police to investigate the scene."

"My God, if someone who used to be a criminal police officer were to investigate the accident scene, he would 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 already been removed, and even the accident scene had been cleaned up. The two people who came to help found that they could not find any clues, so they had to let me send them back in disappointment."

"That's good, that's good." Yakov said with a sigh of relief, "I think the people who want to deal with you are very powerful. If your father-in-law gets involved, they might get killed. So we should keep it secret." "Yasha, have you found any clues?"

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

"I can understand that there are conflicts between them and Malenkov." After Yakov finished speaking, Sokov immediately expressed his opinion: "But Zhukov is a hero who once saved Leningrad. In October 1940, if Zhukov had not been sent to Leningrad by your father to replace Marshal Voroshilov as the commander of the Leningrad Front, and readjusted the strategy for fighting the German army and stubbornly blocked the enemy, I am afraid the city would have fallen into the hands of the Germans long ago."

Unexpectedly, Yakov sneered after hearing this: "Misha, you are so naive. Yes, it was Zhukov who saved Leningrad, but in the eyes of those Leningrad leaders, he was just a passing visitor. In addition, now that the war is over, everything Zhukov did in the past has probably been completely forgotten by them. Moreover, now they are fighting for..."

What are they fighting for? Yakov stopped talking before he finished. Seeing that the other party only said half of the sentence, Sokov was anxious: "Yasha, why did you only say half of the sentence? What are they fighting for?"

"Misha, there are some things you'd better not know, or you'll get into trouble." Yakov didn't continue the topic, but changed it to another one: "Asia is still in a coma, you have to spend more time with her. When she wakes up and finds out that her child is gone, I don't know how sad she will be. You have to keep a close eye on her, so that she doesn't do anything extreme because of sadness."

"Don't worry, Yasha, I will take good care of Asia." After saying this, Sokov suddenly remembered something: "Yasha, you said that group of people is very powerful, so will they monitor our phone calls? If so, we will have no secrets in their eyes, and everything we do now will become ridiculous."

Yakov was shocked after hearing this. If what Sokov said was true, and those people were monitoring him in secret, then everything he and Sokov had done during this period would be seen by them, and what he was trying to cover up would become ridiculous.

He calmed himself down and said to Sokov, "Misha, I think no matter how powerful the enemy is, it may not be easy for them to monitor us. After all, this is Moscow, not Leningrad. They can't reach that far."

"I hope so." Sokov yawned and said, "Yasha, is there anything else? If not, I'll hang up. I've been running around all day and I'm exhausted. I need to take a good nap and recover my strength as soon as possible."

"Then you should rest early. I will inform you as soon as I have any clues."

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

"What's the matter?" Sokov asked weakly.

"Your play is coming out. When are you going to go see it?"

"Drama, what drama?"

"It's a play adapted from the novel 'The Dawns Here Are Quiet.'" Yakov said, "It's said that after the play was released, it was very popular and tickets were hard to come by. If you want to watch it, I can buy the tickets first and we can go watch it together another day."

"No, I don't know when Asiya will wake up." But Sokov politely rejected the other party's kindness: "Before she wakes up, I don't have the heart to watch a play, even if the play is adapted from my novel."

After Sokov hung up the phone, he walked to the cabinet by the wall, opened it, and took out his manuscript. The book "An Ordinary Soldier" was only 10,000 words away from completion, but after the incident with Asia, Sokov suddenly lost the mood to write. But seeing that the book was only 10,000 words away from completion, Sokov was unwilling to not finish it. For a while, 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 microphone and put it to his ear, and asked unhappily, "Yasha, do you have anything else to say?"

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

"Yes, I'm Misha." Sokov felt that the voice was very familiar, but it was definitely not Adelina or Kalina, so he asked tentatively: "Who are you?"

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

"It's you, Kopalova, happy new year!"

"I wish you a happy new year, too!" Kopalova asked cheerfully, "Misha, what are you busy with during the new year?"

"Busy. What do you want?"

"I'm fine, can't I call you?" Kopalova retorted, "Is it because you're with Asia that you're so scared that you don't even have the courage to answer my call?"

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

"Not at home, is she at her parents' house?"

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

Kopalova was shocked when she heard this, and then she apologized: "Misha, I'm sorry, I didn't know such a thing happened in your family. I'm so sorry, I really didn't mean it, please forgive my recklessness."

"It's okay." Sokov knew very well that if there was nothing important, Kopalova would not take the initiative to call him at home, so he asked tentatively: "What do you want to talk to me about?"

"Misha, this is what happened," Kopalova said. "I went out to buy something today. When I passed by a theater, I saw a poster on the wall saying that the play "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" was being shown. I remembered that you wrote the novel, so I wanted to invite you to watch the play. But I didn't expect that something like this would happen in your family. I'm afraid you won't be in the mood to watch a play for a long time."

"Yes, Kopalova, you are right. Before Asia woke up, I had no mood to watch any drama." Sokov said politely: "But I still want to thank you for thinking of me when you encounter such a thing. When Asia's condition stabilizes, I will invite you to watch the drama."

Kopalova had heard that Sokov was in a bad mood recently and was about to give up the idea of ​​inviting him to watch a play. But then she heard him say that as long as Asia woke up, he would take the initiative to invite her to watch a movie. She couldn't help but feel happy: "Misha, I have remembered what you said. I hope you won't say it again."

Why did he say "again"? Sokov thought in confusion: "Did I make a promise to her before, but didn't fulfill it in the end?"