red moscow

Chapter 2301

"Misha," after Yakov finished the call, he saw Sokov still staring at him in a daze, so he came over and called him: "What are you thinking about?"

Yakov's voice woke Sokov up from his contemplation. For a while, he didn't know how to answer the other party's question.Fortunately, he quickly returned to normal, pretending to be nonchalant and asked, "Yasha, are you done calling?"

"Yes, the call is over." Yakov gestured to Sokov, "Let's go for a walk outside."

The three of them quickly walked out of the small building and headed towards the small building where the restaurant was located.Sokov walked in the center, Asiya was on his right, holding his arm with both hands; while Yakov walked on Sokov's left with his hands behind his back.

"Yasha," Sokov said, "If your brother wants to come here to visit you, can your superiors agree?"

"No problem." Yakov answered readily, "If the superiors are worried about leaking secrets, Vasily can live here after he comes. Anyway, in such a big nursing home, why are you worried about finding a place for him to live? "

"He said he wanted to go fishing, but unfortunately there is no fish pond in the nursing home." Sokov said with a smile: "Otherwise he would be able to find something to do every day."

"If you want to fish, there's a pond right outside the sanatorium."

Hearing what Yakov said, Sokov couldn't help asking curiously: "Yasha, how do you know there is a pond outside the nursing home?"

"When I was wandering in the yard yesterday, I saw a pile of red bricks piled on the wall behind. They should be left over from the renovation of the sanatorium, so I stepped on the pile of bricks and looked outside the wall." Yakov said: " There is a large pond at the back, and there are many wild ducks in it. In the front is the mother wild duck, followed by a group of her babies, swimming around on the water."

"Yasha, is what you said true?" Assia asked unexpectedly.

"Of course it's true," Yakov nodded and said, "I saw it with my own eyes."

Asiya was full of curiosity about cute little animals like wild ducks, so she asked: "Yasha, where is the corner of the wall piled with bricks, show us there." After saying this, Asiya asked again He specifically said to Sokov, "Misha, come and watch with me."

Sokov nodded and asked Yakov, "Yasha, where is the place where the bricks are piled up? Anyway, it's not time for dinner yet, so take us there first."

Seeing that both Sokov and his wife wanted to see the scene outside the wall, Yakov nodded and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to have a look."

Under the leadership of Yakov, the three of them soon came to the location where the bricks were piled up.Sokov saw that the location where the bricks were piled up took up two-thirds of the wall, so it was very convenient to stand on it and watch the scenery outside.He walked over quickly to see where it was safer and quicker to go up, and when Asiya came over, he helped her up the pile of bricks.

Standing on the pile of bricks and looking outside, sure enough, there is a large pond 40 meters away, surrounded by low trees or bushes. I don't know whether the pond is connected to a river or has underground water. The water looks crystal clear.When the call of wild ducks came, a group of ducklings followed a mother duck, emerged from the bushes, and started swimming happily on the water.

"Misha, look quickly, wild ducks, there are really wild ducks." Seeing the wild ducks swimming on the surface of the pond, Assia exclaimed excitedly: "It's so cute."

Sokov laughed, and then said: "It's a pity that we can't leave the sanatorium, otherwise we can stand by the pond and watch the wild ducks swimming."

"Yeah," after hearing what Sokov said, Asiya had a frustrated expression on her face: "We still don't know when we can leave this nursing home."

"Yasha," Sokov remembered something and asked Yakov curiously: "Will any hunters come here to hunt?"

"Maybe, but not too many." Yakov said to Sokov, "Didn't you see the warning signs on the side of the road before the car we took drove into the forest?"

"Warning sign?" Sokov's first thought was a warning sign about traffic safety, but he quickly denied his guess. In today's era, how many people can own a private car?If it is in the city, there are some warning signs about traffic safety, which makes sense.But this is the outskirts of Moscow. Except for two small towns for dozens of miles, there are no people at all. Putting a few traffic safety warning signs here, what effect can it have?With such doubts, he tentatively asked: "What warning sign?"

"Animal warning signs!" Seeing that Sokov knew nothing about the matter, Yakov said with some surprise: "The warning signs have foxes, rabbits and deers painted on them, which indicates that in this forest area, there may be These three animals will appear. Even if hunters want to hunt, they will hunt foxes, rabbits and deer. No one comes here specifically to hunt wild ducks. At most, during the season when wild ducks lay eggs, they come here to pick up a few wild duck eggs. "

When hearing Sokov's question, Asiya looked at Yakov nervously, fearing that the other party would tell him that the hunter wanted to hunt the wild ducks in the pond.I felt relieved when I learned that hunters would go to the bushes near the pond to pick up a few duck eggs during the duck egg-laying season.

Sokov saw fish jumping out of the water from time to time as the wild ducks swam. He smiled and said to Yakov: "Yasha, if your brother Vasily wants to come here, you can take him here." Fishing in the pond, I’m sure he will come back with a full harvest.”

Unexpectedly, after Yakov heard this, he waved his hands and said, "Forget it, it's best not to let him go fishing, otherwise there will be another catastrophe."

Sokov knew that Vasily was injured while fishing, but Asya knew nothing about it. She asked with some surprise: "Yasha, what kind of trouble can Vasily cause if he comes here to fish?" , are you a little nervous?"

"Asia, you may not know that Vasily was seriously injured and almost lost his life while fishing two years ago." Yakov shook his head and said, "So as soon as I heard him talk about fishing, I My scalp is numb, and I am deeply afraid that something will happen to him again."

"What dangers can there be in fishing?" Asiya asked in confusion: "Could it be that they were bombed by the Germans when they were fishing, and they were unfortunately injured?" She also said smartly, "Now that the war is over, no matter what Wherever you go fishing, you no longer have to worry about being bombed by German planes.”

"No, Assia, you made a mistake." But after hearing this, Yakov smiled bitterly and said, "Vassily was injured not because of the bombing by the German planes, but because they themselves injured themselves, even It also caused the commander of the Air Force Group Army to be dismissed from his post."

"Yasha, what is going on?" Asiya asked curiously, "Can you tell us?"

Yakov nodded, and told the story that Sokov knew.After hearing this, Asya couldn't help but turn pale with shock: "My God, one person died and six people were injured. The price of this fish frying is too high. Yasha, you are right, we can't easily let Vasily come here Fishing, maybe he'll throw a grenade into the pond and blow up the fish."

The three of them were standing on the pile of bricks chatting when they suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "Hey, two comrade generals, what are you doing standing on the pile of bricks?"

Sokov looked back and saw that it was Major Bezikov, and explained to him with a smile: "We found a pond outside the wall, so we came up to have a look."

"It's time for lunch, General Sokov." Bezikov said, "Be careful when you come down, don't fall."

After the three people came down from the pile of bricks, Bezikov continued: "This pile of bricks is too dangerous. Don't go up there casually. Otherwise, if something happens, I can't bear the responsibility."

From the tone of Bezikov's words, Sokov heard that the other party was extremely dissatisfied with the three of them standing on the pile of bricks without permission to look at the scenery outside, so he laughed and said: "Remember, Comrade Major, that's all. Once, never again."

"There are a lot of wild ducks in the pond." Bezikov said, "Gurchenko and the others will go to the bushes outside to pick up some wild duck eggs during the season when the ducks are laying eggs."

"I don't know what month is the season for wild ducks to lay eggs?" Assia asked, "If there is a chance, I would also like to pick up some wild duck eggs."

"Wild ducks lay eggs in two seasons a year." Bezikov explained to Asya: "The first season is from March to May, and the second season is from October to November. Each clutch has ten eggs. They are hatched by female ducks in 27 or 8 days. It's a pity that you came late. If you had come half a month earlier, you could have eaten fresh wild duck eggs."

"Misha," Asia said to Sokov with some disappointment after hearing this: "It seems that we can only wait until October to go to the pond to collect wild duck eggs."

Sokov didn't think he would have the opportunity to pick wild duck eggs here in October.He was thinking in his heart that after defeating the Kwantung Army, he should be able to find wild duck eggs in the forests of the Daxinganling area, but he didn't know how the salted duck eggs tasted.

A soldier passed not far away and was stopped by Bezikov.Sokov saw Bezikov pulling the soldier aside, muttering something in a low voice, and pointing to the brick pile from time to time.Sukov suddenly had an ominous feeling in his heart. Could it be that Bezikov was going to have those bricks cleaned up in order to prevent himself from waiting for others to jump out of the wall?
Before the three of them entered the restaurant, Bezikov caught up from behind and said to Yakov with a smile: "General Yakov, today's lunch has specially prepared Georgian red wine for you. I think you must have a long time." No more wine from my hometown.”

When it comes to red wine, the first thing that comes to mind is French wine, but in fact, Ukraine and Georgia are the countries that produce high-quality red wine.The whole world is drinking French wine, while the French are drinking Georgian wine.Sokov remembers very clearly that when he was a guest at a Russian friend's house in later generations, he saw that the red wine on the table was from Georgia.

He had been to Georgia once and saw the statue of Nino, the mother of Georgia, standing on the top of the mountain.The sculpture holds a wine glass high in its left hand and a long sword in its right hand, vividly interpreting the famous saying: "When a friend comes, he is greeted with wine; when an enemy comes, he is greeted with a sword."

When Yakov heard that there was Georgian red wine at today’s lunch, his face turned red with excitement. He held Bezikov’s hand and said gratefully: “Comrade Major, thank you so much for giving me this gift.” I got this precious wine."

"Comrade General," Bezikov said respectfully: "Due to the war, Georgia's wine production stopped for two years, so what we find now are wines produced in the past few years. I don't know how they taste. I hope you don't mind."

"I don't mind, I don't mind." Yakov said, "Although the wine has been stored for more than five years, it will affect the taste, but you can help me get the wine stored a few years ago, I am very grateful Endless."

Yakov approached Sokov and asked in a low voice: "Misha, isn't the longer the wine is stored, the better? Why does Yakov say that the taste of wine will deteriorate after five years?"

In fact, Sokov's knowledge about wine is also half-knowledgeable, but since Assia asked, he could only pretend to be knowledgeable and said: "The longer the wine is, the better, because every bottle of wine has Its storage period. If it exceeds the best drinking period and enters the aging period, the taste of the wine will not be so good, so the usual wine is suitable for drinking within five years."

"But I heard that some wines have been stored for more than 100 years." Asiya was afraid that Sokov would not believe what she said, so she gave an example: "For example, the winery located on the outskirts of Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula Massandra Winery still has a collection of wine produced in 1775.”

Sokov did not expect that Assia knew about the Massandra winery, but then he thought about it, as a Russian, it is normal to know this winery, after all, this is a winery that specially provides royal wine to the tsar.He said ambiguously: "Assia, the wines that have been preserved for more than 100 years must be stored in oak barrels, and there should be other ways of preservation that we don't know. Otherwise, more than 100 years have passed, and these wines provided to the Tsar The Royal Wine has long been undrinkable."

"Misha, Asiya." While Sokov and Asiya were still studying wine, Yakov, who was walking in front with Bezikov, unexpectedly found that the two did not follow him, so he stopped. He asked them: "Why are you still standing at the door? Why don't you come over quickly? Let's go and taste the wine that Major Bezikov found for us."

"Okay, okay, here we are." Sokov held Asiya's hand and walked quickly towards the restaurant. He also wanted to taste the taste of Georgian red wine of this era and the red wine of later generations. the difference.

(End of this chapter)