red moscow

Chapter 2614

Standing in the front was the hospital director. After hearing Sokov's question, he quickly took off the mask on his face and said respectfully: "Comrade General, after the experts' careful rescue, your wife is no longer in danger of life." After that, he turned his body to the side and gestured to the back.

The medical staff following behind the dean also quickly moved to the side to make way for the people behind them.

Sokov saw the stretcher that Asia was lying on being pushed out by two nurses, and there was another nurse holding an IV bottle in her hand. He quickly went forward to check on Asia, but saw that her eyes were closed and her face was pale. He called out several times, but there was no movement.

"Comrade Dean," Malenkov, who was standing behind Sokov, asked, "Why haven't you woken up yet?"

"Comrade Malenkov." Facing the questioner, the dean expressed enough respect: "We have tried our best. This female comrade was seriously injured. Although she was pulled back from the brink of death, it will take some time for her to wake up."

When the nurse pushed the stretcher towards the ward, Zhukov and Rokossovsky did not follow. Instead, they said hello to Sokov and left with their people.

Malenkov and the dean followed the flatbed cart to the ward. After watching the nurses transfer Asia from the cart to the bed, he spoke: "Comrade dean, General Sokov has a lot of things to do. I'm afraid he can't stay in the hospital with his wife all day. Can you arrange some special care for her?"

"No problem." The dean replied readily, "I will arrange four nurses to look after the general's wife 24 hours a day."

"Comrade Dean, your arrangement is very reasonable." Malenkov nodded and said, "Let's do it."

"Comrade Dean," Sokov asked the Dean tentatively, "I wonder how the cost of four special nurses is calculated?"

As soon as Sokov finished speaking, he saw Malenkov and the dean staring at him in shock. He couldn't help but ask with a guilty conscience: "Did I say something wrong?"

"Comrade General," the dean spoke first, "don't you know that our medical care is free and all expenses during hospitalization are free?"

The dean's words reminded Sokov that Russia does have free medical care. Doctors and hospitalizations are basically free, but their hospitals and pharmacies belong to two different systems. Doctors are free, but medicines are expensive. Just like seeing a doctor and being hospitalized in China, some expenses can be reimbursed by medical insurance, while others can only be paid out of pocket. If we must make a comparison, the part that can be reimbursed in China is free, while the part that is paid out of pocket is where they need to spend money.

Sokov scratched the back of his head and said a little embarrassedly, "I thought the hospital would charge extra for arranging special care for patients."

Malenkov raised his hand to check the time, then said to Sokov: "Misha, it's getting late, I need to go back to rest. If you need my help with anything, remember to call me." After that, he stuffed a small piece of paper with a phone number on it into Sokov's hand.

Zhukov, Rokossovsky and Malenkov all left one after another, and finally only Yakov and the traffic police lieutenant Sabina stayed with Sokov. Sokov thought that it was his wife who was in the hospital after the car accident, and it was obviously inappropriate for them to stay with him in the hospital, so he politely said to the two: "It's getting late, you should go back and rest early. Thank you for what you did today."

"Misha, what are you talking about?" Yakov said unhappily. "You and Asiya are both my friends. Now that Asiya is in trouble, how can I, as a friend, not stay with you?"

Sabina said respectfully, "Comrade General, it is my honor to serve you. I will go back first. If you have anything, please call me."

After seeing Sabina off, Sokov and Yakov sat on the bench in the corridor outside the ward and smoked.

Although medical staff passed by from time to time, when they saw that the two generals were smoking, no one came over to stop them from smoking.

"Misha," Yakov asked cautiously, "Ashiya is out of danger. Can you take some time to contact her parents and tell them about this?"

"Let's talk about it after daybreak." Sokov said, "If I call in the middle of the night, I guess the person who answers the phone won't want to pass on the message." As he said this, Sokov couldn't help but miss the convenient communications in later generations, where people could get in touch with each other directly with just one phone call, no matter how far apart they were.

"Well, let's talk about it after daybreak." Yakov paused for a moment, and then put forward his own opinion: "Misha, I always feel that this car accident is not as simple as Lieutenant Sabina said."

In fact, Sokov was also suspicious in his heart that this car accident was not accidental, but more like a deliberate one. It was just that he was worried about Asiya's safety just now and had no time to think about it. Now that he calmed down and thought about it again, he felt that there were many suspicious points in this car accident.

Thinking of this, Sokov looked around and saw that he and Yakov were the only ones in the corridor, so he lowered his voice and said, "Yasha, I want to ask you to do me a favor."

Yakov and Sokov have known each other for many years, so he could naturally guess Sokov's thoughts. He quickly said, "Misha, don't worry. I'll drive to the scene when it's daybreak to see if I can find any clues."

But Sokov shook his head and said, "Yasha, I'm not asking you to help me find clues, but I want to go to the scene with you."

"You're going with me to the scene?" Yakov asked in surprise, "Then who will take care of Asiya?"

"It's okay. There are two special nurses in the room taking care of Asia. Even if I'm not here, it won't have any impact." Sokov was eager to know the truth of the matter, so he said to Yakov: "Yasha, you must help me, otherwise I will feel uneasy."

"Okay then." Yakov nodded. "We'll set off at daybreak. I also know where the accident happened, so we can just go there later."

After waiting until daybreak, Sokov went into the ward to check on Asiya. Seeing that she was still in a coma, he said hello to the two nurses who were taking care of her: "Comrade nurse, I have something else to deal with. I'll trouble you to take care of me here."

"Comrade General, please go ahead and do your work." An older nurse said, "We will take good care of your wife."

After thanking the two, Sokov walked out of the ward and patted Yakov, who was taking a nap on the bench: "Yasha, let's go."

Yakov rubbed his eyes, stood up, looked towards the ward, and asked in a low voice: "How is Asiya?"

Sokov shook his head and said solemnly, "He hasn't woken up yet."

The two men left the hospital building and got into a car parked in the parking lot.

On the way to the accident site, Sokov asked a question that concerned him again: "How did Comrade Malenkov know that Asia had a car accident and rushed to the hospital in time?" "At first, I also thought that it was Marshal Zhukov who informed him, but then I listened carefully to their conversation and found out that Marshal Zhukov didn't know that Comrade Malenkov was coming." Yakov said cautiously: "I think he may have arranged an eyeliner near you, so that he can know about your situation at the first time."

"Is there another possibility?" Sokov felt that he was quite alert. Every time he went out, he would pay attention to the movements around him. He didn't notice anyone following him at all. He was inclined to another possibility: "In fact, my whereabouts were reported to Comrade Malenkov by the security force in charge of my compound through some special channel?"

Yakov thought about it, then nodded and said, "Well, your analysis makes sense. This possibility exists."

After driving for more than ten minutes, the car arrived at the scene of yesterday's car accident.

As it is the New Year period, most organizations are on holiday, so the two cars that crashed yesterday remained at the scene of the accident and were not towed away by tow trucks.

In order to find out what happened, Sokov asked Yakov to park the car fifty or sixty meters away from the accident scene, then get out of the car and walk over, carefully checking the traces left on the ground to see if there were any useful clues.

After some observation, Sokov found that the truck that caused the accident rushed directly from the right lane towards the oncoming jeep, and there was no trace of braking on the ground. The damage to the two cars, the driver's side of the jeep had been completely smashed into parts, and there were also a lot of blood and suspected human tissue. Although Sokov did not see the driver's body after entering the hospital, from the current situation, it is estimated that the driver was dead.

The truck involved in the accident had no significant damage except for a dent on the left front of the vehicle. And judging from the lack of brake marks on the ground, Sokov was certain that the accident was not caused by a drunk driver who lost control of the vehicle, but rather a murder.

"Yasha, what do you think of the scene?" Sokov had his own judgment in his mind, but did not say it out loud. Instead, he asked Yakov.

Yakov first looked at the tracks left by the truck on the ground, then looked at the two cars that collided, and said slowly: "Misha, if you want to know my thoughts, I can tell you truthfully that this was a man-made car accident, and it was not an accident caused by the driver losing control of the vehicle because he was drunk, as Lieutenant Sabina told us."

Sokov knew that if he wanted to find out the truth of the matter, it was far from enough to just check the traces left at the scene. It would be better to ask the driver to see if he could get useful information from him. Thinking of this, Sokov said to Yakov, "Yasha, get in the car. Let's go to the traffic police duty point to find Lieutenant Sabina and ask him to take us to see the driver who caused the accident. I have a lot to ask the driver."

After the two got in the car, Yakov turned the car around and headed towards the traffic police station.

A few minutes later, the car stopped at the door of the traffic police station.

A traffic policeman standing on duty on the roadside saw a car parked at the entrance of the traffic police station. When he came over and was about to ask a few questions, he saw Yakov rolling down the window.

The traffic policeman was startled and stood at attention immediately, raising his hand to salute: "Hello, Comrade General, how can I help you?"

"Is Lieutenant Sabina here?"

"Yes, yes." The traffic police nodded and said, "He is the officer on duty during the New Year period and has been here the whole time."

"Tell him to come out and see me. I have something important to see him about."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the traffic policeman showed an embarrassment on his face: "Comrade General, please forgive me, there is a problem at the traffic police station, and Comrade Lieutenant is handling it."

"Comrade General," Sokov bent down and said to the traffic police outside, "Please call him out. I have something to ask."

When the traffic police saw Yakov's rank of major general, he was extremely nervous. Now seeing a general talking to him, he became even more flustered and stammered, "Comrade General, I, I just said, I said, there was a problem at the traffic police station, the lieutenant, the lieutenant is handling it."

"Comrade traffic police, go and ask him to come out." Sokov said impatiently, "Just tell him that General Sokov wants to see him, and he will come out."

"Okay, Comrade General, please wait a moment. I will call the lieutenant over."

Not long after, Sabina followed the traffic policeman out of the station. Seeing Sokov and Yakov who had just gotten out of the car, she quickly raised her hand to salute and asked in surprise: "Comrades Generals, why did you think of coming here?"

"Comrade Lieutenant, what happened at the station?" Yakov asked curiously, "We want to see you, but this traffic police comrade is unwilling to call you."

"Comrade General, he did not lie. Something did happen. I was just dealing with it."

"What's the matter?" Yakov asked.

"A driver who was detained in the detention room opened the window without permission last night. The northwest wind blew all night and he froze to death."

After hearing what Sabina said, Sokov had a bad feeling in his heart and asked quickly, "Who died? If I'm not mistaken, it should be the driver who caused the accident, right?"

"You guessed right, Comrade General." Sabina nodded and said, "It's him."

It was outrageous to learn that the driver he was looking for had frozen to death in the detention room last night. However, it also further proved Sokov's guess that the car accident that Asiya encountered was not an accident, but a premeditated murder. Otherwise, how could the driver die inexplicably in the detention room when he was about to find the driver to understand the situation?

Yakov knew that the driver was dead, so the clues he had found ended here, so he turned to ask Sokov for his opinion: "Misha, what should we do?"

The person to be investigated was already dead. Sokov knew that even if he continued to stay here, he would not be able to obtain any useful information, so he waved his hand and said, "Yasha, let's go back."

Under Sabina's surprised gaze, the two got back into the car and drove towards the city.

Watching the car driven by Yakov going farther and farther away, the traffic police tentatively asked Sabina: "Comrade Lieutenant, do we need to report this to our superiors?"

"Whether to report this matter is my business." Sabina glared at the traffic policeman and said unhappily, "You don't need to teach me. You should go back to your duty."