red moscow

Chapter 2617

Soon after Yakov left, Asiya's parents arrived.

As soon as she saw Sokov, Nina grabbed his arm and asked excitedly: "Misha, please tell me what happened. How did Asiya get into a car accident? You know, when she left the instrument factory, everything was fine. How could something like this happen suddenly?"

"Nina, don't worry, sit down and take a rest first." Sokov no longer called Nina mom, but called her by her name: "I will slowly tell you what happened."

After the two old men sat down, Sokov told them about the process of Asiya's car accident. Of course, the version he told was provided by the traffic police lieutenant Sabina, and he did not tell about the clues he and Yakov found in their private investigation.

"My poor child." Although Nina's eyes were swollen from crying before she came here, she couldn't help crying again when she heard about her daughter's situation: "I was going to be a mother, but I didn't expect this damn car accident to happen. The child is gone, and the adults are about to die."

"Nina, stop crying." But at this time, Bakanidze, who was sitting next to her, said unexpectedly: "The child is gone, and my daughter has just been out of danger. Even if you cry your eyes blind, it can't change the established facts."

Nina stopped crying, turned to look at Sokov and asked, "Misha, will you take us to the hospital to see Asiya?"

"Of course." Sokov glanced at the car keys on the table and continued, "I can take you to the hospital anytime."

"Misha, you've been with Asiya in the hospital all night, you must be very tired." Bakandze said sympathetically, "Why don't you rest for a while? It won't be too late to take us to the hospital after three o'clock in the afternoon."

Sokov thought that it was visiting time now, and if he rushed over directly, he could visit the patient in the ward. If he lay down to rest, he might not be able to get up at three o'clock, so he got up and picked up the car keys on the table: "Let's go now. I can't sleep until I see Asiya wake up."

In fact, Nina and Bakanidze were eager to see Asiya immediately, but they were worried that their son-in-law's body could not bear it, so they suggested that he rest for a few hours before sending them to the hospital. Seeing that he was determined to go to the hospital, they said no more, got up and followed him out of the room.

Coming out of the building, Sokov saw a black car parked on the roadside ahead. It was Yakov's car. He walked over, opened the door, and asked Bakandze and Nina to get in.

Bakanidze came to the car, looked at it carefully, and asked in surprise: "Misha, I remember you didn't drive this car a few days ago?"

"Yes, this is indeed not my car. My friend Yasha lent it to me." Sokov explained to the two elderly people, "Yesterday I learned that Asia had a car accident, and immediately drove to the hospital. However, due to my excitement, I made some mistakes and the car crashed into a big tree on the roadside. Look, it's that tree. The lampshade fragments under the tree fell from my car."

The two were surprised when they saw this, and then asked with concern: "Misha, you are not injured?"

"No, I'm not injured." Sokov shook his head and said, "After I crashed, I immediately called a friend and asked him to drive over to pick me up and take me to the hospital."

After arriving at the hospital, Sokov came to Asiya's ward with familiarity.

The nurse who was taking care of Asia had been replaced. When she saw Sokov coming in, she quickly stood up and greeted him, "Comrade General, you are here!"

"Yes, I'm here." Sokov asked tentatively, "Is my wife awake?"

"No, Comrade General, she hasn't woken up yet." The nurse had just said this when she suddenly shouted to Nina, "Comrade woman, the patient hasn't woken up yet, please don't disturb her."

Sokov saw that it was Nina who was worried about her daughter. She rushed to the bedside, grabbed one of Asia's hands, and wiped her tears silently.

"It's okay, comrade nurse." Sokov quickly explained to the nurse: "This is my mother-in-law. She saw my wife's condition and felt sad, so it was inevitable that she would lose her composure."

After hearing what Sokov said, the nurse fell silent. After all, that person was the injured person's mother. If she meddled in other people's business and was complained by Sokov, she would definitely be criticized by the dean and might even be sent to work in the township clinic.

As Nina clutched her daughter's hand, filled with grief, Sokov felt someone touch his shoulder, and when he turned around, it was Bakanidze. He mouthed to himself, "Let's talk outside."

Sokov knew that his father-in-law was also a smart man. He must have noticed something wrong and wanted to talk to him alone. So he nodded and followed him out of the ward.

The two men came to a corner. Sokov took out a cigarette box from his pocket and handed it to Bakanidze: "Have one!"

Bakanidze took a cigarette out of the cigarette box, put it in his mouth but did not light it immediately. Instead, he looked out the window and said to himself, "Don't you think that this car accident happened strangely?"

Although Sokov knew there was a conspiracy behind the car accident, he didn't dare to tell Bakanidze casually, lest he accidentally implicate the other party and put him in danger. So he pretended to be confused and asked back: "A car accident is a car accident. The traffic police department has conducted an on-site investigation. This is the conclusion they came to. What else can be strange?"

"Even with the traffic police's investigation results, I still think there is something wrong with this car accident." Bakanidze thought Sokov didn't see the problem, so he reminded him, "Don't forget, it's the New Year. I don't deny that the driver was suspected of drunk driving, but there are very few cars on the road during the New Year. Even if you drive in a zigzag pattern on the road, it's unlikely to cause a car accident."

Seeing that Bakanidze's speculation coincided with his own idea, Sokov still pretended to be indifferent: "Maybe the driver didn't pay attention to traffic safety when driving because there were not many cars on the road, which led to the accident."

"Where is the driver who caused the accident?" Bakanidze suddenly asked, "Can you arrange for me to meet him?"

Sokov was shocked by Bakanidze's proposal. He thought to himself that the driver had been frozen to death. Even if you met him, could you get any valuable information from the dead? If you could really do this, I'm afraid others would respectfully call you a "psychic master!"

"I'm sorry, I may not see him again." Sokov did not tell the driver that he had been frozen to death for no apparent reason, but said tactfully: "I heard from the traffic police that the driver has been handed over to his superiors. As for where he was transferred to, I don't know." After hearing Sokov's words, Bakanidze couldn't help but sigh softly. He saw a lot from Sokov's tone and evasive eyes. He even guessed that maybe Sokov had known that there was something fishy about the accident, but due to some special reasons, he could not continue the investigation. He didn't let himself participate in the investigation, probably because he was worried that he would be in danger. In this case, he should not cause trouble for his son-in-law.

Bakanidze quickly finished the cigarette in his hand, opened the window in front of him, threw the cigarette butt out, then turned to Sokov and said, "Misha, let's go back to the ward."

After the two returned to the ward, Nina stood up and walked over to Sokov, begging him: "Misha, please tell the person in charge of the hospital that I want to stay here with my daughter. Ask them to agree to my request."

Sokov was about to refuse, saying that the hospital's rules forbid the patient's family from staying with him. But before he could say anything, Bakanidze whispered in his ear, "Misha, just agree to her request. Even if you let her go home, I'm afraid she won't be able to rest in peace."

"Okay then." Sokov couldn't refuse after hearing what Bakanidze said: "Then I'll go find the dean and see what he says."

Sokov went to the dean's office and found the dean working at his desk.

Seeing Sokov coming in from outside, the dean was startled, and immediately stood up and asked, "Comrade General, has something happened to your wife?"

"No, Comrade Dean, my wife is fine." Sokov quickly explained to the Dean, "I came here to accompany my father-in-law and mother-in-law. Now that my mother-in-law has seen my wife, she is in a very bad mood. She wants to stay with my wife. I wonder if you allow it."

"Comrade General, your mother-in-law wants to stay in the hospital to take care of your wife." The dean asked cautiously, "Do I understand correctly?"

"That's absolutely right, Comrade Dean." Sokov nodded and said, "I was against her staying, but considering that my wife was injured not long ago, my mother-in-law is worried. Even if I take my mother-in-law home, she will probably miss Asia in the hospital. So I beg you to make an exception and let her stay to take care of Asia."

"Comrade General, this is very difficult for me." The dean said with some embarrassment: "According to the hospital's regulations, the patient's family members are not allowed to stay in the hospital to accompany the patient. If I ask your mother-in-law to stay, I'm worried that someone will gossip."

"Really?" Sokov asked.

The dean hesitated for a moment, then made a decisive decision: "Comrade General, when Comrade Malenkov left, he specifically told me to take good care of your wife and find ways to meet all your needs. Although it is against the rules to let your mother-in-law stay to accompany you, there are exceptions to everything. I have made the decision on this matter. Please let your mother-in-law stay. If she is willing, she can also eat in the cafeteria of our medical staff."

"That's great, Comrade Dean, that's really great." Sokov thought that he would be rejected when he came to discuss with the dean about letting Nina stay, but he didn't expect that the dean actually agreed. He hurriedly shook the dean's hand, shook it vigorously, and said gratefully: "On behalf of my whole family, I would like to thank you!"

After returning to the ward, Sokov told everyone that Nina could stay and accompany Asiya.

Nina was naturally overjoyed when she heard about this. The nurses who were taking care of Asia breathed a sigh of relief. With Nina's cooperation, they could relax a little on the night shift.

"Nina, the dean also said that if you are hungry, you can also eat in the medical staff restaurant." Sokov turned his head and looked at the nurse and said, "Comrade nurse, my mother-in-law doesn't know where the restaurant is. I'll have to trouble you to show her the way."

"No problem, Comrade General," the nurse replied very readily, "I will accompany her to the restaurant when necessary."

Sokov took Bakanidze out of the hospital and originally planned to drive home directly, but Bakanidze shook his head and said, "Misha, take me to the place where Asia had the accident. I want to find out how the accident happened."

Seeing that Bakanidze was going to inspect the accident scene in person, Sokov had no choice but to agree, no matter how reluctant he was. After all, the other party was Asia's father and his father-in-law, so he had to listen to what he said.

The two drove to the scene of the accident. The two cars involved in the accident were still parked in their original positions, but there was a thin layer of snow covering the bodies of the cars.

When Bakanidze got out of the car to look for useful clues, Sokov sat in the car and started smoking. He found that the brake marks on the ground had been covered by snow. In other words, even if Bakanidze personally surveyed the terrain, he might not get the answer he wanted. After all, the person they wanted to deal with was him, so there was no need to involve Bakanidze and others.

Bakanidze lingered at the scene of the car accident for a long time. Although he tried hard to find various useful clues, he was not a criminal investigator after all, and it was impossible for him to find important evidence from it.

When Bakanidze got back into the car, Sokov asked in a pretentious manner: "Did you find any useful information?"

"Damn it, we didn't find any useful information at all." Bakanidze shook his head and said, "If we had arrived here before the snow, we might have found some clues, but now it snows, and the snow has buried a lot of evidence, making it even more difficult for us to restore the truth."

"Shall we go home now?"

"Misha, I've thought about it and I don't want to go back to your house yet." Bakanidze said, "Send me back to the instrument factory right now. I want to go see some friends."

"What do you want to do with your friends?" Sokov asked nervously.

"I'm not a criminal investigator, so I can't find any useful information from the accident scene. But just because I can't do it doesn't mean my friends can't do it either. I plan to go back to the instrument factory to find some old friends and ask them to come here with me to investigate the scene."

Sokov didn't expect that Bakanidze, unwilling to give up because he didn't find any clues, actually planned to ask his friends to investigate the scene together. If they really discovered the car accident and there was a secret, would they, the participants, bring themselves into danger?

Thinking of this, he quickly said to Bakanidze: "I don't think this is appropriate. Anyway, the traffic police department has come to the final conclusion after investigation. I don't think there is any need for us to make trouble."

"I felt very sad when I saw Asia's condition today." Bakanidze was silent for a while, then he said, "I always felt that Asia's car accident was too strange, so I wanted to go to the scene to see it myself. Although the heavy snow covered most of the traces, I could still see that this car accident was not normal, so I planned to go back to the instrument factory and find friends with criminal investigation experience to help me confirm it."