Red Moscow

  Chapter 67 Two girls meet

   When Asya followed Vasily's platoon and came to the prisoner-of-war camp on a sled, she saw Seryozha as soon as she entered the gate. She jumped down from the sleigh, approached Seryozha, and asked: "Seryozha, where is Sokov?"

Seryozha pointed to the wooden house next to him and said, "He is calling the platoon leaders for a meeting inside. If you want to see him, you have to wait patiently for a while. Otherwise, I will take you to have a cup of hot tea first to warm you up." Warm up?"

   Just when Asiya was about to agree, she suddenly saw a middle-aged man with round glasses running towards the wooden house in the distance. He came to Asiya, looked down at the medical bag she was carrying, and asked anxiously, "Girl, are you a hygienist?"

   "Yes, I'm a hygienist." Assia nodded, and then asked, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

   "I am Pavlov, the assistant military doctor," the middle-aged man summoned and said, "There is a wounded man who is in danger, and I don't have enough medicine here. Can you help me?"

   "Where are the wounded?"

  Pavlov pointed in the direction of the wooden house and said, "It's in that house." Assia heard that there were wounded, so she ignored Sokov and followed the assistant military doctor to the direction of the wooden house.

The wooden houses in the prisoner-of-war camp were originally built to accommodate 300 people, but now there are more than 800 commanders and fighters crowded inside. Except for the wounded lying on the bed, the rest of the commanders and fighters are either standing or sitting. in the passage. Seeing the assistant military doctor come in with a young female health worker, everyone's eyes were attracted.

"Please make way, comrades, please make way." Seeing that the passage was full of people, Assia quickly raised her voice and shouted: "We are going to treat the wounded." The people in front stood up one after another. Standing up, he stepped back hard, making way for Asiya and the others.

Assia and Pavlov squeezed to the wounded man's window, and when she saw the injury on the wounded man's leg, she couldn't help being surprised, and quickly turned to Pavlov and said, "Comrade assistant military doctor, his wound is seriously infected. If the limb is not amputated as soon as possible, it may be life-threatening."

   "I know. But I don't have anesthesia here, so I can only ask for help." Pavlov nodded and said, "Also, when I amputate his leg later, I hope you can be my assistant."

  ...

  Due to too many wounded, Assia, Pavlov, and a dozen health workers were busy until midnight.

  Assia, supported by Seryozha, returned to the room where Sokov was. As soon as he entered the door, Sokov greeted him, and together with Seryozha, he helped Assia sit on the chair.

  Sokov smelled a strong smell of blood on Assia's body, so he asked curiously: "Assia, why do you have such a strong smell of blood on your body?"

Assia did not answer, but first picked up the cup of hot tea on the table, gulped it down, felt a little relieved, and then panted and said: "Today I helped the assistant military doctor Pavlov , performed amputation operations for more than forty soldiers, do you think the smell of blood on your body can not be heavy?"

   "What, amputated more than forty soldiers?" Sokov was taken aback by the number, "So many?"

"I heard from Pavlov that the Germans locked our commanders and fighters in the open air and left them to fend for themselves." Assia's eye circles suddenly turned red when she said this, and tears flowed down her face. "It is said that hundreds of people are frozen to death every day. In order to survive, the remaining people can only take off the military coats on the dead people and wear them to keep warm..."

  Assia's words reminded Sokov of the piles of corpses he saw at the edge of the forest. The clothes on their bodies were very thin. It turned out that their military coats had been ripped off by living comrades. However, under the circumstances at the time, there was nothing wrong with doing so, after all, the living needed these military coats more than the dead.

   After talking with Assia for a while, Sokov saw that Assia's eyes could hardly be opened, so he said to her, "Assia, there is a bed in the next bedroom, go in and rest."

  Asiya looked in through the open door and saw that there was only one bed inside, so she turned her head and asked Sokov, "If I sleep in your bed, where will you sleep?"

Hearing Asiya's question, Sokov almost blurted out: "We sleep together!" But he still didn't say this in the end, but pretended to say, "You sleep on the bed, I'll lie down Take a nap at the table."

   "No, how can this work." Assia shook her head like a rattle, "Misha, you are the commander, if you don't get a good night's rest, it will affect your commanding operations."

  Seeing that Asiya refused to go into the bedroom to rest, Sokov asked with a wry smile, "Then what do you say?"

  Asiya thought for a while, and then said: "Why don't you go in and sleep on the bed, and I'll take a nap on the table?"

  Sokov was not willing to let Asiya sleep on the table. He stood up and walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, trying to come up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

   Seeing Sokov walking back and forth in the room, Asiya said casually, "It's a pity that there are no other women here, otherwise I can go to her place and sleep overnight."

  Assia's unintentional words reminded Sokov. He slapped his forehead with his hand and thought angrily: Yes, there is another woman here, how could I forget her. He stopped quickly and said to Asiya, "Asiya, there is really a girl living here, you can sleep with her tonight."

   "Girl, what girl?" When Assia heard Sokov say that there was a woman here, she immediately regained her spirits: "Who is she? Is she a family member of a German officer?"

"That's not true." Sokov shook his head and explained to Assia: "Her name is Adelina, and she works as an interpreter in the prisoner-of-war camp. She was ordered by her superiors to stay in the enemy-occupied area to do underground work. "Then he briefly introduced Adelina's situation to Asiya.

   After getting Assia's consent, Sokov led her to Adelina's door. Sokov raised his hand and knocked on the door a few times, and an alert voice came from inside immediately: "Who, who is outside?"

   "It's me," Sokov quickly replied, "I'm Sokov!"

Adelina in the room heard that it was Sokov who knocked on the door outside, and she immediately felt relieved. She put the grenade in her hand back under the pillow, tidied up her pajamas, and came to the door. Bian turned to the outside and said, "Comrade Lieutenant, it's getting late and I've already gone to bed. If you have anything to do, let's talk about it tomorrow, okay?"

Sokov was eager to settle Assia, so naturally he couldn't wait until tomorrow. When he heard Adelina's eviction order, he quickly said, "Comrade Adelina, please open the door. I have something important to talk to you about." discuss."

   Adelina, who was standing behind the door, hesitated for a moment, feeling that as Sokov, she would definitely not do too much to herself, so she finally opened the door. He asked Sokov who was standing outside the door: "Comrade Lieutenant, what can I do for you?"

   "I want to arrange for someone to live with you." Sokov said to Adelina with some embarrassment: "I wonder if it is possible?"

Just when Adelina was about to refuse, Assia came out from behind Sokov, reached out to Adelina, and said with a smile: "Hello, Adelina! Let me be myself Introduction, my name is Asiya, and I am a health worker in the Istria camp."

"Hello, Assia!" Seeing a girl of the same age as her standing outside the door, Adelina immediately showed a smile on her face. She reached out to shake hands with Assia, and said enthusiastically : "Stop standing outside the door, come in quickly."

   Seeing Asiya enter the house, Sokov wanted to follow in, but Adelina stopped her with her hand. Adelina said politely: "Comrade Lieutenant, it's getting late, you'd better go back and rest early." After finishing speaking, before Sokov could speak, she slammed the door shut.

   Sokov, who was rejected by the door, stood at the door dumbfounded. After a long pause, he shook his head with a wry smile, turned and walked back to his room.

  (end of this chapter)