The second lieutenant did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to bite the bullet and say to Rokossovsky: "Comrade Marshal, please wait a while, I will immediately go and help you prepare." Then he instructed the other two fighters, "You escort Comrade Marshal back to the ward." ”

When Rokossovsky, accompanied by two fighters, returned to the ward, the second lieutenant hurriedly found a telephone and called his immediate boss, Captain Belkin. Report to him about Rokossovsky's intention to leave the hospital.

When Belkin learned the news, he was also taken aback, and hurriedly called his superiors to report it. After layers of reports, the call finally went to Lunev's place. After inquiring about the details, Lunev instructed Belkin: "Since Comrade Marshal is going out, then prepare civilian clothes for him according to his instructions." ”

Hanging up the phone, Lunev thought about it, picked up another phone, and after dialing the number, he said respectfully into the microphone: "Is it Comrade Beria?" I'm Lunev, and I have something to report to you right away......"

When Rokossovsky returned to his ward, he found that the fighters of the internal guard outside were obviously much more cooperative with his orders. He thought that the soldiers were frightened by their identity, so he didn't think so much, but quietly waited for the second lieutenant to bring him civilian clothes.

After about half an hour, the second lieutenant brought Rokossovsky a set of civilian clothes and graciously helped him change into them. After the change, he respectfully asked: "Comrade Marshal, do you need me to accompany you?" He was deeply afraid of Rokossovsky's refusal, and specially emphasized, "Our responsibility is to protect your safety, if you don't follow your side, if your superiors ask, we don't know your whereabouts, we will be punished." ”

"I'm going to see a friend, it's inconvenient for you to follow." Rokossovsky wanted to refuse them, but fearing that they would be punished for this, hesitated for a moment and said to the second lieutenant: "You can prepare a car for me, and send another guard with you." ”

"Understood," hearing that Rokossovsky agreed to his request, the second lieutenant hurriedly nodded and said, "I'll do it." ”

A few minutes later, the second lieutenant again returned to Rokossovsky's room and reported to him: "Comrade Marshal, the car is ready, I will personally accompany you." ”

Coming to the parking position downstairs, the second lieutenant preemptively opened the back door and asked Rokossovsky to get into the car. But the latter shook his head, opened the door of the passenger seat, and sat inside. The second lieutenant had no choice but to sit in the back seat and instruct the driver: "Let's drive!" ”

Rokossovsky sat in the co-pilot's seat, gave the driver directions, asked him to drive the car to the dormitory of the Industrial Bureau, and then ordered: "Comrade driver, park the car in front of the building." ”

As soon as the car stopped, Rokossovsky pushed the door and got out of the car. However, he did not immediately walk away, but poked his head into the car and said to the second lieutenant: "Comrade second lieutenant, I may not go back to the hospital tonight, as for whether you stay and wait for me, or drive directly back to the hospital, it is up to you." After speaking, he turned his head out of the car, turned around and strode towards the family building not far away.

The staff on duty in the building has changed, and a thin old lady is sitting in the duty room in the corridor, and she sees a stranger wearing a gray suit and a long windbreaker, swaggering towards the building, and quickly gets up and stops him. He asked, "This comrade, which unit are you from, and what are you doing here?" ”

"I'm a friend of Borisova, and I'm here to visit her." After Rokossovsky explained his intentions, he smiled and asked the old lady, "Can I go in?" ”

"Of course not!" The old lady stared at Rokossovsky with a wary gaze, stretched out her hand and said: "Where are your documents?" ”

"Papers?" Rokossovsky couldn't help but pause for a moment when he heard the old lady's words, and after he changed into civilian clothes, he really didn't seem to have any documents, so he could only smile at the old lady and say apologetically: "I'm sorry, comrade woman, I forgot to bring it!" ”

"I forgot to bring it!" Rokossovsky's answer deepened the old lady's suspicions, and she thought to herself how there was someone who went out without documents, there must be something wrong with this person. Then he pointed at him with his hand and said, "You are standing here, you are not allowed to go!" Then, he immediately slipped into the duty room, picked up the phone on the table and reported to the security section of the bureau.

The Security Section of the Industrial Development Bureau has a duty room nearby, which contains more than a dozen members of the Security Section, who are responsible for the security of the residential area. When they heard that there was a suspicious element of unknown origin in the building where the director lived, everyone immediately rushed over with weapons to prevent the suspicious element from slipping away.

The second lieutenant who had sent Rokossovsky here was sitting in the car, wondering whether he should stay and wait for Rokossovsky, or go back to the hospital first and come back tomorrow. At that moment, he saw a dozen men in civilian clothes and red sleeves, armed with weapons in their hands, running towards this direction. As a second lieutenant in the internal security force, his vigilance was very high, he quickly pulled out his pistol, got out of the car, and stretched out his hand to stop the group of people who rushed by: "Stop, what are you doing?" ”

The uniforms and hats of the internal security units were very different from those of other units, and the comrades of the security section saw that a second lieutenant of the internal security unit was blocking the road in front of them, so they hurriedly stopped. The security officer who took the lead walked up to the second lieutenant, raised his hand and saluted, and said: "Comrade second lieutenant, we are from the Security Section of the Industrial Bureau, and I just received a call saying that a suspicious person without documents has been found here, and we are here to arrest him. ”

Hearing that there were suspicious elements, the second lieutenant's nerves immediately tensed, and he was deeply afraid that Rokossovsky would be in danger, and immediately nervously asked: "Where are the suspicious elements?" ”

The security officer pointed to the building next to him: "There it is!" ”

The second lieutenant looked in the direction of his finger, wasn't it the single unit that Rokossovsky had entered? Worried about what danger Rokossovsky would have, he hurriedly said to the security officer: "Let's go, let's go and see!" ”

At this time, Rokossovsky was being tortured by the old lady to cry and laugh, because he had no papers, he wanted to go upstairs to see Borisova, but the old lady stopped him and refused to let him go; He wanted to leave, but the old lady grabbed his arm tightly and did not let go. At this moment, a group of people rushed in hula outside.

When the old lady saw the leading security officer, she immediately shouted at him, "Valodya, you are here!" It's him, he's the suspicious one, get him arrested. ”

Just when the security officer, known as Valodya, was about to lead people forward to arrest Rokossovsky, he saw the second lieutenant of the internal guard unit who came with him walk up to the "suspicious elements", stood up and saluted, and respectfully asked: "Comrade Marshal, what is happening here?" ”