After hearing the second lieutenant's address, the scene suddenly fell silent. Valodya, who was about to command the troops to arrest Rokossovsky, was dumbfounded, and the old lady, who grabbed Rokossovsky's arm and held on, also opened her mouth wide in surprise.

Seeing that the old lady was still holding on to Rokossovsky's arm, the second lieutenant reached out and broke the old lady's hand, then turned to everyone and said: "This is Marshal Rokossovsky, he is friends with your director, and he has come here to visit them. But it's good for you to say that he is suspicious......"

In the face of the ensign's reprimand, Valodya's face turned white for a while, he hurriedly walked up to Rokossovsky, saluted with a snap, and stammered a little: "I'm sorry, Comrade Marshal, yes...... It's me...... Let's ...... Mistaken, I ...... I say to you...... Apologize. In order to appease Rokossovsky's anger, he also said viciously to the old lady, "How did you do it, how did you treat Comrade Marshal as a suspicious element." ”

"Comrade Marshal," the old lady was so frightened that she almost cried, she never dreamed that the person she stopped was actually the Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most famous marshals. "I was wrong, please forgive me......"

Rokossovsky didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he waved at the second lieutenant and Valodya, and said, "It's all right here, you all go back, don't block the corridor, lest some residents come back and won't be able to enter the door later." Hearing Rokossovsky say this, Valodya was pardoned and hurriedly left with his own people.

"Comrade women," seeing that the old lady was frightened enough, Rokossovsky hurriedly comforted her and said: "You have done a lot, you are a very conscientious doorman. ”

The old lady, who originally thought that she would be punished, saw that Rokossovsky did not criticize herself, but praised herself for her devotion to her duty, and her heart hanging in her throat finally let go. She hurriedly said flatteringly: "Comrade Marshal, you are going to see Director Borisova, she is at home at the moment, you can go up." ”

Rokossovsky, after thanking the old lady, walked up the stairs. When she came to the door of Borisova's house, she raised her hand and was about to knock on the door, but the door opened. Borisova appeared at the door.

It turned out that the security department had called Borisova and said that a suspicious figure had appeared in the building where she lived, telling her to be vigilant, and that personnel from the security department had been sent over.

From the window, Borisova first saw a group of members of the Security Section, led by a second lieutenant of the Internal Guard, rushing into the building, and then there was a commotion from downstairs, but there was no movement soon. After a while, the people who had rushed into the building had left. Borisova thought it was strange, so she planned to go downstairs to take a look, but when she opened the door, she found that Rokossovsky, who had been thinking about her for a long time, was actually standing at the door.

"Koschika, is that you?" Suddenly seeing Rokossovsky standing in front of her, Borisova thought that she had seen it wrong. Because in her imagination, Rokossovsky should be lying in the inpatient department of the Sechenov Medical Academy at the moment, and not on his own doorstep.

"It's me!" The man in front of him, wearing a long gray trench coat, asked with a smile: "Borisova, are you okay!" ”

Borisova bit her tongue so hard that the pain that instantly reached her brain made her know that she was not dreaming, but that Rokossovsky was really standing in front of her, she exclaimed in surprise and threw herself into the other's arms.

The two hugged in front of the door for an unknown amount of time, and Borisova was reluctant to let go of each other, fearing that as soon as she let go, Rokossovsky would disappear from her sight. Rokossovsky heard footsteps coming from the stairs and hurriedly reminded Borisova in a whisper: "It seems that someone has gone upstairs." ”

When Borisova heard that someone had gone upstairs, her face turned red as soon as she brushed it, and she hurriedly pulled Rokossovsky into the house so as not to be seen by the neighbors in the building.

After entering the house, Rokossovsky saw that the room was deserted, and Borisova did not seem to have made dinner. Then he opened his mouth and asked: "Borisova, didn't you cook dinner?" ”

After being reminded by Rokossovsky, Borisova suddenly realized that after she was stopped from visiting the hospital, she had been so depressed that she forgot to make dinner. She hurriedly asked Rokossovsky: "Did you have dinner?" ”

"No," Rokossovsky said, touching his abdomen with his hand, shaking his head, "I'm so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back, and if you don't cook again, I guess the headline tomorrow will be: Marshal Rokossovsky was starved to death because he didn't get to dinner in time." ”

Borisova sneered, the depression in her heart suddenly disappeared, and she smiled and said to Rokossovsky: "You wait a while, I will help you cook now." ”

While Borisova put on an apron and was cooking in the kitchen, Rokossovsky stood at the door of the kitchen, leaning against the door frame and asked: "Today you went to visit me in the hospital?" ”

"Yes, I've been to the hospital." While cooking, Borisova replied: "It's a pity that I was stopped by the internal guards who protected you, and they said that they would not let me in." I was worried about your condition, but I didn't know you were coming. By the way, I heard that you fainted suddenly and were admitted to the hospital, is it serious? ”

"It's not serious." In order not to worry Borisova, Rokossovsky shook his head and said: "It's only because I'm too tired that an old injury recurs, and I suddenly faint." After being infused in the hospital for most of the day, the anti-inflammatory drugs are now basically back to normal. ”

Borisova is not only a strong woman, but also a woman with outstanding cooking skills at home. She quickly prepared dinner, laid it on the table in the living room, and beckoned Rokossovsky to sit down: "Koschika, sit down, we can start eating." Thinking of Rokossovsky's joke, she added, "I can't afford to starve you, the marshal, to the brim." ”

After Rokossovsky sat down, she asked with concern: "There are two bottles of Georgian red wine at home, do you want to drink some?" ”

"I'd like to drink a little bit, so it's fine." Rokossovsky thought for a moment, picked up the wine glass on the table and gestured: "Let's have such a small glass!" ”

Borisova smiled sweetly at Rokossovsky, got up and took the red wine, and poured a glass for Rokossovsky and her own glass. She put down the bottle, picked it up, gestured to Rokossovsky, and said, "I wish you good health!" ”

Rokossovsky also followed her example and said: "I wish you good health, too!" ”

The two of them touched their glasses, and were about to drink the red wine in the glass when suddenly there was a knock on the door.