If Anna's foot was not sprained, Sokov would have wanted to take her with him. After all, she also had adventure experience. And in order to find Khabarov's whereabouts, she must be willing to go on the adventure with him.
But now Anna's foot is injured and it is difficult to walk, let alone the complicated terrain underground. If she really follows her, not only will she not be able to help, but she will also become a drag on herself. The only thing she can count on right now is
There is only Victoria in front of me.
"Vika, can you help me?"
Hearing Sokov's question, Victoria sneered: "How can I help you? Do you want me to bring a SWAT squadron with you and go deep underground with you to search for the three missing young people?"
Although he knew that what Victoria said was angry, Sokov was still looking forward to it. A Russian special police squadron has more than fifty people. With so many people searching for Khabarov and the others in depth, the effect is definitely better than that of a search and rescue team.
Those few people are much stronger.
He deliberately said sarcastically: "If that's the case, that would be great."
"Don't say it's not my jurisdiction. Even if it is, do you think I, a small major, can mobilize the SWAT team without the director's permission?"
Sokov scratched the back of his head and pretended to be pitiful: "Vika, just have the heart to let me go on an adventure underground alone, just in case anything happens..."
"Even if you have any shortcomings, what does it have to do with me?" Victoria said impatiently: "I am neither your girlfriend nor your wife, so what does your life and death have to do with me?"
Listening to Victoria's sour tone, Sokov chuckled, glanced in the direction of the bedroom, and then said: "Vika, Lida has fallen asleep. It's time for me to go back. If anything happens, remember to call her."
Just give me a shout."
Victoria said nothing, just stared at the TV program ahead with only images and no sound.
Sokov walked to the door, and as soon as he opened the door, he heard Victoria's voice from behind: "Hello!"
He quickly stopped and turned to look at Victoria.
"You wait for my news tomorrow." Victoria said hesitantly: "Even if I don't have the right to mobilize the special police force at will, it should be no problem to find one or two trustworthy subordinates to help."
Hearing what Victoria said, Sokov was overjoyed and quickly said to her: "Vika, thank you so much."
Victoria waved her hand at Sokov: "Remember to close the door when you go out."
As soon as Sokov returned home, he received a call from Dayuan: "Xiao Lin, a Russian friend told me that his neighbor is an old general who participated in the Great Patriotic War. He has many valuable things at home.
Are you free tomorrow? If you are free, just come with me."
Knowing that Dayuan was going to the home of an old general tomorrow, and that he had participated in the Patriotic War, Sokov couldn't help but get excited. He even eagerly wanted to know who the other party was, what battles he had participated in, and whether he had ever fought with him.
I have fought side by side.
It is for this reason that Sokov readily agreed to Dayuan's request: "No problem, tell me what time you will set off and I will pick you up then."
Early the next morning, Sokov called Lena and asked her to open the door as usual, while he drove to pick up Dayuan and prepared to accompany him to the old general's home.
When they arrived, Sokov dialed Dayuan's phone number and wanted to urge him to come down quickly.
Unexpectedly, after four or five calls in a row, Dayuan finally answered the phone.
His lazy voice came from the headphones: "Xiao Lin, what's the matter?"
"Didn't you ask me to take you to the old general's house to buy things today?" Sokov guessed from the voice of the other party that he might not have gotten up yet, so he asked tentatively: "Aren't you still sleeping?"
"Oh, I forgot all about this." Dayuan exclaimed: "Xiao Lin, please wait for me. Five minutes, at most five minutes, I will go downstairs. How about you come up and sit for a while?"
"Don't be in a hurry, take your time, I'll wait for you in the car."
Sokov agreed to accompany Dayuan to the old general's house today. He also wanted to know whether the other person was his old friend and whether he could find something related to him from his house. Because he didn't know when Dayuan would be able to
After going downstairs, Sokov took out his mobile phone, opened the novel website, and started reading the novel.
Unexpectedly, halfway through, the phone suddenly rang.
I thought it was Victoria calling, but when I looked at the number, I found it was Lao Wu calling: "Lao Wu, what's the matter?"
"Xiao Lin, are you in the store?"
"No, I have something to do today and I haven't gone to the store yet." Sokov knew that Lao Wu would not call him casually if he had nothing to do, so he then asked: "Do you need my help with anything?"
"The transportation company called me and said that a package of goods has arrived." Lao Wu said: "I may not be able to go to the market until after noon. I originally wanted you to pick up the goods for me. Since you are not at the market, forget it."
Just when Sokov was about to hang up the phone, Lao Wu suddenly asked: "By the way, Xiaolin, I have one more thing to ask you."
"What happened?"
"Do you know what Salo did?"
Salo is a kind of salt-cured fat meat, and it is also a famous dish in Ukraine. Sokov naturally knows the production process of this kind of meat. Anyway, he has nothing to do at the moment, so he starts to educate Lao Wu: "Salo is taken from Ukraine.
Made from the fat on the back or sides of the waist and abdomen of large white pigs, the fat thickness is more than 3 cm.
The method is very simple: cut the fat meat into cubes of about 20 cm, soak it in salt water for two days, take out the meat pieces, and spread salt evenly on the surface of the meat pieces.
Prepare a small wooden box, paper it with dark clean paper from the inside, lay kraft paper on the bottom layer, and sprinkle 1 cm thick salt with the meat skin side down. Place the meat pieces tightly and neatly in the box, add a layer of meat, and sprinkle a layer of salt on it.
Layer salt and sprinkle it all around the meat.
After filling, cover it with clean paper or cloth, cover it with a wooden lid, put a heavy object on the wooden lid, and then place the small box in a cool and dark place. Usually it will be ready to eat after three to five days.
It can be stored for about a year under normal temperature conditions away from light."
"After making it, how can I eat it so that it tastes more delicious?"
"It depends on how you like to eat it." Sokov said: "The easiest way is to cut the salou into thin slices, sprinkle with some mayonnaise, put two sardines from the can, and eat it between the bread.
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If you are more particular about it, you can sprinkle it with barbecue sauce and grill it, it is simply delicious.
If you think Salou is salty, you can boil it in water and then slice it into slices to eat. It will definitely taste better than domestic bacon."
"Xiao Lin, you know better." Lao Wu said on the phone: "I just called several people, and they didn't even talk about how to do it. They didn't even hear what Salo was. What you said, I don't understand.
Remember, I’ll try making salou by myself another day.”
"Lao Wu, if you make Salou, don't forget to give me two yuan."
"No problem, no problem." Lao Wu said with a smile: "As long as I make Salou, I will give you two pieces to try it."
After ending the call with Lao Wu, Sokov continued reading the novel.
Not long after watching, he heard someone knocking on the window. He looked up and saw that it was a policeman carrying a mini submachine gun. He quickly rolled down the window and asked politely: "What's the matter?"
The policeman stretched out a hand to him and said expressionlessly: "Your ID!"
Sokov quickly took out his ID and handed it to the other party.
After looking through it, the police asked: "What are you doing here?"
"Waiting for a friend."
"A friend, who is he?" the policeman said, taking a step back and gesturing for Sokov to get out of the car.
Sokov saw the policeman put his passport in his pocket, and it seemed that he wanted to take him to a corner to search him.
He opened the door and got out of the car, opened the photo album on his mobile phone, pointed to the photo of himself and Victoria, and said to the police: "Here, this is my friend. I promised to send her to the police station today." In order to increase his credibility, Soko
The husband also swiped his hand on the screen a few times to show the other party more photos of Victoria and himself.
Seeing the photo of Sokov and Victoria, the policeman seemed very hesitant. After thinking for a while with a complex expression, he took out his passport from his pocket, handed it back to Sokov, and then turned around and walked towards his police car parked not far away.
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After the police drove away, Dayuan walked out of the building cautiously, looked at the direction of the police car, and said with lingering fear: "Xiao Lin, did the police just check your passport and didn't let you go with him?
"
Sokov didn't want too many people to know about his relationship with Victoria, so he shook his head and said: "No. He just checked my passport, asked a few casual questions, and left. It's getting late, let's go there quickly.
Bar."
Under Dayuan's guidance, Sokov stopped next to an old building after driving for half an hour.
After Dayuan got off the car, he took out his mobile phone and made a call. Then he said to Sokov: "Xiao Lin, I have already made a call. That guy will come out to pick us up later."
A few minutes later, a young man with a crew cut ran out of a building not far away. He stood at the door and took a look, then ran towards where Sokov and Dayuan were.
The man came to Sokov and asked: "Hello, friend! Are you Boris who called me?"
"No." Sokov knew that Dayuan's Russian name was Boris, and quickly pointed at Dayuan with his hand: "He is."
"I'm Boris." Dayuan looked at the other person and asked, "Are you Mesat?"
"Yes, that's me." The man known as Messat nodded and said, "Let's go there now, my friends are all impatient."
When Sokov and Dayuan followed Mesat to the corridor not far away, Sokov asked in a low voice: "This man's accent and appearance make him look like an Azerbaijani. Are you sure he took you there?"
Where can I buy what you want to buy?"
"I think there should be no problem." Dayuan said confidently: "He was recommended to me by a friend. I believe that my friend will not lie to me."
The three of them came to a room on the fourth floor. After Messat knocked on the door several times, the door was opened.
The man standing at the door still had the same crew cut and black hair as Messat.
As soon as Sokov took a look, he knew that this man should be Azerbaijani like Mesat. The things they said they wanted to sell to Dayuan were most likely fakes.
"This is Gayi." Messat introduced to Dayuan: "The thing you want to buy is what his grandfather left."
After Sokov and Dayuan entered the room, the first thing they saw was a black and white photo enlarged to 12 inches hanging on the opposite wall. It showed a young soldier wearing an old-fashioned collar and rank. He was familiar with the Soviet army.
With his military rank, Sokov could tell at a glance that the three triangles on this soldier's collar badge meant that he was a staff sergeant.
Seeing Sokov staring at the photo non-stop, Messat quickly explained: "Friend, this is Gayi's grandfather. You see, he is a general!"
Sokov curled up the corners of his mouth, pretending to be surprised and asked: "Is he wearing the general's uniform?"
"Of course, the military uniforms during the Great Patriotic War were like this." Messart nodded and said, "Did you see the three triangles on his collar badge? This means that he is a general."
Dayuan didn't know the rank of the Soviet army, so he didn't realize that what Mesat said were lies. Instead, he seemed particularly excited. He couldn't wait to ask Messat: "I wonder where the things left by this old general are?"
place?"
Messat pretended to say to Gayi: "Gayi, don't be stunned. Hurry up and take out all the things your grandfather left behind for this friend to see." Then he suddenly listened to Sokov
Communicate with the other party if you don’t understand Azerbaijani.
Ga Yi turned around and walked into the bedroom. After a while, he came out holding a small wooden box and handed it to Messat.
Messart took the box, put it on the table, opened the lid, and said to Dayuan: "Boris, look, these two Orders of the Red Flag were obtained by Gayi's grandfather."
Looking at the medal in the box, Dayuan couldn't help but his eyes shone, and he reached out to take it, but was stopped by Sokov: "Dayuan, wait a minute."
Dayuan didn't know what happened, but he still stopped and looked up at Sokov with puzzled eyes.
"Dayuan, these things are fake." After Sokov said this to Dayuan in Chinese, he looked at Messat and asked: "Friend, why do you only have medals and the veteran general's accompanying certificate of honor?
?”
Messat seemed very embarrassed when he heard Sokov talking about the medals. He stuttered and said: "Friend, you know that these medals were obtained decades ago, and those medals have long since disappeared."
I know where it was thrown."
Sokov knew from the moment that Mesat described a sergeant as a general that this was a scam set by them. Only a great villain like Dayuan would be fooled. He
Stopping the other party promptly is to prevent him from being deceived.
But what he didn't expect was that Dayuan actually believed Messart's statement, and really thought that the certificate of honor was lost, but asked urgently: "I wonder how to sell these two medals?"
After Mesat and Gayi communicated in Azerbaijani for a while, he said to Dayuan: "Boris, these things are the relics of Gayi's grandfather. If it weren't for the recent difficulties, he would not be willing to take action. I have just talked with
He said, you are my friend, let him give me the cheapest price."
"How much?"
"One is 4,000 US dollars," Messart said. "If you want both, I can make my own decision and give you a price of 7,500 US dollars."