East Berlin's June Boat Song

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Hitting the bullseye...

I remembered the time I attacked him, I didn't kill him within 20 meters. This is so bad marksmanship, visually measuring the distance of 100 meters, hit the bull's-eye?

I pursed my lips tightly, took the sniper rifle from his hand, and tried my best to look calm.Taking a deep breath, I set up my gun and aimed it at the target on the plane tree.

To be honest, I haven't used a sniper rifle before, and I used to play with machine guns indiscriminately. At this moment, I don't even know whether my movements are standard, but I can only bite the bullet.

Thinking of Misha, it's like I have all the courage in the world.

I stared at the target, praying unceasingly.

"God is with me!"

I buckled the trigger, and with a bang, there was a sharp pain in my shoulder, and the huge recoil made me take a step back.

I thought of the way this man stood here calmly and fired several shots. Sure enough, this is the top soldier, the rumored Siberian hunter in the snow, and the legend of Vasily who is approaching the city.

He took the gun from my hand and chuckled lightly: "I hope there is no one outside the courtyard."

I opened my mouth wide, and then I heard Sonia's crisp laughter at the back door of the mansion.

"Little Rhine, there are no birds in the sky, who are you hitting!"

I was so ashamed that my face was flushed, and my heart was extremely anxious. I hurried to go behind him and begged, "Major General, please, give me another chance."

He stood still, turned slightly, and looked at me calmly.

"Give you another chance, will you do it?"

"I……"

I couldn't lie in his eyes, I could only watch him walk into the mansion, and Sonia put on a military coat for him.

Before leaving, Sonia told me to be smart.

"Did you see anything when I just put the coat on him?"

I shook my head.

"Lieutenant General, little Rhine, he is already a lieutenant general."

Shock appeared on my face, so soon, he became a lieutenant general?Thinking of how foolishly I called him major general just now, I thought it was good that he didn't lose his temper with me.

Perhaps he was a good-natured man and allowed me to survive and work in his mansion after all.I walked sullenly to the Bahn station in Karlshorst and caught a car home.

I told Alan about my experience, and Alan couldn't stop tutting.

"At first, I thought you had a crush on him, but now it seems that maybe he has a crush on you."

Alan teased his little mouse with the red dot on his buttocks, and said, "I can put a man who murdered himself to work in his mansion, little Rhine, there is no other reason than liking you .”

I blushed: "How is it possible! He... how could he like me? I'm a man!"

Allen stopped teasing the little mouse, raised his head and looked at me: "Honey, there is not only one kind of so-called like and love, for example, I like you too, but I like you as a friend, a friend's love, Maybe he treats you..."

Allen shrugged: "In short, love is about going to bed."

I was shocked, and I thought it would be impossible... With a stunner like Sonia beside him, it is impossible for him to want to sleep with a man like me.

Alan saw that my expression was not right, and tapped my head: "Don't think too much, maybe he just thinks you are funny, he likes you, just like I like this little mouse. For a big man like him, you and this little mouse A little mouse makes no difference."

I swallowed and asked Alan, "Have mice ever bit you?"

"Bite."

"Do you want to kill it?"

"Do not want to."

"why?"

"Little Rhine, it's just a mouse. He might bite my hand, but my dear, the wound is nothing to mention."

I'm relieved, it's not worth mentioning... Yeah, maybe for a guy like him, the damage I did to him is really not worth mentioning.

I thought again, it's good to be a little mouse next to a big man, a little favor is enough for me.And that little favor, I urgently need to save Misha's life.

If I remember correctly, I was asking where Misha was, and if Misha died, he wouldn't say tell me if I hit the bull's-eye.

What happened today is like a small flame ignited in my heart, which is the hope that Misha is still alive.If my hope for Misha's life was only ten before that, today it would be fifty, maybe one day, Misha's hope for life will become [-]%, and by then, I will meet him again in the sun.

I always believe that there will be such a day.

The next day, Sunday, I rushed to Karlshorst early in the morning. After the same investigation as yesterday, I came to the mansion.

Today I started to clean the ground on the first floor of the mansion. I wiped it carefully with a rag. The white tiles were very dirty, and it was obvious if there was a little dust. I had to wipe it several times.

I know, he has a clean freak, I saw it when he was in prison.

I was dirty then and he avoided me.So I thought that keeping the mansion clean and spotless might please him.

Thinking of what he said yesterday that I didn't ask him to report, I wondered if I should go to the second floor, so I went to the yard to find Ansolov who was building green plants, and asked him if he could go up.

Ansolov squeezed two messy eyebrows, the tip of his nose was red from the cold, and he spoke in a low voice. It was obvious that the old comrade had a cold.

"Since the general said it, go up. But remember, the general's office is on the far right. There is a sign on it. You will see it. You must knock on the door first, Little Rhine, knock on the door first."

"it is good."

I went back to the mansion, cleaned the soles of my shoes, and walked up the stairs.I don't know why, but I always feel that the upstairs is a bit depressing and scary, and the end of the winding stairs is like an unknown world.

I came to the door of the office and knocked lightly on the door.

"Come in." It was Sonia's voice.

"Sonya, the general wants me to report."

The entrance is a secretary's room. I saw Sonia sitting behind a small desk. The desk lamp was emitting a warm yellow light, the black tea was steaming, and her military coat was hanging on the floor hanger behind her.

Sonia was sitting upright, processing documents. She smiled at me and said to a door on the back, "He's inside."

I nodded, walked over to knock on the door, there was a soft reply from inside, I pushed the door open and entered.

"General, I'm here to report."

"okay."

I saw him standing in front of the window, wearing a military uniform shirt, a gray-green overcoat casually draped over his shoulders, holding a document in one hand, and a cigarette in the other. In the misty rising smoke, he seemed to be enveloped Behind a layer of veil, his slightly condensed brows showed that he was concentrating on thinking.

The gray sky outside the window and the withered plane trees are like a cool background painting, and he is engraved in this picture, peaceful and distant.

A gust of wind blew, and the plane trees outside the window shook their fallen leaves.

"Have you seen enough?" He looked sideways at me.

I groaned, apologized quickly, and was about to go out.

"return."

I stopped in my tracks and turned to look at him in a daze.

"Are you looking at me, or are you looking at the file in my hand?"

I widened my eyes and said, "I can't read Russian! I was looking at you!"

As soon as I blurted out, I realized that it was wrong, forget it, this is better than looking at the documents in his hand, or I will be arrested.

"I have something to look at."

He walked behind the desk, put down the files, sat down and extinguished the cigarette in the pentagonal glass ashtray.

"You, you are very good-looking." I said the truth, but I bowed my head for some reason.

The corners of his mouth raised slightly, and his eyes became unclear again, and said, "You looked at me like that when you first saw me."

I'm dumbfounded, how many years ago this happened!Besides, doesn't this person know that he is good-looking?After thinking about it, I decided to say something nice to please him.

"Your eyes are charming, General, as if rippling the blue waves of Lake Baikal, one cannot help admiring them."

"is it?"

He crossed his fingers, raised his chin, looked up at me intently, his silver-blond hair was scattered back, reflected in the cold sunlight coming in from the window.Suddenly, the sun broke through the thick clouds and became warmer. The warm yellow fell on his side face without any bias. The delicate right ear shimmered, and the blood was rosy and transparent, which made people want to kiss him. .

Is it? Is it?

Of course it is...

I felt my cheeks were burning hot, and I clenched my fists tightly. Only now did I realize that I no longer had any hatred for him, and became a little mouse looking up at him and begging for his mercy.

Seeing my unease, he lay back, his military coat fell off, the line of his shoulders under the shirt loomed, and my throat tightened again.

You really can't save Rhine...

"Go out."

"Okay, General." I fled in despair.

For the next whole day, I mopped the floor five times until the floor tiles reflected like a mirror, but I didn't see him come down.Thinking of how stupid I was in the morning, I felt very annoyed, and thought I could only wait until next week to find out.

When I returned home in the evening, I was full of frustration.

Allen comforted me and said, don't be impatient, and investigate Misha slowly.

"Don't get caught by those KGBs."

I nodded and admitted that he was right. I know about the KGB. They are a group of people everywhere. You don’t know where they are, but as long as they want to, they will definitely keep their eyes on you.

On Monday, I began to panic, thinking that Misha might suffer there, I was anxious, wishing I could go to Karlshorst right away, but I knew that if I didn’t go there on time, it would be the same as sending me to my death.

Allen suggested that I go out and relax, or find a job.He said that a person like me who has no job and only collects rent is no different from a bourgeois. I was shocked by his words and slipped out.

Wandering the streets of East Berlin, I was so bored that before I knew it, I was in the Prenzlauer district.It wasn't until the beautiful church appeared in front of my eyes that I realized how close I was to Sasha's clinic.

After sitting on a pew outside the church for a while and smoking a few cigarettes, I walked into the clinic.

Sasha has a reassuring magic, and just looking at him from a distance makes me feel at ease.At this moment, he was surrounded by several young and beautiful nurses, smiling gently at an elderly patient, and explaining carefully to him with several bottles of medicine.He was wearing a clean white coat, his brown hair was combed meticulously, and he wore gold-rimmed glasses like a fashionable British gentleman.

I stood at the door and watched him quietly for a while, and he suddenly turned his head and smiled at me, as if saying, wait for me.

I blushed a little, and to be honest, I didn't know why I came here.It was as if my feet had become conscious on their own, bringing me here, in front of Sasha.

"Little Rhine, are you feeling unwell?"

After finishing work, Sasha came to me.

I shook my head: "No."

"Did you come to visit me?" Sasha's eyes were shining, as if they were full of stars.

I nodded and said, "Sasha, thank you very much for what happened last time. I should pay you for your medical expenses."

Sasha's eyes flicked: "Oh? So it's here to pay, Comrade Mueller."

I didn't know how to speak, and after a moment's hesitation I said, "I don't have money, Sasha, I'm poor, but I can pay your medical bills by myself!"

Sasha's eyes widened: "You...what did you say?"

I realized that what I said was ambiguous, and quickly explained: "Sasha, I was a medic during the war. I studied pathology. I have a first-class level of injections. I have also done professional nursing for senior military officers."

I held his hand, anxiously: "Can you let me work in your clinic? I don't want salary, really!"

Sasha froze for a moment, her beautiful eyes curled up: "That's what you came here to say?"

"Hmm!" I nodded, "Can I?"

"sure."

Lightly, almost without hesitation, it blocked all the pleading words I had planned in my heart.

I couldn't believe it, and stood there blankly.Sasha took his hands out of my hands and touched my head: "Okay little Rhine, let me see your level."

I opened my eyes wide and hugged him: "Thank you, Sasha! I will always remember you!"

Dreams come true so easily, it feels like I'm living a dream.

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PS: KGB, Soviet intelligence agency, full name "Soviet National Security Committee" (Russian: Комитет Государственной Безопасности, English: The Committee of State Security), referred to as КГБ.After several rounds of rectification, it was roughly changed from Cheka (the founder was Dzerzhinsky) to the GPU, and then changed its name to the KGB.The name KGB was only used in 1954, but for the sake of easy memory, I will collectively refer to it as KGB in this article. Otherwise, it would be troublesome to explain why the name was changed.

In addition, for the sake of easy memory for readers, I have unified and simplified the names of Soviet characters, such as Julian, who should actually be called "Julian Novich", etc., but I will mark the full names of real characters, for example, "Evgeny Petnovich Pitovranov" who will appear later, the director of the KGB stationed in Karlshorst (of course, this position has been changing, this article is uniformly set to him, historically referred to as Pitnolavov), and are referred to in this article as "Evgeny".