East Berlin's June Boat Song

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A week later, Misha finally woke up. I rushed to the hospital and bumped into Milk at the door.

Our Minister's face was flushed, and he couldn't hide his smile at all. I made a gesture of invitation and said cheerfully, "Why don't you go ahead?"

Milk glared at me: "Together!"

I followed with a smirk, and met Misha's eyes the moment I walked into the ward.

"My Misha!" I rushed over and threw myself on me, completely forgetting about Milk who was beside me, holding his face and kissing madly: "I miss you so much..."

Misha was so kissed that I couldn't open my eyes, and let out a deep laugh. I only realized it when I heard a dry cough behind me.When I turned around, the gaze of a certain minister seemed to want to kill me.

"Rhein, I miss you too, really, there is not a day I miss you."

Misha held my hand and looked at me affectionately. I think I'm going to be demoted, really...

Milk walked over and sat beside Misha, coughing dryly again, as if to get Misha's attention.

"M... Marcus, is your body still hurting?"

Misha looked away from me, and slowly landed on Milk, "It doesn't hurt anymore, Minister, I'm much better now."

"That's good, I've been, always worried about you." Milk's face was red like something, and I sat across from me and couldn't close my mouth.

Milk glared at me again, and when he turned his head to look at Misha, he became gentle again: "You have a good rest, just say what you need."

"Thank you, minister, I was too careless this time, but everything is worth it, because I got a very important piece of information."

Misha glanced at me, and I stood up tactfully: "You guys say, I'll come back later."

"Forget it, Rhine, after all, you are also the deputy director of our anti-interference department, so you should listen to it."

I shrugged, and since Milk had spoken, Misha and I looked at each other and smiled, then sat down again.

"However, this can also be told to Rhine. To a certain extent, this has nothing to do with our Stasi." Misha raised his eyes to look at me and said with a smile: "There are traitors at the top of the KGB. This time, I got important message from him."

Misha said word by word: "His code name is - 'Olof'."

I still remember how my smile froze on my face at that time, I think I probably heard it wrong, Olof, why is it so familiar?

I must have heard wrong.

I leaned down and asked softly, "Are you sure? Misha, a high-ranking KGB traitor named 'Olof'?"

"Yes, I am absolutely sure." Misha nodded: "You must know that I almost lost my life because of this information."

He looked at Milk again: "Then minister, you have to notify the Soviet Military Control Commission."

Milk nodded solemnly: "Of course, this is the information you have worked hard for. I will tell them. Now that you have made a great contribution, the Soviets will favor you, and I will give you a promotion."

"Thank you, Minister."

Misha smiled innocently like a child, and Milk caressed his face lovingly. I felt that it was time for me to leave, and if I didn’t leave, I could hardly bear some emotions.

I bid them farewell, left the hospital under Misha's reluctant eyes, and drove back home.

Olof... Olof...

I paced around the house anxiously, I must have remembered wrongly, how could it be possible?

I shook my head crazily, and suddenly, I saw in the mirror the Jesus cross on my neck shining in the sun, my face turned pale in an instant, I stepped back in horror, and fell to the ground with a scream .

Oh, God!How could such a thing happen, impossible, absolutely impossible!

I shook my head desperately, preparing to flee the apartment, ran to the door, put on my coat and rushed out.Where am I going?I don't know, I was driving down the street seemingly in a daze, only to wake up when I walked into the run-down apartment building.

I went up the dilapidated stairs and knocked on the door.

Impossible, absolutely impossible... I remember wrongly, it's not Olov, maybe Orff, Ralph, Orle...

no no……

Why did I come to knock on the door, but before I could react, Andy, who I haven't seen for a long time, opened the door.

"Oh! Andy!" I cried and hugged him: "I must have remembered wrong, I must have remembered wrong!"

Andy hugged me in confusion: "What's wrong with you? Rhine, what did you remember wrong? Why didn't you come to see me, do you know how much I miss you?"

"No, Andy, I can't let you follow me to misfortune... Please forgive me, no, tell me quickly, I remember wrongly, Ellen's little mouse is not named Olof, it is Isn't it? No one in this world remembers that little mouse except the two of us, it's been too long, I must have remembered it wrong!"

I was horrified to find Andy's eyes widened suddenly, looking at me in disbelief.

"So, you really came to ask me this question..."

"What do you mean?" I grabbed his shoulders, pushed him into the room, and closed the door with a coaxing sound.

Andy's face turned pale, and he said in a low voice: "The day Allen left, he came to me crying. He said he wanted me to pay attention to you. He said that you will suffer a catastrophe and you will need my comfort...but At the same time, Allen also begged me to keep something for him..."

"He said, if one day, Rhine came to ask about Olof, he would give you that thing."

"What..." I felt the blood stagnate all over my body, and panic was slowly and relentlessly attacking me.

Andy looked up at me, broke free from my grasp, walked to his bedroom closet, and took out a leather envelope from the innermost layer.

"That's it, he said. It can only be given to you when you specifically ask about Olof. Before that, you must keep it a secret. I agreed to him, because he is a good man and has always been good to me."

Andy sniffed, and wiped the tears off my face with his hand: "I thought at the time, how could you ask about that little mouse that died in 52? But, after such a long time, you really I asked... Rhine, what's going on?"

I shook my head wildly: "You can't know, you can't know at all."

Oh, God!Don't be what I think, I stole Olof from the medical school lab... I was there that night...

don't, don't...

I tremblingly took the envelope and looked at Andy.

"Don't worry, Alan is also my friend, I will never peek at your letter."

"It's protecting you, Andy."

"I understand." Andy walked out of the bedroom and closed the door intimately.

I have always felt that my psychological quality is strong enough, and I have never seen such a strong wind and rain, but until I opened the envelope and took out the photo inside, suddenly, it seemed as if countless hot thunderbolts rushed to my body, making my whole body Spasms, life would be worse than death.

A person's life will usher in many turning points, perhaps at an inadvertent moment, a small moment.But at this moment, I realize that when this photo is exposed in front of me, the fate of almost everyone around me will usher in a drastic change.

Because that's the truth of everything, and the truth has a thorn in it for everyone who tries to find it.

I shook my hands and laughed silently.

You said, why didn't I think of it before?

But even if I thought about it, what could I do?

Look at how happy Allen is smiling standing under the boulevard of Humboldt University in Berlin in this photo. That is a smile I have never seen before. Happiness and joy are about to overflow from the photo.Behind him, there are pedestrians in twos and threes, and there is only one person standing sideways under a linden tree, watching the camera secretly.Under the lens, the gentle eyes seem to be telling the young red-haired boy in front, I am behind you, I am behind you...

I burst into tears instantly, and all the guesses in my heart were confirmed at this moment.

Look at this man, this man I am very familiar with, these gentle eyes, these gold-rimmed glasses, this khaki windbreaker...

Hahahaha!

I laughed maniacally at first, and then wept bitterly. I caressed the photo carefully, caressing the faces of the two people, and then turned the photo, and saw Alan writing a letter on the back in his beautiful handwriting. String Russian.

"Rhein, when you see this photo, the time must have come, please save him, because he loves you deeply."

Oh, God!My vision was spinning, and I fell to the ground with a coax, and all the memories of the past rushed into my mind.

Allen...

Allen loved Sasha to the end, even though he had only spoken one word to him in so many years.

In the ward, the winter sun spread, and he stretched out his hand to introduce himself to someone he knew very well.

"I am Alan Claude, a friend of Rhine's, a student at the Faculty of Medicine of the Humboldt University of Berlin."

His eyes locked with his, and his palms were clenched tightly. God knows what monstrous waves turned up under his calm face. He never had such a heavenly joy in his life since then.

I caressed the cross on my chest, as if I saw Alan who was so excited to cry holding the cross in the auditorium that day, he knew that it was given to him by Sasha through my hand, and it was a little insignificant to him from Sasha response, but he was still moved to tears.

What Richard said is right, yes, Allen should have been a poor student, but he betrayed his own rationality as a spy. His excellent grades attracted the attention of another doctor.

He wanted him to see himself, he conveyed his silent and turbulent love.

More than that!He even named the mouse that I stole as "Olof". The meeting that night was no accident, and that mouse is probably Sasha's test product, just a mouse in his laboratory... …Ellen wanted it so much, cared for it, loved it, even grieved for a week after it died!

He is, actually loves him so secretly and humblely...

I covered my mouth and cried, and my memory drifted back to the words that Allen said that made me confused when he revealed his identity to me that day, and all the words became clear and clear in an instant.It turns out that every sentence has something to say, but I couldn't make it clear at the time.

God knows how he could tell me that he loved Sasha so much, and I ruthlessly robbed him of the love he so desperately wanted.

His desperation and grief surged up in an instant after a few years, but I didn't feel anything at the time.Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered the tears Sasha shed in my office that day, and the "farewell kiss" he said when he sent me to rescue Misha.

He was also desperate, and I was also unaware.

why why……

That sentence seemed to float in my ears again, Alan's trembling voice, hot tears.

"Because I love him so much, even though the person he loves is not me."

So many years... Ellen...

For so many years... you and Sasha have said just one sentence, just one sentence...

You carefully treasured this secret photo with him, and you still entrusted him to me at the last moment... Allen, what do you want me to do...

Sasha, what do you want me to do...

A thought seized me again, I bit my lips in horror, thinking of Julian who came back from Winsdorf headquarters that night, he was already looking for him, the man behind everything, the man Allen was using his life to cover... …

Julian... oh no... no... definitely not...

I shook my head crazily, only to feel that I was about to vomit. The violent emotional ups and downs made my stomach start to colic, and I couldn't help moaning/groaning in pain. Andy pushed open the door in panic and hugged me.

"What's the matter with you? Huh? Did something happen again? Don't scare me."

I suddenly thought of something, quickly put away the photo, grabbed Andy's wrist tightly, and looked cold: "This envelope has never been seen by anyone else?"

"Absolutely not! How can you not believe me?!"

I cried again, hugging Andy's thin body, almost crying: "I don't believe you, Andy, this matter is too huge, you can't be involved in it, you have to go!"

I looked him in the eyes and said hoarsely, "You go to work in a nursing home in the Brandenburg countryside and I'll arrange everything for you. You can't stay here anymore, this is beyond all of us control...Andy...I brought Misha back, but I'm about to lose another person...Andy...why do I keep losing...huh? Can you tell me? I can save him Is it? Allen believes in me so much, but can I do it?"

Andy pushed me in horror: "You scare me, Rhine, I don't understand what you're talking about, I won't go, this is my home..."

"No, you have to go!" I knelt in front of him and begged him: "Please leave, I can't lose you anymore, you have to live and meet Misha...I can't lose you anymore..."

"He's right, what I have can't bear to lose..."

"I can't lose any more..."

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