The glory of the strongest owner on the Don farm Vikhlyaevsky is firmly held by the one-legged Hollyusha reed, according to the passport Bartholomew Vikhlyosly, seventy years old. So he lived up to the moment when they allowed the peasants, "so that they would keep everything more." And then after all, and on tricks, the disabled person had to start up, just to hide the number of livestock in the farm.
Few people on the farm remembered that a working family had lived in this estate before: father, mother, three sons and a daughter. Two great wars and years of hard times swept them through life. A spacious yard was once surrounded by bases, sheds, kitchens and other buildings. Livestock lived and bred here, on winter contentment, a cow-bucket with a two-year-old calf and a six-month-old bull-calf, a dozen goats and a goat Yerema, and with them six sheep, rested. Gilts peacefully grunted and two dozen geese roamed around the yard and a herd of well-fed turkeys with two turkeys.
In one of the baptismal frosts, he discovered Kholyush in his yard a trace of one-sleigh sleigh. There is no hope for a local drunkard. Just in case, I went to the collective farm office - the duty officer promised to call the district police.
And after Hololyusha realized: is all good intact? He looked around the beast, was glad. Sheep and goats with a thick, clean coat.I felt Belobokuyu - should have been kitten; checked Beloukhaya - the old man dreamed of making the whole goat plant with such rare fluff as hers - with a blue tint.
But the most dear of the whole animal was Zorka. She was in her tenth year, and she led her family from a distant, legendary Star - the mother of the milk-fed, “food” cows. The years of Zorkina came out, it was time to change her, and soon she should have calved again ...
The district police performed the inspection of the scene the next morning. Touched by Kholyusha, he began to invite both peace officers to the table. One of them seemed to be waiting for this. It turned out that Yegor is the brother-in-law of the victim, the husband of the granddaughter of the native Holyushin’s sister Fetigny, who lives in the city.
Yegor was not embarrassed by the abomination of the desolation of the Kholyushin dwelling, in which the mouse hordes were operating, he did not disdain to taste the owner’s scrambled eggs with lard and listened to a simple story about life: “Every day at work ... Doing business. Hands break off ... ”Yegor was struck by the scale of the Kholyushin farm. He felt sorry for the old man, and felt respect for him. And suddenly it dawned on him. In a town not far from them, a house with a garden is sold for five thousand, so that Hololyush would get over there and live together with Fethina and her eldest daughter, who are suffering from the oppression of another son-in-law.
The police "gazik" drove away with the guest, and another concern fell upon Hololyusha - Belobokaya took leave. Late at night, Kholyush remembered the proposal about Egorov and decided to insist on his own: “It is inconceivable to leave such an estate and go on the wrong side. We will live together here! .. "
The evening of the next day, the thieves again turned to Holus. When neighbors arrived at his cry, they found that everything was turned upside down at home, and the owner himself was spread out in the back.
The hololu was only stunned. In the house, he woke up and first looked around the locks on the chests in the chamber. And when he found the harmonica missing from the red corner, he again lost consciousness. Evil tongues claimed that it was in her that he kept his considerable cash.
But no misfortune could not get rid of the usual worries. By morning, Kholyusha barely got up. At noon, Egor and his partner were with the victim. He answered questions, cried, but how much money was in the harmonica, he could not remember!
Yegor redid all the Hololyushin affairs, but refused an invitation to move to Vikhryaevskoye - he has a service and a family, but there is no school or hospital here. And Fethinier is no turning back. However, if Kholushe did not have enough money to move, Egor promised to help. Left alone, Kholyusha could not fall asleep for the first time in many years. His thoughts were that he should leave.
The thieves weren’t caught, but Yegor’s visits became more frequent, he approved the house in the district center of Kholyush and immediately decided in a businesslike way that he would set up new strong bases for the cattle. Egor categorically rejected these plans: where is the cow to graze and where is the hay mowed? The old garden will, of course, be taken away. So there is only one conclusion - to liquidate the economy! It's time to relax - play dominoes, cards.
After another sleepless Hololyushnaya night, the move became a settled matter. He paid for the house of Holush at once. Cattle and poultry were sold "with a bang." Moved furniture. Spring was approaching and the final move.It remains to find a buyer for Zorka. The new collective farm agronomist came to bargain with Yegor at a time when Kholyusha was clearly out of his mind.
Yesterday night, Zorka got hotels. A new Star was born - "everything is clean with her, without a tray!". The tradition of the ancestress of the Zorkin clan-tribe was embodied in this heifer.
What kind of bargaining could be if the Lord had sent to Holusa finally such happiness? And is it possible to transport a heifer from such grass and water? In addition, the White-eared brought two goats ...
Egor looked at him and did not know whether to cry or laugh.
... Kholusha died in early April. Stumbled from the black porch into the ground with a blackened face. Found him in the evening. After the funeral, the compound was empty overnight. On the farm, Kholush was sometimes recalled, rarely kindly.
And in mid-May, the collective farm electrician Mitka discovered one accordion in one of the deep sandy caves. She was packed full of pieces of paper. Ego were receipts of obligations to supply the state with milk, meat, butter, eggs, wool, potatoes, live-raw materials and furs. “The People’s Commissariat ... the Ministry of Finance ... the State Bank ... on the basis of the resolution ... You are obligated ... Receipt No. 328857 was received from Vikhlyantsev ... to the National Defense Fund in the amount of rubles. two thousand five hundred ... August 16, 1941 ... 1937 ... 1939 ... 1952 ... 1960 ... 1975 ... You must pass 115 ml of basic milk fat (3.9%) or melted butter 4600 ... "
Mitka burned all this "office", and buried the accordion - away from sin. On the farm he bought a quarter and went to the compound in Kholyushino ...
