Vanka

The nine-year-old Vanka Zhukov was sent to the shoemaker Ariyasini three months ago as an apprentice. On Christmas Eve, he didn't lie down and sleep. He waited for the boss, the proprietress and a few guys to go to the church to go to church, and took a small bottle of ink from the boss's cabinet, a pen with a rusted pen, a flat white paper with a wrinkle, and a letter. Come.

Before writing the first word, he worriedly looked at the door and the window, and squinted at the dim image, the two sides of the statue are two rows of shelves, the shelves are full of hoes. He sighed and squatted in front of the stage, laying the piece of paper on the stage.

"Dear grandfather Constantine Makalic," he wrote. "I am writing to you. I wish you a happy Christmas and ask God to bless you. I have no mother, only one of you. It is."

Vanka looked at the dark window, and the glass window reflected the vague shadow of the candle; he imagined his grandfather Constantine Makaric, as if the grandfather was in front of him. - Grandpa is the night watchman at the home of Mrs. Loughov. He is a very interesting little old man, 65 years old, always squinting with a smile. During the day, he always sleeps in the big kitchen. In the evening, he wore a wide sheepskin, knocked on his throat, and walked around the villa. The old bitch Kahidanka and the male dog muddy head down behind him. Loach is a very obedient dog that is very flattering. It is black, as long as a weasel, so it is muddy.

Now, Grandpa must stand at the gate and squint at the red window of the country church. He must be licking the feet of high boots, his scorpion hanging on the belt, he was frozen into a ball, shrugged his shoulders...

The weather is so nice, sunny, there is no wind, dry and cold. It was a night without a moon, but the whole village - the white roof, a smoky smoke from the chimney, covered with thick frost and silver trees, snow piles, all visible. The sky is full of stars staring happily, and the Tianhe seems very clear, as if for the holidays, someone has polished it with snow...

Vanka sighed and licked the nib, then wrote it down.

"Last night I savagely beat, because when I gave them whelp rocks the cradle, unknowingly fell asleep. Boss tugging at my hair, dragged me into the yard, take the belt hit my meal This week, the proprietress asked me to pack a herring. I picked it up from the tail. She picked up the herring and took the fish mouth and poked my face. The guys teased me and they sent me to the hotel to get a drink. They called I stole the boss's cucumber, and the boss hit me with a guy. I didn't eat it. I had a little bread in the morning, lunch was a gruel, and at night it was a bit of bread. As for the dishes, tea, only the boss. They just ate and ate. They told me to sleep in the aisle, their little scorpion cried, I didn't want to sleep, I had to shake the cradle. Dear grandfather, send compassion, take me out of here, go home, back Go to our village! I can't stand it anymore!... I will leave you, I will pray for you forever. Take me out of here, or else, I will die!..."

Vanka grinned, rubbed his eyes with dirty hands and twitched.

"I will pick up the tobacco for you," he continued. "I will pray for God. If I do something wrong, you will hit me hard. If you are afraid that I can't find a job." I can go to the butler, look at God, let me polish my shoes; or, I will ask Fajika to promise me to help him. Dear grandfather, I can’t stand it anymore, only dead. One!! I originally wanted to run back to our village, but I don't have shoes, and I am afraid of cold. When I grow up, I will take care of you, no one dares to bully you.

"Talking about Moscow, this is a big city, the houses are all lords, there are many horses, no sheep, the dogs are not fierce at all. At Christmas, the children here are not walking around with the stars, church The choir in the room is not allowed to go to the choir casually. One time, I saw a hook that was sold with a fishing rod in the window of a shop. It can fish a variety of fish, which is very expensive. There is a kind of even worthy of one. The heavy squid. I also saw some shops selling all kinds of robs. Like the guns of our bosses, I want to sell a hundred rubles for a gun. There are mountains in the butcher shop, oh, hare. ...but those things were called, the guys in the store refused to say.

"Dear grandfather, when the lord hangs candy on the Christmas tree, please pick a golden walnut and hide it in my green scorpion."

Vanka sighed sadly and stared at the window. He always wants to go to the woods to cut the Christmas tree, always grandfather, grandfather always take him. What a happy day! The frozen mountain forest slammed, and the grandfather coughed coldly. He also coughed with coughing... To cut the Christmas tree, Grandpa smoked a cigarette first, then smoked for a while, and with the frozen The card is funny for a while. ... Many small banyan trees are covered with thick frost, standing there motionless, waiting to see which one is damn. Suddenly I didn’t know where to jump out of a hare, and the arrow ran through the snow. Grandpa couldn't help but scream, "Catch it, catch it, catch it! Hey, short-tailed ghost!"

Grandpa dragged the cut tree back to the old man's house, and everyone dressed the tree.

"Come on, dear grandfather," Vanka then wrote. "I beg you to look at the face of Christ and take me out of here. Pity me this unfortunate orphan. Everyone here beat me. I am hungry. It’s terrible, so lonely, I can’t stand it. I’m always crying. One day, the boss took my head and hit my head. I passed out and it’s so easy to wake up. My life is not counting, even the dogs It’s better!...I greet Aria, greeting the one-eyed Aiguer, greeting the coachman. Don’t let other people take my little organ. Your grandson Ivan Zhukov. Dear grandfather, come on!”

Vanka folded the paper full of words into four folds and put it in an envelope that was bought by a Gobi the night before. He thought for a moment, licking the ink and writing the address.

"Country Grandpa"

Then he grabbed his head and thought about it, adding a few words.

"Constantin Makaric"

He was very satisfied that no one bothered him to write a letter, he put on his hat, didn't even wear a broken skin, just wore a shirt and ran to the street... The night before, he asked the guy in the butcher shop, the man told him that the letter It should be thrown in the mailbox, from there by post to the locals. There were also three horses on the mail truck, ringing the bell and sitting on a drunken postman. Vanka ran to the first postbox and stuffed his precious letter into it.

After an hour, he fell asleep with sweet hope. He saw a warmth in his dreams, sitting on his grandfather, pulling his legs, reading his letter... muddy walking around, shaking his tail...

But after all, dreams are awake. On the streets of Christmas, occasionally you will pass a carriage, which is the noble lady of the noble family to sell gifts, or go to the aristocratic school to go to the party. A carriage slowly approached the door of the store. The horse was not like the carriage of the mayor's family. Vanka had seen the horse of the mayor. That was the year before, the Tsar passed the city. In the winter, most of the people still wore undressed clothes. Under the coercion of the police, they had to hold the bouquets and ribbons that were sent to the street barefoot, to go in the cold wind. Welcome their great tsar.

The tsar and queen wore a robes made from polar bears hunted from Siberia, and the queen's neck was surrounded by a fur made of arctic fox fur. The scarf sold in the old Kajia shop is far worse than this, but he still licks his oily and wrinkled shirt collar, and the second button is the first buttonhole. - The first button was torn off when Xiaolinna had her mother quarreled - and then he wiped his face with a hand full of banknotes. He didn't understand why the Tsar and the Queen came so early, and he had to get up early without washing his face. However, the old card family is still very excited, because after all, it is the tsar, he hopes that the tsar or the queen can look at him, just like the city people want to go to his store to buy things as long as they want.

By the way, let's talk about the mayor's horse. It follows the Tsar's Ford sedan. Russia has a factory that can make a car that is not as good as the United States. Some people say that the jewelry that the queen brought is a car. The money was bought - it was a white horse, and it was all meat on the body. Vanka didn't know the word "fullness", so he could only use this sentence to describe it - the white hair on it was like snow. The snow, mane and tail hair of Kajiaxiang is probably just sprayed by Mafu in the morning. It is blown by the wind, and there is a familiar fragrance from the horse. Oh, that is the smell of shampoo used by the boss. She often said that shampoo is the best and most expensive, at least in the city, I don't know what she smells when she smells the horse - on the wide belly of the grasslands of Mana Donets, from From top to bottom, it is made of Chinese silk – this is what he bought from a British captain who went to Yuanmingyuan – and this is because his horse is more noble and more identifiable, but he No, because there are many people in the city who have horses?

There is exactly one owner who is served by Vanka. It is not as good as the horse fat of the mayor's family. It is not as good as the horse. It is not as noble as the horse. But the boss thinks his horse is still good, just like his character. The skinny horse pulled the boss's car to the door of the store with its legs like the father's crutches.

When Vanka woke up, he woke up very quickly because the boss was back. He saw the horse's tail through the window - the tail is the most conspicuous position of the horse, the so-called "horse hair thin" - was made into a beautiful flower scorpion, with a color rope. This is of course a description of the flower scorpion, but if the scorpion is a pony tail and the tail of the boss's house, then the big thing is not good. It's like wearing a tights on the hillside of the little sister Lin's mother, which is what the ballerina wears. What it looks like can be imagined. This is the case in front of the horse, but in terms of the boss's aesthetics - he often compares the boss to the Mona Lisa - is very beautiful. The tail was compiled by the boss in order to go to church on Christmas Eve and take up his usual time. Because he thinks that although his shop is a little smaller, although his horse is a little worse, but he still has to do his best to face it, for example, to make the pony tail into a flower scorpion, so that you can boast in front of the old ladies. However, if Van Caz, who hasn't had much experience, hears the boss's speech with his horse's tail, Vanka will think it is more disgusting than talking about pig butt.

The boss squirmed his body - he didn't squirm like this, but twisted - walked over into the store. Finally, Vanka knows why the boss is so abnormal. When the store door is pushed open, the smell of a strong Volga is coming, and the boss is swaying and almost fell on Vanka, but it seems that the bedroom is more attractive to him. Some of them, the figure fell down like this, and went to bed. At this time, the door opened again. It was the proprietress, and the smell of agave came to her face. She almost went to Vanka, but she finally fell on the bed. In this way, after a footstep, the store resumed silence. Vanka calmed down after a sigh of relief. He should have been sitting still at this time. If he is still sitting, he will be dead.

Now, Vanka thought, sitting on his own is no problem, no one knows, and this floor is not rubbed. He gradually relaxed and remembered the letter to Grandpa. Just as Vanka leaned against the table and thought of Grandpa, his eyes were fixed on Vanka. The masters of these eyes were not adults, but he thought of a sinful thing with an adult heart.

The guy is back, he wanted to put the wife in the neighborhood, but I didn’t think they were faster than the rabbit. They didn’t need to help, and they walked toward the bed like an apple. Seeing that the boss and the proprietress are gone, go to sleep, and the guy is also very tired. The party at the Vladimir House on the Third Street was really noisy yesterday. Now I think it’s a headache, so the guy decided to go to sleep. Let's go. Just as he settled his horse and entered the house from the back door to go to sleep, he saw a person from the aisle, it was Vanka. Although it is also from a foreign land, it is not an adult, but the man has no good impression of Vanka. Because in his heart, though only 16 or 17 years old, he has produced many hearts, which made him a hypocrisy, full of fraud and jealousy. The buddy did not allow anyone outside the store and his family to dare to disobey him. Vanka became the next unpopular person in his tyranny. Yes, Vanka, an apprentice, although not liked by the boss, but his intelligence and dexterity make the buddy feel guilty. The buddy always regards Vanka as a stab in the eyes, for fear that Van Kay will replace his position. This is why the buddy is generated in the heart of the man – he wants to get rid of the competitor.

Although the boss and the proprietress drank too much, they were still good after all. They woke up in the afternoon. When the boss came out of the room, stretched his arms, pumped his waist and then snorted again. After finally waking up, he found that the store was no different from usual, so he went to the money, and the boss was not as good as the boss. Many bad things, just got out of bed and rushed out of the store door and went out. What about Vanka? He was rubbing the floor, and the footsteps that came back came without disturbing his heart. He still thought of Grandpa in his heart.

The man finally started his plan. When the boss took the money, his expression was very focused. It was at this moment that the sky would not make him move to the place. The buddy came in, he came to help with the bookkeeping. As a result, the sound of the banknotes and the sound of the pen tip sliding one after another. The boss is really a veteran. His work, especially related to money, is definitely speed and quality. The boss leaned back in the chair and found that the buddy worked hard today and made tea for himself. This kid is not bad today, the boss thought, so he said to the buddy, you come to eat with us today, and then you go out. The buddy is also secretly happy, he finally got a chance to think about the boss and the boss.

After all, it is Christmas, and the boss seems to be a lot looser. As long as the card keeps working, the wife will not pay attention to him, and it will not pick up the bones in the egg as in the past. This makes Vanka a lot easier. Although he has a lot of things, it is really easy for ordinary people. Finally, at night, Vanka did not expect the boss price to give him anything delicious, but when he slept, he could dream of grandfather. He is still full of hope for his letter. Vanka drank the porridge and licked the bread, and in the restaurant not far from the aisle, the boss, the boss and the buddy were eating big fish. At this moment, the buddy spoke up, and he saw that Vanka was lazy and didn't work and added a lot of vinegar and oil. He went back to the pot and gave it to the boss and the proprietress. The consequences can be imagined, where the boss and the boss are still eating, the fire is suddenly rising, the boss will go to the whip, and the boss will take a fork from the table and rush out. The man was naturally very happy. He only went out with his sleeves, because he didn't think about Vanka's death.

In the dim light, Vanka screamed because he was whipping, and he wondered why the drunk boss and the boss would know that he was lazy, and he never thought it would be a secret. The boss smacked while wearing a rough air, but also swearing Vanka: "Tell you a dog scorpion lazy, do not work, but dare to steal bread, it is against you." For lazy Fan card can not be denied, but where to steal Bread, Vanka really feels awkward. He resisted the pain and said: "Old - boss, I - did not steal - steal bread." The boss listened, stopped the whip in his hand, "I really didn't steal?" "Really. You are a courage to me. I don’t dare to steal the bread.” After the boss listened, the asthma was getting thicker and thicker. Vanka thought the boss was tired, but the boss suddenly waved his arm and took it on the leg of Vanka. Vanka began to think that it was He punched, did not expect a punch, Vanka felt a painful heart, blood suddenly smashed Vanka's single pants. The original boss stabbed the fork into the meat of Vanka. "That's the opposite. I dare to argue...." The boss is a little tired. He doesn't care about Vanka's wounds. He said to the buddy: "Put him in." In the horse shed." The man pretended to care about Vanka's appearance and said: "Boss, look, Vanka looks like this, it's so cold outside, look..." "What do you call, what do you do?" The boss was still very angry but also very tired, so he went back to the house.

The boss left, and the guy turned to look at Vanka, as if he had passed out, watching Vanka's bloody legs, the man showed a hint of laughter. I thought: Vanka is goodbye, who told you to be so unlucky? After that, he dragged Vanka and left. Instead of going to the back door of the horse shed, I went to the front door and went to the street.

The man planned this way. Vanka had a wound on his body and it was so cold outside. He still went outside and could not live. If the boss asked, he said that he had escaped and he was frozen in the street. So Vanka was thrown by a buddy next to a litter box a few blocks away. Looking at Van Ka's weak figure, the man smiled again. He didn't expect his plan to succeed so quickly.

Vanka, his only nine-year-old life is moving toward death step by step. In his trembling little mouth, he spoke two words - Grandpa.

As the day grew brighter, Vanka slowly opened his tired eyes. But he still doesn't know that the boss and the boss are already armed and waiting for him to wake up. When Fanka opened his eyes, the boss angered Vanka and said: "Boy! You dare to be lazy and not work! Want to rebel? Today I am not dying you!"

The boss started an "earthquake" here, and the "volcano" on the boss's side broke out. The evil couple went all the way to the unresisting Vanka until he was beaten and bruised.

After being beaten, Vanka was very sad and angry. He thought, "I can't stay here again. Grandpa may not receive my letter for a while, I can only go back to the village by my own strength... Ok! Go tomorrow night!"

The next night, Vanka finished the work. He looked at the boss, the proprietress, and the guy who slept in the store. He quietly took a pair of shoes in the store and quickly escaped from Moscow.

He walked for three days and was not far from the village, but he was cold and hungry. He was finally one fell away from the village one kilometer away.

It is also a coincidence that when the mud just came out for food, it saw the little master who had been away for a long time, and immediately dragged him back home, let the grandfather take care of Xiaofanka, and wanted the little master to get better soon.

When Fanka returned to his home, he was very excited, because he could live with his grandfather again.

After two hours, Vanka woke up, and the boss and the boss looked at him with anger. The boss fought with a stick and beat Fan Kapi to open his mouth. He kept groaning in his mouth: "You ate. The bear heart leopard is daring, actually sleeping. Yes, I know that I am lazy, dare to tease me, and start learning bad." The boss's voice increased by eight degrees.

Suddenly, the wife of "volcano" has erupted, grabbing the hair where the card, take the belt hit the skinny, fragile any card, any card passed out.

He finally woke up, took the dirty hand and rubbed the wound, and the wound was cut like a knife. Vanka cried sadly, crying so sad, that the stone would be touched by him.

His tears were dry and he was determined to escape. He quickly rushed out of the store and went straight to the village. Just as he ran to a place not far from the village, suddenly he saw a face that was very familiar and sinister. what! It is the boss! The boss took his hair back to the store, tied the weak Vanka to a branch and slammed it. How did Vanka endure such abuse? His eyes were blurred, tears poured out, crying so sad, crying so sad. At this time, he was black in front of him, and he could not see anything. He only saw Grandpa - Constantine Makaric with the male dog muddy and the old bitch Kahidanka to save him. Grandpa filed a complaint against Ariahi. Nie went to court, and the demon of Ariachini was hanged on the spot, letting the person he bullied come to him for revenge...

Vanka hopes to return to his grandfather's side, he hopes, tells...

"Hey--" The boss kicked the door open and saw that Vanka was hiding in a corner, was sleeping, suddenly took a slap in the face, picked up a bucket of water and poured it on Vanka. Vanka opened his eyes and blinded, he thought that his grandfather came to pick him up, and he shouted: "Grandpa!" "Grandpa? Who is your grandfather, stinky boy! I am going out, to sleep. The wings are long and hard, right? I want to fly out! I don’t have a lesson to teach you today!” Vanka knows that the boss who is poisonous is back. The boss sipped: "Man, take my skin. Today I really have to teach this stinky boy!" The guys immediately put on a hard belt, the boss clenched the belt tightly, his eyes filled with anger, He walked step by step to Vanka, and the danger of Vanka will be approached step by step. The fierce boss slammed Xiaofanka down to the ground, peeled off his trousers, and smashed the buttocks of Vanka with a belt. Vanka had a sharp pain, but he didn't cry because he knew that once he cried, the boss would be heavier, and the guys on the side would not come to help Vanka, but also laughed at the poor Xiaofanka: "Like him. Child, it’s really a country, I don’t know how high!”

Then, Vanka had to endure the severe pain that was whipped by the belt, and he did the work: rubbing the floor, wiping the glass, and cleaning up the herring... Where the body of the virtual van, could withstand this toss, almost, Vanka is tired and goes down...

By the time of lunch, Vanka licked the buttocks that had been whipped by the boss with a belt, licking the waist that was sore and tired, and picked up a bowl of porridge that was so low that he plunged straight into his throat. And the boss and the boss wife! Then eat and drink in the living room, the hearty lunch on the table, the aroma is overflowing, and at first glance, people are drooling. Look, even the boss's dog has eaten the squid big squid! Vanka looked at the boss and licked his own lunch: the bowl of porridge that could be well served, could not help but sigh. He recalled the good old days he had spent in the country with his grandfather...

"Bad boy, still squatting after eating, is it not looking for a fight, not dead! I will not give it to work!" The angry boss yelled and raised the belt again...

Vanka is busy again, he keeps thinking: Grandpa, why don't you pick me up?

As night fell, Vanka touched the hungry and hungry belly, and chilled and looked at the heavy snow outside the window.

"Wow, wow, wow..." The cries of the little scorpion made Vanka wake up, and the boss heard it: "You stinky, lazy! Make my little sister cry, happy!" "No, no..." The boss can't distinguish the small card, like a mad dog, ruthlessly tapping on Van Ka's weak body with a belt.

Once again, the boss of the heart was beaten, so that Vanka clearly knew that he could not stay in the shoemaker's shop again, or else, one day, he would be killed by the boss! He thought of running away! He resolutely got up and rushed into the heavy snow.

The cold wind screamed, the people on the street were wrapped in thick cotton jackets, and Vanka, wearing a thin, 5 or 6 patch of broken clothes; pants, only half. Because the boss thinks that Vanka is sometimes too disobedient, and he can't deflate him, so he calls his beloved dog to pull the trousers of Vanka. Over time, Vanka's pants are pulled out with only half of it; There are no socks and shoes in the card. He can only walk in the cold and frozen street with a pair of red-hot feet. From time to time, Vanka still has to tighten his belt...

Suddenly, Vanka flew a carriage opposite, Vanka did not pay attention, suddenly fell into a pool of blood. "Call--" the carriage stopped. It turned out that the drunken postman drove the car to the Vanka. The postman not only did not leave the carriage to save the card, but scornfully said to Vanka: "Poor boy, hit the dead! Write a letter - do not post stamps, no Write the address of the addressee, who will send it to you!" After that, he will tear it with his hand, tear it again, tear it again, then tear it again... The hand is raised, the wind blows, the letter written by Fanka to Grandpa becomes ten million The butterfly flutters in the sky... Vanka uses the last breath of the rest and gently screams: "Yeah-ye..." With the last strength of the rest, he took a piece of debris and placed it on his chest. , slowly dying...

The sun rose, and the soft sun shone on Vanika's skinny body. His lips were white and his mouth was hung with a smile: he might be thinking, Grandpa would come to pick him up from the sea of ​​bitterness.

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