In September 1944, as the Second World War was drawing to a close, the Soviet Union signed an armistice agreement with Finland, which was on the
enemy side
.
Finland withdrew from the war. However, the Soviet and German armies fighting on the remote Soviet-Finnish border did not yet understand the situation. Of course, Nazi Germany has always distrusted its allies. A bizarre and ordinary story happened at such a special time and place. (Note 1) On
the Soviet-Finnish border, near a wooden bridge where the two sides often engage in tug-of-war, there is a bushy hill. A road winds its way past the mountain to the distance beyond the wooden bridge. A German lieutenant led his three snipers and two Finnish soldiers on the mission here. On the hillside, a German sniper looked down at a target on the road down the mountain through the scope of a light machine gun. The target was the empty can placed on a stone, and that stone was very close to the street sign that stood beside the wooden bridge. A German sniper stands next to a stone. The sniper on the mountain shot the empty can from the stone. The one at the foot of the mountain raised his hands and cheered, then ran towards the mountain bag.
At the same time, another sniper on the mountain said to the young Finnish soldier in German: "Change clothes!"
The Finnish soldier's name was Vigo, very young, about 20 years old, with a simple and honest face. He obediently took off his Finnish uniform and put on a Nazi uniform.
At this time, the German lieutenant ordered the elderly Finnish sappers to drive a long steel drill into a bare rock at the top of the mountain. The Finnish sapper took the hammer and hammered it again and again for a while before smashing the steel rod into the rock. We saw a thick iron chain about 3 meters long attached to the steel rod. On the other end of the chain was a pair of fetters.
"It's nailed," said the Finnish engineer to the lieutenant.
"Past, private," the lieutenant ordered Viggo.
Viggo walked up the hill and sat on the rock. He put the shackles around his ankles, plucked a daisy from a crevice in the rock, and sniffed it.
The older Finnish sapper hands Vigo the hammer. Viggo placed it under the joints of the shackles, and the sappers nailed the shackles.
"This is the place you chose?" Viggo asked the sapper.
"I chose it, don't you like it?" the engineer asked rhetorically.
"What did he say?" asked the German sniper who was examining Viggo's rucksack.
"He said it was a good position for the sharpshooter," replied the other sniper.
"Are the glasses here?" the former sniper asked, holding up a pair of glasses.
"Let's stay." The latter replied.
We saw a military coat lying on the ground next to Vigo, with several bullets, several food cans, a submachine gun, a bucket of water, a water cup, a wrench, and a military knife on it. ...that pair of glasses was also thrown into the pile.
The German lieutenant also came over and said to Viggo: "Before we disappear, sit there and don't move. If you want to get a weapon, they will shoot."
"I never shoot behind people." Viggo was calm say.
"Everyone says that, but Fat Yossi ate a gun here last week," retorted a German sniper.
Except for Vigo who was sitting on the rock, the five people quickly picked up their weapons and luggage, facing Vigo and going backwards down the mountain. The German lieutenant was the last to leave, raising his clenched fist and shouting to Vigo:
"Good luck! Private, goodbye!"
The individual had already fled into the woods by the roadside down the mountain.
"Damn." He cursed, and began to rescue himself.
He pressed the muzzle of his gun against a link in the chain, and tried to spread his feet as far as possible to keep the chain straight. "Bang!" He pulled the trigger. However, the heavy chain was only broken out by a bullet, and it was not broken at all.
Vigo got up and broke the branches around the rock, and piled the branches on the rock around the steel drill. He picked up the glasses beside him, removed the lenses with a military knife, and glued the edges of the two lenses together to make a convex lens. He focused the lens on the sun and ignited the branches, allowing the burning branches to braze the rocks and steel. He picked up the bucket and filled the glass with water, and poured it violently on the embers of the burned branches, hoping that the sudden cooling would crack the rocks. But when he picked up the hot ashes with a wrench, he saw only a few pieces of the rock burst open. He picked up an iron chain with a wrench and pulled it hard, but the steel brazing under the chain remained motionless, still staring deeply into the rock.
At this moment, two Soviet fighter jets appeared in the air, roaring and circling around hills, wooden bridges and roads. Vigo hurried to hide... Fortunately, the two planes didn't find anything and flew away after circling for a while.
Seeing that the Soviet plane flew away, Viggo immediately got up and continued the self-rescue work of breaking branches, setting fires, watering, and cooling. Anyway, he had time...
There were groups of Soviet soldiers on the road. An open-top jeep was parked on the side of the road with three people in it: the driver, the young lieutenant, and the slightly older lieutenant Karduzov.
A Soviet sergeant pointed to the hillside and said to the driver, "Continue along the hill, do you see it?"
"See, what is ahead?" the driver asked.
"There's a bridge that's been blown up and charred...and there's a shoal nearby," the sergeant said.
At the same time, a Soviet major was leaning against the jeep, talking to Lieutenant Karduzov in the back seat. He was only heard to say to Karduzov:
"You are an honest officer and a good man. I believe you are innocent."
"Stop talking!" He kept combing his hair and moustache while stopping the major.
At this time, the driver had already inquired about the road ahead; the sergeant reported to the second lieutenant:
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, it's time to go."
"Let's go." The second lieutenant put away his mirror and ordered.
The jeep started, and the sergeant shouted from behind: "Good wind."
There were many craters on the road, and the jeep bumped all the way, almost throwing the people in the car several times.
"Be careful!" said the second lieutenant to the driver.
"Look how bad this road is!" the driver complained.
Just then, the wheel sank into a crater and the car stalled.
The second lieutenant greeted a group of young soldiers passing by the roadside: "Slavs, hurry up and help push it!" Several soldiers came to help push the cart.
"Uncle, I know you. You worked at our shooting range," a soldier said to Karduzov, who was pushing a cart while raising his head.
"Which range?" Karduzov asked.
"The one next to the small market."
"Which market?"
"Ours, the market in Beretsk."
" No." "Exactly
, but you had a beard back then."
"Don't talk to criminals!" The lieutenant spoke.
"It's you!" Xiaobing insisted and ran away.
"Thank you! Child!" Carduzov said towards the soldier's back.
The Jeep moved on again.
Vigo is still lighting the fire, pouring cold water on the hot rocks, cracking the rocks bit by bit, and taking the time to eat the food in the can and drink some water. Suddenly he heard the sound of a car and hurriedly fetched a submachine gun. Through the scope, he saw the open-top jeep driving on the road and Carduzov in the car. The car stopped at the bridge. The bridge was charred and ruined. The car can't pass.
"Is it still far?" the second lieutenant asked anxiously.
"Ghost knows. Is it still far, Lieutenant?" said the driver.
"I don't know, I haven't walked this road. Comrade Lieutenant, can you leave for a while?" Carduzov said, getting out of the car.
Two fighter jets suddenly flew towards the jeep. The huge roar made the second lieutenant lie down on the ground, holding his head in horror.
Standing proudly beside the jeep, Carduzov said with a smile, "Comrade Second Lieutenant, this is our plane."
The Second Lieutenant stood up nonchalantly, took out a small mirror and a comb, brushed his hair, and said, "Myself He has eyes."
"Comrade Lieutenant, can I go for convenience?" Carduzov asked.
"Go, don't try to run, or I'll shoot."
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, can you find some paper there?"
"Only your diary, but not for you. It has something written on it, and it's involved. To your anti-Soviet correspondence with your friends. If it were me, I would have shot you without a court, without arrest..."
Carduzov had already run to the woods for convenience. The second lieutenant was still brushing his hair in the mirror, babbling viciously.
Suddenly two fighter planes flew back and dropped bombs, the car was overturned on the side of the road, and a sea of fire was ignited around it.
All this, Vigo on the mountain could see clearly through the scope. After the plane took off, Carduzov limped out of the grove. The sight in front of him was horrific: the jeep was blown up and burned out; the second lieutenant was lying on the ground, his eyes staring at the sky, he was dying; the driver was blown to pieces on the river beach. Carduzov took off the second lieutenant's boot, slung it over his shoulder, and walked with difficulty toward the woods.
On the hill, Viggo's gun was always aimed at Carduzov, but he didn't fire. Watching Carduzov leave, Viggo was still climbing and breaking branches, burning fires, watering the rocks, and cracking the rock piece by piece. The branches around him were all burnt, and the chains restricted his movement. He had to lie on the ground and stretch his arms to reach the branches in the distance. Although repeated efforts failed to pull him out of the steel, he was not discouraged. Looking at the setting sun, he sat down and ate something. Then, go ahead and save yourself.
The sky was getting dark, and Vigo felt a chill. He stood up, put on his military coat, wrapped it tightly, and looked into the distance.
The Saami (note 2) woman Anni carried a bucket to the shoal at the edge of the woods. She squatted down, picked up the water and wanted to drink it. She seemed to smell the strange smell of the water, so she raised her head and looked around. She found a briefcase in the water, hurriedly picked it up, wiped it dry with her sleeve, and carried it back. She walked along the shallows, around the grove, and returned to her shack. Sitting next to the fire pond, she was cooking while thinking that something must have happened over the bridge. After a quick bite, she put on her boots and was back on the road beside the bridge. She first saw the jeep that was bombed to pieces on the bridge, and then saw the dead second lieutenant. She went over to close the ensign's eyes and dragged him into the woods. On the shoal and on the highway, she collected the corpses of the drivers scattered around, and finally dragged Karduzov, who had fallen on the edge of the woods, into the forest, ready to bury them together.
When she threw dirt on Karduzov, Karduzov seemed to be choking on the dirt and coughed. It turned out that he wasn't dead, he was just injured and passed out. The woman dragged him back to her place. All of this also entered the field of vision of Vigo's sight.
Anni settled Karduzov, took his family to the deer pen, first squeezed some deer milk, and then stroked the deer's neck while comforting in a low voice in Saami: "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you. You, only take a little of your strength, it is what the patient needs, don't be afraid..." After speaking, he slashed the deer's neck, took some of the deer's blood in a vial, and then covered the deer's wound with herbs. live.
Anni went back to the shack, boiled the deer milk and mixed it with deer blood. Seeing that Carduzov was still asleep, she applied a homemade ointment to the wound on his chest. Suddenly, Karduzov regained consciousness and muttered to himself, "Where am I?" Seeing that he was awake, Anni hurriedly took the milk laced with deer blood and said to him in Saami: "This pair of men has The good, can make you recover..." Carduzov sat up: "I want..." Although he spoke Russian, Anni immediately understood. She made him lie down, picked up the urinal and stuffed it into the quilt to pick up the urine for him. She turned her head away from looking at him, and comforted him in Saami language: "Don't be shy, you are recovering, take care of your injury." The urinal was sent out of the shack, and when he came back, he watched him finish drinking the deer milk.
In the cold night, Vigo on the mountain continued to work hard to pull out the steel rod and save himself. By the end of the day, the cans had been eaten, the water in the bucket had been used up, and the nearby branches had been burned. Although the rock cracked layer by layer, the brazing steel remained strong. Disappointed, Vigo looked around and finally came up with a solution. He withdrew the bullet from the gun chamber, pulled out the warhead, poured the gunpowder around the steel drill and ignited it. He quickly wrapped his coat over his head and hid under the rock as far away from the blast as possible. "Bang!" With an explosion, the steel drill finally loosened, but it still couldn't be pulled out. Viggo saw a large rock on the hillside and wanted to use it to break the rock under his feet, but the iron chains on the fetters restricted his movement. He put the belt on the submachine gun around the big rock, and dragged it closer to him little by little...
Vigo lifted the big rock and smashed the rock under his feet, once, twice... Finally, the rock was smashed open. He held the steel drill and tried hard, and the steel drill finally came out. But he also fell to the bare rock with too much force. Out of breath, Viggo threw off the steel drill, and jumped up excitedly, ignoring that he was still dragging the chain with the shackles on his feet. "Hmph, Lieutenant, do you think I can't escape? I'm going to pee on your grave!" He shouted triumphantly from the top of the hill.
Viggo picked up the chain, took the gun, and walked down the mountain. The cloudy sky in the distance revealed dawn.
The rocky beachhead, the sparse trees, the misty morning mist, all were silent, and occasionally a few birdsongs were heard. Only the crisp clanging sound of the iron chain cut through the silence around. The shackles didn't hinder Viggo's walking very much. He stepped forward on the moss-covered rocks, looking around vigilantly from time to time. When he walked out of the grove by the roadside, his eyes suddenly opened up: there was a Saami residence in the grove at the foot of the distant mountain. Shacks, tree houses, firewood and haystacks, deer enclosures, and fish ponds are built in an orderly manner by the side of a calm lake. A flower dog roamed around the shack, where a Saami woman was busy, in what seemed to be a hideaway from the war. Viggo watched Annie through the scope. He concluded that there would be no danger here, so he carried his gun and chain to the Saami woman's residence.
Annie stood in front of the shack with a wooden bowl in his hand, and the other hand kept stirring the bowl with a spoon. She looked curiously at Viggo who was approaching.
Viggo stepped forward and said loudly in Finnish, "Good morning! I have to take the chains off. I need a blacksmith. Do you understand? Do you speak Finnish? I want to take this off."
Annie looked up and down Looking at Vigo, seeing the chains in his hands and the iron shackles on his feet, he said in Saami, "You want to take off the shackles. Are you a prisoner?"
Because of the language barrier, they did not understand what the other was saying something.
Viggo still said in Finnish: "I don't understand what you say. Do you speak Finnish? Are you a Saami? I need a blacksmith, understand? You live here alone? Are there any men? I have to take off the chain. I can't walk like this." The
woman put the wooden bowl on the shelf in front of the shack, and calmly said to him in Saami, "You are yelling too much. .I've never seen a chain that can be taken off just by screaming. Let me see, my husband still has some tools." He turned and opened the door to go in. Viggo wanted to go in after seeing the situation, Anni turned around and gestured to stop him from entering the shack.
Vigo had to wait outside. He looked around and walked around. Clothes soaked in a wooden tub by the shack caught his attention. Using the barrel of his gun, he picked out a cap with a Soviet badge on it. He thought for a while, then threw the general's hat back into the tub, looked around alertly, and hurried to the shack. He pulled open the door of the shack, got into the dim shack, and walked inside while looking at it.
In the center of the shack is a fire pit, next to which Carduzov sleeps, and the Saami woman sits and grinds coffee. Carduzov, who was sleeping under the quilt, kept staring at Viggo, but Anni didn't look up.
Vigo said in Finnish: "This is your husband? Sick? Injured?" Then he lifted the quilt over Carduzov.
Anni immediately rushed over and looked at Vigo worriedly, and covered Carduzov with the quilt. Seeing that Vigo had no intention of taking any further action, he sat back and continued to grind coffee.
Carduzov saw clearly that Viggo was wearing a Nazi uniform, and scolded: "German devil? SS?"
Viggo said in Finnish: "Russian, I'm not German. You think I'm from the Nord Army? It's this uniform that misunderstands you. They forced me to change into this uniform, yes For fear of us being caught by them. You don't like the Germans, especially this uniform?"
Karduzov said in German: "Raise your hands and surrender, Hitler is finished!"
Viggo understood and sat down beside Karduzov, Still in Finnish: "This is the German you know? Yes, don't be afraid. For me, the war is over, I take off the chain and go home." He grabbed the chain under his feet and showed him .
Annie looked up at the two of them from time to time, and seeing that they were just talking but not doing anything, he calmly adjusted his hat and continued to grind coffee.
Carduzov didn't understand what Vigo was talking about. He cursed with disdain: "Cuckoo (Note 4), fuck your mother."
Vigo ignored his words and continued to speak in Finnish: "Ah, you are That person in the jeep..." While speaking, he gestured to drive a car, dive, and bomb, and at the same time he made a corresponding "sudden! slam! slam!". "I don't understand why the Russian planes are still shooting at you," he said, puzzled.
Karduzov said in Russian, "Shoot, little bastard. I don't care, I'm going to be locked behind bars anyway. Vigo was still gesturing in Finnish and said, "
My name is Vigo, what about you? Is your name Ivan?"
Carduzov thought he was German, so he scolded him in Russian: "Fuck you . Go!"
Viggo, who didn't understand Russian, thought he was calling "you go away". He pointed to Carduzov and said in Finnish: "Get out of the way." He pointed to himself: "Vigo." Then he pointed to Anni and asked, "What about you? What's your name?"
Anni understood what he meant. , replied in Saami: "My name is Anni. It's not good to tell you my real name, my heart will be stolen."
Viggo knew everyone's names, and was obviously very happy. He pointed to Anni and said, "Ani..." Then he pointed to Carduzov, and said "...'You go away'", and pointed to himself: "... Viggo. Nice to meet you. It's a pity, there's nothing to celebrate our first meeting." Then he said to Carduzov: "Don't look at me like that. Neurotic. It's not easy for someone who was doomed to survive."
Karduzov actually replied in Russian that he understood.
The nagging Viggo finally saw that he was not welcomed by others. But he still said in Finnish: "I don't think I'm welcome here. Excuse me for disturbing your peace! I'll take off the chain and go.
" Ami said: "Let's go, I'll get you tools." The two walked out of the shack one after another.
At this point Karduzov struggled to sit up. He glanced at the pots and pans beside the bed, and took out a table knife...
Annie and Viggo came to the yard. Anni found a toolbox by the haystack and pointed it to Viggo: "This is my husband's toolbox." Although she spoke Saami, Viggo understood. He stepped forward, rummaged through the contents of the toolbox, picked up a pocket knife, and asked in Finnish: "Does your husband make knives? Lappish knives? I have a good knife like this. "
Annie wasn't thinking about her husband at the moment. She looked at Vigo up and down, and asked gently in Saami language: "It seems that you are a very clever young man, and there must be many girls who are pursuing you. Have you not met one?"
Vigo just looked at the tool Box, did not understand the meaning of Anni. At this moment, he found a steel file, and sat down to file the chain under his feet. Seeing Ani still standing beside him watching him, Viggo comforted her in Finnish: "Don't worry, take off the shackles and I'll go." After speaking, he concentrated on filing the chains.
Anni watched the simple and hardworking Finnish lad. With all his strength, thin beads of perspiration appeared on his forehead. Annie's heart surged with longing: "I haven't had a husband for four years. Last night I was close to the Russian, and even though he was as drowsy as a log, I still felt pain under me and was wet... I still hurt now." She winked at Vigo: "You smell good. All men now smell of iron and death."
She babbled non-stop. Although Viggo did not understand Saami, she was willing to tell her how she felt: "There are too many mosquitoes here! When I was chained to a rock, they surrounded me and bit me. I think I'm about to eat it. It's in my bones. The skin is still itchy now! Do you have a bath here? Can you take a bath?"
Annie stroked Viggo's face with her hand again, still immersed in her own thoughts, she used Saami He said, "Your skin is so white! I have never seen a woman with such white skin... Mosquito bites you? That's because you've been taking a bath... Four years ago, no man has come. Now suddenly two! It seems that God knows my thoughts."
At this time, Karduzov was naked, wrapped in a woman's skirt, and the hand holding the knife was hidden behind him, and he came out of the shack.
Seeing Karduzov's appearance, Anni laughed: "He's wearing my dress!" She asked in Saami, "Why are you dressed like this? Like a woman..."
Viggo also laughed . sounded.
Carduzov didn't find it funny at all, and the hand holding the knife was still behind his back, approaching Vigo step by step. When he walked up to Vigo, he said viciously in Russian: "Are you still grinning, German devil? You should cry now!" As he spoke, he stabbed the knife sharply at Vigo.
Vigo flashed to the side smartly, and the knife stabbed into the wooden stake that Vigo was leaning against. And Karduzov fell to the ground with too much force.
Viggo calmly pulled the knife from the stake, held it in his hand for a while, and said calmly to Carduzov: "It's a good knife, but the handle is a little short... 'Go away', I Tell you, for me, the war is over, and I don't want to fight, and I don't want to be fought, you know?"
Carduzov couldn't understand Vigo's words, but he knew that he couldn't beat Vigo. So he sat on the ground, put on a look of death, and ordered Vigo in Russian: "Come on, kill me!"
Anni took the knife from Vigo's hand decisively, and got angry in Saami She said to the two men, "This is my husband's knife. He is not at home, this is mine. I don't want you to kill each other. I don't have time, and I don't want to bury the two of you..." She said, Go into the shack and put away the knife.
Karduzov did not understand Anni's words, nor Vigo, and he remained seated on the ground. Although he kept coughing, he still looked like a heroic sacrifice, and ordered Vigo to come and end his life: "What are you waiting for?"
"You thought I wanted to hit you," Vigo said, although he could not understand Russian, But I can understand Karduzov's expression. He still spoke earnestly about his wishes: "The war is over, my dear! Do you understand? Peace, the war is over. Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace..." But his Finnish , His sincerity failed to impress the other party.
"Shoot, bastard!" Carduzov didn't listen to his explanation. In fact, he didn't want to communicate with Vigo.
Viggo walked up to Carduzov with a gun, sat down, and asked him face-to-face: "Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, do you understand?"
Karduzov understood the Finnish phrase. But he immediately sneered in Russian: "I understand, you are fascists. You burned Tolstoy's house, Yasnaya Polyana's house!"
"I am not a fascist. I'm Finnish." Viggo could hear the other person calling him a fascist. He defended: "I was studying at a university in Sweden, and the war broke out. I didn't want to fight. The devil—Dostoevsky's The Devil..."
"What are you talking about? I don't understand. "Karduzov still couldn't understand what the Finn was saying, he said to himself.
Viggo still explained to him patiently: "I tell you, I'm tired of war and say goodbye to weapons..." He threw the gun out of his hand as he spoke, and quickly caught it with the other hand, "Hemingway's "Hemingway" Farewell, Arms", I don't know how to say it in Russian," he scratched his head in confusion, "I knew I was learning Russian, sorry, 'you get out'..."
Karduzov turned impatiently and muttered. He wrote: "What the hell, what a nuisance!"
Viggo didn't think Carduzov disliked it. He still wanted to impress him with his heart: "How beautiful this is. Yesterday I was a dying man, you don't know—I was chained to a rock, like Prometheus. How did I pull that nail out? I know all too well about the steel in the rock. I believe that fire works..." he said, gesturing, "there are other methods - not only spectacle lenses, for example, from the barrel of a gun. The bullets that exited from the inside, and the dry branches that ignited... It is said that branches can be ignited, as long as a convex lens is made... Of course, you will not understand. What I say is not important to you," he added. Turning to Carduzov and continuing to show his sincerity, "The important thing is that we are all alive - you and me. I hope that after a while people will be very scared to remember what they did in the war, maybe they don't want to. Get up... Man is a strange thing, often doing some inexplicable things, Dostoevsky said so..."
Viggo finally saw that Carduzov did not accept his sincerity at all. He had no choice but to walk away from him and go back to the haystack to file the chains on his feet. He ripped off the chain and pried off the fetters with a wrench. In this way he is completely free. He grabbed the shackles and chains and threw them on the ground.
Anni, who was watching all this, said at this time: "You can do a lot of things with this iron."
"Are you happy, fascist?"
"I've never been seen as a fascist. I'm a democrat," Vigo defended in Finnish.
"Anyway, it's fascism!" The Russian officer was firm in his convictions and refused to forgive.
"Democracy." Vigo's belief is equally firm.
"Let's eat." Annie spoke.
Vigo understood Anni's words, gestured to Karduzov and said, "Go to dinner."
Carduzov stood up and walked towards the shack. When he passed by Vigo, he said to Vigo, "I'm afraid I will come from behind. Hit you? If I hadn't been shocked, I would have beaten you. This is the second time I've been hurt, the first in the winter of 1942..."
Viggo didn't understand Karduzov's words. However, he has always been wary of this Russian. They walked into the shack one after the other.
Anni, Viggo, and Carduzov sat around the fire. Vigo quickly finished eating the contents of the wooden bowl. He asked Annie, "Can I have some more?"
Annie kept looking at Viggo. She added a little to him and said to him, "You eat a lot. If you want to eat more, you have to work more."
Although Viggo could not understand Saami, but for Anni to give himself The care is very grateful.
Carduzov also thanked Anni. He was still guessing what Anni said to Vigo, and muttered to himself: "Is it delicious? Want coffee?"
At this time, Anni really handed over the coffee.
Carduzov said, "I don't want to drink coffee. But thank you anyway." Then he took the coffee and took a sip.
After dinner, Karduzov went for a walk in the courtyard. He's been wearing Annie's dress all the time, looking a little funny. His uniform, Annie, had been washed and hung on a rope to dry.
Viggo was sitting in the yard fixing his glasses. He watched with interest Carduzov walking up and down. But when he saw Karduzov walking towards him, he was still a little nervous.
"Fool," Carduzov laughed, "smoking? Is there a cigarette? Is there a cigarette?" He gestured to Vigo.
"If there was, I would have drawn it myself." Viggo guessed what he meant.
Annie came to Vigo, pointed to his military uniform, and made a gesture of rubbing his hands: "Take it off, I'll wash it."
Vigo obediently took off his shirt.
"It's also taken off." Annie pointed to his pants again, "You like to wrap yourself in clothes too much! It doesn't matter, women like you like this."
Viggo took off his military pants again, and continued to fix his glasses.
Carduzov seemed to see something. He was a little jealous: "Listen, German devil, she likes you. I can see..."
Viggo didn't actually understand Carduzov's words, but he saw the jealousy of the Russians, so he started a friendly conversation with him. Joke: "Why are you always wearing a woman's skirt? Take it off! You look so funny..."
"Go away!" Carduzov was a little embarrassed.
"'You go away', you are quite shy like all Russians. The Saami don't understand your way. They are very simple..." Viggo also wanted to enlighten Karduzov.
But Carduzov, who knew that he was a loser in the women's issue, disliked the young man for talking too much: "You are too talkative... I heard everything you said, but I didn't understand anything.
" Tired of it, he still regards Carduzov as the object of his confession: "I saw that there are not many fish in her house, and there are not many deer. It is not easy for her to spend the winter alone, plus the two of us - two idle mouths. ...I think we should get out of here quickly." He said, his glasses had been repaired. He put on his glasses, "Actually, my eyesight is pretty good. I only wore glasses because I went to university and wanted to look more solemn. My family is poor, and the money for school is not easy to come by. In Sweden, they look down on me, I was the object of their ridicule, that's why I wore glasses and never thought they would save my life." He laughed. Then he looked back at the haystack at Annie's house: "The hay is too little prepared, I don't know if there is enough for the deer to eat. The deer can find food under the snow, and they should be taken to the winter pasture... "
Go away, stop babbling." Carduzov didn't want to listen to Vigo's non-stop babbling, so he went to put away the clothes to dry, and sat aside to take off his skirt and put on his military uniform. In this way he is more powerful.
Viggo saw Anni carrying two pieces of wood and walked over to meet him: "Come on, I'll help you." He said enthusiastically in Finnish.
"Don't dangle in front of my eyes! Otherwise I'll do stupid things and yell!" Annie pushed Viggo away.
Carduzov watched the Saami woman. He laughed and said to himself in Russian: "I lost my temper, this woman is in love with him."
"What?" Vigo asked Carduzov in Finnish.
"In love, I said," said Carduzov, heartbroken.
Viggo found a log. He smeared mud on the log. Annie came over, stood beside him, looked at him. While making gestures, Viggo explained to Anni: "Put a little mud on the log, and then scorch the wood. In this way, the chimney for the sauna is made..."
Anni nodded approvingly at him.
A few days later, thanks to Anni's meticulous care, Karduzov's health gradually improved. One day, he picked up a basket of mushrooms from the forest and sat in the yard to clean up.
He saw Anni come over and picked up a mushroom to show her: "The mushrooms are here, clean them up, burn them and eat them."
Anni glanced at the mushrooms in the basket and warned him in Saami Said: "You want to go to another world? Then you can drink the soup of these toadstools. This mushroom is not edible." Then he walked away.
"You don't want to help me, and I don't need your help. Don't worry, I'll do it myself. I have a sergeant who is famous for cooking in the army..." Karduzov muttered in Russian.
Viggo built a sauna for himself in a corner of the yard. Annie came to him and told him, "'You get out' to talk to the ghost. He picked some mushrooms and wanted to eat it. Is he a shaman?"
Viggo couldn't understand her saa Mi language, but heard the name "you get away". So he answered Anni in Finnish as a matter of course: "Let him rest. He is injured and is still very weak. I can do the work here."
Seeing Vigo's sincere and honest appearance, Anni felt A feeling of love surged up. She wiped the sweat from Vigo's forehead with her fingers, and licked her fingertips with her tongue to taste the sweat, and then gave him a wink: "I think you might be better off doing something else. I don't object. You flip me on deerskin, boy...I've forgotten what it was like."
Hearing Anni's passionate tone and seeing Anni's affectionate eyes, even if he didn't understand Saami, as a man, Viggo could fully understand the meaning. He immediately poured out his feelings in Finnish: "Don't make such a joke with me. I haven't touched a woman for two months. To me, a hunched woman looks like a queen." , continue to work without looking up.
Annie approached him, took his hand, and gently stroked his palm: "Your hands are so delicate. You are not used to men's work... Maybe you can only kill. But that's not work, That's the stupidity of the big kids. They think that by ending other people's lives, they can make themselves a hundred years old... alas, that's it..." Having said that, she let go of Vigo's hand and walked away silently .
Vigo seemed to realize something, and kept watching her back.
"Mistress, have some salt." Carduzov carried the steaming pot in one hand and stirred it with a wooden spoon in the other. In the pot are cooked mushrooms. He went under the tree house where the food was stored and said to Annie, who was coming down the ladder.
Anni mistakenly thought he was inviting himself to eat mushrooms, and immediately replied in Saami: "I'm not crazy, I don't eat that stuff. Eat it yourself if you want. I won't.
" Got it, in the house." Carduzov smugly understood Anni's words, turned and walked towards the shack.
Carduzov carried the pot into the shack, looked around for the salt jar, but accidentally found a briefcase containing his own files! That was precisely what Annie picked up from the ditch. For a moment, Carduzov forgot that he was looking for salt, so he walked out of the shack with a briefcase and read it carefully in the sunny yard...
"Bastard!" He couldn't help yelling angrily.
Annie is chipping a piece of white wood. Hearing Carduzov's voice, she looked up. Seeing the briefcase and paper in his hand, he explained, "The letter came from the water..."
Carduzov must find someone to tell his grievances. He walked over and sat next to Ani, whether she understood it or not, and told himself in Russian: "My instructor told me my secret. He's still a stinky boy, and he's been on the front line for less than a week! Go tell him! But I treat him like my son... It says 'Report', I don't agree with that..."
"It was the water that got the words wet..." Annie side While cutting the wood, he explained in Saami: "The water in the river is very good. If you put your clothes in the river, it will be clean the next day. I don't have much flour at home. I want to mix some in it. Sawdust, it will be delicious."
"It's still written on it, I'm a morbid writer, and my poems are bad... He's jealous of me! He can't write anything but whistleblowers in his life... Yesenin ( Note 6) Said to me that I should write..." Karduzov ignored Anni's words, still talking to himself, "My father works for the Uliski taxi company. After getting off the train, Yesenin went to the hotel. At that time, I was a child, and I was sitting in the car reading poetry. Yesenin saw it and said to me 'should write', and gave me a photo signed with his name... ' He took out a photo signed by Yesenin from his briefcase and handed it to Anni.
"Is this your wife?" Anni looked at the curly-haired and delicate-looking Yesenin in the photo, thinking it was a woman, so he continued his words for granted, "She is so beautiful! My husband was raped four years ago. The soldiers took away and drove away a group of deer from my family..."
Carduzov took the photo back, admired it, and continued to nag to Anni: "Look, this is Yesenin. I write prose, praise the scenery, sing praises Nature, in order not to go crazy on the front line... I can't believe they see this as..." The more he said, the more angry he became.
Annie could hear that he was venting his resentment, and couldn't help comforting him: "Don't be sad, the important thing is that you are still alive. Your wife is also very beautiful. You just don't eat those mushrooms, otherwise, you will be uncomfortable... "…"
"Mushrooms," Carduzov said quickly, understanding the word mushrooms, "the mushrooms are already cooked and ready to eat, but with a little more salt."
Anni is also stubborn: "Yes, mushrooms are not good, they may be poisoned... Look, I've been talking nonsense to you for a long time, but just talking can't feed the deer..." She put down her work and walked back. Vigo's side.
Vigo is chopping wood, preparing to heat the bath.
Annie looked at the iron stove that Vigo had made and said to him, "You broke this thing. This is the barrel I got back from the mountain..."
Vigo knew she was talking about the iron stove , and went on to say: "The stove I made is ugly. But it's done, and I can take a bath with it. I'll put the fire on..." He called to Karduzov: "'Get out of here,' come , let's take a shower!" He took a gun and walked to the bathing pool he built.
Anni hurriedly shouted to Vigo: "You guys will get cold and you will lose a layer of skin! My husband once went to a bath in the city to take a bath, and he fell ill immediately when he came back. I managed to make him recover... Before that , he's never been sick!"
At this time Carduzov also came over. When he saw Viggo standing in front of the bath with a gun, he said, "You still have a gun in the shower?"
Although Viggo could not understand Carduzov's Russian, he still remembered the last time the Russian officer stabbed him. That knife. Although he politely said to Carduzov: "Please." In fact, in order to prevent the other party from attacking again, he decided to walk behind him.
Unable to stop the two men from taking a bath, Annie left them to catch fish.
In the bathhouse built by Vigo, two men stripped naked and sat side by side in the sauna.
"No way, the wind in the hall took away the heat." Vigo was not satisfied with the bath he built. He muttered in Finnish: "I don't like saunas, but I often go to the Turkish bath. Turkey, understand?"
"What did you say?" Carduzov replied to Vigo in Russian, "She is a capable woman, very intelligent, Very neat. This kind of woman is good as a housewife, but she can't get a bed. We have a dispatcher there who looks very similar to her. Once, I asked her to go to the movies, and she didn't agree... Later, she married For my partner. His name is Viktor Bechkov. What does she like about him? To be out of shape, to be out of shape, in a word, ugly!"
"I don't understand what you're talking about. 'Get out', don't you like this bath? I'm not an expert, I can only fix what I've seen before," Viggo said in Finnish.
"To be honest, I'm always unlucky when it comes to women... I almost got married twice, but both failed..." As
he was talking, Anni suddenly came in. Immediately, the two men instinctively covered their shyness with their hands. Annie didn't feel embarrassed, and calmly handed them the grass for bathing: "Take it. Why are you so serious? Wash well, or you can smell war and death..." She was generous He sat down facing the two naked men, his eyes darting to and fro at them, and he sang a folk song mockingly:
A crow came to the glade and
saw a herd of deer
begin to count. : One, two, three...
It counted till morning,
then got tired and shouted:
You are too many, and I have only one
crow wow wow, then fell asleep...
Annie stepped forward and put Vigo Pulled up: "Let's go, don't be afraid, I'll call when I'm comfortable..."
Viggo obediently followed her out.
Carduzov finished his bath, got dressed, and went straight to the shack. Anni's flower dog was guarding the door of the shack, barking at him. He scolded, but still stepped forward to open the door. At this moment, he seemed to understand a little, and stepped back - Anni's groans came from the shack. He left the shack far away, went to cook the mushrooms again, and sat down to eat by himself.
It was late at night, and Annie kept moaning, one higher than another. Carduzov, who had been standing in the yard and couldn't get into the shack, was freezing enough. He had no choice but to put his hands on his shoulders and put on his hat... The flower dog also seemed to have some sympathy for him, and turned around him from time to time. He was cold and sleepy, so he had to put on a military coat and endure it all night in a pile of firewood.
Early the next morning, Annie walked out of the shack radiant. Only then did she think of Carduzov...she came to the haystack. Carduzov jumped up with a soldier's alertness: "Don't be like this, I'm sorry! I had a nightmare...I don't want to scare you..."
Anni sat down beside him and asked with concern: "Are you feeling unwell? It's because you ate poisonous mushrooms. I'll boil some herbs for you to expel the poison..."
From Anni's voice , Carduzov heard her kindness. So he also said to her affectionately: "I like you as soon as I see you. And you like fascists. He is young. But he is a fascist!"
Anni comforted him in Saami: "Now I'm going to boil the medicine. You'll get better soon. Well, I have to work, otherwise we'll have to eat shit like arctic foxes in winter."
Carduzov insisted on telling his heart: "I know , you're fine with him. I heard you shouting from under him. I feel so sad to hear your voice. I really want to hit you—forgive me, I just wanted to live with you..."
"You Rest. I have more business to do." Anni got up and left Karduzov to work.
Looking at the back of Ani leaving, a line of verse flooded into Karduzov's heart, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "You immediately occupied my mind..."
Watching Ani walk away, Karduzov stood in the haystack He got up, picked up an axe, and went straight to the shack.
Carduzov quietly entered the shack with the axe. Vigo was still asleep. Carduzov walked gently to Vigo. Looking down at this unsuspecting young man condescendingly. Just as he was about to reach for the gun that Vigo had placed beside him, the young man opened his eyes alertly and sat up, at a speed that Carduzov did not expect.
Viggo confessed to Carduzov sincerely: "I said to you, 'Go away', there is no bullet in the gun. You are going crazy - just because she chose me? She just wants a little happiness... "..."
At this point, Annie pushed the door and entered the shack, stood between the two men, examining them for a while, and then sat down to organize Viggo's clothes.
Although she didn't say anything, her peaceful and happy demeanor made Carduzov have to give up the idea of killing. The axe in his hand fell feebly to the ground.
"Damn," Karduzov scolded in Russian, "live, you're still young, you haven't lived enough. But I'm tired and don't want to fight anymore. 'My soul is empty because of the war', I'll chop wood ..." He picked up the axe from the ground and walked out of the shack.
Outside, under the blue sky and the bright sunshine, Karduzov took a long breath: "It's time to go!"
He had just put the axe, and Anni had followed behind him, holding a bowl in his hand. Herbal soup: "This is made of herbs, drink it, 'you get out'."
Carduzov walked to the haystack, sat down in the haystack, and took the medicinal soup. He really didn't understand Anni, and he muttered in Russian: "What do you think about that fascist? He is always nagging, but no one understands what he is saying..."
"Drink it," Anni said. Ni sat next to him, insisted on persuading him to drink the medicine, and touched his cheek: "As long as the poison from the mushroom is excreted, it will be more comfortable..."
Carduzov took a sip: "Okay. Drink." Watching him drink spoon by spoon, Annie got up and walked back to the shack with satisfaction.
In the shack, Annie and Vigo sat by the fire and had breakfast. She kept adding food to his bowl, her eyes never leaving him: "Eat, eat. I want to call at night."
Viggo also looked at her affectionately.
Although there is no need for words at this time, Anni still excitedly babbles to her lover: "Don't look at me like this, or I don't want to go to work, and I want to lift my skirt again..." After she finished speaking, she quickly Get out of the shack into the yard.
As soon as Carduzov finished drinking the medicinal soup, he felt sick to his stomach and quickly hid in the grass beside the shack with his stomach covered. Annie, who came out of the shack, happened to see an embarrassed image of him.
Anni told Karduzov in Saami that he should go to the toilet: "Have you finished your herbs? Go over there!"
Karduzov believed that Anni had made him so embarrassed. He squatted in the grass, and didn't even dare to turn his head: "Go away, idiot! You poisoned me, God! Come on, go away, this is not a play..."
Annie didn't approach him . , still pointing to the distance and shouting at him: "Where is the pit, go there! This is a clean place, you know?"
"Go away, what are you looking at?" Carduzov shouted without looking back.
"You are a savage. 'You get out', the herbs are working, you are detoxing!"
Vigo heard the sound and walked out of the shack, saw the embarrassed image of Carduzov, and couldn't help laughing: "Maybe because eating mushrooms Get used to..." he explained to Ani in Finnish.
Hearing Vigo's voice, Carduzov became angry: "Is it interesting?"
Vigo heard Carduzzo's dissatisfaction, and walked away with Anni, leaving Carduzov squatting there. Karduzov was still yelling: "You're just embarrassing me like this, call everyone, even the dogs, the deer...you're sick..."
The next day, Karduzov felt much better . He decided to leave here. He put on his military coat and stood in the yard looking at the yard for the last time. He saw Annie carrying back two birch poles from the woods, and he followed her to the treehouse that was the warehouse.
As Anni walked, he explained to Carduzov: "It's time to repair the warehouse. You are tall and big, you should eat meat..."
Karduzov still couldn't understand what she said, thinking that he was greeting his illness, so he replied : "Thank you! Much better. I'm leaving..."
Anni couldn't understand what Karduzov was saying, and continued to say: "...You two, you are so big and eat a lot. But I can't I'll give you venison, because there's so little..."
"Goodbye! Thank you for your bread and salt, although you don't have salt..." Carduzov said goodbye to Anni softly.
Anni seemed to understand what he meant and held his hand: "Your eyes are so kind, 'you get out' and stop eating mushrooms..."
"Okay, let's say goodbye like this." Carduzov snorted nostalgically. Returning his hand, "I'm leaving, I can't stay here anymore... You're fine, but I'm going crazy... I'm exhausted by this kind of life..." He turned and walked towards the woods beyond the lake go.
Annie stood there bewildered. Viggo came over: "'You go away' and went looking for mushrooms again. Do you want me to help?" He carried the two birch poles that Annie put under the tree house.
"Where did you carry them? I just put them here..." Annie called to Viggo. Viggo seemed to understand, put down the birch pole, stood in the yard and watched Karduzov go away along the shoal by the lake.
Annie came over and handed him a glass of water.
"Thank you!" Vigo took the water glass. The two looked at each other affectionately.
In the woods, Carduzov moved forward tentatively. Suddenly, he heard someone talking in front of him, and immediately hid behind a big tree. A few German soldiers passed by not far ahead, but luckily they were not found.
Carduzov had to withdraw quickly. He ran back to Anni's house and eagerly said to Anni, who was drying the bedding in the yard, "There are Germans over there, hurry up and hide!"
Anni could not understand his Russian, did not respond, and did not stop 's work.
Carduzov hurried to Vigo and said in a panic: "There are fascists there, three people, one wounded, and a female hygienist. They have two guns...and an officer. If they are taking prisoners , that must be looking for the two of us... They are still in the woods and will be here soon. We can't wait to die, bring the gun!" He reached for the gun on Viggo's shoulder.
Viggo also didn't understand Carduzov's words, but seeing his flustered expression, he still understood. But he still insisted that Karduzov could not take his gun, even though it had no bullets in it. He grabbed the barrel of the gun and stopped Carduzov in Finnish: "No bullets."
Carduzov grabbed Vigo's shoulder in dissatisfaction: "What are you doing?"
Vigo took Karduzov's hand off his shoulder, calmly "I don't want to fight, nothing."
"They're going through the woods. It's dangerous here. Give me the gun!" Carduzov insisted, reaching for the gun again.
Viggo ignored him and turned into the shack.
"Don't you want to? Then I have to come to Wu - snatch it!" Carduzov was so anxious, he rushed into the shack...
In the yard, Anni heard the sound of arguing and beating in the shack, followed the sound and walked over to see that Carduzov had dragged Vigo out of the shack. Watching the two big men rolling and beating on the ground, Anni shook his head and walked into the shack.
For a while, the two men seemed to be tired and lay there still. I saw Karduzov panting and saying, "If it wasn't for the injury, I'd definitely be able to subdue you! I once... threw a big man like you to the ground and let him fall by the stove... shit... , you let go! It hurts me."
"For me, the war is over. What do you want to do?" Viggo insisted on his position. He persuaded the other party in Finnish: "I don't need such a war, let it go to hell! I am human, just like you. I want to live, not to fight."
"What are you calling? I think you should I'm running out of strength. You're not a 'cuckoo', and you can throw me to the ground so easily! It's strange, you made that woman scream all night, and still have so much energy... It's not easy ." Carduzov patted Vigo on the shoulder, and suddenly pressed him to the ground again.
Viggo got up and sat up, but Karduzov sprained his wrist, and Karduzov had to stop. He sat on the ground in frustration, rubbing his wrists. Viggo seized the opportunity to teach him another lesson. Of course he still spoke in Finnish, which Carduzov did not understand: "You don't understand anything! Well, I'm so unlucky to be with such idiots! How can I tell you? Why don't you understand! I Not a soldier. Don't you get tired of shooting? If you want war, kill your comrades. I want another life. I want peace. Not all of it, of course. But life is good , Haven't you lived? 'Go away', have you been fighting all the time? Don't you know anything but war? Look, what a beautiful world! When I was chained to a rock, I feel it. I want to write poetry, and I want to make music, but unfortunately I can't. I'm leaving, 'you get out', you won't understand me, and maybe I won't understand you either." He stood up. stand up.
Anni listened to the end of their fight in the shack, and came out and ordered in Saami: "I think you two have nowhere to go, come and help me work!"
"She asked us to Go help." Carduzov didn't get it wrong this time, he sat on the ground and raised his head to say to Viggo.
"Let's go." Annie, who was walking in front, turned around and greeted them again.
Vigo went back to the shack with a gun and followed Carduzov to catch up with Anni. The three of them went to work in the woods together.
A few days later, on a fine morning, Annie was washing dishes on the low table outside the shack. Viggo walked around the yard like a sentinel with a gun on his back. Carduzov shaves in front of a worn mirror, from time to time watching Anni behind him.
Annie greeted Vigo to pick up the house and go to his fish pond. They caught three big fat fish and were about to go back when there was a sudden roar of planes in the sky. A plane flew past them and into the woods.
"I've seen planes like this. They don't usually come here," Anni said in Saami.
"What is that?" Carduzov asked anxiously.
Viggo climbed the ladder of the tree house and looked into the woods for a while through the scope on the gun: "It didn't explode, maybe it's out of gasoline, and there's still white smoke around. Let's go and have a look." He greeted Carl Duzov, turned back to Anni and said, "You just stay here."
Anni obeyed Vigo's advice and stayed at home. She saw Karduzov rush to the front of Vigo quickly, with a smile on her face: "The herb is very effective for 'you get out'. Look how strong his legs are!"
Karduzov and Vigo ran into the woods and found the crashed plane. A female pilot in the cabin has died. Carduzov picked up a leaflet from the ground and handed it to Vigo like an officer without even looking at it: "Nian Nian, maybe it was to persuade you to surrender..."
Vigo smiled while reading the leaflet. : "Finland has withdrawn from the war! No more fighting between Su and Finland! The war is over! Long live reason!"
Carduzov didn't listen to what Viggo was reading at the moment. He found a revolver next to the female pilot on the plane, which was a treasure. He loaded the bullet into the chamber of the gun.
Vigo was very excited after reading the flyer. He wanted Carduzov to read the leaflets too. He wanted to celebrate the end of the war with the Soviet man Karduzov, so he walked over. Near the crashed plane, Viggo saw another female pilot who was thrown out of the cabin. She is also dead.
"'Get out', there's a dead pilot here. Women shouldn't fight. It's against nature. It seems cruel... 'Get out', I'm not a soldier, not your enemy. Here's what it says: Finland is no longer in the war!"
Karduzov hid his pistol behind his back and approached Vigo step by step: "Satisfied? Glad that your plane fell? Heroes, to these snot-snoting children, you But they're all heroes..." he said quietly in Russian.
"They may be spreading leaflets. It's a pity. They have to be buried." The kind Vigo, unaware that Carduzov wanted his life, unpreparedly planned to bury the two dead. female pilot.
"This is your job, you German devil," Carduzov said coldly, standing there.
Viggo understood that Carduzov was still calling himself a German devil, and still explained bitterly: "I am Finnish. How can I explain it to you? I am not involved in the war, Finland is not involved in the war... The war is over!" Get out', look, I'm going to break this gun right now..." He had just raised his hand with the gun to fall, when Carduzov's revolver was already firing. Karduzov shot him in the left chest.
Vigo fell to the ground. He still held the leaflet in his hand: "...you fool, 'go away', Finland and the Soviet Union are at a truce..." He also wanted to show Carduzov the leaflet in his hand.
Carduzov still took the flyer: "This flyer is your pass to return to your hometown!" After he finished speaking, he glanced at the flyer in his hand, "What? Sufen has a truce?"
"It's a truce," said Viggo in a weak voice, "if you understand it that way. I'm not fighting anymore, even though I've had a truce before..."
Carduzov quickly removed his shirt from his shirt. He tore off a piece of cloth, and while blocking the wound for Vigo, he said: "Listen, young man, don't die... Hold on, hold on! I'll send you back right away, it's not too far away, right there Bian Shanxia..."
"Why don't you listen to my explanation..." Vigo was dying.
"Don't die!" Carduzov picked up Viggo.
The ground under Vigo had been stained red with blood.
Carduzov carried Vigo on his shoulders and went to Anni's house. The groves they walked through were strewn with leaflets for the armistice, and the ground seemed to be full of sad little white flowers.
Carduzov carried Vigo, who had passed out, with a heavy heart: "Listen...don't stop talking...Even if you snort, let me know that you are still alive..." He was so tired leaning against a small tree He gasped for a while beside the tree, and seeing that Vigo could no longer speak, he hurriedly continued to walk forward.
They finally returned to Annie's house. Carduzov put Vigo on the ground outside the shack and collapsed himself.
Hearing the movement, Anni walked out of the shack: "Who injured him? What's going on?" She asked anxiously and in shock.
"I accidentally pulled the trigger. I thought he was going to kill me," Karduzov said in Russian, lying on the ground panting.
"What happened?" Anni asked in Saami.
"I did something stupid..." Carduzov admitted. "It would be a pity if he died. Finland is in a truce, and maybe Germany will surrender... the war is over." It was too late.
Anni quickly took out the bucket from the shack and ordered Karduzov: "What are you doing lying there? Go and fetch water!"
Karduzov obediently got up and took the bucket to fetch water.
Annie tried his best to move Vigo into the shack. Karduzov helped her burn the fire and fetch water. Finally she sat down by the fire, picked up a tambourine, roasted it close to the fire, and put it in Viggo's ear: "He's leaving us..." She explained to Carduzov in Saami, "I can't remember how to stop the dying from going to the land of the dead. My grandmother would do that very well - she would turn into a dog and call the dying back." , she leaned close to Viggo, beat the tambourine, and blew into his ear at the same time.
Anni held Vigo's left pinky thumb and recited in Saami like a mantra: "I treat your pinky as a dead person and hold it tightly in my hand... I will pull you from the road of death. Come back...I won't let you go to the land of death...come back...come back, come back when you hear the dog barking! Ugh!" She learned to bark.
Carduzov sat aside, watching Anni's every move. Although he didn't believe in this so-called spiritism method, he really hoped that Vigo could survive.
Vigo's soul approached the land of death step by step in the mountains. He seemed to hear drums in the distance.
In the shack, Anni leaned over beside Vigo, and continued to chant in Saami: "I'll hold you tight, and keep your soul from leaving your body..." Stop and beat the tambourine in Viggo's ear.
Viggo's head moved.
Viggo's soul met Death in white in the gray valley. Death beckoned to him. He followed Death a few steps and seemed to hear a dog barking in a trance. He hesitated, turned back to the way he came from, and looked around. Death beckoned to him again. He turned and continued to follow Death, but the sound of drums in the distance stopped him again.
Annie continued to play drums and learn how to bark in Viggo's ear, and kept reciting: "...Listen! Listen! The dog is barking! It's guarding you... It's calling you out of the way of death. Come back... woo-!"
Viggo's soul, who followed the god of death to the land of death, stopped moving again, and looked back on the way he had come. Death beckoned again, and souls followed... They went further and further...
Annie raised her voice and beat the drum hard: "...Listen! Listen! I'm howling! I'm going to catch up with you, in You jump ahead...bite your hands, bite your feet...I won't let you go far!" She threw herself down and bit Vigo's arm with her teeth...
Vigo's soul seemed to feel the pain in the arm Pain - he stopped, raised his arm. He turned his face and walked in the direction he came from, walking back step by step firmly, gradually getting away from the country of death... Death followed Vigo's soul unwillingly, and still kept calling him...
Annie had already Shouting all night, disheveled and exhausted. But she seemed to have completely forgotten herself, she really turned herself into a dog, barking: "Go back to yourself... woo-! woo-! Listen! Listen! The dog is barking.…”
Carduzov couldn't take it anymore. He got up and walked out of the shack, sat in the pile of firewood, looked up at the cloudy night sky, and wept secretly... He heard Ani's cries and drums from the shack: "Come back from the road of death! I will take you Your soul becomes a floating raft, and let the waves carry you; I am the wind, the strong north wind, that brings you to the shore...Listen! Listen! The dogs are barking on the shore!...I use the heat Blow you, let you float to the shore, let you walk on land, where your body is placed... woo-!"
Viggo's soul walked back in the mountains. Death's call stopped him again...and then he heard Ani's voice again--
"Get back into your body! The wind pushed the raft to the shore. Here I am holding its roots and pulling it out. "..."
Death grabbed Vigo's soul, trying to pull it back to the land of death. But Vigo broke free.
Anni was still beating the drums and shouting: "Soul, go back to the body!" At the same time, he still kept blowing at Vigo...
Death stood helplessly in the gray valley. He finally gave up on Vigo. Viggo's soul is getting farther and farther away from the god of death...
"The soul has returned to the body... woo-!" Anni used all the strength of his body and was still calling unremittingly.
Viggo's soul heard Anni's call, and he let out a long roar: "Oh!"
Anni clearly heard Viggo, who was lying beside him, let out a long sigh. She rushed out of the shack excitedly and shouted in Saami: "'You get out', come here!"
Carduzov came over immediately, entered the shack, tried Vigo's breath with his hand, and touched it again. Touching Vigo's body temperature: "Alive!" He smiled.
Victor fell asleep.
Anni lay down exhausted and greeted Karduzov: "'You get out', come to me... Give me some warmth, make me feel like I am with my man."
Karduzov sat by the fire pit, Burn the fire. He said to Ani, "Ani, I don't understand, just take a rest, you've been beating drums and shouting all night..."
"My name is not Ani. My parents call me Cuckoo. People call my lame husband Ani... My real name is Cuckoo. 'Get out' and come to me." She patted her side The mattress...
they greeted the dawn happily together. Xiaohua dogs barked happily outside the shack... On
a sunny winter day after snow, two sturdy men wearing winter clothes made of animal skins and carrying bags stood in front of Annie to say goodbye to her.
Carduzov still expressed his thanks in Russian: "Thank you, my dear! Thank you for everything you do! Thank you for the bread and salt! Without you, everything would have been unimaginable...you are a kind and warm woman."
Viggo speaks Finnish . His words were simple: "Thank you, Annie."
He lowered his head to kiss her goodbye. She avoided. She said to the two men in Saami: "Why are you still standing? Let's go. I have more things to do. Let's go. I have nothing to l
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