Varrica, a 13-year-old nanny, shook the sleeping doll in the cradle at midnight, humming a song that was hard to hear.
Go to sleep. Sleep well.
Listen to me sing to you.
There is a long green light in front of the statue. There is a rope hanging from one corner to another in the room to dry diapers. A long black trousers light casts a large green spot on the ceiling. diaper pants’s long shadow falls on the cradle of the furnace. Once the light of Varrica’s long light is shaken, the green spot shadow comes to life as if it were blown by the wind. The room is very stuffy and emits the smell of vegetable soup, boots and leather.
The little doll is crying. He is hoarse and exhausted from crying, but he still keeps crying and crying. I don’t know when it will stop. But Varrica is so sleepy that her eyelids are stuck together and her head is drooping and her neck is sore. She can’t even move her eyelids and lips. At first glance, her face seems to be shriveled and numb, and her head is as small as a needle tip.
Go to sleep, go to sleep, she hummed inarticulate. I’ll cook porridge for you.
The furnace cricket came to the owner’s helper Afanasi’s snoring cradle in the next room outside the door. Besides, Varrica murmured that all this had merged into a one-night lullaby. How sweet it would be for a person lying in bed. But this music made Varrica listen more and more upset, more and more anxious, and urged her to sleep. But she just couldn’t sleep. If Varrica accidentally fell asleep, God knows the owner would beat her up.
The long lights are swaying, and the green spots are swaying in Varrica, which is half closed and motionless. The eyes are shaking in her half-sleepy head and turned into a bunch of hazy phantoms. She saw the dark clouds chasing and running, shouting like children. The clouds are no longer windy. The clouds are dissipating. In front of Varrica, there is a wide road covered with mud. The carts are driving past one by one. Pedestrians are dragging long shadows back and forth with backpacks. Suddenly, people are falling down with their bags on both sides of the road. What’s going on in the mud? Varrica asked it’s time to sleep. People answered her, so they all went to sleep. Did they sleep well? Crows and magpies were parked on the highway line, just like dolls chattering and screaming to wake her up.
Sleep well. I’ll sing to you. Varrica muttered and found himself in a stuffy cabin in the dark.
Her dead father, Yefim stepanov, was lying on the floor rolling. She couldn’t see him, but she heard him lying on the floor groaning in pain. According to him, he said that he had a hernia and pain, so he couldn’t breathe in. His teeth chattered and drums sounded like drums.
Bubu Bubu
Mother Peragaya ran to the manor to report to the master that Efim was going to die. She had been away from home for a long time. It was time to come back. Varrica was lying in the kang furnace and didn’t sleep. Listen, Dad finally heard someone coming to the wooden house. The master sent a young doctor to see what was going on. The doctor had just come from the city to be a guest at the master’s house. The doctor entered the room and could not see his figure in the dark, but he could hear him clicking and pushing the door.
Turn on the light, he said
Bubu Yefim answered him like this.
Peragaya went straight to the stove and fumbled for the match jar. There was a moment of silence. The doctor fumbled in his pocket for a while and struck a match.
I’ll be right back. I’ll be right back. I’ll go back to my master Peragaya and run to the cabin. I’ll be back soon with a candle end.
Efim’s cheeks are red, his eyes are shining, and his eyes are unusually sharp, as if he had seen through the cabin doctor at a glance.
I said, what’s wrong with you? What do you want? The doctor leaned over to Efim and asked, Hey, how long has it been like this?
What’s dead? It’s time to live no longer.
Don’t talk nonsense. We’ll cure you.
Suit yourself, sir. Thank you. What else can I do when death comes to my heart?
The doctor treated Efim for a quarter of an hour and then got up and said
I have no choice but to send you to the hospital for surgery. The horse has to go at once. If you can’t come soon, everyone in the hospital is asleep, but it doesn’t matter. I’ll write you a note, I hear you.
Oh, my God, how can he send it? Peragaya said there was no horse in my house.
It’s okay. I’ll tell my master that they will give the horse.
When the doctor left, the candle went out immediately and it sounded again. After half an hour, people rushed to the horse. It was the master who sent someone to send a car to Efim to leave for the hospital
It was sunny early in the morning. Peragaya was not at home. She went to the hospital to inquire about Efim’s illness. A child was crying. Varrica heard someone singing.
Go to sleep. I’ll sing for you.
Peragaya came back, crossed herself and whispered
He was treated all night early and his soul was returned to the emperor. May his kingdom rest in peace forever. They said it was too late to send him early.
Varrica ran into the forest and cried for a while. Suddenly, someone knocked on the back of her head so hard that she bumped into a birch tree and looked up in front of the shoemaker’s owner.
What are you doing, bitch? He said the baby was crying and you were sleeping.
The owner pulled her ear hard. She shook her head and shook her cradle. She grunted and sang a song. diaper pants’s shadow shook and blinked at her. She soon occupied her brain again. She saw the muddy road with backpacks. People fell asleep in succession. It was strange that Varrica wanted to sleep very much when she saw them. If only she could have a good sleep, but Niang Peragaya walked beside her and urged her to go quickly. Two people hurried to the city to find work.
