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Sashuk’s parents and a fishing crew are going to the sea. The boy is taken with him, but his beloved puppy is not. From such injustice he howls all day long. Finally, foreman Ivan Danilovich intervenes and orders them to take the puppy. Together with the brigade, Sashuk leaves for the first time and now watches with interest as Uncle Semyon’s “lawn” leaves Nikolaevka, passes Lake Yalpukh and the city of Izmail. On the way they talk about the new fisherman Zhorka. The boy’s mother, Nastya, the brigade’s cook, is unhappy: they say that Zhorka was in prison. The boy had never been to the sea. Uncle Semyon said that the sea has no bottom. Trying to imagine the abyss, the boy falls asleep.

He wakes up on a trestle bed in a little room and the first thing he does is run to look at the sea. From amazement it becomes difficult to even breathe. “So Uncle Semyon said the truth, that it has no bottom, since it is so big, there is no end, no edge.” Sashuk examines the shore. On the right you can see a booth on a high lattice tower, on the left there is a pier on stilts, from which something like a long rubber band rises to the shore on poles. Everything here is different from Yalpukh. Even the seagulls are big and brazen.

Cool salting

Soon the fishermen return. A wide rubber belt at the pier turns out to be a conveyor along which the caught fish is delivered to the salting shop. At the pier, part of the tape is hidden in a large iron box, into which the fishermen begin to pour fish. Red Zhorka begins to sort the fish and teaches Sashuk this wisdom. Zhorka gives the boy a large flounder for the crew's lunch, and he drags it along the pier, but slips and falls on sharp fish spines. Everyone laughs. Sashuk drives away his tears and begins to pick up the fish that have fallen out of the boxes. The fishermen like this kind of thriftiness, and Zhorka says: “If it is salted properly, the boatswain will have what he needs.” It whistles deafeningly, and the transporter begins to move.

Zhorka picks up Sashuk and puts him in a wide chute - he sends him to the workshop “for salting.” The boy rises higher and higher, and he becomes scared. Upstairs, in the salting shop, it is taken out of the chute, slapped “in that very place” and released. Sashuk is offended - he didn’t get into the conveyor himself. He decides not to talk to Zhorka anymore and goes to his mother.

During lunch, one of the fishermen, Ignat Prikhodko, notices that they still took the puppy with them. The fisherman is unhappy, he considers this pampering. Zhorka stands up for the boy - he doesn’t like the greedy Ignat. Together with Sashuk, Zhorka comes up with a name for the puppy - Beams (the beam on which the deck lies). However, the boy has not yet forgiven Zhorka for his morning joke. He goes to the sea, but Zhorka follows him and talks about himself. He was in prison for beating up a tyrant boss who was beating up his employees, mostly women. He was imprisoned in 1952, and Zhorka served five years. Instead of the word “tyrant,” Sashuk remembered “tyrant.”

The night Watch

They soon become friends. Zhorka teaches the boy to swim, not to be afraid of the depths, and calls him “Boatswain.” Zhorka told the boy that from a tower on the shore, border guards look out for violators at night. The ruins between the tower and the pier turn out to be an old German pillbox. At this time, Sashuk’s mother comes for him. She forbids her son to communicate with the “bandit” Zhorka. In vain the boy tries to explain that Zhorka is not a bandit at all - his mother does not want to listen to him.

In the evening, the fishermen go to sea again. Sashuk is bored. The ruins of a pillbox are very suitable for playing war, but you can’t play with Beams - he doesn’t understand commands, he just runs and grabs his heels. At the border tower, the boy sees a horse tied to a ladder, but he is afraid to approach during the day and decides to get closer to the border guards in the dark.

Waking up late at night, Sashuk slips out of the barracks and heads to the tower. Near the ruins, it occurs to the boy that there could be dead fascists left there. He becomes scared, he “runs forward as fast as he can, stumbles upon the tower ladder and clings to it.” Then the boy realizes that he found himself alone at night in the steppe, and between him and his parents there is a “destroyed pillbox and trenches with all their dead.”

Sashuk whines with fear. A border guard comes down from the tower and takes the boy upstairs. There is nothing interesting in the booth, only a door and three windows - a border guard stands next to each and peers into the darkness. At first, Sashuk does not understand how they can even distinguish anything in complete darkness, but then he sees a spotlight that periodically illuminates the shore and the sea. In the end, he falls asleep and dreams of a strict commander who gives the boy a real rifle and accepts him into his squad.

Meanwhile, the border guards notice the panic that began at the fishermen's barracks - the parents woke up and started looking for their son. Border guards hand the boy over to his mother. Sashuk understands that in the morning he will have to be dragged out, but he cries because he only dreamed of the rifle.

Astrologer

In the morning, the father tore Sashuk's ears, but the boy was ashamed that the fishermen laughed at him. Today was a day off, the fishermen did not go out fishing, but went to the fishmonger's shop. The boy's parents went to a store located in Nikolaevka. The Rybkoop shop is an iron-roofed hut with a large porch. It stands not far from the barracks, and behind it begin the huts of Balabanovka. Sashuk doesn’t go there: from a distance he saw big boys and dogs in Balabanovka.

Fishermen sit near a bench and drink red wine. Zhorka again bullies Ignat, calling him a miser. Seeing the boy, Zhorka takes him to the barracks and gives him an amazing thing - a huge ball of green glass, wrapped in a net and overgrown with shells. Zhorka explains that this is a kukhtyl, a float from a large fishing net. You can swim on two culls connected with a rope. Ignat says that kukhtyl is a useless thing, and “every thing and person should be for use,” and Sashuk should only look closely at economic people. Zhorka is a bastard without an extra pair of pants. The boy knows this - Zhorkin’s chest never closes, and Ignat’s chest has a huge padlock.

Having hidden the kukhtyl under his trestle bed, Sashuk goes to the shore to look for another float. On the shore he finds only a large dead crab, and halfway to the pier he sees some “freak” in shorts, a colored shirt, a fringed Panama hat, a beard and thick glasses. The weirdo tries unsuccessfully to catch a fish. Noticing Sashuk, he speaks to him. The boy wonders why he needs a beard, because he is not old yet. The man replies that he is an astrologer, and astrologers cannot be without a beard. In fact, the man turned out to be an astrophysicist. He brought his family to relax by the sea.

Anusya

And it’s true: not far away, under a canopy, someone was lying. Sashuk wonders if it’s true that every person has their own star. The astrologer confirms: it’s true, but everyone must find their own star.

Soon his daughter Anusya approaches the astrologer, and the boy has a playmate. Anusya “doesn’t look at all like the broken, loud-mouthed Nekrasov girls.” She seems to be from another world, with very white skin. Sashuk decides that “she is being poked endlessly with soap.” Out of great embarrassment, the boy gives Anusa a dead crab. Children begin to rush along the seashore. This fun is interrupted by Anusya's mother, a very beautiful woman. She throws out the crab and forbids her daughter to play with “that dirty boy.”

Out of great resentment and anger, Sashuk begins to drag jellyfish from the sea, dreaming of covering the “evil aunt” with them. Soon Anusya joins him; she asks him not to be offended by his mother, since “she has a lot of petty-bourgeois prejudices.” The children play together for a long time. Anusya manages to stain her dress with grease spilled near the conveyor. Then Sashuk takes her to the ruins, hoping to entice her into a game of war.

Orange God

Previously, Sashuk lived with his grandmother, who forced him to pray. The grandmother said that God sees everything and punishes for everything. To the child, God seemed to be a malicious old man, “who punishes for all sorts of nonsense.” Six months ago, the grandmother died, and the boy’s parents took him.

Sashuka's faith in God is replaced by faith in machines. The boy is convinced that all machines are creatures that live a special secret life, “they see everything, feel everything and, when they want, do everything of their own free will, and not at the request of a person,” and even talk to each other. Until now, he had only seen trucks, but today he saw a miracle - an indescribably beautiful orange Moskvich, shining with chrome parts. This miracle belongs to the astrologer. Out of completeness of feeling, Sashuk begins to wipe the wheel cap with his shirt. Anusya is not far behind, and her dress becomes even dirtier.

The astrologer and his wife find them doing this. Anusya receives a scolding from her mother for her soiled dress and friendship with a dirty boy. Sashuk is again offended to the point of tears, but he is unable to get away from the orange miracle. Noticing the boy's offense, the astrologer allows him to take a ride in the car and even honk his horn. His wife is not happy, she believes that the “snot-nosed baby” may be contagious. Sashuk stands for a long time near the house where the astrologer is staying and looks at his god, and then, happy, goes home.

Our food

The fishermen gathered at the barracks for lunch. They laugh at the boy - Zhorka told everyone that Sashuk found himself a thief. Nastya doesn’t feel well, “she walks with difficulty, half-bent, her face is pale, there are dark circles under her eyes, and beads of sweat appear on her temples.” In the evening, the mother gets even worse, she lies on the side and moans. Sashuk becomes scared, and he goes out to the sea to look for his star. The foreman he meets explains that the fishermen have one star - the North, but the boy does not want “everyone”, but his own.

In the morning the mother did not get up. She called Sashuk, gave him the key to the pantry and asked him to prepare lunch for the fishermen. The boy doesn’t know how to cook at all, and his mother directs him from bed. In the pantry there is artel lard - “three thick white layers.” Sashuk really wants a piece, but he forbids himself to even think about it and cuts off as much as he needs for the porridge. He cuts off a piece of bread for himself and Beams.

Having run quite a bit and been scalded once, Sashuk still manages to cook edible porridge (conder) before the fishermen arrive. He happily informs the foreman that he cooked the condiment himself because “my mother is completely ill.”

Sashuk's father is worried. In the nearest village there is only a paramedic; my wife needs a doctor, but there is nothing to transport her. The porridge turned out to be too cool and bitter, but to the freshly baked cook it seems the most delicious in the world.

Samorduy

After lunch, Sashuk helps Zhorka clean and wash the boiler, and then runs to his mother. She feels very bad, and the boy becomes sad. The mother lets her son go, and he goes to look at the astrologer’s car, but they are not at home. Returning to the barracks, the boy meets his father - he went to the collective farm, but never got a car.

“Sashuk is becoming increasingly anxious and confused.” Suddenly, in the brigade yard, father and son see a gas car with the driver resting in the back seat. In response to his father’s request, the driver sends him to his boss. He turned out to be a “well-fed, well-filled” man in an embroidered shirt. Sashuk silently called him Smooth. He sat at the bench and drank wine with the foreman. The father long and humiliatingly begged Gladky to take the sick woman to the hospital, but he flatly refused. Unable to bear his father’s humiliation, Sashuk loudly calls Gladky “self-defeating,” for which he receives a slap on the head from his father.

Then the boy remembers that he saw a horse at the border tower. They won't refuse to help. Sashuk runs to the tower, but there is no one there either. Suddenly he sees an orange car on the road to the beach and, together with his father, runs towards the stargazer. His wife, as always, is against it - she is afraid of infection, but the astrologer does not listen to her. The mother is placed in the back seat, the father sits in front, and the car drives off. Children are not taken with them.

Kukhtyl

The mother was admitted to the hospital. Ignat took over cooking instead. They didn’t take Sashuk with them fishing, they left him on the shore and gave him a “responsible assignment” - to look after the farm. The “security guard” approached the matter responsibly: he kept watch until the evening and never left. When it got dark, the boy locked the barracks door, lit the lamp, sat down at the table in the yard and fell asleep.

And Sashuk had a dream about how he was going to his mother in the hospital in an orange car. The stargazer gives way to him, and the boy drives the car himself. Everyone you meet opens their mouths in surprise. On the way, they meet Gladky and ask for a ride, but Sashuk refuses him, and their mother meets them at the hospital, alive and well. The vigilant sentry is awakened by returning fishermen. The boy realizes that all this is just a dream and bursts into loud crying. His father takes him to the trestle bed.

In the morning, hoping that the dream will come true, Sashuk goes to the astrologer’s house and discovers that they are about to leave. As a farewell, the boy gives Anusa his main treasure - a kukhtyl. The girl is happy, but her mother takes the gift from her and throws it aside. “The kuktyl falls on an iron mud scraper near the porch and breaks with a dull splash.” Along with him, something breaks in Sashuk’s soul. He becomes unbearably sad.

Kugut

Beams helps Sashuk get over his grudge. Ignat is in charge of the barracks, and the boy asks him for the key to the pantry - to cut off some bread for himself and Beams. Ignat does not give the key, he himself allocates a small piece of bread and declares that feeding a useless puppy is pampering. Before lunch, the boy plays with Beams and imagines how he will become a seasoned dog that everyone will be afraid of.

The fishing crew arrives. Fishermen begin to sort the fish. Beams enjoys the bustle of the pier. He happily rushes about and falls under Ignat’s feet. The new cook is angry - everyone mocks him and calls him a cook. He kicks the puppy, which falls off the dock into the water and drowns. The puppy is caught, but he is already dead. Sashuka is shaking with hatred and despair. He calls Ignat “the damned kugut.” Zhorka raises his hand to hit Ignat, but the foreman stops the guy in time. He and the boy bury poor Beams.

At lunch, the fishermen notice that the new cook's porridge is tasteless and bland - there is little fat in it. Ignat states that there is very little lard left, because “whoever wanted it, went into the pantry.” He tries to accuse Sashuk of feeding Beams lard. Zhorka threatens to search Ignat’s chest. He turns pale and gives himself away: he says that he took the lard lying in his chest from home. Brigadier Ivan Danilovich kicks Ignat out of the artel.

The fishermen go to sea again. The boy is left alone. It gets dark quickly, the stars light up in the sky, but Sashuk doesn’t see them - he’s sleeping.

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