Fugitives attacked the old man in his hut but they didn’t even suspect that he wasn’t alone our village is right next to one of the biggest villages in russia and grandfather vasily whom everyone knew lived there he was a well-known man not only in our village but also in all the villages next to us and for nearly 100 kilometers my grandfather was a war veteran he lost
One of his legs after years of long service also the second lag became a little bit weak just before his retirement grandpa vasily was pretty handy he’s a man who could repair absolutely anything he touched from a bicycle tape or recorder to a car and probably even an airplane if it landed in our village when it became absolutely impossible to walk on his weak leg grandpa built himself a wheelchair
He used the wheelchair to help anyone who’s in need and also make a living maybe he was disabled but grandfather earned his money fair and square if anyone needed minor car repairs or any parts changed he performed them in no time he was a trusty man and everyone around him had faith in him grandpa vastly could repair anything he put his hands on even if there are some people who need to fix or repair
Something and couldn’t pay he’d always welcome them and help them without money my grandfather put up a booth by the road and that’s where he took his clients from all the neighborhoods villagers dragged their belongings there for repairs so his fame spread for many kilometers the road foreman was told so about grandpa vasily his house was quite nearby grandpa vastly lived alone about his personal life he didn’t spread
The word no one ever saw any relatives of him or his children or grandchildren the stories were told like that very very long ago back in the days of the war my grandfather was in love but either the girl died or they couldn’t be together for some reason no one knew for sure and only once on victory day after a glass of bitter drink grandfather had been opened up about it and the men told them that after the hospital when he came out on crutches in one leg he took
The decision by himself to break up with that girl to not spoil her life well think about it grandfather vastly said with tears in his eyes that she could be with a disabled man he said that it’s better to let her cry once and forget later than spending her whole life watching her crying for herself he felt pity for his beloved one vastly decided that it was better to leave her and not to torment her with him but what happened to that girl where
Had she gone vastly didn’t keep track but he’d live like that ever since he didn’t want to be alone but also he couldn’t be the reason of her misery for his beloved one once near him a truck stopped at the booth the grandfather drove his own wheelchair to the truck wondering if something needed to be repaired at that moment the driver of the truck decided to move back his truck hitting grandpa vastly and causing him to fall
To the ground with a wheelchair the driver partner stepped out of the car and started shouting at grandpa and the driver began to wave to grandpa in anger that his wheelchair ruined his brand new car grandpa didn’t have time to say anything to justify himself he was just taken aback by surprise his wheelchair had a broken wheel himself on the ground and this big man is also being pushed around
Then the driver came along and he joined his partner it was the first time grandpa vastly had met these new truckers he looked and they had tattoos on their arms and chests peeking out from under their shirts it was summertime and he knew a little bit about it the old man knew right away they were ex-prisoners but who could hire them for an important job as truck driving apparently there was a crisis in the
Country and they couldn’t find any truck drivers around so they put anyone who could drive behind the wheel and give them a truck to drive and deliver their products the truck drivers didn’t calm down instead of helping the old man they picked him up threw him in the back of the truck jumped into the cab and drove off the locals reacted almost immediately when the grandfather didn’t return from
The road to the village the locals kept looking for the old man asking themselves where would he go and where were they going to search they just found a broken wheelchair lying on the side of the road but where’d the old man go something must have happened maybe he went with someone to get parts for the broken wheelchair but that doesn’t sound like grandpa vassely and the ex-prisoners decided not to put
It off they drove a short distance away and turned off the highway onto a country road they pulled the grandfather out of the back of the truck and demanded payment for the allegedly damaged truck they were fine with that it was understood for them that the old man had money maybe he is a disabled man but they decided that he should pay we’ll make a one-legged cockrell out of you they said to grandpa vastly
Actually of course they weren’t going to do anything like that they just wanted to mock the old man recording him while begging to stay away begging for forgiveness they thought they’d put it on the internet and become famous but despite all their expectations he did nothing of that grandpa was calm and only looked at them in their eyes they were surprised by that they thought he was crazy or unstable for not feeling
Afraid of him but they kept mocking him and laughing at the old man and didn’t hear how carefully and quietly from a branch of a nearby tree on the roof of the van descended a lynx the lynx looked around carefully and without thinking long jumped from above the old man’s abusers with huge claws and teeth the big cat had not hesitated for a second defending his friend and savior
The truckers were surprised of the beast attacking him they couldn’t understand what’s going on and from where such a beast would appear to understand how this lynx reached the rescue grandpa vastly we should know its backstory back in the age when grandpa vastly was able to walk on his two legs he used to go every night to the forest to see the moonlight and to enjoy the view and one night he heard a scream coming
From an old abandoned cottage so he approached to check the sound source there he found a mother links on the ground full of blood and behind her a small baby lynx apparently someone was trying to attack the lynx shot her while she was protecting her child and left afraid of the furious mother vastly took the little links and treated him raised him and taught him how to hunt and eat and how to respond to his commands and whistles
He was living with that lynx but he kept him hiding from the locals as he was afraid that someone could hurt him when grandpa vasily felt that he was in danger while the ex-prisoners taking him to their truck he kept whistling the links to follow him and to rescue him the lynx waited the right moment and attacked the truck drivers the truckers jumped into the back of the truck themselves grandpa vastly reached into the links
And took him in his arms grandpa vasely started the car and drove off next to him on the seat was his faithful companion and protector the lynx when he reached the road police post the grandfather turned in the injured truckers with their guts it turned out that they oscillated some fake cargo in the truck also their documents were something fake they were moving drugs prohibited ones so because of their stupidity the
Policemen arrested them thanked vassily and his faithful friend the lynx grandpa vastly was well known at the police station and he was taken to his booth with all honors and there the fellow villagers were already concerned grandpa fixed his wheelchair himself he was able to restore his trade once more his friend and protector the lynx got back to vaselie’s home waiting for him when grandpa got back to the house after a long and hard working day he found the
Links waiting for him with a letter it was a letter sent to him from his past beloved one that one he left when he was young and suffered from his injury for his leg her name’s masha and she was writing to him informing him that she’s married and had children and also a grandchild she told him that her husband had died years ago and also she told him that she still loves him even after all those years
Yes maybe he hurt her those years ago but she understood that he did that for her sake despite that she was always in love with him and she couldn’t stop thinking about him she was writing to him after she finally could get his address in specific she was wondering if he still loves her also she was hoping that they could meet when grandpa vastly read those words from her he almost fainted from happiness he almost jumped from his
Wheelchair from joy he wrote to her back that of course he couldn’t forget her and he still loves her he invited her to come and visit him in his house in the village after a week masha was standing in front of vaseli’s house they couldn’t bear not hugging each other they knew at that moment that they’re still madly in love with each other they agreed after a long day of talking that they should get married and spend their coming days
Together and so it happened they married and the whole village came to their wedding celebrating with them also their beloved lynx was there for them too grandpa vasely and masha were finally together and lived happily life after with their friend the lynx.