Chapter 6 Chapter Six

Denisov looked at the Frenchman who was close at hand. He exchanged opinions with the first-class Cossack captain about launching an attack tomorrow, and his determination for this attack was determined, so he turned his horse's head and walked back. "Now, brother, let's dry the clothes," he said to Petya. As he approached the forester's hut, Denisov stopped and looked into the woods, where there was a man in a jacket, bark shoes, and a Kazan hat, with a gun slung over his shoulder. , with an ax pinned to his waist, he strode over with two long legs and two long arms, walking briskly.Seeing that it was Denisov, the man hastily threw something into the bushes, took off his wet hat with the brim drawn down, and went up to the officer.This man is Tikhon.His pockmarked face was covered with wrinkles, and a pair of thin and small eyes showed a proud expression.With his head held high, he looked at Denisov, as if suppressing a smile.

"Hi! where have you been?" said Denisov. "Where did he go? The Frenchman was caught," replied Tikhon boldly and hastily, in a hoarse and peaceful voice. "Why did you drill there in broad daylight? Beast! Wow! Didn't catch anything? ... "It was caught," Tikhon said. "Where is he?" "I caught one at first light," went on Tikhon, spreading his flat feet in bark shoes with a figure-splayed step, "and I took him into the woods, the fellow was useless. I thought, I have to go get another decent one." "You see, this mischievous fellow is exactly as I expected," Denisov said to the first-class Cossack captain. "Why didn't you bring this one?"

"Bring him?" broke in Tikhon hastily, angrily. "It's a useless thing. Don't I know what you want?" "You cunning! . . . but . . . " "I'll catch another one," continued Tikhon, "and I'll go into the woods like this, and then I'll lie down." Tikhon fell down quickly and showed how he did it. "Here comes one," he went on. "I just hugged him like this." Tikhon sprang up from the ground nimbly. "Follow me to the colonel, I said. The guy was screaming. Four more came at once, stabbing me with daggers." , so I raised my ax to meet him," Tikhon puffed up his chest, raised his eyebrows, waved his arms, and shouted, "What are you going to do, go to your Jesus!"

"Yes, yes, we saw you from the hills running away from the hollow," said the First Cossack Captain, squeezing his shining eyes. Petya wanted to laugh, but he saw that everyone was suppressing laughter.He quickly shifted his gaze from Tikhon's face to that of Denisov and the Cossack first-class captain, not understanding what all this meant. "Don't be stupid!" Denisov coughed angrily. "Why didn't you bring the first one?" Tikhon scratched his back with one hand and his head with the other, and suddenly his pockmarked face lengthened into a silly grin, revealing his missing teeth (for this reason they also called him missing teeth). teeth).Denisov laughed, Petya laughed too, and Tikhon laughed at them too.

"Well, he's a complete piece of shit," Tijon said. "He is ragged and rough. How can I bring him to you." He added: "What are you going to do, I am the son of a general? I won't go." "Stupid fellow!" said Denisov. "It's up to me to interrogate..." "I asked," Tikhon said.He said that he didn't know very well, and he said, "We have a lot of people, no, they are all cowards, they say they are soldiers, and they have an empty name. You just have to shout, and they will all be captured obediently." Jihong happily, Looking firmly into Denisov's eyes, he said with absolute certainty.

"I'll give you a hundred lashes, and see if you still pretend to be stupid," said Denisov sharply. "Don't be so angry," said Tikhon. "I don't know what you want from the Frenchman? When it gets dark, I'll take three of them, whatever you want. Row." "Well, let's go," said Denisov.All the way back to Shoulin's small house, he looked angry, frowned, and said nothing. Tikhon followed, and Petya heard the Cossacks laughing at him, and laughing at him for throwing a pair of boots into the bushes. Petya listened to their conversation, saw Tikhon's smiling face, and couldn't help laughing. After laughing, he suddenly understood that Tikhon had killed someone, and his heart seemed to be stabbed by something. Taste, he glanced at the captive little drummer.This feeling is only for a moment.He felt that at this moment he should hold his head high and cheer up, and he asked the first-class Cossack captain about tomorrow's battle plan in a serious manner, so as not to make people think that he was not worthy of the team he was in.

The officer who had been sent met Denisov on the way, and he reported that Dolokhov himself would be here shortly, and that everything was going well on his side. Denisov suddenly cheered up, and called Petya to him. "Hello! Tell me about yourself quickly," he said.