Renat remembered his wife, and his soul brightened, as if the sun had looked into the cabin. He looked at Leila's picture.
Layla knew how to wait. She could be different: sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp and quick—tempered, but all Renat's friends respected her immensely and appreciated her for the rare gift of a sailor — a fisherman's wife - to bravely endure loneliness, patiently wait for the return of the trawler and be able to meet her husband.
The arrival of a fishing vessel is greeted beautifully: festively dressed people, music, flowers on the pier. The sailors are standing on the deck and waiting for the shore. There is a tickle in the throat when the ship goes past the gray, bare, but native hills, the voice trembles when a motley crowd of greeters approaches, and the breath catches when tender female hands hug tightly, and a surprisingly soft, slightly forgotten for half a year, wet with tears woman's face is pressed against the weathered face of the fisherman.
For the sake of such a moment, you can hang out for six months.
...The plane was about three hours away. The necessary things were packed. Leila gathered the children, and they, excited by the upcoming flight, rushed around the apartment from corner to corner.
— Are you sure you've decided everything?.. Leila asked her husband again. Renat's decision to leave the North was unexpected for her. Leila fell in love with the harsh region, noisy and young city, where people who came from almost all over the country lived and worked. Among their friends were Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis... Everyone has their own character, but joint work, the sea united different people, made them representatives of the same "nation" — sailors...
— I haven't applied yet. We'll stay at home, find out about work, and then I'll come back, send a container with things and come to Girdelen.
Leila is used to moving. It was her life. For the sake of her husband, she left the stage and came to the North. Having been in Girdelena, Leila returned back with no less joy than Renat. She didn't want to leave here. I understood that my husband was tired, that the difficult profession of a fisherman requires a lot of psychological separation, and there comes a time when I have to change my profession — there are not enough vacations or weekends — a person gets tired to stupefaction... Oi didn't say anything to Renat. She was sad...
As if sensing his wife's condition, Renat said:
— It's nice at home now, lots of fruit, warm... He stretched with pleasure. — They're waiting for us. And here's a taxi pulled up...
... Mountains suddenly crawled into the window of the plane. The sun was setting. The snowy peaks of the Caucasus were pink and purple.
The children clapped their hands:
— Mom, look, mountains, mountains... They're as beautiful as popsicles," said the youngest daughter.
— Nothing ice cream. They look like mountains," the eldest objected.
Renat stared out the porthole in silence. His face was focused and solemnly joyful.
Time passed unnoticed. Renat met with relatives, helped his father with the housework, stayed too long with old friends. They often went to the mountains. I didn't think about the North. In Girdelen, they knew that Idris' son had come home completely and wanted to stay in the village to work. In workshops where agricultural machinery is repaired, he was offered the position of chief mechanic — old Ali was retiring.
Renat was walking from the workshops and turned towards the river. The water was clear, the melting of the first snow did not have time to muddy it.
Renat sat down on a rock.
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