Everything in our village knew old Mikhalich – the old man was the best beekeeper in the district; Together with his wife, they kept a huge apiary on the forest farm, about ten kilometers from our village. Although, during the Great Patriotic War, Old Mikhalich did not fought on the front (he was 13 years old), everyone knew that the old man, then the boy, from the very first day, when a guerrilla detachment was formed in the forest, was a guerrilla.

There, in the guerrilla detachment, Mikhalich met his future wife – Nurk. A fun girl became a loyal friend Ivan on weapons, and they turned out to be a great machine -gun crew. Wanka and Nurk passed through all the horrors of the war, but saved not only their lives, but also a friendship that grew into love after the war. Then they married and formed a strong family. In the 1980s, when the children of Mikhalich and Nurki grew up, it was decided to put their work to a new level:

Ivan bought an old farm in the woods, put an apiary there in the lawn and was seriously engaged in beekeeping. In the late 1980s, honey Mikhalich was known throughout the district, and the old men themselves sold it every weekend at a rural market, from which they had good money. In the 1990s, the old ones decided to put business on a wide leg: to become, so to speak, by farmers; They put another 50 hives, hired a helper. But the assistant was a rotten man: he decided to attract the old racketeers of the city. At the same time, the racketeers drove two foreign cars on the farm.

– Hello, my sons, did you come for honey? – Old Mikhalich met the newcomers. – smiled grandfather.- In short, my grandfather, in three days we will come so that there are six mowers of dollars six months ahead, otherwise your cottage will burn blue flames, and the hives will go into the fire too!

Grandpa called her grandmother, and they began to think what to do. Grandma immediately said that the police should be called for help, but Mikhalich was smart, he understood what: -No, the police would come here, see what was happening, but he would not alternate here around the clock! And how much time does it take to pour gasoline the angle of the hut and bring a match? No, we have to do it ourselves, remember how we made a hiding place after the war? It’s time to dig it!

Three days after, as promised, the profit of racketeering. But no one came to meet: Grandpa and Grandma hid in the attic and watched the bandits, having prepared them a few surprises.- Hey, grandfather, go out, just bring money! And if you do not come out, we will take what we like, and we will still come for money, and put you on the counter! Cried the main racketeer. The farm is always quiet, just buzzing bees and singing forest birds … The bandits did not have time to take a couple of steps along the trail to the house, as the explosion came – the leader came to a mine. The racketeers were swaying – another mine exploded, and two more people broke up.

The survivors rushed to their cars. Maxim Maxim’s Maxima’s attic: Grandma Nura, who kept sharp vision, despite years, worked as the first number of machine gun calculation; The grandfather served the tape. In just a few minutes, the machine gun fussed two SUVs and Mercedes racketeers, none of them stayed alive … And then grandparents were justified: then time was such, and the son helped – a police colonel. If it were not for the son, it is unknown what it would end, most likely, the elderly would be imprisoned. Although, as far as I remember at the time, the police did not interfere with all these showers …