The poor milkmaid agreed out of desperation. But on the wedding night, something happened that filled her with real horror…
The girl was barely twenty years old. Her hands always smelled of milk and hay, and her boots hardly dried from the mud. He lived in an old wooden house with his sick mother. Her father was in prison because of debts he could not repay.
There was a lot of talk in the village, but the truth was simple: there was no one to support the family, there was almost no money, and sometimes there was even nothing to put on the table.
The mother was losing weight every month. Medicines were expensive. The girl got up before sunrise, worked on the farm until late at night, but the earned was only enough for bread. Sometimes she just sat by the window and looked at the road, not knowing what to do.
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