– Darling, why are you always complaining to me? Everything is wrong with you. Maybe something happened? – It did! You’re embarrassing me in front of the whole village! – The man rushed out of the house, slamming the door.

The first time Carl saw Maria was at the village club at a dance.

He had been working on his grandmother’s farm all day and decided to meet his friends in the evening.

Maria was very beautiful, but for some reason she was wearing a blue tracksuit with white stripes and the same sneakers!

It was then Carl found out that the girl was from the city and when she asked:

-How do you dress for a disco in your village?

She was answered:

-Who – in what! The main thing is to be comfortable!

So she chose a sports suit, and was very surprised that the other girls came to the meeting place dressed well, with heels and makeup.

-Why? – Maria was surprised. – After all, it was necessary to walk four kilometers to the club, and not even on asphalt!

Against the background of local beauties, the girl immediately attracted attention.

Firstly – the costume.

Secondly – there was something in her… Free… Mysterious.

She was obviously bored. She obviously did not like the music on the old laptop.

In addition, she saw that everyone was looking at her and treating her as a stranger.

So Maria decided to go home.

She went outside, looked around. Around: darkness. Where to go? Suddenly someone lightly touched her shoulder. The girl turned around.

In front of her stood a lanky guy with a broad friendly smile and an old bicycle.

-Why are you standing there? Is it dark already?” he asked.

Maria just waved her hand.

-“Let me give you a ride,” the guy suddenly said.

-Come on!

Maria sat on the frame and the guy took her somewhere straight…

And she lived in a neighboring village, where Maria came to work at the school.

-What’s your name, helper? – the girl asked cheerfully near the house of her mistress.

-Richard.

-Thank you, Richard. I don’t know how I would have come here alone in the dark. Goodbye, then.

-Wait, are you leaving? Is that all? What about romantic kisses under the moon and so on?

Maria laughed:

-It won’t work with kissing. You are so tall. I’d never be able to reach you!

Having said that, Maria shuffled into the house and quietly made her way to her room.

Richard stood for a while, thought, and left.

Carl came to his place a minute later.

He saw Richard take a stranger on a bicycle and he wondered who she was.

Not understanding why he followed them out of curiosity. It was good that he also had a bike.

-She is strange, – Carl thought, sitting on a bench near Maria’s house. – She sat down with a strange guy. She left without knowing where. How can she do that? And she refused to kiss… But how pretty she is! You can tell she’s a city girl!

With such thoughts, the guy sat for a while and went to sleep to his grandmother.

But he could not fall asleep. He could see Maria’s face and hear her sonorous laughter with the words:

-It won’t work with kisses!

In short, in the morning a man left the house who fell in love at first sight!

And forever…

Since that day Carl tried to meet Maria somewhere in passing.

Sometimes in the store, sometimes near the school.

He was told:

-Are you following Maria? Why do you need her? She’s a teacher, she won’t even notice people like you!

-Yes, she will. She won’t go anywhere, – the guy waved it off, confident that she would.

And Maria noticed him. Tall, strong, handsome. Clearly in love. But he was indecisive: he did not dare to meet for a month.

And Maria was tired of waiting.

-Hello, – said Carl the girl, suddenly turning back and standing right in front of him.

The guy was confused. He did not expect that she would talk to him.

-“How long are you going to follow me in silence? Can we get acquainted?

-My name is Carl, – he answered embarrassed.

-And I’m Maria. So Carl, tell me why you follow me.

-I want you to become my wife, – Carl said these words without hesitation.

-Wow! Aren’t you worried?

-Why?

-What if I say yes?” Maria was joking, of course.

-“No, I’m not worried. I’m just happy. So you agree?

Now Maria was confused. I saw it: Carl is not joking. But they had just met! What a marriage! Nonsense.

-Carl calmed down and took the initiative. -Do you dare?

-“Of course I dare!” Maria shook her head, “I just don’t know you. And I don’t like you.

-“So what? You will,” Carl said confidently, as if she were a little girl who didn’t understand anything about life.

-Listen, this is not funny anymore, – Maria turned around, about to leave, but Carl stopped her. He took her by the hand and hugged her…

Maria was embarrassed in his arms… She blushed, blushed. At the same moment she understood:

-It’s him! It was him!

…Many years later, telling her daughter about meeting her father, Maria confidently said:

-It was at that moment that my fate was decided. One hug opened more than many subsequent meetings. This was my man!

A month later Carl and Maria applied for marriage. Everyone was surprised: parents, teachers at school, fellow villagers.

They got married in the same club where Carl saw Maria for the first time.

People in the village said that they were getting married “on the fly”, but it was not so. Their first daughter was born a year later.

Maria, despite growing up in the city, quickly adapted to rural life. She was not at all demanding, easily learned rural wisdom, was always cheerful and sociable. Everyone envied Carl. You bet! He snatched such a beauty!

It was out of envy that they made jokes, such as:

-Probably, you listen to your teacher? Doesn’t she put you in a corner?

At first Carl did not pay attention to the ambiguous hints of the men. Then he noticed that Maria communicates freely not only with women, but also with men.

And Carl began to be bothered by very unpleasant thoughts.

-Could she be giving them topics for conversation by her behavior? As if she is a smart woman, doesn’t she understand that it is wrong? She should respect her husband, obey him, not talk to men on the street! She has gone completely wild!

Having wound himself up nowhere further, Carl changed dramatically. In all the actions and words of his wife he saw some trick.

And it began…

-Who weeds carrots like that? You weeded half of the carrots!

-Maria, you’ve salted the soup again – it’s not good to eat!

-How long are you going to sit over your books? I’m sleepy!

-You’re all dressed up!

-You only think about yourself!

-Can’t you see my husband is home from work!

Maria was joking at first. And then she got tired of it and finally got so fed up that she could no longer see her husband with his eternal nitpicking.

-Carl, why are you always complaining to me? Everything is wrong with you. Did something happen?

-I did! A long time ago! You embarrassed me in front of the whole village! You don’t know how to behave! The men talk about you all the time! Aren’t you tired of it?

-Darling, come on! -Maria was indignant. -I never go anywhere but home and school. And when should I? I have no time to read a fairy tale to my daughter.

-You should talk less with women, then you will have enough time for everything! – Carl left the house, slamming the door loudly.

-Wow, – thought Maria. – What was that all about?

Of course, she had noticed that something bad was happening to her husband lately. But for Carl to behave like this!

-What can you take from him, though? The village…

This was the first time Maria thought about her husband. She had not thought much about the fact that Carl grew up in the village. She loved him the way he was.

And then everything went even worse… Carl bothered Maria for the slightest thing.

Maria could not stand it. She answered to every attack of her husband. She tried to justify herself, to convince him that he was talking in vain. But it was not working out well: Carl did not listen to her.

Eventually, the relationship between the couple completely broke down.

And then suddenly the news came – Carl found himself another woman!

He did not even look for her – she found him.

Classmate Laura loved Carl all her life.

She hoped to marry him. And then this one. Maria.

So Laura was waiting for the moment when she could wedge herself between Carl and his wife. And she waited.

Carl, worried about the troubles at home, came home from work cheerful. Laura met him on the street and took him to her place. Well, and there…

…In the village it is impossible to keep silent about such an event. So Maria knew about what happened in all the details by the next day’s lunch. Moreover, Laura generously shared them with everyone she could.

In the evening Maria asked her husband:

-Carl, is it true?

-What? – she heard in reply.

-Do you not love me anymore?

Carl was silent. He did not know how to explain his feelings to his wife. No, of course he loved her. Only… Something alien, something foreign came between them. And Carl didn’t know how to deal with it. That’s why he kept silent. He could not choose the words.

And Maria understood his silence as a sign of consent.

-No, she doesn’t. Well, then I have nothing to do here, – she thought. – It’s time to go home. To mom and dad. They had been waiting for a long time and were sure that this marriage would not last long.

In the morning Carl went to work. Maria packed everything she needed for herself and her daughter. Quietly, without attracting attention, she left the house and went to the station. Four hours later, her mother opened the door for her.

-“Well, I told you,” she said, inviting her daughter and granddaughter inside.

Carl arrived the next day in the evening.

-“I’ve been looking for you for a whole day! Was it really hard to warn you?

-It was, – Maria answered. – And why? I ruined your life, shamed you, betrayed you, or whatever else you can think of? Why look for us? Find yourself, Carl. You seem to be lost… in Laura’s bed.

Carl frowned.

-It’s all your fault!

-Yes, of course…

-I don’t love you!

-Yes, I understand…

-Maria!

Carl went to his wife and suddenly hugged her.

And again that strange feeling…

For several minutes the husband and wife stood in an embrace. It seemed that they gave each other their warmth, exchanged the energy of life, love, understanding and forgiveness.

-“Maria, I can’t live without you,” Carl whispered.

-“Me neither,” Maria echoed back.

Then she moved away from her husband and said defiantly:

-“Only one condition – we move to the city!

-I need to think… – Carl was a little confused.

-“You are a man, you have to decide,” said his wife.

…Five years later Carl opened his own company in the city, began to earn well, the family had a second daughter.

Now the man envies himself and does not listen to any gossips and jokers.

Once he had heard enough…

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– Darling, why are you always complaining to me? Everything is wrong with you. Maybe something happened? – It did! You’re embarrassing me in front of the whole village! – The man rushed out of the house, slamming the door.