The Wedding by Mikhail Zoshchenko. Short summary

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Yegorka Basov was widowed in the very season of harvesting. There’s a lot of work to do, and he can’t do it by himself. He urgently needs to marry a healthy and hard-working girl. It is not an easy task.

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The peasant Yegorka Basov is widowed in the middle of the harvest. Yegorka cannot make it through the harvest alone; he must immediately find a new wife.

Time is hot, all the peasants work from morning till night. And not every girl will get married in a hurry.
But still Yegorka found himself a bride. In a neighboring village he asked for a soldier’s widow, Anisya. He took a good look at his potential wife and decided he could work.

They loaded Anisya’s uncomplicated dowry onto a cart and drove over to Yegorka’s house. Suddenly the bridegroom notices that the future wife has a bad limp. A serious and unacceptable disadvantage for a worker.

With scandal and abuse, the indignant Basov finally forced the failed wife to pack her belongings. He again loaded Anisya onto a cart to take her to where he had taken her. But he didn’t, he dropped her off on the road — the harvest, every minute counted.