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Two neighboring peasant households decide to send their young men away to learn modern farming abroad, and the narrative follows the preparations, farewells, and the ensuing journey. Episodes alternate between home scenes of domestic bickering and village gossip, comic misunderstandings, and travel encounters that contrast provincial habits with urban and foreign customs. The prose uses regional character portraits and episodic set-pieces to sketch a gallery of figures and situations, while recurring motifs concern generational tensions, practical efforts to improve agriculture, and the awkward mixture of pride, naivety, and good intentions that drives the protagonists’ adventures.
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