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The action starts at the hour on Sunday, in which all the inhabitants of the village take part. Here, Ion does not play the hour with Florica of Maxim Oprea, although the game was played in the yard of her house, but with Ana of Vasile Baciu, promised by her father to George Bulbuc. The latter, wanting to challenge him, dances with Florica.
At one point, everyone stops, the men take off their hats, those who were sitting on the porch stand up, because the priest Belciug had come together with Mrs. Maria Herdelea, the teacher's wife, with Miss Laura and Titu.
During this time, Ion had arranged a meeting with Ana , in the garden under the walnut tree. While they were hugging, they were seen by Ilie, George's godbrother, who told him immediately. He, together with Ana's father, went to the place in question, causing a terrible scandal, with all kinds of reproaches. Ion was known as a violent boy, but now he refrained from fighting with Ana's father, hoping for some kind of reconciliation with her.
After they parted, Vasile Baciu took his daughter and went home, and Ion and the others went to the village tavern, where the villagers generally came to drink to forget their troubles. Here, Ion he beats George, managing to put out the fire he had in his chest from the fight earlier.
These are the moments in which she is very happy, because she thought that this fight was because Ion loved her, not knowing the truth, that he only wanted her wealth and the lands that she had coveted since she was a child.
In the second chapter, called "Zvarcolirea", it begins with the moment when Ion wakes up, and he was full of blood, because he had fallen asleep dressed in the festive clothes he had been dressed in the night before. He changed and went to work to a strip of land, right in the heart of the border. Here he is visited by Florica, the girl he really loved, but she was very poor. They embrace, and are seen by Ana, who was suffering because of her father or not - He allowed her to meet with Ion again..
Then at the service, Ion is reprimanded by the village priest for his beating with George , because Toma Bulbuc immediately went to complain to the priest that Ion had beaten his son.
The action then moves to Titu, a scholar from Transylvania, who learns the real problems of village life, at first as a notary's helper, then realizing that his role must be more important.
At the end of the chapter, Ion forms his decision to fight with Vasile Baciu for Ana, and the vague request from the choir becomes a firm decision.
The third chapter begins with the reconciliation between George and Ion, so that they also shook hands, but this was only in front of the world, because Ion was not going to give up Ana and her wealth, so that he had begun to visit Ana secretly at she is at home more and more often. Then the action moves to Laura, a girl of only 19 who had a true vision of love, so that she refuses to Pintea, and loves Aurel Ungureanu more and more. Then Pintea sends a letter to her parents, in which she asks for her hand in marriage, something very expected by Laura's parents and relatives, especially since they didn't really like Aurel, who they thought wanted to make fun of him.
During this time, Ion wants to increase his piece of land, taking from another's piece, believing that no one will notice, but Simion Lungu, whose land it was, wants to see Ion on trial for the crime he committed
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