The Kind Woman and the Giant Carp

Глава 1The Kind Woman and the Giant CarpOnce upon a time, there was a kind woman.She worked as a caregiver for elderly people. She helped them around the house, cooked when necessary, carried things, cleaned, listened to the same stories more than once, and generally did all the things that somehow become invisible the moment someone else starts doing them.Cooking and giving away food were not really part of her job.She simply liked feeding people.Unfortunately, one day she made a mistake.A very small mistake.She accidentally cooked herself a soup using someone else's chicken leg.She had chicken legs of her own, of course.Smaller ones.Those she used to cook food for the other person.And because she was honest, she admitted it.That should have been the end of the story.It wasn't.Rumors appeared.Then explanations.Then completely new versions of events.According to the most popul…