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Create a richly detailed **16:9 horizontal illustration** for an illustrated book based on the traditional Ukrainian folk tale **“Мудра дівчина” (The Wise Girl)**. The illustration should capture the **whole story and its central themes of wisdom, cleverness, humor, and quick thinking** in one cohesive scene. Set the story in a beautiful traditional Ukrainian village inspired by the **19th-century Pokuttya/Carpathian region**. Show a rustic wooden farmhouse, wooden fences, green fields, wildflowers, mature trees, and distant rolling hills beneath a warm atmospheric sky. At the center of the composition, make the **wise young Ukrainian girl** the main focal point. She should appear intelligent, confident, observant, and subtly mischievous, with a warm, knowing expression. Dress her in authentic traditional Ukrainian folk clothing: a white embroidered blouse, colorful woven skirt, traditional apron, embroidered details, and a traditional floral head covering. Nearby, show the **young suitor and his older uncle**, arriving at the farmhouse on horseback. Their expressions should communicate curiosity, confusion, and surprise as they encounter the girl's clever riddles. Include important visual elements from the story naturally within the scene. Show an **old wooden cart and a wooden sleigh** near the farmhouse, representing the girl's riddle about “summer and winter.” Include a rustic outdoor table or view through the open farmhouse doorway with **fresh cheese and sour cream, traditional sausage, and freshly cooked eggs**, representing her mysterious descriptions of the different foods. Also include the **wooden fence and surrounding grass**, subtly referencing her final clever wordplay. The composition should not look like a literal collage. Instead, create **one beautiful, unified storybook scene** where these details are naturally integrated into the environment and allow the viewer to discover references to the different moments of the tale. The overall atmosphere should be **warm, folkloric, intelligent, charming, humorous, and slightly mysterious**. Use beautiful natural lighting, warm golden sunlight, rich earthy colors, natural greens, warm wooden browns, and subtle red and blue accents from the Ukrainian embroidery. The characters should have expressive, natural faces and believable historical clothing. The wise girl should clearly be the visual focal point, while the young man and his uncle remain important secondary characters. The illustration should feel like a **classic Ukrainian fairy-tale book illustration**, with a timeless, handcrafted quality and rich environmental detail. **IMPORTANT STYLE REQUIREMENT:** The illustration should be created in the **same artistic style as the attached reference image**, matching its overall visual aesthetic, color palette, textures, lighting, character rendering, and illustration technique. **ABSOLUTELY NO TEXT:** There must be **no text anywhere in the illustration at all**. No title, no letters, no words, no captions, no signs, no labels, no typography, no logo, no watermark, and no written symbols of any kind. **Format: 16:9, wide horizontal composition, highly detailed, polished professional illustration, suitable for an illustrated fairy-tale book cover.**