The Good Earth Page #2

Hey Hey!

I never could get my wife

to work the way

that woman did,

with a child about to be born

If it weren't indignified,

I'd tell her that she's a good wife!

Nephew! I rejoyce with you!

It's nothing that I lost my own wheat

helping with the child, nothing!

Hear him! Huh huh!

I'll get eggs, and dye them red

for the whole village

Everyone must know I have a son!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Oh my son is very pleased!

Oh it was a dismal noise!

No no! Very good noise!

Now then!

Those cakes are not to be eaten!

Well! And I am poor

but at least I can be honest!

My dear nephew, please add this fowl

to the little coloured eggs

which you hadn't offered me!

But they are gift for the Great House!

Very bad for the stomach,

only fit for rich people,

if they are not too rich to accept them

Those people

are not as rich as you think!

They are feeling pinch this year

I've heard that they are selling land

Land? Selling land?

I heard it yesterday from their agent,

At the gambling tea house

Well, am I asked to fill my cup

in this house of properity?

Huh... please please!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

What have I not thought of...

A good new year, a triumphant new year!

Good night!

Good bye!

We could buy land, from the Great House!

Rice land!

Now then, if we lost our wheat

we'll have no money

But we haven't!

But how close it was!

Between this money and nothing

Not even food!

When a man has 2 fields, or 3 fields

he can loose his wheat

and still have food

That rice land is sure!

Had to be sure again

I'd even go to the Great House

and buy it!

Do you think They'd kill me?

Well, well! I'm not afraid!

I go to the Great House to say,

to tell'em

I've got an important business

Money is concerned

What is a fair price,

I have it in my hand!

Well it was a good thought

But what use is a good thought then?

If no one agrees with it?

And the child! A beautiful child!

A beautiful boy! Boo boo boo boo!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Here's the son of Wong Loong!

Here's the son of Wong Loong the farmer!

He's a man-child!

He's a man-child!

Miss Oh Lang,

Wife Wong the farmer and her son

you will announce them to ancient one

And you say her child would be a female

ha ha ha ha! A female!

Quiet! I'll cut off your own hands!

Um! He has a sickly look

Very pale and green

Let's hope he won't die before Spring!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

Stop that cackles!

Hurry woman! Must I waste the whole day?

Hey hey hey!

He's a beautiful child!

He's a beautiful child!

Hey hey hey!

You won't believe she laughed!

And say he's a beautiful child!

She said those words

"a beautiful child"!

Well she said no more than the truths!

And I saw not

one slave in all that house

with a new coat like mine!

And why should you go about

like a wife of a common fellow?

I can afford a piece of cloth I think!

Now I have 2 fields!

I bought it today from the Great House!

The land?

They said it was less than an inch

And took all that silver

as if it were nothing!

And the foolish clerks

who don't own a foot land

laughed the goose clack at me

'cause I couldn't write my name!

But I'll buy again and again!

Until my land is more than an inch!

Even in a house of a prince!

Look here farmer!

Someday all this will belong to you!

And you'll be a prince too!

And I'll buy more land

and more land and...

What a pity! We're so poor!

We have nothing!

And the child is nothing!

Yes yes! Is less than nothing!

And it's only a female,

and it's covered with small pox as well!

Yes yes! Only a female,

and covered with small pox,

as well!

You mighty gods! You wise gods!

You've been good to me, for many years

you've been good to this humble person;

I had only 1 field, now I have 5!

I had only 1 child, now I have 3!

My eldest son

planted his first rice today!

My youngest son

is big enough to lead the ox!

My third child is only a female,

but I won't reproach you for that!

Excuse me!

Now we haven't forgotten you!

We brought you

fine new rogues of red paper

so you won't forget me!

You send me rich harvest this year also

and you persuade my uncle,

to work a little now and then.

And not ask for money so often

And if he does,

please allow my husband to refuse him!

I'll do that anyway!

Very gracefully!

Wong Loong! Come up!

Wong Loong come up here!

Wong Loong!

Wong Loong will know,

he'll know what it is!

Wong Loong! How would he know?

He is as slow witted as my woman!

Hey hey! Well! And what now?

Look! Look!

An army!

No! Virgins perhaps?

So many?

People from the North! But why?

There must be famine in the North!

They're going south where there's food!

Famine!? Ha ha ha!

What ideas you have!

The woman is right!

I have seen it before!

That's what happens

when a man has only 1 field!

But I have 5!

We must thank the gods

for giving me so much foresight!

What talk is this!?

Forgive him!

My son he's young and stupid

and talks too much!

It was famine that made me a slave!

It dries even if we carry it!

Well if the vines starve,

we'll all starve!

The wheats' gone! And the rice!

The more my fields

I have only this handful of beans!

Mother! Mother!

You know we're not thieves!

But the ox is mine!

We're hungry! Our children are hungry!

You should help us!

If I have money I would help you!

My nephew! You can sell your land!

Sell my land?

Yes!

But then the money is gone,

and the land!

At least we could

live well through the famine!

What good is this land now?

You're young,

you don't know what a famine is like!

My father knew years of famine,

but he kept the land

I must keep it for my sons!

The earth is good,

if we work it would feed us

But how am I to live?

How am I to live?

Work! As I do!

I'll not rob my sons to feed you!

You you! Must we go hungry

while you have land?

This land that you won't sell!

I'm not selling my land

It's my life, it's mine!

I'll never sell it,

I'll dig up the earth

first and feed it to my children

Yes! And you'll bury them in it!

He's my friend, my friend

We're not hungry!

Mercy on me you powerful ones!

I starve and my woman starve,

and there's no one

to give me a handful of rice!

There's one who has plenty,

but he's a rich man!

And rich's hardened the heart,

soften his heart

o powerful ones,

that he may give me a little

out of his abundance!

Would not a man sell his lands

unless he has foods

to give his children?

He has food! And I starve!

He has food! And these good men starve!

Well, what?

You have food! We're starving!

You have food! Food!

I have nothing!

I dig for roots, for my children

You have food hidden! Food and silver!

Food? Find it!

He's got it he's got it!

Wong Loong has food!

I told you, he has food!

But... it's earth!

It takes hunger, and it's warm

Ching! Hunger makes man mad!

Come come! You're little man now!

You won't cry!

Look! Your sister doesn't cry!

Little one she never cries now

What is it? Why?

If you could have a little food

you'd have the strength

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