The Good Earth Page #3

to bring the child

I'll find it.

Tomorrow I...

When have you had food?

There's a thing in me that hurts,

and not hunger, that a man has no words

No words, but I know!

Oh Lang, the earth has forgotten us!

The earth... I hate it! I'll sell it!

No! For a constant length! No!

No not the land! Not the land!

We're ready nephew

Are you safe? Yes, safe

Huh! Another mouth to feed.

My poor man!

For the sake of your children,

we'll give you

a better price for your land

than you can get

anywhere else in these times

We'll give you 12 pieces of silver

What? 12 pieces?

For all my land?

Huh! I paid a 100 times that much!

But who was starving then?

Please! Please!

And well you know I must sell

No! Not the land!

We'll not sell the land

We'll keep it, we'll go south

And when we return

we'll still have the land

But I've arranged it!

I brought these men here,

you must sell!

Is it your land?

Did you buy it bit by bit?

The land is our life

and it's better to go south,

or die walking, than to give it to you,

for nothing!

What a pity! What a pity!

How can you walk anywhere?

With the child?

The child is dead! Dead?

But I heard it cry?

The child is dead!

What do you say father?

Shall we ride in this fire wagon?

It ain't safe for your old back

He said it crawls on these iron poles!

Grandpa says it's a god of fire!

These wagons chained together

Do it again find a thing?

We sit in it while it walks off!

With these mats we can build a home

Well then get to work!

Get to work all of you!

You'll look at me and listen!

Take the bowel in your right hand so

and hold it out to everybody that passes

and cry out to them:"

A heart good sir! A heart good lady!

A good deed and you shall prosper!

The small cash, a coin you throw away!

Feed us starving child!"

Have a kind heart!

A good deed that bring you fortune!

The small cash the coin you throw away

give for the child died!

Have a kind heard!

A good deed to bring you fortune!

The small cash feed the starving child!

Feed the good fortune!

Bring you a good heart!

Small cash for starving!

Poor little child!

Feed the good fortune!

Bring you a good heart!

Small cash for starving!

Hey hey! Have a kind heart good sir!

A good...

Well? And today? Nothing!

No work of any kind!

For things a beast should do,

there were a 100 men, fighting!

It would have been better to starve,

in our own land,

than to come to this great city,

where there's no work for a man's hands!

It will come!

Now then must I wait

for my meat any longer?

Meat? Hey hey hey!

It's the only meat

we have since we killed the ox!

You must have begged

from a prince today!

It's mine!

Where did you get meat?

I took it from an old woman!

You stole it? You thief!

Thief! Thief!

Meat is meat

Do we have to steal

or beg for it to live?

A man can't stand it here!

Our land is all in the north!

In times like this,

my parents found a way to go back;

they sold me

to the old mistress in the big house

You could sell little one?

I would sell her,

to take you back to the land

If it wasn't for me,

you would die before you'll sell her!

We won't sell her, not if I spend

my life in this wilderness

What is it? What happened?

He was pulling timber, he fell and died!

Where did he work? Where did he work?

At the great market!

Where are these soldiers going?

They say there's a revolution coming!

Revolution? What is a revolution?

I don't know,

but it has something to do with food!

Things are growing again

You were a farmer?

I own land in the north!

So did I! 10 years ago!

Why don't you go back?

You gotta have an ox!

You gotta buy seeds!

You gotta live, till you make the crop

I tried saving up for 10 years,

I'll never get back,

and neither will you!

I'll get back!

If I can pull that thing

I can pull a plough;

ox or no ox!

Listen my brothers!

Before the peasants close my mouth!

In a few days

China will be a free country;

the day of tyranny is over!

The revolutionary army is on its way;

they've been marching 30 miles a day!

Fighting in the rain in the north

Hey!

You hear him?

Yes!

But what does it all mean?

It's raining in the north!

Everyday in the south

as come to revolution!

All of China will soon be free!

Don't let them drag you from your homes;

that famine has driven you off course!

Soldiers! Soldiers!

Run! Soldiers!

What is it? What is it?

Why you shouting?

It's free! The revolution's here!

China's a republic!

Republic? What is a "republic"?

Hey what do they want?

Where are they going?

Into the great house of Lang!

It's all over the city,

a man can do what he like!

Aim! Fire!

No! No! I was hungry! Mercy!

No! I was hungry! Mercy! Mercy! Mercy!

Aim! Fire!

Captain! Prepare to march!

Follow in!

Let them be a warning to you!

Free publicans are not bandits!

Order must be maintained

throughout the city!

You may go, but remember

anyone caught looting wiil be shot!

What haven't I seen?

What have I not seen!

I could never tell you!

Such things! Crowds! Oh I got through!

The city is mad!

They're robbing the rich!

Killing'em and burning'em!

The soldiers have

come down from the north!

Huh! It's well you were here,

it's well you were here!

Look! We can go back,

we can go back to the land!

Home, home! We are home! Home! Home!

Come! Hey! Down with you!

Run to uncles home,

tell'em Wong is home!

Tell all our friends,

tell'em I have great hungs!

Away with you! Ha ha ha ha!

This is yours! Thank you!

Take what you need!

Please! Take it all! The sack! AII!

Thank you!

AII! There's food for all

until the harvest!

We'll have more crops!

Thank you! Bye!

If you need more, come back!

We have plenty!

Ching

Wong Loong!

I see no face

in the city like yours, my friend!

These belong to you;

I kept'em in our house

Kept them? But it was starving!

Why don't you sell them?

I have no ploughs to...

But keep it!

Tomorrow I'll bring my ox and'em,

to help plough your field!

I have no field, I had to sell it!

Sell them?

Well you can come and work for me!

I've had luck in itself,

I have the mind to buy more land!

Will you come?

I'll come gladly

Nephew! Brother! My loved ones!

I predicted it! I predicted it!

I always said

if those southeners had anything,

my nephew would bring it home with him

But it's too late to help me,

I've had to sell my daughters

Well uncle,

anything you want and I have...

Nothing, nothing,

still if you could let me have a few

pieces of silver, 2 or 3, or 4?

4? Why? Take 10!

15! 20!

Why not?

I have this and more! I have jewels!

Jewels!

A handful! All colours!

Red ones white ones, come!

I want to feel my toes

in the earth again!

But there's something...

Well? Are you going to sell the jewels?

To buy the land?

Sell them? Why of course!

And what else would I do with them?

If I could have 2, only 2 small ones,

2 white ones...

The pearls? You?

No I wouldn't wear them,

I'm much too plain-Iooking

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