Dragon Seed Page #7

what book would it be?

Well, there are books for every need.

If a man wishes to read secretly

for his own private pleasure...

...there are books for that.

No? Well then,

for what is your book wanted?

I married my woman thinking her

like any other one and...

Now I find out she can read

and wants a book.

So.

You're only a woman,

mother of my children...

...but if you could read,

what would you like to read?

- I never thought...

- I have thought of the one.

It has everything in it. The good prosper

and the wicked are punished.

The name of the book

is All Men Are Brothers.

- Thank you. I will remember what you...

- Sir.

Sir. Sir, there is something.

- As before?

- Worse than before. Much louder, sir.

They said they have warned you many times

and their patience is at an end.

These students cause trouble.

An honest merchant

cannot live in peace these times.

Well, what is this?

We ask you once more,

do not deal with the Japanese.

We're at war. You cannot buy and sell

Japanese goods and call yourself a patriot.

Do you ask me

to stop breathing in and out?

There's a call for these,

and a profit in them.

Save your breath for arguments

you can win.

Then we must speak to you

in words you can hear.

- Leave nothing.

- Stop. You are vandals. Stop.

Destroy all Japanese goods.

We must make him understand

what he has done.

Bandits. Thieves.

You'll pay for this. Thieves.

This is the only way to make him see.

What's happens here will happen

to every shop that sells Japanese goods.

No. No.

Wu Lien walks hand in hand

with those who deal in your blood.

I'm only a merchant.

Why do you destroy my goods?

He pays for Japanese goods in money

that'll come back to us in pain and death.

No, no, I deal only in innocent things

that harm no one.

This man, Wu Lien,

loves his cash box above his country.

That is not true. That's not true.

Turn away from this traitor

as you would turn from the Japanese.

Come.

How can you say that?

Can it be that the thing

I have done all my life...

...is now held against me as a crime?

Did you see...?

Did you see those merchants

turn away from me as from a bad odor?

- They are of my own kind.

- Be of stout heart, my brother. It will pass.

No, no, I do not think it will

and I'm not a stupid man.

I must turn this thing over in my mind.

Decide what to do in the days I see ahead.

I must think and weigh what comes out.

And think again.

And then this strange young man

jumped down, ran away and was gone.

- Was he a bandit, then?

- No, it was said he was a student.

First you encounter this trouble

and then you buy a book.

This book that Jade now has, what is it?

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