The Good Earth Page #3

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!

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