The Good Earth

This is the day!

Yes yes Loo! I'm up!

Quiet! Quiet! You'll wake father!

Here friend!

And eat a little bit more for once!

Morning medley!

Morning! Morning!

So today's the day!

The day! Hay hay!

Tomorrow's another world's waters

Another!

I know! I know! Who does it! Ha! Ha! Ha!

ShouZheng! Where's my hot water?

My lungs are cold!

It's ready father

I'm too old to wait for my food like this

Tomorrow a woman will bring food to us both

Yeah she'll eat food too

and there's little enough for any of us

Until the harvest and if the rain don't come

there won't be a harvest!

Tea? Have you lost your mind?

Tea is like eating silver!

But this is the day father,

if the woman brings us luck,

we may never go hungry again

Tea! Waste!

You think she'll be an ugly woman?

Hum! If things go on like this

Someday the bridegroom would want to see

the bride before they marry them!

Well then I won't have a pock mark woman!

Or the one with split lip!

Now then are you a farmer's son or not?

Your woman must work as your mother did

And bear children like she did,

6 sons like mine!

Your tea will be cold.

True! True!

5 sons dided in the years of flood and famine

Your mother worked on with me until she died

Now I know that she was the one,

the best a man could have

But I'll tell you one thing,

your woman is not deformed

Thank you father!

Now there it is! Water enough to bring a crop to fruit

Must you waste it?

I haven't wash my body all at once since the new year!

That won't do starting a new woman like this!

Tea in the morning water in all this wasting!

Father? Well what is it? What is it?

I'll be grateful to you

if it would please you to ask my friends

for a feast tonight?

No! A very small feast?

It's only this once?

No no no no no!

Spend for a feast, make way for a famine

Good morning father Wong!

It's going to rain!

It is unlucky to mention it!

I haven't said it would rain!

I haven't said it!

Here's some very bad wine for the bridegroom

This gift is much too good for my son

Oh is miserable wine!

Where's the bridegroom?

He's washing his whole body!

Is that my friend Wong Loong?

Shing! That's my son!

Wasting good water before the rains come!

Uh but the rains will come!

And what's on the top of the water to you,

a man who lives to see his grandson

Young men and fools are alike,

until the gods teach them wisdom

And asking your few friends for a feast tonight

A very small feast,

if you'll come my son will be honoured

You were boys together. Shing!

Ha ha ha ha!

This is the day!

Chickens! Good buy! Eat!

Good your blood and pure your liver!

Peaches, 6 for 2 coppers!

Now then what?

I'm Wong Loong, the farmer

Well, and Wong Loong the farmer what?

I'm coming... I'm coming...

Are you seeing that? I see you a fool!

There's a woman to be...

Ha ha ha! So you're he!

You're the bridegroom! I thought you're the peddler!

Why do you bring a basket?

Are you gonna carry that the whole day?

The bridegroom! He comes!

The bridegroom! He comes!

The bridegroom!

He's here! The bridegroom!

He's here! The bridegroom!

You fool, get up!

Your farmer's come, he smells like a stable!

Nobody giggles!

Is all wreck crack yours?

Open it! Open it!

To see what's in it

There's a thief in every kitchen

When did you steal these?

My mother gave'em to me

Save it for your own brats!

Pick up your eggs! Hurry!

This dress, the kitchen slave

This woman came into my house when she was a child

Her parents were farmers but during the famine

they sold her to me for food.

She has a strong body, and will work for you

in your house and your fields.

Take her and use her well!

Oh Lang! Over him! And bring him many sons

Bring the first son for me to see

Well? Go go go go!

Take the box!

Peaches! Fresh peaches! Good peaches are the friend!

Good your blood and pure your liver!

Peaches! Fresh peaches! Thank you!

Peaches! Fresh peaches! They're yours!

Eat for yourself

A tree will grow from the seeds

Hey, hey! Let him be!

For very silent says she's a good cook!

An excellent cook!

I am an old man and I have never tasted such food before!

Oh no it's very poor food!

Very badly prepared, the woman can't cook at all!

My friends, my poor farm barely produces enough

to keep my family alive

But tonight, I rejoyce that my brother's son

has been favoured by him

Are you, you, how beautiful it is,

and how pretty, nephew?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Forgive me!

Poor Zon! He faked and shaved

and hope we will all go home!

No no no no!

Your presence delights him!

Then we'll all stay till cockcrow!

May you have many grandsons!

And she might beg for the first one!

You want my old bones!

Brother, your joy is mine!

Nephew! Now that the woman will work in the house,

you might help your old uncle in the fields?

Alas I...

Good night! Good night!

Good night! Good night!

Good night! Night! Night!

It will grow!

This is good land!

An old one, my ancestors came here long ago!

And they sleep in it!

My father ploughed it,

and it's mine!

The best the man can have!

Now it belongs to us both!

It's raining!

Why did you put up your hand?

Were you afraid?

Afraid of me?

Were they cruel to you in the Great House?

No one will be cruel to you here!

I am with child

Enough for the day,

We'll tell old father

Why have you left the field?

She is with child already!

Hey hey! She want me to be a grandfather

I shall go prepare food

Yes food food food!

I know nothing of these things,

when the child is born you need a woman.

Perhaps here's a woman in the Great House

Someone you knew in the kitchen!

Not in that house!

Well, We're all men here!

There must be someone in the Great House...

I'll never go back, in that house

It will be with my son in the house

I'll have a red coat on it,

and a red flower trousers,

and a hat with a buddha and tiger,

and I'll go back to the kitchen

where I spend my days as a slave

And into the great hall

where all the mistress sits with their pipe

and I'll show myself and my son to all of them

Well, well I haven't heard you speak so many words

since you came into this house!

Now then, why are you not in the fields today?