![]() Discontent because he can’t work the land, he goes daily into the village to patronize a new teahouse that’s also a gambling establishment and bordello. Wang Lung, however, has stored food and funds. O-lan bears a second son.ĭisaster strikes the land in the form of a lingering flood. He responds by using their saved money to buy part of Hwang’s property. She tells Wang Lung that the Hwangs face financial difficulties. She delivers a boy, and O-lan presents their son to the House of Hwang, where she lived for 10 years as an enslaved woman. Although pregnant, she works beside Wang Lung until the birth. When she finishes her housework, she joins Wang Lung in the fields. While Wang Lung doesn’t find O-lan attractive, she’s the perfect wife in other respects: deferential, hard-working, loyal, and clever. ![]() After everyone leaves, he takes her to his bed. ![]() ![]() While he serves the meal she prepares, he makes her wait outside with the ox. The newlyweds walk silently to the farm, where Wang Lung tells his bride to prepare a feast for his friends and relatives. Mistress Hwang has arranged the marriage, selling one of her kitchen maids, O-lan, to Wang Lung’s father. ![]() On his wedding day, 20-year-old Wang Lung leaves the small farm where he lives with his widowed father and walks to the nearby village to meet his bride for the first time. ![]()
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