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Oriental music. nabrator: Once, not very long ago as time goes in Northern China, a very old woman and a very old man lived together in a tumble-down bamboo house. The lights come up slowly. We see a barren yard on stage right of the background; the interior of a rude bamboo hut on the left. At a table in front of the interior the old woman moves her spoon wearily around in a bowl. narrator: All their lives they had lived in this miserable house; all their lives they had toiled together for very little—a bowl of rice, a bit of fish and a rice cake at the end of the day. They had no tea. They had no wine. They had no children. They had nothing but the tumble-down house and each other. And all of this endless toil for so little had made the old woman bitter. |
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