Tang Zhiqin : Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law!

Sizhen: Ma, don’t let her get you all worked up. Tang: Quit if you’re going to quit! You won’t be missed! To start acting up on today of all days. Sizhen: That’s enough of that! Stop talking at once. Zhang: Old madam, are you saying that servants should pay for room and board themselves? Tang: Young missus, just why should be raise her wages? We pay for all her room and board. Sizhen: Mama Zhang, if you think you’re not being paid enough, you should’ve said something about it earlier. Maids in other households don’t have to work as hard as I do, but they’re paid more than I am. Zhang: It’s just the one of me responsible for this big old house.

Tang: What? One light scolding and you’re threatening to quit? Zhang: Old madam, you’d better hire someone else. Tang: Humph, young missus, you can’t be so polite with stubborn wretches like her. Sizhen: Mama Zhang, you just be more careful in the future. Don’t you realize we paid good money for them? Mama Zhang, just look how many things you’ve broken in the few days since you arrived here. Tang: Young missus, and here you told me it was the window opposite. Tang: So that sound of something breaking just now-it was this? Perhaps if I kowtow sincerely enough a couple times I’ll have a grandson by next year. Tang: Hold on-I haven’t even kowtowed myself. Ma, let me kowtow my birthday respects to you. I put some ointment on it and wrapped it up for her. Sizhen: Oh, it’s just a touch of rheumatism. Tang: A tragedy? The more tragic the better-I simply adore tragedies! Mama Zhang, what happened to your hand? Sizhen: I hear it’s a new play-a real weepie. Tang: Xianglin’s Wife? Never heard of it. Sizhen: Ma, you don’t need to read the ads-I know: Yuan’s playing Xianglin’s Wife. Ah, I can’t see clearly without my glasses. Say, what play is Yuan Xuefen performing in these days? Let me take a look in the newspaper. Tang: I have some friends coming over to play mahjong, so I’d prefer to go another day. Sizhen: Didn’t she say she was going to take you to see a Shaoxing play for your birthday? Young missus, should you have children of your own someday, don’t you let them run wild like that. Tang: Kids these days are like a gang of little thugs. Some kid kicked a ball and broke a window across the alley. Sizhen: Don’t do that! There’s some medicine in my room and gauze in the drawer. But whatever you do, don’t let madam find out! Zhang: I don’t know what happened, young missus. Oh no-what a disaster! Didn’t I tell you before that it’s madam’s birthday today and to be extra careful not to break anything? Mama Zhang: Hey-coming! Yes, young missus? Starring: Shangguan Yunzhu, Shi Hui, Wang Yi, Zhang Fa, Lu Shan, Jiang Tianliu, Han Feiĭramatis Personae (in order of appearance): Tang Zhiyuan (Zhang Fa), Sizhen’s husbandĬhen Sirui (Zhang Fei) and Tang Zhiqin (Wang Yi), younger siblings of Sizhen and Zhiyuan MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright May 2019)Ĭhen Sizhen (Jiang Tianliu), a middle-class housewife

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