Cao Yu's The Thunderstorm - Triceratops Home

Gui I, I—what did I do? (feels like he's lost face in front of his daughter) Drink
some, gamble a little, play a little—just these three things. I'm almost fifty,
and I should still be afraid of him?
Sifeng He wouldn't care about those things! –But he sends Mom money every month
from the mines, and you spend it on the sly. If he knew, he would never agree
to it!
Gui What's he going to do then, (loudly) His mother married me, so I'm his father.
Sifeng (ashamed) Quiet! Yelling like that here. –Madam's upstairs recuperating.
Gui Hah! (torrentially) I told you, when I married your mother, I still held an old
grudge. Look at how clever I am—all these people in the Zhou house, who
doesn't call me "Can-Do Lii Gui"? I had barely been here two months, when
my daughter also found work here. And your brother—if it wasn't for me,
would he have gotten work in the Zhou's mine? Ask your mother, is she
successful? –Even now, your brother and your mother really disapprove of
me. When she came back this time, your mother wanted to still act like a
widow, and so I wouldn't admit to knowing her, on account of your brother.
Maybe I'll leave her, and not see the daughter I raised with her, and your
luckless brother she brought in.
Sifeng (doesn't want to hear) Oh, Dad.
Gui Hah, (feeling better for the complaints) who knows which bastard's son I
raised.
Sifeng What did Brother ever do to you? Why are you yelling at him like that?
Gui When did he ever not let me down? Joining the army, dragging the payment
cart around, being a repairman, going to school, which route did he follow
through? I worked hard to get him a job in the Zhou's mine, but he gets into a
fight with the foreman and hits somebody.
Sifeng (carefully) I heard, didn't the Master first tell the police at the mine to open
fire, that he led the workers to do something after that?
Gui Anyway, the kid's a hoodlum. If he eats somebody's food, he should listen to
them. It was all going fine, but he had to go on strike, and now he's got to
depend on me to go begging to the Master again!
Sifeng You heard wrong, Brother said he wants to see the Master himself today, he's
not looking for you to apologize.
Gui (proud of himself) But unfortunately, I'm his father, I can't not take care of
him.
Sifeng (looks at her father with contempt and disdain, sighs) Alright, you rest up, I
need to take this medicine upstairs to Madam. (carries the bowl of medicine,
walking towards the dining room at left)
Gui Stop for a minute first, I've got one more thing to say.
Sifeng (changing the subject) It's lunchtime, is the Master's Pu'er tea steeped yet?
Gui I don't need to be bothered for that, those house boys have already taken care
of it.
Sifeng (dodging) Oh, great, then I'm off.
Gui (blocking her) Sifeng, don't forget, I want to discuss something with you.
Sifeng What?