Rickshaw Boy: a Novel
“Happy and carefree, he felt as if he had disgorged all the bad luck that had come his way since marrying Huniu onto Fourth Master Liu. Disregarding the cold and forgetting to look for fares, he single-mindedly walked on, as if somewhere up ahead was the place where he would rediscover his old self, that happy-go-lucky, clean and honest, ambitious, hardworking Xiangzi. The vision of the old man standing in the middle of the alley made anything he might say unnecessary. Triumphing over Fourth Mas...ter was the ultimate victory. He hadn’t raised a hand against him, hadn’t given him the boot, but the old man had lost his only close relative, while Xiangzi remained free and perfectly at ease. No one could say that vengeance wasn’t sweet. If the news did not kill Fourth Master outright, it would surely hasten his death. He had everything; Xiangzi had nothing. But Xiangzi could happily pull a rickshaw, while the old man could not even learn where his daughter was buried. All right, old man, even with your piles of money and prodigious temper, you are no match for a poor rickshaw man who can barely manage two meals a day.As his spirits soared, he felt like singing a song of triumph in a booming voice to let the world know that Xiangzi lived on and had claimed his victory.Cold night air seemed to peel away the skin of his face, but to him it was bracing; chilling rays of light from street lamps actually warmed his heart.MoreLess
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