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Updated: May 6, 2025
"Yes, and it takes as much to feed her as if she were a boy. If you say so, I'll do it this very night." "All right," she answered, "but you'd better wait till the moon has set." "Very well, wife, we'll let the moon go down first, and then the girl." No wonder Lu-san's little heart beat fast with terror, for there could be no doubt as to the meaning of her parents' words.
They had just mounted to the vessel's deck when Lu-san's father, who had been looking off towards the west, suddenly called the family to his side. "See!" he exclaimed. "What kind of bird is that yonder in the sky?" As they looked, they saw that the strange object was coming nearer and nearer, and directly towards the ship. Every one was excited except Lu-san.
On the night with which this story opens, not knowing that Lu-san was listening, her father and mother were planning how to get rid of her. "The mandarin cares only about boys," said he roughly. "A man might kill a dozen girls and he wouldn't say a word." "Lu-san's no good anyway," added the mother. "Our boat is small, and she's always in the wrong place."
Lu-san! that tear which you drew from Kwan-yin's eye fell upon the dry ground and softened it; it touched the hearts of those who loved you not. Daughter of earth no longer, rise into the Western Heaven, there to take your place among the fairies, there to be a star within the azure realms above." As Lu-san's doves disappeared in the distant skies, a rosy light surrounded her flying car.
The father sometimes lost his temper and the mother spoke spiteful words; but as they grew in wisdom and courage they soon began to see that only love must rule. All this time the great boat was moving up and down the river. Its company of sailors obeyed Lu-san's slightest wish. When their nets were cast overboard they were always drawn back full of the largest, choicest fish.
Lu-san's father was a fisherman. His life had been one long fight against poverty. He was ignorant and wicked. He had no more feeling of love for his wife and five children than for the street dogs of his native city. Over and over he had threatened to drown them one and all, and had been prevented from doing so only by fear of the new mandarin.
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