Their appearance of prosperity is in stark contrast to Wang's appearance the first time he visited the House. On the second day of the New Year, Wang and O-lan, dressed in new clothes that O-lan has sewed, take their son to the House of Hwang to present him to the Ancient Mistress. The harvest is prosperous, and Wang and O-lan are able to hide silver dollars from the harvest in their house. She delivers a son and soon rejoins Wang in working the fields. The events of her pregnancy are skipped over, and we soon find O-lan ready to deliver her baby she asks Wang for nothing except a newly peeled reed, slit, so that she may cut the baby's umbilical cord.
We learn at the end of Chapter 2 that she is pregnant. Over the next few months following their marriage, O-lan tends the house and joins Wang in cultivating the fields. Later that night, Wang and O-lan consummate their marriage. The couple returns to Wang's farm, where O-lan prepares dinner for guests - including Wang's unnamed uncle and the uncle's unnamed son - invited to celebrate the wedding. Wang walks to the House of Hwang, where he is embarrassed by his shabby appearance, and collects O-lan after appearing before the Ancient Mistress of the House. His intended bride, O-lan, is a slave in the prosperous House of Hwang. Wang is a Chinese peasant farmer who lives with his father his mother died six years earlier. The novel opens on Wang Lung's wedding day.
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