Great news! My uncle Precious Stone, has announced he is going to the Golden Mountain, or America, as the natives call it. Gold was found there almost three years ago. Many Chinese have already crossed the great ocean to become guests of the Golden Mountain.
So Uncle will make the trip. then we can eat meat every day instead of once a year at New Year's. And the meat will be prime cut instead of the fat and gristle we usually get. And we'll own five fields like a great family, not two. He's got many plans for when we are rich.
The clan doesn't think much of Uncle. Though Father is younger than Uncle, he actually runs things. The clan thinks Uncle is only clever at knocking scraps of wood together into shelves or little boxes. Worse, they claim he has no luck. They say that if Uncle stood among a thousand people and a cloud drifted overhead, the cloud would rain only on poor Uncle.
I know Uncle is a great man. I'm the only one he can talk to.