Grandma Zhang: "All soaked like that, from head to hips, don't I look like a young lady with pink cheeks and vermilion lips?" Grandma Zhang: "Look at those fish (fish wag their tails, spraying Grandma Zhang with water), so fierce! They will make a tasty soup!" (Enter Grandma Zhang carrying a flower basket)
Zixin: "Fresh fish, fresh fish! Buy it here, buy it now!" Zixin: "It's time to go on the streets and sell fish." (Zixin ties her boat to the wharf and jumps to the shore) All I have is what I make with my own hands." Zixin: "I have nothing to show for myself but bare walls. Zixin: "I too am envious of the wealthy women's splendor, though I have never pitied myself, even with but a single string of pearls on my wrist." The rich live fitfully whilst the poor must struggle. Zixin: "It is hard every day under the sun, moon, and stars. (Zixin casts out the net and brings it back in) It is with their trade that I shall sustain my family." Zixin: "With sail rope in hand, I cast a net among the free-swimming fish. What choice do I have but to take up the oar myself? It would seem I am fated for a life on the ocean." Zixin: "I am a fisherman's daughter, I grew up by the dock. Zixin: "The tide reflects the mountains low, a light breeze nurtures reefs below." Though what she does not know is that this lost string of pearls will change her fate for good. One day, she is selling fish on the street when she carelessly loses the string of pearls she usually wears. Zixin is a poor fisherwoman whose family struggles to make ends meet.
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