Five ★
[A. It's a very, very confuzzled Chinese nation that picks up the phone today, back from his brief droning.]
Ah? What happen? This very stupid joke, I letting you know! I was in middle of very important meeting, and-
[And by brief, I mean "a day". Yet for China, it's been over three hundred years. Give his brain a sec to catch up, yeah?]
....What?! I here again? But.....but that means no more dim sum! No more red bean soup! No more proper mahjong or Hello Kitty toaster or "Show Me the Happy" on TV!
Aiyaaaaah, I'm too old for this! No fair, no fair- I calling foul! Red card!
[B. Despite that earlier display of nonsensical, unseemly screaming, China can later be found in the hardware store, checking out the small arms for sale. The last time he was here, he came from an age where guns were disdained- regarded as lazy and foreign and dirty and utterly, utterly inferior. China knows better now; it was a lesson he only had to learn once.]
[C. And, even later, sweeping out his house and porch! Because a clean home is a happy home, and like hell does he trust his gross drone wife to do anything right ever. Inside, he whistles as he dusts.
The opium set he had regained earlier sits innocuously on the mantle, curiously devoid of the actual drug. It exists now only as an ornamental piece....and as a reminder.]
Ah? What happen? This very stupid joke, I letting you know! I was in middle of very important meeting, and-
[And by brief, I mean "a day". Yet for China, it's been over three hundred years. Give his brain a sec to catch up, yeah?]
....What?! I here again? But.....but that means no more dim sum! No more red bean soup! No more proper mahjong or Hello Kitty toaster or "Show Me the Happy" on TV!
Aiyaaaaah, I'm too old for this! No fair, no fair- I calling foul! Red card!
[B. Despite that earlier display of nonsensical, unseemly screaming, China can later be found in the hardware store, checking out the small arms for sale. The last time he was here, he came from an age where guns were disdained- regarded as lazy and foreign and dirty and utterly, utterly inferior. China knows better now; it was a lesson he only had to learn once.]
[C. And, even later, sweeping out his house and porch! Because a clean home is a happy home, and like hell does he trust his gross drone wife to do anything right ever. Inside, he whistles as he dusts.
The opium set he had regained earlier sits innocuously on the mantle, curiously devoid of the actual drug. It exists now only as an ornamental piece....and as a reminder.]