无情的地主总是要从佃农身上取得东西，却不肯花几个大钱修理塘坝，让塘干旱，饿死佃农，他们却只知收租。
無情的地主總是要從佃農身上取得東西，卻不肯花幾個大錢修理塘壩，讓塘乾旱，餓死佃農，他們卻只知收租。
wú qíng de dì zhǔ zǒng shì yào cóng diàn nóng shēn shàng qǔ dé dōng xi ， què bù kěn huā jǐ ge dà qián xiū lǐ táng bà ， ràng táng gān hàn ， è sǐ diàn nóng ， tā men què zhǐ zhī shōu zū ．
The ruthless landlords were always out to take what they could from the tenant-peasants and would never spend even a few coppers on embankment repairs; they would leave the ponds to dry up and the tenant-peasants to starve, caring about nothing but the rent.