The answer to this can be found in Chapter 22, which is
when O-Lan tells Wang Lung the reason for his eldest son's strange behaviour as he
misses more and more school and comes to behave in a way that is more and more bizarre
and odd. For O-Lan, the solution to this problem is easy. When she worked in the Old
Lord's house, when his sons began to act in this way, he found a female slave for them
so that they could get rid of their sexual frustration. Wang Lung decides to hatch a
different plan in order to help his son:
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I will betroth him and we will marry him early,
and there is that to be
done.
Wang Lung therefore
decides to try and end his eldest son's restlessness by finding a wife for him to become
betrothed to and then marrying him so that he can dispense with his sexual
frustrations.
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