Mom:My good kid, listen to my words, don't drop out.

　　Ken:I don't wanna go to school.It won't work no matter you say.

　　Mom:Now that you are not willing to go to school, I will no longer force you from now on.【取出剪刀，将织绢的经线一刀剪断。 Well, so I don't want to do this any more, let us starve to death together.（哭泣）

　　Ken:Mom, please, I know I am wrong. I won't say that again. I will go to school tomorrow.

　　Mom:（破涕为笑）That's what my good boy will do.You hungry? Let me heat the meal for you.

　　Ken:Great! It's really hungry I feel.

　　【孟柯下，孟母煮饭。

　　Mom:It seems that we can't live here any longer. Move right away.（下。）

　　三迁

　　第一幕

　　【时间：数日后。

　　【地点：孟家，紧邻村塾。孟轲家中，破旧不堪。

　　【孟母为孟轲缝制新衣。朗朗读书不绝于耳（播放学生诵读国学录音带）。

　　Mom:It's a nice place here.I can see what Ken is doing in school just at the house's door and don't need to worry that he would play truant.

　　【孟轲欢快上。

　　Ken:Mom, night's falling, why don't you light up the light?

　　Mom:I don't need it while I am at home alone.

　　Ken:Didn't you ever tell me that would hurt eyes?

　　Mom:It won't matter much to adults.You go light it up. I get the meal ready.（下，旋取饭上）

　　【孟轲取火种点灯，继而，取书朗读。

　　Mom:Ken, would you take the supper first? Aren't you hungry?

　　Ken:I am not that hungry. I want to recite the passage first. Mom, you look at the book, I recite it, if I forget, please remind me of some words.

　　Mom:Ok~

　　【柯背书，滚瓜烂熟。

　　Mom:Clever you! You got them all. Now wash your hands and we can have supper.　　【灯下，母子用饭毕，母织绢，柯苦读。夜深，二更。远处传来竹梆声。

　　Mom:Ken, it's very late now, time to go to bed.

　　Ken:I don't want to go to bed until I get this article recited.

　　Mom:Don't be too late.

　　Ken:Ok.

　　Mom:We finally move to a right place. So much the living environment affects the child. No wonder people always say that "One will learn to be a good man if stay with a good man, learn to play the piano if stay with the pianist.".

　　（幕落）