Ten Brothers

CHAN TAI HA lives in BAI LI Town, where he makes a living by selling sugar soup. Once in his childhood, HA was given one bowl of rice by KEI HAU YEE, young lady from a richer family, to which he was grateful and a seed of love was sown in his heart since then. YEE gets along well with CHOW KA LAI, a person of her heart. One day, after HA sees a beam of strong light and meets an old folk with strange behavior, a series of freakish incident taking place on him. First, he involuntarily arrests a petty thief, who takes away the purse of YEE, but he accidentally injures YEE, causing her unable to meet LAI at the pier. Later, AH SING, a friend of HA, even confesses the love to YEE on behalf of HA in the main street. YEE cannot control herself but runs to HA’s house, falls off from a bridge and she sustains injuries. It is lucky that HA comes to rescue……

YEE and HA take the ten boys for monsters and they escape. The ten brothers look everywhere for YEE and HA, and they even cause trouble in the marketplace, where villagers chase and hit them. Big Ears and Triceps (the 2nd & 3rd son) leave the group and play at a riverside, where WONG Mum, a servant of CHU MEI HAN who is the wife of a marshal, finds them acting in foolish manner. WONG Mum comes up an idea to deceive the marshal, MAN SAI HUNG, using the two brothers to replace his two sons, who have died an early death. YEE wanders around and sees CHI drunk and fell on the street. On seeing CHI being scolded by other people, YEE runs up to console him and they embrace and cry painfully. CHI tries to marry off YEE as a concubine to silk-goods shopkeeper in the neighboring village, to which YEE accepts helplessly……

YEE discovers the door of her house is broken and CHI is nowhere to be found, to which she is sad. HA brings along eight brothers to HING LUNG Town, where they seek shelter from SING. HAN takes Big Ears and Triceps to see the Marshal, who is very happy, thinking that the two are his own sons and letting them to stay in his house. However TSUI KIU, the concubine of Marshal, asks Marshal to drive HAN out of the house. HA is unable to find SING, making YEE feel that the road ahead is uncertain. Knowing what YEE is thinking about, all sons promise to find jobs outside to support the family. FA SIU HUNG, the acrobatic troupe owner, sees that Naughty and Crying Baby (4th & 10th son) have agile body movements and promises to hire the two. Copper Head and Land Breaker (6th & 8th son) beg on the street for money, to which YEE is angry on seeing that. HUNG forces Naughty and Crying Baby to sign written body-sold contract……

HA sells sugar soup in the market for a living while YEE washes clothes on the riverside and teaches the boys how to write. The feet of Long Legs (7th son) suddenly grow longer. For not letting YEE know, Log Legs goes and hides but falls into the river carelessly. The Acrobatic Troupe is out for business when HA goes to give a boost to Naughty and Crying Baby, but he is driven away by HUNG. HUNG instructs Naughty and Crying Baby to practice the hand-stand and bending backward, while Naughty uses tricks to finish them early, to which HUNG punishes him after discovery. Big Ears and Triceps follow LAU Deputy to patrol around. When passing by the vendor stall of HA, Sharp Eyes (1st son) accidentally pours the sugar soup onto Triceps’ clothes, to which LAU Deputy knocks over the vendor stall of HA. Big Mouth secretly takes a lot of food from TSUI and brings it home……

On seeing that HA is severely injured, all brothers voluntarily go and look after the vendor stall for him. To vent his anger, Triceps knocks down the stall and the brothers have to earn their by moving bricks for other people. A pair of wings grows on Fly Five’s back and he makes a check on other brothers if there are same things occurring to them. After knowing other brothers doing the hard labor for a living, Big Mouth sells his jade buckle to take the money home. Under hallucination, Fly Fives sees himself being changed into Chicken Demon and he collapses in the street. HUNG punishes Crying Baby and Naughty wards off the blow and gets injuries at his hand, to which LAN gives him some medicinal wine. The next day, Naughty wakes up to find swollen redness on his face while HUNG forces him to wear a mask in order to continue his performance……

HUNG asks Sharp Eyes for ten silver dollars to redeem the freedom of Naughty and Crying Baby. Triceps has his hands swollen and HAN fears that it may be contagious. She instructs WONG Mum stealthily to find a doctor for his cure. For helping Naughty and Crying Baby to get out of trouble from HUNG as soon as possible, Sharp Eyes and Long Legs go and clean feces for people while Land Breaker and Copper Head work in a brothel as laborers after YEE and HA go to sleep. One night, YEE wakes up and discovers all sons disappear and she is angry to scold them for having no self-respect, to which Sharp Eyes tells YEE the truth finally. HA and YEE go to Acrobatic Troupe only to find Naughty being bullied and they are heart-broken. Marshal returns home, where KIU speaks ill of Triceps, saying that he has contracted freakish disease. Triceps comes out from room, claiming that he has become very powerful, to which Marshal is overjoyed……