A Time to Live, a Time to Die Page #2

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Now they have a pile of junk iron

If only we had brought him out

with us...

Did Ah-ha get into the

middle school?

Don't know yet. He went to school

to find if he's passed

I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Alright. Stop crying!

What happened?

Didn't pass

Crying just because

they didn't pass?

How do you know

if you passed or not?

The teacher just came

Chen Yen Didn't pass so she's crying

"Mom, I passed!"

Really?

I got into Provincial Fengshan

Middle School

There was a chalk mark on my desk

The teacher said that means

you passed

That's great!

Go tell your father

"Dad, I passed!"

I got into Provincial Fengshan

Middle School

There was a chalk mark on my desk

The teacher said that means

you passed

What? A check?

His teacher said he used a chalk

to mark the desks

of those who has passed

the entrance exams

Good! Then you must study hard

Yes

"Ah-chu, what happened to Ah-ha?"

He made it into the

Provincial Fengshan Middle School

Ah-ha!

You made it!

Right!

This is for you

You are so good

"Ah-chung, when will you know

about your exam?"

End of the month

Ah-hsiao made it on his brains

and luck

He's always had the best luck

"When we lived in Hsin-chu,"

remember I went to Taipei to take the

exam for the First Girls' High School?

I was going to take the train myself

But Ah-hsiao insisted

on tagging along

Remember when they used to sell

red bean popsicles on the train?

The ones wrapped in red?

Really good

Ah-hsiao kept saying he wanted one

So I had to spend 50 cents

to buy one

And he didn't even give me a bite

I didn't feel like asking him

for any

I remember Mom told me to look

for Ah-chen at the train station

Remember? The M.P.?

"When I found him,"

he said that I was really capable

Imagining a girl traveling so far

to take the exam

Then he took me on his bike

to father's office

on Chung-ching South Road

"The next day,"

Dad took me to the exam

I bumped into my teacher

in front of the school

The one you said was nice

"After that, I went back to

Hsin-chu to wait for the result"

Dad came back from Taipei

I went outside

to welcome him that day

"He kept laughing when he saw me,

but didn't say anything"

So I asked him:

"Did I pass?"

Dad said:

"Yes. You passed!"

Then he started getting proud.

He was talking about...

whose daughter didn't make it...

whose daughter failed...

Later he told me

that I was No. 41 on the whole list

I scored 100 in math!

What a pity!

I couldn't go to Taipei

for First Girls' High

How good it would be if

I could've gone

Ah-ha

"Grandma's going to take you back

to mainland, OK?"

Come on!

Take the big road

"Before long, you pass a dike,"

then you get to the Mekong Bridge

"A little further down the road,"

"and you get to our village,

Wanshia"

What do we go back

to the mainland for?

Stupid!

Grandma's taking you

to the ancestral shrine

so you can pay homage to

our ancestors!

Old lady...

Can you tell me

where the Mekong Bridge is?

The Mekong Bridge!

What's she saying?

What does she want?

I can't understand

what she's talking about

What?

You don't know?

Mekong Bridge! In Mei County!

Mekong Bridge?

Did she say "bridge"? What bridge?

You don't know?

Can you understand?

I don't know

"If you can't understand,

how can I?"

"Grandma, there're guavas!"

Let's pick some

You try

Not so high

Try again

"Huilan, is the power out?"

Yes!

Get some candles

Mom

Mom

Mom

Dad

Dad

Dad

"Mom, hurry!" What's wrong?

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

"Mom, the doctor is here"

I'm sorry

There's nothing I can do

Fen-ming!

Fen-ming!

"Ah-chung, bring the boys over

to hold father's hand"

ice upon a time, a man passed away

When his family looked after his body,

A cat walked in

And jumped across the dead body

The dead body sat up then

So when you're looking after a

dead body, You can never let a cat in

The captain in my army once said

When they were fighting the Japanese

When they were fighting the Japanese

What?

When they were fighting the Japanese

A lot of people were killed

One day, a man died in the army

is dead body also sat up

after a cat jumped acros

The body even chased people

Chased people?

He hugged whomever he saw

Someone who knew this kind of thing

and gave him something to hug

He lied down when he

got the thing to hug

Don't know why

Some people say there might be a

kind of electricity in the cats

Yin

Might be Yin

Weird

There are a lot of these weird stuffs

"Ah-chu, go take your bath"

I already did

"Then Ah-hsiao, you go"

Fen-ming!

What?

He's playing dumb

He said he's a street peddler

and doesn't earn much

"Come on, his business is good"

What'll we do? Let's corner him!

Right! Corner him!

Right!

"When he leaves, we corner him"

Let's do it this way

Ah-shui,

you go over there with Ah-hou

There! OK!

Le-gu, go to the end of the road

Let me see the one with pictures

I'm going home

No more business today

"Ah-shui, what the hell!"

Can't even stop a motorcycle?

So what's the use of being fat?

What the hell are you standing

there for? Let's go!

Let's go!

Thank you!

Thank you! That time he fell

from the roof

His legs had different length

I didn't know what to do

I almost sent him to

the Chinese martial place

Fortunately I ran into you

"Otherwise,

the child would have suffered"

His brother's home

Ah-hsiao, come

This is Mr. Liu

How are you?

"Huilan, Mr. Liu is leaving"

Goodbye

Watch your steps

Goodbye

You have to wash it first

don't have to behave like

that even if you don't like

"Anyway, I wrote to Fangmei

and we both agreed"

not to pay attention to him

It was written in the Bible, all the men who

aren't married have the right to court girls

"Mom, someone's here"

Mr. Liu

Grandma

I met her under the tall tree.

She's lost

So I brought her home

I've paid for the rickshaw

Thank you

Guavas

Yes. He's of class 5.

"Look, he pasted his little

cheating notes here"

Look how orderly the whole thing is

Imagine how much time and energy

was spent on such an endeavor

"If only that time could be put

into your study,"

"study more history, geography,

wouldn't that be nice?"

You're not stupid

Why did you do such a stupid thing

"He thinks he's smart, that's why"

Let go! Give it to me!

There's nothing!

"Think you're big, huh?"

Why did you beat him?

I heard you're from Red Mountain

What about Red Mountain?

Talking back?

Fight back?

Was it him last time? Yes

You think you're big

Do you think he's the one you can bully?

Where does the other one live?

What are you doing?

Who? Huang Chin-shui

What are you doing?

"Good day, sir"

Grandma

What are you doing?

I'm counting my silver money

Counting silver money?

What are you counting

silver money for?

So I can use them in heaven.

I can use them in heaven.

"Grandma, come on!

We're taking pictures"

"I'm so old, why do I need to be

taken pictures?" It's OK!

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