A Time to Live, a Time to Die Page #3

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Come on!

For souvenir

Come on!

Put it down

"Let's take some pictures, okay?"... OK.

Ah-hsiao!

Come on and take the pictures

Thank you

"Ah-hsiao,

come on and take some pictures"

"Grandma, you have to look that way"

Go get a chair

One more

Put it away!

Put it back!

Little crook! Do you know

what day this is today?

Put it back!

What are you doing?

Hurry up

Put it back

Come here

How dare you...

Get out

Stand here! Stand put!

Stand here!

Listen!

Do you know today is the day of

Vice President Chen's funeral?

Do you know?

Little crook! Get him! Get him!

Come back!

Little crook! Damn it!

Come back!

Come back if you dare!

Mr. Lee...

Your brother should

have been expelled

But in consideration of the fact

that he's already in his senior year

so we decided to give him 2 serious

demerits and a detention

"He's still young, right?"

We give him a chance to start anew

"The problem is that the head teacher

of his class,"

"Mr. Tao,"

doesn't want him to stay

in his class

"After discussing,"

we'll transfer him to another class

"We'll do as you say, Mr. Chen"

Please look after him for us

"Can't go on, can't go on... "

can't go on living

Life without you is darkness

Please come back

Where are you now?

The one I love

"Can't go on, can't go on... "

can't go on living

Life without you is darkness"

My mother brought this piece of jade

back from the South Seas

This ring...

My father bought it in Shanghai

for my 17th birthday

Chunying is so thin

Don't let him stay up too late

Health is the most important thing

Everything else is unreal

When I got married to your father

I didn't know his health was poor

"In our 20-year marriage,"

I served him for 20 years

"Ah-hsiao, stop singing!"

Sounds terrible!

"When I was a teacher,"

there was a colleague

We got along very well

But I didn't dare to tell my parents

I was really stupid

Did Dad know this?

Your father was a very serious man

He would come home

and started reading books

So quietly

"When I just got married to him,"

he even told me to study English

and to ask him if I had problems

"The time we were newlywed,"

your grandfather was out of work

Your father's family didn't

have much money

So we had a traveling wedding

We didn't even have a bed.

We were pinch

"When we got back to Mei County,

we slept in Grandma's bed"

I got bitten by bugs at night

"The next day, I used the hot water

to kill the bugs"

I told your father

He was quite upset

"He said,

we're not as rich as your family"

"The first pregnancy,

I gave birth to you"

We didn't let Grandma know

"The second pregnancy,

I went home to give birth"

And had Ahchin

Your Grandma was very unpleased

She said I kept having girls

She wouldn't help me wash

the diapers

The third day of my recovery month

I went by the pond to wash

the diapers

My tears fell into the pond

I heard people say that

there was a baby boy I could adopt

That was Ah-ching-gu

Ah-ching-gu and Ahchin

were breast fed together

I didn't have enough milk for both

of them

So I didn't let Ahchin have it

and let Ah-Ching have enough

I remember then

"Ahchin would called,"

"Mama, milk"

I hid behind the mosquito net

and didn't dare to make a sound

One day

Grandma took Ahchin

to the ancestors' shrine to play

She ate some unsanitary offerings

At night she vomited

and kept having diarrhea

"I wanted to take her to Mei County,

but it's so far away"

So I bought some medicine at

a local store

It stopped the diarrhea

"But by midnight,

her stomach grew hard"

The next day

She died

Ah-hsiao

Ah-hsiao

Ah-hsiao

Go buy some soy sauce

"Ah-hsiao,"

can you see this thing on my tongue?

It's like a little piece of flesh

"Mom, what's wrong?"

How come you're not sleeping?

I got up to go to the bathroom

Go back to sleep

I'm writing a letter to your sister

I went to the hospital today

The doctor said he needed a specimen

Could be... throat cancer

Nobody cooks at home

"And if nobody looks after Grandma,

she disappears"

"Ah-chung teaches in Shiaokang,

he can't come back"

I don't feel safe

Ah-hsiao knows what to do

"Cooking, washing clothes"

He even knows how to use

the sewing machine

All he has to do is to prepare the

food for the next day's lunch boxes

That's all

We'll ask Auntie Wang across

the street to take care of Grandma

Wednesdays and Saturdays

"and Sundays, I don't have classes"

I can come home

"Besides, the hospital facilities

are better in Taipei"

And there are many more doctors

"Ah-hsiao, the fire's ready"

How come the bathroom smells

like milk?

Ask Ah-chu

"He drinks milk all day,

so his sh*t becomes milk"

You're drinking milk again

This is the notice for your

physical exam

The neighborhood leader brought to you

What do you drink milk all day for?

What's wrong with drinking milk?

It's very nutritious

"Protein, hemosiderin,

minerals... everything's in it"

And I don't draw maps anymore

"What do you mean,"draw maps"?"

"Draw maps, that means wet dreams"

Does this old lady live here?

Yes

Grandma's back

How much is it?

Why so much?

She's been sitting

in my rickshaw since morning

It's less to go from Kaohsiung

to Fengshan

"She kept telling me to turn,

she even asked me to take her back

to the mainland"

My price is reasonable

I wouldn't charge you a cent extra

Give me 100

Give it to me

Give it to me

How about 10? You want 10?

- "No, I want 100"

- You want 10? - No, I don't

What are you doing?

Let's go

Go in

I don't feel like this

Let's go see a movie instead

What are you talking about?

"You wanted to come, and you want

to go to a movie now"

What the hell are you doing?

Let's go!

Let's go inside

"Since you've come, go inside"

Well?

Nothing

What do you mean nothing?

I didn't

Where's Ah-hou?

They haven't come out yet

Well?

I didn't

What actually happened?

Why don't you tell me?

I tell you I didn't

You went in there so long.

What happened?

A red envelope! Let me see it!

What are you laughing at?

He's got a red envelope

Let me see it

Red envelope!

You lost your virginity!

Wu Su-mei!

Ah-ha is no longer a virgin

Ah-ha

What?

I tell you

I just took my girlfriend

to the movies

Some guys cut in line

You know who?

Cat and his guys

I told them not to cut in

Theu pushed me. Pushed me!

I told them I'm Ah-ha's friend

"Not only did they not apologize,

they hit me!"

"Cat, come"

Why did you hit him?

"When he hit you,"

didn't you tell him whose brother

you are?

I'll pull him away

"Hit him as soon as we meet,

understand?"

"Ah-ha, come here for a second"

"Ah-ha, come here for a second"

What did you beat Cat for?

My friend said he knew you

as well as me

But he beat him anyway

How can I face my friend?

"But if you want to beat him up,

you've got to at least tell me"

I couldn't. He deserved it

So what do you want me to do?

It's up to you

Forget it... Not big deal...

We'll settle this next time we meet

Be careful

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