Hibiscus Town Page #7

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I really can't, really!

Give it a try! Watch me, come on...

...5- 2- 3, right, very smart...

Right! Sweep, and sweep...

What are you doing?

Come here...

Branch Secretary Wang,

you are such a hard worker...

Gently...

This is me when I was 14...

...and 12...

...and 19...

This is a photo of when

I won a singing prize...

After this one, I haven't had

any more pictures taken...

This is my mother...

Now she is your mother-in-law...

This is my father...

and your father-in-law...

Are you OK? What's wrong?

What is it?

We have a child...

Really?

Really?

Yuyin...

Ai, sit there!

Let's get married, Yuyin!

Who are we to get married...

Will they allow it?

- Our crimes aren't so serious that...

- Keep it down!

Our crimes aren't so serious that

they can keep us from marrying...

Where is the rule that says

Five Categories Elements can't marry?

Brother Shutian...

Someone's coming, quick!

Are you tired?

Lay down a bit...

Be careful...

Confession of Crimes

What? You and that Rich Peasant's wife

Hu Yuyin are applying to get married?

Um, yes, Branch Secretary

Wang, that is my request...

You... have had relations with her?

Branch Secretary Wang...

I can see it is no use trying

to hide from you in this matter...

- Don't bullshit me!

- Yes yes, that's bullshit...

- When did it start?

- I can't remember exactly...

I'll confess, I'll confess...

Didn't the authorities assign

us to sweep the streets together?

You know that I'm a bachelor,

and she was single...

Spending so much time together,

who wouldn't have proper intentions?

How many times have you done it?

We don't dare do that, not a chance, it

would never allow it, we don't dare!

We are properly in love...

- Properly in love?

- Yes yes yes...

You are both targets of

the proletarian dictatorship...

For Five Categories Elements,

there is no marriage!

Branch Secretary Wang... we...

we are wicked, we are rotten...

...but are we not after all human?

You can call us a cock and hen,

a boar and sow, a dog and a b*tch...

...and yet you wouldn't keep

them from getting married!

Crazy Qin, Crazy Qin...

Don't say such ugly words!

Confessing can get you lenience...

Today I am feeling magnanimous...

We'll have to look into it first, then turn it

over to the commune for approval...

Whether or not they approve

it is far from certain...

Branch Secretary Wang...

I also want to beg of you,

be generous, be generous...

Our situation depends

completely on your good word...

To tell the truth...

We already... have...

You have?

Yes, we have a situation...

What? An enemy of the proletariat

is still getting action!

Get the hell out of here!

Tomorrow you are going to write

matching couplets on white paper!

And you're going to hang them

on your door yourself!

Ai, get a look at this! Why hang couplets

on white? Isn't that unlucky?

So many people, eh? What is going on?

Ai, what is happening here?

A pair of white couplets!

Secretary Wang made him hang them...

"Black husband and wife, a devil's nest!"

How inauspicious! Never seen couplets

on white, at least not unless anybody died!

They've hit rock bottom!

This is really unlucky!

This is too much!

I've never seen anything like it!

Look how serious he is!

He still wants to make it straight...

Hey, what's the matter?

Don't cry!

Ai, you...

This is a good thing,

and you're still crying!

Sometimes, this is the authorities' intent...

You have to experience it

deeply and completely...

Doesn't it say "black husband and wife"?

It doesn't matter if its black husband

and wife, or red, or white...

In the end, it's still husband and wife!

Most of these kind of couplets are

meant to be a public announcement...

We are husband and wife!

I'll go open the door...

It's nothing, wait here...

Who is it?

Open the door...

This marriage didn't have a matchmaker...

How can it count?

I saw you sneaking around,

busying yourselves all day...

Buying wine, buying fish...

And I thought... I must go drink

a cup at their wedding!

I was afraid if I didn't come and drink...

no one else would dare!

Actually... I will serve as

matchmaker for you...

So your marriage can be real...

But your real matchmakers...

...are the brooms in your hands, and

the stones that make the street...

Oh, this is grenadine syrup, you two

should drink it for harmony and affection

I brought some baijiu for myself!

I also brought a gift for you two...

Don't refuse it...

These last few years, whenever

anyone in town gets married...

I give them this kind of gift...

I... hope you will soon be

blessed with a son...

Now that you are husband and wife...

it doesn't matter if you are red or black...

All that matters is the next generation!

Director Gu...

You must let me bow down to you!

Because of me...

Because of the rice chaff

you were unjustly framed!

You, an old cadre from the north...

If all cadres could be like you,

these days would know peace!

I cannot repay all that you

have done in this life...

In the next life I will slave as

an ox or horse to repay you!

Get up, get up...

Don't talk like that...

Come on, let's drink and

enjoy ourselves, drink!

Yuyin, listen...

This wedding... needs a happy song...

It's an old custom!

Sing! Sing!

Yuyin, sing!

Confession of Crimes

They'll stop at nothing!

Flouting the dictatorship of

the proletariat like that!

- Tie him up! Take him away!

- Hurry!

Strengthen the Great Proletarian

Revolution's Victorious Achievements!

The County Public Security and

Military Affairs Committee announces:

Convicted Rightist and

Anti-revolutionary Element Qin Shutian...

...Is to serve a term of ten years...

Convicted Reactionary

Rich Peasant Hu Yuyin...

...is to serve a term of three years...

Due to her pregnancy, she will

serve her term outside prison...

The revolutionary masses of

Hibiscus Town will supervise her labor...

...and observe her behavior!

The Great Proletarian Revolution...

has achieved great success!

A handful of class enemies are

in a constant state of anxiety...

They are certain to jump out to make

trouble and cause destruction...

Live on, like a beast of burden, live on...

Live on!

Like a beast of burden, live on!

Yuyin...

Director Gu...

It's coming soon!

I'm over thirty this year...

Having my first now is really difficult!

Stay with me, I'll be dead soon...

Neither of us will be able to make it!

I'll be right back!

Stop! Stop! Stop!

Your wife's age is advanced,

it's difficult to deliver...

We have to do a Caesarean,

as her family, please sign here...

Surgery Room

For a new China, advance!

For a new China, advance!

It is like a ship far out

at sea whose mast-head...

...can already be seen from the shore...

It is like the morning sun whose

shimmering rays are already visible...

It is like a child about to be born moving

restlessly in its mother's womb...

Let us raise both of our hands...

...and welcome him!

How sweet...

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