The Children of Huang Shi Page #4

You're the toughest people I've ever met.

Heavens, you once

scared the life out of me.

It's very hard to leave this place.

I know that.

But I want you to remember one thing.

You've done all this by yourselves.

You can do it all again.

You can do it anywhere.

Wound dressings.

Captured from the Japanese.

Each one of them contains a single,

sterile dressing,

wrapped around a tablet of morphine.

Handy, huh?

No wounded for us. That's an order.

No! No, I'll take that.

As long as we have something

to trade we'll survive.

Yes, I would say so.

But, still, this is an

ambitious enterprise.

You are a remarkable man, Mr. Hogg.

I have greatly enjoyed

doing business with you.

This is your custom?

When we say goodbye to a great lady.

Well, goodbye, Mr. Hogg.

And farewell.

- Hang-Ger!

- Yes

- Zuien-ze!

- Yes

- Xiao Bang!

- Yes

- Rou-Ding...

- Yes

- Lao Tung...

- Yes

Muriel!

- Lao Da...

- Yes

- Lao San...

- Yes

- Lao Er...

- Yes

- Lao Si?

- Yes

Yu-Lin...

- Shi-Kai...

- Yes

Yu-Lin!!

Oh, Yu-Lin...

Yu-Lin?

Yu-Lin. It's all right.

We'll make a new garden.

Yu-Lin?

Yu-Lin...

Oh, Ching...

I thought he was happy. I really did.

But we'll never know

what went on the last time he was happy.

Maybe someone, his mother or father

or sister or whoever, said:

"Ching, we have to leave here."

And then something happened.

Something so awful

we can't even begin to imagine it.

It doesn't go away.

It never goes away, and I know that.

But all of this

Flowers and honey, and...

I forgot.

I'm sorry, Ching. I forgot.

Be quiet...

Come on, boys. Come on!

Quiet, boys. That's it.

If the wolf wakes you, don't be afraid.

- Just tell him what I said.

- I know.

I know. Let's go.

Here... I'll take him.

Oh, come on, sleepy head. Sshhh...

Did you give that to him?

Let him keep it, George.

It's who he is.

Right there.

Right there. At the village entrance

Thank you

There is an abandoned farmhouse

just the other side of the village.

We can camp there.

Also, he swears he saw

a couple of Japanese only two days ago.

Shi-Kai. Go and sleep now.

I'll take over.

Shi-Kai, did you hear me?

They're there.

I can smell them.

Drop your guns!

Drop your guns!

Hands up

Shi-Kai!

Shi-Kai! The door!

We have to kill them, you know.

No.

Don't be stupid, George.

They are scouts.

If they get away,

they will rejoin their unit.

I'll do it.

I said no!

Shi-Kai!

Leave. Don't watch.

When we reach the Silk Road,

I want you to leave us.

Come on, boys!

Keep moving!

Give you.

Keep up ahead.

Why did you stop?

It's okay.

We're refugees.

We're taking them North to safety.

Your papers?

We have no papers.

Search their belongings.

My God...

Sir, look at this!

...a Corporal Kurahara.

No!

No!

No!

We found it.

We found it on a dead soldier.

He shouldn't have taken it.

He's just a child.

Where did you find it?

Shi-Kai! No

Shi-Kai! Put the gun down now!

Quiet!

Shi-Kai!!

Shi-Kai! The wagon!

Shi-Kai!

Shi-Kai!

Don't come over here.

We're moving on.

Lee, I thought you said

there was morphine in these.

Lee!

Lee! Where are you?

I'm here.

Hurry up!

It's all that's left.

What?

He's sleeping?

He won't wake up now.

Sometime in the next

hour or two he'll die.

Sleep, Shi-Kai.

Everything's all right now.

Go find them. Okay?

Go find your family.

Sleep... Sleep...

It's okay. Easy... easy...

You will be fine.

You and I have

one thing in common, George

- we are both from good families.

We have the luxury of our ideals.

Lee - she is the one who's different.

It's never a matter of ideals to her.

It's something deep in her gut.

She can't look at

these people without feeling their pain.

When it got too much,

she took opium do deal with her pain.

Have you ever heard of the Bitter Sea?

It's an old name for China.

What we Chinese do best, is to endure.

We try to keep our heads above water.

That's all.

While the bitter sea swirls around us,

we endure.

But you know,

Lee's more Chinese than either of us.

She doesn't believe in a future,

because like the Chinese,

she doesn't think she deserves one.

George, you're

going to show her she does.

You thought I was such

a goddamn saint, didn't you, George?

Well, now you know.

Now you know.

Well, you're certainly no lady.

You're a brave, beautiful woman.

You're the bravest,

most beautiful woman I've ever met.

Tell her goodbye for me.

That's the Yellow River.

And just this side of it, Lanzhou.

It is so big.

Stop!

Stop, you two follow me.

Wait.

I am the Magistrate of Lanzhou.

This is Mr Chang Shengyi...

the Chief of Police.

You took more than 60 children...

climbed over Liupan Mountain

and walked 500 miles.

To get there?

It's hard to believe.

But it's true.

How long did it take?

Three months!

Three months!

You'll walk 200 miles more to Shandan?

Correct.

I won't allow you walk to Shandan.

It's out of the question.

I have four Dodge trucks.

You can borrow them.

Thank you

- What's happened?

- The truck is out of order.

Hogg, do you see that?

Hogg?

Hogg!

Is everybody all right?

Hogg? Are you okay?

Just a scratch.

All right...

My God, where have you

brought us? The 14th century?

Look!

There it is, beyond the watchtower.

Shandan.

Mr. Hogg, this way please.

Mr. Hogg, please follow me.

I was told to find a building for you.

This is called

The Temple of King Ashoka's Hair.

The monks left...

many years ago.

Do you think it will do?

Slower...

This is wrong, should be like that.

Hey. Quick.

The light is on, good!

Coffee?

Where on earth did you find this?

Surprise.

I thought I'd lost it...

untouched the whole way.

Celebration.

Are you all right?

Flu, I think.

Tired.

Here. Drink this then

I'll take a look at you.

Actually, I...

Hogg!

Hogg?

Rou-Ding. They'll

have this in Lanzhou. Okay?

We've run out of this.

I know... Ho-Ke has tetanus.

Okay, hurry! Please hurry!

Please! Hurry!

Hurry, excuse me.

Wait.

Open the door!

Lee? Lee?

Yeah?

I'm not scared.

No, of course not.

Rou-Ding's coming with serum.

You're going to be fine.

No.

But it's all right.

I don't like to be contradicted, Hogg.

You know that.

I've been so lucky, Lee.

I've been so lucky.

SHI KAI:

Ching...

CHING:

He came from a distant land...

but his spirit wished

to stay here with us.

Ho-Ke has not left us...

because he gave himself to each of us...

and whatever we do from now on...

we will always be able...

to hear his voice.

Jack...

Oh, Jack...

I only found out a week ago.

Somebody came from Lanzhou.

I'm fine, Jack.

We need you.

The boys are safe now.

They can manage on their own.

Lee. I'm serious.

Maybe these boys don't need me, Jack.

But I need them.

Oh yes, I do need them.

I didn't pee the bed...

because I'm a big boy now.

If the wolf comes...

I'll say "go away stupid..."

and he'll be frightened and run away.

Ho-Ke says you can have that.

I don't like coffee.

Ho-Ke says you can have it.

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