"I got to know that my father was a Chinese, and mother was a Russian, she's a professor of Foreign Language in Tangshan University." "They both died for the earthquake in 1976." "No relatives were alive." "I was 3 years old that moment." "No one could depend on." "The orphanage was my home from then on." "There I grew up." "Title:" "Chinese Botanist's Daughters" "Tangshan Orphanage" "Dean, see you." "You leave?" "Ah, remember..." "The botanical garden of Kunlin University where you go..." "There is a Professor Chen, he's a famous herbal specialist." "Catch this good opportunity of internship." "It's not so long for one and a half months." "but you could still learn alot of stuff." "We need your knowledge after this study." "Hello." "Sir, I'd like to talk to Professor." "Chen." "Doc." "Li is talking to him what's your business?" "I'm his intern, Li Ming." "Ask him tomorrow¡­" "Excuse me, comrade." "Do you know what time it is?" "It's already 21:08." "How could you dare to bother a professor at this moment?" "Dad, what you want me to do?" "Initially, prepare some seeds, then remove weeds carefully." "Professor Chen." "You are Li Ming, the intern?" "You must have problem on timing." "First, broke my rule yesterday." "annoying me at 21:08 in the evening." "Then, were late for an hour in the morning." "See, we already have a rest now." "Remember, never bother a professor after 21:00." "Is that a bird?" "Professor Chen, it's my little present." "no need for this." "Long live Chairman Mao!" "I heard from the seller that it could speak lots of words." "but all learned from the Culture Revolution." "What's your name?" "Enough." "Arrange her stay now." "Isn't it only a month and a half?" "Unnecessary to make a room." "Help me, Li Ming." "I want her to live happily here." "Long live Chairman Mao!" "It's Latin name is..." "Polygonum Multiflorum" "In Chinese we called it He-shou-wu." "In TCM we use it to treat renal and hepatic illness." "According to the most ancient medical books, our ancestors used their prescription... against the wet dreams of men." "Today, we use it against the constipation too." "The taste of it's root is bitter as well as sweet." "you couldn't forget that if you tried." "everyone of you, our doctors to-be should experience this." "Come here, Comrade Li!" "What's the matter?" "Say what I asked you to bring to us." "Shou-wu." "Exact." "But you brought me what?" "Wu-tou!" "It's not Shou-wu, but Wu-tou." "It's poisonous, mortal, you know?" "why don't you open up your eyes widely?" "Fortunately I checked by myself." "Otherwise, every one here would die because of you." "What a great privilege in your life... to study at the best botanical garden." "many people dream to come here!" "Who sends you to me." "He must blind." "I am sorry." "Actually, I know what you feel." "I'm a half orphan." "My mom, when I was ten years old, passed away." "No more words." "Don't leave." "My dad's temper is always like that." "Cold and stubborn." "Not only against you." "he's kind deep inside however." "you'll see after a while." "I've tried to adapt to him for more than 20 years, but still couldn't bear his temper all the time." "Dad, your breakfast." "Dad, breakfast." "My time of having breakfast is at 7:30, not 8:00" "Different stuff for the different time." "You know that." "Take it away, I don't want it today." "This is Erythrine." "A toxic leguminous plant." "Comrade Li, remember it£º Erythrine." "Before, people got its seeds." "Macerated them for days." "Filter the juice." "and reduced it to obtain the poison" "Well, nowadays, people usually use it as part anaesthetic" "Professor Chen, you are so erudite!" "Officinal resin of pine is different" "Need keep trampping it, until it's turned snowwhite." "It is very effective against the abscesses... and skin inflammations." "You are so beautiful." "Help me add some water." "Looking for Ginseng again?" "Morning Master Wang." "Long time no see." "When you arrived?" "Just now." "You got an assistant?" "Her name is Li Ming, training in our place." "The ginseng is rare this year." "This." "Wait." "OK, you don't need to fear any more." "The odor of orpiment makes the snakes flee." "Li Ming, come here and look." "Wild atractyles, it is so rare." "And there are two of them." "Attention." "You know, long time ago, the robbers from south of China, attached the root on their belt when they went out." "If they were caught and hit, bit this, the wounds would be healed faster." "one of these robbers ended up becoming an emperor" "He named this plant with Crimson Whip." "You know, my dad is a cardiac." "Sometimes he got heart attack." "Then he found a remedy, just containing the glycine of mountain." "it seems that the glycine is the same... as that in the garden." "They are as twice as the weight though." "Look." "Its juice is like milk" "His heart decease is all right now?" "Still under the control." "Ginseng is like us human." "they have spirits." "You must lock them first." "Otherwise once you dig, they will run away." "An." "It's so interesting to be with you." "Professor Chen, your tea's ready." "you don't forget the 5 grams less than in the morning, do you?" "I don't." "Hold on~" "An has already told you to make the tea with rainwater, hasn't she?" "Yes." "So why you don't use the rainwater?" "Is it full of rainwater?" " I..." " You think I wouldn't be aware of?" "Let me tell you!" "I can even distinguish which season the rain was from." "An." "An." "An." "That's the place I hurt my foot." "There's lots of stones, be careful." "The mire in this pond is my dad's favorite." "I come here several times each year." "An" "The duck is so perfect today." "Neither hard nor soft." "Cooked just on the point." "I could feel they melt in my mouth." "you try one!" "Thank you Professor, I don't like it." "No way." "It's so delicious." "I can say no one could be better than this." "you don't eat too?" "I don't hungry today." "both of you are so weired tonight." "An!" "An!" "Stop!" "You make a mistake." "I'm here." "Sorry." "Come on!" "Stone, scissor, handkerchief." "Scissor, stone, handkerchief." "Stone, scissor, handkerchief." "Scissor, stone, handkerchief." "You lost once again!" " Dan!" " Dad's coming." "Dad!" "Always the same." "Showing off all of a sudden." "Introduce her to you." "She is Li Ming, training in our home." "Hello, Li Ming." "Hello." "Sorry for what I just did." "I'm her brother." "My name is Dan." "you just come right on time." "So, our family and comrade Li... could go outside together and have some fun." "What are they doing?" "Seems like a wedding party of peasants." "Should think about it." "It's no so young." "26 years old." "At your age I was already married." "How about her?" "You tell me?" "You don't have the "friend", do you?" "So coincident." "I'm single, as you." "I think they are fit for each other." "You're Li Ming's friend." "So, you should give a hand to your brother." "To settle the most important stuff of himself." "Earliest will be the best." "This oarsman is so less of strength." "No boast." "I row much faster than him." "I got the third in the competition." "Check out my biceps." "Push it." "Push, doen't matter." "It's concrete." "I know you wouldn't lie." "How do you know Li Ming like my brother?" "And how do you know he wanna married now?" "I talked about it with him." "he is no objection of my suggestion." "An...do you remember." "That's your favorite game when you were young." "You called it the botanical garden's open cinema." "Here, Li Ming, check this out." "An!" "An!" "Over here." "sit with me for a while." "They don't need you between themselves. Tiger-cat!" "get up so early." "Before they wake up I ask for your help." "To be my love consultant, all right?" "I wrote a letter to Li Ming." "Wanna your suggestion." "An!" "Give your brother a hand." "Look." "You are the most intimate friend to her." "almost share the same underwear." "I read to you, listen!" ""The dearest Ming."" ""In spite of we don't know each other for too long,"" ""I insist ... you allow me to call you so."" ""The dearest..."how about it?" "Nice beginning?" "Vulgarness" "Keep listening." "Go into the point." ""The dearest Ming."" ""I feel we have known each other for a long time."" ""Maybe you and me have the same feelings"" ""As a soldier, I don't like to waste time."" "Stop." "I don't wanna listen." ""Let's be straight."" ""My life, my career, need a woman like you."" ""Let's get married."" "You don't be ashamed?" "Don't interrupt." " I still write about our future." " No interest." "I don't wanna hear those stuff." "Pathetic." "Where are you going?" "An!" "An!" "So starving, almost no food for two days." "Two days of a young woman like me, isn't it impressive?" "You cried." "I can see it." "It doesn't matter." "It's the best that you are coming." "You have doubt of me?" "I'm afraid... except you.." "I will never fall in love with anybody." "What these pigeons do for?" "These pigeons?" "They are intended for the pilgrims." "After the tourists make wishes, they buy and release them to carry their wishes." "And each wish corresponds different number of pigeons." "Make a wish?" "If two people hope them love forever," "How many pigeons they need?" "64." "How about never seperate?" "108." "The most favorable number." "That's also the number of sutras of Canon Buddha" "You brother asked me to marry him." "I refused." "If you are really married to him, we will never separate for real." "Just like our wish." "Marry him?" "He is only a little soldier, not an officer." "As the regulation says, he couldn't take his relatives to the Tibet." "So, his wife, could only stay at the home in Kunming, with my dad and me." "Our wish will come true." "Never separate." "Never separate." "Never separate." "Got how much sticky rice as red cake?" "25 kilograms." "Add 10 kilos more." "My son's wedding is the most important thing of his whole life." "You move that to the center a little bit." "Like that." "It's perfect." "Congratulations¡­" "Thank all of you for the good wishes, that they could have a son as soon as possible!" "We have laid 8 eiderdowns on it." "8 is a good figure." "It'll bring your family good luck." "who is having the most children among all of you?" "I got three sons and two daughters." "An, did you see my tie?" "Bullshit!" "Getting married tomorrw, I can't find it though." "Dad, your tea." "An." "Come back." "Dad, you feel uncomfortable?" "What's the matter with you?" "You forgot to put even one sheet of the tea." "What's the hell happening to you?" "And you cried in the afternoon." "I'm waiting for you." "I know you will come." "Help me." "My virginity belongs to you." "Not Dan." "Mine belongs to you as well." "It's my honour today, because my comrades in army, my father's old friends... and the Dean of Li Ming, come and attend our wedding." "And I would like to ask¡­ everybody to raise your glasses Bless on my beautiful bride." "Cheers~" "She is not good at it." "I'll do it for her." "I think¡­ if their mother was still alive, and saws this moment of her son..." "Cheers." "Li Ming, you are the bride." "You should send red cakes to the guests." "Li Ming." "Give my comrades more." "Everybody!" "For the fortune of this marriage," "I'd like to sing a song for you." "Great¡­" ""In the sky¡­"" ""the little rain drops are falling."" ""On the ground¡­"" ""the gentle breezee are waving."" "Ah¡­.." "The breezee is waving my hair." "How couldn't I miss her?" "Oh¡­" "KUNLIN" " MINGLI" "Come with me." "She can come?" "You are really out of your mind?" "We go to have our honeymoon." "Don't let me go along!" "I don't wanna be all along!" "what's wrong with you?" "Speak." "Why you are not a virgin?" "Who the hell fucked you?" "You speak or not?" "Speak!" "Speak!" "Speak¡­." "You speak or not?" "You speak or not?" "Speak or not?" "¡­." "I'll tear up your mouth." "No speak?" "Sir, the meal you ordered." "Or you speak, or you die for hunger." "Help!" "Feel good¡­.here." "It's the best of the sandalwood incenses." "Take a good breath." "Good Breath." "Come on, and you." "In Ming Dynasty, the botanist Li looked after as the same way." "It's horrible, so horrible." "You saw her wounds?" "Why she returned without Dan?" "He is going to the Tibet." "You saw her wounds?" "I've seen it." "You saw what he did to Li Ming?" "No matter what happened, he's my son." "Two months later." "There is no selling of legs of duck on the market?" "It's selling, why?" "I didn't eat it for weeks." "We should buy some." "Li Ming doesn't like it." "I scare of that." "I've told you." "Sir, the legs of duck. you ordered" "Thank you." "Ah." "Ah?" "Dad." "Why left for so long?" "Where's the newspaper?" "Sorry, we forgot." "Yesterday, forgot the milk" "The newspaper today." "What the hell you are thinking of?" "Nothing goes well in this house." "Someday, we leave together." "go far far away." "To a place so far away." "It's impossible." "If I left, my father would die." "You can't leave your father along?" "I can't leave this garden." "I received a letter from Dan this morning." "You never mailed him after he went back, did you?" "It's been two months." "I have no time." "I didn't find both of you have any problems." "He says you are not pregnant." "If you are not pregnant." "And he can't be back in short period." "I suggest you go to see him directly." "Or rent a house nearby his army." "So both of you can¡­ One night," "I came here to see you." "you were asleep." "Just like you died." "There was an odd smell." "Before you came," "I was so lonely, lonely in a horror." "But after you came," "I never had that... feeling of loneliness." "That's my unique reciept," "These plants, could make people hallucinogenic." "So called illusion." "Close the eyes." "Deep breath." "Every body says the first is the best." "The most magic." "I'm dizzy." "If you wanna forget some one, or something, just repeat his name." "28 times." "Earthquake." "Earthquake." "Yes, earthquake." "Earthquake." "Earthquake." "You cried?" "I heard it." "What?" "I heard a foreign name." "I was called as this name before I was 3." "Vera." "It's my mom's voice." "Vera?" "Yes." "Vera" "I can hear, I can see my mom." "Her eyes is grey, just like mine." "Vera" "This is the first time I saw her." "what's she doing?" "I don't know either." "Her hair was cut short." "From now on," "I will have the same hair as hers." "Dad." "What's happening?" "You knew these special peonies scare of the rain." "Why won't you shelter them?" "See what they look like now?" "Irremediable!" "What you are busy of doing these days?" "Where is you concentration?" "Excuse me, Dad, I forgot." "No one could avoid making mistakes." "Why are you angry so much?" "You talk to me like that?" "The work is the work." "Not allow the distraction." "No need to excuse." "Your words have no count here." "Just some peonies, what a big deal?" "It's none of your business." "I'm talking to my own daughter." "Talking to your daughter?" "Anyone would assume you revile your servant." "Shut up!" "You are an evil." "You are an evil to make all of these." "My eyes are not blind." "What you have done," "I saw them clearly and remembered." "I regret, regret to take you in." "I know our peace will never come as long as you stay here." "You should leave here." "Right now!" "If she leave, I will too." "You've changed so much." "I can't recognize you as my daughter." "Why your daughter didn't come?" "you come by yourself today?" "From now on, I only read the paper I buy for myself." "Dad, your alcohol¡­" "An, give me some water I need take some medicine." "An." "An." "Evil." "Evil." "Long live Chairman Mao!" "Let me talk to him." "We need to leave the garden." "And never come back, never come back." "Dad." "Dad." "COURT of KUNLIN" "Now, as the judge of the Court," "I will declare Professor Chen's testimony... to our police officer... when he was in bed of the hospital." "I'm a DA officer." "I wanna ask everyone a question." "Why this case make such a shake in the society?" "People are so angry." "The government are so concerned about." "Because Professor Chen's testimony tells us." "The one killed him was not the heart attack." "But another much more dreadful disease." "His daughter and daughter-in-law got the same disease too." "This disease's name is homosexuality.." "A perverse passion happening between the same sex led our famous botanist's death." "Chen An, Li Ming." "committed an abominable crime." "that neither the legislation, nor the natural law, neither morals nor the society can tolerate." "the punishment must be executed." "Dear Dean." "Thank you." "All the trial, I only hear what you said." "You confirm my reputation in the orphanage positively." "As a matter of fact," "This is the only good words I've heard of my whole life." "Other testimonies in the court mean zero to me." "There is only one could judge me." "It's Chen An." "Or our love." "Dean." "I can't come back to develop the TCM." "Because I have no relatives, the orphanage is all my back." "So¡­" "I wanna ask you for two things." "First, please pay to our country... the charge of the bullets in the execution." "About 7 yuans 80 cents." "Second, with the view-point of the temple on the suburbs of Kunlin, mix my ashes with An's." "And disperse them into the lake." "So that... we could rest in peace."