"Leave him." "He's dying." "Leave." "George..." "My God." "Chen!" "Chen!" "Have you pissed yourself?" "Jesus." "He's wet the bed!" "How is she?" "Exhausted." "Lingbao." "It was pretty bad." "I was lucky." "She got our before the worst." "Will the Japanese get this far?" "Maybe." "Maybe not." "The trouble is, I've seen what happens when they do." "Can we come in?" "Who's this?" "Oh." "Hello, Ching." "And this... is Lao Si." "I saw a wolf, but I didn't cry." "Oh, my goodness." "Coffee?" "And steamed bread, with honey." "Honey?" "Come on, Lao Si." "He'll have that bread off you, if you as much as blink." "His main objective in life is greater rotundity." "Is this all right with you?" "It's fine." "Ching..." "'Bye, 'bye." "'Bye, 'bye." "Lee..." "Jack Chen is here." "He's been sick for the last week." "You're impossible, you know." "I thought you were dead as dirt." "It's malaria." "He's had it for years." "They all have it." "He'll be on his feet in no time." "They've put a price on your head, you know." "Oh yeah?" "How much?" "Ten thousand yuan." "I say, Jack." "That's about thirty bucks U.S., George." "That hurts my feelings." "It's a fortune around here." "Six..." "Qi." "Seven." "Quiet" "We've got Nationalist visitors." "Stall them if you can." "End of class." "Quiet" "The Japanese are advancing and are very close." "If our Nationalist forces withdraw from Xian... we'll get orders to take over this entire estate for military use." "Then may I conclude you have not got the order yet." "Well, gentlemen, if that's all, you may leave now." "I have many things to do." "Oh, one more thing." "Those labourers..." "We have no labourers here." "Only children." " Children?" " This is a school for orphans." "Is this true?" "Are they boys?" "If they decide to call me a Communist, they'll close the school and they'll conscript the children." "Of course." "And I'm afraid it will only be a matter of days." "Stay here." "Get out of here!" "Go." "Just go!" "What was all that about?" "Bandits." "There's no-one to control them nowadays." "They claim they have opium to sell, but the packages are full of dirt." "Maybe it would be safer not to sell opium." "Safe?" "Nothing is safe." "You neither." "You have all those strong soldier boys." "You are like a farmer with too many fat, juicy sheep!" "1, 2, 1..." "Stop." "Turn back" "So where do you propose we take them?" "Up the Silk Road." "Through the mountains?" "With snow and children, at ten thousand feet?" "That's insane." "Actually, I mean to take them further, beyond Lanzhou." "Have you ever heard of Shandan?" "Shandan's on the edge of the Gobi Desert." "It's about seven hundred miles from here." "Seven hundred miles." "Hogg, there's probably nothing there." "Exactly." "There's nothing there." "Nothing anybody could possibly want." "Somewhere they'll be safe." "Chen will come with us as far as the Yellow River." "Then he'll turn off and join his Communist pals in Yenan." "What about you?" "What about me?" "Will you go with Jack, or will you stay with us and head for Shandan?" "Is that what you're asking me?" "He's got fire in his belly, that one." "I would like to take him with me when I rejoin my unit." "No." "He's not a child." "You're right." "He's not." "He hasn't been a child for a very long time." "I believe in each of you." "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." "You're a brave boy, Lao Si." "Brave boy." "Many of George Hogg's children are still alive, among them Lao Si and his three brothers." "The four of us could never have survived without Hogg." "That's certain." "We brothers didn't know our birthdays." "Even my older brother didn't know." "When asked, we all say, "The 22nd"" "this was the day George Hogg died." "Ho-Ke gave a speech." "He wrote three words on the blackboard, in English." "Where do we want to go?" ""Why" and "How"." "He had his methods." "Then he explained how far it was to Shandan over 1,000 kilometres." "We would march there;" "our belongings packed on hand carts and mule carriages." "We kept hearing that Shandan was so cold that your nose would break off if you touched it." "And when you pee, it would become an ice stick." "But Hogg assured us it wouldn't be that bad." "It was a very cold winter." "And walking all the way through snow and on icy roads." "It took us over two months." "Later people called this," "'The Long March in Miniature.'" "He was a perfect man." "Everybody has his flaws, but I couldn't find any in Hogg." "He was always smiling when talking to us." "He knew, and he taught us what to hate and what to love." "The Chinese people remember those foreigners who helped China during those struggles." "No matter how the world may change, we, the Chinese, will never forget them."