"THE HERDSMAN" "Based on The Soul and the Flesh by Zhang Xianliang." "The grass bends when the wind sweeps and one sees the cattle and sheep." "The Cilechuan Plain is below the Yinshan Mountain." "The sky is like a dome which covers over the plain." "The sky is dark green and the plain is boundless." "The grass bends when the wind sweeps and one sees the cattle and sheep." "Cilechuan Plain, an ancient name you are.I read about you when I was twelve years old." "It didn't occur to me that I would spend half of my life with you." "I have been staying here for 20 years." "Years." "Life." "Our board chairman has a son named Xu Lingiun, who he hasn't seen for over 30 years." "It is said that he is working in some rangeland called Ci." "Cilechuan." "Oh." "Cilechuan Rangeland." "Please help him find his son." "Ok." "Xu Lingjun." "Attention please, from Lanzhou to Beijing" "Flight No.2615, Plane 212 has arrived at the airport" "You must be Mr. Xu Lingiun." "Please." "OK" "Put it here." "Thanks." "Chairman, he is here." "Is that Lingiun" "You must be tired.How long did it take the plane to arrive here" "Two hours." "How about some brandy" "Ask them to send two coffees here." "Hot ones." "Ok." "What You have white hairs." "Lingiun, stand up." "Walk a few steps." "Anything wrong" "Walk a few steps so I can see." "Why Every time I dreamed, I saw you had become a gimp." "Then you must have thought about that." "If we met on the street, I wouldn't be able to recognize you." "Papa, the last time we saw each other is when I was only 11." "It has been 30 years by now." "At the airport, I knew he was your son the moment I saw him." "You two have almost the same forehead." "Do we?" "He didn't shed a single drop of tear." "And he was very calm." "Calm" "And his hands are so thick.He doesn't look like my son." "He is the eldest grandson of my family." "His grandfather said that when he was born, there were two pied magpies." "That he would live an extravagant life all his life." "It has been 30 years.To me, the word Papa is indeed strange." "I am the eldest grandson of this rich family." "And also the bad consequence of this feudal marriage." "Father and mother didn't get along well." "At the end, he left my mother and me." "Just before the Liberation when mother was seriously ill, I went to see father." "That was the last time I saw him." "Before long, he went to the United States." "And mother died, four days after he left, in a French hospital." "Let the past be the past." "As soon as I had arrived in the mainland, I learned a political slogan:" "looking into the future." "We should also look into the future." "You'd better get prepared right away and follow me to the United States." "On the one hand, I came back this time to visit the motherland." "On the other hand, the more important thing is that I want to take you to the United States." "Board Chairman, dinner is ready." "Ok." "Today, we have your favorite food." "Yeah." "It smells good." "Help yourself to whatever you like." "Ok." "Oh." "Thanks." "I can do it myself." "Have some of this." "It's egg white." "I see." "I always think that dishes in the mainland are with too much sauce." "Then try this fish." "Steamed fish." "The eggs cooked in tea and sauce by Xiuzhi, I dare not present them to her father-in-law." "Poor Xiuzhi, how could you imagine that a dinner for three would cost over 80 Yuan" "Mr. Xu" "Mr. Xu" "Mr. Xu" "Good morning, Mr. Xu." "Mr. Xu" "Mr. Xu, are you going to Beijing" "Yes." "When will you come back" "Come back earlier." "Ok." "Go to school now." "Good bye, Mr. Xu" "Good bye." "Come back earlier." "Get some sleep." "I am not tired." "This short gown is too old." "If you leave one day later, I will have finished making that new one." "I don't like wearing new clothes." "But you are going to Beijing." "Papa, where is Beijing" "Beijing is to the Northeast of our town." "Papa, is Beijing as large as many of our towns put together" "Yes.Beijing is as large as many of our towns put together." "Are there any violets in Beijing" "No." "Are there any sand islands in Beijing" "Neither." "Your papa is going far away this time." "He is going abroad with your grandfather." "Papa won't go abroad." "Why not" "He can eat dumplings all day long abroad." "Mama said, Papa is the kite in mama's hand." "However high he ﬂies, the line is in Mama's hand." "Don't put words in my mouth." "I didn't make it up." "I heard it." "You said that last night." "Papa, I want a frozen sucker." "Ok." "Tasty" "What have you bought" "Chinese Wolf berry.They say it is good for the old." "Take it to father-in-law." "Mama, frozen sucker." "You eat." "Take this." "Leave ten Yuan more at home." "No, we don't need much money at home." "People at home can do without money.But people on journey can't.Take it with you." "Write as soon as you arrive at Beijing." "Good bye, Papa" "Oh." "Good bye." "Good bye." "Papa, good bye." "Papa, good bye." "Good bye." "Papa." "Papa." "Papa." "Don't run.Don't run." "Papa." "Papa." "Papa." "Have a seat." "May I help you" "Juice, please." "Ok." "Disco Board chairman, look, they are dancing disco in Beijing too." "Aristotle Yes.Aristotle once said, Human beings are animals loving fun." "Nobody can resist the temptation of enjoyment." "They won't admit that they are people practicing asceticism any more." "Mr. Xu, can you dance" "Me No, I can't." "Let me teach you.lt's easy." "Ah." "No." "No.I" "Miss Song Miss Song, don't embarrass him anymore." "Well, look, Manager Wang is coming for you." "Go." "Beautiful." "The Blue Danube." "Lingiun, you go." "Father, you dance." "Let's go." "This son of mine, it's difficult to communicate with him emotionally." "It seems that he is older than you." "I hope that he will become a new person." "People can change." "This time, we must change him." "Why doesn't he smile" "I should thank God that he isn't crazy." "When in the United States, I will educate him from the every beginning." "People's Daily" "Oh, father." "Thank you." "My pleasure." "I find that the intellectuals in the Mainland concern very much the so-called affairs of state." "This is because in China, the state and one's family are closely related." "The fate of the state decides the fate of the family." "San Francisco In the United States, San Francisco Chemical Company is my kingdom." "Abroad, one talks about personal honor and competition." "Father, you have your own sense of honor." "Maybe because I have been used to collective life, I attach more importance to the sense of honor of the country." "Do you herdsmen read books written by Marx" "In China, there is a mass production of this kind of books." "So we can get them." "Nowadays, the West is also studying Marxism, not less than the Chinese do." "Yes.But they are studying Marxism in his books." "And the Chinese Father, let's not talk about this." "What more is there to be considered" "You are clearer than me that the policies of the Communist Party change from time to time." "It's relatively easy to get a visa." "It's hard to say what it will be like in the future." "There is nothing more for you to linger for." "You have suffered a lot in the past 20 years." "Do you still still hate me" "No, I don't." "Absolutely not." "As you have said it, the past is the past." "Indeed." "Let the past be the past." "But it is still painful for me to think about it." "Lingiun, I really miss you very much." "I need you.Especially now." "Yes.This I believe." "I thought about you too." "Xu Lingjun, reactionary..." "Rightist Xu Lingiun, born in a reactionary bureaucratic capitalist family." "His father Xu Jinyou escaped to the United States before the Liberation." "Lingiun, you are still young." "Those of us who are going to the countryside should try our best to rebuild ourselves." "I think it will be 2 years, three years at most." "We can still serve the people." "Mr. Xie, I am not the same as you." "All of you still have the prospect to go back to your work." "But I don't have." "I was born in the wrong family." "I have committed the crime of being born." "Just when I was desperate and ready to end my life, suddenly I thought of this:" "I, the abandoned son of a capitalist, was once bathed in the sunshine of the New China." "Lingiun, your stipend has been granted." "Really" "You can live in the school since there is nobody at your home." "As for your meals, you can have them with the teachers." "Thank you very much, Mr. Xie." "This is one of the oldest blank verse of our country." "The Cilechuan Plain is below the Yinshan Mountain.(Cile:" "an ancient nationality in the Chines North)" "The sky is like gers which are all over the plain." "The sky is dark green and the plain is boundless." "The grass bends when the wind sweeps and one sees the cattle and sheep." "Three years later, I graduated from this school." "Owing to the shortage of teachers then, I was kept by the school and became a teacher." "The motherland, the people, the labor and the nature gave me the courage to live on." "What happened 30 years ago made me feel more and more disturbed." "In the mainland, one's family background was of great importance." "And there had been class struggle all the time." "And you are an orphan." "Only if I were an orphan." "I am not an orphan." "I am an abandoned son." "An abandoned son" "As a father, you wanted happiness.You wanted freedom." "Have you ever thought about your responsibility as a father" "Go on." "I know that life is not easy for you." "You suffered 20 years because of our family." "As a father, I have a guilty conscience." "Lingiun, our country has a history of feudalism for a few thousand years." "I was forced to separate with my child." "You can't understand me a little bit, can you" "You are a 40-year-old man." "But I still have to put your in the cradle." "I want to reestablish your value as a human being." "I want to reestablish your faith" "I died once, but I revived." "I not only have found the value of being a human being, but also the warmth." "I have found a father and a mother." "I will never forget what they have given me." "1962 In 1962, my labor education came to an end." "Because I had no home to go back to, they let me stay at the rangeland to work." "Grandpa." "Ah Oh" "Grandpa, Yo"" "The screen can shield the wind." "Wind coming at night from Qilian mountains chills one's bones." "Please have a seat." "Ok." "Cigarette." "I like tobacco." "I am not used to this." "Keep it for your guests." "Dad." "What" "Dinner is ready." "I will go home soon." "Open the door." "I am holding the bowls." "Oops, this old woman.Usually, she won't heat the meal for me." "And today she is sending it here." "It's not for you." "No wonder you bring two." "A Jun, come and eat." "Hey, I only brought one pair of chopsticks." "Oh, they are both for you." "A Jun, eat it." "No, no." "Grandma, I am not hungry." "Look, I still have some bun." "Eat it when it is Warm." "There is still plenty at my home." "When you are full, you won't be homesick." "Eat it." "Eat it when it is still warm." "Let's go." "In the future, if you need anything, go and take it at my home." "We live in the same place.We are like family." "One should look into the future." "Even Li Long zheng (an emperor of the Ming Dynasty) used to be a monk." "Stop babbling." "Eat it." "Eat it when it is still warm." "When you are full, you won't be homesick." "One should look into the future." "Life is beautiful after all." "Mother Nature and labor have given me many things that I can't get in the class." "In this simple and natural labor, a beautiful feeling was aroused in my heart." "I seemed to be melting into this group of unpretentious people." "Everything in the past became a vague dream." "Sweep away all bad elements." "What's wrong with you" "Nothing." "[Le lin]Order." "[Jun, you are to report to the panel of authority in the range]" "If not, mind your dog head." "Le jin. [The speaker mistakes le lin(order) as le jin]." "Mind your dog head." "We have been with Lingiun for some years.We know him well." "He is honest and works hard." "We can't just let him go to suffer." "Indeed." "Well, without more ado, tell him to run away." "Oops, where can he run to" "If he is captured, he will be treated as an escaped criminal." "Well, I have an idea." "So long as we insist that the situation of the grass on the rangeland is not sound." "Oh." "It hasn't rained since spring began three months ago.The grass hasn't germinated by now." "The horses have all become thin." "Indeed." "I don't think we can still graze them here." "Yes." "Yes." "Indeed." "Well, if you can report to the authorities that so long as they will take responsibility if the horses die, we won't go up the mountains." "Or let the horses starve to death." "Lao Wang, as the saying goes, March is the worse time for the cattle." "The grassland down here is too dry this year." "Get them to the mountains while there is still time." "In a short time, the horse will be too weak to walk by then, even if you want to cry, you won't have tears." "Sigh, the rangeland authority doesn't have any leaders now." "Who can I go to ask for help" "Well, you haven't been dismissed from office." "You are still head of the rangeland." "You are the team leader here." "That's right." "You can give the order." "We support you." "You should be the leader." "Ok." "Ok." "Well, what shank!" "we do about Xu Lingjun" "The authority of the rangeland has called three times to urge him to report to the rehabilitation class." "Great." "Ask the insurrectionists to send someone to replace him." "Oops, how can that be" "Well, Uncle Dong, you can get Xu Lingiun's herd of horses to the mountains." "Me" "Right." "What Let a poor old peasant go up the mountains while a young rightist stay at home to enjoy a happy life" "I don't mean that." "What is your class emotion" "What is your class emotion" "What do you mean" "Ok." "Ok." "Ok.I will take charge this time." "You can all go.All go." "Let's go." "Go." "Let's go." "To the mountains." "Let's go." "Let's go." "We are going." "Lingiun, do you have any leather coat" "Here, take mine." "Lingiun, remember these seven characters." "Believe in the masses, trust the Party." "Lao Guo." "Ah Oh." "Hey guys, to the mountains." "To the Qilian Mountains." "To the Qianlian Mountains and graze the horses." "Let's rush towards Qilian Mountains." "To the Qilian Mountains." "But for these kind and unsophisticated people, I wouldn't be able to see you now." "It is china from Junzhou (an ancient place famous for its china)" "The place of production is Yuxian in Henan Province, the site of Junzhou in the Song Dynasty." "But this is only an imitation." "The color is quiet nice." "How much 800 Yuan." "The color is call blood red of Junzhou." "Well, buy one." "Ask what he wants to buy." "Ok." "Lingiun, take whatever you like." "Father, I don't need anything." "Ah. dishware, tea-things." "Pick some." "Please give me one of those pickle jugs." "Ok." "This one." "Yes." "4.5 Yuan." "Ok." "Mr. Xu, you like eating pickle" "My wife likes.She is from Sichuan Province." "Your wife must be very beautiful." "Haha." "It's a pity that she isn't here." "You will know that when you see her." "A naive girl." "A naive girl?" "What a sweet name." "Marriage per se is a contract and obligation." "Whether there is feeling between you and your wife, you have to carry out the contract to the end." "Otherwise, your conscience will be disturbed and it will cause regret." "Thanks." "Well, her name is XiuXiu" "Li Xiuzhi." "Oh, Li Xiuzhi." "Do you have her photo with you" "She just mailed one to me." "Taken in the town centre." "But it isn't very well taken." "Here." "Yes.How old is the kid 5 years old." "Pretty." "She looks like Yamaguchi Momoe." "This time, you can bring your wife and your child to the United States." "I am afraid." "There must be a touching love story between you two." "Mr. Xu, would you like to tell us your love story" "We don't have any love stories.When we got married, we still didn't know each other." "Oh" "You can say that we began to talk about love after marriage." "Oh, that must be more interesting.I like it this Way." "In the States, marriage is the grave of love." "It's not fun at all." "Do tell us about your love story." "There is really nothing much to tell." "It's very simple." "Father and Miss Sun can tell the mixture of bitterness and sweetness of coffee." "But how can they tell the mixture of bitterness and sweetness of life which is a peculiar and accidental combination." "Where are you from" "Sichuan." "Oh, ﬂeeing from famine." "Yes." "Don't you have any relatives here" "I have a cousin here." "Oh." "She wrote to tell me to come here." "She had a lover." "But he died in a car accident last month." "Oh, he was in your team, the 6th team." "Oh, I know." "Then what are you going to do" "I don't know." "Uncle, there are good people in the world." "Would you find me a place where I can make a living" "I can work." "How about I find a husband for you" "You are going like this" "Let's talk about it when you find a suitable one." "This one is not bad." "Oops." "She is too thin and weak." "Let's go." "You don't say.lt's really difficult to find anybody for them." "Saying that she is too thin, too weak." "When you ﬂed from famine from Henan and came here, the upper part of your body was not fully developed yet." "Look at you now." "One will grow as time goes by." "Hey, Kali, wait." "What" "Well, how about Lingiun" "The man is over 30 now and doesn't have a wife." "Their sizes match." "That's not important." "But he was a rightist." "A rightist A rightist also have the right to have a wife." "The tag of rightist has been removed from him.And he has a job on the farm." "Oops, why didn't I thing about him" "Ok." "Lao Xu, do you want a wife" "Well, as long as you say Yes, I will bring one to you right away." "Ah" "Then bring one." "Ok." "It's a deal." "Tidy up your house." "Oops." "The girl has got a certificate." "As to you, I am going to the Political Department now and get one for you." "Look at you." "Come, take it off." "I will bring you a wife when I come back." "Hey, get yourself ready for it." "Tonight is the night for your wedding." "A beggar." "Hey, you nasty kids." "Off.Off.Off." "Hey, go to play." "Go to play." "Go to play." "A beggar." "Go, go, go." "Go to play." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Don't be afraid." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Well, it's really tiring." "I ran non-stop for 15 kilometers back and forth this afternoon." "You didn't give me any wine." "But at least you should give me some water." "Well, why don't you come in Come in." "Come on in." "Come on in." "This is your home." "Well, he is Lao Xu." "The name is Xu Lingjun." "Don't laugh.Go away." "Everything is fine but a little bit poor." "But, the poorer, the easier to get used to it." "This is really a big joke." "This isn't a joke at all." "It's serious." "I've got the certificate." "Marriage certificate." "This is law." "Law.Do you know" "I got it on behalf of you." "If you stop it halfway, it's very no fun." "You are married now." "How can this be" "How can this not be" "She is already here." "How can this be" "How can this not be" "Ok." "Enjoy your married life." "Have a son next year." "And remember to invite to a feast, to make up for your wedding feast." "Hey, what are you peering at Haven't you seen your father and mother marry" "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go back and tell your father and mother." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go ahead." "You have some water." "You walked a long journey." "You eat something." "I have cooked some porridge." "You eat.I am not hungry." "You eat.You've work the whole day." "You eat." "Let's share it." "Ah Ok." "Oops." "This bowl is the only one I have." "I can use this to eat." "Ok." "What did you laugh at" "You can really make the best of things." "Which city of Sichuan are you from" "Jiangyou." "Why are there so many people ﬂeeing from famine in your place" "There is violence everyday." "Nobody works the land." "Who else are there in your family" "Father, mother and two brothers." "How could they let you leave home" "Don't be grieved.The herdsmen in our rangeland are all very good people." "Let me do it." "No." "I can do it." "Give it to me." "I will wash it." "Why do you have to wash it" "Before I came, my mother told me to be diligent." "Do you have a post office here" "Yes.Why asking" "I want to write a letter to my mother." "Tell her I have found a home." "Let's talk about it tomorrow." "You are tired.Have a wash." "I have to feed the horses." "He is coming out." "Go." "Xiao Sha, go home." "Are you homesick" "This is the 40 Yuan I have saved." "And a ticket for 20 Jin rice." "Take it with you and go home." "I..." "You think I am ugly, don't you" "No. no. no.it's Kazi its nothing." "II" "I am a rightist." "Uncle Guo told me that they said that you are not a bad person." "Why are you crying" "I am not good at words." "Such a kind person was put into my life suddenly." "The day for which I had been waiting for years finally came." "She trusted me that much." "There wasn't any feeling of strangeness." "She seemed to have waited for me for many years too." "Put on your clothes." "I forgot to ask you your name." "My name is Li Xiuzhi." "Xiuzhi." "Xiuzhi, I am a person who has committed a crime." "Then let's not commit any from now on." "I am destined to labor here all my life." "What's wrong with that I will accompany you." "That's too pitiful." "I am not pitiable, I have a good fate." "Why" "I can see that I have met a good man." "Really" "Yes." "Kazi, Xiuzhi is pretty and small.lt's a match for him." "According to reason, we all eat the same kind of grain around here." "Grandpa." "They will be really settled when they get a child." "Take him." "All is good but the man is a little bit old." "What the heck do you know The older the man is, the better he cares about his wife." "Right" "You can ask Grandpa Dong about this." "Go." "Go." "Go.Are you new here" "Yo, the bridegroom is coming." "Let's see whether the bridegroom is changed or not." "The bridegroom is here." "Lingiun, how about it" "Xiuzhi said, Invite them all to our house tonight." "Even if you are treated with only water." "Just to show our kindly feeling." "Ok." "Tonight, we will celebrate Lingiun's wedding." "Good." "This is called a formal marriage." "A formal marriage." "This girl must be God-sent." "Indeed." "Lingiun." "Here you are." "Lao Guo, please come in." "Sister Xiuzhi." "Yes." "Lingiun, it's good now.You have a family now." "Congratulations, bride." "Sister Xiuzhi, did you make this" "Yo, is this Lingiun's house It's like he has a new house." "Indeed." "And the paper-cuts." "Alas, and the paper-cuts." "Auntie, as the saying goes, a home without a wife is not really a home." "Men don't know how to take care of a house." "Hey, Niu Fengying." "Yes" "Don't bring ways of your house here." "What the hell." "Mind your tongue." "Hold my son.A kiss." "Does it snow in your place" "Yes.But it melts the moment it touches the ground." "How do you cook your rice" "Porridge and cooked rice." "The same as here." "Let me have a look." "Auntie." "Pretty." "The face is as white as egg shell." "Auntie, have a seat." "Ok." "I have brought you a boiler." "It's big enough to cook a meal for two people." "Auntie, no, thanks." "Well, I don't use it now." "Saving you from buying a new one." "It's not easy to organize a family." "Come." "Sit by me." "Come in" "Hey, Lingiun, come." "A word." "This is the money our team gave you.Five Jiao from each family." "Altogether, there are 23.5 Yuan." "Well, this can't be." "Lingiun, take it." "Take it." "Just to show our kindly feeling." "The gift is petty, but the affection is not." "Accept it." "Take her to the shop and buy a new coat for her." "Right" "Yes." "It's a once-a-life issue." "Hey, I have a suggestion." "According to the law, We will give Brother Xu a three-day holiday for the marriage." "What do you say" "Yes." "I will graze his horses for the time being." "I want to say something." "Today is the wedding day for Xu Lingiun and Li Xiuying." "Oops." "It's Li Xiuzhi." "Oh." "Right." "Their marriage is also a happy event for the seventh team." "Look, he's got a bottle a Wine here." "And candies." "We don't drink wine 0ften.You also have some." "Cheers." "Where did you get these tickets for cloth and rice" "It's from everybody." "Look there, and two bags of rice." "Human beings are good-natured after all." "This is how we made our poor family." "What surprised me was Xiuzhi." "A girl 15 years younger than me." "There is such a great creativity stored inside her." "Yo, you made all these adobes." "Yes." "Well, how was your work" "Give me." "You were away for ten days." "And I have made 2000." "Why did you make so many adobes" "To set up a fence walLWe will make a fence wall." "Besides, I want to build a small house here." "Tomorrow, I will go to graze the horses with you." "Silly girl." "No women of the Han people can go to graze the horses." "I just want to go." "I will make myself look like a man." "You are away for ten days every time." "Even the horses are homesick." "But you are not." "Stay at home and make more adobes." "Ah" "Yes" "Well, you make adobes in the day.You should read some books in the evening." "You are talking to me like I am a child." "Hey, I have something to show you." "Don't laugh at me." "Look." "Yo, you are writing your diary." "Read it." "Today, I dug an aspen from the wild country in front of the door, I." "I borrowed a cart from the Niu Fengying's and brought the tree back and planted it in the yard." "Back in my hometown, there are trees in front of everybody's house." "People can't see the sky the moment they walk out of the door." "Today, Xinghua came and asked me to go to the movies." "The movie was called oh, Lenin in 1918." "We don't have any milk." "Nor do we have any bread." "What can we feed her with" "Don't be sad.Don't cry.We will have them." "We will have them all." "We will have bread." "I must go now." "Now" "You haven't eaten anything, have you" "No, of course not." "When Lingiun is back, I will tell him these words." "We will have bread.We will have everything." "Today, the horse Daqingma ran back from the meadow in the mountains." "Grandpa Dong said that the horse came back because it missed its home." "Sigh, even a horse will miss its home." "But the man doesn't." "Xu" "Xu Lingiun, you are really hard to me." "Ouch." "Today, I borrowed a book, Sanliwan Bay, from Doctor Niu." "Lingiun said that this novel is very good." "I, a fourth-grade primary school students should read it." "Well, why don't you let me go on" "The rest of it is about making adobes, I don't know how to write the word." "Tu (earth), bu (no), Yiheng (a line). [these three words put together form the Chinese character for adobe]" "You perverse thing.Wait a moment." "Qingqing's mother." "Work's done." "No, thanks." "Qingqing's mother, no wonder they all call you the Commander of the Navy, the land force and the air force.(she raises all kinds of animals, in the water, in the sky and on the and)" "Whatever you raise, you are successful." "And you have brought up your son Qingqing well." "That's because of my milk." "Qingqing." "Whatever I raise, I am successful." "Whatever I raise, I am successful." "We will have bread.We will have everything." "A song for the Cilechuan Plain." "The Cilechuan Plain is below the Yinshan Mountain.(Cile:" "an ancient nationality in the Chines North)" "The sky is like gers which are all over the plain." "The sky is dark green and the plain is boundless." "The grass bends when the wind sweeps and one sees the cattle and sheep." "This is the place.This is it." "It hasn't changed." "The gate is still the gate of our former school." "It's been a few ten years." "Indeed." "Are you Xiao Gushun" "1 am Xu Jinyou." "Do you still remember" "I was in Class Two." "Yes.Yes." "I still remember that you know how to light the gas lamp." "Now we have electric lights." "Oh, these two buildings were built later." "Ah." "All the glass was smashed during the Cultural Revolution." "None was left intact." "To smash the Four Olds." "Now everything is all right." "All have been redressed." "The teachers, the classrooms, the chairs and the desks.All are redressed." "Dear students, last time, we talked about Qinghai Province." "Today, we are going to talk about Gansu, a province at the upper reaches of the Yellow River." "53 The area of Gansu is over 530 thousand km 2." "The ancient name for it is Long." "Mr. Xu, this is your career on the rangeland" "Yes." "Being a teacher in such a desolate place.Don't you feel dull" "It's a very interest thing to spread civilization in those places." "The oases on the desert are very lovely." "Mr. Xu, I like your personality." "But can your wife understand you" "Human beings are the most advanced of all the living things." "There is a very small difference in their intelligence." "Experience itself is also part of civilization." "Oh." "The sky is still the same." "But the people are not." "When one returns, he knows the former situation better." "I didn't think that I could still see Xiao Gushun." "Even he knows the word redress" "Interesting." "Lingiun." "Lingiun." "Yes." "Lingiun." "The rangeland authority wants you to go to the Political Department." "Go when you have finished your meal." "What's the matter" "I don't know how to tell you clearly." "Anyway, it's something good." "Have dinner with us." "No, thanks." "Hey, go and see Director Zhong." "Oh." "What's the matter" "Never mind it." "Whatever." "Have your meal first." "Am not eating." "Look at you.What are you afraid of" "For one thing, we haven't stolen anything." "For another, we haven't robbed anybody." "And the Gang of Four is no more." "They can't do what they want." "The central government nowadays let the people speak." "According to the decision of the central government, we are wrong in labeling you as a rightist." "We will redress your case." "Considering that you don't have any family members in your hometown, we have found you a position in Fuchang Primary School." "500 Besides, you have 500 Yuan for compensation." "Go and get it from the Finance Department." "The transfer order is in next door, in Lao Tang's hand." "Report yourself to the school tomorrow." "If you have any other difficulties, come to me." "We fully understand your feeling." "You have behaved yourself in the past 20 years." "Ok." "Go home and get some rest." "Ok." "Go and tell your classmates." "That Mr. Xu will come to be a teacher in your school tomorrow." "Don't call him rightist anymore." "Ok." "Remember it." "He is a teacher." "A rightist mistaken." "Ok." "He is not really a rightist." "Change your mouth first." "I will call him Mr. Xu from now on." "Xiuzhi, from now on, we are the same as everybody else." "Hey, what are you doing there" "What's wrong with me I can't count it clearly." "I have counted it many times.So much money." "Oops." "Look at you.Money is not important." "What is important is that I was wronged politically." "Wronged politically" "In my eyes, you are still you." "Mama, how did father get so much money" "A compensate for being a rightist for twenty years." "Mama, I want to be a rightist when I grow up." "I will make much money." "I will buy a pair of leather shoes for you." "Like Xiao song's mother's." "Hey, Mr. Xu, come and hear what your precious son is saying." "Qingqing." "Papa, I won't be a rightist when I grow up." "I will be a teacher." "Good morning." "Stand up." "Good morning, sir." "Good morning, boys and girls." "Sit down, please." "Me, you all know me." "I am not good at speaking." "Today, we are going to learn Lesson One." "The title is." "Our great motherland." "Please open your books." "Lingiun, my son Xiao Gen said that you had given an excellent lesson." "Thank you." "Certainly.We saw him read a lot all these years." "Indeed." "I said this before." "An educated person is not good at farm work but they just stuffed him into the stable." "And both the farm work and his education are delayed." "Really." "Even I was assigned to the school to be a representative of the middle peasant for three months." "It was such an agony that my neck ached." "What book is this It's so thick." "Grandpa, this is a dictionary." "It's used to look up words.Even you don't know this." "What are you laughing at" "I have lived all my life as an illiterate." "Sigh." "I even can't understand a movie." "I only see the people moving." "That time, Daqingma, the horse, was sick." "I went to the vet to get some medicine." "I mistook the invoice as the prescription." "Knowledge is need everywhere." "In the future, even raising cows and horses will need knowledge." "Now matter what you do, technology will be needed." "We poor peasants are done for this life time." "But these kids depend on you." "Lingiun, everything considered, we have been grazing horses for so many years." "This little grandson of mine, please do your best to educate him." "Beat him when necessary.Lecture him when necessary." "Please rest assured.I will do my best to teach them." "Yo, you are all here." "You are home." "Yes." "Ma." "Ma." "Xiuzhi, what delicacies are you going to cook for Mr. Xu." "What delicacies" "Fried mushroom." "Cured meat I brought from my hometown in Sichuan." "And beer." "All of you stay for dinner." "Auntie Niu, come and help me cut the meat." "Help her cut the meat." "Xiuzhi, you really should invite me to some beer." "Mr. Xu not only has been redressed, but also has become an official teacher." "Whether he is a teacher or not is not important." "In my eyes, he is still Xu Lingiun." "Even if he becomes an official, it's nothing special to me." "Even if he will raise horses for another 20 years, I won't dislike him." "Anyway, I don't think he has ever opposed the Party and Socialism." "I redressed him the day when I married him.Not now." "500 Oh What's the use of your redress You can't give him 500 Yuan." "I have given him my heart." "It's more precious than money." "Xiuzhi, I am missing you again What are you doing now" "Playing with Qingqing, or missing me too" "I have thought much in the past few days." "Why didn't commit suicide during the Cultural Revolution" "Because I trust the power of the people." "I do believe that history is made by the people." "Why do I continue to live today" "I do believe, too, that our ancient motherland has the capacity for a change for the good." "In my opinion, the children you have in the States are no comparison to him." "He is firm, perseverant, and self-possessed." "San Francisco If he is to take over San Francisco Chemical Company, he will bring development to your career." "Make hay while the sun shines." "You should invest more in cultivating him." "Try to enlighten him in his ability for competition and his ability for management." "He won't necessarily be interested in it." "This is not likely." "You are brought up in the States." "You don't understand the Chinese." "I will have a good talk with him again." "Xiuzhi, I remember, in the evening before I came to Beijing, you asked:" "What cadre is your father in the United States" "A capitalist also called an entrepreneur." "Then he must have a lot of money." "Most likely." "People say he is a billionaire." "He owns 6 or 7 large companies in the United States only." "How much is one hundred million" "Maybe enough to buy ten thousand cars." "Oops." "So much money." "Why does one need so much money" "How much can an old man eat one day" "Father, I want a car." "I want a car." "Good-for nothing." "Li said to mama." "That is grandpa's money." "Only money earned by our own hands can we spend it comfortably only in this way can we have an easy conscience." "Like the money I used to buy salt I know I earned it by selling eggs." "Right" "The money I used to buy chili.I know I earned it by cutting rice." "The money I used to buy cartoon books for you.I know I earned it by working for others overtime." "Never take a penny that doesn't belong to us." "This is called moral integrity." "Moral integrity." "Hey, I say, don't take so many eggs cooked in tea and sauce." "Only to show my kindly feeling." "Even if I have just stood for one night with you by the Kang, I am still his daughter-in-law." "I haven't cooked a meal for my father-in-law." "Some eggs for him won't be too many." "Xiuzhi, if my father asks me to go to the United States, what should I do" "Just go." "There, you will have a nice house to live in. you will have a car to ride." "And you can dance disco." "So long as you are happy I can endure any hardship." "If he asks the whole family to go" "I won't go." "China is such a large country.Why go and live in a foreign country" "Then I have no choice but to go by myself first." "Hey, how about asking Guo Kazi to find you another husband" "Bastard." "Don't frighten me." "You won't go." "I know it in my heart." "Why Do you think that I can't live without you" "I am not that powerful." "I know you hate to part with the kids in the school." "You hate to part with the country folks.Guo Kazi." "Uncle Dong." "Moreover, you hate to part with her." "You look at her everyday." "You can take it down and put it in your pocket and take it away but it is empty." "You can't take Qilianshan Mountains with you.Neither can you take the grassland away." "In my hometown, people say: the son won't mind his poor mother." "The dog won't mind his master's poor home." "Xiuzhi." "You are not in bed yet." "Oh." "Father." "I am writing to Xiuzhi." "Can I read it" "Yes." "Xiuzhi, I have undergone all kinds of sufferings in the past few ten years." "It seems that a person like me, who has such a rich father, should really leave this country." "But my answer is No." "I have waited for twenty years.This day has finally come." "I have seen the prospect of the motherland." "I have sown my sweat and my tears for twenty years." "I can't leave when the people are advancing." "We don't just live to eat." "So you have made up your mind" "Yes." "Father." "I have made up my mind." "I have come back late." "Yes." "Father." "If you had come back five years earlier, I might have gone with you." "Now our country is on the right way, I am willing to climb the slope with the people." "Is it so attractive" "You can't experience when their country rises from turmoil." "The excitement of the people" "The aim of the revolution is to improve one's life." "It is an exciting life to change the fate of one billion poor people." "There are two possibilities for everything." "One is success.The other is failure." "Have you ever thought about that" "I have thought about it." "But I trust that our nation will succeed." "Father, I am a forty-year-old man." "Please do believe that the belief of a forty-year-old man won't be so naive." "I have read books written by Marx and Lenin." "And books written by Hegel and Russell." "And books written by Einstein." "I don't want to be a slave to money." "I am not interest in that." "It looks like that you are a firm socialist." "Every one has his own ambition." "I won't push you." "Oh." "You have some." "I can see you this time." "I am really happy." "I find that you are very firm and perseverant." "This is good." "Considering everything, I have seen you." "Here I have an anthology of Maupassant." "There is a story about a councilor meeting again his son who was born in the early stage of his life." "Who knows that his son has become an idiot." "This made me think that you would appear in front of me in a shabby appearance." "Now I have seen what you really look like, I won't worry about you anymore." "I have a request." "Can I see little Qingqing" "To you, I didn't fulfill my responsibility as a father." "To him, I want to." "Yes." "Father." "We will have many chances to see him." "I hope you can come to the grassland, to the rangeland to have a look." "Qingqing can accompany you." "If it is so, I will appreciate it." "I am old now.As long as wealth is concerned, I am a billionaire." "When it comes to love, I am as poor as a church mouse." "To be more exact, I am a beggar." "Father." "In the United States, you have two brothers and a sister." "But they are all like the name of an American magazine Playboy." "Wealth can't build a palace of love among family members." "Say thanks to your wife for me." "She is lovely." "She will look after you for me." "Lingiun, I want to ask you to do me a favor." "Can you buy me a grave, 2 meters in length and 1 meter in width" "I still want to be buried in China." "Father, don't be so sick at heart." "Xiuzhi and I will go to see you in two years." "Oh, Xiuzhi asked me to bring two packages of Chinese wolf berry." "Father, look." "Chinese wolfberry I know." "I know." "For Xiuzhi." "Oops." "Such a nice Watch.She Won't need it." "Don't mind it." "This is to show my kindly feeling." "Ok." "Mr. Xu, your ﬂight is 12 o'clock." "Oh." "Never mind." "I will see you off first." "Chairman of the Board, you can close your eyes and get some rest." "We still have half-an-hour's ride." "No need." "I want to have another look at Beijing" "Beijing.One week." "A dream." "No. better than a dream." "Passengers to San Francisco." "Attention please." "Write to me often." "Communication nowadays is very convenient." "Take some photos of Qingqing and mail them to me." "Ok." "I will." "I have finished the procedure." "Ok." "Hope I can see you again." "Me too." "Say hello to your wife." "Oh." "Thank you." "Let's go." "Let me have another look at you." "Father, so long." "Father said that I am very self-possessed." "He didn't really understand me." "I think, sometimes, feeling is the basis for faith." "I have sweated this land." "I have friends on this land who have gone through thick and thin with me." "I have my wife here." "We depend on each other for survival." "I have the root of my life here." "The End"