"Hey listen, has anyone of you here ever seen Chengdu?" "Let me tell you, it's big." "The walls are tall as they're big" "There's four main gate." "And it really takes some walking to go from the north gate to the south gate" "And what an enormous gate." "Always crowded too" "Not like ours here, empty and desolate" "All those wives, concubines and young misses" "They don't get out of bed even when the sun's way up" "Not like us" "I heard they have a really big temple there." "Isn't it?" "There's this Zhaojue Temple theatrical houses there." "Four hundred monks" "Do you know how big the rice pot is?" "It's just absolutely enormous." "This is no baloney" "It's big enough for an ox!" "And the rice crust." "You know how thick it is?" "This thick!" "So thick, when can we finish it?" "You said you wanted to marry someone in Chengdu didn't you?" "Yes, that's what I said" "But what good it is to be a concubine?" "You don't marry to Chengdu your children will just end up peasants" "Sounds like she knows everything about Chengdu" "It all came from Mrs. Han from Chengdu" "Even to become his wife, not to say his concubine" "Yes, he's a bit elderly, but rich" "He has money, property in the city" "Land in the country..." "Hey, we're not selling our daughter!" "We know our place and we'll stay there." "A country girl" "Better off with a country boy." "I'll have to say no to the proposal" "I've done all the talking, yet you haven't said a word." "Well, what do you think?" "Xingshun is a famous store in Tianhui" "And Cai Xingshun is an honest man" "A lot of girls want to marry him but can't even get to know him" "Fifth Master, you take a look." "How's side" "Crooked, it's crooked." "A bit over to that side" "Like this?" "How come you're so stupid!" "Her you are." "Come in please, come in" "Get a move on!" "There're other businesses" "Congratulations to you, Fifth Master!" "Here you are, and you too." "Come in, come in" "Tu Panzi, put the word Happiness on the racks too put it on all of them!" "Okay" "Fifth Master" "Idiot is really fortunate to have a cousin like you!" "Even his parents wouldn't be able to throw him such a big party" "The idiot and his good fortune, don't you say?" "Don't call him idiot no more." "He's got a name" "It's Cai Xingshun, Master Cai!" "And you see from today on" "He's married man." "So don't call him idiot no more!" "Fifth Master, this is new, alright?" "Not bad" "One day, we will arrange a first night for Fifth Master" "The party must bigger than this one" "Really has that day?" "Zhankui, where's my luggage?" "Right away!" "Hurry up, will you?" "Tu Panzi." "Hurry!" "You take the basket and let's go!" "Leave the basket to me, you take the bed" "Fifth Master, where're you going to live?" "The Yunji Inn" "Great, we'll be neighbors again" "Eating, drinking, whoring and gambling , what a joint!" "What did you say?" "What a joint!" "You bastard!" "Another one of those who just eats but can't pay spare him a few copper?" "No!" "People of this sort should be punished" "Tu Panzi, you go on home!" "Okay, here I go" "Fifth Master why don't you find yourself a decent wife?" "It's easier and cheaper than going to prostitutes" "This is the sedan chair?" "What's wrong with it?" "That's going to bring me a decent wench?" "And I'll foot the bill for cleaning up after the first night" "Yeah, let him do it." "It's on me!" "You find yourself a wife and you put a harness round your neck" "And you'll never get out of it" "Fifth Master, congratulations to your cousin!" "Come come come, let me give you a massage Come" "Okay, okay." "Now stop it." "Getting off!" "What kind of a massage is that?" "It really hurts" "Idiot, look." "Ain't she pretty?" "He's so shy, won't even look at her" "Come take a look." "Pretty, ain't she?" "Kiss her, kiss her!" "Now knock it off." "Xingshun, look, the Elder is here" "Sir." "Kowtow to the Elder" "That's alright." "A happy marriage" "Live to ripe old age in conjugal bliss" "Elder, please!" "Coming!" "Ma'am, here's a quarter catty of pork" "I'll pay you when you come to settle the wine bill" "Thank you" "Mistress." "Unload the goods" "Wang Laoqi has such good pork have another drink" "Let's have such good pork and wine" "Another quarter catty?" "Yes, yes" "A piece of peanut cake please" "Give me a salted egg" "Just one second" "You're out of luck!" "Go easy on it, will you?" "What the hell's going on here?" "You guys got some nerves." "You're not asking for it, are you?" "The Mistress here is my brother's missus" "You do them wrong" "And you have an enemy in me" "Bend over." "Go!" "You two assholes, listen to me good" "Don't ever let me see you again or I'll really let you have it!" "Is that clear?" "Now get lost!" "Get lost!" "Take it easy, Fifth Master It's raining and slippery" "Fifth Master, I only come to you because" "I'm really at the end of my rope" "I just don't know what to do" "Is it about five dou of grain?" "Zhankui, give it to him" "No, Fifth Master." "It's nothing like that" "One of my brothers is in jail" "Fifth Master, we should talk about this in the shop" "Is that your child?" "She asked if that's you child?" "Yes" "This is my child" "She said that's her child" "The baby is adorable." "I love it" "What did she say?" "She said your son is very nice, very adorable" "Hello." "Hello" "Come inside and sit down" "Would you like to come inside and sit down?" "No, thank you." "Is that your shop?" "She asked if that's your shop?" "Yes, it's mine." "Oh, leaving already?" "We're leaving" "Bye Bye" "how come you let a foreigner touch your baby?" "And you're so happy!" "Why do you want anything to do with foreigners?" "You really shouldn't have let the foreigner touch the baby!" "What's so terrible able it?" "Don't you know?" "Foreigners kill babies?" "Kill babies?" "Why?" "You tell me why!" "The Mistress doesn't believe it." "But that's not our business" "I'm not trying to scare you." "Haven't you heard?" "They make their medicine from the organs of babies" "If not, how come their medicine works so well?" "That's correct" "Have you seen it?" "Or taken any?" "I don't believe it!" "Those foreigners I met today they have blonde hair and blue eyes." "Quite charming, I say" "You tell me, they don't stay home" "What're they doing all the way over here with their children?" "What do I care!" "Who knows what they're up to over here!" "They got nice clothes Wonder how they're made" "Tu Panzi, did you put the lid on the bean curd tub?" "Yes!" "Good morning, Mater Cai" "Come, look." "Careful!" "Ninth Master, it's just not for you" "The Mistress really knows how to make herself pretty!" "What's going to happen to business if she doesn't?" "You should buy her a flower" "God damn it" "Never mind what the peasant says!" "The county official is your friend" "You just go talk to him and he'll lock up the peasant" "So, why didn't the country official give him a beating?" "I heard they're going to But he started screaming that he's a believer of the foreign religion" "And people wouldn't dare touch him" "That's strange!" "Is he really a believer?" "Who knows?" "May be not today, but what about tomorrow?" "Fifth Master my brother's not going to get out of this alive" "I heard they also accuse us Paoge of colluding with the county office to suppress the believers" "Now keep quiet" "Mistress" "This is for you" "No, better give it to your wife" "Oh, let me do it" "Were you sleeping?" "Did I scare you just now screaming so loudly?" "Now that you're no longer angry" "I want to ask you something" "The believers are just like us." "Why is the government so afraid of them?" "Is foreign religion really that frightening?" "Foreign religion!" "No, it's not frightening" "But foreigners are!" "Why?" "They have guns and canons" "Are there many of them?" "That I don't know, but I suppose not" "Even in Chengdu there're only about ten or twenty of them" "Well you guys are not that hot, are you?" "You say there're hundreds and thousands of you in the province" "And you're afraid of nothing." "Now you say foreigners have guns and canons" "But still, there're only ten or twenty of them" "Get yourselves a hundred people and you can kill them all!" "If women can become Paoges you'll cut a fine one" "I just want to know what it's all about" "Big Cousin, let Tu Panzi take care of this" "You've travelled, you've seen things you're better than us" "My husband, he knows nothing but his abacus and his books" "Idiot's a simple honest man." "A simple honest man is better off" "Really?" "Sure" "He takes the rap, he eats, he sleeps" "It's been two years since I married him you just ask him" "Did he ever spin a yarn with me?" "You tell me, what's so good about a simple honest man?" "Give me a few of those salted eggs and some wine too" "That shopkeeper is a lucky guy Already a mother" "And his wife's still pretty like a flower" "The way I see it the people ain't afraid of foreigners" "They attack their churches" "Burn their houses and take their money" "But when foreigners are mentioned" "They become afraid of them." "Isn't that strange?" "The people are not afraid of foreigners" "But there's a government riding on their heads and they have to be afraid of them" "You've heard about the Four Saints Temple case haven't you?" "They attacked the church and drove away the foreigner" "But nobody got hurt" "So, end of story, right?" "But no, the government said no" "They said the people have committed some monstrous crimes and chopped off a lot of heads" "Why are the officials so afraid of foreigners?" "The foreigners captured Beijing with their guns and canons" "And burned down the Emperor's garden." "Had the Emperor really lost his nest" "Those officials won't be just worrying about their careers, they'll be losing their heads" "Of course they're afraid of foreigners!" "Big Cousin, that's really well said" "People who're on the move are just different" "Idiot!" "You start your day early, don't you?" "Are you going away again, Big Cousin?" "Is it going to be a while?" "Got things to do, hard to tell" "Sit down for a little bit before you go" "Idiot, it doesn't matter how much or how little you make" "Close shop when it gets dark." "It's safer this way" "Don't worry about it" "Tu Panzi, how come the Master's still not here?" "He said he's tired." "He's not washing he's off to bed" "Fifth Master, you're back" "Fifth Master, you're back" "Big Cousin, it's been a few months" "How're you doing?" "Fine" "Wash your face and come over" "Yes, right away" "Tu Panzi go to the Yunji Inn and inquire about that woman" "Where's she's from and what does she do?" "Won't you say so?" "I know Brother Lo is generous" "No harm fooling around with this piece of trash to liven things up" "Trash?" "Talk about you own mother!" "Who's trash?" "Let it go" "Trash or not, you find out for yourself." "His words don't count" "Darling what a thing to say about you own decent daughter!" "Oh you" "All right, all right." "It doesn't matter, does it?" "Sure I'm keeping you still I won't be in your way when it comes to make money" "Don't pass over business opportunities" "How generous!" "Did you hear that?" "Brother Lo is just different" "But you got to listen to what I say." "You don't leave me in the evenings" "Unless I tell you to go sleep with someone else" "Oh, that's fine" "Saner, let me introduce you to Mrs. Cai" "Mistress of the Xingshun store" "And this is Liu Laosan, a seasoned traveller" "Such flattery, I'm so shy that I can die" "Then I'll be waiting for you at Hell's Gate" "And I'll drown myself in my own piss to come after you" "Ninth Master, your order has arrived" "Please sit down" "Ninth Master, the dishes are all here" "Good, good." "Please sit down" "We'll have a feast today let's not be modest with him!" "That's it." "Let's eat" "It's a once in a lifetime opportunity" "Fifth Master why don't you ask her to come over for a drink?" "Cut it out." "She has to take care of business Come, drink!" "Drink, drink, drink!" "Come, let me blow it." "Now you do it, blow!" "Good, what a good baby." "Careful not to soil your clothes" "I really want a baby" "Well go right ahead" "I'm not like you." "Why?" "It's this trade." "Our bodies are weak and our periods are a mess" "Really?" "Why should I kid you?" "Four season's wealth, Seven coincidences Eight horses drink, drink, drink!" "Who wants to earn a living like this?" "I really want to quit;" "I've had so much suffering" "Find someone you like and marry him" "Ah, my dear friend, it's not that easy" "Yes, I'm my own master." "I sold myself for thirty teals of silver" "But I settled that a long time ago And I owe no debt" "Sure I'm better off than other." "But marriage is a different thing" "People who don't have money can't marry me" "And that's not all." "They got to have some power to protect me" "Besides, there're so few good people." "We can't even trust him" "Come, sit down and talk to me" "Isn't Big Cousin Lo a good person?" "I think he likes you" "If he really likes me, I won't mind marrying him" "He's generous, and doesn't have a temper." "Well" "But he's just staying with me." "Who knows if he likes me or not?" "That means he likes you what else does he want to stay with you?" "Saner, Saner!" "Darling, you have to back me up on this!" "What happened?" "He's taken advantage of me" "Who?" "That Lu Maolin." "Today when you're not around he came here..." "Never mind." "That jerk!" "Never mind." "And stop crying too So what's the big deal?" "Ask him to pay cash." "No cash, nothing doing" "This Lu Maolin character likes to take advantage of people" "From now on ask him to pay cash." "If he doesn't" "Don't do it." "And he won't abuse you again" "Now hush." "I told you" "If you want to get into retail you do it out in the open." "Now stop this!" "You know what?" "Foreign devils are paying a fortune to buy pig's bristles" "And pig's intestines too." "Now these things are becoming valuable" "Really?" "Are you following me?" "Yes" "Fifth Master, why are you so happy?" "Take a look, what do you think?" "Not bad, not bad at all" "Fifth Master, I know a peasant called u Tiancheng" "Who won a few thousand taels of silver from gambling" "His wife's always sick" "And he wants a concubine and a small official position too" "Since he's arrived I've put him up across the road" "So are we in business?" "Are you sure about every thing?" "Yes" "It's going to be okay?" "Yes, it's all settled" "It' won't land us in trouble, eh?" "Mr. Gu, I've been waiting for you This way please" "Please." "Please" "It's lively here!" "This way please" "Mr. Gu, please sit down" "Saner!" "Mr. Gu, what is it?" "Fine, fine" "Mr. Gu, please excuse me" "What?" "You have cute little things here?" "Yes." "You want to meet her?" "Saner, come over here I want you to meet a friend" "Come come come, let me introduce you" "This is Mr. Gu, a big landlord from" "New Prosperity County" "A big spender" "Be nice to him, because" "Mr. Gu is looking for a concubine!" "Oh that's too good for me." "I'm sorry." "I didn't hurt you, did I?" "No" "Come come come, let me introduce you to each other" "This is Mr. Gu of New Prosperity County" "And this is Mr. Lo, Steward of Tianhui" "How do you do?" "How do you do?" "Sit down and let's have some fun" "Tu Panzi, what time is it?" "Coming for wine at this hour?" "Mistress, the guest's winning and wants some wine" "You don't have wine at the Yunji Inn?" "The Fifth Master asked me to come here" "In the middle of the night?" "He's crazy" "Mr. Gu, congratulations!" "Saner, you're happy for me too?" "Saner, please marry me" "Saner" "My pet, please come home with me" "I've been unlucky" "Come" "Did you lose a lot?" "More than two hundred taels" "Take it" "No, I don't want it" "You've been losing." "I can't take things from you" "It's alright." "I'll win everything back this evening" "Then we go" "There we go!" "Seven!" "Turn your tiles!" "Now!" "Now!" "Take you tiles, everybody!" "Mr. Gu, do you want a loan?" "Two hundred teals" "Bring two hundred taels!" "Two hundred taels to win!" "There we go!" "Now there's a nine!" "And now a three!" "Turn your tiles!" "Turn your tiles!" "Look what we got here!" "The house wins!" "Mr. Gu, you got to understand" "Now that you're so deep in debt how're you going to pay for my ransom?" "What am I going to do with you?" "Go hungry with you?" "Come on, Mr. Gu" "Why don't you go your w ay, and I go mine" "But Saner, you did promise me" "That no matter what happened you'd come with me?" "You're not going back on you words?" "What did I promise you?" "You promised me!" "You promised!" "You scum!" "I promised to go with you?" "Did I sign anything?" "Look at you!" "You stupid ass!" "I'm not going to your living hell not even if you could produce taels of silver right this minute" "You spend my money, and now you want to dump me!" "What's going on here?" "Who do you think you are?" "Making such a racket!" "Racket?" "Who's making a racket?" "You ask this bitch, ask her how she's set me up?" "Set you up?" "Who?" "Say it!" "Say it!" "You're all in the same racket!" "I was blind not to see that!" "You stupid dog, you want to ruin me?" "Ruin you?" "Who's ruining you?" "Mrs. Cai, do you think he'll come back to get me?" "You didn't hit him, what's there to be afraid of?" "I'm leaving" "Going away with Big Cousin?" "No, I'm leaving alone" "Alone?" "Mrs. Cai, someone like you" "Has to end up marrying the owner of a grocery store what misfortune" "That's my fate" "I don't believe in fate!" "Were you in the city, you'd be much better of" "Being somebody's mistress, not to say his wife" "No, I won't say a wife" "I'd be much better off being you" "Me?" "What's so good about me?" "You've seen places, you've had good times" "People usually aren't nice but somebody must have liked you" "What?" "Is that what you want?" "Well, that's not so bad" "People no good Human beings are just like things" "You get tired using just one all your life" "You get tired using just one all your life" "Mrs. Cai, don't get mad at me." "I'm saying this for your own good" "Mr. Cai is really too simple too honest" "So, I say, you should go out and have some fun" "What's the big deal?" "But you just do it, don't talk about it" "So, what do you think?" "Do you like it?" "Yes." "You're spending too much money on me" "You're leaving." "You got to have some warm and new clothes" "Then I won't worry" "I'm not leaving." "I'm going to spend the rest of my life with you" "If you really mean it." "I'd be so grateful" "You're really good." "I'm just afraid you'd be having too many affairs" "A reformed whore won't run wild;" "she'd be punished" "Saner, come, sit down" "I'm not kidding you You do your packing slowly" "What I owe you." "I'll give back to you soon as I can" "At the end of the month" "I'll get someone to take you back to Shiqiao" "Take this piece of silver with you" "How am I ever going to thank you" "I'm leaving." "But what about you?" "You can't get away from women" "So when I'm gone, who're you going to go after?" "Who else is there in Tianhui?" "Nonsense!" "You know there's one." "Don't play the fool!" "You know, and I know It's just that you won't say it" "So I'll say it." "She's you relative, Mrs. Cai!" "And she likes you from the bottom of her heart" "Why do you panic?" "Even if you are so captivated you can stand up to a question like this" "That's absolutely nonsense" "That's the truth" "Who do you say likes me from the bottom of her heart?" "You relative Mrs. Cai" "Aren't you afraid she's going to slap your face?" "Who would dare!" "She would!" "She's going to confront you with this nonsense!" "Never mind what she says." "I'm asking you do you want her?" "Come on, tell me the truth." "The truth!" "Why are you asking this?" "Don't be ridiculous!" "I'm pimping for you!" "I'm telling you:" "She doesn't want anything from you" "she just loves you" "That's some story you're telling me" "Why should I lie to you?" "Think about it why should I?" "Going to the temple?" "Yes, to pray to the God of Fire" "Idiot!" "Fish for lunch!" "Fifth Master, did you get it from the ditch?" "No, I got it for four coppers a catty." "I'm waiting" "What a big fish!" "Who're you inviting?" "Where's the wooden tub?" "Which tub should I use?" "Let me clean this up" "Let Tu Panzi do it!" "You bought it for your Liu Laoshan, right?" "It's too good for her" "I bought it for the mother of Baby Jin" "What do you say?" "Will you accept it?" "No, I can't." "Better invite Sister San" "I don't have the good fortune" "You don't have the good fortune then who has it?" "I was blind." "I didn't take a very good look at you" "But from now on" "I'll bring you, and you alone, everything I have" "Tu Panzi, go rinse the rice." "I'll prepare the fish" "I'll build the fire How do you want it cooked?" "Whichever way you want." "I'll get a catty of pork" "Let's have a good meal" "Is it the right length?" "Better call Sister San over" "Sanjin?" "Why?" "What's wrong with us eating together?" "Why do you want a third party?" "Why aren't you drinking?" "My face gets all red and my heart pounds" "Have a cup to go with the good food" "Look at you, a boozer" "Come, have some, have a cup." "Just for me" "The weather is so nice." "It's like spring." "Have some wine, have some fun" "You're in good mood, aren't you?" "Even without the wine" "Call me if you want anything." "Okay" "And he became the owner of Xingshun as a matter of course" "Then he married you, such a good wife" "Are you drunk?" "Me, a good wife?" "If I were, idiot would have been cured" "You're good looking, able and smart too." "Idiot is lucky" "People say I'm a better man but really I'm nowhere close to him" "Thirty-seven years old and I've not met a good woman" "Well, marry someone from a good family" "That's easy to say." "You know anyone?" "What kind of a person are you looking for?" "Someone like you" "Wait, wait" "Stop, stop" "Tu Panzi, you eat this on the road" "We have a long way to go." "Come on!" "Are we going?" "Oh, oh" "Take Big Cousin's stuff into my room he's sleeping there" "Fix the bed." "Yes" "Are you putting me in there?" "What's going on here?" "You come here to recover, not to get worse" "Can't let you sleep on the outside." "With that draft, you'll never get well" "Baby Jin's too young." "The evenings are cold he might get sick" "Then he's sleeping with you" "I won't be able to feed him in the middle of the night" "I'll come in and feed him." "Don't close the door" "Tell them to stop the sedan chair over here" "Okay, stop over there!" "Mr. Chi, what're you doing hiding behind the counter?" "It's new year!" "Let's go to Chengdu to see the lanterns" "What's the big deal about lanterns?" "Zhankui, is the sedan chair ready?" "Everything is settled." "Shall we go?" "Yes let's go" "I've never been to Chengdu" "My heart starts pounding at the word go" "Really!" "Is there anything else?" "Ah yes, a package" "Okay, let's go." "Go!" "Look over there, Zhaozhao look!" "Dad, look!" "A big red fish!" "A big red fish!" "Do you want to eat fish?" "Let daddy take it down and cook it up for you" "That's a lantern, you can't eat that!" "Zhaozhao, are you having a good time?" "Zhaozhao, look over there." "How beautiful!" "Look!" "Ouch!" "You know how to walk?" "You just stepped on my feet!" "Are you blind or something?" "Does it hurt?" "How is it?" "Move over." "Does it hurt?" "Go way." "Go!" "Go!" "Asshole" "Dad, what did you say?" "Did you see that shit?" "That's a nice lantern" "And that too" "Happy new year, Mr. Wang!" "Happy new year, Mr. Gu!" "May you make a big fortune" "Mr. Wong, look." "What do you think of the woman over there?" "Ah, definitely the most beautiful woman this evening!" "Mr. Wang, let's go over" "Wait." "Let me take a good look" "There's something wild about her but really a decent woman" "Mr. Wang, let's have some fun" "No" "Trouble?" "With all of us here?" "Mr. Gu, I'll go with you" "Let's go" "Dad!" "Zhaozhao, daddy has something to do over there be right back" "Don't go away, don't go away!" "Don't be long" "What're you doing?" "Big Cousin, come!" "Quick!" "What's going on?" "Asshole what the hell are you doing here?" "What the hell are you doing here?" "Oh it's you, baby Gu" "It's me." "Share you pony with us." "This ain't Tianhui, go away!" "Don't make any trouble here!" "Listen, nobody takes you for nothing here" "Who do you think you're?" "I'll show you!" "Stop, everybody!" "Let's talk things over" "Let's talk things over!" "The Steward is here!" "Scram!" "Scram!" "Big Cousin, Big Cousin!" "Scram, let go of me!" "Big Cousink, run!" "Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao, oh my Zhaozhao!" "Zhaozhao, Zhaozhao!" "I was so happy your father wasn't there he'd be scared to death!" "Big Cousin and these people, they're really something!" "Really, all these knives were coming at them and they didn't even move their brows" "Then Big Cousin let out a howl and those people wetted their pants" "Luckily we didn't bring Baby Jin along" "Without their protection we women be walked over everywhere" "I mean, who'd dare to go out?" "He stood in their midst." "The way he looked it's just gorgeous!" "They're really something!" "How can I not like them!" "Get yourself a new belt, and a new abacus too" "Tu Panzi, this is for you" "What is it?" "Such a small bottle!" "It's perfume for you" "Smells good!" "That's the smell on that foreign woman You smell it" "Give me a kiss, come, another one!" "Give it here!" "Don't you ruin my perfume!" "You just don't know how to cherish things!" "I'm poor son of a dog!" "What am I going to say?" "If I were a woman, I don't think I'd like you" "I know I'm ugly" "What ugly what beautiful?" "Cut this crap!" "You want people to like you, you got to like them first" "Do you like her?" "You wife's human." "And human beings have hearts" "If you're going to like here with all your heart." "Don't you think she'll be touched?" "All you know is keep shop, and sleep" "Sleep, and keep shop." "You don't even know what your wife wants" "What does she want?" "Sweet talk her when she's having a hard time give her a hand when she's busy" "Be spirited when you are in bed." "She'll like you" "What're they talking about?" "Fifth Master say to prepare something good" "Big Cousin, you're wonderful" "Wonderful even if I'm having an affair with your wife?" "She fancies crooks like you" "Listen, idiot" "We don't want to take advantage of you" "She's your woman add I'm not going to take her away from you" "You say I'm crooked;" "well why don't you learn to be crooked?" "How?" "I'm taking you to the Green Sheep Palace in Chengdu" "No way" "Why?" "Who's going to keep shop?" "The hell with your shop" "We're there." "Stop right here, here" "Ah Long, show the doctor the way" "Excuse me please" "Did you bring the foreign devil here?" "Foreign devils are spooks!" "I'm over seventy years old" "and I've never seen a foreign devil cure anyone" "Mind your own business." "It's a matter of life and death can you take the responsibility?" "I'm taking this matter into my hands If he dies, I die!" "Take this medicine home and you don't have to come back again" "Let him rest for a few days and he'll be fine" "How am I going to thank you for curing Mr. Gu!" "Don't thank me, thank the good Lord!" "I'd rather die than live like this" "To live, I got to take revenge." "But how?" "I can't die without taking revenge on that Lo character" "You can do it!" "My sister works in the church for a Mrs. Ceng" "The foreigner who cured you, well he's from Mrs. Ceng" "We'll ask her to write a letter of complaint to the government" "I'm sure you'll get your revenge and likely you won't have to pay back" "The few hundred taels of silver you owed" "You can't do it?" "Them foreigners give you back your life" "And you can't become a believer!" "Don't talk to me about revenge!" "I believe!" "Long as that foreign can help me take revenge" "I believe anything!" "Anything at all!" "Are you Gu Tiancheng?" "I am Gu Tiancheng" "Do you come to be baptized on your own volition?" "Yes, I do" "Why do you want to be baptized?" "To save my soul" "To save my soul" "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost" "I baptized you" "Do you have any idea how mighty the Bosers are?" "They swallow a charm, recite some magic words and no sword or spear can harm them" "You heard me?" "No sword or spear can harm them" "The Empress Dowager didn't believe it." "She said let's try it" "So they brought up this thirty catty sword and chop!" "And bang!" "The sword just bounced back" "Catching the asshole on the head and gave him a bump" "Gentlemen, hear me good" "I heard the Empress Dowager sent out a rifle squad" "Lined it up against the Boxers, and ordered:" "Fire!" "You know what happened?" "The rifles just wouldn't fire" "The foreigners are in for a bad turn" "Since Admiral Deng's navy" "Was annihilated by the Japs in Yellow Sea" "The foreigners have gone from bad to worse" "Recently they've been really impossible" "The foreigners are bad, the churches are bad the believers are the worst" "The Empress has ordered to kill off all the foreigners here" "And burn down all the churches" "Mr. Gu, we're lost our family!" "What's wrong?" "Uncle and Aunt Yao are sending everybody in the Gu family over" "They say you're turned to foreign religion and abandoned our ancestors" "The clan has struck off your name and confiscated your land and house" "Open up!" "Open up!" "Open up!" "Open the door!" "Spare me!" "I've given up that foreign religion!" "Ancestors!" "I say." "I've given up, please!" "Don't believe it no more!" "I say, there're at least a thousand people attacking those damn foreign churches!" "A thousand?" "I say at least two thousand!" "Hey listen to me, listen" "It's real pleasure burning down those three damn churches" "A pity that nothing was happening here" "Had the Chief Steward not sent down his orders" "We'd have not only taken care of those believers" "But burnt down those churches one by one!" "You got rid of the foreigners, but what about the foreign soap and umbrellas?" "You're not getting rid of foreign goods too!" "French perfume." "You still want it?" "Of course!" "Tu Panzi, bring some wine" "You've drunk it all" "Listen." "This is such a happy occasion" "To make everybody happy" "I'm offering my Louzhou old wine" "I'll get it" "For you." "Like it?" "Save it for yourself!" "Give me a kiss." "A kiss." "A kiss and I let you go" "Go away!" "I..." "Can you compete with Lo?" "I belong to him" "My heart belongs to him" "Save your passion for your afterlife" "Here's the old wine, Fifth Master" "Let's drink!" "I heard a lot of believers were killed the other day" "Killed?" "They'll be avenged." "The day will come" "And let me tell you" "The navies and armies of many countries are now on their way" "Once the foreigners get into Beijing" "Then the whole of China will belong to foreigners" "And Chengdu will naturally belong to foreigners" "People in the church will all become officials" "Once you're an official, you can have whatever you want" "I'm going to die if you keep ignoring me" "That's not my responsibility" "You keep on like this, I'll bring in Lo" "Then you'll really die" "How come you're so heartless?" "Heartless, that's how she is" "Taking advantage of me!" "Man, you don't want to live!" "Now get lost!" "Disappear from my sight and make sure that I don't see you again!" "He didn't touch you?" "Really he didn't?" "You're Mr. Gu, aren't you?" "Who're you?" "Have you forgotten?" "The Yunji Inn, Tianhui." "My name's Lu Maolin" "I can't guess we'll meet here" "Mr. Gu, have you become a believer?" "No so loud, quiet!" "Mr. Gu, salvation is yours!" "What?" "Are you mad?" "Haven't you heard, the United Army of Eight Nations have entered Beijing" "The Emperor and the Empress have run away!" "Now China belongs to the foreigners!" "Belong to the foreigners?" "The police are getting ready to arrest people" "Whom?" "Whoever is tuned in" "Dear, something's happening out there" "Someone's turned us in" "The authorities are coming to arrest me" "Zhankui and seven others" "If we get caught, we'll be beheaded" "People tell us to run." "I'm not afraid of dying" "And I'm even more used to running." "But I can't leave you" "Fifth Master, let's go, quick!" "Mr. Zhu has already left!" "When things quiet down, I shall return" "Let me go with you!" "No, you can't" "Keep her out of his!" "If I died, avenge my death!" "Come on!" "Lo!" "Are you telling or not?" "Give it to him!" "Where did you hide them?" "Give them up, or we kill you!" "Beat him!" "Mr. Gu, your water's ready" "Let me brew you a cup of tea" "It's raining outside." "You wash your face and have a good rest" "Oh the foreigners and foreign religion are in power again" "They got away just in time, or else they'd be dead" "Why?" "I don't know must have committed some serious offences" "Mr. Gu!" "Mr. Gu!" "Mr. Lu, have you seen your beloved?" "It's all my fault" "I didn't expect that" "She's only his woman, and still they beat her up real bad" "Go see her" "She doesn't forget a bad turn." "I can't go see her" "Where's her own family?" "Never mind, let's not trouble her" "Not trouble her?" "Then how're we going to find out about Lo?" "Who're you?" "I'm Fifth Master's friend, from out of town" "I heard he's committed an offence wonder where he's gone to?" "How Come I never saw you before?" "What's your name?" "Gu Tiancheng" "Fifth Master's gone." "How I miss him!" "Thank heavens someone still remembers him" "He got into trouble and took off." "Come, have some water" "Mum, stop this" "The day the church was burnt down" "Both you and dad were having dinner in the shop you know neither him nor any one of them was over there" "He's a worldly man and should know better" "Running away like this will get others into trouble" "Mom" "He hasn't come back to take a look at things?" "It's been two months, not one bit of news Strange" "It's cold." "You should give her some clothes" "We don't have any clothes" "They even tool your clothes away?" "I didn't even bring back a mirror" "Just as well." "What you can't see can't bother you." "Are you doing okay?" "Am I doing okay?" "He's not a relative, not even a close friend but so kind" "He's been coming to us many times in the past fortnight" "Now that you have a mirror, take a good look" "You wounds have all healed" "Strange." "He comes from the city but didn't visit Baby's father in jail" "Instead he came all the way to see you" "He said his name's Gu Tiancheng?" "Gu Tiancheng?" "He's a landlord and a believe too" "Right!" "That's him!" "Someone said that foreigners complained about Lo Desheng to the government" "Was that your idea?" "No, it's not me." "It's Lu Maolin" "You liar!" "No, it's the truth." "Lu Maolin told me he liked you" "But Fifth Master was keeping you." "So he cooked up this trick" "Mrs. Cai, I'll be frank with you" "Yes, Fifth Master is my enemy" "He pulled a racket on me at the Yunji Inn and beat me up" "He ruined me and my family." "I hate them" "That's why, that's why I want to take revenge on him" "Do you remember the evening on the 11th of the first moon?" "The knife fight in the streets?" "What?" "That's you?" "It's really you!" "I haven't recognized." "It's really you!" "Mrs. Cai." "I was a fool" "I was going to use you to get back at Fifth Master" "I never thought things would turn out this way" "And I lost my daughter Zhaozhao that evening" "I haven't heard about her since" "And her mom; she got sick and died" "Oh my Zhaozhao" "You came to me to find out about Fifth Master" "Is that right?" "That was the idea" "But it's a different thing since I met you" "How's that?" "Why?" "Come over here, Baby Jin" "Baby Jin, if I said anything wrong consider it farting" "Your mom's real pretty" "I'll forthright with you." "I want to be your stepfather" "No way!" "My son-in-law's still alive!" "My son-in-law's still in prison." "No!" "Why not?" "We can talk about it" "You're really becoming senile" "Am I really going to sit here and let them send idiot to the gallows?" "Are you really going to let Baby Jin spend the rest of his life tending cattle?" "Are you really..." "Right here, there's this landlord, and a believer" "He's rich and powerful." "Why shouldn't I marry him?" "What's the world coming to?" "What's the world coming to?" "But aren't you afraid of gossip?" "Long as I Mrs. Gu the Third have money" "I'm afraid of no one!" "I'm laying down the conditions one by one." "If you do consent, write them down" "Yes, go on" "Go to the foreigners and have them get Cai Xingshun released" "Okay, okay" "Give him three hundred taels of silver" "And help him restart his grocery business" "From now on, he's my god brother and we'll see each other often" "Good!" "You will be nice to him" "Yes" "I'll visit my parents whenever I want" "Of course, of course" "And I'll visit my friends in town whenever I want" "You can tag along when I say so" "Otherwise, no" "Deal" "When things quiet down and in case Fifth Master Comes back..." "One, stop feuding with him two, like Cai Xingshun" "I can see him whenever I please" "No?" "Never mind." "Just forget it" "Oh, no no." "I mean, good" "Have a bowl of egg dumplings first Then continue" "Now you tell me, which one is not okay?" "Okay" "They're all okay" "And I tell you, I don't believe no foreign religion" "Believe it or not, it's all up to you" "This is yours." "Religion or no religion, eat first" "You agree to everything?" "Yes, I do" "Mrs. Ceng and the foreigners from the church have to vouch for it" "Okay" "Now put your fingerprint and footprint on it Yes" "What do you want?" "I want to see the County Magistrate!" "Tell the County Magistrate:" "Set his dad free at once!"