"Title: [Shuttle of Hearts / Substitute Teacher] subtitles and timeline correction:" "HAPPY777" "The cadre's coming" "The cadre." "Hide the ducks" "Hurry." "Hide the ducks" "The Bird Association is on patrol duty" " Don't you know that you can't catch ducks?" " No" "You don't accept a village head as a cadre?" "If you're caught your familys will be fined" "Behave yourselves" "You're not a cadre!" "You can't even find a teacher" "We have no one to teach us" "Ignore him." "Let's go" "If they catch you they'll send you to the re-education and rehabilitation school" "They should go to school" "But where can I find a teacher for them?" "Didn't we make a decision today?" "We'll find a teacher for the kids" "It's easy saying we're village cadres" "But where can we find a teacher?" "Didn't you hide the ducks here?" "Yes, I did" "Where are they?" "Did Cadre find them?" "We caught them in the river but he caught them in our cage" "Shuisheng, we've got business Come on." "Let's go" " I'll take it" " No need" "Uncle Teng" "Uncle Teng" "Want me to give you a tow?" "Yes, thank you" "I'm so muddle-headed!" "What a sin!" "Hi, Sin, is it lunch or supper?" "There's no difference for an idler" "I can cook and eat at any time" " You have a guest?" " Yes" "Thank you" "Let's go" "Come on" "You haven't paid me" "I'm only kidding" "My name is Teng Jun" "I'm a volunteer with the Bird Association" " My name is Gu Xiaolin" " Hello" "Village head, you have a guest" "Who is it?" " Who wants to see me?" " Look, a lady is coming" "She looks like a city girl" "She's very pretty" "Cadre, someone to see you" "Who wants to see me?" "I'm Gu Xiaolin from Shanghai" "I'm here to visit Ms. Liu" "Ms. Liu?" "What for?" "I just came to visit" "You've come a long way from Shanghai" "Is she a new teacher?" "Mind your own business" "Ms. Liu has gone to see a doctor" "When will she be back?" "She's been gone for quite some time" "She may come back soon" "Are you a teacher?" "I graduated from teachers college" "But I didn't become a teacher" "It's good to be a teacher" "Ms Liu has been teaching all her life" "Everybody here respects her" "Cadre, don't do any harm to her!" "It's not a sin to be a teacher" "Shut up!" "You ungrateful thing!" "Go back to cooking" "Dongdong" "Do you like Ms. Liu and Mr Pan?" "I forgot." "He doesn't talk" "Ms. Liu may come back soon" "You can wait for her" "You came all this way to see her" "How long will I have to wait?" "It's hard to say" "Maybe three or four days" "Have a seat" "We look down upon Emperor Zhu" "He was a beggar before he fought with Chen and the Ming Dynasty" "So many people died that the water in the lake turned red" "Cadre, talk business" "Oh yes, talk business" "I have a favor to ask of you" "Poor kids!" "If they don't go to school they'll have no future But they need a teacher" "I'm not a teacher" "You're a university graduate" "You can teach them for sure" "Take a village head as nothing" "That won't do" "Why not?" "Are you busy right now?" "Please for the sake of kids" " Dinner's ready" " Thank you" " What kind of soup is it?" " Duck soup" "Where's the duck meat?" "What do you mean?" "Look at it" "Strange." "Did it fly away?" "It flew away?" "How ungrateful" "Bring the duck meat out" "I really didn't hide it" "But where has the meat gone?" "Where is the duck meat?" "Ungrateful" "Bring the duck meat out" "The cooked duck is gone" "Is the lady a new teacher?" "She'll leave in 2 months" "Yes." "Don't bother about her Let's go" "Wait for me here" " I can do it myself" " It's OK" "Sorry to bother you" "It's no trouble" "They're glad you can stay here" "At least we have a new volunteer" "They said this was Ms. Liu's room" "But there is nothing here" "It's damp in the lake area" "Cadre took her things to air out." "Is Ms. Liu seriously ill?" "Well, her heart is not very good and she has arthritis" "Are you a relative of hers?" "I thought that since you said you're from Shanghai, you might be ..." "What is he doing?" "He's fumigating the room for you" "It's a custom here" "He's Zhang Dongdong." "His dad died of an illness" "His mother remarried and left him with his grandma, but she died" "Then he lived with Mr. Pan, and now with me" "He can keep you company for a few days" "I thought you might not want to be alone, so I asked him to stay with you" "And maybe he can learn something from you." "How about it?" "Sin" "The lady may be a relative of Ms. Liu" "Take care of her" "You don't need to ask me" "What a sin!" "How long can you lie to her?" "Until the inspection team leaves" "It may be awhile" "Don't tell her about it" "How could I tell her that?" "Don't tell Ms. Liu either" "Just tell her we have a new teacher" "Let her set her heart at rest" "OK." "I'll take the village head as a cadre" "I'm pleased you understand me" "I'm sorry" "Why are you hoisting the flag now?" "Because we don't have telephones, so before it gets dark ..." "Ah.." "Since we don't have telephones, the flag will tell the kids that they'll have class tomorrow" "My wife can keep you company tonight" "Forget it" "Your wife snores so loudly, that you have to sleep in your kitchen" "Dongdong can keep her company" "That's great" "Sin stays nearby too." "Dongdong!" "Dongdong!" "Dongdong, come here" "Dongdong Would you like to take care of Miss." "Gu?" "Some students haven't come" "This one can't come" "Neither can this one or this one" "Why?" "Good morning" "Time for class." "Good morning" "Our monitor isn't here" "Where is he?" "He's gone to work in town with his dad" "Then I'll do it" "Stand up" " Good morning" " Good morning" "Sit down" "Turn to page 50" "We'll learn Lesson 9" "There ls Only One Earth" "We don't have that lesson" "I don't have that page" "Because we're in Grade One" "Me too" "How could that happen?" "We're in Grade Five" "We're in Grade Three" "We're in Grade Four We're in Grade Three" "All six grades are in one classroom?" "Yes" "The monitor has gone to work" "But where is Guo Xiaoju?" "Who knows?" "OK, you tell me, Dongdong" "Her dad doesn't send her to school She is" "...limps" "No, it's "cripple"" "Cripple" "No one wants to be a cripple" "If you don't go to school your soul may become disabled" "Shall we go see her after school?" "OK" "One, two, three" "What are you doing?" "You can take my boat" "Are you looking down upon me?" "No." "We may have more problems later" "We'll ask you for a favor then" "We're just trying not to bother you too much" "We can do it our self, come on" "One two three" "The boat is too small" "I'll select some of you to go with me" "I want to go with you" "Guo, Xia, Cai, Dongdong" "The rest of you go home" "Let me row the boat" "No need." "I can manage" "I've rowed boats in the park" "Why doesn't the boat move?" "Anyway it's better for her go to school" "Thank you for your kindness" "But you won't teach for long" "I won't leave until Ms. Liu comes back" "Do you know when Ms. Liu will come back?" "I said I'd teach until she came back" "Are you willing to go to school?" "Your mom will bring you to school tomorrow" "It's settled." "Let's leave" "You won't leave until Ms. Liu comes back?" "We're afraid Ms. Liu won't be well soon" "My daughter is here" "Remember what you said" "Thank you for reminding me" "Dongdong" "We don't have fancy food here" "Not as good as the food in town" "Fish cooked with river water" "Help yourself" "It's so delicious" "Then have more" "If you need help just ask me" "For the sake of your teaching I won't take any money" "I'll volunteer" "Then thank you in the name of all the students" "It's no trouble" "You've been living here for years" "You must be familiar with the things here" "Tell me about Ms. Liu" "It's been dozens of years" "She came here from Shanghai in the 70s" "She was as young as you are now" "She was assigned here and taught here for over 30 years" "Why didn't she return to Shanghai?" "She got married here" "To whom?" "A cadre, but they later divorced" "Why?" "We thought she wanted to return to town, but we learned they didn't love each other" "Did she go back to Shanghai?" "Yes, but she came back a year later" "Why?" "She missed her son" "Her husband wouldn't let her take him to Shanghai with her, so she couldn't be a mother to the child" "Was the child Mr. Pan?" "Yes" "What a sin!" "Dongdong, what's the bird that's calling?" "It's a Dove." "They're noisy" "Dongdong, can you tell me about Mr. Pan?" "Was he nice to you?" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Dongdong said he saw a picture of Gu and Pan" "Then Miss Gu wanted to see Mr. Pan  not Ms. Liu?" "Did she know he died?" "Yes, she did" "So Miss Gu won't stay here very long" "She said she'd wait for Ms. Liu" "Does she know Ms. Liu might not be well" "Who said that?" "Sin said it" "I have a idea" "I've kept the letter Ms. Liu wrote to us" "She said she'd be back when she was well" "Shall we show the letter to Miss Gu?" "She wrote the letter half a year ago" "Miss Gu will ran away after reading the letter" "We can revise the date" "My dear students" "You must grow tall and you must learn more knowledge" "I heard you have a new teacher" "I'm sure you'll like her and you'll become friends" "The speed of a ship from Wuhan is 26 km per hr" "The speed of a ship from Shanghai is 17 km per hr" "The two ships meet after 25 hours" "What's the distance between Wuhan and Shanghai?" "Miss Gu" "I've got something to discuss with you" "The port will open in two days" "The season for fishing comes" "Most of us have gone to work in town" "No one can send the kids to school" "We have to fish any way" "We don't have available hands now" "Sin said he could do that." "But that won't do" "He's almost 70" "There might be an accident" "And he has to fish and ferry" "Then leave it to me" "What happened to Ms. Liu?" "We haven't had any news from her" "Don't take me for nothing" "I've solved both problem at once" "Take care" "How long can you teach us for?" "We've had several teachers before you, but none of them stayed very long" "Wasn't Ms. Liu teaching you?" "How long has she been ill?" "Why don't you answer?" "Xia, tell me" "You're not being honest" "Ms. Liu fell ill after Mr. Pan died" "She's been ill for over a year" "We,ve had soveral teachers" "But none of them stayed very long" "What about the letter Guo read?" "Tell me what happened" "Ms. Liu said she'd teach us when she was well" "Leave here if you want" "Have you seen a Russian Film The Village Teacher [ 1947 ]" "You like such an old film?" "I really admired the pretty teacher in the film when I was in high school" "Her name was Varenka, Varvara Vasilievna" "Do you know whom I admire most now?" "Liu Ruoya, Ms. Liu" "Ms Liu is my idea of a woman teacher in rural China" "If Pan Yue was alive there would be a teacher in this school" "We were close friends" "We went together to buy things in town one time" "I bought a pump and he bought stationery" "Somehow he got caught in a flood and disappeared" "Did you find his body?" "We looked for a week, but didn't find it" "He just disappeared" "Life is so fragile" "Go back" "Dongdong, we're going to see Ms. Liu." "Do your homework" "You hear!" "Dongdong" "Dofu caught so many silver fish today" "He caught more than ten kilograms of fish" "Come to have fish soup in my place" "I've got several soft-shelled turtles too" "When will Ms. Liu come back?" "I forget to tell you" "I got a message from her" "She said she was much better" "She'll be back soon" "Then I can leave when she returns" "Sure, you can leave then" "It's quite a job for you to teach here" "Village head" "Don't lie to me anymore" "Ms. Liu has been in the hospital for a year" "Who said that?" "Sin?" "He often talks nonsense" "Ms. Liu told me that herself" "Am I right, Dongdong?" "You've met Ms. Liu?" "I had no way out" "The kids are so poor" "They have a cruel fate" "That's because they were born here" "What are you doing?" "You don't take a village head as a cadre" "Do you know how hard it is to get a teacher?" "How can you sleep here?" "Herd cattle if you don't want to study" "You know the situation now" "You can make a decision" "Village head" "There are holes in our boat What shall we do?" "I'll send someone to repair it" "I'll go to find someone" "Class is over" "Class is over" "I know you hate to part with Miss Gu" "But she has legs" "We don't know if she wants to go or not" "We lied to her" "We entrapped her" "It's a sin to be a teacher" "You mean Ms. Liu." "She's different" "She got married and had a child" "A married woman is like a ship at anchor" "You're a traitor" "We all agreed to have a boycott" "We don't do any homework" "Why did you do the homework?" "No one takes notice of a cripple" "Ignore her." "Let's go" "Wait for me" "What's up?" "Xiaoju, What's wrong?" "Miss Gu" "Don't cry." "Tell me why?" "They didn't let me do my homework" "I didn't listen to them" "So they grabbed my book" "Why did they do that?" "Where are they now?" "So you're here." "Give it to me" "How can you boys bully a disabled girl?" "You can't take the book from her" "Why didn't you do your homework?" "And you stoped the others too" " We don't you want to do it" " Why?" " No reason" " You must have a reason" "No." "We just don't want to do it" "Shuisheng, you tell me why" "If you have any complaints about me, then say them" "If I did anything wrong I could apologize" "Ask me if you have questions" "Ms Gu, it's late" "Let the children to do the homework at home" "No, they must finish it here" "Forget it." "No, you can't leave" "I'll teach them when I'm here they shall study hard" "I should be responsible for them" "Forget it" "You won't teach that long" "Come on." "Let's go" "Sit down." "Did you hear me?" "Sit down, you two" "When Ms Liu and Mr. Pan taught you did you behaved like this?" "Why didn't you do your homework?" "And you even told the others to stop" "Ignore her" "Stay where you are" "Soldiers chefs and maids woke up" "They began to work" "Is that Sleeping Beauty?" "The Prince looked at the Princess" "He kissed her" "And that time" "The Princess opened her eyes" "She stared at him" "Sleeping Beauty was brought back to life" "Before long, they got married" "They had a grand wedding" "The whole country was a scene of jubilation" "They had a happy life" "What is "kiss"?" "What happened?" "What's up?" "What's the matter?" "They kissed" "Kissed?" "A shameless traitor" "He told on us last time" "You think she'll take you with her when she leaves here?" "Shameless Dongdong" "Crippled Xiaoju" "Are you Prince Dongdong?" "Princess Xiaoju?" "Your feet are well" "My feet are well" "I can walk now" "I can walk now" "Did you kiss me?" "School is over" "Why are you still here?" "Miss Gu is leaving tomorrow" "I'm afraid to fall sleep so I can see her off" "Shall we see her off together?" "OK" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Where are you, Dongdong?" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Where are you, Dongdong?" "There's a boat over there" "Dongdong, he's here" "He's there?" "Yes, hurry up" "Dongdong" "How could you run off?" "We were worried about you" "What if you fell into the water?" "Don't scold him." "We found him" "I kissed Xiaoju, but she can't stand up" "Why could the Prince do that?" "Because you're not the Prince" "And Xiaoju is not the Princess" "I won't hand in my homework" "I'll wait and see what she does" "We study for ourselves but not for the teacher" "She didn't keep her promise" "Sin said we cheated her first" "She was here to see Ms. Liu" "Then why hasn't she left?" "Ask Sin how we can get her to stay" "He told Dongdong he asked Ms. Liu to stay" "Don't mention Dongdong" "He's a traitor" "We can make him our spy" "He can tell us what Miss Gu does" "He won't do that" "He will, he hates to part with Miss Gu more than us" "He told me that" "Sin said she might stay if she got married" "Got married?" "A married woman is like a ship at anchor, that means she would stay here" "Who gets to marry her?" "If Miss Gu got married to me" "Shameless Cai Jun" "You're shameless" "Shameless Cai Jun" "Shameless Guo" "Shameless Guo" "Did Teng said he'd stay here forever, the same as Ms Liu?" "Both of them come from the city" "They're well matched" "If they could get married both of them would stay" "That sounds reasonable" "You go to ask Miss Gu" "No hurry" "We have to be patient" "It's time for class, children" "Hurry up, it's time for class" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Dongdong" "Where there are fish, there will be cats too." "He seems to be falling in love with her" "Xiaoju" "Would you do us a favor?" "What is it?" "Did Grandpa Sin talk with you?" "A talk?" "He didn't?" "What did he want to talk to me about?" "He said that spring was coming" "Why did he want to tell me that?" "Class is over" "The photos I took last time" "The're good" "This is for you and Dongdong" "Thank you" "You're welcome." "I went to see Ms. Liu" "Is she better?" "She needs an operation." "She told me everything" "What did she tell you?" "The things about you and Pan" "If you came here to make amends you've done it" "You can go back" "But have you ever thought of why Pan would give up love to come back here?" "When I came here I thought it was so great and romantic" "But after six months I could not bear the hardship and loneliness" "I've thought of leaving, but whenever I had such a feeling I thought of Ms. Liu" "Uncle Teng" "Dongdong, give this to Miss Gu" "Take it." "Obey Miss Gu" "There's a letter in the book" "Xiaolin, I'm here to say good-bye to you" "I'm being sent up north to do an investigation" "It'll take about a month" "I don't know if you'll be here when I get back" "Please tell Dongdong to go back to my place" "Do you remember I once said that people can't go back to the past" "Take care!" "Fate, they're not fated to be together" "It's our fate we can sit together in this boat, but they're not fated to be together" "Dongdong, time to go back" "Come and have a seat" "Sit down please" "Sit down please" "Dongdong cried last night" "He's a sentimental boy" "He hates to part with you" "A poor boy." "He's an orphan" "He took Pan as his dad" "Later Teng" "Now he takes you as his mom" "If you leave..." "could you take him with you ?" "Just take him like you would a pet" "It'll be easier to raise him than raising a dog or a cat" "In the winter two years ago it snowed heavily" "The poor boy fell into the lake" "He had a high fever" "Mr. Pan brought him to my boat and we took him to the hospital" "The doctor said he was lucky" "If had been any later he would not have survived" "Nice people have short lives" "Mr. Pan died several months later" "We never even found his body" "It was not easy for Ms. Liu to bring him up" "He grew up on her back" "He was a university graduate but died suddenly" "Ms. Liu has no courage to live on" "I don't understand it" "Go back to Shanghai" "Don't worry if we have a teacher or not" "This is not the place for you" "What a sin" "Dongdong" "Dongdong, don't cry" "Ma" "What did you say?" "Ma Ma" "Don't cry, my Dongdong" "My baby, don't cry" "Miss Gu" "Miss Gu" "Miss Gu" "Miss Gu" "Ms. Liu is critically ill" "She may die this time" "The folks want to see her" "Don't cry" "We can't all go to see her together" "They won't allow all of us in the ward" "And we have to fish." "Go back" "Miss Gu and I will go there" "But what about our gifts?" "We can take those with us" "Who can tell which is which?" "Stick labels on them" "How can we know if you will give them to her?" "IF you don't take a village head as a cadre, you can believe Miss Gu" "Rest assured" "We'll give them to her for sure" "Take out paper and pens" "Why?" "Write down the names" "Hurry up!" "Has she gone through all formalities?" "Yes" "Her students paid for her yesterday" "OK, sign" "Who's her relative?" "Does she have a relative?" "See if she has any last words" "It's a difficult job for you to teach" "Go back to Shanghai" "I'll go back to teach when I'm well" "Teng Jun is a good man" "Sin, You shall help me" "Take those gifts back" "Take me back to the school" "Give them a chance to talk" "Sin has always loved her," "and has stayed by her side all his life" "Thank you for teaching us" "We hope you are our teacher forever, but we can't be selfish" "Go back." "We'll miss you" "I won't leave until Ms. Liu comes back" "Time for class" "Miss Gu, my homework" "Stand up" "Good morning Good morning" "Sit down" "Mr. Teng said he'd be back when the wild geese return" "Is he a bird?" "Wild geese" "Mr. Teng's back" "Mr. Teng's back" "Mr. Teng's back" "The birds are flying up into the sky" "The birds are flying up into the sky" "The old and injured swan..." "The old and injured swan floats on the water motionlessly ...floats on the water motionlessly" "It knows" "It knows" "It can never fly back home again" "It can never fly back home again"