3 - Gold-Spitting Bird - Part 1

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    My Fairies Album.
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    Amitabha. Almsgiver Tao Yao,
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    told you don't eat the
    offering at the temple,
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    it's bad luck.
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    Nightmares are coming, ain't they?
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    Isn't it because you didn't solicit any alms?
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    Besides, didn't you eat it too?
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    What... What?!
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    The food you gave me was...Was...?
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    Exactly. What else do you think it is?
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    This is...
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    Sir! We're getting off at the junction!
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    No problem!
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    Ain't we going to capital Bian?
    Where is this leading to?
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    Plan changed. Heading to the Ingots House.
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    I told you, no haggling here.
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    That doesn't mean you could clobber people!
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    I could sue you for that!
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    Sue me?
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    He is trying to burn us into ashes! Nuts!
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    I...I am reporting to the police!
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    You will be put in stir!
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    Come on, let's go!
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    What's...
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    What's the problem with this Ingots House?
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    It's been like this all along!
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    The shopkeeper is a total freak!
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    But sells great stuff!
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    If you're buying paper art,
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    please come to Ingots House!
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    For all these years,
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    Is this how you have been
    running your business?
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    You are still alive.
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    It's a miracle.
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    It's been a long time,
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    Tao Yao.
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    Tao Yao.
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    Who is this guy?
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    His name is Ye Fengjun. He sells paper art.
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    A scoundrel.
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    Well. Your skills have
    hardly gotten any better.
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    Such a hideous paper girl.
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    I doubt if anyone will buy it.
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    Thank you for the compliment.
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    Not a compliment, okay?
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    ♪ Unwilling to listen to others ♪
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    ♪ The wind blows. We walk
    through the snow together ♪
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    ♪ Good will bloom ♪
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    ♪ Forget the pain ♪
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    ♪ Blame the bell ♪
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    ♪ Couldn't wake up the
    indistinguishable soul ♪
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    ♪ Wait till dawn ♪
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    ♪ Clear black and white ♪
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    ♪ Gods are dumb during the showdown
    between justice and evil♪
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    ♪ Forget sorrow and joy ♪
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    ♪ Pawns in the game correlates
    with right and wrong ♪
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    ♪ Who will break the deadlock ♪
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    ♪ Hard to heal the mind,
    at least there is a heart ♪
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    ♪ Mantra is missing in
    requimem to gain peace♪
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    ♪ Endure a stormy period in exchange
    for the comfort of my life♪
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    ♪ With your support, my
    will will never change ♪
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    (Fairies Album)
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    This is the golden boy and jade girl.
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    Mr. Huang bought a set yesterday
    to whorship ancestor.
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    Is the fox your newly adopted pet?
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    What's it called?
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    Piss off.
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    Its name is piss off.
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    Tao Yao!
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    Haven't we agreed on a middle course
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    and named it Pissy!
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    Pissy
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    doesn't sound any better...
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    Or you could switch your names.
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    It's Moya and you are piss off.
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    You choose one.
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    No hard feelings, boy.
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    Don't get so upset with Miss Tao Yao.
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    Have a try of the pastries I've just made.
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    Take more. You are so emaciated.
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    Must be struggling to fill your
    stomach following Tao Yao?
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    Moya,
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    If I were you,
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    I wouldn't eat anything from a man like him.
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    But...
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    but it is yummy!
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    The boy is obviously more adorable.
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    I gave you a thousand sheets of paper,
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    now there are less than 200 left.
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    Your name has gotten out.
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    Before patients could see you,
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    They must write identities,
    conditions and addresses
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    on this kind of paper and burn it.
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    The monsters looking for you are so many
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    that it sells like hot cakes.
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    They may wanna see me as they like,
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    go or not to go,
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    it's up to me.
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    It says you burn the paper
    to call out the dead.
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    For Miss Tao Yao
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    it's burning the paper
    to call out the undead.
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    If this gets out, it's
    gonna be a new buzzword.
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    So you burnt one and called me in,
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    what is the matter?
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    I want you to
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    help me save a fairy.
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    We are closing.
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    Come back after the 3rd
    day of the Lunar Year.
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    Please.
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    I am paying you with gold.
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    Gold?
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    Thin but genuine.
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    Now we're talking.
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    What do you want?
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    I've just folded some gold and silver ingots.
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    The incense comes in better
    than usual as well.
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    I can sell you a full set
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    with discount.
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    No, thanks.
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    I want a paper butterfly
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    with movable wings.
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    So the late liked butterflies?
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    No.
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    My mother is still alive,
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    but in poor health.
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    Her only pastime is
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    folding little animals, kittens and pups.
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    And she's been folding butterflies of late.
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    Never could work it out the way she desires.
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    Then she was glum,
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    lost appetite and sleep.
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    I'd been trying to talk her out of it.
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    Didn't work. She's stuck in low spirits.
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    So I asked around, hearing that
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    Mr. Ye folds the best paper art in the world.
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    So here I am,
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    pleading for one for my mother.
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    The Ingots House produces and sells paper art
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    for the late only, since day one.
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    Well then,
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    sorry for bothering you.
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    For your immense love of your mother,
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    I'll make an exception.
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    Thank you! Thank you, Mr. Ye.
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    By the way,
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    may I have your name?
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    I am one of the Zhu's. Zhu Xiaobao.
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    It's dazzling!
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    This part is really movable!
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    An effortless widget.
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    Thank you so much.
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    Asking for paper art again?
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    Yes...
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    But...
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    My mother really flipped over your butterfly.
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    But then...
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    She took it apart trying to
    figure out what was in it.
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    Then she couldn't put it back together.
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    My craftsmanship of paper art
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    doesn't stand to be easily decoded.
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    Exactly.
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    So Mr. Ye...
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    could you teach me to fold
    a butterfly like that one?
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    I want to demonstrate it to my mother.
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    I have to pay you less this time.
    I'm making it up next time.
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    Do me a favour, please.
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    You are lashing out on this,
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    does your mother know?
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    I am paying you with clean money.
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    Rest assured, Mr. Ye.
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    Pull up a chair.
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    You are gonna watch closely
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    as I am only doing this once.
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    Thank you!
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    Tell your mother that
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    I fold pups that wag tails,
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    kittens that open up mouths
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    and peonies that bloom as well.
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    You could come again to learn it
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    if she desires so.
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    Thank you!
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    Thank you!
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    Thank you! Mr. Ye, you're so nice!
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    In the following year,
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    Zhu Xiaobao patronized me,
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    sometimes every couple of days,
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    other times once in a few months.
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    Through chit chats,
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    We got to know each other better.
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    I was enlisted in the military at 17,
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    and went to war not without thinking.
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    If we weren't pulled back on the way
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    I could lose the chance to return.
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    So what do you do for a living?
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    We raise chickens.
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    Sometimes I wait tables at a diner as well.
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    So you're only making ends meet.
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    Indeed,
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    but we have sufficient daily bread.
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    So where did you get those Pihan gold?
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    I...
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    I have to get going.
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    Mr...Ye,
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    I...I...I am afraid of heights.
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    Zhu Xiaobao,
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    I don't teach twice for paper art
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    for the question I'm also only asking once
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    I...I have no idea what
    you were talking about,
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    what Pihan gold?
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    That gold
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    was passed down generations in my family!
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    Lie.
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    Please, please, stop! stop!
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    I really can't say anything!
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    But I can guarantee you the gold is clean.
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    Please let me go.
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    I...
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    I really can't say!
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    I promised it to keep the secret!
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    It?
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    I'm switching to stones now.
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    Don't blame me for
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    not warning you about collateral damage.
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    Alright! I tell you everything!
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    It's the Shujin bird!
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    Shujin bird?
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    How do you get hold of a Shujin bird?
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    I...
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    When I was 15,
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    it flew in our chicken coop.
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    I saw it spitting out gold scraps,
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    just like in the book I read as a kid.
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    The book says that
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    in the Wei Dynasty,
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    the state of Kunming paid the
    tribute of the Shujin bird
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    the size of a sparrow,
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    with brilliant yellow feathers
    and spitting gold scraps.
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    After the fall of the Wei,
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    the bird went disappeared.
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    Bird spitting gold scraps.
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    It's gotta be the Shujin bird!
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    And nobody is coming after
    you for all these years?
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    The bird is a holy grail for many.
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    Because I never squander.
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    I only trade a tiny sliver
    of it for sustenance
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    when situation presses.
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    In that case,
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    why are you trading so much
    gold to learning paper folding?
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    Because it's the only thing
    that pleases my mother.
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    Mr. Ye,
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    considering that I never put it into bad uses
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    and neither have I treated you unfairly,
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    please keep the secret to yourself.
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    Welcome to come again.
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    Thank you, Mr. Ye.
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    Afterwards,
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    he continued to come by
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    trading gold
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    for the skills of paper folding.
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    We never brought up the Shujin bird,
[14:52] ---
    like it hadn't happened.
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    Watch out!
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    You made that lantern?
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    Mr. Ye? What wind blows you here?
[16:07] ---
    Just passing by.
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    Happy Mid-autumn Festival.
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    Thank you.
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    I should've gone pay you a visit.
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    You got beaten up?
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    I tumbled...
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    and crashed the lantern, fixing it now.
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    Where is the Shujin bird?
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    It's...
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    asleep...
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    In somebody else's cage?
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    A man...
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    turned up just now.
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    I was no match for him.
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    I didn't want my mother to be disturbed
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    so I surrendered the...
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    You useless shit!
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    No!
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    Not the Shujin bird!
[16:42] ---
    But...
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    a chicken?
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    So the guy took away a chicken?
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    And he thought it was the Shujin bird?
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    Yes.
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    I put a feather of Shujin bird on the chick.
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    So
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    people obsessed with it
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    would take it as the Shujin bird.
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    You are not a complete dumbass.
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    There are far too many
    coveting the Shujin bird.
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    I am not much of a kickass guy
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    so I had to figure out something else.
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    Yet you have been keeping the
    Shujin bird for yourself.
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    Why don't you set it free
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    if you don't selfishly covet it?
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    The bird itself is not leaving.
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    Bao, who's at the door?
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    It's Mr. Ye!
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    The man who taught me paper folding!
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    My health is declining and
    unable to move around.
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    I'd wished to come visit you to thank you.
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    Never made it.
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    Folding paper is the only pastime
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    in my whole life.
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    They all said I am mad.
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    Everyone is entitled to
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    indulge in their favored activities.
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    This is great.
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    Bao made it.
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    He's taking up all the housework.
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    By the way,
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    he likes folding paper, too,
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    joining me in conceiving
    ideas from time to time.
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    Check this out...
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    It's a small dining table set.
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    It took us a whole day to come up.
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    Exquisite.
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    Pale in comparison with yours, Mr. Ye.
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    Mother,
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    time to take your herbal medicine.
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    Eat sweet afterwards.
[18:18] ---
    Otherwise it'd be too bitter.
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    Okay.
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    It got bitten off.
[18:23] ---
    You ate it secretly again?
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    What am I gonna do with you...
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    Where did you hide the Shujin bird?
[18:42] ---
    In the chicken coop?
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    Somewhere nobody could find it.
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    With the Shujin bird's gold,
[18:51] ---
    you could have led a better life.
[18:53] ---
    I am content with what I have,
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    with fixed abode,
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    sufficient food.
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    We are happy to have each other's company.
[19:03] ---
    We enjoy the peace and security.
[19:06] ---
    Never thought about getting
    into a better career,
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    marriage and having a child?
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    professional career?
[19:12] ---
    I've hardly completed any books...
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    as for marrying,
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    I doubt if there's a woman
    that would consider me.
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    So be it.
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    Then at the first rain in the winter,
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    Zhu Xiaobao came again.
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    But...
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    This is the farewell most
    satisfactory by far.
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    It must be a long time ago
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    when you last parted somebody?
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    Like...
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    when the empire fell apart ages ago.
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    You know everything.
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    Yes,
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    it is a long time for mankind...
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    It was the night
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    when they scrambled for the
    jewels made with Pihan gold,
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    as if those with the most of it
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    get to live.
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    I looked on from afar,
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    losing the mood to bid farewell.
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    You are sapped of too much power,
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    you are gonna die of it.
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    So what...
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    The last 7 years have been my happiest time
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    throughout the centuries of my life.
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    My mother folded this just
    before she passed away.
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    I've been trying to figure out
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    why did she fold this bird on her deathbed...
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    Could be...
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    just a coincidence.
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    So... Zhu Xiaobao is the Shujin bird!
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    How does it look?
[21:40] ---
    Is it curable?
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    Tao Yao!
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    Save it please!
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    ♪ There are hundreds of faries ♪
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    ♪ All can distinguish good from evil ♪
[22:09] ---
    ♪ Humans only have one heart ♪
[22:18] ---
    ♪ But it's unpredictable ♪