# 4 - Gold-Spitting Bird - Part 2
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In Huanming Mount, lives a
bird the size of a sparrow,
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with brilliant yellow feathers
and melodious singing.
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The bird spits gold scraps
named Shujin (spitting gold).
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The world views it as a good omen.
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What a shame.
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For what?
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I can't save it.
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How come! You are the doctor with magic!
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This bird isn't ill. It's just too old,
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that's not curable.
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Fortuitous for it to transform into a fairy.
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It could have had a thousand-year life,
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but the whim to possess the
corpse closed that door.
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It's lucky to have made
it through the 7 years.
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You'd better get the incense prepared.
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Is it really a goner...
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Don't get too upset.
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The last gold it spit all
went into your pocket.
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Let's go, monk.
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No,
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you must have a way.
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Oy,
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I am not God,
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I can not bring the bird back from the dead.
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Will you bring these two back from the dead?
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Tummy...
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my tummy hurts so bad...
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How did it go?
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Are you content with the pastries?
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You...You poisoned us...?
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I told you
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not to eat anything this man gives.
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He's a freak that burns people
if he can't cut a deal.
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That's exaggerated!
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Tao Yao,
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you might leave me to die, but save Pissy...
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Hold up!
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He would be doing me a big favor
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to get rid of both of you.
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The young monk cannot die
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without my permission.
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Otherwise,
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you know the consequences.
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Put up or shut up!
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There he is...
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It's your business.
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Toilet...
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Toilet...
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Over there.
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What on earth did you feed them?
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New poison,
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with unknown side effects...
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Hey,
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are you really going watch it die?
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Just a prescription. I have no misgivings.
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Can you really bring it around?
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Don't get too hyped.
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I am not the one to blame
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if it still dies of old age.
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You have my word.
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Toilet...
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where is the toilet?
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The heart is the beginning
of all the ailments.
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I need to know what happened to it.
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Haven't I told you already?
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No,
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I need it to tell me itself.
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One knot of the mind is tied,
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thousands more are to be tied.
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Untie the knots and leave it behind,
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you will embrace a new life...
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Tell me
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what are the knots in your mind.
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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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I am a bird that spits gold.
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People are euphoric at the sight of me.
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I like their smiles
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so I always spit gold for them.
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But then I found that
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they smiled less
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as I spit more gold.
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The book says
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the sight of me is a good omen.
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But I feel like
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I brought
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only conflicts and death.
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I don't get it.
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If gold doesn't bring happiness,
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what does?
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So I left,
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flying far away,
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but the places ain't much different.
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I've got no place to stay longer.
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Slowly,
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I get old,
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and rather weary.
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Then...
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I met her.
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It's a bird...
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Never seen a bird as such before.
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Are you injured or lost?
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Mom, it's still a fledgling.
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Why don't we keep it?
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Okay, you called the shot!
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That's the first time I saw such smiles
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warm,
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innocent...
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completely purified.
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I couldn't help wondering
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she's got no gold with her at all,
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why did she have such a smile?
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I wanted to know the answer.
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So I stayed with the family.
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They were Mrs. Zhu and her son,
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a 10-year-old schoolboy.
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The mother earned early
bread by raising chickens.
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Low as her earnings were,
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she still managed to make livings.
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In their spare time,
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they often folded paper together.
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Mom, look.
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You already caught on to it?
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Way to go, Bao!
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Mom,
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can I fold something else now?
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Why not?
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What do you want?
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A peach blossom.
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Isn't this your favorite peach blossom?
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Where did you get this fun little doodad?
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Bao folded it.
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It's the gift for mother!
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Good going, Bao!
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Such a nice boy,
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you're blessed.
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Thank you Madam Zheng!
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Come on for some dumplings.
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It's the Winter Solstice Festival.
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The dumplings will dispel the cold.
**[07:50] ---**
Bao bought some seafood dumplings
from the Heavenly House earlier.
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They were so delicious!
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I will bring you some next time.
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Seafood dumplings?
**[07:59] ---**
That'd be a delicacy.
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Quite so!
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He's earning money now,
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bringing all sorts of pricey stuff.
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Check out the cloak, made of mink cashmere.
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The handkerchief is silky,
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and the pattern
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is the same as in the royal palace.
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How thoughtful your son is.
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Mom,
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When I grow up
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I am gonna make a whole lot of money
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and buy you lots of stuff!
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What a boy you have!
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You are set for life!
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Yeah,
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yeah, yeah...
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The next couple of years
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remained uneventful for Mrs. Zhu,
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whereas Zhu Xiaobao began
to work from dawn to dusk
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to support the family.
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Bit by bit, changes are
brought to their home.
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The fence was substituted with a wall,
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the yard renovated
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with two more rooms
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and their life continued to get better.
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Yet
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the smiles were less seen
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on Mrs. Zhu's face.
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Mom, are you happy?
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Happy...Happy.
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The house is done great!
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Must have caused a fortune?
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Bao did a great job.
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Isn't Bao serving an apprenticeship
with carpenter Zhang now?
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That's quite impressive for a young man!
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Ain't your son set to open
a ready-made clothes shop?
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That is a true feat!
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That was him fiddling with ideas!
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All I am looking to
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is he get married and have children,
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so I could indulge in the domestic bliss!
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Mom! I am leaving!
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No lunch for me!
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How do you get along without lunch...
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Bao,
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it's late. Don't push yourself too hard.
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I'm okay. I am not sleepy.
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I will make more money than Mr. Zheng,
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so you will be happy.
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We ain't gonna need all that money!
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I am very happy now.
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Thereafter,
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they spent less time together.
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To kill time,
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She began folding paper alone.
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Xiaobao was born in the year of the pig
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so she folded dozens of pigs.
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And placed the one she liked most
where people can see it easily.
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She's got big chunks of time alone at home
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with nobody to talk to.
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So she talked to the chicken coop.
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She was not all of chitchat
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but
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Xiaobao didn't pay her much attention.
**[11:50] ---**
He's got something bigger.
**[11:53] ---**
Mom, I am joining the army!
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I am going to the battleground
and to win decorations.
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We'll live a good life when
I get raised by his majesty.
**[12:11] ---**
Take this.
**[12:15] ---**
Tortoise?
**[12:16] ---**
What for?
**[12:31] ---**
Come back early...
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Several months passed
**[12:35] ---**
no words had gotten from the frontline.
**[12:40] ---**
She asked around
**[12:42] ---**
and the consensus was that
**[12:43] ---**
the odds were against them.
**[12:51] ---**
For many nights
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she waited at the window,
**[12:58] ---**
her warm and pure smiles
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were gone.
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I decided to bring Xiaobao back.
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The problem was not to turn him up.
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The problem was,
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he was already dead
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Tortoise?
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What for?
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It says
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with 999 folded tortoises
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the buddha will bring you back safely.
**[14:29] ---**
You are not buying that!
**[14:31] ---**
Bao,
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I am not praying for your
name in the military.
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I am only praying for your return and safety,
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that's the thing really matters.
**[14:49] ---**
Just now I went to sell eggs,
**[14:51] ---**
broke two accidentally.
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What a day...
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Check it out.
**[14:56] ---**
I can fold the plum
blossom. How does it look?
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Will Xiaoao come home earlier today...
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Xiaobao,
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Xiaobao,
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Xiaobao,
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Xiaobao,
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Lately,
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I learned to write
**[15:27] ---**
with Master Liu next door.
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He asked me what I would like to write.
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I said, 'Wish Xiaobao safety and happiness'.
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It dawned on me that,
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it takes no gold to bring true happiness,
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but...
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You are inviting death.
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Such witchcraft,
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you cannot handle it as an old fairy.
**[16:04] ---**
It's contingent on
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whether you have the iron will.
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Remember that Madam Zheng
**[16:11] ---**
I used to talk about?
**[16:13] ---**
Her son runs a ready-made clothes shop,
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well-heeled.
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She's complimentary about her son,
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her daughter-in-law and the grandson.
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But then I found out
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she had been living on her own
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and her family never came.
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On a New Year's Eve,
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her son said he was coming.
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she prepared a full table of dishes
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and waited till the cows come home
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but her son never showed up.
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I don't want my mother to end up like that.
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She's not your mother.
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She's just a stranger.
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I know.
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The red glow on the gold is
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the sign of the end of your life.
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You strength is sapped in
exchange for paper art for her.
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You are the dumbest fairy in the world.
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I am not a dumb.
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I bought something
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that is worth more than what I paid you.
**[17:13] ---**
You didn't see how happy
when she folded butterflies.
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The kind of smile glows
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when one is in true happiness.
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Snow is rare in Sichuan.
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The luck is on my side.
**[17:34] ---**
Mr. Ye,
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I knew you were no ordinary man
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the first time I saw you.
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I didn't have enough practice
to get the picture.
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Can you tell me,
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what exactly are you?
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I am just a man starting over.
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Nothing else
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matters.
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One last thing,
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please bury Xiaobao on my behalf,
**[17:58] ---**
and burn him more joss paper.
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Thank you.
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Pissy?
**[18:11] ---**
So much of eating
irresponsibly, you heard me?
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Let me walk you out.
**[18:16] ---**
Save it. We shall avoid future encounters.
**[18:19] ---**
Shujin.
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Remember,
**[18:24] ---**
you are my medication now.
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If I ask for a part of your body,
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you have to agree
unconditionally. Understand?
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We had gone through that already.
**[18:32] ---**
Can't I stress it again? It's critical!
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Alright.
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So where are you going next?
**[18:40] ---**
Capital Bian, or other places.
**[18:43] ---**
Tao Yao,
**[18:44] ---**
is everything alright with Tao City?
**[18:48] ---**
It's...It's fine!
**[18:49] ---**
Tao City is always blessed
with peace and harvest!
**[18:54] ---**
Something is wrong with
the Tao City, isn't it?
**[18:57] ---**
Never mind.
**[18:58] ---**
None of my business.
**[19:00] ---**
It's a long journey to capital Bian.
**[19:02] ---**
You haven't seen the dark side of the world.
**[19:03] ---**
Watch your back.
**[19:05] ---**
It's gonna be a long trek to Yingzhou too.
**[19:07] ---**
The same goes for you.
**[19:09] ---**
It could be the last Shujin bird.
**[19:11] ---**
If it made it
**[19:13] ---**
you would be the only man
owning a Shujin bird.
**[19:16] ---**
Does it spit gold anymore?
**[19:19] ---**
You came all the extra mile
**[19:20] ---**
only for its gold?
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Duh, what else?
**[19:25] ---**
The way I see it. Somebody's blushed.
**[19:28] ---**
I see the same on you.
**[19:34] ---**
You wouldn't give a damn about
**[19:35] ---**
who's going to die,
**[19:38] ---**
including yourself.
**[19:39] ---**
So what's happened this time around?
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I'm off!
**[19:45] ---**
Have a nice day!
**[20:00] ---**
In the Gailuo Lake
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lives tortoises that resemble rocks.
**[20:04] ---**
Their brains are transparent like glass
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and if the Shujin bird eats it,
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its lifespan could be extended.
**[20:12] ---**
We shall set off too.
**[20:21] ---**
Mom...
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Look, Tao Yao.
**[20:23] ---**
A funeral is going on over there.
**[20:26] ---**
Mom...
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Mom...
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Don't leave us behind...
**[20:31] ---**
Mom...Mom...
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They are...
**[20:33] ---**
the ones Ye Fengjun kicked out the other day.
**[20:38] ---**
It's Mr. Zheng of the
ready-made clothes shop?
**[20:40] ---**
I heard that his mother died of illness.
**[20:42] ---**
Look at all the pomp.
**[20:44] ---**
A full display of filial piety!
**[20:45] ---**
Right on.
**[20:46] ---**
All this pomp and filial affection
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are shows put on for the watchers,
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and has nothing to do with the deceased.
**[20:53] ---**
The bird gets it straight
**[20:55] ---**
while the people are fuzzy about it.
**[20:58] ---**
What?
**[20:58] ---**
Nothing.
**[20:59] ---**
Cut the chatter and let's go!
**[21:02] ---**
Tao Yao, I am famished...
**[21:04] ---**
I have no money.
**[21:05] ---**
But your wallet is bulging.
**[21:07] ---**
We concluded that you go
begging for alms yourself!
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Now go!
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♪ There are hundreds of faries ♪
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♪ All can distinguish good from evil ♪
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♪ Humans only have one heart ♪
**[21:44] ---**
♪ But it's unpredictable ♪