Ah-shue, where is your parents?
they left this morning.
Papa usually comes very behind schedule to house, drunk.
staggers and vomits by all the house.
When closed the club of your father?
In March.
During a time, was chaotic.
Many people died,
… and the neighborhood was sacked.
the papa friend, Mr. Ko, was arrested.
Ah-shue…
Hinomi Aunt, the uncle has returned.
we wait long time but knew…
… what exit of the station would use.
Ah-shue,
… looks for your brothers.
Tomato your time and writes.
Uncle, you cannot eat that.
Is the food for the altar.
you cannot eat.
You are thinner. You feel well?
My brother disappeared. It was hidden in Lai-liao.
a day came the soldiers. Since then, we do not have more news.
Wen-ching!
comes Mr. Huang Here.
Mr. Huang, this is my good Wen-ching friend.
Was in prison with your brother…
… before outside executed.
has come specially to to see you .
Sit down.
“In the life, far from the mother country.
In the death, of return to the mother country.
As much the life as the death is governed by the destiny ".
Hinoe married and lives in mountains.
I cannot tell you where. It does not want that her family knows it.
Said: “Dead Considerar. My life belongs to the mother country to him”.
“In prison, I swore to live by my friends who had died”.
I cannot live like before. I want to remain here.
I know that I can do what you request to me.
This is not site for you.
the important thing is your beliefs, not where you live or what you do.
To Hinomi proposed marriage to him, but it is to you to whom it loves.
I present/display my better friend, Wen-ching.
you go to reopen the business or no?
Enough!
Go to play outside.
Wen-leung, this is for the altar.
Eat after the speeches.
You decided to close it.
Now you do not mean when one will reopen.
You cannot hurry up in deciding it?
be quiet !
Don’t argue with me!
You do not drink of the teapot!
You are a bad example to the children!
Already you are greater for those things.
are you thirsty, no?
Drink as it must or you do not do it. You are not ridiculous.
Look!
vanishes during days, God knows where!
Or you lock in yourself in your quarter or you flee where…
… nobody can find.
Wanted that you came to the tomb from mother with me. Where were you?
For that reason I have so bad luck!
I am the unique one of four children who…
… mother sees in its tomb. It asks to me because,
… and I do not scrimp words. As far as you,
… until when you think to follow without working?
Planed to open a photographic study alongside so that you directed it.
we discussed the sufficient thing to It.
When you will give an answer me?
How it is going to answer you? It does not hear.
be quiet !
the only thing that you know to do is to reprimand people.
Ah-shue, I gave it you to it.
When a young one visits to us,
… without concerning its dignity to him,
… is very clear what happens. You cannot understand it?
What you are hoping?
You are crying or what? Lets sing!
Be damned!
Keep quiet!
What are all these howls?
they seem spirits of badly. What is all this noise?
So that outcries?
You cannot speak with normality?
What happens?
Is useless. It seems incapable to act normal.
I feel It.
Please, continues singing.
No, thanks.
does not pay attention to him.
You sing very well.
Please, continues.
Obstinate like a mule!
To people like him, cannot teach to it him nothing.
Damn you are!
How is that you are not dead?
you made to really suffer to Wen-leung.
Displeased!
And well?
What happens?
You know what you did.
be quiet or you will regret it.
What you will do on the matter?
What?
calm down.
you do not scare to me.
Pig…
you will have a badly final day of these.
Older Brother! Older Brother!
Ah-ga.
Llama to a doctor!
What happened?
Kim-tsua, keeps that knife.
Llama to a doctor.
Wen-heung!
comes the fiance Here.
We request to them to the ancestors…
… children and wealth.
Inclines before the ancestors.
Kneels down.
Pray.
Reverence number one.
Two.
Three.
Pray.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Pray.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Rises.
Inclines one before the other.
Of knees.
Husband and wife inclines one before the other three times.
One.
Two.
Three.
Rises.
This behind schedule,
… I listened to the first thunderclaps of spring.
a redoubling of thunders after another one,
… as if they were waking up to all hills and the sea.
Somebody wine of mountains.
Said that my brother wanted money.
needed It stops…
… to print pamphlets to educate people.
the gentleman said that they did not like to request to him…
… always aid to Weng-ching.
But only when they come to request money,
… we know that they are out of danger and they continue in the fight.
then we are Only calm.
Ah-chien already can emit sounds.
Last night seemed to me that “mother” said.
I felt so happy…
I ran to look for Wen-ching…
… so that it listened to it.
when I saw I only gave to account the idiot who was. How was going it to hear?
the prices raises.
the neighbors says that hard times come.
While it has to Wen-ching and Ah-chien…
… I feel that I will be happy.
You do not run!
Still you run! Excrement!
So that outcries?
Of knees.
Duck the head.
What sights?
Ah-shue, your Wen-ching uncle has been arrested.
Not yet we know where it is.
At the outset, we thought about escaping,
… but did not have where to go.
I write much later,
… because only now I feel more calmed.
This photography was taken 3 days before the arrest of Wen-ching.
When they came to by him,
… was portraying to somebody.
Insisted on finishing the work…
… before they took it.
I looked for and I asked throughout in Taipei but I do not have the news.
Ah-chien is throwing the teeth.
has a beautiful smile.
and the eyes of your uncle.
Please, sees see us soon.
is refreshing in Chiu-fen.
the autumn flowers bloomed.
the mountains is all white, like the snow.
Is hour to eat.
Is well. In a while.
Ah-chi,
… you do not have to see the adults play by money.
Give it to your uncle.
Uncle, is the hour to eat.
Where is the Wan uncle?
Said that it would return immediately.
clean everything.
Serve us alone.
December of 1949. Continental China was lost.
the Nationalistic government was changed to Taiwan.
Taipei became temporary capital.