《茶馆》是老舍先生 Tea house, an immortal work
留给我们的一部不朽的名著 was left to us by Lao she.
这样的茶馆现在已然没有了 One doesn't find such a large teahouse anymore.
可在旧北京却布满了四城 But a few decades ago, tea houses seat everywhere in old Peking.
一个大茶馆就是一个小社会 A tea house is a small community.
人民艺术家老舍先生 Mr. Lao she, an artist of Chinese people,
通过一个茶馆的兴衰 through a tea house's rise and fall
为我们描绘了一幅旧时代的画卷 presented to us the old time's lives
戊戌年间满清王朝日趋衰落 in 1896, qing dynasty was in decline
帝国主义势力步步深入 and imperialist forces were permeating the dynasty day by day.
以康有为梁启超谭嗣同为代表的维新派 The reformers, with kang youwei, liang qichao and tan sitong as its representatives,
遭到失败和镇压 were crushed to fail.
茶馆的故事就是从这时候开始的 It is just such a tea house we are about to see.
里边请 Welcome.
哎 我大傻杨打骨板儿 Sha Yang is playing bamboo clappers
这一来来到了大茶馆 at the same time, coming to a tea house,
那个大茶馆 this tea house
是老裕泰 买卖兴隆真不赖 is called yutai, and it does a brisk business.
那茶座多 It has many seats here
是真热闹 也有老的也有少 bustling, filled with the old and young,
这有的说 是有的唱 some tea customers are talking and some are singing,
穿章打扮 一人一个样 they dress differently from each other.
那个有提笼 是有架鸟 Some customers are holding birdcages with precious birds.
这蛐蛐蝈蝈 也都养得好 And some are playing with crickets and grasshoppers.
那有的吃 是有的喝 On the table, many snacks, food and drinks are served.
没有钱的只好瞪眼白瞧着 All being envied by those with no money out the window.
后边二位 Welcome to our courtyard.
您爱下棋 是来两盘 If you love plying chess, you can just enjoy it here
赌一卖碟干炸丸子 外撒胡椒盐儿 if you lose it, then you lose one dish of fried meatballs covering with salt and pepper.
哎 那王掌柜 是大发财 Manager wang makes a lot of money by running the tea house,
说金银财宝一起来 treasures are coming endlessly,
那你有钱来我有嘴 money are waiting for wang to count and mouth are waiting for me to feed
数来宝的是穷鬼 shulaibao, a kind of rap beggar on streets, like me is a poor ghost.
费心了您哪 Thank you so much.
这位爷 您说话也得加点小心 Master, you are so brave to say so.
那怕什么的 该说的我就得说 Nothing to be concerned. I have to speak out when it is necessary.
县太爷怎么着 Governer of the count is no big deal,
照样让人家给吊在树上 he was hanged on the tree
活活地抽死了 and being whipped to death
唉 这事闹的 I can't believe this is happening.
这是哪儿的事啊 Where?
江西 Jiangxi province of east China.
有这事 谁敢欺负县太爷呀 Is it true? Who dares to bully the count governer
谁敢 who dares?
洋人 Foreigners.
这还有王法没有了 Are here any laws in oing dynasty?
这位爷 这位爷 Master
听说啊 I also heard...
这位爷 咱还是莫谈国事吧您 Masters, no political discussions please
您瞧这个 还得说我们这黄鸟 Brother Chang, look at my orioles.
您这个呀 比他们那个调理都好 Yours looks much better than theirs.
得嘿 早班儿 喝碗去 Good morning. Have some tea.
四爷 Chang si ye.
常四爷 您早啊 Good morning, Chang si ye
您早 早 - morning. - Morning.
早班儿 哎 - Early morning? - Yes.
红茶 到外面看看去 A cup of black tea. Let's check the outside.
松二爷 您早班儿了 Song er ye, you come out so early?
得 您交我吧 Please give it to me.
您这边得着 Please have a seat.
哎好 您得着 - Ok. - Have a seat.
我这边这边 您坐您坐您坐 Please sit.
怎么着 二位都自个儿带着茶叶呢 You two have brought your own tea leaves?
您得我这 Take a good look at my tea leaves.
得着得着 Let's have a look.
唐先生 Mr. Tang
出去遛遛去 why not take a walk somewhere else!
我的王掌柜 您就捧捧我唐铁嘴吧 Manager wang, boost up poor old tang "the oracle" a bit!
哎 这么着 How about this?
您送我碗茶喝 我就先给您相相面 Offer me a cup of tea and I will tell your fortune!
手相奉送 不取分文 With palm-readin thrown in, it won't cost you a copper!
今年是光绪二十四年戊戌 Now it's the 24th year of emperor guang xu's reign, the year of the dog,
哎 您贵庚 and your honourable age...
你算了吧 甭卖你那套生意口了 Enough! Spare me the sales talk!
我白送给你碗茶喝 I will give you a cup of tea for free
哎哟 那谢谢您 it is very kind of you.
我告诉你 Listen!
你要是不把你那口大烟给戒了 If you do not stop smoking opium,
你就一辈子甭打着交好运 you will never have any luck!
这是我的相法 比他那还灵验 There, you see, I'm a better fortune teller than you!
德爷 他们都在后边呢 De ye, they are all waiting you at the courtyard.
哥们儿 哎 Bro,
后边 喳 go inside.
后边请哎 Please go to our courtyard.
德爷来了您 Hello, de ye.
后边请哎 Welcome to our inner courtyard.
好像又有事儿啊 Trouble again?
嗨 Don't worry.
反正啊 打不起来 They won't come to blows!
要是真打的话 If it was serious,
早到城外头去了 they would have gone out of the city.
到茶馆来干吗 Why come to the tea house?
我说 你冲谁拽咧子呢 Who are you gossiping about?
你问我呢 Who, me?
你说 我问谁呢 Huh! Who do you think I am asking?
花钱喝茶 I've paid for my tea.
难道还叫谁管着吗 Do I have to bow to anyone too?
我说这位爷 Excuse me, sir.
您是营里当差的吧 You serve in the imperial wrestlers, don't you?
来来来 坐下喝一碗 Come, sit down and drink a cup.
我们也都是外场人 We are all men of the world.
你管我当差不当差呢 Where I serve ain't none of your bloody business!
哼 要抖威风跟洋人干去 Bah! If you want to throw your weight around try the foreigners!
洋人厉害 They're tough alright!
英法联军烧了圆明园 When the British and the French armies razed the old summer palace,
尊家吃着官饷 and you're on the public payroll.
可没见您去冲锋打仗 I didn't see you lift a finger to stop them!
怎么着 How dare you?
你先甭管我敢不敢打洋人 这位爷 - Leave the foreigners out of this! - Sir.
我先管教管教你 I'll teach you a lesson!
怎么着 怎么着 - What do you think you're doing? - So what?
我打不了洋人 我还打不了你吗 Perhaps I don't touch the foreigners, but I'll give you one of me touches.
好哇 你 How dare you.
二德子 Dezi,
你威风啊 you're quite an important person, aren't you?
哎哟 马五爷 Oh, it's you, ma wu ye!
您瞧 我这眼拙了 没瞧见您呐 Pardon, sir, I've never seen you sitting there.
我这儿 给您请安了 I am here greeting you.
有什么话 好好地说 Settle your disputes in a reasonable way.
干吗动不动地 就讲打呢 Must you always resort to fisticuffs?
喳 您说得对 Yes, sir.
李三 啊 - Li San. - Yes.
这位马五爷的茶钱 The bill for ma wu ye's tea
我候了 is on me.
喳 Ok.
五爷 您这儿慢慢喝着 Wu ye, please continue enjoying your tea.
我后边看看 I'll go direct to the inner courtyard.
嗯 Yes.
哼 Huh!
德爷请 Please, de ye.
哟 都来了 都来了吧 All are here.
这位爷 您圣明 Sir, you're a sensible gentleman.
您给评评这个理儿 Please tell us who you think was right?
对不起 他 - Such people... - Sorry.
我还有事 I am busy.
再见 Goodbye!
马五爷 Ma wu ye,
我可短照应您 thank you for your graciousness.
邪啊 这倒是个怪人 How odd! Queer character, isn't he?
常四爷 Chang si ye
您不知道这位是马五爷 don't you know that was ma wu ye!
马五爷 Ma wu ye?
您怪不得也得罪了他了呢 No wonder you offended him!
什么 我连他也得罪了 What? Offended him?
我今儿个出门 没挑好日子和着啊 This is my lucky day to go out today!
这是怎么话儿说的 There is no need to say so.
嗨 没事儿 Never mind.
刚才您不是说吗 Just then you said
您说洋人怎么样怎么样 something about foreigners.
这就是吃洋饭的 Well, he lives off the foreigners.
信洋教说洋话 Follows their religion and speaks their language.
有事能一直找到宛平县县太爷去 If he wants he can go strait to the mayor of Peking on business.
要不怎么说 连官面上都不惹他呢您 That's why even the authorities handle him with care.
哼 我呀 Pshaw!
就是不佩服这个吃洋饭的 I've no time for people who serve foreign masters.
四爷 您说话得留点神 Si ye, be careful what you say!
二位爷 早班儿啊 You two gentlemen are early!
这儿这儿 Please sit there.
进来吧你 You... come inside.
早来了您 80 early to drink tea.
哎 早班儿早班儿 Good morning.
二位爷早班儿啊 You two gentlemen are early!
来了您 早班儿呢 You also comes early.
您试试我这个 Please try some of my snuff box.
刚装来的 I just got it.
地道英国造 The genuine thing from england.
又细又纯 80 fine and pure.
我这儿有 我得点点儿 - I already have. - Let me try some.
连鼻烟也得打外洋来 Even our snuff has to come from abroad.
这得往外流多少银子啊 How much silver must flow out of the country every year!
咱大清国有的是金山银山 Our great oing empire has mountains of silver and gold.
永远流不完 It'll never run out.
是 True.
您坐着 我忙点小事 Please be seated, I've some business to attend to.
您执公 Make a bow, too.
过来吧你 You... come, come.
坐下吧 Sit down.
怎么样啊 How do you think?
十两银子行不行啊 Will ten taels of silver do?
你来痛快的 我忙 我没工夫专伺候你 Be quick! I'm a busy man. I haven't got all day to wait on you!
一个大姑娘 Is a young lady,
就值十两银子 only worth ten taels?
那要卖到窑子去 If you sell the girl,
也兴许能多卖个两儿八钱的 you may earn one or two extra pieces of eight.
可你又不肯 But it seems that you are not willing
那是我的亲生女儿 she is my real daughter!
我能把孩子 亲生女儿你养活不起 - Would could I - but you cannot raise the real daughter yourself.
怨谁呢 Who is to blame for that?
那还不是因为乡下种地的 Is it not because the countryside
都没法子混了 cannot support cultivating sufficient crops to survive?
行了行了 那是你们乡下事儿 Stop. That is a problem for you folks from the countryside,
我管不着 and it is beyond my control.
我呢 受你之托 I will trust you,
让你不吃亏 help relieve your suffering,
让你女儿有个吃饱饭的地方 and give your daughter a place to live where she can have enough to eat.
这还不好吗 Isn't that a good deal?
到底儿给谁呀 Who will she be given to in the end?
我要一说呀 If I say,
准保你打心眼里头乐意 you will certainly be satisfied and grateful.
一位在宫里当差的 He is a high ranking official in the imperial palace.
宫里当差的 人家谁要个乡下丫头 Who in the imperial palace would want a girl from the countryside?
这不你女儿命好呗 Well, won't your daughter's life be better?
谁呀 Who?
大太监庞总管 Eunuch pang, working for the palace.
你也听说过庞总管吧 Have you heard of eunuch pang?
伺候着太后 红得不得了哇 He acts as a valet for the empress dowager, is very popular.
人家家里头 At his home,
打醋那瓶子都是玛瑙的 even bottles of vinegar are made out of agate.
叫孩子给太监做老婆 If I gave my girl to the palace eunuch as a wife,
那我怎么对得起女儿啊 who could I be worthy of her?
卖女儿无论怎么卖 也对不起女儿 No matter how you sell your daughter, it would be a terrible shame.
糊涂哇 You are not thinking stright!
你想想 Just think,
姑娘一过门 吃的是珍馐美味 wherever the young lady went she would eat fine delicacies
穿的是绫罗绸缎 and dress in silk and satin.
这不造化吗 How would that make things worse?
从古至今哪有 Since ancient times there has been...
摇头不算点头算 Nod rather than shake head.
咱来干脆的 Hurry up.
他就给十两银子 Is he really going to give ten taels of silver?
可着你们那村 找得出十两银子来不 Would you be able to find ten taels anywhere in your village?
在乡下 五斤白面就换个孩子 In the countryside you can exchange 2.5 kilograms of flour for a child!
你不是不知道 You know this clearly.
哎我说 哪儿去你 回来 Where will you go? Come back.
我还得跟孩子商量商量啊 I will have to discuss this with my daughter.
我先把话给你交代明白了 Let me be frankly.
过了这村可没这店 If it wasn't me, you wouldn't have this chance.
耽误事儿 你别怨我 Don't blame me if you miss the opportunity.
哎 I see
跟乡下人办点事 别提多难 80 hard to do things with rural folk.
永远没个痛快劲 Never in a rush.
乡下也不知怎么了 How could you do that in the countryside?
会闹得这么卖儿卖女的 By selling their sons and daughters!
说的是 Well, you could say
要不怎么说 是条狗也得托生在北京城呢 that even a dog should be born in Peking city.
刘爷 哎 Liu ye
您可真有个狠劲 you are truly ruthless
给拉拢这路事 to entice him into this.
哟 我说常四爷 Well, Chang si ye.
我要不给他帮忙 If I didn't have the heart,
他还许找不着买主呢 then the would not be able to find a buyer.
是这话不是 Are my words reasonable?
哟 松二爷 Well, song er ye.
您瞧瞧这个 Have a look at this!
好体面的小表 That is a very pretty watch.
您听听听听 嘎噔嘎噔地响 Listen, ticking away merrily.
这得多少钱呐 How much does it cost?
您喜欢呐 行了 让给您了 Do you like it? It's yours!
一句话 五两银子 One word and five taels of silver.
哎哟 I don't want it anymore.
您拿着玩去 Just take it.
多会您玩腻了 不想要了 When you get bored, just return it.
您把它还给我 我照数退钱呐 I will refund you the money.
东西真地道 传家的玩意儿 The thing is genuine and passed down through the generations.
我这儿正琢磨这个味儿呢 I am just getting the taste of this.
咱们一个人身上 得有多少洋玩意儿 How much foreign stuff are each of us carrying?
哎 Well
老刘 哎 Lao liu.
就看你吧 洋鼻烟 洋表 Look at what you have on your person: Foreign snuff, a foreign watch,
洋缎大衫 洋布裤褂 foreign satin trousers, a foreign coat...
好嘛 这洋玩意儿可真漂亮呢 Foreign things are really beautiful.
我要穿一身土布裤褂 像个乡下脑壳 If I wear home made clothes it is like I am thinking like a peasant.
谁理我呀 Who would pay any attention to me?
哼 Huh!
松二爷 表留下了 Song er ye, just keep that watch
钱 改日再说嘞 and then give me the money later.
行 Ok.
哥们儿 Brothers,
呃 哥们儿 brothers,
都瞧我了 都瞧我了啊 all of you, attentions please.
我这给大伙儿请安了 Paying the respect to you all.
都是自己的弟兄 千万别伤了和气啊 We are all brothers, and don't disrupt our friendship.
哎哎 Yes, yes
黄爷 哎 huang ye
这都不是他们 哟 they are not the person you looking for.
他们都在后头呢 They are in the courtyard at the back.
噢 我看看我看看 I will go inside
黄爷 huang ye
哟 松二爷呀 yep, song er ye
嗨 我这不是眼神不济 瞧不大清楚嘛 forgive my poor sight for I am not able to see clearly.
哎 小王 在 - Xiao wang. - Here.
预备烂肉面 哎 - Prepare some cured meat noodles. - Yes
有我黄胖子 谁也打不起来 nobody is going to argue with huang pangzi.
那是 It's true.
黄爷 哎 - Huang ye. - I am here.
两边都见了面了 噢 We have already met two sides.
就等您了 Just waiting for you.
那是谁呀 Who is there?
二德子 Er dezi
哟 德爷 de ye
呃 我瞧瞧都谁来了 都谁来了 Let's see who is already here.
里边请 Please go inside.
都回去了 Let's go back home.
哎 您慢走 Would you please walk
哎 哎 ok.
三儿三儿 San er.
喳 Yes?
他们到底为了什么事 这么拿刀动杖的 What on earth are they bring knifes and arms?
它是这么档子事 Things are
张宅的鸽子 飞到李宅去了 a pigeon from the zhang residence flew over to the li residence
可这李宅呢 他不肯还 and the li household does not want to return it.
得 咱们待会再说吧 Fine, we can talk later.
这人还不如一只鸽子呢 A person is worth less than a pigeon.
掌柜的 Manager
哎哟 秦二爷 您早班儿 yes, qin er ye. You come so early.
哎哟 我秦二爷 Oh dear! Oin er ye.
您今儿怎么这么闲在 想起坐茶馆来了 How could you think of idly wasting your time at this tea house?
哎哟 您看您也没带个底下人呢 And not even bring any attendant?
来看看 Just go around and have a look.
看看你这年轻小伙子 Let's see if this young man
会做生意不会 can do business or not!
我这就是 一边做一边学吧您 I will learn on the job.
指着这个吃饭呢 Make a living.
谁叫我爸爸死得早 我不干也不行啊 My father died at an early time. I just have to do this now.
好在啊 Luckhy,
照顾主儿都是我父亲那辈上的老朋友 everyone taking care of the host is an old friend of my father's.
有个周到不周到的都肯包涵 If I am inconsiderate at any time please forgive me,
闭闭眼也就都过去了 ignore it, and let it pass.
嗯 Ok
反正啊 在街面上混饭吃 On the street you have to work for a living
人缘顶要紧 what really matters are relations with people.
我就是一切啊 For everything,
都按着我父亲那会儿的老规矩 I act according to the way that my father taught me:
多请安多说好话 Speak kindly, show others respect,
讨个人人喜欢呢 就不至于出大岔子 be positive towards everyone, and you will be less likely to meet with calamity.
二爷 Er ye.
您这儿坐坐 Please sit down
我给您沏碗小叶茶喝 and I will make you a cup of small leaf tea.
我不坐着 也不喝茶 I won't sit down and won't drink.
您坐坐 Please sit down.
有您在我这儿坐着 我脸上有光 With you here with me my face is radiant.
也好吧 Well, fine.
三儿 喳 - San. - Yes
沏碗高的来 来咯 a cup of our choicest tea.
可你用不着奉承我 However, don't flatter me.
哪儿的话 I am telling the truth.
二爷 您府上都好 Er ye, is everything fine at your home?
事情都顺心吧 Are all your affairs in satisfactory order?
不怎么太好 Not that good, actually.
您怕什么的呢 What are you concerned about?
那么多的买卖 You have so much business
您伸个小手指头 比我腰都粗 that your index finger is fatter than my waist.
哎哟 哎 Good heavens!
这位爷好相貌啊 This old fellow has a great appearance,
真是天庭饱满 truly plump with a really big circumference.
唐先生 您那碗茶喝完了没有 Mr. Tang, have you had enough tea to drink?
喝完了 走走走走 Just go.
哎 你走呢 Go quickly.
得了得了 您先到外边遛达遛达去吧 Just go outside.
小王 喳 - Xiao wang. - Yes.
你这儿的房钱 Is the rent
是不是得给我往上提那么一提 going to increase here?
当初你爸爸给我那点房租钱 At the beginning, your father give me little rent
可还不够我喝茶的呢 it is not even enough for me to drink tea.
二爷 Er ye,
您说得对 太对了 you are exactly right!
可这点小事 用不着您分心呐 But this small issue is to trivial to require your attention.
您把管事的派来来 我跟他商量 Delegate it to someone else and I will work with them on the rental amount.
该涨多少钱我一准儿照办 I promise that I will comply with your request.
你小子比你爸爸还滑 You devious young man. You are even more slippery than your father.
你等着瞧吧 You just wait.
早晚有一天 我会把这儿的房子给收回去 Sooner or later I will take the room back.
您甭吓唬着我玩儿 Don't threaten me.
我知道您多么照应我 多么心疼我 I know that you feel sorry for me
您绝不会看着我 and definitely would not send me out
挑一大绿茶壶 上街上卖大碗热茶去 onto the street with a big load of hot tea to sell.
你就等着瞧吧 You just wait and see!
妈 我饿我饿呀 Mom, I am hungry. I am hungry.
小王 在 - Xiao wang. - Yes
轰出去 get them out!
这这这儿 待不住 You can't sit down here.
妈 Mom.
哪位 行行好 Who can show his mercy?
买下这个孩子 Buy this child,
二两银子 two taels of silver.
只当是买个小猫小狗吧 The price is just for buying a little cat or dog.
李三 喳 - Li San. - Yes.
要两碗烂肉面 Give them two bowls of cured meat noodles
带她们到门外头吃去 and take them outside.
喳 Yes.
谢谢了 去吧 - Thanks you. - Go outside.
大嫂 Madame,
哎 端稳咯 hold the bowls.
哎 Yes.
妞子 快快快 - Girl - hurry up...
嗯 Sure.
走吧 走吧 Just go outside.
四爷 嗯 Dear si ye,
您这可是积德行好 you are such a meritorious and charitable person,
赏给她们面吃 giving them noodles to eat.
可我告诉您呐 But I should remind you
它眼下这路事儿太多了 that this kind of things happen a lot
实在是太多了 咱们管也管不过来 too many that beyond our limits.
二爷 是这话不是呢 Er ye, do you think so?
二哥 嗯 - Brother er... - Yes.
我看呐 I think
这大清国是要完呐 that the great oing empire is done for.
嘿 完不完吧 Over or not,
也不在乎有没有人 给穷人一碗面吃 it has nothing to do with giving noodles to poor folk.
小王 喳 - Xiao wang. - Yes.
说真的 我真想把这的房子给收回去 To tell you the truth, I really want to take back this house.
二爷 您别这么办呐 Don't handle this business like that, er ye.
我不但要收回房子 Not only do I want to take back the building
连城里的买卖 乡下的地 but I want to sell the land in the countryside
全卖了 sell them all.
您这是为什么呀 Why is that?
把本钱拢在一块 To draw the capital together
开工厂 to start a factory.
哎哟 开工厂 Start a factory?
啊 Of course
开个顶大顶大的工厂 a big factory!
那才能救得了穷人 That is the only way to save poor people,
那才能抵制外货 那才能救国 the only way to resist outside capital, and the only way to save our country.
跟你说这些个干什么 Meaningless to tell you the truth,
你不懂啊 you can not get me.
二爷 Er ye.
您这合着就是要 把产业都出了手 You plan to sell all your property your property
专门为了别人 only for helping others,
您就不顾您自个了吗 and not for yourself?
你不懂啊 You don't understand.
只有那么样 国家才能够富强 That is the only way to make the country strong and prosperous.
好啦 我该走啦 Ok, I should go.
小王 喳 - Xiao wang - yes
我这可亲眼看见了 I have seen with my own eyes
你这儿生意不错 that your business is not bad.
我托您福 All thanks to you.
那你甭给我耍无赖 You do not need to play games anymore.
故意不给我涨房钱 And will not raise the rent on purpose.
不能够 That is impossible.
哎 闪开闪开 Beat it. Beat it.
走走走 Go go go...
快点走 Hurry up, go away.
妈妈 Mom.
走走走 Go go go...
庞老爷 您吉祥 Your excellency pang. May heaven bestow fortune on you.
罢了 罢了 No need to do so.
庞老爷 Master pang!
呦 秦二爷 Oh! Qin er ye!
您这两天 心里边安顿了吧 Has your mind settled down these last two days?
那还用说吗 Yes, definitely.
天下太平了 Everything is at peace now
圣旨下来 谭嗣同问斩 that an imperial edict for tan sitong tobe beheaded has been issued.
噢 Really?
告诉您 Let me tell you,
谁敢改祖宗的章程 whoever dares overturn the rules of the ancestors
谁就得掉脑袋 will loose their head.
这个 我早就知道 That is for sure.
哟 您聪明 二爷 You are clever, er ye.
要不然您怎么发财呢 Otherwise, how could you become so rich?
不敢 Not worth mentioning.
我那点儿财产不值得一提 My small amount of property is not enough to mention.
哎哟 太客气了吧 You are too modest.
这全北京城 谁不知道秦二爷 In the whole of the city of Peking there is nobody that has not heard of qin er ye.
不敢 I'm flattered.
您比那做官的还厉害呢 You are more awesome than the officials.
听说呀 I heard that
好些个财主都讲维新 there are quite a few rich men that are talking about reform.
不能那么说吧 Don't speak like that.
我这点威风在您面前 I put the inspiration that I get in your presence from the authority
可就施展不出来咯 that you carry to good use.
说得好 Spoken well!
那咱就八仙过海 各显其能吧 Let's each do what we do best and show everybody our abilities.
再见 Goodbye.
改天过去给您请安 Change heaven to pay you my respects!
不敢当 You flatter me.
凭这么个小财主 也敢跟我斗嘴皮子 For a rich young man like that to dare to verbal contest with me.
年头可真是改了啊 Must mean that this year is really changing.
庞老爷 您吉祥 Your excellency! May heaven bestow fortune on you.
刘麻子在这儿呐 Where is "pocky" liu?
哎哟 老爷子 My master!
我在这儿 等您老半天了 I have been waiting for you for ages.
伺候着 Waiting for me?
喳 Yes.
哎哟 老爷子气色好哎 My master! You look amazing.
庞老爷 您吉祥 Your excellency! May heaven bestow fortune on you.
哟 小子们 你们在这儿呐 Xiao shuan, you are here, too.
喳 Yes.
有事吗 Any matters?
喳 Yes.
咱们的日子也不好过 We also live a hard life.
好死不如赖活着 It is better to die than to depend on someone else for a living.
要让我这样的自谋生计 If life forces me to make my own living,
非得饿死不可 in the end I will go to die anyway.
怎么说 What are you talking about?
一个乡下丫头 A village girl
要我二百银子啊 for two hundred taels?
乡下丫头模样可俊呢 But village people are very beautiful.
带进城来 由您亲手一调理 When we bring her into town we will dress her up and train her
不出仁月您再看呢 in less than three months, you will see
准保是又规矩又体面 that she behaves properly.
别蒙我 我还要看人呢 Don't lie to me. Let me see the person first.
我跟您这么说吧 Tell you the truth
给您办这点事 比给我亲爸爸办事都得操心 that I leave no stone unturned
一丝一毫不能马虎 trying to serve your excellency!
抓住他 Arrest him!
追 追 站住 Go after him and stop him!
往那边去 往那边去 Go over there!
唐先生 你怎么又跑回来了 Mr. Tang, why do you come back?
外边兵荒马乱的 There is chaos on the streets
不知道出了什么事了 I did not know what happens.
怎么啦 发生什么事了 What? Let me have a look.
那还不得搜查搜查 谭嗣同的余党吗 They are still searching for the remants of tan sitong?
嗯 对 Oh, yes.
这谭嗣同是谁呀 Who is tan sitong?
走吧走吧 溜达着 溜达着 Let's go first.
庞老爷 Master pang,
你放心 唐铁嘴 哎 tang "the oracle", rest at ease
没人抓你 no one is going to snatch you
这臭样儿 for you are such an ugly person.
总管 您要是再赏给我几个烟泡儿 Your excellency, can I have a few packets of cigarettes.
那我可就更有出息了 I will be honored.
去一边去 别蹬鼻子上脸 Go away. Don't gain extra advantages.
喳喳 Yes.
四爷 天不早了 Si ye, it is not early.
咱们也该活动着了 We should go and take a walk.
好 走吧 Ok, let's go.
李三 喳 - Li San. - Coming.
等等 Wait!
怎么啦 What's up?
刚才你说大清国要完 A moment ago you said, "the great qing empire is done for"?
我 嗯
我爱大清国 我怕它完了 I love the empire. I hope it isn't done for.
噢 Really?
你 你呢 You, come
你听见了 他是这么说的吗 did you hear that? Did he say that?
哥儿们 我俩见天跟这儿喝茶 We come here every day to drink tea
王掌柜知道哇 地道的老好人 as manager wang knows, and we are both law-abiding men.
我问你 听见了没有 I asked whether you heard that or not?
有话好说咧 Well if there is something to discuss,
请坐请坐 please sit down.
嘿嘿 Hey
你不说 我连你也锁了走 if you don't speak and now you are going with him too.
他说大清国要完 He said, "this is the end of the great qing empire."
就是跟谭嗣同一党 You are in collusion with tan sitong.
什么 What did you say?
我听见了 他是这么说的 I heard. He said...
他是说呀 He said...
啊 走 Go with us
上哪儿啊 to where
事情也得交代明白了 let's discuss this clearly.
怎么 你还想拒捕吗 Are you refusing to be arrested?
告诉你们 我可是旗人 Let me tell you, I am a manchurian.
噢 旗人 Manchurian?
旗人当汉奸 你罪加一等 Treason is a first class crime for a manchurian.
锁上他 喳 Lock him up.
甭锁 跑不了 There is no need to lock me up. I cannot run away.
我量你也跑不了 走 To make sure that you cannot run away. Let's go.
你 You
你也跟着走一趟 come with us too
到堂上实话实说没你的事 走 go into the main hall, tell them the truth, and this has nothing to do with you.
哎 我 go into the main hall, tell them the truth, and this has nothing to do with you.
来 走 Come. Let's go.
走
李三 你给我看一下 Li San, take care of my bird for me.
好了 好了 Ok.
一片云雾散 算我没有白跑腿儿啊 A day with scattered cloud and fog, so I did not come here for nothing.
黄爷 Master huang.
哎呀 谁呀 Who?
我松二啊 It's me. Song er.
松二爷 什么事您呐 Song er ye. What's the matter.
您快过去 帮帮忙 说句好话吧 Please speak a few kind words on my behalf. Sure.
您交我 您交我了 Just leave it to me.
呃 谁呀 Who?
哟 宋爷 吴爷 您二位办案呐 Yo! Song er ye and master wu, are you two handling a case?
呃 您请 您请 您请 Please. Please.
呃 您请便 您请便 Please. Please.
黄爷 您倒是给美言两句 Master huang, please speak a few kind words on my behalf.
哎呀 这官厅儿管不了的事情我管 I take care of things that the official courts cannot take care of.
这官厅儿管得了的事情 I don't get involved in things that the official courts do handle.
他我不便多嘴是吧您呐 Isn't that right?
走 走 Let's go.
先戴上这个 走 Wear this. Let's go
王掌柜 您给照应点我那黄鸟儿 Manager wang. Please take care of our bird cage.
我给您送家去 I will drop it off at your house.
走 Let's go.
庞老爷 您吉祥 Oh, master pang, may heaven bestow fortune on you...
呃 听说您安份儿家 I hear that you are going to have a family.
呃 我这儿先给您道喜 I I'll congratulate you by the way.
罢了 喳 You may fire.
你等着吃喜酒吧 And just wait to enjoy some wine
喳 喳 您赏脸 yes. It's my honor.
您赏脸 您赏脸 You do me a great honor. You do me a great honor.
来了 The girl is coming.
啊 Where?
人呢 Where is your daughter?
点头了 Have said yes.
好嘞 Good job.
来来来 进来进来 Come. Come inside.
来 来来来 Come.
过来 过来 Come quickly.
这边来 This way. Come.
来 过来过来 见见总管 Come and see his excellency pang.
行嘞 文房四宝 Good, bring me the four treasures of the study.
老六 过来过来 来来 Lao liu, come here.
爸爸 Father.
爸爸 不是人是畜生 Your father is not a person, he is an animal.
孩子你认命吧 爸爸 - My girl, just accept your fate. - Father.
积德吧 Do good works.
哎 来 过来过来 Come.come.
来 见见总管 Meet the excellency,
给总管磕个头 to kowtow to his excellency,
往后好好跟总管过日子 live happily with the excellency.
磕头啊你 Kowtow quickly.
怎么啦 这是 What happened to you?
怎么啦 What happened?
水 水 Water water.
怎么啦 What happened?
麻子 Mazi.
哎 喳 Yes.
我要活的 I want a live one,
我可不要死的 not a dead one.
顺子 Shunzh
哟 她又活了 She is live again.
将 Check.
你完了 You will lose the game.
噢 Nice.
腐败透顶的大清朝 Corrupt qing dynasty
被革命党的烈火包围着 is surrounded by the fire of revolutionary party.
果不其然 As expected,
它很快就完了 it will soon be done.
说它完 它就完 People predict the great qing will be ended.
大清帝国完了已经好几年 Then the qing empire has been done for several years.
现而今 到了民国 Now it comes to the republic in China.
铰了小辫儿 还是没有辙 The law of cutting off people's ponytail can not save the corrupt oing.
那个闹军阀 是乱打仗 Warlords, wars are everywhere,
白脸的进去 黑脸的上 people of all classes are fighting against each other.
那个赵打钱 是孙打李 Zhao fights with oian. Sun fights with li,
那赵钱孙李乱打一气 谁都不讲理 all fights in chaos with no reasons.
他为打仗 是买枪炮 Some warlords buy the guns to support the fight,
一堆一堆 给洋人老爷送钞票 sending foreigners loads of money.
为卖炮 为卖枪 To sell arm,
帮着军阀 你占黄河 他占扬子江 the warlords invade yellow river and yangtze river.
老百姓 可遭了殃 The common people are suffering,
大兵一到 粮食牲口一扫光 grains and stocks will be robbed once soldiers come.
王掌柜 他会改良 Manager wang renovated his tea house with the era
茶馆都改得 好像大学堂 now the tea house is much like a school,
后边住着大学生 at the backyard lives some students
说话文明 真好听 who talk more civilized and nice.
哎 那个他开张 是我道喜 The new tea house is opening tomorrow and I congratulate him,
编点新词儿 我也了不起 I feel awesome about sing the new allegretto poem.
王掌柜 道喜 道喜 Congratulations, manager wang.
那个老裕泰 是大改良 The old yutai tea house was improved a lot
万事亨通 一天倒比一天强 it becomes prosperous day by day.
我明天才开张呢 I will open the new tea house tomorrow.
明天 Tomorrow?
明天好 那个明天妙 Tomorrow is good and suspicious
金银财宝齐来到 golds and silvers will come too.
您开张 他开炮 You open your shop, while he open the fire
明天准唱八蜡庙 tomorrow must be bustling.
我说 王内掌柜 您瞅瞅 Landlady, please have a look at the banner,
这高矮怎么样 is it higher or lower?
高了点儿 A little higher.
高了 Higher?
您瞅 这成了吧 It it ok now?
嗯 三爷 Yes, San ye.
啊 Fine.
您看 咱们茶馆改了良 Our tea house has already been renovated,
您那小辫儿 该铰了吧 your ponytail should be cut off too.
改良改良啊 Let's improve it! Let's improve it!
越改越凉 The more we improve the more cool
冰凉 嗨 as cool as ice
我 还是留着我这小辫儿吧 I will keep my ponytail,
他万一再把皇上改回来呢 just in case the emperor comes back.
别顽固了三爷 Don't be obstinate, San ye.
人家给咱改了民国 咱能不随着走吗 The country has been the republic and we still do not follow?
可是您还留着您那小辫儿 However, you insist on wearing a ponytail...
瞧着多么不顺眼 And it is not pleasing to the eye.
什么 您瞅我这小辫儿不顺眼 What? You don't feel that it is pleasing to the eye
可我还不顺心呢 I am not at ease too
哟 您不顺心 怎么 yo! So you are not happy? Why?
怎么 Why?
这前边茶馆 后边公寓 A teahouse in the front and a guest house in the back
就我一个人 with only me to operate it.
我干不了了 That is too much for me.
见天睡四五个钟头觉哇 I only sleep four or five hours everyday.
谁也不是铁打的 I am not an iron man and can't do it.
这年月 谁也好受不了 In these days and times nobody can be comfortable.
三爷 啊 - San ye. - Yes
从老王掌柜在世的时候 您就帮着我们 from the time of old manager wang's ancestors, you have helped us
老朋友 老伙计了 as a long time partner.
嗯 老伙计了 二十多年了 Along time partner? In the past twenty years,
您问问他们 给我涨过工钱没有哇 have they even given me a pay raise?
什么都改良 If everything can be improved
那为什么我工钱 不跟着一块改改良啊 then why can't my salary be improved?
哟嗬 你这叫什么话呀 Yo! What kind of talk is this?
要是咱们的买卖越做越好 If our business was getting better and better then,
我能够不给你涨工钱吗 of course, I would be able to give you a pay raise.
别说了 Fine.
掌柜的你这买卖口 Manager, you have a sharp mouth.
明天开张 图个吉利 咱先别拌嘴 Tomorrow we open for business and hope for good luck.
明天开张 图个吉利 咱先别拌嘴 Right now let's not quarrel but make do as best we can.
唉 我 Ah! I...
就这么办啦 Make do as best we can?
咱们这 What's the matter?
啊 Excuse me?
我说掌柜的 My manager
咱们说明白得了 let's make it clear.
你要不改我的良 我是真干不下去了 If you don't improve my salary I won't do it anymore.
李三 Li San.
崔先生叫 你先去吧 Mr. Cui is calling you. Go to help him.
咱们的事回头再细研究 Do you have time enough on your hands to worry about our affairs?
去吧去吧 Do you have time enough on your hands to worry about our affairs?
哎 来了来了 Coming.
你快点把这里收拾收拾嘛 Would you please clean the mess here?
我说栓子他妈 Shuanzi's mother,
三爷这岁数可是大了点儿 San ye is kind of old,
你可得 you can...
他抱怨大半天了 He complained for ages.
当着他不便直说 I couldn't say it straight to him,
跟你我可得说实话 but I have to tell you the truth
咱们得添人 that we need to hire employee.
添人得加工钱 If we add emplyee we will need to pay them.
我这赚得出来吗 Can we earn enough revenue to do that?
那 Then.
你听听 你听听 Listen,
又他妈开炮了 the mother fucker is firing the Cannon again.
你们就闹 你们就都闹 Go on then, make some noise!
这明儿要能开得了张才怪 Why don't you fire tomorrow instead
你这都怎么话说的 and then we will blame you again.
明白人别说糊涂话 Wise people do not talk nonsense,
开炮是我闹的 blaming Cannon fire on me.
你别这儿瞎扯 干活去 Don't talk blind nonsense. Get to work!
反正我看透了 I secretly think
早晚不是累死 就是叫炮轰死 that you are blaming the Cannon fire for your own tiredness.
嘿你 Hmm. You...
栓子妈 Shuanzi's mother.
别害怕 Don't fear for...
打了多少回的炮了 However many rounds of Cannon are fired
一回也没把咱打死不是 they will not kill us.
北京城啊 就是块宝地 The city of Peking is a treasure.
您行行好 Please show some charity to the pitiful.
别挡道 去去去 Go away! Get a move on!
哟嗬 王掌柜的 How are you? Manager wang.
六爷 Liu ye.
开张啦 啊哈 Has been opened yet?
我说六爷 My liu ye,
这外头怎么样啊 how is the outside?
又打得紧呐 Are everything ok?
紧 紧得厉害 Yes. The fire is getting stronger.
这仗要打得不紧 But the battle did not go well,
这街面 也不能有这么些个难民不是 which is why we have so many refugees.
那是 那是 坐着 True. Have a seat please.
我说王掌柜的 Manager wang.
这上边可交派下来 The order came down from above.
那是 Really?
摊你这儿八十斤大饼 That you need to provide eighty pounds of flat bread,
今晌午十二点呢 就得交齐 packaged in bundles of twelve.
这城里头兵带着干粮 The soldiers from the city are taking rations,
才能出去打仗 which is the only way that they can go to battle.
您圣明 You are a sage.
可我这会儿 眼下只包后头的伙食 But at the moment we only do meals for the guest houses at back.
不再卖饭了 We don't sell food
再说我这儿也还没开张啊 and at present are not even open.
您甭说八十斤了 我这一斤拿不出来呀 We can't come up with a single pound, let alone eighty pounds.
你有你的理由 我有我的命令 You have your reasons but I have my orders.
这么着得了 你瞧着办 So it's up to you.
哎我说 等等 你等等 Please wait on.
我这儿可是 千真万确地还没开张 What I am saying is absolutely true. We are not even open for business.
这您知道哇 And you know it.
开张以后 短不了得麻烦您 After opening it would still not be easy.
没得说 Ok.
买包茶叶喝 Buy a packet of tea leaves to drink.
您给我多美言几句 If you can say a few kind words,
我这儿感恩不尽 I would be definitely grateful.
这么着得了 我给您说着瞧 Fine, I will speak for you,
这成不成的可没准儿 but I cannot guarantee anything.
有你的话没有办不成的事 Thanks to you and it will work out.
他奶奶的进去 Shit. Get in.
走看看去 Let's go and have a check.
老总 您瞅我这儿正查户口呢 Chiefs, I have just been checking this household.
他这儿还没开张呢您 It is not yet open for business.
屌 Fuck off.
王掌柜 赶紧给老总点茶钱 Manager wang, show some respect to some old chiefs by giving them some tea money
让老总上别处喝去得了 so that they can go elsewhere to drink.
我说诸位老总们 Dear chiefs,
我这儿实在是还没开张 I am really sorry that we are not open at present.
我要是开张以后 Otherwise,
诸位就是都住到我这儿 even you live here,
我都欢迎 you would all be welcome.
哎 老总您多原谅 Chiefs, please excuse him.
他实在是没法招待您几位 At present, he is not in a position to entertain you.
屌 Fuck off.
谁要钞票 俺要现大洋 Who wants local cash. We want foreign money.
要现大洋 Foreign money!
我说老总哎 Dear chiefs,
我这当儿 哪儿给您奔现大洋去 where would you have us look for foreign cash?
揍他个小舅子 Beat the hell out of him!
快点 添点儿 Quick! Add some more!
我要是还有一块 If I have another yuan,
您把我房给烧了 please burn the building.
他娘的 Damn it.
哼 他娘的 Damn it.
哎 Stop.
这位弟兄 Bro.
别 Stop it.
长官 Chiefs.
去你娘的 哎哟 Go fuck yourself.
打仗 打仗 War, war!
是今天打 明天打 Fighting today, fighting tomorrow,
老他妈打 always fighting,
你可打什么呢打 fighting god damn what?
王掌柜 我给你道喜来了 Manager wang! I've come to congratulate you.
我告诉你唐先生 Yo! Mr tang.
打这起 我可不再白送你茶喝 From now on, I will not give you tea for free.
咳 Well.
哟嗬 我说你混得不错啊 Yo. It seems that you have lived comfortably.
穿上绸的了 Wearing silk clothes.
是比从前好了点儿 It is an improvement from before.
我得感谢这年月 I thank these times.
就这个年月还值当的你感谢 These times are worth your thanking.
这话听着可不大搭调 That sounds a little unreasonable.
咳 年头越乱我的生意越好哇 The start of this year is even more chaotic. My business is great right now.
这话跟您这么说吧 Telling you the truth.
这年头谁死谁活着都得凭运气 Who lives and who dies all depends on luck.
怎么能不多算算卦相相面呢 What better time for fortune telling and face reading.
是不是您说 Am I right?
有你这么一说 You could put it like that.
听说后面改了公寓了 I heard that you have turned the back into guest houses.
租给我一间房子吧 Could I rent one?
我说您那口嗜好 With your particular indulgence,
啊咳 sorry?
您住到我这恐怕 I'm afraid that you live here...
我现在啊已然不抽大烟了 I already quit smoking opium.
哎哟 Really?
我说那你可真要发财了嘿 You really want to make it rich!
我改抽白面儿了 I changed to heroin.
你瞧啊 这哈德门的烟呐 是又长又松 Look, hademen cigarettes are long and loose,
这么一磕打 你瞧 each time it will loosen you out,
空这么大半截 正好装白面儿啊 just like it was heroin.
大英帝国的烟呐 British tobacco
是日本的白面儿 and Japanese heroin,
两大强国伺候着我一个人 these two strong countries waiting on me.
这福气还小啊 That is not a small bit of luck, is it?
嗯 不小不小 我说唐先生 Luck is not small! Not small!
这后头已然住满了人了 But I have no vacancies.
什么时候有空房啊 我给你留着啊 As soon as there is one I will keep it specially for you.
哼 Bah!
你呀 瞧不起我唐铁嘴 You look down on me,
怕我给不了这房租 because you do not think that I am able to pay the rent.
没那个话 That is not the case at all.
都是久在街面上混的人了 We have all been living together on the street for a long time trying to make a living.
谁能够瞧不起谁呀 We are all equals.
你说是这话吧 That is my true feeling.
你那嘴呀 比我的还花哨呢 Your talk is more outrageous than mine!
哎 我可不光靠耍嘴皮子 I am not just playing with words.
我心眼摆得正 My heart is true.
这二十年了 In the last ten or more years,
你白喝了我多少碗茶 how many free bowls of tea have you drunk in my shop?
你如今混得不错了 Now that you're better off,
想起给我茶钱了没有 has it ever crossed your mind to pay me back?
那一共才几个钱啊 But altogether, it won't come to much.
赶明儿个我一总还给你 I will pay you back one of these days.
你呀 Good.
哟嗬 王掌柜 Hey, manager!
长辛店大战的新闻 您来份瞧瞧 Latest news about the fighting at changxindian. Won't you buy a copy?
你有那不打仗的新闻没有 Any news about people not fighting?
兴许有 您自个找 Maybe. Look for yourself.
走 我不瞧 Go away! I'm not interested!
您不瞧 您不瞧那仗也照样打 Won't make no difference. The fighting will go on just the same.
呃 来来来来 Come, come.
先生您照顾一份 Sir, you interested?
我不像他 我最关心国事 Not like him. I'm always concerned about affairs of state.
那是 那是 Damn right.
哟嗬 这全改样了啊 Amazing. Totally renovated.
哎哎哎 先生先生 Excuse, sir. Sir.
你还没给钱呢 You are not paying.
哎 站住 Stop.
长辛店 Changxindian...
长辛店不远啦 Chnagxindian. That's near here.
三爷三爷 San ye. San ye.
噢 Yes.
抓早儿出去买点菜去 You'd better go for the food right away.
要不回头一准关城门 The city gates are sure to close soon.
王掌柜 Manager wang.
常四爷 Me. Chang si ye.
嘿 Hey.
您这是干什么呢 What are you doing these days?
我呀 卖青菜呢 自食其力嘛 Selling vegetables. Earning my own living.
我听说您这明儿开张 I heard you are opening tomorrow.
一大早抓弄了两只鸡 几斤老腌萝卜 I get theses two chickens and some pickled turnips on the early morning
特意给您 and bring them to you directly.
四爷啊 Si ye.
我这儿还正真没辙呢 拿着拿着 - I didn't see how I was going to manage. - Just accept them.
嘿 好哇 Very nice.
收拾得真好哇 You've done it well.
大茶馆全都关了 All the large tea house have closed down.
就是你有个新路啊 改良 You were the only one sharp enough to make the most of the changes and reforms.
还真怕这天下老这么乱七八糟 But if the country carries on in this mess, it will all be wasted.
哎 Well.
像我这样的人 The likes of me
现在是坐不起这样的茶馆咯 won't be able to afford a seat in such a posh tea house.
没那话 You said that.
王掌柜 Manager wang.
松二爷 Song er ye.
王掌柜 听说明儿开张 You are opening tomorrow?
我来道喜来了 I've come to offer my congratulations.
二爷 Er ye.
哎哟 My old friend.
四爷 二爷 - Si ye. - Er ye.
可想死我了 How I've missed you.
二哥 你好啊 My brother er, how are you?
二爷 Er ye.
来二位就都坐下吧 Why don't you both sit down?
王掌柜您好 Oh, manager wang. How have you been?
好 Very well.
太太好 How's the missus?
好 Vey well.
少爷好 How are your boys?
托您福 As you wish
生意好 how's business?
好 Very well.
二爷 二爷哎 Er ye, er ye
没了 no places for you to hang the birdcage.
二哥 来 Brother er, come here.
坐着 Have a seat.
得点 Try this? Ok.
我给二位先沏壶高的去 哎 I'll serve you two a pot of choicest tea.
四爷 啊 - Si ye. - Yes.
你怎么样啊 How is life treated you?
我呀 嗯
卖青菜呢 Selling vegetables.
噢 Well.
铁杆庄稼没有了 还不卖膀子力气嘛 Since the bannerman's subsidy was abolished, I earn my own living.
行 Good for you.
二哥您怎么样啊 Brother er, how about you?
怎么样 我想大哭一场啊 Me? Just hearing you ask that bring tears to my eyes.
怎么 What happened?
你看见我这身衣裳没有 Look at my clothes.
我还像个人吗 They are disgrace.
二哥 您能写会算 But you read and write, and do accounts!
还找不着点儿事做 You can't find a job?
谁愿意瞪着眼挨饿啊 Who wants to starve?
那 Then.
可谁要咱们这号呢 Yet who wants a bannerman!
想真是脱下这身大褂来 If the clothes of bannerman was took off,
干点糙活儿伍的 and let me do some manual works.
可又拉不下这脸来 I can't bend over to do it.
想起来呀 大清国不一定好 Looking back, the great oing empire wasn't so good,
到了民国我挨了饿 but now, in the republic, I'm starving.
哎 二哥 Exactly. Brother er.
您来 喝着 Have a drink of the tea.
哎 喝着 Let's try it.
来 Let's have it.
四爷 啊 Si ye.
我可是不知道您多少钱买来的 I don't know what you spent.
我就这点儿了 Hope that's enough.
没关系 Never mind.
二爷 嗯 - Er ye. - Yes?
还是黄鸟吧 Still mad on orioles?
还是黃鸟 Of course it is an oriole.
我饿着不能叫鸟饿着 I may starve, but I won't allow my bird to.
来 看看 Let's take a look.
哎 看看 Take a look.
你看看 瞅瞅 Look carefully.
多体面呐 Such a handsome bird.
一看见它呀 我就舍不得死了 Whenever I look at him, I don't want to die.
松二爷 咱不准说死 Song er ye, you mustn't talk of dying.
您日后还必得交一步好运 One of these days your luck will change.
托福嘞 Thanks for your words.
二哥 走找个地方喝两盅去 Come brother, let's go and have a drink.
一醉解千愁 Drown our sorrows in wine.
王掌柜 我可不让你了啊 Manager wang, I won't invite you.
没那么多的钱 Not enough money.
我也分不开身 我就不陪了 走 I've got work to do, anyway. Forgive me for not keeping you company.
走 Le's go.
哎 敢情是你们二位爷呀 Oh, it's you, gentleman.
二位 You two gentleman.
这是怎么啦 What's the matter with you?
都民国好几年了 怎么还请安 We've been a republic for several years now. No need to bend the knee.
哎 你们不会鞠躬啊 Don't you know how to bow in the new style.
我一瞅见二位这灰大褂 Seeing your grey gowns
就想起前清那档子事来了 makes me feel it's still the oing dynasty.
不由得不请安嘞 I can't help bending my knee!
松二爷 眼下您那个铁杆庄稼不行了 Song er ye, your bannerman's subsidy used to be a sure source of income. Well, that's all gone now.
我们这个灰色大褂倒成了铁杆庄稼 But our grey gowns proved a better bet, eh?
哎哟嗬 那不是常四爷吗 It's Chang si ye, if I'm not mistaken.
是啊 您二位眼力不错呀 Yes, you have a good memory.
戊戌年我在这儿说了句大清国要完 In 1898 I made the remark here, the great oing empire is done for!
叫您二位给抓了走 I was arrested by you two
坐了一年多的牢哇 and imprisoned for more than a year!
噢 您的记性也不错 Your memory's not bad either.
混得还好吧 Doing all right these days?
托福 Yes, thank you.
打牢里出来我参加了义和团 After I got out of prison, I joined yihetuan.
跟洋人打了几仗 And fought a few battles against the foreign armies.
噢 Good.
可是闹来闹去这大清国 But that didn't help. The great qing empire
到底儿是亡了 was done for after all!
该亡 It deserved it!
现在我凭力气挣饭吃 身上更有劲了 I earn my own living and I'm stronger than ever.
什么时候洋人敢再动兵 If foreigners come here again with their armies,
我姓常的还预备跟他们打打 I'm ready to fight them.
您二位怎么样啊 How's life treating you two gentlemen?
瞎混呗 嗯 Oh, muddling along!
有皇上的时候 我们给皇上效力 When there was an emperor, we served him.
恩 哎 Yes.
有袁大总统的时候 When there was president yuan shikai,
我们给袁大总统效力 we served him.
现而今呢 Now,
呃 宋恩子 song enzi,
这该怎么说来呢 噢 how should I put it?
谁给饭吃 咱们就给谁效力 Now we serve anyone who puts rice in our bowls.
要是洋人给饭吃呢 Even foreigners?
四爷 我可告诉你呀常四爷 Chang si ye, let's get going!
要我们效力的可都有洋人撑腰 Understand this, Chang si ye. Everyone we serve is backed by some foreign power.
他没洋枪洋炮怎么能打起仗来呢 How can anyone make war without foreign arms and guns?
啊 您说得对 You're so right!
四爷咱们走 Chang si ye, let's go.
再见吧 二位 Goodbye, gentlemen.
快走快走 Go quickly.
盼着你们二位快快地升官发财 I'm sure you'll soon be rewarded and promoted!
这小子 Bloody fool!
这常四爷呀 他就这脾气 Chang si ye has always been.
又倔又硬 您甭计较他 Stubborn! Take no notice of him.
二位喝碗高的 Have a cup, it's fresh.
哎 好好好好 Sure.
王掌柜 哎 Manager wang,
这后边住的都是什么人呐 what sort of people do you have as lodgers?
住的都是大学生 Mostly university students,
还有几位也是熟人 and a couple of old acquaintances
我这儿有登记簿子 I've got a register.
按时候报告给巡警阁子 Their names are always promptly reported to the local police-station.
怎么着二位 So?
我把簿子取出来二位看看 Shall I fetch it for you?
王掌柜呀 Manager wang,
咱们不看簿子咱们得看人呐 we don't look at books. We look at people!
您甭费那个事 No need for that.
住到我这儿的准保都靠得住 I can vouch for them all.
哎我说 你为什么专爱租给学生们呢 Why are you so partial to students?
这学生可没什么老实家伙 They're not generally quiet characters.
这年月呀 At this period,
当官的吧 officials
今儿上台明儿就许撤职 one day and out of office the next.
做买卖的呢 It's the same with tradesmen.
它今儿开张明儿就许关门 In business today and broke tomorrow.
都靠不住 嗯 Can't rely on anyone!
还就这大学生 噢 Only students have money
能够按月交房租 噢 to pay the rent each month,
没钱上不了大学呀 because you need money to get into university in the first place.
您说是这么笔账不是 That's how I figure it. What do you think?
都让你咂摸透了 Got it all worked out!
你说得对 You're quite right.
这不是现而今 Nowadays
连我们都欠饷啊 even we aren't always paid on time.
是啊 非得天天拿人不可呀 So that's why we must make arrests everyday,
好弄点儿津贴呀 to get our bonus.
走吧 嗯 Come on,
后边看看去 let's take a look back there!
嗯 走啊 Yes, let's go!
二位 二位 Gentlemen, gentlemen!
您甭看 准保没错儿 Don't trouble yourselves.
不看 But if?
不看拿不着人呐 We don't take a look, we can't nab anyone.
那谁给咱们津贴呀 How will we get our bonus?
哎呀 Well,
这王掌柜不愿意让咱们看 since the manager's not keen to let us have a look,
那是必定能给咱们想办法 he must have thought of another way.
噢 对 Yes, you'll tell the truth.
咱们得给王掌柜留点儿面子 Ought to try to help him keep up a front.
你说对不对 对 - Right, manager wang? - Damn right.
要不然呐咱这么办 I've an idea.
干脆咱就来个包月 Let's do it on a monthly basis.
每月一号按阳历算 On the first of every month, according to the new solar calendar
你把那点儿啊 you'll hand in a...
那点儿意思 A token of friendship!
啊对 Right.
那点儿意思送到 You'll hand in a token of friendship.
你省事 那我们也省事 That'll save no end of trouble for both sides.
嗯 How do you think?
那 啊 Then.
那您那点儿意思得多少啊 How much is this token of friendship worth?
哎 多年的交情你看着办吧 As old friends, we'll leave that to you.
王掌柜你聪明 You're a bright fellow.
你还能把那点儿意思弄成不好意思吗 I'm sure you wouldn't want this token of friendship to seem unfriendly, would you?
哎哟 二位爷 Oh, gentlemen!
我说今儿又得关城吧 Are the city gates going to be closed again today?
啊 Of course.
抓住他 别让他跑了啊 Arrest him and don't let him run away.
别让他跑了 三爷还出去呀 - Arrest him and don't let him run away. - San ye, better stay at home.
外边乱哄哄的正抓人呢 The army's seizing people on the streets.
正抓人呢 先别出去了 Better stay.
不碍事 抓走更好 So what? I'm here.
到哪儿也卖苦力 Going anywhere is just a coolie.
哎哟哟 我说您怎么您这是啊 What's wrong with you.
别出去别出去了 外头正抓人呢 Don't go out!
差点把我给抓了走 They nearly grabbed me!
吓掉魂了 Almost scared me to death!
三爷三爷 San ye,
先别出去 don't go out!
哎嘿 Ok.
哎哟妈哟 吓死我了 Almost scared me to death!
你活着也不过多买卖几个大姑娘 So what! You'll only buy and sell a few more girls.
有人买有人卖 Well, some wish to sell and some wish to buy.
我在当中间儿帮点儿忙这能怨我吗 All I do is to lend a helping hand! Don't blame me!
哼 刘麻子 "Pocky" liu, bah!
哎 Yes
我可告诉你 I'm warning you
我们哥俩自打前清起就专办革命党 since the time of the empire we've been dealing with revolutionaries.
是 Yes, yes.
不大爱管你这个贩卖人口哇 拐带妇女的臭事 We don't like dirtying our hands with slave-traders and pimps like you!
可别让我们看见了哇 But now if we see you doing pimp things.
要让我们看见了 If we catch you at it,
我们可也不能再睁一眼闭一眼 we won't turn a blind eye any more.
哎哟 I promise.
像你这样的要是弄进去了 When the likes of you get pulled in,
准得锁那尿桶上啊 you'll get chained to the piss-pot!
您别这么说呀 Gentlemen, no need to put it like that!
您瞧瞧 我这不也快挨饿了嘛 These days I'm down-and-out like every one else.
你呀 非得把你锁在尿桶上 When you're chained to that piss-pot,
你不会说好听的 you'll change your tune.
二位 二位 Gentlemen, gentlemen!
我今天孝敬不了二位 Today, I've nothing to offer you.
改天我必有份人心 嗯 But one of these days, I promise you something worthwhile.
你今天就有买卖 You must be doing a deal of some sort.
哪儿啊你 No such things.
要不这兵荒马乱的你不会出来 Or you wouldn't poke your nose out on a day like this.
没有没有 No! I'm not!
你嘴里是半句实话都没有 There's never a word of truth from you.
哪能 I don't have the ball.
我告诉你 I will tell you
不跟我们说真的 是 lying to us
没你的好处 是 - won't do you any good! - Yes.
走吧 Let's go.
外边遛遛去 We'll take a walk around.
啊走吧 Let's go.
走二位 Gentleman.
您慢走 Welcome next time.
哎 王掌柜 Manager wang,
每月一号按阳历算 the first of next month, according to the new solar calendar.
别忘了 Don't forget!
那是 Believe me.
我就是忘了我姓什么 I may forget my own name,
我也忘不了您二位这档子事 but never your business!
好嘞 That's settled.
我说刘爷 嗯 Liu ye,
哎 yes.
您这个都喝完了吧 Had enough tea, I hope?
走 啊 Go outside.
你给我出去活动活动 Now take yourself off somewhere else!
您这不是没人嘛 It is empty here.
您忙您的去 Carry on. Don't mind me!
我在这儿会俩朋友 I'm waiting here for a couple of friends.
咱俩把话说开了 I'd better make it clear,
从今以后 once and for all!
我不准你再在我这儿做你那个生意 Conduct your line of business elsewhere!
我这儿改良了文明了 We've reformed! We're civilized now!
我说掌柜你来瞅瞅 Have you been starved?
别逗了你 Don't play jokes.
你等等 Wait outside.
七号这房客又喝醉了 The customer of apartment 7 is drunk again.
得咧 No more complaining.
是这儿吗 Is this the place?
地方对呀 怎么改了样儿呢 It's the place all right! But it looks so different.
先生
哟 This...
什么事啊您呢 Do you need any favor?
请问 Excuse me?
啊 Alright.
大力 是这儿啊 Da li. This is it.
找对了 You sure, ma?
没错 有他在这儿不会错 No mistake! With him here, I'm quite sure.
你找谁啊 Who are you looking for?
刘麻子 你还认识我吗 "Pocky" liu, recognize me?
哟 我这眼拙了 Sorry, I really can not recognize you.
当初你 You...
干什么 What are you doing?
你这娘儿们无缘无故 你跟我捣什么乱呢 Why pick on me, missus, for no reason at all!
无缘无故 你看看我是谁 No reason? Take a good look at me!
我知道你谁呀 Who does know you, missus.
一个男子汉干什么吃不了饭 Couldn't you make a decent living any other way?
偏干这伤天害理的事 呸 Do you have to follow your filthy trade? Pah!
我说 Well.
掌柜的 Tea house manager.
这位大嫂 咱有话好好说 Madam! Don't get so upset! Calm down!
您是 掌柜的 - Are you? - Are you the manager?
对 起来起来 Yes, I am.
您忘了吗 Do you remember,
二十年前有个娶媳妇的大太监 almost twenty years ago, there was a eunuch who bought a wife?
您是庞太监那位 Ah, so you're eunuch pang's...
都是他做的好事 And it was all his doing!
今天我跟他算算账 Today I'm going to make him pay for it!
我好男不跟女斗 What a decent man will fight a woman!
我找人帮我说理去 I'll get someone to make you see sense.
妈 您坐 Please sit down, mom.
咱们呢 有话慢慢说 Take your time.
这庞太监呢 Where's the eunuch?
死了 Dead!
叫他的侄子们给饿死了 Starved to death by his nephews!
他一死 他的侄子们就把我们轰出来了 When he died, they threw us out,
连床被窝也没给我们 without so much as a blanket!
那您这个是 And this is...?
我的儿子 啊 - My son. - Your...?
也是买来的给太监当儿子 Also bought. As the eunuch's son.
噢 I get it.
那个老东西 他掐我妈拧我妈 That old rotter. He used to pinch you, bite you
还用烟签子扎我 and jab me with his opium skewe
是啊 他们人多 我们又太老实 there were too many of them and we were too soft.
掌柜的 Manager.
当初我是在这儿叫人买了去 Since I was sold here,
咱们总算有缘 it seems a bit of luck that we've met again.
是 You are right.
您能不能帮帮忙 给我找个事做 Can you find me a job of some kind?
我饿死不要紧 It's not for myself,
可不能饿死这个无依无靠的孩子 but the boy with no one mustn't starve.
那您 So...
您会干点什么呀 What can you do?
洗洗涮涮缝缝补补做家常饭都会 Washing, sewing, mending, cooking, things like that.
我是乡下人 我能吃苦 I come from the countryside. I don't mind hardwork.
那您 您要多少钱呢 How much would you want?
一天三顿饭 有个睡觉的地方 I'll be happy with three meals a day, a bed to sleep in
够大力念书的就行 and enough to send da li to school!
那好吧 All right.
好吧 Right,
我给您慢慢打听着 I'll keep an eye open for you.
您看呐 这二十年前这档子事啊 Fact is, I've never forgotten
我还真是怎么也忘不了 what happened here all these years ago.
想起来呀 心里还就不痛快 Always left a bad taste in my mouth!
可眼下我们娘儿俩上哪儿去呢 But where can we go now?
您回乡下去呢 How about going back to the countryside
找您老父亲去 and looking up your old father?
他 Him?
他是死是活我不知道哇 I haven't a clue if he's alive or dead.
哎哟 那要是马上找个事 可不大容易 But a job right away won't be all that easy to find!
我留下她了 I'll keep her!
她能洗能做又不多要钱 我 She's good at housework and not asking too much.
难道我不是内掌柜的 Don't I run half the teahouse?
唉 You?
我跟李三爷就应该累死 You want to work me and li San ye to death?
掌柜的 Manager.
您试试我 Give me a chance.
看我不行您说话 我走 Whenever you feel I'm not up to it, just say the word and I'll go.
我 我不是 I don't mean
大嫂跟我来 come with me, sister.
当初我是在这儿卖出去的 Since I was sold here,
现在就拿这儿当娘家吧 this is like my parents home.
大力 见见大婶 大婶 - Come, da li. Meet your aunt. - Aunt.
大栓子 哎 Da shuan zi
二栓子 哎 er shuan zi
快来 come here.
叫我说什么好哟 How can I thank you?
我真谢谢您了 Thank you so much.
大栓子 这是二栓子 叫大婶 Call her aunt.
大婶 哎 - Aunt. - Yes.
大力多大了 How old is da li?
十三了
我先谢谢您了 - Really thanks for your help. - Never mind.
这太监是取消了 The eunuch's gone
把太监家眷都交我这儿来了 but I get landed with his family!
好 The same as you.
崔先生 好 Welcome Mr. Cui.
这外头乱乱哄哄的 您还出去啊 Don't go outside. It is totally a mess.
今天是念经的日子 要去的要去的 Today is training soldiers' day. I have to go.
哎 崔先生 Mr. Cui.
昨天 Yesterday
秦二爷又派人来请您 when qin er ye sent you an invitation,
您看您干吗不去呢 why didn't you go.
您是那么大的学问 You're a learned man,
上知天文下知地理 know all about heaven and earth.
又当过国会的议员 Also have been a member of parliament.
您干吗天天念经 不出去做点儿事呢 Yet you shut yourself up here chanting Buddhist scriptures!
您干吗天天念经 不出去做点儿事呢 Why not do something more useful?
您应当出去做官 A good man like you should go into politics!
惭愧惭愧 You make me feel ashamed!
做过国会议员那真是造孽呀 Yes, I was a member of parliament, a grievous sin.
革命有什么用呢 What has the revolution accomplished?
不过自误误人而已 We misled ourselves and others!
嗨 Well
现在我只能修持忏悔 now I spend my days in meditation and repentance.
那您看人家秦二爷呢 But look at qin er ye!
人家开了工厂又忙着办银号 Running a factory and getting ready to open a bank!
开了工厂办了银号又怎么样呢 With all his factories and banks, what can he do?
他说实业救国 他救了谁 But who has he saved?
救了他自己 Himself!
坐坐坐 是是是 - Sit. - You are right.
是是是 You are right...
他是越来越有钱了嘛 He's richer than ever.
可是他那一点事业 And all his industry and commerce
外国人伸出一个小指头 will collapse if the foreigners lift just one little finger.
就把他推倒在地再也爬不起来啊 Then he'll never get on his feet again.
这种遇事无补的力气 For these meaningless things,
我是不去花的 I will never do them.
要照您这么说 If things go like what you say,
咱不就一点指望也没有了吗 isn't there any hope for us?
难说 很难说 Hard to say. Very hard to say.
你看 今天是张大帅打王大帅 Now marshal wang wages a war on marshal li.
明天呢 是赵大帅又打张大帅 The next day marshal zhao attacks marshal wang.
是 Yes yes.
是谁叫他们打的 Who's behind it all?
呃 不 是谁 Who?
洋人 The foreigners.
你慢慢地就明白了 One day you will understand
有那么一天 你我都得做亡国奴 all of us are slaves one day!
那崔先生 Then Mr. Cui
那您就不能够帮着大伙出出主意 why don't you do something?
卖卖力气 咱别当亡国奴 Save us from being slaves.
我年轻的时候以天下为己任 As a young man, I thought my ideals could save the world.
的确那么想过 I tried to follow them.
现在我可看透了 Now I've seen through it all.
中国非亡不可 China's finished!
那咱也得死马当活马治 But we must try to save her!
死马当活马医那是妄想 Save her? That's just wishful thinking!
死马不能再活 活马它早晚得死 A corpse can't be brought back to life. Everything dies sooner or later.
好了我到弘济寺去 Well, I'm off to the hongji temple
秦二爷再派人来找我 if oin er ye should send for me again,
你就说 just tell him:
我只会念经 不会干别的 I'm only interested in chanting Buddhist scriptures.
哎 没人了 您就走吧 No soldiers are outside. Better get going?
劳驾劳驾 Thank you.
我说 I have to say.
哎哎 Yes.
就走吧 Make it snappy.
还真等着想挨俩脆的吗 Unless you want your face slapped!
我不是跟您说了嘛 I told you,
我挨这儿等俩朋友 I have to wait for two friends!
您 You...
你说叫我说你什么好哇 I can't think of a good enough name for you!
王掌柜 隔行如隔山 Manager wang, once in a trade, always in the trade.
到哪年您也得开您这茶馆 You'll always be selling your tea.
到哪年我也得干我这一行 I'll always be doing my business!
就冲你 他怎么能不当亡国奴 We will all be slaves if you continue selling people.
嘿 来了 Thank god. They are coming.
哎 就是他 It is him.
哎哟 林大哥陈二哥 Hi, elder brother lin! Elder brother chen!
来 进来 Come here.
行 嗯 Sit down.
说说吧 说说 Let's talk it over.
说说 Ok.
老二 说啊 You say it, second brother.
哥 这话还得你说了嘛 No, you say it, elder brother.
你说吧 You say it.
你是哥嘛 这话还得你说 As my elder brother, it's better you say it.
这二位谁说还不一样啊 What's the difference who speaks?
我说 I will say it.
对 Ok.
好 Go ahead.
嗯 Please.
你看啊 Well, it's like this,
俺俩是拜了把兄弟的 we're sworn brothers.
嗯 对 That's right!
是拜把子的兄弟 Sworn brothers,
这两个人穿了一条裤子的交情 so close we'd share the same pair of trousers.
好 Good.
他呀 有着几块现大洋咧 He's got a few silver dollars.
是啊 哎哟 Silver dollars?
那林大哥呢也有几块现大洋 Elder brother lin here also has some.
哟 我说二位 You two gentlemen,
哎 二位二位 you two,
咱一共有多少块现大洋啊 how much together?
说个数目 Tell me.
那不能告诉你呢 We're not going to tell you that yet.
这事情要办不好 If it is possible,
这话还不能说 you will know.
有现大洋没办不好的事 With silver dollars everything's possible!
真的呀 Really?
说瞎话是孙子 If I'm lying to you, I'll be damned!
老二说 You say it then, second brother.
哎 No, no!
哥 这话还得你说 You say it, my elder brother.
二位谁说还不一样啊 No difference for you two to speak...
好我说 I will say it.
你看啊 See here.
俺们是俩人不 There are two of us, right?
俩人 Right!
对是拜把子的兄弟 Our friendship's so close, right?
这两个人穿了一条裤子的交情 We can share the same pair of trousers, right?
没人笑话俺们的交情 No one would laugh at our friendship, would they?
交情嘛 没人耻笑 Friendship is friendship. Who laughs at that?
那你说 And
三个人的交情也没人耻笑吧 no one makes fun of friendship among three people neither, do they?
哎 这 This...
怎么着 三个人 Three people?
对 Yes.
我说这里头还有谁呀 Who?
说吧 Say it.
说 这 How to say...
还有个娘们呢 us and a woman!
哎哟 我明白了 Oh! Oh! Now I get it!
哎哟 这不好办呐 But this is going to be tricky
嗯 really?
他不 我没办过 I've never done anything like it before.
您说 平常都说这小两口小两口 People usually talk about some nice young couple.
谁听说过小三口呢 But who's ever heard of a nice young triple?
不好办 Tricky, eh?
忒不好办了 Very tricky!
老二你说呢 Second brother, how do you think?
哥这事情嘛 还能白白就拉倒 We're not going to call it off, are we?
对 不能白白拉倒 Hell, no.
当了十几年的兵 We've been in the army for more than ten years
连半个老婆都娶不上 and can't even end up with half a wife?
他娘的 Fuck it!
这干什么呢这是 What are you doing?
王掌柜 Manager wang.
得嘞得嘞 我说 I have to say.
我说你 You...
过来 咱们那边去啊 Come and we discuss our business there.
走 这边 This way.
得嘞 王掌柜 Huh!
咱再想想 别着急 Think it over and we will find a way.
不能拉倒 We won't call it off.
我说二位咱一共有多少块现大洋啊 How many silver dollars do you have?
你这小子 You.
走 We shall go.
等等 Just a minute.
千啥的吗 What's up?
你说干啥呀 You'd better be telling me what's up!
乖乖地跟我们走 Better come quietly!
上哪里去呀 Where to?
逃兵 Deserters, right?
是吧 手里有几块现大洋 With a few silver dollars in your pockets, right?
想在北京藏起来是吧 Trying to hide in Peking.
嗯 有钱就藏起来 Good idea. We hide with money in hand.
没钱就当土匪 When the money runs out, we become bandits,
是吧 right.
我说这事情你管得着吗 管得着吗 None of your bloody business!
哎 我把你个奶奶的 I can lick eight of your sort with one hand!
搁下 Take him down.
反了你了 Wanna rebel.
可惜你把枪卖了是吧 Pity you sold your gun, right?
没枪的干不过有枪的是吧 Bare hands ain't no match for a gun, right?
我一个揍你这样的八个 I can lick eight of your sort with one finger!
咱们都是弟兄啊 We're all brothers, aren't we?
这揍什么呀 No need for unpleasantness.
好商量嘛 Let's sit down and have a little chat.
对了 咱们还是谈谈吧 来来 That's right. Show us the money.
哎呀 怎么样啊 二位 Just make a decision,
是要那个命 yourhves
还是要那几块现大洋啊 or your silver dollars?
啊 What?
我说二位呀 Listen to me,
你们可不知道啊 you may not know
我们挣这几个钱不容易呀 that we went through hell to earn this bit of money!
那谁给我们发饷 Whoever paid us,
我们就得给谁打仗 we fought for
你可知道吗 you don't know
我们打了多少年的仗嘛 the number of battles we fought!
可是逃兵的罪过 你们也不是不知道 But you know very well how they treat deserters!
咱们都是弟兄 说说 After all, we're all brothers. Let's talk it over.
哎 这还像句自己人说的话 That's the way to talk among friends.
哎 Fine.
说说吧 Now let's get down to business.
诸位诸位 大令可过来了 Hey! The execution squad's coming!
赶快跑 快 Run away.
站住 快点 Halt. Hurry up.
站住 站住 钱给我掏出来 Halt. Split the money.
站住 Halt.
君子一言 Our word of honour
把现大洋分给我们一半 保你们没事 split the silver dollars with us and you'll be safe
咱们是自己人 we're friends, right?
哎 走了吧 Let's go.
快 你拿来 Hurry up. Give us all.
哎哟喂 Damn it.
老哥 My brothers.
好 Fine.
一五 一十 十五 Five, ten, fifteen...
快拿来 二十 二五 - Give us all. - Twenty, twenty five.
哎你 You
你干啥 站好站好 - what the fuck. - Don't move.
报告官长 May I report, sir?
我们正在这儿盘查个逃兵 We're interrogating a deserter here.
是 Yes,
就是他 him.
就是他 Him.
好哇 Well done.
绑 Tie him up!
是 Yes, sir.
我说长官 不是我 Sir! I'm not! I'm not!
长官 您听我说 Sir, listen.
不是我 I'm not.
长官 Sir
哎 what?
长官 您听我说呀 Sir, listen.
不是我呢 您听我说 I'm not.
长官这怎么可以呢 我 Sir, how could you tie me
这位长官您 this sir, you
就地正法 execution on the spot!
我冤枉啊 长官呐 我冤枉 Sir, wronged. Wronged.
哎呀 Oh, my!
哎哟 长官 Sir. Sir...
嘿 快跑 还不快跑 Run away, quickly.
快快 Just go. Go. Go.
那边那边 That way.
他妈的笨蛋 Idiot.
这杀刘麻子 They are executing "pocky" liu.
啊 Jesus.
快点 Come on.
进去 Go inside. Go inside.
哎 让一让 让一让 Move. Move aside.
哎哟 Pity.
哎 快走啊 快走 Just move. Move.
又是二十多年过去了 Another more than twenty years goes by.
王掌柜已经很老咯 Manager wang becomes much older.
可老裕泰还勉强支撑着 But yutai teahouse narrowly opens as always.
说话就到了解放前夕 It comes to the day before the China's war of liberation.
树木老叶儿稀 Trees are brown. Leaves are yellow.
人老猫腰把头低 People are old to bend their backs.
甭说我混不了 Speaking of me, I live bitterly.
王掌柜的也过不好 Manager wang has also been in hard times.
说人人苦没法提 People around all live a bitter lives.
不死也得掉层皮 Even though not to die, but starved to be skinny.
说盼星星盼月亮 Looking forward to the stars and moon coming out.
盼到胜利大家有希望 Looking forward to the victory bringing people light.
哼 Bah!
接收大员进了北京 Us soldiers and kmt secret service agents are running loose in Peking.
他横行霸道 They run amuck
一点儿也不让那日本兵 and behaves like Japanese soldiers.
你讲理不讲理呀你们 Exploiting us with no reasons.
王掌柜他委屈多 Manager wang has a bunch of grudges.
他跟我一样半死半活着 He lives also like me, half alive and half died.
那老茶馆是破又烂 The tea house is gloomy and shabby.
他想尽了法子也没法办 He has tried everything to change, but no effects.
妈 晌午给我做点热汤面吧 Ma, make me some not noodle soup for lunch.
好多天没吃过了 It's ages since we've had it.
我知道乖 I know, pet,
可谁知道咱买得着面买不着呢 but who knows if there'll be any flour in the shops today.
就是粮食店里可巧有面 Even if there is some,
谁知道咱们有钱没有哇 we don't know if we can afford it.
那 What a life!
花儿上学去吧 Hua, go to school now.
小花 Xiao hua.
别去了 Wait.
西直门都关了街上乱哄哄的 Xi de men has been closed. Chaos on the streets.
干吗爸 What is it, dad?
学校门可没关 School door has not been shut.
我去 I want to go.
花儿她妈 哎 Shuan mother.
你看 See,
这是你婆婆给我的皮坎肩 this is the fur vest from your grandma.
你留着穿吧 I will give it to you.
小花还没走呢 Xiao hua! You still here?
康婆婆干吗呀 Granny kang, what is it?
来到这儿来 My dear, come.
让婆婆再看你一眼 Let me have another look at you,
多体面呐 how pretty!
吃得不足哇 But too thin!
要不长得更好看 With more to eat she'd look even better.
大婶 您这是要走吧 Aunt, have you made up your mind to go?
我走了 Yes, I'll go.
也好给你们省点嚼谷啊 Then I won't be a burden to you.
记得我们刚到这儿的时候 When we first came here,
大力也就小花这么大呀 da li wasn't even as big as xiao hua is now.
看大力叔叔现在多高多壮实 Now, he's so strong. He's wonderful!
是啊 虽然他只坐了一袋烟的工夫 He was here only a few minutes,
可叫我年轻了好几岁 but I really feel years younger.
本来我什么都没有 I haven't a thing in the world,
可一看见他呀 but when I see him,
就好像什么都有了 I feel I've everything.
我走跟他走 Yes, I'll go with him.
受什么累吃什么苦都是香甜的 With him, hard work or sufferings will be sweet.
康婆婆 我也跟您去 Granny, I want to go with you!
小花 你好好地念书 Xiao hua, you be a good girl and go to school.
不
婆婆会回来接你的 I will come back and see you.
小花上学去 Xiao hua, go to school now.
哎 回来 Xiao hua, wait!
你大力叔的事可别说出去呀 Never tell anybody about your uncle da li.
要是说出去咱全家都得死 If you do, we've all had it!
还会误了很重要很重要的事 It may also interrupt many important things.
我不说 I won't say a word
康婆婆 哎 granny kang,
等我下了学 您再走 don't go till I've come back from school.
瞧瞧 瞧瞧 慢点 Walk carefully.
哎 留神吉普车 Be careful of those jeeps on your way!
哎 I know.
大婶啊 我爸爸让您走吗 Aunt, has dad agreed to let you go?
老掌柜还没打好主意呢 He hasn't decided yet.
我倒是怕 What worries me is,
大力回来的事 if da li's visit
万一让人家知道了 somehow leaks out
我又忽然这么一走 and then I suddenly disappear,
也许要连累了你们 it may mean trouble for you.
大婶 您放心走您的 Now, aunt, you just go ahead.
这年头 谁逃出去了谁得活命 You'll have a chance to live if you go away.
那喝茶的不是常低声说 Customers are always whispering to each other,
要活命就得上西山吗 if you want a chance to live, you have to go to the western hills.
小花的妈 那咱们再商量商量 Well, xiuhua, let's talk it over.
我不能只顾自己 叫你们吃亏 I mustn't think of myself only and let all of you suffer for it.
老大 你也再好好想想啊 Dashuan, you'd better think it over too.
哎 Yes.
掌柜的 我来了啊 Manager, I'm here!
你是谁呀 Who're you?
哎 小丁宝啊 Little ding bao.
小丁宝 Little ding bao?
哎 你干什么 What are doing here?
这个人 This girl...
小刘麻子叫我来的 "Pocky" liu Jr. told me to come here.
他说你们这儿老掌柜的 He says the old manager here
托他请个女招待 asked him to find a waitress.
嗨呀 What?
姑娘 您瞧瞧 Take a good look around, miss.
这么个破茶馆 它能请女招待吗 You think a dump like this needs a waitress?
我们老掌柜的呀 But the old manager here's
就是穷得乱出主意 so desperate for money, he's always thinking up some crazy scheme?!
老大呀 Dashuan,
你怎么老学着 在背后褒贬老人呢 who taught you to run down your elders behind their backs?
可是您瞧 But you see,
谁穷得乱出主意了 下板子去 who's full of crazy schemes? Take down the shutters!
什么时候了 还不开门 The teahouse should have opened long ago.
老掌柜 您硬朗啊 Old manager, you look pretty fit!
啊 Thank you.
有炸酱面的话 If there were some noodles with fried bean sauce around,
我还能吃三大碗呢 I could pack away three huge bowls.
可惜没有 Only there aren't any.
姑娘多大了 How old are you, miss.
十七 I'm seventeen.
才十七呀 Only seventeen?
是啊 Yes.
我妈是寡妇带着我过日子 My mother was a widow, tried to bring me up.
胜利以后哇 After the victory war,
政府硬说 the government insisted
我爸给我们留那些小房子是逆产 the house my father left us was traitor's property
给没收了 and took it away from us.
我妈气死了 The shock killed my mother.
我就当了女招待 So I became a waitress.
老掌柜 我到今儿也没明白 Old manager, I haven't a clue
什么叫逆产呐 您知道吗 what traitor's property means.
姑娘说话留点儿神 Better watch your tongue, miss.
一句话说不对啊 One wrong word
什么都能够成为逆产 can make anything traitor's property.
你看这后头哇 Take the place behind here.
原本是秦二爷的仓库 Used to be a warehouse of qin er ye.
人家一瞪眼 Then someone frowned at it.
说是逆产 就给没收了 Said it was traitor's property. It was confiscated
就这么档子事 simple as that!
老掌柜 您说对了 You said it, old manager.
连我都是逆产 Even I'm traitor's property!
谁的胳膊粗 我就得伺候着谁 I have to suck up to whoever's the boss.
他妈的我刚十七 Hell! I'm only seventeen
就常想着还不如死了呢 but I often wish I was dead!
死了倒落个整尸首 At least my body would be my own!
干这一行 活着就烂了 This job rots you away slowly.
爸 请您过来一下 Dad, come here.
干什么呀这是 What's the matter?
您倒是过来呀 Just come.
您真想请女招待呀 Do you really want to hire a waitress?
那小刘麻子跟我瞎聊来着 I had a chat with "pocky" liu.
我一辈子好喜改良 I've always been keen on reforming.
看着买卖这么不好 着急 And with business so bad, I'm worried
您着急 我也着急 me too!
可是咱得另想办法呀 So we have to come up with new ideas.
这请女招待 Now hiring a waitress?
救不了咱这六十多年的老字号哇 Can not save our respectable old name of sixty years' standing.
什么老字号 Good old name my foot!
越老越不值钱 The older you become, the more worthless you are!
你不信 我现在要是二十七 You don't believe me? If I were twenty-seven years old,
我就是叫小小丁宝 小丁宝贝儿 I'd call myself tiny ding bao or ding baby
也没人瞅我一眼呐 but I bet no one would look at me twice.
您听听您听听 You listen carefully.
老掌柜您瞧着 Old manager, look at me.
待会儿来俩茶座 If two customers come here,
我要是上去说一声 if I'd gone over and said
小子 来啦 "hi, you two suckers?!"
那准得给块现大洋 They'd have handed over a shiny silver dollar right away.
哼 怪不错的 Bah, sounds great.
老大你那脑瓜子 Dashuan, you're as stubborn
就比那石头还顽固 as a mules.
我看你八成不想干这行了 Do what you like!
对 是有这么点儿 Yes, I have thought about.
干脆我出去遛遛去 I'll take a walk.
我在这儿出不来气 It's too stuffy in here.
你出不来气 我这儿还憋得慌呢 You find it stuffy? I can hardly breathe!
什么事憋得慌啊老头 Old man, what makes you breathe hardly?
小丁宝来了吗 Is little ding bao here?
小丁宝你还真来了 Hi, little ding bao, so you're here!
有你的话谁敢不来呀 On your orders! How could I refuse?
来 老头 Come. Old man.
看我给你找这小宝贝儿怎么样 What do you think of this little baby I've found for you?
论年岁相貌身材经验 Looks, age, fashion, experience
样样出色 she's a real smasher
就怕我用不起吧 only snap is I can't afford her.
没的话她不要工钱 No problem. She doesn't want any wages.
对吧小丁宝 Right, baby?
不要工钱 No wages?
老头你放心 Leave it all to me, old man.
我跟小丁宝自有我们的一套办法 Me and baby have got a way all worked out.
对吧小丁宝 Haven't we, baby?
没你那套办法 Sure, without your crooked ways,
怎么叫缺德呢 where would you be?
缺德 你算说对了 Crooked? You've said it!
嘿 我告诉你 Well. I told you
当初 我爸爸就打这儿绑出去的 so was my old man. He was nabbed right here!
不信 问老掌柜 If you don't believe me, ask manager wang.
我亲眼得见 Saw it with my own eyes.
不蒙你 绑出去 See, he was dragged right to the middle of the street,
在马路当间咔嚓就是一刀 and with one big whack of the sword, his nob was chopped off.
又不信 问老掌柜 Right, old manager?
是 我听真真儿 I heard that whack.
不跟你瞎吹 So I wasn't just telling you stories,
可是啊 我爸爸混了一辈子 but my old man didn't have what it takes for his whole life.
没找着后台 He did not have a backer,
结果混得不怎么样 so he still didn't get far.
现在轮到我自己出头露面了 Now it's my turn,
我得找个洋人当后台 I have to find foreigners as my backer
必得干得特别出色 and I am going to hit the big time.
丁宝 听听我的计划 Here, baby, take a look at my plan.
我没那么大工夫 I've no time.
我看呐 I think,
我该回家休息一天 I'll take a day off
明儿个来上工 and come back to work tomorrow.
丁宝 Ding bao,
哎 丁宝 ding bao,
我这会儿还没想好呢 I haven't made up my mind yet.
老头 我都替你想好了 Manager wang, I've made it up for you!
你不信 Youwisee,
明天小丁宝在门口歪着脑袋这么一站 tomorrow morning, baby will stand at the entrance giving everyone the eye.
嘿 马上就进来二百多茶座儿 Before you know what's happened you'll have two hundred customers on your hands!
老头 你不听我的行不行 See, manager wang, you can't do without me!
你那套光绪年的老办法太守旧了 Your oing-dynasty methods are way out of date!
要不怎么说 活到老学到老呢 That's why as they say, one must live and learn.
就是 我还得多学 Right. And I've a lot to learn!
就是 Now you're talking!
老掌柜 Old manager.
哎哟 他妈的是你 Oh, shit! It's you.
小唐铁嘴 小刘麻子 - Tang "the oracle" Jr. - "pocky" liu Jr.
来 让爷瞧瞧 Come, let me give you the once-overd!
嗯 Well.
嗯 嗯 Well. Well.
嗯 Well.
嘿 You little bastard!
你小子行啊 这洋服穿得是那么回事 In that western gear
哎 从后边看呐 from behind
你比那洋人还更像洋人呢 you look more foreign than a foreigner.
真的 Is it true?
老掌柜 我夜观天象 Old manager, I've been studying the stars
紫微星发亮 and there's irrefutable evidence
不久必有真龙天子出现 that the true son of heaven will come amongst us very soon now.
所以我跟小刘麻子 That's why prodigies like me and "pocky" liu Jr. are here,
噢 对了 还有这位 of course, as well as
小丁宝九城闻名 little ding bao, the talk of the town!
啊 对 Amazing. You are genius.
还有这个宝 Ah, yes, and little ding bao have been sent into the world.
我们才这么才貌双全文武带打 Look at us, endowed with wit andbeauty, accomplished in letters
我们这叫应运而生 and prowess just right for the times!
活在这个时代 那真是如鱼得水呀 And, boy, aren't we going to enjoy it!
哎 老掌柜 Old manager,
你把脸转正了 turn your face here.
我给你也瞅瞅 I'll read your features.
嗯 好 Good, good,
印堂发亮 a fine forehead!
你还得有一步好运呢 You're in for a spell of good luck!
行了老掌柜 That will be enough. Old manager.
来碗茶喝吧 Now what about a cup of tea?
什么小唐铁嘴 Bullshit. Tang "the oracle" Jr.
嘿 Well.
别再管我叫小唐铁嘴了 Don't call me tang "the oracle" Jr. any more.
我现在叫唐天师 My new title is tang the heavenly teacher.
哎哟 谁封你当天师了 Amazing. Who gave you that?
过两天你就知道了 You'll hear about it in a few days.
哎哟 我说天师啊 All right, heavenly teacher,
你那个爸爸 but don't forget, your father
可是白喝了我一辈子的茶呀 had free tea off me all his life!
这可不能够传代呀 That's not going to be hereditary, I hope!
我说老掌柜 Manager wang,
等我穿上八卦仙衣的时候 when I have put on my special robes,
你会后悔你刚才说了些什么 you'll regret what you've just said.
你就等着瞧吧 You just wait!
小唐 跟你说点儿正经事 Tang Jr, first I want to tell you something important.
待会请你喝咖啡 小丁宝作陪 I'll treat you to a coffee later with baby here to keep us company.
好说吧小刘 什么事儿 Fine, just say it. Liu Jr.
我这儿有个伟大的计划 I've got a tremendous plan.
好 我洗耳恭听 I'm all ears.
我要组织个大拖拉撕 I'm going to organize a trust.
啊 Excuse me?
拖拉撕 Tuo la si
不行 这是外国话你不懂 that's an American word, so perhaps you don't understand it.
翻成北京话就是包圆儿 In Peking dialect it means "it's all yours"
啊 我懂 of course, I see it.
就是说呀 It means
把所有的姑娘都由你一个人包办 you can take care of all the girls.
对不 Right?
行啊 你小子脑力是不坏 That brain of yours really works!
小丁宝听着 Baby, listen carefully.
这跟你有密切的关系 You're a part of this too.
甚至于跟老掌柜也有关系 Even the old manager here's included.
是 我那儿都听着呢 That's why I'm listening.
我要把全北京的 I'm going to organize all the Peking
明娼 暗娼 舞女 女招待 吉普女郎 dance-hall girls, prostitutes in the brothels and tarts on the street, Jeep girls and waitresses
全组织一块堆儿 together
组织这么个大拖拉撕 into a huge trust.
那官面上都疏通好了 Got all the official backing you need?
当然 Sure!
沈处长的董事长 我的总经理 Director shen will be chairman of the board. I'll be general manager.
沈处长 Director shen?
哎 这个办法好 Such an excellent idea.
哎呀 拖拉撕 Hm... trust,
嗯 yes.
拖拉撕 Trust,
不雅呀 that's not classy at all.
怎么不雅呀 这是外国话 吃香 How? This is the foreign word and that's fashionable.
还是叫什么联合公司响亮大方 I still feel that "something incorporated" sounds better. It's got more taste.
有你这么一说 You've got a point there.
那叫什么联合公司呢 But what "incorporated"?
缺德公司就挺好 How about "crooked incorporated"?
小丁宝这说正经事 你怎么老瞎捣乱呐你 Look, baby, this is serious! Don't be so smart!
你好好干 Do your job well
将来你有当女招待总教官的希望 and there's a good chance you'll become the chief instructor of the waitresses.
跟我一样市党部领薪水去 You will get your salary from the Peking kmt party, just like me.
嗨 我呢 Hey, how about me?
你给起个好名字请你当顾问 If you can think up a good name for it, you'll be our adviser!
那车马费我可不要法币 I won't take national currency bills for my fees.
行每月送你几块美钞 Ok. Only greenbacks every month!
好嘞 我给你好好琢磨琢磨 Sure. I will take a thoughtful think.
你给琢磨个好名字 If you can think up a good name,
你这顾问就算当上了 you'll definitely be our adviser.
行嘞 That's it.
丁宝走 Ding bao, let's go.
刘麻子 你等等 "Pocky" liu Jr., wait a minute.
怎么 What's up?
这丁宝这事到底怎么办呢 What about little ding bao?
老头我不是跟你说了嘛 Old manager, trust me!
你全都甭管了 Leave all the matters to me.
拖拉撕包办一切 The trust will have everything under control.
拿你这儿试验试验 I'll try it out here first.
哎小刘 哎 - Liu Jr. - Yes.
你不是说喝咖啡去吗 Didn't you say something about coffee?
问小唐去不去 See if tang Jr. wanna go or not.
你们先去吧 我还等个人呢 You go ahead. I'm expecting someone here.
老掌柜明儿见 Old manager, see you tomorrow.
嗯 See you.
回见啦天师 Bye, heavenly teacher.
走吧
老掌柜 Old manager,
来张报瞧瞧吧 where's the paper?
哎 Wait.
你等着我给你慢慢找找去 I'll have to look for it.
嗯 Take your time.
头二年的还是有两张 Perhaps some copies from two years ago are still lying around somewhere.
废话 Oh, stop talking nonsense!
嘿 老掌柜 Hey, old manager.
我告诉你 I tell you that
一会儿可有个贵客要到这儿来 an important customer will come here soon.
老掌柜哎 Old manager. Yes.
二位怎么啦 What's the matter. Two gentlemen.
不来啦 老掌柜您辛苦 - All are already here. - You must be very busy.
您辛苦 The same as you.
二位 My friends,
咱们这会儿可是茶钱先付 please pay in advance.
没错 给您预备下了 Exactly, your seats have already been reserved.
师哥 嗯 - My senior fellow apprentice. - Yes.
我这儿有 I will pay for it.
哎 去 Ah! Move aside.
茶钱先付哇 Pay in advance!
说着都烫嘴 嗯 I'm really ashamed to say it.
怎么老掌柜 What about it, manager?
晚上添点儿评书不添呢 How about story-telling as an added attraction in the evenings?
试验过了 不行 I tried. But it was no good.
光费电 不上座儿 Only increased the electricity bill, but not the number of customers!
唱出戏 For singing the whole opera,
挣不上仨杂合面窝头钱 I don't get enough to buy three maize buns?!
咱们呐 Well
都叫这些流行歌曲跟纺棉花 it looks as though we've been beaten by pop songs
给击垮咯 是 and trashy operettas like spinning cotton.
我是这么想 The way I feel about it,
咱们无论是死还是活着 if you or I live or die,
都在其次 嗯 it all doesn't matter,
顶伤心的是咱们这些玩意儿 but it breaks my heart to think that
过不了几年就全得失传 what's left of our art will die out in a few years!
咱们对不起祖师爷 We've failed our legendary founders.
唉 师哥 Ah! My senior fellow apprentice.
常言说 邪不侵正 It's an old saying that evil will never vanquish good.
这年头就是他妈邪年头 But these are evil times,
正经的玩意儿 都得连根烂 And everything good is rotting away at the roots!
娘娘到 Your imperial majesty!
娘娘 Your imperial majesty!
康老太太还住这儿吗 嗯 - Is aunt kang around? - Yes.
嘿 Hey.
你帮我把她弄到西山去 Please help to get her to western hills.
有她在我手心里攥着 With her as hostage,
康大力这帮八路就不敢造反了 the eighth route army, including kang da li will not rebel us.
您这主意高 Genius you are.
您往这边 This way, please.
嘿 老掌柜 Greetings. Old manager.
给娘娘沏茶呀 Serve the tea.
带着叶子呢 Carrying tea with you?
王掌柜把康妈妈请出来吧 Old manager. Please invite Mrs. Kang to come here.
我去叫去 I'll get her.
哎 这都怎么档子事 What's all this about?
朝廷大事 Momentous affairs of state!
哎 You.
康老太太 Mrs kang.
康老太太 啊 - Mrs kang. - I am.
您出来一下 Please come out.
干什么 What do you want?
嘿 您看 Just look.
哎哟 婆母 Mother-in-law!
这是 我早就说了 - Who are you? - I have promised you before
要过来给您请安 that I will greet you again.
这是干什么 What are you doing?
干什么 What do you want?
哎 起来 You may get up.
起来 起来 Get up.
哎哟 我接您来了 I've come to take you home.
您快坐着吧 Please sit down.
您坐您坐 Please sit down.
我是您的四侄媳妇 I'm the wife of your fourth nephew.
四侄媳妇 Wife of my fourth nephew?
啊 That's right.
您离开庞家那会儿啊 But when you left the pangs,
我还没过门呐 I hadn't married into the family then.
我跟庞家的人一刀两断了 I've finished with the pangs.
找我干什么 Why look me up?
您的四侄子海顺 Your fourth nephew, haishun,
是三皇道的大坛主 is the high priest of the "tri-emperor"
又是沈处长的把兄弟 and a sworn brother of director shen.
快做皇上啦 您不喜欢吗 Soon he's going to be made emperor! Isn't that fantastic?
快做皇上 Going to be made emperor?
啊 龙袍都做得了 Yes. His imperial dragon robes are all ready.
哎 就要在西山登基 The coronation will soon take place in the western hills.
在西山 The western hills?
在西山 那真是好地方 Western hills is a great place to live.
真山真水有吃有穿呐 Mountains cover with rivers. Many food to eat and clothes to wear.
您老人家去享几年清福吧 You can just enjoy your life there.
老太太 您的四侄子常念叨您 Old lady, your fourth nephew always misses you.
说您也受了半辈子苦了 He said you have been suffered all your life.
到我们那去享几年清福吧 Come with us and enjoy the life there.
您到了我那儿啊阿 When you get there,
吃好的 喝好的 I promise you the best food and drink,
兜里老揣着几块当当响的洋钱 plus some silver dollars to jingle in your pocket!
够多么好哇 What a posh life!
嘿 走吧老太太 我搀着您 Shall we go? Let me help you walk.
你躲我远远的 啊 You stay away from me.
哎 你让老太太想想 Give her time to think it over.
您想想 You think it over.
不用想 I don't need it.
我不会再跟庞家的人打交道 I'm finished with the pangs for ever!
你做你的娘娘 You carry on being an empress
我当我的苦老婆子谁也别管谁 and I'll carry on being a poor old woman. Let's keep out of each other's hair!
刚才你要跟我瞪眼 Just now you were about to throw a scene.
你当我怕你呢 You think that'd scare me?
这么多年我也磨炼出来了 After all these years on my own, I know how to take care of myself.
你跟我瞪眼我会伸手打 Try something, and I'll teach you a lesson!
嘿 老太太 Listen. Old lady! Old lady!
哎 老太太 Old lady!
小伙子啊 挺起腰板来 Young loafer, why don't you stand on your two feet
去挣碗干净饭吃不好吗 and make a decent living?
哎 老太太 Come back, old lady.
老太太你 Old lady, you...
王掌柜 过来 Manager wang, come here
过来 come.
哟 干什么呀 What do you want?
你去跟老婆子说说 Go and talk some sense into that old hag
叫她跟我上西山 persuade her,
说好了 我送给你两袋子白面 and I'll give you a bag of flour.
说不好 我砸了你这茶馆 If not, I'll have your tea house smashed up!
天师 走 Heavenly teacher, let's go!
嘿 Manager wang,
今儿晚上我听你回话啊 I'll be back for your answer this evening.
那万一后半天我就死了呢 Suppose I kick the bucket this afternoon?
你 你还不该死呢 Then good riddance?!
呸 Pah!
啊 呸 Pah!
呸 Pah!
爸 啊 Father.
那些人都是千什么的 Who are these people.
哟 大栓哥 Hey. Brother dashuan.
嗬 小二德子 Welcome. Er de zi Jr.
怎么那么闲在啊 How carefree you are!
有工夫来逛茶馆 Spend your time in our tea house
哟 大栓哥 well. Brother dashuan.
今儿个茶馆怎么那么清净啊 Why the tea house is so quiet.
啊 唉 - Why? - Ah.
不上座啊 No customers.
哎 大栓哥沏壶顶好的 Brother dashuan, a pot of the very best.
嘿 我有钱了 I'm in the money today!
来 给我算算 Work it out for me.
刚才我花了一块 这还有三块 Just spent one dollar. Got three left.
不四块 No, four left.
哎 五毛钱打一个 我一共打几个 Half a dollar each, how many I done in?
你呀 啊 You.
打了十个 Ten.
十个 Ten?
十个 Ten.
对 大栓哥 Right. Brother dashuan,
拿两个花吧 here's a couple of dollars.
没钱 我就白喝你的茶 When I'm broke, I drink your tea free.
有了钱了就给你 拿着 When I'm in the money, I pay you. Take'em!
嘿 这块好 That's a good'UN.
就一块当两块吧啊 Good enough for two! Take it!
小二德子什么生意那么好啊 Er de zi Jr., what's your racket?
现大洋可不容易看见呢 Silver dollars don't grow on trees!
我上学去啦 I'm studying at the university!
你上什么学 University?
市党部派我去的 The Peking kmt party headquarters sent me
瞧 法政大学 to the institute of law and politics.
没当过这么美的差事 What a pushover!
太美 太过瘾了 A dream!
比在天桥强多了 Better than mixing with those burns in tianqiao.
打一个学生五毛钱现大洋 Half a dollar for every student I did in.
这铁筋洋灰的胳臂 Feel it. Reinforced concrete!
打学生怎么样 Imagine that on the students. Smashing, eh?
小二德子 听我说 Er de zi Jr., listen to me.
这打人不对 Beating up people is wrong.
得 今儿我不打人了 Today I won't beating up anymore students.
今儿个我抓人 I am going to arrest students.
咱们遛达着吧 Let's take a walk outside.
走 Ok.
哎 您二位坐着 Why don't you drink tea?
您走啊 See you next time.
哼 打人不对 Beating up students is bad?
那也难说 Who says so?
你瞧那教党义的教务长 Look at the Dean of the institute. He teaches kmt party doctrines.
上课的时候先把手枪拍在桌子上 When he gives a lecture first thing he does is to take out his shooter and bang it on the table.
我不过是抡抡拳头 Me, I only use my fists,
还没动手枪呢 not shooters!
什么教务长 Deanindeed!
那是流氓 He's a gangster!
对流氓 Right! A gangster!
哎 我也成流氓啦 Ah, no, that makes me a gangster too!
哎 大栓哥那茶给我留着啊 Brother dashuan, keep an eye open for my tea.
老掌柜您别送啦 Old manager, please do not see me off.
送 送 I must see you off.
哎 怎么回事 Ah! What has happened?
还是走 Insists going.
别送啦 送送 Please do not.
您别送啦 Please do not.
送送 送送 I must, must.
老掌柜您要改了主意 Manager wang, if you've changed your mind
不让我走 我还可以不走 and want me to stay, I will.
那庞四奶奶也未必敢来砸茶馆 Madame pang won't dare smash up our teahouse.
你怎么知道 How do you know?
三皇道是好惹的 It doesn't pay to tangle with the "tri-emperor" society.
我顶不放心的还是大力回来的事 What really worries me is da li's coming here last night.
万一走漏了消息 If that leaks out,
大家全完 那比砸茶馆更厉害 we're all finished. That's more serious than smashing up the teahouse.
大婶啊我送您去吧 Better you leave, aunt! I'll see you off.
西直门关了咱得绕德胜门呐 Xi zhi men is closed. Go to de sheng men directly.
爸爸 我送送她老人家 总可以吧 Dad, I can see her off, can't I?
大婶挨咱们这儿受了多少年的苦 All these years aunt has endured
帮了咱们多少忙啊 and has done so much for us.
还不应当送送 The least we can do is see her off.
我这会儿没说不叫他送啊 Did I say no?
你倒是送啊 送啊 Go ahead, see her off!
大婶啊 您等等 Just a minute, aunt.
我拿件衣裳去 I'll fetch a coat.
爸 您怎么啦 What's up, dad?
你别再问我什么了 Don't ask me any more questions.
我心里乱呐 Can't think straight. I'm all muddled.
一辈子没这么乱过 Never been so muddled before.
他媳妇儿 Daughter-in-law
哎 yeah.
你先陪着你大婶先走 You go with aunt first.
哎 Ok.
回头我叫大栓子追你们去 I'll tell dashuan to catch you up.
哎 Yes.
嗯 Yes.
她大婶啊 Aunl
啊 yes?
道上要是不好走啊 If you have any trouble on the way,
就还回来 you just come back!
哎 Thank you.
我也忘不了你们 And I'll never forget you.
老掌柜您硬硬朗朗的 Old manager, I wish you good health yourself!
硬硬朗朗的 I will.
老掌柜 哎 Old manager,
您硬硬朗朗的 I wish you good health yourself!
我硬硬朗朗的 硬硬朗朗的 I will be.
我硬硬朗朗的干什么呀 Good health! What's the use?
方师母 快开门快 Please open the door, teacher's wife feng.
快快 Hurry.
小金受伤了 您帮照看一下 Xiao Jin is wounded. Look after him for me.
方师母 谢谢你呀 Thanks teacher's wife feng.
快走 快走 来 Hurry up and go.
小李 西直门把得严 Xiao li. Xi zhi men is guarded tightly.
过不去 绕德胜门吧 You can not go through it. Just go to de sheng men.
好我们留下 接应城外的同学 快走 Ok, we will stay to cover students outside the city.
走
这力量是钢 比铁还硬 比钢还强 The strength is iron, more harder than iron.
二德子 Dezi
二哥 my second brother.
怎么着 快追 - What are you waiting. - Chase them.
咱别愣着 Do not hesitate.
快追呀 追 Go and chase them.
过去 Move, move.
爷爷 Grandpa.
花儿怎么这么早就放学了 Why are you back from school so early, xiao hua.
老师们都罢课了 Our teachers are on strike!
爸 Dad?
爸 我走啦 Dad. Goodbye.
我爸干什么去 Where my dad has gone?
嘿 Hey.
爸 花儿 Dad? Xiao hua.
上后头温书去吧 乖 Go to backyard and revise your lessons. Ok.
去吧 Go now.
老掌柜 Old manager, old manager!
我告你点儿事 I've something to tell you!
什么事啊姑娘 What, miss?
小刘麻子没安着好心 "Pocky" liu Jr.'s up to no good.
他巴结沈处长 He colludes with director shen
要霸占你这个茶馆 and is going to take over your teahouse!
他怎么霸占呐 How come?
我都这么个破茶馆了 还值当的他们霸占呐 What would he want with a shabby old place like this?
我没工夫跟您细说 No time to explain!
他们可一会儿就到啊 They'll be here any moment.
您自己打个主意吧啊 You'd better think of something quick!
哎 Thanks for the tip off.
哎 老掌柜 Old manager,
我可是好心好意告诉你 I just want to help you!
你可别把我卖了 Don't tell on me!
哎哟 我这会儿还没老糊涂了呢 姑娘 I'm not gaga yet, my girl!
我谢谢您了 Don't worry!
爸 您干吗呢 Dad, what are you doing?
爸 他们走了 Dad, they've gone.
啊 Who?
小花她爸跟康婆婆他们走啦 Dashun and aunt kang all have gone.
那好 Good.
好 那好 Very good.
花儿她爸说叫您放心 Dashun said you're not to worry.
他送到了地方就回来 He'll be back as soon as he's seen her safely there.
他回来不回来的 就随他的便吧 That's up to him!
爸 您怎么了 What's the matter, dad?
干吗这么不高兴的 Why are you so upset?
没事没事 Oh, nothing, nothing!
你上后头去看看小花去吧 Go and see to xiao hua.
哎 I will go.
噢 Wait.
孩子不是老想吃碗热汤面吗 Didn't she want some hot noodles?
看看那缸里头 Check the flour cylinder.
要是还有点面的话呀 If there's any flour left,
就给孩子做碗吃吧 make her some.
孩子也怪可怜的 Poor child,
什么都吃不着 nothing good for her to eat!
一点白面也没有了 There's not a scrap of flour left in the house!
好 我看看去 I'll see what I can do
给她做一碗杂合面疙瘩汤吧 maybe make a bowl of dough drop soup with maize flour.
老掌柜 Manager wang,
嘿 怎么样 what's going on?
说好了吗 Did you persuade her?
晚上 This evening.
晚上我一准给你回话 I promised you an answer this evening.
老掌柜 Old manager.
你不是说 我爸爸白喝了你一辈子茶吗 You were complaining my father never paid you for his tea.
我今儿送你几句救命的话 So, in return, here's a piece of advice
算是替他老人家还账 which may save your neck.
我告诉你 Listen,
这三皇道现在比日本人在这儿时候还厉害 the "tri-emperor" society's even stronger now than under the japs.
砸你这茶馆 比砸个砂锅还容易 Smashing up a teahouse like yours is kidsplay to them.
你可小心着点儿 You'd better watch out.
我知道 Oh, I understand alright!
你是既要讨我的好 You don't want to get my back up.
也好给娘娘去表功对吧 Yet at the same time you want to get in your empress' good books?
喝点儿水 喝点儿水 Sit and drink some water.
二位 You two,
哎 我说 it seems
这今儿够忙的 quite a busy day, eh?
忙 忙得厉害 学生们大暴动 Too damn busy! There's a students' riot!
噢 Oh?
罢课也都改了名儿了 叫暴动了 Now you call it a "riot" instead of a "strike".
嗯 Sure.
二位 这外头怎么样了 What's happening outside?
他们还能反到天上去吗 They won't get away with it!
到现在为止 已经打了一百多 We've already beat the daylights out of more than a hundred
抓了七十多个了 and nabbed more than seventy.
噢 Really?
叫他们反去吧 That'll teach them!
二位 You two,
有用得着三皇道的地方 您言语一声 you just call me when you are in need of "tri-emperor".
我们是随叫随到 We will arrive immediately.
好 Thanks.
二位 再见了啊 Goodbye. You two.
哎 今儿晚上听你回话啊 I expect your answer this evening.
怎么着 刚才你说罢课改叫暴动了 You were asking just now, how a "strike" becomes a "riot", weren't you,
嗯 manager wang?
啊 Excuse me?
岁数大了 不懂新事 问问 I'm too old to understand newfangled things.
我看你跟他们是一路货 You all belong to the same bunch.
嘿 您太高抬我了 Me? You flatter me!
我们忙 We got no time to waste on you.
没工夫跟你废话 说干脆的吧 Let's make it snappy.
什么干脆的 That means?
学生们暴动必有主使的人呐 There's someone behind the teachers' riot.
谁呀 Who?
昨天晚上 谁到这儿来了 Who came here last night?
康大力 Kang da li!
就是他 That's the man!
康大力在西山干八路 Kang da li works as the communist eighth army in western hills.
你把他交出来吧 Hand him over!
嘿嘿 我要知道他是那路人 If I'd known he was such a character,
我能够这么 would I
随随便便就跟你们二位说出来吗 have told you his name?
嘿 Well,
我跟你们二位的爸爸 I dealt with your fathers
打了一辈子的交道哇 long enough to learn
我能够不懂得这点小道理 at least that much, I hope!
甭跟我们拍老腔 说真格的 Talking about your age won't get you anywhere! Let's get down to brass tacks.
嗯 Nice.
交人 Hand him over
还是给钱 or else pay up!
对吧 Right?
嘿 Oh.
你真是我爸爸磨炼出来的啊 Dad had trained you well!
钱嘛咱们回头再说 We'll discuss that money later.
现在要的是人 But now we only want the person.
你叫我给你们二位上哪儿找去啊 Where can I get the person you mentioned?
嗬 你要是不把康大力交出来 Oh. If you do not hand kang da li over to me,
你就把他的妈 then you have to hand his mother
康顺子 给我们交出来 kang shunzi to me.
我说 二位二位 快走快走 You two, come quickly.
嗯 怎么啦 What has happened?
学生们往德胜门去啦 All students go to the de sheng men.
市党部正在奔德胜门 The Peking kmt party is heading towards de sheng men.
哎 你们小子管干什么的 You little bastard, what are you paid for?
嘿 我没闲着呀 I fuckin' did my best
瞧 脸都打肿了 take a look at my face! It's all swollen.
啊 走 Come. Hurry up.
哎 走 Come. Hurry up.
我们马上就回来 Manager, we'll be back in a jiffy. So make up your mind.
交不出人来 No person,
我跟你算账 走 you will be paid off.
我说你们就不怕我跑了吗 You aren't afraid I'll run off?
嘿 What?
老梆子 你可真能逗气儿 Giving us some of your lip, you old devil,
我告诉你 are you?
你今儿就跑到阴曹地府去 We'll follow you to hell even!
我今儿也把你抓回来 And get you back.
走 Come.
爸 我们挨里头都听见了 Dad, we have heard everything!
快 快 Hurry up.
走 追你们的康妈妈去 Get out of here! Try to catch up with aunt kang!
我拿书包去 哎 At once! I'll get my satchel.
哎 Good.
花儿啊 带上两件衣裳 哎 Take some clothes along, xiao hua.
爸 剩下您一个人可怎么办呐 Dad, what will you do all alone?
这块儿是我的茶馆 This place is my teahouse.
我活着 活在这儿 I've lived in it.
我死啊 也死在这儿 I'll die in it!
爸 爷爷 - Dad! - Grandpa!
都别难受了 别难受了 Don't cry!
走嘞 走嘞 Off you go now!
噢 他媳妇儿 Daughter-in-law
都带着吧 Take the money.
爸 您留着吧 Dad, keep it for yourself.
我叫你们拿着 就拿着呐 Listen, just take this.
花儿 花儿 来 Xiao hua, xiao hua, come.
哎 叫爷爷再看一眼 Yes. Let me see you the last time.
临了临了的 Icy hands.
也没吃上碗热汤面 And haven't be able to eat one bowl of hot noodles.
走嘞 走嘞 Off you go now!
到了那边啊 When you get there,
告诉你爸爸 just tell your dad,
说爷爷说了 as I told you,
叫他 I beg him,
不回来了 never coming back.
嗯 啊 Yes.
嗯 Yes.
走嘞 Off you go now.
花儿 Xiao hua.
跟爷爷 Say goodbye
说再见 to your grandpa.
爷爷 哎 - Grandpa. - Yes.
再见 Goodbye.
再见再见 Goodbye.
爷爷 Grandpa.
你倒是快着点带着她走哇 Bring her and run away now.
花儿咱们走 Xiao hua, let's go.
爷爷 Grandpa.
花儿 Xiao hua.
到姥姥家别淘气 Don't behave naughty at your granny's home.
好好温书啊 Study your lessons hard.
哎 Ok.
老头好消息 Wonderful news, old man.
沈处长批准了我的计划 Director shen's approved my plan.
那你大喜呀 Congratulations
你也大喜呀 congratulations to you too!
沈处长也批准了修理这个茶馆 The director also approved fixing up the teahouse.
我一说 处长就说"蒿" As soon as I suggested it he said "okay".
你看人家不说好 It's the way he says it.
人家说"蒿" 特別有个洋味儿 "Okay!" just like a foreigner!
我说这都怎么档子事 What's all this about?
老头 这下你省心了 Your troubles are over!
你给我搬家 You can clear out.
我先跟你说一声 Get this straight now.
省得到时候 你跟我找麻烦 I don't want you pestering me later on.
不能够 Don't worry!
巧了 Pure coincidence
我这会儿还正想着搬家呢 I'm on the point of moving out myself.
老裕泰 六十多年的老字号 Yutai has survived for more than six decades.
九城闻名 Well known around the cities.
怎么样 How do you think of it?
嗯 Huh!
地点也好 It has a great location.
我打算照旧卖茶 I plan to serve the tea as always
监视三教九流各色人等 and spy on people in various trades.
一定能得到大量的情报 A large amount of information can be acquired.
好 Good for you.
小刘 Xiao liu.
老掌柜在这儿这么多年了 嗯 The old manager's been here for ages.
你也不照顾着点儿 That's no way to treat him.
行 我这人办事永远厚道 We'll see. I always play fair.
啧 老头啊 Now, manager wang,
你把这归置归置啊 you tidy it up!
我去请沈处长 I'm going to fetch the director to look over this place.
走 Let's go.
嘿 嘿 Ha! Ha!
好哇 Wonderful!
真好哇 Truly wonderful!
我可太好嘞 Too wonderful to be true.
什么事这么个好法 老朋友 What's so wonderful, my old friend?
啊 Who?
哎呀 Long time no see.
我常四哥呀 Brother Chang!
我正想找着像你这么个人 Just the man I was wanting to
好好地说说呐 have a chat with.
说说 Chat?
哎 Yeah.
说说 Chat.
哎 Ah!
你等着 Wait.
我给你沏壶高的去 I'll make a pot of the very best tea.
哎 啊 Thank you.
哎 Thank you.
哎呀 Hey.
王掌柜在吗 Is manager wang here?
王掌柜 Manager wang
谁呀 youte?
我 我姓秦 My name's oin.
哟 秦二爷 Qin er ye!
啊 哎哟 Yes he is.
二爷 二爷 Er ye. Er ye.
来 Sit here. We'll...
二爷 我正想着告诉您一声去呢 I was just thinking of telling you, er ye.
就咱们这会儿啊 At this place,
这回可要大改良了 another great "reform" is about to take place.
啊 改良 Reform?
来来来 Sit down! Sit down!
我这儿有点花生仁 I've got some peanuts here.
哎 喝茶就花生仁 Tea and peanuts,
这可是个乐子 what more fun can you want?
乐子 来着 - Fun. - Enjoy it.
来着来着 Just enjoy it.
哎 二爷 二爷 Er ye. Er ye.
可 可这谁还嚼得动啊 But who's going to chew them?
好容易有了花生仁了 At last we manage to get hold of some peanuts
又都没了牙了 but we've no teeth left to chew them with!
哎呀 二爷 怎么样啊 How is your business, er ye.
没人理我啦 No one wants to listen to me any more,
我来找你谈谈 so I've come to you.
哎哎 Well.
我上天津去了一趟 I just went to Tianjin
看看我那工厂 to have a look at my factory.
不都没收了吗 又都发还了 Confiscated, wasn't it? But they've given it back to its original owner again?
那可是好事 Congratulations!
拆啦 It's been pulled down!
拆了 拆了 Pulled down?
拆啦 Flattened!
我四十年的心血 拆啦 Forty years of my sweat is in vain.
别人不知道 你知道 王掌柜 Others may not know it but you do, manager wang.
我由打二十多岁起 From my twenties
就主张实业救国 I advocated national salvation through industry.
到如今 And now.
抢去我的工厂 When they seized my factory,
好哇 我势力小 我干不过他们 I couldn't lift a finger. I was a nobody. No match for them!
可你倒是好好地办呐 Still I hoped they'd run it well.
那是救国裕民的事业 It could have helped the country to prosper and benefited the people.
拆啦 Now demolished!
那机器 All the machines
都当成碎铜烂铁给卖了 sold as scrap!
全世界啊 Where in the world,
可着这全世界 in the whole wide world,
你能找得出这样的政府来 找不出来 can you find a government like this one?
当初 Years ago,
我这会儿开得好好的公寓 my boarding-house was doing fine.
你非都把它都拆了盖仓库不可呀 But you insisted on building your warehouse here.
你瞅瞅 Then what happened?
仓库都叫人家查封了 The warehouse was sealed up
东西都偷走了 and all the goods stolen!
打那当儿我就劝你 Years ago, I warned you
别把那产业都出了手 not to sell off all your property.
你看 他非都把它折腾了 But you insisted
他办工厂不可呀 so you could start your factory!
还记得不 Remember when?
当初 The time
我给那个卖小妞的小媳妇一碗面吃 I gave that young woman selling her daughter two bowls of noodles
您还说风凉话呢 and you mocked me.
忘了忘了 I've forgotten.
现在我明白了 Well, I know better now!
明白了 明白了 I know it.
王掌柜 Manager wang,
哎 I am.
求你一件事 I want to ask you a favour.
没事的时候 When you've nothing better to do,
你可以跟那喝茶的人们 you can tell your customers stories about them.
当成个笑话谈谈 Tell them the joke.
你说当初 Tell them, once upon a time
有那么个不知好歹的秦某人 there was a foolish man called qin
爱办实业办了几十年 who was mad on industrialization.
结果 It turns out...
你应当劝告大家 The moral of this story is
有钱就得吃喝嫖赌胡作非为 if you have money spend it all on wine, women and gambling.
可就是 Only enjoy life.
千万别做好事 Never try to do anything useful!
告诉他们 Tell them,
秦某人七十多了 this man called qin
还剩下口气的时候 didn't understand these simple truths
才明白过这点道理 until he was in his seventies,
他是个天生来的笨蛋 because he was a real bloody fool!
二爷 Er ye.
我这会儿 At this moment,
说话就要搬家了 I'm going to moving out of here.
搬家 Moving?
搬到哪儿去 Where to?
搬到哪儿不一个样 What does that matter?
秦二爷 Qin er ye.
常四爷 Chang si ye.
我呀
比不了你们二位 Not as great as you.
二爷您 Qin er ye,
财大业大心胸大 you had a great wealth and ambitions.
这树大就招了风了 But, as they say, it's the tall tree that bears the brunt of the storm.
四爷你 And you, Chang si ye,
一辈子不服软 you never gave in,
敢作敢当 never feared the consequences,
专门好打抱不平 never accepted injustice to yourself or to others.
可我呢
当了一辈子的顺民 I've been an obedient subject all my life...
见着谁 Meeting everyone,
我都鞠躬 请安 作揖 I bowed and scraped
就盼望着 I only wanted
孩子们有点儿出息 a good future for my children.
冻不着饿不着 Food and clothes.
没灾没病 To be safe and sound.
可哪儿想到哇 Then,
日本人在这会儿的时候 when the japs were here,
我二栓子就跑了 my son er shuan zi ran off.
老婆想儿子 My old missus
想死了 died of a broken heart and worry.
好容易盼着 Finally,
日本人走了 when the japs left,
你觉乎着 该缓口气了吧 we all hoped life would be better.
可谁知道哇 Who'd have thought
这又来了 another trouble comes.
我呀 也不比你强 I'm no better off than you!
自食其力 I earned my own living
凭良心 and for all my life
干了一辈子 I worked hard
一事无成 but where's that got me?
七十多了 In my seventies,
只落得个卖花生仁啊 all I can do is selling peanuts.
个人算得了什么 One man's life doesn't count.
盼呐盼呐 But what I hoped for
就盼着 I hoped for
这国家能像个样儿 was that our country would become a decent place.
不再受外国人的欺负 No longer sat on by foreign powers.
可就这 But this...
日本人在这儿说亲善 When the japs were here, they called it cooperation.
工厂就亲善了去了 That was the last I saw of my factory.
咱们这个国民政府回来啦 When our own government came back,
这工厂也不怎么就成了逆产了 my factory somehow became traitor's property.
哎 改良哦 改良哦 Reform, reform,
一辈子都没忘了改良 that's one thing I never forgot!
老怕呀 Always afraid
落在什么人的后头 I'd lag behind.
卖茶不成了开公寓 When tea wasn't selling well, I started the boarding-house.
公寓没有了添评书 When that packed up, I threw in story-telling as a draw
你等评书也不上座了 when that didn't work,
我 我不怕丢人 I swallowed my pride
我要添女招待 to hire a waitress!
我总得活下去 One has to live!
我想尽了办法 I did everything
不过是为着活下去 just so that we could live!
是啊 Yes,
没干过缺德的事 I never did anything bad or criminal.
没干过伤天害理的事 Never did anything bad or criminal.
我得罪了谁了 Who have I hurt? Who?
就那娘娘 那小刘麻子 还那个 Empress, "pocky" liu Jr.,
啊 叫那沈处长 and director shen
就那帮狗男女们 all those bastards
他们可都活得有滋有味的 are having the time of their lives.
干吗就不准我吃窝窝头哇 Why am I singled out to starve?
谁出的主意 Whose bloody idea is this?
咱盼呐盼呐 All I hoped for
就盼着谁都讲理 is that everyone would be fair
哎 ah!
谁呀也别欺负谁 哎 And no one bullied.
可是啊 But I saw with my own eyes
就我那些老朋友们 how my friends,
一个个的 one by one,
不是饿死 starved to death
就是叫人家给杀了 or were killed off.
我呀
有眼泪我也哭不出来了 我呀 I wanted to weep, but no tears came!
松二爷 Song er ye,
多么老实的人呐 how honest my friend is,
死啦 starved to death!
棺材 I had to go and beg alms
还是我给他化来的 to get a coffin for him.
他还算有我这么个朋友 He was lucky to have a friend like me
给他化来这么口四块板的棺材 who could get him a rough coffin made of thin planks.
可是我自个儿呢 What'll happen to me when my time comes?
我
我爱咱们的国呀 I love our country,
可谁爱我呀 but who loves me?
这不是 碰见出殡的 Whenever I see a funeral,
我就拣下这么点纸钱 I try to pick up some of this paper money.
没有棺材呀 I won't even have a coffin.
没有寿衣呀 I won't have any burial clothes.
只好给自己预备下点纸钱吧 All I can do is to save some paper money for myself.
四爷 Si ye.
让咱们 祭奠祭奠咱们自己 Let's offer some sacrifice to ourselves.
您把那纸钱 您撒起来 Throw the paper money in the air.
算咱们三个老头子的吧 Something special for us three old fogeys?!
哎 对 Right.
四哥 Chang si brother.
咱们呐 Let us
按照老年间的规矩 behave in the old days
咱们喊喊 chanting it like in.
哎 喊喊 - Ok! - Let's chant.
喊喊 Let's chant.
喊喊 Chant
哎 right!
喊喊 Chant
四角跟夫 pall-bearers at the four corners,
本家赏钱一百二十吊 from the family, a reward of one hundred and twenty strings of cash!
一百二十吊 One hundred and twenty strings of cash!
一百二十吊
我 我没的说啦 No need to say any more.
没的说了 没的说了 No need to say any more.
再见 Goodbye!
哎 再见 Goodbye!
再见 Goodbye...
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