《茶館》是老舍先生 Tea house, an immortal work
留給我們的一部不朽的名著 was left to us by Lao she.
這樣的茶館現在已然沒有了 One doesn't find such a large teahouse anymore.
可在舊北京卻布滿了四城 But a few decades ago, tea houses seat everywhere in old Peking.
一個大茶館就是一個小社會 A tea house is a small community.
人民藝術家老舍先生 Mr. Lao she, an artist of Chinese people,
通過一個茶館的興衰 through a tea house's rise and fall
為我們描繪了一幅舊時代的畫卷 presented to us the old time's lives
戊戌年間滿清王朝日趨衰落 in 1896, qing dynasty was in decline
帝國主義勢力步步深入 and imperialist forces were permeating the dynasty day by day.
以康有為梁啟超譚嗣同為代表的維新派 The reformers, with kang youwei, liang qichao and tan sitong as its representatives,
遭到失敗和鎮壓 were crushed to fail.
茶館的故事就是從這時候開始的 It is just such a tea house we are about to see.
裏邊請 Welcome.
哎 我大傻楊打骨板兒 Sha Yang is playing bamboo clappers
這一來來到了大茶館 at the same time, coming to a tea house,
那個大茶館 this tea house
是老裕泰 買賣興隆真不賴 is called yutai, and it does a brisk business.
那茶座多 It has many seats here
是真熱鬧 也有老的也有少 bustling, filled with the old and young,
這有的說 是有的唱 some tea customers are talking and some are singing,
穿章打扮 一人一個樣 they dress differently from each other.
那個有提籠 是有架鳥 Some customers are holding birdcages with precious birds.
這蛐蛐蟈蟈 也都養得好 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.
沒有錢的只好瞪眼白瞧著 All being envied by those with no money out the window.
後邊二位 Welcome to our courtyard.
您愛下棋 是來兩盤 If you love plying chess, you can just enjoy it here
賭一賣碟幹炸丸子 外撒胡椒鹽兒 if you lose it, then you lose one dish of fried meatballs covering with salt and pepper.
哎 那王掌櫃 是大發財 Manager wang makes a lot of money by running the tea house,
說金銀財寶一起來 treasures are coming endlessly,
那你有錢來我有嘴 money are waiting for wang to count and mouth are waiting for me to feed
數來寶的是窮鬼 shulaibao, a kind of rap beggar on streets, like me is a poor ghost.
費心了您哪 Thank you so much.
這位爺 您說話也得加點小心 Master, you are so brave to say so.
那怕什麽的 該說的我就得說 Nothing to be concerned. I have to speak out when it is necessary.
縣太爺怎麽著 Governer of the count is no big deal,
照樣讓人家給吊在樹上 he was hanged on the tree
活活地抽死了 and being whipped to death
唉 這事鬧的 I can't believe this is happening.
這是哪兒的事啊 Where?
江西 Jiangxi province of east China.
有這事 誰敢欺負縣太爺呀 Is it true? Who dares to bully the count governer
誰敢 who dares?
洋人 Foreigners.
這還有王法沒有了 Are here any laws in oing dynasty?
這位爺 這位爺 Master
聽說啊 I also heard...
這位爺 咱還是莫談國事吧您 Masters, no political discussions please
您瞧這個 還得說我們這黃鳥 Brother Chang, look at my orioles.
您這個呀 比他們那個調理都好 Yours looks much better than theirs.
得嘿 早班兒 喝碗去 Good morning. Have some tea.
四爺 Chang si ye.
常四爺 您早啊 Good morning, Chang si ye
您早 早 - morning. - Morning.
早班兒 哎 - Early morning? - Yes.
紅茶 到外面看看去 A cup of black tea. Let's check the outside.
松二爺 您早班兒了 Song er ye, you come out so early?
得 您交我吧 Please give it to me.
您這邊得著 Please have a seat.
哎好 您得著 - Ok. - Have a seat.
我這邊這邊 您坐您坐您坐 Please sit.
怎麽著 二位都自個兒帶著茶葉呢 You two have brought your own tea leaves?
您得我這 Take a good look at my tea leaves.
得著得著 Let's have a look.
唐先生 Mr. Tang
出去遛遛去 why not take a walk somewhere else!
我的王掌櫃 您就捧捧我唐鐵嘴吧 Manager wang, boost up poor old tang "the oracle" a bit!
哎 這麽著 How about this?
您送我碗茶喝 我就先給您相相面 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!
今年是光緒二十四年戊戌 Now it's the 24th year of emperor guang xu's reign, the year of the dog,
哎 您貴庚 and your honourable age...
你算了吧 甭賣你那套生意口了 Enough! Spare me the sales talk!
我白送給你碗茶喝 I will give you a cup of tea for free
哎喲 那謝謝您 it is very kind of you.
我告訴你 Listen!
你要是不把你那口大煙給戒了 If you do not stop smoking opium,
你就一輩子甭打著交好運 you will never have any luck!
這是我的相法 比他那還靈驗 There, you see, I'm a better fortune teller than you!
德爺 他們都在後邊呢 De ye, they are all waiting you at the courtyard.
哥們兒 哎 Bro,
後邊 喳 go inside.
後邊請哎 Please go to our courtyard.
德爺來了您 Hello, de ye.
後邊請哎 Welcome to our inner courtyard.
好像又有事兒啊 Trouble again?
嗨 Don't worry.
反正啊 打不起來 They won't come to blows!
要是真打的話 If it was serious,
早到城外頭去了 they would have gone out of the city.
到茶館來幹嗎 Why come to the tea house?
我說 你沖誰拽咧子呢 Who are you gossiping about?
你問我呢 Who, me?
你說 我問誰呢 Huh! Who do you think I am asking?
花錢喝茶 I've paid for my tea.
難道還叫誰管著嗎 Do I have to bow to anyone too?
我說這位爺 Excuse me, sir.
您是營裏當差的吧 You serve in the imperial wrestlers, don't you?
來來來 坐下喝一碗 Come, sit down and drink a cup.
我們也都是外場人 We are all men of the world.
你管我當差不當差呢 Where I serve ain't none of your bloody business!
哼 要抖威風跟洋人幹去 Bah! If you want to throw your weight around try the foreigners!
洋人厲害 They're tough alright!
英法聯軍燒了圓明園 When the British and the French armies razed the old summer palace,
尊家吃著官餉 and you're on the public payroll.
可沒見您去沖鋒打仗 I didn't see you lift a finger to stop them!
怎麽著 How dare you?
你先甭管我敢不敢打洋人 這位爺 - Leave the foreigners out of this! - Sir.
我先管教管教你 I'll teach you a lesson!
怎麽著 怎麽著 - What do you think you're doing? - So what?
我打不了洋人 我還打不了你嗎 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,
你威風啊 you're quite an important person, aren't you?
哎喲 馬五爺 Oh, it's you, ma wu ye!
您瞧 我這眼拙了 沒瞧見您吶 Pardon, sir, I've never seen you sitting there.
我這兒 給您請安了 I am here greeting you.
有什麽話 好好地說 Settle your disputes in a reasonable way.
幹嗎動不動地 就講打呢 Must you always resort to fisticuffs?
喳 您說得對 Yes, sir.
李三 啊 - Li San. - Yes.
這位馬五爺的茶錢 The bill for ma wu ye's tea
我候了 is on me.
喳 Ok.
五爺 您這兒慢慢喝著 Wu ye, please continue enjoying your tea.
我後邊看看 I'll go direct to the inner courtyard.
嗯 Yes.
哼 Huh!
德爺請 Please, de ye.
喲 都來了 都來了吧 All are here.
這位爺 您聖明 Sir, you're a sensible gentleman.
您給評評這個理兒 Please tell us who you think was right?
對不起 他 - Such people... - Sorry.
我還有事 I am busy.
再見 Goodbye!
馬五爺 Ma wu ye,
我可短照應您 thank you for your graciousness.
邪啊 這倒是個怪人 How odd! Queer character, isn't he?
常四爺 Chang si ye
您不知道這位是馬五爺 don't you know that was ma wu ye!
馬五爺 Ma wu ye?
您怪不得也得罪了他了呢 No wonder you offended him!
什麽 我連他也得罪了 What? Offended him?
我今兒個出門 沒挑好日子和著啊 This is my lucky day to go out today!
這是怎麽話兒說的 There is no need to say so.
嗨 沒事兒 Never mind.
剛才您不是說嗎 Just then you said
您說洋人怎麽樣怎麽樣 something about foreigners.
這就是吃洋飯的 Well, he lives off the foreigners.
信洋教說洋話 Follows their religion and speaks their language.
有事能一直找到宛平縣縣太爺去 If he wants he can go strait to the mayor of Peking on business.
要不怎麽說 連官面上都不惹他呢您 That's why even the authorities handle him with care.
哼 我呀 Pshaw!
就是不佩服這個吃洋飯的 I've no time for people who serve foreign masters.
四爺 您說話得留點神 Si ye, be careful what you say!
二位爺 早班兒啊 You two gentlemen are early!
這兒這兒 Please sit there.
進來吧你 You... come inside.
早來了您 80 early to drink tea.
哎 早班兒早班兒 Good morning.
二位爺早班兒啊 You two gentlemen are early!
來了您 早班兒呢 You also comes early.
您試試我這個 Please try some of my snuff box.
剛裝來的 I just got it.
地道英國造 The genuine thing from england.
又細又純 80 fine and pure.
我這兒有 我得點點兒 - I already have. - Let me try some.
連鼻煙也得打外洋來 Even our snuff has to come from abroad.
這得往外流多少銀子啊 How much silver must flow out of the country every year!
咱大清國有的是金山銀山 Our great oing empire has mountains of silver and gold.
永遠流不完 It'll never run out.
是 True.
您坐著 我忙點小事 Please be seated, I've some business to attend to.
您執公 Make a bow, too.
過來吧你 You... come, come.
坐下吧 Sit down.
怎麽樣啊 How do you think?
十兩銀子行不行啊 Will ten taels of silver do?
你來痛快的 我忙 我沒工夫專伺候你 Be quick! I'm a busy man. I haven't got all day to wait on you!
一個大姑娘 Is a young lady,
就值十兩銀子 only worth ten taels?
那要賣到窯子去 If you sell the girl,
也興許能多賣個兩兒八錢的 you may earn one or two extra pieces of eight.
可你又不肯 But it seems that you are not willing
那是我的親生女兒 she is my real daughter!
我能把孩子 親生女兒你養活不起 - Would could I - but you cannot raise the real daughter yourself.
怨誰呢 Who is to blame for that?
那還不是因為鄉下種地的 Is it not because the countryside
都沒法子混了 cannot support cultivating sufficient crops to survive?
行了行了 那是你們鄉下事兒 Stop. That is a problem for you folks from the countryside,
我管不著 and it is beyond my control.
我呢 受你之托 I will trust you,
讓你不吃虧 help relieve your suffering,
讓你女兒有個吃飽飯的地方 and give your daughter a place to live where she can have enough to eat.
這還不好嗎 Isn't that a good deal?
到底兒給誰呀 Who will she be given to in the end?
我要一說呀 If I say,
準保你打心眼裏頭樂意 you will certainly be satisfied and grateful.
一位在宮裏當差的 He is a high ranking official in the imperial palace.
宮裏當差的 人家誰要個鄉下丫頭 Who in the imperial palace would want a girl from the countryside?
這不你女兒命好唄 Well, won't your daughter's life be better?
誰呀 Who?
大太監龐總管 Eunuch pang, working for the palace.
你也聽說過龐總管吧 Have you heard of eunuch pang?
伺候著太後 紅得不得了哇 He acts as a valet for the empress dowager, is very popular.
人家家裏頭 At his home,
打醋那瓶子都是瑪瑙的 even bottles of vinegar are made out of agate.
叫孩子給太監做老婆 If I gave my girl to the palace eunuch as a wife,
那我怎麽對得起女兒啊 who could I be worthy of her?
賣女兒無論怎麽賣 也對不起女兒 No matter how you sell your daughter, it would be a terrible shame.
糊塗哇 You are not thinking stright!
你想想 Just think,
姑娘一過門 吃的是珍饈美味 wherever the young lady went she would eat fine delicacies
穿的是綾羅綢緞 and dress in silk and satin.
這不造化嗎 How would that make things worse?
從古至今哪有 Since ancient times there has been...
搖頭不算點頭算 Nod rather than shake head.
咱來幹脆的 Hurry up.
他就給十兩銀子 Is he really going to give ten taels of silver?
可著你們那村 找得出十兩銀子來不 Would you be able to find ten taels anywhere in your village?
在鄉下 五斤白面就換個孩子 In the countryside you can exchange 2.5 kilograms of flour for a child!
你不是不知道 You know this clearly.
哎我說 哪兒去你 回來 Where will you go? Come back.
我還得跟孩子商量商量啊 I will have to discuss this with my daughter.
我先把話給你交代明白了 Let me be frankly.
過了這村可沒這店 If it wasn't me, you wouldn't have this chance.
耽誤事兒 你別怨我 Don't blame me if you miss the opportunity.
哎 I see
跟鄉下人辦點事 別提多難 80 hard to do things with rural folk.
永遠沒個痛快勁 Never in a rush.
鄉下也不知怎麽了 How could you do that in the countryside?
會鬧得這麽賣兒賣女的 By selling their sons and daughters!
說的是 Well, you could say
要不怎麽說 是條狗也得托生在北京城呢 that even a dog should be born in Peking city.
劉爺 哎 Liu ye
您可真有個狠勁 you are truly ruthless
給拉攏這路事 to entice him into this.
喲 我說常四爺 Well, Chang si ye.
我要不給他幫忙 If I didn't have the heart,
他還許找不著買主呢 then the would not be able to find a buyer.
是這話不是 Are my words reasonable?
喲 松二爺 Well, song er ye.
您瞧瞧這個 Have a look at this!
好體面的小表 That is a very pretty watch.
您聽聽聽聽 嘎噔嘎噔地響 Listen, ticking away merrily.
這得多少錢吶 How much does it cost?
您喜歡吶 行了 讓給您了 Do you like it? It's yours!
一句話 五兩銀子 One word and five taels of silver.
哎喲 I don't want it anymore.
您拿著玩去 Just take it.
多會您玩膩了 不想要了 When you get bored, just return it.
您把它還給我 我照數退錢吶 I will refund you the money.
東西真地道 傳家的玩意兒 The thing is genuine and passed down through the generations.
我這兒正琢磨這個味兒呢 I am just getting the taste of this.
咱們一個人身上 得有多少洋玩意兒 How much foreign stuff are each of us carrying?
哎 Well
老劉 哎 Lao liu.
就看你吧 洋鼻煙 洋表 Look at what you have on your person: Foreign snuff, a foreign watch,
洋緞大衫 洋布褲褂 foreign satin trousers, a foreign coat...
好嘛 這洋玩意兒可真漂亮呢 Foreign things are really beautiful.
我要穿一身土布褲褂 像個鄉下腦殼 If I wear home made clothes it is like I am thinking like a peasant.
誰理我呀 Who would pay any attention to me?
哼 Huh!
松二爺 表留下了 Song er ye, just keep that watch
錢 改日再說嘞 and then give me the money later.
行 Ok.
哥們兒 Brothers,
呃 哥們兒 brothers,
都瞧我了 都瞧我了啊 all of you, attentions please.
我這給大夥兒請安了 Paying the respect to you all.
都是自己的弟兄 千萬別傷了和氣啊 We are all brothers, and don't disrupt our friendship.
哎哎 Yes, yes
黃爺 哎 huang ye
這都不是他們 喲 they are not the person you looking for.
他們都在後頭呢 They are in the courtyard at the back.
噢 我看看我看看 I will go inside
黃爺 huang ye
喲 松二爺呀 yep, song er ye
嗨 我這不是眼神不濟 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.
預備爛肉面 哎 - Prepare some cured meat noodles. - Yes
有我黃胖子 誰也打不起來 nobody is going to argue with huang pangzi.
那是 It's true.
黃爺 哎 - Huang ye. - I am here.
兩邊都見了面了 噢 We have already met two sides.
就等您了 Just waiting for you.
那是誰呀 Who is there?
二德子 Er dezi
喲 德爺 de ye
呃 我瞧瞧都誰來了 都誰來了 Let's see who is already here.
裏邊請 Please go inside.
都回去了 Let's go back home.
哎 您慢走 Would you please walk
哎 哎 ok.
三兒三兒 San er.
喳 Yes?
他們到底為了什麽事 這麽拿刀動杖的 What on earth are they bring knifes and arms?
它是這麽檔子事 Things are
張宅的鴿子 飛到李宅去了 a pigeon from the zhang residence flew over to the li residence
可這李宅呢 他不肯還 and the li household does not want to return it.
得 咱們待會再說吧 Fine, we can talk later.
這人還不如一只鴿子呢 A person is worth less than a pigeon.
掌櫃的 Manager
哎喲 秦二爺 您早班兒 yes, qin er ye. You come so early.
哎喲 我秦二爺 Oh dear! Oin er ye.
您今兒怎麽這麽閑在 想起坐茶館來了 How could you think of idly wasting your time at this tea house?
哎喲 您看您也沒帶個底下人呢 And not even bring any attendant?
來看看 Just go around and have a look.
看看你這年輕小夥子 Let's see if this young man
會做生意不會 can do business or not!
我這就是 一邊做一邊學吧您 I will learn on the job.
指著這個吃飯呢 Make a living.
誰叫我爸爸死得早 我不幹也不行啊 My father died at an early time. I just have to do this now.
好在啊 Luckhy,
照顧主兒都是我父親那輩上的老朋友 everyone taking care of the host is an old friend of my father's.
有個周到不周到的都肯包涵 If I am inconsiderate at any time please forgive me,
閉閉眼也就都過去了 ignore it, and let it pass.
嗯 Ok
反正啊 在街面上混飯吃 On the street you have to work for a living
人緣頂要緊 what really matters are relations with people.
我就是一切啊 For everything,
都按著我父親那會兒的老規矩 I act according to the way that my father taught me:
多請安多說好話 Speak kindly, show others respect,
討個人人喜歡呢 就不至於出大岔子 be positive towards everyone, and you will be less likely to meet with calamity.
二爺 Er ye.
您這兒坐坐 Please sit down
我給您沏碗小葉茶喝 and I will make you a cup of small leaf tea.
我不坐著 也不喝茶 I won't sit down and won't drink.
您坐坐 Please sit down.
有您在我這兒坐著 我臉上有光 With you here with me my face is radiant.
也好吧 Well, fine.
三兒 喳 - San. - Yes
沏碗高的來 來咯 a cup of our choicest tea.
可你用不著奉承我 However, don't flatter me.
哪兒的話 I am telling the truth.
二爺 您府上都好 Er ye, is everything fine at your home?
事情都順心吧 Are all your affairs in satisfactory order?
不怎麽太好 Not that good, actually.
您怕什麽的呢 What are you concerned about?
那麽多的買賣 You have so much business
您伸個小手指頭 比我腰都粗 that your index finger is fatter than my waist.
哎喲 哎 Good heavens!
這位爺好相貌啊 This old fellow has a great appearance,
真是天庭飽滿 truly plump with a really big circumference.
唐先生 您那碗茶喝完了沒有 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 您先到外邊遛達遛達去吧 Just go outside.
小王 喳 - Xiao wang. - Yes.
你這兒的房錢 Is the rent
是不是得給我往上提那麽一提 going to increase here?
當初你爸爸給我那點房租錢 At the beginning, your father give me little rent
可還不夠我喝茶的呢 it is not even enough for me to drink tea.
二爺 Er ye,
您說得對 太對了 you are exactly right!
可這點小事 用不著您分心吶 But this small issue is to trivial to require your attention.
您把管事的派來來 我跟他商量 Delegate it to someone else and I will work with them on the rental amount.
該漲多少錢我一準兒照辦 I promise that I will comply with your request.
你小子比你爸爸還滑 You devious young man. You are even more slippery than your father.
你等著瞧吧 You just wait.
早晚有一天 我會把這兒的房子給收回去 Sooner or later I will take the room back.
您甭嚇唬著我玩兒 Don't threaten me.
我知道您多麽照應我 多麽心疼我 I know that you feel sorry for me
您絕不會看著我 and definitely would not send me out
挑一大綠茶壺 上街上賣大碗熱茶去 onto the street with a big load of hot tea to sell.
你就等著瞧吧 You just wait and see!
媽 我餓我餓呀 Mom, I am hungry. I am hungry.
小王 在 - Xiao wang. - Yes
轟出去 get them out!
這這這兒 待不住 You can't sit down here.
媽 Mom.
哪位 行行好 Who can show his mercy?
買下這個孩子 Buy this child,
二兩銀子 two taels of silver.
只當是買個小貓小狗吧 The price is just for buying a little cat or dog.
李三 喳 - Li San. - Yes.
要兩碗爛肉面 Give them two bowls of cured meat noodles
帶她們到門外頭吃去 and take them outside.
喳 Yes.
謝謝了 去吧 - Thanks you. - Go outside.
大嫂 Madame,
哎 端穩咯 hold the bowls.
哎 Yes.
妞子 快快快 - Girl - hurry up...
嗯 Sure.
走吧 走吧 Just go outside.
四爺 嗯 Dear si ye,
您這可是積德行好 you are such a meritorious and charitable person,
賞給她們面吃 giving them noodles to eat.
可我告訴您吶 But I should remind you
它眼下這路事兒太多了 that this kind of things happen a lot
實在是太多了 咱們管也管不過來 too many that beyond our limits.
二爺 是這話不是呢 Er ye, do you think so?
二哥 嗯 - Brother er... - Yes.
我看吶 I think
這大清國是要完吶 that the great oing empire is done for.
嘿 完不完吧 Over or not,
也不在乎有沒有人 給窮人一碗面吃 it has nothing to do with giving noodles to poor folk.
小王 喳 - Xiao wang. - Yes.
說真的 我真想把這的房子給收回去 To tell you the truth, I really want to take back this house.
二爺 您別這麽辦吶 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
連城裏的買賣 鄉下的地 but I want to sell the land in the countryside
全賣了 sell them all.
您這是為什麽呀 Why is that?
把本錢攏在一塊 To draw the capital together
開工廠 to start a factory.
哎喲 開工廠 Start a factory?
啊 Of course
開個頂大頂大的工廠 a big factory!
那才能救得了窮人 That is the only way to save poor people,
那才能抵制外貨 那才能救國 the only way to resist outside capital, and the only way to save our country.
跟你說這些個幹什麽 Meaningless to tell you the truth,
你不懂啊 you can not get me.
二爺 Er ye.
您這合著就是要 把產業都出了手 You plan to sell all your property your property
專門為了別人 only for helping others,
您就不顧您自個了嗎 and not for yourself?
你不懂啊 You don't understand.
只有那麽樣 國家才能夠富強 That is the only way to make the country strong and prosperous.
好啦 我該走啦 Ok, I should go.
小王 喳 - Xiao wang - yes
我這可親眼看見了 I have seen with my own eyes
你這兒生意不錯 that your business is not bad.
我托您福 All thanks to you.
那你甭給我耍無賴 You do not need to play games anymore.
故意不給我漲房錢 And will not raise the rent on purpose.
不能夠 That is impossible.
哎 閃開閃開 Beat it. Beat it.
走走走 Go go go...
快點走 Hurry up, go away.
媽媽 Mom.
走走走 Go go go...
龐老爺 您吉祥 Your excellency pang. May heaven bestow fortune on you.
罷了 罷了 No need to do so.
龐老爺 Master pang!
呦 秦二爺 Oh! Qin er ye!
您這兩天 心裏邊安頓了吧 Has your mind settled down these last two days?
那還用說嗎 Yes, definitely.
天下太平了 Everything is at peace now
聖旨下來 譚嗣同問斬 that an imperial edict for tan sitong tobe beheaded has been issued.
噢 Really?
告訴您 Let me tell you,
誰敢改祖宗的章程 whoever dares overturn the rules of the ancestors
誰就得掉腦袋 will loose their head.
這個 我早就知道 That is for sure.
喲 您聰明 二爺 You are clever, er ye.
要不然您怎麽發財呢 Otherwise, how could you become so rich?
不敢 Not worth mentioning.
我那點兒財產不值得一提 My small amount of property is not enough to mention.
哎喲 太客氣了吧 You are too modest.
這全北京城 誰不知道秦二爺 In the whole of the city of Peking there is nobody that has not heard of qin er ye.
不敢 I'm flattered.
您比那做官的還厲害呢 You are more awesome than the officials.
聽說呀 I heard that
好些個財主都講維新 there are quite a few rich men that are talking about reform.
不能那麽說吧 Don't speak like that.
我這點威風在您面前 I put the inspiration that I get in your presence from the authority
可就施展不出來咯 that you carry to good use.
說得好 Spoken well!
那咱就八仙過海 各顯其能吧 Let's each do what we do best and show everybody our abilities.
再見 Goodbye.
改天過去給您請安 Change heaven to pay you my respects!
不敢當 You flatter me.
憑這麽個小財主 也敢跟我鬥嘴皮子 For a rich young man like that to dare to verbal contest with me.
年頭可真是改了啊 Must mean that this year is really changing.
龐老爺 您吉祥 Your excellency! May heaven bestow fortune on you.
劉麻子在這兒吶 Where is "pocky" liu?
哎喲 老爺子 My master!
我在這兒 等您老半天了 I have been waiting for you for ages.
伺候著 Waiting for me?
喳 Yes.
哎喲 老爺子氣色好哎 My master! You look amazing.
龐老爺 您吉祥 Your excellency! May heaven bestow fortune on you.
喲 小子們 你們在這兒吶 Xiao shuan, you are here, too.
喳 Yes.
有事嗎 Any matters?
喳 Yes.
咱們的日子也不好過 We also live a hard life.
好死不如賴活著 It is better to die than to depend on someone else for a living.
要讓我這樣的自謀生計 If life forces me to make my own living,
非得餓死不可 in the end I will go to die anyway.
怎麽說 What are you talking about?
一個鄉下丫頭 A village girl
要我二百銀子啊 for two hundred taels?
鄉下丫頭模樣可俊呢 But village people are very beautiful.
帶進城來 由您親手一調理 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
準保是又規矩又體面 that she behaves properly.
別蒙我 我還要看人呢 Don't lie to me. Let me see the person first.
我跟您這麽說吧 Tell you the truth
給您辦這點事 比給我親爸爸辦事都得操心 that I leave no stone unturned
一絲一毫不能馬虎 trying to serve your excellency!
抓住他 Arrest him!
追 追 站住 Go after him and stop him!
往那邊去 往那邊去 Go over there!
唐先生 你怎麽又跑回來了 Mr. Tang, why do you come back?
外邊兵荒馬亂的 There is chaos on the streets
不知道出了什麽事了 I did not know what happens.
怎麽啦 發生什麽事了 What? Let me have a look.
那還不得搜查搜查 譚嗣同的余黨嗎 They are still searching for the remants of tan sitong?
嗯 對 Oh, yes.
這譚嗣同是誰呀 Who is tan sitong?
走吧走吧 溜達著 溜達著 Let's go first.
龐老爺 Master pang,
你放心 唐鐵嘴 哎 tang "the oracle", rest at ease
沒人抓你 no one is going to snatch you
這臭樣兒 for you are such an ugly person.
總管 您要是再賞給我幾個煙泡兒 Your excellency, can I have a few packets of cigarettes.
那我可就更有出息了 I will be honored.
去一邊去 別蹬鼻子上臉 Go away. Don't gain extra advantages.
喳喳 Yes.
四爺 天不早了 Si ye, it is not early.
咱們也該活動著了 We should go and take a walk.
好 走吧 Ok, let's go.
李三 喳 - Li San. - Coming.
等等 Wait!
怎麽啦 What's up?
剛才你說大清國要完 A moment ago you said, "the great qing empire is done for"?
我 嗯
我愛大清國 我怕它完了 I love the empire. I hope it isn't done for.
噢 Really?
你 你呢 You, come
你聽見了 他是這麽說的嗎 did you hear that? Did he say that?
哥兒們 我倆見天跟這兒喝茶 We come here every day to drink tea
王掌櫃知道哇 地道的老好人 as manager wang knows, and we are both law-abiding men.
我問你 聽見了沒有 I asked whether you heard that or not?
有話好說咧 Well if there is something to discuss,
請坐請坐 please sit down.
嘿嘿 Hey
你不說 我連你也鎖了走 if you don't speak and now you are going with him too.
他說大清國要完 He said, "this is the end of the great qing empire."
就是跟譚嗣同一黨 You are in collusion with tan sitong.
什麽 What did you say?
我聽見了 他是這麽說的 I heard. He said...
他是說呀 He said...
啊 走 Go with us
上哪兒啊 to where
事情也得交代明白了 let's discuss this clearly.
怎麽 你還想拒捕嗎 Are you refusing to be arrested?
告訴你們 我可是旗人 Let me tell you, I am a manchurian.
噢 旗人 Manchurian?
旗人當漢奸 你罪加一等 Treason is a first class crime for a manchurian.
鎖上他 喳 Lock him up.
甭鎖 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
你也跟著走一趟 come with us too
到堂上實話實說沒你的事 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.
來 走 Come. Let's go.
走
李三 你給我看一下 Li San, take care of my bird for me.
好了 好了 Ok.
一片雲霧散 算我沒有白跑腿兒啊 A day with scattered cloud and fog, so I did not come here for nothing.
黃爺 Master huang.
哎呀 誰呀 Who?
我松二啊 It's me. Song er.
松二爺 什麽事您吶 Song er ye. What's the matter.
您快過去 幫幫忙 說句好話吧 Please speak a few kind words on my behalf. Sure.
您交我 您交我了 Just leave it to me.
呃 誰呀 Who?
喲 宋爺 吳爺 您二位辦案吶 Yo! Song er ye and master wu, are you two handling a case?
呃 您請 您請 您請 Please. Please.
呃 您請便 您請便 Please. Please.
黃爺 您倒是給美言兩句 Master huang, please speak a few kind words on my behalf.
哎呀 這官廳兒管不了的事情我管 I take care of things that the official courts cannot take care of.
這官廳兒管得了的事情 I don't get involved in things that the official courts do handle.
他我不便多嘴是吧您吶 Isn't that right?
走 走 Let's go.
先戴上這個 走 Wear this. Let's go
王掌櫃 您給照應點我那黃鳥兒 Manager wang. Please take care of our bird cage.
我給您送家去 I will drop it off at your house.
走 Let's go.
龐老爺 您吉祥 Oh, master pang, may heaven bestow fortune on you...
呃 聽說您安份兒家 I hear that you are going to have a family.
呃 我這兒先給您道喜 I I'll congratulate you by the way.
罷了 喳 You may fire.
你等著吃喜酒吧 And just wait to enjoy some wine
喳 喳 您賞臉 yes. It's my honor.
您賞臉 您賞臉 You do me a great honor. You do me a great honor.
來了 The girl is coming.
啊 Where?
人呢 Where is your daughter?
點頭了 Have said yes.
好嘞 Good job.
來來來 進來進來 Come. Come inside.
來 來來來 Come.
過來 過來 Come quickly.
這邊來 This way. Come.
來 過來過來 見見總管 Come and see his excellency pang.
行嘞 文房四寶 Good, bring me the four treasures of the study.
老六 過來過來 來來 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.
孩子你認命吧 爸爸 - My girl, just accept your fate. - Father.
積德吧 Do good works.
哎 來 過來過來 Come.come.
來 見見總管 Meet the excellency,
給總管磕個頭 to kowtow to his excellency,
往後好好跟總管過日子 live happily with the excellency.
磕頭啊你 Kowtow quickly.
怎麽啦 這是 What happened to you?
怎麽啦 What happened?
水 水 Water water.
怎麽啦 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.
順子 Shunzh
喲 她又活了 She is live again.
將 Check.
你完了 You will lose the game.
噢 Nice.
腐敗透頂的大清朝 Corrupt qing dynasty
被革命黨的烈火包圍著 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.
說它完 它就完 People predict the great qing will be ended.
大清帝國完了已經好幾年 Then the qing empire has been done for several years.
現而今 到了民國 Now it comes to the republic in China.
鉸了小辮兒 還是沒有轍 The law of cutting off people's ponytail can not save the corrupt oing.
那個鬧軍閥 是亂打仗 Warlords, wars are everywhere,
白臉的進去 黑臉的上 people of all classes are fighting against each other.
那個趙打錢 是孫打李 Zhao fights with oian. Sun fights with li,
那趙錢孫李亂打一氣 誰都不講理 all fights in chaos with no reasons.
他為打仗 是買槍炮 Some warlords buy the guns to support the fight,
一堆一堆 給洋人老爺送鈔票 sending foreigners loads of money.
為賣炮 為賣槍 To sell arm,
幫著軍閥 你占黃河 他占揚子江 the warlords invade yellow river and yangtze river.
老百姓 可遭了殃 The common people are suffering,
大兵一到 糧食牲口一掃光 grains and stocks will be robbed once soldiers come.
王掌櫃 他會改良 Manager wang renovated his tea house with the era
茶館都改得 好像大學堂 now the tea house is much like a school,
後邊住著大學生 at the backyard lives some students
說話文明 真好聽 who talk more civilized and nice.
哎 那個他開張 是我道喜 The new tea house is opening tomorrow and I congratulate him,
編點新詞兒 我也了不起 I feel awesome about sing the new allegretto poem.
王掌櫃 道喜 道喜 Congratulations, manager wang.
那個老裕泰 是大改良 The old yutai tea house was improved a lot
萬事亨通 一天倒比一天強 it becomes prosperous day by day.
我明天才開張呢 I will open the new tea house tomorrow.
明天 Tomorrow?
明天好 那個明天妙 Tomorrow is good and suspicious
金銀財寶齊來到 golds and silvers will come too.
您開張 他開炮 You open your shop, while he open the fire
明天準唱八蠟廟 tomorrow must be bustling.
我說 王內掌櫃 您瞅瞅 Landlady, please have a look at the banner,
這高矮怎麽樣 is it higher or lower?
高了點兒 A little higher.
高了 Higher?
您瞅 這成了吧 It it ok now?
嗯 三爺 Yes, San ye.
啊 Fine.
您看 咱們茶館改了良 Our tea house has already been renovated,
您那小辮兒 該鉸了吧 your ponytail should be cut off too.
改良改良啊 Let's improve it! Let's improve it!
越改越涼 The more we improve the more cool
冰涼 嗨 as cool as ice
我 還是留著我這小辮兒吧 I will keep my ponytail,
他萬一再把皇上改回來呢 just in case the emperor comes back.
別頑固了三爺 Don't be obstinate, San ye.
人家給咱改了民國 咱能不隨著走嗎 The country has been the republic and we still do not follow?
可是您還留著您那小辮兒 However, you insist on wearing a ponytail...
瞧著多麽不順眼 And it is not pleasing to the eye.
什麽 您瞅我這小辮兒不順眼 What? You don't feel that it is pleasing to the eye
可我還不順心呢 I am not at ease too
喲 您不順心 怎麽 yo! So you are not happy? Why?
怎麽 Why?
這前邊茶館 後邊公寓 A teahouse in the front and a guest house in the back
就我一個人 with only me to operate it.
我幹不了了 That is too much for me.
見天睡四五個鐘頭覺哇 I only sleep four or five hours everyday.
誰也不是鐵打的 I am not an iron man and can't do it.
這年月 誰也好受不了 In these days and times nobody can be comfortable.
三爺 啊 - San ye. - Yes
從老王掌櫃在世的時候 您就幫著我們 from the time of old manager wang's ancestors, you have helped us
老朋友 老夥計了 as a long time partner.
嗯 老夥計了 二十多年了 Along time partner? In the past twenty years,
您問問他們 給我漲過工錢沒有哇 have they even given me a pay raise?
什麽都改良 If everything can be improved
那為什麽我工錢 不跟著一塊改改良啊 then why can't my salary be improved?
喲嗬 你這叫什麽話呀 Yo! What kind of talk is this?
要是咱們的買賣越做越好 If our business was getting better and better then,
我能夠不給你漲工錢嗎 of course, I would be able to give you a pay raise.
別說了 Fine.
掌櫃的你這買賣口 Manager, you have a sharp mouth.
明天開張 圖個吉利 咱先別拌嘴 Tomorrow we open for business and hope for good luck.
明天開張 圖個吉利 咱先別拌嘴 Right now let's not quarrel but make do as best we can.
唉 我 Ah! I...
就這麽辦啦 Make do as best we can?
咱們這 What's the matter?
啊 Excuse me?
我說掌櫃的 My manager
咱們說明白得了 let's make it clear.
你要不改我的良 我是真幹不下去了 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.
咱們的事回頭再細研究 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 來了來了 Coming.
你快點把這裏收拾收拾嘛 Would you please clean the mess here?
我說栓子他媽 Shuanzi's mother,
三爺這歲數可是大了點兒 San ye is kind of old,
你可得 you can...
他抱怨大半天了 He complained for ages.
當著他不便直說 I couldn't say it straight to him,
跟你我可得說實話 but I have to tell you the truth
咱們得添人 that we need to hire employee.
添人得加工錢 If we add emplyee we will need to pay them.
我這賺得出來嗎 Can we earn enough revenue to do that?
那 Then.
你聽聽 你聽聽 Listen,
又他媽開炮了 the mother fucker is firing the Cannon again.
你們就鬧 你們就都鬧 Go on then, make some noise!
這明兒要能開得了張才怪 Why don't you fire tomorrow instead
你這都怎麽話說的 and then we will blame you again.
明白人別說糊塗話 Wise people do not talk nonsense,
開炮是我鬧的 blaming Cannon fire on me.
你別這兒瞎扯 幹活去 Don't talk blind nonsense. Get to work!
反正我看透了 I secretly think
早晚不是累死 就是叫炮轟死 that you are blaming the Cannon fire for your own tiredness.
嘿你 Hmm. You...
栓子媽 Shuanzi's mother.
別害怕 Don't fear for...
打了多少回的炮了 However many rounds of Cannon are fired
一回也沒把咱打死不是 they will not kill us.
北京城啊 就是塊寶地 The city of Peking is a treasure.
您行行好 Please show some charity to the pitiful.
別擋道 去去去 Go away! Get a move on!
喲嗬 王掌櫃的 How are you? Manager wang.
六爺 Liu ye.
開張啦 啊哈 Has been opened yet?
我說六爺 My liu ye,
這外頭怎麽樣啊 how is the outside?
又打得緊吶 Are everything ok?
緊 緊得厲害 Yes. The fire is getting stronger.
這仗要打得不緊 But the battle did not go well,
這街面 也不能有這麽些個難民不是 which is why we have so many refugees.
那是 那是 坐著 True. Have a seat please.
我說王掌櫃的 Manager wang.
這上邊可交派下來 The order came down from above.
那是 Really?
攤你這兒八十斤大餅 That you need to provide eighty pounds of flat bread,
今晌午十二點呢 就得交齊 packaged in bundles of twelve.
這城裏頭兵帶著幹糧 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.
您聖明 You are a sage.
可我這會兒 眼下只包後頭的夥食 But at the moment we only do meals for the guest houses at back.
不再賣飯了 We don't sell food
再說我這兒也還沒開張啊 and at present are not even open.
您甭說八十斤了 我這一斤拿不出來呀 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.
這麽著得了 你瞧著辦 So it's up to you.
哎我說 等等 你等等 Please wait on.
我這兒可是 千真萬確地還沒開張 What I am saying is absolutely true. We are not even open for business.
這您知道哇 And you know it.
開張以後 短不了得麻煩您 After opening it would still not be easy.
沒得說 Ok.
買包茶葉喝 Buy a packet of tea leaves to drink.
您給我多美言幾句 If you can say a few kind words,
我這兒感恩不盡 I would be definitely grateful.
這麽著得了 我給您說著瞧 Fine, I will speak for you,
這成不成的可沒準兒 but I cannot guarantee anything.
有你的話沒有辦不成的事 Thanks to you and it will work out.
他奶奶的進去 Shit. Get in.
走看看去 Let's go and have a check.
老總 您瞅我這兒正查戶口呢 Chiefs, I have just been checking this household.
他這兒還沒開張呢您 It is not yet open for business.
屌 Fuck off.
王掌櫃 趕緊給老總點茶錢 Manager wang, show some respect to some old chiefs by giving them some tea money
讓老總上別處喝去得了 so that they can go elsewhere to drink.
我說諸位老總們 Dear chiefs,
我這兒實在是還沒開張 I am really sorry that we are not open at present.
我要是開張以後 Otherwise,
諸位就是都住到我這兒 even you live here,
我都歡迎 you would all be welcome.
哎 老總您多原諒 Chiefs, please excuse him.
他實在是沒法招待您幾位 At present, he is not in a position to entertain you.
屌 Fuck off.
誰要鈔票 俺要現大洋 Who wants local cash. We want foreign money.
要現大洋 Foreign money!
我說老總哎 Dear chiefs,
我這當兒 哪兒給您奔現大洋去 where would you have us look for foreign cash?
揍他個小舅子 Beat the hell out of him!
快點 添點兒 Quick! Add some more!
我要是還有一塊 If I have another yuan,
您把我房給燒了 please burn the building.
他娘的 Damn it.
哼 他娘的 Damn it.
哎 Stop.
這位弟兄 Bro.
別 Stop it.
長官 Chiefs.
去你娘的 哎喲 Go fuck yourself.
打仗 打仗 War, war!
是今天打 明天打 Fighting today, fighting tomorrow,
老他媽打 always fighting,
你可打什麽呢打 fighting god damn what?
王掌櫃 我給你道喜來了 Manager wang! I've come to congratulate you.
我告訴你唐先生 Yo! Mr tang.
打這起 我可不再白送你茶喝 From now on, I will not give you tea for free.
咳 Well.
喲嗬 我說你混得不錯啊 Yo. It seems that you have lived comfortably.
穿上綢的了 Wearing silk clothes.
是比從前好了點兒 It is an improvement from before.
我得感謝這年月 I thank these times.
就這個年月還值當的你感謝 These times are worth your thanking.
這話聽著可不大搭調 That sounds a little unreasonable.
咳 年頭越亂我的生意越好哇 The start of this year is even more chaotic. My business is great right now.
這話跟您這麽說吧 Telling you the truth.
這年頭誰死誰活著都得憑運氣 Who lives and who dies all depends on luck.
怎麽能不多算算卦相相面呢 What better time for fortune telling and face reading.
是不是您說 Am I right?
有你這麽一說 You could put it like that.
聽說後面改了公寓了 I heard that you have turned the back into guest houses.
租給我一間房子吧 Could I rent one?
我說您那口嗜好 With your particular indulgence,
啊咳 sorry?
您住到我這恐怕 I'm afraid that you live here...
我現在啊已然不抽大煙了 I already quit smoking opium.
哎喲 Really?
我說那你可真要發財了嘿 You really want to make it rich!
我改抽白面兒了 I changed to heroin.
你瞧啊 這哈德門的煙吶 是又長又松 Look, hademen cigarettes are long and loose,
這麽一磕打 你瞧 each time it will loosen you out,
空這麽大半截 正好裝白面兒啊 just like it was heroin.
大英帝國的煙吶 British tobacco
是日本的白面兒 and Japanese heroin,
兩大強國伺候著我一個人 these two strong countries waiting on me.
這福氣還小啊 That is not a small bit of luck, is it?
嗯 不小不小 我說唐先生 Luck is not small! Not small!
這後頭已然住滿了人了 But I have no vacancies.
什麽時候有空房啊 我給你留著啊 As soon as there is one I will keep it specially for you.
哼 Bah!
你呀 瞧不起我唐鐵嘴 You look down on me,
怕我給不了這房租 because you do not think that I am able to pay the rent.
沒那個話 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.
誰能夠瞧不起誰呀 We are all equals.
你說是這話吧 That is my true feeling.
你那嘴呀 比我的還花哨呢 Your talk is more outrageous than mine!
哎 我可不光靠耍嘴皮子 I am not just playing with words.
我心眼擺得正 My heart is true.
這二十年了 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?
你如今混得不錯了 Now that you're better off,
想起給我茶錢了沒有 has it ever crossed your mind to pay me back?
那一共才幾個錢啊 But altogether, it won't come to much.
趕明兒個我一總還給你 I will pay you back one of these days.
你呀 Good.
喲嗬 王掌櫃 Hey, manager!
長辛店大戰的新聞 您來份瞧瞧 Latest news about the fighting at changxindian. Won't you buy a copy?
你有那不打仗的新聞沒有 Any news about people not fighting?
興許有 您自個找 Maybe. Look for yourself.
走 我不瞧 Go away! I'm not interested!
您不瞧 您不瞧那仗也照樣打 Won't make no difference. The fighting will go on just the same.
呃 來來來來 Come, come.
先生您照顧一份 Sir, you interested?
我不像他 我最關心國事 Not like him. I'm always concerned about affairs of state.
那是 那是 Damn right.
喲嗬 這全改樣了啊 Amazing. Totally renovated.
哎哎哎 先生先生 Excuse, sir. Sir.
你還沒給錢呢 You are not paying.
哎 站住 Stop.
長辛店 Changxindian...
長辛店不遠啦 Chnagxindian. That's near here.
三爺三爺 San ye. San ye.
噢 Yes.
抓早兒出去買點菜去 You'd better go for the food right away.
要不回頭一準關城門 The city gates are sure to close soon.
王掌櫃 Manager wang.
常四爺 Me. Chang si ye.
嘿 Hey.
您這是幹什麽呢 What are you doing these days?
我呀 賣青菜呢 自食其力嘛 Selling vegetables. Earning my own living.
我聽說您這明兒開張 I heard you are opening tomorrow.
一大早抓弄了兩只雞 幾斤老腌蘿蔔 I get theses two chickens and some pickled turnips on the early morning
特意給您 and bring them to you directly.
四爺啊 Si ye.
我這兒還正真沒轍呢 拿著拿著 - 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.
大茶館全都關了 All the large tea house have closed down.
就是你有個新路啊 改良 You were the only one sharp enough to make the most of the changes and reforms.
還真怕這天下老這麽亂七八糟 But if the country carries on in this mess, it will all be wasted.
哎 Well.
像我這樣的人 The likes of me
現在是坐不起這樣的茶館咯 won't be able to afford a seat in such a posh tea house.
沒那話 You said that.
王掌櫃 Manager wang.
松二爺 Song er ye.
王掌櫃 聽說明兒開張 You are opening tomorrow?
我來道喜來了 I've come to offer my congratulations.
二爺 Er ye.
哎喲 My old friend.
四爺 二爺 - 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?
二爺 Er ye.
來二位就都坐下吧 Why don't you both sit down?
王掌櫃您好 Oh, manager wang. How have you been?
好 Very well.
太太好 How's the missus?
好 Vey well.
少爺好 How are your boys?
托您福 As you wish
生意好 how's business?
好 Very well.
二爺 二爺哎 Er ye, er ye
沒了 no places for you to hang the birdcage.
二哥 來 Brother er, come here.
坐著 Have a seat.
得點 Try this? Ok.
我給二位先沏壺高的去 哎 I'll serve you two a pot of choicest tea.
四爺 啊 - Si ye. - Yes.
你怎麽樣啊 How is life treated you?
我呀 嗯
賣青菜呢 Selling vegetables.
噢 Well.
鐵桿莊稼沒有了 還不賣膀子力氣嘛 Since the bannerman's subsidy was abolished, I earn my own living.
行 Good for you.
二哥您怎麽樣啊 Brother er, how about you?
怎麽樣 我想大哭一場啊 Me? Just hearing you ask that bring tears to my eyes.
怎麽 What happened?
你看見我這身衣裳沒有 Look at my clothes.
我還像個人嗎 They are disgrace.
二哥 您能寫會算 But you read and write, and do accounts!
還找不著點兒事做 You can't find a job?
誰願意瞪著眼挨餓啊 Who wants to starve?
那 Then.
可誰要咱們這號呢 Yet who wants a bannerman!
想真是脫下這身大褂來 If the clothes of bannerman was took off,
幹點糙活兒伍的 and let me do some manual works.
可又拉不下這臉來 I can't bend over to do it.
想起來呀 大清國不一定好 Looking back, the great oing empire wasn't so good,
到了民國我挨了餓 but now, in the republic, I'm starving.
哎 二哥 Exactly. Brother er.
您來 喝著 Have a drink of the tea.
哎 喝著 Let's try it.
來 Let's have it.
四爺 啊 Si ye.
我可是不知道您多少錢買來的 I don't know what you spent.
我就這點兒了 Hope that's enough.
沒關系 Never mind.
二爺 嗯 - Er ye. - Yes?
還是黃鳥吧 Still mad on orioles?
還是黃鳥 Of course it is an oriole.
我餓著不能叫鳥餓著 I may starve, but I won't allow my bird to.
來 看看 Let's take a look.
哎 看看 Take a look.
你看看 瞅瞅 Look carefully.
多體面吶 Such a handsome bird.
一看見它呀 我就舍不得死了 Whenever I look at him, I don't want to die.
松二爺 咱不準說死 Song er ye, you mustn't talk of dying.
您日後還必得交一步好運 One of these days your luck will change.
托福嘞 Thanks for your words.
二哥 走找個地方喝兩盅去 Come brother, let's go and have a drink.
一醉解千愁 Drown our sorrows in wine.
王掌櫃 我可不讓你了啊 Manager wang, I won't invite you.
沒那麽多的錢 Not enough money.
我也分不開身 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 敢情是你們二位爺呀 Oh, it's you, gentleman.
二位 You two gentleman.
這是怎麽啦 What's the matter with you?
都民國好幾年了 怎麽還請安 We've been a republic for several years now. No need to bend the knee.
哎 你們不會鞠躬啊 Don't you know how to bow in the new style.
我一瞅見二位這灰大褂 Seeing your grey gowns
就想起前清那檔子事來了 makes me feel it's still the oing dynasty.
不由得不請安嘞 I can't help bending my knee!
松二爺 眼下您那個鐵桿莊稼不行了 Song er ye, your bannerman's subsidy used to be a sure source of income. Well, that's all gone now.
我們這個灰色大褂倒成了鐵桿莊稼 But our grey gowns proved a better bet, eh?
哎喲嗬 那不是常四爺嗎 It's Chang si ye, if I'm not mistaken.
是啊 您二位眼力不錯呀 Yes, you have a good memory.
戊戌年我在這兒說了句大清國要完 In 1898 I made the remark here, the great oing empire is done for!
叫您二位給抓了走 I was arrested by you two
坐了一年多的牢哇 and imprisoned for more than a year!
噢 您的記性也不錯 Your memory's not bad either.
混得還好吧 Doing all right these days?
托福 Yes, thank you.
打牢裏出來我參加了義和團 After I got out of prison, I joined yihetuan.
跟洋人打了幾仗 And fought a few battles against the foreign armies.
噢 Good.
可是鬧來鬧去這大清國 But that didn't help. The great qing empire
到底兒是亡了 was done for after all!
該亡 It deserved it!
現在我憑力氣掙飯吃 身上更有勁了 I earn my own living and I'm stronger than ever.
什麽時候洋人敢再動兵 If foreigners come here again with their armies,
我姓常的還預備跟他們打打 I'm ready to fight them.
您二位怎麽樣啊 How's life treating you two gentlemen?
瞎混唄 嗯 Oh, muddling along!
有皇上的時候 我們給皇上效力 When there was an emperor, we served him.
恩 哎 Yes.
有袁大總統的時候 When there was president yuan shikai,
我們給袁大總統效力 we served him.
現而今呢 Now,
呃 宋恩子 song enzi,
這該怎麽說來呢 噢 how should I put it?
誰給飯吃 咱們就給誰效力 Now we serve anyone who puts rice in our bowls.
要是洋人給飯吃呢 Even foreigners?
四爺 我可告訴你呀常四爺 Chang si ye, let's get going!
要我們效力的可都有洋人撐腰 Understand this, Chang si ye. Everyone we serve is backed by some foreign power.
他沒洋槍洋炮怎麽能打起仗來呢 How can anyone make war without foreign arms and guns?
啊 您說得對 You're so right!
四爺咱們走 Chang si ye, let's go.
再見吧 二位 Goodbye, gentlemen.
快走快走 Go quickly.
盼著你們二位快快地升官發財 I'm sure you'll soon be rewarded and promoted!
這小子 Bloody fool!
這常四爺呀 他就這脾氣 Chang si ye has always been.
又倔又硬 您甭計較他 Stubborn! Take no notice of him.
二位喝碗高的 Have a cup, it's fresh.
哎 好好好好 Sure.
王掌櫃 哎 Manager wang,
這後邊住的都是什麽人吶 what sort of people do you have as lodgers?
住的都是大學生 Mostly university students,
還有幾位也是熟人 and a couple of old acquaintances
我這兒有登記簿子 I've got a register.
按時候報告給巡警閣子 Their names are always promptly reported to the local police-station.
怎麽著二位 So?
我把簿子取出來二位看看 Shall I fetch it for you?
王掌櫃呀 Manager wang,
咱們不看簿子咱們得看人吶 we don't look at books. We look at people!
您甭費那個事 No need for that.
住到我這兒的準保都靠得住 I can vouch for them all.
哎我說 你為什麽專愛租給學生們呢 Why are you so partial to students?
這學生可沒什麽老實家夥 They're not generally quiet characters.
這年月呀 At this period,
當官的吧 officials
今兒上臺明兒就許撤職 one day and out of office the next.
做買賣的呢 It's the same with tradesmen.
它今兒開張明兒就許關門 In business today and broke tomorrow.
都靠不住 嗯 Can't rely on anyone!
還就這大學生 噢 Only students have money
能夠按月交房租 噢 to pay the rent each month,
沒錢上不了大學呀 because you need money to get into university in the first place.
您說是這麽筆賬不是 That's how I figure it. What do you think?
都讓你咂摸透了 Got it all worked out!
你說得對 You're quite right.
這不是現而今 Nowadays
連我們都欠餉啊 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,
好弄點兒津貼呀 to get our bonus.
走吧 嗯 Come on,
後邊看看去 let's take a look back there!
嗯 走啊 Yes, let's go!
二位 二位 Gentlemen, gentlemen!
您甭看 準保沒錯兒 Don't trouble yourselves.
不看 But if?
不看拿不著人吶 We don't take a look, we can't nab anyone.
那誰給咱們津貼呀 How will we get our bonus?
哎呀 Well,
這王掌櫃不願意讓咱們看 since the manager's not keen to let us have a look,
那是必定能給咱們想辦法 he must have thought of another way.
噢 對 Yes, you'll tell the truth.
咱們得給王掌櫃留點兒面子 Ought to try to help him keep up a front.
你說對不對 對 - Right, manager wang? - Damn right.
要不然吶咱這麽辦 I've an idea.
幹脆咱就來個包月 Let's do it on a monthly basis.
每月一號按陽歷算 On the first of every month, according to the new solar calendar
你把那點兒啊 you'll hand in a...
那點兒意思 A token of friendship!
啊對 Right.
那點兒意思送到 You'll hand in a token of friendship.
你省事 那我們也省事 That'll save no end of trouble for both sides.
嗯 How do you think?
那 啊 Then.
那您那點兒意思得多少啊 How much is this token of friendship worth?
哎 多年的交情你看著辦吧 As old friends, we'll leave that to you.
王掌櫃你聰明 You're a bright fellow.
你還能把那點兒意思弄成不好意思嗎 I'm sure you wouldn't want this token of friendship to seem unfriendly, would you?
哎喲 二位爺 Oh, gentlemen!
我說今兒又得關城吧 Are the city gates going to be closed again today?
啊 Of course.
抓住他 別讓他跑了啊 Arrest him and don't let him run away.
別讓他跑了 三爺還出去呀 - Arrest him and don't let him run away. - San ye, better stay at home.
外邊亂哄哄的正抓人呢 The army's seizing people on the streets.
正抓人呢 先別出去了 Better stay.
不礙事 抓走更好 So what? I'm here.
到哪兒也賣苦力 Going anywhere is just a coolie.
哎喲喲 我說您怎麽您這是啊 What's wrong with you.
別出去別出去了 外頭正抓人呢 Don't go out!
差點把我給抓了走 They nearly grabbed me!
嚇掉魂了 Almost scared me to death!
三爺三爺 San ye,
先別出去 don't go out!
哎嘿 Ok.
哎喲媽喲 嚇死我了 Almost scared me to death!
你活著也不過多買賣幾個大姑娘 So what! You'll only buy and sell a few more girls.
有人買有人賣 Well, some wish to sell and some wish to buy.
我在當中間兒幫點兒忙這能怨我嗎 All I do is to lend a helping hand! Don't blame me!
哼 劉麻子 "Pocky" liu, bah!
哎 Yes
我可告訴你 I'm warning you
我們哥倆自打前清起就專辦革命黨 since the time of the empire we've been dealing with revolutionaries.
是 Yes, yes.
不大愛管你這個販賣人口哇 拐帶婦女的臭事 We don't like dirtying our hands with slave-traders and pimps like you!
可別讓我們看見了哇 But now if we see you doing pimp things.
要讓我們看見了 If we catch you at it,
我們可也不能再睜一眼閉一眼 we won't turn a blind eye any more.
哎喲 I promise.
像你這樣的要是弄進去了 When the likes of you get pulled in,
準得鎖那尿桶上啊 you'll get chained to the piss-pot!
您別這麽說呀 Gentlemen, no need to put it like that!
您瞧瞧 我這不也快挨餓了嘛 These days I'm down-and-out like every one else.
你呀 非得把你鎖在尿桶上 When you're chained to that piss-pot,
你不會說好聽的 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.
你今天就有買賣 You must be doing a deal of some sort.
哪兒啊你 No such things.
要不這兵荒馬亂的你不會出來 Or you wouldn't poke your nose out on a day like this.
沒有沒有 No! I'm not!
你嘴裏是半句實話都沒有 There's never a word of truth from you.
哪能 I don't have the ball.
我告訴你 I will tell you
不跟我們說真的 是 lying to us
沒你的好處 是 - won't do you any good! - Yes.
走吧 Let's go.
外邊遛遛去 We'll take a walk around.
啊走吧 Let's go.
走二位 Gentleman.
您慢走 Welcome next time.
哎 王掌櫃 Manager wang,
每月一號按陽歷算 the first of next month, according to the new solar calendar.
別忘了 Don't forget!
那是 Believe me.
我就是忘了我姓什麽 I may forget my own name,
我也忘不了您二位這檔子事 but never your business!
好嘞 That's settled.
我說劉爺 嗯 Liu ye,
哎 yes.
您這個都喝完了吧 Had enough tea, I hope?
走 啊 Go outside.
你給我出去活動活動 Now take yourself off somewhere else!
您這不是沒人嘛 It is empty here.
您忙您的去 Carry on. Don't mind me!
我在這兒會倆朋友 I'm waiting here for a couple of friends.
咱倆把話說開了 I'd better make it clear,
從今以後 once and for all!
我不準你再在我這兒做你那個生意 Conduct your line of business elsewhere!
我這兒改良了文明了 We've reformed! We're civilized now!
我說掌櫃你來瞅瞅 Have you been starved?
別逗了你 Don't play jokes.
你等等 Wait outside.
七號這房客又喝醉了 The customer of apartment 7 is drunk again.
得咧 No more complaining.
是這兒嗎 Is this the place?
地方對呀 怎麽改了樣兒呢 It's the place all right! But it looks so different.
先生
喲 This...
什麽事啊您呢 Do you need any favor?
請問 Excuse me?
啊 Alright.
大力 是這兒啊 Da li. This is it.
找對了 You sure, ma?
沒錯 有他在這兒不會錯 No mistake! With him here, I'm quite sure.
你找誰啊 Who are you looking for?
劉麻子 你還認識我嗎 "Pocky" liu, recognize me?
喲 我這眼拙了 Sorry, I really can not recognize you.
當初你 You...
幹什麽 What are you doing?
你這娘兒們無緣無故 你跟我搗什麽亂呢 Why pick on me, missus, for no reason at all!
無緣無故 你看看我是誰 No reason? Take a good look at me!
我知道你誰呀 Who does know you, missus.
一個男子漢幹什麽吃不了飯 Couldn't you make a decent living any other way?
偏幹這傷天害理的事 呸 Do you have to follow your filthy trade? Pah!
我說 Well.
掌櫃的 Tea house manager.
這位大嫂 咱有話好好說 Madam! Don't get so upset! Calm down!
您是 掌櫃的 - Are you? - Are you the manager?
對 起來起來 Yes, I am.
您忘了嗎 Do you remember,
二十年前有個娶媳婦的大太監 almost twenty years ago, there was a eunuch who bought a wife?
您是龐太監那位 Ah, so you're eunuch pang's...
都是他做的好事 And it was all his doing!
今天我跟他算算賬 Today I'm going to make him pay for it!
我好男不跟女鬥 What a decent man will fight a woman!
我找人幫我說理去 I'll get someone to make you see sense.
媽 您坐 Please sit down, mom.
咱們呢 有話慢慢說 Take your time.
這龐太監呢 Where's the eunuch?
死了 Dead!
叫他的侄子們給餓死了 Starved to death by his nephews!
他一死 他的侄子們就把我們轟出來了 When he died, they threw us out,
連床被窩也沒給我們 without so much as a blanket!
那您這個是 And this is...?
我的兒子 啊 - My son. - Your...?
也是買來的給太監當兒子 Also bought. As the eunuch's son.
噢 I get it.
那個老東西 他掐我媽擰我媽 That old rotter. He used to pinch you, bite you
還用煙簽子紮我 and jab me with his opium skewe
是啊 他們人多 我們又太老實 there were too many of them and we were too soft.
掌櫃的 Manager.
當初我是在這兒叫人買了去 Since I was sold here,
咱們總算有緣 it seems a bit of luck that we've met again.
是 You are right.
您能不能幫幫忙 給我找個事做 Can you find me a job of some kind?
我餓死不要緊 It's not for myself,
可不能餓死這個無依無靠的孩子 but the boy with no one mustn't starve.
那您 So...
您會幹點什麽呀 What can you do?
洗洗涮涮縫縫補補做家常飯都會 Washing, sewing, mending, cooking, things like that.
我是鄉下人 我能吃苦 I come from the countryside. I don't mind hardwork.
那您 您要多少錢呢 How much would you want?
一天三頓飯 有個睡覺的地方 I'll be happy with three meals a day, a bed to sleep in
夠大力念書的就行 and enough to send da li to school!
那好吧 All right.
好吧 Right,
我給您慢慢打聽著 I'll keep an eye open for you.
您看吶 這二十年前這檔子事啊 Fact is, I've never forgotten
我還真是怎麽也忘不了 what happened here all these years ago.
想起來呀 心裏還就不痛快 Always left a bad taste in my mouth!
可眼下我們娘兒倆上哪兒去呢 But where can we go now?
您回鄉下去呢 How about going back to the countryside
找您老父親去 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.
哎喲 那要是馬上找個事 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錢 我 She's good at housework and not asking too much.
難道我不是內掌櫃的 Don't I run half the teahouse?
唉 You?
我跟李三爺就應該累死 You want to work me and li San ye to death?
掌櫃的 Manager.
您試試我 Give me a chance.
看我不行您說話 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
大嫂跟我來 come with me, sister.
當初我是在這兒賣出去的 Since I was sold here,
現在就拿這兒當娘家吧 this is like my parents home.
大力 見見大嬸 大嬸 - Come, da li. Meet your aunt. - Aunt.
大栓子 哎 Da shuan zi
二栓子 哎 er shuan zi
快來 come here.
叫我說什麽好喲 How can I thank you?
我真謝謝您了 Thank you so much.
大栓子 這是二栓子 叫大嬸 Call her aunt.
大嬸 哎 - Aunt. - Yes.
大力多大了 How old is da li?
十三了
我先謝謝您了 - Really thanks for your help. - Never mind.
這太監是取消了 The eunuch's gone
把太監家眷都交我這兒來了 but I get landed with his family!
好 The same as you.
崔先生 好 Welcome Mr. Cui.
這外頭亂亂哄哄的 您還出去啊 Don't go outside. It is totally a mess.
今天是念經的日子 要去的要去的 Today is training soldiers' day. I have to go.
哎 崔先生 Mr. Cui.
昨天 Yesterday
秦二爺又派人來請您 when qin er ye sent you an invitation,
您看您幹嗎不去呢 why didn't you go.
您是那麽大的學問 You're a learned man,
上知天文下知地理 know all about heaven and earth.
又當過國會的議員 Also have been a member of parliament.
您幹嗎天天念經 不出去做點兒事呢 Yet you shut yourself up here chanting Buddhist scriptures!
您幹嗎天天念經 不出去做點兒事呢 Why not do something more useful?
您應當出去做官 A good man like you should go into politics!
慚愧慚愧 You make me feel ashamed!
做過國會議員那真是造孽呀 Yes, I was a member of parliament, a grievous sin.
革命有什麽用呢 What has the revolution accomplished?
不過自誤誤人而已 We misled ourselves and others!
嗨 Well
現在我只能修持懺悔 now I spend my days in meditation and repentance.
那您看人家秦二爺呢 But look at qin er ye!
人家開了工廠又忙著辦銀號 Running a factory and getting ready to open a bank!
開了工廠辦了銀號又怎麽樣呢 With all his factories and banks, what can he do?
他說實業救國 他救了誰 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...
他是越來越有錢了嘛 He's richer than ever.
可是他那一點事業 And all his industry and commerce
外國人伸出一個小指頭 will collapse if the foreigners lift just one little finger.
就把他推倒在地再也爬不起來啊 Then he'll never get on his feet again.
這種遇事無補的力氣 For these meaningless things,
我是不去花的 I will never do them.
要照您這麽說 If things go like what you say,
咱不就一點指望也沒有了嗎 isn't there any hope for us?
難說 很難說 Hard to say. Very hard to say.
你看 今天是張大帥打王大帥 Now marshal wang wages a war on marshal li.
明天呢 是趙大帥又打張大帥 The next day marshal zhao attacks marshal wang.
是 Yes yes.
是誰叫他們打的 Who's behind it all?
呃 不 是誰 Who?
洋人 The foreigners.
你慢慢地就明白了 One day you will understand
有那麽一天 你我都得做亡國奴 all of us are slaves one day!
那崔先生 Then Mr. Cui
那您就不能夠幫著大夥出出主意 why don't you do something?
賣賣力氣 咱別當亡國奴 Save us from being slaves.
我年輕的時候以天下為己任 As a young man, I thought my ideals could save the world.
的確那麽想過 I tried to follow them.
現在我可看透了 Now I've seen through it all.
中國非亡不可 China's finished!
那咱也得死馬當活馬治 But we must try to save her!
死馬當活馬醫那是妄想 Save her? That's just wishful thinking!
死馬不能再活 活馬它早晚得死 A corpse can't be brought back to life. Everything dies sooner or later.
好了我到弘濟寺去 Well, I'm off to the hongji temple
秦二爺再派人來找我 if oin er ye should send for me again,
你就說 just tell him:
我只會念經 不會幹別的 I'm only interested in chanting Buddhist scriptures.
哎 沒人了 您就走吧 No soldiers are outside. Better get going?
勞駕勞駕 Thank you.
我說 I have to say.
哎哎 Yes.
就走吧 Make it snappy.
還真等著想挨倆脆的嗎 Unless you want your face slapped!
我不是跟您說了嘛 I told you,
我挨這兒等倆朋友 I have to wait for two friends!
您 You...
你說叫我說你什麽好哇 I can't think of a good enough name for you!
王掌櫃 隔行如隔山 Manager wang, once in a trade, always in the trade.
到哪年您也得開您這茶館 You'll always be selling your tea.
到哪年我也得幹我這一行 I'll always be doing my business!
就沖你 他怎麽能不當亡國奴 We will all be slaves if you continue selling people.
嘿 來了 Thank god. They are coming.
哎 就是他 It is him.
哎喲 林大哥陳二哥 Hi, elder brother lin! Elder brother chen!
來 進來 Come here.
行 嗯 Sit down.
說說吧 說說 Let's talk it over.
說說 Ok.
老二 說啊 You say it, second brother.
哥 這話還得你說了嘛 No, you say it, elder brother.
你說吧 You say it.
你是哥嘛 這話還得你說 As my elder brother, it's better you say it.
這二位誰說還不一樣啊 What's the difference who speaks?
我說 I will say it.
對 Ok.
好 Go ahead.
嗯 Please.
你看啊 Well, it's like this,
俺倆是拜了把兄弟的 we're sworn brothers.
嗯 對 That's right!
是拜把子的兄弟 Sworn brothers,
這兩個人穿了一條褲子的交情 so close we'd share the same pair of trousers.
好 Good.
他呀 有著幾塊現大洋咧 He's got a few silver dollars.
是啊 哎喲 Silver dollars?
那林大哥呢也有幾塊現大洋 Elder brother lin here also has some.
喲 我說二位 You two gentlemen,
哎 二位二位 you two,
咱一共有多少塊現大洋啊 how much together?
說個數目 Tell me.
那不能告訴你呢 We're not going to tell you that yet.
這事情要辦不好 If it is possible,
這話還不能說 you will know.
有現大洋沒辦不好的事 With silver dollars everything's possible!
真的呀 Really?
說瞎話是孫子 If I'm lying to you, I'll be damned!
老二說 You say it then, second brother.
哎 No, no!
哥 這話還得你說 You say it, my elder brother.
二位誰說還不一樣啊 No difference for you two to speak...
好我說 I will say it.
你看啊 See here.
俺們是倆人不 There are two of us, right?
倆人 Right!
對是拜把子的兄弟 Our friendship's so close, right?
這兩個人穿了一條褲子的交情 We can share the same pair of trousers, right?
沒人笑話俺們的交情 No one would laugh at our friendship, would they?
交情嘛 沒人恥笑 Friendship is friendship. Who laughs at that?
那你說 And
三個人的交情也沒人恥笑吧 no one makes fun of friendship among three people neither, do they?
哎 這 This...
怎麽著 三個人 Three people?
對 Yes.
我說這裏頭還有誰呀 Who?
說吧 Say it.
說 這 How to say...
還有個娘們呢 us and a woman!
哎喲 我明白了 Oh! Oh! Now I get it!
哎喲 這不好辦吶 But this is going to be tricky
嗯 really?
他不 我沒辦過 I've never done anything like it before.
您說 平常都說這小兩口小兩口 People usually talk about some nice young couple.
誰聽說過小三口呢 But who's ever heard of a nice young triple?
不好辦 Tricky, eh?
忒不好辦了 Very tricky!
老二你說呢 Second brother, how do you think?
哥這事情嘛 還能白白就拉倒 We're not going to call it off, are we?
對 不能白白拉倒 Hell, no.
當了十幾年的兵 We've been in the army for more than ten years
連半個老婆都娶不上 and can't even end up with half a wife?
他娘的 Fuck it!
這幹什麽呢這是 What are you doing?
王掌櫃 Manager wang.
得嘞得嘞 我說 I have to say.
我說你 You...
過來 咱們那邊去啊 Come and we discuss our business there.
走 這邊 This way.
得嘞 王掌櫃 Huh!
咱再想想 別著急 Think it over and we will find a way.
不能拉倒 We won't call it off.
我說二位咱一共有多少塊現大洋啊 How many silver dollars do you have?
你這小子 You.
走 We shall go.
等等 Just a minute.
千啥的嗎 What's up?
你說幹啥呀 You'd better be telling me what's up!
乖乖地跟我們走 Better come quietly!
上哪裏去呀 Where to?
逃兵 Deserters, right?
是吧 手裏有幾塊現大洋 With a few silver dollars in your pockets, right?
想在北京藏起來是吧 Trying to hide in Peking.
嗯 有錢就藏起來 Good idea. We hide with money in hand.
沒錢就當土匪 When the money runs out, we become bandits,
是吧 right.
我說這事情你管得著嗎 管得著嗎 None of your bloody business!
哎 我把你個奶奶的 I can lick eight of your sort with one hand!
擱下 Take him down.
反了你了 Wanna rebel.
可惜你把槍賣了是吧 Pity you sold your gun, right?
沒槍的幹不過有槍的是吧 Bare hands ain't no match for a gun, right?
我一個揍你這樣的八個 I can lick eight of your sort with one finger!
咱們都是弟兄啊 We're all brothers, aren't we?
這揍什麽呀 No need for unpleasantness.
好商量嘛 Let's sit down and have a little chat.
對了 咱們還是談談吧 來來 That's right. Show us the money.
哎呀 怎麽樣啊 二位 Just make a decision,
是要那個命 yourhves
還是要那幾塊現大洋啊 or your silver dollars?
啊 What?
我說二位呀 Listen to me,
你們可不知道啊 you may not know
我們掙這幾個錢不容易呀 that we went through hell to earn this bit of money!
那誰給我們發餉 Whoever paid us,
我們就得給誰打仗 we fought for
你可知道嗎 you don't know
我們打了多少年的仗嘛 the number of battles we fought!
可是逃兵的罪過 你們也不是不知道 But you know very well how they treat deserters!
咱們都是弟兄 說說 After all, we're all brothers. Let's talk it over.
哎 這還像句自己人說的話 That's the way to talk among friends.
哎 Fine.
說說吧 Now let's get down to business.
諸位諸位 大令可過來了 Hey! The execution squad's coming!
趕快跑 快 Run away.
站住 快點 Halt. Hurry up.
站住 站住 錢給我掏出來 Halt. Split the money.
站住 Halt.
君子一言 Our word of honour
把現大洋分給我們一半 保你們沒事 split the silver dollars with us and you'll be safe
咱們是自己人 we're friends, right?
哎 走了吧 Let's go.
快 你拿來 Hurry up. Give us all.
哎喲餵 Damn it.
老哥 My brothers.
好 Fine.
一五 一十 十五 Five, ten, fifteen...
快拿來 二十 二五 - Give us all. - Twenty, twenty five.
哎你 You
你幹啥 站好站好 - what the fuck. - Don't move.
報告官長 May I report, sir?
我們正在這兒盤查個逃兵 We're interrogating a deserter here.
是 Yes,
就是他 him.
就是他 Him.
好哇 Well done.
綁 Tie him up!
是 Yes, sir.
我說長官 不是我 Sir! I'm not! I'm not!
長官 您聽我說 Sir, listen.
不是我 I'm not.
長官 Sir
哎 what?
長官 您聽我說呀 Sir, listen.
不是我呢 您聽我說 I'm not.
長官這怎麽可以呢 我 Sir, how could you tie me
這位長官您 this sir, you
就地正法 execution on the spot!
我冤枉啊 長官吶 我冤枉 Sir, wronged. Wronged.
哎呀 Oh, my!
哎喲 長官 Sir. Sir...
嘿 快跑 還不快跑 Run away, quickly.
快快 Just go. Go. Go.
那邊那邊 That way.
他媽的笨蛋 Idiot.
這殺劉麻子 They are executing "pocky" liu.
啊 Jesus.
快點 Come on.
進去 Go inside. Go inside.
哎 讓一讓 讓一讓 Move. Move aside.
哎喲 Pity.
哎 快走啊 快走 Just move. Move.
又是二十多年過去了 Another more than twenty years goes by.
王掌櫃已經很老咯 Manager wang becomes much older.
可老裕泰還勉強支撐著 But yutai teahouse narrowly opens as always.
說話就到了解放前夕 It comes to the day before the China's war of liberation.
樹木老葉兒稀 Trees are brown. Leaves are yellow.
人老貓腰把頭低 People are old to bend their backs.
甭說我混不了 Speaking of me, I live bitterly.
王掌櫃的也過不好 Manager wang has also been in hard times.
說人人苦沒法提 People around all live a bitter lives.
不死也得掉層皮 Even though not to die, but starved to be skinny.
說盼星星盼月亮 Looking forward to the stars and moon coming out.
盼到勝利大家有希望 Looking forward to the victory bringing people light.
哼 Bah!
接收大員進了北京 Us soldiers and kmt secret service agents are running loose in Peking.
他橫行霸道 They run amuck
一點兒也不讓那日本兵 and behaves like Japanese soldiers.
你講理不講理呀你們 Exploiting us with no reasons.
王掌櫃他委屈多 Manager wang has a bunch of grudges.
他跟我一樣半死半活著 He lives also like me, half alive and half died.
那老茶館是破又爛 The tea house is gloomy and shabby.
他想盡了法子也沒法辦 He has tried everything to change, but no effects.
媽 晌午給我做點熱湯面吧 Ma, make me some not noodle soup for lunch.
好多天沒吃過了 It's ages since we've had it.
我知道乖 I know, pet,
可誰知道咱買得著面買不著呢 but who knows if there'll be any flour in the shops today.
就是糧食店裏可巧有面 Even if there is some,
誰知道咱們有錢沒有哇 we don't know if we can afford it.
那 What a life!
花兒上學去吧 Hua, go to school now.
小花 Xiao hua.
別去了 Wait.
西直門都關了街上亂哄哄的 Xi de men has been closed. Chaos on the streets.
幹嗎爸 What is it, dad?
學校門可沒關 School door has not been shut.
我去 I want to go.
花兒她媽 哎 Shuan mother.
你看 See,
這是你婆婆給我的皮坎肩 this is the fur vest from your grandma.
你留著穿吧 I will give it to you.
小花還沒走呢 Xiao hua! You still here?
康婆婆幹嗎呀 Granny kang, what is it?
來到這兒來 My dear, come.
讓婆婆再看你一眼 Let me have another look at you,
多體面吶 how pretty!
吃得不足哇 But too thin!
要不長得更好看 With more to eat she'd look even better.
大嬸 您這是要走吧 Aunt, have you made up your mind to go?
我走了 Yes, I'll go.
也好給你們省點嚼谷啊 Then I won't be a burden to you.
記得我們剛到這兒的時候 When we first came here,
大力也就小花這麽大呀 da li wasn't even as big as xiao hua is now.
看大力叔叔現在多高多壯實 Now, he's so strong. He's wonderful!
是啊 雖然他只坐了一袋煙的工夫 He was here only a few minutes,
可叫我年輕了好幾歲 but I really feel years younger.
本來我什麽都沒有 I haven't a thing in the world,
可一看見他呀 but when I see him,
就好像什麽都有了 I feel I've everything.
我走跟他走 Yes, I'll go with him.
受什麽累吃什麽苦都是香甜的 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 你好好地念書 Xiao hua, you be a good girl and go to school.
不
婆婆會回來接你的 I will come back and see you.
小花上學去 Xiao hua, go to school now.
哎 回來 Xiao hua, wait!
你大力叔的事可別說出去呀 Never tell anybody about your uncle da li.
要是說出去咱全家都得死 If you do, we've all had it!
還會誤了很重要很重要的事 It may also interrupt many important things.
我不說 I won't say a word
康婆婆 哎 granny kang,
等我下了學 您再走 don't go till I've come back from school.
瞧瞧 瞧瞧 慢點 Walk carefully.
哎 留神吉普車 Be careful of those jeeps on your way!
哎 I know.
大嬸啊 我爸爸讓您走嗎 Aunt, has dad agreed to let you go?
老掌櫃還沒打好主意呢 He hasn't decided yet.
我倒是怕 What worries me is,
大力回來的事 if da li's visit
萬一讓人家知道了 somehow leaks out
我又忽然這麽一走 and then I suddenly disappear,
也許要連累了你們 it may mean trouble for you.
大嬸 您放心走您的 Now, aunt, you just go ahead.
這年頭 誰逃出去了誰得活命 You'll have a chance to live if you go away.
那喝茶的不是常低聲說 Customers are always whispering to each other,
要活命就得上西山嗎 if you want a chance to live, you have to go to the western hills.
小花的媽 那咱們再商量商量 Well, xiuhua, let's talk it over.
我不能只顧自己 叫你們吃虧 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.
掌櫃的 我來了啊 Manager, I'm here!
你是誰呀 Who're you?
哎 小丁寶啊 Little ding bao.
小丁寶 Little ding bao?
哎 你幹什麽 What are doing here?
這個人 This girl...
小劉麻子叫我來的 "Pocky" liu Jr. told me to come here.
他說你們這兒老掌櫃的 He says the old manager here
托他請個女招待 asked him to find a waitress.
嗨呀 What?
姑娘 您瞧瞧 Take a good look around, miss.
這麽個破茶館 它能請女招待嗎 You think a dump like this needs a waitress?
我們老掌櫃的呀 But the old manager here's
就是窮得亂出主意 so desperate for money, he's always thinking up some crazy scheme?!
老大呀 Dashuan,
你怎麽老學著 在背後褒貶老人呢 who taught you to run down your elders behind their backs?
可是您瞧 But you see,
誰窮得亂出主意了 下板子去 who's full of crazy schemes? Take down the shutters!
什麽時候了 還不開門 The teahouse should have opened long ago.
老掌櫃 您硬朗啊 Old manager, you look pretty fit!
啊 Thank you.
有炸醬面的話 If there were some noodles with fried bean sauce around,
我還能吃三大碗呢 I could pack away three huge bowls.
可惜沒有 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.
我媽是寡婦帶著我過日子 My mother was a widow, tried to bring me up.
勝利以後哇 After the victory war,
政府硬說 the government insisted
我爸給我們留那些小房子是逆產 the house my father left us was traitor's property
給沒收了 and took it away from us.
我媽氣死了 The shock killed my mother.
我就當了女招待 So I became a waitress.
老掌櫃 我到今兒也沒明白 Old manager, I haven't a clue
什麽叫逆產吶 您知道嗎 what traitor's property means.
姑娘說話留點兒神 Better watch your tongue, miss.
一句話說不對啊 One wrong word
什麽都能夠成為逆產 can make anything traitor's property.
你看這後頭哇 Take the place behind here.
原本是秦二爺的倉庫 Used to be a warehouse of qin er ye.
人家一瞪眼 Then someone frowned at it.
說是逆產 就給沒收了 Said it was traitor's property. It was confiscated
就這麽檔子事 simple as that!
老掌櫃 您說對了 You said it, old manager.
連我都是逆產 Even I'm traitor's property!
誰的胳膊粗 我就得伺候著誰 I have to suck up to whoever's the boss.
他媽的我剛十七 Hell! I'm only seventeen
就常想著還不如死了呢 but I often wish I was dead!
死了倒落個整屍首 At least my body would be my own!
幹這一行 活著就爛了 This job rots you away slowly.
爸 請您過來一下 Dad, come here.
幹什麽呀這是 What's the matter?
您倒是過來呀 Just come.
您真想請女招待呀 Do you really want to hire a waitress?
那小劉麻子跟我瞎聊來著 I had a chat with "pocky" liu.
我一輩子好喜改良 I've always been keen on reforming.
看著買賣這麽不好 著急 And with business so bad, I'm worried
您著急 我也著急 me too!
可是咱得另想辦法呀 So we have to come up with new ideas.
這請女招待 Now hiring a waitress?
救不了咱這六十多年的老字號哇 Can not save our respectable old name of sixty years' standing.
什麽老字號 Good old name my foot!
越老越不值錢 The older you become, the more worthless you are!
你不信 我現在要是二十七 You don't believe me? If I were twenty-seven years old,
我就是叫小小丁寶 小丁寶貝兒 I'd call myself tiny ding bao or ding baby
也沒人瞅我一眼吶 but I bet no one would look at me twice.
您聽聽您聽聽 You listen carefully.
老掌櫃您瞧著 Old manager, look at me.
待會兒來倆茶座 If two customers come here,
我要是上去說一聲 if I'd gone over and said
小子 來啦 "hi, you two suckers?!"
那準得給塊現大洋 They'd have handed over a shiny silver dollar right away.
哼 怪不錯的 Bah, sounds great.
老大你那腦瓜子 Dashuan, you're as stubborn
就比那石頭還頑固 as a mules.
我看你八成不想幹這行了 Do what you like!
對 是有這麽點兒 Yes, I have thought about.
幹脆我出去遛遛去 I'll take a walk.
我在這兒出不來氣 It's too stuffy in here.
你出不來氣 我這兒還憋得慌呢 You find it stuffy? I can hardly breathe!
什麽事憋得慌啊老頭 Old man, what makes you breathe hardly?
小丁寶來了嗎 Is little ding bao here?
小丁寶你還真來了 Hi, little ding bao, so you're here!
有你的話誰敢不來呀 On your orders! How could I refuse?
來 老頭 Come. Old man.
看我給你找這小寶貝兒怎麽樣 What do you think of this little baby I've found for you?
論年歲相貌身材經驗 Looks, age, fashion, experience
樣樣出色 she's a real smasher
就怕我用不起吧 only snap is I can't afford her.
沒的話她不要工錢 No problem. She doesn't want any wages.
對吧小丁寶 Right, baby?
不要工錢 No wages?
老頭你放心 Leave it all to me, old man.
我跟小丁寶自有我們的一套辦法 Me and baby have got a way all worked out.
對吧小丁寶 Haven't we, baby?
沒你那套辦法 Sure, without your crooked ways,
怎麽叫缺德呢 where would you be?
缺德 你算說對了 Crooked? You've said it!
嘿 我告訴你 Well. I told you
當初 我爸爸就打這兒綁出去的 so was my old man. He was nabbed right here!
不信 問老掌櫃 If you don't believe me, ask manager wang.
我親眼得見 Saw it with my own eyes.
不蒙你 綁出去 See, he was dragged right to the middle of the street,
在馬路當間哢嚓就是一刀 and with one big whack of the sword, his nob was chopped off.
又不信 問老掌櫃 Right, old manager?
是 我聽真真兒 I heard that whack.
不跟你瞎吹 So I wasn't just telling you stories,
可是啊 我爸爸混了一輩子 but my old man didn't have what it takes for his whole life.
沒找著後臺 He did not have a backer,
結果混得不怎麽樣 so he still didn't get far.
現在輪到我自己出頭露面了 Now it's my turn,
我得找個洋人當後臺 I have to find foreigners as my backer
必得幹得特別出色 and I am going to hit the big time.
丁寶 聽聽我的計劃 Here, baby, take a look at my plan.
我沒那麽大工夫 I've no time.
我看吶 I think,
我該回家休息一天 I'll take a day off
明兒個來上工 and come back to work tomorrow.
丁寶 Ding bao,
哎 丁寶 ding bao,
我這會兒還沒想好呢 I haven't made up my mind yet.
老頭 我都替你想好了 Manager wang, I've made it up for you!
你不信 Youwisee,
明天小丁寶在門口歪著腦袋這麽一站 tomorrow morning, baby will stand at the entrance giving everyone the eye.
嘿 馬上就進來二百多茶座兒 Before you know what's happened you'll have two hundred customers on your hands!
老頭 你不聽我的行不行 See, manager wang, you can't do without me!
你那套光緒年的老辦法太守舊了 Your oing-dynasty methods are way out of date!
要不怎麽說 活到老學到老呢 That's why as they say, one must live and learn.
就是 我還得多學 Right. And I've a lot to learn!
就是 Now you're talking!
老掌櫃 Old manager.
哎喲 他媽的是你 Oh, shit! It's you.
小唐鐵嘴 小劉麻子 - Tang "the oracle" Jr. - "pocky" liu Jr.
來 讓爺瞧瞧 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 這洋服穿得是那麽回事 In that western gear
哎 從後邊看吶 from behind
你比那洋人還更像洋人呢 you look more foreign than a foreigner.
真的 Is it true?
老掌櫃 我夜觀天象 Old manager, I've been studying the stars
紫微星發亮 and there's irrefutable evidence
不久必有真龍天子出現 that the true son of heaven will come amongst us very soon now.
所以我跟小劉麻子 That's why prodigies like me and "pocky" liu Jr. are here,
噢 對了 還有這位 of course, as well as
小丁寶九城聞名 little ding bao, the talk of the town!
啊 對 Amazing. You are genius.
還有這個寶 Ah, yes, and little ding bao have been sent into the world.
我們才這麽才貌雙全文武帶打 Look at us, endowed with wit andbeauty, accomplished in letters
我們這叫應運而生 and prowess just right for the times!
活在這個時代 那真是如魚得水呀 And, boy, aren't we going to enjoy it!
哎 老掌櫃 Old manager,
你把臉轉正了 turn your face here.
我給你也瞅瞅 I'll read your features.
嗯 好 Good, good,
印堂發亮 a fine forehead!
你還得有一步好運呢 You're in for a spell of good luck!
行了老掌櫃 That will be enough. Old manager.
來碗茶喝吧 Now what about a cup of tea?
什麽小唐鐵嘴 Bullshit. Tang "the oracle" Jr.
嘿 Well.
別再管我叫小唐鐵嘴了 Don't call me tang "the oracle" Jr. any more.
我現在叫唐天師 My new title is tang the heavenly teacher.
哎喲 誰封你當天師了 Amazing. Who gave you that?
過兩天你就知道了 You'll hear about it in a few days.
哎喲 我說天師啊 All right, heavenly teacher,
你那個爸爸 but don't forget, your father
可是白喝了我一輩子的茶呀 had free tea off me all his life!
這可不能夠傳代呀 That's not going to be hereditary, I hope!
我說老掌櫃 Manager wang,
等我穿上八卦仙衣的時候 when I have put on my special robes,
你會後悔你剛才說了些什麽 you'll regret what you've just said.
你就等著瞧吧 You just wait!
小唐 跟你說點兒正經事 Tang Jr, first I want to tell you something important.
待會請你喝咖啡 小丁寶作陪 I'll treat you to a coffee later with baby here to keep us company.
好說吧小劉 什麽事兒 Fine, just say it. Liu Jr.
我這兒有個偉大的計劃 I've got a tremendous plan.
好 我洗耳恭聽 I'm all ears.
我要組織個大拖拉撕 I'm going to organize a trust.
啊 Excuse me?
拖拉撕 Tuo la si
不行 這是外國話你不懂 that's an American word, so perhaps you don't understand it.
翻成北京話就是包圓兒 In Peking dialect it means "it's all yours"
啊 我懂 of course, I see it.
就是說呀 It means
把所有的姑娘都由你一個人包辦 you can take care of all the girls.
對不 Right?
行啊 你小子腦力是不壞 That brain of yours really works!
小丁寶聽著 Baby, listen carefully.
這跟你有密切的關系 You're a part of this too.
甚至於跟老掌櫃也有關系 Even the old manager here's included.
是 我那兒都聽著呢 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
全組織一塊堆兒 together
組織這麽個大拖拉撕 into a huge trust.
那官面上都疏通好了 Got all the official backing you need?
當然 Sure!
沈處長的董事長 我的總經理 Director shen will be chairman of the board. I'll be general manager.
沈處長 Director shen?
哎 這個辦法好 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.
怎麽不雅呀 這是外國話 吃香 How? This is the foreign word and that's fashionable.
還是叫什麽聯合公司響亮大方 I still feel that "something incorporated" sounds better. It's got more taste.
有你這麽一說 You've got a point there.
那叫什麽聯合公司呢 But what "incorporated"?
缺德公司就挺好 How about "crooked incorporated"?
小丁寶這說正經事 你怎麽老瞎搗亂吶你 Look, baby, this is serious! Don't be so smart!
你好好幹 Do your job well
將來你有當女招待總教官的希望 and there's a good chance you'll become the chief instructor of the waitresses.
跟我一樣市黨部領薪水去 You will get your salary from the Peking kmt party, just like me.
嗨 我呢 Hey, how about me?
你給起個好名字請你當顧問 If you can think up a good name for it, you'll be our adviser!
那車馬費我可不要法幣 I won't take national currency bills for my fees.
行每月送你幾塊美鈔 Ok. Only greenbacks every month!
好嘞 我給你好好琢磨琢磨 Sure. I will take a thoughtful think.
你給琢磨個好名字 If you can think up a good name,
你這顧問就算當上了 you'll definitely be our adviser.
行嘞 That's it.
丁寶走 Ding bao, let's go.
劉麻子 你等等 "Pocky" liu Jr., wait a minute.
怎麽 What's up?
這丁寶這事到底怎麽辦呢 What about little ding bao?
老頭我不是跟你說了嘛 Old manager, trust me!
你全都甭管了 Leave all the matters to me.
拖拉撕包辦一切 The trust will have everything under control.
拿你這兒試驗試驗 I'll try it out here first.
哎小劉 哎 - Liu Jr. - Yes.
你不是說喝咖啡去嗎 Didn't you say something about coffee?
問小唐去不去 See if tang Jr. wanna go or not.
你們先去吧 我還等個人呢 You go ahead. I'm expecting someone here.
老掌櫃明兒見 Old manager, see you tomorrow.
嗯 See you.
回見啦天師 Bye, heavenly teacher.
走吧
老掌櫃 Old manager,
來張報瞧瞧吧 where's the paper?
哎 Wait.
你等著我給你慢慢找找去 I'll have to look for it.
嗯 Take your time.
頭二年的還是有兩張 Perhaps some copies from two years ago are still lying around somewhere.
廢話 Oh, stop talking nonsense!
嘿 老掌櫃 Hey, old manager.
我告訴你 I tell you that
一會兒可有個貴客要到這兒來 an important customer will come here soon.
老掌櫃哎 Old manager. Yes.
二位怎麽啦 What's the matter. Two gentlemen.
不來啦 老掌櫃您辛苦 - All are already here. - You must be very busy.
您辛苦 The same as you.
二位 My friends,
咱們這會兒可是茶錢先付 please pay in advance.
沒錯 給您預備下了 Exactly, your seats have already been reserved.
師哥 嗯 - My senior fellow apprentice. - Yes.
我這兒有 I will pay for it.
哎 去 Ah! Move aside.
茶錢先付哇 Pay in advance!
說著都燙嘴 嗯 I'm really ashamed to say it.
怎麽老掌櫃 What about it, manager?
晚上添點兒評書不添呢 How about story-telling as an added attraction in the evenings?
試驗過了 不行 I tried. But it was no good.
光費電 不上座兒 Only increased the electricity bill, but not the number of customers!
唱出戲 For singing the whole opera,
掙不上仨雜合面窩頭錢 I don't get enough to buy three maize buns?!
咱們吶 Well
都叫這些流行歌曲跟紡棉花 it looks as though we've been beaten by pop songs
給擊垮咯 是 and trashy operettas like spinning cotton.
我是這麽想 The way I feel about it,
咱們無論是死還是活著 if you or I live or die,
都在其次 嗯 it all doesn't matter,
頂傷心的是咱們這些玩意兒 but it breaks my heart to think that
過不了幾年就全得失傳 what's left of our art will die out in a few years!
咱們對不起祖師爺 We've failed our legendary founders.
唉 師哥 Ah! My senior fellow apprentice.
常言說 邪不侵正 It's an old saying that evil will never vanquish good.
這年頭就是他媽邪年頭 But these are evil times,
正經的玩意兒 都得連根爛 And everything good is rotting away at the roots!
娘娘到 Your imperial majesty!
娘娘 Your imperial majesty!
康老太太還住這兒嗎 嗯 - Is aunt kang around? - Yes.
嘿 Hey.
你幫我把她弄到西山去 Please help to get her to western hills.
有她在我手心裏攥著 With her as hostage,
康大力這幫八路就不敢造反了 the eighth route army, including kang da li will not rebel us.
您這主意高 Genius you are.
您往這邊 This way, please.
嘿 老掌櫃 Greetings. Old manager.
給娘娘沏茶呀 Serve the tea.
帶著葉子呢 Carrying tea with you?
王掌櫃把康媽媽請出來吧 Old manager. Please invite Mrs. Kang to come here.
我去叫去 I'll get her.
哎 這都怎麽檔子事 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.
您出來一下 Please come out.
幹什麽 What do you want?
嘿 您看 Just look.
哎喲 婆母 Mother-in-law!
這是 我早就說了 - Who are you? - I have promised you before
要過來給您請安 that I will greet you again.
這是幹什麽 What are you doing?
幹什麽 What do you want?
哎 起來 You may get up.
起來 起來 Get up.
哎喲 我接您來了 I've come to take you home.
您快坐著吧 Please sit down.
您坐您坐 Please sit down.
我是您的四侄媳婦 I'm the wife of your fourth nephew.
四侄媳婦 Wife of my fourth nephew?
啊 That's right.
您離開龐家那會兒啊 But when you left the pangs,
我還沒過門吶 I hadn't married into the family then.
我跟龐家的人一刀兩斷了 I've finished with the pangs.
找我幹什麽 Why look me up?
您的四侄子海順 Your fourth nephew, haishun,
是三皇道的大壇主 is the high priest of the "tri-emperor"
又是沈處長的把兄弟 and a sworn brother of director shen.
快做皇上啦 您不喜歡嗎 Soon he's going to be made emperor! Isn't that fantastic?
快做皇上 Going to be made emperor?
啊 龍袍都做得了 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.
真山真水有吃有穿吶 Mountains cover with rivers. Many food to eat and clothes to wear.
您老人家去享幾年清福吧 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.
說您也受了半輩子苦了 He said you have been suffered all your life.
到我們那去享幾年清福吧 Come with us and enjoy the life there.
您到了我那兒啊阿 When you get there,
吃好的 喝好的 I promise you the best food and drink,
兜裏老揣著幾塊當當響的洋錢 plus some silver dollars to jingle in your pocket!
夠多麽好哇 What a posh life!
嘿 走吧老太太 我攙著您 Shall we go? Let me help you walk.
你躲我遠遠的 啊 You stay away from me.
哎 你讓老太太想想 Give her time to think it over.
您想想 You think it over.
不用想 I don't need it.
我不會再跟龐家的人打交道 I'm finished with the pangs for ever!
你做你的娘娘 You carry on being an empress
我當我的苦老婆子誰也別管誰 and I'll carry on being a poor old woman. Let's keep out of each other's hair!
剛才你要跟我瞪眼 Just now you were about to throw a scene.
你當我怕你呢 You think that'd scare me?
這麽多年我也磨煉出來了 After all these years on my own, I know how to take care of myself.
你跟我瞪眼我會伸手打 Try something, and I'll teach you a lesson!
嘿 老太太 Listen. Old lady! Old lady!
哎 老太太 Old lady!
小夥子啊 挺起腰板來 Young loafer, why don't you stand on your two feet
去掙碗幹凈飯吃不好嗎 and make a decent living?
哎 老太太 Come back, old lady.
老太太你 Old lady, you...
王掌櫃 過來 Manager wang, come here
過來 come.
喲 幹什麽呀 What do you want?
你去跟老婆子說說 Go and talk some sense into that old hag
叫她跟我上西山 persuade her,
說好了 我送給你兩袋子白面 and I'll give you a bag of flour.
說不好 我砸了你這茶館 If not, I'll have your tea house smashed up!
天師 走 Heavenly teacher, let's go!
嘿 Manager wang,
今兒晚上我聽你回話啊 I'll be back for your answer this evening.
那萬一後半天我就死了呢 Suppose I kick the bucket this afternoon?
你 你還不該死呢 Then good riddance?!
呸 Pah!
啊 呸 Pah!
呸 Pah!
爸 啊 Father.
那些人都是千什麽的 Who are these people.
喲 大栓哥 Hey. Brother dashuan.
嗬 小二德子 Welcome. Er de zi Jr.
怎麽那麽閑在啊 How carefree you are!
有工夫來逛茶館 Spend your time in our tea house
喲 大栓哥 well. Brother dashuan.
今兒個茶館怎麽那麽清凈啊 Why the tea house is so quiet.
啊 唉 - Why? - Ah.
不上座啊 No customers.
哎 大栓哥沏壺頂好的 Brother dashuan, a pot of the very best.
嘿 我有錢了 I'm in the money today!
來 給我算算 Work it out for me.
剛才我花了一塊 這還有三塊 Just spent one dollar. Got three left.
不四塊 No, four left.
哎 五毛錢打一個 我一共打幾個 Half a dollar each, how many I done in?
你呀 啊 You.
打了十個 Ten.
十個 Ten?
十個 Ten.
對 大栓哥 Right. Brother dashuan,
拿兩個花吧 here's a couple of dollars.
沒錢 我就白喝你的茶 When I'm broke, I drink your tea free.
有了錢了就給你 拿著 When I'm in the money, I pay you. Take'em!
嘿 這塊好 That's a good'UN.
就一塊當兩塊吧啊 Good enough for two! Take it!
小二德子什麽生意那麽好啊 Er de zi Jr., what's your racket?
現大洋可不容易看見呢 Silver dollars don't grow on trees!
我上學去啦 I'm studying at the university!
你上什麽學 University?
市黨部派我去的 The Peking kmt party headquarters sent me
瞧 法政大學 to the institute of law and politics.
沒當過這麽美的差事 What a pushover!
太美 太過癮了 A dream!
比在天橋強多了 Better than mixing with those burns in tianqiao.
打一個學生五毛錢現大洋 Half a dollar for every student I did in.
這鐵筋洋灰的胳臂 Feel it. Reinforced concrete!
打學生怎麽樣 Imagine that on the students. Smashing, eh?
小二德子 聽我說 Er de zi Jr., listen to me.
這打人不對 Beating up people is wrong.
得 今兒我不打人了 Today I won't beating up anymore students.
今兒個我抓人 I am going to arrest students.
咱們遛達著吧 Let's take a walk outside.
走 Ok.
哎 您二位坐著 Why don't you drink tea?
您走啊 See you next time.
哼 打人不對 Beating up students is bad?
那也難說 Who says so?
你瞧那教黨義的教務長 Look at the Dean of the institute. He teaches kmt party doctrines.
上課的時候先把手槍拍在桌子上 When he gives a lecture first thing he does is to take out his shooter and bang it on the table.
我不過是掄掄拳頭 Me, I only use my fists,
還沒動手槍呢 not shooters!
什麽教務長 Deanindeed!
那是流氓 He's a gangster!
對流氓 Right! A gangster!
哎 我也成流氓啦 Ah, no, that makes me a gangster too!
哎 大栓哥那茶給我留著啊 Brother dashuan, keep an eye open for my tea.
老掌櫃您別送啦 Old manager, please do not see me off.
送 送 I must see you off.
哎 怎麽回事 Ah! What has happened?
還是走 Insists going.
別送啦 送送 Please do not.
您別送啦 Please do not.
送送 送送 I must, must.
老掌櫃您要改了主意 Manager wang, if you've changed your mind
不讓我走 我還可以不走 and want me to stay, I will.
那龐四奶奶也未必敢來砸茶館 Madame pang won't dare smash up our teahouse.
你怎麽知道 How do you know?
三皇道是好惹的 It doesn't pay to tangle with the "tri-emperor" society.
我頂不放心的還是大力回來的事 What really worries me is da li's coming here last night.
萬一走漏了消息 If that leaks out,
大家全完 那比砸茶館更厲害 we're all finished. That's more serious than smashing up the teahouse.
大嬸啊我送您去吧 Better you leave, aunt! I'll see you off.
西直門關了咱得繞德勝門吶 Xi zhi men is closed. Go to de sheng men directly.
爸爸 我送送她老人家 總可以吧 Dad, I can see her off, can't I?
大嬸挨咱們這兒受了多少年的苦 All these years aunt has endured
幫了咱們多少忙啊 and has done so much for us.
還不應當送送 The least we can do is see her off.
我這會兒沒說不叫他送啊 Did I say no?
你倒是送啊 送啊 Go ahead, see her off!
大嬸啊 您等等 Just a minute, aunt.
我拿件衣裳去 I'll fetch a coat.
爸 您怎麽啦 What's up, dad?
你別再問我什麽了 Don't ask me any more questions.
我心裏亂吶 Can't think straight. I'm all muddled.
一輩子沒這麽亂過 Never been so muddled before.
他媳婦兒 Daughter-in-law
哎 yeah.
你先陪著你大嬸先走 You go with aunt first.
哎 Ok.
回頭我叫大栓子追你們去 I'll tell dashuan to catch you up.
哎 Yes.
嗯 Yes.
她大嬸啊 Aunl
啊 yes?
道上要是不好走啊 If you have any trouble on the way,
就還回來 you just come back!
哎 Thank you.
我也忘不了你們 And I'll never forget you.
老掌櫃您硬硬朗朗的 Old manager, I wish you good health yourself!
硬硬朗朗的 I will.
老掌櫃 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.
我硬硬朗朗的幹什麽呀 Good health! What's the use?
方師母 快開門快 Please open the door, teacher's wife feng.
快快 Hurry.
小金受傷了 您幫照看一下 Xiao Jin is wounded. Look after him for me.
方師母 謝謝你呀 Thanks teacher's wife feng.
快走 快走 來 Hurry up and go.
小李 西直門把得嚴 Xiao li. Xi zhi men is guarded tightly.
過不去 繞德勝門吧 You can not go through it. Just go to de sheng men.
好我們留下 接應城外的同學 快走 Ok, we will stay to cover students outside the city.
走
這力量是鋼 比鐵還硬 比鋼還強 The strength is iron, more harder than iron.
二德子 Dezi
二哥 my second brother.
怎麽著 快追 - What are you waiting. - Chase them.
咱別楞著 Do not hesitate.
快追呀 追 Go and chase them.
過去 Move, move.
爺爺 Grandpa.
花兒怎麽這麽早就放學了 Why are you back from school so early, xiao hua.
老師們都罷課了 Our teachers are on strike!
爸 Dad?
爸 我走啦 Dad. Goodbye.
我爸幹什麽去 Where my dad has gone?
嘿 Hey.
爸 花兒 Dad? Xiao hua.
上後頭溫書去吧 乖 Go to backyard and revise your lessons. Ok.
去吧 Go now.
老掌櫃 Old manager, old manager!
我告你點兒事 I've something to tell you!
什麽事啊姑娘 What, miss?
小劉麻子沒安著好心 "Pocky" liu Jr.'s up to no good.
他巴結沈處長 He colludes with director shen
要霸占你這個茶館 and is going to take over your teahouse!
他怎麽霸占吶 How come?
我都這麽個破茶館了 還值當的他們霸占吶 What would he want with a shabby old place like this?
我沒工夫跟您細說 No time to explain!
他們可一會兒就到啊 They'll be here any moment.
您自己打個主意吧啊 You'd better think of something quick!
哎 Thanks for the tip off.
哎 老掌櫃 Old manager,
我可是好心好意告訴你 I just want to help you!
你可別把我賣了 Don't tell on me!
哎喲 我這會兒還沒老糊塗了呢 姑娘 I'm not gaga yet, my girl!
我謝謝您了 Don't worry!
爸 您幹嗎呢 Dad, what are you doing?
爸 他們走了 Dad, they've gone.
啊 Who?
小花她爸跟康婆婆他們走啦 Dashun and aunt kang all have gone.
那好 Good.
好 那好 Very good.
花兒她爸說叫您放心 Dashun said you're not to worry.
他送到了地方就回來 He'll be back as soon as he's seen her safely there.
他回來不回來的 就隨他的便吧 That's up to him!
爸 您怎麽了 What's the matter, dad?
幹嗎這麽不高興的 Why are you so upset?
沒事沒事 Oh, nothing, nothing!
你上後頭去看看小花去吧 Go and see to xiao hua.
哎 I will go.
噢 Wait.
孩子不是老想吃碗熱湯面嗎 Didn't she want some hot noodles?
看看那缸裏頭 Check the flour cylinder.
要是還有點面的話呀 If there's any flour left,
就給孩子做碗吃吧 make her some.
孩子也怪可憐的 Poor child,
什麽都吃不著 nothing good for her to eat!
一點白面也沒有了 There's not a scrap of flour left in the house!
好 我看看去 I'll see what I can do
給她做一碗雜合面疙瘩湯吧 maybe make a bowl of dough drop soup with maize flour.
老掌櫃 Manager wang,
嘿 怎麽樣 what's going on?
說好了嗎 Did you persuade her?
晚上 This evening.
晚上我一準給你回話 I promised you an answer this evening.
老掌櫃 Old manager.
你不是說 我爸爸白喝了你一輩子茶嗎 You were complaining my father never paid you for his tea.
我今兒送你幾句救命的話 So, in return, here's a piece of advice
算是替他老人家還賬 which may save your neck.
我告訴你 Listen,
這三皇道現在比日本人在這兒時候還厲害 the "tri-emperor" society's even stronger now than under the japs.
砸你這茶館 比砸個砂鍋還容易 Smashing up a teahouse like yours is kidsplay to them.
你可小心著點兒 You'd better watch out.
我知道 Oh, I understand alright!
你是既要討我的好 You don't want to get my back up.
也好給娘娘去表功對吧 Yet at the same time you want to get in your empress' good books?
喝點兒水 喝點兒水 Sit and drink some water.
二位 You two,
哎 我說 it seems
這今兒夠忙的 quite a busy day, eh?
忙 忙得厲害 學生們大暴動 Too damn busy! There's a students' riot!
噢 Oh?
罷課也都改了名兒了 叫暴動了 Now you call it a "riot" instead of a "strike".
嗯 Sure.
二位 這外頭怎麽樣了 What's happening outside?
他們還能反到天上去嗎 They won't get away with it!
到現在為止 已經打了一百多 We've already beat the daylights out of more than a hundred
抓了七十多個了 and nabbed more than seventy.
噢 Really?
叫他們反去吧 That'll teach them!
二位 You two,
有用得著三皇道的地方 您言語一聲 you just call me when you are in need of "tri-emperor".
我們是隨叫隨到 We will arrive immediately.
好 Thanks.
二位 再見了啊 Goodbye. You two.
哎 今兒晚上聽你回話啊 I expect your answer this evening.
怎麽著 剛才你說罷課改叫暴動了 You were asking just now, how a "strike" becomes a "riot", weren't you,
嗯 manager wang?
啊 Excuse me?
歲數大了 不懂新事 問問 I'm too old to understand newfangled things.
我看你跟他們是一路貨 You all belong to the same bunch.
嘿 您太高擡我了 Me? You flatter me!
我們忙 We got no time to waste on you.
沒工夫跟你廢話 說幹脆的吧 Let's make it snappy.
什麽幹脆的 That means?
學生們暴動必有主使的人吶 There's someone behind the teachers' riot.
誰呀 Who?
昨天晚上 誰到這兒來了 Who came here last night?
康大力 Kang da li!
就是他 That's the man!
康大力在西山幹八路 Kang da li works as the communist eighth army in western hills.
你把他交出來吧 Hand him over!
嘿嘿 我要知道他是那路人 If I'd known he was such a character,
我能夠這麽 would I
隨隨便便就跟你們二位說出來嗎 have told you his name?
嘿 Well,
我跟你們二位的爸爸 I dealt with your fathers
打了一輩子的交道哇 long enough to learn
我能夠不懂得這點小道理 at least that much, I hope!
甭跟我們拍老腔 說真格的 Talking about your age won't get you anywhere! Let's get down to brass tacks.
嗯 Nice.
交人 Hand him over
還是給錢 or else pay up!
對吧 Right?
嘿 Oh.
你真是我爸爸磨煉出來的啊 Dad had trained you well!
錢嘛咱們回頭再說 We'll discuss that money later.
現在要的是人 But now we only want the person.
你叫我給你們二位上哪兒找去啊 Where can I get the person you mentioned?
嗬 你要是不把康大力交出來 Oh. If you do not hand kang da li over to me,
你就把他的媽 then you have to hand his mother
康順子 給我們交出來 kang shunzi to me.
我說 二位二位 快走快走 You two, come quickly.
嗯 怎麽啦 What has happened?
學生們往德勝門去啦 All students go to the de sheng men.
市黨部正在奔德勝門 The Peking kmt party is heading towards de sheng men.
哎 你們小子管幹什麽的 You little bastard, what are you paid for?
嘿 我沒閑著呀 I fuckin' did my best
瞧 臉都打腫了 take a look at my face! It's all swollen.
啊 走 Come. Hurry up.
哎 走 Come. Hurry up.
我們馬上就回來 Manager, we'll be back in a jiffy. So make up your mind.
交不出人來 No person,
我跟你算賬 走 you will be paid off.
我說你們就不怕我跑了嗎 You aren't afraid I'll run off?
嘿 What?
老梆子 你可真能逗氣兒 Giving us some of your lip, you old devil,
我告訴你 are you?
你今兒就跑到陰曹地府去 We'll follow you to hell even!
我今兒也把你抓回來 And get you back.
走 Come.
爸 我們挨裏頭都聽見了 Dad, we have heard everything!
快 快 Hurry up.
走 追你們的康媽媽去 Get out of here! Try to catch up with aunt kang!
我拿書包去 哎 At once! I'll get my satchel.
哎 Good.
花兒啊 帶上兩件衣裳 哎 Take some clothes along, xiao hua.
爸 剩下您一個人可怎麽辦吶 Dad, what will you do all alone?
這塊兒是我的茶館 This place is my teahouse.
我活著 活在這兒 I've lived in it.
我死啊 也死在這兒 I'll die in it!
爸 爺爺 - Dad! - Grandpa!
都別難受了 別難受了 Don't cry!
走嘞 走嘞 Off you go now!
噢 他媳婦兒 Daughter-in-law
都帶著吧 Take the money.
爸 您留著吧 Dad, keep it for yourself.
我叫你們拿著 就拿著吶 Listen, just take this.
花兒 花兒 來 Xiao hua, xiao hua, come.
哎 叫爺爺再看一眼 Yes. Let me see you the last time.
臨了臨了的 Icy hands.
也沒吃上碗熱湯面 And haven't be able to eat one bowl of hot noodles.
走嘞 走嘞 Off you go now!
到了那邊啊 When you get there,
告訴你爸爸 just tell your dad,
說爺爺說了 as I told you,
叫他 I beg him,
不回來了 never coming back.
嗯 啊 Yes.
嗯 Yes.
走嘞 Off you go now.
花兒 Xiao hua.
跟爺爺 Say goodbye
說再見 to your grandpa.
爺爺 哎 - Grandpa. - Yes.
再見 Goodbye.
再見再見 Goodbye.
爺爺 Grandpa.
你倒是快著點帶著她走哇 Bring her and run away now.
花兒咱們走 Xiao hua, let's go.
爺爺 Grandpa.
花兒 Xiao hua.
到姥姥家別淘氣 Don't behave naughty at your granny's home.
好好溫書啊 Study your lessons hard.
哎 Ok.
老頭好消息 Wonderful news, old man.
沈處長批準了我的計劃 Director shen's approved my plan.
那你大喜呀 Congratulations
你也大喜呀 congratulations to you too!
沈處長也批準了修理這個茶館 The director also approved fixing up the teahouse.
我一說 處長就說"蒿" As soon as I suggested it he said "okay".
你看人家不說好 It's the way he says it.
人家說"蒿" 特別有個洋味兒 "Okay!" just like a foreigner!
我說這都怎麽檔子事 What's all this about?
老頭 這下你省心了 Your troubles are over!
你給我搬家 You can clear out.
我先跟你說一聲 Get this straight now.
省得到時候 你跟我找麻煩 I don't want you pestering me later on.
不能夠 Don't worry!
巧了 Pure coincidence
我這會兒還正想著搬家呢 I'm on the point of moving out myself.
老裕泰 六十多年的老字號 Yutai has survived for more than six decades.
九城聞名 Well known around the cities.
怎麽樣 How do you think of it?
嗯 Huh!
地點也好 It has a great location.
我打算照舊賣茶 I plan to serve the tea as always
監視三教九流各色人等 and spy on people in various trades.
一定能得到大量的情報 A large amount of information can be acquired.
好 Good for you.
小劉 Xiao liu.
老掌櫃在這兒這麽多年了 嗯 The old manager's been here for ages.
你也不照顧著點兒 That's no way to treat him.
行 我這人辦事永遠厚道 We'll see. I always play fair.
嘖 老頭啊 Now, manager wang,
你把這歸置歸置啊 you tidy it up!
我去請沈處長 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.
什麽事這麽個好法 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!
我正想找著像你這麽個人 Just the man I was wanting to
好好地說說吶 have a chat with.
說說 Chat?
哎 Yeah.
說說 Chat.
哎 Ah!
你等著 Wait.
我給你沏壺高的去 I'll make a pot of the very best tea.
哎 啊 Thank you.
哎 Thank you.
哎呀 Hey.
王掌櫃在嗎 Is manager wang here?
王掌櫃 Manager wang
誰呀 youte?
我 我姓秦 My name's oin.
喲 秦二爺 Qin er ye!
啊 哎喲 Yes he is.
二爺 二爺 Er ye. Er ye.
來 Sit here. We'll...
二爺 我正想著告訴您一聲去呢 I was just thinking of telling you, er ye.
就咱們這會兒啊 At this place,
這回可要大改良了 another great "reform" is about to take place.
啊 改良 Reform?
來來來 Sit down! Sit down!
我這兒有點花生仁 I've got some peanuts here.
哎 喝茶就花生仁 Tea and peanuts,
這可是個樂子 what more fun can you want?
樂子 來著 - Fun. - Enjoy it.
來著來著 Just enjoy it.
哎 二爺 二爺 Er ye. Er ye.
可 可這誰還嚼得動啊 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
又都沒了牙了 but we've no teeth left to chew them with!
哎呀 二爺 怎麽樣啊 How is your business, er ye.
沒人理我啦 No one wants to listen to me any more,
我來找你談談 so I've come to you.
哎哎 Well.
我上天津去了一趟 I just went to Tianjin
看看我那工廠 to have a look at my factory.
不都沒收了嗎 又都發還了 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.
別人不知道 你知道 王掌櫃 Others may not know it but you do, manager wang.
我由打二十多歲起 From my twenties
就主張實業救國 I advocated national salvation through industry.
到如今 And now.
搶去我的工廠 When they seized my factory,
好哇 我勢力小 我幹不過他們 I couldn't lift a finger. I was a nobody. No match for them!
可你倒是好好地辦吶 Still I hoped they'd run it well.
那是救國裕民的事業 It could have helped the country to prosper and benefited the people.
拆啦 Now demolished!
那機器 All the machines
都當成碎銅爛鐵給賣了 sold as scrap!
全世界啊 Where in the world,
可著這全世界 in the whole wide world,
你能找得出這樣的政府來 找不出來 can you find a government like this one?
當初 Years ago,
我這會兒開得好好的公寓 my boarding-house was doing fine.
你非都把它都拆了蓋倉庫不可呀 But you insisted on building your warehouse here.
你瞅瞅 Then what happened?
倉庫都叫人家查封了 The warehouse was sealed up
東西都偷走了 and all the goods stolen!
打那當兒我就勸你 Years ago, I warned you
別把那產業都出了手 not to sell off all your property.
你看 他非都把它折騰了 But you insisted
他辦工廠不可呀 so you could start your factory!
還記得不 Remember when?
當初 The time
我給那個賣小妞的小媳婦一碗面吃 I gave that young woman selling her daughter two bowls of noodles
您還說風涼話呢 and you mocked me.
忘了忘了 I've forgotten.
現在我明白了 Well, I know better now!
明白了 明白了 I know it.
王掌櫃 Manager wang,
哎 I am.
求你一件事 I want to ask you a favour.
沒事的時候 When you've nothing better to do,
你可以跟那喝茶的人們 you can tell your customers stories about them.
當成個笑話談談 Tell them the joke.
你說當初 Tell them, once upon a time
有那麽個不知好歹的秦某人 there was a foolish man called qin
愛辦實業辦了幾十年 who was mad on industrialization.
結果 It turns out...
你應當勸告大家 The moral of this story is
有錢就得吃喝嫖賭胡作非為 if you have money spend it all on wine, women and gambling.
可就是 Only enjoy life.
千萬別做好事 Never try to do anything useful!
告訴他們 Tell them,
秦某人七十多了 this man called qin
還剩下口氣的時候 didn't understand these simple truths
才明白過這點道理 until he was in his seventies,
他是個天生來的笨蛋 because he was a real bloody fool!
二爺 Er ye.
我這會兒 At this moment,
說話就要搬家了 I'm going to moving out of here.
搬家 Moving?
搬到哪兒去 Where to?
搬到哪兒不一個樣 What does that matter?
秦二爺 Qin er ye.
常四爺 Chang si ye.
我呀
比不了你們二位 Not as great as you.
二爺您 Qin er ye,
財大業大心胸大 you had a great wealth and ambitions.
這樹大就招了風了 But, as they say, it's the tall tree that bears the brunt of the storm.
四爺你 And you, Chang si ye,
一輩子不服軟 you never gave in,
敢作敢當 never feared the consequences,
專門好打抱不平 never accepted injustice to yourself or to others.
可我呢
當了一輩子的順民 I've been an obedient subject all my life...
見著誰 Meeting everyone,
我都鞠躬 請安 作揖 I bowed and scraped
就盼望著 I only wanted
孩子們有點兒出息 a good future for my children.
凍不著餓不著 Food and clothes.
沒災沒病 To be safe and sound.
可哪兒想到哇 Then,
日本人在這會兒的時候 when the japs were here,
我二栓子就跑了 my son er shuan zi ran off.
老婆想兒子 My old missus
想死了 died of a broken heart and worry.
好容易盼著 Finally,
日本人走了 when the japs left,
你覺乎著 該緩口氣了吧 we all hoped life would be better.
可誰知道哇 Who'd have thought
這又來了 another trouble comes.
我呀 也不比你強 I'm no better off than you!
自食其力 I earned my own living
憑良心 and for all my life
幹了一輩子 I worked hard
一事無成 but where's that got me?
七十多了 In my seventies,
只落得個賣花生仁啊 all I can do is selling peanuts.
個人算得了什麽 One man's life doesn't count.
盼吶盼吶 But what I hoped for
就盼著 I hoped for
這國家能像個樣兒 was that our country would become a decent place.
不再受外國人的欺負 No longer sat on by foreign powers.
可就這 But this...
日本人在這兒說親善 When the japs were here, they called it cooperation.
工廠就親善了去了 That was the last I saw of my factory.
咱們這個國民政府回來啦 When our own government came back,
這工廠也不怎麽就成了逆產了 my factory somehow became traitor's property.
哎 改良哦 改良哦 Reform, reform,
一輩子都沒忘了改良 that's one thing I never forgot!
老怕呀 Always afraid
落在什麽人的後頭 I'd lag behind.
賣茶不成了開公寓 When tea wasn't selling well, I started the boarding-house.
公寓沒有了添評書 When that packed up, I threw in story-telling as a draw
你等評書也不上座了 when that didn't work,
我 我不怕丟人 I swallowed my pride
我要添女招待 to hire a waitress!
我總得活下去 One has to live!
我想盡了辦法 I did everything
不過是為著活下去 just so that we could live!
是啊 Yes,
沒幹過缺德的事 I never did anything bad or criminal.
沒幹過傷天害理的事 Never did anything bad or criminal.
我得罪了誰了 Who have I hurt? Who?
就那娘娘 那小劉麻子 還那個 Empress, "pocky" liu Jr.,
啊 叫那沈處長 and director shen
就那幫狗男女們 all those bastards
他們可都活得有滋有味的 are having the time of their lives.
幹嗎就不準我吃窩窩頭哇 Why am I singled out to starve?
誰出的主意 Whose bloody idea is this?
咱盼吶盼吶 All I hoped for
就盼著誰都講理 is that everyone would be fair
哎 ah!
誰呀也別欺負誰 哎 And no one bullied.
可是啊 But I saw with my own eyes
就我那些老朋友們 how my friends,
一個個的 one by one,
不是餓死 starved to death
就是叫人家給殺了 or were killed off.
我呀
有眼淚我也哭不出來了 我呀 I wanted to weep, but no tears came!
松二爺 Song er ye,
多麽老實的人吶 how honest my friend is,
死啦 starved to death!
棺材 I had to go and beg alms
還是我給他化來的 to get a coffin for him.
他還算有我這麽個朋友 He was lucky to have a friend like me
給他化來這麽口四塊板的棺材 who could get him a rough coffin made of thin planks.
可是我自個兒呢 What'll happen to me when my time comes?
我
我愛咱們的國呀 I love our country,
可誰愛我呀 but who loves me?
這不是 碰見出殯的 Whenever I see a funeral,
我就揀下這麽點紙錢 I try to pick up some of this paper money.
沒有棺材呀 I won't even have a coffin.
沒有壽衣呀 I won't have any burial clothes.
只好給自己預備下點紙錢吧 All I can do is to save some paper money for myself.
四爺 Si ye.
讓咱們 祭奠祭奠咱們自己 Let's offer some sacrifice to ourselves.
您把那紙錢 您撒起來 Throw the paper money in the air.
算咱們三個老頭子的吧 Something special for us three old fogeys?!
哎 對 Right.
四哥 Chang si brother.
咱們吶 Let us
按照老年間的規矩 behave in the old days
咱們喊喊 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,
本家賞錢一百二十吊 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 我沒的說啦 No need to say any more.
沒的說了 沒的說了 No need to say any more.
再見 Goodbye!
哎 再見 Goodbye!
再見 Goodbye...
王掌櫃 再見 Goodbye! Manager wang.
再見 Manager wang. Manager wang.