:51:03
"What's going on?
Why has he suddenly changed?"
:51:06
Because normally all the money
I earned was given to him.
:51:09
So I asked him, "Why?"
:51:10
He said,
"From now on, keep your own money.
:51:12
All you have to do is
take your grandmother into the hills...
:51:15
and take care of her."
:51:17
I thought, "Not a bad deal."
:51:18
With the money I was making...
:51:20
it wouldn't be hard
to support my grandmother.
:51:24
So I said fine and took
grandmother into the hills.
:51:27
So what do you think happened?
:51:30
Nothing. She was fine.
I was healthy.
:51:34
No one got sick.
:51:36
After about a year...
:51:40
one morning while she was in the
courtyard washing her hair, she said...
:51:43
"Tienlu, go buy me peanut candy."
:51:45
I said, "You would really
be a laughingstock...
:51:48
if people saw such an old woman
eating peanut candy."
:51:51
I said, "I'm not going to do it.
:51:52
Anything else,
but not peanut candy."
:51:55
She said angrily,
"You won't do it?"
:51:57
So we left it at that.
:51:58
Suddenly, while combing...
:52:00
she fell off her stool.
:52:03
I rushed over to lift her up,
but the neighbors told me not to.
:52:06
They said when an old person falls,
they should get up themselves.
:52:11
She got up real quick.
:52:13
She finished combing her hair,
then said to me...
:52:17
"Tienlu, take me to the bed."
:52:19
I wondered, "What's going on?"
:52:21
She was okay just then,
but she wanted to lie down.
:52:24
So I took her to her bed.
:52:25
She laid down and stayed down.
:52:28
She just slept there all day...
:52:32
for a total of ten days.
:52:34
We called a Western doctor...
:52:36
who said nothing
was wrong with her.
:52:39
He told us to buy her
whatever she wanted to eat.
:52:42
I didn't believe she wasn't sick,
so we called another doctor...
:52:46
and he said the same thing.
:52:48
So I went and bought pork kidneys
and cooked some shredded ginger soup.
:52:53
She wouldn't eat a single shred.
:52:56
One day an old man
from the valley came.