1:33:00
I'm glad you didn't fall for it.
1:33:04
That proves that you're faithful.
1:33:07
To speak of wandering,
that is the life of an opera troupe.
1:33:12
After the RedJade Opera Troupe
finished its run in Taichung...
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I had come to know...
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Leitzu of the Cherry Garden
very well.
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We left the Happy Stage Theater
and moved the show to Boli.
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Before we left, I told Leitzu...
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that I would be back in ten days.
1:33:34
I told her not to come to Boli.
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The second day after we got
to Boli, she showed up.
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I was real angry at the time.
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I asked if she was afraid
I would run off with her 200 dollars.
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She said that wasn't the point.
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She said she'd never been to Boli,
and came for the trip.
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I said,
"What about the business?"
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She said she'd only
be away a few days.
1:33:56
After we performed for a week, I tried
to chase her away. She wouldn't go.
1:34:00
We finished after the tenth day.
1:34:03
We traveled back to Taichung
that same night.
1:34:06
The gossip in Taichung was very rude.
The word was...
1:34:09
a traveling actor had eloped
with Leitzu of the Cherry Garden.
1:34:12
Leitzu was very upset
at all the talk.
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She told me to dress up and follow her.
I said, "Where to?"
1:34:18
She took me all over the Cherry Garden
with a cigarette plate...
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and formally apologized to everyone,
saying I hadn't abducted her.
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It was she who went
to Boli to visit.
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I had no choice but to go with her
to every brothel in town.
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She could afford it.
1:34:35
After we finished the rounds,
my name was cleared.
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But about two weeks later,
Leitzu developed a sore on her lip.
1:34:45
In those days of war...
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the doctors couldn't do anything.
1:34:50
I remembered...
1:34:52
a neighbor of mine in Taipei
had the same sore and died.
1:34:58
Afterwards, a barefoot doctor said
no medical doctor...