[Whistling in the distance outside.
Ping (stopping it with his hand) No, don't you yell. (Whistles near, joyful) She, she's coming, I hear her!
Da What?
Ping that's her voice, every time we meet, it's like this.
Da She's here?
Ping Probably in the garden?
[Ping opens the window and whistles, responding to the sound closer.
Ping (turning back, tears in her eyes, smiling) She's here!
[A knock at the center door.
Ping (to the sea) you first temporarily in the next house to hide, she did not expect you here. I don't think she could be more frightened.
[Busy leading the sea to the dining room door, the sea under.
Voice outside (low) Ping!
Ping (busy running to the center door) Feng'er! (opening the door) Come in!
[The fourth phoenix from the center door into, hair disheveled, clothes soaked, tears with the rain on the face, the corner of the eye sticky sideburns drenched
, clothing against the skin, the cold after the rain forced her shivering, her teeth up and down seismic war. She saw Ping as a lost
child bye bye mother staring at him.
Four Ping!
Ping (touched) Feng!
Four (timidly) No one?
Ping (sadly, compassionately) no. (taking her hand)
Four (boldly) Oh! Ping! (Holding Ping sob)
Ping (as long as not seen her) How are you, how could you? How did you find me? (Unstoppable) How did you get in
here?
Four I stole in through the small door.
Ping Feng, your hands are cold, change your clothes first.
Four No, Ping, (sobbing) let me look at you first.
Ping (guiding her to the sofa. Sitting beside herself, warmly) You, where have you been, Feng?
Four (looks at him and smiles with tears in his eyes) Ping, you're still here, it's as if I've been years apart.
Ping (picking up a purple thread blanket on the sofa and putting it around her) My poor Phoenix, how could you be so stupid, where have you
been? My silly child!
Four (wiping her tears, pulling Ping's hand, Ping squatted next to her) I ran alone in the rain, not knowing where I was.
There was thunder on the sky
, and I could only see a blur in front of me; I forgot everything, I thought I heard mom calling me, but I was afraid
, I ran as hard as I could, I wanted to find the river in front of our door and jump.
Ping (clasping the hand of the four phoenix) phoenix!
Four - but somehow around and around I could not find.
Ping Oh, Feng, I'm sorry, forgive me, I told you to do this, you forgive me, you do not blame me.
Four Ping, I will not blame you in any way, I am confused and came here, walked to the garden under the pole, I suddenly
want to die. I knew that once I touched that wire, I could forget everything. I loved my mother, and I was afraid that I had just sworn to her
that she would say I was such a bad daughter that I would rather not live. But I was just about to touch that wire when I suddenly saw the light in your window
and I thought that you were in the house. Oh, Ping, I suddenly thought, I can't die just like that, I can't die alone,
I can't lose you. I thought, the world is so big, we can go, we just have to get out of here together. Ping ah, you-
-
Ping (heavy) we leave here together?
Four (eagerly) This is the way, Ping, I have no home now, (bitterly) my brother hates me, my mother I
have no face to see. I have nothing now, I have no relatives, no friends, I only have you, Ping (mournfully) you tomorrow
day take me.
[Half a moment.
Ping (shaking his head heavily) No, no--
Four (disappointed) Ping!
Ping (looking at her, heavily) No, no - we'll go now.
Four (disbelievingly) Now?
Ping (compassionately) Well, I was planning to go alone now and pick you up later, but not now.
Four (disbelievingly) really, a piece of walking?
Ping Well, really.
Four (ecstatically, threw down the threaded blanket, stood up, kissed Ping's hand, wiping tears on one side) really, really, really, Ping, you
are my savior, you are the best person under the sky, you are my - oh, I love you! (shed tears on him)
Ping (touched, wiping tears with a handkerchief) Feng, from now on we will always be together, not separate.
Four (comfortably, in Ping's arms) Well, we are out of here, not separate.
Ping (restraining herself) Well, Feng, before we go, we'll meet someone. After we meet him we will leave.
Four A person?
Ping Your brother.
4 Brother?
Ping He is looking for you, he is in the dining room.
Four (fearfully) No, no, you don't want to see him, he hates you, he'll hurt you. Let's go, let's just go.
Ping (soothingly) I have already seen him. --We must see him now, (irrevocably) or else I
we won't be able to leave either.
Four (timidly) But, Ping, you--
[Ping walks to the dining room door and opens it.
Ping (calling) Lu Dahai! Lu Dahai! --Eek, he's not here, strange, maybe he went out through the dining room door. (Looking at
Four Phoenix)
Four (walking to Ping, pleadingly) Ping, leave him alone, let's go. (pulls him towards the center door) Let's just go
.
[Four Phoenix pulled Ping to the center door, the center door opened, Lu Ma and the sea into.
[In two o'clock Lu Ma's appearance changed into another person. Her voice was hoarse from shouting and crying in the rain, her eyelids
drooped in disappointment, the wrinkles on her forehead were y etched on her face, and the overstimulation had made her dull, and the whole thing had become a stereotypical model of
pain. Her clothes were as if they had been partially dried, her hair was still a little wet, her temples messy against her wet hair.
Her hands were shaking as she walked in very carefully.
Four (panicked) Mom! (wincing)
[Slight pause as Lu's mom looks mournfully at Four Phoenix.
Lu (holding out her hand to Sifeng, mournfully) Feng'er, come!
[Four Phoenix runs to her mother and kneels down.
Four Mom! (hugging her mother's knees)
Lu (stroking the top of Fourth Phoenix's head, painfully) Child, my poor child.
Four (sobbing) Mom, spare me, spare me, I forgot your words.
Lu (picking up the four phoenix) Why didn't you tell me earlier?
Four (bowed his head) I love you, mom, I'm afraid, I don't want to have a little call you don't like me, look down on me, I dare not tell
you.
Lu (sorrowfully) This is still your mom is too confused, I should have thought of it. (bitterly, suddenly) days, this who would have expected
get, under the sky there will be such a thing, in favor of my children encountered it? The life of your mother is too bitter, and your life is
too bitter.
Da (coldly) mom, let's go, four phoenix first go back with us.
I have already discussed with him (referring to Ping),
he will go first, and then he will pick up Four Phoenix later.
Lu (confused) Who said that? Who said that?
Da (coldly looking at Lu's mother) Mom, I know what you mean, and naturally, that's the only way to proceed. Therefore, I will not mention the Zhou family's affairs from now on
and let them go.
Lu (confused, sitting down) What? Let them go?
Ping (mumbling) Grandma Lu, please believe me, I will treat her well, we decide to go now.
Lu (pulling Fourth Phoenix's hand, trembling) Feng, you, you have to go with him!
Four (bowed his head, had no choice but to hold Lu's mother's hand tightly) Mom, I have to leave you first.
Lu (couldn't help it) You can't be together!
Da (strangely) Mom, what's wrong?
Ru (standing up) No, it can't be!
Four (anxiously) Mom!
Ru (ignoring her and taking her hand) Let's go. (To the sea) You go out and call a foreign car, four Feng probably can not walk
. Let's go, let's go quickly.
Four (flinching) Mom, you can't do this.
Lu No, it can't be done! (Stagnantly, monotonously) Go, go.
Four (pleading) Mom, would you like your daughter to die before your eyes in a hurry?
Ping (walking towards the front of Lu's mom) Grandma Lu, I know I'm sorry. But I can do my best to make up for my mistakes, and now that things
have come to this point, you--
Lu Ma (incomprehensibly) you this time, I do not understand!
Lu (reluctantly, sternly) you first go to hire a car to go! (To the fourth phoenix) Feng'er, listen, I'd rather you didn't, I can't
could ask you to be with him. - - Go away!
[The sea just to the door, the four phoenix shouted.
Four (shouted) Ah, mom, mom! (Fainted in his mother's arms)
Lu (embracing Four Phoenix) My child, you--
Ping (urgently) She fainted.
[Lu's mother urgently pressed her forehead, whispered "Fourth Phoenix", and sobbed uncontrollably.
[Ping ran toward the dining room.
Da don't have to go - it doesn't matter, a little cool water will do. She was like that when she was an hour.
[Ping took the cool water and poured it on her face, and the fourth phoenix gradually woke up, her face dead white.
Lu (with cool water on the four phoenix) Feng'er, good boy. You come back, you come back.
Four (mouth gradually open, eyes open, gasping out a breath) ah, mom!
Lu (comfortably) children, you do not blame mom cruel heart, mom's suffering can not be said.
Four (sighed) mom!
Lu What? The first time I've ever seen you, I've never seen you.
Four I, I can't tell you, Ping!
Ping Feng, are you better?
Four Ping, I, have always kept it from you; and I won't tell you (looking begrudgingly at Lu's mother) Mom, you-
Lu What, child, speak quickly.
Four (sobbing) I, I- (put on the courage) I and he now have ...... (crying out)
Lu (cuttingly pressing) What, you say you have- ( struck, not moving.)
Ping (pulling up the hands of the four phoenix) four phoenix! How, really, you--
Four (crying) Well.
Ping (mixed feelings) When? When?
Four (head down) It's been about three months.
Ping (with quick relief) Oh, Four Phoenix, why didn't you tell me, I, my-
Lu (in a low voice) Oh my God!
Ping (walking towards Lu) Grandma Lu, don't be stubborn anyway, it's all my fault: I beg you! (Kneeling down) I beg you
Let her go. I can guarantee that I will be able to stand up to her and to you in the future.
Four (stood up, walked to Lu Ma and knelt down) Mom, you have pity on us, promise us, let us go.
Lu (not making a sound, sitting, demented) I am dreaming. My daughter, my own daughter, thirty years of work -
Oh, God, (covering his face and crying, waving his hand) you go, I do not recognize you. (Turning his head away)
Ping thank you! (Standing up) Let's go. Feng! (The four phoenixes rise)
Lu (turning back, involuntarily) No, it can't be!
[The Fourth Phoenix kneels again.
Four (pleading) Mom, you, how are you? My heart is set. Whether he is rich or poor, no matter who he is, I am his
. He is the first one in my heart, he is the only one I see. Mom, I have come to this point: wherever he goes, I go too
; whatever he is, I am with him. Don't you understand, mother, that I-
Ru (pointing his hand to keep her from speaking down, bitterly) child.
Da-ma, sister is so far, let her go is good.
Ping (somberly) Grandma Lu, if you must not let her go in your heart, we have to disobey your words and go ourselves. Feng
!
Four (shaking his head) Ping! (still looking at Lu's mother) Mom!
Lu (heavy with grief, whispering) Ah, God knows who has sinned and who has created such sins! --They are poor children
, not knowing what they have done. O God! If there is to be a penalty, it is on me alone; I alone have sinned; I took the
wrong step first. (Sadly) Now I see, I see, that what has been done need not be blamed on this unfair
Heaven; when a man has sinned once, the second time follows of its own accord. --- (touching the head of the four phoenix) they are my clean children
, they should live well and enjoy the blessings. The injustice is in my heart, and the suffering should be tasted by me alone. Who
knoweth that they are sinners, when they are happy? They are young, they themselves did not intentionally do anything wrong. (Standing up, looking at the sky) Tonight,
I let them go together, this sin I know, but the sin I now for them to commit; all the sins are my
one person to cause, my children are good children, clean-hearted, then, God, really what, let me alone to bear
it. (Turning back) Feng'er, -
four (uneasily) mom, you heart sad, - I do not understand what you say.
Lu (turning back her head. Amiably) Nothing. (Smiling) You get up, Feng'er, and you go away together.
Four (standing up, moved, hugging her mother) Mom!
Ping went! (Looking at the watch) It's not early, there are still only twenty-five minutes, tell them to take the car out, come on, let's go.
Lu (quietly) No, you go this time, in the dark, do not alarm the bystanders. (To Dahai) Dahai, you go out
Go and call the car, I want to go back, you send them to the station.
Da Uh-huh.
[Dahai goes down through the center door.
Lu (to Four Phoenix mournfully) Come here, my child, let me give you a good kiss. (Four Phoenix came over to embrace the mother; Lu's mother to Ping
) You also come, let me also look at you for a moment. (Ping to the front, bowed his head, Lu looked at him to wipe his tears) Good! You go - I want you
both to promise me one thing before you go.
Ping You say it.
Lu If you don't promise, I still don't want Four Phoenix to go.
Four Mom, you say it, I promise.
Lu (looking at the two of them) you go this time, it is better to go farther and farther, do not look back, leave today, you live or die,
never see me.
Four (sad) Mom, that's not--
Ping (eyes, whisper) She's sad now, that's why she's saying such things, after that, she'll be fine.
Four Well, good, - mom, then let's go.
[Fourth Phoenix kneels down and kowtows to Lu's mother, Fourth Phoenix sheds tears, Lu's mother tries her best to hold them back.
Lu (waving her hand) Let's go!
Ping let's go out through the dining room, there are still a few of my things in the dining room.
[The three - Ping, Four Phoenix, and Lu's mom - walk to the door of the dining room, which opens. Fengyi walks out, and all three are shocked
at the sight.
Four (out of breath) Madam!
Fan (calmly) Hey, where are you going? It's still thundering outside!
Ping (to Prosperity) Why are you out there eavesdropping alone!
Prosperity Well, you're only me, there are others. (To the dining room on) out ah, you! [Rushing by the dining room on, cowering.
Four (startled) Second young master!
Chong (uneasily) Four Phoenix!
Ping (unhappy, to his brother) Brother, why are you so ignorant?
Charge (puzzled brother) Mom told me to come, I do not know what you are doing.
Fan (coldly) now you understand.
Ping (anxiously, to Fan Yi) What are you doing?
Fan (mockingly) I asked your brother to come and see you off.
Ping (exasperated) You're so mean--
Flush Brother!
Brother Ping, I'm sorry! --(Suddenly to Fan Yi) But there is no mother like you in the world!
Charge (confused) Mom, what's going on?
Fan, look at this! （Where are you going, Four Phoenix?
Four (mumbling) I ...... I ......
Ping don't say a word. Tell them, stand up and tell them, say we are ready to go together.
Rushing (understand) what, four phoenix, you are ready to go with him together?
Four Well, Master Two, I, I'm--
Charge (half-questioningly) Why didn't you tell me before?
Four It's not that I didn't tell you; I told you, told you not to look for me, because I - I'm no longer a good woman.
Ping (to Four Phoenix) No, why did you say you were no good? You tell them! (Pointing to Fengyi) Tell them that you are going to
marry me!
Rushing (slightly alarmed) Fourth Phoenix, you--
Fan (to Rushing) Now you understand. （
Ping (suddenly to Fengyi, venomously) You really don't have a heart! Do you think your son will replace - will destroy?
Brother
, you say, what do you mean now, you say, what are you going to do to me? Say, brother all will forgive you.
[Prosperous Ripple ran to the door of the study and shouted.
Fan Chong'er, say it! (Half a moment, urgently) Chong'er, why don't you say something? Why did you you grab the four phoenixes and ask?
Why don't you grab your brother and talk? (And pause, the people all look at Chong, Chong did not say.) The first thing you need to do is to talk to your brother and ask him what he is doing. I'm a mute? I'm not sure if I'm a good person, but I'm a good person. You can't be angry at all when you see your favorite person being taken away from you
?
Rushing (looking up, lamb-like) No, no, mom! (looking at the fourth phoenix again, bowing his head) As long as the fourth phoenix is willing, I do not have a word to say
.
Ping (walked to Chong, took his hand) Oh, my good brother, my understanding brother!
Charge (doubtfully, reflectively) No, no, I suddenly realized ...... I feel ...... as if I didn't really love Four Phoenix; (
mistakably) before - -I, I, I -probably fooled around!
Ping (gratefully) But brother-
Charge (looking at Ping's ardent look, flinching) No, you take her away, as long as you treat her well!
Feng (entire annihilation, disappointed) Oh, you! (suddenly, exasperated) You're not my son; you're not my son;
You're not like me, you-you're a dead pig!
Charge (insultingly) Mom!
Ping (alarmed) What's the matter with you!
Fan (fainting) you really have no manhood, if I were you, I would beat her, burn her, kill her.
You're really a fool,
without a bit of anger. You're still father-raised, your father's little sheep. I was wrong about you - you are not mine,
you are not my son.
Ping (unevenly) Are you rushing your brother's mother? You talk like that.
Fan (painfully) Ping, you say, you say it; I'm not afraid, I've long forgotten myself (to Chong, half-madly) you
Don't think I'm your mother, (loudly) your mother died a long time ago, long ago called your father crushed to death, smothered to death. Now I am not
your mother. She is the woman who sees Zhou Ping alive again, (defiantly) she is also the woman who wants a man to really love her, to really
really live!
Rushing (heartbreakingly) Oh, Mom.
Ping (winking to Chong) She's sick. (to Ripple) Come upstairs with me! You should probably take a break.
Fanny said! I'm not sick, I'm not sick, I'm not neurologically sick at all. Don't think I'm talking nonsense. (wipe eyes
tears, mournfully) I have endured for many years, I am in this dead place, prison like Zhou Gongguan, accompanied by a king of hell for eighteen years
, my heart is not dead; your father only asked me to give birth to Chong'er, however, my heart, I am this person is still mine. (Pointing to Ping)
It was only he who wanted my whole person, but he does not want me now, again.
Rushing (pain extremely) mom, my favorite mom, what is the matter with you?
Ping You leave her alone for a while, she's going crazy!
Fan (vehemently) Don't follow your father's example. There is no madness - there is no madness in me! I want you to say it, I want you to tell them
- this is my last breath!
Ping (fiercely) What do you want me to say? I think you should go upstairs and sleep.
Fan (sneering) You don't pretend! You tell them that I am not your stepmother.
[Everyone was shocked, and there was a short pause.
Charge (hopelessly) Mom!
Fan (defiantly) Tell them, tell Four Phoenix, tell her!
Four (unable to resist) Mom! (throws herself into the arms of Lu's mother)
Ping (looks at her brother and turns to Fengyi) Why are you so bitter! Why are you talking about the past? I'm sorry, but I don't know what to say, but I don't know what to say.
Fan (lost motherhood, shouting) I have no children, I have no husband, I have no home, I have nothing, I just want you
said: I - I am yours.
Ping (distressed) Oh, brother! Look at your brother's pitiful face, if you had a little mother's heart-
Prosperity (vindictively) You have learned your father now, too, you hypocrite, remember, it was you who deceived your
brother, it was you who deceived me, it was you who deceived your father!
Ping (angrily) You are talking nonsense, I did not, I did not deceive him! Father is a good man, father is moral in his life, (
Fan Yi sneered) - (to the fourth phoenix) ignore her, she is crazy, let's go.
Fan need not go, the gate is locked. Your father will come down, I sent for him.
Ru Oh, ma'am!
Ping What are you doing?
Fan (coldly) I want your father to meet his future good daughter-in-law before he goes. (Shouting) Park Park, Park Park ......
Charge Mom, you don't!
Ping (walking up to Fan Yi) Crazy, don't you dare shout again!
[Fen Yi runs to the door of the study and shouts.
Lu (panicked) Fourth Phoenix, let's go out.
Fan No, he's coming!
[Park Park Garden by the study into, everyone is not moving, silent as death.
Park (at the door) What are you calling for? Why don't you go upstairs and sleep?
Fan (arrogantly) I invite you to meet your good relative.
Park (shocked to see Mrs. Lu and the four phoenixes together) Ah, you, you, - what are you doing?
Fan (pulling Sifeng toward Park) This is your daughter-in-law, meet her. (pointing to Park Yuan to Sifeng) Call him father! (pointing to Lu
Ma to Park Yuan) You also know this old lady.
Mrs. Lu!
Fanping, come here! In front of your father, come here and kowtow to this mom.
Ping (embarrassed) Dad, I, I -
Park (understandably) how - (to Mrs. Lu) Ping, you came back after all.
Fan (shocked) What?
Lu (panicked) No, no, you are mistaken.
Park (remorsefully) Shiping, I thought you would come back too.
Lu No, no! (looking down) Ah! Tien!
Shuang (shocked) Shiping? What, she's Siping?
Park (hmmm.) (annoyed) Shuan, you don't have to ask me again on purpose, she is Ping's mother, who died thirty years ago.
Shige Gosh!
[Half a moment. Sifeng cried out bitterly and looked at her mother, and Mrs. Lu lowered her head in bitterness. Ping was in a daze
and looked at her father and Mrs. Lu in confusion. At that moment, Ripple gradually moved to Zhou Chong's side, now she suddenly found a more tragic fate
, gradually make her sympathize with Ping, she realized her own madness, which quickly restored her to the original normal mother's feelings. She
looked involuntarily at her own rushes.
Park (sorrowfully) Ping'er, come here. Your birth mother is not dead, she is still in the world.
Ping (half frantically) It's not her! Dad, you tell me, it's not her!
Park (sternly)! Ping, don't talk nonsense. She's no good, and she's your mother too.
Ping (in agony) Oh, Dad!
Park (with dignity) Don't think that because you share the same mother as Four Phoenix and feel bad about your face, you have forgotten the nature of human nature.
Four (to mother) Oh, mom! (Painfully)
Park (heavily) Ping'er, you forgive me. I have done this one thing wrong in my life. I never thought that she would still be here today,
and that she would find her way here today. I think this can only be said to be the fate of God. (Sighing to Lu's mom) I'm old, just now I told you to go, I regret it
I was going to send you 20,000 yuan. Now that you are here, I think Ping'er is a filial child, he will serve you well.
Where I have wronged you, he will make up for it.
Ping (to Lu's mother) You--you are my--
Lu (involuntarily) Ping--(turning back and sobbing)
Park kneel down, Ping'er! !!! Don't think you are dreaming, this is your birth mother.
Four (faintly) Mom, this can't be real.
Lu (inaudible, sobbing)
Fan (turning to Ping, remorsefully) Ping, I, I would never have thought it was-it's like this, Ping-
Ping (laughs strangely, to Park) Father! (laughs, to Mrs. Lu) Mother! (looking at Four Phoenix, pointing at her) You--
Four (and Ping look at each other and laugh strangely, suddenly can not help it) Ah, God! (Runs down by the center door, Ping flops on the sofa, and Lu's mother stands deadpan
sullenly.)
Fan (shouting sharply) Four Phoenix! Four Phoenix! (Turning to Chong) Chong'er, she doesn't look quite right, you go out and see her quickly.
[Chong goes down from the center door and calls out for Four Phoenix.
Park (to Ping) Ping, what's going on?
Ping (suddenly) Dad, you shouldn't have had me! (Runs, down by the dining room).
[The screams of Sifeng are heard in the distance, and Chong calls out to Sifeng furiously, and then Chong also screams.
Lu, what's wrong with you!
(Simultaneous screams)
Fan, my child, my Oki!
[They both ran out through the center door.
Park (rushing to the window and pulling it open, trembling) What? What's wrong?
[The servant ran up from the center door.
Servant (gasping) Master!
Park, tell me what's the matter.
The servant (in a rush)The fourth phoenix ...... is dead ......
Park (in a rush)Where is the second young master?
Servant also ...... also dead.
Park (trembling) No, no, how ......?
Servant Sifeng touched the wire that took the electricity. The second young master did not know, and hurriedly pulled a hand, the two people were electrocuted together.
Park (a few dizzy) this will not. This, this, - this can't be, this can't be!
[Park and the servant run down.
[Ping exits the dining room, pale in color, but calm in demeanor. He went to the table
which held Luhai's pistol, drew open the drawer, took out the pistol, his hand trembling slightly, and walked slowly into the study on the right.
[Outside there was a cacophony of voices, cries, noises, mixed together. Lu's mother went up from the center door, her face even more stagnant, like a plaster figure
. The old servant followed, holding a torch.
[Mrs. Lu stood in the middle of the stage without a word.
Old Servant (soothingly) Don't be silly, old lady! You've got to cry, you've got to cry.
Lu (listlessly) I can't cry!
This is the will of God, old servant, there is no way. --But you must cry yourself.
Ru No, I want to be quiet. （
[The center door is wide open, and many servants are gathered around Fan Yi, who does not know whether she is crying or laughing.
Servant (outside) Go in, ma'am, don't look.
Fan (for people crowded to the center door, leaning on the door strange smile) Chong child, you so open mouth? Why are you smiling at me the way you are?
Thanks for your help, Mr. Park.
Park (walking in the center door, tears on his face) Fan Yi, come in! My hands are wooden, and you don't look at them.
Mrs. Old Maid, come in. The people have been burned by the electric fire, there is no way to do it.
Fan (came in, dryly crying) Chong'er, my good boy. I was fine just now, how could you die, how could you die so
tragically? (wiping tears from his eyes)
Fan (laughing wildly) Chong'er, you deserve to die, deserve to die! You deserve to die for having a mother like that.
[Sound of servants fighting with Luhai outside.
Park Who is this? Who is fighting at this hour.
[The old servant asked, and immediately ordered a servant to come.
Park, what is going on outside?
The servant, Luhai, who was here this morning, is here again, fighting with us.
Park Tell him to come in!
Master Servant, he kicked and punched and wounded several of us, and he has run away through the small door.
Park Run away?
Servant Yes, master.
Park (after a short pause, suddenly) Go after him, go after him with me.
Servant Yes, master.
[The servants went down together. There were only three people in the room: Park Yuan, Lu Ma, and Fan Yi.
Park (mournfully) I have lost one son, I can't lose a second. (All three sat down)
Lu went! It's good to let her go, I know this child. She hates you, and I know she won't come back to see you.
Park (silence, feeling strange to himself) The young ones have gone ahead of us instead, and now it's just us old--(
Suddenly) Where's Ping? Where is the young master? (
Suddenly) Where is the young master? (No one answered) Come on! (No one answered) Come on! (No one answered) You and I are looking for
Yeah, where is my eldest son?
[Gunshots in the study, dead silence in the room.
Shige (suddenly) Ah! (Running down the study, Park Park stayed still, and immediately Shuan rippled wildly shouting and running out) He ...... he ......
Park He ...... he... ...
[Park Yuan and Fan Yi run down together, into the study.
[Mrs. Lu rises, stumbles two steps toward the study, to the center of the stage, and gradually falls downward, on her knees, as the old woman falls at the end of the prologue.
[The stage darkens, and the music of the Prologue (High Mass-Bach), if played in the distance, is loudest when it is completely dark, and sounds the same as the music of the end of the Prologue. When the curtain falls, it opens and follows the coda.