Chapter 3 Down

Mother (stroking her hair): Wear whatever you want, don't wait until I'm my age.You are still young, there will be boys who will take a fancy to you, you will love each other, you will give birth to him, and he will love you even more... Girl: Go on, my dear sister, go on,...you have white hair? Mother (pushing away): No, really! Girl: Don't lie to me! Mother: Just one or two... Girl: Pull it out. Mother: I can't see it, I can't pull it out, and the more I pull it out, the more I pull it out. Girl: Please, dear sister! [The mother pulls out one of her gray hairs, suddenly embraces her, and begins to cry herself. ]

Girl: Miss, what's the matter with you? Mother: I have a lot of gray hair, are they all grey? Girl: No, no... (hugging her, weeping together) Stupid boy (sitting on the ground, slapping a banknote on the ground, taking out three playing cards from his pocket, and throwing them on the ground): Who is coming?Five dollars a bet!I will play this time! [The uncle touches his pocket. ] Stupid boy: Don't touch it, we earned it as a laborer.If you are lucky, pick it up in vain, I won't be here anymore. [Uncle and Director Ma surround the past. ] Stupid boy: Which one of you bet, three yuan with the left hand and two yuan with the right hand.Let's be the banker of the five yuan, and the round-trip ticket and yoghurt to the city are all here.

Director Ma: You are so young, why don’t you learn well? Stupid boy: Alright, go back and teach your son a lesson.Father, don't you try your luck?You bet on both ends, isn't it only five yuan?If you touch it, you are lucky; if you lose, you are unlucky.Such a big man still cares about these few dollars?If there is going to be a drinker here, we invite them all. [The master walks over. ] Stupid kid: Tianmen, Dimen, Qinglong, Baihu, which one do you bet on? [The master slaps him. ] Stupid boy: Can't they stop going to the city?Can people stop eating yogurt? (Crying loudly) Tell the city people to take a walk on the streets in the city!

Grandpa: Pick it up!Young man, tell you to pick it up. [The stupid boy wipes his tears with his dirty hands, blows his nose, and picks up the banknotes and playing cards.Head down and sob.static field.The sound of cars in the distance is mixed with the music of silent people who appear and disappear from time to time, and the fast rhythm becomes a cheerful tone. ] Wearing glasses: The car won't come. (determined) Go, like that man.With the effort of waiting foolishly at the station, not only did he arrive in the city, but he also made a career out of it.There is no waiting! Uncle: That's right.Girl, don't cry.You are going to leave with that person, don't talk about getting married and having children now, your doll has learned to walk!Let's wait and wait, we're all hunchbacked (difficultly) let's go——(staggers a bit)

[The man with glasses quickly helps him up. ] Uncle: I'm afraid I won't be able to make it to Luo... Sister-in-law, can you go too? Girl: Sister, am I still going to the city? Mother (brush her hair): It's too perverse. No one wants such a good girl?I will introduce you to one! (Carrying bag) I really shouldn't be carrying such a heavy bag. Girl: I will carry it for you. Director Ma: You are purchasing. Uncle: Are you going or not? Director Ma (contemplation): Let's talk about life, it's still quiet in a small town in the countryside.Don't say anything else, let's take crossing a road in the city as an example, old man, the red light and green light, if you blink, you may be run over by a car.

Master: I'm leaving! Stupid boy (recovering spirits): Lifting you with a big stick? Director Ma: What are you talking about!I have high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, (indignantly) I will not go to this crime! (End, turn back) I forgot to take the compound goji berry formalin in Erguotou to soothe the nerves, invigorate qi and nourish the body. [Everyone looks at Director Ma and exits. ] Uncle: He went back? Mother (muttering): He's gone back. Girl (weakly): Don't go back! Stupid boy: He goes his way, we go ours. Master (to the one wearing glasses): Why don't you go?

Wearing glasses: Let me check for the last time. Is there any car coming? (clean glasses, put them on) [People scatter in all directions, pacing back and forth, some want to leave, some stop, and some bump into each other. ] Uncle: Don't get in the way! Stupid boy: You go your way! Mother: What a mess. Man with glasses: Ah, life, life... Girl: What kind of life is this! Wearing glasses: It's not called life, isn't everyone still alive? Girl: It would be better to die. Wearing glasses: Then why don't you die? Girl: It's not worth it to die in the world for nothing!

Wearing Glasses: Life should have meaning. Girl: How boring it is to live like this without dying! [Everyone is walking in place, turning in circles, as if possessed by a demon. ] Master: Let's go! girl: no- Wearing glasses: Do you want to leave? Stupid boy: Let's go! Mother: Here we go. Uncle: Go—— [Still.The sound of rain. ] Uncle: It's raining! Stupid boy: Old man, if you dawdle any longer, there will be hailstorms. Master (looks at the sky): If you change your face, you will change your face, this weather! Mother: Really down. [Sudden raindrops. ] Mother: What to do?

Uncle (mumbling): I need to find a place to shelter from the rain... Girl (holding the mother's hand): Let's go, let's get wet! Stupid boy (takes off shirtless): If you don't leave, you will be poured out for nothing!God, you go under the knife! Wearing glasses (to the girl): No, you will catch a cold if you get wet. Master: Showers, nothing. After the clouds pass, everything will be fine. (Take out a rain cloth from the kit and put it on the uncle and the mother's head) Mother: This master is still thoughtful. Master: Being away from home for many years, ups and downs are inevitable, I am used to it. (To everyone) Hey, come take shelter from the rain for a while.

[Heavy rain.The companion girl wearing glasses stood silently under the rain cloth. ] Master (to the stunned boy): Are you stupid again? [The stupid boy also got under the rain cloth.The light dimmed. ] Uncle: It’s cold and rainy in autumn, you don’t take it seriously when you’re young, but when you’re old, you’ll know it’s serious when you get rheumatoid arthritis. Wearing glasses (to girl): Are you cold? Girl (shivering): A little bit. Wearing Glasses: You wear too little, put my clothes on. Girl: What about you? Person with glasses: I'm fine. (Teeth chattering with cold) Stupid boy (pointing to the watch with glasses): Is this thing still going?Is it the Year of the Monkey?

Girl: Don't look at your watch!Don't look at your watch! Mother: I don't know what year and month it is now. Girl: It’s better not to know. [Sound of wind and rain.The following conversations are carried out in the changing wind and rain. ] Stupid boy: Listen, the river is full of water... Girl: Just sit like this... Wearing glasses: That's... that's good... Stupid boy: ... right now, I'm sure I can touch a few fish... Girl: Come on!let's go!The wind is cold and whizzing... Wearing glasses: misty, field, opposite hills, not yet Stupid boy: ... old man, I Girl: My heart is very warm... Wearing glasses: The road to life is hazy... Stupid boy: I bet you! Girl: Just lean on his shoulder and sit together like this... Wearing Glasses: She is so gentle... so kind... so nice... Uncle: Young man, you are not too young, such a fool. Girl: ...Your glasses are Wearing glasses: ...how beautiful...how did I just find out... Uncle: Go down, how to start a family and start a business? Girl: It's water vapor... Wearing glasses: ...ah, don't wipe it, it's just foggy... [The following words are divided into three groups, which are basically carried out at the same time and overlap each other.The simultaneous groups of dialogues and monologues are stronger and weaker, with one group highlighted now and another group highlighted. ] Uncle: (forced) It's time to learn the craft seriously, no girl will be with you in the future. Wearing glasses: (Second strong) I have already missed the age to apply for the exam, what else am I going to do... Mother: (weak) Yes, I walk at night, and it’s also raining, and the ground is splashing... Stupid boy: (forced) It’s useless if no one is willing to accept it. Uncle: (strong, winking)... Wearing glasses: ...well, I don't know, youth is gone... Girl: (Ci Qiang, use your shoulders... Mother: ...on and on.I felt that someone was following behind me, I secretly looked back, rain... Uncle: Isn't the master right in front of you? Stupid boy: (strong, summon up courage) Master, you still... Girl: ...touch him) You won't go to night university?There is also a correspondence university, you will be admitted, one... Mother: ... Big, and I didn't see it clearly, but I knew that there was a person who also held an umbrella, not near or far away. ... Stupid boy: ...Do you accept apprentices? Master: (Second Strong) See what it looks like. Stupid kid: (time... Girl: ...I will definitely pass the exam. Wearing glasses: (strong) Do you believe it? Girl: (forced) I... Mother: ...you walk quickly, and he follows closely, and if you slow down, he walks slowly. ... Stupid boy: ... strong) What kind of food do you accept? Master: (Second Strong) Learning crafts is not learning, how about this trick? ... Girl: ... Believe it. (Let him quietly hold her hand) Girl: (forced) How bad this is... Mother: ...I'm so hairy, my heart is beating so fast, it's going to jump out! Master: ...you need to be agile and diligent. Stupid boy: (forced) Master, don't look at me like this. Girl: ... (Quickly pulls her hand back, turns around and embraces the mother's arm. The one wearing glasses hugs her knee to listen to what they say) Girl: (Second Qiang) What happened next? Mother: (Second Qiang) Finally arrived at the door of the house—— Master: (strongly)...it's just oily. [The following people chatted together in a hurry. ] Mother: I stopped.Under the streetlight, the man came over.I saw that she was also a woman, and she was also afraid.I am also afraid that I will have no company, and I am afraid that I will run into a bad person. Master: There are still few bad people in the world, but you have to be careful. I don’t count people as tricks, but what if people want to plot against me? Uncle: The bad thing is the calculation.I squeeze you, you step on me.It would be a lot easier if we all took care of each other. Mothers: It would be great if everyone could be so close and connected with each other. [Still.The cold wind murmured. ] Master: Lean in. Grandpa: Squeeze tighter. Wearing glasses: Everyone back to back. Mother: So warm. Girl: I'm ticklish. Stupid boy: Who tickled whom? [Everyone leans closer.Director Ma's voice came from the roar of the cold wind: "Wait—don't go!"] Master (to the stunned boy): What's the name over there?take a look. Stupid boy (sticking his head out from under the rain cloth): That's Director Ma from the supply and marketing cooperative! [Director Ma runs up tremblingly, and hastily burrows under the rain cloth. ] Mothers: Wet clothes make you sick, take them off! Director Ma: I haven't gone far before...just...just...Ah Choo! (sneezes again and again) Uncle: You ran back alone. If you want to be with the big guys, you won't be the crispy chicken that fell into the soup. Director Ma: Oh, are you still alive? Uncle: You can't fall on the way!You also went to the city to rush to the meal of the relationship? Director Ma: Are you still waiting for your game of chess that ended early? Uncle: Can we, can we play chess friends? Mother: Stop carrying it. Director Ma: It's his annoying mouth. Uncle: You also look at your virtue. Mothers: All sheltered under a tarpaulin— Director Ma: He was the one who hurt first—heh—(the sneeze didn’t come out) Mother: Just wait for the sun to come out. Director Ma: Hey, it's raining! Uncle: Where is this rain?It's snow! [Everyone is on one side, stretching out their hands and feet from under the rain cloth to test. ] Girl: It's raining. The one wearing glasses (stretches out his feet): It's snowing. Stupid boy (runs out, jumping up and down): Hey, what a fucking hailstorm! Master: Are you wild again?hang on! [The dumb boy obediently comes back to support the rain cloth.The wind and rain were blowing, and there were various other sounds, such as the sound of a car starting, or the sound of brakes, and the music of the silent people sounded faintly again, this time it was intense. ] Mother: I can't go anyway. (Packing up her bag) I don't know what year and month I have to wait... This rain and snow will never end. Wearing glasses (bow your head and recite English cards): Itisrein, thatissnow. Uncle (gesturing on the chess record on the ground): Pao seven draws eight, Ma Jiu draws five. [The girl is contemplating, she walks out of her role under the raincloth, step by step, with obvious changes, and when she reaches the auditorium, she completely transcends the characters in the play, and the light on the stage is gradually dimmed . ] Girl: Doesn’t matter if it’s rain or snow, three years, five years or ten years, how many decades are there in your life? [The following three voices speak simultaneously. ] Girl: Your life has been wasted like this, Wearing glasses (weak): Itrains, itrained, Uncle (weaker): Ma Jiu advances to eight, Cannon four retreats to three. Girl: Just delay like this, delay forever? Wearing glasses: itisraining, itwillrain? Uncle: The soldiers are six and five, and the cars are five and one. Girl: Do you complain like this and suffer like this? Wearing Glasses: Itsnows, itsnowed, Uncle: Officials are five and six are retired, four are fired and seven are leveled. Girl: Just wait like this endlessly and painfully? Wearing Glasses: It is showing and it will snow. Uncle: Car three enters five—official five retreats six! Girl: The old one is old, and the new one is about to be born, Wearing glasses: Rainisrain, snowissnow. Uncle: Three cars enter two, four guns retreat one, Girl: After today, there is still today, and the future is always the future. Wearing glasses: Rainisnotsnow, snowisnotrain, Uncle: Elephant five, retreat three, cannon four, level seven, Girl: You just wait like this, complaining for the rest of your life? Wearing Glasses: Rainis'ntsnow and snowis'ntrain! Uncle: Elephant seven retreats five, car three enters seven, will! [The stage turns to light, and the girl has returned to the stage, returning to her role.The sound of the wind and rain has also stopped. ] Master (looking at the sky): I said the rain won't last long, and the sun won't show its face anymore? (to the stunned boy) Put away the rain cloth. Stupid boy: Hey! (quickly folds the rain cloth) Mother: Shall we hit the road? Girl (looking at the one wearing glasses): Shall we go? Grandpa: Where are you going? Stupid boy: Go to the city, master? Master: Just follow me. Uncle: Are you still going to the city?Can I still walk at my age? Wearing glasses: Don't you have to go when you go back? Uncle: That's true. Mother: But my bag is really heavy. Wearing glasses: Auntie, let me carry this bag for you! (Picks up the big bag) Mother: Thank you very much. (to the uncle) Old man, please pay attention to your feet and don't step on the water. Girl: Be careful! (help the uncle) Uncle: You go ahead, don't let me, an old man, drag you down.Me, where do I want to fall, please dig a hole for me.Don't forget to plug in a sign.Just write it down like this, saying that there is such a chess fan who has no regrets, has no skills, and has played chess all his life, always thinking about finding an opportunity to go to the Cultural Palace in the city to show off.Wait, wait, people are rotten and planted on the way into the city. Girl: Where are you talking about? Uncle: Good girl! (looks at the person wearing glasses, the person wearing glasses is uncomfortable, pushes the glasses) Director Ma, are you still going? Director Ma: Go!I have to go into town and sue the car company!I want to find their manager and ask who they drive for, is it for their own convenience, or for passengers?They are responsible for tossing passengers like this!I'm going to court to sue them for compensation for the loss of the passenger's age and health! Girl: Don't be ridiculous, I didn't tell you that. Director Ma (to the person wearing glasses): Look at the stop sign, which stop is this?What time is it on your digital watch?Write it all down and settle the bill with the car company! Wearing glasses (look at the station sign): Why, no station name? Grandpa: Weird. Director Ma: Why put up a sign without a station name?Take a closer look. Girl: No. Stupid boy: Master, we waited in vain and asked the car company to cheat us! Uncle: Look again, how can there be no station name if there is an existing station sign? Stupid boy (running to the other side of the sign, facing the person wearing glasses): Look at it, it seems that a piece of paper has been pasted, and there is only a little mark left. Wearing glasses (look carefully): Probably a notice. Director Ma: Where did the notice go?looking around! Girl (looks around on the ground): It's windy and rainy, it's gone before long. Stupid boy (stands on the iron railing and looks at the station sign): The paste marks are barely dusty, it's been a matter of eight lifetimes. Mother: What, this stop is cancelled?But last Saturday I also... Girl: Which last Saturday? Mother: Go up, up, up, up, up, up... Wearing glasses: What year and month did you say it was that Saturday? (The glasses are almost attached to the watch) Stupid boy: Don't look at it, big whiteboard.It's time to change the battery 2 Master: No wonder the cars don’t stop. Uncle: Are we waiting here for nothing? Wearing glasses: It's not in vain to wait. Uncle (sad): Why is this sign still upright? Isn’t this a joke? Girl: Let's go!Let's go! Director Ma: No, I have to sue them! Wearing Glasses: Who are you suing? Director Ma: The car company, is it okay to fool the passengers like this?I spelled it wrong to be the director! Wearing Glasses: You better tell yourself.Who told us not to see clearly?Who told us to wait and wait?Let's go, there's nothing more to wait for. Master: Let's go! Everyone (muttering): Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go... Uncle: Can you still walk? Mother: Could it be that the bridge was washed away by the flood on the way to the city, and the road was impassable? Wearing glasses (impatient): Why can't you understand?How many cars have passed by! [There is another sound of cars in the distance.Everyone watched silently.The sound of cars now comes from all directions.Everyone was at a loss.The heavy bang of an oncoming car was approaching.And the music of the silent people is like a cosmic sound, floating above the roar of many vehicles.Everyone stared ahead, some were walking toward the audience, and some were still on the stage, all of them emerged from their roles.The light changes accordingly, illuminating the actors in different degrees of light and darkness, and the basic light on the stage disappears.The following lines were spoken by seven people at the same time.The words of A, Ji, and Geng are interspersed and connected together to form a group to form a complete sentence. ] Actor Playing Girl: Why don't they leave? Actor B who pretends to be the director of the horse: People sometimes Actor C playing the role of master actor ding who plays mother Actor E playing the role of uncle: It is said that comedy is better than tragedy The actor playing the dumb boy: I don't understand. actor geng wearing glasses A: Isn't that what should be said already finished? B: Really have to wait.Have you queued up to buy hairtail?oh you C: It doesn't matter.People wait because people always have Ding: The mother said to her son: Let's go, E: Drama is difficult to perform.It's a tragedy, so the audience doesn't cry, Self: it seems Geng: I really don't understand. A: Then why don't they leave? B: If you don't cook, you'll always have to wait in line for the bus.queuing is C: Hope.If there is no hope at all, it will be miserable. Ding: Baby, let's go!A child never learns to walk. E: You actors can cry.Can do comedy, but not Already: yes...he Geng: Maybe... A: But time flies by in vain B: Wait.If you line up for half a day, what people sell is not to bring C: In the words of wearing glasses, it is called despair.despair is like singing Ding: Let him climb up by himself.Of course, sometimes E: Of course.If the audience doesn't laugh, you can't be yourself Self: We are waiting. Geng: They are waiting. A: Yeah!I really don't understand, I really don't understand. B: Fish is a washboard. The washboards in this city are well made. C: Dichlorvos, dichlorvos is medicine for flies and mosquitoes, people do it Ding: Help him.Then—and he just touched the wall—from a E: My son is having fun on stage.Besides, you Self: Of course not the station Geng: Time is not a station. A: They are not leaving B: Thin, it won’t hurt clothes, but you have a washing machine, you C: Do you drink dichlorvos to find that sin?If you don't die, you have to be carried to the doctor Ding: A corner—to a corner, and then—to the door E: You can’t tickle the audience, neither do the audience! Self: Not the terminal. Geng: It's not a station either. A: Yes?I really want to go B: You have been queuing for half a day in vain, you can't help but feel angry.so, C: Enema in the courtyard, it's even more unpleasant. Ding: Well, you still have to allow the wrestling, and then you just need to help him up. E: So, comedy is more difficult to act than tragedy.clear Has: They want to leave. Geng: I don't really want to leave. A: Yes?then tell him B: It doesn't matter, what matters is that you have to figure out first, C: Yes, have you traveled at night?Catch up again in the wild Ding: A child cannot learn to walk without falling down.be a mother E: It's a comedy, you have to put on a strange melancholy look, Self: Then we should go. Geng: Let’s go then. A: let's go! B: What are you waiting in line for?If you are, line up C: The sky is cloudy, the eyes are darkened, won't the more you walk, the more dizzy you will be? Ding: You have to have this kind of patience.If you don't, you don't deserve it, no, E: Fiddle with the ridiculous things in life one by one Self: It's over. Geng: All that needs to be said has been said. A: Why don't they leave? B: Yes, I have waited for half my life, maybe a whole life, in vain. C: You have to wait until dawn, it’s broad daylight, you can still Ding: I would not be a mother.So, being a mother is hard. E: The audience will watch.So, comedians, Self: We are waiting for them. Geng: We are waiting for them to leave. A: Let's go, everyone! B: Didn’t you make a big joke on yourself? C: Wouldn’t you be a fool if you don’t leave? Ding: But isn't it difficult to be a human being? E: It’s harder than an actor playing a tragedy! ． Self: Ah, let's go! Geng: Let's go! [The sound of cars running in all directions is getting closer and closer, mixed with the sound of horns from various vehicles.The lights in the center of the stage turned on.The actors have all returned to their roles.The music of the silent man becomes a grand but witty march. ] Wearing glasses (looking at the girl, tenderly): Shall we go? Girl (nods her head): Yes. Mother: Yo, where is my bag? Stupid boy (joyfully): Here it is. Mother (to the uncle): Look at your feet. (to help the uncle) Uncle: Thank you very much. [Everyone looks after each other and is about to leave together. ] Director Ma: Alas, alas——wait, wait, I'm tying my shoelaces! (end of play) Drafted in Beidaihe-Beijing in July 1981 The second draft in Beijing in November 1982