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WINTER VACATION

Where are you going ?

I was going to your house to look for you. And you?

Me too.

Have you finished the homework we have to do?

No. And you?

I can't find my exercise book.

Have you lost it again?

What are you doing here ?

How about going to the market?

To do what ?

Zhou Zhixin says there is a pretty girl selling cabbage.

I want to go see.

I come and there is nothing to see.

A normal girl, that's all.

It's just that she's not from here.

Let's go see Zhou Zhixin, then.

Father !

Did your dad forget to take his meds again?

“To accustom: To make familiar by habit.

"End of the 15th century. From medieval Latin 'habituat'.

Habit: Psych. Decreased response

to a frequently repeated stimulus.

"From Medieval English 'Formation of a Habit',

"from the Latin 'Habitatio',

“from medieval Latin 'Habituare'.

"Habit: Frequently repeated behavior."

From Medieval English and Old French from the Latin "Habitudo".

Zhou Zhongxin,

be calm

or your uncle will come kick your ass.

I don't want to be your grandson anymore.

And what do you want to be then?

My grandfather ?

Let me go play outside for 10 minutes, please.

Didn't you already play outside yesterday?

Go see who it is.

Who is it ?

Guys looking for my uncle.

Here you are.

What are you doing here ?

I came to see Zhou Zhixin.

What are you going to do ?

I do not know. I'm waiting for him to wake up so we can talk about it.

No more waiting.

You can prepare the funeral.

Come in.

I will come back tomorrow.

What do you have there? Something to eat ?

No, it's just a wool hat I made for you.

I'm still young, I don't need this stuff.

Frankly, Zhou Zhixin, I think it's a beautiful hat,

and it suits your complexion very well.

I took several days to do it.

If it doesn't suit you, tell me,

I will fix it.

I'm leaving now.

Go away, you're ruining my meal.

Zhou Zhongxin, eat or your uncle will kick your ass.

It is all I have.

Give it !

Everything is there ?

More or less.

Don't let me catch you again!

Why don't you defend yourself?

A few hits, no big deal.

If I respond, that'll make me mean too, right?

Besides, dad, look at me… Can you see me beating him?

Stop !

Laowu!

Where you going ?

I have a date.

With whom ?

Your mother.

What are you doing, grandpa?

Leave me alone! I'm moved here.

Go see who it is.

Say hello.

Hello.

Come and sit down.

Take Li Xiaomeng to your uncle's room.

You lost weight.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Orphan.

You look so pitiful.

Li Xiaomeng, it's time to go home.

I haven't finished playing with Zhou Zhongxin, grandma.

What did you do ?

Li Xiaomeng's grandmother looks furious.

Nothing.

Nothing ? So why is she so angry?

Mind your own business, kid.

Or your uncle will kick your ass.

When is she coming home, mom?

After she's done work.

Why aren't you at work?

I am retired.

What is it, retired?

It's when you no longer need to work.

Am I retired too?

Sort of.

What are you retired from?

Don't ask so many questions.

Or your uncle will kick your ass.

Are you buying it or not?

I was going to !

So get on with it instead of fiddling with it.

It's just a cabbage, you're not the only one selling it here!

2.30 yuan.

Why is it so expensive?

My cabbages are the cheapest in the world.

2 yuan.

I only earn 20 fen selling it for 2.30 yuan.

I'll give you 2.10 yuan then.

Alright, that'll be fine.

I don't have 10 fen..

Okay, you win.

They would be wasted if you didn't sell them all, right?

Do we have to dress like that?

You have to be well dressed to go to a government office.

Your beautiful dress is ready?

I'm taking care of it.

Dong Jinfeng!

Get out here right away!

Why are my wool tights in this state?

I don't know.

Tell me the truth.

Where is the other half?

Your uncle got it for me from a very distant place.

Zhou Zhongxin, are you having fun?

Yes.

Let me play a little.

Grandpa, why are dad and mom

dressed like that and look at us like that?

Because they were happy.

Wait for me a second.

Isn't that your stepfather and your stepmother?

What are we going to do today ?

Why are you looking at me ?

I am not your priest.

What's going on ?

It seems like life never ends.

Are you fed up with life?

Did you say I was fed up with life?

I didn't say you were fed up with life.

He said I'm fed up with life?

You both said "fed up"

but I don't know which one is really fed up with life.

Your way of speaking suggested that you were fed up with life.

So I asked you if that was the case.

But I never said it was.

Your verbiage annoys me more and more.

Laobao, I believe that from now on, it's over between us.

It's up to you. You know I'm the accommodating type.

Since we were friends, let me tell you one last thing:

you really are an asshole.

Sit down and chat.

Don't make hasty decisions.

Laowu, what are you looking at? Come and sit down.

No. I want to have one last talk with Zhu Xiaoling.

Excuse me, is this the place for divorce applications?

It's written on the door, isn't it?

Sorry, comrade, we're illiterate.

Come in, this is the place!

Do you need to think it over?

No.

And you?

Same as her.

Next.

Can we not break up?

No.

Why ?

I'm still young, it's going to disrupt my studies.

What ?

We've been in the same class for 8 years

and you are last in everything.

As far as I know, nothing can change your your record.

You can't get worse.

Frankly, you are physically unremarkable

and you are stupid.

No one but me will ever care about you.

You better hang on to me.

Laowu, can't you say something nice to people?

What use would that be?

My dream is not to be an ass-kisser.

What is your dream ?

My dream is that we live together soon.

And after ?

To have a child, to raise it, to find love

and with whom to share our days.

For him to have a child, who will have a child.…

Infinitely reproducing the fruit of my lower abdomen.

To infinity ? Won't you be tired?

Why would I be tired?

Why is the sky always empty?

You're feeling good ?

Why are you still here?

We are waiting for you.

Why wait for me?

- Is it better with Zhu Xiaoling? -Yes,

Why do you always break up with her?

It's not me who always breaks up with her, it's her.

She dumps me once a month.

I've become her sanitary napkin.

I think you pamper her too much.

Take the initiative to break up, for once,

she'll beg you to stay and won't talk to you about breaking up.

What if she doesn't beg me?

I asked her why she wanted to break up.

Do you know what she replied?

No idea.

Try to guess.

No idea.

I don't know what's on your girl's mind.

I'll tell you, then.

Great, I can't wait to find out. I'd be pissed if you didn't tell me.

She said that love could harm her studies.

I would never have believed that my Xiaoling

had a pure heart and a sense of humor.

Laowu, you misunderstood.

Ta Xiaoling isn't toying with you.

During your relationship, she understood

the dangers of adolescent love.

Laowu, can I give you my opinion?

Go ahead, don't hide anything from me.

You underestimated her. Being last won't stop her.

What do you know about it? You were never last in anything.

I've already cut ties with you.

From now on, when I speak, shut up.

A quarter to six, I should go home to eat.

School starts again tomorrow. Did you do your homework?

You want to copy off me?

No, I can't keep cheating all my life.

So what are you gonna do?

The teacher is a madman.

If you don't watch out, you'll be on crap duty for 6 months.

I won't go to school tomorrow.

You can hide at first, but it won't work forever.

I will no longer go to school.

Studies are useless. There is nothing to learn.

If I continue to vegetate in school, my life will cease to exist.…

Laobao, I always took you for a barbarian.

I never imagined you were so sensitive.

If Zhu Xiaoling can force herself to go to school, why can't you?

I'm not like your Zhu Xiaoling. She's a girl.

Even if at the end of her schooling she still does not know how to count,

you will still marry her and take care of her.

But, Laowu, would you marry me?

For better or for worse, for richer for poorer,

in health and sickness, sorrow and joy, to

love and cherish me until death do us part?

Laobao, you complicate things for me.

If you don't go to school, what will you do?

I will contribute to the struggle to build socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Don't fuck with me.

If you enter society with this mentality,

I'm afraid you're just a burden to our country.

Should we go back? Night is falling.

I really have nothing.

Zhou Zhongxin!

Why don't you sleep during lunch break?

I can't sleep, I have insomnia.

Where you going ?

To find a place where I can be an orphan.

Do you have an address?

No, but if I go far enough,

I'm sure I will find it.

You said you wanted to be an orphan when you grew up.

But you're not big yet.

I can not wait anymore.

I must become an orphan as soon as possible.

So if I want to play with you,

I can never find you again?

We can be orphans together.

Our biology lesson today

focuses on apomictic molluscs.

Do not worry,

my dad forgot to take his meds again.

Let's forget about those poor apomictic molluscs

and let's talk about us instead.

My children,

this textbook open before you constantly tells you

that you are the soul of the universe, the superior creature

who knows everything and for whom nothing is impossible.

But the truth,

is that you know nothing,

not even who you are, where you're from

and where you are going.

And the textbook keeps telling you

that you are the master of this world,

that the world belongs to you.

But the truth is you got nothing other

than your arrogance, stupidity and greed.

You're not going anywhere.

My children, in the history of humanity,

we foolishly discussed truth and reality

from one generation to another

but we never possessed

the slightest ounce of true knowledge of ourselves

or of the world we live in.

Every library and every mind around the world

only increases human stupidity.

Professor Wu,

you are in the wrong room.

Your class is next.

Sorry.

Ok, now, class begins

Good morning teacher.

- Good morning, class. Sit down please. -Thank you.

Today we'll have you do an essay, class.

The topic is…

Adaptation: Florence BRESKOC

Electronic subtitling: DUNE MK