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?"
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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.
1:34:27
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.
1:34:33
She could afford it.
1:34:35
After we finished the rounds,
my name was cleared.
1:34:38
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...
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can cure that kind of lip sore.
1:35:04
The only cure is to go
into the fields and catch some frogs...
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slit one open at the belly
and place the opening on the sore.
1:35:13
A minute later,
the frog should dry up.
1:35:16
Leitzu was lucky
I remembered this.
1:35:21
It was after midnight. I got
the stagehands to go with flashlights...
1:35:25
to the canal behind
the Happy Stage Theater...
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to catch a bucketful of frogs.
1:35:32
Her friends came after the show
to tell me.
1:35:37
I rushed over.
1:35:40
The stagehands got the frogs.
1:35:42
I cared for her all night.
1:35:44
One after another,
we slit open the frogs.
1:35:47
They really did dry up
after a minute over the sore.
1:35:51
Her face was so swollen...
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it looked like a pig's head.
1:35:55
I kept on applying
the frogs to her lip...
1:35:58
until 4 O'clock in the morning.