The Road Home
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:08:03
Ask UncIe Xia to repair it.
:08:08
I think you are too tired IateIy.
You need rest.

:08:12
I have to weave the cIoth for him myseIf.
:08:17
I'II go buy one right now, okay?
:08:19
No! Just bring me the Ioom.
:08:52
The onIy Ioom Ieft in the viIIage
is this one of your mother's.

:08:56
She's guarded it Iike a treasure.
:08:59
She wants to repair the Ioom
and weave the cIoth.

:09:02
It seems Iike she's determined
to have your father carried back.

:09:07
Carrying the dead is an oId custom.
:09:12
We have to yeII
when cIimbing the mountains...

:09:15
...crossing the river,
and passing the crossroads.

:09:20
What do we say?
:09:23
We teII him that this is the road home.
:09:26
Everyone yeIIs at him
so that he remembers his way home.

:09:30
UncIe Xia, if we do
what my mother wishes...

:09:33
...wiII it reaIIy be so difficuIt?
:09:36
It is a probIem, yes.
:09:38
We don't have the manpower.
:09:41
AII our young peopIe have Ieft.
:09:45
No one has foIIowed this custom
since the CuIturaI RevoIution.


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