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落地了,就叫我大嫂吧

Once We Land, Call Me Sister-in-Law

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The doll room at Yuyuan, the killing, the train, then the cockpit: Qingyi knew about the bomb, throws a parachute away, loses the game on purpose, and she still will not jump alone. HSK 5+ Chinese listening practice.

This is an HSK 5+ Chinese listening episode that runs about 9 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 12 key vocabulary words such as 畜生、流产、两不相欠 and walks through 4 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.

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旁白pángbái· Narrator

飞机还在飞。
牧兰说到榆园的门口,停住了。
清峄没有催。
过了一会儿,她自己接着说下去。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

我推开门,屋里点满了蜡烛,地上坐满了洋娃娃。
小兰姐穿一条白裙子,就坐在娃娃堆里。

素素Sùsù· Susu

小兰姐。是我,素素。

小兰Xiǎolán· Xiaolan

你是……谁?我不认识你。

素素Sùsù· Susu

你脸上的伤是谁打的?霍明熙?

小兰Xiǎolán· Xiaolan

对不起,我再也不跑了。我很乖,我唱歌给你听。我不是人,我是娃娃。

素素Sùsù· Susu

小兰姐,我来晚了。我带你走。

霍家的人Huò jiā de rén· A Huo man

你是谁?小丫头,自己送上门来了。

素素Sùsù· Susu

你这个畜生。

霍家的人Huò jiā de rén· A Huo man

敢打我?老子弄死你。

旁白pángbái· Narrator

那天夜里,她和同伴杀了霍明熙,把小兰姐从榆园背了出来。

同伴tóngbàn· Her comrade

大夫看了,直摇头。
她浑身是伤,前些日子刚流产,血一直止不住。
从来没人给她治过。
她怎么撑到今天的,我不知道。

素素Sùsù· Susu

再想想办法。一定有办法。

小兰Xiǎolán· Xiaolan

你们……怎么从孤儿院出来的?嬷嬷没把你们卖了?

同伴tóngbàn· Her comrade

我们都逃出来了。没人能再欺负我们。

小兰Xiǎolán· Xiaolan

那就好。见到你们,真好。

素素Sùsù· Susu

以后我们不分开了。

小兰Xiǎolán· Xiaolan

素素,我不行了。
霍明熙死在你们手里,霍家不会放过你们。
快离开北城。

素素Sùsù· Susu

我们不会丢下你。

小兰Xiǎolán· Xiaolan

我死了,把骨灰带回南洋去,好不好?
我九岁被人拐走,十三年了,阿爸长什么样,我都想不起来了。
我想回家。

素素Sùsù· Susu

好。我送你回家。

小兰Xiǎolán· Xiaolan

疼。唱歌给我听,就那一首。

素素Sùsù· Susu

我唱。你睡,睡着了就不疼了。

旁白pángbái· Narrator

小兰姐在她怀里睡着了,再也没醒来。

霍家的人Huò jiā de rén· A Huo man

都给我打起精神!把车站翻个底朝天,也要把人找出来!

素素Sùsù· Susu

霍家的人没见过你。你带着小兰姐先走。

同伴tóngbàn· Her comrade

那你呢?

素素Sùsù· Susu

我把他们引开。枪留给你,路上小心。

旁白pángbái· Narrator

她上了火车。她本来打算就死在那趟车上。可是清峄追上来了。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你走那天,龙胆花刚开。你说过要请我看花的。

素素Sùsù· Susu

你还不明白?我跟你好,只是想利用你。你以为我真的会喜欢你?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

要是真话,你开枪。

素素Sùsù· Susu

就当你从来不认识我。

旁白pángbái· Narrator

天上,牧兰停了一下。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

我本来想让霍家的人看着你亲手处置凶手。
那样你就没事了,我们也两不相欠。
我没想到,霍家会那样对你。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

所以你从头到尾跟我好,都只是为了救人。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

是。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

那火车上你为什么不解释?
没死,为什么不回来?
为什么变成方牧兰,还偏偏嫁给我大哥?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你问得太多。那是另一笔账,得另算价钱。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

什么价钱?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

我要你替我杀个人,你干不干?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

杀谁?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

霍老爷子。
你疯了!下面全是人!

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你不是要他死吗?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

拉起来!

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

飞机被人动过。别人也许骗得过,我早就看出来了。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你早就知道?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你急着办开学,肯定有鬼。
宴会上你坐立不安。
起飞前,有个外国女人围着这架飞机转。
说,她放了什么?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

炸药。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

怪不得。你拦着我哥,却不拦我。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

我怎么没拦你?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

炸弹在哪儿?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

我不知道。现在落地,还来得及。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你不知道?
你想过以后怎么办吗?
落地以后你听我的:别再碰霍家。
跟着我,我护你。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你太天真。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

我天真?行。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你干什么?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你要找死,我陪你找。
省得你像三年前那样,人没救成,自己也搭进去,还连累别人。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

用不着你陪。我的事,不会连累你。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

我背后有伞。背上,跳。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你疯了。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

死容易,活着才难。任素素。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

是吗?死了的人告诉你的?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

那我们玩个游戏。现在只剩一个降落伞。赢的活,输的死。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

好啊。什么游戏?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你是爱我,还是恨我?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

恨你。恨得想拆了你的骨头。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你答对了。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

那我问你。你是爱我,还是恨我?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你猜。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你恨我。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

好。你赢了。

旁白pángbái· Narrator

她赢了。按他的规矩,降落伞是她的,去死的人是他。她没有动。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

素素!
任素素,你有种。到底还是下不了手。以后别再装狠了。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

慕容清峄,三年前我们就该告别了。
是我对不住你。
可你现在有了新的生活。
离我远一点,好好活下去。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

你就这么说完了?

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你想知道的,你怀疑的,我都告诉你了。
我要去的地方,就是爬,我也要爬到。
那不是你的路。
还有,下了这座山,你还是得叫我大嫂。

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

任素素。你满口都是谎。

清渝Qīngyú· Qingyu

清峄!还能动吗?

清峄Qīngyì· Qingyi

死不了。

清渝Qīngyú· Qingyu

把飞机残骸围起来,找人检查。查出什么,都不许声张,直接报我。

塔西娅Tǎxīyà· Tasiya

霍家老狗必须死。这么好的机会,让我眼睁睁放过,我做不到。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

我们要是也伤害无辜,那跟霍家的人有什么区别?

塔西娅Tǎxīyà· Tasiya

你为什么要拦?让他死在天上,多干净。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

那开飞机的老师呢?她的命不算?你的恨,比她的命还重?

塔西娅Tǎxīyà· Tasiya

我一看见他,身上每一道疤都疼得像裂开一样。
我也想忍,我忍不了。
他不死,我一天都睡不安稳。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

你一放炸弹,我一整天都耗在那架飞机上。
孙嬷嬷呢?
完好无损地回了孤儿院。

同伴tóngbàn· Her comrade

命都豁出去了,连她一根头发都没伤着。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

死得太容易,太便宜他了。他欠的,我要他慢慢还。先说孙嬷嬷。

同伴tóngbàn· Her comrade

今天航校出了这么大的事,霍家要护着老狗,还要查是谁炸的飞机,顾不上孤儿院。
守卫空了。
让我去。

牧兰Mùlán· Mulan

我去。
我有东西留在那儿,得拿回来。
塔西娅,我知道你恨。
可再有一次擅自动手,姐妹的情分就到头了。

塔西娅Tǎxīyà· Tasiya

明白。

孙嬷嬷Sūn mómo· Nanny Sun

一只眼!
蹲那儿干什么?
起来!
明天老爷太太们来,你给我抱着娃娃哭!
哭不出钱来,谁都别想吃饭!
都站好!

旁白pángbái· Narrator

孩子们站在冷风里,没有人说话。素素快到了。
English transcript reference

The plane is still flying.

Mulan reached the gate of Yuyuan in her story, and stopped.

Qingyi didn't press her.

After a while, she went on by herself.

I pushed the door open. The room was full of candles, and the floor was covered with dolls.

Xiaolan wore a white dress, sitting right there in the pile of dolls.

Xiaolan. It's me. Susu.

Who... are you? I don't know you.

Who hit your face? Huo Mingxi?

I'm sorry, I'll never run again. I'm good, I'll sing for you. I'm not a person. I'm a doll.

Xiaolan, I came too late. I'm taking you away.

Who are you? Little girl, walked right in on your own, did you.

You animal.

You dare hit me? I'll finish you.

That night, she and her comrade killed Huo Mingxi, and carried Xiaolan out of Yuyuan on her back.

The doctor looked at her and just shook his head.

She's covered in wounds, she miscarried not long ago, and the bleeding won't stop.

Nobody has ever treated her.

How she's held on until today, I don't know.

Think of something else. There has to be a way.

You... how did you get out of the orphanage? Didn't the matron sell you?

We all escaped. Nobody can bully us anymore.

That's good. It's so good to see you.

From now on, we don't get separated.

Susu, I'm not going to make it.

Huo Mingxi died at your hands. The Huo family won't let you go.

Leave Beicheng, quickly.

We won't leave you behind.

When I die, take my ashes back to Nanyang. Will you?

I was nine when they took me. Thirteen years. I can't even remember what my father looked like.

I want to go home.

All right. I'll take you home.

It hurts. Sing to me. Just that one song.

I'll sing. Sleep. Once you're asleep it won't hurt.

Xiaolan fell asleep in her arms and never woke again.

Look sharp, all of you! Turn the station upside down if you have to, but find her!

The Huo men have never seen you. Take Xiaolan and go first.

And you?

I'll draw them off. Keep the gun. Be careful on the road.

She got on the train. She had meant to die on that train. But Qingyi caught up with her.

The day you left, the gentians had just opened. You said you'd invite me to see them.

Still don't understand? I was with you only to use you. Did you think I could really like you?

If that's the truth, then shoot.

Pretend you never knew me.

Up in the sky, Mulan paused.

I wanted the Huo men to watch you deal with the murderer with your own hands.

Then you'd be safe, and neither of us would owe the other anything.

I never imagined the Huo family would treat you the way they did.

So from beginning to end, you were with me only to save someone.

Yes.

Then why didn't you explain on the train?

You weren't dead. Why didn't you come back?

Why become Fang Mulan, and of all people marry my elder brother?

Too many questions. That's a separate account, with its own price.

What price?

I want you to kill someone for me. Will you do it?

Kill who?

Old Master Huo.

You're insane! It's all people down there!

Isn't it his death you want?

Pull up!

Someone tampered with this plane. Maybe you fooled the others. I saw through it long ago.

You knew all along?

You were in a hurry to hold this opening. Something was off.

At the banquet, you couldn't sit still.

Before takeoff, a foreign woman was circling this plane.

Tell me. What did she plant?

Explosives.

No wonder. You held my brother back, but not me.

How did I not stop you?

Where's the bomb?

I don't know. If we land now, there's still time.

You don't know?

Have you thought about what comes after?

Once we land, you listen to me: don't touch the Huo family again.

Stay with me. I'll protect you.

You're too naive.

Naive, am I? Fine.

What are you doing?

If you want to die, I'll die with you.

Better than watching you do what you did three years ago: fail to save anyone, throw yourself away, and drag others down with you.

I don't need you with me. My business won't drag you in.

There's a parachute behind me. Put it on and jump.

You're insane.

Dying is easy. Living is the hard part. Ren Susu.

Is it? Did the dead tell you that?

Then let's play a game. There's only one parachute left. The winner lives. The loser dies.

Fine. What game?

Do you love me, or hate me?

Hate you. So much I could tear the bones out of you.

Correct.

Then my turn. Do you love me, or hate me?

Guess.

You hate me.

Good. You win.

She had won. By his rules the parachute was hers, and he was the one to die. She didn't move.

Susu!

Ren Susu, you've got nerve. And still you couldn't go through with it. So stop pretending to be ruthless.

Murong Qingyi, we should have said goodbye three years ago.

I'm the one who wronged you.

But you have a new life now.

Stay away from me, and live well.

Is that all you have to say?

Everything you wanted to know, everything you doubted, I've told you.

Where I'm going, I'll get there even if I have to crawl.

That road isn't yours.

And one more thing: once we're off this mountain, you still have to call me sister-in-law.

Ren Susu. Every word out of your mouth is a lie.

Qingyi! Can you move?

I'll live.

Cordon off the wreckage and get it examined. Whatever you find, not a word to anyone. Report straight to me.

That old dog of the Huo family has to die. A chance like that, and you want me to watch it go by? I can't.

If we hurt the innocent too, how are we any different from the Huo family?

Why did you stop it? Let him die in the sky. How clean that would have been.

And the teacher flying the plane? Does her life not count? Is your hatred worth more than her life?

The moment I see him, every scar on my body hurts like it's tearing open again.

I try to hold it in. I can't.

Until he's dead, I can't sleep a single night in peace.

The moment you planted that bomb, I lost the whole day to that plane.

And Nanny Sun?

Went back to the orphanage without a scratch.

We put our lives on the line, and never harmed a hair on her head.

Dying that easily would let him off too lightly. What he owes, I want him to pay back slowly. Nanny Sun first.

After what happened at the school today, the Huo family will be guarding the old dog and hunting whoever bombed the plane. They won't have time for the orphanage.

The guards are gone.

Let me go.

I'll go.

I left something there. I have to take it back.

Tasiya, I know how much you hate him.

But act on your own one more time, and the bond between us sisters ends there.

Understood.

One-Eye!

What are you squatting there for?

Get up!

Tomorrow the gentlemen and ladies come. You hold that doll and you cry!

If your crying doesn't bring money, nobody eats!

Everyone, line up!

The children stood in the cold wind. No one made a sound. Susu was almost there.

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What vocabulary does this episode teach?

词汇
chùshengbeast (as an insult)

What Susu calls the man who kept Xiaolan.

liúchǎnmiscarriage

Part of the doctor's verdict on Xiaolan.

liǎng bù xiāng qiànneither owes the other anything

What Susu hoped her death would settle.

péizàngto be buried with; to die alongside

The crowd below, if he dives.

dòng shǒujiǎoto tamper with

The plane has been tampered with; he knew.

zhāorěto provoke, to mess with

'Don't provoke the Huo family again.'

liánlèito implicate, to drag in

She promises her business will not touch him.

cánháiwreckage

Qingyu has the wreck cordoned off and examined quietly.

shēngzhāngto make public

'Whatever you find, don't let it out.'

shànzìon one's own authority

Tasiya acted alone; Mulan forbids it happening again.

qíngfènthe bond between people

The sisters' bond, which has a limit.

mǎnkǒuevery word out of one's mouth

'Every word out of your mouth is a lie.'

* beyond level超纲词

What grammar patterns appear in this episode?

语法

就当……

Treat it as if; pretend that.

就当你从来不认识我。

怪不得

No wonder; now it makes sense.

怪不得。你拦着我哥,却不拦我。

省得……

So as to avoid; to save the trouble of.

省得你像三年前那样,人没救成,自己也搭进去。

就是……,也……

Even if, still.

我要去的地方,就是爬,我也要爬到。

Proper nouns

专有名词
慕容清峄Mùróng QīngyìMurong Qingyi慕容清渝Mùróng QīngyúMurong Qingyu方牧兰Fāng MùlánFang Mulan任素素Rèn SùsùRen Susu小兰XiǎolánXiaolan, the woman who raised Susu塔西娅TǎxīyàTasiya霍明熙Huò MíngxīHuo Mingxi, a man of the Huo family霍老爷子Huò lǎoyézithe old master Huo孙嬷嬷Sūn mómoNanny Sun, matron of the orphanage榆园YúyuánYuyuan, the Huo family's Beicheng compound北城BěichéngBeicheng南洋NányángNanyang, the South Seas航校hángxiàoaviation school孤儿院gū'éryuànorphanage龙胆花lóngdǎnhuāgentian flower

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