Summary
of MG2 Episode 9:
Continuation scene from Orange Café:
Ye Sha (pointing to Dao Ming Si): “I want to eat the egg that’s prepared by him.”
Ah Lun (looking from Ye Sha to Dao Ming Si and back again): “Him… But Miss… He does not…”
Da Xin (interrupting Ah Lun): “Let me. Miss. Let me do the introductions… This person is not really one of our workers. Also, he doesn’t know… (he stops talking, looking at the way Ye Sha was smiling at Dao Ming Si and the way Dao Ming Si was smiling back at Ye Sha) You guys… know… He is your…”
Yi Ling (finally takes notice that Ye Sha and Dao Ming Si knows each other): “Ok Da Xin. Stop talking.”
Da Xin: “Oh, Ok, Ok.”
Yi Ling (speaking to Dao Ming Si): “Ah Sing, right? Go and fry an egg for this young lady.”
Ah Lun, Da Xin and Yi Ling all stand over the stove counter and watches Dao Ming Si fry an egg.
Yi Ling (nods her head): “Not bad.”
Da Xin (smiling): “He’s improving.”
Ah Lun (sticking his nose in the air): “It’s ok.”
When the egg is ready, Dao Ming Si sets the plate in front of Ye Sha.
Dao Ming Si: “Please try it.”
Ye Sha smiles at him and takes a bite with everybody watching her.
Dao Ming Si (looking at Ah Lun): “Then can I work here?”
Da Xin (answering for Ah Lun): “Well, since you have such a pretty girlfriend… we’ll hire you.”
Ah Lun (looking at Da Xin): “Hey! Are you the boss or am I the boss?”
Da Xin: “Well then?”
Ah Lun: “Oh course not.”
Da Xin: “Why?”
Ah Lun (flustered): “Because… Because I’m the boss. Once the boss says no then it’s no. I can’t take back what I said.”
Da Xin: “But he’s just to help us out, that’s not good? (turns to speak to Yi Ling) Yi Ling, you talk to him.”
Dao Ming Si: “Forget it. Ye Sha, let’s go.”
Ye Sha (standing up): “If they don’t hire you, it’s ok, at least you’ve tried your best. That’s what matters.”
Ye Sha and Dao Ming Si gets ready to leave when Yi Ling calls out to them.
Yi Ling: “Ah Sing. (Dao Ming Si turns around) He doesn’t hire you. I hire you. Because I’m Lao Ban Niang [lady boss]. And nobody can say no to Lao Ban Niang’s words. Our café needs people who are hard workers.” (she stares hard at Ah Lun)
Ah Lun (giving in to Yi Ling’s stare): “Very well. (to Dao Ming Si) What are you standing there for. Go wash the dishes.”
Dao Ming Si (smiles and walking toward the back): “Thank you Loa Bang Niang. Thank you boss.”
After Dao Ming Si goes over to the back counter, they wave Ye Sha back to the table, “Sit Sit.”
Da Xin (to Ye Sha): “Do you want anything else to eat? My cooking is very delicious.”
Ah Lun: “Hey hey. Hurry up and go to work. (turns to Yi Ling) And you.”
Yi Ling (retorts back as if daring him to order her around): “Me what?”
Ah Lun (softens up): “Do you want to apply more lipstick?”
Yi Ling (searches for her mirror): “Did it come off?”
Da Xin: “That’s not fair!”
Next morning, Dao Ming Si wakes up at the crack of dawn to go to work. Ye Sha sits, drawing a picture of Dao Ming Si working at the stove counter. Meanwhile, Qing He drives his car up to San Cai’s pastry shop. It’s Valentine’s Day and there’s a lot of people buying stuff and the line was out the door. Qing He waits in line in order to have a chance to speak to San Cai.
San Cai (talking to customers): “Hi, This is your cake. Thank you. $350. Hi, Happy Valentine’s Day, what can I help you with? Ok, please wait. (Finally it’s Qing He’s turn) Happy Valentine’s Day, what can I help you with?”
Qing He: “Happy Valentine’s Day to San Cai.”
San Cai (looking up and seeing Qing He): “Qing He. Stop playing. I’m very busy today.”
Qing He: “I’m not playing. I had to stand in line in order to talk to you.”
San Cai: “The customers are on line to buy cake. Stop wasting their time.”
Qing He: “But I have something to talk to you about.”
San Cai (trying to wave him aside): “Stop playing. I’m really very busy.”
Qing He: “Then you must accept my proposal for a dinner tonight.”
San Cai (looking at Qing He): “I feel that the way you are dressed today, is more suitable to have dinner with my mom.”
Customer: “Miss. How long are you going to be talking?”
San Cai: “Sorry. Sorry. Qing He, go away. (Qing He finally stands aside) Hi, what I can get you?”
Customer: “Can I have a chocolate cake?”
San Cai: “Sorry. We’re sold out of the chocolate flavor. Mango tastes pretty good too. It’s very good to give as a present to a girl. Please wait.”
Qing He: “San Cai then how about I go home and change then come back tonight to pick you up?”
San Cai: “Qing He. There’s really no need. I have to work all day today. (to customer) Thank you.”
Qing He: “But, today’s Valentine’s Day, why can’t two good friends go out for dinner?”
San Cai: “Qing He, I really don’t have time today. (to customer) Sorry. Total $350. Thank you. You give $500.”
Qing He: “San Cai, come on. I have everything planned tonight. (with a dreamy look on his face) This restaurant doesn’t have a lot of people and is very quiet. We can have a lot of fun, barbecuing hot dogs. So don’t think of anything else.”
Customer: “So where’s this restaurant?”
San Cai (smiling): “This restaurant is his home. I don’t think you would want to go. Here’s your cake. Thank you.”
Qing He (surprised): “San Cai, very impressive. How’d you know it was my home? (hopeful) Then I’ll pick you up tonight?”
San Cai: “Qing He, I really have to work all day today and don’t have time to think about other things. (to customer) Happy Valentine’s Day, what can I get you?”
While San Cai is busy with the customers, Qing He slowly walks away, planning something in his head.
Back at the Orange Café:
Da Xin and Ah Lun are sitting at a table with Yi Ling between them fixing her make up while Dao Ming Si is cleaning up. Da Xin & Ah Lun seem to be arguing about something.
Da Xin: “What are you saying? Don’t say stuff about people.”
Ah Lun: “Then what do you want to do?”
Da Xin: “I don’t want to do anything. I’m not happy.”
Ah Lun: “If you’re not happy, then leave.”
Da Xin: “Hey. Hey, who do you think I am? If I don’t finish washing the dishes, I will not leave.”
Ah Lun (slams his hand on the table and gets up): “I don’t want you to wash it!”
Da Xin (gets up and yells back over Yi Ling’s head): “Then I won’t leave!”
The two of them continue arguing and Yi Ling once again stops them.
Yi Ling (yelling): “Have you two argued enough already? Now, who’s going to wash the dishes?”
Dao Ming Si (cleaning a table, volunteers): “Me. I’ll go wash it. I’ll wash it now so you all stop arguing.”
Dao Ming Si hurries toward the back to wash the dishes. Ah Lun & Da Xin both hold up a V sign smiling at each other. It was all a plan to get Dao Ming Si to go over to the area where the dishes were. As Dao Ming Si rolls up his sleeves, preparing to wash the dishes, he sees an envelope lying on top of the dishes. He picks up the envelope and looks inside to find money from his wages. Dao Ming Si walks over to the where Ah Lun, Da Xin & Yi Ling were sitting, thanking his colleagues and is very excited at receiving his first salary.
Dao Ming Si: “Thank you. This is my first wage.”
Ah Lun: “We broke the rules. If you haven’t worked a whole month, you shouldn’t be getting any money. If it wasn’t because of some sort of Valentine’s Day you wouldn’t be getting it. I was only thinking about your girlfriend.”
Yi Ling (sighs): “Such a pretty couple. Why are some people so lucky?”
Ah Lun: “Hey, I’m jealous.”
Dao Ming Si: “But Ye Sha’s not really my girlfriend.”
Ah Lun (hears and grabs the envelope with the money back): “Ok, then.”
Da Xin grabs it out of Ah Lun’s hands.
Da Xin: “Then you’re not right. You should use this chance from our nice boss, Ah Lun and make use of it. You can’t throw away this good chance. Right boss?”
Ah Lun: “Stop talking nonsense. (he tries to snatch the money back) Give me that back.”
Yi Ling (getting up out of her seat and grabs the money out of Da Xin’s hands): “Have you two played around enough?”
Yi Ling (giving the money back to Dao Ming Si): “Doesn’t matter if you guys are lovers in the future or not. You have your wage now, you should go and thank Ye Sha. Don’t forget she helped you get this job.”
Dao Ming Si (taking the money): “I will. I want to thank her too, but I don’t know what to do to thank her. What do you guys think I should do?”
Da Xin (thinking hard): “Well… Let me see… Use your own hands and make her… Ah yes, I have it. How about a Valentine’s Day dinner? That will… (looking at Dao Ming Si’s eager face) …not work. Will not work.”
Dao Ming Si (crushed): “Why won’t it work?”
Yi Ling / Da Xin / Ah Lun (at the same time): “Of course it won’t work for you.”
Dao Ming Si (still not understanding): “Why?”
Ah Lun: “You couldn’t even fry an egg.”
Dao Ming Si (trying to defend himself): “Why? I… But I can learn. Da Xin, Yi Ling, Ah Lun, don’t you think?”
Da Xin: “Looking at you like this, I think I can’t help myself. Let me, the kitchen’s greatest chef, Da Xin.”
Ah Lun (continues): “And me, the kitchen’s greatest master, Ah Lun.”
Yi Ling (continues): “And me, the kitchen’s greatest magician, Yi Ling.”
Ah Lun (finishes up): “Teach you all that we’ve learned.”
Dao Ming Si: “Teach me what?”
Da Xin: “Italian Spaghetti!”
Dao Ming Si carries a bag of ingredients home, dropping it on the kitchen table. Then he takes out the ingredients from the bag one by one while checking it off from the piece of paper in his hand. As he is making sure he has everything, he comes across the term “bao xiang,” which is actually a term in cooking, but he thought it was an ingredient. He looks around the kitchen and can’t find it of course because there is no such thing. So he calls Grandma for help.
Dao Ming Si (calling out): “Grandma, do you have bao xiang? Grandma.”
He goes to her room and knocks on her door. Grandma opens the door.
Dao Ming Si: “Grandma, do we have any bao xiang here?”
Grandma: “Bao what xiang?”
Dao Ming Si: “That is bao this xiang…”
Grandma goes into the kitchen to help Dao Ming Si. Grandma is holding a tomato and reading from the piece of paper that Dao Ming Si was reading from before.
Grandma: “Put in water to cook, then peel skin off.”
Dao Ming Si, wearing a mouth mask, is trying to cut an onion but he was doing it very dangerously. Grandma (after putting the tomatoes in the boiling pot turns to look at Dao Ming Si): “At the rate you’re cutting, you’ll not complete the job until tomorrow morning. Let me do it. I’ll take care of it.”
Dao Ming Si (taking the mouth mask off): “Then what am I suppose to do?”
Grandma (picking up the bag of clams and hands it to Dao Ming Si): “Open the shells and clean the sand.”
Dao Ming Si looks at the clams blankly and Grandma repeats, “Open the shells and clean the sand. Go, go, go.”
Dao Ming Si takes the bag and walks away muttering, “Open the shell and clean the sand.”
Grandma takes over the chopping of the onions.
Dao Ming Si walks to the backyard with the bag of clams. He puts a newspaper on the floor and pours out the clams onto a plate. He picks one up and tries to peel it open. Then he tried throwing it. When that didn’t work, he looks around the backyard and noticing a hammer he gives a tiny smile as a thought comes to mind. He goes over and grabs the hammer. He hits one with a hammer and when he see that it works, he smiled happily like a little boy. Then he grab another clam and smash it up. He finds it slow to hit the clams one by one, so he pours the plate of clams onto the newspaper and wrapping the clams up, begins to smash the clams. He seemed to be having lots of fun with smashing. When he’s done, he walks back into the kitchen with the cracked clams happily. Grandma is chopping onions and her eyes were tearing while cutting the onions.
Dao Ming Si: “Wow, Grandma. You’re very quick, chopping so fast.”
Grandma takes off her glasses and wipes the tears.
Dao Ming Si (turning to look at her): “Grandma, what’s wrong with you? Are you thinking about something really sad?”
Grandma: “Give me the mouth mask back.”
Dao Ming Si quickly takes it off and hands it to her. After taking it from Dao Ming Si, Grandma sees the clams with cracked shells.
Grandma (pointing to the plate in Dao Ming Si’s hands): “What’s that?”
Dao Ming Si answers proudly: “Clams that have been opened and cleaned.”
Grandma takes the plate out of his hands to look.
Dao Ming Si: “I’ve tried a lot of ways, but it was very hard so I used a hammer!”
Grandma couldn’t believe her ears and said “I’ll do it. I’ll do it.”
Dao Ming Si: “Then what should I do?”
Grandma (moving past Dao Ming Si): “Wait.”
Dao Ming Si (with his head down): “I wanted to do something to thank Ye Sha. But I didn’t think I would ruin it. I’m so stupid.”
Grandma (hearing Dao Ming Si’s words): “What you just did was the easy part. But the rest is going to be hard. This pot of ingredients must be cooked for 2 hours. A small flame and the taste would not be rich enough. A big flame would boil it dry. So, I don’t think you can do it. I think I better do it myself, ok?”
Dao Ming Si hurries to snatch the job with her: “I can do it. Grandma, this I can do. I know how to do it.”
Grandma (with a look of disbelief): “You need to watch for 2 hours!”
Dao Ming Si: “2 hours, right.”
Grandma: “You need to stir it every 10 minutes.”
Dao Ming Si: “Every 10 minutes stir once, ok ok, I can do it! I can do it!”
Grandma: “Stirring too hard is not good and stirring too soft is not good either.”
Dao Ming Si: “I can do it.”
Grandma nods her head and steps aside. Dao Ming Si sets the timer to ring every 10 minutes and sits by the table near the stove carving coconut lanterns.
Scene changes to Xi Men’s office. He’s walking with his assistant when his cell phone rang.
Xi Men (answering): “Hello Qing He. What do you want.”
Mei Zuo is driving his car when his cell phone rang.
Mei Zuo: (Using F4’s nickname for Qing He) “What are you calling me for?”
Lei is playing the violin when his cell phone rang too.
F3 and Qing He meet up at a club. Mei Zuo sits down next to Qing He and pours a glass of Pepsi.
Qing He (looking at Mei Zuo): “I can do it myself. Thank you.”
Mei Zuo: “How’s San Cai?”
Qing He: “San Cai’s ok, she’s working so...”
Mei Zuo grabs Qing He up suddenly and pulls him out of his seat.
Mei Zuo: “So what?”
Qing He (talking really fast): “Hey, if you want to hit me, let me finish speaking first.”
Mei Zuo lets him go.
Xi Men: “Hurry up and talk.”
Qing He (fixing his shirt): “You guys know today is Valentine’s day right? Well, all the lovers are meeting today. Then you guys should know that this year’s Valentine’s day, San Cai, in the wake of Dao Ming Si’s disappearance, should be feeling very unhappy. Who can stand being all alone on Valentine’s day, having their lover missing?”
Xi Men (getting impatient): “Can you get to the point please?”
Qing He (clearing his throat): “The point is that I want to get together everybody’s power, to give San Cai a Valentine’s day gift in place of Dao Ming Si. This is a very important thing, no?”
Mei Zuo: “That’s a good sincere idea.”
Xi Men: “From your smug expression, you must have come up with an idea for a gift then.”
Qing He: “Of course, I’ve come up with an idea. I, Qing He and F3’s gift should not be too cheap, right? Whatever diamonds, watches, things that money can buy is not good enough. The important thing is to take out our good intentions and friendship to give a gift, right? Let San Cai…”
Lei (interrupting Qing He): “What kind of gift are you thinking about?”
Qing He (standing up): “This gift is not money, and not flowers or cards, it’s…”
Mei Zuo: “Hurry up and spit it out.”
Qing He: “We call into the radio station and dedicate a song to San Cai.”
Xi Men: “Dedicate a song?”
Mei Zuo: “It seems to be…”
Qing He (interrupting Mei Zuo): “A very good idea. Right? (picks up some pieces of paper) I have all the lines written out for you guys to say. (he hands F3 each a piece of paper) All you guys have to do is call in and follow your lines from this paper.”
Qing He (clears his throat and reads from the paper): “My dear San Cai. This is…” (he looks at Mei Zuo and clears his throat)
Mei Zuo (making a face at what he’s reading): “The one who loves you the most, Mei Zuo.”
Qing He clears his throat again and looks at Xi Men waiting for his line.
Xi Men (gives Qing He a look of ‘I can’t believe I’m doing this’): “The one who protects you, Xi Men.”
Qing He then turns to Lei and clears his throat. Lei stares at him for a while and then pours himself a drink without saying anything.
Qing He (reading for Lei): “This is the one who cares the most about you, Lei and from junior high school, always protecting you by your side, Qing He. Specially dedicating you a song. Wishing you on this no lover’s Valentine’s day to forget about all your loneliness. Remember the brightness of friendship, bringing you our deepest good wishes to be happy, to be beautiful. We cannot be with you in the past but we are willing to promise to the sky, that in the thousands, millions of days to come, we would be with San Cai to continue to pass through the wonderful days and future ahead. (finishes his speech) Well? (looking around at F3) Is it very touching?”
Mei Zuo (looking at him): “This is your special gift?”
Qing He: “Yes, if we recite this together, San Cai would be very touched.”
Xi Men (getting up out of his seat): “Qing He. I feel that it’s TOO touching, so I think I should leave this job for you to do. I still have to attend another meeting, I’ll pay for this.”
Qing He: “Hey, wait a minute. You’re not going to look anymore?”
Xi Men (turning back): “I still have to tell you one thing and that is please don’t mention my name.”
Xi Men turns to leave.
Qing He: “Hey, wait a minute. This won’t work. Are we not F3 plus one? We can’t be missing any one person.”
Mei Zuo (standing up): “If we can’t be missing any one person, then you should be the one to represent us all.”
Qing He: “Hey, how can you guys be like this? San Cai’s very lonely now. She really needs our concern. (turns to Lei who is still sitting) So you guys don’t care about San Cai anymore?”
Lei (getting up also): “Even if we care, we don’t need to use this way.”
Qing He: “But if you guys don’t voice your concern, then how will San Cai know?”
Xi Men: “Then you say it all by yourself. I will remember to turn on the radio tonight. Bye bye.”
Qing He (standing all alone, calling out to F3): “Hey, can’t you guys just do this for San Cai this once? If you don’t think this is touching enough, I have something even more touching.”
At the pastry shop, San Cai is all alone sitting there watching the couples outside and feeling sad. Then she starts to clean up the shop.
Ye Sha returns to an empty home and sees a note by the coconut lantern.
Note 1: “Please dress formally and go out to the balcony.”
She walks over to the doorway to the balcony wanting to take a look outside and finds another note.
Note 2: “Please follow the rules and change into a formal dress.”
Ye Sha laughs and walks over to the closet door and finds another note.
Note 3: “Know that you don’t have any formal wear.”
Ye Sha (laughing): “Right. What’s with all the rules then.”
She opens up the closet and finds a note hanging inside.
Note 4: “Poor soul without a dress cannot go out to the balcony.”
Ye Sha laughs hard and then notices a nicely packaged box inside the closet. She takes it out and sits on the bed to open it. Inside the box she finds another note.
Note 5: “Sponsored by Grandma.”
She looks inside the box and finds a very pretty dress. She puts it on and walks out to the balcony to find Dao Ming Si dressed up as a waiter. The balcony has been decorated very nicely with a table and two chairs in the middle. On the table is a bottle of wine and a coconut lantern.
Dao Ming Si (seeing Ye Sha): “Miss, how many people?”
Ye Sha (laughing): “I didn’t make a reservation.”
Dao Ming Si: “Ah, that’s ok. (pointing to the chair) How about this seat?”
Ye Sha: “Ok.”
Dao Ming Si goes to pull the chair out for her.
Dao Ming Si: “Please sit.”
Ye Sha (sitting down): “Thank you.”
Dao Ming Si: “What would you like to eat?”
Ye Sha: “Um, how about a steak?”
Dao Ming Si: “Ah, sorry but we are sold out of the steaks today.”
Ye Sha: “Then how about some Denmark pig’s feet?”
Dao Ming Si (thinking): “Denmark’s pig’s feet… (leaning down and whispering to Ye Sha) Let me tell you, our restaurant’s pig’s feet is really bad.”
Ye Sha (laughing): “Then what do you suggest I have?”
Dao Ming Si: “Do you want to try our special for today?”
Ye Sha: “Ok.”
Dao Ming Si: “Great. Please wait.”
Dao Ming Si brings out 2 plates of spaghetti and sets one in front of Ye Sha.
Ye Sha (looking at her plate): “Wow, very pretty. Did you make it?”
Dao Ming Si (pouring wine into a glass): “Of course, it’s made by… our chef.”
Ye Sha: “Then, can I meet him?”
Dao Ming Si (hesitates): “Eh, but… Oh ok, I’ll take care of it. Please wait.”
Dao Ming Si walks away then comes out with what looks like a small white wastebasket on his head.
Dao Ming Si (pretending to be the chef): “Miss, are you looking for me?”
Ye Sha sees his “hat” and bursts out laughing again: “Definitely a very handsome and talented chef.”
Dao Ming Si (bowing): “Oh, thank you.”
Ye Sha: “Then can I ask this handsome and talented chef a question?”
Dao Ming Si: “Yes.”
Ye Sha: “What’s the purpose of this whole plan with the romantic and pretty Italian pasta?”
Dao Ming Si: “The explanation is very long. May I sit down and say it?”
Ye Sha: “Sure.”
Dao Ming Si takes his “hat” off his head and sits down across from Ye Sha.
Dao Ming Si (explaining): “Today is a very special day. I got my first wage that I worked for with my own hands. This feeling is very special, very happy, very exciting, and also a bit touching. So, I thought of someone who is very important to me. It’s her that made me want to live again. In order to save me, she’s not even scared of the person who’s holding a knife in his hands. She could have left me with a past that I didn’t like, but she chose to be with me and waste her life. I don’t know how to go about thanking her, can’t even cook a simple meal for her to eat, so I…”
Ye Sha (looking very touched): “This whole speech is also prepared for you by Da Xin?”
Dao Ming Si: “No.”
Ye Sha: “Then say it again later. I want to write it down.”
Ye Sha then gets up out of her seat and puts her hand out toward Dao Ming Si.
Dao Ming Si (staring at her hand): “What?”
Ye Sha: “Inviting you for a dance.”
Dao Ming Si: “I don’t know how to dance.”
Ye Sha: “Didn’t you say you have to thank me? Then it should be that what I say, you have to do.”
Dao Ming Si: “I’ve already cooked for you Italian pasta to eat. What more do you want?”
Ye Sha: “I want to dance.”
Dao Ming Si: “You would regret it.”
Ye Sha: “I won’t. Come on.”
Dao Ming Si: “Then you can’t laugh at me.”
Ye Sha: “Don’t worry. I’ll be sure to hide my laughter.”
Dao Ming Si takes her hand and dances with her. They chatted while dancing, then it started raining and they ran back inside the apartment.
It was raining very hard in the city and people were running around trying to get to a dry place. The radio is playing and a DJ is talking.
DJ: “My dear friends, it’s raining again. People say that the 7th (Chinese Valentine’s day) brings rain. Why does it have to rain on the 7th? Why is the sky not loving enough? I think God must have a reason for doing this. Because when it rains, everybody would be carrying an umbrella. Could be that underneath the umbrella, there could be a lot of new feelings developing. Let us come and see this fax that just came in. This fax is sent from someone named Xiao Ting. Xiao Ting wants to tell Ah Ping these words: ‘I’ve had a crush on you for a long time, but you’ve never noticed. Can you please turn your head and look careful at me, this person who’s beside you?’ (pause) I believe Ah Ping that you always look straight ahead of you but you’ve never taken a look to the side of you. As a matter of fact, the best things for you, the best person for you has been beside you all along. (pause) If there’s any friends who would want to express their love, apologize or breakup, hurry up and send me a fax. I’ll be waiting.”
Meanwhile, Qing He drives his car to look for San Cai in the rain. San Cai is running in the rain when Qing He drives by in his car calling out to her through those loud speakers that are attached to his car.
Qing He (through loud speaker): “San Cai. Hurry up and get in. Hurry.”
San Cai runs over and gets in the car. In the car, Qing He purposely raised the volume of the radio. The radio is playing Lee Hom Wang’s The One I Love is You (the theme song from the show, that Vanness was in, Peach Girl.)
Qing He: “Good thing I came to pick you up.”
San Cai (drying herself with a tissue): “How did you know I was here?”
Qing He: “I estimated wrongly the time you would get off from work. So, I was late getting to the pastry shop and then it started raining. I think you must not have an umbrella and would be nearby waiting until the rain stops. So I drove around to look for you.”
San Cai: “What are you saying? Why do you have the radio turned up so loud?”
Qing He: “Eh, nothing. My hearing is not too good lately, so I have to turn it up to hear it.”
San Cai (concerned): “What’s wrong with your ear?”
Qing He: “Uh, nothing. Nothing wrong.”
San Cai: “Qing He. Are you ok? Why are you so nervous?”
Qing He: “Uh, right. Why am I so nervous?”
The song finishes playing and the DJ’s voice is back on again.
DJ: “Actually, every Valentine’s day, most of the songs picked are between lovers who want to express their love for one another. And every listener feels that their own love is the most special, but I feel that, love, should be the same all around. However, today, I’ve received a very special fax. I would really hope to share it with you after the commercials.”
Back in the car:
Qing He (very nervous): “It’s coming, it’s coming.”
San Cai: “What’s coming?”
Qing He: “Eh, nothing. San Cai, suddenly I want to drink a coke. You stay in the car and wait for me ok?”
Qing He opens the car door and leaves. San Cai was about to stop Qing He when the DJ came on the air and started reading out Qing He’s dedication.
DJ: “Just before, I was saying that I’ve received a very special fax. The fax is sent by Taipei’s Qing He.”
San Cai, hearing this, turns to stare at the radio in surprise.
DJ: “Qing He wishes San Cai will forever be San Cai. Do you feel it’s very special? Also, Qing He wants to say to San Cai, do you still remember our first year in junior high school? (Lei is listening to the radio and staring out at the rain through the window.) There was a time when I failed my math test. The teacher said if we fail by one point then we have to have our palms hit once. (Mei Zuo is sitting in his car listening to the radio.) I have to be hit a total of 24 times. (Xi Men is in his room sitting on the sofa listening to the radio.) I was so scared that I was shaking in my seat. When the teacher called my name, I almost fainted. San Cai, at that moment, you raised your hand and said to the teacher please give half of the punishment to you. The teacher asked why? You said you should be responsible for teaching me, so the reason why I failed the test, you should take half of the responsibility. I will forever remember that afternoon that you took on half of my punishment. (San Cai is sitting in the car with tears coming down her face.) San Cai, I really wish that I can take half of your grief for you now. I really wish I can take half of your unhappiness. I really wish, my best San Cai, my good friend, can find happiness. Forever your friend Qing He. (pause) San Cai do you know that Qing He sang a song especially to give you? It’s called Close to You.”
The radio then plays the song and San Cai is still crying in the car while Qing He is standing outside in the rain waiting.
San Cai (looking out at Qing He, rolls down the window): “Qing He, what are you doing standing there? Come back in.”
Qing He runs back into the car. San Cai takes a tissue and wipes him dry. Qing He also takes a tissue and dries San Cai’s tears for her.
San Cai: “Thank you.”
Qing He (blaming himself for making San Cai cry): “How can this be? F3 was right. This was a stupid idea. I wanted to make you happy and now I made you cry. I feel so bad.”
San Cai: “Because I’m happy that’s why I’m crying.”
DJ: “We usually don’t accept call-ins, but today, we will make an exception this once. Hello?”
Xi Men (calling in) : “San Cai, you know I usually don’t do these things. But Qing He, this kid, really have touched me this time. I feel that what he said is right. If you care, then you should say it out loud. So I want to tell you that when you are crying, you are really ugly. (San Cai laughs at this.) Only when you are smiling are you ok to look at. So now you know, from now on you have to cry less and smile more. That’s it. Happy Valentine’s Day. Bye Bye.”
Next call is from Mei Zuo.
Mei Zuo: “Dry cracker San Cai.”
San Cai (smiling at Mei Zuo’s voice): “Mei Zuo.”
Mei Zuo (shouting): “Jia you! Jia You! Jia You! Jia You!”
DJ: “San Cai, jia you. There’s still one more. Hello? How are you?”
Lei is holding the phone against the speaker of a radio and plays a tape.
Little kid’s voice: “I am Dao Ming Si. Today the topic I want to talk about is “My Wish.” My wish is to protect my dad, my mom, my sister, and Xi Men, Mei Zuo, and Lei and to protect my bride. I won’t let them be hurt by bad people. Won’t let them be sad. So I have to hurry up and grow up, that’s my wish.”
Back in the car, San Cai is crying non stop after hearing this.
Next morning, Ye Sha wakes up to find Dao Ming Si gone already. She goes outside to the balcony and sees the 2 plates of spaghetti is soaked with rain. She finds a note stuck on the coconut lantern that says, “Good morning lazy pig.”
At the café: Dao Ming Si is works diligently. Da Xin keeps pestering Dao Ming Si for information on the previous night.
Da Xin (nudging Dao Ming Si): “What happened yesterday? (to customer) Thank you for coming.”
Dao Ming Si (turning away, pretending not to hear): “What?”
Da Xin (pulling him back): “Yesterday night. What happened?”
Dao Ming Si: “Nothing.” (walks away)
Da Xin (following Dao Ming Si): “Ah Sing, what happened yesterday?”
Dao Ming Si (still trying to avoid the question): “What?”
Da Xin: “Stop playing dumb. Come on, what happened?”
Dao Ming Si: “How do I know what happened.”
Da Xin (not giving up): “What happened? Talk.”
Dao Ming Si: “Go away.”
Ah Lun (looking at the two of them): “Hey, what’s the matter with you two? Anyway… (looking at Dao Ming Si and joining in with the pestering) So, what happened yesterday night?”
Da Xin: “What happened? Tell us.”
Yi Ling comes up to the three of them.
Yi Ling (giving them a hard look): “Table A, one egg omelette, 2 fried eggs.”
Ah Lun: “Yes, at once. (looks around) Ah Sing, we don’t have anymore eggs. Go across the street and get some ok?”
Dao Ming Si: “Ok.”
Dao Ming Si starts walking away.
Da Xin (blocking him): “You can hide now, but you can’t hide forever.”
Dao Ming Si pushes pass him smiling.
Da Xin (calling after Dao Ming Si): “Hey, give me a report when you come back.”
Ah Lun (joining in again): “That’s right.”
