text of the movie "Eight Women" /[French]
François Auzon/Cai Xiaosong in the
morning. Winter garden. Trees wrapped in silver. A small car parked steadily in front of the window of an antique mansion. A woman in red took out a few boxes from the luggage compartment. This is Xu Zong.
Xu Zong: Mom, I entered the house.
She went into the living room, put the suitcase by the door, and walked to her grandmother, who was dozing off in her wheelchair.
Xu Zong: Grandma!
Grandma: Xu Zong! Good granddaughter!
Xu Zong: Are you tired and asleep?
Grandma: Just take a break.
Xu Zong: I'm so happy that we can spend Christmas together!
Grandma: Me too, my dear.
Xu Zong: Are your legs okay?
Grandma: There are good times and bad times. It's scary to get old... But the pain in the body is nothing. The worst thing is that everything is inseparable from others, and I always feel that I am a burden.
Xu Zong: Well, grandma, we all love you, you know that. Families should care about each other (unbutton their coats).
The door opened, and Mrs. Shanel, the black maid, came in—
Mrs. Shanel: My succubus!
Xu Zong: Shanel! fatty!
The two embrace.
Mrs. Shanel: Hey-hey.
The door opened, and a noble and elegant lady walked in from outside. She took off her gloves, and this was the mistress, Gabby.
Gabby: What the hell!
Mrs. Chanel: Madam, our Xu Zong can be counted back!
Gabby: Yeah, my dear.
Grandma: It's time to find my mother-in-law!
Xu Zong: Look what you said, grandma. Still early!
Granny: Your father must be happy...Did you tell him, Mrs. Chanel?
Mrs. Chanel: No...he told him not to call him.
Xu Zong: What? Dad is still sleeping?
Grandma: Maybe it's working too late at night.
Xu Zong: Great, I'm going home again! My beloved little house (sit down to the wheelchair, take off the hat)!
Gabby: Your little house is covered in snow, it's like being in Siberia. We are now out of touch with the outside world. Really bad! Fortunately, there is still a phone, a car... (takes out a cigarette and smokes, Louise enters the room) Come on, let's get to know her, this is Louise, a new employee.
Xu Zong: Hello!
Louise: Hello! Miss. How are you on the road? (He helps Xu Zong take off his coat)
Xu Zong: Very good, thank you. It would be better if it didn't snow...
Louise: Madam, when do I go and wake up sir?
Gabby: Let him sleep.
Xu Zong: Or should I call him?
Gabby: Forget it, honey, let him rest.
Did n't he say don't call him... Louise: Madam, do you need anything else?
Gabby: No, thank you.
Louise picked up Xu Zong's box and walked out of the room.
Xu Zong: Where did this girl come from?
Gabby: Maybe local. I am very satisfied with her. Speaking of which, we are really lucky that we can still find employees in the winter and are willing to be locked up in such a ghost place.
Augustina went down the stairs. It was a young but old-fashioned lady in a checkered coat.
Suzon: Aunt Augustina! How are you? not comfortable?
AUGUSTINA (arrogantly): It's not an old problem...the heart is not very good...the heart is too heavy.
Xu Zong: Is it tachycardia?
Augustina: It doesn't matter. It was really cold when it snowed. What, you even come back? Did the school expell you?
Xu Zong: Of course not, I just came back to spend Christmas with you. Besides, my homework is very good!
Augustina: Yes, your mother showed us your transcripts... but grades can be faked!
Grandma: Augustina, what's the matter with you?
AUGUSTINA (raises her voice) Why, can't I take care of my niece's studies?
Xuzong: Of course, Augustine. I'll answer you: everything is fine.
Gabby: Finally someone is having a good time!
Augustina: Are you insinuating me? Gabby
: Where, I just said my daughter is living a happy life, that's all...
Augustina: That's all?
Grandma: Children, don't do this, please! Augustina, don't go too far... We have nothing to complain about... Gabby has been so generous with us... Of course we are not in our own house, but thanks to her...
Gabby directed at Augustus Tina smiled coldly.
Augustina: No, no need to thank her! I want to thank your father, Xu Zong. He can see the good in everyone, and he knows how to respect both an old and frail lady like your grandmother, and a decent and honest woman like me! Thanks to Marcel...
Grandma: Yes, of course thanks to them both...
Xuzong: Calm down, Augustina. You know, we all love you. You don't want us to be sad either. The family should be kind and tolerant of each other's shortcomings (she shook Augustina's hand).
Gabby sneered and put out the cigarette. Mrs. Chanel went into the drawing-room.
Madame
Chanel: Here comes the coffee... Augustina: Yeah! Freshly baked buns! ...but I always eat croutons!
Xu Zong sat down at the table and poured himself a cup of coffee.
Mrs. Chanel: It's the same for everyone, ma'am... I bake this bread especially for my dear
Suzon ... Suzon: Eat it, Augustine (hand the bread to her. Augustina quickly caught two).
Augustina: Thank you! ...I was killed when I saw the buns. By the way, I think I still have a piece of chocolate... I'll go get it now, the buns are more fragrant with chocolate.
She ran out of the house with the bread. Gabby pushed Grandma's wheelchair to the coffee table.
Grandma: Be kind to Augustina, she's just a childish temper. Your mother never cared about her whims.
Gabby: Whimsical? I think it's unreasonable. However, since Marcel doesn't mind keeping her...
Xu Zong: Dad really didn't say anything. We should all learn his virtue of patience.
Grandma: That's right. He always greets people with a smile and is full of energy. Although his business is getting worse.
Xu Zong: Yes.
Gabby: I think you're better informed than I am, Mom! I think it's better not to ask Marcel's question. I have my troubles and he has his. We never talk about that.
Grandma: Jiabi, I just... asked him about the sale of the shares not long ago. He mentioned it first...
Jiabi: Did you sell the shares?
Granny: No, he advised me to wait...
Gabby (almost in a whisper): Right. Keep it for now, you know...
Katerina walked towards Xu Zong from behind and blindfolded her.
Katarina: Guess who?
Xu Zong: Katarina! Little sister (jumps up from the table)!
The two embraced and chased around the house.
Grandma: Watch out! my leg!
Katerina: I'm sorry, Granny...
Granny: It doesn't stop early in the morning!
Gabby: What, do you want her to have a nervous breakdown like Augustina?
Katerina: What did you bring me for Christmas?
Xuzong: British sweets.
Katerina: What a pain in the ass!
Xu Zong: 16-year-old children love to eat chocolate.
Katerina: But I'll be 17 in February.
Xu Zong: To me, you will always be a—little...you look great!
Katerina: So are you. But I think you're a little fatter.
Xu Zong: Really? I don't think so. Maybe I ate too much bread (touch my waist).
Katerina: Where's Dad?
Xu Zong: I haven't woken up yet.
Katarina: The slacker! Let's teach him a lesson!
Granny: Katerina! Don't say that about your dad! Be polite, after all, he's the only man in the family.
Katerina: I have a lot of respect for him. Just not like you. He's a good guy, though a bit old-fashioned at times.
She sang and danced. Suzon and Gabi danced to Katarina's singing. Grandma was dancing in a wheelchair too—
you said to me from a young age,
"Every lie—you're a liar yourself."
But growing up from childhood games,
I know: You're not always right.
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
You once told me that in this world,
those who do good will be rewarded.
But I lent your car - and
returned it in scrap.
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
Dad, your concept is outdated, the
world is not what it is!
You once said, "Teaching people to be healthy through labor!"
I kept studying, and I
almost fell ill in bed -- my
whole body hurts to death!
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
You used to say to me, "This kid—it's a little Fei. With
him, you'll wash your face in tears."
But he gave me,
Dad, every night , not thorns, but roses.
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
Dad, look at you! You are so out of date!
Augustina changed into a plain suit and appeared on the stairs, watching them.
Augustina: Can you guys stop being so messy?
Katerina: Behold, our great beauty (embracing mother)!
Augustina goes down the stairs -
Augustina: Shut up, I'm so pissed.
Caterina: Why, Baroness?
Augustina: Your room has the light on all night on the glass door and I can't sleep. You must be reading your broken books again.
Xu Zong: What "broken book"?
Caterina: Aunt Augustina is referring to the detectives, spies, adventures, and all those popular novels...
ugh ... Augustina: You should think a little better.
Gabby: Reading doesn't get in the way of others... Those people who go to the bathroom 5 times a night are the ones that make us all restless.
Augustina: Yes, I went. How about it?
Gabby: What's the matter, honey?
Augustina: Your model daughter keeps me awake...I'm going to drink water. Allow me to apologize for this.
Gabby: Drinking water, it's nothing (singing Katerina's song again)...
Louise, carrying a light breakfast, went upstairs to the door of Marcel's house and knocked on the door— -
Louise: Madame! ... Mr. did not answer ...
Gabby: Then you go in, Louise.
Louise: Yes, ma'am...
Augustine: Lucky for him, it's so noisy outside that he can sleep.
The girls played a game of clapping.
Louise pushed open Marcel's door.
Louise: Ah-ah-ah!
Grandma: What kind of rules does she have! Who taught her? ! If it weren't for my legs...
LOUISE (cries): Madam! lady! ...
Gabby: What's wrong? what happened?
Augustina covered her heart.
Louise: Sir!
Gabby: What happened?
Louise: Sir, he's... horrible...
Gabby: Sir, what's the matter?
Louise staggered down the stairs.
Louise: Mister died in bed...with a knife in her back...
Katerina jumped up and rushed into her father's room.
Gabby: Are you crazy...what did you take?
Louise: Mister is dead...blood everywhere...so scary (she nearly collapses to the floor in tears)!
Katarina runs back -
Katarina: Mom... Mom... Mom...
Gabby: Child... Darling (the two hug each other)...
Grandma: This kind of scene shouldn't be seen by such a sensitive child To...
Augustina: Yes, she's neurotic enough ... Gabby: Watch
her.
Mrs. Chanel hugged Caterina. Gabby went to Marcel's room. Xu Zong wanted to stop her -
Xu Zong: Mom... Mom... Did you decide to go up?
Gabby: Yes, I have to see it with my own eyes! (Goes to the door, pushes the door) What's going on? The door is locked!
Katarina, did you lock the door with the key?
Katerina: I'm going to turn it over to the police. (raises the key high with one hand) No one can go in until the police come (crying).
Augustina: She did it right! The newspapers are written like this: Do not touch anything, so as not to leave fingerprints!
Gabby: And my poor Marcel, you should know...
Katerina: Take it! ...Do what you want (put your head in Xu Zong's knees and cry)...
Xu Zong took the key from her.
Jiabi: Xu Zong, can you do it?
Xu Zong: Yes, we must take a look.
Augustina: Let's go!
Suzon, Augustina and Gabi entered Marcel's room. The room was pitch black. Marcel was lying on the bed with a knife in his back. There was blood on the pajamas.
Katarina: Be careful! What if the murderer hasn't gone yet?
Augustina: She's right! Close now!
They rushed out of the room, and Xu Zong locked the door with the key.
Jiabi: Oh, Xu Zong... Xu Zong!
Gabby fell to the floor and passed out. Everyone carried her to the sofa.
Xu Zong: Mom... Mom... The
crowd gathered around Jiabi.
Grandma: Marcel's business was so unsatisfactory that he committed suicide...
Xu Zong: No, there was a knife stuck in his back, I saw it.
Granny: That means...
Louise: Is the handle horny?
Mrs. Chanel: Yesterday Mr. and I were going to cut cardboard.
Augustina: Cardboard? Strange...what does he want cardboard for?
GABY (awakes): Call the police immediately.
Xu Zong: Fight now?
Mrs. Chanel: We've wasted a lot of time!
Xu Zong grabbed the microphone——
Suzu: Hey! Hello! There is no sound. Hello!
Augustina: Look! Someone cut the phone line!
Gabby: Who did it?
The door banged with a loud bang. Everyone jumped up.
Xu Zong: There are people over there!
Mrs. Chanel: Don't talk nonsense, the wind blows (goes over and closes the door)!
Katerina: What will we do if the police don't come?
Gabby: I'll drive to them right now.
All the people were messing around in the room.
Xu Zong: No, Mom...
Gabby: Louise!
Xu Zong: No, mother. Your body is not yet able to drive.
Gabby: Louise, the coat!
LOUISE (in a low voice) Madam! Those dogs...
Gabby: What "dogs"?
Louise: They didn't bark all night.
Augustina: What's that?
Louise: They're all fierce, and if... they'd be screaming.
Gabby: What if (holds head)?
Xu Zong: You want to say, if there are outsiders coming in?
Louise: Yes.
Augustina: But if no outsiders have been there, that means...
everyone gathered around the table, trying to figure out the truth of the matter -
Xu Zong: Who was the last to call?
Mrs. Shanel: Me!
Xu Zong: Who did you call?
Mrs. Chanel: About 7:30 this morning, I called the butcher to order meat. But he couldn't deliver it when it snowed heavily.
Xu Zong: Well, the murderer was still here at 7:30, and then cut the phone line... Mom, tell me about Dad's business.
Gabby: You know your dad! He is a true businessman, a doer. Smarter than others, without losing the city. He knows a thousand ways to get rich...he never told me he was in trouble.
Augustine: Mr. Verne helped him a lot... Suzon: Mr.
Verne?
Gabby: The new shareholder in your father's factory.
Xu Zong: Exactly! Does he come here often?
Jiabi: I don't come here often, but once or twice. I haven't met him. He rarely comes.
Louise: But the last time M. Verne came, the dogs almost knocked him over. They smelled a dog on him...
Xu Zong: So it can't be him?
Gabby: Absolutely impossible!
Xu Zong: Mom, who will inherit Dad's estate?
Gabby: Me! ...that's us... In this case, the factory will be sold (crying), and the property will be distributed to the wife and children... (Augustina is furious and restless) The wife gets half of the property... ...the lawyers know it all... Katerina, get my scarf!
Katerina: Okay, Mom. (stands up to get the scarf) Mom, you should tell my aunt (go away).
Gabby: Your aunt? absurd! That kind of woman? !
Xu Zong: By the way, Mom, you wrote to tell me that she moved to a place not far from us not long ago. Do you know why?
Gabby: She definitely wants to get back together with Marcel...She's had enough slutty in Paris, and she wants to go to her rich brother. Thank goodness this woman never entered my house!
Madame Chanel and Louise exchanged glances.
Xu Zong and Jiabi stood by the window. Mother hugs her daughter.
Xu Zong: How terrifying: I left home for a year and just came back - but my father died, was killed... Today everything around me seems to have changed. It's incredible how much people can change in one year!
Gabby: So I look old, don't I?
Xu Zong: No, Mom, you are still so radiant. The years have been very kind to you
...
Gabby : Maybe, but now it's all gone... Oh, Marcel... We know and love each other so much, we are so close... Augustina
Towards them - Augustina: Intimacy and sleep in a room!
Gabby (angrily): Marcel comes home late and often works all night, so he asked me to temporarily move to the room on the third floor. What more do you want to say?
Augustina: "For the time being" - no more.
Louise pushed her grandmother's wheelchair in.
Grandma: Children, be quiet... now we need help... Gabby, get in the car and call someone!
Katarina at the door -
Katarina: What if the murderer hasn't left?
Mrs. Chanel: Don't think too much, child. Could he still be waiting for us! ran away already. How come, how come... the murderer is more cunning than you think... and closer...
Jiabi: Do you think this man is still around?
Mrs. Chanel: Why "man"?
Grandma: What do you mean?
Mrs. Chanel: Maybe a female murderer!
Augustina: Don't you feel ashamed to accuse us of that! Gabby
: Who is so holy again...
Augustina: So, you're innocent! Gabby
: At least more innocent than you...
Augustina: You hate me, so you doubt me. Yes or no?
Jiabi: Where, I didn't take you seriously at all.
Augustina: Did you hear that?
Granny: Augustina, my dear, calm down!
Augustina: That's right, Mom, you're always going to her... Gabby's the rich man in the family now, and she can kick us out... So just flatter her, Mom, for your own good ...You dare not say anything to her, you cowards... I have something to say to the police...
Xu Zong: You are acting stupid, Aunt Augustina! You should not slander others in black and white.
Gabby: Let her say it, let her say it! Your aunt has always held a grudge against me and wants to leave, but she can't leave! Of course, I'm pretty and rich, but she—she's an ugly girl with no money (pause)...
Augustina picked up a pretty big vase and threw it on the floor in a fit of rage. Granny screamed and pulled the blanket over her head.
Augustina: I'll hit you in the face next time! !
Grandma: Honey, such a nice vase... Would you like something to drink and relax?
Louise picked up the debris. Gabby helps her clean up.
Augustina: I can't stand drinking in addition to meals!
Katarina: Really? Who was the one who got up 5 times to drink water in one night?
Augustina: No, after going to bed—it's another thing...I have a bad heart.
Grandma: Then go take medicine now!
Augustina: Okay, I'll take one box in one go, and you can get rid of me from now on...
Grandma: Augustina, my dear...
Augustina: Leave me alone!
She ran out of the room, and Grandma jumped out of her wheelchair and ran after her.
Xu Zong: Grandma...
Jiabi: Mom! How can you go? ! How is this going?
Grandma: Yes, I'm much better! Maybe it was the snow, maybe it was a Christmas miracle...
She walked out of the living room and followed Augustina upstairs!
Gabby: We really need to buy her a wheelchair! (in a wheelchair) Louise, I've asked for a coat twice...
Louise: Yes, ma'am.
Xu Zong: Mom, grandma and Augustina reconciled with dad?
Gabby: I hope so! Anyway, they should also thank him for filling their stomachs! Sometimes they quarrel, but it doesn't matter.
Xu Zong: Quarrel? why?
Gabby: It's just a trivial matter... Mom always guards those shares like a dog guards her bones. I told her countless times to give her the shares to Marcel, who needed it. Besides, she should also reciprocate for Marcel's hospitality!
Katerina: Didn't your grandmother have a share of her fortune?
Gabby: Yes, as soon as she lets go, I'll hand over the shares to Marcel! Augustina is well aware of these stakes and has been making a fuss about them. To put it simply, Augustina and my grandmother were in a dilemma for us, on the one hand they felt that we should be grateful, on the other hand, they were stingy and unscrupulous.
The door slowly opened a crack, and Louise was eavesdropping on their conversation.
Xu Zong: What do you think they can do, they don't have rich husbands...
Jiabi: Is this my fault? I went to great lengths to persuade Marcel to keep them! Your father couldn't stand them...he always liked...young people!
She suddenly found Louise at the door.
Louise: Your coat, ma'am.
Gabby put on a coat.
Xu Zong: Louise, when did you come to work at my house?
Louise: Why do you remember asking this?
Gabby: Louise came in October...
Louis: I have a good recommendation...I worked for the notary's wife for two years. Do you want to check (goes to the door)?
Xu Zong: Well, it has nothing to do with me... Louise... Are you sure those dogs never barked?
Louise: Of course! I didn't sleep well last night, and I always had an ominous premonition... When I brought medicinal tea to my husband, he didn't look very well.
Gabby: The tea he wants?
Louise: Yes, around midnight.
Gabby: But he never drinks herbal tea.
Louise: Mr. has been working, maybe he's hungry, maybe he has a stomachache... He called me and I brought him the linden sap.
Xu Zong: You stayed with my father for a long time?
Louise: No, I'm leaving right away.
Katerina: Then why didn't I see the tray you were carrying the medicine?
Suddenly there was the sound of Augustina crying.
Augustina: Ah-ah-ah-ah! do not bother me!
Grandma appears on the stairs -
Grandma: Gabby, Gabby, help me, calm down your sister! She wants to eat the whole packet of medicine!
Gabby: Mom, she's bluffing. Why do you still believe her?
Louise: May I go, miss?
Xu Zong: No. Tell me, Louise, was Madame Chanel still in the building when you brought the herbal tea?
Louise: No, she just left...she spent the night in the little hunting house in the garden...that's more comfortable...and she's entitled to it. As long as we're done, we can do whatever we want. Besides, playing cards doesn't hinder others.
Xu Zong: Why, Madame Shanel still plays cards?
Louise: Don't you know? Heck, I'm talking too much!
Xu Zong: No, I know very well. Who does she play cards with?
Louise: I don't like snitching!
Katarina: We don't tell anyone!
Louise: I'm nothing...and Mademoiselle Pierrette, your father's sister!
Katarina: Exactly!
Xu Zong: But how did you know?
Louise: Grandma saw them both together! She told me once she drank too much. She always carries a bottle of wine...
Xu Zong: It seems that grandma's old problem has been committed again! Forget it... that Aunt Pierrette, who is she?
Louise: I heard she used to be a stripper...a talented actress, fresh and moving like a lily, anyway, that's what Madame Chanel said...I believe it! ...even though she uses her good looks for personal ends! But can it be her fault?
Xu Zong: Then how did she get to Madame Chanel's cottage?
Louise: Hit the road first, then walk a bit. She's not used to swaggering on the sidewalk.
The door opened, and Mrs. Chanel stood there reluctantly—
Mrs. Chanel: Where is Miss Augustine?
Suzon: She's upstairs, Mrs. Chanel.
Mrs. Chanel: Louise, please give her this.
Xu Zong: Alright, let's go! Hurry up!
Louise: All right, miss (leave)!
Katerina: Shanel, what time did you leave last night?
Mrs. Chanel lit the fire in the fireplace -
Mrs. Chanel: It's almost midnight...
Catalina: Are you out for a walk?
Mrs. Chanel: What are you kidding? Going for a walk in this weather?
Katerina: Do you have guests?
Mrs. Chanel: Guest? I haven't had a guest in over ten years!
Katerina: Are you sure, Shanel?
Mrs. Chanel: Enough, Caterina, I've ironed your trousers, go and put them on!
Katerina: Okay. But I think you're hiding something from us...
Katerina walked out of the room and Madame Chanel sat on the sofa next to Xuzong.
Mrs. Chanel: Xu Zong, your sister doesn't look like you at all, she's out of order.
Xu Zong: Yes, she is different from me. Besides, she's still young...
Neither of them noticed that Grandma crept into the room.
Mrs. Chanel: If your mother were stricter...
Suzon: Madame Chanel, how is this girl Louise doing?
LADY CHANNELL: All I can say about her is that this little liar goes from house to house, scheming everywhere to sleep with the master. As for the others...
Grandma: Others? what happened?
Mrs. Chanel: Alright...I'm going back to the kitchen.
Grandma: I want to tell you a secret, Xu Zong. You are the only person I can trust.
Xu Zong: Come here, grandma.
They went to the farthest corner of the living room—
grandmother: Your father didn’t leave a penny!
Xu Zong: This is too important. what happened?
Grandma: In order to thank him for taking us in, I want to give him the shares that your grandfather, the lieutenant colonel, left me back then. He refused, believing it was no longer helpful. So these shares are still in my hands. But not long ago—that is, two days ago, someone stole it from me...
Xu Zong: Stole?
Granny: And there's a bottle of Helles too! ...Yeah, a small glass of Helles after a meal would ease my pain. Someone slipped into my room! This guy knows where I hide things!
Xu Zong: Under your pillow!
Grandma: How did you know?
Xu Zong: Grandma, we all know about this...
Grandma (can hear it in the whole living room): Everyone? A bunch of thieves! Catch the thief! Catch the murderer! Catch the thief!
Xu Zong: Grandma! grandmother!
Grandma: Catch a thief! Catch the murderer!
Gabby, Augustina, Louise, Madame Chanel and Caterina arrive.
Gabby: Mom, my God, what's wrong with you? Are you crazy?
Xu Zong: She said that someone stole her shares two days ago...
Augustina: She lied! She sold the shares secretly, and she didn't want to give me my share of the property! Give me my money back!
Grandma: I said, someone stole it!
Gabby: How is this possible? You never leave your door!
Augustina: No! I can hear the floor creaking in her house every night!
Grandma: Then you never sleep?
Augustina: Don't sleep! I've been listening to it all night long! If the girls weren't here, I'd say what I've heard!
Gabby: Poor man!
Augustina: I know, Gabby, you stole your mom's money to give the shares to someone who the hell knows... give it back to me! give me back! Pay it back!
She grabbed the collar of Gabby's coat and shook it from side to side. The two moved their hands.
Gabby: Oops, Mom...
Louise: Madam, you shouldn't be so disrespectful to your identity...
Gabby: Mind your own business!
Louise and Madame Chanel finally pulled the sisters apart and held Augustine's hands. Augustina spat at Gabby.
Louise: How can you spit Mrs.
Augustine: She doesn't deserve anything else (slaps Madame Chanel's hands off)!
Gabby: Okay, sister, you'll be rewarded! ...
Xu Zong: Stop! Your behavior is so childish! Dad is still dead!
Gabby (panting her hair straightening): It's...you're right, Tsung. It's done, everyone stay put, I'm leaving...
Louise: Madam! Where's your bag? And the key?
Xu Zong: Don't you feel ashamed? Aunt Augustina?
Gabby walked out of the room. The door banged. Augustina walked to the piano, slowly opened the lid, and played a song. This is a melancholy piece of music. Augustina chanted to the music. Others sit on the stairs, humming to the melody—your voice comes on the other
end of the phone,
but some words still don't make sense to you.
If people don't find it funny, they frighten people,
It appears again and again in books, songs, and movies.
I want to experience
it myself and tell you, but I won't say it - I want to say it , but I can't.
I don't want to lie - can't stand lies.
I know where to find you,
please wait for me, I'll be right here.
I want to go and be happy,
but I won't go - want to go but can't.
I want to tell you, want to be with you, but
if you suddenly can't hear?
But what if you suddenly become timid?
I'm afraid to be too brave, I'm afraid to
say to you, maybe, I love you...
If one day you fall in love with me,
you'll know that your memories won't embarrass me.
Come on quickly, come on,
I'll be waiting for you.
(Augustina takes off her glasses thoughtfully and continues singing)
If one day you fall in love with me,
don't be afraid to lose yourself in the past and the future,
don't be afraid to fall to the ground -
I'll be waiting for you.
If you...
Augustina: You all think I hate you. It's not true, I love you all, it's just that you can't understand my love and see it as hatred.
Katerina: Wine that no one drinks turns into vinegar!
Xu Zong: Katerina, this sentence is more suitable for you!
Augustina: Don't be mean. Your mother spoiled her. Just let me sleep well and let her read all the damn stuff all night! Well, I'll forgive my sister, no matter
what ... Xu Zong: What, no matter what?
Augustina: It's none of my business anyway. What can I say about how she asks Marcel for money anytime, anywhere, and then spends it with someone I don't know! This has nothing to do with me! But your father—what a wonderful man!
Gabby runs in -
Gabby: Nope - the car won't start! Someone cut the wire on the motor.
Augustina: Oh!
Louise: Who would do it?
Gabby: What are you implying, Louise?
Louise: Nothing, ma'am, I just asked a question.
Gabby: When the police come to cross-examine, my dear, I have to say, you go out too much at night, everyone knows it!
Louise: When the police come to question you, ma'am, I have to say, you go out too much at night and no one knows!
Jiabi: Fraudulent accusations are subject to legal responsibility.
Louise: Inheritance must obey the law!
Gabby: What?
Louise: You know the principle well: "Who is the beneficiary"?
Gabby: I don't understand what you mean.
Katerina: Whoever gets the inheritance is the murderer. Detective novels are written like this!
Gabby: Go read your geography (raise her hand and give her a slap in the face)!
Augustina: This caring attitude towards learning is amazing!
Jiabi: Do you also want to experience the experience?
Xu Zong: Alright, alright. We had no choice: to walk. I'm going now.
Gabby: I'm going with you... the feeling of isolation is unbearable!
Xu Zong: Look! There's someone in the garden...there...
everyone looking out the window--
Louise: The killer is back.
Augustina: Oh, I'm dizzy... dizzy...
The window showed the silhouette of a young woman. She went up the steps, opened the door, and entered the living room. This is Pierrette.
Pierrette: Excuse me...I wouldn't have come to my brother's house uninvited...especially in this weather! But I got a call this morning...it must be a prank...someone said to me, "Come on, your brother is dead!" and hung up. I'm calling here right away, but there seems to be something wrong with your phone, and I'm suddenly horrified, even though it's very funny...the baker drove me here...why are you staring at me so much? Is this just a joke? answer me!
Everyone was silent and turned to look at Marcel's room. Pierrette ran up the stairs and rushed to Marcel's door, trying to open it -
Pierrette: Why is my brother's room locked?
Gabby: How do you know this is Marcel's room if you've never been there?
Pierrette: Marcel, open the door! I am Pierrette! What happened? Marcel!
Gabby: Stop shouting...Marcel is dead.
Pierrette: Dead? Impossible...
Gabby: Killed by a stab in the back.
Pierrette staggered in fright and covered his face with his hands. Gabby
: You should know that your
presence has to give us a series of questions about you... Pierrette: Please don't bother me.
Gabby: Who called you?
Pierrette: I don't know... Gabby:
A man?
Pierrette: No, it's a woman's voice.
Gabby: Arabian Nights! No one ever called.
Pierrette: Then why should I make up a phone call out of thin air?
Gabby: Come back for an excuse. Have you been here before?
Pierrette: No!
Augustina: Why didn't the dogs bark at you?
Pierrette: How do I know? Why is this door locked?
Katarina: To keep anyone from touching what's inside.
Pierrette: I want to see Marcel. Give me the key, I want to go in.
Xu Zong: Want to eliminate criminal evidence?
Pierrette (shouting): Give me the key or I'll smash the door! Gabby
: Take it, on the piano...
Pierrette picked up the key, went back to the door, tried to open it--
Pierrette: But...it's the wrong key!
Gabby: What?
Pierrette: Come and try! Gabby
: This...it's not that key...
Augustina: There's no doubt someone did it on purpose.
Grandma: Please think about what you're talking about...I can't take it anymore!
Xu Zong: Grandma, why not think about the bad? We are all circling around this key, and anyone can secretly change the key. Even Pierrette got a chance to do it when he went upstairs.
Pierrette laughed in return. The music started, and Pierrette sang as he unbuttoned his coat. She took off her scarf, her coat, her top, her gloves, as if she were performing a light-hearted striptease -
Pierrette (sings):
I - a woman without restraint .
Night for me - like your day, is my work time, and
love is my favorite game.
But I am waiting hard for a man who has conquered
me , and I would like to stay with him, day and night!
What good is freedom
if no one comes to love me?
What good is freedom
if no one comes to love me?
I have always dared to act,
made up my mind, paid the price for happiness, and
licked the wounds on my body.
And you, unruly, make me worry,
I hope to capture your heart one day.
What good is freedom
if no one comes to love me?
What good is freedom
if no one comes to love me?
Madame Chanel applauded enthusiastically, and Gabby took off her coat and handed it to Louise.
Gabby: Enough, you've finished the show, now tell me, when was the last time you saw my husband?
Pierrette: You know very well that I have always had a disagreement with him.
Gabby: You'd better not say you haven't met him, I won't believe it.
Pierrette: We stumbled across one or two in town. He loved me very much and deplored my inability to come and visit.
Gabby: Aren't you here?
Pierrette: Yes...that call brought us together. But Marcel is dead, and I see you all like murderers (puts on overcoat)!
Grandma: How could you treat us like this? I...I - Marcel's mother-in-law, this is my youngest daughter, Augustine. (Augustina shakes Pierrette's hand stiffly) My son-in-law, your brother, has been very hospitable to us...
Augustina: Mom...
Pierrette: Ah, So you are Augustina? It was fun to meet you. We both frequent the same library.
Granny (to Augustina) You go to the library? I thought you hated reading...
Pierrette: Sorry, am I talking too much?
Augustina: No, I did register there, but I didn't borrow a single book (laughs nervously).
Pierrette: But the talkative female administrator says you need to borrow at least 5 books a week! And it's all romance novels! ! !
Augustina: It's not true!
Pierrette: Didn't you borrow Love in Venice last week?
Augustina: "Love in Venice"? First time hearing...
Pierrette: I read the book after you. Just by chance. I didn't expect to find something like you in the book.
Grandma: Then give it back to my daughter.
Xu Zong: What did you find?
Pierrette: A letter to my brother.
Gabby: For Marcel? You meet every day and write to him?
Augustina: She's full of nonsense!
Pierrette: Excuse me, but I have an old problem with keeping things. (Takes out the letter and reads it aloud) "Don't be angry, dear Marcel, I played a show for my mother in front of you. I had to ask her to give me my money, lest she Guess my feelings for you. I'll give you this property for sure. You know, I'll do anything to get you out of trouble. But please stop teasing me with Gabby. I'll give this Put a note under your door. Kiss you tenderly. Augustine."
Augustine snatched the letter from Pierrette in a fit of rage.
Augustina: Liar! I'm not interested in Marcel at all! I can't stand him the most! This dude! He just wanted me to hand over the shares to him, fortunately to spend a lot of money on my lover! Look at her sister, look at her self-righteous smile! You will pay for it!
Pierrette: Are you threatening me? Murder motive plus intimidation - enough to prosecute a person.
Augustina: I couldn't have killed him, I never left my room at night.
Gabby: Sorry! You go to the bathroom 5 times and you have 5 chances to walk into Marcel's room...
Augustina: The bathroom? which bathroom?
She was sitting in her grandmother's wheelchair, covering her face with her hands and crying.
Granny (trying to coax her, hug her): Come on, come on, Augustina!
Augustina: Get your hands off!
Gabby pours herself a glass of whiskey.
Suzon: Excellent, Aunt Pierrette, you have deftly shifted the blame on Augustine. But I still want to ask you a few questions.
Pierrette: All ears.
Xu Zong: You said you have never been here, right?
Pierrette: Yes.
Xu Zong: You are lying, I have witnesses.
She pointed a finger at Mrs. Chanel.
Madame Chanel: Pierrette, I swear, I didn't say anything.
Gabby: What does that mean?
Xu Zong: Mom, the two of them have known each other for a long time and see each other often. They like to play cards.
Gabby: Playing cards? Is this really news, Shanel?
Madame Chanel: I admit, Pierrette sometimes went to the cottage to find me and spend the night with me...
flashback. Madame Chanel and Pierrette sat half-naked on the bed playing cards.
Gabby: OMG!
Pierrette: Yes, I came once - to my brother. I have something urgent to tell him.
Xu Zong: What important words cannot be conveyed by Mrs. Chanel?
Gabby: It must have come to ask for money.
Pierrette: I never asked my brother for money.
Gabby: He offered it to you, didn't he?
Pierrette: Yes. He knew my situation and helped me once or twice.
Gabby: Not necessarily!
Xu Zong: Mom, Dad is free to do whatever he wants. The problem is not here.
Gabby: Why, this lady asked my husband for money, can't I even say a word? It's all my money, and by law it belongs to me...
Pierrette: Now they're all yours. But sister-in-law, your greed will destroy you sooner or later!
Gabby: Did you hear that? Look at the way she smiles, this person is scary!
Xu Zong: If you want to know the truth, you have to find out where everyone went last night. Mom, where were you?
Gabby: As I said, in my room.
Xu Zong: Have you ever left the house?
Gabby: No...one time! I heard the door open and went to Katerina's room to see...she was reading quietly and I fell asleep again.
Xu Zong: Katerina, are you up yet?
Katerina: Yes, I got up, probably when the door rang outside. But I didn't see anyone.
Xu Zong: Didn't hear anything?
Katerina: I was so fascinated by the book that I didn't pay attention. Then Aunt Augustina came over and told me to turn off the lights.
Augustina: You useless thing, dare to talk back.
Katerina: Well, I'll get back to you! Xuzong, I forgot one thing: when I went to bed, I heard a strange noise, and I looked through the keyhole into Aunt Augustina's room...and saw her standing in front of the mirror, holding in her hand The same shiny thing. I didn't think much of it at the time, but now I'm sure she was sharpening her knives!
Augustina: I'm cleaning that mother-of-pearl comb, idiot!
Gabby: At 3 in the morning?
Augustina: No time to clean the comb! If you want to see it, I'll get the comb...
Xu Zong: No need, Augustina, we trust you. You said you went to the bathroom 5 times, did you?
Augustina: Yes.
Xu Zong: You haven't seen anyone?
Augustina: No. Gabby
: You said you heard Mom get up...
Augustina: It was.
Gabby: Mom! Now that your legs look healed, please tell us: are you up yet?
Grandma: No!
Augustina: What?
Grandma: Hold on... ah, yes. I got up at about 1 o'clock and went downstairs to get the wool. I heard someone screaming in Marcel's room...I couldn't make out who it was, I didn't care. I thought it was you, Gabby.
Gabby: You think it was me? Thanks!
Suzon: So what do you, Louise, say about the shouting in my father's room?
Louise: I don't know, he was alone in the room when I delivered the medicine to my husband in the middle of the night.
Xu Zong: You have never met anyone?
Louise: I met Miss Augustina.
Xu Zong: Augustina...you just said that you never met anyone.
Augustina: Ah, yes...I forgot, I'm going to drink water...Gabby: Still poking
around in Marcel's room? ……what happened?
Katerina: If you don't sleep in another room, it's all clear.
Gabby: I will never tolerate my kids judging me!
Pierrette: So, my dear, I don't want children!
Gabby: No man wants you to have a baby, right?
Xu Zong: Madame Chanel, what time did you leave?
Mrs. Chanel: I didn't look at my watch, maybe it was midnight.
Xu Zong: Before or after the medicine was delivered?
Mrs. Chanel: About this time. I heard the sir order to deliver the medicine and left immediately.
Xu Zong: How long has it been?
Mrs. Chanel: I don't know... maybe after 5 minutes, I cleaned up the kitchen. And... Louise insisted on cooking the medicine herself and delivering it herself!
Gabby: Why did you have to do this, Louise?
Louise: This is what Mr. ordered me to do!
Gabby: I'm starting to see your game, my dear.
Louise: Whatever you want, ma'am. It's also much better to be accused of misconduct than to be a murder suspect.
Gabby: A slut and a murderer are not contradictory, I think it suits you very well.
Xu Zong: Mom, don't falsely accuse others! So, it's just you, Pierrette, where were you last night?
Pierrette: I'm out on some personal business that has nothing to do with this appalling tragedy.
Gabby: You really haven't met Marcel?
Pierrette: Of course!
Gabby: So—let's not confirm these words—Louise, you were the last person to see my husband alive!
Louise: Broken. Will I be charged with murder?
Gabby: Needless to say!
Louise: I don't want to cause trouble...I'll tell the truth...I'm sorry, Miss Pierrette, I can't help it!
Pierrette (shrugs): I expected that.
Louise: Well, his sister Pierrette was in his house when I delivered the medicine to Mr.
Gabby: So, you lied, Pierrette! Why did you come to see my husband last night?
Pierrette: I'm in a bad mood and want to talk to him.
Gabby: Why are you talking so loudly? Did you quarrel?
Pierrette: Not at all! Instead, we laughed too!
Gabby: But my mother thought it was me in the house! She is such a good witness!
Grandma is drinking Gabe's whisky while the chaos is taking place.
Xu Zong: Louise, did you hear their conversation?
Louise: No—no, I left right away and took the tray.
Gabby: What have you done since Louise was gone, Pierrette?
Pierrette: Nothing... We chatted for a few more minutes and I left.
Louise: Yes, I can attest, Miss Pierrette climbed out of the kitchen window.
Xu Zong: She didn't say anything to you?
Louise: Forget it, I'll say it all so you don't have to question me endlessly! When I went downstairs, Mademoiselle Pierrette told me not to tell anyone that she had been there, and gave me 10,000 francs!
Pierrette: Well, you bitch! I really regret giving you the money!
Louise: What- what?
Pierrette: Your character is so good that it is no news for a long time.
Louise: Of course not to you, because the same men slept with us both! Since you are willing to lie to slander me, I must tell you why you gave me ten thousand francs—because when I entered the room of the gentleman, I heard you say: "If you don't give me the money, I will kill you! "
Pierrette: Nonsense! What I said was, "I'll kill myself!"
Louise: No—no! It's "I'll kill you!"
Pierrette: Oops, hapless Louise, no one will believe what you say, because even if you wear your tongue, you're just a servant!
Louise: Is it? Unfortunate Pierrette, no one will believe your words, because even if you wear your tongue, you are only a prostitute!
Pierrette: I think prostitutes are better than slaves!
Grandma: Well, we're all dizzy!
Louise: I've had enough of this farce. I'll stop the car at the intersection (get out of the room).
Xu Zong: Needless to say: the murderer—is among us. One of the 7 of you.
Katerina: Listen, Prosecutor Xuzong... You forgot to interrogate someone.
Xu Zong: Who else?
Katarina: You yourself.
Xu Zong: Me?
Katerina: You asked each of us where we were last night, but you forgot to explain your actions.
Gabby: Katerina, you're in a daze, I just picked up your sister at the station this morning!
Katerina: You are wrong, Mom, Xu Zong went home last night, I saw it with my own eyes!
Xu Zong: When did you see me?
Katerina: Last night...I opened the door and saw you walking into Dad's house. About 4 o'clock.
Augustina: Ah!
Xu Zong: I didn't kill my own father! I swear!
Gabby: This is the first time I've heard of it! Say it, Suzong!
Xu Zong: I arrived early in the morning and entered the house through the back door at about 4 o'clock. I went to my dad to talk about something very important, something that can only be said to him! I'll never come back without his consent...but he's doing great. Poor dad! He promised to help me, let me go back to the station and pretend I just came back, so I did. That's it.
Flashback. A few scenes with Xu Zong's narration.
Gabby: What did you say to him? Say it, boy!
She hugs her daughter. Xu Zong cried.
Xu Zong: I... Mom, I'm going to have a baby! ! !
Louise runs in.
Louise: Madam! lady!
Gabby: What's the matter? You didn't go to the police station?
Louise: No - the little door is locked and we're locked up...
Gabby looks out the window, the yard is white and the car is buried in the snow.
Katerina and Xu Zong stood in front of the window of the nursery room.
Katerina: I shouldn't have said that you are back...
Xu Zong: It doesn't matter, anyway, I have to tell my mother sooner or later...
Katerina: So... you are pregnant?
Xu Zong: Yes.
Katerina: What does your boyfriend look like? like dad?
Xu Zong: No, he is tall, with blond hair and green eyes.
The nursery rhyme sounded. Katerina and Xuzong dance like two little children with their toys in their arms—
my love, my friend,
my dreams—all of you,
my love, my friend,
my singing— Just for you,
my love, my friend,
life cannot go on without you.
My love, my friend,
I don't know why.
if ever loved,
If I had it, I would have forgotten everything.
Can't compare you to others -
your name is on my mind.
My love, my friend,
my dreams—all of you,
my love, my friend,
my singing—just for you,
my love, my friend,
life cannot go on without you.
My love, my friend,
I am sure of that.
I have longed for, I have hoped, as long as my heart does not stop,
the person I love the most will always be you,
the melody of that song echoes faintly,
but the lyrics can no longer be remembered.
My love, my friend,
my dreams - it's all about you,
my love, my friend,
my singing - just for you,
my love, my friend,
life can't go on without you.
My love, my friend,
I don't know why.
Katerina: Is he pretty?
Xu Zong: Yes, I love him very much...
Katerina: Happy man... What does he do?
Xu Zong: He is at the bank.
Katerina: His own bank?
Xu Zong: No.
Katerina: So he's a pauper?
Xu Zong: Do you still think that having money is the only way to be happy?
Katerina: So does he have a brother?
Xu Zong: No.
Katarina: What a pity!
Xu Zong: Well, it's too early for you to think about this.
Katarina: It's still early! here we go again! You all think I'm still a kid! I've heard enough, no reading, no whistling in the street, no throwing stones, no smoking... No this, no that... You're already like this, so how dare you teach me?
Xu Zong: This is my kindness, Katarina. I want to protect you from making mistakes like mine.
Katarina: Protection? You'd better take it easy!
Katarina ran out of the nursery.
Xu Zong: Katarina! Katarina! Katarina! (Chasing her sister in the building, she enters the living room and finds Gabby in a wheelchair) Mom...
Gabby: What? What's the news?
Xu Zong: No, I said it all.
Gabby: What a mess!
Pierrette: What is it, this kind of thing happens every day!
Gabby: In your circle - of course it doesn't matter! The first thing we have to do here is get married!
Pierrette: You are so out of date. Everyone is like that now. This is progress!
Gabby: Then I should also congratulate her belly?
Pierrette: Please don't bother her, at least you can understand... Gabby:
We don't need you to point fingers!
Pierrette: I just want to help, but if I remember correctly, you had a big belly when my brother married you.
Gabby: Shut your stinky mouth!
Pierrette: Marcel has ascended to heaven anyway.
Katerina: Detective novels are written like this: There's a liar among us, and this man is the murderer! She's not exposed because someone is lying for other purposes too! So, in order to expose the murderer, each of us must tell our own secrets!
Augustina: Good! I have something to say...
Augustina suddenly lost consciousness and fell on the sofa.
Grandma: Augustina! Her heart... Mrs. Chanel, get some water. Xu Zong, go get the medicine.
Xu Zong: Where?
Grandma: On her nightstand. One injection can bring her back to consciousness! Louise, get the needle.
Louise: Me? No, I won't do it! Come on your own! I am an employee, not a nurse!
Xu Zong went upstairs to get medicine.
Grandma: But you are the only one who can give injections here. You can't dodge. It's a crime!
Louise: My job only consists of cleaning, washing, and buying groceries.
Pierrette: Refusing to help a dying person is a prison sentence. Did you know, Louise?
Louise: Everyone should abide by their duties and do their jobs well! What if the judge became the doctor and the shop assistant became the minister - what?
Gabby: Louise, stop quibbling! I order you to get injections and let your shop clerk go to hell!
Louise: How much do you know about my identity? ...Well, since the master has an order, I have to obey...
Xu Zong ran in.
Xu Zong: Grandma, I found nothing in Augustina's room!
Grandma: She keeps throwing things around... I'll take a look.
Gabby unbuttons Augustina's top.
Caterina: How pale Aunt Augustina is... is she really sick?
Gabby: Don't worry, she'll wake up.
Grandma: I don't understand. Her medicine is gone! It seemed that someone wanted to kill her.
Augustina opened her eyes, looked intently at her grandmother, and closed them again. Xu Zong found Augustina's medicine in another room.
Grandma: Ah! What do you think, boy (takes off Augustina's glasses)?
Augustina: It sucks, my heart stops beating.
Grandma: Don't move. It will jump right away.
Augustina: I'm dying, mother, give me a shot! Get a shot or I'll die.
Gabby: You can't die! You have to faint twice a day!
Augustina: Why isn't everyone moving?
Pierrette: We'd love to help, dear, but your medicine is missing.
Augustina: Gone?
Augustina quickly regained consciousness and sat up. Granny
: We dare not tell you...
Augustina: Got it! You all want to see how I die. You want me to die like a wild dog. You don't want to give me injections! isn't it? great! I will set you free! I'm leaving now, life and death are up to fate! With a sick heart... go alone! Poor Marcel! (falls back on the sofa) He's the only respectable person in the house. It was your despicableness that killed him!
Pierrette (jokingly): "Love in Venice," Chapter VIII.
Augustina groaned. Xu Zong came back -
Xu Zong: Grandma, I found the medicine...
Louise, Madame Chanel and Caterina carried Augustina out of the living room, ready to inject her. Grandma came in later.
Crowd: Hurry up! Be careful! Quiet!
Pierrette: Where did you find it, Suzon?
Xu Zong: I searched every room and found it under a bed.
Gabby: Whose bed is it?
Xu Zong: Your bed, mother.
Gabby: Mine? impossible. This is framed.
Xu Zong: Definitely yes. Gabby: Only someone with
bad intentions towards our family would torture us so deliberately, divide us, there is no other explanation...
Pierrette: Are you insinuating me again?
Gabby: How could it be? You know very well that Marcel wrote you in his will. He just told me last week. He said to leave you two million francs.
Pierrette: So Marcel still thinks about me... Gabby: Don't
pretend to be so innocent. You know he's going to meet with the notary, and you know there's a part in the will, so...
Pierrette: I have another inference. Marcel hasn't had time to include me in his will, but he's getting ready to do so. So you take emergency measures to take all your possessions for yourself... Gabby
: That's horrible!
Pierrette: The question is whether there is a will. If there is, then the suspicion will fall on me. If not - then it is you.
Xu Zong: I can tell you. The will has not yet been written. I talked to my dad last night. He said, "It's nice of you to be honest with me. I'm going to a notary public tomorrow. I'll definitely take care of you."
Gabby: You declare very subtly, "I didn't commit a crime, because my father will take me out tomorrow. Included in the will", and sinisterly blamed me for murder! It's really outrageous to treat your mother like this, Xu Zong!
Xu Zong: I didn't accuse you, mother. I'm just telling the truth.
Jiabi: Look at your virtue, how dare you teach me a lesson! Look at me, how dare you repeat what you said!
Xu Zong: You have lived with your father for so long, why are you still so cold?
Gabby: Only then can I withstand all the blows!
Pierrette (applause): What a great performance!
Gabby: Shut up! Tell me again, where were you last night?
Pierrette: I'll keep that with the police.
Gabby: With a man, huh?
In another room, Louise was sucking medicine into the needle.
Augustina: Come on, I'm dying!
Granny: You're not going to die, honey. Here's a shot for you!
Louise plunged the needle hard into Augustina's buttocks.
Augustina: Ah-ah! It can be expected!
Xuzong and Gabi continued to argue in the living room. Pierrette listened silently.
Xu Zong: Mom, I saw something under your bed.
Gabby: What?
Xu Zong: Those packed boxes...Are you ready to go out?
Gabby: None of your business!
Xu Zong: Mom, you just need to tell me: Is my father my biological father?
Gabby: Shut up, I don't want to talk about it.
Xu Zong: Mom, I have the right to know. You were pregnant when you married him...answer me!
Gabby: That doesn't matter, it's long gone. Marcel raised you as his own daughter.
Xu Zong: Who is my father?
Gabby: A man I love. You have the same eyes...the same cheekbones...the same expression...your smile makes my heart skip a beat. Whenever I see you, it's like seeing him.
Xu Zong: Where is he now?
Gabby: You died before you were born and got into a car accident. I miss him every day. When you were by my side, I was always happy and sad in my heart (holding Xu Zong to my chest).
Granny and Mrs. Shanel went back to the living room.
Grandma: This Louise refused to get injections! Really suspicious!
Mrs. Chanel: Forget the poor girl. How could she suddenly kill Mr.
Grandma sits in her wheelchair. Mrs. Chanel helped her with the blanket.
Grandma: Because the female servants now are not the same as they used to be. By the way, Chanel, please tell us, you said you left before midnight, but when I went downstairs to get the wool between 1:00 and 1:30, I saw your coat and turban hanging on the hanger, this is what happened? Usually your words don't come quickly. Say it!
Xu Zong: Yes, Shanel!
Mrs. Chanel: I'll be back at about one o'clock.
Xu Zong: Why didn't you tell us?
Mrs. Chanel: I don't think it matters! I thought we'd find the killer soon.
Xu Zong: Why did you come back, Shanel?
Madame Chanel: I came to Pierrette... Suzon
: Does Pierrette need you so late?
Mrs. Chanel: I...I can't say...
Pierrette was smoking.
Gabby: Listen, Shanel, we agreed to tell the truth.
Madame Chanel: Just...I love Pierrette! I want to protect her...
grandmother (surprised): Gay?
Gabby: That's impossible... Chanel, you like women?
Mrs. Chanel: What, can't you? Have I done something that displeased you?
Gabby: But this...you need to see a doctor, you're sick!
Xu Zong: Mom, Shanel's private life has nothing to do with us!
Grandma: Sinners understand each other, one is a psychopath, the other is an unmarried mother...
Xu Zong: Grandma, please be more generous! We can proceed with peace of mind. So, Chanel, you said you wanted to protect Pierrette, why?
Madame Chanel: I'm jealous of her relationship with her brother...
Grandma: That's it...
Pierre: Are you crazy, Chanel? There is only hatred between me and Marcel! Maybe when I was a child...like siblings...but...
grandmother: the influence of the family...
Madame Chanel: Forgive me, Pierrette!
She walked towards Pierrette, but Pierrelet pushed her away.
Gabby: Mrs. Shanel! I trust you so much! I trust you to look after my two daughters...
Mrs . Chanel (kneeling in front of Gabby): You don't blame me, ma'am! If the kids were your own, they wouldn't be so good!
Gabby: I don't want to hear that, especially from someone like you...I'm not going to defend you when the police come, Mrs. Chanel.
Mrs. Chanel: As you please, ma'am. I have nothing to hide anymore!
Mrs. Chanel stood up, went into the kitchen, and sat at the table—
Mrs . Chanel (singing):
In order to get rid of loneliness, some people prayed to the cross,
Some people grow flowers and raise dogs, while
others indulge in the memories of the past to cherish the past and
fill the emptiness.
In order to get rid of loneliness, we long for the coming of spring,
and when the spring is gone, we are full of hope for the next spring.
To keep a fantasy, as if I'm not alone,
I love you, waiting for you,
I love you, waiting for you.
(She walks to the window, snowflakes are flying outside the window)
Some girls like girls, some boys like boys, so
that they are no longer lonely in this world.
Some give birth to children - they are alone like other children.
To escape loneliness, we build churches,
where everyone can easily face their own destiny,
thinking not of "me" but of "us".
I love you and am waiting for you.
I love you and am waiting for you.
Pierrette: Since you want to know the whole truth, in addition to what I just said, I want to say something you don't know.
Gabby: Okay, what do you want to make up this time?
Pierrette: Marcel and your new maid, Louise, met 5 years ago.
Gabby: What do you mean?
Pierrette: That's it...they have been meeting every weekend in a rented apartment for 5 years...this winter your family vacated the position of a maid, and Louise came to your house to apply...
Louis: you still Worry more about yourself, you haven't managed your own affairs yet!
Gabby: You've known my husband for a long time, Louise?
Louise: Yes.
Xu Zong: You have negotiated with him to come to my house and be a maid? is it?
Louise: Yes. We love each other.
Gabby: What does he look for in a woman as mediocre as you?
Louise: Maybe Marcel is just tired of amazing women...
Gabby: Of course he'll pay you.
Louise: You only know money! If you want to...
Gabby: I don't want anything, I want to know!
Louise: But it's not without a little imagination... let's say I can give Marcel the pleasure you never gave him. And, often in ways that you disdain.
Gabby: You're so dirty!
Louise: What's the shame about giving with all your heart? Isn't ecstatic love - the most wonderful thing in life?
Gabby: Then you went the wrong way. According to your talent, you should be a nun...
Louise: I talk to you about love, but you laugh at me... What are you dissatisfied with? I will not only do everything you ask, but also help you to fulfill the obligations between husband and wife. We actually slept in the same bed.
Gabby: Shut up, my daughter is here too.
Louise: I think you want to know the truth! All truth! In any case, the death of Mr. will not affect my loyalty to you, and I will always serve you, ma'am.
Augustina enters the house -
Augustina: What did I hear! OK. OK...poor Marcel! How much torment he has endured from you!
Gabby: You're probably happy to soothe him?
Augustina: Are you trying to get mad at me? You might as well do it. You sensed Marcel and Louise's affair, so you decided to take revenge at night...
Gabby: How could you say such a thing in front of children?
Augustina: What's there to be ashamed of! One is a lazy gas bun, a bookworm, the other has a big belly... and a face that interrogates us like a judge who has stepped down from the altar. Girls used to be respected everywhere because they knew how to love themselves. Now they flock to the cinema, go to cafes, smoke, wear trousers, wander around, see one and love the other... You are a good example for your daughters, you brought them bad, you are living the consequences... …
Gabby: Since you know children so well, why don't you have a litter yourself?
Augustina: Because everyone respects me so much!
Katerina: Is my aunt still a virgin?
Gabby: Just ask her! Who wants her?
Grandma: Gabby, stop bullying my sister! You know how weak her body is, she almost died just now...
Jiabi: Mom, don't support her anymore, and don't talk to me about any big things. Look at yourself: obviously an alcoholic shrew, but pretending to be a weak widow! You've been lying, Mom, you're a self-serving liar, a hypocrite. I should have dumped you in the middle of nowhere and left you to fend for yourself.
Grandma: How dare you talk to your mother like that, you have no conscience, your husband has just been killed!
Gabby: It's like Dad was killed!
Grandma: What do you mean by that?
Gabby: You poisoned it, Mom. You are a poisoner, both literally and figuratively! Granny
: My heart can't take it...
Mrs . Chanel runs into the living room--
Mrs. Chanel: Madam! lady! I understand!
Gabby: What do you understand?
LADY CHANNELL: Everything...almost everything...GABI: Come on
!
Mrs. Chanel: I need one more piece of evidence. Everyone stays here. I'll go to the balcony to confirm. In just a few minutes, I will tell you the truth of Mr.'s death.
She went to the balcony.
Gabby: Do you believe her?
Pierrette: She must know something.
Louise: No one can leave here, but you let her out!
Augustina: It's a trick, she wants to run away!
Xu Zong: Could it be that she did it?
Pierrette: Yes, I started to doubt her half an hour ago. No, she wanted to sneak away.
Gabby: She's back! Let's hide and see what she does...
Several people are hiding behind the sofa, behind the chair, and behind the curtains.
Mrs. Chanel: That's right, as I expec
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