Hu:  (clapping hands, loudly): Hahaha...what a good explanation!
Diao:  (clapping hands, in a cunning way): Hohoho...not a bad excuse! Ms. Aqing, now I see why they call you a good teahouse owner, all your words can hold water!
Aqing:  My dear General... What does that mean?
Hu:  Oh, never mind, Mr. Diao just likes playing with words. Don't take it to your heart!

Aqing:  Surely I won’t.

Hu:  What are you doing here! Haven't I told you that Aqing is my life-saver? Why are you always beating the bushes around her? You really embarrassed me!
Hu:  Mrs Aqing, she is one of ours.

Diao:  Then ask her about the New Fourth Army and the sick and wounded. She cannot have no idea of it, but she may deliberately hide that.

Hu:  Let me ask. If you go, you would be foiled.

Diao:  Of course, you are the general.

Aqing:  General, does the tea fit your taste?

Hu:  Em, perfectly! Mrs. Aqing, can I get some information from you?

Aqing:  Me? Of course. But I may not have the one you want.

Hu:  About the New Fourth Army…

Aqing:  The New Fourth Army? Yes, yes. General, you don’t have to acquire. Here once stationed lots of communists.

Hu:  What about now?

Aqing:  Now? With a call of fall-in, They mightily set out on the journey.

Hu:  Have the sick and wounded gone too?

Aqing: The sick and wounded? The sick and wounded have gone far away, disappearing ,vanishing without a trace.

Diao:  Oh? All gone?

Aqing:  All gone! Japanese have already searched for three days. Still, they didn’t get what they want.

Diao:  the Japanese are total strangers to the place. How could they catch the Communists? Hiding our gerenal right before the Japanese is a powerful evidence to prove that it’s not impossible to hide several persons in such a large area like Shajiabang.

Aqing:  You mean…It is I who have hidden the Communists? What a crap! Mr Hu,I regret to having saved you. I’ve left an excuse as blame.

Hu:  Mrs. Aqing, don’t be…

Aqing:  No Mr. Hu. It’s time to have a show-down. Please let your soldiers have a fully search in my teahouse to prove my innocence.

Hu:  Diao Deyi, watch your words, OK?

Diao:  I was only joking.

Hu:  My chief is not serious. Take it for granted.

Aqing:  General, this joke is too much heavy!

Diao:  General, the communists couldn’t have gone, they are just hiding somewhere around.

Hu:  Where?

Diao:  Look!(Pointing to the reed marshes) They are probably hiding in the reed marshes across.

Hu:  Search the reed marshes.

Diao:  Wait…You are not the local here. And you don’t know the situation inside the reed marshes. As its boundless and varied topography, a blind search would be harder than looking for a niddle in the ocean and we would be attacked unexpactly however it’s not wise to sacrifice our boddies for the task that the Japanese assigned us.

Hu:  What’s your plan?

Diao:  Force them to go out themselves.

Hu:  Daydreaming! They are not fool!

Diao:  I’ve already got an idea. Call on the villagers to the teahouse, I have something to announce

Hu:  Villagers? What can they do?

Diao:  Ask them to go fishing in the lake.

Hu:  Go fishing?

Diao:  We can range several boddies on each boat and, of course, dressed as the local people. By seeing such a scene, the New Forth Army would consider its save in the town. Them, they will come out.

Diao2:  Here are villagers.

Diao:  Well, here are my commands.

Diao2:  Stand still… You, stand still.

Diao:  My fellow folks, we are the army fighting Japan and saving the nation.And now we are here. We know you have lots of difficulties and can’t afford to reward us. It’s not your fault. You go to the Yangcheng Lake, catch some fish and crabs and sell them to us at the market price.

(The villagers protest: we go nowhere, we dare not go there)

Hu:  Who dare not go? If not, you will be shot.

Aqing:  Diao Deyi, baster. You are a snake setting those hooks, trapping our brothers in arm. If the folks are to resist, their blood will flow and lives will be lost. Like an ant on the hot pan, How I wish to have wings to fly into the reed marshes.

Diao:  If you don’t go , I will fire.

Aqing:  Fire? If they fire, brothers must know what happens and would hide deeper in the reed marshes. Be calm! Seduce Diao and wait for the sound of the gun. (Aqing picks up a broken brick, covers it with a straw hat, throws it into the jar, and rushes to hide herself inside )

Diao2:  Somebody jumped into the jar!

( Hu and Diao Xiaosan fire and rush to the jar)

Diao:  Don’t fire! You ,you don’t fire.

Hu:  Why?

Diao:  General, how can the communists come out if they hear the shot,?

(Hu and Diao Xiaosan sigh.)