Script of "The Golden Fishhook"

Time: Autumn 1935.

Location: On the Long March Road, the endless grassland.

Character: Cooking Team Leader (nearly forty years old, tall, slightly hunched, with gray temples and wrinkled face).

Red Army soldier Xiaoliang (17 or 18 years old, thin and sick).

Little warriors A and B (twelve or thirteen years old, sickly and exhausted).

Act 1 Night Talk on the Grassland

Voiceover: In the autumn of 1935, the Red Army entered the grassland. The cooking squad leader was ordered to take care of three patients. After finishing the highland barley noodles, the soldiers had no choice but to eat wild vegetables and grass roots. One day, the old squad leader used a sewing needle to make a fishhook and caught a small fish.

(As the curtain rises, the young soldiers are drinking fish soup with relish. The old squad leader is sitting aside and looking at them kindly.)

Xiao Liang: Old squad leader, why don’t you eat? ah?

Monitor: (touching his mouth, as if aftertaste) After eating, I’ll eat it right from the pot, eating it before you do.

(The old squad leader put away the dishes, got down, and came up from the other side. Xiao Liang followed quietly. The old squad leader sat on the grass and chewed the grass roots and the remaining fish bones with difficulty.)

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Xiao Liang: (speechlessly) Old squad leader, how did you...

Squad monitor: (hesitating) I have already eaten. I saw that the bowl was not completely eaten...it would be a pity to throw it away...

Xiao Liang: No! I know it all.

Monitor: Keep your voice down, Xiaoliang. (Hugs Xiaoliang and points to the place where the two little soldiers sleep) We are party members. Now that you know, you can’t tell others.

Xiao Liang: But you must also cherish yourself!

Monitor: It doesn’t matter, my body is still strong. (Looking up at the stars for a long time) The instructor said when he handed you three to me, along the way, I am the superior, the nanny, and the orderly. No matter how hard or tiring it is, I will take you out of the grassland. I estimate that the journey will take another 20 days. These 20 days will be difficult! Seeing that you are getting weaker day by day, how can I report to the party if something happens to you?

Xiao Liang: But you should eat something with us!

Monitor: Alas, too few. (Shaking his head slightly) Xiaoliang, it’s too difficult to get something to eat. Sometimes after waiting most of the night, no fish takes the bait. In order to get an earthworm to use as bait, I turned over a lot of sod. Also, my eyes are broken. At night, I have to touch wild vegetables one by one...

Xiao Liang: (quickly speaking) Old monitor, I will help you from now on, I can see See!

Monitor: No, haven’t we already divided the work? Besides, your illness is not serious, and you won't be able to survive if you don't get a good rest.

Xiao Liang: No...

Squad leader: (Sternly) Comrade Xiao Liang, Communist Party members must obey the party's distribution. Your task is to keep walking, calm the emotions of the two little comrades, and enhance their confidence to overcome difficulties! (Xiao Liang was speechless and cried in the arms of the old squad leader. The curtain fell.)

The solemn eyes in the second act (omitted)

The final instructions in the third act

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(The curtain opens, and the overlapping mountain peaks in the distance are vaguely visible. Nearby, four ragged Red Army soldiers are gathered together. Behind them, there is a vast grassland and a line of beaten roads. )

Old squad leader: (joyfully) Comrades, we are almost out of this grassland (pointing to the distant mountains). Let's stop here, get some food, cheer up, and walk out of the grass in one breath. (After that, he took the needle hook and went to look for the pond; the little Red Army soldiers were happily looking for wild vegetables and collecting dry firewood.)

Xiao Liang: Why hasn’t the old squad leader come back yet?

Warrior A and B: Huh? (Somewhat panicked) Go find it!

(The old squad leader is unconscious in the pond, with the fishing rod still in his hand.)

Xiao Liang: I’m here to fish. One of you will take care of the old squad leader, and one of you will make a fire quickly. .

(Finally caught a small fish and hurriedly made fish soup.)

Xiao Liang: (crouching down) Old squad leader, wake up! It will be fine if you drink some fish soup...

(Little Red Army A and B are kneeling aside and crying.)

Old squad leader: (opening his eyes slightly, staring at the fish soup) Xiao Liang , don't waste things, I...I can't do it.

You go ahead and eat. After eating, you still have to travel. You must get out of these more than twenty miles!

Xiao Liang: Old squad leader, eat it! We have to carry you out of the grass (crying)!

Old squad leader: (stroking Xiaoliang’s head) No, you can eat, you must get out of the grass! See the instructor and tell him that I have not completed the task assigned to me by the party... (My hand suddenly slipped down)

Three soldiers: (crying together) Old squad leader, old squad leader, wake up , wake up!

(Xiao Liang carefully wrapped the fishhook and put it in his pocket, moving slowly.)

The voice-over started again: (Xiao Liang’s voice) Old squad leader, wait for the victory of the revolution. Yes, I will definitely send

this precious fishhook to the Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Hall. Let our descendants look up to it and always remember this golden fishhook and these turbulent years. (curtain falls)