Rafting down the Xiao River in Hunan, Pan Lao Wu warns his fellow rafter Shi Gu not to take a wife because "the wives of rafters are widows even while they live." Pan tells the story of a woman he loved, Wu Ai Hua, whom he never returned to after his raft broke up and he fell into debt. The third rafter, Zhao Liang, is revealed to have a large family (a wife and seven daughters). We learn that Shi Gu is upset because his intended, Gai Xiu, has been forced to marry the son of a political leader. During the night, Shi Gu leaves the raft after spotting a fire on shore. When Pan and Zhao find him, he has entered a labor camp and is nursing former district director Xu back to health. We learn that each of these men knew Xu before the cultural revolution as a good man who worked and had fun with the people he led. They decide to take him with them, as he has obviously been sent to the camp to die. A short while later, they leave him with some hill folk, saying that they will return. (Source: Wikipedia) Edit Translation
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