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#1037 Leung Yip Life in Hong Kong

Leung Yip

Translation

細個嗰陣香港打仗。我重記得我嗰陣識行嘅,我阿媽孭住我走難,過山越嶺行陸路去惠州。

後來我哋返香港住,周圍好窮無野食,草都無一條,要出去搵野食搵水飲。

有一日阿媽要出去搵野食帶埋我出去,留番妹妹一個,因為佢細個唔行得遠。

得哋出去時妹妹係咁喊,喊住叫我哋帶埋佢,話帶我走啦,唔好留低我一個呀我死㗎啦。

阿媽最終都係無帶埋佢。到我哋返嚟嗰陣妹妹已經唔見咗。

其他人走我哋都無走,希望等到妹妹返嚟。但都無返嚟。

我諗佢應該比人擄咗去賣囉。到我結婚時我媽走埋。



Hong Kong was at war when I was little.

I remember I could walk and my mother carried me on her back to seek refuge. She crossed mountains and rivers to get to Hueizhou.

Later we went back to Hong Kong. It was desolate everywhere, nothing grew. One day my mother and I were heading out to search for food and water, leaving my sister a home because she was too little to walk far.

My sister kept crying ang and crying, and begged us she take her with us, she cried please take me, don’t leave me otherwise I’ll die. We didn’t take her.

When we came back she was nowhere to be found. We stayed there while others moved away, hoping we might found her. But she never came back. I reckon she was kidnapped and sold. My mother passed away when I get married.