Two Lives Depart from World of the Living 辭陽兩聞

Two Lives Depart from World of the Living 

辭陽兩聞

Last Friday, an Australian local newspaper recorded the death of a 40-year-old Chinese man named Tung Dong residing on Campbell Street in Sydney. Tung was reportedly transported to the Sydney Hospital from there by car at six o’clock in the afternoon last Thursday. Due to the severity of his illness, Tung was exempt from paying several kinds of charges immediately upon his arrival at the hospital but the time saved for him was still not sufficient, as he soon stopped breathing and entered the underworld (guiyin 歸陰). Tung’s body was therefore directly driven to the Sydney Morgue to undergo autopsy which, however, would require the doctor to cut open his body, examine his internal organs or perform some other similar actions to determine whether he was poisoned. Fortunately, many Chinese people believed that Tung died a rather natural death due to his prolonged illness, and this eventually caused a sudden change in the minds of these British doctors who later agreed not to proceed with the autopsy.

Likewise, an Australian local newspaper last week also reported that a Chinese man named Lazarus was murdered at the Hambledon Mill which was not far from Brisbane. Large wounds were found on his head which seemed to be inflicted by a large knife, and there were wounds on his shoulders as well. Investigations showed that Lazarus has been working for the mill for twenty years, but unfortunately, he has never told anyone his Chinese name. What we have currently found out about him is little: “Lazarus” was originally a Jewish surname, and the exact type of the “mill” in question was also unspecified, as mills producing flour, paper, and sugar by these Westerners can all be called a “mill”.