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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

how to deal with the students. He suffered a lot. We

should help him. We shouldn’t laugh at him.”

The tall and strong woman teacher was

nicknamed Elephant. Elephant’s face turned crimson

with anger and argued, “We are talking about Soapy.

This has nothing to with you. Why do you speak for

him? Why are you so concerned about him? What is

the relationship between him and you?” The teachers

burst into loud laugher.

Black Peony went into a fit of anger and said,

“Do you want to know what the relationship is

between him and me? Now I’ll tell you all. Soapy is

my good friend!”

Soon a rumor spread all over the school about

how Black Peony was lonely. Even though she had a

husband, he was thousands of kilometers away.

Distant water couldn’t quench present thirst. She was

thirsty for the greatest thing between man’s two

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