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little bit hungry and climbed down to get some food.
Just as I landed on the ground, I was caught by a
policeman of the train station. He dragged me into an
office and asked me who I was and where I was from.
I told him that I was a transient from a village. I was
going to visit one of my relatives in the north but was
too poor to buy train ticket. My clothes were dirty
with coal dust and my face was dirty with coal dust
too. I looked like a transient. But he said that I was
not a transient. He pushed me out of the station
without saying anything. I strolled outside the train
station and bought some cheap food to eat. I had to
save the little money I had. Otherwise it would be
incredibly difficult on the way to the north. I didn’t
know how long I would travel. I didn’t know
whether the little money could support me to see
Black Peony.
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