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

When we got out of the train station, it began to

snow. It was only late October.

I was very weak. In a small restaurant she bought

two bowls of hot noodles. After the hot noodles went

down our stomachs, we felt better.

Then we began to look for Black Peony’s school.

We were told it was in the western suburbs. There

was a bus going there. The bus only took about one

hour for us to get there. We waited for the bus at the

bus station. Ten minutes later, a bus came. We got on

it and soon we got there.

When I saw Black Peony and her husband, they

nearly couldn’t recognize me. They were stupefied.

When I told them the story, Black Peony few into

such a rage that she immediately decided to travel

back to our school that very evening to prove my

innocence. Her husband supported her. But I was

exhausted and had a fever. I needed rest. So her

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