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ferocious. The students dared not fight back under
normal circumstances. One mischievous boy once
argued with him in class. He gave the boy a punch
and knocked him down. The boy cried and said,
while sobbing, “As a teacher, you dare beat a student?
I’ll tell my father and ask him to avenge me.”
“Ask your father to avenge you? Ha! I once beat
your father black and blue. He is my vanquished foe!
Do you want to listen to the story?”
The boy was stunned and speechless. It turned
out that Squint once worked together with the boy’s
father as coal workers in the coal mine. They once
did fight with each other due to a game of chess.
Squint was stronger than the boy’s father. The boy’s
father was beaten, ending up with a bloody nose and
a swollen face.
He once even beat the vice-manager of the mine.
The story spread all over the mine. He was an ugly
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