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

With that, they began to play. Ten minutes later,

Squint made a wrong move. He was trying to retract

it, but Monkey King didn’t allow him to do so.

Squint flew into a great rage and slapped Monkey

King across the face twice. Monkey King was

furious. He threw the chess pieces to the ground and

pledged to break any relations with Squint from then

on. But he dared not retaliate and hit back. He was

not capable of being Squint’s opponent at all.

Logically, Squint should have been punished.

But this was during the great cultural revolution.

Anarchy was in vogue. Fights often took place. If

you fought a person but hadn’t hurt him seriously,

you wouldn’t get any punishment. So those strong

men could play the tyrant.

I knew Squint was jealous of me. He had even

gone to the school head master to squeal on me. He

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