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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
Chapter 9
Monkey King
---Hou Wang
Monkey King was also a Stinking Old Ninth. He
graduated from a university in the south of China and
was assigned to our school just two weeks later than
I was. Because he was small and thin, he was
nicknamed Monkey King. Though he was weak in
his physique, he was a good writer. He could write
beautiful articles. Once his article had been published
in the local newspaper. He was very proud of his
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