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patient. He was not as eager to find a girl to marry as

I was. His parents had died when he was a kid. His

elder sister was concerned about his marriage. But

because she was in the south, she found it difficult to

help him. She introduced him to two girls, but they

were not willing to move to the Northeast. Elephant

seemed especially concerned about him and

introduced one girl to him, but he resolutely refused

her because she was a strong smoker. Monkey King

was not an ordinary man. He was the Magic Brush in

our school and was very proud and arrogant. He

trusted the old Chinese proverb that a gifted scholar

would marry a beautiful lady. What’s more

important was that he was an ideological, progressive

young man. He was an activist and he studied Mao

Zedong’s works. He would take every chance to

pledge his determination to be loyal to Chairman

Mao and Communist Party. He worked hard and was

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