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no match for Squint. He was trying to instigate me to

fight Squint so that he could sit on the top of the

mountain and watch the tigers fight. Just as I was

preparing to accept Squint’s challenge, he had got in

trouble. Monkey King was overjoyed to see Squint

be beaten black and blue as a whitewasher.

Monkey King had sharp eyes and was politically

sensitive. If anything politically improper happened

even in our bedrooms, it wouldn’t escape his eyes.

He would inform the leaders of our school.

I had a semiconductor receiver. At midnight, I

would listen to The Voice of America with an

earphone. Occasionally I would revealed a bit of

information that I heard from VOA. Monkey King

quickly understood what I did at night. He even got

up at midnight to check my actions. Soon the leaders

of our school knew what I did at night. I was asked to

see the new leader, a new worker master. Since

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