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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
across me on the road. She would pretend not to see
me at all and raise her head high. She swore she
would marry a PLA officer. If she couldn’t marry an
officer, she would prefer to be alone for the rest of
her life.
Every weekend before the teachers went home,
the married male teachers would shout triumphantly,
“Going home to hug my wife in a quilt!”
What they shouted was true. It was really lucky
for the male teachers to have wives in this coal area.
They would feel proud of themselves, and never
forgot to show off their lucky fate whenever they had
a chance.
I knew it was very difficult for me - a big
bachelor - to find a girl to marry in such a coal area!
The subjective unfavorable factors and objective
unfavorable factor put together made my marriage all
the more inconceivable. However, the more difficult
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