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

my bed, all I thought about was having a place to

hide away from the outside world.

I lived in the collective dormitory building of the

coal mine. In the late afternoon, I would take the

train (the city of the coal capital was very long from

east to west. It is about 40 kilometers. So the people

in the city would take trains to travel) back to the

dormitory building. Once back in the dormitory

building, I would lie on my bed, unwilling to get up

any more. I was extremely fatigued. I was exhausted

not only physically, but also mentally.

I had three roommates. Besides Monkey King, I

still had two roommates. The four guys were all

Stinking Old Ninths. They were Monkey King,

Soapy (that’s me), Big Li and Xiao Wang. You know

Monkey King and Soapy already. Now let me say

something about Big Li and Xiao Wang. They were

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