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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
Ninths, and except Big Li, we were all Da Guang
Gun. The four of us had same fate and sympathized
with each other. On weekends we would play chess,
or playing cards, or music instruments or stayed
together chatting. Sometimes we drank. We
especially enjoyed listening to Big Li’s stories. He
was an excellent storyteller. His stories were always
about women. He often ridiculed us as a group of
monks. As he had a wife, he understood women. His
stories often made us too excited to sleep, but we
enjoyed them very much and would urge him to tell
more stories. He seemed to have endless stories
about women and loved to tell them. He was always
energetic and would tell us stories vividly. One day
he said to us, “Do you know Lao Song?”
“No, we don’t,” we said.
“He is our leader, and a glorious Communist
Party Member-”
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