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

reported the case to the security department of the

mine. Two men were sent to investigate. The old

man who was in charge of the mortuary told the

investigators that the door was perfect and without

damage, but the windows were broken. On the

windowsill, they found six fingerprints. It proved it

was Big Li who raped the girl’s dead body.

Later, Big Li was dismissed from the mine and

was sent back to his village to be a peasant.

Xiao Wang later became a Whitewasher and was

turned over to the police station. I really didn’t know

whether he was inspired by Big Li’s story. Half a

year later, he was transferred back to his hometown.

Since then I had never seen him.

Before he went back to his hometown, he once

said to me secretly,

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