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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
others. They could do anything. If they worked
together, they could take off my trousers in the blink
of an eye. I held my trousers tightly and looked
around at them in panic.
I pleaded, “Please don’t! Please don’t take off
my trousers. We should be polite and civilized!”
“We workers don’t know what being civilised is!
We just want to see the truth!”
“Take off his trousers!”
They were determined to amuse themselves by
making a spectacle of me. They were not joking.
They were a crowd of scoundrels who were
specialized in playing a prank on others. I screamed.
At this moment, my basketball buddy tried to
stop them.
“It is against the law to check the man like that!”
he said seriously.
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