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

I was angry with Company Commander. I didn’t

like her at all. She didn’t love me. What she loved

was money and power. I tore the letter to shreds after

reading it. Then I wrote back two words: “Get away!”

However, Company Commander’s buttocks

were forever swaying before me. I was thinking of

women day and night and decided that if I had the

chance, I would Whitewash one of them. But I did

not have the guts. I was a coward by nature. I was

crazy for women, but when a woman offered me a

chance, I lost it. One day, in a shop, I was standing in

a large crowd of people, struggling for the

opportunity to buy malt sugar. Suddenly I felt

something soft rubbing against my arm. I turned

around and saw a girl in her early twenties leaning

against me. She was rubbing her breast against my

arm with her eyes half closed. I was dumbstruck and

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