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

He had to endure the cold. Sometimes he had to

suffer huger as well. My grandfather was not rich.

Fortunately he had passed the examination and

became a state-financed student…”

“Don’t try to speak for yourself. Don’t try to

embellish your father! He must be from a landlord

family. A poor peasant’s son could by no means go

abroad to study. To be frank, I’m from a poor

peasant family. Before Liberation, my family was so

poor that my mother often went out begging. Maybe

my mother went to your father’s home to ask for

food and was kicked out by him. Our great leader

Chairman Mao teaches us that “all crows under the

sun are black.” All the landlords are cruel. Your

father was no exception. As a landlord’s son, you

want to marry me - a poor peasant’s daughter - do

you? You are having a day dream! No way!”

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