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and warm to me. She then asked me whether I

wanted to see her. I nodded and felt grateful to her.

The news quickly spread over the school. A middle-

aged woman teacher with red cheeks asked me

whether I knew what kind a girl Elephant was going

to introduce me to. I said I didn’t. She told me she

knew her. She was well known in the Open Coal

Mine. She was in the “abandoned group”. No single

man in the Open Coal Mine had been happy with her.

At the mention of her name, all of them would shake

their heads. She once was introduced to Monkey

King, who immediately refused her. The middle-

aged woman teacher with red cheeks said that even

Monkey King was not fond of her.

“Why is he not fond of her?” I asked.

“She is a heavy smoker, and because of her

strong urge to smoke, she is nicknamed Great

Smoker. She once caused a big fire only because of

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