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

at the park one late evening and how she had

harassed me since then.

Old Aunt sighed deeply and said, “Soapy, you

really are a fool. You can’t distinguish whether a

woman is beautiful or not under a dim light at night!

Even an old witch could turn to a beautiful fairy!

You have been taken in!”

Old Aunt’s husband was the chief of the

personnel section of the open coal mine. She told the

whole absurd story about Great Smoker and me to

him. He got angry and said he would deal with the

matter.

For two weeks, Great Smoker had not come to

harass me. She became quiet. I was told that she

would be transferred to city one thousand kilometers

away in the Northwest. She would go there in two

weeks’ time. One day before she left she went to our

school to look for me and wanted to have a talk with

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