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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
Now that Great Smoker had gone away and
nobody would harass me, my life should have
become peaceful. But it was not so. I was not able to
calm down. An idea had been troubling me-- had I
put it in? Great Smoker had slept with me on the bed.
She had got a hold of me. We were nude…
I couldn’t eat well during the daytime and I
couldn’t sleep well at night. Soon a rumour spread. It
said that Great Smoker had been really wronged. She
was exiled to the Northwest only because of Soapy.
Soapy hugged and kissed her. He tarnished her
innocence. Soapy had ruined the second half of her
life. The worst thing that Soapy had done was that he
had raped her at the farewell party. She had gone to a
city that she did not want to go to. She left with tears
in her eyes. She would come back to get even with
Soapy! Gossip was a fearful weapon. People firmly
believed that it was I, Soapy, who had ruined Great
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