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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
The second event was the Small White Rabbit
event. That rumor had not disappeared once I had
dismissed the basketball team. On the contrary, it had
intensified. Why had Soapy dismissed the girls’ team?
They would ask. That’s because he had ulterior
motives. I knew who started the rumor. It was Squint.
The cross-eyed teacher had been hostile to me since I
had become a sport teacher and worked together with
him in the same office. He knew nothing. He had
little professional skill. So he was jealous of me. He
even spread the rumour to her parents. He told them
that I would have insulted their daughter if he had
not interfered.
One day Small Rabbit’s father rushed into our
office in a huff. He questioned me angrily, “Why
have you insulted my daughter?”
Small Rabbit’s father was a strong coal worker.
He got hold of my collar and pushed and pulled me
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