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

Next morning, White Swan asked the political

supervisor for a week’s leave. She said that her

mother was sick. The political supervisor consoled

her and gave her one week’s leave without even

asking her how she learned that her mother was sick.

White Swan never thought it would be so easy for

her to obtain a week’s leave. She happily went back

home.

One morning, a few days later, I got a letter from

her. The letter was given to me by Hot Pepper. She

was the letter collector of our class. Our class had an

independent letterbox. All the letters to the students

of our class were put into the letterboxes by a

postman. Hot Pepper kept the key to the letterbox.

Every day it was she that picked up the letters for the

students and then distributed them to the letter

receivers. That morning she handed me the letter that

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