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


               would hate to have a political backward man as my


               lover. Do you know what you are looking like to me?”



                       “I don’t know,” I said. “But you said just now


               that I look like your younger brother and you-”



                       “That’s your outward appearance to me. Now I


               would like to ask you something that is important to



               me.”


                       “What do I look like to you?” I asked in return.



                       “You look like a chicken rib to me. It’s tasteless



               to eat, but a waste to throw it away…”


                       “What do you mean by that?”


                       “I don’t want to tell a lie. I like you. I do like you.



               As soon as I saw you, you gave me a very good



               impression. You look honest. You are the sort of man


               that women like. But you are backwards in politics. I



               don’t think you love our great leader Chairman Mao


               and the  Communist Party very much. You are  a



               bookworm. I don’t like this kind of man. So I’m in a





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