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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
or it was the combination of both. I became all the
more careful. I thought perhaps I was impolite, or
that I was talking nonsense! I stood there like a
criminal before a judge. She threw me an angry look
then went away. She walked quickly. I was
wondering again why she was unhappy with me. I
had behaved so well. I had been a gentleman. I was
scared and didn’t know how I had offended her. I ran
after her. When I caught up with her, she was out of
the park already. I begged her repeatedly.
I said, “I love Chairman Mao! I love the
communist Party of China!”
“Then why do you talk nonsense? What you said
actually are reactionary remarks. You should be
denounced. You should be put into prison!”
“It’s a slip of the tongue! It’s a slip of the tongue!
I can reform. I’ll reform to become a politically
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