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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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