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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
Otherwise I won’t be with you. I’ll give you one
month’s time to show me. If you can stop reading
your English books in public, I’ll continue to date
you. Otherwise I resolutely refuse to see you again.
To stop reading your English books is the first step
on the road to be progressive. I hope you can achieve
success on the road!” With that, she walked away.
English books were very important to me.
Without them, I didn’t know how to live. Most of my
colleagues were originally coal workers. They
became teachers just by going through a short term
of training. They still had a worker’s disposition.
They would speak loudly, would curse each other,
would sit around to play cards while cursing and
laughing and would smoke together and shoot the
breeze when there were no classes. I didn’t like them
and would stay aside at one corner to read. But now,
to win Big Wang’s heart, I had to put my English
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