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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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