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was poor at speaking but good at writing. Her friend

said many talented scholars were the same.

She promised me that on the upcoming Sunday,

she would take me to the matrimonial agency to

register. I was so delighted that I didn’t sleep that

whole night.

In the early morning, as soon as the matrimonial

agency had opened, we went into it. A middle-aged

woman received us. She happily registered us and

then congratulated us on our union. After we went

out, Big Wang happily took me to her best friend’s

home. There she told her best friend that she got

married to me. Her friend happily congratulated us

and decided to ask us to stay in her home for lunch.

At the lunch, her friend said to me, “Soapy, you

are a major of English. But do you know the US is

the worst imperialist country? The workers and

peasants there are exploited and oppressed. The

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