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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
“You… can’t prove she is pregnant… only by
vomiting,” I argued timidly.
“There is another symptom which could prove
that she is pregnant.”
“What symptom?”
“The stain that looks like a butterfly on her
forehead could prove it. She didn’t have that stain
before. It only recently appeared on her forehead. It
is called butterfly stain. It indicates that the woman
who wears it is pregnant. I come from a village.
Women in our village all know that if a woman is
pregnant, a butterfly stain appears on her forehead,”
Plump Doll said affirmatively.
Recently a stain like butterfly had appeared on
White Swan’s forehead. She didn’t have it before. It
had just turned up in the few days and had become
clearer and clearer. I had been wondering why a stain
like a butterfly was growing on her forehead and was
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