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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

worried that it might spoil her beauty. Plump Doll’s

remarks made me realize that that was a symptom to

show that she was pregnant! So, it was hard to

conceal that fact.

But I said, “You can’t say that a woman is

pregnant only by the butterfly stain. There are no

scientific grounds for it.”

“If that has no scientific grounds, does this have?”

Plump Doll said satirically and then handed a piece

of paper to me. I took it and had a look at it. To my

great astonishment, it was a copy of the letter that

White Swan sent me! It immediately dawned on me

that I had fallen into the trap that Plump Doll and Hot

Pepper had laid for me! They had been suspecting

that White Swan was pregnant and had been

conspiring to obtain the information from her to

prove that she was pregnant. They knew she would

write a letter to me. So, while I was waiting for

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