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

a 9:05pm train. If we walked quickly, we could catch

it. But Xi Si was not in a hurry at all. She walked

leisurely, as if she was going for a stroll. When we

got to the train station, the train had just left. The

next train would be available only half an hour later.

Xi Si insisted on walking back to the dormitory. It

was far away. It would take us about one hour to get

there. To me it was nothing, but I was afraid that Xi

Si could not walk that long. She looked weak and

delicate. I suggested that we wait for the next train.

She laughed and said one hour’s walk was nothing.

She loved sports and loved walking. And so we

walked, side by side, in the darkness. While walking,

she said nothing. She took hold of one of my arms

and locked on to me. My heart was beating fast and

blood was raging through my body. Several times I

nearly lost control of myself. When we were closing

to our dormitory, I finally could no longer control

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