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

said it was impossible for Xi Si to fall in love with

Soapy. The gap in their personal experience and

background was huge. One was a beautiful girl with

high educational degree and was as pure as a piece of

white paper, while the other was an abandoned man

who might as well have been a hoodlum.

Xi Si had learnt English from me three times so

far. The fourth time she came to me, she seemed as if

she had something heavy on her mind. She hesitated

to speak about it. Instead, she quickly took her seat

and started to learn English from me. Just as she was

enjoying herself, studying, the door was kicked open.

A group of people entered, including Monkey King

and Elephant. The leader was Bear, the worker

master of our school. They suspected that we were

doing it with each other. They wanted to catch us red

handed. However, what they actually found was an

English lesson at hand.

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