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

Then he organized teachers to study Mao

Zedong’s book in the evening after school. Each

teacher was required to make a speech. Each teacher

was required to write what he or she had learned. For

a whole month, the teachers had to stay in school to

study Mao Zedong’s works until 8pm. The school’s

appearance did change a lot.

Cock was also good at doing ideological work.

He often had heart-to-heart talks with the teachers of

our school. He had spoken to nearly all of the

teachers in the school soon after he had come. He

had recruited a number of new Party members.

Elephant was one among them. She quickly became

his minion.

She would act upon whatever Cock asked her to

do and seemed to be very loyal to him. She would

stay in Cock’s office for a long time, discussing

something as if they were talking about work. Later I

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