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

“No problem!” Elephant said and happily

accepted the task. She thought Xi Si would be

overjoyed to have a regimental commander as her

lover. Those days, all girls would run after officers

desperately.

One day, Elephant invited Xi Si to her home and

happily told her that she was going to introduce a

very good young man to her. The young man was a

PLA man. He was a regimental commander, perhaps

the youngest regimental commander in China. That’s

because he was a model student of Chairman Mao’s

works and therefore had been quickly promoted to a

high officer. She stressed that a regimental

commander had a very good salary, perhaps four

times as much as a middle-aged engineer. But

contrary to her expectations, Xi Si refused her

tactfully. Elephant was very unhappy.

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