Page 457 - updated on July

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

friend: a thousand cups is still too little - you had to

drink as much as you could and if one does not drink,

one is not considered as a good friend. They

proposed toasts in turn. Xi Si found it hard to refuse

them. She had to drink quite a bit. Then they made

her drink more. Xi Si was not able to cope with them.

She drank a little more and soon her face grew red. I

knew she was going to faint. But the officers didn’t

let her go and kept forcing her to drink. I took a look

at the regimental commander. He watched his

subordinates force Xi Si to drink wine. I immediately

understood why they kept forcing Xi Si to drink.

This was the trick I had experienced. He wanted to

make Xi Si drunk so that he could take the

opportunity and do it with her while she was in a

comatose state. This was a common way for a rude

worker or a peasant to force a girl to marry him. I

never thought that, as a PLA officer, the regimental

454