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touches a drop of alcohol to drink! If you have guts,

please challenge me!”

The officers, including the regimental

commander, were startled for a moment. Then one of

them said, “Soapy, you want to play the drinking

game with us? Good show! How would you like to

play the drinking game with us?”

I placed four large bowls in a row and filled

them full of wine (the wine in each bowl was about

one quarter of a kilogram in weight. So, altogether,

the wine in the four bowls would be about two

kilograms worth. The wine in China usually was very

strong. Half a kilogram of it would make a man

drunk).

Then I said, “Those who can finish four bowls of

the wine have the qualification to play the drinking

game with me! Now I will finish the wine first.”

With that, I emptied the four bowls of wine. After I

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