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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
report it. The leaders, including Cock, immediately
made a big decision: to stew it with vermicelli and
pickled Chinese cabbage (that’s the most loved food
of the people of the Northeast) and make a big pot of
it. Let the staff eat their fill!
A number of teachers who were good at cooking
were organized to be a temporary cookhouse squad.
They worked hard for a whole morning and cooked a
large pot of pork with vermicelli and pickled Chinese
cabbage.
That day, at lunchtime, all the staff lined up
before the cookhouse. They were told that they could
eat as much as they wanted. They cheered. They had
not eaten pork with vermicelli and pickled Chinese
cabbage for a long time. Some of them untied their
trouser belts. Bear ate too much and threw up. A few
people who were not afraid of losing face went back
home and pick up large family pots to have them
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