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

glanced right and left. Her seat was just before mine.

When she found that no one had noticed her, she

inserted a parcel into my hands. It was a parcel of

chestnuts roasted in sands with brown sugar. That

was the gift she brought for me. I hid it in my draw

and quickly wrote a few words on a piece of paper

inviting her to a secret talk with me. I was eager to

tell her all the things that had happened to me. But

before I finished writing the letter, Plump Doll

showed up. She came to White Swan and told her

that she had been requested to see the political

supervisor immediately. She stood up and went out

with Plump Doll. My heart sank. I immediately

realized why Plump Doll had run out so quickly

when White Swan showed up. She had run out to see

the political supervisor to report! I knew that they

had hatched a plot. I could see clearly that they had

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