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

Chapter 23

Catch Adultery in the Act

---Zhuo Jian

Cock had a wife, but she was one thousand

kilometers away, in a village in our neighbouring

province. He lived alone in our school. Since he was

not willing to live in the same dormitory as us, our

school had provided him with an independent small

house. The house seemed simple and crude in its

outward appearance, but it was warm and

comfortable inside. It was too small to be an office.

Perhaps it was a mail room from a long time ago. An

old teacher used to live in it. But he had retired and

gone home. Since then, it had been empty. Cock was

satisfied with it and settled down there. It was close

to the gate of our school. As our office was close to

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