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

waited. We observed Cock’s house silently. It was

early winter. After five o’clock, darkness would fall.

By 8pm, it was very late at night. There was dead

silence everywhere. By 9pm, the woman still hadn’t

appear. We lost patience and went back to our

dormitory.

One day later, Monkey King and Xi Si pretended

to go back to our dormitory together, as usual, and

met Cock at school gate. They said goodbye to him,

then left. Cock leisurely went into his house. At 7:30,

they came back to our school and slipped into my

office in the darkness. Then I turned off the light and

went out of our school. At the gate, I deliberately

sang a song at top my voice for Cock to hear. Then I

made a circuit in the area and slipped into our office

silently. We waited in our office and observed the

independent house. The house lights were on. Cock

was inside. Half an hour later, a dark figure appeared.

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