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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
Bear and the others arrived. Bear ordered us to take
the woman back to the school head master’s office.
Then he began to phone the chief of the security
department of the mine. At the same time, the two
guards from the security department brought Cock to
the vice school head master’s office. They
questioned him there.
Ten minutes later, the chief of the security
department of the mine arrived. He asked Bear to call
the school head master and vice-head master to the
school. The leader group of our school consisted of
four people— the headmaster, vice headmaster, Bear
(worker representative) and Cock (military
representative). Bear asked Monkey King and me if
we knew where the headmaster and vice headmaster
lived. We said we did. They lived just in our coal
area. Most teachers lived there. He asked us to run to
their homes and get them to school as soon as
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