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

Chapter 24

Take on a New Job

----Ta Shang Xin Gang Wei

I was head over heels in love with Xi Si.

Everybody could see it. It had become an undeniable

fact. It amazed the whole school and the whole mine.

Voices that complained, abused, condemned and

envied us rose from all directions.

Some people commented, “Soapy has good luck

when it comes to adventures with women! He should

have been abandoned, but now he has a beautiful girl

with a high degree as his lover! It’s unfair! It’s

unfair!”

Elephant commented, “Xi Si is a fool! A

promising regimental commander loved her and tried

to woo her but she refused him. Now she has gone so

far as to love Soapy, an abandoned guy! She will

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