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completed the questions in the written test

successfully. I said I had been especially good at the

oral test. I was full of hope.

She smiled and then said, “Soapy, I really hope

you pass the examination and we can go to that

university together. I’m eager to change our working

circumstances.”

“Why are you in such a hurry?”

“Please read these letters,” she said, taking out

five letters from her bag. All these letters were

written to Xi Si by Big Wang. I quickly read them. In

these letters, Big Wang said that I didn’t love

Chairman Mao and the Communist Party at all, that I

knew nothing about ideological progress, that I knew

nothing about politics, and that I knew nothing about

love. The only things I knew in life, according to her,

were two things: One was reading English books,

and another was sex. She said that was why she had

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