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

I began to consider my future. I decided to leave

the place where I had been in trouble. I decided go to

the city called Spring City, in the Southwest, to make

a living. Half a year ago, I had been there to attend a

meeting. It was held in an engineering university. At

the meeting, I was lucky enough to get to know the

principal of that university. One day, he asked me

whether I could take over a class for an absent

teacher. I happily agreed. I was very successful for

that class and was warmly welcomed by the students.

That evening, the principal invited me to a dinner.

While we were enjoying the food, he told me why he

had asked me to give the students a lecture. He

actually wanted to check my teaching ability. He said

I was a good and talented teacher. I was the person

that they were badly in need of. He formally invited

me to work in their school. He said he would appoint

me as the chief of the foreign languages department.

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