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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)
“How do you know that we stole your letter?”
Hot Pepper shouted at White Swan. But White Swan
was not a coward like me. She protested calmly,
“That was the secret I wrote to Soapy. If you
hadn’t stolen it to read it, how could you know that
fact?”
“Soapy confessed to everything you did! That’s
how we know.”
White Swan gave me a look. I lowered my head.
Then she said, “Soapy is as simple as a child. You
must have intimidated him and cheated him of the
fact.”
“I don’t think he is as simple as a child. I think
he is a bit cunning. He found that the secrecy
between him and you would soon be exposed, so he
confessed first so that he could get less punishment.
To get to the point, he has betrayed you,” the student
said, grinning.
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