Chapter Six – BlackPeony
**Hei mudan**
Sportsteachers and music teachers belonged to the same teaching group andwere in the same office. It was said that sports and music had noboundaries, and that they were of one family. Our office was calledthe ‘sport and music office’.
There was awoman music teacher in our office nicknamed Black Peony. She wasnicknamed Black Peony because she was black. Her skin was blackindeed, but she was very beautiful. She was in her late twenties.Her husband was far away in the border area between Soviet Unionand China and worked as a sports teacher in a middle school there.She lived alone in the coal worker’s area in a small wooden house.At that time, she was applying to be transferred to her husband’sschool to be reunited with him.
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