Chapter Eight – TheSquint
**Xie Yan**
With Black Peony’s aid, my grievance had been rehabilitated.Dwarf had been transferred back to the coal mine to work as a coalworker. I continued to work as a sports teacher and life returnedto normal.
As a sports teacher, I felt my life was better than when Iwas a Chinese teacher. I had an ambition. I was determined to setup two basketball teams - one boys’ team and one girls’ team. Iwould train them systematically so as to win the championship inthe city’s middle school basketball competition.
I selected some tall boys and girls with good physicalconstitution to be trained. They all were coal worker’sdescendants. They were not afraid of hardships and fatigue. Theyhad special interest in playing basketball. The basketball playersworshipped me. The
