Chapter Nine – MonkeyKing
**Hou Wang**
Monkey King was also a Stinking Old Ninth. He graduated froma university in the south of China and was assigned to our schooljust two weeks later than I was. Because he was small and thin, hewas nicknamed Monkey King. Though he was weak in his physique, hewas a good writer. He could write beautiful articles. Once hisarticle had been published in the local newspaper. He was veryproud of his talent. He often wrote articles for our school. Forthis, he was honoured as Magic Brush. He was especially good atwriting articles of criticism.
It was a time of mass criticism. Leaders of all schools wereregarded as capitalist road takers. All experienced teachers wereWhite and Expert road takers. There were many Rightists, teachersfrom landlord families, Bad El
