A train was speeding into the distance. Outside the windows, goose-feather snowflakes fell amid a howling gale, and the bitter cold seemed capable of freezing anything in its path.
Yet inside the train carriage, the atmosphere was incomparably fervent.
Bingtang Xueli stood before a large white board, wearing a black officer's cap on his head, gazing at his friends with a solemn expression.
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