There are two Western-style balls on the screen, Weiss is most impressed, one is the court ball held for Emperor Franz in "Princess Sissi", which is a classic of classical luxury and classical romance, and the other is the inferior ball attended by Jack and Ruth in "Titanic", which is a romantic interpretation that transcends the mundane and free.

The ball, held in the auditorium of the Union Trade Union in the Free Lorraine Canal Industrial Zone, did not have the food and gold of the royal court, nor the freedom and uninhibited freedom of the toiling masses, but only simple and unpretentious. Weiss and Professor Xiao Yang "entered" from the ninth piece, and danced three songs in a row, which was counted as a warm-up. The three pieces are still slow, but the tempo is a little faster than at the beginning. Before this feast, they had danced less than ten tunes combined, because they danced slowly, and there were no steps or wrong steps, but at this level of tacit understanding, they had to be careful when dancing fast. If you make a fool of yourself in public and have a small face, will it affect the confidence of the two to get along deeply? That's hard to say.

A truly elegant dancer should have the spirituality of a butterfly and the softness of a vine, able to make the body and soul dance together. It's a pity that Weiss's body that walked through the rain of bullets and bullets and walked through the vast snowfield was too steady, while Professor Xiao Yang, although he had a graceful figure and a light gait, lacked a sense of grace and enchantment...... In terms of the existing conditions, they are obviously not perfect dancers, but when the two dance together, one is masculine, the other is feminine, the other is vigorous, and the other is confident. What's more, they are the same age and the right body shape, they dance in harmony, they behave calmly, they have no distractions, they are comfortable, as if they are the whole world for each other, and they don't need to be distracted by other things.

After the band played the 16th piece, the pas de deux dance came to an end, and the organizers arranged a welcome speech in the interval before the group dance. The faculty and students of the Ulster University of Technology were invited by the Lorraine Industrialists Union, whose professional research focused on geology and geography, so the Solidon Palach, a member of the Board of Directors, hosted the dinner. In the center of the stage, he expressed his welcome to the guests from afar with his rough and powerful voice and simple and sincere words. This native of Lorraine, an old man who has been in the mining industry for most of his life, introduced the history of Lorraine in a humorous way, and talked about the bitter and interesting stories of prospecting and mining, which led to the expectations and gratitude of Lorraine people, especially Lorraine miners, for the technical poverty alleviation.

Palach was in charge of the chair, and Weiss took the stage as president of the Union of Lorraine Industrialists. Like Palach, he took off the script to speak, but not improvised, but made sufficient preparations in advance, and even visited the master of the Meissen Institute of Literature and History to ask for advice on the "classical Chinese" of the Ulster language, and through the careful construction of words and sentences, and the arrangement of rhymes, he drew up a "Lorraine Industrialist":

"Ladies and gentlemen, in the eastern foothills of the Monamolin Mountains, the Wall of Giants, among the mountains and snowfields, there is a magical pure land called Lorraine. It has given birth to generations of brave and industrious Lorraine. Industrial civilization, the roar of machines, social changes, and rapid change. The barrenness of Lorraine is not because my generation is lazy and incompetent, but because the mountains are high and the roads are long, and the transportation capacity is weak, and it is difficult to keep up with the pace of the times. The Great War came, the wind and clouds changed color, the mountains and rivers fell, the people of Lorraine were not afraid of strong enemies, rose up to resist, and the backbone of today's Lorraine Industrialists Alliance were all the vanguard of wartime resistance to the enemy, born and died, spilling blood, and indomitable. The war subsided, disarmed and returned to the field, devoted himself to industry, poured his heart and soul, not confused by glory and wealth, not drunk by wine and food, only to make the best use of things and people, and only hoped that one party would be prosperous, stable and prosperous. Today, with the help of the elites of the University of Technology, prospecting and land exploration, and helping development, it is really a blessing for Lorraine and a blessing for the Federation. Sticking to this path, or three or five years, or seven or eight years, can achieve great things. If there is a war in the future, the enemy will never return! ”

This poem, Weiss had not revealed to anyone present before, and this time he was in high spirits and frustrated, which really shocked the audience. Whether it is an old man like Palach, or a person like Nikolai who has seen all kinds of worlds, or Professor Xiao Yang, a highly educated and highly intelligent professional, they all show surprise and admiration.

After that, Weiss stepped aside, and Palach invited Professor Xiao Yang to speak on behalf of the research team at the School of Geography and Geology at Ulster University of Technology. This link, has been communicated before, Professor Xiao Yang is prepared, but this talented woman does not like long storytelling, expressing emotions, a few simple sentences, but can quote classics, in simple terms, clear expression, clear layers, words and deeds are also generous, elegant and decent, after speaking, also attracted a burst of warm applause.

In front of everyone's eyes, Weiss smiled and raised his arm, and Professor Xiao Yang stepped in and grabbed his arm. As the music sounded, the banquet entered the stage of queue-style group dance, which was originally a classical way of communicating, and has been continuously improved and simplified since modern times, so as to adapt to the simple and fast rhythm of the times, especially popular with young and middle-aged people. Compared with the duo group dance, the queue group dance can be either male and female pairs one by one, or more men than women or more women than men - the number of men and women brings a certain degree of competition and fun. In the prelude, the men and women are lined up in two rows, and then they follow each other and turn in opposite circles. Theoretically, every man has the opportunity to dance with any woman opposite, just as there are all kinds of chance encounters and encounters in life. After a bar, if the male and female dance partners of the temporary partner meet eye contact, they can leave the queue and dance next to them, and the person who remains in the queue continues to rotate with the team and dance with the next person of the opposite sex, and the dancer who is not the partner's turn follows the music to perform a simple and repeated solo dance step.

If the number of men and women is the same, then after three bars at the earliest, everyone can choose a partner, leave the queue, and dance the rest of the bar together; If the number of men and women is different, there may be a situation where no one is "claimed" at the end of one song, and the lone person can automatically withdraw from the group dance in the future, or continue to fight for the favor of the opposite sex in the next song. Regardless of whether there are equal numbers of men and women, dancers can either wait to meet their agreed partners, or they can "run away" with the opposite temporary dance partner, or even "steal" someone else's dance partner. By the end of a dance piece with more than ten or twenty bars, the men and women who have not yet been paired together are like those helpless older singles in society, looking for nothing......

The first piece of the queue group dance is "Holy Wedding" adapted from the 3rd Royal Dance of Ulster, which has a total of 19 bars, depicting the bridge between the prince and the princess who meet and fall in love, with a beautiful melody, melodious melody and steady beat, which is very suitable for choosing a dance partner and cultivating feelings. When the line was processed, Weiss did not count the heads in the procession, but deduced that there were slightly more men here by looking at the men and women who did not come to dance. The procession began to turn, and because of the unequal number of men and women, and the speed of the rotation, when the prologue and the first measure began, everyone stopped, and was opposite a young lady with heavy makeup, and Weiss had a slight impression of the face, presumably a local who had been invited to the banquet. Although Weiss didn't feel familiar with her, the lady smiled at him very brightly, as if the two had known each other for a long time, and even had some affection. Weiss smiled politely, and while dancing with him step by step, he observed the position of Professor Xiao Yang, who was not far away, but this did not mean that they would soon be able to "reunite" - who the dance partner of the next bar would depend mainly on how many people were successfully paired, if none of them were paired from the head of the team to him, then his dance partner would be the last one in the ladies queue, and if there were three or five pairs, the people behind them would fill their vacancies in turn, and the next dance partner would be the last few in the ladies queue......

Fate is really a very mysterious thing.

At the end of the first stanza, Weiss saw his temporary partner nodding vigorously with a smile like a flower, and of course he shook his head decisively, which was fate and a peaceful parting.

The queue rotated, Weiss watched Professor Xiao Yang get closer and closer, the two looked at each other, each smiled, but when they stood still, the two were in the wrong position, and could only watch each other dance with others, fortunately, a section is usually only more than half a minute, and the longest is only a minute, this kind of living "torment" is still bearable. When jumping in circles with dance partners, the two pass by, and the close eye contact is also a fun way to convey emotions.

This time, Weiss's temporary partner was a female student from Ulster University of Technology, she was mediocre, but she felt very good at observing words and feelings, and when she saw Weiss and Professor Xiao Yang eyebrows, at the end of this section, she shook her head very knowingly, indicating "no match".

Due to the reverse rotation of the male and female queues, the miss of the position of Weiss and Professor Xiao Yang became "looking at each other from afar" in the third stanza. The temporary partner of the third bar, Weiss, had neither an impression nor an impression, and the two danced a dull and boring subbar, each saluted politely, shook his head tacitly, and each looked for the next "opportunity in life".

By the fifth measure, Professor Yang still did not appear in the opposite position, but Nikolai "came unexpectedly" - she was a member of the men's queue, and there were several people between the two, but these guys actually hurriedly chose a temporary dance partner to go out, and the two danced and became brothers fighting side by side.

"How many girly hearts did you kidnap today?" When the two were back-to-back, Weiss quipped.

"Zero." Nikolai said, "All the riders are veterans, and none of them are girly." ”

After turning around, the two of them came to the next place again, and Wei Si said: "Hey, it doesn't matter if you are a veteran, just don't harm those female students!" ”

"Having said I'm not obsessed with male characters." Nikolai once again corrected Weiss's "lily" argument about her. After a turn, she continued, "I like proms, but I don't like women's clothes, so that's it!" ”

"Male dance gods, female dance scumbags." Weiss laughed, Nikolai may not have heard this, maybe he just turned a deaf ear. I think Weiss still learned the dance from her, but I didn't know that she was a daughter at the time, so I thought it was normal, but now that I think about it, this thing always dances as a male role, and it's strange that the female character can dance well.

In this subsection, Nikolai did not look at a temporary partner, and Weiss was still waiting for Professor Yang.

"I suddenly found out that you still have a lot of old acquaintances here." Nikolai said in a playful tone, "Just now two ladies told me that they were the objects of your courtship, but unfortunately they didn't see that you could achieve later. ”

Wei Si couldn't correct the sins created by the "predecessor", so he had to laugh at himself: "You must think that my vision was very bad before!" ”

Nikolai laughed mercilessly: "It's not just bad, it's just hungry." ”

"I think you just had a lot of fun dancing with them." Weiss shot back.

"Everybody who has a story about you, I'm interested in dealing with them, and it's funny to hear them tell you about it." Nikolai said, "You were two people and you are now. I'm curious, what happened in between? ”

Weiss couldn't explain this, so he had to find a perfunctory reason: "The Barston Military Academy made me reborn, and the war made me a real man." ”

Nikolai was noncommittal to this specious answer, and Weiss then laughed and said, "Please don't tell Professor Yang about these troubles." ”

Nikolai snorted: "Professor Yang is different from them. It's still the same sentence, cherish it! ”

The chat between the two allowed Weiss to pass the boring time in the next few bars, and after a few "misses", and when the song was about to end, Professor Yang finally came to Weiss.

This kind of thing is like a world away.

In the face of this familiar and friendly smile, the love poem that used to be only admiration suddenly appeared in his mind, but now it has infinite feelings:

On that day, I closed my eyes in the incense mist of the prayer hall and suddenly heard the mantra in your chant.

That month, I shook all the prayer wheels, not for excess, but to touch your fingertips.

That year, I kowtowed on the mountain road, not for the audience, but for your warmth.

In that life, I turned mountains and rivers to pagodas, not to cultivate the next life, but to meet you on the way.

That night, I listened to Sanskrit singing for a night, not for enlightenment, but for a trace of your breath.

That month, I turned all the prayer cylinders, not for excess, but for touching your fingerprints.

That year, I kowtowed and hugged the dust, not for the Buddha, but for your warmth.

In that life, I climbed 100,000 mountains, not to cultivate the next life, but to meet you on the road.

At that moment, I soared into an immortal, not for immortality, but for your joy and peace.