When Joey, Enshogg, and the other four old gentlemen walked out of the wall hall, the whole dance party was coming to an end.

On a semicircular stepped bench beside the staircase in the vestibule, a new band is auditioning, and with the sound of a lilting violin, the last dance of a ball, the Koti Rong is about to begin.

Cortijon has a more popular name for the square dance. The key to this dance is to form a square formation, and the participants are usually four to eight, although even a family of four can dance as long as they grasp the essentials of the square.

On the one hand, the venue is not allowed, and on the other hand, the number of participants may not meet the requirements of being placed in a square, so under the restrictions of this condition, all those who are willing to dance the Kotirong dance will automatically line up, and the second and fourth columns will be expanded like this.

The Kodilon Dance is the most popular and most participatory dance at the 19th century ball, because the Cortijon only requires the formation to be square, and there is no restriction on the content of the dance, which can be a waltz, a polonetz, or any other dance.

In the process of dancing, it is a bit similar to the Lille dance, in which one of the four pairs of participants in each square must have a pair of lead dancers, leading the other three pairs to dance their favorite dance together, while constantly changing the formation, such as line, wave, diamond, funnel, etc., but unlike Lille, the Cortijon only participates and does not eliminate.

It is more correct to say that the Coti Rong Dance is a dance, but it is more correct to say that it is a game and a dance, because there is an element of the game, so many people participate in the prom in order to dance a Coti Rong Dance.

A grand Coatyron dance was about to begin, and everyone, including the less active old Emperor Wilhelm I, entered the arena.

Empress Augusta glanced at little Mary, who was a little embarrassed beside her, and knew that after she had made her first bold and invincible declaration of youth, she was still in the shyness of a girl afterwards.

So with the expression of a person who came over, he smiled at Mary and said, "My little Mary, wait for this Coty Rong Dance I'm going to dance with Joey's stupid Grandpa Blueskin, and your aunt just accepted the invitation of that old and stupid prime minister, so my little Mary, do you want to think about it and go to Joey's stupid guy?" Look at Joey's stupid guy, actually chatting with four old men, he's really getting bored and boring, and I think only you can save my boring stupid grandson. ”

Mary thought for a moment and looked up at her aunt, Empress Eugenie, to ask for her permission. In the end, Empress Eugenie could not match the pleading of her precious granddaughter's invincible blue eyes, so she could only agree with a slight bow.

After bidding farewell to the four respected elders, Joey looked at the crowds pouring onto the dance floor one after another with some boredom, and smacked his lips helplessly. When I walked out of the hall just now, I saw a well-behaved Mary standing beside Empress Eugenie from a distance, and she didn't dare to look at herself at all. Joey reckoned that Mary must have been criticized by her aunt for dancing with her.

Thinking about what she saw before the ball, Queen Eugenie's domineering performance towards the old prime minister, Joey couldn't help but touch her cold neck, and thought, "Queen Eugenie's aura, this is completely queen-level, the prime minister has to bow his head and give three points." It's terrible.... It's so terrible, isn't Mary so badly criticized? ”

"Isn't it ungentlemanly for me to let Mary be criticized for hiding here and letting Mary be criticized? Well, I should go over and bear it together! Even if I am really scolded, I can brag to others in the future, but I was the founder of LV, Guerlain and Cartier, the fashion queen of the nineteenth century, who of you dares to question my fashion vision! Through self-psychological suggestion, Joey quickly found a way to relieve his emotions for his upcoming scolding.

Turning criticism into fashion education, Queen Eugenie is really right, Joey is really cheeky.

Just as Joey turned around and prepared to act, he saw three pairs of people standing in front of him, namely the eldest brother William and Princess Elizabeth, the elder sister Princess Victoria and the man who had just danced the mazurka with her, the bearded man who did not know his age, and the last pair was a young man with a frivolous goatee and a North German lady with a heavy body who looked extremely healthy and strong.

"Hi Joey!" William greeted first, "I'm looking for you, our group of people who dance the Corti Rong dance is missing a pair, I just want to invite you to participate with Her Royal Highness Princess Alba, hey, why is it only you, I didn't see Her Royal Highness Princess Alba?" ”

"Ahh Say Mary is being criticized by her grandmother because she is? Yes! You can't talk about this kind of stupidity! Oh my God, Willy, why did you come to me at this time, if you were ten minutes late, I might have rescued Princess Mary by scolding her......"

Just as Joey's six gods were thinking wildly, a heavenly voice sounded in Joey's ears, "His Royal Highness Prince William, I'm here, I'm glad you invited me to dance with Joey." Mary stood in Joey's eyes.

After some introductions, Joey became clear about who the people he was going to be dancing with were the bearded man standing next to his sister Princess Victoria, a man from the Hesse-Kassel family who had been stripped of his inheritance to the Duchy of Hesse because of his father's marriage between nobles and lows, but who had been invited by the Bulgarians to be Prince Battenberg of the Grand Duke of Bulgaria after the Berlin Conference last year.

The young man with a flirtatious goatee is Rudolph, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the dancing lady of Crown Prince Rudolph, the princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein from Prussia.

Joy looked at Cousin Elizabeth, then at Princess Augusta Victoria, who looked at William with a youthful face, and then at the bearded Prince Battenberg and his sister Princess Victoria, and was speechless for a while, and said in his heart, "William, you really want to invite these Cottie Rong dance partners, it's not that ordinary people really can't invite them!" ”

Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein eventually became the first wife of Wilhelm II in history. "A low-IQ elm pimple queen", this is the joint evaluation of the empress by Chancellor Bismarck and Wilhelm's first chief of general staff, Wadsey.

The Battenberg family, in history, because of the Hessian succession and the Bulgarian throne, eventually had a fierce conflict with the old Prime Minister Bismarck, and betrayed the German royal family before the First World War.

The grandson of the battenberg brothers, who was the captain of the famous Pink Panther destroyer fleet of the British Navy in World War II, read that right, is the wonderful Lord Mountbatten who painted the hull of the warship all over in pink, and was promoted without fighting.

Joey thought as she walked onto the dance floor with Mary. Mary looked at Joey with a melancholy face, stared at Joey with big eyes and puffed out her mouth and whispered to Joey, "Stupid duck, are you not happy that I came to dance?" ”

Joey was startled, and hurriedly whispered, "No, I'm special, really happy to see you." It's just that these dance partners invited by Willie, I have some in my heart.... Or wait, I'll tell you more about it when I'm done dancing. ”

Mary blinked, glanced quietly at her dancing partners walking in front, and nodded slightly, as if she was temporarily letting go of Joey's rudeness to her.

During the arrangement of the Cotyon dance queue, Joey turned his head slightly and glanced left and right, and found that it made sense that William had changed into a white German Navy uniform this time. The ladies' fluffy, wide, pretty and lovely dresses, coupled with the men's dazzling and upright officers' dresses, are definitely the most eye-catching part of this dance, no wonder all the Prussian officers in the womb are about to end, and Joey also sees his father in a marshal's uniform and his beautiful mother also on the dance floor.

It should be said that as long as you are not in a wheelchair, everyone is waiting on the dance floor for the Violin Dance to sound.

The fun of the game is that there is no pre-arranged dance sequence, all the dances are improvisational and improvisational changes of four pairs, no one knows what steps to dance, only waiting for the lead dancer to direct. Therefore, in addition to being familiar with the dance movements, the participants should also respond quickly to the instructions of the lead dancer, knowing that there are nearly 50 kinds of dance steps in the Cotirong dance, of course, the Cotirong dance in a dance party will not really dance all 50 dance steps, generally between 4-5 types.

The lead dancers of Joey's group of Cortion dances are William and Elizabeth, and the lead dancers are the soul of Cotijon dances, which directly determines whether the dance is beautiful or not. After communicating with everyone softly, William finally decided on 4 dance steps, considering Joey's dancing level.

With the sound of the violin, everyone jumped up happily, Joey and Mary joined the rhythm, and the other three pairs, constantly changing formations on the dance floor, Joey from face to face with Mary walking around each other, staggered shoulders forward and backward Du Xi Du dance steps, to Joey raised his right hand, Mary raised his left hand, with the imaginary palms as the axis of the circle of the star dance continued, then everyone moved forward relative to each other, ladies and ladies held hands and spinned, men and men arm-in-arm, rotating each other's wave dance, and finally spinning, Constantly exchanging dance partners on a regular basis.

As the Cotillon dance continued, as the four steps became more and more proficient, William began to increase the difficulty, or disrupted the order of the four dance steps, or interspersed with some impromptu small performances, and the atmosphere of the dance became more and more harmonious and cheerful.

No matter how beautiful the dance music is, there is an end time, and no matter how good the dance partner is, there is a time when the five dance songs of the Tai Gong tonight come to an end.

The end of the five dances does not mean the end of a ball, in fact, a noble ball in the nineteenth century is only halfway through now. The aristocrats at the ball then take a break, smoke a cigarette, touch up their makeup, or change their clothes, and when the band has retired and the servants have cleaned up the hall again, a formal dinner is about to begin.

The two-hour dinner is interspersed with small entertainments, including a small dance party for those who haven't danced enough, a small pantomime, or a ladies' craft circle or gossip circle, or a bridge session, or Joey's private pitch meeting, and a private meeting between the crown prince and the prime minister, to name a few.