Chapter 2: The Sorrow of the Dancers

Back in the house, he poured a cup of tea and sat quietly for a while, thinking about everything about the day, especially the girl Lian'er who was using his cousin's name. Although I knew that she came by impostor, I was still full of curiosity about her. She asked him to call her Lian'er, reducing the distance between them and making her less guarded against him. Is she like this with Xiao Jiu? Obviously, she didn't do this to others, he noticed that she always called his eldest brother Xintian as the eldest young master, and Xinyue as Miss Yue, and she spoke very steadily when she was in Boss Gao's shop and Yue Huaxuan. When she was in the store tonight, she had been polite to him and to Goofy, but there was a kind of politeness at a distance, and it was very far away, out of reach. However, when they were about to break up just now, she suddenly seemed a little naughty, and also shortened the distance between them by a big step, making him feel very cordial. When he first met her in the morning, she looked at him very kindly. This is a bit of an elusive girl, and he does want to know more about her.

After a while, he heard Lian'er open the door and went into the yard, what was she doing when she came out so late? He opened the door lightly, and found that this girl was actually dancing in the moonlight, and soon he found that it was not an ordinary dance, but the Kansai sword dance adapted by his aunt back then, obviously this girl didn't know martial arts before, and she should have started practicing after arriving in the Tang Gate in the past two years, so this set of sword dances is really like a dance. This set of sword dances was also practiced at night. Many people think that martial arts should start with morning exercises, but in fact, they need to be flexibly changed according to the characteristics of the air cavitation and the time of day. Aunt Xiaoxiao grasped this very well, and Xinjie also benefited a lot.

This girl must have had a foundation in dancing before, and she must be very spiritual in dancing, so although the sword energy of the dance is insufficient, but the grace is far better than the sword dance itself. At first he thought it was funny, but gradually he had to admire the girl's ability, and turned some of the movements that she could not complete satisfactorily because of her lack of skill and strength into beautiful dance moves. Although it is certainly inferior to the original Kansai Sword Dance in terms of lethality, in terms of dexterity, there is a feeling that the blue is better than the blue, and there are many changes hidden in the many changes that can be changed to kill and take precautions. I don't know if she realized it herself, or if her grandmother or someone else taught her. If my aunt could see it one day, she would appreciate these changes.

"Since you've been watching it for so long, won't you tell me?"

"How do you know I'm watching you."

"Could it be that you opened the door and came out to see the moon?" This girl is unforgiving, but it doesn't make him feel disliked, but funny.

"I've always watched dance, not taught dance." He slowly came out of the house and leaned against the flower verandah with Lian'er.

"Alas, I knew that I was stupid, and I always couldn't practice well, like a village girl in the countryside jumping a big rope, and my grandmother should say that I was lazy again. ”

"Hahaha, who said you look like you're jumping a rope?"

"Miss Jade." It's Xinyu, Xinjie knew that this sister was a very rigid person when she heard it, and everything had to be decent, obviously she couldn't accept these sleek changes in this girl.

"You do need to practice your qi and strength, but you're dancing beautifully. ”

"Really?" Lian'er's eyes widened and she asked him seriously.

"Really, light and elegant." That's true, among the geisha he knew, the best dance was Hanade, and Hanade's dance was glamorous, flattering, but elegant. And Lian'er's sword dance is completely different from those in those places of sound and color in order to please men. So the lightness and elegance are absolute. For a girl who doesn't have any foundation in martial arts, being able to play this set of sword dances so smartly is really superb.

"Thank you, third brother." Lian'er took a long breath and looked at the moon in the sky. "When I was very young, I used to look at the moon in the sky, listen to my nurse tell me the story of Chang'e, and then I started to learn dance, I felt that I had to dance like flying, to be as beautiful as Chang'e's sister, so I worked hard every day, I must learn the rhythm well, learn the dance well..." Xinjie looked at her quietly, as if he had a little tears in his heart. He grew up with his aunt, although he has his sister Xinyu on top, Xinhua and Xinyue below, but these sisters have their own complete and happy lives, and to be honest, he rarely really gets along with them. And the women in the places of sound and lust were often either singing and dancing on stage, or sitting with his friends, fist-fighting, drinking, or even meeting him in bed. Rarely had he ever looked at a girl so quietly, head-on, and talked to her alone and slowly. The evening breeze caressed her hair, which was slightly messy because of the dancing just now, Xinjie sensitively smelled a faint sweet fragrance wafting from her body from the wind, I couldn't tell what kind of flower it was, maybe it was an orchid or a rose. When he was in Yuehuaxuan just now, he had smelled a little bit, if it weren't for his particularly sensitive senses, he wouldn't have noticed it, but now maybe she was hot after exercising, and the smell came out. Neither of them spoke, but leaned silently against the pillars of the gallery. Xinjie knew that this girl must have a more painful wound in her heart than ordinary people, and he didn't want to ask, so it was good to stay with her silently.

After a long time, Lian'er looked at him gently and smiled, "Rest early." He nodded, and went back to their rooms. He didn't close the door this time, and he didn't know why, maybe he subconsciously wished he could see her again tonight. Lian'er quickly entered the room and came out with a large clay pot, apparently to fill the pantry at the entrance of the courtyard. The old mansion of the Tang family, although it is called an old mansion, is actually very well equipped. In order to facilitate the entrance of each courtyard, there was an independent stone pantry, which only had a coal stove, a large water tank, coal and copper kettle, and generally simmered hot water at night for washing. Each young master and girl in the Tang Sect has its own maid and servant, so each courtyard needs a lot of hot water. So you just have to push the coal and water carts in large numbers, and you don't have to bother bringing hot water from far away. Xinjie has always been alone, although in Tangzhuang, where he lives in the capital, there will be a mother to take care of him, but he has no habit of taking them out. Obviously, Lian'er is also taking care of herself here. After a while, he saw her come back with a large jar of water, and found that he was still looking at her, and smiled embarrassedly.

Xinjie suddenly remembered that one of his friends, Ah Zhi, had a drink with him and a few other friends one night and asked them to guess his biggest annoyance. I guessed for a long time and didn't know, and finally Ah Zhi himself said, "The stinky feet of the Kansai mother-in-law." He thought it was ridiculous at the time, but a few people around him felt the same way. It is said that Ah Zhi's mother-in-law often slept at night without washing her feet. The same is true for several other men's families. Even if a man is dirty, I didn't expect women to be so dirty. Ah Zhi repeatedly taught him that he must go to meet each other before he is hired, and don't toss back an orchid or a stinky foot like his wife. It seems that people are really different.